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~Whodunit~
~by ChipetteGirl10~
~Save Us~
Alvin's fast running was matched by only his brothers'. The blue- and green-clad chipmunks ran alongside him as they searched for any sign of the Chipettes in the horror house that the theater proved to be. The amber-eyed chipmunk was especially concerned for Brittany, seeing as he finally admitted his feelings to her no more than an hour earlier. His ears were raised for any screaming sounds or sounds of struggle. He stopped suddenly, standing on his hind paws. "I hear something," he murmured. It was in fact a scream, muffled but still audible. "It sounds like Jeanette," he said. He fixed his gaze on his taller, bespectacled younger brother. Simon's eyes were wide and his heart nearly stopped. That, in fact, was Jeanette screaming at the top of her lungs. Something's got to be over her mouth to try and cancel the sound. Simon's protective instincts kicked into high gear, and without realizing what he was doing, he bolted off in the direction of the sound, leaving a dumbfounded Alvin and Theodore standing there. They watched their brother run. "I suppose we should follow him," Alvin said after some time. But before the brothers could move, a cage came down around them.
"HEY! What's the big idea?" Alvin shouted. He looked around to see that the cage trap had come from inside of the ceiling. The red-clad chipmunk looked to his baby brother. Both of their eyes were wide with fear. The amber-eyed boy's paws gripped the steel bars and he desperately tried to shake them loose, to no avail. "Let us OUT!" he yelled. "Alvin, it's no use," Theodore stated, sitting down and leaning against the bars. "It's gonna be of some use, Theo," Alvin tried to reassure his brother. But his eyes betrayed his words. Alvin sighed and let out one last call for help: "SIIIII-MOOOON!" And with that he leaned down against the bars next to Theodore. "We'll make it out, bro," he whispered, ruffling his hair, "I promise." Theodore looked at him skeptically, and Alvin tried his best to ignore the fact that he knew he was looking at him like that.
~Simon~
Simon's heart was beating nearly out of his chest as he ran. Jeanette's cries were getting louder. She's nearby, I can feel it. Jeanette, I'm coming! That was when a shout for his name came from the opposite direction of which he was going. It sounded like Alvin screaming. It was the exact same scream he did when Simone and Jeanette danced in the rain back on the island all those months ago. Simon stopped in his place. No more screams followed. I must have been hearing things. Alvin can handle himself. He always does, after all. Simon continued to follow Jeanette's voice to a large, bulky door. The sound of a cranking wheel and rattling chains startled Simon. What are they going to do to her? His mind raced with thoughts. The blue-clad chipmunk hopped up onto the knob and attempted to peer through the window. A wheel with sides thick enough for a chipmunk to lay on was placed in the center of the room. Jeanette was there, hands and ankles chained. Oh no. They're going to torture her by stretching her… Simon's heart ached as he watched a black-clad man sitting at a stool turn a crank just slightly, Jeanette's body stretching the slightest bit out. Jeanette whimpered. Simon looked around for anything to smash the glass with and found a rock lying at the bottom of the door.
"I'm coming Jeanette, don't you worry," the chipmunk said as he hoisted the rock up. He threw it with all of his might, cracking the glass in the window. Simon hopped back up to the window and punched it, breaking a place big enough so he could squeeze through. When he got into the room and looked around further, he saw surveillance monitors lining up on one wall. The man at the crank looked at him. Simon ignored his stare and looked to Jeanette. Her eyes were wide and it looked like she had been crying. An outline of a handkerchief was etched into her fur. The man got up and lunged for Simon. He rolled out of the way in time and scurried across the room. He stopped briefly to glance at the monitors. On one camera, an image of Alvin and Theodore in a cage lit up the screen. On another camera was a picture of Brittany and Eleanor with handkerchiefs over their mouths. They were bound to chairs. One chair was empty. Must be Jeanette's. "SIMON, LOOK OUT!" Jeanette shrieked. Simon turned around in time to see a pan right above his head, ready to bash him. He jumped down from his spot and landed on the floor. The pan hit a control switchboard. The man growled and chased Simon around.
"Get back here, you good-for-nothing rat pest!" he shouted. Simon dodged a swipe for him and jumped onto the wheel, standing a foot above Jeanette. "Netta how on Earth did you get here?" "He took me and my sisters and knocked us out, tied us up, so now here I am," Jeanette responded as Simon jumped down. Another swipe for him was attempted. He ducked behind the wheel, out of sight. The man grumbled to himself and put down the pan. He reassumed his place on the stool and turned the crank once more. Jeanette yelped as she was pulled again. The man laughed at her out of pure hatred. He cranked it again, this time slightly faster so that there was more pull on her. Jeanette yelped again, this time louder and longer. Simon grimaced as he heard her. It killed him to see the love of his life in this position. He sighed, and his eyes narrowed as he stepped back out into the light. "Let her go," he commanded. The man chuckled. "I wouldn't listen to you. Kid, you can't save your brothers, you can't save her, and you can't save her sisters all at the same time." Simon paled. "Well…well…" He had no comeback for the man. He looked to Jeanette; worry was in every one of her features. The man, seeing the chipmunk not paying attention, grabbed him in his fist. Jeanette screamed. The man snarled at her and smacked the crank, sending it spinning. Jeanette screamed in agony as the wheel stretched her out farther. "STOP, YOU'RE HURTING HER!" Simon shrieked, escaping the fist and clawing the man in the face. He forgot the man's hand was still on the crank, and the sudden attack caused him to pull on it more. Jeanette's eyes spilled over with tears and she screamed louder than she had been. The pull on her body was unbearable. "SIMON!"
Simon jumped off of the man's face and onto one of Jeanette's chains to undo it. The man's eyes narrowed and he pulled on the crank, just as the chain around one of Jeanette's wrists fell to the ground. The brunette chipette writhed in agony in her restraints as her body was nearly torn apart. Simon undid the chain on her other wrist. He held her broken body in his arms as he undid the chains on her ankles. The man jumped at them. "GIVE HER BACK, NOW," he snapped, holding out his hand expectantly. Simon looked at Jeanette. "Get on my back like I'm giving you a piggyback ride," he whispered to her. Jeanette nodded and wrapped her legs around his torso and her arms around his neck. He took off running on all-fours with the man after them. Jeanette clung onto him tightly as he ran. "HE'S GAINING ON US!" she squealed, noticing the man's hands getting closer and closer to her. Simon ran into a different hallway and made another sharp turn before the man could see them. He pulled Jeanette into a room and shut the door quietly. "I think we're safe for now," he said. He kissed Jeanette lightly on the forehead. She leaned against him for support. "Simon," she mumbled, "we need to free Brittany, Eleanor, Alvin, and Theodore." "I know, Netta. We need to figure out how. But we've got my evil Simone side coming out, a demon version of Eleanor that Theodore told me popped out of a mirror, the ghosts, and that man all after us," Simon responded. Jeanette sighed.
~Brittany and Eleanor~
"This is why I always bring a nail file with me wherever I go," Brittany said to Eleanor as she finished cutting the ropes around her little sister. Brittany had somehow fought off the rope burns and reached her back pocket, got out her nail file, and cut the ropes around her and Eleanor. "Come on El, we have to find the others quickly. Who knows what could happen!" she said. Eleanor nodded, and the two sisters pulled at the door until it came open. They ran down the hallways at top speed. Eleanor stopped. "I hear Theodore," she said, "and Alvin. Follow me, NOW." The girls darted down several hallways when they came across an unfamiliar one with a moving-sidewalk type of thing. "Do you think we should go on it?" Brittany asked. Eleanor shrugged. They both stepped on it, and immediately they were knocked out by a bar that came up out of it. Restraints popped up around their wrists, ankles, and stomachs. "Great, just WONDERFUL," Brittany said. The metal conveyor belt was still moving them down the hallway. "SOMEONE HELP!" Eleanor screamed.
Creepy chapter. I hope I made all of you Simonette fans happy. By the way, you'll notice the main characters has changed from Brittany M. & and Alvin S. to Simon S. &Alvin S. This is only because the story mainly centers around their relationships and struggles. So no, there is NO Alvon. R&R and I'll see you in chapter 8.