A/N: Here's chapter 5... this is the final chapter, the answer to what will be the fate of Titanic 2 and it's passengers, will something happen? or will it safely sail into port? Read on and find out!
April 14, 2012
The morning and early afternoon dragged by for the grounded chipmunks, Eleanor and Brittany lay on their bed doing the only thing they were allowed to do, which was the ever fun activity of nothing. While the two chipettes sat on their bed Theodore and Alvin did the same on their bed, after several hours of this Alvin got bored and left the room, the red clad chipmunk walked over to the other bedroom and opened the door. "Hey Brittany come here" Alvin said motioning from the doorway, the chipette groaned as she slid off the bed landing on her feet. She dropped down to all fours and ran over to where Alvin was standing, "what do you want?" she asked curtly still pretty mad at him about the previous night.
Before replying he led her out to the living room where they could be alone, "I'm sorry about last night… drenching you and all" he said adverting his eyes from her gaze. The chipette nodded, "I guess I forgive you" she replied pretending to still sound angry.
"How about I make it up to you" Alvin suggested as he began to follow as she walked away. "Sure… get me home faster" Brittany stated slowly walking into Dave's room where the window was.
"Sorry Britt… I can't control how fast the ship goes" Alvin replied following her as she hopped up onto the windowsill. "But…" Alvin began to speak again, "we could sneak out for a while and get back before Dave does".
"I would normally say yes but right now his pattern is so irregular there's no way of telling when he'll be back" Brittany protested.
"Ever since he met Claire he hasn't been back to the cabin before midnight so we'll make it a point to be back by 11:00, what do you say? Just the two of us… romantic evening somewhere on this huge ship all alone… there are thousands of possibilities, millions of things that could happen" Alvin said letting his voice trail off dreamily just before gently kissing her lips. Brittany smiled prompting Alvin to slowly open the window, "let's go" he said leading the way out. Dropping to the deck that was only a few feet below them, the two chipmunks began to sneak around making sure not to run into Dave or their other two siblings that were most likely running around the ship somewhere.
"Let's watch the sun set" Brittany suggested leading the way towards the bow of the ship, "what is it with you and the sunset?" Alvin asked as they scurried along the deck towards the front of the ship.
"It's the second prettiest thing I've ever seen" Brittany replied
"The first being?" Alvin asked
"Me" Brittany replied dreamily
"Oi" Alvin retorted rolling his eyes
They reached the bow of the ship as the bottom of the huge yellow ball in the sky touched the soft water line. Brittany ran up and climbed the railing with Alvin following right behind her, sitting down on the flat top of the railing they watched the sun as it appeared to sink right into the ocean.
"I agree with you… the sunset is the second prettiest thing I've ever seen" Alvin said with a smile.
Brittany grinned slightly, "the first being?" she asked restating his earlier question.
"You" the chipmunk replied pulling the chipette into a soft but passionate kiss.
After they broke apart seconds later, Brittany found herself staring in to his golden hazel eyes as her cheeks heated up. "You want to walk?" Alvin asked gently taking her hand; "sure" she replied standing up while he did same.
Jumping down both chipmunks began to walk back along the huge ship towards the stern, "how about we stop for a bite to eat, I'm getting kinda hungry" Brittany said as they passed the main doors to the dining area. Alvin complied and altered his course to enter the large room, the host promptly grabbed two menus and asked, "table for two?"
"Yes please" Alvin replied Alvin than climbed up onto his shoulder and asked in a hushed tone, "can I get your most romantic table?"
"Of course sir" the man replied in a soft voice before Alvin jumped back down next to Brittany, the man led them out onto a small balcony where only one table sat with a single candle standing in the center. "Thank you" Alvin said with a satisfied smile before hopping up onto the table and settling down on the one side while Brittany sat on the other.
"This is beautiful Alvin" Brittany praised looking out at the softly rolling ocean. "I thought you'd like it" Alvin replied, a few minutes later their waitress walked up to the table, "are you two ready to order?" she asked.
Alvin nodded, "we'll take the lobster" he said, the waitress nodded as she wrote that down, "anything to drink?"
"One large iced tea" Alvin replied,
"Ok I'll be back in a minute" she said than headed off to fill their order, "what time is it?" Brittany asked curiously.
"7:30" Alvin replied glancing at his watch, "we've got lots of time"
"I just don't want to get caught" Brittany explained, "he's mad enough already I don't want to push it".
"I've been pushing it since the day I moved in with, it's not like he's going to throw us overboard or something" Alvin said jokingly.
Brittany shrugged and a silence befell the couple, that silence lasted for several minutes, until the waitress reappeared with their drink and food. After they finished dinner Alvin glanced at the iced tea cup that was almost empty, "want anymore?" he asked Brittany.
"No… you can finish it" she smiled
Alvin quickly nodded and sucked the rest of the drink right through the straw, glancing at the bill he reached into his hoodie pocket and pulled out a couple of folded bills and laid them on the table, "she can keep the change" the chipmunk said with a smile.
"We got a few more hours what do you want to do?" Brittany asked as they departed the restaurant, "I don't know… we could go dancing" Alvin suggested.
"Ok" Brittany replied with a huge smile, with that the chipmunk couple headed off towards the ball room. As soon as they got there Alvin immediately pulled Brittany into a slow dance that corresponded with the music. "I didn't know you knew how to slow dance" Brittany said obviously impressed, "yeah, just one of my many talents" Alvin smiled back at her causing her to laugh lightly.
Alvin and Brittany danced off and on throughout the evening making it fly by, after yet another dance Brittany glanced up at the clock that read 11:25. "Let's go Alvin… I wanted to walk around a little bit more before heading back" Brittany said softly taking his hand. Alvin nodded and let her lead the way out of the ballroom and back out onto the deck, very slowly they walked around the starboard side of the ship towards the bow. Just before they reached the bow the ship began to shutter and shake throwing both chipmunks off balance and to the deck. "What was that?" Brittany asked getting to her feet.
"An iceberg?" the captain exclaimed looking out the side window of the cockpit, "it's not on our radar! Where did that thing come from?" he stormed.
"I told you when we left port sir… our systems aren't completely functional" the first mate said quickly.
"Lock down those areas now… we can still save the ship!" the captain shouted reaching for the intercom microphone to assure the passengers everything was going to be fine.
"Attention passengers of RMS Titanic 2… we apologize for the discomfort, we brushed up against an iceberg but the ship was undamaged… I repeat the ship is undamaged" he said then hung up the mic.
"The water doors are locked down" the first mate said
"Good that'll hold the water out long enough for us to get to New York" he said relieved.
"Look at that thing!" Brittany said looking up at the huge tower of ice that was less than an inch away from the side of the ship. "At least the ship wasn't damaged" Alvin commented.
Down below at the bottom of the hull where the hole was, water continued to pour in pulling the metal back and popping rivets until the hole was slightly larger than a box truck. Suddenly something in the advanced electrical system short circuited and the water doors opened up letting the water flow through the ship.
11:40:
"Captain!" the first mate shouted, "the system shorted… the water doors are open… we're sinking".
"Get every crew member down there to the life boats and evacuate the passengers… women and children first" the captain said grabbing the mic again. "Attention passengers of RMS Titanic 2… please carefully make your way to the life boats… the ship is sinking" he said then hung up the mic. Turning to one of the boat pilots he said "make that announcement every 10 seconds" with that the captain began to fiddle with the controls in an attempt to keep the ship afloat.
"Dave… what's going on?" Simon asked as the man ran into their room and quickly grabbed him and Theodore out of their bed. "The ship's sinking we have to get out of here" the man replied hurrying into the chipettes' room and grabbing them as well.
Hurrying out of the cabin they found Claire just down the hall, Dave had obviously been out with her when the announcement was made. Dave hurried along but ran into a wall like crowd still far from the life boats.
"Women and children first!" the crew member in the front shouted, "here" Dave said pushing the chipmunks into Claire's hands, "get them out of here… I'll be in the next boat" he said gently nudging her on into the crowd.
Several lifeboats were lowered before Claire and the four chipmunks finally made it into one. "Ok… we're all here… we're all alright" Simon said trying to calm his brain down.
Jeanette nodded and glanced around, "where's Alvin?…. Where's Brittany?" she cried out then tried to jump out of the boat that was being lowered and back onto the ship, "I have to find my sister!" the chipette cried as Simon pulled her back down, "Jeanette" he said pulling her back down next to him, "Brittany will be fine… there's plenty of boats and Alvin's with her" Simon tried to reassure her but it didn't seem to be working.
Alvin and Brittany ran around the large ship trying to get to the life boats but the swarms of stomping people made it impossible, "this is worse than the school" Alvin commented jumping one way before quickly hopping back.
"We're never going to make it at this rate" Brittany cried out sadly.
Dave waited somewhat impatiently for them to finish loading the women and children, the boat had begun creaking and swaying back and forth causing wide spread panic and horror. As Dave stood there he looked out into the water and saw several lifeboats that held way less than half of what they could hold. Hurrying up to the crewmen that were still helping people in, he said, "you have to start filling the lifeboats… if you don't I doubt there will be enough for everybody". The crewman looked at him for a second and said, "we're loading as many as we can into these boats" the man turned and gestured to the full boat as it was lowered.
But on the other side of the ship the lifeboats were being lowered half empty a few of them only contained one or two wealthy people creating a life endangering problem for the other passengers.
After nearly 30 minutes the front half of the starboard side was filling up with water causing it to lean severely to the starboard side, the side the iceberg had struck. As the ship pitched to the right both chipmunks were knocked off balance and against the wall. "Brittany… you ok?" Alvin asked pulling himself up.
Brittany shakily nodded, "we have to get off this thing!" she cried out. "Come on" Alvin shouted dropping to all fours and bounding down the deck with Brittany following close behind. Being the size that they were it made it easy to get through the crowd but since the crowd was constantly moving it posed as more of a life threatening challenge. As Brittany ran she suddenly felt an immense pain in her side as someone's foot connected with her body sending her flying then skidding across the deck and into one of the hallways.
Alvin had seen Brittany get kicked but he didn't see where she went, "Brittany!" he called out but his tiny voice got lost in all the noise. Again the ship swayed deeply to the starboard side causing Brittany to tumble down the hallway, smacking into the wall at the end of the hallway she slowly gained her footing back on the tilted floor only to have it suddenly drop back to level again sending her tumbling down the stairs she was standing at the top of.
Alvin continued to run through the crowd shouting Brittany's name but got no answer, finding himself at the lifeboats he looked down into the one that was being loaded contemplating if he should jump in or not, but he didn't have to make up his mind because someone who was hurrying into the boat made up his mind for him when they accidently knocked him into the boat.
"Ok lower this one" the crewman shouted.
Alvin who was lying on the floor of the boat shakily stood up and looked around, "I have to find Brittany" he muttered determination in his voice. Just as the chipmunk was about to leap out of the boat something malfunctioned sending the boat plummeting down to the water below. The small life boat hit the water sending up a small wave, "NO!" Alvin cried out climbing up onto the edge of the boat. Taking a deep breath he leapt the several foot gap to the chain that had held the life boat, he barely reaching the chain with his front paws, once he had regained enough strength from his jump he began to quickly climb up the chain to the ship. Reaching the top he leapt back onto the deck and darted around until he came to the first hallway, running off of a guess he darted down the hallway in search of the missing chipette.
Dave impatiently waited with the other passengers but no more life boats were loaded. "What do you mean there's no more?" one crewman asked another as they speedily walked past Dave who had heard them, "there's no more life boats" the other said in reply. Hearing this Dave began to hurry around trying to find a means of self-transportation off the ship. The only thing Dave found after minutes of looking was a life vest, although not very good it was the best he had found, the man quickly strapped it on and sighed, "at least the kids are safe" he said to himself.
Brittany staggered to her feet and shook her head groaning from pain, "Alvin!" she shouted but got no response. Brittany looked around very disorientated after blacking out halfway down the stairs she had no idea where she was in the ship.
Suddenly the door behind her blew out and the room began to quickly fill with water, she began to outrun the water heading up the steps but the water level was rising faster and swept her up in the icy cold water. Unable to swim Brittany thrashed and screamed as she tried to stay above the rushing water.
Alvin who was just about to turn around at the top of the stairs heard her screams that were gurgled out with water and bounded down the stairs as fast as he could but when Brittany's screams stopped that's what made him run the fastest. Reaching the water line he spotted Brittany's pink clad, auburn form sinking through the icy water. Without even thinking about it Alvin dove in after her, not really knowing how to swim he let his instincts guide his arms and legs towards the chipette. Finally getting to her after what felt like to Alvin as hours but was really mere seconds, he wrapped his arms around Brittany's waist and kicked his legs as hard as he could until he broke the surface from there he just thrashed and kicked until he reached the dry stairs.
Carrying her up the stairs he made it to the hall well before the water. As he laid Brittany down she began to wake up coughing and gaging on the water that had entered he lungs.
"You ok?" Alvin asked before attempting to shake the freezing water off his body.
Brittany nodded as she did the same, "lets get to one of those boats before they're all gone" the chipette cried out before hurrying out of the hallway with Alvin just before the water overtook the lushly decorated hall.
Reaching the deck they made their journey towards the side but found no boats and the crowds going berserk. Seeing a passing crew member Alvin hopped up onto his shoulder, "where's all the lifeboats?" Alvin asked. The man glanced over at him and said, "there are no more… they're all gone" the man replied. Alvin hopped back down and over to Brittany, "where's all the life boats?" the chipette asked frantically.
"Down there" Alvin replied pointing to the water.
"No… so we're going to… die?" Brittany asked utter sadness creeping into her voice.
"I'm gonna try to prevent that from happening but no matter what happens… I love you Brittany" Alvin said turning to face her. Brittany nodded as tears of fright came to her eyes.
"Don't be afraid… it should be quick and mostly likely painless" Alvin stated grabbing both her hands, "I'm not afraid of death… I'm afraid of losing you" she said letting Alvin pull her into a loving embrace. "We'll always be together… not even death will separate us" he whispered strongly, "now come on" he said pulling her away.
Dave wandered around the creaking swaying ship, and finally he came to the main dining room, not really caring where he went he entered and was surprised to find 5 very wealthy men dressed in their best clothes sitting around a table talking, laughing and drinking small sips of their expensive alcoholic beverages.
"Mr. Seville correct?" one of the men asked as he passed.
"Yes" Dave said stopping for a second.
"Have a seat, please, and a drink" one of the men said lighting up a cigar, "you know I was saving this cigar for a special occasion and I would say the last night of my life would be a just occasion" he said with a chuckle.
The other men laughed and one of them said "I'll drink to that".
"I'm sorry… but aren't you gentlemen evening going to try to save yourselves?" Dave asked surprised
"Mr. Seville… all the lifeboats have been released, there is no way off this ship… and if we have to die, we're going to die like the gentlemen we are" the man with the cigar said taking a puff. Realizing he was right Dave took off his lifejacket and sat down, he had totally forgotten he was wearing his tuxedo still from his date with Claire.
"Have a drink" one of the men offered handing him a glass of expensive wine, "thank you" Dave replied, "cigar?" another offered, but Dave waved it away, "no thanks… I don't smoke".
"Good idea… very bad habit, bad for your health, might even shorten your lifespan" the man with the cigar replied with a wide smile causing everybody else to laugh, Dave only chuckled lightly. Dave sighed as he leaned back in his chair, "at least my kids made if off ok" he said sighing loudly.
"I'll drink to that" the man with the cigar said removing it from his mouth, "to Mr. Seville's kids, that their lives are long and prosperous".
"Here, here" everyone said in unison raising their glasses before taking a sip, Dave nodded his thanks, "and I would like to drink to you five… for being such great gentlemen" Dave said.
"I can drink to that also" one of the men said raising his glass with everyone else.
"How many children do you have?" one of the men asked Dave, "six" he replied, "three boys and three girls".
"Full house… do they have a mother to take care of them when they get rescued?" the man asked replacing his cigar. Dave shook his head, "sadly I'm the only family they have… but my best friend will take them in once he hears what happened".
"Thank goodness… I would hate to hear that they would be completely out of a home" one of the gentlemen said somewhat relieved. "How about some brandy Mr. Seville?" one of the men asked seeing that his glass was empty.
"If you don't mind" Dave said glancing around at the men, "we only live once" the man said pouring him a glass.
As Alvin and Brittany ran towards the stern of the ship the bow began to slowly sink into the ocean, as it did it increased the angle of the ship until it was practically vertical. Alvin and Brittany continued to climb the wooden deck with their claws as some people clung to objects along the ship and others that couldn't grab anything tumbled down into the water screaming. Just as they made it to the back railing the ship became vertical standing straight up and down. "Alvin… I don't want to die" Brittany cried out clinging to the chipmunk who was clinging to the railing of the ship. "I know… neither do I" he replied looking back down at the people tumbling off the ship.
Suddenly an extremely loud cracking and creaking sound began to fill the ears of the two chipmunks just before the ship split in half. "Hold on to me" Alvin instructed wrapping his small arms around the thick metal bar digging his claws into the paint.
The ship slowly split in half, the stern broke off and fell back down to the water with a resounding smack letting the bow sink into the icy Atlantic ocean. "We're going to make it" Alvin said trying to coax the terrified chipette on, but Brittany shook her head, Alvin slowly climbed over the railing knowing this half was going to sink just like the first, Brittany slowly followed him and held onto the bar as best she could. Alvin slowly moved his body over hers and pressed her against the bars holding on as well.
Slowly the stern end of the ship began to sink into the ocean once again causing it to angle upwards, Alvin nor Brittany had no idea what to do next but they did know whatever they did do would most likely be their last action. "Alvin…" Brittany whispered turning her head to face him, Alvin only pressed his lips against hers causing her to relax quite a bit. When they broke apart they watched the ocean as it came closer and waited for it to overtake them.
The back end of the boat slowly sunk into the ocean taking the two chipmunks with it, just before they sunk into the water Alvin wrapped his arms around Brittany's waist and waited and before long the stern and them where drug into the sea. The ship sucked the two chipmunks deeper down before Alvin was able to use his small but powerful hind legs to kick his way to the surface, he could feel the lack of air weakening him as his lungs began to burn with a longing for air. With several more powerful kicks Alvin and Brittany's heads surfaced, both of them coughing as they shivered violently taking in deep breaths of the freezing cold air.
"Over there!" Alvin shivered out pointing to a small floating piece of debris, once again Alvin pushed himself and Brittany towards the debris and pushed her onto it before climbing on himself. Both chipmunks shivered as the water on them began to freeze.
"W-we're g-gonna-a b-be-e alright-t" Alvin shivered out wrapping his arms around her; pulling her close he planted a kiss on her forehead. Brittany only nodded, she knew the truth but if it made Alvin feel better to say it she wasn't going to stop him. "It's only gonna be a few more minutes" he continued to shiver as he chattered out his words".
In the darkness of that April night, plagued by the screams of hundreds that were freezing to death in the icy cold waters of the north Atlantic. Slowly Brittany began to lose feeling in her lower body, but that feeling was quick to overtake the chipette and soon her eye lids slid closed, "Brittany" Alvin said softly having noticed, "Brittany… stay with me" he said a little more frantically as his shivering increased.
The chipette slowly opened her ice blue eyes and looked over Alvin's frost and ice covered body. "Don't die on me Brittany" Alvin said trying to touch her face but his arm was frozen to her body making it unable to move.
"Alvin…" Brittany whispered her voice broken and soft, "I love you"
"I love you too… that's why you can't die, no matter what happens…" he said his shivering getting worse, as was hers. Brittany didn't respond she only stared into his golden hazel eyes with her weak ice blue ones slowly her vision shifted past him and looked at the carnage, the debris and the frozen bodies that floated around.
"I hope we meet again Alvin…in another life… one that will never end" Brittany said softly "I love you", after she finished speaking her eyes slid closed for the last time. Alvin was silent for a second before responding, "Brittany… wake up Brittany!" he said as loud as his vocal cords would let him considering they were half frozen. After getting no response from the lifeless chipette Alvin began to cry, as the last of his body heat left Alvin continued to cry over the body of his best friend.
"I'll be there soon Brittany… just wait for me" Alvin whispered hoarsely looking up at the starless night, leaning his head forward he planted a kiss on her lips but never moved, that's where he remained for the next minute and the rest of his life. After about 2 minutes Alvin's frozen stiff body went as limp as it could as the life left his body as well.
The other four chipmunks drifted in the lifeboat with Claire and the others until finally a rescue boat found them sometime around dawn the next day, and brought them on board. The next morning a couple of the crewmen walked around gathering the names of the survivors, coming upon the chipmunks he asked, "last name?"
"Seville" Simon answered for the group, "nobody else was found with the name Seville were they?" Jeanette asked hopefully.
"Not as of yet, but if we find any more Seville's we'll notify you promptly" the crewman said then walked off towards another group of people posing the same question….
July, 18, 2022,
"We never heard from Alvin, Brittany or Dave ever since… it was confirmed that Dave, your grandfather did perish, but they never found Alvin and Brittany" Simon said a tear coming to his eye. "Do you miss your brother, Dad?" Charles asked wiping a single tear from his own eye.
"More than you could imagine" Simon replied, "that disaster just like the first Titanic was one of the biggest and most pointless wastes of life".
Charles nodded as he yawned, "Are you asleep yet Charles?" Jeanette asked just before entering the bedroom.
"No… I'm keeping him awake" Simon replied with a grin as he stood up and faced the chipette. "Daddy was telling me about Titanic 2" Charles replied before Simon could hush him. Jeanette immediately became teary eyed after hearing the mere mention of the name. "I thought I had come to terms with that incident a long time ago" she said wiping tears from her eyes, "I thought so too but it still saddens me to think about it" Simon replied gently pulling his wife into a hug.
"At least they're together forever" Jeanette said letting her tears out.
"They will never be forgotten, the world will always remember the names of Alvin and Brittany Seville… they'll all be remembered forever" Simon said.
And so will those who survived and perished the tragedy of Titanic. That is the end of this story; I hope you enjoyed this and please leave a review, thank you for your time and thanks for reading.
