A/N: Chapter 2! Two people have fallen prey to the piranha already, and no one knows still. What will happen to our chipmunks now? Read, find out, review!
Chapter 2
Unnatural Causes
Later that night, Theodore sighed in boredom as he stared at his computer screen. Finding nothing of interest, he reached into his pocket and drew out the card Ryan had given him. He was still thinking about the human's offer. Because he had a part-time job at the pet store and still lived at home, the chipmunk wasn't in any need for the money. But the more he thought about it, the idea of having at least one day outside of his home to have fun didn't seem too bad. Sure he wouldn't be there for the girls, but it would be nice to just get out of the house for once and make a little cash at the same time.
"Alright, let's see what your all about." Theodore said to himself as he typed in the web address printed on the card into the search bar.
The chipmunk jumped in surprise as music started blaring without warning as soon as the page loaded. He quickly muted the sound before anyone else in the house could hear the unintentional music. Examining the web page, it was exactly what Theodore had expected it to be. All over the front page where images off various female chipmunks, all nude or performing sexual acts with males or most commonly other females. It was a pornography site. An all female chipmunk porn site.
"Nice. Real Nice." Theodore sarcastically sighed to himself as he browsed the explicit website. "A human making chipmunk pornos. That's fucking spectacular."
Theodore yelped however as he heard a knock on his door and the door open.
"Mom? !" Theodore yelled panicky, his fur standing on end as Vinny walked into the room. He quickly shut down his computer. "Why do you even bother knocking if you're just going to barge in anyway? !"
"Sorry!" Vinny exclaimed as she looked away, not wanting to see what her son was possibly doing. "I didn't interrupt your Playgirl did I?"
"Mom!" Theodore then blushed deeply, though her assumption was wrong.
"Kidding sweetie." Vinny chuckled as she sat down on Theodore's bed.
Theodore sighed in relief. Vinny had always had a strange sense of humor. She had walked in on him before on a few occasions, but she always laughed it off and jokingly made Theodore skittish about it. As a mother, she knew it was something teenage boys did.
"Look I just wanted to let you know that I appreciate you watching Brittany and Jeanette this week." Vinny smiled at her son. "I know you'd rather be out with the other people and party all spring break..."
"It's no big deal mom." Theodore chuckled, calming down from the walk-in. "I really don't mind. I know this week is crazy and you're really busy."
"Still though, I just wish-" Vinny couldn't finish her sentence as she heard her pager ring. She rolled her eyes as she looked at it. "Son of a bitch. I'm sorry Teddy, I need to go. Duty calls."
"It's fine mom." Theodore smiled as his mother stood up. "Go catch the bad guys."
"Hey let's hope it's not gonna be you someday. I may be you're mother but I'm still a cop." Vinny chuckled as she kissed Theodore's forehead.
Theodore laughed to himself as his mother walked out of the room and closed the door. He was used to not seeing her much since she could be called out at anytime. The chipmunk jumped again as he felt his cell phone vibrate in his pocket. Looking at the screen, he saw he had a text message from Alvin saying he was going to be out at the lake party tomorrow and was asking if Theodore was going to be there.
"Can't. I'm babysitting." Theodore mumbled to himself as he typed the message into his phone and sent it.
He soon got a text back, stating that Alvin wanted to hang out with him at the party but understood if Theodore had prior obligations. Alvin wished him a goodnight and hoped to see him soon.
Theodore couldn't help but blush and smile as he put the phone away. His crush had just asked the chubby chipmunk to hang out with him at a party where this crush could spend his day picking up on girls and take them back to wherever he was staying for the night. It made Theodore feel special to Alvin.
Looking back at the card Ryan had given him, Theodore mentally agreed with himself to call the human in the morning and accept his job offer. It was extremely doubtful that his mother would be home before dark, well after he would be back home. Jeanette and Brittany were easy to bribe, so all he had to do was pay them off to take care of themselves and keep Theodore's absence secret.
Theodore yawned as he crawled into bed and laid on his back. He soon drifted off to sleep, thoughts of the next day filling his mind. It was going to be a very long day.
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Eleanor Lewis waved as she saw Vinny's police car drive up and park. Eleanor had worked along side Vinny in the police force for great number of years now, but the two chipettes have been very close friends since before either became part of the law enforcement.
"What happened here?" Vinny asked as she waved back at Eleanor.
"Missing person." Eleanor explained as they began walking towards the edge of the lake. "Clair Seville gave us a call, reporting that her husband Dave went out fishing this morning and never came back. Strange part was his boat floated back here with a dead bass in it."
"Well, then let's check it out." Vinny smiled as she flicked on her flashlight.
"You read my mind." Eleanor chuckled as she did the same.
The duo walked silently onto the dock where Dave's boat was placed. They shined their lights around, searching for any type of clue.
"Heard you arrested some kid today." Eleanor said to break the silence. "Something about a ticket."
"Yea, little fucker tried hitting on me when I gave him a citation." Vinny rolled her eyes. "I swear these kids today..."
"You sound like an old lady." Eleanor laughed.
"I do not!" Vinny shot back playfully. "I act my age."
"Right." Eleanor smirked as her attention turned to the boat. "You think there's anything in there that might help us?"
"Doubt it. But it's worth a shot." Vinny shrugged as she got on her knees and reached out to pull the boat closer. Unknown to either officer, something else was floating their way. "Damn it, it's too far."
"You afraid to get your uniform wet?" Eleanor joked.
"Eleanor, shut-" Vinny was cut short when the wooden dock gave way and dunked her into the water. The water was freezing cold and the air was no warmer. Vinny shivered as she stood in the water, glaring at the laughing chipette on the dock. "Yea real fucking hilarious Eleanor. Now help me up."
Vinny raised an eyebrow however as she felt something bump her backside. Thinking it was a stray piece of debris, Vinny placed her paw on the object without looking to push it away. She stopped as she felt the object. Was that flesh she was feeling? Turning around, the officer saw that the object was shrouded in the darkness. She then looked at her paw, seeing a red goo coat her fingers.
"What the...?" Vinny gulped as she turned the shadow over. What she saw made her scream in pure terror.
Floating on the black water was the mutilated corpse of David Seville. His body seemed to have been partially eaten, his destroyed flesh clearly proving this.
"Holy shit!" Eleanor exclaimed her flashlight shined on the corpse. "Is that Dave? !"
"Oh my God! El, get me the fuck out of here!" Vinny shouted as her friend pulled her out of the water. She shivered in panic now as she sat on the dock, not because she was cold.
"What happened to him?" Eleanor asked with worry. "It looks like something started eating him."
"It doesn't make sense. There's nothing in this lake that would eat a human." Vinny gulped.
"We won't know until we get an autopsy report." Eleanor sighed as she kneeled down.
"But what if it's something dangerous." Vinny reasoned. "An autopsy could take weeks to get back. We have to close the lake."
"You'll have an easier time draining it instead." Eleanor said. "This is a big financial week for Lake Aldeso, and there's no way in hell the city is going to let us close the lake on a theory that something in it is dangerous."
"Well then what do we do?" Vinny asked.
"We'll check out the earthquake, see if it has something to do with all of this." Eleanor explained she and Vinny stood up and took the body out of the water. "Nothing was wrong until that tremor happened this morning."
Vinny simply sighed as she called in the paramedics to take the body. Something wasn't right. The corpse didn't seem like it was dead before it had been eaten. Whatever killed Dave was some sort of animal or fish that didn't finish its meal and left it to rot in the lake. Looking back at the dock before she left, Vinny frowned. If there was something deadly in Lake Aldeso, that meant the lives of thousands of people were at stake now. She couldn't handle the thought of people losing their lives to something she could warn them about, even if she didn't know what it was.
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The party was in full swing by noon, and showed no signs of letting up. The blaring music filled the atmosphere of the lake, thousands of people on various boats anchored there were dancing and drinking to no end. Theodore couldn't help but smile as he looked around. Everyone seemed so happy and careless, it was almost intoxicating. It was like the world could end in that instant and the party would still be going strong.
Dressed in green swimming trunks and black t-shirt, Theodore walked towards the boat labeled Barracuda, watching Charlene and another female chipmunk dance on the deck. In perfect synchronization with the music, the two chipettes moved in an erotic fashion, earning cheers of approval from the crowd. Ryan meanwhile was busy filming the two on his camera.
"Motorboat! Motorboat!" The crowd began chanting all together. Theodore walked closer to the boat, seeing the two females smiling at the masses. The crowd cheered once more as the unnamed female placed her head between Charlene's breasts and shook it.
"Thank you!" Ryan shouted as the girls finished their act. "You have just witnessed the debut of Charlene and Sherry! Our new Triple X Chipettes!"
The crowd cheered again, in obvious recognition of what Ryan was speaking of. The females held hands and waved.
"Theodore!" Charlene called out as she noticed the male. "I didn't think you'd show up."
"Yea, I'm here." Theodore smiled and shrugged.
"You certainly are." A familiar voice made Theodore's fur stand on end. The pudgy chipmunk turned around to find himself faced with a smirking Alvin, wearing red swimming trunks and a white t-shirt, though not sporting his cap. "Thought you were babysitting today."
"I-I-I was..." Theodore blushed as he tried to think of a lie. He hadn't expected to run into Alvin.
"Who's your friend?" Charlene asked.
"Alvin Miller." Alvin answered, not looking away from Theodore. "You know Teddy, it's kinda hard to babysit Brittany and Jeanette from here."
"Hey Theo, good to see ya!" Ryan exclaimed as he stepped down from the boat. "Come on, we gotta go. Who's this?"
"A friend." Alvin answered again.
"Hmm." Ryan smiled at the new chipmunk. "You are into chicks right?"
"Oh no, he doesn't like girls much." Theodore chuckled nervously.
"Oh so now I'm the gay one." Alvin glared. "Last time I checked, you're the one that doesn't like girls."
"I-I didn't mean it like that." Theodore tried to reason, his tail flicking in jitteriness.
"Sure." Alvin rolled his eyes before turning to Ryan. "Yes I do like girls. I love females."
"Perfect!" Ryan laughed. "We can use you in the movie. Whatcha say? Ted here steers the ship to all the good spots and you help us make the best chipmunk movie of all time."
"Alvin, you don't have to do this." Theodore gulped.
"Yea I do Teddy. I don't know what your hiding all of a sudden, but you are going to tell me." Alvin said as he turned to Ryan. "That sounds like fun."
"Well then what are we waiting for?" Ryan chuckled as he motioned both boys onto the ship. "Daylight isn't all day ya know!"
Theodore cursed to himself as he boarded the boat. He had been caught in his own lie, and now Alvin was suspicious of him. And the worst part was that he wasn't hiding anything Alvin, apart from his crush on the male. He knew it was going to kill him to see Alvin with those girls, confirming why the two males couldn't be together.
The crowd roared one last time as the boat left the harbor. Theodore knew this was just going to be one bad day.
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"Brittany, where are you going?" Jeanette called as her sister walked out if the house and onto the dock in their backyard, placing fishing equipment inside the small boat.
"I'm going fishing on Sand Island." Brittany sighed in annoyance. "Duh."
"Theodore strictly told us not to leave the house!" Jeanette reminded her twin sister. "He paid us to not leave the house."
"It's so boring here Jeanette!" Brittany shot back. "Besides I'll be back before Theodore gets home."
"What if mom comes home early?" Jeanette tried to reason with her sister. "She's going to kill all three of us."
"I'm still going Jeanette. I'm not all uptight like you. I like to have fun." Brittany said as she got into the boat and freed it from the dock.
"Oh no you don't." Jeanette said as she hopped into the boat. "You're not going by yourself. If your going, then I'm going to make sure you don't kill yourself."
"Whatever." Brittany shrugged as she began paddling out to the small patch of land in the middle of the lake. "You could try to relax a bit, for being twelve."
"You could try to be more responsible, for being twelve." Jeanette glared.
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Vinny looked at the lake with worry as she stood inside of a small boat, accompanied by another male chipmunk and a pair of humans, one male and one female. She had enlisted the trio of seismologists to investigate the lake and see if the tremor caused anything unnatural.
"So," Vinny sighed as she turned around to the fellow chipmunk, wanting to keep her mind on something other than the present danger. "Your name is..."
"Simone." The male smiled. "Simone Chance."
"Chance?" Vinny wondered aloud. "Are you related to that pet shop owner?"
"Yea, Simon is my twin brother." Simone chuckled. "Our parents had weird way of naming things and thought it'd be cute for me and brother to have basically the same name."
"Oh." Vinny sighed. "I have twin daughters myself, but they don't get along much."
"Neither did we." Simone drifted off as he turned to the radar. "We're here."
"Finally!" The human male exclaimed as he and the female human suited into their diving gear. "Let's check out that lake Nikki."
"Right behind ya John." The female said as the two plunged into the water.
"This is the epicenter of the tremor, so we'll get a look at this first." Simone explained to Vinny as he flicked on the radio in order to communicate with the divers.
Vinny nodded.
"Can you guys tell what you're seeing down there?" Simone spoke to the radio.
"Well first of all shit ton of trash." Nikki giggled.
"The people here treat the lake like a trash can." Vinny groaned as Simone looked at her. "They always dump whatever garbage they have here."
"What else are you guys seeing?" Simone sighed.
The two humans raised an eyebrow underwater as the swam closer to the floor of the lake. There was a fissure at the bottom of the water.
"I don't know if this is normal, but there's a giant ass crack in your lake." John said as they swam into the fissure.
"You mean like a crevice?" Simone asked from the surface.
"No, like an ass crack." John sarcastically joked, Nikki laughing. "Yes it's a crevice. We're descending now."
The two humans swam deeper until they reached what looked like a cave. Announcing their entrance to Simone and Vinny, the divers went into the dark cave. What waited on the other side astonished them.
As they turned on their flashlights, they immediately illuminated a large room, towers of glowing orbs scattered across. They explored the cave, looks of amazement covering their faces.
"You guys have got to see this. This is some Inception type crap." John chuckled. "A freaking lake inside of a lake."
"What are you talking about?" Vinny asked through the radio.
"The tremor must've created that fissure." Nikki explained. "And it basically opened a pathway between this chamber and the lake above it."
John smiled as he separated from Nikki, and swam to the other side of the room to examine the glowing orbs. As he looked closer, he saw that the orbs were in fact eggs. Fish eggs to be exact.
"Dudes, I think there's something living down here." John said as he reached out to the eggs. But as soon as he made contact with the orbs, something swam through the darkness and clamped its razor sharp teeth on the human's hand and swam away. John began cursing in pain. "Son of a bitch!"
"What happened?" Nikki asked with worry, though she was already near the exit.
"Something bit me!" John yelled as he looked around, seeing nothing.
John growled as he pulled out his flare stick to get a better look around the chamber. Lighting it, the human gasped in horror as dozens of glowing red eyes stared at him. He barely had time scream before the murderous fish swarmed him and began tearing him apart.
"John? !" Nikki panicked as she swam back to her partner. "Are you there? This isn't funny."
The girl lit her own flare to help her navigate. She nearly swallowed her tongue as she witnessed the fish devouring John. Seeing the new light, the animals turned their attention to Nikki and gave chase as the human swam as fast as her body would allow her to the surface. She couldn't swim fast enough, evident as she felt one of the fish bite her leg as she exited the fissure.
"Damn it!" Simone cursed as he prepared to dive into the water to rescue his partners.
Before he could plunge into the water however, Nikki's body broke the surface. Fortunately, the body was in reaching distance without the need to go into the water. Simone quickly pulled the body in and dragged it onto the boat. He nearly puked upon seeing that the corpse had been mutilated and the attacker still attached by its teeth the neck of it. The fish was flailing in the absence of water.
"What the hell is that thing? !" Vinny panicked as she saw the body.
"I don't know." Simone gulped, trying to gather his nerves as he grabbed a metal bucket and dunked it into the water. "But my brother Simon should. He studies crap like this."
Vinny grabbed the fish by its tail fin and held it at a distance to avoid being bitten herself. The moment the predator was in the water-filled bucket, Simone slammed the lid on it. He kept his paws on the lid as the beast inside began thrashing.
"Since when was this thing in the lake?" Simone asked half seriously.
A/N: End chapter 2! So yea, I'm trying to use every character from the both the CGI-verse and the cartoon but a few characters are OCs (Like Sherry). So please leave a review and tell me whatcha think! Peace!