On the board of the aircraft carrier USS Renegade, Brittany Miller was sitting in her cabin which she got from Simon who was the commander of the ship.
The whole navy and the whole air force were looking for Alvin but they haven't found him yet.
When Simon had told to Brittany Alvin was kidnapped, she fell into depression. She had cried for hours. Then, she had come to the USS Renegade.
The doorbell of her cabin rang.
- Come on in! – Said Brittany quietly.
The door opened and Jeanette stepped in.
- Britt, I came to see you. How are you?
- The male of my dreams is kidnapped. What do you think? – Asked Brittany with very angry tune, but Jeanette heard, she was even sad. – I'm sorry Jean! I'm just…
Jeanette hugged her sister.
- No, Britt. It's okay. If I lost Simon, I'd be upset too.
- But Simon knows what you feel for him. Oh my god, you have children. Your life is perfect.
- Britt, I've always wanted to ask: why haven't you told the truth Alvin yet?
Brittany sighed sadly.
- When he arrived home from the Apogee Award, he brought a chipette with him. She was pretty, sexy and… Jeez! She was a little bitch! And Alvin was busy with her all night. You probably know it isn't strange. He does it four times a week. He got all of the Playboy chipettes in 2028. Do you think he loves me?
- Yes.
- Then why does he have sex all night with another girl and not with me? Why am I still virgin? Why don't I have any children?
Jeanette sighed and took her sister's paw.
- Listen, Brittany. I think you should tell your feeling him as soon as he came back.
- Jeanette, I've already told it him; he told me too. But it was forgotten.
- Because you weren't mature enough. Now, you're thirty-four years old and you're more mature than you were fifty years ago.
- You're probably right. But Alvin has had sex with so many chipettes. Why would he still love me?
- Because you're Brittany and he is Alvin. You belong to each other.
- I hope so.
The two sisters sat on the bed in silence for a while. Jeanette was thinking about her sister and Alvin's relationship; Brittany was thinking about Alvin. She realized how many occasion she had had to tell him the truth. But she had missed all of them. It was her fault.
She would've begun to blame herself, but her thoughts were interrupted.
The door of her cabin opened and a little chipmunk stepped in. She was Jeanette's son, Jonathan. The chipmunk was five years old but his sight was fifteen.
- Hi mommy. – He greeted Jeanette.
- Honey, what are you doing here? Aren't you and your brother with daddy?
- No. Dad asked us to come here.
- And where is Junior?
- He went to the canteen to eat. He was hungry.
- Oh. Then, greet Brittany.
- Hi Aunt Brittany.
- Hi John. I see you're a big boy now.
- Thank you. – Said the boy very determinately.
John sat on the bed, next to Brittany and took her paw. Brittany looked at John.
Jeanette's son was the master in calming people down. And he was planning on calming Brittany down.
He just held her paw and looked into Brittany's eyes. She felt, the sadness and the feeling of the hopeless disappear from her.
- It's amazing, John. – Said Brittany in amazement. – How can you do it?
- I don't know. I think about that and it happens.
- Impressing.
There was silence again. Nobody spoke.
Jonathan sat next to his mother and cuddled up to her.
A few minutes later, the voice of one of the officers was audible from the speakers.
- Jeanette Courtis report at the sickbay. I repeat, Jeanette Courtis report at the sickbay.
Jeanette stood up and looked at her sister again. Brittany was calm, but Jeanette saw, she was still sad under the smile.
- John, dear, can you stay with Aunt Brittany?
- Yes, mom.
Jeanette kissed her son on cheeks and walked out of the cabin.
John looked up at his aunt and took her hanging paw.
- Aunt Brittany, do you want to come up with me to the main board?
- Yes. Why not? Some fresh air would be good for me.
John who knew the whole ship led Brittany up to the main board. But before they could step on the board, they had to take the special metal boots on, because the wind out the sea was very strong and it would've caught them.
They took the boots on and walked out. The officers saluted. Simon's sons were the third most important people on the ship, so everybody's main job was watching them.
Now, the officers' job was watching Brittany too.
As Brittany was standing on the edge of the board, the smell of the salty air filled her nose. She has always loved the smell of the sea in her life.
It could calm down her mind. It reminded her to Australia; when she and her sisters had lived in the wild and the singing had been just fun.
Brittany turned around and saw John was watching the planes.
- Hey John, you love these aircrafts don't you?
- I do love them. I wanna be a pilot.
Brittany smiled. She loved to be with her sisters' children; for a while she could think she had children.
- And what does your father think about that?
- He said he was happy for it.
Brittany turned toward the sea again. She watched the infinity sea and searched for a sign that Alvin was alive.
She couldn't see anything but the huge Indian Ocean.
Suddenly a very loud noise was audible from the mid-air. Luckily she and John were wearing a helmet, which softened the noises and their ears didn't hurt.
Brittany looked at the sky, she didn't see anything.
From the speakers in her helmet, she heard the voice of the board commander.
- Tomcat 11 is approaching. Get ready. Arriving is in two minutes.
Brittany didn't understand the meaning of the message, but John understood it.
- Aunt Brittany, we must get down from here. An F24 is approaching. We are going to be in the officers' way.
- Oh, I see. – Said Brittany and let the boy letting her down from the main board.
In the cavern, somewhere in Pakistan, Alvin Seville sat next to a table and watched a white device in front of him.
A thin tube was connected to it and the other end of the tube was connected into a tank. Alvin opened the valve and some kind of, blue gas oozed into the device.
When a few of the gas was circling in the device, it started to light.
Alvin disconnected the tube and watched the blue lighting device built by him.
Pjotr stepped to Alvin and looked at the little device.
- It doesn't look like a Blue Death missile.
- That's because it's a miniaturized ARC reactor. I got a big one powering my factory at home. It should run my heart.
Yinsen came there too.
- But what could it generate?
- If my math is right, and it always is, three gigajoules per second.
Yinsen and Pjotr looked at the reactor in amazement.
- That could run your heart for 120 chipmunk lifetimes.
- Yeah; or something bigger for twenty minutes.
Alvin brought a dozen of papers under of his clothe and laid it on the table.
- That's our ticket out of here.
Pjotr and Yinsen tried to find out what was drown on the papers, but they couldn't.
- What is it? – Asked Pjotr.
- Flatten them out and look.
Alvin flattened the papers out and the figure of a machine was cleared.
It was a battle suit.
- Oh, wow. – Gasped Pjotr.
- Impressive.
Before they started to work, they had to change the battery in Alvin's chest to the ARC reactor. It was a difficult operation again.
Fortunately the place where they were was clean enough. Yinsen took the bigger magnet out of Alvin's chest, placed a socket inside and connected the ARC reactor to the secondary magnet in Alvin's breastbone.
Two hours later, the reactor was running Alvin's hears instead of a car battery.
Alvin woke up; a few minutes later, they started to work.
First, they had to build the controllers of the suit. Alvin was a chipmunk but the suit was human sized.
Alvin thought, he would control the hydraulics by handles and Pjotr would control the weapons. So there had to be enough space for both of them inside the suit.
The second problem was how to connect the ARC reactor in Alvin's chest to the systems of the suit.
Alvin solved the problem of the connection between the systems and the reactor. The rest of the many problems were looking for solving.
Alvin and Pjotr worked on the controllers and Yinsen worked on the hull and the frame.
It wasn't a safe work, because they were always under watching.
In the 49th night of Alvin's captivity, they sat at the table and they talked.
- You still haven't told me where you're from. – Said Alvin.
- I'm from a small town called Gulmira. It's actually a nice place. – Said Yinsen.
- I'm from a little oasis I the middle of the Sahara called Murzúk. – Said Pjotr.
- Then, why is your name Russian?
- Once, I got lost and I was found by a Russian man. I could speak; he thought I was sweet so he took me home to his house.
- So you got a family.
- Actually I don't. I was famous in Russia and probably that's why these people found me. They killed my family when they came for me.
- Oh, I'm sorry! I didn't want to…
Pjotr stopped him.
- You don't need to apologize.
Alvin sighed.
- So, Yinsen, do you have family?
- Yes. – He said - and I will see them when I leave here. And you, Seville?
- I have two brothers, Simon and Theodore, they have wifes; Simon's wife is Jeanette and Theodore's wife is Eleanor. But I don't talk to them so often.
- You are the eldest, aren't you? – Asked Yinsen.
- I am.
- Then probably you have wife too.
- Actually, my assistant is the sister of Eleanor and Jeanette but she isn't my life. – Alvin laughed softly. – Me and Brittany as wife and husband? Absurd.
- Is she nice? – Asked Pjotr.
- Yes. She is pretty nice. But she isn't good for me. Or… I would correct myself. I'm not good enough for her. Actually nobody is good enough for her. She is very picky.
In the 89th day of Alvin's captivity, all of them were working on the last things. The parts of the hull were made; the frame was made and the controllers were almost made. The battle suit was made in 82%.
They don't have to do anything but rig the parts.
Alvin was welding an equipment, when they heard exclaims and somebody began to open the door.
Alvin stopped what he was doing; the other two too. They stood up and held their hands and paws up.
The bald one terrorist stepped forward and showed a fake smile.
- Relax. – He said.
He walked to Alvin, got on his knees and touched the reactor under Alvin's shirt.
He smiled and stood up.
- The bow and the narrow once was pinnacle of weapon technology. It allowed the Great Gengis Khan to rule from the Pacific to the Ukraine; an empire twice the size of Alexander the great, and four times the size of the Roman Empire. But today, whoever holds the latest Seville weapons rules these lands. And soon, it will be my turn.
He stepped to Yinsen. He waved to one of the guard and the guard lifted Pjotr up holding him grapping his tail.
The chief said something in Arabic and the rest of the guardians held Yinsen up. They pushed him down and kept down his face.
Pjotr was kept down too.
Alvin didn't know what was going on.
The chief spoke in a language which wasn't spoken by Alvin.
- Azt hiszed átverhettek? Mit csináltok? (Do you think I am a fool? What are you working on?) – Asked the chief.
- A rakétát építjük. (We're building the missile) - Answered Yinsen.
- Hazudsz! (You're lying!) Mond el az igazat! (Tell me the truth!)
- A rakétát építjük.
- Az igazat!
- Nem hazudok. A rakétát építjük. (I'm not lying. We're building the missile.)
The chief went to the fire and took out a piece of char with a grapple.
- What does he want? – Asked Alvin, but he didn't answer. – Hey, buddy, what do you want? A delivery date?
As he stepped forward, the guards exclaimed and ranged at him.
- Hey. – Calmed them down Alvin. – Relax. You can't hurt them. I need them.
The chief looked at him.
- They're good assistants. – Alvin said.
The chief dropped the char and looked at Alvin.
- You have till tomorrow to assemble my missile.
Then they walked out.
Yinsen got up and sat down. Pjotr jumped next to Alvin.
- Thank you!
- You saved my life. I owe you. – Said Alvin.
Only ten minutes later, they began to work on the suit. They had to work harder that they had worked before. They had only 20 hours.
Yinsen set up the frame; Alvin and Pjotr rigged the parts of the hull.
They didn't sleep all the night. The time worked against them.
Near to the morning, Yinsen asked the two animals to sleep. They were who would control the suit so they needed to rest.
About at 7:30AM, after three hours sleeping, Pjotr and Alvin woke up, because a very loud and scary noise was audible. It was an explosion.
Yinsen stroked his ears. He was deaf.
The explosion damaged his eardrum.
Fortunately he could speech-read so he understood what the other's said. And he could kinda speak.
At 8:28, the suit was connected to a computer. They were buttoning the last bolts.
Suddenly they heard the guards were coming. They probably noticed they were up to something.
They couldn't open the door, because last night Alvin and Pjotr blocked it.
One of the guards yelled from the other side of the door.
- Yinsen, Seville! Mi folyik odabent? Hol vannak?
Alvin turned to Pjotr.
- Say something.
- He's speaking Hungarian. I don't speak Hungarian, I just understand it.
- And Yinsen is deaf. – Said Alvin. – Awesome.
The guard tried to open the door. When it was opened, a detonator blew the propane tanks up.
The sound of the explosion filled the cavern and echoed.
Alvin and Pjotr looked at the place of the explosion.
- It worked. – They said together.
Alvin got in the suit and Pjotr set the systems up using the computer.
He heard the other guards were coming. He told it Yinsen.
- Pjotr, I'm gonna go to buy some time. – He said.
- No. – Protested Pjotr. – You're staying with us.
- No. We need more time. – Yinsen said and he picked up a machinegun.
He ran away shooting.
Pjotr sighed sadly and looked at the screen of the computer.
It said the setting up of the system was at 70%. He got into the suit next to Alvin.
- Yinsen? – Asked Alvin.
- He has just gone to buy some time for us.
- No.
- Yes he has. We can't do anything. The systems are at 70%.
- Okay. Get ready!
Pjotr closed the door of the suit and breathed in few times.
- Can I call you Alvin? – He asked.
- Sure.
- Then, I haven't told you it yet, but I have a little claustrophobia.
- You're kidding, right?
- Actually I'm not.
Alvin sighed and turned back to the control handles.
Pjotr checked the weapon controllers.
Two minutes later, all of the lights were switched off. The suit used all of the energy. Only the green light of the computer was visible. But the chipmunk and the fennec inside the suit couldn't see it. The camera which was integrated into the head of the suit didn't see it.
- What do you say? – Asked Alvin. – Can we go?
- Yeah! Rock and Roll!
Alvin pushed and pulled the handles and the suit began to move.
The chipmunk concentrated very hard and tried to hold the suit.
A few steps later they saw a guard on the screen. He was scared; Alvin made advantage from that and knocked him out. The suit was very strong.
A moment later came five more guards. They fired but the armor of the suit was too thick. The bullets glanced off and didn't hurt the animals inside.
Alvin smiled and kept the suit moving. The guards tried to stop them, but they weren't able to stop a metal monster like Alvin and Pjotr's weapon.
Alvin just knocked out the guards, one after other and cleaned the way in front of them.
He saw a man who was aiming on them, he hit him, but he avoided the arm of the suit. The arm bedded in the rock. Alvin tried to pull it out, but the hydraulics weren't strong enough.
Meanwhile a guard aimed on the head of the battle suit (he thought they were in that.) and shoot. They bullet glanced off and killed the man.
Alvin finally could pull the arm out.
As they arrived to the exit of the cavern, they saw Yinsen lying on a wooden box.
- Yinsen. – Said Alvin inside the suit.
- Watch out! – Warned Yinsen.
They saw the chief terrorist standing in the entrance of the cavern. He loaded a rocket into a launcher and aimed at the suit. He fired but the rocket didn't hit the target.
It was Pjotr's turn. He loaded a little rocket, Alvin lifted the arm of the suit up and Pjotr fired. The explosion burned the chief's face.
They went to Yinsen.
Alvin opened the front of the suit and Pjotr climbed out.
- Yinsen...
- No, Pjotr. You gotta go without me.
- We won't. It wasn't the plan. – Said Alvin.
- This was always the plan. – Whispered Yinsen.
– Come on, you're gonna see your family. Get up. – Said Alvin.
- My family is dead, Seville. I'm going to see them now. It okay. I want this. I want this. – Said Yinsen with weakening voice.
- Thanks for saving me. – Thanked Alvin.
- Don't waste it. – Whispered Yinsen. – Don't waste your life.
A moment later, he died.
- Pjotr, got in. Now! – Ordered Alvin.
The fennec got in and they closed the suit.
As they stepped out of the cavern to the light, they saw they were surrounded by terrorists. The terrorists fired all of their firepower.
They were shooting at the suit, but they ran out of ammo and they stopped.
Alvin's voice was audible from the suit as he said:
- Our turn.
Pjotr activated the flamethrowers in the arms of the suit and they started to throw the flames. The terrorists escaped. They hadn't any weapons. They had to go any.
Alvin moved the suit toward the shelters where his stolen weapons were.
He burnt up all of the shelters, destroying the illegal weapons.
- Easy come easy go, guys. – Said Alvin inside the suit.
Pjotry laughed.
On the top of a hill, a terrorist loaded bullets to a machinegun and started to fire to the suit.
One of the bullets blocked one of the motors and the suit wasn't able to move anymore.
- Son of a bitch! – Grunted Alvin. – Can we get the bullet out of the motor?
- Nope. – Said Pjotr. – Who goes out, will die.
- Then, I think it's time to go.
Alvin burnt out the rockets near to them and they exploded.
But they knew they would be in safe.
Pjotr activated the rockets in the feet of the suit and they took off. The suit with the chipmunk and the fennec climbed up fast.
Soon, they could see the sky and they were free.
But all of the sudden, the rocket blew up and they started to fall. The suit started to disintegrate.
They impacted into the sand and the suit wasn't able to do anything anymore.
Alvin and Pjotr hit the console with their head, but they were alive and it was the point.
Alvin looked up and could see the sky.
Then, he looked at Pjotr and saw he was live and he wasn't hurt so Alvin was happy. And then he realized what they have just done. They escaped from the captivity, using a device which hasn't been build by anyone so far.
Alvin sighed and spoke up.
- Not bad.
Pjotr and Alvin were walking through the infinity desert. The sand looked like the sea, but the sea was blue and this sea of the sand was brown.
The air was as warm as in a cooker.
Alvin panted heavily and sweated. He was a chipmunk; the chipmunks have fur and the fur keeps the chipmunks' body warm.
In this situation, the fur was killing Alvin.
Luckily they brought two liters water with them. Two liter in according to chipmunk size was equal with thirteen liters. Good; they had enough water, but the bottle was very heavy.
Pjotr had offered to carry it.
They stopped.
- Pjotr, aren't you thirsty?
Actually, the fennec looked like he was very happy. He absolutely didn't care the hot.
- Nope. – He said.
- But, you have fur as I have. Why aren't you dying?
- Alvin, my race lives in the Sahara. This desert is nothing. The Sahara is the king of the deserts.
- So you got used to the hot.
- Yes.
- Good for you. Then, why do you have fur?
- It's a different kind of fur than yours. It doesn't keep my body warm. It keeps my body's temperature in normal level. If the environment is warm, the fur keeps the warm outside. If the environment is cold, the fur keeps the warm inside.
Alvin drank.
The bottle started to empty. They had only 250 milliliters water. It wasn't too much. They have been walking in that desert for three days.
Alvin was exhausted. He didn't though they would get out of there.
He fell on his knees.
- I can't do it much longer.
Pjotr got on his knees, next to him.
- Alvin, you must get up. Your brothers are waiting for you at home.
Alvin shook his head.
- No. I have talked to them very rarely since I lost my voice and moved to Malibu. Brittany is the only connection between them and me.
- Then, isn't she important for you?
- Why would she be?
- Don't you love her?
Alvin looked up at the fennec and almost said something when Pjotr's ears turned toward East. They heard a noise sooner than Alvin's ears. Pjotr's ears were four times sensible than Alvin's ears.
Then a few minutes later Alvin heard the noise too. He knew it was the sound of their hope; a helicopter.
And in that second the helicopter showed up, from behind of them and landed near to them.
Two soldiers got out of the vehicle, but another person got out too. It was smaller than them and it ran toward Alvin faster than them.
Simon ran to his brother and hugged him.
Alvin hugged Simon weakly and thankfully.
Simon looked into Alvin's hazel-brown eyes.
- Hey. How was the 'fun-vee'? – Asked Simon jokingly. – Next time you ride with me, okay?
Alvin just smiled. Simon looked at the fennec, next to Alvin.
- And you?
Alvin spoke up.
- He is Pjotr. If he hadn't been, I wouldn't be here right now
Simon shook paw with Pjotr.
- Nice to meet you. I'm Admiral Simon Seville. But you saved my brother's life, so call me Simon.
- It's pleasure to meet you, Simon. You're brother is a great guy.
- I know. – Said Simon.
One of the soldiers lifted Alvin up gently and took him to the helicopter.