Disclaimer: I own none of the characters of Alvin and the chipmunks since they were created by Ross Bagdasarian Sr but is currently owned by his son/successor: Ross Bagdasarian Jr. The only character I own so far is Alvin and Brittany's son: Alex, but I will update this whenever any other characters I made up come into the picture.
Without a voice.
It would be the understatement of the millennia to say that Alex was thrilled at the news of finally being able to enrol in a normal school and no longer be home-schooling. Alvin and Brittany had never been so happy in all their lives and they never saw Alexander so ecstatic. Ever!
Alvin, Alexander and Brittany walked through the double doors of the school of West Eastman high and old memories of the parent's younger days instantly came flooding back into their minds. The couple watched as many teenage kids were either skate boarding through the halls, preparing to get to their classes by grabbing their homework and bags, cleaning out their lockers. Things like that.
"Just like ol' times, Eh?" Alvin nudged Brittany with a sly wink but this only rewarded him with an elbow in the ribcage, making him cringe in pain. Brittany looked up at the human teens who towered them as she said absentmindedly "Even though we've grown up a lot, everything's still basically the same as it was back then."
What Brittany said was true in a way. Because a chipmunk's growth rate is a lot quicker than an average human; this meant that the jocks (and every other student body) whom Alvin befriended way back then were probably still in the building somewhere, giving a wedgie to some defenceless child.
It turns out that they were right, since the Jocks basically made their way through the massive hoard of chaos without any knowledge of Alvin being there (which was lucky since Alvin nor Brittany needed it right now). "C'mon, let's get to a higher spot where Dr Rubin will see us!" Alvin said as he got down on all fours and darted off into a different direction and Alexander and Brittany followed him until they climbed up on a banister pole so they could see the Head master whenever she appears.
While they were waiting, of course, Brittany was fussing over Alexander's hair and face. "Alex, you've got bed hair! Lemme clean it up for you..." Brittany began to try smoothing her fidgety son's unkept hair but Alexander would have none of it was he struggled to escape his mother's grip. When she finally finished tidying Alex's hair spikes; she moved on to licking her fingers and wiping them to pick off crumbs of toaster waffles off his face.
And judging by the fact that Alex was desperately trying to claw out of the auburn furred Chipette's embrace with an embarrassed, desperate expression: Alex would have been whining or wingeing something like "Mother, you're messing up my hair"!
Alvin chortled as he patted his son's shoulder and ignored the flat-faced glare he was being given "Heheh! sorry, buddy. This is something I can't interrupt." Alvin grinned slyly as he twirled a single strand of the main spike of hair that stood on his Alexander's head and twirled it lazily around one of his fingers "I have to admit that this is a great look for you."
In a response that marked Alvin's downfall of being the wisecracker, a crimson school bag whacked him from the side and caused him to fall over.
The bag was made with a tough material of what seemed to have been a safety net stitched to the front. Most of the school bag's coloured material ranged from: Ruby red, Burgandy and Scarlet. But the sides of the bag, the small pockets and the straps was coloured a hot pink. There was even a cerulean blue 'A' stitched to the front too to make Alex's bag be more like a trademark aswell as to make it match his own father's trademark.
"Owch, my acorns..." Alvin moaned while his face was flattened against the banister's hard wooden surface. Brittany high fived Alex triumphantly as she giggled "Serves him right, Alex."
Alex smiled wider then he had done in a long time as he appeared to have been laughing right along with his mother. Brittany couldn't help but smile as she watched her only son laugh. It has been ages since she had seen Alexander emit such positive emotions and she was beginning to think that allowing Alex to go to school was one of the best decisions she and Alvin had ever made so far.
Once Alex stopped laughing but with no sound, he turned to show his mother his left side and showed her his brand new bag in turn as he began pointing to it in a thumbs up kind of manner. Like he was impressed with his new accessorie.
Brittany instantly got the message and gave a small giggle "Yes. It was good of Aunts Eleanor and Jeanette to pitch in and make you that school bag, wasn't it? Honestly, I'm kinda jealous."
Alex hid a small blush as he looked down at his feet with sincere gratitude directed towards his Aunts, Uncles and grandfather who stayed behind at home so they could avoid unwanted attention and make the journey less stressful.
"So, do you have you're notepad and pencil?" Brittany asked her only son who assured her by patting his backpack twice with a small wink in a wordless gesture that he had already secured his notepad.
"Oh, there you are!" A woman who seemed to be in her late 40's spoke as she released a heavy, rather breathless sigh of relief. Alvin quickly climbed to his feet while Alexander and Brittany turned to face the person of whom that voice belonged to. "Oh, Dr Rubin!" Brittany exclaimed with a formal curtsy.
"Hey, Dr Rube!" Alvin greeted casually as he leaned up against the wall that supported the banister from the side with a poster sporting the school mascot, an Eagle, whom were striking an awesome pose.
Alex shyly waved while looking pretty uncertain about the middle-aged woman. He had no idea why but he felt as though millions of mini butterflies fluttered about within his stomach and this made the pre-teen chipmunk clutch his stomach in fright.
"And this must be Alexander, I assume?" Dr Rubin asked while getting a closer look at her new student as she knew how to take this lightly and gently when it came to shy new students. Alex silently nodded while looking up at his future head master with his dark blue eyes large and glassy, thus making his facial appearance similar to one of a kicked 2 month old puppy.
"Yep. This is our son; Alex." Alvin said as he started to introduce the two to each other with paw gestures "Dr Rubin, Alex. Alex, Dr Rubin."
Dr Rubin held a finger out towards the young chipmunk so he could shake it and the boy responded by reluctantly taking her finger into his paw and shook it calmly and as she did, the young chipmunk seemed to have relaxed just a little bit. She could feel a small portion of Alexander's anxiety melt away within that first kindly gesture.
"Now, if you would be so kind as to follow me to Mrs Ortega's class..." Dr Rubin began to walk off and lead her former students and their son to the same classroom where Alvin and his brothers were taught. Also it was the origin of the unbreakable romance between two bands.
Knocking on the door firmly with a clenched fist, Dr Rubin awaited for someone on the other side to open the door. Someone did and Alvin smiled as soon as he saw who it was who answered the door "Oh, Alvin and Brittany!" Julie Ortega exclaimed cheerfully as Brittany climbed up her old teacher's leg and embraced her in for a sisterly hug as she wrapped her arms around Julie's neck. Alvin wasn't as excited to see his old teacher than Britt was but he still missed her all the same. It had been close to three years after all.
"How're ya doing, Juli-I mean, Mrs Ortega?" Alvin asked as he almost used her real name instead of what he should have been calling her with a smile as he was oblivious to the fact that Alexander was hiding behind his back but paid little attention. "Fine thanks. I can see how busy you guys were because this little handsome thing here looks just like you, Alvin." Julie smiled gently as she looked at Alex who shied away from her.
It wouldn't be a fib if anyone told you that Julie knew who Alex was. Actually, it was quite the contrary! Julie actually visited Alexander multiple times since she had the self-rewarding job as the young chipmunk's godmother leaving her husband (and Dave's cousin), Toby, as the godfather. She also knew that Alex couldn't speak but the students waiting for her to retreat back inside didn't need to know that; not yet. She was also aware of the requirements of Alex's needs before he starts school.
"C'mon, Alex." Julie smiled as she knelt down to the floor and held the palm of her hand out as she waited for her new student to plop in there.
Alex looked at the hand waiting for him but then he looked towards the duo whom raised him since the day he was born. They looked so sad and they tried their best to smile through the pain they were most likely going through. Alexander walked towards his folks and wrapped both his arms around them in a loving hug and Alvin and Brittany didn't need to be told twice as they were already hugging him back.
Brittany sniffed as she wiped an arm across her tear-filled eyes and gave Alex some advice he could use later on "Now, Alex. Its okay to feel nervous at first but I doubt it'll be hard to find friends if you just be yourself."
Alex smiled and put a loving paw on his mother's shoulder as he mouthed "Thanks mom". Then Alvin decided to add his own piece of advice "But if you get bothered and pestered by anybody who isn't a girl..." he winked with a sly smirk "Give 'em a good old wedgie."
Brittany admonished as she was appalled by her husband's choice of words "Alvin!" She instantly gave Alvin a bonk on top of the head "Our baby isn't going to fight on his first day of school!". While that punch to the head wasn't hard enough to give Alvin amnesia but it was strong enough to leave a lump or bruise on his head.
His paws flying up to his head, Alvin constantly yowled in pain as he jumped and hopped up and down pathetically on the spot. Alex shook his head with a small smile. It was clear that his dad would never change who he is on the inside and the young chipmunk hoped that he never will. Not for anyone.
Alex confidently leapt into Julie's palm and was taken inside the classroom so he could meet everyone and when he looked back to see his parents for the last time that morning and they were walking off with Dr Rubin. Where? He did not know.
Of course, the girls cooed and gave a chorus of "Awwww's" as soon as they laid their eyes on Alexander even though he felt like a baby judging by their reactions. Julie set Alex down on a desk towards the far left right before she began her trek back to the teacher's desk. Clearing her throat to allow her kind-heart to take over, Julie began to speak "Good morning, guys."
"Good morning, Mrs Ortega." The class of teens chanted in perfect unison.
"Welcome to the Home room. As you all know, today is the first day back at school since Christmas and we see many new faces in this the Homeroom today." The raven-haired, young lady teacher smiled kindly as she nodded to her class' direction as she put her hands together in an excited way "So I figured that we might as well introduce ourselves!"
She started at one of the newer faces in the class and pointed to a young boy whom sat in the front row. Looking to be in his late teens who had curly red hair and he had small freckles and splotches of spots and blackhead's lining his rather small nose. He wore black glasses with transparent lenses and wore an olive green jacket.
"What is your name?" Julie asked. The boy replied with his snotty nose blocking most of his voice, making it very hard to understand a word he was saying "Ah'm MIgal."
Julie was confused as she repeated what the boy said in her mind for a second before she could translate it "Nice to meet you, Nigel."
One-by-one, all the new students gave themselves a class introduction and Julie even had all the older students of the class introduce themselves. Last was Alexander and he was very nervous about stating who he was to the whole class since he couldn't talk. As the young crimson wearing chipmunk wearily ran and skidded across the floor, trying to ignore the millions of eyes trained on him, he felt like he was being hunted. Hunted by a certain predator. A ruthless one.
Whence the son of Alvin and Brittany finally made it to the chalk board, everyone looked at him dumbfoundedly. Why did he walk all the way over there? Why couldn't he just sit down in his seat and tell his name like everyone else? Julie noticed the bone-chilling, eerie silence that existed while Alex was writing on the chalk board.
As soon as the young dark Auburn furred chipmunk finished his writing on the chalk board, everyone looked at what it said carefully.
"Hi. My name's Alexander Seville and if you couldn't tell, I'm a chipmunk. The son of the awesome Alvin Seville and Brittany the Chipette, if you could believe it. Anyways, I hope I will make the best of friends and I will try my hardest to fit in."
Moments following reading that, one of the Jocks began to laugh. It was Ryan! "Are you saying that the son of Alvin, one of the greatest rockstars ever, and Brittany can't talk?! That's priceless!"
Alex's ears dropped fretfully as he began to feel a little cornered by the fact that everyone else instantly followed in Ryan's laughter and the young teen Chipmunk soundlessly growled as he grinded his teeth together as he tried to stand up for himself.
"Class, stop laughing!" Julie bellowed as she stared her entire class down and this tactic somewhat worked. Ryan was still smiling as he had found his next victim, a probably easy score at best. The young chipmunk was visibly bothered by the fact that everyone laughed at him because of his incapability to speak and he had a feeling that this wasn't the last time.
"Alex, please go and sit back down at you're desk." Julie softly ordered and watched as the chipmunk instantly obeyed her commands. Once the chipmunk was sitting on the table of his desk (due to the chair being too big for him), the young teacher began to tell her class their task for the day.
She had already handed out sheets of lined paper for everyone in the Homeroom and it was a small matter to tell the kids in the class what they needed to do "Guys, I expect you all to write a 5000 word on politics. I'm just gonna go and talk to Dr Rubin about something."
Before she left, though, Julie sent everyone in the glass a stern look as she warned them "Now, if I hear a single word of how you hurt Alex's feelings then you'll find a one-way ticket to the principal's office."
Julie bit her bottom lip to calm her nerves. She really rarely yelled at her students because her kind-hearted nature always took over. This was one of those rare moments where kindness of the heart wasn't enough. Once she opened the door and exited through it, Alex felt his ears flatten in guilt. He never meant to get anyone in trouble and hoped that now he didn't make a big mistake by coming here but he knew it would have been best to stay for the remainder of the day at least.
Besides, what's the worst that could happen?
"...And so Alex accidently got lost in an ice cream truck and got shipped to Canada. It took us a whole week to track him but he was already throwing up and shivering like a fuzzy maraca!" Alvin had just finished telling Dr Rubin a pointless story from Alexander's pup hood days. Much to Brittany's dismay.
Smacking her mate upside the head, Brittany told Alvin in a hissed whisper "Alvin, you put him in that ice cream truck so he would have somewhere to wait while you went inside to get Dave's wallet. The man had a terrible memory problem!"
Alvin bashfully locked his paws behind his back and avoided eye contact with his old head teacher and Dr Rubin decided to get things straight...Well, the things that was relevant to the subject before it somewhat spiralled down a route of randomness.
"So lets see. Alex was born with a complication in his voice box and this made him a mute so he can't talk. You two were afraid of him being crowded and given unnecessary attention so you home schooled him for a few years until now, after Simon and Jeanette got through to you."
Dr Rubin summed it up simply as she stared down at the two adult chipmunks who stood on her desk. Alvin and Brittany nodded simply, confirming the Principal's suspicions. Before Alvin told of Alex's ice cream raid; Rubin had asked the parents of Alex's needs and requirements of being happy in school.
"Right." Brittany gave her mate a sideways scowl "And hopefully, Alex won't behave like someone else I know." Alvin cackled evilly in responce whilst rubbing his paws together "I can't help it, Britt. Mischief is my middle name!"
"I thought you're middle name was Rules." Brittany deadpanned as she shoved her claws in her pockets.
"Oh, you know it was my 'Bad boy' regime that made you attracted to me." Alvin boasted proudly as he pointed to his own puffed out chest with pride filling every bone in his body.
Brittany didn't have the guts to lie. It was actually Alvin's personality and bravery that had her hooked to him. Honestly, if it wasn't for Alvin's kind-heart, she would have left him long ago. She loved him too much to leave him!
"May we please get back on topic?" The woman asked impatiently as she folded her arms across her chest while drumming her fingers on the desk in a familiar rhythm.
"Yup." Brittany tilted her head forwards as she bowed in respect "But now we need someone to help Alex when his notebook isn't enough. Someone to be by his side at all times. Someone who'll stand with him if Alex does something great, like discovering he has super powers." Brittany's eyes sparkled by the end of that sentence.
"You've been watching 'Sky high' again, haven't ya?" Alvin asked plainly as he folded his arms across his chest. The Chipettes were die-hard disney fans and they all turned scary if you decided to tear each of them away.
"What if I had, Alvin?" Brittany asked with this bitter sweet tone in her voice "You gonna take my precious DVD's away?"
Alvin was terrified to answer his wife's question as someone decided to open the door and announce herself "Hello, Dr Rubin. Mind if I came in?" Julie asked.
"Oh, Mrs Ortega." The woman said pleasantly with a smile "What can I do for you?"
"Um, yeah..." Julie began awkwardly but she spoke anyway "I think I know who should help Alex."
Alvin and Britt were confused as they felt invisible to the two adults chattering among themselves. Normally the two band leaders felt like they needed to be included with chats based upon Alex's welfare but somehow; it appeared that the teachers had things under control.
After what seemed like half an hour of talking, the three adults were hurrying down the halls to reach a specific class room. Once they stopped at the door of the music room, Julie opened it and as soon as she did, everyone else got a good view of the room they were searching for.
The inside beheld a room that had flooring and wall paper that looked kind of like they were both stolen from a Shakespearean play. But standing in front of the crowd was a conductor who moved his conductor's wand around to signal his choir which note to sing and when to sing it. The conductor seemed to be a man who sported a large beer belly and had long flowing locks of silver hair that was neatly curled on the man's neck and flowing down his back.
"Mr Caprion, sir?" Julie spoke as she got the music teacher's attention and the choir instantly stopped singing. "Yes, Madam Ortega?"
The tan-skinned young woman swept her long, flowing ebony hair out of her eyes as she requested one of Mr Caprion's students out of hiding "Sorry to intrude, Mr Caprion. I was just wondering if you could send Alesha out to see us."
After thinking for a bleak moment, the music teacher spoke up Alesha's name and asked her to join the adults outside the class which she obeyed.
Alesha was actually a chipmunk who seemed to be slightly younger than Alexander. She had radiant blonde fur with gorgeous emerald eyes that twinkled through the golden sunlight reflection through the windows as they touched her elegant form. She also wore a lavender skirt with a lilac T-Shirt that was lined with random silver sequins and she wore a small Lilly corsage in her hair. Alesha's rosy cheeks brightened at the sight of the two adult chipmunk superstars in front of her as she knelt down before them as if they were royalty.
"Oh my, goodness! I'm kneeling before almighty legends!" The younger chipette exclaimed as she tried to contain her excitement and Alvin grinned "Heh, I like this girl already."
"Alvin Seville, stop it!" Brittany hissed as she jabbed her elbow right into Alvin's rib cage to try and get her mate to stop acting immature. Alvin's cheeks blew out as he tried to contain a scream of agony but he was finding this task almost impossible. Dr Rubin already knew what to do "Miss Worthington," she began to speak "We apologise for this inconvenience but we need your help with something if its alright."
Alesha gave a nod with a cute smile, signalling the grown-ups that she was all ears for this plan.
As she was being told what was going to happen; nobody realised that from far away someone was spying on the scene in a pitch black room with televisions with hypnotic green screens revealing many spots in town (especially where Alvin and the chipmunks were). This someone sharpened her razor-sharp fingernails on a blunt stone as she used her camera and equipment to zoom in closer to a pixelated image of a familiar creature.
"Hmmm, While I want to get those brats now and finish what I had started all those years ago...I must retrieve everyone of those chipmunks. Otherwise my plans will be ruined." The woman hung her head in an attempt to think and she lifted it when one particular idea came to mind "Ooh! Well now that I think about it, we shall see if my new plan will work."
She clicked a button on one of the many computer keyboard's surrounding her and the pixel image of the chipmunk instantly shifted into the face of Alvin. Lifting her head, the woman cackled wickedly and evilly at the thought of her brand new plan. Never had she had a brilliant idea come into her head and this time, nobody was going to get in between her and her prize.
A/N: I hope this chapter was alright, guys. This was Alex's first day of school so far! What do you think? Do you like the characters and everything else? Well of your wondering What else is coming then I'll be glad to inform you that I will try my best to update tomorrow.
I own Alex, Alesha, the music teacher and the villain so far.
Please review and tell me what you think is going to happen. Also, you'll be amazed what happens next and who Alesha is related to. I hope so, anyway.
-Chloemcg