Agent Angel Chipmunk & the Case of the Shrunken Nuts

         Angel the chipmunk thought of himself as the greatest secret agent of all time.  He and his best friend Ricky the raccoon were always in trouble, trying to solve cases that didn’t really exist. The case of the missing sock, they found it in the dryer.

          In the case of the melted ice cream, Ricky’s mom found a bowl of melted ice cream in the microwave, and she didn’t know where it came from. Angel and Ricky found out that the ice cream was put in the microwave by Ricky’s dad. He was on a diet and he did not want his wife to find out that he was eating ice cream, so he hid it in the microwave. When Ricky’s dad got in trouble, so did Ricky.

          Today when Ricky came over, Angel’s family were all very sad. “I don’t understand!” said Angel’s mom, “They were all so big yesterday.” “Then why do they all look so small today!” said Angel’s dad. “Maybe they shrunk.” Said Angel, Yea!” said Ricky the raccoon, “Sometimes my stuff shrinks when my mom washes it.” Dad said, “Nuts don’t shrink, but they sure look like they had been shrunken.”

          Angel & Ricky got right on the case. Because all their nuts look like they had been shrunken, Angel’s mom had to go and find some more. They no longer had enough nuts for the long winter. So…  Angel & Ricky followed mom all around the Shady Forest as she collected more nuts. By nightfall, she had a large basket of huge nuts, in addition to the basket of shrunken nuts.

          In the morning, Angel’s mom started to make breakfast when she screamed, “Oh my goodness!” “It’s happened again!” Angel came running down stairs, saw the tiny nuts, and said, “I wonder how that happened.” As his mom began to collect more nuts, Angel went over to Ricky’s house to tell him about the second batch of nuts.

          Ricky said why don’t we ask if we can camp outside tonight and we can watch the nuts. Angel said, “That’s a good idea Ricky.”

          So they both asked their parents if they could camp out at Angel’s house. They set up their tent hidden in the bushes. They gathered all their cool spy gear. They had magnifying glass, flashlight, paper and pencils to write down details that happened during the night, compass, watch (so they know what time it is), and they also had a pair of night vision goggles (they got them free with 120 bubble gum wrappers), but they don’t work very well.

          Now all they have to do is, wait for it to get dark. They decided to go to sleep really early so they could stay up all night. ZZZZ, huh ZZZZ

CRACK…SNAP…SNAP……SNIFF… SNIFF, SNIFF …...SNIFF.

          “Did you hear that?” whispered Angel. “Shushhhh, Yea!” Answered Ricky, “What do you think it was Angel?” “I don’t know” answered Angel, “but we better check it out.”           Very slowly and quietly, the two boys looked out the flap of the tent. “IT’S  A GHOST!” The two boys ran out of the tent and into the house as fast as they could, screaming,  “GHOST!”  “GHOST!”

        Now the whole house was awake. “What’s the matter boys?” asked Angel’s mom. The boys were so scared they could hardly talk. After they calmed down Angel said, “I saw a ghost mom.” “Yea!”-said Ricky, “I saw it too; it was all white with red eyes.” Angel said, “It looked like those old pictures of Great-Uncle Chip, only all white and dead!” Dad said, “There is no such thing as ghosts.” “Now you boys settle down, and go upstairs and sleep.”

          In the morning, the boys got up, looked at the nuts, and they were shrunken again! “MOM!” “THEY SHRUNK AGAIN!” the boys yelled to Angel’s mom. Angel’s dad said, “I think I know what’s going on here, I will stay in the tent with you boys tonight.” The boys were very glad to hear that! They all helped to gather more nuts to set up a trap.

          “What are you going to do dad?” asked Angel. Angel’s dad said, “I’m not sure son, but I will try to find out what has been happening to our nuts.” “You boys better turn in early if you want to watch all the action tonight.” said dad.

          The boys were asleep, it was dark, and dad was just about to fall asleep himself when he heard,  CRACK - SNAP – SNAP…… SNIFF…SNIFF…SNIFF. Dad looked outside the tent and he saw an albino squirrel. He woke up the boys quietly and said to them,  “There is your ghost.”  The boys were scared, dad said,  “Stay here boys, I’ll take care of this.”

          Dad snuck up behind the albino squirrel just as he was about to take our nuts again, and grabbed him. Dad said, “Who are you?” The albino said, “My friends call me Al, (it’s short for albino).” Dad asked, “What are you doing with my nuts?” Al went on to explain how he and his wife have seventeen kids. “They are always hungry!” said Al, “One day I came upon your basket of nuts and they were so big, I just traded baskets with you.”  “I’m sorry, but chipmunks are so much smaller than squirrels, I didn’t think that it would be that much of a big deal.” “I didn’t really steal them, I just traded.”

          Dad felt somewhat sad for Al, so he said, “Al you can keep all the nuts you took, but don’t do it again!”  “I’ll show you where to go to get really big nuts.” Al said, “Thanks a lot Mr. Chipmunk,” and they shook hands.

          Angel looked at dad and said, “Good job dad.” Then Angel and Ricky the Raccoon went off to their secret agent hideout. Ricky said, “That was our most exciting case yet!” “Yea!” said Angel, “and that ends the Case of the Shrunken Nuts”