Cherry and Atticus Go West

chapter 6

"Rollin', Rollin', Rollin'~..." Cherry randomly sang.

"Really?" Atticus asked.

Cherry shrugged. "Those guys who lived in the orphanage before us used to sing it."

"Who?" Atticus asked.

"The Blues Brothers, Jake and Elwood." Cherry explained.

"Cool." Atticus smiled.

"Sometimes I wonder if we should go back and visit that orphanage for old time's sake..." Cherry shrugged.

"Yeah." Atticus said.

The traveling lasted for a good long time.

They ended up outside an office with two sleeping dogs, one of which wore a cowboy hat over his eyes.

"That dog looks familiar..." Cherry said to herself about the other dog who wore a string around its neck as it carried something. "Wait a sec..." she then lifted up the bottom part and saw the end of the string was a timer that was ticking.

"Strange, what kind of dog would wear a timer?" Atticus wondered.

"Einstein!" Cherry realized who this dog was.

"Einstein?" Atticus asked.

"This is my Uncle Emmett's dog." Cherry said to him.

"Excuse us, Mr. Dog!" Fievel called to the other dog. "We need your help!"

"Huh?" the other dog mumbled, slowly waking up before going right back to sleep due to being old. "Oh, no, the tumbleweed's asking me for help... No, not again..." he then covered his eyes with his ears.

"Do we look like a tumbleweed to you?!" Atticus exclaimed.

The dog went right back to sleep, accidentally letting out a burp and blew away Fievel after Atticus helped Cherry out.

A man with silvery white hair with a brown hat, a jacket, rough pants, and boots came out of the building he was in before. "Come on, Einie, time to go." he told his dog.

"Uncle Emmett!" Cherry squeaked out loud.

"Sir, wait!" Atticus squeaked out loud.

Einstein barked and growled to his master.

"What is it, boy?" the aging man knelt down next to his dog. "You see something weird?"

Einstein gestured to the mice. The man bent down and picked up the mice in his hand, wondering why his dog would want anything to do with them.

"Uncle Emmett!" Cherry squeaked. "Please!"

"That's funny, that mouse sounded just like Cherry..." the man pouted slightly.

"That's because that is Cherry! And I'm her best friend, Atticus!" Atticus squeaked.

"GREAT SCOTT!" the old man jumped back slightly.

"Yeah, that's Uncle Emmett alright." Cherry smirked.

"Cherry, what in the name of Sir Isaac H. Newton happened to you two?" Emmett glanced at his niece and her friend.

"We don't know, one moment we're watching a movie, the next thing we know, we're being sucked into the movie and when we woke up, we were mice." Atticus told him.

"That sounds preposterous," Emmett commented. "But, Cherry would never lie to me... Now, where are you all headed?"

"Cat R. Waul's going to turn everyone into mouse burgers!" Cherry explained, becoming animated. "We overheard him! He tried to trick us, but we know he was only lying! No cats can be trusted to any mice, except for maybe Tiger."