South Park's VULGAR OF THE APES

by morisu

Butters and his other four alleys end up on a planet dominated by apes, except their natures might be more reliable than the planet from where the human children's kind came from, and both race eventually learn a dark secret about each other's origins. Which Race will be the intelligent and which will be the ignorant? WARNING: Some episodes are a rehash of episodes from the past.

4. EPIV HUMAN SEE HUMAN DO

Episode IV: HUMAN SEE HUMAN DO

After getting captured by the apes who these in particular were a couple of gorillas dressed in safari clothes except these gorillas were quite different from the ones way over by the marsh where all those wild naked humans were getting slaughtered at, including (supposedly) his two companions. The two uncanny explorers carried this human child up into the back of their vehicle, an olive-green CJ3A jeep, and gently placed him in a big open wooden crate with a big cloth covering him up from the top view as they drove off through the jungle, steering about 28 miles up to a town nearby. This wasn't just any town, it was some kind of municipality that looked almost a like a small variety of Cape Town, South Africa except with apes instead of humans governing the city, and unlike Cape Town, this similar looking region was surrounded by more forests, lots and lots of trees and shrubs all around.

After three hours of black out Butters slightly opened his eyes and because he was half-awake he could barely speak and just kept breathing heavily, he sees a light up above him and next to the light there came a person looking down at him, this person was wearing a green scrub uniform which must mean Butters is in the hospital being cared by who appears to be a surgeon believing what he experienced in the jungle with Kenny and Hector was all just a bad dream and they were finally rescued, "...HHhmmmm... Looks like this young individual had a few contusions and one small laceration after flowing down that rough stream in the Congo forest, there are some bruise marks on the left knee and left shoulder, and another on the lower back-hip, but the right side part of his forehead is wounded, I'm going to need a couple of stitches for that." uttered the surgeon in a rather strange human like accent after examining him. However, while Butters couldn't get a good look at the figure's face since he was wearing including a cap and surgical mask over his mouth and head, he has noticed the black hairy arms from his short sleeves to his latex gloves, even the upper half of his face was shown to be so pale wrinkly with protruding brows above the eyes which stunned Butters once again aware of the fact that it wasn't a dream at all. The unusual surgeon "or should we say" ape surgeon had to immediately treat the patient's injuries while he was strapped to an operation table starting with the forehead wound, one of his assistants (who are wearing the same outfit) manage to hold him still by the jaw giving the doctor a chance to numb the cut with some cream and a thin needle shot to make it painless which made the patient moan and whimper a little but the doctor carefully stitches this cut good and bandaged it leading the other assistants to take Butters up to an animal shelter as the ape surgeon is revealed to be a chimpanzee after taking his gloves, cap, and mask off.

After cleaning off all that dirt and wet filth from the body earlier, and after operating him, the chimp nurses quickly carried Butters in a soft clean blanket over to a quiet room where one of them sat down in a chair with him, Butters didn't know what they're going to do next but all the she ape did was just bottle feed him, like a veterinarian caring for a helpless cub after taking a beating from poachers out in the wild, pampered like a baby. Butters didn't know what to say or what to think of this event, right when he tried to speak asking where he is the nurse sends him up to some sort of animal infirmary ward full of caged human children crying like cats and dogs next door where Butters Stotch gets put into a huge indoor kennel for some shelter until the authorities could find a human sanctuary for him. The kennel had an extra blanket for the floor panel, a bucket of water to drink, and a big pile of straw and newspaper in the corner with a pot on top for taking a dump or tinkle inside. The nurse ape had to rush back to help the other patients right before Butters could speak to her on time when all the noise coming from the other cages were continuing like a mental home with their arms thrashing out through the bars. "... ...W-Where am I...?!" confused poor Butters in his condition, but after looking at one of the scrambled newspapers in that piled bathroom nest, he begins to understand why there are gorilla hunters, chimpanzee doctors and nurses, and bare naked human beings acting like wild animals and smell so bad, he's not positively sure if it's true or not, but judging by the way these apes can talk in perfect english, walk on two legs, and wear clothes, and the way they treat these humans who are extremely primitive, this must be some kind of reversed civilization in which the great apes are the dominant intelligent and civilized species, whereas the humans are reduced to a savage animal like state. He also realizes why that girl along with the rest of the humans he met in the jungle yesterday expressed their emotions at the sight of Hector's chimpanzee doll. There exists a fierce hatred between the two races. "Uh sweet Jesus.. the S-Sok-wee Ants hit a home run!"

By the following morning, almost every young wild human child were still asleep, around 5am in the morning, Butters couldn't get that much sleep after so much noise these humans made last night. Just then someone entered the infirmary room and turned on the lights, Butters started trembling when it turns out to be another gorilla, but this time, unlike the first gorilla he came across on this planet, this one's a different gorilla wearing a blue-violet jumpsuit, appearing to be nothing but some domestic ape janitor since he's carrying a mop and bucket, "PPHHWoo! Talk about a jungle out there, why it's also jungle in here with all you stinky children." he said, the gorilla mopped the whole floor throughout the room passing by all the facilities until one of the human juveniles in the middle of the aisle threw a couple of his feces from his cage to where the ape's standing at, "Auh damn it Rocket!" he argued after he just cleaned that spot. He wipes down that spot with good cleansing but eventually stops at Butters's kennel and looks at him. Butters gets a little nervous when the ape got closer and crouched down to take a good look at one of the new human infants that arrived yesterday here at Galen's Animal Institute. He did not snarl or groan at him, he just made an affable smile, "He he heh Well aren't you the cutest little male I had seen,my oh my." he said admiring Butters's appearance, while not aware that the child's not like the others just yet the gorilla lets him know that according to the doctors and nurses he's considered the rarest type of human that's been discovered and no doubt the healthiest aside from a few injuries, he also tells him that by tomorrow morning one of the their friends are going to pay a visit and see this special breed. Butters felt quite amused, no one on his planet ever mentioned anything about him being special in his life, Butters also couldn't help but recognize that deep sassy voice coming from this gorilla "Poor little guy, no wonder you're so quiet, hopefully that wound on your head will heal up fast, tell you what, while no ape's lookin, you can have a sweet chewy gummy string as a little treat. Here try it ...it's cherry flavored..." said the friendly gorilla handing him a twizzler looking piece of candy he pulled out if his pocket. Butters was charmed by his generosity, he reached out his hand through the bars, the ape handed it to him intrigued by the boy's reaction, he tried it and it tasted very good more better than the sweets he ate back on his planet. Butters Stotch was so blessed by the gorilla's kindness he faced him and responded "This taste good, I like it." "Yeah I knew you wo... ... ..." Butters finally spoke revealing his true nature in front of a civilized anthropomorphic ape leaving him completely stunned and gapping with stupefaction, "...What? Oh right I'm sorry, thank you for the candy string thing Mr. uh... Z-z-z-Zorn-nam, is that your name Zornam?" The timid gorilla janitor who went by the name of Zornam after Butters read the name tag pinned to the left side of his chest dropped his mop tipping the water bucket over, he took a few steps back and slipped on the wet floor but quickly ran out the door panicking while all the captive human kids stood silent and looked at Butters from each cage, "Gee wiz, what did I say?" confused Butters. Zornam immediately rushed back into the infirmary after splashing himself in the face with water from the ape's restroom sink to check and see if he's lost his mind or not, he walks back up to Butters crouching down and asked, "...Go on, say something, come on talk, talk dammit, talk!" "Please don't hurt me!" Butters talked back while backing away from the gorilla's jumpy confusion when he grabbed the bars with his huge hands "or paws or whatever". Zornam was once again stunned and gaped with fear being the first ape to witness a human that has the knowledge to speak. Butters tries to ask for his help on how he's going to get out of here but the gorilla with a surprised frightened look got back up and began walking away without a word, "Wait, w-where you going?" "I hear nothing, I hear nothing!" Butters keeps running his mouth until Zornam ran out of the human infirmary in panic again, leaving poor Butters helpless while the rest of the little caged humans woke up and began barking like dogs and banging the bars with their feet!

Meanwhile Zornam ran out the front door going home right after running into his boss, the chimpanzee head of the this animal shelter Dr. Galen, and gave back his keys and badge letting him know he quits and told him to hire another janitor who could handle a talking human. "...Talking... humans?" questioned the same chimpanzee surgeon who operated on Butters yesterday as he gets one of his helpers to check on all the young human orphans in the infirmary. While on their way Butters felt a little worried that because he finally showed one of the apes he can talk who knew what the scientists will do to him, however this didn't stop him from creating an outburst after getting irritated with all these wild human kids making too much noise around him. Both Dr. Galen and his assistant were almost to the ward, he didn't have to check in since he was going to work on another animal case, but because the ward was just down the hall where the surgery room's at they were "ironically" at the right time when this happens. Right when they reached the open door down by the end where all the human orphans making a fuss inside... "SHUT UP! All of you shut the fuck up!" That horrid shout made those two chimps stop, "...What the bloody hell was that?!" startled Dr. Galen who decided to investigate this disturbance, it came from in the infirmary wondering if there was an intruder a robber trying to steal the animals. They both went in but there was nobody in here except for all the animals who were safe in their cages concerting this was a small room and would've suspected an intruder by now, but as they checked on Butters's cell, all the other little primitive humans were silently quiet and kept looking at Butters through their bars, something these apes had never seen before especially when Dr. Galen briefly saw Butters standing up right like one of them. Butters looking very nervous backs away again after seeing the skeptical look on his face. Galen then utters to his assistant, "...Cassia, did you mention anything about your sister coming over?" "...Yes sir." she replied, "Good." The mop and bucket was put away and the two apes quickly left the room leaving the door shut closed this time, all poor Butters could do now was remain silent and not speak another word for the day or the next day.

The next day came, by far Butters Stotch hasn't said a word since yesterday, he remained quiet and casual while most of the apes fed him and cleaned him, they unwrapped the patch from the right part of the boy's forehead to check on his condition, surprisingly the besides the bruises disappearing the forehead wound had been healing pretty fast for only three days, the ape doctor suggests they let it dry for the next five hours and in time the little stitch will be removed. Just then two chimpanzee visitors showed up to the Galen Animal DayCare Center, one's a zookeeper due to his khaki short sleeve shirt and brown shorts including a small logo on his chest that says Sokwee National Zoo on it, and the other's a well dressed she-ape wearing a beautiful white smock, cut more elegantly, gathered in at the waist by a belt, with short sleeves showing her long, furry, slender, agile arms. They were just who Galen and Cassia had invited after giving them a report about Butters and the incident that occurred in the animal ward yesterday. The she ape in white smock arrives in the front entrance with her helper greeted by the head of this center, "Good morning Dr. Zira." "Good morning Dr. Galen, where's that special human child you and my sister told me about?" "Right this way, we just had his forehead mend checked in the surgery room, it just needs to stay on for at least four or five hours." the chimpanzee scientist known as Zira comes down to the infirmary where she gave her sister a greeting hug after long busy days not seeing each other for a while except the phone, she shows her the animal they've been hearing about, there she stood seeing Butters before her very eyes and smiled, "Oh my, this little toddler is very special, he's born with lighter skin and sun colored hair, I've never seen such a human this young and handsome before, and don't you worry little fellow we'll take care of that small suture in no time now that we know you're more healthier and just so you know, after some unknown occurrence Dr. Galen and his followers made an agreement to let you live at our establishment where you won't be all cooped up here in a cage like this, you'll be with other humans your age and that way you'll get more social there." she said. Butters charmed by her compliment and honesty, he smiles back without giving away his identity.

Butters gets taken out of his cage from the human infirmary but gets put on a leash with the zookeeper walking him up into another cage, a restraint in the back of a big grey van outside, Butters was not comfortable with this as it turns out according to that overthought surgeon chimp, he made a unwise decision on what to do with this uncommon creature, in order to not cause another panic in his animal shelter after getting a strange hypothesis about yesterday, Butters gets transported to some zoo where things got a little more humiliating for him.

Twenty minutes later, they eventually made it to an unusual looking building, two gorilla-zookeepers unloaded the restraint cage out from the truck pushing it inside on a cart where he's now brought to another animal shelter, taken down the hall to another ward from the looks of it, except this ward was more of a lab, it was bigger and had some other caged animals like ferrets, rabbits and mice that are there for experimentation. They wheeled the cart into the room, workers then stop and opened the cage, one of them harshly pulled Butters out by the neck with an animal catchpole leading him downstairs to his new cage while the poor boy kept dangling, "STOP!" cried Zira who came in before them and saw what they were doing to him, she immediately ran to the guard and took the noose off Butters's throat just as they lead him in. She dismisses them and told one of her other helpers in the facility to get some ointment while the child kneeled in pain, including hemostat scissors and forceps for that tiny stitch on his forehead. The cage they're in was a large indoor human compound, it's more bigger than the previous cages Butters had to sit through, large enough to fit four human adults inside, it includes a tire swing, a big round bounce ball, a little indoor kiddie slide, and some stacks of straw for litter and bedding. The whole ward counting the whole building is actually an animal research center and Zira is the head of the department of the company to which Butters has been brought, on top of that, it's practically next door to the Sokwee National Zoo. Zira manage get Butters to sit perfectly still on a veterinary exam table they brought in while rubbing the ointment around his neck, "God those fools and their noosing poles." she understood, after lotioning the neck she then got Butters to lay down very still in a supine position on the table (even though they still had to strap him down for precaution) they tilted his head up a little and began this quick minor procedure, after sterilizing it with some medical hydrogen-peroxide alcohol, the stitches were finally removed and Butters's forehead is now looking all better, not only was Zira in charge of this business, she's both a veterinarian and zoologist studying the behavior and lives of humans. They've unstrapped Butters from the table putting everything away and left Butters captive again after closing the cage door behind him, while he does get more space in this pen he doesn't wanna keep being treated like a zoo animal for the rest of his miserable lonely life, he had speak in front of Dr. Zira before she left the lab proving to her that he is not as primitive as the rest of these humans on this planet are, but due to his sore neck and throat after getting yanked by those thick headed ape guards it hurts when he tries to talk, so the boy could not speak at least not as high or loud, the least he could do was whisper through his throbbing vocals but Dr. Zira sadly left the lab with her workers leaving poor Leopold Butters, Stotch alone shivering bare naked in a big cold metal bar sealed enclosure, "So much for my hapa noa... Oh Kenny, I sure wish you were here," grieved Butters in his mind "you were the only friend who came to my helplessness but now look what those good for nothing rocket scientists got us both into, I don't know whether you're alive or not and I got no one to turn to, for once I actually do need help.".

After one and half an hour, while Butters kept swinging on the tire swing in sorrow, Zira returns to the lab arriving downstairs with a new playmate for him, "Oh Bright Eyes, there's someone I like you to meet." She called out for Butters who she gave him the name Bright Eyes because of his charming blue eyes. The zookeeper chimp approached the cage door with another human child on a leash, it wasn't Kenny or Hector as Butters thought, this human screeches like both a cat and dog mix together mimicking these noises in her voice, they put her in with Butters revealing to be the same naked human girl from the outdoor jungle meadow, Butters's excited to see her again and looking more lovely with her tanish naked body and black hair after the apes cleaned her up, "Bright Eyes meet Libra, she's one of our new primate faunas at the Sokwee National Zoo next door." Zira said, Libra was the name they gave her, named after the zodiac constellation of stars in the sky at night. The reason put her in with Butters is because he wanted him know one his kind and see how he would react when he sees another human about his age and he mean't no harm to her not one single scratch. Butters was going to try and speak or whisper to Zira up close but was too sidetracked by his playmate Libra, he started to get that waving little tube of his again when she walked closer to him. Zira found it a little off when she noticed that at first but concerting these two were getting along well with Libra just grooming him on the back of his hair and seeing a smile on the boy's face she decided to let her stay in there with Butters for the night as they both snuggled with each other on straw bedding wrapped in a big blanket Zira offered, then by tomorrow she'll escort them to their new habitat. "...Well at least you're here." admired Butters in his mind.

On the next following morning, Butters and Libra get taken out of the indoor enclosure carried out of the lab gently this this time as Zira ordered no matter what the little wild human girl did since the guard were wearing gloves from any bites, and into an outdoor enclosure which happens to be the zoo's human exhibit Dr. Zira stated yesterday. This enclosure includes a big hard-plastic climbing structured tree playset in the middle where Butters meets the other humans, two young boys who are the same as his age like Libra seem to play a little rough, Butters is also not going to like this. These two animalistic boys check Butters out while he stays still but keeps trembling when one of them kept grunting, they walked around him in a circle wondering what he's suppose to be since his skin's more brighter than theirs and his hair like lighting sunshine. Before these caveman like boys could do anything else around Butters a few zookeepers from the top platform were toss a bunch of fruits and vegetables (carrots, lettuce, and oranges) down at the group below which means it's time for breakfast, every human except Butters could barely get any while Libra and the other two kept taking most of them, he had just had to get at least something for his upset stomach, luckily there were still more raining down, lots more, most the food hit them including Butters like a couple rocks irritating him but he manage to catch some scattered ones, just one little orange and two carrots, "...Well at least I got something... besides getting bonked on the head many times!" he muttered while his sore throat and voice was still clearing up. There's whole lot of fruits and vegetables scattered all over the enclosure and those three kept hogging the rest up like a pack of wild boars. Butters tried pacing to think of a way to get out of here, he then sees Zira up on the platform next to the zookeepers joyfully waving hi to him above checking on him to see how he's getting along, from the looks of it she saw him walking and pacing around not socializing with his own kind besides the female one, she eventually leaves returning to her research center but will be back to check on him in an hour.

Afterwards there came four little apes lead by one female adult gorilla wearing a flower painted wrap-dress, a pair of glasses and a name tag necklace approached the human exhibit to meet the rare white skinned human, the she gorilla happens to be a school teacher and the young child like apes she with are her class students who were on a field trip paying a visit at the zoo looking at all the animals starting with the human enclosure. The four ape children who went up to look at the humans below "without falling in" were a young gorilla wearing purple clothing, two chimpanzees boy and girl wearing green clothing, and one that's either a gorilla or some kind of all black chimpanzee wearing darkish blue clothing when Butters caught a glimpse of them above. "Wow check that out, it's not everyday you see an animal with albism." said the little girl chimp who tried to draw a picture of him from her sketch notebook, she titled a little bit to get a better view of him while he looked at her eye to eye at far distances, "I never seen anything like it." said the black colored boy chimp, it seems that according to Zira's belief, Butters is concidered to an albino human judging by his skin and hair. Butters felt a little admired by the young ape's liking, he just smiled and waved at her; the four ape children along with their teacher were surprised at this, seeing a primitive human who knows how to respond like that to a civilized ape, "Well it's like what they say, human see human do." said the ape school teacher disregarding his intelligence. But after a five minutes of the human standing still doing nothing but posing for the girl chimp's drawing, the boy gorilla got quite bored and wanted see him do some other tricks when he provokingly threw some peanuts down at him agitating Butters like a pest, the girl chimp tried pushing him away to stop him from doing that to the poor animal but this conflict caused her to accidently drop her spiral bound sketch pad including her pen into the human enclosure! She gets very upset resulting the teacher to break up the fight and move on to the next exhibit with the zookeeper rushing down to get the book out of the enclosure and promise the teacher they'll return it to her at the exit before leave. This gives Butters some spare time as he manage to rush over to the sketch book and pen, one of the male juveniles lay a hand on the book but Butters pulls it away from him which agitates him leading the feral child to agressively chase Butters around like a mad dog. Butters had no choice but to climb up the tree to avoid him while avoiding his fear of heights, he took the rope ladder up to a platform where Libra was but both the fierce males came charging after Butters causing him to roughly kick them off the edges, the guard sees this and hurries down into the enclosure to put a stop to it. Butters gets on a big three feet high branch and opens the book that had the child chimp's name on the cover written Lucy's do not touch with some rabbits, flowers, and butterfly stickers, right before eight seconds, the chimp guard shows up to snatch the book away from Butters! Butters got off the branch and tries to flee for it to where the guard came in dropping the book and pen and passing the guard making a left turn dodging him around the playset tree, sadly the doorway beneath the platform had more ape guards blocking it, one of them pushing him away while the other guard rushed back out of the enclosure with the book and pen; the door gets sealed up and Butters is not too happy with this, it also didn't help that the two human boys continued picking a fight with him, but because Butters's done playing Mr. nice kid he runs up to the one charging at him and after a little rough and tumble Butters gets the upper hand and kicks him in the primate balls which agonized his primitive opponent while the other male tries to attack Butters runs up to him and pushes him back like a foot ball player and easily chases him up to the tree with Libra who is now too timid to come near Butters.

Because of this violent behavior, Butters was sent back into the animal research facility but not without Zira's permission as she made perfectly sure they used a dog leash on him and if he gets aggressive and tries to pounce on them, then they'll have to use the restraining pole on him again, one of the two gorilla-zookeepers with gloves and a dust mask on carried the struggling Bright Eyes by the weight and tossed him into the indoor enclosure, and quickly closed the metal cage door right before they rushed back upstairs and left. Poor Butters started to feel his left bruised knee and shoulder coming back to him after getting shove back into the compound like that, and is discouraged that there's just no way he could get the apes' attention to free him from this horrid prison. After half an hour, Zira returns to the facility to check on Butters one last time, she approaches the enclosure and sees how hurt he feels, "I'm really sorry about what happen today Bright Eyes." she said while looking at the little tear in his eye through the bars, she decided to open the cage door and walk in to soothe him, she called out one of her assistance to guard the entrance for a tiny caution much to their worries considering the human boy to be vicious. Zira went in, carefully coming near her Bright Eyes who did not hesitate even though she's a little bit nervous herself doing this. He faced his head up to her while kneeling down as she gently comforts him, she kneeled down and gently attends his bruises after that fight at the zoo starting with his right arm first, looking at it closer until... "... ... ...Help...me..." a whisper went into Zira's big right ear... ...she titled her head back staring at Butters with a stunned gaping face, for what she had heard, could it be true? Leopold Butters, Stotch finally reveals to her his true disposition, and spoke again, "Please, help me." Zira shook with fear seeing his mouth move now realizing what the janitor had told the animal surgeon back at that animal shelter was right! Even one of the zoo guards noticed this unbelievable event with the same expression as Zira who immediately ran out of enclosure before shutting and locking the cage door, she and the guards rushed back up stairs and sprinted out of the ward (much like same reaction as Zornam). "...Oh not again!" annoyed Butters.

Meanwhile the whole ape school class were on their way back over to the bus, but as they reached the gateway exit one of the zoo staffs brought the sketchbook back to it's owner the same young girl chimp who accidentally dropped it in human enclosure earlier named Lucy, she gets her book back, only to discover... one of her blank pages had something marked even after the workers wiped off most of the dirty human prints (only the back and front cover and the fore edges), but while she checked all pages making sure nothing important was torn off or ruined she finds something signed on one of the blank sheets, something that wasn't done by her hands "or paws whatever" something she couldn't believe her own eyes.

By the time their clock reached 12pm around lunch time Butters's sore neck was all healed up and now he's able to speak better, he then hears and sees Zira returning to the research lab, two other apes were coming down the stair passage following her to meet the talking human, one's another lady chimp and the other's a different type of (male) ape who's plainly in a high position. He's an orangutan, the first Butters had seen on a planet like this. He's a little shorter than the gorillas "just up to Zira's height" and slightly round shouldered. His arms are relatively longer so that he often touched the ground with his hands as he walked, which the other apes did only rarely, thus he gave Butters an odd impression of using walking sticks. His head adorned with long hair and sunk between his shoulders, his face frozen in an expression of pedantic meditation, he looked like a venerable and solemn old pontiff. He's also dressed quite differently from the others, in a long black frock coat with a red star in the button hole and black-and-white-striped trousers, both somewhat dusty.

He's followed by a little female chimpanzee carrying a heavy briefcase. Her attitude suggested that she's his humble secretary. Zira shows every sign of respect for him as he turns out to be her boss, the head of the whole research institute who they addressed him as Dr. Zaius. "Here he is, the one I've been telling you about!" expressed Zira showing Zaius the highly distinctive subject. Butters came up to the bars to get a closer look at the orangutan who stared down at his little bright golden hair, white paled skin, and blue eyed appearance. The ape stood silent and responded with a straight face when he sees the human covering up his private part with a blanket. By his expression he felt uninterested until, "...euh, H-Hello there, m-mr. orangutan sir, my name is Leopold Stotch, but most of my kind call me Butters, and not Bright Eyes, I am not like all them crazy wild naked humans, I am just as intelligent and sane as... well... you guys except I'm not a monkey or ape." Butters spoke in front of him behind the bars, but the high authorized ape only lifted one brow up finding it unappealing while Zira nearly smiled for only a second next to him thinking otherwise. Zaius scratched his ear for some time and peered suspiciously into the cage as though scenting some trickery. It was plain to see that the orangutan refused to be convinced. He shrugged his shoulders several times, shook his head, then put his hands behind his back and started pacing up and down the corridor, passing and repassing the enclosure and darting glances in Butters's direction while the other apes waited for his decision in respectful silence. He stopped pacing and decided to run a few tests with the talking little human child in the cage, starting with the classic geometry shape puzzle where he has to put each wooden shaped colored block in the right inner spot of a flat board, number hand pointing trial where the ape says the number and the human has to point his index finger to it on the chart, taking both those tests until the one minute timer alarm goes off, and the most challenging of all... an electronic simon like keyboard where he has to repeat each color that glows pressing his hand on one of the four big buttons and get as many correct as he can without hitting the wrong note, this time without the one minute timer.

It took a while but Butters sat down at a table ten feet away from Zaius at each end like a gentlemen and manage to get all three tests done except for the simon one which he only made it up to only ten copied hits. Zaius knew the third test was quite changeling difficult to master, granted there some people "or apes" could possibly get up to a hundred, but no animal "such as the humans on this planet" could ever figure out problems like that. One of Butters's fingers were sore after pressing down on the simon keys in enclosure. Zira was more intrigued by his intelligence, but to Dr. Zaius, not so much. The orangutan came out of the indoor enclosure with a disappointed look disregarding everything the boy had accomplished unlike every human around here and put everything back after the guards shut the cage door. As they walked back up stairs next to the hallway door Dr. Zaius announces to Zira in a pompous manner "Dr. Zira, as head of science, I am not convinced by this event, what you've shown me here today is nothing but a soulless albino animal who only imitates ape behavior like a parrot would, it's nothing more but physical hoax, the sooner he is exterminated the better." he said before they both walked through the door.

They all left, Butters once again alone is now giving up hope and wasn't pleased after what Dr. Zaius had uttered about completely ignoring his intelligence and calling him an animal like every other ape around here "That's it! I HAVE HAD IT!" cried out Butters upsetting all the experimental critters in cages, after all the abusive shit and all the humiliation he had to take back on his planet is now reverting to this planet, so in a fit of rage Butters kicks the big red ball so hard hitting the tire swing, next he tossed the little wooden chair he sat on up to the metal bars, then he heavily pushes the slide over hitting the hard dusty floor with a loud bang and kept on angrily screeching, jumping around, and kicking the straw litter all over the enclosure like the fierce jungle humans which got Dr. Zaius and the other apes' attention after hearing all that racket from behind the closed facility entrance! Dr. Zaius and the two guards came back down hearing the little lab animals squealing in panic and found the young human standing in the middle of the trashed up compound grunting and breathing in and out hard while covered with a few straws on his head and shoulder. The guards were going to use their hard wooden batons to teach him some manners but Zaius halts them and humbly forbid them to. Butters turns around without the blanket covering up his rear ends and sees the orangutan facing him again. The most surprising thing about this outburst was it's unexpected outcome. Seeing Butters behave like that, Zaius smiled. He had finally detected in him human behavior which confused Butters a bit while remaining silent to catch his breath. His theory was vindicated, this put Zaius in such a good mood that he decided to drop that whole animal termination plan he mentioned earlier and give him one last chance. As much as Butters couldn't get the orangutan's positive side he briefly sees Zira at the stair passage from behind Zaius not looking back and quietly persuades him not to say anything by nodding no with a shush face "and zip it sign no less". Butters understood her sign language and just kept grunting, plus he bent his legs down a little fooling the imperious ape who eventually leaves the facility alongside the zookeepers and returns to his office getting back to work.

Later in the afternoon, when Butters kept sulking, Zira returned to the facility to check on him once more as she promised, only this time she brought someone with her to witness this magnificent human, someone who's also an ape but also a child like him. She walked down to the enclosure, placed her hands through the bars and gently called out, "Bright Eyes... or... ...Stotch is it? Lee-oe..." she tried to get his name right, but the boy got back up from sulking behind the fallen over slide and came up to Zira between the bars and spoke to her one more time, "It's Leopold... Leopold Butters, Stotch!" Zira was almost jumped but was not so shocked like last time as the young ape up above checked to make sure no other ape was coming in here. The coast was clear thankfully as Zira didn't know what to say about his ability except kindly ask some questions "of course" about who he is and where he came from. Butters told Zira the whole story, but before he could do that he wanted to know if this is the same planet Earth or a different Earth in another universe, more amazed by his talking capability she points out to him that their planet is not called Earth. Their planet's called Soror which means sister in latin in honor of the great law giver's lost relative's before his death a long, long time ago. Butters knew nothing about any lawgivers but he at least finally knew for sure that this wasn't the same planet they're on judging by not just the bare naked humans who are (kind of) the opposite compare to their nature and intelligence, but because it appears to look almost like Earth, only with a different society run by a different race. Butters tells her he came from a planet that was just like her's even though he didn't quite get a good look around the rest of their cities and streets but from what Butters saw from the newspapers four days ago at the Galen Animal DayCare Center it had to be, except on his planet not to offend her, humans were the people and the apes and monkeys were the animals. Zira couldn't believe in this fact, and yet she couldn't deny that on why this boy struggled with the other humans and doesn't behave like them here realizing he's almost like her kind! She let him continue with the rest of his story as he told her how he got to this alternate planet. He tells her about the human grown ups chose four young children of their own kind to test on piloting a super fast space shuttle instead of other animals like chimps due to this PETA organization that's been defending all animals from experimentation, "What!?" surprised Zira "They were willing to sacrifice their own young ones for some crazy request on flying through space to look at all the planets in their solar system?!" "...No just the six upcoming planets passed the moon." Butters replied, he told her he was suppose to take a plane up to Hawaii because of something his parents told about some ceremony called hapanoa that could help get rid of his anger he had at school after fighting with the other students over some personal reasons, "You go to school too?" "Huh, Who said that?" startled Butters. Zira calms him down letting him know the young ape she's with in the facility is the same chimp child who Butters met out in the zoo when she dropped her drawing book in the enclosure he was in, Lucy revealed to be Zira's niece approached next to her in front the sealed pen getting much closer look at the talking human. She didn't scream or freaked out in fear but instead chuckled with glee after recognizing the picture and writing he made on one of her blank pages that said My name Is BUtterS help me! with a rushed up scribble-scrabbled drawing of him and an ape on it. Her mother Cassia called her aunt Zira about this shocking incident and her aunt didn't to this but as clever and smart her niece was like her she decided to bring her here for short visit to see the intelligent boy as long as she promise to keep it all a secret and not tell anyone else about it until she could sort this out to the public. Lucy gave her word to her Aunt Zira while remaining surprise to learn about this event. Butters was starting to gain a liking with these two apes disregarding his upcoming fear and hate for apes and monkeys. But their polite conversation had to wait because it was almost night time and the research center's about close in ten minutes, but Zira promised to come see him again much to Butters's disapproval that he has to sleep on a stack of hay again. Zira says she's sorry that she get him like a bed or anything like, but Lucy complimented on Butters saying she likes him and agrees that he deserves to be free from a cage and see the light before she left with her aunt. With that said Butters began to sense hope coming back to him.

The next day, Zira came back to see Butters again. He woke up and finds one of the zookeepers next to her with a collar and leash as she reminded him not to speak in front of any other ape. Butters didn't know what's going on, but he stayed quiet and calm for her when the guard put the leash over his neck and handed it to her, so she took Butters out of the facility and down the hall while doing exactly as she said whispering it to him. Zira was not taking him back to the zoo or transporting him to another animal menagerie, she took him outside the building through the front entrance as it just so happens to be red-letter day, Zira decided to take him out of the institute for Advance Biological Study - that was the name of the establishment - and show Butters around town! Zira had allowed this only after much hesitation. While walking Butters down the big front porch side by side with no ape looking Zira mutters to him advising about his behavior, "Above all, do be careful not to turn on passers by or bare your teeth or scratch a trustful ape child like my niece who might come up and pet you. I didn't want to muzzle you, but..." "Wait a minute didn't I..." Butters pointed out as she stopped and burst out laughing. "Forgive me, forgive me!" she cried "I keep forgetting you have a mind like an ape." "Or human." he muttered, she then gave him a friendly tap on the head by way of apology. Her high spirits dissolved his resentment. Butters shared Zira's happiness. She advised Butters to keep walking like a primitive human so that no one else must suspect his nature for the moment, assuring him it's in his own interest. Butters takes her advice in order to survive this outdoor experience. He after four days of captivity inhaled the warm air deeply; at the same time he felt embarrassed to be walking around naked, Butters also felt grotesque and vulgar under the eyes of the apes passing by, who kept staring at him. Zira absolutely refused to let Butters wear clothes in order to plant in. The veterinarian chimp led him to her car that looked like a fresh clean, green, 90's modeled ford explorer, Zira put me into the back seat, sat herself down behind the steering wheel, and drove slowly along the streets.

The town known as Sokwee is the capital of an important simian region Butters had barely glimpsed on, and now he sees one, ape pedestrians, ape motorist, ape shopkeepers, ape businessman, and even an ape hippie. They all dress in modern Earth clothes! By far the whole town's very similar to his town, only less shittier and it's bigger aside from the city surrounded by a jungle, they still had roads like the ones he had back on Earth except these are fairly dirty. The traffic was less heavy than at his home. Their homes and houses looked very modern and similar to the ones he had on earth, not only that but even the stores and fast foods they went by, Walgreen's, 50's McDonald's, Family Dollar, including a 7-eleven!? It all looked just like where Butters came from, the only difference is that most of Sokwee's streets had these high long metal monkey-bars attached from a left building to a right building which might have been their way of crossing the street "even though they still had the same street crossings on each corner with the stop signs and marked crossings like on Earth for some specific reason", and the city's landmark looked almost like some kind of arabic town living in the middle of an African jungle; taking place somewhere around the late 1990's, a time when people still had phone books, I time when people were renting VHS tapes and had only Microsoft Windows98! "WOW... I wonder if they still have Nintendo 64." mumbled Butters though this wouldn't come to much of a surprise to him after he read their newspapers, "What's that?" questioned Zira, "Oh nothing I... I'm just sort of surprised by how beautiful your town looks unlike my town which was the same except not so pretty." he replied. Zira was charmed by the young boy's complement, she hardly cared about him wearing a seatbelt while driving him around to give a general picture of the town, she at least placed a towel on the back seat before Butters sat down "...if you know what i mean...". Zira stops her car in front of a tall gate where she tells him they're going for a little stroll in the park. Butters didn't mind that at all, he's been wanting to get out and stretch his legs and get a load of their trees, ponds, ducks, squirrels, and blue birds flying by. However that's not why Zira brought him here. She parked the car and began their outdoor stroll.

After walking three miles down the trail passing big large palm trees and trash cans, they've come to a more quiet path in a small forested area where there weren't anyone walking by. So they continued the rest of their conversation under the shades of the trees as Butters told Zira about what happened on their voyage, he told her about his three passengers, Kenny, Hector, and Timmy who died along the journey. Timmy when the ship crash landed, Hector during the hunt out in the Congo rainforest, but Kenny was no where to be seen or heard from after Butters escaped from whoever those notorious hunting apes were, which left him to wonder if he was dreaming or not. That's when Zira had something very important to tell him, "I don't think you realize, do you, the danger you are in here on Soror?" "Why because I can talk to ape people?" "No, listen very carefully, your launch, your ship has been discovered; at least what's left of it after being pillaged. It has aroused the curiosity of our researchers. They realize it was not manufactured here." "But that can't be, our ship landed into a deep lake, unless... oh wait... the space pod tank!" "Correct. Now we have built similar machines but not so perfect. From what you've told me as you can remember, your ship must have either gone through a black hole or it flew faster than the speed of time, but that's just my theory. We've already launched artificial satellites around our planet, the last one being occupied by a living being: a man, a human. We had to destroy it in flight because we were unable to recover it." "So humans here were also used as spaceship experiments too." "Yes but we certainly don't use our own children for such risky tests like these, plus the government according our PETA helpers had decided to put a stop to these primate testings so we're setting most of them free into the wild, but poachers always keep hunting them down out in the rainforests which is why we keep most of them here in our zoos, but we also have some sanctuaries for them to repopulate." "...Geewiz." "Anyway, parts of your spacecraft has been discovered. Some of our scientists have put forward the theory that the machine comes from another planet and that it was inhabited. They are unable to go a step further and imagine intelligent beings in human form, meaning they don't believe there's any human who carry's same the knowledge and behavior like us." "Oh, Wait! If they think it's all a big hoax then y-you have to tell them the truth Zira, I'm really sick and tired of sleeping in smelly old hay! I keep itching every time I lay in it, and I'm tired of living naked with no bed or pillow or anything but a blanket to cover my shame! Honest Zira I do appreciate you and Lucy supporting me, but I aint no dog, I'm no animal; I'm just a kid, a kid like her and those other apes her age who came at to the zoo and one of them dumped peanuts at me, my name ain't Bright Eyes, it's Butters, Leopold Butters Stotch! ...h-h-heuh-h-h... Does nobody, no ape care about my pain?" Zira looked at poor Butters's grieving look, she crouched down a bit and both her hands on his shoulders, "Of course I care about you, no child so magnificently innocent like you with an ape soul deserves to be called an animal, I curse that old blinkered pseudo-scientific ape Zaius for doubting your true nature." She tells him the reason she's been keeping this a secret was because Zaius being one of the highest authorities representing official science would dismiss her for scientific heresy if she tried to reveal the truth in his case like Butters suggested, then Butters will end up getting his brain fatally operated. "I wouldn't want to lose you to that stubborn mule." "So that's it, I'm gonna spend the rest of my life in a cage all naked." "...Not if the plan I have in mind succeeds." "The plan, what is the plan?" "In a month from now they'll be holding their annual biological conference. It's an important event. A large public is admitted to it and the representatives of all the leading papers attend. Now for us public opinion is a more powerful element than Zaius, more powerful even than the gorillas. This will be your chance. When this congress is in full session you must lift the veil because you're going to be introduced by Zaius, who, as I told you, is preparing a long report on you and your famous instinct. Then the best thing would be for you to speak up yourself to explain your case. This would cause such a sensation that Zaius wouldn't be able to stop you. It will be up to you to explain yourself clearly to the assembly and convince the crowd and the journalists, as you have already convinced me. Once the gorillas are forced to bow before public opinion, they'll soon make those idiot orangutans see reason. Many of them, after all, are not so stupid as Zaius but... ...Are you alright? You look a bit tired." "...Auuhhh... my head hurts, could you repeat all that one more time to me?" Zira chuckled again, adored by Butters's reactions, understanding that he is still a child and he cannot memorize all this by himself, "Alright I'll make this short for you; Cornelius, my lawfully wedded spouse, is the only one besides my niece whom I have spoken about you and he has promised to do all he can for you. He will help you as so will I on this procedure L-l-l... pardon me, but what was your true name again little one? Something with... butter?" "I told you m-my name is Butters, my full name is Leopold Stotch, but most of the kids on my planet call me Butters." "...Butters, is that like your nickname?" "Yeah pretty much." "Hm Hm, I was going to say because your hair is like the same color as-." "Oh I get it." they both laughed with joy sharing a special together as Zira then asked, "Might I call you by your first name if that's alright?" "Leopold? Well nobody often calls me by my first name but... sure why not. Leopold it is." "Leopold, a musician. You are way beyond special." Zira admired, "aw shucks." charmed Butters.

After their long conversation, Zira took Butters out to another trail leading out to a near riverbank of ferns where she tells him her husband Cornelius is waiting for them there stating he naturally wants to see the human beforehand so as to check the incredible account she had given him, that's partly why Zira brought Butters here, she arranged to meet with him, which wouldn't take long. They came up to the bank and found Cornelius, he's a fine looking chimpanzee, older than Zira certainly, but extremely young for a learned academician. Butters sees Cornelius who looks at him with an exceptionally keen and intense expression. "What do you think of him?" Zira whispered to Butters but he didn't know what to think except muttered, "I think he looks fine in that suit." So they went up to him as both Zira and Cornelius embraced each other in the manner of lovers in the park. He opened his arms wide without glancing in Butters's direction. In spite of what she told him about this boy, it's clear that Butters's presence counted more for him than that of a pet animal. Zira herself forgot Butters for a moment and the two chimps exchanged long kisses on the muzzle. They then stopped as Zira tells her husband, "Darling, we are not alone." "Only the three of us here." Butters spoke in front the couple. "What is that?" Cornelius exclaimed with a start. "Oh I forgot, eh... Good morning C-Cornelius, my name is Butters Stotch, but you can call me by my first name Leopold if you want cause she likes that name." Butters said politely with a tiny sense of humor, "Well I never!" greatly surprised the learned chimpanzee. Zira burst out laughing and introduced the child to him, "Dr. Cornelius if the Academy, Leopold Butters Stotch, or Leopold he he, an inhabitant of the solar system or, to be more precise, the planet Earth." "It's a pleasure to meet you sir, Zira told me you were here, it's nice to see you have a good wife who help cares for me." Butters raised his hand at him for greetings hand shake while the male ape shied away for a second. "So it's true?" he muttered, looking at Zira in utter bewilderment. "Darling am I in the habit of telling you lies?" Cornelius pulled himself together and after a moment of hesitation, he shook Butters's hand, "How do you do?" "How do you do?" Butters replied "sorry I'm naked, just so you know I'm not a human animal like the ones you have on your planet." "And you really come from another planet?" "Yup, the planet Earth." Butters explains to him the same story he told Zira about how he got here and that his planet was almost the same as theirs except apes were the animals and the people were humans while trying not to offend the civilized chimpanzee. After a while Cornelius stood stern, looking up at the sky for two seconds but then looks down at Butters who's now looking worried that he's unconvinced and might possibly hurt him, but Cornelius instead turned lenient to him finding his story to be so unusual and yet so fascinating, saying "As a scientist I deeply sympathize in simplicity even though I don't think that was a wise choice for your people to treat their own children like that, but do not be frightened little fellow, I am not upset, for the scientific spirit ignores all self-esteem." Butters was relieved to hear and made a fair acquaintance. As a result, Cornelius agreed to help the young bright human on the upcoming congress whatever difficulties may occur.

Throughout the month Butters remained in the research facility while Zira secretly hid some books in the enclosure for him to learn and study about their culture and civilization with a flashlight to see and read under the litter every night. Zira took him to the park fairly often to meet Cornelius, and together they would prepare the speech Butters was to give before the congress. The date was fast approaching, which made Butters quite nervous, but Zira assured him that all would be well. Zaius had checking up on him a few times but with Zira's advice he fooled the orangutan acting the human animals kids from the zoo while his sanity's kept in contact. During the week preceding the congress Zaius paid Butters several more visits, multiplying more ridiculous tests, while his secretary filled several notebooks observations and conclusions concerning him. Most them were a little complicated, and some were a pretty easy, but Butters stayed silent every time he came to his enclosure and hypocritically did his best not to appear more intelligent than he wished until the big day.

The long-awaited date finally arrived, but it was only on the third day of the congress that they came to fetch Butters, the first two devoted to theoretical debates. Butters was kept informed of the proceedings by Zira. No one suspected the real truth except her and Cornelius. She whispered in the child's ear as she took him out of the cage, "There'll be a vast crowd and the whole of the press. They're all on suspense and know there's something unusual afoot. It's excellent for you. Take courage!" Butters badly needed her support. He felt terribly nervous; he had rehearsed his speech all night. He knew it by heart and it was bound to convince the most of these apes, but was haunted by the fear that he might not be allowed to speak. Butters was taken in a caged-in truck again and found himself among four human kids counting the ones from the zoo, the two feral boys and Libra who Butters addresses her by the name Cheeta "why?" ...because to him she sounded like a cheetah with the noises she made when they first encountered each other. They arrived outside an enormous building with a cupola on top. A couple of chimp guards lead them on a leash into the building in some quiet waiting room where they're put into each separate cage. Every now and then the apes shouted out a number and one of the humans get dragged off from their cages. It didn't take too long but Butters's number was called out by a majestic gorilla in black uniform, being the last caged human to be taken out. Butters was now taken into a meeting hall in the presence of the grand council, the whole congress, it was a gigantic indoor amphitheater, every row of seats swarming with apes, several thousands of them all around above Butters who felt a bit of stage frights, "...Oh boy, there sure are a whole lot of apes...!" he quietly muttered without them hearing him, but Butters stood still in the center of a circle resembling a circus arena where a platform had been erected. Each different simian species. The seats nearest were occupied by members of the congress, all them were learned scientists wearing kind of the same black and white business outfits, almost all of them were orangutans. Among their group were a small number of gorillas and chimpanzees and a tiny number of unusual looking apes Butters couldn't tell whether they were gorillas or chimpanzees... aside from that, he couldn't even see Cornelius among the latter, not even Zira who's bound to be sitting somewhere among the crowd. Butters needed at least the support of a glance from her. Butters mounted the platform by the guards' command next to an impressive-looking gorilla sitting next to him (with a microphone) and gets a little nervous and embarrassed around this massive crowd. Butters then remembers all of what Zira and Cornelius taught him and by the books he read, he pulls himself together and stood calm facing 20 feet in front of him, the one and only ape leader, The Ape President who's a large gorilla perfectly dressed in a clean cotton lounge-suit and sitting in the elevated court room bench ready to witness this case. Zaius took his seat among some lukewarm applause. The president gorilla rang his bell, obtained silence, and announced he was giving the illustrious Zaius leave to speak for the purpose of introducing the child about whom he had already addressed the assembly. The orangutan began his speech. During this time Butters tries his best to swallow that fear and assume an intelligent attitude as possible. When Dr. Zaius spoke about Butters, the child bowed, putting his hand to his chest, which at first gave rise to some laughter that was promptly stifled by the bell. Butters put his hand down and stood still, waiting for the end of the speech. Zaius then taunts Butters with some silly tricks to perform on the platform. After that he ended his test on the young human by declaring that he's nothing more but a talking parrot capable of repeating a few words and he hoped to make him do this in front of the assembly. When the ape handed him a box of multiple fastenings, Butters instead of participating in this animal exercise used another trick up his sleeve "even though he's still completely naked with no clothes on". After all the humiliation he had to take on this planet, his hour had to come. Butters raised his hand, gently tugging the leash held by a guard, he approached the microphone and addressed the president. "Wait a minute! I-I mean Mr. President," he said in his best voice, "it, it is with great honor that I shall open this box, and I can perform whatever it is… you want me to do here, but before I do this task, I would like to make an announcement that I swear will astonish your highest court sir." Butters had articulated very clearly and each of his words hammered away. The result was what he had anticipated. All the apes remained glued to their seats, dumb-founded, holding their breath. The journalists even forgot to take notes, none of the photographers had the presence of mind into record this historic moment.

The president gaped at me. As for Dr. Zaius, he seemed to be in a towering rage. "Mr. President!" he yelled, "I must protest…" But he stopped short, overwhelmed by the ridiculousness of a of a discussion with a man. Butters took advantage of this to go on with his speech, all he had learn from his two ape defenders. "Mr. President, I insist with the greatest respect, but also with the at… u-utm-m-most, utmost firmness, that this favor be granted me. Once I explain myself, I swear on my honor that I shall bow to the demands of the very illustrious Zaius." He said in unbelievable details. After moments of silence, the president looked a little stern until... he including all the apes hysterically burst out with laughter, sobs, and cheers surprising Butters who nearly thought he was done for! The president recovers his composure while not taking his eyes off him. He eventually came to a decision and rang his bell. "I…" he stammered, "I really don't know how to address you." "…Oh just call me bu… … …you can call me Leopold sir." "Leopold? …Yes, well, la-Leopold, I think that, in view of the exceptional nature of the case, the scientific congress over which I have the honor to preside is entitled to listen to your announcement." A fresh wave of applause greeted this decision. Butters swallowed his fear and stood bolt upright in the middle of the platform, adjusted the microphone up to his height and started the following the speech he's been practicing over and over for a month.

"Illustrious President, Noble Gorillas, Learned Orangutans, and Wise Chimpanzees, Oh Great Apes! I Leopold Butters, Stotch, the human child, beg leave to address you. I know my appearance is grotesque, my figure is repulsive, my smell is sickening, and the color of my skin and hair is awful. I know the sight of this vulgar body of mine offends you, but I also know I am addressing the wisest and most learned apes of all, those whose minds are capable of rising above mere sensory impressions and of perceiving the essential substance of being apart from his wretched material exterior…" The pompous humility of this opening had been suggested by Zira and Cornelius, who knew it was liable to touch the orangutans. Butters continued the rest of his unique speech, "Listen to me oh Great Apes! For I can walk like you and talk like you, and not like a mechanical toy or parrot. I can also think, I can understand what you say just as I say myself. Just to let Your Lordship and everyone else in this courthouse know this astounding truth, not only I am a rational creature, not only does this p-par-pa...paradox... paradoxically inhabit this body but the fact is... I am not from this planet you call Soror, why I'm from a planet I call Earth, where my people are just as smart, civilized, and are just as peaceful as you all are, and they wear clothes like you." The apes were stunned to hear all that, Butters asked permission if he could go up to the chalkboard so he could explain how he got here, the guards were not so sure about this but with the president's interest he ordered them to release him from his leash so he could prove how clever he is at demonstrating his backstory to the council. The guards loosened the lead from his collar as Butters rushed up to the chalkboard and quickly drew a picture of the space shuttle he flew in, after that he rushed back to the microphone explaining the president's question about what he was doing in space, "Well you see... ...uh, ...my... family flew me up in this spaceship with them called TMZ something, to explore other planets in space, which I'm sure some of you who are astronauts wanted to do. My parents crash landed here by accident, they... they got... they got vaporized, in the explosion of the ship! I survived in an escape pod tank and ended up in the jungle helpless, with no food, no shelter, and... And no one... to turn to. ... ... ...Anyway I been caught by what I believe ape poachers in the forest, but I escaped down the river which took me to your place. That's all I can remember" he continued and made his final speech, "Look this is what I wanted to tell you, Oh Great Wise Apes! It is up to you now to decide whether I should be treated like an animal and end my life in a cage after such an astonishing adventure. I'm just a civilized human kid with no family or friends, or anything to wear, and I've only been in the 5th grade of my school, I voyaged here without any bad attitude, inspired by... th-the spirit of discovery. Since I came to know you, I do find you incredible and hospibill...hos-hospitable and I admire you with all my heart, including some apes I know back at the zoo and laboratory who could help me learn more about your culture. I am happy to be here, so that you can all understand who I really am. So please Oh Great Powerful Apes, m-may I please be... uncollared." Leopold Butters Stotch ended his touching speech in front of the president around the whole ape rally, exhausted, in total silence. Butters said it in his best words, and lord knows what their decision will be. Suddenly, like a clap of his hands together, this simple gesture produced an amazing effect and was the signal for an absolute uproar. The whole hall spontaneously gave vent to an enthusiastic outburst that no pen could ever describe! Butters had won over his audience, he never thought it was possible, nor did he think anyone like his own people from his planet would ever applaud to him considering he didn't exactly told these people what his kind were really like and the way they've treated apes and other animals. This whole assembly broke into such a positive commotion with cheers and applause so big, Butters felt unsteady on his feet with pride and dignity. Dr. Zaius had just risen from his seat in fury and was striding up and down the platform with his hands behind his back, as he did in front the research enclosure. Butters was extremely stunned in "a good way" so much that he quickly fainted by this gesture.

After the next five hours, Butters had a dream of him in bed being comfort by his happy mother Linda Stotch "Mom?" he muttered, "Oh darling you're awake, and alright..." she said, the false Linda and bedroom went blurry and after one blink of his eyes, he now sees only a happy Zira sitting in the exact direction facing him! Butters woke up from his long dormant and finds himself lying on a bed with soft gentle pillows in a room. Zira and Cornelius were attending him, while some gorillas in uniform held back a crowd of journalists and photographers who were trying to approach him from outside. "Magnificent!" Zira whispered in his ear, "You've won." "Well done young lad," said Cornelius, "together we're going to do great things." He tells Butters that the Grand Council had just held a special meeting and had decided to grant the young human child his eternal freedom! "There were some who opposed it," he added, "but public opinion demanded it and they had to yield." "So, I'm free, free for good?!" Butters asked, "Yes dear," answered Zira, "for the good of apekind you will never be put in cage ever again. This is where you will be living. They thought about letting you have your own shelter like one of our apartments, but because they knew you are very young and have same personality of a child ape... well... we suggested... taking you under our wing, if it's what you choose." Butters gazed at Zira after what she's trying tell him and replied "...You mean... take me in, adopt me? Like I'm..." "Ehehe...eh... Let's not go deep into that but... in a word." Cornelius nervously said. Butters glanced down on the sheets in tears, Zira and Cornelius wondered why he was sobbing. Then Butters looked back up to them with a smile and said, "Gosh, I don't know what to say, you two helped freed me from human captivity and are willing to take me into your care, I really, really... ...Zira and Cornelius, I humbly thank you with extreme gratefulness, and I would be honored to stay with you and live at your house for all time! Maybe not all the time because soon I'll have to find a job when I get older." Zira and Cornelius laughed so hard over his sweet, naive, and adorable personality, they dearly wouldn't mind him to staying with them, not like a pet, but like another member of the family, that way they can learn more about his world and what his people were like "yeah, wont they learn about that". Butters then noticed he was wearing some pajamas, over his nude body; it was one of Cornelius's. The robe was too big for him, though he should be a little grotesque that he's wearing a chimpanzee's bath robe, but Cornelius let's him know they'll fit him out completely tomorrow and he'll have decent clothing for this evening. They called in a tailor; another chimpanzee came in and greeted him with great courtesy. In less than two hours the tailor succeeded in making Butters an acceptable pair of children's clothing for his size. Butters was finally back to wearing clothes again, and Zira looked at him like she had never seen him before.

Ever since yesterday at the congress, the news kept spreading all over Sokwee, about the genuine human alien from another galaxy, many apes besides Cornelius and Zira were adored by him and his charming charisma, winning over their hearts with his tragic backstory (that's supposedly false) and are bound to make him famous all around their world for his heroic independence against Public Opinion proving how civilized he was to ape society. Today Butters gets to explore more of the ape city, starting with a little shopping spree down at an ape plaza known as the Hippo-Hop Mall while keeping paparazzi apes away to give him space. Butters held on to Zira's hand the whole time as he understood he was new to all this and checked all their stores for just a little browsing while getting something to eat at fast food restaurant called Fish Queen which is almost similar to Burger King by its architecture and theme. Their food tasted different, they were more juicy and tender, Butters tried their fired fish sandwich and he jumped to mouthwatering delight! "Wow," amazed Butters after chewing and swallowing the food "your food is way more better the ones I ate on my planet! Which were the same food you serve here, but fresher and less greasy." "I am glad you're enjoying our community so far." Admired Zira. But while they were sitting together at the restaurant table, Zira sat silent and looked downcast as Butters questioned "I'm sorry did I say something wrong?" "Oh dear me No!" she replied, "It's just that… my god there's just no way for me to tell you this but…" "…Yes…" "…Leopold, there's another human that was found, it was another human considered to be albino much like what we thought of you, having very bright skin and yellow hair what you call blonde, I might believe he's one of your friends you told me about from the spaceship you crashed landed." "… … …What!?" muttered Butters as Zira explains, "He was captured and rescued by wildlife rangers from an infamous gang of poachers…" "Poachers!?" "Sshhushh… He's fine and well. It was reported three weeks ago. I didn't want to tell you this until after Soror's society had accepted you." "… …Kenny!"

What Zira told Butters was an incredible surprise for him now that his long lost friend is alive and safe they could be reunited and explore this planet together, much to Zira thinking otherwise. She tells him he's hanging out at the Congo Wellfare which happens to a Sanctuary for human orphans only 6 miles outside of Sokwee near the deep African forests. Zira decided to take Butters there knowing how desperate he needed to find him after they got separated from the hunt after a month. After they finished lunch Zira took Butters out from the mall while holding hands like a toddler holding on to a legal guardian while crossing the street as they went down the parking lot to get to her car, they ran into some gorilla with his pet dog (beagle) on a leash strongly barking at them; it was the human the dog was barking at like he was one of feral ones from the zoo. But the restrains him revealing to the same ape nurse who cared him from the animal shelter, Zira's sister Cassia along with her daughter Lucy aka Zira's beloved niece and another young male ape, the same black chimp like ape who Butters saw from the zoo next to Lucy. "Wow it's nice to see the one and only Leopold." greeted Cassia, "I believe we've already met." Replied Butters humoring her, Zira was glad to see her sister again while Butters was glad to meet Lucy again as much as she was, Butters reaches out his hand for a polite hand shake greeting to prove how tamed he was to them, Zira and Cassia kindly didn't mind so Lucy was brave enough to slightly touch his cleaned left hand, kids like her had never touched the hand of a human like him before. Lucy shyly lets go of his hand when he cheerfully looked at her eye to eye, much to her mother and aunt felling so proud. Lucy then introduces to her best friend who greeted Butters with a gentle handshake as well, "…Wow, it's nice to see you in person, Leopold." "Nice to meet you too… eh…?" "…Oh, Bombo." "B-bom, Bombo, Bombo?" "Yup that's my name." "Hey uh not to offend you or anything b-but... are you a gorilla or a chimp?" "I'm a chimpanzee, but are you really a human who can talk?" "Why just an average talking white human kid from Earth, but it's a pleasure of meeting you Bombo." "Say how old are you?" "Oh eh-I'm about n-nine years old but I'll be ten in six months." The young black skinned chimpanzee with pink lips was very surprised considering the fact that he happens to be nine years old too which almost makes them have something in common, except to him and Lucy for a child the young human sure sounds kind of like a grown up with that strange stuttering voice. Bombo was here because he wanted to spend time with his best friend Lucy at her house, but Lucy's Mom brought them to the vet next to the mall where they were she was going to get her and Lucy's dog fixed. Butters wanted to pet the dog, but the snarling beagle was going to bite his hand as Zira safely pulled him away from the dog. Zira told Cassia wanted to stay and chant with her but she has to hurry and take Butters for a personal visit with someone. Cassia and the two kind ape children blessed them goodbye and hope they'll meet again, and Butters happily promises them.

So Zira after fueling more gas in her car, with Butters now sitting in the front seat, they drove all the way down from the city to some jungle game preserve where they took a few trails into the forest and parked at a beautiful looking cottage in between big long wire fences. It was the Congo Wellfare, they finally made it. Zira still held on to Butters's hand for safety while Butters was so anxious to see Kenny after a long time in a cage. They went up to the door and after a knock they are both heavily greeted by the she-ape owner of this organization, another chimpanzee lady named Lisa who was extremely surprised to meet the famous ape intelligent human child Leopold, "Boy I sure have a lot of ape fans." He said which made her and Zira laugh at his charming complement, but Lisa then states, "I believe we been expecting you." She tells him they kept the other human who looked almost identical to him in their reserve after he was rescued not too long ago and they've been caring for him like all the other humans orphans who lost their parents in the wild. Butters then sneered at her telling her "My friend Kenny is no animal and I'm gonna prove it! Where is He!?" Zira tries calming him down while Lisa feeling speechless took a bucket of oranges and strawberries and guides them to where Kenny was at, they went out the back door where they find a tall wired gateway fence. They opened the fence and found a group of 28 naked feral human children who were all waiting to have their snacks. Lisa was excited to see them here up front as she tosses some, feeding them while Butters tries to identify one of them. There were five girls and thirteen boys, Butters couldn't see him anywhere but after five seconds, he sees a white skinned kid up his height with blonde fuzzy hair approaching the group from out of the shrubs… Butters sees his face and recognized it without the hood "It's Kenny!" cried Butters letting go of Zira's paw and ran up to him while trying not to walk over the other humans having their snacks. Zira didn't want him to get any closer but Butter strongly rushed up to the bare naked Kenny, at last they're reunited as Butters embraces him. But suddenly Kenny screeched startling Butters who quickly took his arms off him and violently gets kicked away by his mud covered bare feet! "Wait, wait, Kenny it's me Butters!" Lisa immediately came to them and hands Kenny his treat calming him down. Butters couldn't understand why Kenny attacked him like that, he sees him acting all primitive and such. He gets back up one more time without embracing him or hugging him and just slowly walked up to him uttering, "Kenny, it's me Butters, your best friend, remember? Sorry I look different, I'm wearing clothes now. Kenny, Kenny…" Kenny looking all scruffy and dirty with mud on his arms and legs eventually finished eating the two strawberries Lisa gave and faces Butters for a few seconds, he only looked at him with a straight face like he hasn't seen him for a long time and his only respond: he drooled down to his mud covered bare feet a tiny piece of strawberry and grunted a little. Butters didn't know what to do, it's like he lost his mind ever since the two were separated. The whole group stated leaving to the other grassy field around the park to play. Kenny was about to depart with them joyfully jumping up and down with his legs bent as Butters tried one last time to convince Kenny to remember him, he walked back a couple of steps to catch up but turns around and looks at Butters facing him again, "Kenny… please…" Butters tearfully begs, "I know it's been about a week since I was gone, but we're here now and you don't pretend acting like those guys." Kenny still kept a straight face, but then smiles at Butters, could it be, does Kenny recognize and remember him now? "Kenny?" Butters sees a happy face, but that happy face was actually more of a fear-grimace (an expression chimps make when they're afraid or excited) and his last response to Butters: he pisses near him hitting only his ape made shoes, after that he took a few droppings next to one of the shrubs and kept jumping all primitive like while slightly hooting, "Hoot hoot ho ha huh hu auh auh!" Then he turned back around and walked on two bent legs when a young feral girl came to him and held hands with each other, and both walked away leaving Butters who started grieving. Zira walks over to comfort poor Butters. She tells him she asked Lisa if there was ever a chance his friend spoke to the rescuers or any ape and they're replies was not that they could remember from the wicked poachers who were caught and sent to prison but ever since the boy was transported to this park and nurtured he never spoke a word ever since three weeks. Butters finally realizes while it has been just a month, Kenny was already horribly assimilated by the human animal tribe, and from the looks of it he has his own mate like when it came to Butters and Cheeta. "…Well, a-at least you're happy here… with your own kind, you dumb stupid animal!" grieved Butters running back into the building and out to the car as Zira ran after him. Butters kept kicking the bottom of the car but Zira stops him and tries calming anger down, she turns him around by the arms facing him, "Butters please calm yourself!" she shouted, but as she sees the whimpering look with wet cheeks she too begins to weep but lets go of his arms. Then she cradles him in her arms ...like a mother would... with affection over his loss, "I'm so sorry, if there was anything I could do to fix that..." "…No…" muttered Butters, "it makes no difference now; I just have to accept his fate and move on. But I thank you kindly for showing that he's safe and unharmed. Like I said, at least he's happy there, and if he's, well then I'm happy too." Butters stops grieving and calms down.

They both get back into the car and drove away, returning to the city. While Zira still whimpered a little understanding how an orphan child like him would feel of not having any friends or family of his own kind, she still kept it strong and hopes that Leopold Butters Stotch will be okay, for she and Cornelius are going to do all they can in their power to make him feel right at home and help him get an education, and make new friends and even if they have to be civilized talking apes like Bombo and Lucy. From now on, Butters accepts his new home on Soror, The Planet of Apes.