A/N: Welcome to our newest update boys and girls, apes and humans alike! In our last update, Peabody, Penny, as well as Malcolm and his crew explained their situation concerning the dam and how it's possibly being guarded by Caesar's tribe of apes. Koba insists on attacking them, but Caesar will not risk war between the humans and apes. Sherman also received comfort from Maurice after a nightmare he had concerning Peabody, Penny, and Ms. Grunion too. Now, we continue where this story left off before. Enjoy!


Mr. Peabody was alone in his room, pacing back and forth from one end of the room to the other in deep thought. He couldn't get the thought out of his head of how Sherman reacted to seeing him in the woods, or how he was living with apes in Muir Woods. He knew that he deserved to be mad at because of how he handled the situation in the WABAC and called him something that hurt his feelings, but he never imagined his own son actually siding with savage primates rather than the humans.

"Mr. Peabody?" a voice said, breaking the beagle's concentration. He looked to the door to see Penny standing right in between the half-closed door and entered.

"Are you alright?" Penny asked.

"I'm alright, Penny. I just can't stop thinking about what we saw in the woods yesterday" Peabody said, the events of the day before still trapped inside his mind. The visuals of Sherman pointing a weapon at him still burned into his memory.

"Seeing a talking ape will do that to you, I guess" she said with a light chuckle at the end to lighten the mood.

"But I still don't understand. Why would Sherman be with the apes? I know they're intelligent, but it seems he'd rather be with them then here with us" Peabody explained to her as to the thought that were puzzling him and boggling inside his head since the day before.

"You're asking yourself this after you know what caused him to run away? It seems like he'd rather be anywhere but here" Penny told him. Before Peabody could speak, sirens began whaling throughout the entire building. Both of them ran outside the room and ran towards the scaffolding that gave them a good view of the front of the gates. Dreyfus and Malcolm were standing alongside them to see Caesar with his tribe of apes standing outside the compound. There were apes standing on the tops of destroyed and run down buildings, as well as broken down cars covered in vines.

"That's a Hell of a lot more than eighty!" Dreyfus shouted out to make sure he was heard in between the loud calls of the emergency sirens. Peabody then saw Sherman was with them, sitting on one of the horses, right in front of Maurice. He had on the white paint on his face that looked like a skull again, along with the red line going down his forehead, and white lines on his chest to represent ribs, much like the other apes were wearing on their own bodies.

"Sherman" the canine whispered with widened eyes and walked over towards Dreyfus.

"Dreyfus, let me go down there. My son's with them, he's..." he was about to continue but Dreyfus cut him off.

"I know, I know. I see him. A young human boy covered in war paint like a skeleton on horseback with a large orangutan isn't exactly subtle" Dreyfus said. Malcolm then began walking down to the stairs that lead to the bottom of the scaffolding and down to the front gates.

"Where are you going? Malcolm!" Dreyfus called out.

"I'm going down to try and talk with him. It's me he's got a bone to pick with, it's my fault Carver shot one of them" Malcolm told him. Peabody then ran over next to Malcolm and walked right beside him.

"Then let me go with you. I need to get my son back" Peabody begged, trying to get the human to allow him to come and confront the apes with him.

"Alright, just don't say anything that could trigger a full-on fire-fight between us" Malcolm said, trying to lay down his conditions if he was going to allow the beagle to join them.

"Deal" Peabody said, quickly agreeing to Malcolm's terms. The alarms then stopped going off, and the front gates of the building began to open up, revealing Caesar, Rocket, Koba, Blue Eyes, Ash, Luca, Maurice, and Sherman standing in front of them on horseback. Malcolm and Peabody walked slowly towards the center of the street, being cautious as to what would happen. All eyes were on the two of them to watch what would unfold between them and the apes, even Dreyfus, Ellie, Alexander, and Penny were watching. Caesar then walked forward on his horse into the center of the street where they stood. Caesar looked towards the humans before breathing in and speaking to them.

"Apes..." he called out, sending all the humans into a state of shock and awe at what they were seeing. Dreyfus was too amazed and shocked for words, he now realized Malcolm was telling them the truth. Caesar then continued his speech to them.

"Do not... want... war! But will... fight... if... we must!" Caesar said before he looked behind himself to Blue Eyes and gave a lone nod as a signal. Blue Eyes then got off his horse and walked towards Malcolm with Alexander's bag in his hand. He then tossed it on the floor at Malcolm's feet before getting back on his own horse. Malcolm then picked it up into his hands and stared back up at Caesar. Peabody on the other hand was locking eyes with Sherman, who still looked very resentful towards the white furred canine.

"Ape... home!" Caesar shouted, pointing behind him, down the road where they came that lead back into the woods. He then pointed at the building they all were standing in.

"Human... home!" he continued before he stared down at Malcolm with a scowl that would even make a human child tremble in fear.

"Do not... come... back" Caesar strictly told Malcolm before his scowling eyes turned to Peabody.

"That goes... for you... too" he said to him.

"M-Me? W-W-What for?" Peabody asked, stuttering out of disbelief and fear.

"You had your chance... to prove... that he could trust you" Caesar said pointing to Sherman.

"And you... failed. Stay... away... from him" Caesar concluded before he gave his horse the signal to start walking away back towards the woods, and he rode away from the human sanctuary, with all the other apes riding behind him. Peabody tried to walk up towards the horse that Sherman and Maurice rode upon.

"Sherman, please! Just talk to..." he tried to say, but another horse walked up in front of him. Peabody saw it was Koba, who roared down at him before pointing back at the skyscraper.

"Stay... where you belong!" Koba said before he followed the other apes back to their colony in the woods. Peabody just stood and watched as every last ape left the city before he felt Malcolm tugging on his arm.

"Come on, Peabody" he urged. Peabody then walked back inside with Malcolm inside the compound before the gates were shut once more. Every single member of the colony was now in a state of panic and disbelief at what they had seen before their very eyes, apes that could talk.

"Are you alright, Mr. Peabody?" Penny asked in concern for him.

"I'm... fine, Penny. But Sherman's still with those apes. He wouldn't even give me the chance to explain myself" the beagle told her, his voice sounding like it was breaking to the point of sobbing. Penny put a hand on his shoulder and tried to reassure him.

"We'll get him back, don't worry" Penny told him. Everybody heard a voice trying to speak to them on a megaphone, and they looked up to see it was Dreyfus.

"Everybody! Please! We're all immune! We're all immune, or we wouldn't still be here!" Dreyfus told them.

"How did they find us?" one of the survivors called out to him. Everyone began to start arguing and demanding answers in a riotous frenzy.

"We found them" Dreyfus responded.

"You knew they were out there!" the same survivor from before shouted up at Dreyfus.

"What if they come back?" another survivor exclaimed in worry over the possibility of the apes coming back to possibly kill them. All of them were now shouting 'Yeah' in agreement, now paranoid about what the survivor from before was dreading of.

"If they come back... If they come back... then they'll be sorry they ever did!" Dreyfus shouted to get their attention again, tired of being interrupted and talked over. He took a small time to take a deep breath before continuing to speak to the colony.

"Now, this city may not have the manpower it once did, but it has the firepower. Those stockpiles left behind by FEMA, the National Guard, we have it all" Dreyfus told them to reassure the survivors if it did come down to war, they could easily break into the weapons vault they built to store all the weapons that were sent to them by the sources he mentioned before to use against the apes.

"Look... I know why you're scared. I'm scared too, believe me. But I recognize the trust you've all placed in me. We've been through Hell together. But you all know what we're up against. We're almost out of fuel, which means no more power, which means we could slip back to the way things were. That dam up there was the answer. We just had no idea they were up there, too" Dreyfus said, trying to use his speech to try and reassure everyone it would be okay.

"So what do we do now?" Called out a woman in the crowd, sending everyone back into their frenzy.

"We find another way. Because that power is not just about keeping the lights on. It's about giving us the tools to reconnect with the rest of the world. To find out who else is out there! So we can start to rebuild... and reclaim the world we lost!" Dreyfus concluded before he put the megaphone down and got off the scaffolding.


Peabody and Malcolm were now waiting outside Dreyfus' office to speak to him. When they saw him come up the stairs, Malcolm spoke up.

"That was a great speech. But there is no alternative" Malcolm said.

"He's right. That dam is the only option we have" Peabody added in agreement to Malcolm's statement. Dreyfus looked away for a second before turning back to them.

"Well, then, we fight them" he told them. Peabody then walked forwards, staying a few feet apart from him and Malcolm.

"They just made it clear they don't want war" the beagle pointed out.

"Mr. Peabody I understand your concern, I really do. The last thing I want is for this whole thing to end in war, or to have innocent blood be shed. But we're two weeks away from running out of fuel. Maybe three, tops" Dreyfus said.

"We know" Malcolm added.

"And once that happens... I won't be able to go out there with a bullhorn, and calm everybody down. We need that power to get the radio transmitter working. It's our only chance of reaching the outside world, we have to find other survivors" Dreyfus said, trying to get the idea through to the both of them.

"Yes, I am aware of that. But from what you've told me and Penny, there's not that many humans left" Peabody told him.

"He's right. We can't afford anymore casualties" Malcolm added into Peabody's statement.

"We founded this place. You and I, Malcolm..." Dreyfus said.

"I know" Malcolm replied nodding before letting Dreyfus continuing what he was saying.

"On the idea that power would lead us back to the life we once had. If we can't stick together, maybe we can't survive" Dreyfus said, trying to make a point to both human and canine in the room.

"I lost everything. The idea of losing what little I have is... I want to go back up there" Malcolm told him. Dreyfus looked at him as if he was insane.

"Me too. Sherman's still up there, I need to get him back" Peabody piped in. He knew he had to get back his son, even if the apes made it clear that Sherman didn't want to go back to him, or that he could tell Sherman didn't want anything to do with him from the look in his eyes he gave back when they confronted them.

"Please, listen to me. Give us three days. Let me talk to him, and if it doesn't work, then we do it your way" Malcolm said trying to bargain with the older man.

"What if it backfires? What if he gets violent? I mean how do you know he'll even understand you? And the same goes for the kid? He's already shown he'd rather be on the side of those apes than his own kind" Dreyfus asked both Peabody and Malcolm. Malcolm then held up Alexander's bag that Blue Eyes had dropped in front of him and showed it to him.

"He's more than just an ape" Malcolm told him.

"And I know my son, he wouldn't hurt anyone even if he wanted to" Peabody added. Dreyfus then thought it over for a few seconds and looked up to Malcolm.

"I'm gonna take some men up to Fort Point. I'm gonna go through the armory, and I'm gonna see what's still working... three days, that's all I'm giving you. If you're not back in three days, we're going up there, and we're gonna kill every last one of them except for the child" Dreyfus said before walking into his office and shut the doors behind him and locking them. Peabody and Malcolm looked to each other in concern, this was the last thing they wanted.


A/N: There you have it! Our new chapter where the apes have made it clear that they're not looking for war with the humans, as long as they stay off their territory. Caesar also made it clear to Peabody to stay away from Sherman before they left back for the woods. Malcolm and Peabody have managed to bargain with Dreyfus to let them go back for three days to try and fix the dam. In the next update, they'll go back to Muir Woods to confront the apes and try to fix the dam again. Please review, thanks!