A/N: Our newest update begins now! The battle between Caesar and Koba has begun on the top of the human colony's tower, and Sherman, Penny, and Mr. Peabody are coming to Caesar's aid to overthrow Koba. Malcolm has discovered Dreyfus is planning to blow up the tower with large blocks of C-4 to kill all the apes, but now he's holding Dreyfus and his men and gunpoint to keep that from happening. The second part of the battle begins now. Enjoy!
"Are you out of your damn mind?" Dreyfus asked, slowly approaching Malcolm after he had explained everything to him.
"No, I've seen things. I've seen the way they are" Malcolm said, trying to convince him that Caesar was their only hope to end all of this. Dreyfus however, didn't like the sound of it. He had enough of the apes being in control and he had deemed them a threat, therefore in his opinion, they had to be exterminated.
"They want what we want, to survive. They don't want war" Malcolm said, continuing to try and persuade the older man into giving Caesar, Mr. Peabody, Sherman, and Penny a chance.
"They're animals! They attacked us!" Dreyfus shouted at him.
"Because they thought we attacked them. They think that he's dead, but he's not..." Malcolm said, but noticed Finney trying to get up and come towards Malcolm. He then pointed the weapon at him.
"Sit down, Finney!" he ordered. Finney put his hands up and nodded before doing as he was ordered and sat back down against the wall like he was before.
"And you're letting children join in on this? They're going to get killed, Malcolm!" Dreyfus pointed out.
"They know what they're doing. The boy is stronger than you know, I've seen him do some incredible things. He's more than capable of handling himself, I was even told he fought and killed a bear" Malcolm said as he pointed his weapon back towards Dreyfus, who still stood his ground and didn't hold his hands up unlike Finney was.
"And I suppose that makes it better?" asked Dreyfus.
"It means that Caesar will have more than enough help to take him down" Malcolm told him, referring to Koba as the one being taken down.
Back on the top of the building, Caesar kept on using his metal floor panel as a shield to block the attacks from Koba's metal rod. Sparks came off the panel with each attach dealt to it, metal rubbing against metal and loud clanging noises were made every time an attack was blocked.
"Trusted Koba... like a brother" Caesar said, holding his shield close to him.
"Caesar... brother... to human!" shouted Koba before he threw his weapon down again.
"Koba... fight for... ape! Free... ape!" he screamed while slamming down on Caesar's panel over and over, making the side of it dent until the pipe got stuck in it.
"Kill ape. Koba fight for Koba" Caesar growled, causing Koba to roar and pull the pipe out of the shield and kick Caesar to the floor. While Koba was too distracted with trying overpower Caesar, he did not notice that Sherman ran up towards him. Sherman began to slide on the floor on his knees and slashed across the back of Koba's leg with his PVC spear.
"AAAAAAAARRRRGGGHHHHH!" Koba screamed in agonizing pain, causing him to drop his weapon. The bonobo then turned towards Sherman and began swinging punches at him, the human managing to dodge and duck every time he tried to hit him. Sherman then swung his spear at Koba's stomach, which created another cut on his body as the spear slashed across his skin. The pain got Koba even angrier, he then pushed Sherman down onto the floor and picked his pipe back up.
"Human... can never be... ape. Sherman... belong in... cage" Koba told the boy as he prepared to lunge it into the boy's chest.
"Koba... belong in cage" Caesar said before he noticed the open cut underneath Koba's ribcage. Sherman then rolled to the side, and dodged the attach. Caesar then slammed his fists at Koba's cut, causing him even more pain. Koba clutched his side, feeling that Caesar's attack fractured one of his ribs. All the apes that were watching the battle were letting out loud gasps and howls at the sight of the fight escalating on both ends.
"Sherman... more ape... than Koba... will ever be!" Caesar shouted. Koba then ran to Caesar and tried to swing the pipe at him again, but Caesar was smart enough to jump up towards the scaffolding that was holding the more unstable parts of the building together and grabbed onto it by the hands. When Koba was about to strike, Caesar grabbed the pipe with his feet and pushed it back against Koba's chest, sending him back a bit, and fracturing his ribs even more.
"Sherman... never belong... with apes" Koba said while groaning in unimaginable pain. He then felt a sharp sting strike his back, and he yelled loudly before looking to see what it was causing the pain. It was a nail, a silver nail that had just been shot into his back. The bonobo then pulled the nail out and saw that it was Mr. Peabody holding a nail gun, pointed directly at Koba.
"Don't you dare, talk about my son like that again" Peabody said before he fired two more nails at Koba. The nails struck Koba right in his thigh, and the pain got worse for him. He looked up to see Penny, jumping from the top of the scaffolding and lunging the box cutter into Koba's shoulder blade. He felt blood trickling down from his back as he howled.
"You brave... girl. But... still weak!" Koba said while grabbing Penny by her ankle and tossing her across the room. Once Koba took the box cutter out of his shoulderblade, he approached Penny while holding the weapon tightly in his hand.
"You... die... now" Koba said to the girl hoarsely. He then felt someone grab his hand as he was about to kill Penny, he saw it was Caesar, who punched him right in his cut stomach, which caused him to drop the box cutter. The ape king then began throwing rapid punches at Koba, and Koba began punching back. Sherman then got an idea, he ran over to a shelf that was there for placing tools and pushed it down, meaning for it to hit Koba. When the shelf hit the floor, all it did was make the surface they stood on collapse on itself. Caesar, Koba, Mr. Peabody, Sherman, and Penny fell right down.
"Sherman!" Caesar called out as he noticed Sherman was about to fall down the pit. He jumped onto a chain that was dangling from the crane and swung down to grab Sherman before he grabbed the boy and then tossed him back onto the edge where Mr. Peabody and Penny were right now. Penny's dress was now slightly tattered and covered in dirt, and she had a small cut on her cheek underneath her right eye. Peabody's clean white fur was covered in dust and dirt as well.
"Are you alright?" Mr. Peabody asked his son in concern. Sherman only nodded before their eyes were fixed on Caesar, who was now swinging on the chain to punch Koba, who was also on a hanging chain that was attached to the crane as well. The two apes then swung to one another, and they grabbed one another to continue their fight. The two of them now punching one another in mid-air, over the pit.
While the battle was starting to get more brutal between Caesar and Koba, Malcolm was still pointing the gun at Dreyfus, who was now holding the detonator for the C-4 in his hand. Malcolm knew that if that button were pushed, the tower could collapse or become even more unstable than it was now.
"I know how this must sound" Malcolm began.
"I don't think you have any..." Dreyfus said as he tried to approach Malcolm, but Malcolm cocked the gun and pointed it at Dreyfus' head as a warning for him to back off.
"Do you think stopping me will matter? They're coming" said Dreyfus. Malcolm lowered the gun slightly, but still had it pointed to his chest. He was now confused, he wondered who 'They' were, and what it was Dreyfus was talking about.
"Now, we made contact with a military base up north. They're already on their way!" Dreyfus exclaimed. Malcolm turned to Werner, wanting a confirmation as to what Dreyfus was saying was true.
"It's true" he said simply. Dreyfus then backed away into the center of the platform, where blocks of C-4 surrounded him like a circle, and held the detonator up above his head, his thumb on the button. Malcolm pointed the gun at Dreyfus' head again, and sweat coming down his forehead. Werner was shocked as well and stood up from where he was standing, backing away from his superior in fear.
"Dreyfus! What are you doing, man?" Werner asked. Malcolm was now breathing heavily in fear, fear for the lives of Caesar, his tribe, as well as Mr. Peabody and the two kids. Dreyfus looked to Wener and Finney before he looked back at Malcolm with a blank expression that showed no fear, no emotion at all.
"I'm saving the human race" he whispered his answer.
"No!" Malcolm shouted before running away. Dreyfus pressed his thumb on the detonator button, making all the C-4 activate, killing him, Finney, and Werner in the explosion. Malcolm hid underneath the platform, preventing the explosion from killing him, and saving his own life.
The explosion made it's way up the pit and to the top of the tower, causing the entire floor to shake. The floors began to come apart and tilt towards the pit. The crane began falling apart too, bits and pieces of it landing everywhere. Caesar and Koba fell from the crane and landed on two different floors. The floor that Sherman was standing on began tilting, and Penny had just tripped on a piece of debris while trying to find cover and was now falling to the pit.
"Help! Sherman!" Penny called out desperately. Sherman saw Penny was slipping and he jumped down the tilting floor and was sliding down it on his feet while making his way to save his friend. Sherman grabbed Penny's wrist just as she was about to fall and he grabbed onto the edge with his other hand.
"It's okay, Penny. I've got you" Sherman told her while she whimpered and looked down at the bottom.
"Don't look down! Everything's gonna be fine" said Sherman. Penny then looked up to Sherman, who was trying his hardest to hold on and not slip. The part of the floor Sherman was holding on to began to crack, and soon would break apart from the floor.
"Oh no" Sherman said in fear. The piece broke off, and just as they were about to start falling to their deaths, a large hand grabbed hold of Sherman's wrist. Both kids looked up and saw it was Maurice who had saved both of them and pulled them upwards before he carried them to Mr. Peabody, who hugged both of them as soon as the orangutan had placed them back onto the floor.
"Thank you, Maurice" Mr. Peabody thanked him. Peabody then noticed a large set of crane debris was falling and it hit another shelf of construction equipment, and even a miniature generator, causing them to fall down towards them.
"Watch out!" the beagle shouted before pushing Sherman and Penny out of the way, and into Luca and Rocket's arms. The two kids watched in horror as the equipment fell down and pushed him off the edge and into the pit. Sherman then ran over to another part of the tower and watched as everything fell.
"Mr. Peabody! Dad!" he shouted, hoping for a response, but got nothing. Sherman was now on his knees crying at the loss of his father, and so was Penny. Blue Eyes, Rocket, Maurice, and Luca looked sad as well and tilted their heads down in mourning. Caesar had seen this happen as well, and was in shock to see what happened. He then ran down from his floor to make his way towards Sherman, helping a few apes who survived the explosion along the way, but he stopped when he saw Koba emerge from a large cloud of dust, holding a gun and walking towards the children. Koba had taken the gun from one of his followers who was trapped underneath a metal beam, and then left the gorilla whom the gun belonged to to die.
"You" Koba growled, catching Sherman and Penny's attention. They all got up from where they were and were now on the defense. When Koba loaded his gun and pointed it at the two kids, Maurice jumped in front of him and tried to grab the gun away. Maurice pointed the gun away from them, but Koba had his finger on the trigger, firing bullets everywhere, which made a lot of apes to hide and take cover from the gunfire.
"Let... go!" Koba screamed before kicking Maurice away. Koba then fired a bullet at the orangutan, but it missed and grazed the side of his head. Maurice roared loudly and covered where the bullet grazed him with his hand.
"Maurice, no!" Sherman screamed in horror before running to his side.
"AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" a voice yelled. Koba, Sherman, and Penny looked up to see it was Caesar who was yelling as he was jumping down to protect them from the power-mad bonobo. Caesar tackled Koba as he got close to him, and knocked him close to the edge and was about to fall into the pit, while Caesar tumbled down to safety onto one of the more stable floors. Sherman and Penny helped Maurice up from the floor.
"Are you okay, Maurice?" Penny asked. Maurice only nodded and touched where Koba's bullet had hit him, looking to see the blood on his fingers from when he touched it.
"Guys, look!" Sherman said as he pointed down towards Caesar, who was walking towards Koba, who was hanging on for his life on the edge. Caesar then took Koba's hand, and just stared down at him. All the apes were watching to see what would happen next. Was the fight going to keep going? Or was Caesar going to end it somehow? They could only just watch from where they stood to see.
"Ape... not kill... ape" Koba said. Caesar just stayed silent and his face scrunched up with disappointment in his eyes directed towards the bonobo. He then looked to see that Koba had injured Maurice with his gun trying to protect Sherman and Penny, and his disappointment grew stronger before he turned back down to face Koba once again
"You... are... not ape" Caesar declared before he let go of Koba's hand.
"Noooooo!" he shouted as he fell from Caesar dropped him, and landed on the crane's cable, which caused him to land on a piece of crane debris that was caught in between the walls of the pit. The hook attached to the cable came loose when Koba had fell on it and it fell down onto one of the ends of the crane part, knocking it loose and causing it to fall. Koba was screaming all the way down until it eventually stopped. The battle was now over, and Koba was dead. All the apes were cheering for Caesar's victory.
"I can't believe it. He won" Penny whispered.
"Yeah but... Mr. Peabody" Sherman said, still looking down the pit. They may have finally killed Koba, but at the cost of Mr. Peabody's life.
A/N: *Gasp* Peabody is gone! But is he really? Ding dong, Koba's dead! Now even though victory for the apes has been achieved, this story is still not over. That's right! We still got a few more chapters to go! In our next update, Sherman has a plan to try and bring back Mr. Peabody and save him. Please review, thanks!