A's/N: Oh wow, I was able to finish this earlier than I thought! XD
So anyways, this chapter contains hints of who these bad humans are! If you think you know the answer, PLEASE don't say so in your reviews because that may spoil it for other readers.
Don't know what else to add here, other than I hope you guys like this chapter!
The door opened with a loud screech and once again, two humans came inside. This time, one carried a long chain while the other carried a taser. They unchained the apes from the walls and then chained them to the long chain. Caesar hesitated when they attached his collar to the long chain. Where were they taking them? What's going to happen now? He didn't want to leave the room with these humans but decided it was better not to fight them. Who knows what they'll do to him, or to his apes if he did.
Once outside the long hallway, the humans made them stand in a line facing the opposite wall where more apes stood. Caesar looked at all of them, relieved to find the others in the group.
Andy was next to an old orangutan and Lucky was in between two other chimps. Lake was at the far left and was with Pepper, a young orangutan, and Pinto, a young gorilla. She had her arms wrapped around protectively as the two youngsters clung to her. Red and Winter stood side by side. Red looked angry and growled at every human who dared to walk past him. Winter was shaking and was almost hiding behind the other gorilla. Poor ape was so scared, he looked like he was going to burst into tears at any moment.
The only one that was close enough for Caesar and Dolly to fully see was Pope.
Caesar didn't know Pope too well, but he knew that the scarred chimp was abused by humans and was experimented on like Koba and Dolly and because of that shared experience, he and the twins became friends.
"Dolly, is your brother safe?" Pope asked.
"I think so, he's still with the colony." signed Dolly.
Caesar never fully trusted Pope. It wasn't that Pope did anything against him, it was just...The way the scarred chimpanzee looked at him. The way his eyes darted…The way they looked at him..Caesar couldn't explain it, but there was something about Pope that rubbed his fur the wrong way. In fact, he was more uncomfortable around Pope than he was around Dolly-and she's the twin sister of the ape that pointed a gun at him!
Suddenly, the human's voices filled the hallway.
"How shall we start?" Asked one of them.
"All gorillas go to the recruitment area." Answered the other.
A few of them were already taking the gorillas and chaining them to yet another long chain. Caesar watched as they chained up the scarred gorilla from earlier. Then Red, who struggled with them at first, but was eventually overpowered by them. Winter reluctantly allowed them to attach him to the chain.
"What about this one?" One of the humans asked. Caesar realized he was pointing at Pinto. The young gorilla only hit deeper into Lake's embrace.
The human, who Caesar guessed was the leader, sighed in annoyance. "Yes, him too! All gorillas, regardless of the age or gender, must be sent to recruitment!"
Before Caesar could blink, they pulled Pinto out of Lake's arms. Lake lunged at them, baring her teeth but the humans used the taser on her. Pinto was attached to the long chain with the other gorillas in seconds.
"Is that all of them?"
"Yes, send them out!"
Caesar watched in dismay as the gorillas were led out, worried for Pinto. Red and Winter were big and strong. Red especially, and even though Winter wasn't the bravest gorilla, he at least was a member of the guard and knew how to protect himself. But Pinto was just a child, hardly even old enough to be in Maurice's class. Not to mention he was the smallest gorilla in the entire colony.
He genuinely feared for the youngster. Just before Red and Winter passed him, he signed "Protect Pinto!" to them.
Neither gorilla said anything, Winter seemed too afraid to have seen him. But Red gave a nod in reply. Then they were gone.
"Now for the young ones. Take them to the children's cells."
Again, another chain was brought out and the young apes were attached to them. Lake tried to fight the humans again as they took Pepper, but was tased again. Even from where Caesar stood, he knew both Lake, and the small female orangutan were crying.
The young ones were dragged out of the hallway, like the gorillas before them.
The human's leader then pulled out a whip. "Now for my favorite part. Selection!" He then began walking down the hallway. Slowly looking at each ape he saw. He paused when he looked at Pope. He studied the scarred chimps eyes and then attached him to the third chain.
By the time he got to Dolly and Caesar, the human had a total of three apes on the chain: Pope, Ash, and the old female orangutan. He looked at Dolly first. Putting his hand on her chin to force her to look at him.
"See this?" He asked his followers. "She still has a light in her eyes."
"So?" A human dumbly asked.
"Apes with lights in their eyes are dangerous, dummy! They think! They feel! They inspire rebellions! We can't afford to have apes with light in their eyes in our captivity!" He roughly pulled Dolly closer to the chain and attached her to it.
His eyes then landed on Caesar and something changed. The human seemed to be eyeing him up and down. When he looked at him, it was as if he couldn't believe what he was looking at. The human took a clipboard from one of the other humans and then looked back at Caesar.
"Say your name."
Caesar blocked at him, surprised by his demand.
"I know you can speak, ape! Now, tell me your name!" The human demanded again.
Caesar looked at the human. Then at the taser. Should he risk getting tased and refuse to answer the human? Or should he answer him and see what happens?
He decided he was already injured enough.
"Caesar." He answered.
The human glanced at the clipboard again. A grin slowly grew on his face. He returned the clipboard to his follower. "Looks like we got the 'ape king', boys. Take him too."
"You sure?" Asked one of the humans as the other took Caesar and chained him up as well.
The lead human snickered. "Sure I'm sure. By orders of the Colonel, he is to be broken immediately!"
Another cell, but no chains this time. The cage Caesar, Dolly, Pope, Ash and the female orangutan were placed in was square shaped, with a metal gate around it. It was inside and right in the center of, what the humans called, the slave cell. The slave cell was basically a large, outdoor area with chimpanzees, orangutans, and bonobos and was enclosed by a metal gate and by cage walls as well.
Caesar couldn't tell which was worse. Inside the cage, where everything smelled, or outside, where the floor was really a blob of wet mud, and apes had to do everything from lifting and carrying rocks, to sharpening knives and making weapons.
From his spot in the cage, he could see Lake, Lucky, and Andy. The three of them had only been in there for a few hours, and they're already exhausted. But they were noticeably in better condition than the other apes. Almost all of the other apes were unnaturally skinny and had old and healing scars or injuries on their bodies. The worst were the ones on their backs. Those ones were long and trailed down from their necks and shoulders to their lower backs.
Unable to stand the sight of the wounded apes, Caesar walked over to Dolly. But before he could say anything at all, she looked at his wounds. Her eyes filling with concern.
"They don't look good."
Caesar had hardly paid any attention to his bullet and hook wounds. They only hurt when he moved or touched them. "I'll be fine. Right now, we need to get out of-"
"If you don't get it looked at soon, it will get infected."
That actually did sort of annoy Caesar. Did Dolly really think he could tend to it here? Without any herbs? He didn't even know how! In fact, she had a lot of nerve worrying about his wound, when it was HER brother that tried to kill him!
"Later." His voice sounds like a growl. Now changing his mind, he went over to where Ash was. Leaving Dolly to her thoughts.
As soon as Caesar had left, Dolly sighed and turned her back to the other apes. Caesar is under lots of stress right now. She thought to herself. Considering that we've all been kidnapped.
Dolly herself was feeling stressed out too. The last time she and Koba were separated was at Gen-Sys, where they put Koba in one cage and Dolly in another. For years, she and him only knew the other was alive when the humans took them to and from the labs.
They were never in the same cage during that those dark years…..Except for one time.
Flashback:
The humans come again in their white suits. Dolly tiredly wonders what they'll do to her this time as they lead her out of the cage and place her in another one. She feels uneasy once she's inside of it. Slightly nauseous even.
"Are you sure, about this?" Asked one of them.
"The boss isn't going to like this, but he's sick and needs his sister." Answered the other, who Dolly recognized as Franklin.
"Yes, but are you sure it will work?"
"Positive."
What are they talking about? Dolly got her answer when they brought her to another cage and put her inside it. It smelled bad, like vomit. he realizes it's her brother's when she see's him laying on the floor.
Koba is curled in a heap on the floor. His body shaking, his shut eyes weeping, and his face pale and green.
Dolly doesn't know what to do. She had never seen Koba like this before and doesn't know how to help him.
But when she steps closer to her younger twin, his one eye flickers open and he see's her. "Dolly." He signs.
"Koba." Dolly signed back. She reaches out and touched his head. He feels warm. In fact, he's burning up. She runs her hand on him until she touches his side and he groans in pain. "Koba hurt?" She signed.
"Yes. Koba hurt everywhere." He signed.
Dolly remembers the vomit smells in the cage and begins to have a good idea of what is wrong. She then lays down next to her twin and wraps her own arms around him in a warm embrace. She tickles and rubs him as she runs them through his warm fur. Neither of them says anything, they just stay like that. Eventually, Koba falls asleep and stops shaking. Dolly follows shortly after.
"What the hell is this?!" The voice wakes them up hours later. It's Steven Jacobs. He glares at them as Franklin stands next to him.
"Koba-the male, is sick, sir. Possibly from the trial run. I just thought that Dolly, his twin sister, could comfort him." Franklin explains.
Koba looks scared and hides his face into Dolly's neck for protection. Dolly just keeps her arms locked around him and glares up at Jacobs. Barring her teeth at him. If that human dares lay a hand on her brother, she'll go for his throat.
"Maybe we should leave them alone-"
"Don't be stupid, Franklin! We need to continue the trial run of this new drug ingredient!"
"But sir, he's sick-"
"I don't care! We need to run more tests!"
"Why don't we try the ingredient in the other form? That way, this…Koba…Could rest." Said a third human.
The three humans are silent as Jacobs thinks it over. "Fine." He finally says. "But since these two are twins, I'm curious to see if their genes are or share similarities."
"Seriously?" Franklin doesn't sound happy.
Dolly doesn't know what they're after, but she knows they want to take her brother and she will not allow that. She glances at her younger twin, thinking. Then, she rubs her face on his head. Preparing herself for what she was about to do. Then, she let go of Koba, got up and walked over to the door of the cage. She would have signed something at the humans but she knew they wouldn't answer her anyway.
She was trying to intimidate the humans. Make them go away and leave her poor brother alone.
But her plan backfired...
"I guess we can take her." Said the known human. Jacobs grind, a horrible grin.
"We can do the trial run for the Birth Control injection with her then." He replied.
Franklin looks horrified. "But sir! If the ingredient is harming Koba, it could Dolly too! It may even kill the-!"
"Oh for crying out loud, Franklin! I don't care if they live or die!" Jacobs suddenly yells at the other human. "We're wasting time and money standing here! Either do the damn trial run on her, or I'll do it myself and fire you!"
Franklin bites his lips and glances at the two apes. The concern is his eyes was almost painful to look at. He sighed. "Ok...But! After the procedure, I want her returned to Koba's cage and both of them to be left alone until they recover."
Jacobs rolls his eyes. "Only if it'll get you to shut up."
They bring one of the rolling beds, and Dolly immediately realizes what they're going to do. They're going to take one of them to the room with pain. She turned to look at Koba, who looked so scared and helpless as he laid on the floor.
"Dolly stay." He signed the tears building in his eyes.
Dolly wanted to stay. Now that she was with Koba, she didn't want to leave him alone and risk never seeing him again, especially since they separated for so long. She especially didn't want to leave him like this, sick and lonely.
Unable to do anything else, Dolly raised her hands and signed: "Dolly love Koba." as the humans take her out of the cage and place her on to the bed. She was restrained before she could blink.
As they take her to the room where pain comes from, all she can think about is Koba and hoping that if these humans do whatever horrible thing they want to do to her, they'll spare her brother. That if she never wakes up, it'll mean her brother won't.
When she's inside the room, the humans poke needles into her arms and put stickers on her chest. She forces her mind to become hollow and empty. Not allowing any thought or recognition of the familiar sensations she's feeling or of where she is. When they placed the mask with the funny smell over her face, she inhales and allows the strange air to fill her lungs.
She begins to feel drowsy and knows sleep will come shortly. At least she got to tell Koba that she loved him.
When Dolly opens her eyes, she finds herself back in the cage and finds Koba asleep. She wonders if the entire thing was a dream until she see's the fresh wound on her lower abdomen.
The wound is long and straight and is enclosed by stitches. Dolly had three of these before, one on each of her shoulders, and another, but longer one, running from the back of her neck to halfway down her back. But never one on her abdomen. It's strange, but she doesn't think about it. All that matters is she's back with her brother.
She carefully moves over to Koba and rubs his head, which was still feverishly warm. He wakes up and see's her. They hug, not saying anything. Koba didn't need to ask where the humans hurt her, he could already tell by the new wound on his sister.
"Does wound hurt?" He signs.
"Not yet, but will soon." She signs in reply. "Humans hurt Koba again?"
"No, humans left Koba alone."
Relief filled Dolly. Whatever the humans did to her, it satisfied them. Maybe they'll try and hurt Koba again but for now, he's safe. As she wraps her arms around her sick twin, Koba signs one last thing before falling back to sleep.
"Koba loves Dolly too."
They stayed in together for several light cycles. During this time, they signed together and groomed each other. Dolly forgot how much she missed her twin brother and found herself feeling happier for the first time in so long.
The only human that came to them was Franklin, and all he did was draw their blood, give them injections, and put a long, metal stick into Koba's mouth-which never hurt, but always felt strange to him. Neither of them trusted Franklin, but the injections seemed to be making Koba better and he wasn't vomiting anymore.
The happy time proved to be only temporary when the humans took Dolly out and returned her to her own cage. Which now seemed even lonelier than she remembered and the second the door closed and was locked, she missed Koba.
She and Koba didn't see each other again, until the day Caesar freed them.
End of Flashback:
That memory always brought pain and despair to Dolly. Not only what she and Koba endured at the hands of those horrible humans, but she now knew what they took from her. She and Koba realized it after they became smart.
Dolly knew and accepted the fact that marriage and a family wasn't in her future. Males want mates who can bear children. A female whose incapable of childbearing is not favored by a male who wants a family. But it still hurt, knowing that having her own children was an opportunity that was robbed from her by the humans.
At least I still have Koba. Those six words were always the remedy for her pain. But she wasn't sure if she even still had that.
During the last few days, ever since they first encountered Malcolm, Dolly noticed a dramatic change in her twin brother. She and Koba always hated the humans, but Koba's anger still lived in his heart while Dolly's melted into sadness long ago. She simply didn't have enough room in her heart, nor the energy, to harbor the level of hate and anger that her twin carried.
But it wasn't just the humans Koba was angry at. Dolly had seen Koba challenge Caesar about it, and he had told her that he wished their king wasn't so sympathetic to the humans. She also knew about the fight Koba and Caesar had at the dam. She knew because of Maurice, who was her closest friend, told her about it. Dolly tried to confront her brother about it but he was gone for long periods of time and when she found him, he would refuse to talk about it.
Dolly glanced at Caesar, who was now sitting with Ash. The open wounds on the Ape Kings body looked even worse in the dim light than they did in the shadows.
Dolly had seen the distrust in his eyes when she talked to him. Why? Was it because she was Koba's sister? Did Caesar think she was against him too?
It clear to her that Caesar and Koba were both keeping things from her, and something was indeed happening to her twin brother. But what it was? She just didn't know, and she couldn't understand why they were keeping it from her.
Still…Dolly could not help but feel concern for Caesar. Next, to the wounds, he and some of the apes are now held hostage by these bad humans. He has to wonder what will happen to Red, Winter, Pinto, Lake and all the others, not to mention missing his family.
But what worried her the most was the wounds he had. A bullet wound and hook wound left untreated wasn't good, and could lead to infection and sickness…Or worse…Could it kill him?
She shook the thought out of her mind. She could not allow herself to think such things. However, she knew Caesar needed someone to protect him. He's been trying so hard to protect the other apes, and Malcolm and the good humans, that he seemed to have forgotten to protect himself as well.
Caesar, the heroic Ape King, suddenly seemed as defenseless as she and her brother once were.
I'll protect you, Caesar. Dolly told herself. Even if you don't trust me, I'll protect you like I would my brother.
Instead of horses, the stables held gorillas. Not very many of them, but enough to make it seem crowded. In each stall, there were at least three or four gorillas. Some were mostly black, but there were a few that had white fur-something Winter would have been relieved about if the circumstances were different!
Red wasn't sure if he liked sharing a stall with Winter and Pinto or not. He was relieved to be around familiar faces, but he wished they didn't consist of a big cry baby and an actual child. The second they were placed inside the stall, Pinto hid behind Winter and buried his teary-eyed face into Winter's fur. Winter looked close to crying himself.
Protect Pinto. Caesar's words echoed in Red's mind. It looked like he'll have to protect Winter too, which annoyed him. Why can't that coward just quit his whining and take care of himself?
Ignoring the two, Red looked outside the window to get a better idea of where they were. However, outside didn't look much better at all.
Some gorillas had guns in their hands and were shooting at targets, others appeared to be learning how to throw small, oval-shaped objects. There was even some that were beating up chimps and bonobos for no apparent reason-though there were some that were being forced to by the humans. On the far right, there was a small building it looked like a house. But from where he was, Red could see that it wasn't. There was a sign on the top of it, but he could not tell what it said.
He watched the many different scenes unfolding outside. A gorilla hitting a target and being rewarded with a banana, another throwing the oval-shaped things, and getting a pat on the back from one of the humans, three of them brutally beating an orangutan, one gorilla wrestling with a human, a whole group of humans forcing a struggling gorilla into one of the much larger buildings…it was like a madhouse…Absolute madness everywhere he looked…
The place where the chimps and bonobos did not look any better. Even from where he was, too far away to be seen by any of the apes inside, he could hear the sharp and sudden whack the whips made and the cries the apes made when they hit their backs.
Everything Red saw, from the gunfire practice to the whips, gave him a sinking feeling. This wasn't supposed to happen…He and the others aren't supposed to be here!...All they were going to do was-…Red frowned.
This is all Caesar's fault! If he hadn't helped those humans, none of this would have happened! What did he think was going to happen when he allowed them in their home?!
"You're new here." The voice was so soft, it was like a whisper but it broke the angry gorilla out of his thoughts.
He turned around, ready to pounce at whoever it was that dared to distract him…Only to find a female gorilla looking at him through the broken window from the stall next to the one him and Winter and Pinto shared.
The female gorilla didn't look any different than an average female, except for the old and healing burn abrasions on the sides of her head. But what really surprised him was her eyes...She had one eye green and one eye blue...Red had heard of this occurring, but he never saw it before.
"Y-yes.." He didn't know how else to answer. He glanced at the two cry babies. Pinto was still quietly sobbing into Winter's fur, while the older gorilla looked too occupied with comforting him to notice the female.
Red walked over to her, feeling a little relieved to have someone new to talk to. "What's going on here?" he asked her.
"They're preparing for the war." She answered.
"What war?"
"The one they're making." She nodded in the direction of the gunfire and oval throwing. "Bad humans don't care about other humans. They only want death."
Red didn't want to believe her. All humans are the same...But these humans are different than the ones he saw in the human city. Those humans looked different from one another. Some would look at an ape and be afraid of them, and others saw them as beneath them.
Here, it was different. The humans all looked and acted the same and the way they saw the apes seemed to go back and forth. From beneath them, to just like them. If that's how it is with apes, who knows what they do to the humans they capture.
"What is your name?" Her voice was as soothing as the gentle current of a river. Somehow, Red felt comforted by it.
"Why?" The way her voice sounded when she asked was strange. Like she really needed to know.
"In a place like this, names are all you have here." she signed. "I'm Tanoddah." She spoke.
Tanoddah. Unusual, but he liked the way her name sounded. "Red." He said, saying his name. He nodded in Winter and Pinto's direction. "They're from my colony, Winter, and little Pinto."
Tanoddah's face twisted in worry when she saw the two other gorillas. "You need to protect them."
Protect them? Red was tired of hearing that word. First, his poor excuse for a leader, Caesar, tells him that, and now this stranger?!
Seeing the look on his face, Tanoddah quickly signed: "This place is especially cruel to children and to the fearful." She nodded into her stall, and Red realized there were three other gorillas in there with her. One the same age as Pinto, the other, a female, was slightly older, and the third had to be the same age as Ash and Blue Eyes.
"Choy and Bella were born and raised here. Never spent a day of their lives outside of captivity. They never got to know their parents, or love and freedom." She then nodded at the older gorilla. "And Cooper is from my colony. He witnessed his parents get killed by the humans and then was forced to kill his siblings. Before all that, he use to be very shy and fearful."
Red was shocked by the look of the three of them. All three had this cold, emotionless look to them. Their eyes looked as if they belonged to dead apes: completely empty and lifeless. Just looking at them made him glance at Winter and Pinto, and then at the window.
Could these bad humans really turn Pinto, an innocent child whose only crime was being born a runt, and Winter, a coward with no confidence, into cold-blooded killers? The very thought of either of them killing anyone, let alone an ape, sent chills up and down Red's spine.
Turning back to Tanoddah, he asked: "What about the other apes? The humans?"
Tanoddah shrugged her shoulders. "I don't know. Other apes are usually slaves but sometimes….They do other things with them too. Same with the humans."
Red wondered where Caesar and the others were. Sure he no longer trusted Caesar, but he still cared about Pope, Andy, Lake, Dolly, Ash, Lucky, and Pepper. Were they being used as slaves? Or were these humans doing something else with them?
"Don't let them break you." Tanoddah's voice whispered to him again. "If you break, bad humans fix Red to their liking."
Red could only nod, understanding what she was saying. He and the others aren't being held captive by just any humans. These humans are dangerous, probably even more than he can comprehend.
"Tanoddah." One of the young apes called. Tanoddah glanced over her shoulder and then looked at Red. "I have to go. I'll talk to you later, Red." She whispered.
"Until then, Tanoddah." He replied. As she left the window, Red walked over to where Winter and Pinto were. Suddenly grateful for their company.
"What's going to happen to us?" Winter asked as he sat down. Red just looked at the ground, not sure how to answer that.
What would Luca say? Taking a breath, he looked at the white gorilla.
"Remember all the things we learned in the Gorilla Guard? About being brave?" He asked.
Winter nodded.
Red gulped, unsure of what to say next. Luca would know what to say. "Well…Now we need to be brave...Braver than we've ever been." He started slowly.
Winter's lip trembled and his eyes filled with tears, and Red knew he was about to cry. "I'm scared." He signed frantically.
Now, this was one of Winter's most famous sign. He used that gesture so many times, that Red often wondered if he could do it backward. But this time, the two words struck a chord with him. Red never liked talking about his feelings. He preferred to keep them locked away in order to think clearly. But...He found it hard to do so this time.
"I'm scared too." He admitted. Averting his eyes from Winter. Not wanting to see the surprise in his eyes. Focusing on his hands, he added. "But remember what Luca said about being scared?"
Winter sniffled. "That...It makes you weak?"
Red blinked at him, surprised. Luca would never say anything like THAT to anyone. Especially to Winter. "That wasn't Luca, who told you that?"
"Dex." Winter wheezed out as tears ran down his cheeks.
Dex was a young gorilla in the Gorilla Guard. He was notorious for being a snob and always finding nasty ways to hurt the other younger gorillas. Red was never impressed with him...At least, not since that one time he covered himself in a bear pelt and chased Winter all around the forest until he ran into a tree. Winter wasn't hurt too badly, but he became so afraid of bears, that he would not go near one even if it was dead. That was too mean…Even to Red.
"Forget about what Dex said, he's an idiot anyway." He signed. "What Luca said was, being scared is what makes you brave."
Now it was Winter's turn to look at him funny. Wow, he wasn't good at this!
"Let me try again." He signed. "Being brave is not running off into danger, it's being scared but doing it anyway...Does that make sense?"
The side of Winter's mouth curved into a smile, and he nodded.
"Good." Red smiled back, more out of relief that he managed to sign that right. "Now, I don't have a plan and I don't know how we're going to get out of here, Winter." He admitted. "But we're not going to die here."
For the first time, there was a spark of hope in Winter's eyes. "Promise?" He asked.
Red nodded. "Promise."
The black and white little gorilla that had been hiding being Winter suddenly looked up at Red. Pinto's face was still wet and pink from crying, but in his reddened eyes, the older gorilla can see the same spark of hope.
"Do you think we'll see the colony again?" He signed.
Now that Red wasn't sure of. Even if they did see the colony again, would all of them still be alive? Or will some be dead? He couldn't imagine such things happening, but they seemed very possible.
But who was he to tell Pinto that and ruin what little hope the boy had? "We will try." He said instead.
"Sir, the deed is done."
"Is it ready for disposal?"
"Yes. We'll dispose of it whenever you're ready, Sir."
"Dispose of it….Tonight. I want that city to get a rude awakening in the morning."
"Right away, Sir."
As soon as the two humans were gone, the figure crept over to the ghoulish form. Slowly, careful not to damage it, the figure pried open the only thing that could still open and placed the object inside. Lodging it deep within so it won't fall out or be noticed by the humans. Once the object was safely tucked inside, the figure closed the opening and quickly disappeared into the shadows, hoping they had planted the seed that would result in their end.
Hours later, some humans came and retrieved the form, now wrapped in a package, and packed it inside the vehicle.
Completely unaware that someone was watching them...
A's/N: DUN! DUN! DUUUUUUNNNNN! XD And yes, I realize I named my OC Pinto (which a kind of horse) and had him, Red and Winter IN a horse stable!...You may consider that as an unintentional and ironic joke! XD
Did anyone here read Firestorm? (that's probably a dumb question, but there may be some people on here who have not read it) If anyone did, do you remember Koba's flashbacks? I wanted Dolly's to be similar to his. (and in case anyone is concerned about more relationship talk, no worries! I plan to keep that to a minimum and focus on the plot 99% of the time) The whole purpose of the flashback was to give you guys a good idea of what Dolly went through at Gen-Sys and what she was thinking and feeling both during that time, and during the earlier scenes in Dawn...You guys can tell I favor Franklin than Jacobs too, right? XD
I'm gonna guess some of you guys don't like Tanoddah that much. In case anyone is thinking/expecting her to be a Mary-Sue, you don't need to worry about that. Tanoddah's whole role is to be a random face to prove Caesar and his apes aren't the only ones held captive by the bad humans and offer Red advise in that one scene. She has no other role and is almost irrelevant to the plot itself. (this story is crawling with OC's like that. In fact, 90% of the apes that are held hostage by the bad humans along with Caesar and Dolly and the others, are irrelevant to the story. You'll know who is who in later chapters.)
And for the ending!...Remember when I said some part of this story may have gore in it and is slightly inspired by Hannibal? Be prepared for that in the next chapter! Now, I will insert my evil laugh: Hahahahahaha! XD
Thanks for reading and please review!