A's/N: Had some trouble deciding what to call this chapter, so I just went with 'Naps'. XD

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The door swung open and the humans practically threw Caesar, Dolly, and Ash in the cell. Startling Pope out of his scheming thoughts. The guards didn't even so much as look his way before they shut the door and locked it behind them. Once he knew they were gone, for now, Pope glanced at the three apes-and could hardly believe what he was seeing!

Ash had both of his hands on the sides of his head, screaming and crying. He was convulsing, eyes shut tightly and repeatedly saying 'no' in a desperate, pleading whimper.

Dolly was hugging herself. Her body rocking slowly, lightly hitting the wall behind her. Her eyes were wide open, so wide, that Pope swore it looked as if they'd fall from their sockets and roll off her face at any moment.

Caesar's state was the worst out of the three. He stared straight ahead, but his eyes were unfocused. It was like the gaze of a corpse.

All three had red, burn marks on the skin on their temples and marks in their fur that Pope knew all too well. They had been restrained, by leather straps or by hard rope? He couldn't say for sure. Pope recognized the burn marks, and he shuddered at the memory of what they meant.

He didn't know what to do. Should he be satisfied at Caesar's suffering? That Ash now knows how powerless they are? That Dolly finally see's how weak Caesar is? Or should he be concern for them? If not for Caesar and Dolly, then at least for Ash. Even if he followed Caesar, Ash was still just a boy. Born in the Muir Woods, and never knowing torture at the hands of humans until today.

"G-Guys?" He slowly approached the three of them. Caesar didn't move, he didn't even flinch when Pope got close to him. If it wasn't for his chest rising and falling, the scarred chimp would have thought the Ape King were dead. Then, his eyes rolled back into his head.

Realizing Caesar wasn't going to answer him, Pope turned to Dolly. He hesitated before placing his hands on her shoulders. "Dolly? What. Happened. To you?"

Dolly didn't answer. She shook her head, closing her eyes. "..Ka…Ko…Ba.." Her voice was so small that Pope almost didn't hear her. "..Koba…Want...Koba.." The tone in her voice made him feel a sudden wave of anger and fear.

Pope had known Koba and Dolly for ten winters, and during that time, he had never seen Dolly like this. While Koba allowed his anger to run freely, Dolly never expressed her own and the only times she ever shed tears was whenever she had a nightmare about the past and when her former mate, Ishmael, rejected her after they realized she was unable to have children. Compared to her brother's anger issues, Pope always saw Dolly as the stronger one in terms of emotion control.

But the humans…Whatever they did to her, they obviously destroyed that control. Pope momentarily glanced at the locked door. How could they take someone as strong as Dolly and reduce her to this?...What else can they do? He turned back to Dolly.

"Koba. Not here." He tried to make his voice calming, something she can hang on to. "Your brother. Is safe. At home. Away from these humans."

But Dolly was still not hearing him. She continued to keep saying Koba's name. Pope finally gave up and looked at Ash. The poor teenager had calmed his cries to whimpers and had stopped shaking. When the older chimp reached out and lightly touched his shoulder, Ash gasped and recoiled as if he were burned. He looked up at Pope, his eyes filled with tears.

"Did…My father…Really…Try to…Kill me?"

What? It took Pope a moment to comprehend what the teen was asking. "No." Too surprised to use his voice, Pope began to use sign language instead. "Why do you think that?"

Ash pointed to his head. "I remember."

Pope's stomach sunk. He had just as less respect for Rocket as he did for Caesar, but Pope knew the grey chimp would slay any foe to protect his only son. He wouldn't even let Ash go out in the forest on his own, let alone try to kill him himself. In fact, when Ash was a baby, Rocket use to take him to the council meetings with him.

Why would Ash suddenly claim that his father, who loved him with all his heart, tried to kill him?

Pope once again glanced at the door, this time with an angry glare and a new kind of fear. What are they trying to do? Pope now realized that if he was going to rebel against these humans and convince the enslaved apes to join him, then he could be risking much more than just his life.

It's just easier to give in than to fight them. Dot's words repeated themselves in his mind. Was this what she meant?

What kind of humans am I dealing with here?

Going through the files turned out to be easier than Blue Eyes thought. In just one hour, they were able to get through thirty-something names and find more than half of the members from the ape colony. When they found her file, Cornelia immediately gave the humans full permission to read it. If something inside her file could help them find Caesar, she wanted them to look. Maurice did the same as well.

They had just finished sorting all the ape files when Malcolm stumbled inside the room, surprising them. "You should be resting." Said Ellie, looking at him with concern.

Malcolm shook his head. "I can't sleep, too much has happened today for me to rest." He nodded at the table. "How far have you guys gotten?"

While Ellie and Derek updated Malcolm, the three apes signed to each other-mostly Maurice and Cornelia though, Blue Eyes was looking at the pictures in each file. He wondered what happened to these apes if any of them were still alive. If they were, would his father see them? Would they join the colony if they could? Blue Eyes felt knots forming in his stomach when he found the pictures of the two youngest apes to have been kidnapped. A male bonobo who was only a year old, and another one who was almost the exact same age as Blue Eyes himself was. What do they do to the children?

Then, he found it. The picture of the bonobo he saw the previous day. Derek had told them that his name was Carlos and that he was one of the last known apes to have been kidnapped. Looking at his picture more closely, Blue Eyes took note of the male's features: Big ears that stuck out, a small nose, a gaunt face, black fur and hair, and, the most noticeable of them all, the eyes. They were green like frost-covered grass.

Why do I keep coming back to this ape? There were several other apes that were kidnapped, chimps, orangutans, even gorillas. But there was something about Carlos that Blue Eyes couldn't stop thinking about and he could not understand why. Carlos didn't seem intimidating, at least not in the picture, but his eyes held this...Indifference in them...What caused that?

Blue Eyes blinked, stunned. Why am I worrying about an ape who I never even met?! He closed the file and shook his head to help clear his mind.

Just then, Tori appeared. Her hair was a mess, falling out of her ponytails and floating freely about her neck. She was rubbing her right eye tiredly, had she been sleeping? "Ellie, I think Koba is waking up."

"Ok, I'm coming." Ellie glanced at Malcolm. "Would you be ok, here?" She asked.

"Yes, of course." Said, Malcolm.

"Good. I'll be back." With that, Ellie followed Tori out of the room. As they did, Blue Eyes rubbed his face. Yawning quietly. A rough night, an early morning, a dead body and a massive fight with humans machines had finally took its toll on the young prince.

I could use a nap myself.

Koba groaned as he woke up. The pounding headache made it hard to open his eyes at first, but it didn't last long. As soon as the pain settled down somewhat, Koba realized something was on top of him. When he looked down, he saw a large, silvery cloth over him. It was soft and warmed by his own body. Koba knew what this was. He rarely had one of his own, and if he did then never for long, but he knew what a blanket was.

He had mixed feelings about them. While Koba loved the warmth a blanket gave and the safety it promised, they always reminded him of-NO! Koba banished all thoughts of his mother from his head. He didn't want her in his mind, not in front of the other apes and the humans. Sometimes it was easier to forget he ever had a mother than to remember how he lost her…And that she loved him and Dolly...

"Koba?"

Koba snarled when he saw Ellie and Tori. Yet, Ellie didn't seem afraid of him at all. She just sat down on the floor next to the couch the bonobo laid, and held up her hand. "How many fingers am I holding up?"

Did she really just asked that? "Three." Koba was no stranger to the torment the humans called 'tests' but this was weird.

Ellie put her hand down. "Do you remember anything?" She asked.

What a dumb question! Koba was tempted to lunge at her, but couldn't find any good reason to other than his own annoyance…And, he realized, he simply didn't want to leave the comfort of the couch and blanket... "Everything." Despite being hit in the head by a falling metal ceiling tile, Koba remembered everything that happened. Right down to the moment he woke up that morning.

Then, much to his dislike, Ellie walked closer to him and began to feel his head. Koba stiffened but didn't make any attempt to stop her.

Ellie carefully touched around the area where the tile had hit the bonobo. From what she remembered, Koba didn't have any open wounds on his head. Just several bruises that she wrapped in bandages for protection. "Ok, I think you'll be alright." She said as soon as she was finished. "You should rest for a while, let yourself heal."

"Human. Not. The boss. Of me." Koba growled in reply. Even though he was slightly relieved he could lay around for now.

Ignoring the ape's insolence, Ellie got up and started to go back to the file room. "Are you coming?" She asked Tori.

"No, I'll stay." Said Tori.

Great, now I have to be in the same room as her.

Ellie looked from Tori to Koba, then back. She was suddenly beginning to become suspicious of the younger human. Not of Tori herself, but of her background. Particularly her relationship with her father. Ellie was starting to wonder if Koba, and other apes like him and his sister, were truly the only victims of Steven Jacobs cruelty.

"Alright." With that, she left.

Tori returned to her spot on the floor-which was basically an empty space next to the couch that had a blanket on it. Koba glared at her as she made her way over to where she had been sleeping at. If she noticed, she gave no indication.

She didn't say a single word until she was on the floor. "I'm just going to take a nap." She said flatly. "If you still want to kill me, at least wait until you've healed."

"You. Better. Watch. Your back." Koba snarled. Truthfully, if Koba wasn't so tired, he'd probably be strangling her again right now. At least, that's what he'd like to think. But now...He still wanted to kill her, but half of him didn't want to anymore...

"Sweet dreams to you too, Smiles." Tori pulled her blanket around herself, her eyes still on the scarred bonobo. "..By the way...Thank you...For pushing me out of the way.." Her voice was softer as if she wasn't sure how to say it.

Koba blinked. That's right...He did protect her from that...Why did he do that anyway? At a loss of what to say next, he simply muttered: "Whatever." and rolled over on his side. Pulling the blanket over his head. Hoping that sleep would be better than reality.

Koba didn't hear Tori whisper to herself: "And for saving my life." as she too laid down to fall back to sleep.

Everyone else in the room were asleep as well, too tired from the day's battle to do much else. The only ones who were awake were Luca, who was guarding the door, and Grey and Cedar. The two chimps were silently snuggling. Cedar resting her head on the male's shoulder as he leaned against the wall.

"I told you to be careful." She signed to him.

"And I told you that I'd try." For as long as they had been married, Grey made a point to keep his promises to Cedar. He may not have felt loyal to Caesar, but he always kept his word to his wife. When he told Cedar that he'd return to her in one piece, he fully intended to do so.

Cedar looked up at her husband, their eyes met. "Grey...I know you're a council member..And I know you have responsibilities…But do they have to involve you getting hurt?"

Grey knew this was coming. He knew it the second he first told Cedar that he would be assisting the search for Caesar and the others. Maybe not at that exact moment, but sometime in between then and later…Well, later has become now. "What happened today was just a random attack-"

"You could have been hurt!"

"All I got was a pierced ear!"

"It could have been worse! You could have gotten a broken leg like Rocket! Or a bad head wound like Koba!"

"But I didn't!" If others weren't napping all around them, he and his wife would have been shouting at each other. "Cedar, I'm sorry I scared you. But sometimes, I just can't control what happens to me."

Cedar only frowned, glaring angrily at her husband. But, despite her anger, her eyes were filling with tears. "..Grey...I don't want to lose you…If..If looking for these bad humans means risking your life, then…Then I want you to stop."

Grey's eyes widened when he heard that. Cedar had been concerned for his safety before, but never like this. Not even that one time a bear bit him in the shoulder. "You want me to leave the council?!"

"No. Not the council." Her eyes were pleading with him, it was almost painful to look at. "The searching...All this...Just leave it all while you're still alive...Before...Before.."

"Before what?" Grey whispered, seeing that Cedar was becoming too emotional to sign.

Cedar took a breath, trying to calm herself down. She looked at Grey with enough sadness and concern to make the world lose its colors. This wasn't how she wanted to tell him but she feared that if she didn't, she'll never get to again.

In a whisper, she answered. "Before...Our child...Is born...Without you."

Dreyfus! Wait up!" Finney called as he hurried to catch up to the mayor. Seriously, how can he move so fast?!

Dreyfus paid no mind to him. As soon as they had parked their car, he was determined to find Malcolm's group camp. It wasn't hard, they found the tents almost as soon as they arrived.

"What are looking for, exactly?" Asked Werner.

"Guns. I want to see if they had any."

Werner raised his eyebrows. "Dreyfus, Malcolm said that the apes took all their guns and destroyed them. How could they still have guns?"

Dreyfus was close to losing it. Werner's constant questions was getting on his nerves. "I just want to look, ok?!"

Finney had finally caught up with the two of them. All that running had left him out of breath. "Where-Where do we look first?" He asked, huffing.

"Everywhere." With that, Dreyfus began searching through each of the tents. Finney and Werner followed his example and searched around as well. They found leftover food, unused water, some supplies that was most likely used to fix the dam, and one of Alex's books. The camp itself didn't look suspicious at all. In fact, if Dreyfus hadn't known any better, even he would have thought it was someones outdoor vacation site. Nothing looked out of place at all.

That is, until...

"Dreyfus! Finney!" Werner's shocked voice came from a good twenty feet away from the tents. When the two other men rushed over, they found Werner staring down at the dead body of Carver.

Dreyfus stared at the younger man's body in disbelief. Though the blood was dried, and flies were flying around his body, it looked like Carver had died around the same time ad, McVeigh, and Terry. But unlike the other two, there weren't any bullet holes in his body. Indicating a different cause of death.

"He was beaten to death." Said Finney, eyeing the blood coming out of Carver's nose. "Not by a human, I don't think."

"How do we know it was an ape though?" Asked Werner.

"By these." Dreyfus picked up something that Carver held in his lifeless grasp. Three or four strands of hair. Long, black hair. Dreyfus sniffed them, just to be sure. Then pulled away. "Smells like pine, an ape definitely did this."

"Why are you so hellbent on blaming the apes for this?" Asked Werner.

"Because, Dummy, they're dangerous! One of them confessed to killing Victoria Jacobs father!" Dreyfus didn't mean to bring up that idiotic girl in the conversation, but her father's murder was still valid. "If even just one ape murdered a human, how many other apes have killed humans?!"

"Dreyfus, I don't think Carver was killed in cold blood." Werner was not going to let it go. "We all know Carver, he was an asshole. He probably just pissed off the wrong person and it happened to be an ape."

"Don't tell me you're actually defending them!"

"I'm not! I'm just saying that Carver probably asked for it."

Dreyfus rolled his eyes, frustrated and annoyed at them. "It isn't about Carver. Or McVeigh and Terry. It's about keeping the human race safe, and if that means getting rid of the apes than so be it!"

With that, Dreyfus headed into the direction of the ape village. Werner and Finney reluctantly followed. What Dreyfus didn't tell the two of them was how angry he was at Derek for treating the apes as if they were equal to humans. How could he do that?! The apes are nothing more than a bunch of stupid animals who are under the delusion that they are better than humans. Bunch of arrogant monkeys. On top of all that, Derek is actually trusting the apes. How dare he do that! Can't he see that the apes can't be trusted?

I'll show you, Derek. I'm going to prove to you that those animals aren't worth anything!

Finally, they reached the ape's village. The smell of burnt wood and smoke burned his nose as Dreyfus entered. He had to admit, the apes made an impressive home: sturdy structure, lots of space, plenty of places for an ape to call their own...Was that a school setting over there?

The more he explored, the more frightening the apes became. Somehow, those crazy animals have successfully built their own society, and it mirrored the humans own. They had created their own world.

Dreyfus had just finished exploring the big tree, which he assumed was Caesar's quarters when something shiny flashed. Catching his eye. What is that?

Werner and Finney were preoccupied with the village itself. Werner occasionally saying 'amazing' under his breath, while Finney touched and ran his hand on every surface he could find. Neither of the two noticed Dreyfus make his way down from the high tree and walk over to what he had found.

The second he saw it, Dreyfus knew he struck gold. What he saw in front of him could prove he was right. It could convince all the humans that the apes were not to be trusted. He squat down and picked up the evidence with a careful hand. He smirked as he held it.

The M4A1 assault rifle in his hand was the exact kind of guns the warehouse had.

The gun felt strange in Red's hands. Just the way his hands had to twist and wrap around it in order to hold it was weird. When he looked at Winter, he knew the white gorilla felt the same. The humans said nothing when they took them out of the stables. They separated the two older gorillas from Pinto, so neither of them knew where the child was. They could only hope he wasn't harmed.

"What's the matter with them?" One guard asked.

"New recruits. Ya know how it is." Said the other.

New recruits? Is that what they see them as? New recruits to a war they never even wanted to be a part of? Red wished he could shoot these humans right then and there but the fear of what could become of Winter and Pinto if he were killed held him back. He rubbed his eye with his free hand. Sleeping was nonexistent that night. With Winter's constant nightmares and Pinto missing his parents and crying himself to sleep, Red was surprised he had any sleep at all.

"What are they gonna do?" Winter asked. For the first time, Red didn't mind the fear in Winter's face.

"I don't know." He answered. Red remembered what Tanoddah had told him. About how these humans forced Cooper to kill his own siblings. Is that what they're going to do? Red didn't like Winter, but he'd never dream of killing him…What about Pinto?...Would he or Winter be forced to kill the younger gorilla?

The guard snapped his fingers, getting their attention. "You two, shoot at the target!" He spoke and signed at the same time.

The target the human was pointing at was a big, white rectangle with a human form outlined on it. It was used, evident by the many bullet holes in it.

Red looked down at the gun, remembering how the humans used them. Carefully, using nothing but memory for guidance, he wrapped his fingers around the trigger, held the gun in both hands, took aim…And…

BOOM!

The single bullet ripped through the air with a jolt. It hit the human outline, right where the head was. I hope that's good enough

The guard patted him on the shoulder, startling Red. "Almost perfect." He then turned to Winter. "Now, you."

Winter gulped, he looked down at the gun with wide eyes. Could he even do it? Red had never known Winter to be afraid of loud noises, but it suddenly seemed possible. Could it be the gun itself? Even if it wasn't in use, guns weren't exactly the most comforting thing to look at.

The white gorilla glanced at the guard, then at Red. "Now!" The guard yelled, losing his patience. The human raised a whip in his hand, ready to whack the gorilla if necessary.

Now scared, and gulping down his own whimpers, Winter held the gun in both hands. He took aim, but couldn't point the gun at the target because of his shaking.

Then, right at that second, a scream rang throughout the shooting range. Red didn't think, he turned his head faster than he could blink. The sight he saw behind him was more frightening than any gun.

Pinto was being chased by another gorilla. This one was much bigger compared to the small boy and was far too strong for him to fight. The guards that followed did nothing to help the child, they only encouraged the bigger gorilla to attack. But the worst part? The gorilla himself was a nightmare himself. His mouth opened and drooling something white and foamy, his eyes huge and were as red as eyeballs could be.

The gorilla…Looked like a monster..!

"Pinto!" Red dropped the gun without knowing it. He ran towards the two gorillas, shoving the crazed ape out of the way and scooping Pinto up in his arms. With the little one on him, he ran from the gorilla. Desperately trying to get away from him.

The gorilla didn't seem to notice that he was now chasing an older ape, he just kept chasing after them. Barring his ugly, rotting teeth. He successfully strikes Red on his back, causing the gorilla to stumble and hit the fenced wall that held the slaves in. He didn't look up, he knew that gorilla was charging at him.

Protect Pinto. Red couldn't tell if it was Caesar's voice that spoke them or his own thoughts. But in that moment, Red suddenly didn't care if he died. All his thoughts were suddenly focused on protecting the boy.

Red held Pinto close to him, using his own body to protect him. He'll probably die, but he'll at least give Pinto a chance to survive.

He shut his eyes, waiting for the bow that will kill him.

BOOM!

Red snapped his eyes open and turned around just in time to see the other gorilla fall to the ground. Bleeding horribly from the neck. If he's not dead now, he will be very soon.

Winter stood there, gun in hand. He dropped the firearm, fear overwhelming him. Guards surrounded him. He struggled against them, but they overpowered him and in seconds, he was on the ground. Red, shaking from adrenaline, could do nothing but keep Pinto in his arms and look away from the scene.

But nothing he did could keep them from hearing Winter's pained screams.

A's/N: Little bit shorter than usual...Oh well. XD

So I have TWO announcements for you guys! First one is I have an account on DeviantArt that's purely for artwork for my stories (this one included!). I love writing fanfiction, but fanart is my absolute favorite thing to do too and the closest thing to doing fan art on Fan Fiction is making a cover for the story (which I'm currently trying to do ). So if anyone wants to look for me on DA, there's a link in my profile (my DA name is the same as my FF name: MackDreamer).

Secondly! I officially have THREE other Planet of The Apes story ideas and I'd like to share them with you guys.

The first one is a CaesarxKoba story (currently untitled) and it's basically an alternative plot for Dawn, only Cornelia dies early on in the story and Koba has an adoptive child. Some parts of the original plot for Dawn is also broken up and put back together differently than in the movie, so don't be surprised if you see that if I do that story.

The second one is currently called 'Dawn of the Idiots'. Basically, a total parody of Dawn: all the characters completely transformed into funny stupid-heads but still having some of their original characteristics. If I write this story, beware of extreme stupidity, serious events becoming humorous, and lots of character change (for example: Caesar, Blue Eyes, Koba, Malcolm, and Dreyfus do become more humorous than usual, but their personalities still remain-It's Carver and many others you really need to watch out for).

And the last one is actually based on the original Planet of The Apes movies. It's not really a story, just a series of one-shots about the events in each movie-only in the point of view of Zira's younger adoptive sister...Yeah, that one is probably more OC based than any of my other stories.

None of these stories follow Before the Storm, their all their own stories. The only OC in the CaesarxKoba story is Koba's adopted child, and the rest of my OC's don't exist. Same with the one-shot story too, and there aren't any OC's in Dawn of the Idiots (I could add some, but I feel like they're not needed).

That's all for now, please tell me what you think! I'll start the next chapter as soon as I can!

Thanks for reading and please review!