New Earth: Apes/Dia

A Story by Abishai100

Storm-Shadow, fearless-captain of Friends of Humanity (FOH), defies Caesar and the Apes in the post-Apocalypse 'darkness' of New Earth distance(s)...and dichotomy!

A tale of revolutionary vision of a 'New Earth' of defiant promise(s), inspired by the timeless Planet of the Apes (Pierre Boulle), which I hope you like,

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The world was once great. There were great buildings and socialized science(s), and I'd been a wonderful scientist, a doctorate-master at Salk (Cali), and I was working on capitalism algorithm decision-making terminals for monkeys learning to work with multiple-choice based environmental adaptations. The world was once great.

Everything changed in 2022, in the year of the Qatar World Cup, when terrorist strikes, beginning on Friday the 13th (May) and into the French Open (tennis-tourney) and then through the summer North Korean nuclear-raids on British Columbia (North America) and Northern Ireland (United Kingdom), culminating in the post-9/11 era 'Holocaust' of Germany/England in the autumn. By the time Qatar came around (December), the world was over, the Apocalypse marked, and the Coronavirus mutation strain ('Unicron') lengthened to a strange skin-burning variant creating brain-deterioration, a horrid form of toxoplasmosis which no Lithium-meds would soothe. The world was no longer great. In 2023, the Apocalypse was in full-swing, and today, the survivors of New Earth, numbering in about 5 million only, are scattered around. I live in Australia, as the human-captain of the resistance group known as Friends of Humanity (FOH).

SCIENCE REPORT: The Unicron-virus has spread to animals and mutated all monkeys into overgrown intelligent terrorists, making Australia and Canada the rare surviving landscapes where human resistance-fighters defy the New Earth ape-rule, led by the marshal-monkey Caesar, a 'beast' of an autocrat determined to make New Earth a 'bastion' for the reign of 'superior' depression.

FOH (Friends of Humanity) is now hunted/targeted by Caesar's legion of the Apes, and he rides on horseback in the Outback, and he's named his horse 'Nightmare' (since it brings dreads to the resistance-fighter humans led by me). Caesar considers FOH and its 'fearless-captain' (me, alias 'Storm-Shadow') a hunted 'symbol' of fury. Caesar won't listen to the New Earth pleas of FOH to establish a co-species science-council for the distribution of economic resources and foods and instead envisions a 'hunting-came' in the style of the Colosseum of Ancient Rome.

CAESAR: I know (for facts!) 'Storm-Shadow' has a spirit(s)-weakness...his 'lady' of water(s), Dia, and I'll use it against FOH.

DIA: I fear, my lord, we shan't last through the Outback-winter(s), my darling of love-life.
STORM-SHADOW: I'm your valor man of New Earth promise(s), Dia, so never fear Caesar or his Apes!

DIA: This is Hell on Earth, Storm-Shadow.
STORM-SHADOW: Sometimes I 'dream' you'll refer to me (someday) by my 'old-life' name (at Salk).
DIA: Salk is gone, Storm-Shadow, my love-life.
STORM-SHADOW: I know, I know; nevertheless, we remain 'defiant' against Caesar's staff.
DIA: His legion grows in fury if not in number(s), darling.
STORM-SHADOW: I know.

DIA: What will the Friends of Humanity do about this Ayers Rock plan in the Outback?

STORM-SHADOW: I know the Apes want to garrison and symbolize the natural New Earth landmark as Hellmouth!

DIA: So...what will you do?
STORM-SHADOW: Dia, I think to use you as 'bait' on the top of the cliffs of that damned Red-Rock of Australia.
DIA: What?

STORM-SHADOW: When the Apes (Caesar) can chase you as a 'faerie' of Friends of Humanity, I'll assassinate Caesar!
DIA: You think Caesar (himself) will climb the 'Red-Rock' to 'grab' me just because I'm waving a flag, Storm-Shadow?

STORM-SHADOW: He has the 'beautiful mind' of New Earth governance cinema, and he'll use you as a 'faerie' avatar.
DIA: This is dangerous...
STORM-SHADOW: Nothing isn't...
DIA: I do love you.
STORM-SHADOW: I know, I know (Dia)!
DIA: We'll have Thanksgiving...in the Outback, my love-life.
STORM-SHADOW: Yeah, of course.

SCIENCE REPORT: Caesar was burned with a homemade Friends of Humanity chemical-gun, 'adorned' by the fearless captain Storm-Shadow who lurked atop Ayers Rock in the Outback when the darling Dia lured Caesar of the Apes (himself!) as a faerie-target hostage of experimental science(s) guinea-pig, and this was the first stage in the New Earth Revolution which would see the new implementation (at New Salk!) by Storm-Shadow ('Amlan Satan') regarding regular chemical-brain vaccinations designed to subdue the horrid toxoplasmosis creating 'utter' mind explosions in the resistance-fighter humans 'blanketed' as stats by the 'doctorate' Apes (we hope shan't return).