Apepithecus

INTRODUCTION

The novel named “Apepithecus” is about a primatologist and his scholars performing a dig in South America. They are trying to make an early discovery of an earlier primate which happens to be a subfamily of the Howler Monkey. Their discovery is involved with the Miocene period which goes back to over 5 million years ago, and that family is the genus Alou Atta which is found in the subfamily of Alouattinae.

Soon after digging for their ancient remains to make the discovery one of them notices some tracks that lead off away from the digging location. They argue for a while trying to identify what the unknown tracks belong to in terms of local primates, although they come straight into contact with one of the most sought after discovery that no one else can seem to put an eye on.

Nonetheless they are captured and then escape to retreat back to their peculiar interests of science and exploration with one rare and misunderstood species. They realize what discovery they have made and after coming back to their sense, they decide to search for more evidence of their existence.

However later they discover some other tracks that are other than human with some alien spaceship patterns swerving in the grassy where they find some clear and dark mushrooms within the soil deposits. They argue wondering what the tracks are that they found. They try to come face to face with one by entering no man’s land as the Primatologist and the helpers are taken hostage again by the group of Gigantopithecus.

Then they finally come face to face with one of them again as once again they are taken hostage by these savage beasts which are our ancient ancestors. They enter the stages of battle trying to recoup the primatologist learning the importance of their reasons to remain unknown to the worldly existence.

Rod gets away and makes his way to the truck calling for help on the CB radio and then enters the trailer to make a video of the scientific discovery before the camper is mauled over and the scene fades to black.

Rod wakes up alone with nobody around except for some Bigfootepithecus tracks around all over where he was left lying. Rod is arrested by the Sasquatch Police who are aboard a molecular drive Unidentified Flying Object. Once taken aboard the explain to him what the unidentified tracks are and that his team was taken as bait. The release one of the female anthropologists in order to force them both to go after a drop off from another planet explaining to them how many other alien planets are dropping creatures off that are beyond our dimension and comprehension.

Immediately Rod and Digger are giving some old school supplies such as a tough suit, co2 laser burner, a plasma ray gun, and a Dilithium crystal rod laser gun that has many other crystal rod settings. Once they are released they are coached through how to bait and kill the Grey Man Doppelganger that was released by some Reptilian like aliens.

In the end they return to their work looking for one of the oldest primates in the New World. After receiving their stolen artifacts back from the group of Gigantopithecus they make the findings of their career.

PROLOGUE

The story starts off in the setting of the South American Jungle of Brazil after they have arrived and unloaded all of their gear such as digging and instrumental equipment. They set up tents and make themselves at home as they first study the area by observing a group of howler monkeys and their tasks of hunting. This is where they learn more about the evolution of the Howler monkey and they also learn more about their cooperative behaviors of altruism and their hunting and foraging.

The first scene starts out with the primatologist and his scholars digging through a field which is known for ancient remains of Howler Monkeys which is a platyrrhine primate. They are one of the oldest new World monkeys found on the South American continent. The scene opens with one of the scholarly characters recovering an ancient cranium from the area he’s working in within the dig site.

CHAPTER ONE

The setting of the story starts in the jungles of Brazil on the continent of South America. We enter the arena of the New World with the South American jungle. There is a dig at a location where the oldest platyrrhines, which are New World monkeys who have prehensile tails and are among the family of the Howler Monkey. And that family is the genus Alou Atta which is found in the subfamily of Alouattinae. Many of their remains can take us back to the Miocene period of hominoids which is 24 million to 5.2 million years ago. There are a group of researchers who are among an anthropologist searching for remains of one of the oldest families on the New World continent.

The first scene opens with two researchers looking at some very old remains. The first researcher to speak is Digger who is studying some cranium findings expressing, “Do these remains belong to that of a Howler Monkey?”

The primatologist peeks over from the remains he is studying which happen to be part of a mandible of the same subspecies answering, “Yes, it’s an ancient Howler Monkey which is the genus Alou Atta in the subfamily Alouattinae.”

Digger wonders just how old these remains may be that she is studying so carefully asking, “And how old do you think these remains are in age?”

The primatologist looks over once again trying to teach his students proclaiming, “They are from the Miocene period which takes us back at least 5.2 million years ago or more.”

Then Doug notices some other strange tracks that look sort of fresh over about ten feet away that are impressed in some tropical forest foliage asking, “But what are these tracks over there?”

The primatologist looks over with a confused look to his face speculating why he hasn’t seen them before considering they are kind of camouflaged and hard to see by him from before, “I don’t know, I never noticed them before.”

Then the other researcher Rod steps away from them all looking the tracks over noticing that they lead away from there a ways telling them all, “They lead into those trees over there!”

Immediately a female researcher Anna leans over studying the new freshly laid tracks saying, “They look pretty big, about as big as a lowland Gorilla. Whatever they are they must be looking for grubs.”

Yet Doug can only think of how they are out hunting for whatever foods they can find around the jungle brush saying, “It appears that they are out foraging!”

Before long, Digger thinks about how grubs are related to Lemuriformes mainly, “I haven’t heard that term since talking about lemurs.”

After that Rod brings a fact about lemurs and Strepsirhines to mind joshing, “You mean a term used when talking about Daubentonidae a nocturnal species.”

A few moments later, Digger makes a wise crack about her Bones and Stones knowledge by shrilling, “No, I mean Daubentoninight, don’t be out at night when coming across these strange tracks we aren’t sure of.”

Naturally, Anna makes a lemur like comment by shrieking, “Aye- aye!”

The primatologist approaches after hearing them squabble a bit, “Don’t be silly! We aren’t in Africa or Madagascar now are we?”

Confused Anna continues to look over the tracks with much deliberation, “No, but these tracks should be. They are pretty big!”

Once the big tracks stick within his mind, Doug thinks about how these tracks are the biggest tracks he has ever seen saying, “These tracks are the biggest I have ever seen except for the ones on the television!”

The primatologist kneels down informing them all by boshing, “Believe me, there are no gorillas in South America.”

Unexpectedly Rod whips out a smart line asking the primatologist, “You mean, whether you’re talking about a lowland or mountain gorilla.”

The primatologist thinks about how he is catching on a bit to the fundamentals of studying our ancestry when it comes to researching hominids and our ancestry, “You’re right, just remember we’re in platyrrhine territory!”

Walking a little further to inspect the freshly laid tracks, Digger steps towards some rancid dead Howler Bush meat she sees hanging behind some thickened foliage in the forest, “Looks like, there’s some dead Bush meat over there hanging!”

The primatologist thinks to himself for a moment aspiring, “Those weren’t there yesterday I don’t think!”

Getting back to the earlier conversation Digger says, “Well, I know something about Africa!”

Without waiting to break the ice, Doug laughs for a moment thinking he isn’t that smart asking, “Huh! Huh! What do you know about Africa?”

Resulting from that is Digger answering back right away imploring, “I went on a dig for Homo Habilis near East Lake Turkana and we never ran into any Bush meat.”

Succeeding that line Doug answers back right away considering he was with Digger in East Lake Turkana saying, “And he only found a partial cranium.”

The primatologist walks over taking a look at some other tracks laid a few yards away. The Rod cracks out a joke shrilling, “At least he found something rather than a piece of butt!”

Then Anna makes a joking comment trying to soothe their intentions a bit joshing, “Yes, maybe some monkey butt.”

Then she moves over a few more yards seeing the tracks laying further away saying, “There are some more tracks laid down over here!”

All of a sudden at a distance away there are some feet moving by really fast followed by the sounds of footsteps, although the noises from the footsteps are too far away to hear anything. Now some branches of trees are pushed aside while some images of darker creatures fall behind within the shadows.

Still everybody is walking along back a ways to see where the tracks lead. The primatologist checks out the footsteps prints before him, “I don’t see any signs of knuckle walking.”

The female researcher Digger looks closely as well signaling, “Me either.”

Quickly Anna realizes there isn’t any to the best of her knowledge neither replying, “No pan pan?”

The Rod looks as well for any signs of what the tracks may be from with no providence joking, “It’s probably a couple of men dressed in gorilla suits looking for Bush meat and they don’t want to get caught or maybe they’re trying to spoil our dig or something.”

At this time Doug all of a sudden sits up with a lack of perseverance about to give up, “Well, they are doing a great job I suppose.”

Next the primatologist stops just before some tracks which disappear in the thickened bushes, “These tracks stop here and disappear in these bushes. We really need to get back to our dig."

Anna lets go of some bushes she holding back that land against a large furry leg that she fails to see. As she turns around ready to give up almost she says, “Well, there too small to be Gigantopithecus!”

Then Rod thinks she’s full of it cracking a joke, “Maybe, it’s some new discovery of some kind of Primate."

Obviously Doug has his own idea of a show in mind while jokingly like saying, “Maybe, it’s some new species of Jungle Ape”

Becoming clueless and impatient the primatologist swells, “Enough clowning around. They aren’t even on the cladistics chart. If you want to make an archaeological discovery you have to be immensely observant.”

After another moment or so they all start to walk back slowly with no luck but just some faded tracks that leads into the foliage with no more traces. It seems that they are ready to go back to their dig when suddenly a loud roaring sound is heard from the distant tree tops. It’s so loud that the all stop nearly shivering in their footsteps so to speak.

Of course the others pass it off as one of the related Howler Monkeys that they are digging for with no other explanation. The researcher Digger tells them all after she hears the loud roaring scream, “It’s just a loud Howler Monkey.”

As it fades out completely from their ringing ears the primatologist says, “That’s no Howler Monkey!”

While agreeing with the other primatologist researcher Digger, Doug comes out asking, “Are you sure that was sort of loud?”

With an explanation in mind Rod says to them all, “Then what else could it be?”

In a twisted turn Anna sees some other tracks meandering the other way. She walks over towards some bushes and pulls them aside. Just when she takes a look into the darkened forest trees and leaves a hand reaches out and grabs her picking her up by both arms. Frightened she yells, “I don’t think this is a Howler Monkey either. It could be a species of sivapithecus or a kind of sivapithecine that is related to the Howler Monkey.”

Next Rod thinks about some sightings he has read about in South Alaska and many of the sightings of the Appalachian Mountains within the woods of south Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and West Virginia of some Gigantopithecus, or what he calls bigfootepithecus answering back with, “You know, I have heard about some Gigantopithecus kinds of creatures such as a sivabigfootepithecus, which have been sighted around south Alaska having elongated arms, along with some of the Appalachian Mountain sightings which are a part of a neanderbigfootepithecus group which have had some similar tracks as are found with species like these such as the Yahoo.”

With her thoughts rummaging like she has never heard of these names before, Digger says, “I’ve never heard of any of these names before; what did you just make them up?”

Soon Rod agrees with him even though his names aren’t molded in stone as of yet saying, “Yes, I have a few scientific names I’ve made up!”

Right after Rod says that, another loud scream is heard which sounds like it’s getting much closer than before and the scream is even louder. They all look around wondering what it could be again even though they aren’t sure whether it is a sasquatch being down in the rain forests as such.

Afterwards Digger can only say what she had said once before repeating, “I’m telling you it’s a loud Howler Monkey!”

Immediately Anna gets some chills shivering down her spine anyways as she looks back to her anthropologist friends saying, “That’s no Howler Monkey!”

Once everyone’s ears began ringing, Doug figures that the screams and howls are extra loud saying, “I suppose that’s much louder than a howler monkey or it’s getting closer and closer!”

The primatologist is almost most certain that there aren’t any Sasquatch or Bigfoot species lurking around in the rain forests of Brazil within the continent of South America. If there were the Yanomamo would have been one of the first primitive natives of Brazil and Venezuela within the continent of South America to have witnessed them. And so far there are no accounts that anyone knows of yet.

Anyhow the primatologist reacts to the screams saying, “Come on, there’s no Sasquatch or Bigfoot species found in the rain forests of South America, especially in Brazil or Venezuela. And if the Yanomamo had seen any they would worship them as their god and some anthropologist would have figures that out by now!”

Moments later, there is a wood knocking sound that is only made by Sasquatches or the Bigfoot species of evolutionary human primates on the cladistics chart. The knock comes in two unison back to back knocks as everyone stops in their tracks or should the story say stop doing what they’re doing at the least bit.

First off, Rod recognizes this mentioning to everyone while thinking that there’s no doubt that the knocking noise is indeed a Sasquatch or a Bigfoot rallying, “That was a wood knocking sound that repeated twice, listen!”

After they all wait listening for a few more seconds or so, Digger who heard it but thinks it was the wind asks, “Are you sure because I heard the wind pick up a little bit which is making knocking sounds within the trees of the rain forest!”

For a few moments they all stop and listen while everyone stops working almost like this whole entire ordeal is a hoax or some farce to only keep them all from working on their dig, although this ordeal is in fact real as far as the loud screams that are very unknown and unrecognizable to each and every one of them.

But somehow it doesn’t take long before there are some more knocks along with some rock clanging that takes their attention completely away from their work as well as their focusing on it as a project. In fact, they all seem to be a bit unnerved with this whole ordeal like it has taken them all by surprise for some reason.

Now Rod’s keen senses pick up on some rock clanging through the loud sounding gusts of wind that seem to be penetrating the area along with some of the branches banging and rattling back and forth. The clashes of rock come forth in a few bursts happening together like it was to get their attention.

Precisely at that time without any further hesitation, Rod comes out commenting, “There was some rock clanging a couple of times back and forth.”

Just then, Digger thinks the sounds came from a certain direction saying, “Sounds like they came from over there somewhere through those trees and jungle brush!”

Not two seconds after Digger says that, some more rock clanging noises come from behind them from another direction other than the one previously. In fact, these rock clanging noises sound like they are coming from an unknown direction that is hard to narrow down on or grasp while they are all so perturbed with this infatuation which has maybe gone sour.

While the primatologist stands there quiet and motionless, Rod looks to the opposite direction behind them searching for the sounds and noises remarking, “Did you hear those rock clanging noises because it sounded like they came from behind us somewhere over there, huh?”

Everyone remains quiet and silent for some time while some more sounds of wood knocking and rock clanging begin to sound closer and closer to them and their dig and anthropological site. Nevertheless they are getting a little too close to home in a sense of saying this as a true scare tactic of some mystery that may soon come unleashed.

Finally the primatologists begins to agree that maybe there’s something out there even though he himself does not even want to believe it deliberating, “Those sounds are getting closer and closer!”

Almost momentarily, there are some sounds like someone walking or scatting through the leaves of these jungle no too far away which tend to hit home a bit like a baseball being hit out of the park nonetheless. The sounds of someone approaching tend to overrun their ears even when no one seems to be around.

Finally Anna catches some shivers which are starting to creep in anyways as she says quietly, “Did you hear that?”

Everybody remains as silent as they can while they all look off into different directions with some sense of being a little confused and that’s only because they are only in South America rather than in North America anyhow.

Now Anna comes out asking her anthropologist colleagues even though they aren’t really paying too much attention to one another other than themselves ranting, “Did you hear that?”

Straightway Digger answers back silently with, “Yes, I heard that!”

Next Anna looks to a direction directly behind her saying without a doubt, “It sounds like the noises came from over there somewhere!”

But of course, the primatologists comes up with some positive things to say exclaiming, “Well, if there are Sasquatches or Bigfoot of the rain forests, I doubt they would try to attack a human being considering I’m sure they realize that they are related to us somehow for that matter!”

Right at about the same time the others are grabbed just as well before making their way back to the research center area. Most of them are motionless while their mouths are covered. Anna tries to scream but can’t with her mouth blocked by a large ape like hand.

The primatologist tries to say the words of the discovery but can’t as well. By now he is completely motionless and unresponsive in movement. His arms and legs are frozen stiff in fright. Without any wasted time, they are all taken into the deepened forest away from the research center.

It seems they have all passed out are forced into unconsciousness by the predominant ancestral creatures. Once being taken a ways away they are all tied to a tree like Bush meat with a loose not at the top. The creatures leave and disappear back into their abode within the thickened forest. A few hours go on by and Anna is the first to wake up. She realizes that the others are tied close to her. She looks up to her feet and sees that she has some movement to try and get free. She bends back up to her feet and loosens the vines from around her feet and slips one foot out. Waiting a moment to catch the right footing she slips the other one loose and falls to the ground.

Now that’s she’s free she looks around and tries to wake the others up but gets no immediate response. Nevertheless they were tied up too high in the tree to where she is able to untie them and let them all down. First she unties the primatologist who falls to the ground and wakes up moaning slightly. Then she unties Rod who falls and gets up right away swinging his arms round and round thinking that it is the enemy until he opens his eyes and sees Anna untying the other researcher Doug from his Bush meat of a hang. Finally Rod helps and unhangs Digger from the tree while she wakes up at about that time saying, “What the heck happened?”

For some reason Rod is the first to try and answer, “I don’t know, looks like we were hung like Bush meat I guess. Don’t ask me why?”

The primatologist starts to get up on his feet pondering what had happened. Quickly he says, “We better get out of here before they come back!”

Afterwards Anna thinks they should be careful mentioning, “What if they are still around watching?”

Then Digger wants to get out of there quickly as she suggests, “Why wait and find out. Let’s just get out of here!”

Succeeding this point in time Doug thinks they should head back to the research area, although he isn’t sure what way it is admitting, “We should head back to the research area wherever that is I suppose.”

The primatologist thinks they should head in the direction that they were hung telling them, “Let’s travel the way our faces were facing when they hung us up!”

Now Rod agrees answering him, “That sounds like a brilliant idea.”

Digger is ready to get a move on shrieking, “I think so too!”

They all start traveling in the direction that the primatologist suggests. Digger is curious what that was all about all of a sudden asking, “What were they?”

At the present time Anna seemed to get about the best look considering she caught a glimpse for a moment informing them all, “It looked like a giant ape of some sorts. I really didn’t get that great of a look.”

The primatologist is pretty sure he knows what they are up against inquiring to them all, “I think we just made a discovery of Gigantopithecus!”

Now Rod makes a comment to his convections adding, “You mean Ancient Bigfoot?”

Then Doug is curious as to what they wanted with them all asking, “What did they want?”

The primatologist answers to them all with his inquisition, “It’s hard to say. Maybe we should have left them tracks alone.”

Contrariwise Rod comes up with conjecturing adding, “I’m telling you, I was right the whole time that they don’t want us here for some reason. This is probably their home. And there was definitely more than one of them.”

Without any doubt in her mind, Anna thinks that it makes no sense why they don’t want them out here probing, “What are they trying to hide?”

The primatologist understands why nobody has made the discovery of Gigantopithecus Bigfoot before tallying, “That’s why no one ever comes across one face to face. They are too slick and sneaky!”

There’s no doubt that Digger thinks about her Bones and Stones studying mentioning, “So it’s their form of altruism which is their defensive behavior to show how they are tuff and they fought us off like some kind of threat to get rid of us and scare us.”

The primatologist approves that idea for the most part, “Most likely, it was also their way to be nice to get what they want!”

Next Anna asks thinking about all of these facts asking them all, “What do they want? Obviously they like Bush meat.”

Soon Rod disagrees with her completely by uttering, “I think they think we are hunters searching for Bush meat maybe, and that’s why they hung us up to show us what it’s like.”

The primatologist realizes they have to get back to camp, “Let’s just get back to camp and decide what to do with our dig.”

For starters Rod begins to sing a little Monkeys song to them all, “Here they come, walking down the street. They are the biggest monkeys, hanging us like Bush meat. Hey! Hey! They’re the monkeys, they are still around. They’re out there monkeying our digs down. They never want to come out and play. They’re the young generation and they use altruism at bay. Hey! Hey!”

Subsequently Anna interrupts, “Oh shut up!”

After a while they start to feel lost a bit as Digger marvels if they are going in the right direction, “Are we going in the right direction?”

The primatologist suggests to them all, “We should just keep heading in this direction. I’m sure they wanted to take us a ways away I bet to get us angry at the very least.”

Following Doug has to agree with him to keep a positive attitude, “Do you want to turn around and run back into them?”

Anna doesn’t think that’s such a great idea, “No, just keep moving away from there.”

After another couple of minutes they return back to the research area just passed another few acres of densely populated forest. The primatologist catches sight of his vehicle lying on the narrow road just ahead shrugging, “There we are, there’s the truck right over there!”

Within his own conclusion, Rod is relieved to making their way back the whole way answering, “It’s about time; I was getting home sick in a way.”

Finally they reach the research center and decide to have a look around a bit. The primatologist notices some large hand prints on his hood and then notices that some of the artifact remains are missing, “Looks like some things are missing!”

Of course, Digger looks and stares at where her remains were at yelling, “All of my findings are gone!”

Then Anna realizes the same with her remains telling them, “So are mine!”

Now Doug seems to understand the same reality that his remains are missing as well, “Mine too.”

The primatologist starts to make some sense out of everything admitting, “That’s what this was all about? They don’t want us here digging to find their remains I bet or any remains of their ancestral genus.”

Nevertheless Rod thinks about the cladistics for a split second boshing, “Since when is the Alou Atta Howler Monkey with a prehensile tail apart of their genus hominid line anyway?”

Furthermore Anna tries to break the monotony with a smart hominid line by saying, “Well, have a Homo Erection!”

Conversely Digger makes a funny come back by joking, “That’s Homo Erectus, not Homo Erection!”

The primatologist seems to think that the Sasquatch, Bigfoot, or whatever they are out there are trying to keep them from finding something. And he feels that this happens to do with such facets about how maybe their burial site or sites which would give them some evidence of their existence.

Without waiting any longer while trying to figure things out anymore, the primatologists correlates to the others, “No more joking around. I think the Sasquatch are trying to hide any evidence of their deceased who all could be buried somewhere close to here. And we are just lucky enough to almost stumbling upon such a site!”

Still there’s no way that they could have stumbled close to a graveyard of Bigfoot down in the Amazon jungle mistakenly as Doug relates going further, “You mean a graveyard of Sasquatches or Bigfoot?”

There’s no uncertainty in Anna’s mind that they aren’t hunters of any magnitude as far as walking around with guns and rifles searching for bush meat. Except that, on the other hand they aren’t some hunters looking to catch some Sasquatch or Bigfoot yet while looking and searching for one with guns and rifles which could in return endanger their lives to where they get their heads ripped off like some deer from North America or some South American monkey like a Howler Monkey, Owl monkey, or a Chimp.”

The primatologists has heard what she said answering back even though his mind is elsewhere like he was watching out for something, “Chimps and chimpanzees as well as baboons are only found in Africa! The only ones in South America are the ones in zoos or refuges, although there’s the Skunk Ape that is a cross between a chimpanzee and an orangutan! And it is found through the stretch of swamps of the Florida Everglades through the southern swamps of Alabama Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas.”

With fear still in their minds as they all tend to clean up the archaeological site and camping grounds of theirs, Anna comes back explaining to them all, and especially the primatologist coming back with, “You know, it’s kind of hard to think with all of this rattling of my brain from behind dragged and hung around like some left over for some animal we never laid eyes on! And don’t forget that it was monkeys such as the chimpanzees who had island hopped to this South American continent anyhow”

Next the primatologists thinks about trying to clean up the site so that they can leave the area and try and recoup in order to come back another time. Maybe they’d better leave for now and come back when they have some arms to take along for protection. But then again, real anthropologists would never try and hunt a Sasquatch, although they may try and trap one for the reason of putting one under observation to use for studying and taking notes.

After a few more seconds roll by, the primatologist decides that they should try and get out of there as fast as they possibly can muster by declaring, “Come on, let’s hurry and pack so we can get out of here without leaving anything behind even if it is ripped up and torn to shreds by the Bigfoot!”

Just at about that moment Digger sees that her sleeping bag is in the tree above where she had it laying on the ground. And there are many other personal belongings of hers that are scattered all over in different places just like some party or camping crashers had come in and totally ransacked the place and left it for dead.

Nonetheless they all obey and listen to the primatologist as they all try to pack everything without wanting to leave any trace of anything as though they are completely forgetting the dig completely with no regrets. However everything that they have had has nearly been destroyed to where there’s almost no reason to pack it back in their vehicles once again anyhow.

Luckily there camper shell is untouched for some unknown reasoning which happens to be a godsend of a fortunate break within all of this sudden bad luck with nature and evolution. This is where the fittest survive and for some uncanny reasoning again, the fittest happens to be the unknown carnivores within the jungle brush. And don’t forget that these carnivores are the ones that have taken them all by complete surprise with no doubts in anyone’s mind.

As Anna looks at some of her personal belongings such as her clothes that were packed so neatly away which were clean and ready to wear when she’d be alone in her own tent, the eyes of the predator remain lurking on them from distances that are beyond the human eye while some other eyes are on them that are closely camouflaged by the jungle colors of the different varieties of plants and bushes that immensely cover the landscape.

And with a pissed off attitude still, Anna turns to her luggage bags which are more like backpacks for camping while saying, “Even my clean underwear and shorts are ripped to shreds like some ferrets got into my bags and ripped them up.”

For some reason Doug looks to find his notes which are all ripped up and torn into bits barking, “All of my notes from anthropology class are destroyed!”

By then, Digger notices that her shaving and toothbrushes and toothpastes are scattered all over blundering after Anna, “My shaving and toothbrushes and toothpastes are scattered all over too!”

The primatologists comes back while picking up his personal belongings that they had taken out of the camper while camping for the many of days quailing, “Everything is scattered and spread out all over! Look at my can of coffee that I have brought for the early mornings!”

For the next few minutes they all pack and salvage what they can without even leaving anything behind except some small ripped up pieces that are too small to pick up for that matter. However they still have a big camping and archaeological site to clean up and pull away before leaving to decide what choices they have to do as far as options are concerned.

CHAPTER TWO

The next scene opens up minutes later when Digger is looking for her backpack full of clothes that she had brought to change in after all the dirty work is done for the day. Slowly but surely she walks away from the archaeological site a few good yards noticing something different about the vegetation nearby. She stops and looks realizing that a circular pattern has been made which wasn’t there earlier to the best of her knowledge.

She walks a little closer noticing some grass that has grown in that she is fairly certain that wasn’t there before when she last observed this area. Quickly she turns to the primatologist and the others saying out loud, “Hey, check this out!”

Immediately Doug and Anna stop what they are doing thinking that it’s a dead jungle Sasquatch or something while they start to approach. The primatologist becomes sort of paranoid and as well curious considering what has all happened to them recently. When they all three arrive they all just stop noticing how there is a pattern woven where some new grass has grown but the jungle bushes and shrubs are leveled like a crop circle found in a corn field somewhere, although it just doesn’t seem to make much sense to them at this point in time.

At first Anna is the one to comment while they all stand there looking as she comments, “I don’t know; all the plants are leveled down forming a wavy circle with grass grown inside of it!”

Meanwhile Rod approaches from behind while walking to the side of everyone else to take a look while he glances around about the so called jungle crop circle saying, “It looks like a crop circle in the jungle!”

Straight forth Digger starts to freak out a little asking the first thing that comes to her mind replying, “You mean a crop circle in a corn field?”

Right away, Rod decides to carry on with what he thinks after just getting his first quick glance at the swerving grassy circle answering back, “Yes, some alien spaceship was hovering over right here and they were spinning around a little bit making this impression and the radiation made the grass grow where it doesn’t normally grow!”

Now Doug is sort of scared knowing that they have more intruders and there are not only Sasquatches but there are some unknown aliens in the area as he says, “Great, not only do we have some hairy Sasquatch men watching us right now, but we have some strange aliens from another planet flying about too!”

As the primatologist kneels down at the dirt looking around at the grass where it starts, Anna comes forth with another remark, “We don’t even know what kind of aliens they are that were here!”

Nevertheless Rod remembers something about mushrooms growing also underneath a spacecraft that has been hovering for long amounts of time suggesting, “Well, if it’s a spacecraft there should be some mushrooms grown underneath the dirt!”

And it looks like the primatologist has found something buried in the dirt below the grassy roots as he turns to instruct his partners, “You mean like this?”

Right then the primatologist point to a black mushroom that is small and looks fibrous like with sparkly sides as the anthropologist Rod looks closely retorting back, “Yes that looks like a mushroom from a spaceship. I’ve never seen one in person, although I’ve seen one in a film about aliens. The ones I saw were a clearer color though!”

The primatologist looks at the mushroom recognizing the color saying out loud, “Well, this mushroom is black!”

Then after looking at it for another moment Rod realizes that he’s unsure of the color responding, “I don’t know; I never seen anything black like that in my life!”

There’s no doubt that Doug is curious wanting to possibly touch it saying, “Is it poisonous?”

The primatologist answers Doug’s question replying, “Who knows?”

The girls Digger and Anna start to freak out a little bit even more as they become frightened of the unknown aliens which could be lingering around the area as Anna says to Rod, “So what kind of aliens leave a black mushroom?”

Of course, Rod is confused and so is the primatologist, who was really here to do and teach these students the business of digging monkeys, who says, “I have no idea I’m never seen anything like that before either!”

Right away, Digger start to become nervous wondering what kind of alien leaves a black mushroom yelling out, “Well, what kind of alien leaves a black mushroom?”

Immediately Rod gets sort of confused and as well angry talking back, “I don’t know; a pray mantis, maybe!”

Quickly Anna freaks out even more saying, “You mean like a giant mosquito flying around in a machine and it probably could fly around out here?”

Hurriedly Doug decides to correct her by explaining, “No, he means like a giant pray mantis man or something!”

Afterwards Digger decides to shut them all up calling out, “I’m not sure any of you really know what you’re talking about!”

Surely Anna wants to just get out of there and forget the whole thing anyhow stating, “What are we even doing here anyhow, I thought we were leaving?”

The primatologist can only agree with Anna suggesting, “Yes, we were leaving; I think that’s the best thing that we can do just in case any of those intruders come back here!”

Finally they all start to walk back towards their camping site or at least where it used to be located before it was scattered all over by Sasquatches. Nevertheless they all seem to quiet up trying to quickly scavenge whatever the hell they can before any more of those Sasquatches do find their way back to the campsite when they are there.

Immediately when they all start walking around Anna is quickly grabbed when walking back from the truck over towards a pair of shorts that she sees scattered with some other clothes next to a jungle palm tree. Quietly she walks over next to the tree to retrieve what she can where an arm reaches around covering her mouth while pulling her back around.

A moment later Doug turns after hearing something when a giant Sasquatch takes a quick three steps before picking him up and grabbing him off. Then simultaneously Digger is grabbed when turned the other way after hearing the creepy sounding footsteps. The primatologist tries to cut around the other way towards the front of his pick-up truck, although he is cut off immediately and grabbed being picked up like someone picking up their pet kitten.

At about that time Rod sees what’s going on before anyone can say a word while quickly opening the passenger door to the primatologist’s pick-up truck and quickly closing the door and locking it. Then he moves over towards the driver side of the pick-up truck locking the driver’s side door as well. Next he looks around making sure he flanked them, although he sees some Sasquatches running back and forth but can’t see any of the others.

And after becoming more paranoid, Rod looks around inside the truck noticing the CB underneath the dash which gives him the idea to call for help. So quickly he grabs the CB and tries to turn on the CB Radio, although he has to turn the ignition key which is luckily in the ignition when he looks slightly over frustrated.

However a many yards away, two Sasquatches one named Sticks and the other one named Stones approach within a fifty yard perimeter with a CB Radio Fuzz Buster as they both carry the huge piece of equipment with one on each side of it. Immediately they both stop setting it down next to another large male Sasquatch named Wood Knock and a large female Sasquatch named Hard Knock who has been waiting eagerly.

Right away, Wood Knock looks over to Sticks and Stones saying lightly, “Okay, jam and fuzz bust it!”

Sticks turns on the CB Radio Fuzz Buster trying to search for the right frequency on the CB Radio Band while a squealing sound is heard momentarily. Meanwhile Rod is still in the truck trying to tune into to a CB Radio Channel at the same time. After thinking that he has found a channel that sounds active with some people talking, he loses the channel getting angry a bit.

Just then the male Sasquatch Wood Knock takes the CB from the CB Radio Fuzz Buster and talks in it like a trucker for a second saying things like, “Yes, I’m headed your way!”

Moments later, Rod turns to that frequency hearing part of the sentence thinking someone is on the line as the female Sasquatch speaks in the CB saying, “Yes, we’ll talk at you!”

Hurriedly like Rod calls out for help saying, “Ten four, and ten four! May Day! May Day! Can anybody read me emergency?”

Straight forth the male Sasquatch Wood Knock answers his distress call replying, “Yes, I read you loud and clear. You have an emergency?”

Quickly Rod decides to explain what’s happening while he feels he has the chance before one of those Sasquatches tries to bust their way through the primatologist’s truck informing, “Yes, I am surrounded by large Sasquatches and they’ve taken my anthropology team hostage!”

Without any further hesitation on his part, the male Sasquatch Wood Knock comes back with his next line of action retorting, “Sounds like you have yourself a hairy man problem?”

Thereafter Rod wonders what he said because it sounded obnoxious asking out loud, “What?”

Next the female Sasquatch puts her mouth in the CB saying out loud, “You have a hairy woman problem too!”

For a moment, Rod puts the CB away from his face while looking at it with a confused but paranoid look on his face. He sits there for another second or two remaining quiet because he wasn’t expecting an answer such as this one. He even feels sort of freaked out and about ready to try another CB Radio Station by chance.

Then a loud growling sound comes from both the male and female Sasquatch at the same time and when Rod hears it he nearly freaks out. And he also has no idea what to do about it while he wonders what to do with himself in the meantime. Nevertheless he’s thinking of driving the truck out of there but there’s still too many debris in the way to pull out of there.

Next the female Sasquatch Hard Knock says something else to him on the CB talking, “Be careful!”

Then the CB Radio Fuzz Buster turns to a fuzzing sound so that he can’t radio anyone for help. Right then, he tries to get another frequency but nothing but complete squealing comes over each CB Radio Station that he chooses. He turns the channel a few more times on the CB Radio Station getting even more squealing. Finally it dawns on him that something is wrong because he’s not getting through to anyone.

Then all of a sudden a large branch hits the hood of the pick-up truck flying over and past into the trees on the passenger side. Quickly he decides to get out of the pick-up, although some more branches and other debris are thrown at the pick-up truck causing him to want to pause and wait it out. However he has his hand on the pick-up truck door handle the whole time wondering when and if he should flee the scene.

He also tries to take a look out the windshield and the passenger window of the pick-up truck seeing nothing but trees and jungle brush wavering around. Moments later, he hears some growling that sounds like it’s a good twenty yards away or so, though he’s unsure because it sounds like there’s more than one Sasquatch growling at one time.

Then Rod decides to take a glance out the back cab window of the pick-up truck only to make sure that the coast is still clear towards the driver’s side. Next he turns to look back out the passenger side window even though most of the debris thrown seemed to be thrown from the driver’s side. Nevertheless he continues holding his right hand on the door handle and his left hand on the CB.

Afterwards he takes one last look at the camper trailer that is hooked up to the pick-up truck making sure that the coast is still clear. And then he hurriedly opens the passenger side door stepping out of the pick-up truck while he lets the CB down. Immediately he closes the passenger side door very slowly trying to stay as quiet as he possibly can without mustering a sound.

Now he seems to feel very paranoid that he’s about to be jumped once again while looking out into the jungle brush saying lightly to himself, “Nothing but Sasquatches on the CB!”

Fast like he turns and heads to the camper trailer sitting behind the pick-up truck as fast as he can without making too much noise. But it’s hard not to make any noise when he’s so completely nervous about what’s going on because it all happened so fast. Slowly Rod opens the camper door to walk inside in order to find shelter from the group of Sasquatches.

Once inside he paces around a bit wondering what to do while he’s confused trapped inside the camper with an unknown number of Sasquatches around the area. Of course, he paces a few times which seems to make some creaking sounds that are nerve racking for some reason. Then suddenly he comes up with an idea as he scrambles to set up the video camera that they have inside the camper.

As Rod sets up the video camera to record a video of him talking about the unknown discovery, Rod says to himself softly, “I have to record this!”

Immediately he sets up the video recorder on a tripod and then he turns it on putting his face close to the camera lens narrating, “Just discovered a group of Sivabigfootepithecus which is a sivapithecine that is related to the Howler Monkey and island hopped from Europe sometime before Homo Neanderthalensis and Homo erectus. So far the primatologist and anthropology team I came with has been taken hostage by them and I’m filming this trapped in a camper. And if I don’t survive and someone recovers this video……………………………….. (Then all of a sudden there’s a disturbance)!

Quickly the camper is pushed over nearly knocking him over when a giant Sasquatch heads buts the side. The tripod and the camera fall over as he lays there for a moment while hearing some hands pushing through a slightly open window. Right away, he gets up freaked out from what just happened thinking that they are trying to get in at him.

He looks and sees a hand of a Sasquatch feeling around inside all around and then he moves closer to shut the window slamming his fingers. The Sasquatch lets go pulling his fingers away and then he leaves while scratching the sides as he walks around to the other side. Now Rod feels that he should check all the windows but before he has a chance to another hit comes pushing the camper again.

Rod hits his head as he goes down pretty hard, although he lays there for a moment before getting back up. After standing around trying to come back to it another hard hit comes from both sides pushing the camper shell in a twisted double direction. There’s no doubt that’s he’s unconscious this time.

Of course, the Sasquatch Wood Knock pulls Rod out of the camper while he’s unconscious and unknowing of the activity. Wood Knock carries him off keeping him separated from the others stringing him up once again. But this time he is tied up and hung as bush meat in a different area than the last time when he and the anthropological team was tied up.

Hours go by before Rod wakes up again before seeing himself tied up away from the anthropological camp site just like before. Immediately he tries to look around making sure that he is all alone, even though he knows he isn’t for some uncanny reason. Nevertheless he must try to untie his feet which are tied up; although this time they aren’t tied up so tight. It’s almost as though they were just toying with him for some purpose.

A minute or so go by before he is able to untie his feet so that he can fall down on the ground which is his only chance of getting free. Once he gets free with the confusion of being hung up alone without the others, Rod decides to find his way back to the camper shell anyhow to show that he’s brave. Then on the other hand maybe he feels that he can’t leave his team without trying something.

And when he gets back to the anthropological site, Rod realizes how thrashed everything is and that there’s no way to save anything which is worth salvaging. Yet he still looks around realizing that these creatures mean business not wanting them around especially when it comes to humans such as Homo sapiens. This makes him scared pushing him over towards the alien jungle crop circles which they were looking at earlier.

For some reason he thinks this may hopefully detour the Sasquatches from coming near him for some unknown reasoning. But when he gets there he decides to look at the black mushroom that they had found earlier that day. And for some reason he decides to pick it up smelling it and even looking at it wondering what’s up with it. Moments later, Rod takes it and eats it because he’s confused looking for clues like it would have some extrasensory perceptive connection with it all.

After he eats it he feels like a black dark feeling come over him which he almost can’t explain dilating his eyes to where everything seems darkened. Then sounds begin to become keener as his ears start to tune in to the difference in the surroundings. Nature even seems to become livelier as he affixes his eyes on his surroundings. Yet there’s a dark presence that he feels looming over him that’s there and felt but is unseen.

Furthermore he walks around checking out the alien jungle crops circles inspecting it as though it really intrigues him. Then after checking out some of the bent over plants where some grass is growing throughout, Rod hears something creaking in the jungle brush maybe only so many yards away. Unsure of what it is he turns to go the other direction away from where he thought the sound was coming from.

Then all of a sudden he hears the creaking again which sounds right to his right and again to his left. Right then, two lights shine on him one light from the right side and one light from the left side. He tries to stay still realizing that the footsteps closing in sound large for some intuitive hunch somehow.

Then Rod stops in his tracks while hearing out loud, “Freeze Sasquatch Police!”

Just then, Rod notices some Sasquatch hands coming from out of some uniform that he has never seen ever before in his life. Now he is confused beyond belief that he could be arrested by some Sasquatch Police. Moments later two other Sasquatches approach covered with protective PPE gear known as Personal Protective Equipment that he has never seen ever before either. By this time, Rod is under the belief that the planet has been taken over with by an ape race some way under his nose.

Immediately the two other Sasquatches wearing PPE, otherwise known as Personal Protective Equipment pass him and the two Scientific Sasquatch Police Officers heading towards the center of the landing spot. Right away, one of the Scientific Sasquatch Police Officers pulls out some type of measurement device searching for something. At first, Rod glances as the Captain Sasquatch Police Officers yells out loud, “Put your hands behind the back of your head!”

Rod listens while freaking out from the loud voice as he places his hands behind his head. He performs this task just like you would when any police officer from the states would command a criminal to do so before getting handcuffed. Nonetheless he can barely think or breathe and not to mention that the black alien mushroom he had eaten is causing some massive hallucinations for certain. It wasn’t until then that he had seen these dressed Sasquatch police officers even though he had come in contact with some Sasquatches earlier in the vicinity.

“Now step back slowly a few steps towards us!” The Rookie Sasquatch Police Officers commands once Rod has his hands placed behind his head.

Then slowly Rod takes a few steps backwards towards the two Sasquatch Police Officers without looking back at them. So far he has been pretty motionless since this has happened despite the confrontations earlier which he is hoping would have prepared him for this occasion. A moment of silence comes to Rod as everything seems like it’s happening to him in slow motion like he was in a dream and he can’t run away fast enough.

“Now get down on your knees!” The Captain Sasquatch Police Officer says to make sure that he puts Rod in a position to where it’s harder for him to try anything.

Next Rod slowly gets down on his knees with his hands cupped with his fingers locked right behind the back of his head. For a moment there it seems as though he might lose his balance from all of the fatigue. But luckily he finds his way down to his knees without mustering up any problems.

Straight away the Captain Sasquatch Police officer pulls out a black pair of handcuffs while taking his right hand asking, “Are you right handed?”

Right away, Rod wonders why he’s asking him a question like that answering back, “Yes!”

After hearing his answer while holding his right hand, the Captain Sasquatch Police Officer places one of his handcuff cuff links around his right wrists. Thereafter he the Captain Sasquatch Police Officer takes his left hand doing the same procedure placing the other handcuff cuff link around his left wrist.

And once Rod is in handcuffs from the Sasquatch Police Officers, they both lift him and stand him up ready to search him for any weapons or signs of being with any forms of human militia. At first they both just stare him over while towering down in size while standing next to him. For a moment there Rod feels as though he is standing next to King Kong, although he comprehends the fact that they are a form of Gigantopithecus and somehow the anthropological team has stumbled on to their territory.

Nevertheless Rod continues watching the two Scientific Sasquatch Police Officers as they scientifically perform tests on the area. So far he can recognize all of the equipment that they seem to be carrying, although the tasks that they are performing seem standard procedure as far as his experiences with being a student of the human sciences are concerned.

Moments later after staring and looking him down and over, the Captain Sasquatch Police Officer asks him, “Are you carrying any weapons of any kind?”

Of course, Rod answers back honestly while trying not to move a muscle or move jerking his body from the fear of standing there next to them all saying, “No, I don’t have any weapons on me!”

Furthermore the Rookie Sasquatch Police Officer tries to play the good cop by buddying up with Rod a bit commenting, “Come on; you can tell us? We don’t care about any illegal substances like drugs or alcohol. All we care about are whether or not you have any weapons on you.”

Straight away Rod comes back with his answer telling the Sasquatch Police officers, “No, I don’t have any weapons on me?”

The Captain Sasquatch Police Officer decides to give Rod a pat down anyway insisting, “Well Rod; I’m going to give you the old pat down anyhow!”

Of course, Rod doesn’t know what else to say other than, “Okay!”

Slowly the Captain Sasquatch Police Officer starts giving Rod the old pat down by feeling around his shoulders for any knives or maybe some other smaller weapons which may be of harm. Then he starts to feel around underneath his arms and then down along the side of his body.

Soon the Captain Sasquatch Police Officer tells him to spread his legs apart commanding, “Alright, now spread your legs further apart!”

Unhurriedly Rod spreads his legs because he doesn’t really have any weapons and hopefully both the Sasquatch Police Officers realize this fact. After Rod spreads his legs apart, the Captain Sasquatch Police Officer starts to feel around his waist and then he starts to pat down his legs starting with his right leg. Next the Captain Sasquatch Police Officer pats down Rod’s left leg with the results of finding nothing. Then when the Captain Sasquatch Police Officer comes up patting his left leg, he feels something in his left back pocket.

Right away, the Captain Sasquatch Police Officer asks what is in his left back pocket querying, “What’s this in your left back pocket?”

After thinking about that for a moment or so, Rod remembers putting his small two inch micrometer in his left back pocket while answering back, “Oh that; that is one of my micrometers!”

There’s no doubt that this seems to increase the interest of the Rookie Sasquatch Police Officer who comes back with, “Is that one of your tools for measuring monkey bones?”

Happily Rod thinks that maybe there’s a soft side to these big hairy men dressed in their own attire of Sasquatch Police Officer Uniforms saying, “Yes, that’s one of them!”

Next the Captain Sasquatch Police Officers begins to wonder what they were all doing out here asking, “So what were you doing snooping around over here?”

Immediately Rod becomes confused about what he referring to, although he thinks he’s referring to the alien jungle crop circle asking, “You mean over there where all the plants were pushed over?”

The Rookie Sasquatch Police Officer comes back into the conversation querying, “Yes, what were you looking for over there?”

Of course, Rod thinks about the alien jungle crop circle and how they just noticed it saying, “I was just looking over there because I noticed that the jungle brush was pushed down.”

The Captain Sasquatch Police Officer isn’t messing around with him trespassing on their territory carrying on with, “What did you find there?”

Now Rod is positively sure that they are talking about that black mushroom that they found and that he had eaten moments before the Sasquatch Police arrived quibbling, “I found some little black like mushroom which wasn’t much.”

The Rookie Sasquatch Police Officer pulls out his flashlight and turns it on while afterwards shining it at his eyes asking, “Your pupils look dilated a bit!”

The Captain Sasquatch Police Officer gets right to the point saying, “Well, these are our grounds and you’re trespassing on our territory!”

The Rookie Sasquatch Police Officer tries to bring things sort of to light with Rod telling him, “Maybe, if it wasn’t for that black mushroom we wouldn’t be here!”

While Rod lets the thought of how eating the black mushroom brought these alien sasquatch here by adapting his brain to another realm so to speak, the Captain Sasquatch Police Officer comes back with, “In other words this is our property and we have full jurisdiction here to remove anyone who deems a threat to our species!”

Finally the Rookie Sasquatch Police Officer gets ready to pick up Rod who is only about a foot away while he says, “And that’s why we are going to take you in!”

Hurriedly Rod steps forwards taking a few steps away trying to out run them with his hands cuffed behind his back, although the Captain Sasquatch police Officer takes only half as many steps. Quickly the Captain Sasquatch Police Officer places his right hand on top of his head pushing him down to the ground like he was nothing.

Once Rod falls to the ground nearly landing on his face, both Sasquatch Police Officers grab him and pick him up carrying him with one on each side of him. For some reason Rod shakes his feet like he’s trying to run away but he’s three feet off of the ground with them carrying him. So far everything is confusion to him as he thinks and wonders where they are taking him while he tries to resist with no prevail.

Moments later the Sasquatch Police approach their ramp Sasquatch Alien Spacecraft which is parked a little ways away from their previous jungle crop circle. Of course, for the time being Rod is scared thinking that he will never see any of his anthropological colleagues.

Meanwhile one of the Scientific Sasquatch Police Officers approaches while asking Rod, “Have you ever been exposed to any Nano or Gamma rays?”

Right away, as Rod still trying to kick his way out of it, he yells out, “Screw off!”

After that the angry Sasquatch Police Officers walk him onboard their molecular spacecraft while the Scientific Sasquatch Police Officers follow behind bringing their equipment back that they were carrying as well. The sliding door of the Sasquatch Alien Spacecraft closes and some bright red lights come on with a dimming glow as they leave taking Rod with them all.

Apepithecus by Rodney Soroka is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

Based on a work at https://sites.google.com/site/rodneysorokasbookshelf/apepithecus.