Planet of the Bigfoots
Babylon 5 Crossover
by William Babcock
Disclaimer: Colonel Taylor, Cornelius, Dr. Zira, and Dr. Zaius from Planet of the Apes are property of 20th Century Fox. President John Sheridan, Delenn, Dr. Stephen Franklin, Lennier, Captain Elizabeth Lochley, Zach Allan, Lyta Alexander, and G’Kar from Babylon 5 are property of J. Michael Straczynski. Robert and Stacy are Bigfoot. Ben and Bill are humans. These are names that I created. I am not making any money, and it was written solely for my enjoyment and that of other fans.
Rated PG
Cornelias and Dr. Zira left the Earth just before the nuclear destruction. Both of them had gotten away on a spaceship that came from Earth in the 21st century. They had witnessed a nuclear explosion on Earth. Dr. Zira said, Oh my God! They really just blew up our planet. I sure wish we had taken Taylor along. I really do like him.
Cornelia replied, “Just remember that humans caused the war in the first place.” Now all we need to do is figure out how to travel back in time. My only hope is that we prevent this from happening. Of course, if we did that, we might not even exist.
Seven months went by, and they viewed another planet on the screen. Cornelias and Dr. Zira were hoping that there would be more food out on that planet. They had decided to land on the planet. After they landed on that planet, they got out and found a perfect mix of air, just like on Earth. They saw two Bigfoot walking together toward them. They came to them and greeted them. Those Bigfoots make some sounds as a form of communication. The Bigfoot were warm-hearted to the chimpanzees. Dr. Zira said, Why don’t we teach them our language? Maybe we learn everything from them.
Cornelia replied, “We’ll probably be staying here for a while.” There were something like them here back on Earth. There were several names for them. The humans were calling them Bigfoot. They were also called Sasquatch, Abominable Snowman, and Skunk Ape.
Robert, one of the Bigfoots, said, I know very little of that language. There were several so-called humans who came here looking for an astronaut named Taylor. They named me Robert, and she was named Stacy. They spent several days here, then took off to continue searching for Taylor.
Those two chimpanzees stayed on their planet for several months. Cornelias taught other Bigfoot to speak English. Cornelias were hoping to figure out how they would travel back in time. Robert and Stacy were studying the diagram of the spaceship. After that, they found some photos of the human that Robert collected. Cornelia said, “This is the photo of Colonel Taylor, who traveled into our future from Earth.” That was the first human who came to us who talked. We called him ‘Bright-eyes’ until we learned his name.
Stacy asked, Is your planet mainly chimpanzee?
Cornelia replied, “No, we also have orangutans.” We had a famous scientist named Dr. Zaius, who was an orangutan. But he didn’t approve of any human talking. In fact, a vocal cord was removed from Taylor. Dr. Zaius only believes that humans should be kept as slaves. We had an area on Earth known as the Forbidden Zone, which none of us were allowed to visit. But we did travel to the Forbidden Zone with Taylor and found the answer about humans.
Robert replied, Slavery is forbidden on our planet. We believe that all creatures have rights.
Cornelia replied, “That’s why we want to travel back in time to prevent the enslavement of humans.”
Cornelias and Dr. Zira decided to bring Robert and Stacy with them on their rocket ship.
Cornelias, Dr. Zira, Robert, and Stacy got into the rocket ship and blasted off from that planet. Cornelias and Robert were studying the manual on the rocket ship. They wanted to go back in time to the 21st century. After they pushed the buttons on the time machine, the rocket ship just suddenly went wild. The rocket ship was shaking violently and suddenly went through a wormhole. The lights were flashing outside, just like lightning. After the spaceship got out of the wormhole, they noticed a space station in the distance. This was Babylon 5 Station. The time machine was smoking and was damaged. The clock indicated that they were in the 23rd century. Cornelias said over the transmission, “We’re coming to your space station.” We need help with our rocket ship.
Captain Lochley replied via communications: “Please enter through the docking doorway at the opposite end of our station.” I have never seen your kind of rocket ship since the 21st century.
After their rocket ship docked inside the Babylon 5 Station, President Sheridan and Zach greeted them. Both President Sheridan and Zach were surprised when the chimpanzees and Bigfoot talked. Zach asked, Where are you from?
Cornelia replied, “We came from Earth several centuries in the future.” It got destroyed by a nuclear bomb. Those two Bigfoots are from another planet far from Earth, which is mainly populated by Bigfoots.
Captain Lochley assigned quarters for chimpanzees in one room and for Bigfoot in another. The next morning, Captain Lochley came to the chimpanzees’ quarters. Captain Lochley asked, Do you know anything about chimpanzees being genetically engineered so they can talk sometime in the future? I was looking for any record and have no information.
Dr. Zira replied, We came from several thousand years in the future. We had humans, but they did not speak. Then, one day, a human named Taylor became the first to talk. On our Earth, we had an area known as the Forbidden Zone. One day, we went there and found the truth. Apparently, there was a nuclear war sometime in the past, and since then, the apes have evolved. We have both chimpanzees and orangutans. Did you ever know a Colonel Taylor?
Dr. Zira showed the photo of an astronaut named Colonel Taylor. The captain showed the computer information about Colonel Taylor. Captain Lochley said, According to the record, this Colonel Taylor left Earth during the late 20th century. He left with three other astronauts. They vanished without a trace. He and the others never returned. There’s no evidence of nuclear war and apes taking over the Earth at this time.
Dr. Stephen Franklin came and explained a theory. There is evidence of a parallel universe. Someone had explored that parallel universe about five years ago. On a parallel Earth plane, a battle raged between apes and humans. We will have to send them back to their universe to stop their problem. The ancient equipment on that rocket ship just won’t handle getting through the doorway to their universe. We could install modern equipment from one of the decommissioned spaceships. That equipment will be capable of going through the doorway to the parallel universe.
Several engineers at the Babylon 5 station were redesigning the rocket ship, so the apes could return. They had redesigned the time machine in that rocket ship. All of a sudden, there was a blast at Bigfoot’s quarters. Both Robert and Stacy were wounded by the bomb. Security Zach investigated the bombing. Both Lyta and G’Kar witnessed the crime. The suspect was Ben. Security Zach arrested Ben and took him into the interrogation room. Zach checked the record for Ben, and the record showed that he had been involved in hate crimes. He had belonged to the ‘Human Purist’ group. This group had been known to kill off those who were not humans. Zach asked Ben, Why are you trying to kill the Bigfoot and apes?
Ben replied, Because apes are going to take over planet Earth in the future. I saw the future record on Earth. Once they do, the apes are going to use humans as slaves.
Zach replied, Cornelias and Dr. Zira are going back to Earth in the past to stop that. Since you are guilty of attempted murder, I’m sending you to the brig.
The rocket ship was getting ready to leave. Captain Lochley said to Cornelias, “I’m afraid that Robert and Stacy can’t go with you now. They will be unavailable for a long time.” It will be a couple of months before they recover. We can set the jumpgate to send you back to your parallel world. After that, you should be able to travel back in time.
Cornelia replied, “Thanks for helping us.” I would like to visit Robert and Stacy before we go.
Both Cornelias and Dr. Zira visited Robert and Stacy at the sick bay. Robert said, There is a group known as ‘Human Purists’ on your world. There is a danger that Human Purists will even start a war in your world. When we recover, we will return home to our planet.
Both Cornelias and Dr. Zira got into their rocket ship. President Sheridan said, I wish you luck on your trip. You can get to your world by going through the jumpgate.
The rocket ship departed from the Babylon 5 station and went through the jumpgate. Delenn said to President Sheridan, I sure hope those chimpanzees succeed in saving their world.
Three months later, Bill, one of the Babylon 5 crew, took Robert and Stacey to their planet. The other Bigfoots were happy to see them. When Bill returned, he took Ben to a Penal Colony. He sentenced Ben to life imprisonment there.