The Search for Ball Zero (26 page)

tickets or security checking people at the
door. It was just a small traffic jam of Monkeys, Primates and now
Humans squeezing into Mosh Tree.

Walking into the Mosh Tree again was just as
amazing, even though it was a

completely different atmosphere this time.
It was a little dark when they entered, the entrance hallway gave
way to the open space of the arena, they all stopped to look around
and take it all in. The ring where King fought Big Flea was the
pit, the stage was built at the South side. Perry liked that, he
hated when the stage was in the center of the arena. It was almost
at full capacity, branch seats along the walls were filled with
Monkeys and Primates. It really felt like an arena before a Human
rock show. Tony somehow doubted it would have the same energy, but
this was legit. At least it felt like it was going to be. He heard
the band practicing before and they were really good, so this might
actually be a pretty good show.

Someone tapped L on the shoulder and pointed
behind them. King was waving them over. He had saved them some
seats near him. King had a good spot, on the right of the stage,
right above the pit standing only area. L was relieved, they all
were actually. They wanted to see how crazy the gorillas got before
jumping in the pit.

The lights dimmed a bit and the crowd
reacted with a small cheer. Joints lit up everywhere. Some
silhouettes appeared behind stage and the crowd’s cheer got bigger.
A smoke machine puffed and a moment later the band came out. Axl
was the first to walk out, he was walking slowly, confidently,
looking down, one arm raised with one finger on that arm raised.
Like “#1” Les came next, holding his bass upside down over his head
by the neck. The humans had never seen that before. Then Moon came
out, doing cartwheels while juggling 4 drum sticks in the air,
using his 4 limbs, another impressive feat.

They didn’t say a word, Axl stood at the
front of the stage, still looking down

with one finger raised. The first guitar
chord went off, everyone in the arena recognized it, including the
Humans. It was the intro to Killing in the Name by Rage, the long
strums of guitar before the bass comes in. The Humans looked at
each other in excitement. Someone pointed at the ceiling. There was
Jimi, being lowered in on a rope, holding his pick arm out
soulfully after each strum like he was Tom Morello. Jimi, the final
member,landed on the stage, the crowd went crazy. Les took over
with the bass for a few seconds, then Moon hit those cow bells to
finish the intro and the band kicked in it’s first groove of the
night, perfectly. That song has a riff at the beginning that kind
of sounds like a siren, then a short build up. Axl still sat
unmoving with his head looking down at the front of the stage until
the perfect moment, then his whole body growled “Killing in the
name of!” right before the super heavy funky main riff came in and
the crowd erupted with metal madness. Everyone monkey, primate and
Human in the place was dancing and/or headbanging and singing.

The entire Mosh Tree was rocking. Then the
song gets to that part where it

slows and Zach kind of talks “Some of those
that work forces, are the same that burn crosses.” Axl was stomping
the stage from left to right, looking intensely at the crowd,
pointing and emphasizing every word like it was torturing him. L,
Perry and Tony had seen Rage live many times, Axl seemed to be
channeling Zach in his prime. The band was perfect.

They got near the finale of the first song,
Axl started whispering,”Fuck you I won’t do what you tell me.” over
and over, building up. The entire crowd was bouncing with them,
anticipating the perfect ending to a Rage song.

The crowd exploded with “FUCK YOU I WON’T DO
WHAT YOU TELL ME!”, the entire Mosh Tree shook with the song. A
Chimp hanging from the roof by his tail did a double backflip into
the pit, many smaller monkeys floated on the crowd. A circle pit of
mainly gorillas bounced in a circle, stomping the ground, bouncing
as high as possible, singing screaming into the air. Axl finished
the song, drawing upon a deep unseen anger and growled the final
words, “MOTHERFUCKER!” baring his teeth at the crowd.

All three Humans’ hair was standing up on
the back of their necks. They looked at each other,”Holy Fuck!”
They all thought.

“
That was intense!” Tony
yelled over the roaring crowd.

L asked,”Are you guys going in that pit?”
“
No fuckin way!” Perry said.

“
I might!” Tony
replied.

King smiled at them,”You should. They won’t
hurt you… That bad.” He smiled

bigger.

The way their concerts worked was 1 hour of
show, followed by a 30 minute

break. King said they planned to do 3 hour
long sets.

They played a set that consisted mostly of
the greatest metal hits of the 90s and 2000s. Les sang backup, he
had a high voice for a gorilla, but he nailed the backing vocals to
all the songs. He sang with soul.

After a few songs and a few glasses of
Monkey Juice, Tony motioned at King

and they barrelled into the pit for a few
Rage songs. Tony had been in mosh pits with big dudes before, but
never as big as a bunch of gorillas. Most of the time in the pit he
couldn’t see the stage, which was pretty normal. While he bounced
around, he ran into other members of the mosh pit and tried pushing
them. It was like pushing on a hairy wall. It didn’t matter to him,
he was having a blast being pushed around.

During a heavy Sevendust cover, Tony put his
hands together and motioned to King, like “Float me.” He didn’t
think about the implications of having the Silverback of a giant
tribe of a thousand Primates float him. King put his hands low and
interlocked his fingers. Tony stepped in enthusiastically. and was
instantly flying, higher than he imagined. He saw the stage
descending below him, Axl looking up at him while singing. He saw
the ceiling of Mosh Tree closing in, slowing down, and then
stopping. A few monkeys hanging on the ceiling reached out to touch
him, they almost could. He looked down and began descending, his
stomach dropped out like on a rollercoaster. He was 30 or 40 feet
up, a circle pit of gorillas below him. He had the biggest smile on
his face ever, normally falling from this height would be dangerous
or even deadly, he didn’t seem to care. L looked on from the crowd,
she was scared for him. Tony flashed double devil horns to the
entire arena as he fell. He landed softly in a pad of gorilla arms.
Everyone cheered.

They played a rare Praxis song “Worship.” An
awesome song about how

terrible religion can be. Perry loved it for
that reason, they all did actually. Jimi wore a KFC bucket on his
head for that song, a tribute to the great Buckethead.

They ended the first hour with their
amazing metal version of John Lennon’s

“
Imagine.” The
intermission started, although it really wasn’t an intermission,
more like a 30 minute break for the band to rest and party with the
crowd. The band didn’t go backstage to some secret room where women
had give blow jobs to get in. There was no security, there was no
band green room. They sat on the stage, jumped into the crowd to
party with friends, just hung out. Moon stayed behind his drums and
let the fan blow on his sweaty Baboon ass. People came on stage to
give their praises.

L was talking with Perry, “This sort of
break would never go over well in Human society.”

Perry agreed,”Some asshole would steal shit
off the stage.”

L continued,”Some whores would want the band
to themselves and probably

start a fight between guys to get it.”

“
Yep. This is the best,
Humans suck.” Perry concluded.

A great, 30 minute party ensued. This
refuelled the band and the crowd, and soon that powerful energy of
a great rock show that was about to start was back. They took the
stage and started their second set.

The second set started with Cluth’s Profits
of Doom. A fitting song for the

world they were living in, with warstores
ravaging the Earth, leveling cities. The profits the Elohssa
Corporation was making were certainly being used for “Doom”-like
activities. “Swallower of Planets!”, those lyrics never seemed to
ring more true. The Primates and Monkeys all felt this too, as they
were serving as the front line. They were fighting the warstores
for their own freedom. Little did the Humans on the other side of
the fence know there were a bunch of cloned Monkeys and Primates
fighting against the warstores from the inside. The Primates and
Monkeys were pretty much fighting to save the Planet from a monster
that Humans created, and that monster could almost be summed up
with the title “Profits of Doom.”

They rocked for another hour. A Pantera song
came on and although Tony

thought he shouldn’t go into the mosh pit
with all those gorillas again, he went anyways, the music pulled
him in. He looked back at L, he just was going to tell her he’ll be
right back but she jumped up, “Let’s go!” They both stayed down in
the pit for enough songs to be covered in sweat and out of
breath.

The end of the second set concluded with the
most epic version of Mr Bungle’s Retrovertigo ever. The song starts
out mellow, it kind of sounds like a like a Mother Goose fairy tale
or nursery rhyme. Retrovertigo also has lyrics that amazingly
describe the plight of Humans in this time (and Primates and
Monkeys). Timeless like any great song.

The song went on, Axl singing, “Sell the
right, to your blight.” Tony remembered having to look up the word
“blight” to know what that line meant. He thought about those
maniac Ads, who covered their body with advertisements, they for
sure sold the right to their blight.

Axl kept singing,“Now I’m finding truuth is
a ruin. Nauseus end that noobody

is pursuin’” Perry loved that line and sang
it with his soul as loud as he could. The whole arena almost sang
along.

Axl continued singing, doing his best Mike
Patton impression, “Starin into glaassy eyes. Mesmeriiized!” L
remembered the look of the zombie-like Ads, infected with ICs,
looking right past her with their glassy eyes.

Retrovertigo wasn’t the fastest song in the
world, but is was heavy. Heavy as

fuck right then and there. Tony wished the
real band Mr Bungle was here to see this, they would’ve been
impressed.

So many different lines of that song were
ringing true to each of the humans.

The song ends fading out to silence. And the
entire arena was silent at the end. Then Patton, I mean, Axl held
up his mic and the place exploded with roaring cheers. The 2nd set
was better than the first.

During the second break, they partied more.
They were all tired and didn’t think they could handle raging for
another hour.

In front of them a gorilla with pink
eyeshadow walked by. Tony nudged at

Perry, but he already saw and nudged back.
“I know!”

She made her way to their row and scooted by
people. Perry welcomed her and made space for her.

“
Well hello.” He said
enthusiastically.

“
Hi handsome. Remember
me?” She asked, sitting next to him.

“
Of course I remember
you. How could I forget?”
“
Amazing show so far, huh?”
Candy asked.

“
Ohh my God yes!” Perry
replied. He leaned into her and said something. He was in super
close, they may have been kissing.

Tony looked at L like “Ohh ohh!” L shook her
head.

The third and final set started surprisingly
with “Brick House” by the Commodores. Then they went right into
“Super Freak” by Rick James. They were bringin the funk in the
third set it seemed.

Everyone was standing up groovin to Super
Freak. Candy started dancing with

her ass to Perry, grinding on him like she
was a Super Freak. Perry didn’t think twice and was dancing in the
moment, grabbing her furry butt and hips. She seemed to like it
when he grabbed her fur and used it to hold her.

She was a good dancer, in the groove, her
motions completely in tune with his. Her ass was warm and felt
really good. Perry started to get aroused. She looked back at him
with a warm sexy smile. She reached back and felt his slight
arousal, then made an “Ooh, look what I found” face. She stroked
him for a moment with those long gorilla fingers, he had never felt
anything like that before. He went from aroused to beyond hard. She
pushed his body back with hers, forcing him back into the seat. He
fell into his seat with a plop. He was a bit nervous, he looked to
both sides. Everyone was dancing. He was more enthusiastic than
nervous. She took a step towards him, turned around in front of him
and into a better position. She reached for his zipper and
attempted once to unzip it unsuccessfully, then in one motion
ripped the front of his pants off. She looked back at him again,
this time her face said,”Oops.” She lowered herself down a bit and
lowered her ass even more. She hovered right above his lap. He felt
her heat. For a long moment she looked at him, then lowered herself
onto him. It was hot, and strong. She went all the way down in one
motion and took him in effortlessly. He jerked, it was amazing and
weird, he had to try not to come or he would have. She looked back
and closed her eyes in pleasure. She went slowly all the way back
up, looking back the whole time. She smiled and closed her eyes as
she slowly went all the way down again. He reacted and grabbed at
her hips, pulled on her fur, reached around and felt for her
breasts. The skin was a little rough, but they were breasts. She
got excited and squeezed him inside her. She did a few more slow
pumps and then unleashed a fury of extremely fast pumping. It was
like nothing he had felt or seen, and Perry was a pervert who
thought he had seen the entirety of porn on the internet. She was
pumping faster than any human woman, or man, could’ve ever fucked
him. Within a few seconds he came, harder than he had ever came
before. His body shuddered and he moaned uncontrollably, for a
second he was completely out of his mind and forgot where he was.
He wrapped his arms around her without thinking, a wave of warmth
washed over his body. Perry was in love.