Sky Screen: Exposing the Ape-Man Charlie's Fallacies from the Start

A multiverse video-editing System descends upon all the worlds. Its first episode exposes the brain-dead species of the myriad realms. Charlie, a human-ape hybrid monster, sits in a classroom and makes a wild claim that sends the collective blood pressure of countless universes soaring: "If humans can kill pigs and eat their meat, why can't they eat their own kind?"

A Warhammer 40K Inquisitor smashes a stone pillar on the spot. "Initiate the Exterminatus. Burn this heretical planet!" Three Body's Wade sneers. "This self-destructive kindness is more disgusting than the Sophons." The United Nations of the Stars commander from Stellaris draws his blade. "Send this monkey to the purification pool."

The sky screen rolls footage of Charlie's origins: the extremist ALA organization destroyed a laboratory and forcibly brought this cross-species abomination into the world, then sent it to school to enjoy "equality education." Charlie stands at the lectern, surveying the students applauding wildly below. Its eyes are as cold as if it were sizing up a stockpile of food.

The myriad realms erupt. The interstellar fleet of the United Nations of the Stars tears through the void and descends upon the Darwin Dimension. Charlie throws back its head and roars, "You have no reason at all..." The commander smashes half its skull with a powered-armor fist and replies coldly:

"Reason? An iron fist is reason. Human interests come first. Open fire!"

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.