Beyond The Rabbit Hole.

"Man I miss doing this." said Jason as he propped his legs up on a drink cooler, switched his weapons from fire to safety, and put them off to the side;for the first time in a long time he could sit and not worry about Vass's Pirates or Hoyt's Privateers coming for him and his friends.

 "Miss doing what?" asked Liza as she rummaged through the ship's cargo hold, looking for any food to eat.

"Nothing." Jason replied jokingly, trying to make the 3,316 mile trip a little more bearable, since they had already traveled more than half of the distance between Rook Island and Santa Monica. Taking in the sight of the Dodger-blue colored ocean, and the aquatic life as it swam past their Motor-Cruiser,all this mixed together left him a little bit of time recollect himself, after all the hell he had been through on that messed up island.

"Yes I found them!" exclaimed Liza as she managed to find the last few M.R.Es that they had taken from a crate they found in Dr.Earnhardt's mansion before they left the island four days ago; they had lost them while getting the boat down towards the water and had misplaced them with the other supplies in the Motor-Cruiser's hold.

Everyone including Jason had turned to see Liza holding up 6 M.R.Es, and smiled because a bad tasting, man-made, food sounds better than wasting time fishing,only to find out all of you know diddly squat about fishing. Meanwhile, everyone rejoiced about having some food they didn't have to catch, and were going to gobble the M.R.Es down like a pack of starving wolves.

Just then Jason took up his role as leader; "Alright everybody settle down, we have to make this food last for at least  another week, by then we will be in Hawaii and we'll be better off than we are now and pretty much halfway towards Santa Monica!" after Jason's declaration there was an executive groan that echoed across the group, this much was to be expected from a group of  five young, and hungry adults.

8:47 P.M.

Eventually everyone had come to terms with this new “diet” and were happy to get something instead of going hungry. Since everyone had been working all day that day, they were getting tired and decided it would be wise to take shifts throughout the night. As it was getting to be around 9:00 p.m. everyone except Jason had started to go to bed. Jason’s job during his shift was  pay attention for any Coast-guard ships or any land masses.It was Jason’s turn because he chose first shift, due to him not wanting to be caught unprepared for anything that could happen.

He suddenly was hit with a cool rush of sea air, which revived him of his grogginess and kept him alert. ”Oh man that's refreshing...” What Jason was blissfully unaware of was that the sky was getting slowly engulfed by ominous storm clouds. Since he did not have any form of communication other than his phone which was out of range and the  Motor-Cruiser’s radio which was old and it’s components had already crystallized due to the moisture from the cave ,so he was unable to receive adequate warning to what was coming.

 First came the overwhelming darkness which now covered the moon’s light entirely, waves crashing against the sides of the Motor-Cruiser was enough to wake everyone up. Jason was already trying to handle the situation by trying to steer the ship out of the storm ,but it was useless.So he took five of his Untouchable syringes and handed one to each of his friends and used one on himself and showed them how to use it. He knew that this boat wouldn't a last much longer,due to how hard the Motor-Cruiser was being pushed and because of how worn out it was when they found it.

“What are these for?!... Jason tell me wha-!” Yelled Liza scared out of her mind. Just as Jason cut her off.

“Just stick it into the vein in your left arm and try to-!.” were the last words to come out of Jason’s mouth before it was filled with bitter salt water because of the rain and wind making huge waves that towered over the railing of the ship. At that moment, they all felt as if they had been flipped upside down as the ship capsized onto it’s back. Sending them plunging under the water’s surface like lead weights. Cold, wet, and unable to do anything other than use the syringes Jason handed to them right before ship capsized, they quickly stab them into their arms as they sink toward the bottom  of the ocean; their inevitable fate.

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5:00 A.M.                                                                           (Equestria)

“Just stick it into the vein in your left arm and try to-!”...*SPLASH*

“What was that!?” exclaimed Twilight as she flew right out of her bed, wet, confused and sporting a bowl on her head, just then she saw a cyan and rainbow colored blur, zip out of her room and down the hall.

“Oooh Rainbow Dash..” said Twilight slightly annoyed at being woken up in such a manner. She tried to recall the dream she was having before Rainbow decided to wake her from it, but couldn't. “Oh well that’s not what matters now.” She said while assessing herself. After checking where she had got most of the water  on her she determined that her face,and mane took most of the water. Just as she was going to make her bed she noticed it had taken most of the damage and now had to change the sheets or else they would start producing mildew. “ Great, now my bed is soaked.. oh well I’ll just change the sheets after breakfast.” She decided to let it go for now and go downstairs towards the kitchen to get herself some breakfast to help energize her throughout the day. After All, breakfast was the most important meal of the day.

As soon as she turned the corner to enter the kitchen, she was greeted to a sight she did not expect and it caught her off guard.

“HAPPY HOUSEWARMING PARTY!!!”  her friends exclaimed at the top of their lungs as they stood by Twilight and showed her the plethora of food on the dinner table as well as the beautiful decorations they all set up just for her.

“So... what do you think?”  they asked.

“It’s.. it’s.. oh I just don’t know how to thank y-” but before she could finish she was cut off by Rarity

“Just enjoy it, that’s enough for us dear. Rarity explained as she started helping herself to plate.

“Yeah better hurry too ‘cause Pinkie’s going to be on her third plate here soon by the looks of it.” Rainbow said jokingly.

“What? Breakfafst isth the mofst imfortant meal of fthe day.” Pinkie managed to say through a mouthful of food, as crumbs flew in all directions. Everypony chuckled at the response Pinkie gave and continued enjoying their morning.

7:00 A.M.

As she and her friends had just about finished up their breakfast, Twilight had taken some time to think of all the fond memories that she had made with her friends. She took in the gorgeous decor that her friends had more than likely put a lot of effort into making. To know that you had so many ponies that cared for you and your well being was nice. That is the best part of friendship I suppose.

12:53 P.M.

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                                                                                            (Back to Jason)

Jason struggled to open his eyes due to the irritation of the salt water, but surely enough managed to open his eyes one at a time. As he slowly got up and on his feet he dusted himself off and immediately took notice towards the five sets of shoe-prints in the sand,which led towards what he thought looked like a jungle of sorts, though this didn't look like any jungle he had seen before,in fact it appeared to be more of a forest.  The whole thing was disorienting and kinda, well for lack of a better word, cartoon-y. But he didn't want to dwell on that much longer because it was distracting him from his main objective. Disregarding that thought which he summed up to irritation due his extended exposure to salt water, he turned his attention to toward finding his brother and friends.

 He noticed his loot-rucksack had already washed up alongside of him, along with his weapons, each in their respective holster, all hanging by one of the straps being caught around his leg. He them proceeded to remove each weapon and examine them individually, drying them off to avoid rust, taking them apart and putting them back together; basically doing a field job on all of his weapons. After fixing his weapons to the best of his ability, he chose to make sure everything else he had was where he had left it. A sense of loss had washed over him as he found out that he had lost his only way of communicating with his friends.

“Damn-it!" said Jason as he found out that he lost his satellite phone during the storm ,but everything  in his pockets and loot-rucksack still seemed to be there, albeit wet , but there none the less.

After he got over the fact that his mission had just gotten 10 times harder with the loss of his satellite phone, and was assured that he had everything else that he came here with, he  quickly set off toward his new goal.