Author's Note

Hey just to make a few things clear before you read. I only own my orgininal characters and CrossTech Indistries, nothing else. If I make mention of real life people, places, or events it is for entertaminet purposes only. I do not mean to copywrite againts anyone. This will follow a more straight forward game like design. Lastly Booker goes by a unquice skill tree that adds a new skill to master, Archery. If you hae any comments, questions, or concerns please let me know-ID out

Chapter 1

Fallout Equestria: Otherlands

Chapter 1

The Cave

Part One: Down the Rabbit hole and Through the Looking Glass

" Ok CrossTech feild log 01. Date is March 27, 2018. Time is 11:37 AM. Ok I think its recording." The camera flashes on to reveil a slightly stocky mane with sandy blonde hair with glasses. He's wearing a white button up shirt with the sleeves rolled up. What surrounds him is dense jungle, foliage towering over his head. The camera rotates to reviel three other people. Two more guys and one girl, all wearing the same button ups, plus navy blue jeans, and black hiking boots. Except for one who is wearing faded tan cargo pants. Behind them is a small camp set up, nothing to goggle at but serves its purpose." Now to document the crew. You are hearing the voice of Richard Temp, technical expert and supplier during our adventure. Now can the rest of you tell me who you are and what you do?" The man chuckles behind the camera. The camera walks closer to the people." First up is the lovely lady." The girl in question has blonde hair as well but dark chocolate eyes.

" I'm Meggain Livily, First Responder. I'll be treating anyone who gets hurt while out here." She smiles warmly and contiunes paking up a hiking backpack. The camera wobbles over to an African Amercan man paking up is own bag." And you are?" The man behind the camera questions.

" Omar Slips, Geologist. I'll be leading us through our desinated cave." He chuckles.

" Hmm nah I think the spot of leader is reserved for Dewitt over there." The camera rapidly moves over to a man with brown hair packing up." Oh haha very funny." He snarks."Fucking asshole." He mutters under his breath but is picked up by everyone else.

" Oh come now Booker, I'm just trying to have a bit of fun out here. Give something good for the camera." Said camera moves closer to Booker.

" I'd take this a bit more profesionally if I were you, Richard. Splunking is a very dangerous endevor. You fuck around even just once and you could trap yourself down there for good. Now for your little roll call thing. I'm Booker Evans, Adventurer and semi profesional splunker. Now get the camera out of my face." Booker shoves the camera away with his hand. Richard just laughs. Meggain pipes up though." Richard could you put down the camera and pack your own bag now?"

" Ok fine." The camera cuts off.

---Booker's POV---

I finish stuffing the last water bottle of mine in my orange hiking backpack. I love doing this kind of suff. Call me crazy for being a bit dardevilish for jumping off buildings, cliffs, and running into dark caves, but it just reves up my adenerline. But safety is a must expesially for what we're going into. Apperantly our employers bought a massive ammout of land and had a large expansive cave system about a hundred miles from here. Then this cave system was unearthed. So for the past mont I've spent working with trio of urban explorers. Meggain, Omar, and Richard, ah these three are an odd bunch. Richard is the son of the weathy polotican but Richard was always tech savvy, if yiu call waving a camera in someone's face tech savvy.

Meggain, ah Meg, your so full of hopes and dreams. She loves helping people, even at the cost of her own health. She earnd a bachlors degree in medical science at Chicago university. She signed up because she thought it would be fun. All I know is that she will have more than just minor bumps and bruises to take care of. Omar is kind of mystourious guy. He actully just showed two weeks ago and CrossTech put him in charge of taking us to the cave, lovely. Still thought this is just what I need, time away from the city." We packing food or not?" Richard looks up from his previsions.

" We're only gonna be there for 4 hours or so. Pack small food items like granola, protien bars, and beef sticks. Pack plenty of water though. Dougt we'll run into fresh spring water down there." I tell him. Omar speaks up.

" If we do find spring water down there it should be safe enough to drink. The sedimentary rocks should filter it out enough to drink." Hmm gotta agree with Omar now.

" Okay Omar has a point but still pack water." I zip up my bag." Okay I'm ready to go. Anyone else ready?" I look over at Meg, who stands up right after I did." I'm ready to rock and roll." I sigh after she said that." Please don't ever say that again."

" So you tell her not to say rock and roll, yet we can't call you Booker Dewitt?" Richard laughs. I pick up a chunk of dirt and toss it at him. The dirt splatters on his whilte shirt." Oh you fucking ass." He laughs. Omar clears his throat.

" You two love birds done horsing around? We've got a good half an hour of jungle walking before we get there. We all set?"

" Yep I'm good." I answer. Every puts on a yellow hard hat with a flashlight attched to it.

" I'm ready." Meg answers.

" I guess I'm ready." Richard sighs, oh this is going to be a fun trip." Ok then lets go then." Omar annouces.

The entrance is right in front of us now, yay. Its your tipical cave opening, nothing special about it. Richard taks out a cilynder shaped object and hits a black button on it. A red light flashes on as well as a slight beeping." What is that?" Meg points out the object.

" Dunno. The higher ups gave it to me and told me to turn it on before we enter the cave. They said when the beeping gets loud as hell then stops, I am to stick it in the ground. I guess its some kind of homing becon." Strange.

" Ok everybody, turn your headlamps on and lets head inside." Omar says turning on his headlamp. I follow suite as does Meg and Richard." In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again." I mutter and Richard laughs.

" Seriously Booker? An Alice quote? Aren't you a bit old for that shit?" I roll my eyes ad walk into the cave. Dark and damp, boy a teen could make tons of momma jokes just from those two words, heh. Meg follows behind me as I look around. The walls have been eroded to the point of being smooth. I run my hand against the stoney wall. Cool to the touch compared to the outside Carribean tropics. Nothing of interest so far. I set my bag down and pull out a notebook. I'm in charge of taking as many notes as possible about the cave and everything inside the cave. I start putting down notes about the cave's condition. I get a very Minecrafty feel from this whole fiasco. We don't split up due to the increase of getting lost." So Booker, how many caves have you explored so far?" Omar asks out of the blue.

" At least 20 so far. Three of them were underwater. Trust me when I say this, you won't know closterpohbia until your wearing a scuba tank and underground."

" Damn, you must have cahonas made of diamonds and the size of Texas." Richard chuckles and I flip him off. We continue deeper into the cave. I hope down a ledge and help everyone else down. Richard decided to take out his camera and starts documenting everything he sees. Its pretty funny and the echo is great down here." Booker come check this out!" Meg wave over to where she's at. I walk over to her and to my astoisment, there is a clear cave painting." How old do you think it is?" I take a closer look. It depicts man hunting wild animals with sticks and bows. There appears to be a main hunter in the middle with bow in one hand and a spear in the other. Next to him looks to be some sort of small horse drawn by his waist, odd.

" Well judging by the design of it and what kind of structure it has. I'd have to estemate it at around 6,000 to 5,000 years old. Nice find Meggain, not everyday you can look apon a depiction from 6,000 BCE. Hey Richard get your camera viewing ass over here and document what we found." Richard walks over, careful of tripping over rocks and a stalgemight near us. He gasps and quickly starts filming. I take note of the much more known beeping coming from his belt, where the tracking becon is hung from. I look over my shoulder to see Omar picking up small rocks and putting them in sample bags. After a few minutes Omar waves us over and he points us in another path way. I take lead and and we come across something definatly strange. There seems to be a support beam system in this chamber. Three big logs jet up into the celing while a major log rests on the while. Three more logs jet into the stone floor below us.

" Wow, was not expecting this." Omar coughs." Guys you smell that? Smells like sulfur." Yeah the gross as BO oder that is sulfer. Richard's tracking device beeps like mad.

BEEP BEEP BEEP

Then silence. Richard unbuckles it and presses another button on the device. A metal spike shoots out of there, I guess using for drilling it into the ground but what about stone? Richard, for all his might, rams that thing into the stone floor. To my surprise it actually sticks to the floor quite nicely. Then a blueish flash is emmited from the device, next thing is that our flashlights all go out at the same time.

" I've got a bad feeling about this." Omar mutters. I've got a bad feeling cliche. the ground starts to rumble and shake like an earthquake, hey that rhyms! My eyes adjust to the pitch blackness just enough to see both the celling and the floor giving way." OH SHIT MOVE!" I shout and try to shove Meg onto safer ground. But before I can get to her the ground gives way and we free fall into the the abyss, which leads us down a rocky slide down. We all scream...

InsanityDanity presents-

I hit a rock right in the chest knocking all the wind out of me. We are hitting everything like a bunch of ragdolls.

An inspired story based of another-

Omar gets impaled on the way down to where ever this leads. I smack another rock causing me to roll head over heels down.

For all of the FoE fans out there-

The slide abrumptly ends leading off a cliff face down. I see Richard smash into a large slabe of rock just before the cliff face.

I present to you-

We all fall into the unknown now. My hands are flaling all over the place as I scream, then nothing but cold hard stone. I roll a few times. The last thing I see is Richard's smashed and bloodied body land right next to me, his face a mere foot away.

FALLOUT EQUESTRIA: OTHERLANDS...

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" Ugh....uhhhh, uhhh." My eyes creek open to see Richard's frozen face, still locked with his eyes wide open in fear. I groan again as I look ever to my left, to see Meggain's body laying on her side. Oh fuck....oh fuck....oh fuck oh fuck. I try to lift myself up but immeditly raked with agonizing pain in my chest, definatly broke several ribs, shit. My breathing is shallow and rapid. I can't move and I'm surrounded by dead people. Okay, okay Booker...power through this, get up. My breathing becomes rapidly fast as I push myself up. My screams echo through out as I sit up." Oh shiiit, fucking Christ." I grab at my thumping painful chest, I feel a few bumps out of place, yeah broke ribs. I don't want to move anymore right now, too much pain. I look around and see something shocking, yet at the same time brillaint, if not for the situation right now, I would be grinning. There is some natural light being brought in by a vast celling above me, it doesn't even seem like there was a cave in caused by us. There are a few holes where light was being brought in, its greyish, dim, and almost life sucking, yet it was light none the less. I feel strong enough to crawl over to Meg. Pain, all I feel is pain as I drag my legs behind me." Meg? Meggain, please answer me." I groan as I shake her shoulder. All she does is nothing, no movement, nothing, fuck.

"Fuck...fuck...FUCK! GODDAMMIT! WHY!?. Oh shit, oh fuck. NO!" I scream out, my voice echoing throughout the caveren. I need to get up, stand up. I try but fall back down on my ass as pain exploded through my right leg. I look down to see a large shard of rock stabbed into the side of my shin, shit." Oh fucking hell." I mutter. Great broken ribs, dead people, and now a punctered leg. I reach down and try to move the shard, it moves and bleeds. I wince and groan as I try to wiggle it around. Blood covers my hand quickly and with one scream filled pull, the shard pulls free, covered in blood, I toss it away. The faint echo of stone bouncing off stone sounds. I quickly realized I was bleeding out from my now gaping wound. Quick on instinct, I rip off my white button up shirt, despite the pain from my chest, and rip off one of the sleeves to wrap around my leg. My shirt was already covered in dirt, dust, and...mud? Thankfully I was wearing my grey tanktop today. I wrap it around my bleeding wound tightly. I take a deep breath, the pain now being slightly replaced with sadness, curiosity, and slight hope of a way out. Okay Booker, time to get up now.

I struggle to my feet, almost falling foward but I catch myself before I could. I look to my right to see Richard's body still battered and discolored now. Okay moarn later, right now fix yourself so you can moarn. I try to take a step forward only to collapse to my hands and knees. Oh god, the pain I feel is terrbile, fuck. I groan and try to move, only to almost collapse in a heap. I move my hand and feel something bump against it. I look down to see an orange pill bottle laying on the cobble floor. I pick it up and read it:

'Avinza, Morphine. Please use wiselly. Take two caplsals by mouth once daily.' Perfect, painkillers. I would have settaled for more safe pain meds but this should help tremendiously. I pop opn the pill bottle and down two capsuals. I'm been on morphine before so I'm used to the effects, not drug abuse but regular medical stuff. I groan as I try to stand again, I have to power through this. I can't though, my leg feels useless, need to find something to prop myselft up with. I look to my left to see the broken pieces of log that feel with us, its splintered and rotten, but it will work. I grab the broken wood and use it to stand up. The morphine is starting to kick in now so the pain is lossening its iron grip on me. I take a look around and see that our bags have been ripped open during our fall, strewing our supplies all over the place. I don't see Omar though, oh wait, he got stuck through by a stalagtight. I take a few limp steps forward, gazing at the cave. Its huge, a massive cavern full of dark corners, holes to other chambers, and random stalagtights and stalagmights everywhere I turn and see. I hear the sound of running water, that's a very good sign.

I take a few breaths and limp over to Meg's body. I roller her over on her back to see, well a rock where her right eye should be."Oh god..." I mutter," You had your whole life ahead of you, but now your just gone. I'll burn you peacefully." I sigh, this is hard enough, but I hate to sound like a complete ass, but I still barely knew anyone here. Each of us were plucked from our respective jobs and surrounds to work together. Richard is the only person I had any kind of contact with outside of work. I kinda hated him though at the same time. I sigh and close Meg's left eye, rest in peace I guess. I sigh again and stand up, with the help of the stick. I go over and repeat the same process with Richard, not wanting to think about it.I know them but didn't know them well. Well except Richard.

Okay, now tim to make a plan of action. Your injured but not dead, find a way out. Remember, when one door closes another opens up. Oky its still retty dark in here, but luckily I'm in a natural light spot. I need to gather whatever I can, bags, food, medicine from Meg's bag, wood, anything I can salvage.

It took me a good half hour to pick up most of what I could. All of our bags were ripped open, scattering all of our shit all over the place. I managed to collect 5 bottles of our water, a few granola bars, 2 of the beef sticks, a few medical supplies, two of my notebooks, and several scraps of wood and fabric from the riped up bags. The technical equipment were all either crushed, fried, or dead. None of it works. The sound of water is comforting enough to the point I could use it to clean out my leg wound. The pain in my chest still hurts but with the help of the morpine I took, I can barley feel it right now. its to dark though, and I'm afraid of falling over another edge or accidently impaling mysekf of something. I pick up a modist piece of wood, yeah this can work.

I rip another sleeve off my shirt and wrap it around the top of the stick. Ironicly I found a small bottle of rubbing alcohol, which is flamable. I squirt a bit of the top and pick up two small stones next to me. I hope this works. I strike them togethar, and I smile a bit after seeing small sparks shoot off. I strike the stones next to the torch, once, twice, a third, then I see a tiny flame start on the wraped side. I blow on it til the flaw spreads to the rest of the upper part of the wooden club. Great now let there be light. I move the torch around to make sure the fire won't go out.

" Okay find the water source. Maybe that might lead to an exit." I mutter to myself. I get up from the rock I was sitting on and star my wobble to another chamber enterance. The light of my torch flickers and dances off the cave walls as I slowly march onward. The sounds of water increase as does the sounds of, I think an animal, fuck. Okay don't panic don't panic. The tunnel I passed through leaded into anoter large chamber with a stream! Oh fuck my luck is turning around slightly. I hobble over to the stream and immediatly take a few sips of water. It tastes a bit funny but overal it s fresh enough. I notice that there is mud all along the bank of the stream, along with a few plants. These plants look stooky and resembale reeds, still they are not reeds as far as I know. I go over and before I touch it, the sound of an animal's rawr echos throught the cave. Ok I think I know what I can use these reed like plants for.

I pluke them both, as it grew into two stooks from one root. I don't feel like cleaning out my wound now know that I'm not along in this place. So I hobble my way back to the main area I cam from. Time to formulate a plan of action or else I will die down here like the others, prehaps I should burn the bodies since I can't dig out stone.

Either way, I'm mostlikly screwed.

Footnote:

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