Introduction:
Some time ago I came up with an idea of a reboot of the '70s children's show Land of the Lost. It would be adult, darker in tone to the original with a large cast, essentially Lost with dinosaurs and aliens.
Last September, a writing challenge was issued on AH dot Com to write a story involving a lost civilization. I decided to dust off my LotL reboot idea. Instead of doing a story set in the pocket universe, I decided to do a prequel. It would represent the very beginning, an event that would trigger all the other events, and explain away one huge coincidence I had in my original concept.
If you are expecting all the familiar characters and settings of the original series, you will be disappointed. Only the pylon will show up, but there it's a bit different. For one thing, you will find the characters in this story calling it "The Obelisk". In my main reboot, most of the characters eventually call them 'pylons', however in this story it made more sense for the characters to call it a more classical name. You will also find that there are a few subtle changes to the characteristics of the pylon, for one, it opens up slightly differently.
I guess I should also mention that there is one other character that appeared briefly in the original series as an illusion, and was deceased before the original series began. Here she is very much alive, has a first name and an occupation. I also have no desire to kill her off at any point…
I should also note that I've made the style of this in the form of a techno thriller, inspired by Michael Crichton and Tom Clancy.
I first wrote this story for AH dot Com and will continue to update it there first as a test run before bringing the improved version over here.
Without further ado, I present Evil Doctor's very first fan fiction…