Chapter 4

Where we left off from last time, Team SSSN are running for their lives as their Equus' get chopped up and devoured by a large bipedal reptile with super long claws in what appears to be a wasteland with dried weeds and dead trees. The four ran for their lives over the hills with them screaming along with wearing hide armor.

"RUUUUNNN!" Sun screams.

Sage then shouts, "WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?!"

Then Scarlet answers, "I DON'T KNOW! JUST KEEP GOING!"

Neptune then lets out a girly scream.

Team SSSN ran as fast as they can over the hills while the monster gulps down its breakfast. They ran and ran until they are far enough that it won't reach them. Yet the monster is too busy eating its meal and only see Team SSSN as a tiny snack so it continues to eat the prehistoric horses. The team finally stop close to the top of some hill and catch their breath.

Sage then says between pants with his hands on his knees, "What the *pant, pant* hell *pant* was that thing?"

Neptune lies on the ground and goes, "You're the animal expert. *pant, pant* You tell me."

Sage then looks at Neptune, "First off, I only know animals back on Remnant. Second, I have never seen creatures like the ones here."

Sun then says, "Alright enough!" He starts to stand between the two, "Look, we're on some alien planet with animals we can't identify!" Scarlet looks at something at the top of the hill while Sun continues to talk. "We may not know much about this place, but we should prepare for anything!"

Neptune then gets back up, "Even if most of our stuff is inside the belly of that thing right now?"

"Then we just craft new stuff!"

Scarlet then interrupts as he points at the top of the hill, "Uh, guys. What is that?"

Everyone then look at the top of the hill and see what appears to be a gazelle, but has two heads with an extra set of hooves between the neck.

"Is that a gazelle?" Sun asked.

Sage tilts his head and scratches the back of his head, "It looks like it, but why does it have two heads?"

The gazelle turns around and runs off over the hill. The team went after it with Neptune armed with a bow and arrow along with Sun. But when they make it over the hill, they get to see something unexpected on an alien planet: An Amusement Park.

"The hell?" the four say in unison.

What they see is a mountain with a giant soda bottle on it with what appears to be some sort of town. Next to it is some sort of futuristic park with a large tower in the center of it. Behind it is some rocky park with a wild west theme and a broken down rollercoaster. On the right side of the mountain, there appears to be some sort of castle with a town that have giant pieces of candy and ice cream cones. Behind the mountain appears to be a zoo of some kind with another broken down rollercoaster. But there is some sort of factory between the zoo and the castle with giant bottles sticking out.

Scarlet then asks, "Why is there an amusement park on an alien planet?"

Sun tries to find the answer, "Maybe the aliens love to have fun like we do?"

Neptune takes a good look at it, "Then why does it look like its abandon?"

Sage starts to think about it. "Maybe this place was transported here like us."

Neptune then scratches his head with his right finger, "Do you think so? But why would they be interested in a dump like this?"

Sun then puts his bow away and start walking, "Lets check it out."

They walk their way down the hill and close to what appears to be a run-down trailer on stilts.

"Hello!?" Sage yells with his hands cupped close to his mouth. "Anyone home!?"

There is no answer. The place is empty with no soul in sight. So they all head inside to see what can they find that might help. Inside, they see shelves filled with certain materials, a locked crate which they are unable to open, a single bed, and a cooking stove. Scarlet sees a blue book with the title The Official Nuka-World Recipe Book. The guy picked it up and before they know it, their implants start to go crazy again.

"WHAT WAS THAT!?" Neptune got freaked out.

Sun looks at his teammates, "Who touched something?!"

"My bad!" Scarlet answered as he turns to face his team leader. "I found a book on the shelf and got curious!" He is nervous as of what happened.

Everyone then check their implants and see they have new stuff added. They also got something completely different from some of the other skills, which are perks. This is entirely new to them and some of the others that just received the new update.

"Okay, this is new." Sun says as he looks at the perks and something called S.P.E.C.I.A.L. They look at their levels and see that they have points for their perks with an extra 28 points for the top row of this strange perks chart with little pictures. The team try to figure out what some of the stuff is.

Neptune looks at one with a vault boy in a radiation suit going into a radioactive barrel and asks, "What is radiation?"

"Don't know." Sage replies. "Yet it does say that some of these perks will make us resilient towards it. So I guess it must be harmful."

Sun looks under the bed and finds something, "Hey guys! I found some maps!"

Everyone put away what they were doing and check out the maps Sun found. One is the official map of Nuka-World that shows all the rides and amusements. The other looks like a hand-drawn map of the area with one particular location circled in red. The four boys looked at them after laying them on the bed and try to get their bearings.

Sun then points out on the hand-drawn map at their location, "Where right here." Then moves his finger towards the red circle, "But we need to head here. It says Nuka-World Red Rocket Station."

"Might be some fuel station or something." Sage makes an opinion.

"But let's check out what this Nuka-World place is." Neptune suggest as they all look at the official park map. "Okay, in front of the trailer is the Nuka-Town USA."

"What does USA stand for?" Scarlet asked.

"Don't know. But maybe we can find answers somewhere."

Sun then points out Dry Rock Gulch, "Maybe we can head there later!" he says with excitement. "It reminds me of some towns in Vacuo!"

Then Scarlet points out the Galactic Zone, "But I think we should head there. Judging by the place, there could be some high-tec devices that could help."

"But what if they're props?" Neptune asked.

"I think the whole 'seeing is believing' philosophy should apply."

Then Sun looked back at the hand-drawn map, "I think we should find out what that Red Rocket Station is. Must be important if it is circled."

"Good point." Sage agrees.

"Alright, lets head out!" Sun then grabs the maps and start to head towards the station.

Along the way, they get to see a few more two-headed gazelles and two-headed water buffaloes. But on the way over, they come across something that block their path so they have no choice but to go through Nuka-Town USA. Yet when they approach the entrance of this part of the park, they are greeted by music that goes something like this:

"What if there's a place with all the zip of Nuka-Cola?

Wouldn't that be the most cheer-cheer-cheerist place in all the world.

Where the river's made of Quantum and the mountain top are fizz.

With fun and games and rides for all the mom and pops and kids.

Well it turns out there's *static* with all the *static and breaks down*"

"Aw, man!" Sun says with disappointment as he kicks a plastic cup. "I was starting to enjoy that song!"

"I wouldn't be so sure." says Neptune as he looks at the decor. "This place has bandits written all over it judging by the dead bodies on spikes and cages."

He is right. The place smells of bandit territory all over. Everyone then draw their weapons as they prepare for what appears to be an ambush situation. Neptune and Sun prepare their bows and arrows while Sage and Scarlet prepare their stone swords. Team SSSN approach slowly as they get closer through the main gate. All four of them are on edge as they start to go to the right of some circular structure with a sign that says Nuka-Town Market painted in white with an arrow.

So far, the place seems empty like it had became a ghost town. The dreary silence is putting them on edge as they pass by the bumper car rides and tip-toe through. They keep on doing so while keeping quiet, but there doesn't seem to be anything at all. Once they made their way through and found a street, they start to breath easy.

"Where to now?" Sage asked.

Sun pulls out the hand-drawn map and check to see where they are. "Okay, we went through the side entrance here." he pointed on the map. "All we have to do is follow this street pass Kiddie Kingdom and The World of Refreshment and we'll reach our destination." But on the road, Sun starts to hear a strange sound. "Does anyone hear buzzing?"

Everyone stopped and listen until they actually hear the buzzing.

"I hear it." Neptune proclaimed.

"But where is that coming from?" Scarlet asked.

Then the four find out that the buzzing was coming from the direction of Kiddie Kingdom and see something like a giant scorpion-fly coming their way. It is large with a sickly green color with a tinge of yellow. The team got their weapons out and prepare for battle!

"Is that a scorpion-fly?!" Sun says as he prepares his bow.

Sage prepares his stone sword, "Looks like it, but I have never seen any that big! How is that possible?!"

Scarlet prepares his stone sword, "We'll find out later! Let's just kill this thing!"

Neptune and Sun fire their arrows at the creature, but it was so fast that it dodged the first two arrows. Sage then charges in with his stone sword as he leaps up into the air. He starts coming down with all his might as he is about ready to decapitate the giant bug. Unfortunately, the creature swung its tail at him and sends him flying towards Scarlet, who managed to jump and take a shot at it. But the insect flew backwards which cause him to miss. Neptune then fires an arrow right into the bug's eye. The thing came crashing down and struggles as Sage once again leaps into the air and delivers the final blow.

"Okay!" Sage then gets back up and puts away his stone sword. "Lets see what do we have."

The other three get closer to see what it is.

"So what is it?" Neptune asks.

Sage then tries to loot it. "According to my implant, this thing is called a Stingwing Darter."

Sun then asks, "Anything on it?"

"Just a piece of Stingwing Meat and Stingwing Barb."

"Anything else?"

"No not really." Sage then takes everything the creature has and gets back up. "But we should get going before we meet anymore. Luckily my aura prevent it from stinging me so I won't get poisoned."

Sun then ordered as he puts his bow away, "Then lets go!"

They decided to run as fast as they could until they finally made their way towards the Red Rocket Station. But what they found was something different. There is a wall of thick concrete surrounding the area with broken down turrets and a few structures. Some include wooden structures, some include a barn, and some include a bunch of train cars pieced together.

"Is this some sort of outpost?" Neptune asked.

Then Sun answers, "Don't know, but it looks important."

"Yet the defenses are in disarray." Scarlet pointed out. Indeed, they are totally wrecked with some of the barrels of the machinegun turrets crooked and some bent out of shape.

"We should go and check it out." Sage takes charge and walks up to the ruined and supposed outpost. But Sun grabbed him by the shoulder.

"HOLD IT!" the monkey faunus yanked Sage back. "I'm the leader and I say...We should go and check it out." Sun then lets go and starts walking towards the outpost.

Sage just shakes his head with a smirk and follows. Neptune and Scarlet follow soon after.

They manage to find the gate made of junk with some sort of guard post with a destroyed robot. They went inside and found the place is even in more disarray that it looks. Crates of different kinds scattered across the field with destroyed crops, some kind of market stalls falling apart, and some water pumps reduced to pieces.

"What a mess!" Sun says in disbelief. "Just what happened here?"

"A fight maybe?" Neptune guess.

"Not sure we could find anything we can use." Scarlet says as he steps forward to check one of the crates. "This place looks like it was looted a dozen times." But when he opens a blue crate with the yellow number 88. "Hello!" he says with excitement. "Looks like I was wrong!" What he found is almost 4 dozen Pip-Boy 3000 Mark IV's stashed in one of the crates.

Everyone try them out even though it covered-up their implants. The try to see what it can do which they are kinda impressed but a little disappointed.

"Man," Scarlet says as he stops messing with his new toy, "stuff from Atlas is more advance than this. This stuff is like prehistoric."

Sun then tries to be optimistic, "But it has a radio function."

Scarlet looks at Sun, "Wait, it does?"

"Yeah." then he starts to turn on the radio. "Hold on, let me see if we can get some music." Sun then tunes in to Classic Radio and it was playing Swan Lake, Act IV Final by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. After a few seconds, it got boring.

"This sucks!" Neptune says at the music.

Then Sage went, "Change the channel!"

Sun then changes the channel to Galaxy News Radio with a voice that goes, "This is Three Dog, OOOOOWWWWW! Phonin' in at a fortified bunker in a middle of a D.C. hellhole! Now some music."

"This guy sounds awesome." Sun says with a smile.

The music playing on the radio now is Civilization by Danny Kaye & the Andrew Sisters.

Sage just shrug, "Good enough."

Sun then snaps his fingers on his left hand, "Alright let's get to work."

Everyone then check out some of the crates that still have a few goods in them. Neptune then found a huge collection of books in the gas station and picks out the Big Book of Science. The reason being is so he can figure out what radiation is. Scarlet then finds a Robot Workbench close to the market place and starts tinkering with it until he found something useful. Sage later finds a room with weapon racks and still have weapons. Sun then looks at some of the more interesting crates with some having an NCR logo, some with a Brotherhood of Steel logo, and found some goods that aren't really native in the area. Surprising though, some of the plant goods haven't spoiled.

Everyone then gather around and start to hear something. Neptune arms himself with a plasma rifle, Sun gets ready his double-barrel shotgun, Sage pulls out a Chinese Officer's sword, and Scarlet dual-wields a standard 10mm pistol and serrated machete. They all lean against the concrete wall and listen in while sun tries to sneak a peak. What he sees is four large green-humanoids with bits and pieces of armor while carrying some hunting rifles and one carrying minigun with blades at the end of the barrel walking by.

One of the large green men start to groan, "So boring!"

"Need humies to kill."

"Grrrrrr!"

"Shut up dumb dumbs." says the one with a minigun. Sun guesses he's the one in-charge. "Making me angry!"

"But pa...pa-"

"Patrol?"

"Yeah that word!"

"Just shut up and keep moving."

As soon as they leave, Sun then looked to his left and realize that his other teammates were watching. They all get back down to the ground.

"Guessing those guys aren't the aliens that abduct us." Sun makes a guess.

Neptune then looks at Sun, "Judging by their armor and equipment, yeah. Those guys are way too stupid to get us here on this planet."

"Should we back-up." Sage suggested. "I mean we got a lot of stuff and we can always come back here once we get something that flies."

Neptune then looks at Sage, "But how are we gonna get the stuff out of here?"

Scarlet then starts to smirk as he looks at the Robot Workbench, "I have JUUST the solution."

Scarlet then goes to work on making a few Sentry Robots to be use as pack-mule as well as carry a settlement workshop. Although it is strange that the station has not one, but two workshops so they can take one to their own settlement.

"Why are you packing that?" Sage asked as Scarlet ties one on the back of one of the robots.

"Because we need this so we can make turrets at our own place." Scarlet then tightens the metal cable. "Who knows what the hell is out there."

Sage then cross his arms, "Good point."

With everything loaded up, they are ready with 20 sentry bots and they rode them straight out and over the hills. They did manage to see the creature from earlier and it got turned into a pile of gore thanks to the rockets, lasers, and heavy machine guns attached to the sentries.

Where were we with Team CRDL? Oh yeah, I remember! They were screaming after they see a Reaper Leviathan destroyed their raft.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!" Then they all went inside the pod to hide.

"WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO!?" Cardin screamed.

Russel then punches Cardin in the shoulder. "You're the team leader! You think of something!"

Cardin then rub his fingers through his hair in a frantic pace, "I-I-I don't know!"

Dove then takes a few deep breaths, "Okay, okay! We're in the shallows right? That thing is way too big to come here." Dove is making sense. That thing cannot come close in shallow water.

Sky takes a few deep breaths to calm down.

Dove then pulls out his new PDA and checks to see what that was. He checks and finally finds it as it reads:

Reaper Leviathan

Leviathan class species are vast organisms at the top of their respective food chains. This species is a streamlined hunter, with highly developed senses.

1. Powerful Mandibles:
This leviathan is capable of locking prey in place with four powerful mandibles, and drawing it within reach of its jaws. Simulated pressure exceeds Seamoth crush resistance.

2. Echolocation:
The deep roar emitted by the reaper at regular intervals is effectively sonar - if you can hear it, the reaper can see you.

3. Profile:
Scanned specimen measured 55m long. Observed circling its prey and attacking from behind. This creature is almost all muscle. Very little brain. No sense of morality. Just muscle, synapses and teeth.

Motivational note: Congratulations on getting close enough to scan it and living to see the results!

Assessment: Extreme threat - Avoid in all circumstances!

After reading it, Dove has a look of dread on his face. "Oh...Good to know." Then he checks to see if there are any other dangers, but Cardin stops him by grabbing Dove's wrist.

Dove look at him as Cardin shakes his head no and says, "Just tell us if we can make something."

Dove nodded. Then he checks his PDA and see if he can find something useful. "Right. Right now, we need a habitat builder in order to build a base. First we need to gather materials in order to make the components such as 2 silver ores for a wiring kit, a computer chip which requires a few things, and a battery which we need some acid mushrooms and a copper ore."

Sky then asks, "What about landmasses? Does that thing have a map?"

"Let me see." Dove checks and it does have a map. He look it over to see if there is at least an island or something. "According to this, there are at least two nearby. One is called the Floating Island and another called the Mountain Island. But if I'm reading this right, there is a lot of open water between here and-"

Then there was some static coming from what appears to be a radio box with a male voice that sounds something like this, "This is Avery Quinn, of trading ship Sunbeam. Aurora, do you read? Over. Nothing but vacuum. These Alterra ships. They run low on engine grease, they send an SOS; you offer to help, they don't pick up."

"Aurora?" Cardin says after everyone look at the radio device.

"Must be the ship." Dove pointed out.

Then Sky lunges towards the radio and sees if there's a way to contact the Sunbeam. "Hello, hello?! Where's the button to call back?"

"Aurora, I'm out on the far side of the system, it's going to take take more than a week to reach your position, do you still need our assistance? Over."

"Over!" Sky responded, "But can you make it quick! Grr, where is the button to contact them?" Sky tries to inspect the radio device yet has no idea on how to get it working.

"Just hand tight will ya'." Russel says with a calm attitude. "We're gonna get rescued! Then we get to go home!" Russel is now excited on getting out of the alien planet.

"I'll try them again tomorrow. See what the long-range scans pick up in the meantime. Damn charter's going to have us wasting our profit margin running errands for Alterra."

"Alterra?" Sky stops trying while something clicks in his head. Sky looks back at his teammates, "Just what the hell is Alterra?"

The three point at the glowing sign above the status screen of the pod. Sky looked at what they are pointing with the blue logo that says Alterra.

"Oooohhhh. Right. I knew I hear it before."

Cardin then stands up, "Well," he claps and rubs his hands, "we have a week so let's get to work."

Dove then stands up, "So how are we gonna contact the others? If we are getting out of here, we should let the others know."

Russel then suggests, "We could find something that will contact them."

Sky then looks back at the radio, "Already on it!"

"I mean something like a messenger pigeon or something."

"They probably found something that is a radio as well by now."

Cardin puts on his scuba gear and starts diving down the hatch. Russel and Dove soon follow after.

Sky then starts to take a look at the radio, "Okay, lets see what makes you tinker."

/: Sunbeam Scenario initiated ahead of schedule. Entities known as Team CFVY & Team SSSN have acquired resources for their headquarters.

Anything to make note of Crash Site Bravo?

/: No data as of late

Continue monitoring

/: Affirmative

AN: Hey guys, finally got this chapter up. Sorry but things have been pretty busy so I forgot to answer one of the questions.

Guest: Maybe. But no spoilers.

I will upload the next chapter on Thursday or Friday next week and will keep them coming the best I can. Later!