A/N: I'd like to note that without the technology to assist, people cannot hear or see Quo. They need either a special Neural Net or a fancy pair of glasses to see him as he lacks holo projectors or speakers to use in the remarkably tech-less planet he is trapped on.

Retrieving…

Done

Decoding…

Done

Log day 1:

Bounty has easily been running for five minutes straight through an upwards curving dirt tunnel, the only thing that has been passing by are the wooden supports placed every 10 to 20 feet.

I'll admit that I'm starting to feel bad for scaring the living shit out of her, but the circumstances wouldn't allow an ease into the fact that there is an alien spacecraft on her planet. Hey, I may be slightly sadistic to organics, but I still care!

3rd POV

Frothy Tankard had seen it all, thieves, bandits, *shudder* the pink one, even a few diamond dogs had passed through his inn, but this Bounty character had taken the cake. She had come in a weeks earlier spouting off about "Alien Ship Crashes" and other such ridiculous nonsense, but now she was back. Initially he had taken her in as a treasure hunter tenant who rented a room for a few days while she poked around for information on her quarry (maybe to make some bits off gossip), but he eventually found himself becoming friends with the energetic mare.

"Froth!" she exclaimed as she ran over to the gruff inn-keeper, "You'll never believe what happened!" Frothy just shook his head "Let me guess, you found the 'alien' ship…" the stallion looked at the mare's surprised face and groaned "You did… didn't you?"

Her excited face was all that he needed to see.

He let out an explosive sigh as Bounty began to tell her story, "Well I went to the approximate location of the crash, I was right, and I found an area that looked like Discord himself had stayed there a while back, I mean seriously! There was a huge crevasse where rocks along the side had MELTED! How did nopony notice that!?" Frothy held up a hoof "Slow down Bounty, you sound like that crazy pink mare that stayed here that one time. Let's move somewhere more private, no sense in having some unsavory characters overhear eh?" The brown earth stallion said.

He led her to his small office-bedroom combo and, after telling one of his workers to run the front, locked the door. He sat in a chair behind a small table that he kept in the room for paperwork. "Alright" he said to the mare "Out with it."

Bounty started pacing back and forth in front of him with a gentle clip-clop of hooves on the unfinished wooden floor. "Well I suppose I should start out from when I left, I left your tavern and trekked out of the outpost and into the Blackveil forest.

I hiked for a couple of days following the directions that I got from that crazy mountain pony."

"Wait, you actually listened to him!?" interrupted Tankard.

"What else was I going to do!? I got a lead from the library and I've haven't gotten shit from anyone else! I was going on a vague mention of a ball of fire falling from the sky a long ass time ago! Why shouldn't I have followed up on it!? Disappointment is still better than nothing!" Bounty ranted

"No it isn't."

Bounty's head snapped around "Who said that?" Bounty asked. "Said what?" Tankard replied with a confused look on his face. Bounty shook her head, "Nothing, just- hearing things." She said brushing off the voice.

"Well, let's hear the rest of it then…" Tankard said rubbing his head with a hoof and heaving a sigh.

Bounty nodded and resumed her pacing in the confined area, "So I was hiking through the forest, and I got the weirdest feeling that the forest was trying to guide me." Tankard let out a snort "No, really! I'd stop and think about giving up, and next thing I know there would be a hint, a new path or a strange piece of metallic rock. I would find them all at the seemingly right times, and they all would lead me on." Tankard just shook his head, "Anyway, I would walk for majority of the day then set up camp and sleep. It took a little over two days to find it."

"And what exactly is 'it?'" Tankard asked.

Bounty sucked her cheek, "Well it's kind of hard to explain, it was a crevasse, like I said earlier, but it wasn't a natural formation… It was too perfect. The edges of the were and exact distance apart and perfectly symmetrical. Nothing short of a beam of magic from Celestia herself would make a cut that perfect and especially not in such a strange shape-" Bounty stopped and started to puzzle over the crevasse in her head.

"Ahem… That's all good and well, but I want to know about what you found, not about the mysteries of some rocks." Tankard said, exasperatedly.

Bounty colored, "Well err, yes, of course." She mumbled "The crevasse went on for a little over 800 strides and ended when it hits a dirt wall at the base of a large plateau…" Bounty paused for a few seconds seemed to get lost in thought.

"Equestria to Bounty?" Tankard said waving a hoof in front of her face.

"What- oh- sorry about that, I was just thinking about how the plateau didn't really make sense, it didn't really make geological sense for it to just appear in the middle of a large forest. Allowing that, dirt shouldn't be able to form a sheer walls like this one…" She stopped sat down and got lost in thought once more.

Tankard groaned and rubbed his face with a hoof, if only this mare wasn't so ridiculously hard to deal with sometimes. It was like she was a cat, she would be interested for a little bit then just go off in her own little world, Wait! A cat!-

Tankard started grinning evilly as he reached into his nightstand and pulled out the squirt bottle that he used to chase the occasional stray cat out of the tavern. He tightened the spray cone and pumped the spray handle a few times.

"Gah!~"

The white pegasus's wings flared as she jumped, in her sheer surprise she overcompensated and fell backwards (landing on the strange saddle bag she was wearing). Tankard had one of his rare wide smiles on at this, he finally had a weapon that had proven effective against this mare.

Bounty rolled over (Tankard quickly put on a poker-face) and shot him a very disgruntled look "What in Celestia's name was that for!?" She shouted.

"Well it looked like your brain was going to overheat, so I had to cool you down quick." Tankard said smoothly, still holding the poker face.

Bounty grumbled some more but seemed to accept the prank, Internally Tankard smiled once more, he'd have to thank that crazy pink mare for the bottle, if he ever saw her again. "So, plateau?" he said trying to spur on the story.

Bounty shook the water droplets out of her mane and started pacing once more. "Well, I figured that if something had crashed and didn't obliterate on impact it couldn't have gone that far underground so I started digging into the wall. I put together a cart from some sticks and hauled the dirt out with that. It took 5 days of digging and about 100 strides of tunnel but I found something! It was a huge wall made of a metal that I've never seen before, I dug around it looking for a way in when suddenly the wall just moved! It split open and allowed me into a large room that had these big metal bricks stacked in the corners. I started wandering around looking for any interesting artifacts or treasures, but I got the strangest feeling that something was guiding me-"

Tankard let out another snort receiving yet another glare from Bounty.

"It came in things like doors closing when I'm not near them, a couple times I turned around to go back only to find the door I came through closed. So, I just decided to push forward. There were multiple areas that I think were guard barracks but they were all empty and looked like they weren't used at all. Then I think I found an alien body-"

Nope just Sara's

"Shut up Tankard." She said shooting him another glare before getting confused at his surprised face, "What?" she asked. "I didn't say anything" the stallion grumbled.

"Anyway, I entered what seemed to be a control room of a sort and in the very center was a giant throne chair, I say that because it was certainly a command position, but it was really unadorned for a throne."

"Getting sidetracked Bounty."

"Right, well as I moved around it I noticed that the chair was actually occupied"

She paused for dramatic effect…

"By a skeleton… It appeared to be bipedal and lacked a tail, it had a few broken ribs but otherwise look wholly intact. As I examined it I noticed it was wearing some kind of necklace and, get this, it was made of Aluminum!" she shouted excitedly.

Tankard let out a gasp, "Really!? Did you get them!?"

Aluminum was currently very expensive in Equestria and almost everywhere else, as the largest veins were found in the badlands and everypony knew that the changelings unofficially controlled the badlands.

Bounty shuffled "Ahh not really… I started to reach for them when…" she mumbled the rest.

"What?" Tankard asked.

"…" she mumbled once more.

"What!?" he asked getting annoyed.

"A GHOST APPEARED!" she finally spit out. "A purple see-through thing surrounded the skeleton and there was a roar sound that came from everywhere!" she said looking at the floor dejectedly.

Tankard chuckles "Really a ghost? The great explorer is terrified of 'ghosts.'"

"Shut up" she says angrily "I left the room after that and ended up in what looked like a hospital room"

You forgot the screaming in terror and on the verge of losing control of your bodily functions. I really didn't want to have to clean up a puddle that ran all the way to the medical bay.

Bounty flushes and ignores the voice, now positive that it's just from the stress of the ship talking.

Not quite, but I can read surface thoughts.

"But then that's where things really go off the rails, on one of the beds is a tiny form of that purple ghost, and it waves at me!" she says feeling confused.

Tankard just cranks his eyebrow up.

"No! Really! I walked up to it and pretty soon I can almost touch it, and then it talks."

Tankard's eyebrow goes even higher.

"I didn't understand it, but it looked a little sheepish. Then I got knocked out." She finishes.

"What!? Do you even know what they could've done to you!?" Tankard exclaims, breaking out of his unbelieving state.

"Nope, but I'm ok and that's what counts right now." She says preferring not to think about the dangers.

Tankard just facehoofs. "Just keep going." He says.

"Well, I wake up on the table that the purple ghost was on with a splitting headache and this fancy saddlebag on. I had to stretch the kinks out of my wings and back before I jumped down and got back to work. Then the coolest and most terrifying part comes, one of the panels on the walls starts glowing slightly. I walked over to it and it put on a moving picture of the room that I was in." she takes a breath and thinks about it more. "At first it was normal and I just kind of tried to figure out how it works, but then this 'thing' appeared in the panel. It had to be at least 7 lengths tall and had these four mandibles for a mouth and it was covered in blood spattered, red armor. It had this amazing sword that was bright blue and glowed like a lantern, and I was trying to figure out what it was when it let out this petrifying roar, it shook the room I was in." She looks down embarrassed once more.

"I kinda forgot that it was showing the room behind me… I turned around and the thing was right behind me. Needless to say I didn't stick around to make friends." She stops pacing and faces Tankard, "I ran out and the door closed behind me. I went ahead and got out of there and flew back here." She finishes.

Tankard sits there… "Are you sure you didn't just eat some really strong mushrooms?" he asks finally. Bounty rolls her eyes "Positive, I still have this bag stuck to me."

Tankard gives a look "What do you mean stuck to you?" he asks. "Well… I can't take it off, it has these kinda indestructible clips on it and nothing I do seems to damage them." She peters off. Tankard thinks about it… "Well… maybe take your finding back to the university."

Bounty belts out a laugh at that "After what they did to me!? HA! I'd rather put on a 'thought protector' helmet and give speeches on how the princesses are demons in disguise!" she says bitterly.

Tankard raises an eyebrow "You know you never told me the story behind that…" he gives her a questioning look.

"And I won't, I like to keep my secrets." She replies with finality.

Tankard shakes his head "What about that unicorn in Ponyville? She sounds like the science type." He grumbles.

Bounty made a face "Ponyville? Argh, that's even farther than Canterlot… But I suppose that it's probably the best choice." She groans covering her muzzle with a hoof.

Tankard takes a look at the clock nearby "Well it's been fun catching up with you Bounty, but I have to get back to the front before one of the girls give a free dinner for a quick lay, you're welcome to use the top room but it will be at the usual price."

Bounty nods "Thank Celestia I grabbed my bit pouch on the way out, at least this stupid pack has some big side pockets. Anyway, thanks Fro, I knew you would help me out." She says earnestly.

Frothy Tankard gives a noncommittal grunt as he leaves to return to his business. Once he gets out the door he cracks a smile, that mare… she certainly was something different.

Back to Bounty

Bounty had left Frothy's office some time ago and had gone up the stairs to the guest rooms. While they weren't the most luxurious rooms she had ever seen it was certainly excellent for a small town in the west of Equestria near the Boulder Mountains.

Yeeash you really are low tech

Now all she had to do was get rid of this stupid voice in her head

How do you know that I'm a voice in your head?

"Well you know things that only I could possibly know, I mean nopony else has been to the wreck." Bounty says, suddenly glad that she had gone to her room before talking to herself.

Are you really sure?

"Positive."

You're going to have your mind blown then.

"Pft, Yea sure what-"Bounty trails off as a purple light flashes in the croner of her vision.

A/n: Sooo? How you doin~? I'm alive eh? Sorry about the wait I've gotten bogged down with more hours at work and don't get home at night till 10 some nights, but anyway next update will be A Life Taken (hopefully, writers block out the ass) so check that out if you want! Also, Chapter length… Longer, or is it good?