Chapter 2

Maya's POV

"Ugh… what happened?" That was the first thing I heard after the explosion. The second thing was, "Great, another dead Vault Hunter. Handsome Jack's been busy." I mentally cringed, that voice was annoying.

I opened my eyes and looked around for the other three people that were with me on the train. Salvador was looking around for something, most likely his gun, which had flown away. Then a thought crossed my mind that made my blood run cold. Where was my gun? I quickly turned around, looking at the snow around us looking for the familiar colours of my Maliwan. Drat. Looks like I'm going to have to find a new one somewhere.

Then I saw Zero, staring at the stupid robot in front of us. He was listening intently and realized the robot was holding something out to me, a class 12 heads up display from Dahl. Zero was already installing it, Salvador was still looking for his gun with no luck and Axton was looking after some girl passed out in the snow.

She looked like a high school student but there was no way, this was a ruthless outlaw-filled planet where people had to kill each other to survive, where everything on this planet wanted you dead. This was Pandora. Other than that she had red hair that was pulled into twin bunches that were sticking up. She wore a jacket that featured a large skull on the back and her shirt had a skull on it as well. She wore a skirt and black and white stockings with a belt that had a hammer on it. The most amazing thing about this girl was her robot arm. It looked complicated and I found myself wondering where she got it made and why.

Salvador yelled suddenly and I spun around, thinking he had found everyone's guns but what I saw made me freeze. He had followed me, great. The giant psycho that saved my life as I was waiting for the train, the one who had gone on a rampage that killed all those rats that were sneaking up behind me. He was the one person on this planet that didn't want me dead or was praising me. "W-Who are you?" I heard the pandoran native say. "Relax." I found myself saying, "We can trust him, he saved my life."

"So you vouch for him then? If he tries to kill us later on will you put a bullet in his head?" The voice of the Commando filled the air and left a uncomftable silence there instead. I turned to him to find everyone staring at me, Axton, Zero, Salvador and the girl who was now awake. " Yes. I vouch for him and if he tries to betray us I will put a bullet in his head but I know it won't come to that" Everyone stared at Axton, Krieg or myself in disbelief that I would defend a psycho.

Gaige'sPOV

So after everyone had finished yelling at each other we started walking behind Claptrap to his home. I was still disoriented after the explosion that should of killed Axton and his friends. After the shouting match I tried to summon Deathtrap and show them I was a awesome vault hunter but some snow must of gotten stuck in my cybernetic arm meaning until I could get it out I couldn't summon DT. I couldn't help but study claptrap as we walked to his house, which I'm sure he found annoying.

One thing I found interesting was that when ai got tired, Krieg would hoist me up on his shoulders, even if it unsettled me for the first minutes as I could see the dried blood on his buzz saw axe.

Finally we got to the funny robots house, a broken down shack in the middle of an abandoned wasteland covered with snow and ice. The Claptrap unit rolled over to a little blue scanner built in to the wall a d escalated to eye level with a quick scan and the door began to ope-

"AAAND OOPEN"

A sharp loud shriek pieced through the silence, shattering it.

"What the hell was that!", the weird chick yelled who had just arrived with the rest of 'The gang'. Krieg grunted, obviously wanting an answer.

"It was that STUPID ro- hey, where'd it go!"

The door was wide open sucking the cold bitter air. We quickly entered the shack with claptraps voice getting louder and louder, for our enjoyment. We came in to what looked like the main part of the building. There was a stage-like area with what looked like a furnace on it just opposite the door, but there was a whole other section next to it. There was a poker table with chips and money stashed around with broken Claptrap units sitting around. There were several boxes scattered around with ammo of all variety, money and health vials. Claptrap was saying something about a Bullymong called Knuckle Dragger while Zero, Maya and Axton were listening intently.

Suddenly with a roar a giant bullymong jumped down the furnace, landed on the stage thingy and grabbed Claptrap while he was running away. With a clean swoop he held Claptrap upside down, and pulled Claptraps eye out while Claptrap screamed, "MY EYE! AHHHH!" The rest of us were frozen at this surprise attack on the robot that had saved us but as the giagantic bullymong left, everyone except me reached for a gun that they'd forgotten they'd lost, and looked angry.

We then saw the eyeless Claptrap fall on the ground and he heard him say, "The gun, the guns in the cabinet" I ran to the one cabinet that I couldn't open earlier and saw 6 basic repeaters fall out, and I quickly grabbed one before anyone could say otherwise. I caught Axton's eye and silently pleaded with him to let me keep the gun, so that I could defend myself in the Pandoran wasteland. I took the silence and lack of response as a yes and moved over so everyone else could grab one.

*******************************************************************************Zero's POV

This Vault seems to be a worthy challenge as I see the company I find myself caught up in seems to be abnormal. A ex-Dahl commando with authority issues and a addiction for glory, a Siren who wants to find out about her heritage and her connection to the Vault, murdering anyone who gets in her way, a Pandoran native who enjoys murder and believes the stories about the vault without a doubt, a schoolgirl who accidentally murdered her science fair rival and was forced to escape to this desolate wasteland planet. Krieg was a mystery, even to me and I used to deal in mystery's. As I considered everything that brought me here I barely noticed the various bullymongs that the others dispatched with ease, including Gaige who somehow had the same repeater as us and looked guilty at me when she saw me looking. I figured now was the ideal time for my favorite haiku. "Leaves falling from trees / Snow drifting onto the ground / Life leaving your corpse." I saw the others looking at me strangely and I just shrugged and walked on.

Eventually we passed enough of the snow-covered cliffs and blanketed ground to reach a big clearing. Suddenly Claptrap spoke up saying something that put all of us on edge. "Oh, my eye just switched back on! I see some tough looking minions and an incredibly handsome robot. Which means that whoever has my eye, is very close!" Suddenly a broken car was thrown narrowly missing me and Salvador. The giant bullymong from earlier, Knuckle Dragger, leaped front of us and charged at us.

We all dived to the sides of the beast as he charged. Axton seemed to use all the military training he had collected and started yeling orders out for us. "Sal! Zero! Distract the thing while Maya, Kreig and myself will start focusing fire on the weak points! Gaige stay behind that rock and don't come out untill it's dead ok?"

"NO! I'm going to fight as well Axton!" The refusal of his orders had affected Axton, he clearly looked angry but had no time to argue as Knuckle Dragger suddenly leaped at Maya, who was forced to jump to the side landing on Kreig and effectivly making sure they couldn't fight as he jumped back on his platform and threw another car at them, trapping them underneath. When he next came down he brought a load of other bullymongs with him making this all the more harder as whenever me or Salvador got near to him, one of the smaller bullymongs would tackle us to the ground, but if we targeted them instead we would be sent flying by Knuckle Dragger. The fight continued like this for a while when eventually Gaige started killing off the little 'mongs so Axton, Salvador and myslef could focus on the main bullymong.

The three of us were jumping and dodging Knuckle Draggers attacks while hitting him with our melee weapons and shooting him whenever we had a opportunity. Suddenly one of the bullymongs Gaige was dealing with knocked her out and threw her against the cliff face, causing Axton to sprint over to her unconscious form and begin checking her over. Me and Salvador looked at each other and silently agreed that he would take over from Gaige, leaving me with Knuckle Dragger. As I jumped one of his swipes I saw a perfect shot and took it, hitting him right in the face and killing him. I saw him drop Claptraps eye and I saw it roll towards Axton and the unconscious Gaige. As I bent over to pick it up I caught a glimpse of Axton's dogtags and thought of all our times together in the Dahl Military and all the times he hit on me.

A/N: Thank you to all the reviewers (Both of you) I have taken your advice into consideration to see if I can put it in somewhere! I plan to update every week but will not know what day it will come out so sorry! A big thank you to my friends Jahrel and Dante as they have given me ideas and some lines for this chapter. Read and Review! Bye!

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