AN: Hey guys! Me Again!
So I'd like to welcome you to my sequel of Borderlands 2: Humble Beginnings and Checkered Pasts, which was well received by you fans of the story! Before I start off the story, I'm gonna explain some setting in the sequel. This takes place 1 month after Handsome Jack was killed by Axton and (relative peace) has been brought to Pandora. They just do little jobs on the planet to get money and such.
Sooooooo This story is insired by the characters as well as some story plots from Far Cry 3 (Awesome game!), because I felt like there was a lot I could take in after playing that game. The story itself may be shorter than my first one, depends on how much my fingers will allow me to write. It also will not be focused on love either, it will, but not as much...sadly...MOAR VIOLENCE...
Without further Ado, allow me to present the sequel to my last fanfic, Borderlands 2: Ubiquitous Insanity and Shattered Spirits! ENJOY!
Prologue: A Rude Awakening
"Axton...Axton...Axton...Ax-Eh, screw this WAKE UP, DUMBASS!" Was all Axton could hear before he felt a swift pain in his ribcage.
"Oof!" He gagged while clutching his chest whilst rolling around on the concrete floor that he was sleeping on. He opened his eyes slightly to see a man with cybernetic arms was standing right over him, along with a girl with red hair tied up in pigtails.
"I think ya hit 'em too hard." Gaige said looking at the man Kurt just kicked.
"Uh...Are you a beer?" Axton mumbled looking up at the scientist.
"No, Dr. Kurtis Thatcher, PhD in Theoretical Physics in case you're wondering. Now what I want to know is why the hell are you sleeping in the middle of the town square?" Kurt asked looking at his friend sit up from the ground he was sleeping on.
"...How the fuck did I end up here?" Axton mumbled scrunching his eyes looking at his surroundings. It was about midday in the town of Sanctuary, all of the citizens returned to their everyday duties, which was just wandering around the town, doing absolutely nothing.
"I was hoping you would tell me.." Kurt replied helping his friend stand up from the concrete floor.
Axton had a pounding headache that was pulsing with an immense pain that just made him wanna kill someone. He felt like overall shit, and it showed. He held his hand over his forehead, rubbing it in the vain hopes to try and ease the pain in his head and neck. He looked around once more noticing the bottles that surrounded him while he was sleeping, then he finally remembered what he said before everything went black.
'Attention people of Sanctuary! The vault hunters just found the lost treasure of Captain Blade, so I plan on getting drunk as fuck!' Axton yelled through the megaphone he borrowed from Moxxi while standing up on a broken down car 'Also here's your megaphone back Moxxi," Axton then said handing the device back to her, then picking up the beer and taking a swig from it.
"Well...That's all I can remember..." Axton recalled rubbing his forehead looking down on the ground, then coming into realization about a piece of him that was missing.
"...Where's my shirt?" Axton asked looking at his bare chest, then looking back up at Kurt, despite them being the same height.
"Was hoping you could answer that for me..." Kurt mused while looking at Axton, "Let's go find your shirt, cause we got work to do..."
"Alright...where could it be?" Axton wondered scratching his chin, until he heard a suggestion from the mechromancer,
"Moxxi's?" Gaige suggested trying to maintain eye contact with the commando, not shifting her eyes downwards.
"That's one possibility.." Kurt replied looking at the neon sign that was illuminating ever-so brightly, despite it being in the middle of the day.
The three of them walked into Moxxi's bar to see that the bar was in one piece fortunately. It wasn't likely that the shop would be completely totalled, but considering Axton was missing his shirt, some shit must've gone down last night because he can't remember anything from it. As they made their way up to front bar to ask Moxxi herself if she's seen the whereabouts of Axton's M.I.A. shirt, they saw her with her back turned against them, making loud inhaling noises from her nose, almost as if she was smelling something.
"Moxxi, have you seen my shir-" Axton started, but was cut off at the sight of Miss Moxxi clutching Axton's combat shirt, taking huge whiffs of it then letting out all the air, rinsing and repeating, until she noticed the owner of the shirt was looking right at her.
"Oh! Uh...Y-You shirt...uhhh...It's right here! In my hands!" Moxxi stuttered holding the crumpled shirt in front of Axton "I was...uhhhh...just dusting it off...with my mouth! Don't wanna return it tarnished now do I?" She laughed lightly looking at the horrified/confused face of Axton. He slowly took the shirt from the woman who made up a stupid excuse from sniffing the hell out of it.
"Uhhhh...Thanks.." Axton muttered slipping the shirt over his head.
"Now that we know the whereabouts of your shirt, it's time to get back to work. Let's move," Kurt said, starting to walk out of the bar, only to be stopped by Moxxi.
"Oh, before you leave hon, you might wanna check if you left any other items around the vicinity.." She explained pointing to the room that had the large boombox inside of it.
"...Huh?" Axton said looking at her weird, then walking towards the room along with Gaige and Kurt.
They found Mordecai sleeping on top of the boombox with his left arm draping down the side of the device, and his right arm acting as a pillow for him. He was lightly snoring on the musical equipment with his mouth slightly agape. Axton looked at the drunk sniper for a few seconds in amusement before shaking his shoulder to wake him up.
"Hey, dude, get up." Axton said nudging Mordecai, trying to wake him up. Mordecai let out a groan and rubbed his goggles to clear the fog from inside of the goggles. He rolled around to the left, falling off the boombox set, landing flat on the floor with a thud. He groaned in pain and rolled around on the floor, much like Axton when he got kicked square in the chest by Kurt. After a few seconds of pain. Mordecai let out a few breaths, then slowly stood up to look at the three people who woke him up.
"Oh...sup." Mordecai mumbled rubbing his hat a bit.
"Thought you could use a wake up call." Axton replied looking at him,
"Yeah...guess I did...considering I'm sleeping in Moxxi's" Mordecai said rubbing his neck, looking over the side, seeing Moxxi wipe down the table with an old cloth.
"Let's head back to base, got some stuff lined up for us," Kurt said patting Axton's shoulder, then walking out of Moxxi's bar,
"Wait up!" Gaige yelled while following Kurt, causing him to turn around momentarily, but resume to walking after Gaige caught up with his pacing. Mordecai watched the two walk out of the bar, then turned his attention towards Axton.
"Eh...where's your Siren?" Mordecai asked motioning an outline around Axton's body.
"Hmmm...not sure actually..." Axton admitting scratching his chin once more, "Bet she's at Hq..."
Axton and Mordecai walked through the front door of the Sanctuary headquarters to the one of the Sirens, Maya was on her bed in a very messed up position, with her neck in an awkward angle, and her arms was hanging over the side of her bed. Axton let out a chuckle under his breath while watching her sleep funny. He was surprised she was still sleeping this late in the day, she probably would want Axton to wake her up.
"Hey..Maya." Axton mumbled silently to Siren on the bed.
"Mmmm..." Maya mumbled as she rolled her head around on the bed, causing Axton to let out another small chuckle. "WhhaaTimessit?" She asked turning her face towards Axton with her unopened eyes. Axton smiled and looked at the watch that was wrapped on his wrist,
"'Bout 12:16 PM," Axton said looking at his clock,
Maya shot up from her trance like she got cold water thrown over her face and looked at Axton with wide eyes.
"What?!" Maya yelled as she sprang out of bed, "Why didn't you wake me earlier?"
"Well...been up for only about 20 minutes.." Axton chuckled scratching his hair,
"Where did you sleep?" Maya asked raising an eyebrow,
"Well, uhhhh...outside.." Axton mumbled looking down a bit.
"Are you kidding me? Why on Earth would you be sleeping outside?!" She asked looking at the Commando,
"Uhhh quite frankly...have no clue.." He replied
"I think it would be my duty to inform you that he was also missing his shirt when I found him." Kurt added looking at the two. Maya turned her head to kurt, then shifted it back to Axton with the same expression before.
"Wh...Why were yo...I...You...I-you know what? I don't even want to know.." Maya said holding up her hand in defeat.
"Alright come on." Kurt piped looking at Axton "We got work...You're coming with me to a meeting."
"Wait...What? Me?" Asked asked turning his body towards Kurt.
"Well, yeah," Kurt replied "There's a meeting with all of the corporation leaders, and since I'm the owner of Thatcher Industries, I have to attend. You're going to act as my Advisor."
"Why me?" Axton asked pointing to himself,
"You're the only one who can fit in the suit." Kurt said handing him a hanger that had a long sleeve-button up shirt, with a vest that went around it, along with the tie that was neatly tucked inside of it. Axton took note of the Thatcher logo that was pinned on the side of the suit. It looked very expensive and in good taste. Axton too the hanger into his hands and moved it around a bit inspecting the material and such, then taking the tuxedo into the back room to change into it.
Kurt was fixing the cuff-links on his wrists on his tuxedo, dusting it off a bit, making sure he was presentable to his corporation owners. He was going to be the youngest one at that presentation, and he wanted to make an impression on the other executives. He turned his head towards the direction of a door that was opening to the side of him. Axton stepped outside of the room, fully suited in his Thatcher tuxedo without the actual jacket itself, fixing the tie that was wrapped around his neck.
"Been forever since I had one of these on," Axton sighed looking at the sleek suit he had on.
"Well, you should wear one more often...you look incredibly handsome.." Maya said walking up to the commando, running a hand across his chest.
"You'll have time for that when we get back.." Kurt said putting on his jacket, rolling his shoulders around in the suit. Gaige walked up to Kurt and looked at the suit that was on him. Kurt looked incredibly handsome as well as Axton according to her.
"What's the occasion? Where did you get those black suits? Where are you going?" Zero asked in Haiku walking down the steps of the HQ, looking at the two suited men.
"Corporation meeting, apparently I'm an advisor for Kurt." Axton explained looking towards Zero,
"Hey it's free drinks!" Kurt said holding up his hands "We better get moving...gonna be late..Oh! Before I forget, here" Kurt said handing Axton a small earpiece with a tiny camera mounted on the top,
"Just so the rest of the guys here can see what it's like to go to one of these," Kurt explained to Axton, who slipped the device over his ear.
"Neat.." Axton mused putting his hand down after he attached the piece
"Theres should be a direct feed connection to your ECHO, so Maya and the others should be able to monitor them," Kurt explained once more "Let's move, I'm getting hungry.."
"Alright," Axton responded walking out of the door, but turning around to look at the Siren once more. "I'll..see you when I get back,"
"Likewise.." Maya replied looking at the Commando
As the two men in tuxedos left the room, Lilith walked down the steps looking at the two walk out. She made her way up to Maya and looked to her direction.
"Where they off to?" Lilith asked pointing out the door,
"Meeting," Maya replied not looking at her
"..They sure do look handsome.." Lilith mused looking at the door,
"He is..." Maya replied quietly,
"Okay so, remember, you gotta be on your best behavior, you're representing Thatcher industries, okay? I'd like to make an impression on my first meeting," Kurt explained while walking over to the fast travel station,
"Yes mother dearest." Axton joked letting out a laugh.
"This is serious dude, cmon!" Kurt replied looking at Axton.
"Sorry dude. It's just that I don't know shit about this advisory crap," Axton began standing next to the fast travel device.
"C'mon it'll be fine. And if this goes well, we, can, celebrate," Kurt said holding out a small bag.
"Yeah, and if things go south, are we still gonna smoke that?" Axton asked pointing to the bag,
"Yeah, probably," Kurt replied smiling a bit,
"...Alright good pep talk, coach," Axton said once more, watching Kurt punch in the coordinates for the meeting, which was off-planet.
"Ready?" Kurt asked looking Axton, holding his hand in front of the travel button, awaiting Axton's saying.
"Yeah...Lets go." Axton replied, prompting Kurt to press the travel button.
AN: Alright guys, hoped you like the prologue! Please review and Favorite if you liked this so far!
Thanks!