Heyo!
So this is an idea that I've had stuck in my head for awhile actually, a retelling of the storyline from Borderlands 2. I'm not sure how frequent updates will be, but if nothing else, I'll never get stuck on where to take the story. Also, if you've got any suggestions or concerns about the story, please send me a PM with your comment/complaint. I promise I'll respond.
I hope you enjoy!
Intro- The Train
A skag slowly staggered its way across one of Pandora's many desolate roads. Dust floated up through the air with every movement and breeze and then lazily settled back down. The sun beat down on the stretch of road, like it did everyday.
The skag looked up at a giant, sun faded billboard on side of the road. On the billboard was a giant man with his arms outstretched, it said "Vault Hunters Wanted." Not that the skag knew that. He just knew that it had been there for almost a year now and it was still the only place to rest in the shade for miles. Hence why the skag was here.
As he staggered across the road he heard something coming towards him, it started as a low hum and then increased in volume as it got closer. The skag looked up and tilted its head to the side to see what it was. Suddenly it was hit by a mass of metal and the skag dropped to the ground.
It slowly stood back up and looked at the mass of metal that had just hit it, but before he got a good look, something grabbed at his back leg and started pulling him along with the car.
On the car a psycho midget was pulling on a crank to reel in the skag. He didn't know what he was going to do with it yet. Probably eat it, or maybe just kill it. Keep it as a pet? Wear it like a coat? He wasn't sure.
But he got bored quickly and left the crank before the skag was reeled all the way in, leaving the creature to get dragged along with the car.
The psychos stood up, turned to a fellow bandit and grabbed ahold of his head. He violently slammed his head into the other bandit and the bandit instantly slumped down in his seat as if dead. But he was probably just unconscious. But still, dead was an option. It always was on Pandora.
The midget, now bored with his fellow bandit as well, jumped up past the driver and onto the hood of the car. He slammed his hands onto the car's hood, thrilled for all of three seconds.
Then there was a loud, low whistle and the car exploded into fragments as a train rammed into its side. The psycho had all of two seconds before he was turned into a thick red paste on the ground.
The train rocketed past and into another Pandorian biome, a giant ice field. If nothing else, Pandora had a diverse geography; deserts right next to glaciers.
Inside the train, four people stood inside one of the cars. One of them a young but grizzled man in army fatigues, with various pieces of tech attached to his suit. Another, a blue haired woman in a yellow combat outfit, with swirling tattoos running up the length of her left arm. Yet another was a very short, hairy man wearing a dirty old outfit with ammo belts slung over both shoulders. The last was a tall figure in an all black suit, their face obscured by a black visor and the only identification a red zero on the chest of their suit.
A sign was behind them hanging from the roof of the train car, it said "Welcome Vault Hunters" and showed a picture of the same man as the billboard. It fell to the floor and revealed another sign behind it, which said "Too Your Doom."
A handful of Hyperion GUN loaders burst into the car and the four people turned around and got ready for a fight.
The one in army fatigues ran away from the loaders and turned around about halfway from the back of the car. He threw out a storage deck that latched to the ceiling and digistructed a Dahl tech Sabre turret and grabbed a launcher off of his back and pointed it at the loaders.
Axton as the commando
He fired and the rocket sailed through the car. The woman pressed up against the wall and barely avoided being hit by the rocket. As it exploded, another loader headed for her. The tattoos on her arm glowed bright blue and a small glowing ball formed in her palm, and another, larger ball, formed around the loader.
Maya as the siren
She moved her arm to the side and threw the loader out of the train ripping open the side of the car in the process and the open hole sucked out the short man. He grabbed onto the side of the flayed metal and pulled himself back into the train. He digistructed two large spinguns and fired at the rest of the loaders.
Salvador as the gunzerker
As the loaders dropped, he raised the guns up and started firing at the ceiling and laughing. The bullets ripped through the top of the car, where the last person stood on the roof. Two engineers ran up to him and the first one punched him, but the hit went right through him and he disappeared. Suddenly there was a noise from behind and the first engineer turned around only to see the second engineer be impaled by a digistructed katana. The figure jumped over them and on the way down kicked the first engineer into the blade, still protruding from the other; killing them both.
Zer0 as a number
He dropped down through a hatch into the train car with the other three. The loaders were gone and they were gathered in front of the door leading to the next car. The commando kicked it down and they ran in. There was a figure sitting in a chair.
"You know, it's cute that y'all think you're the heroes of this little adventure, but you're not."
The chair slowly turned around and revealed an Echo-Recorder taped to a mannequin and surrounded by explosives.
"Welcome to Pandora kiddos."
A small clock ticked down from two seconds, to one second, to zero and the train erupted into fire. The cars broke apart and the cars landed on the ground below taking the Vault Hunters with them.
Author's Note: Like I said, if you've got any suggestions/complaints, feel free to send me a PM.