Chapter 1

"Mari," Yoshiko sighed. "Why did you buy a shirt that says 'fuck you' on it? We are here to get provisions for our mission and that's it. Honestly, I still can't believe you are a part of the Lost Legion."

"Oh Yoshiko honey, why don't you just let me be me?" Mari giggled. "Besides, you said any shirt would be better than the one I wore for the last week," she said smugly.

Yoshiko glared at her. Her violet eyes piercing daggers that Mari was too oblivious to notice. "Ugh, well I didn't think you would find something even worse than last week's shirt. And stop calling me honey, people will think we're in a relationship."

Mari's face turned even more smug for a moment, her devious mind quickly thinking up a plan. "Are you saying we aren't? Oooh woe is me! My darling doesn't love me back! What a tragedy!" Mari shouted over dramatically, attracting the attention of all of the people in the small market. Mari, seeing an opportunity, grabbed one of the strangers by the shoulders, (fake) tears in her eyes, "Haven't you heard anything so sad in your life?"

The stranger, totally buying into it, rapidly shook her head. "Oh that's a right shame sheila! Buuuut, you know, I could give you my number, and we can talk about it. The name's Janey Springs. I run the Emporium O' Stuff just around the corner, wanna come over for a spell?" Janey had bright eyes, and an even brighter smile. As she offered her hand, Mari noticed a nasty scar on Janey's arm. Noticing Mari's wandering eyes, Janey jumped at the opportunity, "Ah yeah, you're not the only one who has been badly hurt. This moon's a harsh place ya know, hard enough to survive, even harder to find love."

Meanwhile, Yoshiko brought a palm to her face and grumbled. "Oh my god why do I travel with this woman?" Mari's ears perked, recognizing that the situation had gotten slightly out of hand she dried her alligator tears and straightened her face.

"I apologize for leading you astray Janey, Yoshiko here is just a friend, I was merely giving her a hard time." Mari looked into Janey's eyes, and Janey nodded her head, sulking for only a moment before chippering up again.

"Ah that's a right shame that is, but my offer still stands if you want to take a look at my wares at the shop. You guys are heading out somewhere right? I can register you two in my Moon Zoomy machine! You'd be able to spawn a vehicle at one of my many stations all across Elpis!"

Mari's eyes brightened up at her luck. "Oh that's soooo nice of you!" She said, openly hugging Janey. "Sorry again for the confusion, besides could you imagine?" She asked, pointing at Yoshiko, "That stuck up Dahl military woman falling in love with anyone?"

Everyone in the tiny market immediately stopped what they were doing to stare at Yoshiko, who gave out a small cry from the sudden attention. Janey broke away from Mari's hug to eye down Yoshiko. "Did you say a Dahl soldier? You mean the people who took over that giant space station in the sky and have been firing lasers at the moon for the past couple of days?" She shouted as she pointed through the star lit sky at the giant Hyperion ship that had been looming over the moon for a few months.

Mari gave out a sheepish grin, "Ummm, no?" Some of market goers pulled out guns, deciding to take matters into their own hands. After all, Dahl was the reason why Elpis had become such a hostile environment. They were thought to have caused the Crackening, which opened a large fissure in the moon's surface and in result evaporated the moon's atmosphere, turning a once verdant satellite-planet into a hostile wasteland filled with bandits, scavengers, and crooks.

It also doesn't help that in the past week, a squadron of Dahl soldiers going by the name The Lost Legion have made themselves known. The well armed force, led by Colonel Zarpedon have taken over the Hyperion owned space station Helios. Since their hostile takeover of the station, they have found and activated The Eye of Helios, a gargantuan laser in the center of the space station. One fire from The Eye is powerful enough to shake the entire moon and perhaps, if fired enough, it could even destroy it entirely.

A low level Hyperion programmer by the name of Jack miraculously escaped the take over. Since then he has sent out a bounty on any Dahl soldier brought to him dead or alive. With the hefty reward in mind, some of the strangers in the market took aim at the two girls.

"Run!" Yoshiko yelled as she grabbed Mari and booked it for the market exit. However, on their way out, Yoshiko tripped on a crack and fell on her face. "Cursed luck." She muttered under her breath as she fell . She could hear the bullets flying past her and felt a couple hit her shield*. Luckily, her shield still had a little power left in it. A bullet flew past her and hit the fruit stand beside her, making all of the fruit tumble down on her, breaking her shield.

Mari, having cleared the crack effortlessly, turned around to see Yoshiko on the floor and covered in not so fresh produce. Instead of doing the logical thing and help her up, she pointed at her and busted up laughing. After a good thirty seconds of unadulterated joy, her cheeks started hurting enough for her to offer Yoshiko some help. "You really are unlucky aren't you?"

"You're just now figuring that out?" Yoshiko grumbled as she dusted herself off and started to run again. As they ran out onto the city streets, a bullet whizzed between their heads and hit one of the people behind them. A couple more flew by them, hitting more of the enemies firing at the two girls. "Shit! We don't need to cause a bigger scene! Call Riko off now!"

Mari simply smiled and waved two fingers in a peace symbol. The bullets stopped immediately and the girls disappeared into the city streets.

"Well, it wasn't as smooth as I would have liked it, but we got most of what we needed." Yoshiko let out a sigh as she sat down in a back alley with her squad mates, putting their provisions into a backpack. She then looked at a man who was in a full Dahl Military Sniper's outfit. It was lightweight that allowed maneuverability and had a bulletproof vest for protection. He looked back at her through his mask as she spoke. "Look, I know you are protective of us Riko, but we don't want any more casualties. Did you kill any those people?"

Riko brought a finger to his chin and tilted his head a bit, as if in deep thought. This gesture took 15 seconds until he finally turned his face back towards Yoshiko and shook his head. Yoshiko let out a sigh of relief. "You know it's just me and Mari, you can talk." Riko simply stared back at her.

Mari then jumped at Yoshiko in a shoulder hug and tousled her hair (to Yoshiko's great annoyance). "Oh Yoshiko, you know he doesn't speak unless he wants to. There's nothing you can say that will make him talk!"

"Yeah, says the person who wouldn't shut up for 3 days straight until he talked to you." Yoshiko retorted with.

"That was still one of my finest moments." Mari said, looking off in the distance, remembering the memory fondly. As the three soldiers continued their conversation, a short girl with honey brown hair slowly walked up through the back alley towards them.

Riko was the first to notice. He quickly got up on his knee and aimed his sniper rifle towards her direction. He looked at Yoshiko for confirmation of if he should fire or not. Yoshiko however was not suit to make a decision at that time. Mari looked at Yoshiko as well, wondering why she hadn't made a decision yet. One look at Yoshiko's face gave Mari all of the information she needed. She gave a small giggle as she rested her hand on Riko's back, signaling him to be at ease.

The girl moved in closer and cleared her throat. "Ahem, yes excuse me, but are you three Dahl soldiers zura?

Author's Notes

* Shields in Borderlands are pretty much personal mini forcefields that take a certain amount of damage before breaking, once the shield is broken, the player starts to lose health from attacks. Shields regenerate so long as you haven't been injured in a certain amount of time

And that's chapter 1! I'm new to adventure stories so I wanted to stretch my old imagination muscle and give it a whirl. I know that Borderlands The Pre-sequel isn't the most popular game out there, so I'm hoping I can make it to where you don't need to know anything about the game to enjoy this fic.