Maya: Hello everyone, ECHOnet listeners and or viewers!
Torgue: My name is Mr. Torgue Flexington! And I will be sitting here, bringing you important news stories straight from the broadcasting station located in the Baddass Crater of Badassitude.
Maya: Our first story is about how the 7 Eden planets are getting remodeled, what do you have to say to that Torgue?
Torgue: That's both good and baddass! Also sad.
Maya: How so Torgue?
Torgue: Someone, who previously owned the Eden planets hase lost them!
Maya: 7 planets, very populated and very prestigious, how could someone lose them? I'd imagine it would be pretty hard to do that.
Torgue: HE LOST THEM TO ME! I'VE GOT 'EM ALL NOW B*TCH! All Eden shareholders are now at the same time Torgue shareholders!
Maya: If you're thinking, 'that's impossible' you're wrong! The Torque Corporation discovered a very large deposit of Eridum below its arena.
Torque: In fact we knew about it before hand, but thanks to Maya the new Torgue shareholder - who literally runs the company when I'm asleep - opening the vault, TORGUE IS ONE RICH MOTHERF*CKER!
Maya: Untold riches lie below the Torgue arena, a lot of cash - 2 trillion - spilled from the vault when the special someone opened it by killing Piston.
Torque: For those of you who don't know, Piston was a lying scumbag who for a while stood at the top. That's right ladies and gentleman, Piston was once the number one badass on Pandora!
Maya: What will be your first decision on the inactive Eden planets?
Torque: Well Maya, Eden's 1 through 4 have been dormant for a long time, mainly because of all the Dahl equipment on them.
Maya: Sounds interesting, but also dangerous. Dahl isn't very popular at the moment, how do you plan to change that Torgue?
Torque: What do you mean by that Maya?
Maya: Well Torgue that leads me to our second and final story. Another corporation has risen among the ranks!
Torque: BUT NOT AS HIGH AS THE TORGUE CORPORATION! WE'RE NUMBER ONE! MELLEOW!
Maya: The identity of this new corporation …
Torgue: Will have to wait for tomorrow, that's our time ladies and gentlemen, catch up on us tomorrow! Oh also all Torgue shareholders, excluding Maya here are also Eden Shareholders.
Maya: Torgue has now left, and I would just like to give a few parting words. Keep strength in your hearts, Pandorians you are the future.
Maya sighed as the last seconds of air time ticked down. One of the system operator bots handed Maya an ECHO recorder, "Hot of the machinery press Madam Badass."
"Thank you, take some time off. The entire Badass Crater of Badassitude is getting remodeled for Mad Moxxi's up and coming grand opening of her Under Doam fighting ring!" The bot thanked Maya, and skittered of nervously. Grabbing the ECHO recorder, Maya slipped it into her bag.
The lights inside the tv station in BCB were dimming, and Maya wanted to get out as quick as possible. After all, BCB was still a very dangerous place. Torgue hadn't taken away any of the guns from Momma's boys, Buner Bikers, or his own staff.
Preparing herself Maya checked her inventory. Bee (shield) - check. Conference Call (shotgun) - check. Bitch (smg) - check. Kitten (Assault Rifle) - check. Unkempt Harold (pistol) - check. Volcano (Sniper) - check. Norfleet (Rocket Launcher) - check. Slayer of Terramorphous (Class Mod) - check. Blood of Terramorphous (Relic) - check.
Maya had taken only this loot, she had left the rest to be fought over by the rest of the Vault Hunters. It had been 2 years since Handsome Jack's downfall, and Maya couldn't say she missed the gang.
Walking outside Maya looked towards Tiny Tina's domain. The bridge led there, so Maya never had a problem finding it. It looked like she couldn't enter though, there were a lot of flashing red lights coming from the bombs littering her driveway. Maya sighed again and thought, 'Looks like she doesn't want to see me.'
And Maya couldn't blame her, in truth Maya had only separated from the Vault Hunters for about a month, but leading up to that Maya had gone a little crazy. Unknown to almost everyone, Tiny Tina's assault on Dragon's Keep actually happened. Maya didn't know how Tina did it, but after the game of Bunker's and Badasses ended she went back.
There in Flamerock Refuge was Buttstallion, a real horse made of diamonds. Maya left immediately after that however, it was too much to handle. The entire experience of doing Tiny Tina's assault on Dragon's Keep had been horrifyingly real for Maya.
Sometimes at night, she would have nightmares about orcs, treants, and the final fight with the Handsome Sorcerer. Maya slung Volcano across her back and pulled out Kitten. The gun wasn't really great at long to medium range, but it was a great substitute to a shotgun.
Moxxi's voice came over Maya's ECHO, "Sugar you there?"
"Yeah, what's up?"
"What, uh are you doing right now?"
"Heh, sorry sweetheart can't come over right now. Torque gave me a job and I've been meaning to do it."
"What job? I was never informed of this, just because you're Torque's right hand …"
"Moxxi, don't worry. I'm just going to clean out the bots in the outer ring of the Arena."
"Oh then that's fine, come back once you're done okay?"
"Wait why?"
"I uh hold up." The sound cut off for a few minutes, Maya climbed down the ladder and approached the side door into the Arena. "Sorry, some people are here for you. They keep buying something, so I can't really kick 'em out."
"They're there for me? Well tell 'em I'm busy, I gotta kill the last Torque combat bots."
"The last? Sugar what about the forge?"
"Oh god, I forgot about that place …"
"Listen Sugar, just do what you can. When do you think you'll be cleaning out the Forge?"
"Immediately afterwards."
"Maya!"
"I'm sorry, I completely forgot about it so I didn't work it into my plans."
"*sigh* Okay, do you want to know who's on the line?"
"Sure patch 'em through, I might not be able to respond though, I'm … crap. Gotta go!"
A Torque Detonator rounded the corner and spotted Maya, before she could pull off a shot its head popped up and it rushed her. Sprinting past it Maya spun around and fired three times. 9 projectiles, highly charged with electricity spat out and slammed into the volatile robot.
A Badass Burner Biker walked through the side door the exact moment the projectiles collided with the Torque Detonator. Dodging to the side the Burner Biker managed to not get exploded.
"What do you want?" Maya asked after seeing that the Biker had no weapon on him.
"Ah … Pyro Peat has issued you a challenge."
"But Pyro Peat is dead! The Vault Hunter's killed him."
"Well you were misinformed -"
"Just tell me when he wants me, and I won't shoot you with electricity."
Gulping the Biker gave the time and place, 12:00 P.M. at Pyro Peat's Bar, tonight. "Wait electricity? That won't -"
Maya heard her Bee activate, and she pulled the trigger. Only one of the projectiles hit, but there was a digistruct impact sound and the Biker exploded … no blood or guts since everything was vaporized by the electricity.
A whirring sounded from behind Maya, quick swapping weapons Maya shot the legs out from under the exploder with her Bitch. Maya depressed the trigger on her favorite non elemental smg once and the bot exploded. Thankfully it took out another Detonator behind it.
'How many of these things are there?' Maya thought to herself, 'Oh doesn't matter!'
26 Torque Bombers, and 30 Torgue Heavy Gunners later Maya finally managed to disable all the digistruct consols. The bots wouldn't be coming back any soon. "Yo Torque, I finished that outer ring job."
"THANKS MAYA, YOU'RE VAULT HUNTER FRIENDS ARE HERE AT THE BADASS CRATE BAR WAITING FOR YOU! I'm here too, and I gotta say Moxxi is PISSED!"
"Ah, but I gotta clean out the forge!"
"Don't do that! I know what you're thinking, and setting of a digistruct WILMA in the forge would completely wipe out my metal production!"
"Ah then you couldn't manufacture guns, sorry."
"You commin' or not?"
Maya sighed and propped her head up against the solid wire mesh that separated the Arena floor form the outer ring. Should she go back to the Badass Crater Bar? Why was Moxxi even at that particular one? Maya was confused, she shouldn't be there.
Maya then realized something. Moxxi's voice had conveyed a hidden message. It was a series of clicks made discretely when she breathed in and out, no one in the entire universe knew Moxxi could speak Morse code under her breath … except Maya.
Maya stood there until she finally worked out the message. "Looks like I'm coming for a reunion!" Maya laughed into the ECHOnet and everyone who heard it wept in horror. Everyone except Moxxi, who looked around her bar and smiled at the assortment of people gathered in the Bar.
"Let us go you crazy psychopath!" One of the captives screamed in desperation.
"Oh sorry, what was that? I can't hear you over your doom approaching." Moxxi said ominously.
And indeed a noise could be heard from outside, the roar of the Torque motorcycle.