Game Timeline: Borderlands, Borderlands: The Presequal game-play, Borderlands 2, Tale of the Borderlands, Borderlands: The Presequal beginning and ending cut-scenes. This story starts taking place shortly after the game-play portion of Borderlands: The Presequal, leading into the game-play of Borderlands 2.

A.N. I figured I would put this so everyone isn't confused.

My life officially sucks. How is it that something so cool, can end up making my life such hell. -sigh- Alright, let me back it up a bit. So as you may or may not know, in our solar system we have a unique brand of humans known as Sirens. Now these humans have "Phase" powers, each one can manipulate the energy around them to do something remarkable, and also scary depending on what it might be, or what it might be used for. Now, this may seem really awesome, but for the most part Sirens never have the best of lives. Everyone fears what they don't understand and in turn they reject and treat the unknown poorly. Most times their pasts are full of some sort of trauma that turns them into what they are as adults today.

I happen to be one such person, but don't go feeling bad for me, my life wasn't all bad. A majority of my mother's side of the family and a few of my father's side stuck by me, despite my unique skill set. They even encouraged me to find out who I was. School on the other hand, wasn't so great. I was bullied and didn't have very many friends. Those that I did have were very far and few between. However, I wouldn't trade them for the world, they became like family to me. Sadly, even the good things in life must come to an end sometime. As it turns out being who I was, just wasn't in the cards for the Terran government. The planet that I hailed from was called Terra, only one among many in our solar system.

The government saw me as a threat and sought to get rid of me. Now you may be wondering why exactly they might see me as a threat, right? Well...I think it might have something to do with the fact that they don't approve of the LGBTA community or the fact that my powers were growing beyond what they were comfortable with. Now you're probably wondering why the LGBTA community has anything to do with this, I'll get to it in a bit. As to how I know the government doesn't tolerate the LGBTA community, well try walking down the street and seeing everyone constantly telling you that it is against the law and other bullshit. Couples can't even go out and hold hands like others because if they are caught, they are punished using the strike system they have in place. First offense is a warning, Second offense is separation from each other with zero communication between the two offending parties for the set time period given my the government, on the third offense they are sent for "reconditioning" to be fixed. Obviously this is being fought, right now the world is in a state of turmoil, because not everyone believes that the LGBTA community should be punished for being who they are, and instead they should be left alone. Who are they to decide what is right or wrong for someone else.

You are of course welcome to be sent off world if you don't want to be reconditioned. However most times they don't tell you where you are being sent, so it could be somewhere with the same policy as Terra. As for how I know you usually aren't told where you are going, it's because I was told where I was being sent to in order to make me afraid in the hopes that I would plead for another chance. However they obviously underestimate my mind, then again they don't even know me. I am was being sent off world because I stumbled upon a rape scene one night when I was walking home from a bar, after having a few drinks in one of the few bars that didn't mind my presence, when I noticed what was going on I intervened. When I did so, due to my inebriated state, I was overpowered which caused my powers to flare in order to defend myself due to my panic. So basically now I'm being shipped off world to another planet called Pandora, it's where they send all of the outcasts of society.

Pandora itself is sort of a wasteland type planet. There is little to no vegetation, and basically everything on that planet tries to kill you. There are sections of the planet that are like a frozen tundra, others are like traversing through sections of hardened lava, with fresh lava still running through nearby channels, making it extremely hot and uncomfortable, as well as near uninhabitable, despite the nutrient rich land. Despite this, there are some good things like a group of people known as the Crimson Raiders. Originally this group wasn't all that great, until someone named Roland helped them find a new purpose in helping the inhabitants fight Handsome Jack. Other than that there isn't much that I know on them, Terra has problems of its own so it tries to stay out of other planets affairs. On the flip side, the majority of the planet is inhabited by the unsavory sort of people like Bandits, Psychos, or other mutated monsters which were caused by Hyperion and their "projects". Now Hyperion is a company run by Handsome Jack, which is only mildly kept on the down low, but due to the sector of Terra where I'm from we know he runs the show. He tried recruiting some people a few years back, and when they refused they mysteriously disappeared about a week later. Another reason I know he runs Hyperion is because the traders that come to the planet like to talk when they sell their wares. Terra itself is out of Jacks jurisdiction, so he doesn't have much hold on the planet, which is nice. I hear hes mostly targeting Pandora, which will make my life trouble.

Now my folks have been stocking up on trade items as secretly as they can, which isn't easy considering my situation. The tricky part is getting the items to me, once that is done I can hide them easily. You see my ability is known as "Phase Manipulation" I can manipulate the energy around me into whatever I want, its like the most basic form of what a Siren can do, if they weren't locked into a certain skill. I found that out by accident when I was little and ended up creating a "tear" in reality, I walked inside and found it was basically a endless room, time stands still inside of the room I created. I realized this feature when I reopened the rift a couple months later and found an apple that I had left behind, and it was still as fresh as when it had gone into the rift. So now I've basically decorated my room to be an armory, and I've sectioned it up a bit. One part is an armory, another is a library, another is a sitting area minus electric lighting, since I create the room I can manipulate the light level. Sadly I can only create one rift at a time, so if one is open somewhere I can't open another one until that one is closed. I'm hoping I might be able to get around this because then I could use it as a portal since it could shorten the distance between two places for me. Think the movie "The Matrix" how its a blank room until he thinks of it and all of a sudden there is an armory there, I can move myself closer to he exit or farther away, it would be useful, but for now it is beyond my control.

So this here is a kicker, I don't know how to use a majority of the items I have in my armory since I was kept under tight surveillance. That's not to say I don't know the basics, as I did manage to learn those from some family members who would take me "camping" where the goons wouldn't have any business snooping. Sadly when I began to stand up for myself to bullies, i.e. my personality changed and they no longer could push around their "weapon" to follow orders and make it feel like shit, they made sure to stop me from spending time with those that may have had some influence on why I changed. Despite the fact that they had no proof, it didn't stop them from doing so, and then placing those family members under surveillance too.

Getting back on topic, the guys who were going to rape the woman I mentioned, got killed when my powers flared. Now, had I not been inebriated, then they would probably still be alive, just knocked unconscious. However, since they are dead, and I'm stronger than what the government is comfortable with, along with being a member of the LGBTA community, I'm being sent off world. They cant take the risk that I would join up with the rebels, and they know they can't recondition me because I will fight. As I said before they know how bad Pandora is, so they told me my destination in hopes I would take reconditioning, but they underestimate me. Which is very easy to do, since they never took the time to know me, they just judged me, well now it's their problem. My life just got a hell of a lot more interesting, maybe Pandora will be more accepting.