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Rebirth of a Siren

Chapter 1: Steele Awakes - Steele

Commandant Steele was surprised when she opened her eyes. The last things she remembered was announcing that riches of the Vault were the property of the Atlas to the four Vault Hunters that also wanted The Vault. She connected the Vault key fragments together. She was beginning to celebrate her victory before everything went black at moment of intense pain with her screaming loudly. She had a headache and faint pain in her abdomen area. Steele found herself lying in the snow. She got to her feet and nearly fell over from a dizzy spell. She looked around to find that she woke in a snow-capped wasteland. After making sure she wouldn't fall over, she started moving towards smoke in the distance. She hoped it was somewhere she could contact General Knoxx or any other high-ranking Crimson Lance officer so she can get off the death trap that is Pandora if she was still on Pandora and not some other death trap that is. After a few steps, a woman with pale skin, black hair and piercing blue eyes made Steele jump by unexpectedly appearing directly in front of her. The woman obviously recognized Steele. She said stunned "You're alive". The woman collected herself "Commandant Steele, I'll explain everything soon, but know this – you're alive for a reason, and I… am here to help you" The woman had a strange look of both hope and guilt on her face before she disappeared. Steele decided to ignore the woman believing the whole thing was her seeing things. She once again starts moving. She started thinking about why she was here of all places. She couldn't think of any reasons why. She was pulled from her thoughts after hearing another voice.

This voice said "Great - another dead Vault Hunter. Handsome Jack's been busy" Inching forward Steele saw that in the distance a Claptrap was digging through remains of what appeared to be dead Vault Hunters. Steele froze up when new memories assaulted her. First, a memory of herself in an unfamiliar place trying to complete her victory speech. Then a more shocking memory of the discovery of a gaping hole where her abdomen used to be. Steele unconsciously touched her abdomen and was relieved that it felt normal. Other memories of her fighting for the glory of claptraps everywhere. On top of this, the Vault Hunters once again showing up defeating her twice more. As Steele remembered these events, The Claptrap continued speaking "Wait a minute - you're not dead! YES! Now I can get off this glacier! Claptrap, your metaphorical ship has finally come in!" Steele was humiliated that the Vault Hunters saw her like that. Her eyes narrowed when she realized that it was the same one that was controlling her in that horrible memory. The Claptrap said, "Allow me to introduce myself - I am a CL4P-TP steward bot, but my friends call me Claptrap!" as Steele charged at him in an uncontrollable fit of rage. Claptrap saw her coming and he fled. Steele fell over as she overexerted herself. She saw Claptrap flee into an icy grotto. Steele closed her eyes drained by running toward the Claptrap. Steele found herself being lifted to her feet by another Siren, this one with blue hair instead of Lilith's red. Steele managed to hide her astonishment of meeting yet another Siren under normal cold exterior. Steele studied the other woman and was troubled at the state of the other woman.

Finally, Steele said "Thanks" and was thankful to find that her voice sounded normal.

The woman said back "It's fine, I'm happy to help" before introducing herself as "Maya". Steele was silent for a few moments debating whether to tell Maya her name.

"I am Commandant Steele," Steele said proudly "Leader of Atlas Corporation's Crimson Lance"

Maya said quietly "The Atlas Corporation closed down".

Steele said rather angry and not believing what she heard "What did you say". Maya stepped back.

"Soon after the death of General Knoxx" Maya explained calmly. "Atlas itself closed down and I imagine that the Crimson Lance disbanded at the same time" Steele knew that the four Vault Hunters were behind the death of General Knoxx somehow, she bet her life on it. "After the Vault created the presence of Eridium, Hyperion took control of Pandora" Maya stopped talking after seeing Steele's murderous look shot at her. Maya said, "We better get out of the cold" Steele did not respond. Maya and Steele supporting each made their way to the icy grotto where Claptrap fled to. Inside the icy grotto a lot of old junk including dead Claptraps much to Steele satisfaction and human corpses.

Claptrap voice said "Sorry about the mess. Everything Jack kills, he dumps here – bandits, Vault Hunters, Claptrap units…" before he went silent in fear as Steele tried to attack him. Steele found herself however completely immobile in a bubble made of energy. Steele knew off this power, it was Phaselock. Steele frowned as the other dimension she had been sent too felt familiar. She dropped to the ground.

Maya said with warning in her voice "Steele stop trying to attack him, we need him to escape here" She said to Claptrap "Right"

Claptrap said fear in his voice "Yeah you need me" from his hiding place behind Maya. Steele glared at Claptrap but did nothing. "Oh - I've got something for you. Here - take this ECHO communicator that I totally didn't loot from one of these corpses! It comes with a class-twelve heads-up display, complete with a minimap!" Claptrap said to Maya while keeping Steele in his sights. Maya took the ECHO while Steele was turned away from Maya so she could pretend Claptrap was something else. Claptrap said excited "Man, this is great! Now that I've met a mighty Vault Hunter, I can finally join the resistance in Sanctuary" Sanctuary rang a bell in Steele's mind as she remembered sending Crimson Lance forces to fight the bandit inhabitants of the city. Steele thought it would be a good idea to go to Sanctuary just in case some of her men were still there. That meant she needed Claptrap for a while so she swallowed her anger for the moment.

"So, you know how to get out of here?" She asked.

Claptrap said, "Yes follow me" Claptrap started moving before he stopped. He said to Maya "Now, the creatures around here are dangerous, none more than this Bullymong named Knuckle Dragger – killed everyone I know. Anyhow, I keep a pistol in the cabinet over there for emergencies, you should take it" A roar is heard and a creature that Steele believed could only be Knuckle Dragger climbed down into Claptrap's place from a hole in the ceiling. Grabs Claptrap with its right arm. Claptrap yelled "WAAAAH!". Much to Steele's sadistic pleasure, Knuckle Dragger pulls out Claptrap's eye before leaves the place through the same hole in the ceiling. "MY EYE! AHHHHHH!" Claptrap wailed to Steele's annoyance. "The gun. The gun in the cabinet. Get It, we need my eye" Maya was on it and grabbed a very poor looking pistol. Claptrap led them to the exit while bashing into every object on the way. Maya and Steele followed behind with Steele snickering every time it happened.