Hey chicks and dudes. This is my first story. I hope you like it. I've been working on it for ages, trying to make it better. Finally I was just kinda like screw it I'll put it on here and see what people think.

-kurome666

It happened as I went to take the second swig from my whiskey bottle. The boom happened first, then came the maniacal laughing of psychos and gunshots. 'Damn Body Crawlers are trying to take us out again,' I thought.

I got up out of my seat and took two steps towards the flap of my tent when I heard a deeper hysterical laugh and a strange mechanical slashing sound. 'What the fuck? When did the Body Crawlers get a badass psycho? And what the hell was that other sound?'

I rushed out of my tent to a completely unexpected scene. I almost dropped my Jakobs assault rifle. What I took to be a BA psycho's laugh was coming out of a tall, muscular psycho who was easily tearing through the Bone Marrow's camp. I tore my eyes away from the psycho as I heard the odd mechanical sound again. To my left was a giant floating robot that was tearing through Nomad after Nomad.

'Oookay...funky psycho and kick ass floating robot...I should've joined the Body Crawlers when I could,' I thought as I aimed my rifle at the robot. As I fired my first couple of off I heard a girlish giggle. That completely distracted me from the robot. 'A girl? In this crazy bandit place?' I thought as I turned towards the sound. And saw a very pretty girl splatter a BA psycho's brains all over MY tent. We locked eyes. Her green eyes fierce and somehow joyful and mine probably a little dumbstruck.

Then she gave a sudden evil smile and pointed a mechanical finger behind me. 'Mechanical hand! Could that be the Vault Hunter, Gaige?' I had time to think as I turned around. "Ah, shit!" I saw the humongous robot looming above me. It raised its arm to slash. I just continued to stare stupidly at my impending death and...KLING! The robot toppled to the ground with a giant skag on top of it. An Earth (or should I say Pandora?) rumbling growl emitted from the skags maw. I breathed a sigh of relief as I saw my old friend hold his own against the robot.

I looked back towards the Mechromancer. She had such a surprised look on her face that I couldn't help but laugh. Hearing my laugh she turned back to me. "Nice pet, pretty boy," she said with a grudging smile and a glint in her eye.

'Pretty boy?' I thought, 'how does she know how I look behind my...' I reached up to my Bandit mask and realized I never put it on. Seeing my confused face, Gaige's smile widened. 'Well this is no way to face death,' I thought and put on a cocky face. "Yeah I know," I said ,"I'd say the same to you but I think Ole' Grey is tearing your pile of nuts and bolts apart."

I motioned to the titanic battle taking place behind me. The robot, Deathtrap I remembered its name, was putting up a good fight but Ole' Grey's size and armor plating was too great of an advantage for Deathtrap to overcome completely. I watched as my skag tore into Deathtrap with his claws. With a smirk Gaige cocked her gun and pointed it at me. "See if your skag can save you from this," she said. I pulled up my assault rifle and shot out of desperation. Even though my shot was out of desperation, my aim was still true. I shot the gun right out of her hands! I was probably as surprised as she was. She started and pulled her pistol out. I shot one more time and got that one out of her hands too. 'When did I get to be such a good shot?' I thought.

I circled her until I was positioned between her and her weapons. She raised her arms in the universal sign of surrender. She tried at a cocky smile but it turned into a grimace. I continued to look at her down the barrel of my gun. She swallowed.

Ten seconds passed before she threw her arms down and yelled, "Are you gonna shoot me or what?! If you don't do it soon the waiting itself will kill me for you!" I waited a few more seconds before answering, "I don't like to shoot girls." I lowered my barrel slightly. Her eyes widened in shock and her mouth became a small o.

"But you're a bandit! Don't you guys like, love to kill anything and everything?" Gaige blurted. I grinned. "I'm actually an offworlder. Being a bandit seemed to pay the best on this planet. And I think psychos are the ones that love to kill anything and everything." I motioned over to where the odd psycho, who I figured was the Vault Hunter Krieg, was chasing a psycho midget while screaming something about a tiny meat bicycle.

She glanced in Krieg's direction, then to where Deathtrap and Ole' Grey still fought their own battle. "Guess you got a point there," she said looking back at me. I smiled, "I know I do."

She glared at me. So what's your plan then 'offworlder'?" She asked. "You just gonna point your gun at me until I magically disappear?""Nope. I'm just gonna point it at you while I make my get away," I answered taking a step back towards where my skag was still battling.

"But you said you wouldn't shoot a girl," Gaige said smiling and taking a step towards me.I smiled back. "I said I don't LIKE to shoot girls. That doesn't mean I won't shoot you if you make another move," I said. That stopped her in her tracks and wiped the confident smile from her face. We stood silently for a few more seconds, disturbed only by the screams and laughs as Krieg tore apart another victim.

She was glaring two holes right through my head. Suddenly she glanced over my shoulder, gave a victorious grin and laughed. "Looks like my pile of nuts and bolts came out on top." I had noticed the fighting behemoths go quiet and I quickly looked back to see…

Thank you so much for reading. I'll try to update at least every other week. Hope you enjoyed. If not then...I guess you didn't.

-kurome666