Authors Notes: Hello! this story takes place after the events of Borderlands 2, and follows the Brotherhood Continuity. if you don't want spoilers... don't read this! Also, this first chapter is all BL2, so if your here for the FMA, bear with me, please! Chapter 2 will see the end of Pandora for most of the rest of the story. Very much looking for constructive criticism. Any feedback or help is appreciated. (Edited 5/20/13 to be more readable, and in line with newer chapters.)

Mordecai had been intending to hit this target for some time. It had been on his watch list from just before the incident at Control Core Angel. He stood in the Crimson Raiders Headquarters briefing the new Vault Hunters.

"Our target is a Hyperion Munitions Depot out in the dust. From what I can tell, at least 40% of all the guns Hyperion brought into Pandora came though this depot. Hyperion may be disorganized and confused, but I see no reason to leave a huge stash of armament in their hands".

Axton spoke up, voicing what the rest of them were thinking. "If this is such a major facility, how come we've never seen it? The Dust is pretty large, but I don't think we would have missed something like that."

"Good question, Amigo. The depot is in a mountain range, only accessible by air. From the ground it just looks like countless other brown rocks. However, we just detected a new fast travel station come online in the past few days. Lilith is worried that they're trying to move the guns off planet. This will be our last and best shot to take out this stockpile."

Gaige furrowed her brow, causing an expression unsuited for her cute face. "If this target was so important, why are you just now telling us about it Mordy? It's been over a month since we took down Jack. "

"Hah, another good question. I never had a chance to hit it before we took on Jack, even though that would have been preferable. And you guys seemed so Gung-Ho about the Treasure of the Sands that I didn't have a chance to brief you before you left for Oasis."

"Well, I guess that explains that part. But what about Torgue's Tournament and Hammerlock's hunting trip? They could have waited."

"True, but we felt bad about working you guys so hard since you got here. We wanted you to have some R&R before you took on something this big."

Salvador put a meaty arm around Mordy's waist in an awkward hug. "See, Senor Mordecai is always looking out for us, eh? We appreciate it amigo! Torgue's tournament was a… BLAST!"

The entire room groaned and rolled their eyes; save for Zer0 who displayed "…" on his visor.

Maya rubbed her head from the oncoming headache. Sal may have had fun, but she had to endure his explosive puns the entire time during that trip.

"For you, maybe. I spent most of the trip scraping you off the floor. Especially against that ridiculous contraption Piston called a dinosaur." A chill went through the air. No-one had fun fighting that thing, even as cool as it was. It was never a good day when most of your attacks bounced off and came back at you.

Zer0 finally joined in on the conversation. "Even so, it was still better than our failed hunting trip. Man may be the Most Dangerous Game. However, when Nakayama fell, he presented no challenge." Gaige and Axton suppressed their laughs. They weren't sure if Zer0's joke was intentional, but it was best not to offend him.

"Guys, Guys, Memory Lane is nice and all, but aren't we getting off topic? We still have a depot to take out." All attention refocused on Mordy. "The Echo's we've been picking up from it suggest there's only a skeleton human crew there. Mostly IT guys and a few security personnel. You can expect the usual assortment of loaders, however."

"Senor Mordecai, do you have any intel on what kind of guns we can find there? Salvador needs a new shotgun!"

"Heh heh heh. I don't have any specifics, but it IS an armory. I'm sure you'll find something of interest there."

Gaige's eyes lit up. "Ohh! I call all the shock guns! Last one there has to oil Deathtrap!" She jumped off the balcony, and started sprinting to the fast travel station.

"Hey Gaige, Wait up!" Axton called out after her, but she had already disappeared around the corner. "I swear, that girl when she gets an idea in her head…"

"Heh heh. Don't worry amigo. We were all young once, right?"

"I suppose so. I just hope she doesn't get herself killed some day rushing off like that."

A high pitched, guttural laugh came from behind him. "This, coming from the man who doesn't use cover and claims he's immortal? You're too much!" Maya was doubled over laughing, tears in the corners of her eyes.

"Oh can it, Maya. You know what I meant. Hey, where's Sal and Zer0?"

"Sal jumped after Gaige, said it looked like fun. Zer0 is… well, Zer0." shrugged Mordecai.

Axton sighed. "I guess we best get moving then. Come on Maya."

Maya tried her best to sober up, and put on her best soldier face and saluted Axton. "Yes, Sir, Mr. Invincible Soldier, Sir!" She couldn't hold it in and immediately resumed laughing her ass off.

Down at the fast travel station, Gaige was about to travel to The Dust, only to remember that this place wasn't accessible from the ground. She cursed herself for not waiting to hear the location before rushing off.

"Hey, Axton! Took you long enough! So where are we headed? ... And what's wrong with Maya?"

The siren still had tears in her eyes and was chortling under her breath. "Ignore her. The Fast Travel Station is named The Dust – South."

"Gee, real original, aren't they?"

"What do you want? They set this station up recently PDQ. And with Jack gone there's no one around to give things bad names."

Gaige let out a rather undignified snort. "Hah, that's true. Let's get going. Deathtrap is itching to go, and Momma needs a new shock gun!" With that, Gaige activated the fast travel station and started the mass travel countdown. In 5 seconds they were in a blue light stream heading for The Dust – South.

They emerged from the Digistruction into a narrow dead-end canyon, no more than 20 feet at the widest. The Fast Travel was nearly against the wall of the canyon, with it going straight ahead for 500 feet. Axton immediately tensed up. This was not good. If they ran into trouble, there would be only one way in or out of this place, and that path was a kill zone waiting to happen. Axton didn't like this place, and he'd only just arrived.

"Salvador! You take Left Flank. Gaige! You're on Right Flank. Zer0's covering our six. Maya, you take center. I'm on point! Keep close and your eyes peeled."

Several uncomfortable seconds passed, all of his friends staring at him. A small chuckle came from the group. They had seen Axton's soldier boy routine before, and they wondered if he had ever really left the military. Axton kicked himself internally. He knew he couldn't order his friends around, especially such a group so strong willed and individualist. The training Dahl gave him stuck with him, however, and he sometimes reverted to it on instinct without thinking. This, of course, amused his friends to no end. That seemed like a lifetime ago now, especially since some of the tactics used to keep men alive seemed redundant in the face of New-U stations. But Axton didn't like relying on them, and only trusted them as far as he could throw them. Seeing as they were bolted to the ground, that wasn't very far.

Still, the group did as he asked, as they all respected his tactical mind. Only Maya gave him further guff for it. "Yes Sir, Mr. Soldier Boy!" and erupted into another bout of mirth. He hated when she called him that. They walked in formation down the narrow canyon, Axton eyes constantly scanning. It took a left turn and opened up a bit, revealing a drop off. The only way down and back was a narrow switchback foot path. It looked recently carved. The group continued down this path, arriving on the floor of the second part of the canyon. They could have jumped down, (Their shields would protect them from damage.) but they preferred not to do that unless it was an emergency. Hard on the joints, even though they took no real damage. The canyon finally started to open up into a plateau, ringed by higher peaks. Axton visibly relaxed a bit. They were far from safe, but open ground gave them some options.

"I think I see it. 2 miles ahead. Maya, Use the Rangefinder on my COM."

Maya peered into the device strapped to Axton's shoulder. "Two point three miles. Not bad, Ax."

"Let's keep moving. Hyperion's waiting for us, and I don't want to disappoint them now, do we?" Smiles all around the group. Despite Axton's serious mode, they were all looking forward to this. To paraphrase Brick, "Kill Hyperion, Loot Guns, and Get Paid?" Pretty much the dream job.

At a mile out, they spotted a signpost. "Welcome to the Hyperion Galactic Peace Munitions Depot." Underneath was a smaller tagline. "Bringing safety and order to us all with superior firepower!" It also mentioned the facility was 1 mile away.

The Hunters stared at the sign for a bit, in disbelief. "Remember how I said Jack wasn't around to give things bad names before? I take it back." Axton face-palmed as she said this.

As the comrades walked on, they could start to see the scope of the facility. It was laid out in a square shape, with a central courtyard. In the courtyard were several moonshot landing pads, and what looked like a port for a moon shuttle. It didn't look all that big from the outside, but if this place was as important as Mordecai said it was, it likely continued underground. At the entrance to the courtyard, there was a Competitor Deterrence Field. (Better known as a death wall.) However, strangely, it was deactivated.

"Mordecai? Axton. We have arrived at the depot, no problems. No resistance yet, there's a death wall here but it's shut off. Looks like a standard Hyperion trap to me."

"Understood. If I recall correctly, you and your friends eat Hyperion traps for breakfast."

"Damn Straight. We'll be out of contact for a few minutes once we go inside. I'll check in then, Out."

Sure enough, as soon as all of them had crossed the threshold of the death wall, it activated. They then heard the familiar screech of a moonshot drop. A Badass Constructor. Out of the left side doors walked out an Ultimate Badass Loader, and from the right a trio of war loaders. Meanwhile, the various digistruct stations around the court yard were busy constructing basic loaders.

Axton felt himself going into soldier mode again.

"Maya, Sal, take the Ultimate! Zero, Gaige, the Constructor! I'll handle the war loaders and the small fry!"

There was no argument this time, and the group started attacking their targets. Axton took out a pair of turret pods from his SDU; one in each hand. He longbow threw them to opposite sides of the courtyard, where they stuck to the walls with Maglocks.

"Have you met the twins!?" Axton drew a Hornet and started firing at the nearest loader.

Maya and Sal opened up on the ultimate loader. Maya threw an orb of slag, and Phaselocked it. Sal started Gunzerking with a corrosive smg and sniper. Maya then wrecked it with accurate fire on its joints. It was over before the robot could calculate exactly how screwed it was.

Gaige and Zer0's attack on the Constructor was going similarly well. Deathtrap was slicing up the additional loaders the Constructor had built; Gaige was using a shock plasma caster for suppressive fire on the robot's exposed eye. She hadn't seen Zer0 for at least 30 seconds though… where was that bastard? She got her answer when a sword appeared in the robot's eye. Zero twisted the blade, removed it with one smooth motion, and the eye came out impaled on it. The constructor promptly exploded.

"A metal beast

That cannot move at all

Is not a challenge."

The turrets had made short work of the smaller loaders, and this massacre only got worse once Deathtrap was free to join the fray. Axton had polished off the last war loader, and was checking for additional targets.

"My sector clear! How about you guys?"

"What took you so long, Senor? We were falling asleep over here!"

"Zer0 got his stabbity-stab on, DT sliced em up, and I barely got an anarchy buzz. Yeah, were done."

There didn't appear to be any more loaders digistructing, and the death wall shut itself off as soon as the last bot died.

"This place looks pretty big. Let's keep our groups and search. Maya and Sal, Go left. Zer0 and Gaige, take right. I'll go straight."

"Roger that, but why are you always flying solo Ax?" wondered Gaige.

"Aww, come on, you know I'm not alone. I got the ladies here! Right girls?" As soon as he said that, the turrets time expired, and deconstructed.

"Ouch. Now that's cold." commented Maya.

Zer0 and Gaige walked though the hallway. Inside was an office complex. When they entered the cubicle farm, Gaige nearly fell flat on her face, tripping over a dead body.

"Geez! Doesn't anyone clean up after battles on this planet?"

"It appears that this facility was attacked before we arrived."

Zer0 was right. The offices were an utter mess, papers everywhere, bloodstains mixed with burn marks, and the remains of the Hyperion office staff and security were strewn about. Gaige spotted a terminal that was still functional and started looking for information. After a few minutes hacking though the security, she was in. She quickly found a list of shipment manifests. She echoed Axton.

"Axton, according to their records, there were no major moves of the weapons planned. All the weapons should still be here. As to why this place took so long to get a fast travel, it looks like just typical Hyperion bureaucracy."

"Understood. Meet me back in the center hallway. Looks like someone shot up this place good."

"We saw the same thing on our end. We'll meet you there."

Before she left the ransacked office, she checked the body of what looked like the head honcho of the place. What she was expecting to find wasn't there. "Damn it."

"What's wrong, Gaige?" asked Zer0.

"The security keycard isn't here. This isn't looking good…"

Maya and Salvador weren't doing any better. Their hallway appeared to be totally empty. Not even a light switch.

"Ooh, an empty hallway! How exciting! I guess I'll just kill bandits by bringing them here and boring them to death!"

Maya did her best to ignore Sal. Now that her earlier humor over Axton had dissipated, her Salvador induced headache was returning. Something was wrong here. No one, not even Hyperion, builds a totally empty hallway, devoid of anything. Someone was doing a poor job of hiding something. Then it hit her. The only thing in the room was a Hyperion logo on the floor. "Come on now guys, you'll have to do better than that!" She touched the symbol with her left hand, giving it a small spark with her powers. The emblem lit up, and the floor fell away, revealing it was an elevator down.

It was pitch black down here. The power to this section of the building must have failed. Maya created a large ball of light over her left hand and used it as a flashlight.

"Have I ever mentioned how much I love your powers, senorita?"

"You could stand to mention it more."

As the light filled the underground chamber, it became clear that it was a cavernous warehouse filled to the brim with equipment chests.

It also became distressingly clear that all of the chests were empty. Not even a single white pistol remained. "Senorita, what happened to all the guns?"

"I don't know. But I do know that this is not good."

Maya reported her findings to Axton, who told them to join him. He and Gaige had discovered a still sealed blast door, and figured they would want to be there as they tried to open it. As he waited for them to arrive, he reported in to Mordecai.

"Mordecai, the facility has been attacked before we got here. From what Zer0 says, the corpses are 2-3 days old. Maya reports all the guns are gone."

"Repeat last transmission, did you say ALL the guns are gone!?"

"Confirmed. There's a small blast door we're trying to open, but other than that everything's gone. Any idea who could have done this? No way the Zaffords or the Hodunks had enough manpower for something this big."

"No way they did it, especially after their feud reignited. No solid intel for you, only rumors and hearsay."

"And what does the scuttlebutt say?"

"Again, this is mostly Rakk Ale fueled paranoia, but they say there's a new bandit king. As in, king of all the bandit tribes."

"The bandit clans, working together? Yeah, right. Tell me the one about the dancing bear in the tutu."

"I hear you man, but that's all I got for you right now. We'll figure it out once you guys get back."

"Understood. Let's hope whoever did do it is long gone. Axton, Out."

Axton returned his attention to the door. The security key-card Gaige had noted missing was placed in the keypad, but the key pad was riddled with bullets. Apparently the would be thieves lacked a required password, and tried shooting the door open. Needless to say, this failed.

"Ideas, anyone?" asked Axton.

"Deathtrap is all over this!" Gaige raised her mechanical left arm and summoned Deathtrap. Deathtrap used his laser to melt the seams holding the door together, and gave two quick slashes to the door. A quick body blow and the door collapsed. "Good one, Babe!"

"You really should build him that extra arm for high fives, Gaige. I say he earned it on this one."

"I know right? I'll get on it as soon as we get back!"

They entered the small room to find 5 Dahl red chests in a semicircle.

"One for each of us, I guess. No weeping if you get crap!" Axton strolled over to the center chest and activated its release. The others soon followed.

"Well, would you look at that?" Axton picked up the Dahl Minigun. He remembered these from his days in the military. A collaborative effort between Dahl and Vladof, if he recalled correctly. He was quite impressed with them at the time, and had been looking for a new one ever since. This one even had all Dahl parts for increased burst count. Now this was a weapon he could get behind!

Maya opened her chest. "A white shotgun, and a green bandit pistol? Really. Do you WANT to feel the Wrath of a Siren!?" Maya's flame wings were starting to come out.

"Whoa, down girl! You'll get something next time! Please don't roast us all, we rather like our ugly mugs." Axton pleaded with the enraged Siren to calm herself.

Zer0 opened his chest to find a powerful Jakobs sniper rifle. It wasn't really better than the one he already had, but it had its strengths. "Acceptable."

Gaige opened hers next. The first gun was a Bandit Gatling gun with the shock elemental drive. "Meh, I think I tried one of these before. It wasn't great. But then again I didn't have The Better Half yet… I guess I'll try it."

Gaige looked at the second gun in the chest. Before the others could do anything, Gaige screamed.

"Gaige, what is it? Is it a bomb?!" Axton asked panicked.

"OMFG. IT COULDN'T BE! IT… IT IS! THAT'S A THUNDERBALL FISTS!" Gaige was already cradling the gun in her arms like a favorite doll. "I've wanted this ever since I saw it in the Maliwan Echo catalogue!"

"Jesus girl, you just about gave us all a heart attack! Calm down!" Maya looked like she was trying to decide on tearing the Mechromancer a new one for getting better loot than her, and remembering her meditation from the monks on anger control. Anger control won in the end.

"Well congratulations. I know how much you like shock weapons. Make sure you pop some stalkers for me with it, ok?" Axton seemed to have recovered his composure.

"Will do! He he he he! I'm going to love you and hold you and call you George! Hi George! Welcome to the family!"

Sal was the last to open his chest. As it opened, he was uncharacteristically silent. Reverent, even. Sal kneeled and seemed to utter a quick prayer before retrieving his prize. It was a Hyperion Butcher, a brand new model that had just come out before Jack fell.

"Aww, no fair, I wanted to have the best loot today!"Gaige pouted.

"Such a find is indeed a treasure. Enjoy it, my friend." Zer0 finally added.

"We best be heading out. Whoever raided this place didn't leave much. I don't want to be around if they come back."Axton made his way out to the courtyard, motioning for the others to follow.

"At least today wasn't a total bust. We all…" Maya glared at him, fire still in her eyes. "Ok, most of us got some good gear, and we have a new enemy to kill! No idea who he is, but still, it's a start."

"I'm just glad the treasure room wasn't a trap! My new shotgun could have been scuffed!"

The entire group froze and glared at Salvador. "What, what did I say!?"

"Sal, you just HAD to say it. That's like tempting fate by skinning a black cat that's run under a ladder while performing the black sacrament!" Gaige couldn't believe his stupidity. "It's Axton's first rule! It's ALWAYS a trap!"

"Right you are, Vault Hunters!"

"Who said that?"

The group scanned the horizon and saw no one. Zer0 was the first to hear it. The sound of a Buzzard engine. No, it was more than one. It sounded like…

An entire fleet of Buzzards.

Before they knew it, the skies were filled with Buzzards. The horizon now was filled with bandits hiding in the cliffs.

"Shit. How did we miss that?!" Axton cursed himself for not noticing the bandits hiding in the far cliffs. They did appear to be wearing camouflage, which was definitely unusual for bandits.

The bandits stared pouring down from the cliffs, first in the tens, then in the hundreds. Within minutes he had lost count, and there had to be at least two thousand. Above them there had to be at least 20 attack buzzards, with 5 cargo Buzzards dropping supplies for the bandits. More were arriving by the second.

"What the heck is that thing?"

Gaige pointed to the sky, where a mechanical monstrosity struggled to stay aloft. It looked like someone had cut off the tail of a Buzzard, welded a shipping container to it, and added 3 more pairs of engines to it. Hell, that's probably exactly what they did. The transport Buzzard had enough room for 8 bandits inside. Four if they were nomads or goliaths. This one however, had only one occupant and several pallets.

"I'm surprised it took you guys so long to get here. I thought we'd have to fight you to get to the guns first."

"Oh? And who the hell are you supposed to be?" asked Axton.

"The name's unimportant. All you need to know is I'm the Bandit King."

"So there was some truth to those rumors after all, eh? What the hell do you want?"

"Oh come now, with a name like the Bandit King I think you can figure that one out."

"That's what I was afraid of. I was kinda hoping we could all just go back to Moxxi's and have a beer, and get out of this dammed desert. Shame you have to die now."

"Do you really think I'd fight the Vault Hunters unprepared? If you hadn't noticed, we have you surrounded, and my transport Buzzards are bringing in my men as we speak. If you give up now, we might let you live. If you asked nicely."

Axton cursed to himself. He knew he hated this place. Now he knew why. His instincts had been right; this place was a death trap.

"Guys, I hate to say it, but I think we need to make a fighting retreat." He whispered this to the group.

"What? Why? We can take these guys!" Sal was offended to the insult of his badassness. "And besides, it's not like we can really die! We're still in the New-U system!"

"True, but I'm getting a different vibe from this guy. He seems to be smarter than your average bandit leader, and he would have thought of that. He probably has guys at the travel station trying to do something about it. And I keep telling you, it's not reliable! They're an insurance policy, but we can't count on them working every single time with no faults. We have to try to fight our way back. "

"I agree with the soldier. A tactical retreat is the soundest course of action. We shall fight them on our own terms the next time we meet." Zer0 continued scanning the horizon as he said this.

"Besides, they number in the thousands. We are only 5, 8 if you include Axton's turrets and Deathtrap." Maya seemed to have leveled out again, going into crisis mode.

"Fine, fine, live to fight another day. As long as I get to use my new shotgun!"

"Well, Vault Hunters, I'm waiting!" What will it be?"

Gaige beamed at Axton. "Can I do the honors?"

"Be my guest."

"Fuck you and the Buzzard you rode in on!"

The Bandit King shook his head. "Fine. Have it your way."

"All right! Same formation as when we came in! Sal, you're on anti-air duty! Maya, keep us healed! God knows we'll need it. Zer0, pick off any one who gets within 100 meters! We need to keep moving, suppressing fire only! Don't go for the kill, just wound them and move on! NOW MOVE YOUR ASSES!"

Axton charged off for the canyon where they had entered. As he did, thousands of bandits opened up on their position. Then nearest ones were still over half a mile away, so their accuracy was still bad. However, the sheer volume of fire meant that a lot of rounds would still hit their group. Axton was wearing The Sham shield, but he knew the others weren't. He deployed his turrets as quickly as he could, knowing they were mostly a distraction against this many enemies. He saw Deathtrap fly by in the corner of his eye as well. Good. This would be the hardest 2 mile run he had ever done, but damn if he wasn't going to get everyone out alive.

The diamond formation rushed forward. Sal filled the skies with corrosive lead with the same combo he had used on the loader. Gaige was using her new bandit Gatling gun more out of instinct than tactics. It worked however, and the bandits on the right flank stuck to cover rather than shooting back, especially with close enough hitting them behind cover. Zer0 started out with a sniper rifle, but soon switched to a Jakobs assault rifle to pick off the stragglers of the enormous horde. Maya was kept busy shooting her comrades to heal them, and tossing transfusion grenades whenever she caught a free moment. Axton was taking full advantage of his new Dahl Minigun to spray as much lead downrange as possible. This formation kept rushing forward, never ceasing fire, never missing a step.

Soon they were only a mile from the canyon entrance. But there was a new problem. 5 transport buzzards had just dropped off a small army of shield nomads and goliaths. They were quickly forming a shield wall across the mouth of the canyon, with the goliaths taking higher positions to shoot down. Sal noticed another problem.

"Uh, guys, I'm not so good on legendary weapons, but does that look like a Norfleet the Bandit King has?"

"What?" Sure enough, when Axton looked at the Bandit King's Buzzard, he was holding a Maliwan Norfleet Rocket Launcher. "Christ! Where the hell did he even find one of those!?"

The Bandit King's first shot was well behind the Vault hunters, but its impact was felt by the psychos who had been chasing the group. The trailing bandits disintegrated before Zer0's eyes.

"Sal, can you get a shot on his Buzzard?"

"No can do, Senor! His attack buzzards keep screening him!"

"Shit. Everyone! Stop firing and just RUN!"

The good news was that the Bandit King was a terrible shot. The bad news was that every shot was getting better, as his pilot learned how to track the vault hunters, and he became familiar with his weapon.

"You think he'll run out of ammo soon, Sal?"

"Uh, you know those boxes he had in the Buzzard? I can see now they were crates of rockets."

Axton mumbled to himself, "I hate this place."

They were coming close to the shield wall now. Axton had to give him credit; the guy had a good plan. Block your enemy's only escape route, and nuke him to hell with a rocket launcher. This guy didn't mess around.

"Any ideas on that phalanx?"

"This one is mine." Zer0 shot off the helmets of the goliaths, and entered deception. He appeared behind the center nomad and cut off his head. He drew a pistol and fired 2 shots into head of each adjacent nomad, killing them instantly. Zer0 disappeared again, returning to the group, just as the goliaths started to attack the remaining nomads. The group charged though the hole in the wall, taking pot shots at them as they passed.

"Good job Zer0, I owe you a beer for that one!"

"I shall accept your reward."

Behind them, the latest Norfleet salvo obliterated the fighting goliaths and nomads. They were almost to the switchback path now… and the ridge was lined with Marauders.

"Oh come on! Don't you guys know when to give up?" Axton threw his turrets again at the walls above the ridge, and Gaige deployed Deathtrap again. Sal called out to the group that the Bandit King had to circle around to get a clear shot on them. That at least bought them some time, Axton thought. But he had to admit, this Bandit King guy was impressive. Trap after trap, overwhelming force, and defense in depth. This was no ordinary bandit. Probably a disgraced Ex-general, if he had to guess.

The switchback path was only wide enough for one at a time, and there were already bandits taking up positions on it.

"Senor Zer0! I have an idea. You can ride on my shoulders and we can both clear the path at once!"

"You can't be serio-"

Before he could finish, Sal had grabbed him and forcibly put him on his shoulders and started Gunzerking up the path. The assassin could only sigh, take out an SMG and start firing. By the time they had made it up, the turrets and deathtrap had taken care of the marauders on the ridge. It was only a few hundred feet more to the station now. However, their formation had been scattered now, and Gaige was now leading, with Axton, Maya, Zer0, and Sal behind her. They raced head on to the station as another Norfleet burst landed dangerously close to them. Bandits rained fire on them from above the canyon walls. Gaige finally reached the station, but in her haste forgot to activate the mass transit option. Instead, she deconstructed herself into the systems buffer. Axton and the others did the same, as the bandit king lined up one last shot. Sal hit the first destination on the list as the Bandit King fired. Sal deconstructed just as the energy ball impacted the station, and it was blown into millions of pieces.

When one of the glass fragments landed that used to be the screen landed, it had Ame_s_is burnt into it.

AN: GAH! I wasn't expecting it to be that long! I thought I was just writing a short introductory chapter, but noooooooo! lol.

I'm looking for any con crit, espcially on chapter length, readability, and how I did as far as keeping things canonical. (I know Maya is slightly OOC in this 1st chapter, its mostly for rule of funny). This is my first story,so I need your help to improve.

Also, I promise we'll start off in FMA next time!