She expected the president of Hyperion, not two idiots who have no idea how to survive in Pandora. She watched them from a distance, along the dirty rooftops of the bandit's hideouts. The bandits were either too lazy or too drunk to care about her appearance.
Even in there short appearance in the town, the two managed to start a full on battle with the bandits. The Hyperion's gave Terra the perfect chance to sneak into the World of Curiosity's. The loud noises, constant yelling, and the gunshots easily avoided detection of her.
Slipping onto the angled roof, she grabbed her hot rod out of her belt and turned it on. She made a mental note to thank the person who made it for her. Trying to make her way through without creating noise was tricky but she would manage. About halfway through she used her hands to lift the piece of metal upwards. Heaving all her upper muscle strength didn't work as her effort barely made a hole. Looking around, Terra glanced down at her belt to see her trusty pistol shining in her face.
As if a light bulb popped in her head, she immediately grabbed the gun and wedged it between the dents she made. Using her leg she pushed until she heard the loud crack of the metal bending. While the hole wasn't as big as she hoped, it was still manageable. Fitting her slim body through the wedge she made her way into the building. As her feet landed onto the hard surface her attention turned to large sound of a grenade hitting the ground.
The noise of the blast diverted her attention towards the sound. Staring Terra in the face was an open window that was almost mocking her; "Of course there's a window open." She muttered to herself.
Hearing muffled voices from under her, Terra knew she was in the right place. The building itself wasn't in the best shape, holes littered the walls and a lot of stuff was broken. She looked around to find anything that could give her a good vantage point for the deal. And as if luck was on her side, a rusted vent appeared in her vision.
The old vent was barely staying together as it was. Three of the four nails rusted away to leave the vent door slightly open. Grabbing the vent, Terra quietly moved the tin out of her way in able for her to climb into the duct. Moving on all fours, she tried her best to listen to the sound of any voices around her. As she continued to move through the dirty duct, various voices started to grow louder and louder.
A light started to appear as she continued making her way to the voices. Terra let out a momentary breath of relief to see the end of the duct. Shimmying her way through the small duct faster, Terra kept herself hidden in the darkness and looked around the large room. She was looked to see the side of the table with the profiles of four people.
On one side of the table were a man and woman, and on the other were the two Hyperion's. Terra looked towards the blond man, who had an irritated expression on his face. "So... let's try again. My name's August. What's yours?" He demanded.
"It's Rhys." The taller Hyperion responded.
August looking content motioned for Rhys to sit, "Ok, good. So just... sit down and let's do this so we can move one with our lives."
All four people sat down in their available seats, except for the other Hyperion with the glasses. Glancing at the one with glasses, Terra zeroed in on the briefcase the man was clutching. Seeing the briefcase caused Terra to look around to find where the vault key was being held. The two men started their conversation but she decided not to listen in as much. Her attention focused on the vault key.
Terra noticed the blond leaning down and came back up to reveal a metal container holding the vault key. August opened the container to reveal a purple light emitting from within the box. Terra moved a little forward in the duct to get a better look. The cling of metal tapping the duct reminded her of her binoculars she equipped.
Quietly grabbing the pair she put them against her eyes to see the vault key. The two Hyperion's looked at the key with awe and the room stayed silent for a few moments. Terra zoomed in to see the key. The key was cracked in various states with a neon purple going through in separate ways. Terra couldn't shake the bad feeling she got about the key. While she never witnessed the actual key during her time in Sanctuary, Lilith gave her a specific description of what she had seen of the key. And from that, this key looked pretty similar to the description.
"You ever seen anything so pretty in your miserable lives?" "August asked. "This thing will practically dance at your wedding. It's state of the art alien crap. I'd use it myself, but... you know... the monsters and all."
With his eyes transfixed on the object, Rhys replied, "It's god dam gorgeous."
"Friggin'a right it is." He boasted, "Okay, so... the way I, ah, usually do these thing is..."
The deal quickly took a turn for the worse when the dark haired woman quickly closed the latched and shouted, "Wait!"
August, looking both confused and irritated, spoke up, "What?"
"IIII..." The woman drawled out, "I just don't like it. I got a- I got a feeling." She declared.
Apparently this 'feeling' was important as August looked surprised after she finished. "What feeling?" He demanded.
The dark haired woman moved to the other side of August, crossing her hands, "Look, you said when I stated to get a feeling about something that I should tell you and that we should walk away right?" She noted.
"What are you possibly feeling right now?" August questioned. "We're almost done!"
"I get intuitions about this stuff!" She replied.
Rhys, starting to get a worried expression across his face, asked August, "Is she okay?"
August waved him off, "Yeah, yeah... she's just freaking out... she does that sometimes."
Terra noticed the woman quickly glancing between everyone and within a second she grabbed the container. Everything turned even worse from before as August jumped from his seat, "Sasha, what the hell-"
Shaking her head, "I just- I just don't like it. They've had this... dumb attitude on their dumb faces since the moment they moment they walked in!" The woman started to back away from the group. Her steps leading her closer to the enormous wall fan.
"What are you talking about?" August yelled.
Looking towards the two Hyperion's, she argued, "They walk in here with their smug attitude and looks this entire time!" Rhys looked at her with a baffled expression on his face, "And why... why wouldn't they show you the money?! Huh? What's up with that?!"
"Sasha!" August shouted, trying to get her to stop talking.
"I mean look at that guy. Look at his face." She motioned towards Rhys.
August quickly glanced between the two, "What's wrong with his face?" He asked.
"You can't trust a face like that." Sasha stated. "He's hiding something August."
Rhys started to say something to the frantic woman but Terra's attention wasn't on Sasha, but what was happening behind her.
"Holy shit." Terra quietly muttered.
Terra zoomed her binoculars to see a figure behind the fan put something on the case. She couldn't see exactly who was behind the fan or identify what she put on the case, but it meant bad shit was going to happen.
All the sudden the arguing in the room stopped when she heard Sasha casually say, "Alright, I'm sold." And that definitely sold Terra that Sasha knew who was behind the fan. Her sudden outburst of her not trusting the Hyperion's to her being content with the deal all created a shady image.
The Hyperion's believed with Sasha being content, but August started to become unsure. "Well... just... wait, just wait."
"August, everything's fine now." Sasha reassured him, walking back with the case.
Terra tried to see what was put on the case, but at her angle the mysterious object couldn't be spotted... Until she handed it to August. In her line of vision, Terra spotted a small rectangular object placed at the top. Her memory was vague on certain electronics' but she knew it wasn't a good one.
"I dunno, maybe today's not right for this." August concluded. "If you have a feeling about things.."
Shaking her head, Sasha responded, "No, no no. I was wrong. We should definitely do it."
Terra watched as Rhys walked up to the pair, "The bad feeling is gone. She said it herself. We still got a deal here. There's no problem, let's just-"
Rhys was quickly cut off as August rushed out, "No. I'm- I'm sorry guys, I was- I thought I was gonna deal with Vasquez, and... now this. I just... I just think we should call it off until I think things are square." August looked towards Rhys, "Maybe another time, fellas."
Sasha rushed up to Augusts' side, "Hon, we're here, we should just do this. Really." She said.
August waved her off once more, "Nah, I made up my mind." He insisted while he started to walk away with the case.
Rhys started to move closer to August, "August," Rhy's strongly said, getting his attention.
"What?" August demanded.
For a minute, Terra thought that Rhys was going to throw a few punches towards the blond. But.. she was completely wrong when she witnessed Rhys get on both his knees dropping to the ground. "Come on, man. Pleeeease?" Rhys begged
Sasha looked up towards August, "Dude. Ten million dollars." She reminded him.
Terra watched as the smaller Hyperion quickly open the case he held to reveal the ten million dollars. August smiled at Sasha, "You make a good point."
The four of them started to move back to their original spots when Terra noticed Sasha speaking quietly to herself. Raising an eyebrow, Terra looked over to see Rhys holding the key in his robotic arm.
Then things really went to shit... again.
All the sudden Rhy's robotic arm started to malfunction and then in slow motion, he let go of the key. With a large sound, everyone stood still as the broken pieces of the key laid at their feet. That's when Terra realized that the stranger put a damn emp on the case, causing Rhy's robotic arm to freak out. Looking closer at the broken key, she gripped her pistol in anger as her and the others started to realize that that key was in fact... fake.
A look of surprises each presented on Augusts and Rhys face. Then that quickly turned to anger as each of them starting shouting at each other for the key being fake. The arguments between everyone quickly stopped as a booming sound became more and more louder.
And that's when Bossanova decided to join the party.
The wall behind Rhys met the ground as Bossanova in his caravan arrived. Behind him followed multiple psychos each wanting their piece of flesh.
Knowing that she had to get out of here, Terra quickly moved out of the duct and rolled onto the hard floor. The loud voices of psychos surrounded her as they started to notice her appearance.
"Another piece of flesh for my meat bicycle!" The psycho yelled. His nimble body started to sprint towards her waving his knife in the air. Terra immediately grabbed her pistol and shot him in the face. The psycho fell to the ground with his head in complete chaos.
"The money!" A voice yelled out. Terra looked to see Bossanova take the money from the Hyperion.
Appearing to the right of the caravan was none other than Zer0. Terra looked towards the assassin in confusion over his sudden appearance but didn't get a chance to ask him anything when she heard the noise of someone running up to her.
Terra quickly turned her gun over to the psycho but faced a familiar face. The woman held out her little pistol as well. The two looked at each other with both of their weapons facing each other.
The woman spoke up first with a surprised look on her face, "Terra?"
Terra looked at the woman, trying to remember who she was. A little light bulb popped in her head as she remembered, "Fiona? Holy shit." Terra lowered her gun from Fiona's face.
"Fiona!" A distant voice yelled out to her. "What are you doing just standing there? Come on!"
Terra looked to see Sasha holding onto an old man who appeared to be injured. Fiona grabbed Terra's arm, "Follow me."
"Go, I'll cover you." She told Fiona as they started to run. All around Terra was complete and utter chaos. "How many bullets you got?" Terra yelled through the noise.
"One!" Fiona replied. Terra trailed behind Fiona as they tried to avoid the psychos. As they got closer to the man and Sasha, she saw the older man throw a smoke grenade behind them.
Terra failed to notice the angry August behind the two of them loading his gun. In front of Terra, Fiona seemed to notice the blond man and set her foot on an incline and jumped mid way through the air. As if in slow motion Terra watched as Fiona pulled out her pistol and aimed it at August. In a quick decision, Fiona decided not to shoot the man. The bullet August fired managed to miss Fiona.
The two quickly reached the old man and Sasha, "Well it's about damn time," The old man scolded at Fiona "Lets go." And with that, the four of them ran to what Terra assumed was their caravan.
Before they were able to enter the caravan, the older man pulled out a pistol and aimed it at Terra's head. "Now, before I shoot you... Who are you?"
Fiona looked between the two, "Whoa, whoa, whoa... Felix. She's fine. This is the person who helped me back when I butchered the job back at Hollowpoint a few months back."
Felix didn't lower his pistol but he glanced towards Fiona, "You trust her?" He asked.
"Yes," Fiona answered.
Terra decided to speak up, "Look I'm all for shooting people, but there are a bunch of psychos running around the place and that angry blond guy you guys managed to piss off really wants to kill all of you."
Felix hesitantly lowered his gun from her face. "Fine."
"Come on Felix, we have to patch you up," Sasha softly said.
Felix and Sasha walked up to the caravan door and quickly opened it to let him in. Sasha muttered a few words of Felix going easy with injured shoulder, but he brushed it off. Felix spoke up once more while entering, "Let's just not have any more surprised today," he said while glancing back at Terra.
And of course right when he said that, everyone heard a noise and looked up to see the two Hyperion's from the deal trying to hotwire the car. They seemed to not notice the four of them until Felix yelled, "Oh come on. Are you really trying to steal our caravan?!"
Rhys quickly got up and looked at all of them, "Now, now, now, hold on, it's – it's not what it looks – Okay, it is, but... I am really sorry, okay?" The guy next to Rhys started to put his hands up.
Sasha stepped in front of everyone and started to talk, "Give us one good reason we shouldn't shoot you and drag your bodies out that door."
"I wouldn't mind seeing that," Terra muttered from behind the group.
All the sudden a gun shot echoed through the caravan as Rhys quickly added, "There's one reason."
Terra and Fiona both looked out the door to see August holding his pistol and shooting all his rounds at the caravan. "Hey! We're not done here!" He yelled.
Both Terra and Fiona seemed to have the same thought running through there head as both of them reached for the door while trying to dodge the incoming bullets. Before August was able to enter, they both slammed the door. August was able to prevent them from closing the door completely as he started to rambling about hating being lied to.
"Put your back into it," Terra wheezed out. She managed to kick August, effectively causing the man to fall to the ground. The both of them quickly closed the door.
"Just drive!" Fiona told Felix.
Felix looked back at the two, "Where!"
"Anywhere!" Terra shouted.
Felix stepped on the gas and the caravan started to evacuate the town. They could still hear Augusts' bullets ricocheting off the caravan as it gained more speed. Fiona and Sasha walked up towards Felix at the top of the caravan while Terra decided to lean against the wall where the two Hyperion's were awkwardly standing.
Terra starred at the two. Both of them seemed to be on edge, probably thinking they were going to die... which was possibly true. The guy with the glasses seemed to noticed that she was looking at them. He looked at Rhys and whispered something in his ear. The guy clearly didn't realize that he wasn't talking quietly as Terra heard him say, "Why is she starring at us?"
The taller one, Rhys, looked at Terra, as if he was trying to get a read on her. Terra raised an eyebrow towards him and started to grab her gun. Rhys seemed to notice this and quickly looked away.
After deciding not to be stuck with those two, Terra walked up towards Fiona and the others. "Hey, " she started, "When you get the chance, drop me off at the nearest settlement, one that preferably doesn't have any psychos or bandits."
"No problem there." Felix stated.
"Wait, wait, wait..." Fiona babbled. "We need you."
A look of confusion passed through Terra's face, "You need me?"
"Fiona, we barely know her." Sasha harshly whispered to her sister.
Everyone around Fiona looked in a state of confusion, including Terra. Fiona began, "I've seen what you can do, and it's better than what we can do. I still remember back at Hollowpoint. I think we're all in agreement that if we decide to get the money back then we need someone who knows how to fight. I'm not wrong about this. We all have that money on our minds. And if that guy with the mic has the case, then we need help. It's not like the three of us could go against him." Fiona concluded.
"She does make a good point... kinda." Sasha quietly said.
"Maybe." Felix said, "But even if we do want the money, there's no way we can find it right now. It could be anywhere. Plus we have to deal with those two," Felix pointed at Rhys and his friend.
"If you help us, we can all split the money. Isn't that why you were there in the first place?" Fiona asked.
Terra shook her head, "It wasn't about the money."
Fiona started to look defeated, "Look, regardless of the money. We need you."
Terra didn't know what to say to Fiona. As much as she loved having enough money a person can have, she wasn't sure if she was up for it. And she meant it when she told Fiona that it wasn't about the money. After everything that happened before, she wasn't sure if this is something she should be doing. Knowing her luck something bad was going to happen. But... the possibility of adventure outweighed the cons that swirled through her mind.
"So are you in?" Fiona inquired.
Terra let out a big sigh and said, "I'm in."
Ever since I finished episode five of TFTBL I've been in fangirl hell. I need Telltale to make season two. And I just love Rhys so much that I was so tempted to make an Rhys/OC story (he's my bby). Sorry if this chapter was a little boring, I wanted to get this part out of the way to set up everything else in the story. If any of you are confused about certain parts, stuff will be explored in future chapters. And there was very little interaction between Rhys and Terra but don't worry they will talk more in chapter two! (FYI I also have this story posted on Wattpad)
