Author's Note: Hello faithful subscribers, readers and those I've paid to follow me! I'm back with this story I've been sitting on for a while. This is essentially BL2 through the eyes of Axton the Commando with my own take of the story. For you fans who love shipping, yes there will be a boat in this story. For everyone else, I'm going to put in some romance. Here's the thing though, I was originally going to have MayaxAxton, but I want to see his ex-wife Sarah's role in TFTB before I commit to anything. For now though, everything else will go according to schedule. I'm gonna be a little busy over the next few weeks, so I'll try to update as much as possible. Hope you guys enjoy the story! I do not own Borderlands.
"As you commanding officer I cannot officially suggest you go AWOL, tonight, and try you luck on the border planets."
"Too bad, that would have been goog advice. What's this?"
"My wedding ring. Keep it. I never liked diamonds."
"Ouch"
Ouch. Axton though as the train sped along. Granted he acted kinda stupid not following orders exactly to the letter, even though it was still freaking awesome watching the enemy base explode like that. But still, what the hell was Sarah's problem? He didn't screw up that badly. He got the mission done, didn't he? Plus, she knew the stakes when she said "I do". Women. Axton began fishing in his pack for a smoke. God knew he needed one right about now. Or at least an excuse to shoot something.
Suddenly the train stopped. He glanced up to see a woman with blue hair walk in. She waved to someone behind her as the doors closed. She walked over and sat down on the seats in front of him, nodded politely and gazed out the window. Hmmm, interesting tats. Axton thought. They kinda look like a Siren's tattoos that they showed us pictures of in those intel reports. Either she's a Siren, or she really loves ink. The blue-haired woman suddenly looked at him and gave him the stink-eye. "What are you staring at? She asked, accusingly.
"Oh, sorry darlin'," Axton apologized, "it's just that I've never seen tattoos like-" He was cut off by the train stopping again. This time an overly muscular dwarf stepped in, armed to the teeth. He grunted hello and waddled over to the seats on the opposite side of the blue-haired woman.
The train went in motion again, this time in complete silence. Axton looked out the window in time to see a bandit hanging from a destroyed vehicle that was lying on the roof before he fell. Axton stared at that, shrugged and got up to stretch his legs. He turned to his right to suddenly see a tall, thin stranger that was garbed in some sort of armor and his head covered by a helmet with a screen over the face. When did he get here? Aston wondered. He was cut off by the sudden sound of an alarm.
All four passengers looked up at the friendly sign of the Hyperion Corporation's Handsome Jack welcoming them as Vault Hunters. Then saw as the sign fell to reveal a slightly more threatening picture of Jack telling them to die. Well, that's… hospitable. Axton thought before the wall fell down revealing Hyperion loader bots armed to the teeth! Aston turned around and ran to give him self space between them, only to notice loaders coming from the opposite direction as well. 'Let's get to killing time!" He shouted with glee. Finally! An excuse to shoot something! He threw up his beloved turret to attach to the ceiling to fire at the loaders in front of him. He opened his ECHO device and got out a rocket launcher. "No such thing as overkill!" He announced before firing at one of the loaders. The blue-haired woman shielded her eyes from the bright explosion before turning her attention to the remains loader. She smiled and raised her hand. Both her strange tattoos, her hand and the loader began to glow as she locked him inside some sort of bubble. She turned to Axton and smiled. "Name's Maya, I'm a Siren."
"Axton. I'm a Commando." He stated proudly. She nodded hello and flung her wrist, causing the orb with the loader bot to crash into the wall. What she didn't count on, was how close that was to the dwarf.
"Oh crap!" She shouted in surprise. Clearly she had a lot to learn. Axton rushed over next to her to only to see the dwarf hanging on a piece of broken metal like a monkey while grinning like a lunatic. He swung himself in and produced two assault rifles from his storage deck! He laughed like crazy as he opened fire at the two loaders that Axton didn't notice behind him. When the smoke cleared, he cocked up his rifles, grinning with a crazy look in his eye.
"Me nombre es Salvador!" He declared in Truxican. "Yo soy Gunzerker!"
"Um, sorry dude." Axton said. 'I don't speak Truxican." The little man grunted and repeated himself in English.
"What's a Gunzerker supposed to be?" Maya asked.
"Me!" Salvador declared happily.
Axton shook his head, before realizing they were missing someone. He looked out of the hole Maya provided to see if the masked guy fell or was hanging from debris. Instead, he looked to see Hyperion engineers wearing exoskeletons climbing to the roof of the train. He peered up to the roof to see the masked man standing with his back turned to them. "Look out!" Axton yelled too late as the masked man turned to slowly to receive a hit from the engineer. But instead the robotic fist went through him! He looked down at the fist, then looked up, flickered and disappeared. What the hell is this guy? Axton wondered in shock. A ghost? Suddenly, he saw the guy reappear behind the engineers, sword in hand. He ran up and ran his blade through one of them, before flipping over and kicking the other one straight into the blade. His visor showed a holographic zero before he reached sown and got out his blade. He swung himself back inside in front of the other three passengers. "Well, wasn't that fun?/ I am Zer0, a number/ that is all you need." Everyone just nodded their heads in unison as Zer0 put his weapon down but ready.
"Was that a haiku?" Maya suddenly asked.
"Really?" Axton said to her. "That's what you're taking away from all of that? Really?"
"What's a haiku? Salvador scratched his head.
All four passengers turned towards the fron of the train. "Whoever thought they could trap and kill us is going to pay!" Axton grumbled.
"What do you mean who?" Maya asked incredulously. "Pretty obvious it was Handsome Jack."
"Well… uh, yeah." Axton scratched his head. Really should've thought that one through, numbskull. No wonder Sarah dumped you. He reached the conductors door, raising an assault rifle. He turned towards Zer0 and gestured for him to open it so they could breach. Zer0 just stood at the ready, his sword high in the air. Aston then gestured at Salvador who just raised his weapons showing that he had his hands full. Either that, or he wasn't interested. He looked at Maya who just shrugged and brandished an SMG and stood behind him. Axton shook his head and knocked the door down himself, only to find a statue of Handsome Jack surrounded by tons of dynamite. "It's cute that y'all think you're the heroes of this adventure, but you're not." "Oh crap." Axton realized too late. Nice one Glory Hound. Sarah was right.
"Welcome to Pandora kiddos!" Jack yelled. BOOOM!
Author's Note: And that concludes chapter 1 of our exciting tale! Will Axton and his friends survive? Will they seek vengeance? Will they meet an annoying robot that somehow is highly popular? Why am I asking you all this? We played the game! We know already! But I shall have some inner plot twists and story arcs to keep you mildly entertained long enough to convince you to hit that follow button! Until next time!
