Letting the girl onboard might have been a bad idea.
Scarlett sighed as she watched Gaige run from port to starboard and back again, checking out the entire ship with a darting watchful eye. The Mechromancer's mind was working overtime, thinking of all the 'improvements' she could do to the ship. Scarlett breathed out a long sigh as she sat down and cracked open a book she recently took out of a bandit's cold, dead hands. While Gaige seemed to be harmless in her running about, Scarlett didn't want to be paranoid of her new first mate on her first day.
Funny thing how that came to be. Gaige walked up to the bar Scarlett and her crew were visiting and shot poor Michael in the head with a nasty-looking Jakobs revolver. With her first mate headless and mostly dead, Gaige promptly asked for the now-vacant position. Knowing of the girl's power, having tried to kill her a while back, Scarlett named Gaige to be second-in-command.
But why? Why would a Vault Hunter want to hang out with a one-world pirate when she could be out and going after untold riches on other worlds?
The answer came in the form of a mechanical hand pulling up a fold in her butt. Scarlett's response to the pinch was to turn around with her trusty sidearm pointing forward, right in a smiling Gaige's face. "What?" Scarlett asked all surprised, slightly moving the sidearm out of Gaige's way. Gaige followed that up with a held kiss on the lips. After twenty seconds of tasting various sour and sweet things on the Mechromancer's lips, Scarlett pushed her off. "Woah, missie!"
"Come on." Gaige laughed as she stood only a centimeter away from Scarlett. "Who wouldn't want to pinch a butt like that? Also, you're a great kisser. Probably got your practice smooching people to death with poisonous lips, huh?"
"Well…" Scarlett was going to go into detail about the time she got away with forty-three million, but decided to address the little manner of Gaige's sexual assault. "Missie! That was uncalled for! We aren't on that level…"
"Yet!" Gaige cheered, stepping back. "But don't worry, I'm not going to be like Herbert." She tilted her head back and forth a few times. "Well, I did take some of the stuff from his shack, they were great shots…" She giggled as she went down to the deck to do whatever she decided to do next.
Scarlett was in for a long ride with Gaige. True, the punk didn't act as creepy as Herbert, but she did have a obsession with the pirate captain. On the other hand, Gaige did know how to properly kiss and pinch one's butt…