Borderlands(The Pre-sequel)

A Little Back-up

Prolouge

Jack was pacing up and down his office wondering what he was going to do about the sudden attempt on his and the vault hunters lives.

"Damn-it! I trusted them! I trusted HER! But the second she had a chance to kill us she took it without even a second thought!"

Jack glanced up from the back of his desk and took a look at the vault hunters and sighed

"How can you guys be so calm about this!? We were nearly KILLED today?!" Athena looked around and shared a few annoyed glances with her fellow mercenaries

"We get threatened with death about 6 times a day, and that's just on a slow day!"

Wilhelm decided to speak up and express his opinons on the matter

"I don't care as long as I'm getting paid for it."

"Heh last time I said that, I was wearing just a blind fold."

Of course, no one can make it through a conversation without Nisha commenting with a sexual innuendo.

She was almost as bad as Moxxi, which usually would've humored them if it wasn't for the fact that they nearly got turned into purple dust an hour ago. Thanks to her..

Even though they weren't in the mood to smile and laugh at Nisha's remark, they still felt themselves relax as the tension of the moment was soon being lifted.

Jack found himself smirking at Nisha's comment, as he always does.

Clap-Trap was still looking at Nisha with confusion, he looked up at everyone and asked "Just a blindfold?! Wouldn't that mean you were nake...OH! heheheheh."

"Clappy? SHUT. UP. I swear... even Pickle is more mature than this rolling piece of rust. Besides.. what are you even excited I bet you don't even have a peni-" Jack quickly cut in trying to avoid where this conversation was headed

"OKAY kiddo's, as much as I'd love to continue this lovely conversation about robot...taints, you guys have some work to do. If Moxxi could convince Roland and Lillith to believe that I was the bad guy... imagine what she could say to everyone in Concordia."

Athena was taken back a bit by Jacks statement, he did have a point though. If Moxxi can convince Roland and Lillith, who are total stubborn hard-asses.. to turn their backs on Jack and kill him, then maybe they all underestimated her abilities. Even then it couldn't have been that hard, seeing how Jack murdered those scientists in cold blood and made them destroy the A.I., but even then that time was justified. It was either shoot or be shot at.

Wilhelm took quick notice of Athena's scowl and realized she was probably thinking of the scientists demise. He leaned in closer to her and whispered

"Athena I know your still thinking about what happened to those scientists"

Athena looked at Wilhelm with a dazed look on her face, she quickly thought to herself "How did he know that? And why was he staring at me?"

He continued "But it doesn't matter how you feel about it, were getting paid to find a vault and kill whoever gets in the way of that. Those scientists were in the way. We killed them, They're dead. Nothings going to change that."

Nisha glanced over at them wondering if they heard Jack or not

"Hey! Lovebirds! Did you hear that? We got our orders let's go."

Athena and Wilhelm looked up to see everyone looking at them with their arms crossed. Wilhelm quickly got a hold of himself and responded

"Orders?"

Jack sighed, never really liking to explain himself twice said

"I want the four of you to head to Concordia and see if there is any trace of Moxxi or Lillith and her little boyfriend."

"What happens if we do find something" Athena quickly asked.

"You call me over the ECHO and I'll have my second team check it out as soon as they arrive"

The vault hunters all shared quick looks at another before quickly asking in unison

"Second team?!"

Jack sighed as he remembered he forgot to tell them about the call he made to Tassiter for Hyperion reinforcements.

"Yes, while you were all fighting your way back here I made a call to my would be boss, and asked for a second team of soldiers to help us track down our attempted murderers...stupid dicks."

And on that note, the vault hunters nodded and left Jacks office, all of them thinking about who these new soldiers would be.

Especially Athena "Hope their just not fresh faces to be murdered in cold blood" She thought to herself.

They finished walking the long hall from Jacks office to the fast-travel station, and with that Clap-Trap punched in the code to Concordia and in mere seconds they all were in front of the jump pad that Clap-Trap loved so much.

Before any of them could start a sprint towards the bar they were quickly interrupted by Jack on the ECHO.

"Oh, by the way I forgot to tell you guys. Your all to stay in Concordia until the second team arrives, I told them to meet you in the bar. Athena I want you to fill them in on what happened and debrief them for the mission."

Athena responded agitated, never really being the patient type.

"Understood" She turned off the ECHO and walked into the bar with her comrades

"Great, more waiting...I hate waiting" Wilhelm took notice of Athena's annoyed glare "Hey Athena. Quit looking so angry, that's my job." Athena couldn't help but smile at Wilhelm's comment, he continued "C'mon lets go grab some drinks before Nisha takes it all."

END OF PROLOUGE