Krieg looked up from cleaning his axe when he heard a noise. It sounded like gunfire. He picked it up and walked to the door. Once the door opened he saw that there was GUN loaders all over the place.
"B IS FOR BULLETS! BITCH!" A midget wielding two guns screamed.
He saw that there was a man who threw a box upon the roof.
"You fellas meet the missus?" He asked rhetorically, as his turret mowed down loaders.
He then turned and saw the most beautiful woman he has ever laid his eyes upon.
"You won't enjoy this!" She spoke, picking up a loader with her siren powers. She threw it right out of the wall.
"Exterminate!" Spoke a new voice. He turned and saw that there was another girl.
"Your eyes deceive you / An illusion fools you all / I move for the kill." Spoke a distinctively male voice. He saw a sword pierce an engineer through the chest. Behind him appeared the speaker who was a very tall male.
Before he could join the fray an explosion sent everything to black.
Krieg started to come to from unconsciousness, the first thing he noticed was he was cold very, very cold. He tried moving and noticed that it felt like he was frozen solid. He tried again and got some success. After about 10 minutes of trying he finally got success. He stood to his full height of 6'6 and looked around the clearing where he landed. He looked and saw that there was a body that looked fresher than the rest of them. He walked over to it and saw that it was the siren from the train.
"Are you ok?" spoke Krieg, his peaceful inner side taking control. He poked her and she started to stir.
"Ugh my head. Where am I?" she asked.
"I do not know." Krieg spoke.
"Oh well thanks for saving me. My name is Maya."
As her vision cleared she saw that there was a psycho crouching about two feet from her. He was wearing boots that had fur strapped to them. Over his right shin he had a guard that was made out of sheet metal. His pants were prison orange and were stained with old blood. He was not wearing a shirt showing his chiseled chest, which was also covered in scars. He had bandages around his right hand that reached up to his mid-bicep. On his left wrist was a gauntlet made out of sheet metal, much like his shin-guard. His face was covered by a white gas mask with the Vault symbol across it. A strip of leather covered his right eye.
As Maya looked at Krieg, he stared at her. She wore a yellow leotard that covered most of her chest, but it still exposed some cleavage. It also covered her right arm. She wore baggy cargo pants. Her sneakers were the same color as her leotard. Her hair was blue that matched her lipstick. She had porcelain white skin that complemented her beauty perfectly.
The minute she realized what Krieg looked like she yelped and started to crawl backwards. Krieg sighed and stood up, which was a bad idea due to his towering height. She started to cower even more once he did that.
He sighed, again and said, "I will not hurt you."
"How do I know you wont?" Maya asked him.
"You don't." Krieg replied again.
He started to walk toward a light in the horizon.
"Wait!" Maya exclaimed.
She started to jog toward him and caught up, right as she tripped over a body. Krieg her and turned, right as she slammed into him. Normally this would due nothing, but since he was on ice he slipped and went backwards. He felt a weight on his chest and looked down to see Maya clutching him in a death grip.
"Are you ok?" Krieg asked
Maya opened her eyes a little and saw that he wasn't skinning her alive.
"Uh, yeah I'm fine."
"You sure?"
"Yes, now can you get up please?" Maya spoke, with a dusting of pink on her face from feeling his chest.
"You are the one on top of me." Krieg deadpanned
The siren scrambled to get up and save herself from further embarrassment. They started to move forward. After about an hour of walking they came across an outcropping overlooking a small town. There they saw a very, very large group of bandits surrounding a man in chains and the apparent leader.
"Any last words Skag-lick?" The leader asked.
"Uh nope not that I can think of." Spoke the prisoner
"THEN DIE!" he cocked the hammer of a shiny revolver. As he was about to pull the trigger, the prisoner spoke up.
"OH I remembered my last words! Tell your mom her money is on the counter" He spoke with a smirk.
"THAT'S IT I WAS GOING TO MAKE IT QUICK! BUT NOW I AM GOING TO MAKE IT PAINFUL!" screamed the leader
The prisoner then let out a low laugh.
"WHAT IS SO GODDAMN FUNNY?"
"The fact you think I came alone." He spoke
Right as the leader was about to speak again, a shot rang out. The leader's head exploded. Another shot rang out and hit the chains binding the prisoner to the ground. He reacted instantly by lashing out and tackling the closest bandit and snapping his neck. He picked up the bandits shotgun and started hip firing into the crowd. The mysterious sniper got two more shots off before the bandits located their position. As the sniper ran down the hill he pulled out two SMGs and started shooting one of them the other one found its way to the prisoner. The prisoner ran out of shells and threw the shotgun like a javelin, which imbedded its barrel in one of the bigger bandit's face. He grabbed the SMG out of the air and started shooting at the bandits. He threw it and it hit one bandit in the throat, crushing his trachea. He lashed out and grabbed a psycho by the arm and swung him beating other bandits to death with their comrade. Just then a turret appeared in the middle of the group and started shooting at the bandits. A very large robot started hacking away at other ones.
There was a cry of "HAHAHAHAHA YOU'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!" and with that the familiar midget opened fire on the bandits.
A blade appeared as it bisected a bandit.
"I guess that's our queue" Krieg spoke
He started to run straight for the large group of bandits that remained.
"GRIND GRIND GRIND KILL KILL KILL!" he screamed, his psycho side coming you once more.
Maya activated her Phaselock and something strange happened. All nearby enemies got pulled toward her original victim.
"Wow. I love my powers." She spoke.
As they finished of the last of the bandits, they met in the center of the town.
"Thanks for the save." Spoke the sniper
"Pssssh I could have gotten 'em" spoke the prisoner, which got him an elbow to the ribs from the sniper.
"Introduce yourself dumbass." said the sniper, "My name is Jake"
"My name is Zen." the prisoner said.
The group all looked at each other.
Zen looked at the soldier and the midget. The soldier was about 6'0 and had a beanie with an eye patch. (Wetworker head) His jacket had a skull on the left arm. The jacket was a dark shade of brown. He had brown pants on with his SDU over his right hip. His left boot had a straight sheet of metal that had caution tape over it. His other one was a grey color.
The midget had on a light orange shirt. Under it was a white shirt. He had on a harness that held his SDU under each armpit. He wore blue jeans and had on cowboy boots under his jeans. He had spurs on the back of them. Both of them had a striking feature. The soldier held himself with the upmost respect. The midget had muscles on his muscles that sat on his muscles.
Jake looked at the lanky one and the other girl. The tall one had on a one-piece sneaking suit. It was black and had a blood red zero on the left side of his chest. He only had four digits surprisingly. His helmet was just a reflective visor that covered most of his head.
The girl was a lot younger than the rest of the group, bar himself and Zen. She had on black and white stockings, and a short skirt. She had on a sleeveless hoodie that was partially unzipped revealing a black shirt that had a white skull on it. She had her red hair in two pigtails on either side of her head. Her left arm was a metallic limb. She had on a tool belt with various things on it. She wore simple sneakers.
Krieg and Maya looked at the two newcomers. The sniper was about 6'5 and had dirty blond hair, which was uncombed. He had on a pair of reflective blue sunglasses so they couldn't see his eyes. He had on a black zip up hoodie. He had a black webbed belt. His belt buckle had a symbol on it. The emblem was a white silhouette of an eagle holding an axe in its right claw and a shotgun in its left claw. Around the eagle was two circles of barbwire the outer most ring was white while the inner one was red. The way the wings were spread made it appear to look kind of like eye sockets. (State of Decay emblem). His pants were black jeans that had tears here and there. He had on a pair of converse. They were black with a white star on them.
The prisoner was around 6'4 and had messy brown hair. It was tucked under a cap that was black and had the same symbol as Jake's belt on it. He had on a pair of glasses that had a little blood on them. His eyes were a dark green. He had a green zip up hoodie on. He also wore a belt with the same symbol as his hat on the belt buckle. His jeans were grey and had blood on them. He wore a pair of boots that were tucked under his pants.
"Amigos I like them! They know how to kill stuff!" Salvador spoke with much glee.
"We need all the help we can get. Hunting that Vault is going to be challenging." Axton said
"Vault?" Jake asked
"That's the reason we are here. Is to hunt the mythical Vault." Maya said
"So are you guys asking us to join your group?" Zen asked
"Ci amigo. We would very much like for you to join us!" Salvador said
They nodded and then a shriek ran through the town.
"The hell was that?" Zen asked cleaning out his ear
They turned and saw that a robot had run into the electrical gate someone had set up.
"Was that Claptrap" Gaige asked as the group walked over to the robot. They heard a thud and saw that Zen had tripped over the chains still attached to his legs. The group all started cracking up, except Zer0. Jake walked over and took the chains off of him. Zen started grumbling as he stood. They all ignored him as they walked over to the downed robot.
"What do we do now?" asked a dejected Gaige.
Right as she said that the gate swung open and an old English man came out.
"A pleasure to meet you, Vault Hunter. I am Sir Hammerlock"
They just stared at the man.
"Now, if you could hand me the robot's eye, please."
They did so and he jammed his hand into Claptrap's face.
"Well that was easy." Zen said
He stood up and walked over to a power generator and turned it on. The group then received side missions. They split up into pairs of two.
Zen and Jake would hunt down MidgeMong.
Salvador and Axton would clear the town of bullymongs.
Zer0 and Gaige would grab the shields.
Maya and Krieg would collect bullymong fur.
-With Maya and Krieg-
"So why is it when your in combat you're psycho-like, but when we are not you are normal?"
"I suffer from dual-personalities. One of them is a mass murdering psychopath, and the other is I."
"That explains a lot"
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" came a scream from the distance.
"What was that?" Maya asked
"I have no clue." He responded
-With Zer0 and Gaige-
They were currently riding up an elevator that Gaige had to fix up because Claptrap had tried to have sex with it. Once they started to go up it Gaige broke the silence.
"Are you a guy?"
Zer0 nearly fell over at the stupidity of the question.
"Yes I am a guy./ Is it not that obvious?/ I have no breasts." Zer0 said with a '…' over his visor.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" came a scream from the distance.
"What was that?"
"I do not know." Replied Zer0
-With Salvador and Axton-
"These bullymongs are very easy to kill!" Salvador exclaimed killing three more.
"Yes they are." Axton said killing some of them.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" came a scream from the distance.
"What was that?" Axton asked
"I dunno"
-With Zen and Jake-
They were currently walking to the waypoint. Killing all of the things that came into their path.
"This is really easy." Said a sad Zen killing another bullymong by kicking it in the face.
"I agree I thought this would be harder." Jake said shooting one in the face.
They came into the town still killing all of the bandits no problem. They went up some stairs and looked around. They spotted a door and walked toward it. Once they reached it the doors flew open and a very large bullymong came out with a midget sitting on its back shooting two shotguns. The bullymong swung and hit Zen sending him into a wall.
Jake opened fire on the bullymong. He managed to inflict some damage on it before it closed the distance between them. It swung and Jake ducked under it. Zen came flying out of the wall. He picked up a dropped buzz-axe and threw it at MidgeMong. It nailed him in the arm crippling it. Zen picked up a chunk of wood and swung. He hit MidgeMong in the face with a crack. This entire time the midget was shooting at them. He finally broke Zen's shield, right as a round entered his face.
"I call that shot 'interfacer'. Get it cause it enters your face?" Jake asked
"Boo!" Zen called out
"Shut up!"
The bullymong swung again and knocked Zen into Jake causing them both to fall off the upper floor.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Zen screamed, "This water is freezing!"
"Don't be a little girl!" Jake called out seemingly used to it already.
The bullymong landed in the water and punched Zen again.
"PUNCH HIM FOR ONCE!" Zen called
Seemingly ignoring Jake, it charged at Zen.
"OH COME ON!" he yelled
The bullymong swung and Zen ducked under it swinging his own fist. The fist made contact with the chest and both of the combatants slid backwards.
"Ow my hand hurts now." Complained Zen
"Duck!" Jake called out and right as Zen ducked a shot rang out. The bullet passed straight through its tiny little head.
"You couldn't have done that sooner?" Zen asked
"Didn't have a shot."
He groaned and they made their way back to the group. Once the made it back to the small town they saw that everyone was in different outfits. May had the same cargo pants on but instead of her leotard she had a deep blue turtleneck. Over it she wore a dark blue leather jacket. On her head was a blue cap and she wore light blue reflective sunglasses and over her ears she wore yellow earmuffs. (Trigger Pull head)
Gaige had traded her stockings and skirt she had on for a pair of black jeans and had on a fuzzy winter hat. She wore a proud smirk on her face. (Furry Ferocity head)
Zer0 had a tall collar and a pure white mask with a grey zero on it. (Nihilism head) But his outfit was the same as before.
Instead of Krieg's prisoner orange prison pants he now had pitch-black pants on. Instead of his gas mask he had on a black cowboy hat with some bullets on it, and on his face was a worn and torn black bandanna. ("Reach for the skis" head)
Salvador had put a cowboy hat with a feather it on (The beard with no name head except with his normal beard.), and threw a brown duster coat on.
Axton had taken off his beanie and eye patch. And in its place was a bandanna that was two colors, left was black and the right was a light green. It split right down the middle. On the middle was a snow-white skull. His hair had grown into dreadlocks and on the middle one was a medallion. He had also grown a beard somehow. (Advanced warfare + Scurvy dog skin and head.)
"How did you guys do that?" asked Jake
"There is a quick change station over there." Maya said pointing, and as soon as she said that the two sprinted over to it.
Jake was first, when he was done, all that had changed was the fact he had orange sunglasses now.
Zen shrugged and walked up to the station and changed his hoodie color, green to red. They all started to move toward Claptrap who was starting down a hill when Jack spoke up.
"Hey! How— ah, these pretzels suck… So, how's you day been buddy? We haven't really talked much since I left you for dead. Hey you think you'll freeze to death out there? Nah, probably not. The bandits will get you first. My day? It's been pretty good. Just bought a pony made of diamonds, heh, yeah! Because I'm rich. So, you know. That's cool. 'Kay-bye."
They ignored his ranting in favor walking down the hill. As they made it to the bottom a bullet impacted right by Jake's face.
"Get to cover!"
They all took cover behind some steel. A sea of bullets started impacting all around them.
"WHY THE HELL IS THERE SO MANY?" Zen called out
Jake shrugged and popped out of cover shooting at one's head.
"BOOM COLLATERAL!" he called out.
Zen realized something, "JAKE GIVE ME MY STUFF!"
Jake realizing it too, reached into his SDU and pulled out a black rod, and then a metal recurved bow. He threw them to Zen as he shot another bandit in the face. Zen picked up the bow and slid it onto his back with the string going across his chest. He gripped the black rod as it extended into a very large scythe.
"HEY KRIEG, I BET I CA KILL MORE!" he called trying to get the psycho into gear. It seemed to work.
"NO YOU ARE WRONG KNIGHT OF THE MEAT TABLE! THIS MEAT BAG WILL UN-ALIVE MORE THAN YOU!"
With that they both vaulted the cover to find about thirty bandits. Krieg ran up to one and screamed, "TAG YOU'RE IT"
Then proceeded to cut him in half. Zen saw that he had gained the lead and then cut one in half diagonally, he used the momentum and cut another in half at the waist. This continued for about five minutes. By the end both of the melee users were drenched in blood.
"15 SKIN PARACITES DOWN THE DRAIN." Krieg screamed, still in his battle high.
"Damn, 14" Zen said depressed.
"Never thought I would be happy about killing that many people." Krieg's non-violent half said.
"GOOD JOB MINION! NOW FOLLOW ME!" Claptrap called as he drove forward.
They killed some bandits further up and they walked across the bridge.
"I'm rackin' my brain trying to think of a name for that diamond pony I bought. I was gonna name it in honor of you, but that just feels immature. Maybe...'Butt Stallion'? Nah, that's even worse. I'll give it some more thought." Jack said and they managed two steps before he called back, "I should probably clarify - the diamond horse I've been telling you about? It's not a sculpture, or anything. It's a living horse that actually happens to be made of - actually; I'll just go get her. Butt Stallion! Say hello. (A horse whinnies in the background.) Butt Stallion says hello"
They paid no attention to him as they dropped down onto the ground.
"AHHHHH! It's Boom Bewm!" Claptrap called as he hid behind a steel pillar.
An explosion sent the group in all directions, and Zen straight into a wall.
"AH YOU ASSHOLE!" he called out as he pried himself from the wall.
He pulled himself out just in time to see the huge gun face him. He rolled out of the way, just as the wall where he just was exploded. He threw his scythe as the ground exploded in front of him. Jake and Zer0 took advantage of this and started sniping at Boom and Big Bertha. Gaige and Maya started using elemental SMGs on it. Salvador and Axton were using assault rifles. Axton threw his turret out and it started shooting at the cannon. Krieg was fighting Bewm when Zen flew into Bewm knocking the midget out.
"Asshole!" he cursed talking about Boom.
Krieg cut off Bewm's head then threw it at Boom.
"BEWM!" he called out.
He pushed a button and the cannon started shooting even faster. Zen saw this and picked up Bewm's body. He threw it and lodged it in one of the barrels. When the cannon fired from that barrel it jammed and exploded. Boom went flying into the sky and disappeared in a sparkle.
"Damn, he went to infinity and beyond." Zen said in awe.
They ignored his idiotic remark and kept going. They came up to a locked gate and the sighed.
"How do we get it open."
"Move it!"
"We can't just move it."
"NO, MOVE IT!"
The turned and saw that Zen was crouched down with a very large rocket launcher on his shoulder. The all ran out of the way except Claptrap who was turned around. Zen fired and then Claptrap went flying into the air.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" He yelled as he sailed through the air.
"Where did you get that rocket launcher?" asked Jake
"What are you talking about?"
"The giant… It's gone."
They all looked over to Zen to see him standing there like nothing happened. He shrugged and kept walking he walked forward and proceeded to kill most of the bandits. By the time the group caught up to the prisoner he had already rescued Claptrap and made it to the top. He was standing there staring into space.
"Hey man you ok?" Jake asked concerned. This seemed to snap Zen out of his trance.
"Yeah, I'm good. Just thinking about how I got in this whole ordeal."
"All over a bowl of Ramen right?"
"Heh yep all over a bowl of ramen."
They laughed and caught up to the group who had walked up to an ammo vending machine. They looked back at them curiously, and Maya asked, "What took you guys."
"Just talking." Jake responded
"Oh well you made it just in time."
They nodded and walked to the drop off. They all fell down onto the main deck of the ship. Suddenly fire shot up and the ship started to shake. They all looked over and saw there was an elephant of a man charging at them. He swung with an anchor hitting Salvador and throwing him into the wall, he didn't get back up. The kicked out and his meaty foot hit both Axton and Zer0 sending them into another wall, they didn't rise either. He lashed out with his anchor again hitting Gaige. She went flying over to a make shift wall. He punched with a vicious right hook and nailed Krieg in the back. Flynt originally was aiming for Maya but Krieg saw this and moved into the way of the blow. He propelled Krieg into Maya sending them both hurtling off the side of the ship.
Zen pushed Jake out of the way after the initial shock wore off. Just in time to the anchor fell like a meteor, completely disintegrating all the bones in Zen's right arm.
"AHHHHH!" came his blood-curdling scream. Before either Flynt or Jake could react Zen spun with a kick and sent the massive man stumbling backwards a few feet. When Flynt looked at the man whose arm he just turned to paste, he had to take a step back at the intensity of the glare.
Zen was trying to glare Flynt to death. He charged suddenly, and slid down then kicked Flynt's legs out from under him. The massive man fell with a huge rumble. Zen stood and was about to continue his attack but the anchor came again struck him in the chest sending him flying into a wall. Jake pulled out his sniper and started shooting at Flynt, going for headshots. Flynt turned and charged at him. He knocked the sniper out of his hand and was about to smash in his skull when an arrow impacted his helmet sending it off of his head. The giant turned and saw Zen holding the bow in a death grip with his left hand and holding another knocked arrow in his mouth. He let go of the arrow and it flew at superhuman speeds and impacted his chest. It embedded itself into his armor. Flynt picked up the disorientated sniper and threw him at Zen. They collided and Flynt was about to continue his assault when he went flying backwards. He looked up and saw that where he was previously was a pillar of metal! Flynt looked over to the two crippled fighters and saw that Jake had his hands on the ground with arcs of electricity around them.
(BOOM Alchemy)
Zen looked up and threw his arm up and the air around Flynt seemed to cool. Out of nowhere ice spikes shot down from the area and impaled Flynt and at the same time, metal spikes shot up from the ground and impaled him as well. Both Zen and Jake had blood dripping from their noses. They looked at one another and high-fived, before passing out.
Krieg and Maya both made it back up to the area and looked in shock. The spikes had remained there impaling the large bandit. They looked around and saw that Zer0, Axton, Salvador, and Gaige had started to stir from their brief nap.
"What hit me, a train?" asked Axton
"Close." Spoke Zer0
They looked over and saw the two unconscious young men. They saw that Zen's arm was a total mess. Blood was everywhere, and it was bent at an awkward ankle.
"He needs immediate attention, look his skin is becoming pale." Axton said as he jogged over to him. He grabbed Zen's arm and put it in a splint of metal scraps he had the others retrieve. They gently picked them up and carried them over to Claptraps ship.
By the time the two woke up they were arriving in Sanctuary.
"They are waking up!" exclaimed Salvador
"Jake, where are—AGH!" Zen had started but got cur off by putting weight on his right arm.
"Don't move your arm! It was completely obliterated!" Maya scolded.
"I remember now." Jake said the events from earlier coming back to him.
The car they were in came to a stop in front of a massive wall and gate. They all got out wand walked toward the city, or in Zen and Jake's case limped. Once they reached the center of the town they walked into the HQ. They had just received notification that the Firehawk captured Roland. They all started out for the car when they realized Zen was in no condition to fight.
"Zen you have to stay back here because of your arm."
"Nah it's good I can still shoot." He replied trying to keep going.
"No you have to stay here." Said Maya
Before anyone could say anything Tannis came up the stairs holding a cybernetic arm.
Why? Because she needed to, to advance the plot and stuff.
She put it down and walked away. They just stared at the spot in confusion.
"What?" Zen asked
Jake walked over to the arm and picked it up. He came back over and grabbed Zen's arm and focused. They both started to glow. Zen started to scream in pure agony. His arm was being deconstructed piece by piece. Once that was over Zen was standing there panting. He swiped the sweat from his face, with his right hand! He looked at it and just stared. He flexed his hand and asked, "How is it possible for my hand to move?"
"I wired it into your nerve system." Jake said in a 'the sky is blue' tone.
"How?" Gaige asked, for she had to do trial and error before she finally got it right. Even still controls clunky.
"When I started to take apart your old arm the nerves were still intact so I wired them into the arm so you can move it like it is your own." Jake explained.
They talked for a little longer then they decided to head out to go save Roland.
Done. So yeah it's a re-write cause I felt like it. The original will stay up, but will not be updated. Lots different in store for this one! Expect the following
Explosions
More explosions and finally
Better quality/ longer chapters.
Sorry bout that re-upload as when I originally submitted it cut off part of the end.
And I apologize for the lack of updates I was having laptop problems/ really bad writers block, but I am back and working on chapter two!
So please review and such and you will get a warm fuzzy feeling inside of you.