-10 Year Later-

Pandora still was Pandora. The place being filled with Psychos and Bandits and being a mix of beauty but sheer terror as well. Some monsters that lived in this planet have started to slowly go close to extinction due to the mammals having to survive off of killing and eating the meat of the creatures. The Skags still are around. Those things breed like rabbits after all. Still with Pandora things were changing besides the population of monsters. A huge utopia like city was coming to overthrow Handsome Jack's original city after standing tall and proud for so many years. The new city was to be bigger and better and shinier. A new forest like area was being formed due to vegetation starting to grow. New regions of this planet were being claimed by civilization to have it be a settlement. The times were changing drastically.

Deep in the center of The Rust Commons West and Dahl Headlands is a settlement that was growing and expanding as the years had went by. Slowly but surely, New Haven was seeming to become safe. Bandits attack it yes but they are stopped by the security of the place. Everyone worked as a team. As the mammals started to work on building new homes so the people will not sleep on bed rolls or on couches laid across the streets, a dark gray female wolf walk past mammals. Having on her dark black shades with her dark red tank top and dark blue jeans. The spring was here and the heat was coming in quickly. No more winter fur or clothing. She walked down with mammals avoiding her.

She was a tough cookie they say. A cookie full of razors and bent rusty nails. Even if she didn't kill you, the fear would drive you insane. She was always getting her targets killed. She walked down over to a small but popular bar. 'Moxxi's Red Light' Of course the attractive and hot female Moxxi herself didn't show here yet, but still at least they got a hot bartender that is close to her. Only in dreams could the males and females see that creepy yet hot clown lady.

She walked through the opened door with her looking around to see the place being packed. Mammals drinking and celebrating their good times, their bad times, or just how much progress they made. She looked around to see only mammals talking and being together. As buddies or couples. She growled slightly under her breath as it feels like this wasn't the right place. She still had the feeling of not giving up easily. So the wolf walks over to the bartender. The wolf seemed a little older with the cougar looking to look like Moxxi herself seemed young with clean fur and having to look pretty. The wolf coughed for her attention.

"Oh hey. What can I get for you today?" The bartender asks nicely as she cleans a mug with a clean rag she picked up as she was ready to serve for the drink.

"I'm looking for someone. They call her 'The Mammal With Clean Paws'" The wolf said with quickly noticing the bartender understanding fully who she was talking about. She points the wolf over at a table by the right with her looking over to a lonely mammal sitting there. A red panda female. The wolf thanked the bartender and walked over to her as she passes through the guys and gals to get to the mammal.

From there the red panda was drinking orange juice on her fifth cup. Taking it like a champ as it seems. She sighed softly. The red panda herself looked somewhat of a normal mammal. Lightish brown eyes. Dark brown hair. A white nuzzle with her arms and legs being black furred. Her face being a dark like red with her tail being almost the same redness as her face with light looking reddish stripes. She was an unusual red panda. Yet looking like a saint. She chug down her glass with her wearing a turquoise tank top with light red short jeans as she took a sigh. From there she sees the older wolf coming down to her.

The wolf sat down next to her to face her as she looked at the empty glasses. "You do love your orange juice."

The red panda smirked. "Well I gotta get my energy somehow. I got no time to get drunk." The two clearly knew of why the wolf was here. Pandora is mostly full of smart folk, even if it does involve something wicked. "So what brings you to me?"

The wolf went straight to the point. "I need your professionalism to help me." She looks over and puts her left paw on the table. "I know you can only do captures. Not once have you killed a single living soul. It's a rarity, but thank god I found someone like you."

"So I guess you want me to capture someone and bring them to you?" The red panda being a hunter and capturing mammals was indeed rare. Many mammals prefer to kill one another for stealing a gun, or robbing a bank, or even someone taking a good roast Skag sandwich. Mammals wanting other mammals to be captured was like finding a diamond among fake diamonds. You never can see it and it is rare to find.

"Four mammals. I got all of their faces and information on these Echo Recorders. They are coming here to Pandora." The wolf continued to explain as the red panda listened. She explains to the hunter that these mammals are all coming over in the following days. One tomorrow, then the other the next day, then the next next day, and finally the next next next day. Four days to get all four of them. Simple and basic.

The hunter looked over to the Echo's to see the details, the faces, and the time of arrival. She was having it mezmorized in her head. "So what is in it for me?" With that said, she saw the wolf slowly starting to grin. It must be something big. Or terrifying. Maybe both.

"Your reward is a big one. You know what Vaults are right?" The red panda nodded at the wolf. She knew well what Vaults were, so the wolf would had just went on of the history for nothing. "Well, those four have the key to open one. Full of loot and treasure. Hell it be enough to get out of this place!"

The two stared at each other with the hunter rubbing her own chin. Having a thinking face to think of an idea. From there the wolf said of how much she would get out of it. Thirty-five percent of the loot from the Vault. Fair deal. Yet the hunter still scratched her chin.

"Give me thirty-nine percent and I will get these mammals for you." The red panda sounded serious but sternly fair. The wolf couldn't refuse an offer, especially since this was important to her. The deal was made. Yet one last thing had to be mentioned. "Before I do this, shall I call you ScarLady or do you actually have a name?" A joke but still she had to be tough against someone who looked and sounded tough. She called the wolf that since she sees a scar on the left cheek of her, showing she has been in some fights before and knows what she is doing.

"The name is Marcie." Marcie says as then it was the red panda's turn to show trust in this new partnership she was in. The name of the hunter being Katrice. "Katrice huh? Lovely name." The wolf slowly gets up as she takes off her glasses to expose her dark red eyes. Almost looking like blood. "I got stuff to do. When you capture one of them let me know. When you get the fourth one, I will be coming to get them."

"Where you want me to take them? To your place?" Katrice asked with Marcie shaking her head. She then pulls out another Echo Recorder with a map showing of the location that she and the targets will be at.

"In the Parched Fathoms there is a big red house I built. It's more of a safe house that keeps the Skags and Drifters away. You and them will be safe in there and you got all the MRE's for you and them to eat." Marcie was prepared. She must had planned this whole thing through out some time now. How long? No one knows. Katrice understood as she started to rest on her chair with the wolf bidding her farewell and letting her know to read the Echo Recorders for who they are and where they will be.

Katrice started to look over to the Echo Recorders. Taking a sigh with a smile. "One last job. Then I get us out of this waste of a planet." She takes the Echo's and starts to carry them as she pays the bartender a tip with the cougar thanking her as the red panda goes out. The smile of hers still showing. With the sun seeming to be extra brighter today.

-4 Days Later-

Diana was here. Walking down to the Parched Fathoms after having to have drove over to here.
It has been far too long. Heck it all seemed like a faded memory. Yet it seemed so much as if she never left. Like the world still feels like home even though despite the fact she was only here for a short amount of time. The gang did go through the adventures but dang was it fun. Diana saw this as a reunion. To see how well her friends are doing in their lives. She has been busy. Dealing with her family in a new utopia with Hyperion no longer in control of it. It felt at ease on her mind as she returned to see her family. Her utopia. No longer in control of the big 'H'

She looks over to the big moon to still see 'Helios Two' still in development. It is almost complete and it is being better than ever it seems. Still the skunk didn't care. All she had in her mind was meeting her friends. She got a message from Waverly, who insisted to come down to discuss about another 'True Vault'. Diana had on a green shirt and camo shorts for the hot and dry environment. She wiped off some of the sand off of her glasses lens with her looking around for any sign of them. A fire. A gunshot. A huge welcome banner. Anything.

The only thing she could see was a big red looking shelter. "Huh. I guess they must be in there." No Bandit nor Psycho or anything mammal could survive this harsh region. They would be cooked like meat out here. The skunk noticed the shelter itself wasn't far off. So she walked. The Drifters seemed to be nowhere near in sight. No vibrations or nothing. It just feels total emptiness. Like the only thing left to see was Skags. And those things are weaker than a stick. She walk over on the sandy ground with her getting closer to the place. They obviously would be in there. It is both deemed safe and also good shade. Finally Diana can relax and see what her friends are doing.

The knocks on the door gently. No response. She does it again. Same answer. "Hello-gah!" Diana yelped in pain as she look over to her right leg to see a white dart having to stab her in the left leg. As if in seconds her vision started to feel woozy. Her leg and paw were starting to show nothing but blurs. Her legs felt weak with her starting to fall down to her right side. Her eyes starting to feel faint with the world looking as if everything is wavy like the ocean. The only thing that she could bear witness to was a tall red blob starting walk over to her. Diana's eyes starting to close to only show the darkness.

The skunk started to slowly open her tired aching eyes for her vision to slowly come out as blurry waves. Until after a couple of blinks she started to see clearly. Seeing nothing but a wooden table with empty light brown bags on it with plastic cups on the floor The wooden floor being the same color as the table. A dark oak. Diana tries to move but sees her legs were tied up with chains and her hands on her stomach being handcuffed as she was laying on the same said floor. She started to move hersit to where she got her upper body up and look around.

"About time you woke up." A male voice startled her as she looked over to the back of her. From there she saw a familiar blue face along with other faces.

"Holy shit Spazzie?" Diana called him by his other name since he only wants to be called that to protect his identity. She also noticed the crazy familiar looking 'Funny' hybrid Waverly.

"Hey Diana." Waverly said with her excitement as her tail wagged. She looked so young despite the fact she was an adult. Her same face and same fur looking as the first day they met her. Next to her was the rabbit they all know and love.

"Trish you got caught too?" Diana said with the rabbit nodding. The skunk also noticed their feet were tied up and handcuffed as well.

"Yeah. I got darted like the rest of the two." Trish explained as Diana looked around to see if the crazed mammal was there. "Relax, she just went out to get into contact with someone. Reception sucks at this place."

"I don't know who this mammal is but damn are they smart." Spazz said with him looking over to Diana. "She knew about where my 'Weapon Cube' was stashed!" The skunk tilted her head slightly from him speaking about this cube about weapons.

From there Waverly spoke up. "His sniper rifle that he holographicly deploys. Meanwhile that mammal putted some ring on me. It can't make me open any Elemental Vortex's." She growled from how she tried so many times yet can never seem to break the gray rock like ring glowing a light purple.

The four of them looked at each other, seeing if any one of them had some sort of plan. An idea? Something crazy to escape at least. Nothing.

"Well shit…" Diana said with her taking a breath. "Do we got anything to say out loud?"

Waverly raised up her paws. "Oh I do." She coughed slightly. "Ok. My name is not really Emery." The three companions look over to her with some confusion. "It really is Waverly. I thought we all was still doing fake names or something."

Despite the shock Diana tried to continue before Spazzie then interrupted. "Well I didn't get married. I got dumped."

Waverly and Trish gasped with Trish looking surprised. "Are you kidding me? What happened to that boyfriend of yours?"

"Dumped me and left me. So now that damned wedding ring is in the drawer in my room." He sighed sadly with Diana feeling sorry to hear about it. Then Trish took the spotlight.

"I got nothing to hide really." She fixes her glasses and adjusts them right. Diana then groaned and tells them she was talking about any sort of idea of a plan or, more importantly, why they are captured. The rest just shrugged with no idea of what to do. "Well I got nothing. I wish I had brought my shotgun with me."

With the four alone with their thoughts they had to think. Quick. As their minds trailed off to think of some smart like plan the door opened to which the group looks over to face who was going in the house. It was the mammal in red. It clearly was shown as to why Diana saw red. Head to toe was was nothing but a dark blood red color on this mammal. Right away the four of them knew what this stranger was wearing. Crimson Lancer Defender outfit. This was the Badass kind too. Glowing red lens. The right arm and shoulder having a shield on it that is only able to protect the right arm. The armor of it was bulletproof and tough to crack down. Even a missile could be stopped by this monstrous like armor. The helmet, the chest, and the legs and gloves. If you had one, you were the nightmare of every Bandit, Psycho, and even monsters. A walking death machine.

The mammal walked over to the table as it hopped up and sat down next to the empty MRE bags. Sitting there looking at the group. They couldn't see the face due to the helmet but they waited for it to respond. The size of the mad lad seemed almost bigger than Spazzie and Trish. Even close to beating Waverly's height as well. From there Diana asked it a simple question. "Who are you and why are you doing this?"

That Lance Defender just stood there. Looking over to the skunk who was ready to take a fighting chance. Even though by the side of the unknown mammals leg was a Patton revolver with scope included. From there it was time to let the mammal speak up. It's voice being of a deep echo as if it was in a cave.

"I am nobody."

(Zoosonas)
Diana belongs to Skeleton-guys-and-ragdolls
Spazzie belongs to me
Waverly belongs to Feverwildehopps
Trish belongs to Trashasaurusrex
Katrice belongs to Msitubeatz