Rumble In The Forest
"Hello my 30,000 subscribers. Love saying that. Anyway, I am currently in a beautiful tropical rain forest with red leaves instead of green and all of them have rakk corpses at the tip of it. Has a certain je ne sais quoi. Half of this place looks dead and the other half has really red grass in like patches all over. But nowhere I can charge my ECHOrecorder sooooo this will be a sho-" Gaige speech is cut short by a sudden gun shot that doesn't sound too far away from her.
"Shocking battle up ahead." Gaige continued. She runs up ahead and stands on a cliff that is only fifteen feet above a battle. On one side of the field there are several bandits shooting at a lone target on the opposite side of the field. He is stuck in cover behind a tree. All the bullets from the several bandits gave him no opening to shoot back. Gaige smirks on seeing this.
" Oh my god. I can finally try out Deathtrap on some actual human targets. Well ones that actually fight back. I'mma give you guys at home the play-by-play of the awesomeness that is about to go down." Gaige raises her robotic arm and flexes her fingers. Then Deathtrap spawns right in front of her. She points at the group of bandits and yells,"Sic em boy!"
Deathtrap sets its eyes on its targets and then floats over to the group of bandits. The bandits saw this and instinctively say, "Hyperion bot. Shoot it!" All of their attention goes to the robot floating down to them.
"He Is NOT a Hyperion bot! He is way better than those lame droids. Rip his head off D-oh he actually did. Awww now he just cut that guy down the middle. That's my robot! Ok now they have him surrounded but don't worry my subscribers he has a special move for this situation. ROBOT RAMPAGE! DT just cut all the bandits that surrounded in half like shing!" Gaige makes a cutting motion with her robot arm." The blood looks so cool shooting out of them. I didn't even know people had that much. Oh if only all you could see-" She looks at her ECHOrecorder and notices that it is all out of power." Huh, I wonder when it died.
While Gaige is admiring her creation's work, Axton notices the lack of bullets coming his way. He peeks out from his cover and sees what is happening.
"Is that a Hyperion bot killing bandits?" He looks over to Gaige on the ledge." And who is that girl?" He gets thrown out of his thoughts when he sees more bandits coming from his peripheral. Axton moves over to a fallen tree and goes undercover.
Five bandits all holding bandit manufactured assault rifles come his way." Need to take them out before they pin me again." He thinks. Axton quickly takes a grenade from his belt and chunks his grenade at them. Before it had explode, the group of bandits scattered away, all going in five different directions, that's when Axton made his move.
He ran for the guy that went to the left. Axton wrapped his left arm around the bandit's neck; turning him into a human shield. The other bandits did not see this as a problem so they started lighting up their comrade. Axton shot one bandit dead before his human shield's usefulness was gone. He tosses him away and goes to cover next to a nearby tree. The three remaining bandits went undercover by nearby trees as well.
They pin him under cover just like Axton feared. He doesn't see any other option around him, until he heard a crackle sound nearby. He is able to see just enough outside to notice that the tree in front of him is breaking because of the bullets. Then the most craziest idea came to his head. He smirked and pulled out his axe from his backpack. He grips it went both hands and starts chopping down the tree. Just before it was completely split in half, Axton sent a grenade inside one of its holes. He kicks it down and yells, "Timber!"
The tree comes falling towards the bandits. It crushes one of them behind a fallen trunk. The other two couldn't see the grenade inside so both of them were taken out in the explosion.
"That was way too easy." Axton says as he twirls his pistol into his holster. As if those words summoned them, more bandits came after Axton. This time with skags on leashes.
"Screw my luck."
"Don't mess with a girl and her bot, suckas!" Gaige yelled at all of the decimated bandits below her. Their bodies begin to digistruck away when Gaige jumps down to fist bump Deathtrap. She sees more bandits ahead of them and decides to join in the fight."Let's go boy."
"Pinned under cover again. I guess it's time to give my girl some target practice." Axton says. He takes out his Sabre turret but doesn't toss it when he sees the robot from before float in and start killing all the bandits. Axton puts on a confused face and says, "Again?" Gaige runs up to him and points at him.
"You're not a bandit are you?" She asks.
"If I was you would've had more holes in you than a machine gun can make." He answers back. Gaige starts laughing hard at hearing that.
"No YOU would've been dead. My bot Deathtrap would have sliced ya if he saw you as a threat." Axton looks out from the tree he's behind and sees her robot tearing up the bandits. He looks back at her and says.
"Do you work for Hyperion? "
"What?! Hell no! I rather sell my entire MLP figure collection then work for those no talented hacks."
"Your figure collection? " He says questionably. "That doesn't sound too convincing as selling your life."
"Trust me, if you put the amount of time and money I put in to get them then they start to become worth more than your life."
"Ok I believe you." Axton looks her over, up and down, but sees she is lacking something. "Where is your gun?"
Gaige dismisses his comment with a slight wave of her hand." Guns are over rated. All I need is DT."
Axton raises a brow on hearing that. He was about to question her further but she left him in order to get a closer look on her robot going to work on the bandits. "Hey wait!" He starts running after her but then gets tackled by a skag.
Gaige stands behind a tree and sees bandits climbing all over DT. Hitting him with an assortment of weapons. None of that slowed him down, instead he spins his whole body clapped and all of the bandits around him are sent flying back. Unfortunately, DT wasn't able to kill them, so they simply started round two of their smack down.
"Please you can't hurt DT with low grade weapons like that. You're gonna have to try a lot-" Gaige hears the sound of fast footsteps approaching her spot. It sounds too quick to be human but she could also hear maniacal screaming as well. She put them both together and what she thought has just jumped over a fallen tree and starts chasing her. It was a psycho riding an adult skag.
When Gaige saw this, she got from behind the tree and starts to sprint away." Deathtrap, hey DEATHTRAP! Your master needs a hand or a claw here!" Unfortunately for her, her invention couldn't hear or see her. It was too busy trying to pull psychos off of itself. "Crap basket." Gaige says under her breath.
She keeps running, occasionally looking back to see the skag riding psycho getting even closer to her. The fear on her face just excited them both. Gaige had gotten a far distance away now. She couldn't see Deathtrap nor Axton. She is all alone, and that thought made her panic. Negative thoughts start coming into her mind. She starts to believe she won't make it. As she thinks that, her legs start to become exhausted. Her pace slows as her heartbeat starts getting faster from the exhaustion and panic. "I'm going to die." She thought to herself.
Gaige turns her head one final time to see her death bringer close by. The psycho raises up his buzz axe and then gets struck by a metal object to the head. "What was that?" Gaige thought. She saw the psycho get hit far back behind a row of trees. A few mechanical noises later, she hears what she assumes to be a death gurgle come from him. She then averts her attention from the dead psycho to the live threat before her, the skag. It had stopped due to the momentary lost of its rider. Once it had adjusted, it started chasing Gaige again, faster this time. Gaige knew she wouldn't be able to outrun it, but that didn't stop her from trying. She didn't get a far distance when the skag tackled her from behind. They both fall on a patch of red grass. Gaige felt as if several needles just pierced her skin. The skag then sunk its teeth into her back, tearing clothes and skin. Leaving a bloody wound on her. The pain made her scream loud enough to shake the trees. It felt worse than when she cut off her own arm.
Gaige had admitted death earlier but she still couldn't accept it. With the very last of her strength she starts to try to crawl away but the skag pins her arms down. Gaige couldn't help but begin to cry at her appending death. She waits for the final bite, all the while preparing for the ensuing pain she thought death would bring, but nothing happened. In fact, she felt the weight lifted off her shoulders. She looks to the right and sees Deathtrap clawing the skag that was previously on her to death. It turned around to its master with blood soaked hand and claw then floated over to her to help her up.
"Thanks DT. You're…the best." Gaige grew tense to hear more footsteps coming for her. She turns around preparing for the worst but only sees Axton jogging towards her.
"What the hell were you thinking?!" Axton shouted. Deathtrap began floating towards him, murder his clear intention. Axton put up his pistol to fight but Gaige raised her arm in front of Deathtrap in order to stop it.
"Easy DT. He's….friendly. " She says in between breaths. Axton withdraws his gun and starts to speak again." You almost got killed getting that close to the enemy."
"It's no big…Deathtrap had my back until the very end…..he'll never leave me." Gaige leaned on her robot and as if it sensed the irony, Deathtrap digistrucked away. It's disappearance made her stumble a bit, but she regained her composure. The little of it she had.
"Unless his timer runs out.… That battle really was only a minute….how….convenient." Gaige says. Axton begins to walk over to her.
"You rely on that thing too much."
"Deathtrap is NOT a thing. He is the….best….robot….ev-" Finally the exhaustion completely takes over her mid speech. She begins to collapse but Axton runs over to stop her from falling. He lays her down gently face first on the ground, away from the red patch of grass, and notices the big wound that is still bleeding on her back.
"I need a doctor. Fast!"
A/N- Thank ya'll for reading this. I don't have much to say about this chapter other than I really couldn't think of a area on Pandora to put this, so I made one up. Anyway I have a question for all the people who feels like answering, what is your favorite level of the game? Mine has to be the area in which you save Roland.( I wish I could think of the name right now.) I just really like the area because of the loaders. It's like a war the first time you get there and it is so much fun to see the loaders killing the other bandits. Also the loaders are a fun enemy to fight 'cuz of all their little weak points.
Chapter 2 will be up next Sunday.