Rhys paced back and forth as he thought about everything. Should he hide the body elsewhere? He knew that Fiona would go after it if it stayed here, would she even be able to get in though? What if she did, she would surely destroy the body so he couldn't bring back Jack, no one would listen to his reasoning behind it. If anyone else ever found about it...
He shook his head and pushed the coffin shut. That wasn't going to happen. The brunette man was determined to keep this hidden at least until he could bring Jack back.
Nonetheless he had decided to worry about this later for now he had work to do. Walking down the hall and locking the door behind him he made his way to his desk. This was when he saw Vaughn had called him four times when he was in there.
"What the-?" He murmured to himself as he reached down to call him back but had heard someone outside of the doors trying to break it open.
"Bandits." He whispered before reaching into his desk and grabbing the box inside of it. Ducking down he had been able to hide himself just as the metal doors had swung open to his office.
"Okay, good 'es not here. Go search the room!" A woman ordered from inside of the room. "They are gonna catch on soon if we don't hurry! So find it and lets go!"
Rhys eyes flickered around in front of him as he thought about what to do. His options were either to run off and risk getting shot or continue to hide and hope he didn't get caught. Or there was always..
His eyes lowered to look down at the box. He had to do it, he wasn't a great fighter and he knew only one person who could kill these bandits without ease. Only one person that could be a hero and help him in this moment, so slowly he opened up the box and his pocket knife and started to pull his cybernetics out of his head before inserting the new ones in carefully.
Please let this work and not backfire on me. He had thought to himself.
Fiona watched as Vaughn paced around the room. His expression was filled with concern as he muttered to himself.
"Vaughn.." Fiona started, getting no type of response from him. "Vaughn! Stop it, we are trying to stay out of view so they don't shoot at us. As far as they know we have no idea they are here so that means they won't attack us yet."
"Any response?" Sasha asked Vaughn, looking as concerned as he was.
"Nothing." Vaughn mumbled, shaking his head and starting to walk towards the door. "You guys stay here I am going to go find him."
"Woah, hell no!" Fiona yelled, pulling him back and standing in between him and the door. "That is a suicide mission at the moment. Rhys will be fine..probably. If not then there is nothing that you can do for him if you just end up getting yourself killed!"
"But not helping our leader, no our friend is traitorous! You wouldn't know Fiona but this is what friends do for each other, they have each others backs!" His voice got louder as he continued to speak.
"Guys, please calm down both of ya. We have to stay quiet here or else they will notice us." Sasha yelled quietly to both of them. She had stood there for a moment and waited until they calmed down before speaking again. "Now, Fi you know I love you right, I always have your back I mean we are sisters, but Vaughn is right. This is Rhys we are talking about, we need to save him if he is in danger."
Fiona glared at Vaughn as he gave her a smug grin but slowly shook her head and stepped away from the door. "Okay, where would he be at right now?" She questioned, looking out into the hall to make sure no one was near them.
"Well, I'd say his room or office but he could always be at the vault. It has all of our expensive and rare equipment and weapons." Vaughn replied, typing something into his phone. "I am going to try and track his Cybernetics though and it says..he is...in the office. We need to hurry." He pressed a few buttons and shook his head. "There are...6 other living people in the room right now it states."
"Okay, what are we waiting for, lets go save his sorry ass!" Fiona said, making sure her gun had bullets in it.
Vaughn grabbed his own weapons and followed behind the sisters towards the office, hurrying so they didn't get caught by other bandits.
"I can input the emergency code in to shut down the system." Vaughn said, messing with the locks for a bit.
"Hurry Vaughn!" Sasha yelled as she pointed her gun towards the door, ready to fight.
"Shut up, this is a hard process and if I mess up we will be killed on spot!" He yelled, messing with the system locks. "Okay, aaand...got it." He stepped back and saw the doors fly open. Ready to fight he turned his gun inside of the room but lowered it quickly when he saw all of the bandits were dead.
"Rhys!" Sasha yelled, running into the room and looking around.
"Bro, where are you?!" Vaughn said, looking around the room. "No sign of him and...his eye."
Looking at the desk they saw the Cybernetics sitting on top of it. He shook his head. "Not good, I can't track him without THIS Cybernetic inside of him. I don't know of any other he could have used so that means he has none in him."
"Okay, so we do this the old fashioned way." Fiona commented, walking towards the large metal doors that were still open. "Lets split up to cover more ground. Then we can warn others as well."
"Good plan, Fi." Sasha agreed as she left the room.
"Shit..ow...ow." Rhys complained as he walked down the hall, trying to stop the bleeding of his shoulder. "Damn bandit shot my damn shoulder."
"Congratulations cupcake, wanna prize?" A sarcastic voice echoed in his head before flickering in front of him. "How about killing me again? You fuckers all seem to find enjoyment out of that."
"Shut up, Jack." Rhys replied, stopping and hiding when he saw another Bandit coming his way.
"You owe me now though, fucker. I saved your ass back there. No reason too, I should've let you die." Jack continued, watching the bandit walk by. "So why did you plug me back in anyway? You that fucking stupid?"
"I was trying to find us common grounds of a deal asshole. For now you need to help me or else you won't get out of this head. Or worse I could unplug you and let you sit in the box for another few years." He argued quietly, stopping for a moment when he saw the bandit go by. He felt his arm go on its own and stab her in the chest. He had forgotten that Jack could control his arm for a moment and he shuddered at the thought he could for a moment.
"What kind of deal, Princess?" Jack asked, sounding interested in what he had to say. Good he at least had his interest with making a deal.
"I have your body Jack and I know where everything is to do a revival process."Rhys said, stopping in front of a giant safe and typing in the code.
"Wait wait...Pumpkin. You have my body?! Oh man, Rhysie maybe you aren't an absolute dick!" He cheered, trying to wrap his arm around Rhys but remembering he was just a hologram it went straight through him. "Oh yeah...oh...well. You get the point!"
"There are two parts of the deal!" Rhys said, stopping suddenly.
"Of course..fine...what the hell do you want, Rhysie?" He asked, sounding a little less enthusiastic.
"One, you help me get rid of these bandits-" Rhys started to say only to be cut off.
"That's easy. Have you met me, killing is like a hobby for me!" He replied, laughing a bit. At that moment Rhys pulled out a gun and held it out. Jack controlled his arm and shook his head, pointing to another gun he spoke again. "Try that one cupcake. If I control you I want a weapon that will really blow their brains out. Now what else do you want? I know that isn't all."
"Yeah, well second off I want you to help me run Atlas. I have no idea what the hell I am doing Jack." Rhys admitted to him. He was surprised that Jack hadn't tried to kill him already and was going along with his deal.
"Of course you don't Pumpkin. You are too gentle on everyone. That is why you can't run it properly." He nodded at Rhys when he held the gun. "This works better. Plus it has a faster reload."
"So, you get me out of here and you help me run Atlas, WITHOUT murdering anyone unless necessary and when I say that I mean they have to be attacking you or threatening our people. Those days are over for you. You agree to those terms and I will bring you back to life by next week." Rhys commented, shutting the safe again and turning to look at Jack. He knew it wouldn't mean anything but he held his hand out. "Deal?"
"No murder Rhysie? Oh man you have me on a tight leash." He commented before staring down at nothing for a while, Rhys was hoping he would take the deal. As much as he hated to admit it, he needed Jacks help with running Atlas. "Fine, I will take the deal."
The two men stared at each other for a long moment, Jack taking Rhys hand or where he would have shaken it but since he was a hologram Rhys felt nothing.
"We have a deal then Jack." Rhys said, trying to hide the joy in his tone. He just had to figure out how to tell the rest of the company that Handsome Jack, the one they all hated was going to be the boss of them now.
Oh man this would be fun.