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Chapter 2: Maya's Bad Luck - Maya

Maya couldn't catch a break. Frist, it was being given to the Order of the Impending Storm, the ruling order of monks on her home world of Athenas when they identified her as an infant to be a Siren. True they trained her but to her irritation had her on a very short leash. Not letting her go anywhere despite her longing for adventure and expressing interest in traveling to Pandora to learn more about her Siren lineage. The second time was when she realized that the Order was using her for their own ends. Using her power to extort money and obedience from the people of Athenas. Finding this out she intermediately executed her handler Brother Sophis before heading to Pandora to finally satisfy her curiosity about Sirens. The third is when she finally made it Pandora, Handsome Jack and Hyperion had seized control due to the events of a vault opening causing the presence of Eridium before arriving on Pandora. Handsome Jack lured her, a short man named Salvador, an ex-soldier named Axton and strange humanoid named Zer0 onto a train with the intention of killing them. They survived against Handsome Jack's goons before finally discovering the train was rigged up to blow up. Thus, it was why Maya found herself lying in snow listening to a robotic voice saying "Great - another dead Vault Hunter. Handsome Jack's been busy" Maya was confused as she wasn't a Vault Hunter. It dawned on her that Handsome Jack lured her to the train believing her to be a Vault Hunter. That begged the question why the leader of Hyperion did not want any Vault Hunter around Pandora. She tried to move but the attempt was feeble. However, the same voice said "Wait a minute - you're not dead! YES! Now I can get off this glacier! Claptrap, your metaphorical ship has finally come in!" So, it was Claptrap that was speaking Maya thought to herself with some sadness that it hadn't been another person. Since he was a CL4P-TP general purpose robot manufactured by Hyperion, Maya wondered if he was a friend or foe. By what she heard so far, Claptrap seemed like a friend. Nevertheless, with Maya's luck, he will more likely lead her to more trouble. Maya got her feet while glancing around but saw no signs of Salvador, Axton, and Zer0. The Claptrap said, "Allow me to introduce myself - I am a CL4P-TP steward bot, but my friends call me Claptrap!" however Maya attention was caught by a beautiful pale woman with white hair that she instinctually knew was another Siren. Her eyes were full of rage and Maya swore she saw some ghostly tentacles briefly appear coming out of her back before disappearing once she blinked. She was charging down towards them. Maya momentarily registered Claptrap fleeing but was too entranced by the other Siren to care. Maya saw the other Siren fall to the ground and grew concerned. Seeing that she had overexerted herself, Maya walked forward wanting to help. Seeing the Siren close her eyes made Maya move quicker. Maya lifted the Siren to her feet. The woman looked disinterested at meeting another Siren but Maya saw a glimpse of her astonishment. Maya grew uncomfortable as the other woman was studying her. As the woman was studying her, Maya saw emotions flash across the other woman's face from a naturally cold facial expression to a more troubled look.

Finally, the woman said "Thanks" breaking the silence with an accent that Maya found sexy.

Maya said covering that up "It's fine, I'm happy to help" She wanted to know more about the woman so she got the ball rolling by saying "Maya". The woman was silent making Maya nervous that she will not find out her name.

"I am Commandant Steele," Steele said with the pride rolling off her "Leader of Atlas Corporation's Crimson Lance" Maya vaguely recalled her name but could place it.

Maya said quietly "The Atlas Corporation closed down" not thinking before she spoke. Maya could sense the rage rolling off The Commandant.

"What did you say," Steele said with rage. Maya stepped back in fear as Steele seemly transforming before Maya's eyes into a one-eyed humanoid with tentacles coming out of her back and a giant mouth in her abdomen.

Maya rambling off the facts she knew in calm voice "Soon after the death of General Knoxx. Atlas itself closed down and I imagine that the Crimson Lance disbanded at the same time. After the Vault created the presence of Eridium, Hyperion took control of Pandora" Maya stopped talking after seeing Steele's murderous look shot in her direction. Maya blinked and Steele returned to her normal look but looking more tired. "We better get out of the cold" Maya said brushing off the transformation as Steele's rage fuelled power. Steele did not respond but Maya guessed she felt the same. Supporting each other made Maya very aware of Steele's body. Blushing like mad as they made their way to the icy grotto where Claptrap fled to. Maya was thankful that Steele did not notice. Inside the icy grotto a lot of old junk including dead Claptraps and much to Maya's disgust human corpses. Maya noticed Claptrap hiding and beckoned him over.

He said "Sorry about the mess. Everything Jack kills, he dumps here – bandits, Vault Hunters, Claptrap units…" drawing Steele attention to him. She moved attack him but Maya used Phaselock to stop her. Claptrap took this chance to hide from Steele behind Maya. Maya waited for Steele to drop to the ground.

Maya said with warning in her voice "Steele stop trying to attack him, we need him to escape here" when Steele dropped to the ground. She said so Claptrap can confirm his usefulness "Right"

Claptrap said fear in his voice "Yeah you need me" Steele glared at Claptrap but did nothing much to Maya's surprise. In fact, Steele looked re-energized from being Phaselocked. Maya took an ECHO from Claptrap after he said while Maya noticed he was keeping Steele in his sights "Oh - I've got something for you. Here - take this ECHO communicator that I totally didn't loot from one of these corpses! It comes with a class-twelve heads-up display, complete with a minimap!" Maya feels better holding the ECHO and knew that They were at a place named Windshear Waste. Claptrap said excited "Man, this is great! Now that I've met a mighty Vault Hunter, I can finally join the resistance in Sanctuary". Maya did not correct him that she wasn't a Vault Hunter instead thinking Sanctuary would be her goal. The Resistance would more likely know why Handsome Jack wanted to eliminate Vault Hunters. That meant they needed Claptrap so she hoped Steele would not kill him in a fit of rage. She had no idea why Steele hated Claptrap with a passion. She knew they can be annoying but Steele gave off a vibe of a deeper hate.

She was about to speak when Steele spoke in a voice that clearly shown her restraining her anger. "So, you know how to get out of here?"

Claptrap said, "Yes follow me" Claptrap started moving before he stopped. He said to Maya "Now, the creatures around here are dangerous, none more than this Bullymong named Knuckle Dragger" Maya had a feeling that with her luck that Knuckle Dragger would impede them. "Killed everyone I know. Anyway, I keep a pistol in the cabinet over there for emergencies, you should take it" A roar is heard and Maya's feeling was correct as what could only be Knuckle Dragger climbed down into Claptrap's place from a hole in the ceiling before grabbing Claptrap with its right arm. Maya inched towards the gun just in case. Claptrap yell "WAAAAH!" stopped Maya's movement as she was transfixed as Knuckle Dragger pulls out Claptrap's eye before leaves the place through the same hole in the ceiling. "MY EYE! AHHHHHH!" Claptrap wailed causing Maya to continuing moving towards the gun. "The gun. The gun in the cabinet. Get It, we need my eye" Maya winched when the gun turned out to be a very poor pistol that looked like it couldn't hurt anything. She still grabbed it as it was better than nothing. Claptrap led them to the exit while bashing into every object on the way. Maya and Steele followed behind with Maya staring at Steele thinking to herself that she it was a crush that she had on the unstable Commandant.