AN: So in the previous chapter I established, that Bianca knows Angel and I gonna reveal now that she knows the old vault hunters as well. But even she doesnt know yet, that Angel is a siren, and presumes her pretty friendly, which presumption and her belief will be tested as we all know where the main story is going. In this chapter the vault hunters meet The Firehawk and then set out on their way rescueing Roland. Things gonna go much smoother with Bianca around. I know she's kinda op and I know some people don't like that, but it enables me to go with the story faster and reshape it as I want. Not completly, just differently :)))
Chapter 2
Firehawk
"This is better than the fast travel stations! - commented Axton - I could get used to this."
"What's a fast travel station?" - asked Maya, who was a relative newcomer to Pandora and didn't know that much about the place.
"They are devices that dot Pandora's landscape at relatively safe locations." - answered Bianca instead of Axton, who was now checking out the square they arrived to.
"This is the city's entrance square - said Bianca, pointing at the large metal gate behind them, that was indeed Sanctuary's entrance. - I guess I should show you guys around, so you can get used to the place and important people. Let's start with Scooter. He's the town's mechanic. His garage is just over there."
They walked in front of a large metal door. When they got there, the door slowly started to rise, revealing a guy wearing ragged clothes, that was just as oil stained and dirty as the rest of his body. On his head he wore a baseball cap with an interesting emblem of a 'skinny chick'.
He currently lay on top of a huge tire, resting his back againts a mostly dismantled vehicle. A large wrench clutched in his right hand. Seeing the visitors he looked ap however, and...
"Aaaaw crap! Is you Hyperion? I heard all about you robots eatin out of the garbage and stuff. Knew you wired deathmachines would be comin for me once Roland went missing..."
"Roland is missing? - started Bianca - Where..." - she was cut short however as Scooter continued his rant.
"...now if you're here to kill me you should probably know... - he warned, suddenly jumping up on top of the tire he was sitting on, raising the wrench in his hand, going down into a kinda impressive fighting pose - ...you'll never take me alive you robotic sombitch!"
Staring down at all the faces, which where all human with priceless expressions of 'wtf' something clicked however and he was like...
"Waaait a minute...well hang me upside down from a telephone pole cover me in honey and leave me to a slow death at the hands of hungry spider ants! You ain't no Hyperion robots! You're vault hunters huh? That's like a...unicorn...so you gonna help us out with this Roland situation? I heard them Crimson Raider dudes talkin bout it." - thats when he noticed Bianca standing behind the rest of the group, the others still silent, just listening to Scooter's weird slang.
"Hey Liutenant B I didn't see you standing there. Lookin as sexy as ever girl..."
"Shut up! Even if I was into guys, which I'm not I would never ever consider you for...anything! Besides you know we need to initiate Plan B."
"Or as I like to call it: Plan turn this city in a floating fortress of airborne awesomeness...B."
"Whatever. Where can we get the fuel cells?"
"Oh I got two laying around the garage. You just need to find them."
The vault hunters spread out in the garage.
"Found one!" - called Axton after a minute or so searching through all the junk in the place.
"Here is the second. This looks a fuel cell to me. Where is the last one?"
"I only have the two. - said Scooter, too dumb to even notice Zer0's haiku. - You can buy the last one from Earl's black market. Be careful thou, Earl's crazy. He ate one of my cars once. Yeah the whole car...like just with a fork."
"If that Earl is more crazy than this guy, -Maya said as they exited the shop - he should get a medal."
"Oh Earl is definitely crazy." - said Bianca as she was leading them to a back alley to a locked door. She knocked twice. A peephole just large enough for a pair of crazy eyes to stare out at them slid open, while a voice said...
"Watchu want? Just buy samtin and I throw in this crap fuel cell hehe. Just tuchin it made two of my fingers rod off. Tho I only accept eridium. Cash Is fo clowns girl."
"It's okay I got eridium on me. - Bianca said - As I was going to buy that crazy E-Tech gun you found anyway. It was thirty pieces right?"
"Thats rite. Be careful tho girl. That gun aint just E-Tech! - Earl said, passing the gun and the fuel cell out through a small flap he made at the bottom of his door - Its eridian! And thats a whole other level of crazy!"
"It looks awesome!" - Bianca said, admiring the weapon.
It was the shape and size of a pistol, made of pure white metal. Eerie purple glow came from the side wents as well as an almost inaudible hum. The laser sight at the top of the gun was also purple.
Bianca thought of testing the gun. Her sight fell on a dumpster at the back end of the alley. She took aim and fired. A purple energy blast came out of the gun, melting a sizeable whole in the side of the dumpster exactly at where the laser sight pointed.
"Thats some gun!" - Axton whistled approvingly.
"And very accurate." - added Maya.
"I want two of those! Bigger and fully automatic! - yelled Salvador.
"That would be a good choice - said Bianca - as eridian weapons seemingly never run out of ammo. Or energy. They are extremely rare however. I only ever seen one other. And that was a slow fireing, but pretty impressive cannon. Last time I seen it was is the posession of Tannis. Our resident and also crazy, well more like insane scientist. But she lost it to Hyperion along with the vault key at the raid on New Haven. Anyway, come - she said, leading the vault hunters towards the center of town, putting the gun in a holster on her right waist - Let's get this city flying!"
Arriving at the center of town they followed Scooter's Echoed instructions on installing the fuel cells.
"Thanks for the help - the mechanic said, as Axton yelled while placing the fuel cell into its socket, as it immediately became really hot for some reason - Third degree burns are best taken in turns."
"You could have given us a warning! Or something! - Maya glovered, also sporting some pretty angry burns on both hands.
"Don't worry guys, I can help with that. Just hold out your hands."
They both did so. Bianca held her left arm above their hands, her tattooes faintly glowing as some sort of blueish energy emitted from her hand directly into theirs. And where the energy touched, their burns instantly healed accompanied by a very soothing feeling.
"Wow! How did you do that?" - Axton asked amazed.
"Siren." - was his answer.
"Is there something you can't do? - Maya asked - Is there an end to your powers?"
"Well if there is, I haven't found it yet. I just keep learning new abilities. Maybe I'll be able to teach something to you as well. Strenghten that phaselock of yours. Make it more...awesome."
"Really? That would be great! - said Maya exited.
"But first let's get this city in the air. The fuel cells are installed. Hit it Scooter!" - she said into her Echo.
"And now to see the fruits of your labour and hard work...This city's gonna FLY! - Scooter yelled on the Echo.
There was a large humming noise coming from the center of town, where the main engine was, getting progressively louder...only to come to a whining, quivering halt a moment later.
"Oooor not. Damn! - Scooter cursed. - Now we really need to find Roland. Hey Liutenant! Go to the HQ. I think he might left a message there for you."
At the HQ.
"Liutenant come in. - the guard at the door said - Roland left a message for you."
"...I also require a new ventillator. - the vault hunters heard a woman speak into an Echo recorder - This lab smells of bacon. We all know that bacon is for sycophants and products of incest.
"Guys, this is Tannis. Tannis this is Ax..."
Before Bianca could finish the sentence however, Tannis gave a quick yelp and hid in a nearby locker, probably, Bianca knew, not to reemerge for several hours.
"...ton, Maya, Salvador and Zer0. - continued Bianca, now talking to the locker, not at all surprised by Tannis' behaviour. - They are our new vault hunters."
"Go away!" - came the answer from inside the locker.
"She means it's nice to meet you. - corrected Bianca. - She's just a bit shy. - she added in a whisper.
"Yeah, we noticed. - said Axton.
After that awkward scene they proceeded upstairs to the command center, where they found a datapad with Roland's message. Bianca clicked play.
"Vault hunters! Welcome to the crimson raiders. I would have liked to greet you in person, but an urgent message required my attention elswhere. I see you when I get back."
"Looks like all we have to do is wait for him. - Axton said - Don't sound too hard."
At that second a distorted voice came through their Echoes by an uknown caller.
"This is the Firehawk. Come to Frostburn Canyon or people will die."
"The Firehawk?! - came Scooters frantic voice a moment later - You mean the mass murderin bandit lord of Pandora? Oooh craaap! If the Firehawk got him Roland's in deep! You gotta go to Frosburn Canyon and rescue his ass!"
"Damn it Axton, you jinxed it! - Maya said.
"Hey, how was I to know? - he defended
"Break it up guys! - Bianca spoke up - Right now we gotta go and rescue Roland. And thanks for some intelligence from Angel I know where the Firehawks hideout is. And she also says there are some Bloodshot bandits atacking it. So I say we go in, kill everyone and question the Firehawk for info."
"Question? - Salvador asked - You mean interrogate! I'm really good at that."
"No. She's an old friend. You'll see when we get there. Ready for another fast travel?"
Without waiting for an answer Bianca's tattoes already glowed, there came the blinding light, and suddenly they found themselves in a frosty cave in front of a torn up metal door.
They went trough quickly and ran towards a platform, where two bandits kept firing at a small figure flashing in and out of sight, dodging their bullets with apparent ease. Just as the vault hunters came up the platform, ready to open fire at the two bandits, who hearing them also turned around. That was a mistake. As soon as their attention shifted there was an other, more powerful flash of light right behind the bandits, incinerating them. A woman stood there in a fiery blast, wings spread wide, tattooes emitting a fiery glow. Another Siren.
"Sup?" - she said, before falling down exhausted.
"Lilith! - Bianca ran over to her worried - Are you allright?"
"Just a little exhausted. Nothing you can't fix I hope?"
"It's okay. Just a moment."
Bianca's tattooes glowed, she sent an energy wave, (kinda like when he healed Axton and Maya,) healing and rejuvenating Lilith.
"Ah, that's much better. Thank you. - said Lilith, before getting to the point. - Bet you're looking for Roland. He's not here. Bloodshots grabbed him. Made them cocky too. They never came after me this hard. But they are gone now and we need to get him back. I see you got your team for that. Nice to meet you all by the way! - she said to the others.
"So this is the old friend you were talking about! - said Maya - Another siren? How many of us are on this planet? I'm so damn lucky to have come here!"
"Maya here came to this planet to find out about sirens - Bianca explained to Lilith - She already knows about the clause, that there are only six of us in the whole universe. I think she didn't expect that so many of us are here."
"Three out of six! Thats huge!"
"It get's better. Nice to meet you, Maya." - said Lilith with a wink, putting emphasis on the name, that caused Maya to slightly blush. Groving up in a monastery surrounded with monks and nuns, she didn't really know how to flirt, but she tought she already liked she answered with a nervous 'you too' , which caused Lilith to cackle.
Any further flirting attempt was cut short however, when Bianca spoke up.
"As much as I would love to see where this will go, we really need to rescue Roland, before the Bloodshots sell him to Hyperion."
"Good point. - Lilith agreed, thou grugingly - Then you should go to the Bloodshot Stronghold and bust him out of there. I will go back to Sanctuary. Keep the city in one piece, while you guys are away. See you when you get back!" Then she dissapeared in a flash.
"I gotta learn how you guys do that." - said Maya
"Pay close attention." - Bianka smiled, tattooes glowing, dissapearing in another flash, taking everyone with her, to the Bloodshot Stronghold.
AN: So there. Second chapter done. As you can see I kinda took out all of Angels dialog from the fic, relaying only the essential stuff through Bianca. Cause im too lazy to look up and write down all her dialog from the game. And maybe it builds connection that she mostly just talks to Bianca.
MayLith, Angel/OC vibe:)))
she still gonna talk with everyone when its necessary for the story, but the real interaction comes later.
Ok im gonna cut this short before i reveal too much. Althogh I sometimes make it up as i go. Go with the flow:)))
Bye till my next update!