A/N: Next chapter coming up! P.S: If people want me to, I might make a version like this with the original Vault Hunters.
I was placed inside of a prison cell and tied to the chair in the center of the room. I wiggled around a bit in my bindings. Yup. Tight enough to cause ligature marks. This is what we wanted. Every little detail had to be done right so I could sell this story to the person they mentioned.
"Nice scar on your eye," one of the soldiers complimented.
"Nearly caused me to go blind in that eye. But I managed to close my eyes before that happened," I told him before closing my eye. The scar continued down my eyelid. The strange feeling that it made every time that I blinked helped me remember it.
"Well, this is probably gonna hurt more than that did," his friend said.
"You're going to enjoy this, aren't you?" I said.
"A little," they both said at the same time. I smirked.
"Hmph. Bastards," I said with a good natured smile. "Alright, give me your best shot assholes."
A few weeks later, I certainly looked like a tortured prisoner. The rope had put ligature marks on my wrists, and I was extremely bloody from a number of knife stabs. Painful bruises from punching had caused minor swelling on certainly places with a few of my ribs being broken. I had to cough up blood on the ground a number of times from the damage. It hurt, but I was a pain eater. Almost like I had the Ashlyn medical condition. (Look it up kids)
"Well, well. Jack said he didn't think you'd have the stones for this job. Apparently you do," the Hyperion soldier who had done most of the torturing said. I looked at him with a steely eye.
"I do. Now, I need to 'escape' from this place," I said, making the officer smile.
"Yeah. Now, you've been working your way with those bindings, they've become worn enough for you to break out of them. We're not here, you knocked out one of our officers, took his gun, and used his clothes to walk out of the prison without us knowing. That's pretty much the story," he said, putting my ECHO and a Hyperion officer's outfit on the floor in front of me.
"Perfect. And remember, you're not here," I told him, making him raise his hands in surrender and walk out of the room. I freed my hands out of the worn rope and began getting dressed in the Hyperion outfit to head out before attaching my ECHO on my belt.
I walked out of the room and walked out of the prison while trying to make it seem like I wasn't injured.
"Halt, officer. State your destination," the loader at the gate told me. I drew my Jakobs pistol and shot the loader in the eye before alarms in the prison flared up.
I slid down the rock formation near up where the prison was perched and went into a bandit's garage. I could see him kissing the roof of his car like it was his wife. I shook my head in disbelief before blasting him in the head with my pistol.
"Idiot," I said before taking the keys off of his corpse and driving off at top speed toward the garage Hyperion mentioned. I removed the helmet and they Hyperion outfit and threw it out of the car before my focus was solely on getting this job done.
I made a sharp turn at the garage before hopping out. I could see a fat woman with her attention solely focused on some type of machine in her mechanic shop. I limped up to her and shouted to get her attention.
"Hey! Can you help a guy out?" I asked her, waving my right arm while limping toward her. She turned and smiled at me.
"Sure I can hon. What do you need?" she said, walking toward my direction before getting a good look at my appearance. "Now, I see what happened to you. What happened to you?"
"I got kidnapped by a few Hyperion soldiers as soon as I got on this planet. Bastards tortured me for weeks before I got out," I told her with a tired tone.
"You're a Vault Hunter?" she asked me.
"Haven't seen one Vault yet, but yeah. That's what I'm looking to find," I told her, nodding.
"I think Sanctuary will think you're a sight for sore eyes. I can get you there, but we need to get you fixed up first," she told me. I sighed in relief.
"That would be nice, thank you. What's your name?" I asked.
"Ellie, sweetie. You?" she asked.
"Robert. Now, you mentioned Sanctuary. Who or what is it?" I asked.
"It's the last standing resistance against Handsome Jack, the leader of Hyperion. You want your revenge against Jack and Hyperion as a whole? They're your best bet," Ellie explained to me. I nodded. For them to have that type of reputation, that meant they were definitely something that needed to be dealt with immediately.
"Thanks for the info. Know where I can find them?" I asked.
"I can give you the Fast Travel coordinates to it, but I think you ought to get yourself healed up first and then I'll make contact with them to tell them that you're coming. You wouldn't want to be shot as soon as you get there," Ellie told me. I nodded. It sounded like a pretty solid plan. Once I got into Sanctuary and got the first job from them, I would contact Jack and figure out how I should go about the situation I get into.
Ellie had walked into the garage and came back out with three healing hypos in her hand. I injected two of them into my neck and healed my wounds for the most part. I kept the last hypo and stored it in my ECHO just in case.
"How'd you get the ECHO?" she asked me.
"Knocked a guard out and stole his ECHO on the way out. Wouldn't have gotten past the loader at the gate without it. But I need to move fast. They might be looking for me," I said, checking behind me subtly.
"You don't have to worry about that. This place is filled with bandit patrols. They would likely figure in your state, you wouldn't last two seconds," Ellie said.
"To be honest, so did I. But no time to dwell on that now. I need to go," I said.
"Alright. First, lemme see your ECHO so I can put ya in contact with someone at Sanctuary that can prevent you from getting shot," Ellie said, going on her ECHO. The grinder on the side of us caught my interest and I climbed the front of it to get a better look inside. I could hear indistinctive chatter from Ellie, but I figured it was non important. I had the gist of what she was doing.
Looking further inside the grinder, I could see that there was gore of different kinds caked on the walls. The smell gave it away that it was old. I wrinkled my nose.
"Wonder how many people have been killed in this thing?" I thought. But I wasn't going to stay in the grinder to be another victim in case this does not go my way.
I hopped down and I could see Ellie was still talking to however she was in contact with, so I summoned my classic Jakobs pistol to my hand and began spinning it round and round like a gunslinger. This was how I loved to distract myself. By mindlessly spinning a revolver.
I spun the chamber while it was still lodged in the gun before jerking the gun to the left hard and quick, causing the chamber to reveal the bullets in the clip. One bullet was missing from the chamber from that one I used on the bandit, but I didn't bother to replace it. I could make do with one less bullet easy.
"Alright, you're good to go. Just makes sure to put your guns up before the soldiers think different," Ellie told me before pointing to the Fast Travel. "Go to the location marked Sanctuary in the system. It'll take you there." I turned my head curiously before snapping the revolver chamber back in place.
"If Hyperion finds out you have a Fast Travel leading directly to Sanctuary, wouldn't you be in some serious trouble?" I asked her, truly curious.
"I always wipe the location from the Fast Travel system, so no one can travel there. I'm not an idiot," Ellie said.
"Didn't take you for one. Thanks for the help," I said kindly.
"No problem. Just deal with Jack once and for all, and that'll be more than enough," Ellie told me. I gave her a two fingered salute before using the Fast Travel to head to Sanctuary.
I materialized in front of the Fast Travel, and I was in a room with two exits on opposite sides from each other. So far, I was far from impressed with the place.
I walked outside, and then I could see a number of civilians and Crimson Lancemen soldiers alike around the area. Curling my left hand into a fist, I restrained myself from losing my mind and shooting every Lancemen in sight. Then I could see one of them walk up to me. The urge to shoot him was almost crippling.
"Hey! I've never seen you before. How'd you get in? The front gate hasn't even been touched," he demanded. I managed to calm myself down and look at him with a cool expression before speaking.
"I'm a Vault Hunter. Last time I checked, you need my help," I said, crossing my arms over my chest in a commanding way. The Raider immediately changed his attitude.
"You're a Vault Hunter? Oh, sorry about that. I'm surprised you even made it here because of Jack," he told me.
"So I am, believe it or not. So, you have anything for me to do?" I asked.
"Refer to the mechanic near the front gate of the city. He'll tell you what you need to do," the Raider told me. I nodded and began walking to this mechanic he mentioned. How did Hyperion not take this place over? There are very few soldiers and no blockades. Hyperion has an army, and General Wilhelm looked like a Grade A plus fucking plus badass. I must be missing something here. They had to have something preventing Hyperion from getting in...
But I decided to head to this mechanic that the soldier had mentioned and I ended up at this place called Scooter's garage. No other place that you would find a mechanic in a city like this. So I walked through the garage door in the front and I could see a man with grease covering his face asleep in a chair, his feet propped up. I walked up to him and shook his shoulder.
"Uh, are you the mechanic?" I asked as I was shaking him. He shot up suddenly at one point and looked at me.
"Who are you?" he asked.
"I'm a Vault Hunter. Uh, one of your soldiers asked me to refer to you about something that needed to be done for Sanctuary. So, what is it?" I asked.
"Oh, yeah. Plan B. Get the fusion cells that are around this place and this Eridium," he said, gesturing around his shop before pulling out four bars of refined Eridium.
I looked at it longingly. I knew Eridium was a beautiful substance after refinement, but seeing it was a whole nother ball park. I grabbed it, but as soon as I made contact with it, I felt something travel up my spine and through my bones. Then when I could focus again, the Eridium was gone. Before I could even comment on the situation, I passed out.
A/N: Now, the initial idea that I had for my story was that I was going to get my Siren powers from these Eridium bars Scooter promised. But I decided to make my character's change to being a Siren much longer, so I decided that finding Eridium after the Captain Flynt fight was appropriate. So here's me bringing that back. And though it is rare, you can in fact find Eridium before you collect the first four bars from Scooter in the game. It's happened to me on several occasions. Usually in Bullymong bone piles. Anyway, hope you enjoyed the chapter!