Disclaimer: I don't own Familiar of Zero, or Borderlands.
Inspired by the story 'Zero for Zero' by willyoliole.
Louise performs the summoning ritual, only to get a familiar that's a touch...unstable. Takes place just after the events following 'A meat bicycle built for two' in the Borderlands 'verse.
I'll be interpreting several of the in-game features ie. Health bars, character labels, levels, as part of Krieg's psychosis ...you know, for fun.
"testing testing" character conversations
'testing testing' character thoughts
testing testing Inner Krieg
Psycho of Zero
I still say we should have ridden inside the train.
"O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had..." mumbling to himself, a unique psycho by the name of Krieg was taking a suspended train, by clinging to the outside, as opposed to actually riding inside it. It was quite a ways off the ground, but what's life without a little excitement.
In fact, we could probably still get inside. The Siren's inside the train you know. Remember the Pretty Lady that was trying to kill us, before we made her smile?
"No pain, no gain!" Krieg shouted.
sigh. Sure, whatever you say.
The train suddenly jerked to the side, as an explosion further up the train caused it to derail. Unprepared for the sudden movement Krieg lost his grip, and began plunging towards the surface.
It's a good thing that Pandora has a really low terminal velocity. Still, I hope we land on something soft.
(scene break)
Resembling the bastard offspring of a dog and a lizard, a Skag was pawing at the ground looking for food. Not an easy task in the wastelands. Hearing a loud sound coming from above, the Skag directed its gaze to the sky. Beneath it's feet, a green oval came into existence.
Were the Skag able to understand the human tongue, it would know that the being that just slammed into it from above, was screaming, "PUPPY!"
The Skag, and the psycho known as Krieg, entered the green oval, and vanished from Pandora.
(scene break)
A tiny girl with a mane of bright pink hair, strode confidently toward the summoning circle.
Around her, a crowd of students took a few cautious steps backward, and braced themselves for the inevitable explosion to come. Explosions are not normally associated with the summoning ritual, but the pink-haired girl was no normal student. She was Louise 'The Zero' Vallière.
Taking a deep breath, Louise raised her wand to being the ritual.
"By the Pentagon of the Five Great Elements. I, Louise Françoise le Blanc de la Vallière, do beseech you to heed my summoning. To find my destined familiar, and to bring it before me!"
The summoning circle began to glow, and Louise's face lit up with excitement. 'It's working! It's working!' The magic in the air was almost palpable, and standing beside Louise, Professor Colbert who was assigned to watch over the summonings, smiled softly at what would appear to be Louise's first successful spell.
It was at this moment, that the circle, which was now glowing almost too brightly to look at, detonated.
Knocked to the ground from the force of the explosion, Louise stared into the smoke with dismay.
"Geez Zero," complained a busty redhead by the name of Kirche, as she brushed the dirt from her clothes, "Were you trying to kill us?" More complaints rose from the crowd. "My hair!", "Reggie, come back!", they shouted, "MEAT CUSHION!" shouted another. 'Wait...that wasn't from the crowd' Louise thought.
The smoke from the explosion cleared, revealing a large, well muscled, mask wearing man. He had yellow pants, no shirt, was holding some strange form of axe, and appeared to be standing on the crushed form of...
"My Familiar!", Louise screamed, "What have you done to it you-you Savage?!" she demanded of the brute, tears in her eyes.
Alright, lets take stock of the situation. This, is clearly not Pandora, we appear to be surrounded by children, and one of the children, a small pink one, seems very displeased with us. Also, the older balding fellow looks like he's about to hit us with his stick.
Don't. I repeat. Don't. Do anything aggressive.
"I'm here to shank and smile!" Krieg proclaimed, raising his buzz axe to the sky.
...why do I even bother?