A/N: I'm back with this fic again. I was busy with writting my Skyrim fic and my Janey S. and Athena one. So hope you enjoy this chapter , another one is being written already and thanks so much to the ones following this fic and to the ones who read it :)
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- Fuck! You've done it this time Lilith. - The red haired siren said to herself.
Maya had stormed out from the room and Lilith knew she had fucked up. Well, it was understandable. After they have fucked and Maya saying that, earning only a silent answer that said more than if it was spoken,Lilith knew that she had hurt Maya. It wasn't like she didn't like the other. Well Maya was pretty, she had a pretty nice ass too and her eyes were so misterious, plus Lilith thought her lips were the best. The blue color matching her tattoos and hair color,it was extremely exotic and made Lilith want to kiss her. What? Was she really thinking that? But loving someone,she would pretty much fuck it up. She didn't want to hurt Maya, didn't want to drag her into misery. And that's how Lilith felt. Miserable. Once again.
She ended up stayed a good part of the day inside her room, not in the mood to kill anything or even talk to anyone. She wanted to stay by herself. She didn't touch the Eridium either, it was like she had lost what rested of her will to live. So she just stayed,lying on the bed, looking at the everything and anything with a melancholic face.
As she stormed out from Lilith's room, Maya made her way through the Crimson Raiders HQ, as silent tears fell from her face. Zero, Gaige and Axton were making their way into the HQ and greated her as she passed, being ignored. The three eyes themselves and Gaige followed her as she turned to the others:
- I'll go check on her. - The two other Vault Hunters nodded.
Maya was heading towards a some vacant place with access to a wanted to be alone.
- Maya! Wait! - Gaige shouted as she climbed up to the roof.
No one could see them from there. It was located in a alley that lead to nowhere, it was kinda dark down there, but the roof was illuminated by the sunlight.
Gaige approached the other cautiously, and sat beside her. The other was sitting curled up with arms around her knees, which were close to her chest.
- Maya... - Gaige tried as she placed an hand on the Siren's shoulder. - What happened?
She was met with silence, but she knew the other was crying by the way her body was shaking. Gaige was worried and she did what she would want if she was in Maya's shoes. She gave her a hug, silently supporting her. She heard a sob from Maya.
- Let it out, Maya. - She said.
In a few seconds,she had a crying Maya in her arms, falling apart into pieces and she struggled to hold the pieces together. She wondered what could've happened that made Maya so upset. She was usually calm, rational and precise. She was a mess and no one has seen her like this. Maya stopped crying after minutes, and she let go from Gaige as she wipped her eyes.
- Are you okay?
- Yeah... Thank you.
- What happened?
Gaige almost regretted asking as she saw Maya's sad smile.
- It's complicated. - The siren told the mechromancer. She didn't know if she wanted to share this with the girl. She wouldn't understand.
- Don't go that way! I'm not a fuckin' five year old girl! - Gaige said upset.
- No... You're not. - So? You're gonna tell? - Gaige asked her.
- Sry Gaige, not now.
Gaige furrowed her eyebrows, but she didn't bother the other. She knew that it wasn't cause of her age, Maya wasn't telling her. She knew it was something personal that Maya didn't know how to talk about it, but Gaige knew that sooner or later she would be prepared to tell her.
- Well, i understand. If you need me i'll always listen. - Gaige smiled to the azure siren.
- Thank you Gaige. - Maya smiled a bit.
- Now, shall we go? - Gaige offered an hand.
- Yeah...
Hand in hand both walked back to the HeadQuarters. Lilith was nowhere to be seen. Maya's didn't know if she was lucky or unlucky for not seeing the other today. But prolly it was better this way she didn't know how to face the other if she showed her face.
Next morning, Maya woke up and headed to the room where they made the plans for the day. She saw Brick, Mordecai and all her Vault Hunter team, but Lilith wasn't there.
- Where's Lilith? - she asked without realizing.
- We don't know. She isn't answering her door, she doesn't contact us back through the Echo and she didn't appear yesterday or today. - Brick said.
- That chica is making us worried. - Mordecai emptied a bottle of Rakk ale.
Maya lowered her head upon hearing this. She knew Lilith could be phaselocking through dimensions, killing every single fuckin life or she could only be taking Eridium. She was worried about the other. Last time she had been hurt and her emotional state wasn't the best. She was a fool for fuckin her and tellling her that she loved her in the end. A stable Lilith would never want that and a no stable Lilith would think that all that they had was a joke. She bit her lip feeling the tears form in her eyes, but she shook them off.
Everyone was looking at her, watching her reaction, how her mind flew to another dimension when they told her about the Siren. They suspected that something happened between the two of them, but no one said a word in respect. It wasn't their business to ask, so if Maya wanted she would tell them.
Maya felt an hand on her shoulder. It was Gaige. She realized where she was and quickly composed herself cursing mentally for breaking down right there. She was assigned to a job where she and the other Vault Hunters had to kill some minor Jack followers who had recently appeared from nowhere. And even though they were just minor influence, Jack's trash should all be eliminated. She wasn't in the mood for a big hunt, not now, but she wet fast travelled to the zone and headed to the place the bandits were. They stablished themselves in some building ruins, most of them where holding guns and they could see some midgets ready to explode with their target.
They took their places. Zero prepared his sniper ready to shoot his target, Gaige summoned DT and joined Axton, Maya Salvador and Krieg who were running tpwards the gunshots were filling the air. Zero had blasted three big guys with a bullet right between their eyes, Salvador was maniacally laughing as he shot everyone who dared to come at him, Krieg...well Krieg was being Krieg yelling around nonsense but effectivelly killing. Axton had 3 turrets on and was commanding Gaige to clean the upper zone, which she complied by ordering DT to destroy the motherfuckers.
Maya was following behind, phaselocking the midgets that tried to explode on them and killing them without mercy. Reaching the upper zone more bandits could be seen. They were outnumbered, but that didn't stop the Vault Hunters. Zero had now joined them and was using deception, slaying everyone through the shadows, like the assassin he was. Everyone was covering each others ass, until all bodies layed down dead.
- We did it ! - Gaige jumped yelling.
- YEAH! - Salvador high fived the mechromancer.
- STRIP THE FLESH!
Zero's helmet flashed a big smiley ":D"
- I think we did a pretty good job ,right Maya? - Axton turned to the silent Siren, who was deep in her thoughts and didn't answer.
Everyone looked at her with worried looks.
Just then a noise was heard. They all turned their backs and saw a huge robot making it's way towards them. It was the size of the one named Saturn, they defeated before, and was a mix between a GUN Loader and a RPG Loader.
- What the fuck? - Salvador cursed.
- Everyone down! - Axton yelled.
Just then a rocket made it's way towards the Vault Hunters, who divided themselves in 2 teams. Gaige, Maya, Zero and Axton, Salvador and Krieg. Fortunatelly they all dodged the rocket attack and took their positions as they aimed to the robot with their corrosive weapons.
- Weren't all them down? - Maya asked.
- Well it seems not! - Axton yelled. - Lets move guys!
Taking their positions, hiding behind some metal scraps and some contentors, they all started shooting the beast, but it didn't have that much effect on it.
- What the fuk? Why isn't it taking any damage? - Gaige asked.
- It's different from the others. - Zero told her. (A/N: Sry no haiku, i'm bad at that stuff)
- What do we do? - Gaige asked him.
- We find a weak spot.
- HEY GUYS! - Gaige yelled to the others who were a few meters in front of them. - Try to locate a weak spot. Some place where he can be switched off or simply take down!
- Isn't that always the eye or the joints? - Salvador yelled.
- Not this time! It's covered. - Gaige yelled back.
- ROGER! I'm gonna show what my gf's are made of. - Axton yelled.
Axton throw three towers around the robot, which started shooting in all angles, so that they could see where the robot took more damage. The beast took out it's rocket launchers and it's gun turrets and starter shooting in frenzy to the this,when the beast turned Axton understood that the weak point was behind its head.
- BEHIND IT'S HEAD! - He yelled.
Maya and Gaige climbed up some stairs to have a better vision and better aim.
- Can you phaselock it? - Gaige asked.
- No, it's too heavy. It would do damage, and as it seems this one doesn't take much.
- Yeah, let's take that bitch down! - She said as she summoned DT to help the others downstairs.
Both girls started to shoot at the robot's head. Downstairs, Krieg could be seen hitting the robot's leg serving as bait, since the guy was kind of indestructible as Axton throwed more towers to cover for him as he runned behind the robot, aiming to it's head. The robot kicked Krieg out of it's way, throwing him out meters away. He was down.
- I'll go! - Gaige yelled as she made her way down to aid the psycho.
The big beast also noticed Axton behind trying to shoot it's weak spot and it grow something to protect it as it turned to Axton.
- Great! Guys... we need a plan! It protected the place where its weak.
A rocket was thrown at Axton, who runned trying to dodge the fast object to no avail. When he thought he was dead, a purple light crushed the rocket. It was Maya.
- THANKS! - Axton yelled. Maya smiled a bit.
Zero went in deception, dodging all the bullets from the robot and started cutting at the metallic parts that hid the joints with his sword, as Salvador hid from the bullets, shooting nonetheless.
Gaige was still helping Krieg helping him stand as another rocket came in their direction only to be crushed again by Maya.
Gaige looked up to the Siren and smiled to her, thankfully. She saw Maya smiling back, but she also saw the robot aiming to her and a rocket launching its way to her. She tried to warn her.
- MAYA! LOOK OUT !
The siren could only look in front of her and throw herself to side, but the rocket hit the ground just beside her,an explosion followed and all the Vault Hunters saw her being lauched from the platform, she was in, to the ground, falling unconscious.
Gaige runned to her at full speed,tears falling from her eyes. She wasn't moving,there was blood running down her face and Gaige started freaking out. Zero joined her in an instant. The others trying to take the beast down.
- Gaige, calm down.
- Zero. She isn't moving... Blood... - Gaige was shaking. - What do we do? She can't be dead.
- Let me handle this.
He took Maya's pulse to see if she was alive, and he noticed a frail thumphing. He took two healing hypos from his belt and injected them on Maya.
- She is alive. She'll need these and maybe many more. We need to take her to Sanctuary after defeating this guy. We need all the strenght we can get.
Gaige nodded. Krieg joined them and with strange language and sitting beside Maya's body, he told them he would protect her. Gaige smiled sadly and relutantly joined Zero as she looked back at Maya lying on the ground.
Gaige was furious and she summonned DT and went full Anarchy mode as Zero had finally cut the protections around the joints of the robot and bullets were taking it down, so that it couldn't move. Even without moving the robot kept shooting but soon with all the efforts from the Vault Hunters they could reach the weak spot behind it's head and with combined forces they destroyed it.
As the monster died, Gaige was the first to run to where Krieg and Maya where. She touched Maya's face as she looked at the Vault Hunters that gathered and let Zero check her and take her in his arms.
- Quick, let's go. She's breathing, but she needs someone quick.
They fast travelled to Sanctuary. They say a lil girl dress in pink with a psycho mask on her head running to them.
- Hey guys! I was wondering if...What's wrong? - Tiny Tina asked upon getting a better look at their faces.
Her eyes laid on the unconscious Maya in Zero's arms.
- What happened to the hot blue babe? - She asked.
- Well... - Axton said. - It's a long story. Come we need to bring her to the HeadQuarters.
Continued...
A/N: I don't know what you think about this chapter. I actually had an hard time to know what to do after all that happened the previous episode. I'm not the type of person who plans things so today i felt like writting this fic and thought about it for 2minutes and it just went with the flow. Chapter 5 is already being written and i hope you're still interested in reading more, and i hope i dont suck much at writting. Cya !