-At the Centre of the World Is the Dahl Headlands-

Claptrap crossed the gate dividing the Arid Badlands and the Dahl Headlands. The gate closed with a noisy grinding sound which ended with dust and dirt showering Claptrap as the gate closed. Claptrap wriggled like a dog caught in the rain to get all the dirt off. Claptrap recoiled with a slight scream when he saw behind the tall fence a Runner jump furiously from the ridge onto the open plains. Claptrap was safe behind the fence but Mad Mel's bandits would be a lethal threat if anyone was caught in the plains. Claptrap didn't know where to go but he had to escape the Arid Badlands. Sadly, the only way out that has roads leading to anywhere remotely safe had to be found through the Dahl Headlands- one of the most dangerous parts of Pandora. Claptrap climbed the slope to Ernest Whitting's home where many large extraordinary skeletons of skags and rakk hung from the wires above his home. This slope all belonged to him.

Claptrap stopped in front of Ernest's home and looked at the doormat which read "God bless this house- my rifle protects it". Claptrap threw a stone through the open door and knocked the toilet seat down. Ernest jumped into the open doorway with a rifle and unloaded a bullet into Claptrap's body punching Claptrap into the ramp tumbling off the cliff side. Claptrap's wailing reverberated all the way down until it was stopped by a metallic thud. Ernest realised what he shot wasn't human or animal. Ernest quickly walked to the ramp and peered down below and saw a shivering Claptrap with a bullet hole on the left side of his body. "Oh, crap." Ernest climbed down the long ladder beside the ramp and when he reached the bottom he inspected Claptrap. Claptrap uttered out "That's the third time already…" Ernest rolled Claptrap on his side to look for an exit wound. There wasn't one so the bullet was still stuck in Claptrap's body. Ernest looked up from Claptrap to the where the hills rose and fell. Ernest saw two Runners speeding past now and then, was he about to be seen Ernest thought? Ernest climbed back up the ladder and activated his Catch-A-Ride station. Ernest usually kept it offline when he wasn't using it so bandits wouldn't come running if they saw the lights on. Ernest spawned his Runner and drove the Runner through the gate he had just opened which led straight to Claptrap down a slight slope connected to the main slope.

Ernest dumped Claptrap's shivering body in the Runner and he then climbed back in. The sound of roaring Runners rolled from the hills in the distance to Ernest's immediate vicinity. Just as Ernest thought, the lights of the Catch-A-Ride station caught the bandit's attention. Both Runners had a bandit driving, one on a gun turret and two psychos on either side with their buzz-axes ready to kill. Ernest immediately dropped two psychos from the nearest Runner with two bullets from his elephant gun. Ernest dived over his Runner and unloaded another four bullets into the other Runner which all struck the fuel stock with catastrophic damage, before the bandits could even begin to think about driving away the Runner blew up in flames. The last Runner stopped and the two bandits jumped out and unloaded their sub-machine guns into Ernest's Runner. Ernest blind-threw a MIRV grenade into the bandit's Runner which caught the two bandits on fire burning to the ground. The Runner exploded showering Ernest, his Runner and Claptrap with charred metal. Ernest exhaled deeply before driving his Runner back through the gate which closed behind him and parked it in the Catch-A-Ride station which then shut down killing the lights. Ernest dragged the moaning Claptrap up the slope.

"I can see the code…" Claptrap uttered

"Hold on, Claptrap" Ernest said a little too jokily than he intended as he finally reached his home which was a tiny shack. Ten minutes later Claptrap was disabled while Ernest prepped Claptrap for a little robo-surgery as the sun sunk into the cliffs near Lucky's Last Chance Watering Hole.