The Night of Pandora. The nights of the hostile planet are what makes the monster filled world feel peaceful. Not because of the lack of monsters or how the winds cool down. It's because of the stars. The planets. All up on the dark blue nightly sky to make the night have its beauty. It was rare for mammals to just look up and enjoy the stars on Pandora. They were afraid of being eaten by the beasts and from the Bandits and Psychos. The only four that would be watching the stars and enjoying the night are four Vault Hunters who sit in the middle of the sandy area next to big sandy boned extinct creatures. There laid a campfire full of wood burning in flames for brightening up as the only light source with the mammals being around it. The sat on either flat rocks or sticked out rib cages that was shown enough to have them sit on as their chairs. The was eating nothing but skag steak that was made by the skunk as the others start eating the cooked meat. It felt rewarding to them after the day of battling and scavenging.
The gray rabbit with the brown ears that matched her hair was clean now as she got the saliva of the Drifter she blew up and killed brutally with one rocket was off of her and her clothing. She looked at the three buddies of hers as they was the only mammals she encountered that was friendly besides shop owners and gun owners. She watched the blue bunny male eat like a savaged bunny while the skunk and fox and bunny mixed siren was eating ladylike. Almost ladylike if it wasn't how messy they was getting from the sauce. No ketchup just sauce. She putted her food down on a plate of metal she found which served as a tray for the four of them as the three mammals started to clean themselves with rags.
"So let me get this straight. You three are trying to get to this True Vault as its suppose to not be full of monsters and tricks?" The rabbit asked them with the blue bunny nodding. "Yes Trash. We are a somewhat expert of Vault Hunters." Trash looked at him like he was telling a big story of lies from the word expert. "Yeah nice job team. You getting there to the level of Rulers of Vault Hunters soon." The response was some laughter with Trash smiling and letting out a laugh herself. Waverly the siren putted down her food down on the tray too as she ate all but the bone with it having a few teeth marks on it. "Jeez. You eat like a fox." The amazed rabbit said with Waverly smiling and her tail wagging "Got that from my dad's side." The skunk and blue bunny putted down their meals as well with them having to be full and just looking at themselves and the fire. The crackling orange fire.
"So Skeleton. You think we should head back to get some supplies? I mean we do need a lot of food and water. Even some new weapons." The blue bun asked with the skunk looking and nodding. "Yeah Spaz. I mean we are kinda close to civilization so we might as well." Skeleton said with Spaz looking up at the sky. She couldn't help but to look up with him. The stars were the only thing that their eyes saw. The bright white light of the stars. Soon Waverly and Trash all looked up at them. Beauty. Beauty that was protecting them from the thoughts of chaos and destruction. It was better than any Maliwan shield. It was just perfect for them. For Skeleton she could saw both of the perfection of the stars and the H still in space and halfway done to being finished.
Spaz peeked at her to see the skunk still was looking up at Helios being repaired. She couldn't believe it. The big corporation who tried to ruin Pandora was now going to be rebuild. Will it be for better or worse? Skeleton had no idea who will take charge and what will happen to them. To Pandora. To her own home. The blue bunny just letted out a tired sigh. "I'm going to die from this." He spoke to himself with the three of them with concern in their eyes.
"What you mean? You aren't going to die Spaz. We will get to the Vault." Waverly explained to him to try her best to get him to not think negatively. He just groaned and looked at her. "It's not about the Vault. I can't handle keeping this any longer." Spaz explained with the sound of anger and fear. They could tell something was eating him up and they letted him do what he had to do to let it out. He took a deep breath and breathed out as he started to talk. "I worked for Hyperion." Silence was what was greeted to the bunny as he looked down to look at the fire. The burning of the flames made him feel his soul was on fire just from saying those cursed words.
"I don't like it. I was an assassin, a bodyguard, anything that dealt with protection and killing I was the mammal to do the job." He kept going while he still looked at the campfire to avoid the eyes his friends. "I only worked because of two reasons. It paid way more better than any other job I had. It also was because of how I met him." Spaz continued but with a smile on his face from mentioning this male. "Who?" Said Skeleton who wanted to not be silent and make him feel less awkward about talking. He just kept staring at the fire. "Flame. That beautiful silver fox femboy who just means everything in my life. Hell I even give sixty-five percent of my cut from jobs to him because he means everything to me." He heard the sudden squeal of joy from the girls as he just smirked and ignored them loving the idea of the tough blue bunny being caring and having a boyfriend.
"We was at Zootopia for a vacation. It was wonderful and great." His happiness started to slow down into sadness. "That's when we heard Helios was down. We was out of a job and worst of all was I had to go to Pandora to rescue any VIP's stranded from this planet." Silence started to appear again and he looked up at their eyes. "I never found them. They either died or became a raider group or some cult. I have no idea. Point is I have been stuck here for about four months and I just want to get out of this place, have my job back, and marry him." He took another breath and letted out a sigh. The ex-Hyperion bunny was now sitting there with the look of worry. A lot of mammals hated Hyperion and he was one of them. He just looked as if he was begging for forgiveness.
No response. Only thing to happen was Skeleton patting his back. "Spaz. Nobody hates you. We don't care you worked for Hyperion. We care about your actions." She letted out a smile to him. "You have been good and protective and loyal towards us. We are just strangers and yet you acted like a good mammal. A smartass good mammal." She made the blue bunny smile and stopped him feeling like the world was on his shoulders. "Thanks. I really needed that." Spaz said with her being happy to cheer him up. "So what about you Skeleton? What do you work?" Trash said to keep the topic of jobs going around them. Skeleton looked at her as the rabbit was knowingly curious to know. "Well I work at Dahl. I do inventory checking and mammal counting but it pays well. Just same old boring stuff." She seemed to have some sort of hint of love towards her job at the inventory part but Trash left her be and letted her talk till she finished.
"Well. You guys aren't going to believe me when I say this." She got the attention of the three who now was wanting to know with her letting out a soft smile. "I work for Atlas." The eyes of the mammals went wide as they was shocked by the words. A dangerous rabbit working for a corporation that has powerful technology. The galaxy would be in her grasp if she could. "I was actually sent down here to destroy any bunker or lab or armory dealing with Atlas. They wanted to do a little insurance fraud so they wouldn't have to waste money so to say." She seemed proud in her work. They all seem fascinated to know about her work and mostly her plan. "You three better not say anything. Swear?" They both nod to her demand as she relaxed and wasn't on edge for telling her new friends about her work.
The rabbit, skunk, and blue bunny then looked at the gray siren who looked at them with some sort of confusion on her face. "What? I'm seventeen. You really expect me to work for Corporations like Maliwan or something?" Waverly said to them with them all agreeing to that with only silence starting to come back to the group. Only the wind and fire crackling was all they could hear. No words. Only the words of mother nature herself. Their eyes went back to the fire and kept looking at it as if they was hypnotized by its wavy pattern. Nothing but silence. "Diana." Said Skeleton as she kept looking at the fire with her knowing she had the eyes of her buddies looking at her. "It's Diana."
The three of them kept quiet as they slowly looked back at the fire to again have the sounds coming from their mouths slowly disappear. Nature talked to them again. The silence was again however broken. "Keenan" Said Spazzie as they just kept looking at the flame. "Emery" Waverly was next to speak with them as she didn't want to be alone with doing it. "Trish." Trash knew she was going to have her name said sooner or later so she took the needle right away rather than wait. Silence met them again. The feeling wasn't awkwardness however. It was relieve. It was the feeling of friendship bonding. The clear way to know was by them smiling with each other. The thought of four random strangers becoming friends all for one goal. To the True Vault.
"Say. You guys got any three things of what you want when we get that Vault and loot it?" Emery said with her eyes looking at her friends. They looked at each other to see who would go first in answering this question. "Well I'll go ahead and start it." Keenan said as he stretched. "I want to have a shotgun that bursts out fire slugs. I also want a year supply of raspberry vodka." They giggled at him with his childish behavior but he smiles. "And I also want to marry the hell out of Flame as soon as Helios Two is fixed." The d'aww's came back as he blushed but also tried to play it off cool. It was then Diana who took her turn with the group.
"Ok. You know how I do inventory right? Well I always check out the laser guns. I want a laser gun. Like really badly." She was obsessed with the guns that deal with shooting out lasers. A smart and scary skunk was something worse than the rocket launcher rabbit with attitude. Diana continued on. "I'd also give fifty percent of my loot to my boyfriend back home." She was interrupted by the squeals of the blue sassy bunny who got a playful punch in the arm with her going on. "I also would like to, well, go into an art school." She blushed from saying that with her arms crossed. A badass artist? That was something incredible to them all as they all was complimenting on how that sounds like an awesome idea.
"I didn't know you do art too." Trish said with them looking back at her. Two artists with the skills of true Vault Hunters? Double the trouble. "Well I also want to do an art school. I'd also would like to be a huge positive influence in Zootopia. Finally I'll take the most powerful rocket launcher from Atlas as my token." She said with a wicked grin as the fear made the others shudder the thought of her with a powerful weapon. Diana however was also interested from the rabbit. "I didn't know you lived in Zootopia too." The stunned rabbit looked at the skunk who was seemingly happy to know that everyone of her teammate friends actually lived in the same place as her. "Yeah. Maybe when we all get there we could celebrate and draw art together?" The words made not only the skunk be happy but the siren bunny fox mix actually have her big fluffy tail wag and seem excited.
They looked at Emery who had her turn to tell. "Heh. Sorry. I do want to be a big time artist also." She giggled to herself and seemed happy with saying it with pride. "I also not only want that Flintlock pistol but I'd also want that M1911A1 pistol as well. Two rare guns for good classic me." She did a cute little evil laugh with the others smiling and chuckling. "Finally. I'd like to give my parents all of the loot. I mean they deserve it." The blue bunny smiled warmly and felt proud of her. "That's a good thing. You're more good than I am." She did a smile back and then the both of them noticed Diana had one more thing to say.
"Who are your parents by the way?" She asked to Emery who just letted out a smile. "Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde. They work for the ZPD back at Zootopia." The names were all too familiar for all of them. Keenan just looked stiffed as a nail and just slowly fell down fainting on his back as his mind quickly broke. He shot guns and drinked around and even letted her drive. The daughter of Nick Wilde and Judy Hopps. He was a dead bunny according to his mind.
"Well looks like he passed out. We should all get some sleep." Diana said with a yawn to which she got up and headed to the truck that was near them to pull out a bunch of sleeping bags all for four of them. They started to take one with Emery putting the passed out bunny inside of his to keep him warm. "Let's just be clear. We only known our real names. Everyone else won't know. Deal?" Trish said as she got inside of hers with the two of them looking back. "Of course." Diana said as she and Emery got in theirs and started to rest. "Night Trash." The sarcastic siren said with a snicker to her. "Night Waverly." The rabbit said back with a smile and saying good night to the almost sleepy skunk. "Night. Goodnight Spazzie." No sound came from his body. They could sense the fear but they knew he was going to be ok. They slowly all drifted to sleep at night. The silent dark night with the winds being their company. They more importantly had the company of eachother. The company of friendship.
