Hey guys! I've noticed a few people have been reading my story, but none of them has answered to my questions, so I'll just ask again in desprate hope for feedback:

1) Should I create a Pairing? (My OC x a character from Borderlands or Borderlands 2)

2) Should I create a skill-tree for my character?

If I don't get any answers until friday the 7th, this story (not the sequel though) will be continued wirh the genre: friendship.

Anyway. Enjoy the next chapter! (It's kind of long because of the dialoug.)

*Falshback*

„I'm back.", the brunette girl called out to no one in particular, as she entered the small appartement which was located on the Hyperion Moonstation. Getting no answer, the girl looked around for her family, only to find an older man slouched on a chair in the dining room with his head hanging low. „Dad? Are you okay?", she asked carefully. Still no answer. She slowly approached him and touched his shoulder. „Hey. What's wrong? Where are Claudia and Alex? Please talk to me." At the mention of those names the man finally paid attention to the brunette and looked up. With a mental gasp the girl studied his features. He had big, dark circles under his eyes from lack of sleep and all in all he looked very exhausted. In his eyes she could see the sorrow and sadness he was feeling. „My god...Dad...What..." She wasn't able to finish her sentence. Her father stood up quickly and huged her to his chest. „I'm sorry, Jynx", he said with a raspy voice. He let her go, but kept both of his hands on her shoulders and looked her in the eyes.

„Listen, sweetheart. You're smart enough to know about our financial situation, so I'm not even going to try to make it sound less worse. I'm not able to take care of us all anymore." A short break followed, before he continued. „I talked with the president, but he won't give me a raise. I'm nearly in my sixtees and Hyperion needs young workers. And..." „That's kind of the reason I wanted to talk to you.", the girl interrupted her father. „Well, to all of you. Where are Claudia and Alex?", she asked. „They...They went ot sign Alex in to work as a mechanic." The girl looked shocked for a second, but stayed calm. „That won't be necessary, Dad." He gave her a confused look. „I talked to Blake just before I came back. He told me that there was a way for me to help you pay the bills." „Jynx, what are you talking about?" With a short intake of breath the girl answered: „Pandora."

Jynx P.O.V.

A bump woke me up from my slumber. Did we just hit something? I streched myself and heard a few cracks from my joints. At that very moment Marcus called from the driver seat. „All right back there, time to wake up! It's a beatiful day, full of opportunity!" With that I sat up and glanced at my companions. They looked like they had been sleeping too. Mordecai and Lilith stood up and took hold of the seats to not fall over from the bumpy ride. „Next stop: Fyrestone Depot. Time to gather up your stuff!", Marcus said. I took my small backpack and slouched it over my shoulder. As we waited Marcus kept talking and talking. He's worse than the Hyperion president when he gives one of his speeches. But before I had the chance to actually listen to the nonesense Marcus was talking about, I heard a voice coming out of nowhere, making me jump slightly.

Don't be alarmed. I need you to stay calm and don't let on that anyone is talking to you. Start making your way off the bus. You don't have any reason to trust me, but I need you to believe that I'm here to guide you – I'm here to help you find the Vault. In a moment, you'll be greeted by a funny little robot. Do everything he says. You'll know what I mean when it happens. I'll contact you again soon. Still a little wide-eyed, I looked at each at my companions to see, that they looked at each other too. So I assume that I'm not going nuts and they heard that voice too. The bus came to a stop and I made my way to the door, followed by Mordecai, Lilith, Roland and Brick. Marcus started to speak to all of us again: „Well, we're here. Don't worry about saying goodbye. I'm sure we'll be doing this all again soon enough." We gave him a weird look, as he started to laugh about his words. All of sudden his expression became serious. „Get off my bus." Sheesh, who pissed in his cereal now?

One by one we stepped out onto the wasteland of Pandora and watched as Marcus drove off. With the bus gone, you could see a huge 'Welcome' sign, a run-down house and, oh what a suprise, a 'funny little robot', which I immediately recognized as a Hyperion Claptrap Unit. „See ya next time!",it exclaimed while waving goodbye in the direction of the disappearing bus. It then noticed the five of us standing beside it and rolled over. „Welcome to Fyrestone! I am CL4P-TP, you may call me by my locally designated name, 'Claptrap'.", it introduced itself. Before any of us got the chance to introduce ourselfs, it continued talking: „Before continuing, please accept this ECHO communication devices and heads-up displays provided free of charge by the Dahl corporation!" It handed each of us an ECHO and we hooked it up. Roland and I had no problem doing so, but Brick, Lilith and Mordecai seemed to struggle a bit. They still got it hooked up though. The Claptrap Unit waited patieltly until we were all finished. „Great! I detected that your ECHO devices are fully functioning! This way, please."

As we had been told by the mysterious voice on the bus, we followed it and it led us to a New-U station. Apparantly that Claptrap Unit was used as some kind of tour guide here, because he started to explain what the Station was for. „Step right up! This is the New-U station. When you use this device, your DNA profiles are automatically identifeid and stored. Please activate the New-U station now." Roland went first, then Lilith, followed by Mordecai and Brick. I stood a little further away, not making any move to use the New-U station. Since I kind of worked for Hyperion, I was already signed in on the Moonstation. As I casually looked around I felt eyes on me and turned my head to see my companions staring at me with questioning eyes. „What?", I asked, not knowing why they looked at me. Lilith spoke first: „Aren't you going to sign up?" „Yeah.", Mordecai agreed. Wow, he can talk. „I'm already signed up.", I answered, gaining curious looks. „How is that?", Roland asked. Since I didn't feel like telling them now, all I said was: „It's kind of a long story. Mind if I tell you, when we have a safe place to stay at?" „Alright then, Mystery-Girl. It's a deal then.", Mordecai replied, satisfied with my answer.

Then the Claptrap Unit spoke again: „Excellent! Now that your DNA is registered, you have the best in horrific death and dismemberment insurance! Should an unfortunate fatal incident occur, your 'new you' will appear at the nearest station. Now we can head into the peaceful town of Fyrestone!" Maybe this will finally be a place, where no one is trying to kill me. My thought however was short lived, as we followed the robot to a gate he was about to activate, but was interrupted by the loud rumbling of engines. „Wait... is that? … Oh no, not again! Ruuuuuuuunnnnnnn!", it screamed and went to hide in a small shack. We all drew our weapons as Runners jumped over our heads and behind the closed gate. Yup. I shoul have seen that coming. Welcome to the peaceful town of Fyrestone...