A/N: I was planning to start making the chapters much longer, but immense writer's block and severe lack of motivation prevented me from doing so. Also, I have had about zero free time recently, but now I'm off for a week so I'll see what I can get done.

The boat ride to Sanctuary was an agonizing 10 hour journey. I spent most of the time thinking up ways that I could upgrade Deathtrap and I had a lot of ideas in mind. We were sailing through the night so I ending up nodding off after a few hours.

"Wakey wakey!" I woke up to Salvador shouting in my face. I pushed him aside and sat up.

"We're here" said Salvador happily.

I stood up and looked around. I noticed that the boat had somehow ended up around 5 metres from the sea, stuck on dry land. I saw Maya, Axton and Zero on a road next to the boat. Me and Salvador walked over to the side of the boat, vaulted the railing and strolled over to the others.

"Decided to join us, did you?" Maya said to me.

"Funny, I said flatly, "So, where are we heading now?"

"The main gate to Sanctuary is just up the road there." Axton explained.

"Kay, let's get going then."

We began to walk along the road. After a few steps, I heard a female voice.

"Hello, Gaige, it's about time I talked to you." she said

I stopped walking and spun around, trying to find where the voice was coming from. I realised the voice was coming from inside my head. A woman's face appeared in front of me, and no matter where I looked, she was still there.

"Uhh, hi." I said.

"Hello." She repeated. "I know all about you, Gaige, I have been researching you for a while. I know what happened that night at the Eden-5 Youth Science Fair."

I winced at the memories.

"Anyway, stay with the Vault Hunters, you'll be safe with them. Jack knows there's another Vault Hunter, no doubt he'll be putting a hefty bounty on your head." She warned, and then she disappeared.

"It looks like you just met Angel." Axton said to me.

"Yeah, who is she?"

"She's an A.I, apparently she has access to everything on Pandora."

"Woah, like a real A.I?" I exclaimed. "That is so cool!"

"Yes yes, it's amazing, now, can we just get to Sanctuary please?" Salvador said bluntly.

Suddenly, Handsome Jack's voice came over our ECHO communicators. "Well, well, looks like there's actually FIVE of you pesky Vault Hunters. I'll see what I can find out about the fifth one."

There was a long pause, during which I looked edgily at the others.

Jack came back laughing. "Hahahahaha! The fifth Vault Hunter's only a little girl, aww that's funny. Anyway, let's take a look at your file. Let's see, oh, so your name's Gaige, hello there Gaige. Hmmm... blah blah Eden-5 blah blah blah mechanics blah blah. Wait a minute, charged with murder? Hahahaha! Of who, I wonder?"

There was a short silence.

"WHAT?!" Jack screamed. "You're the girl who killed Mr. Holloway's daughter?! You little BI-"

With that, I switched off my ECHO communicator.

"That's enough of that jerkbag." I said

The others turned their ECHO devices off.

"And, now you've met Jack aswell." Axton said to me.


After raiding a nearby Bloodshot camp for a power core to put into Sanctuary's shield generator, we were finally allowed into Sanctuary. I had no problem killing bandits anymore, they were out to kill me, and I figured if I had already killed one, I might aswell kill a thousand of the bastards. When we entered Sanctuary, we were told that the leader of the Crimson Raiders, Roland, had gone missing and to head to the Crimson Raiders HQ in Sanctuary. We were greeted at the door of the HQ by one of the Raiders.

"Quick, get inside," he said to us, "Roland left a message for you."

We unlocked the door and walked inside. The room contained little more than a few dirty bunk beds, a few lockers, boxes, desks and some washing machines. We saw an ECHO recorder sitting on a desk and assumed that was the message the soldier was talking about. Axton picked up the ECHO device and hit the play button. A pre-recorded message began to play in Roland's voice.

"Hey soldier." He began, "If you're hearing this, I'm in trouble. Right now, you're the only thing standing between this city – hell, the whole planet – and Handsome Jack's army. I left info on my whereabouts in my safe. You can use it to store anything you need – this is your home now. Good luck."

Axton threw the ECHO device back onto the table and we headed upstairs to Roland's safe. His safe looked like a bank vault, with a metal, circular door with a big wheel jutting out. Salvador spun the wheel a few times and yanked the door open. Maya reached inside and pulled out another ECHO device, identical to the one we saw downstairs. She hit play.

"This is the Firehawk. Come to Frostburn Canyon or people will die." Said a heavily distorted voice.

"Well, crap." Sighed Maya "Looks like we're going to Frostburn Canyon then. We'll head out in an hour, everyone get all the guns and ammunition you need."

After buying some ammo from a vending machine, I decided to get to know the townspeople. On our way in, we had passed what looked like a garage named Scooter's, that looked like the kind of place where I was going to get parts for Deathtrap, so I started there.

I walked through the wide opening at the front of the building. The place was a mess, the concrete floor was drenched in oil and unfinished vehicles were strewn about the place.

Suddenly, a man came charging at me, swinging a wrench around wildly.

"Die, you Hyperion bitch!" he screamed at me.

I raised my SMG and aimed at him. He stopped running.

"Woah, man, don't shoot me!" he begged. He had a thick, hillbilly accent.

"I'm not here to kill you." I said with a smile. "My name's Gaige, I'm a Vault Hunter."

"Woah, like a real Vault Hunter? Why didn't you just say so? Name's Scooter, I run all of them Catch-A-Ride stations y'all have been usin'."

"That's cool." I said. It was good to finally have another mechanic to talk to.

I noticed he had been staring at my metal arm. I sighed and raised it to show him.

"Looking at this?" I asked, "Chopped of my original arm and build this mechanical one myself."

"That is badASS!" he laughed.

I smiled back at him. I liked this guy, I'd have to have a proper conversation with him once I got a chance.

"Thanks, anyway, I best get going, me and the other Vault Hunters are going to rescue Roland from this person by the name of the Firehawk. Should be fun." I said

"The Firehawk's got Roland? Oh, crap." He looked worried.

"What? Who exactly is the Firehawk?" I asked.

"The Firehawk's a mass murderin' psycho. If I were you guys, I'd get your asses to Frostburn Canyon and save Roland right away!"

"Kay, thanks for the tip. See ya around!" I said to him, before running off to warn the others what we were up against.