The explosion ripped the train cabin apart; Maya was thrown out a window by the sheer force of the blast, leaving her spiralling down into the deep frozen chasms below leading to the frozen tundra. Barely conscious she manages to pull up a sphere of cosmic energy around her and crashes to the ground. Exhausted the sphere slowly crumbles away and darkness slowly crawls from the corners of her eyes…
As Krieg leaped forwards into the pile of dynamite, the explosion smashed him up and out of the cabin roof with such force he found himself dozens of meters above the train, but he wasn't the only one. As he fell Krieg noticed a damaged loader falling with him, he grinned, and with a swift grab he was riding the loader to its doom.
"FLY BIRDIE! FFLLLYYY!" he whooped in joy as they plummeted to the cold earth below. As the ground neared in, Krieg imply hops off the bot and with a little tumble lands safe and sound to the frozen wasteland unscathed. And as he took no more than a dozen steps a hyperion constructor crashes down right behind him and explodes….
Maya's eyelids were frozen shut for some moments before painfully the frost holding together slowly cracked and to Maya's surprise was a box like robot armed with a shovel, making a poor attempt to bury some frozen dead vault hunters, while mumbling to itself.
"Great…" it said with a heavy sigh, "another vault hunter dead…man, has Handsome Jack been busy…" and continues to struggle as it dug out the corpse. Maya stiffly looks around and what she thought was a large snow mound, slowly falls apart to reveal someone she wouldn't ever expect to see alive. Her mouth gapes wide as Krieg drags himself towards the little bot, stopping as he notices her lying half covered in the snow. He shifts his focus again to the small robot and makes a low grunt which seems to catch the little robot's attention.
"Oh!" the bot is obviously surprised by his and notices Maya too, struggling to stand.
"wait…..you're not dead!" he does a small dance of joy "YES! I can finally get off this frozen wasteland! WOO!" remembering he wasn't along he clears his throat.
"Ah, yes, allow me to introduce myself, I am CL4P-TP, BUT! You may call me Claptrap! That's what my friends call me, if they were still alive….or if they actually existed in the first place!"
Both Maya and Krieg glanced at each other with concerned looks as Claptrap dug out from some close by corpses of vault hunters a small device which he handed to the both of them. As they both connected it to their digistructor, a digital map, compass, and ammunitions counter appeared within their eyes.
"Follow me!" chirped Claptrap, "Man, this is great! Now that I've met a mighty vault hunter, I can finally join the resistance in Sanctuary, take vengeance against Jack for killing my product line, and repair my central processor so I stop thinking out loud! I wonder what it's like to have a belly button."
Krieg eyed the small robot suspiciously, but shrugged off the feeling. Maya shared the same feeling but continued on. As they slowly walked towards what seemed like a mountain of trash, Krieg cried out loud with surprise. Standing in front of them stood a glowing girl; Krieg took no time to slash out doing no more than going through the cold empty air. To Maya, he slashed at nothing while she stood in front of her. The glowing girl raised her hands in mock surrender,
"Whoa, might wanna calm down there." She eyed Krieg as he growled.
"You'll need that funny little robot's help to reach Sanctuary, the last bastion of the resistance against Jack, and the only place you will be truly safe. Get. To Sanctuary." As they neared Claptraps hideout she slowly began to fade.
"So don't freak out. I'm here to help you. You don't know me - you can't know me, but I'll be there with you to help your friend - you gotta trust me." As she faded into the dark Claptrap ushered us into his humble home. It was really just a hollowed out mountain filled with corpses, loaders, and other miscellaneous waiting to be burned. Krieg began digging through the pile of bodies which Maya recognized some bandits factions as well as some rat clans. But what surprised her he most was the body of a crimson lance which Krieg was looting attaching pieces here and there to his outfit.
'Never thought I'd see a Crimson Lance in the flesh…' Maya continued to stare at the helmet of the Lancer for some time before being interrupted by Claptrap.
"Well, Welcome to my place, this is where Handsome Jack dumps the bodies, mainly bandits and vault hunters, and before that, the majority of the CL4P-TP line up," He sighs again "I know I sound pretty happy, but that's only due to how my programmers programmed me, I'm actually pretty depressed." He sighs again and glances towards Krieg juggling his buzz-ax and the crimson lance helmet.
"Now, the creatures around here are dangerous, none more than a Bullymong named Knuckledragger - killed everyone I know." He glances around "He's just one more reason you've gotta help me get to the city of Sanctuary! That's why we need to head to Sanctuary, the last free town on Pandora - it's too dangerous out here! I keep a pistol in the cabinet over there for emergencies - but, in here, we should be pretty safe—" He never got to finish his sentence as an enormous creature, like a gorilla injected with more than enough steroids, covered with white fur and gigantic arms, while the opposite appearance for its legs, skinny and gangly appears from the opening from the ceiling, fluidly climbing down and snatches Claptrap in a single motion and rips out his glowing eye. All within moments Claptrap is thrown down and before Krieg or Maya manages a shot, the creature rapidly climbs back out from the hole, and roars in triumph. As it disappears, Maya rushes towards Claptrap, who managed to get back up and say,
"Well that was Knuckledragger, and he's just stolen my eye..fuck."
WELL FINALLY! I am back! I feel really bad for posting this after how many months have past. MANY APOLOGIES! BUT! I am back and so the story must continue! Next chapter coming soon!