Do Not Own Borderlands

Rebirth of a Siren

Chapter 7: Enter Gaige – Gaige

An ex-high school student from the planet Eden-5 named Gaige was hiding out in an icy ghetto on Pandora. Hyperion had placed a staggering $820,000,000,000 on her head forcing her to flee to Pandora. They had seized control over the system in the wake of the collapse of Atlas who had been the only thing preventing their advancement. She heard of Pandora from the story of General Pollux. General Pollux had been one of the last high-ranking members of Atlas and was said have overseen a secret Atlas project. When General Knoxx was killed, General Pollux had apparently retreated to Pandora with the remaining Crimson Lance to secure a secret Atlas base to keep it away from Hyperion's hands. Nothing of General Pollux and his forces were ever found so most people believe he did not exist. However, it allowed Gaige to escape from Hyperion forces on Eden-5 to Pandora. Unfortunately for Gaige, it seemed that Hyperion also had a large interest in the planet with their massive space station Helios being in orbit. Pandora lived up to its reputation as Gaige was only on the planet for five minutes and she was attacked by Bandits. This forced her to call on DT to attack them. DT aka Deathtrap or rather D374-TP was her science fair project. She built him to combat bullying. However, her rival Marcie Holloway had her father and his Hyperion buddies buy her way through the competition. Marcie stole the designs of Deathtrap for Her Hyperion sponsors in exchange for them making her win. Gaige did not know of her crime until the day of the science fair when she saw a defective robot that could be only based on Deathtrap's blueprints as Marcie Holloway's project. She was angry that Marcie had stolen her robot. Her robotic hand twitched as she had the urge to strangle her but she managed to restrain herself. The Judges on the payroll of Marcie's father didn't bother judging Marcie and awarded her first place. Gaige did get the third place so it wasn't a total loss. It would have more likely ended there if it weren't for two things. The first is Hyperion deciding to eliminate her so she wouldn't be able to say she was the original designer of Deathtrap and Marcie coming up to Gaige. She said smugly "I win again"

Gaige had replied in a dark manic voice that scared herself "I will get you for this" Gaige then unknowing also grinned psychotically. Marcie then shoved Gaige away for her. Unfortunately, this caused Deathtrap to identify her as a hostile. Gaige watched in morbid fascination as Deathtrap attacked with its claws and caused Marcie a messy death. Gaige watched the anarchy of this event feeling powerful that she had caused this. Gaige later when she looked back was disgusted with herself. She still to this day didn't know if it had been all down to a miscalibration or she had commanded Deathtrap to kill Marcie. The crazy Gaige had been escorted to the principal's office. He said that she faced expulsion and arrest for accidentally murdering her rival. Hyperion decided to take the opportunity to that she was involved in the creation of unauthorized technology and it had been Gaige who had stolen the design for DT from Marcie. This strange version of herself didn't really care for this so she called her father. She asked him to create a distraction to help her evade arrest. Her father was a great man so he complied without a question. He contacted a man named Mr. Blake who helped her by buying her a ticket to Pandora and leading the Hyperion forces on a wild goose chase. On the trip to Pandora, Gaige had the time to upgrade Deathtrap and think about her strange behaviour. She decided it something about the death that caused her to go like that so vowed to herself that she wouldn't kill anyone else. So, it was why DT was her best weapon to fight the Bandits that wanted to kill her not wanting to fight herself. He handled them easily but Gaige was attacked by a pyscho. This forced Gaige to defend herself. She fired her gun wildly and somehow managed to kill the pyscho. She then turned on the other remaining bandits and helped Deathtrap to take them out. She giggled hysterically as she fired her gun everywhere like a mad woman. After wasting all her ammo and every bandit dead, Gaige dropped her gun. Gaige then calmed down and was shocked that she had killed her way through a camp by herself. Gaige then walked off in a random direction and came across a siren, a short man, a soldier and a strange humanoid getting onto a train. Gaige snuck on board the train as she had no idea where she was. Gaige was forced to hide when a group of Hyperion Engineers got onto the train. Gaige remained in hiding as she heard gunshots that she assumed were the four people on the train fighting off the Hyperion Engineers. The train then blew up knocking Gaige unconscious. She came around with an intense headache and trapped under the snow. She thought she heard muffled voices so forced herself to dig towards them with her metal arm. The voices grew quiet but Gaige continued digging. She eventually pulled herself out of the snow and took breaths of air.

She heard a female voice say, "I'll explain everything soon, but know this I am here to help you" but in her confused state didn't really register it. Urged on the sound of the voice talking, Gaige had made to the icy grotto and intermediately crashed onto a sofa.

Gaige was about to close her eyes to sleep when a high-pitched voice boomed throughout the grotto, "Search the grotto, those murderers are around here somewhere". This voice made Gaige's headache even worst then it was. Gaige nearly dead on her feet forced herself up not wanting to die after surviving the train crash. Two Badass Marauders, a special type of bandits who were tougher than normal entered the chamber. Gaige surprised them when she launched herself at them. Knocking them both out with a swift punch with her metal hand to their heads. Gaige took off not wanting to remain with the knocked out Badass Marauders. Following the path out of grotto, Gaige past a lot of dead creatures that she learned at school were Bullymongs. This told Gaige that the muffled voices had likely come this way. Gaige slowly made her way the dead body of Knuckle Dragger. However, the sight of a Midget Goliath grieving for the dead creature stopped Gaige in her tracks. The Midget Goliath saw Gaige and said angrily in his high-pitched voice "Murderer, you killed Knuckle Dragger. I the great Midge will judge you for killing poor Knuckle Dragger" Gaige backed away from the crazy midget right into a Bullymong. The Bullymong slammed Gaige into the ground. The last thing Gaige heard was Midge saying, "Who's a good Warmong"