A/N: So here you go, Chapter 9. I'm coming close to the end now, so there will probably be 11 chapters. I've tried to get chapters out as fast as I can, but I usually end up doing one a week, if even.
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"You really think I'd just have a bunch of robots guarding the Vault Key? You see, the bunker isn't a place." Handsome Jack said solemnly.
A huge, black, disk-shaped object hovered into the sky using jet thrusters. Metal flaps on both sides of it opened up and various arrays of weaponry came out.
"Meet the BNK-3R, the greatest defence bot ever built," Jack continued on as the ship flew over our heads.
"Shit! Everyone get ready!" Axton yelled.
"Oh, crap!" Brick shouted over our ECHO devices. "The bunker went airborne slabs! This is gonna get messy!"
In the distance, I saw the BNK-3R take a wide turn and head back in our direction. Different types of Hyperion loaders landed on the platform where we stood.
"That thing's coming back!" I warned. "Get to cover!"
I pulled out my corrosive SMG and melted a nearby loader, before sliding into cover amidst a pile of metal crates. Maya vaulted over one of the crates and crouched down next to me.
"I wouldn't say you're able to phaselock THAT?!" I asked, raising my voice over the sound of gunfire.
"I could try!" she shouted back at me.
I reloaded, then nodded at her and we broke our cover and ran back into the centre of the platform. I summoned Deathtrap and covered Maya as she readied her Siren powers to phaselock BNK-3R. BNK-3R was coming in fast, it would fly over us in a matter of seconds. I continued to destroy any loader that came near us. While I was shooting, I looked around for Zero, Salvador and Axton. I saw Salvador and Axton fending off a group of loaders. Axton's turret was set up in front of him, and Salvador held two huge machine guns, one in each hand. The bullets he was firing were bouncing off BNK-3R, doing seemingly no damage. Zero was nowhere to be seen. I turned my attention back to BNK-3R.
"Ready Maya?!" I shouted.
"As I'll ever be!" She replied, her tattoos glowing purple.
BNK-3R came within range, and Maya thrust her arm out to phaselock it. A purple circle flickered around BNK-3R for a few seconds, slowing it down but not stopping it. Maya couldn't hold on and she dropped her arm and stumbled backwards, as BNK-3R continued to fly overhead.
"Dammit!" She howled in frustration.
I looked around again and saw that Salvador and Axton had taken cover behind the same stack of crates that me and Maya had used a few moments ago. We rushed across the battlefield and took cover behind the crates, next to Axton and Salvador. Deathtrap followed behind me.
"Well, phaselock's out of the question," Maya told Axton.
"Crap," Axton said, as he popped out of cover to take out a loader. "We can't get any damage on it while it's flying around like that, we gotta wait for it to stop and come close before we can do anything. So, until it does that, keep fighting!" Axton commanded.
I sprinted back out into the centre of the platform. Lasers suddenly appeared and quickly began sliding their way at waist-level along the battlefield.
"Laser countermeasures! Watch out!" Brick shouted.
The lasers came in twos and in short intervals, so I jumped over the first laser and rolled under the second in one swift movement. As I stood up, I saw BNK-3R appear directly above me. I watched it as a giant cannon appeared from a hatch in the bottom of it. The cannon was aimed at me, it began to glow a dark red colour, charging up its shot. Just as it was about to fire, there was a flash of blue and I saw Zero fly past me. The cannon became detached from BNK-3R and fell to the ground. I looked up into the hatch where the gun had come out of, I saw what looked like the circuitry that kept this thing running and had an idea. I quickly brought Deathtrap underneath the hatch, clambered onto his shoulder and jumped up towards the hatch. I grabbed onto the edge and pulled myself up inside BNK-3R.
There was barely any space to move around in here, let alone stand up, wires constricted my movement everywhere I went. I crawled around inside, looking for something of importance to BNK-3R that I could destroy. After a minute or so of desperate searching I found what looked like a small generator, similar to Sanctuary's shield generator. Inside it, a small blue sphere was spinning around.
I grinned to myself, this was too easy.
I took out a grenade, pulled the pin and switched the power core with the grenade as fast as I could, then crawled back towards the hatch. I looked down, BNK-3R was still hovering above the main platform. That grenade would go off any second, so I threw myself through the hold and landed back on the platform, rolling to lessen the impact.
There was a huge explosion behind me and I looked up. A massive hole had been blown right through the middle of BNK-3R. Oil spilled out from every crack and its thrusters were flickering on and off. It was going to fall.
Right on top of me.
I stood up and ran, diving as soon as I was out of BNK-3R's shadow. There was a huge crash behind me, and then silence. I rolled over to see the metal wreckage mere centimetres from me. I lay back down and looked up at the sky, laughing. That was the most badass thing I had ever done in my entire life. Ever.
Axton stood over me, holding out a hand to help me up.
"Gaige, that. Was. Awesome!" he exclaimed.
"Yeah," I panted, "But I don't think I could do it again."
"I love you," Axton said, in Jack's voice, into the bio-scanner.
"Access granted," said an automated voice, "Hello, sexy."
"Why, thank you," He grinned as the door slid open.
We walked through to find an elevator. We all stood on it and I pushed the button to go down. As we descended, Angel spoke to us.
"Eridium alone could never charge the Vault Key, it needed a catalyst, it needed a Siren."
We all looked at each other.
"Jack acquired his Siren a long time ago, and he kept her locked away all these years, but you can free her," Angel said.
The elevator hit the bottom floor and we stepped off and followed a short corridor to a room containing only a button. Axton walked up to the button.
"Everybody ready?" he asked. Everyone nodded in agreement and Axton hit the button.
"Executing phase shift," Angel said, as the room around us began to dissolve into a grey, digitized nothingness. A small, cone shaped object made of rock appeared and floated in the air.
"The Vault Key is here," Angel began, "But, to truly stop Jack from awakening the Warrior, you will have to destroy his catalyst, you will have to destroy... me."
As she said this, a young girl appeared. She looked to be around my age, with black hair and purple tattoos. Huge wings extended out from both sides of her. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. All this time she had led us to believe that she was an A.I, when she was a really a Siren. I glanced over at Maya, who was in a state of shock, she said or did nothing but stare at Angel blankly. After a few seconds of silence, we heard Handsome Jack.
"Get the hell away from my daughter!" He yelled, and Angel was suddenly pulled backwards by an invisible force. The grey faded and we found ourselves standing in a giant, circular room. In the middle, Angel floated in the air, surrounded by a force field, and being held up by electro-locks. Three huge pipes containing liquid Eridium led into the machine that was keeping her in place.
"Quick! Shoot the Eridium injectors!" Angel ordered and we opened fire on the pipes. Suddenly, Jack's face appeared on various screens around the room.
"Oh no you don't!" He yelled, "Shields up!"
Orange shields appeared and encased the Eridium injectors. Metal pillars began to rise out of the ground and digi-struct loaders. We all went in different directions. I digi-structed Deathtrap and ran towards the nearest loader I could find, pumping SMG bullets into it as I went. Jack and Angel were both screaming at us in the background, I paid little attention to either of them. I dissolved the first loader with my corrosive SMG, while Deathtrap fired a beam of electricity into the next. I began taking out every loader I could see and was getting into the action when I heard Roland over my ECHO device.
"Hey, up here!" He called. I looked up and saw him standing on a light bridge leading to a computer console. "I'll try lower the shields!"
I turned my attention back to the fighting. I hopped on to Deathtrap's shoulders and we focused our fire on taking out a Badass Loader that had just been digi-structed.
Suddenly, I saw a flash of purple from the other side of the room, and I heard Lilith's voice.
"Sup," She said.
"Lilith!" Roland yelled, "I told you not to come!"
"Yeah, and I didn't listen!" she replied and began rapidly teleporting to different spots around the room. Roland continued to work on lowering the shields.
All this time, Handsome Jack was begging us not to kill his daughter, but Angel was tired of her torture, she wanted to die, she wanted to end a life of imprisonment. It seemed like she hated Jack as much as anyone else in this room, even if he was her father.
"I got it!" Roland shouted triumphantly, "Shields are down, shoot the injectors!"
We all fired on the three Eridium injectors until each one burst. Angel screamed in pain as each one was destroyed. When they were all gone, the force field around her and the electro-locks disappeared and she fell to the ground. We rushed over to her. Without the Eridium injectors, it was only a matter of time before she died. Maya and Lilith crouched down next to Angel as she breathed her last few words. I stood back, behind everyone, and watched the scene unfold.
"Dad, I have to tell you something..." Angel said quietly.
There was a long silence before she spoke her final words.
"You're an asshole."
Her eyes shut and her body went very still.
"No, Angel!" Jack cried.
There was another long silence before Maya spoke, "What kind of person does this to their own daughter?" she asked.
"The kind of man that deserves to die," Roland said to her. "Anyway, we have to keep moving, the rest of you head to Sanctuary, I'm going after Jack."
Everything happened so fast after that. Just as Roland said that, there was a gunshot, and a bullet hold appeared in the middle of his chest. He toppled forward to reveal Handsome Jack standing behind him, a Hyperion pistol in his hand.
"Roland!" Lilith screamed and then turned towards Jack. "I'll kill you!" she screamed and ran towards Jack. Her Siren wings appeared and she glowed a bright orange. Just as she was within lunging distance of Jack, he reached out and a metal collar wrapped itself around Lilith's neck. He quickly grabbed her and spun her around to face us, using her as a meat shield.
"Lilith, kill them all," Jack said through gritted teeth.
She raised her arm and let out a scream as her tattoos began to glow. Suddenly, there was a flash and my vision went purple.
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