Ax wouldn't have liked it but screw him; ever since the age of six, Sal has kept at least one skag companion. Although skag were generally seen as dirty scavengers and to be avoided on Pandora, his family had always been the types to be friendly with skags. Ever since he had befriended Dukino, he just couldn't stay away. The juvenile had an effect on him like no other. He just wasn't the type to lie in bed licking his wounds. He had to do something.

Although he didn't feel like he was up to go to the meeting with Blake (and he was more than a little pissed at that), he thought he'd be more than up for a trip to Lynchwood to pay a visit to dear young Dukino to feed him if nothing else.

The steroids gave Sal some mobility back, sure, but his body still wasn't one hundred percent. He resorted to using a pair of crutches taken from "Dr." Zed to shuffle himself along. Also because of his height, Cutty had to cut a chunk out from the middle section and then weld them back together just so that they wouldn't be awkward for Sal to use. He made sure to wear his Lynchwood sheriff's badge when he fast-traveled there.

When Sal and his friends took down the former unnamed sheriff, they were sworn in as the new sheriffs and protectors of the town; as in Salvador, Axton, Maya, Zer0 and Gaige were all collectively the sheriff, with badges and all, while deputy winger held things in relative control in their absence.

When Salvador emerged from the Lynchwood train station, limping on his crutches, a crowd quickly gathered around him. Ever since getting rid of the tyrant that ran it before, the people loved them, even the bandits. People were still hung occasionally, just for things like murder and robbery not just for looking at the deputies wrong. One could say Lynchwood was the most lawful place on Pandora besides Sanctuary and the people were showing their appreciation, even if the Vault Hunters had little to do with its actual continued order. All of this was a bit jarring to him and he waited patiently, sitting still and bore the unpleasantness that he felt in his body as they patted him and almost knocked him over.

"It's good to see you back, Sheriff", called Winger over Echo. "Well, one of you at least."

"Hey", Sal said through gritted teeth, "you mind dispersing this crowd, deputy?"

"What was that", Winger said, "I can't hear you over everybody else."

"I said get rid of these people before I pull out Law and start shooting!"

Winger got the message and immediately got on the horn.

"Okay, citizens! The sheriff isn't feeling so good today so just let him go on his way! Go on now! Git!"

The crowd reluctantly began to disperse and Salvador was finally allowed to hop down from the porch.

Just as Salvador was about to hump it through the valley to Dukino's lair, some kid ran past him and stopped right in front of him. He was dark-skinned, dirty and had tattered clothes. He couldn't have been older than ten. Sal suspected that the kid was one of the child miners that the Sheriff had used to pull eridium from crevices. It was a wonder the kid didn't have the shivers.

"Out of my way, kid. I don't have time for this."

"Mister, you're a vault hunter, aren't you?"

"Yeah, why do you ask?"

"When I grow up, I want to be a vault hunter just like you and the others. Nobody will ever make me do anything ever again. Look at my gun."

The kid pulled out a dingy little repeater and showed it to him. Salvador dropped his right crutch and held out his hand, asking for it. He looked it over after the kid handed it to him willingly.

"Where did you get this", Sal asked.

"It was in the belongings of a bank robber that was hanged yesterday", he explained. "One of the deputies turned his back on it for a second so I took it and ran. I have some bullets too."

He reached into his pocket and showed him a small handful of bullets.

Sal laughed at that, paining himself.

"Well, you have the looting part down", he said, handing it back. "but if you want to be a vault hunter, you're going to need a better gun. Skags eat absolutely everything. You might find a decent gun in the guts of one."

"But we're not allowed to shoot skag", complained the kid. "The deputies would shoot me."

"When you're good enough so that nobody could stop you", said Salvador, "then you know that you're ready to be a vault hunter."

With that, Sal leaned down to pick up his crutch and moved past the kid, letting him ponder his words. The kid watched him leave and realized he found a new idol to emulate.

Salvador took the elevator down to Dukino's lair with fresh skag meat in his pack; it was the only food Dukino would touch. He was taken by surprise, however, by the scene he witnessed at the bottom. Dukino, whom had grown considerably in just the two weeks since his rescue by Sal and company, was on his back getting his relatively soft belly rubbed by none other Dr. Shanna De Lumen. Anya, her very large skag companion was circling them in short lunges and dug her sharp nails into the dust repeatedly. She was still wary of this Dukino and watched him for any aggression; though he was younger, Dukino was already slightly bigger than her and matched the size of an alpha skag. Dukino himself, simply panted and squirmed happily under De Lumen's touch. It stabbed at Sal's heart. What a traitor.

"What the hell are you doing here", shouted Salvador. He got their attention: Dukino looked up suddenly, De Lumen immediately shot up and Anya hunched forward ready to spring an attack.

"You", shouted a shocked De Lumen. "H-How are you even standing?"

"I'm not that weak to let a bitch tactic like that get to me", he said, crutching towards them. "Now get away from my skag before I sic him on you."

"This guy", De Lumen said, patting him as he rolled over onto his belly. "I don't think so. He's still a pup. Adorable."

Sal threw down his right crutch and aimed his Law at her. Anya roared at him in response.

"I'm not going to ask you again", he said, thumbing back his hammer. "Get away from Dukino or I'm going to put a few in you and in that ugly skag's mouth if it opens at me again."

"No", shouted De Lumen, throwing up her arms and semi-shielding Anya as if that would stop Sal's bullets. "Okay, we'll leave. All I want is to be left alone. I didn't know you cared for him. I'm sorry. I'll leave."

He moved closer, still training his gun on her.

"You think I would just let you go", he asked. "After what you did? Nobody does that to me; Nobody!"

De Lumen realized there would be no reasoning with this man. He was going to kill her and likely Anya no matter what she said, so she simply closed her eyes and waited for it to happen.

The next moment Anya reached up and sucked De Lumen's dark blonde hair into her mouth and plopped to the ground, yanking De Lumen onto her back.

"No, Anya", cried De Lumen. "No! Bad girl!"

The intensity of their situation and the fact that was broken by such a sudden, absurd event confused the hell out of Salvador. He didn't know how to react so he just laughed. He picked up his crutch and moved over to them.

"See this", he said upon reaching her, "this is even better than killing you."

She groaned and laid there, limp.

"So is she trying to eat you", he asked. "Or…?"

"She just likes sucking on my hair", De Lumen admitted. "It calms her down."

"I see", Sal said as he used his crutches to painfully lower himself to the ground to sit crossed -legged next to her stretched form. He then reached over into her long coat, almost fondling. She struggled a bit, though helplessly. He had her by the bra-straps so to say.

"What are you doing", she asked frantically.

"Is this what you used on me", he asked when fished out a glass vial of mostly transparent liquid with the slightest green tinge.

She closed her eyes and shook her head.

"No", she said, "but I did use a form of pheromones. Stalker pheromones used by females to repel unwanted male attention. Very potent. You must understand; I can't leave and won't leave Pandora. Not after what I had a hand in."

"You really should've", answered Salvador as he shook his head. "A girl like you…shouldn't have lasted this long. Do you know what these bandits would do to you if they ever got a hold of you?"

"My friends would never let them", stated De Lumen.

"Right", hummed Sal. "Look, Doctor…"

"Shanna De Lumen", she finished for him.

"Shanna", he said, "have you ever fired a gun?"

"Never", she answered.

"You really should think about seeking refuge in Sanctuary", he said. "Nobody could survive out here on their own. Nobody."

"Don't you get it", she asked. "I'm never alone. I'm safer in the wilderness than you are, killer."

"Sure you are", said Sal, making small circles in the dust with a gloved finger. "I was only born here. What do I know? So, what are you going to do now? Do you have a home?"

Anya finally finally released Shanna, allowing the disgraced veterinarian to sit up and run her hands through her soaked, blonde hair that was coated in the skag's thick, green saliva. Shanna was somewhat surprised as she was openly using her bare hands to wipe away the gunk but Sal didn't seem to care about it like her coworkers absolutely would. She knew he was just a savage native of the planet but it was still nice to see that she didn't have to worry about somebody objecting to her being herself. She flung a wad of the gloop to the dirt.

"Would you think me weird if I told you I prefer to live amongst the elements", she asked him.

"Yeah, I would", he admitted, rubbing his Mohawk. "But, hell, I'm not the most normal guy. Still, has anybody called you crazy?"

"All the time", she lamented.

He looked over at Dukino and Anya; the two were wrestling in the dust. For all of his size, she was far more aggressive and was rolling him around on his back at will. It looked like a date to Salvador.

"Same here", replied Salvador to Shanna. "Listen, if you have anything that boosts my recovery from that pheromone crap; all is forgiven."

Though they were uneasy allies, the Vault Hunters definitely couldn't allow President Blake inside Sanctuary. After the run in with Helios, they drove him to the outskirts of the Highlands for his pickup. A transport vessel was waiting for him. Axton thought it funny that Blake was worlds away and yet he had everything waiting on him. He looked at the faces of his security team, waiting patiently with expectant smiles on their faces; as if things are just going to work out for them because they're Hyperion. It would be so easy to put a gun, maybe the same gun he used on Handsome Jack, to Blake's head and kill that optimism. After all the animosity with the company, there was no way he could just bury the hatchet like that completely.

Only, killing Blake would have no longer lasting effect on Hyperion than killing Jack did. Jack's death actually saw a rise in stock for the empire. Since Brick's attacks on the company and Blake's perceived lack of control over the situation, Hyperion would likely thank the Vault Hunters for killing Blake as well and then replace him with another douchebag.

So, Axton and the others let Blake out of that runner and in return-

"I never thought I would see the day", Blake said, straightening his suit, "when I thank you for saving my life."

Blake was standing amongst his own men now, facing the lowly vault hunters that he would've had killed under different circumstances.

"I never thought I'd see the day when I'd meet somebody worse than you", Axton admitted.

"I want to show you my deepest gratitude", Blake said, taking a cylinder object from one of his men. "The key to your very desires."

He handed the yellow cylinder over to Maya, who of course asked what it was.

"You wanted to go swimming", Blake answered. "I just want to make sure you know how to swim. Throw it in the water to activate it."

His transport opened its cargo port and Blake immediately moved for the door.

"Wait", Maya said. "Who the hell are these Helios people and what is up with you and Adam?"

Blake turned around when he got on the ship.

"Here's a challenge, Vault Hunters", Blake said. "You manage to kill him, maybe I'll tell you one day."

With that, Blake entered the ship and the doors closed behind him. His guard cautiously backed away from their former enemies and entered the passenger hold of the ship.

"Damn Hyperion", commented Gaige as the four of them walked away. The ship lifted into the air behind them.

"What is it", she asked, tiptoeing over Maya's shoulder to look at the object. It was yellow with a segmented indention in the middle and a bulb on the end.

"It's a beacon", answered Zer0 after taking just one look.

Shanna told Salvador that she was the head caretaker for the animals at the Exploitation Preserve. She knew every animal as if they were her brothers, sisters and children; which made it so much worse when she was forced by Hyperion to watch their cruel slag experiments on them.

Salvador figured that since she knew the animals so well, she would be able to recognize the wing of a certain Stalker. He had heard Axton and Maya talk of the vault symbol on the wing of the stalker that almost killed them so many times it had become nauseating. He found it easy to swipe it from Tannis' apartment, even in his weakened condition. She was so focused inwards on insane ramblings that she didn't notice anybody unless they addressed her. He took the wing from her and brought it to De Lumen in Dukino's domain.

"Where did you get this", De Lumen asked him.

"From the biggest stalker I've ever seen", answered Salvador. "I've lived here all my life and never have I seen one so big. Whew, it was something."

"The wingspan is incredible", she said, turning it over in her arms. "It must have shrunk considerably but still…incredible. It isn't ours however, I'm sorry to say. They marked the animals with Hyperion brands, not this. What is it?"

"Eridian glyph", Salvador said. "It represents the vaults."

"So, why is a vault symbol on the wing of a stalker", asked the one person who would know beyond the shadow of a doubt whether Hyperion carried such a creature.

It had been a while since the hunters had been to Marcus' indoor range and they had both a lot of steam to blow off and weapons to test. Each of them wore the transparent ear plugs they usually wore.

Axton momentarily wondered where Salvador was as nobody in Sanctuary had seen the man, though he didn't dwell on it for too long. He learned a while back that Salvador is going to do what Salvador is going to do; nothing Axton can do or say to him was going to change that. He knew what the group was going to do so he'd be back.

After emptying their magazines, Axton called a ceasefire to the others. They were shooting disabled loader units, putting small holes in them.

"Zer0", Axton said. "Let's try that Helios rifle."

Zer0 nodded and raised a Helios-manufactured assault rifle lifted from one of the mercs. The other three gathered around Zer0 to get a better look. Marcus viewed all of this on his installed cameras. Using his pulley system, he replaced the battered loader with a brand spanking new one.

One round from the rifle tore a gaping hole in the chest and detached one of the arms. Another tore the loader in half from the midsection. After those, Zer0 just let loose on the loader and within three seconds, it was basically gone. Maya put a hand over her gaping mouth in shock. Zer0 took one look at them and detached his shield from his hip: the Hide of Terramorphus. He flung the shield into the firing line and into his rifle's path. He never did like using it; it took some of the challenge away from firefights.

"No", cried out Gaige, protesting.

Zer0 fired two rounds into it, shattering it into a dozen digital pieces. He turned to the three compatriots who looked back at him in shock.

"It's serious now", Zer0 said. "We should take this to Marcus. Otherwise, we're screwed."

Marcus disassembled one of the shatterpoint rounds right in front of the Vault Hunters with his tools. He studied its fragments with funny-looking specs, which Gaige mocked him mentally for. He chuckled to himself.

"This is a nasty piece of work", Marcus remarked.

"Yeah", asked Maya. "No crap."

"These rounds are longer and slimmer than most rounds first of all", he said. "It's allowed to go much faster than most, allowing more penetration. After that, it explodes into explosive little pieces for an even nastier surprise."

"Like shrapnel", Axton asked.

"Torgue shrapnel", corrected Marcus.

"First, those damn robots of his", Maya said. "Now this; these Helios guys are sick."

"Got any new guns", asked Zer0 to Marcus. "As you can see, things have changed. They could outgun us.

"I might have something", Marcus informed them as he led them back to the range. He handed them all sun goggles as he passed them.

"What are these for", asked Maya.

"The Automatic Guyver", Marcus called the first gun he showed them. It was a silver e-tech shotgun but with the extended shell chambers, it more resembled a grenade launcher. "Fires six shells that are that instantly converted to bouncing grenades of exploding light."

He fired three consecutive shots that dropped three cylinder shaped grenades to the ground just inside the firing range. They bounced until they hit the loader in the center. Three quick flashes overtook their vision. It likely would've blinded them had they not been wearing the goggles. Marcus took his goggles off, signaling the others to do the same. They saw that the walls at the back of the range were scorched and that the loader was completely dissipated.

"Next I want to show you the Bloodthirsty Hercules", said Marcus, lifting a pinkish and slightly glowing, e-tech assault rifle with a scope. It's muzzle was between two overarching, serrated blades that resembled a Badass Varkid's pincers.

"It's fire-rate and magazine size are somewhat low", admitted Marcus, "but…"

He aimed downrange at a loader that was in a column in front of two other. He fired five, steady, consecutive pink lasers. Each round penetrated all three loaders.

"Hah", Marcus yelled. "It can penetrate bomb shelters and bypasses shields. Also, there's this."

Marcus squeezed a secondary trigger. The pincers clasped on each other audibly like crossing swords. The pincers then extended outwards from the rifle on a previously unseen motor and began whirling in a circular motion with great RPM.

"It makes for a devastating melee weapon as well", he continued.

"Wow", commented the awestruck Gaige.

"So how would you play with the Hercules", asked Marcus with a chuckle, "the short game or the long con?"

"Finally, there's this", said Marcus. He picked up a bipod-equipped, cream-colored sniper rifle and setting it on the range counter. It had a medical red cross painted on its star chamber."The Healthy Marsbar."

"What", asked Gaige with a giggle. "Are we supposed to eat it or something?"

"Laugh it up, Vault Hunter", said Marcus to her before he aimed downrange at another loader. He fired five rounds, crumbling it. Five digitized red crosses flew in the air towards him. Also, two of his expended rounds digitized and flew back towards the weapon as well.

"It's low-damaging compared to other snipers", explained Marcus. "But it has +180% critical damage, it drains health from enemies and there's a 35% chance that expended rounds digitize and rejoin your magazine as new rounds. Good as new! So, what do you think?"

Axton looked at the others, getting positive nods.

"You outdid yourself, friend", Axton said. "We'll take all three."

The two shook hands.

"But we won't pay more than fifteen grand for each."

"Are you trying to rob me", asked Marcus.

"Screw you, Brick", they heard to their right. They looked and saw that Mordecai was standing there, drunkenly shooting at a loader with a Droog Sniper. He was hitting it in the arms or missing rather than getting critical hits. "Screw you, Hyperion! Screw all of you!"

"I let him shoot all the rounds he wants", whispered Marcus to them. "It really is pitiful, huh?"

"Shut up and sell us the guns", said Axton as he quickly walked away. The others quickly followed, trying not see Mordy fall any more in their eyes.

Gaige was in her private lab again with assistants Deathtrap and Claptrap. She had dissembled the system core of a loverbot Deathtrap had retrieved for her during their battle with Helios. In their war with Handsome Jack, Gaige had experimented with some of the loader parts that they destroyed. Using her digipad to download their programming and rearrange it, she managed to devise a master hack tool that she used to turn a number of Jack's own loaders against him. Hyperion was too bothered with its own profits and it would be too expensive and time-consuming to program loaders much differently from each other. This turned out to be a big part of Jack's downfall in his battle against the Vault Hunters in the Warrior's Vault; she had his own loaders attack him when he summoned them.

Now, she was doing the same thing with this loverbot core and turn the loverbots against Helios. She had it opened, powered and linked to her digipad where she was sifting through the programming code.

"Um, Mechromancer", Claptrap said. "Why doesn't DT talk?"

Deathtrap looked over and down at Claptrap with a grunt. This made Claptrap rub its mitts nervously together. Claptrap knew it was dangerous to even ask Gaige a question while she was working when DT was around.

"Um", Claptrap said. "I mean he doesn't talk, not really."

"Well", Gaige said, not letting Claptrap interrupt her focus. "I've always meant to give Deathtrap a personality but I can never decide what he should be like besides my guardian. Also, I may be the bossness at hacking and rearranging code but writing it from scratch isn't exactly my strong suit. I don't know, I could just be lazy. I really don't know, dude."

"These Helios guys really are a piece of work", said Gaige. "They're designed to shut down if they commit murder but dismemberment and bone-breaking is A-OK."

"Mechromancer", Claptrap asked. "Are you guys going on another adventure that you haven't told me about? I mean, you're buying guns; you're hacking robots; and everybody's meeting with Tannis. Is there another vault?"

Gaige suddenly stopped what she was doing. Deathtrap turned his head to Claptrap. Gaige turned in her chair to look at Claptrap.

"Did I say 'vault'", asked Claptrap, backing away from the two of them. "As if I know what I'm talking about? I've never actually been to one! Let's just forget what I was talking about. Analyzing Memory…Results: Nothing! See, I forgot already!"

Gaige stood up and walked towards him with the claws of her mechanical hand glinting in the light and Deathtrap blocking his path.

"See, Clap", Gaige said, crossing her arms but running her claws against each other and making sharp knife sounds. "Some things don't have to be so loud. Some secrets have to be kept. You understand, right?"

Claptrap began to scream, "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaah!"

It was midnight and the time that the Vault Hunters had decided upon. Zer0 volunteered himself for the first stage of their plan. That plan was: Steal the still-charged vault key from their vault while Lilith was asleep, take the Fast Travel back to the Highlands, try to find Salvador (who still hadn't returned), find Rocket-Tooth Joey, and find a way down to the vault. All of this was decided with Tannis in her apartment. So, the vault hunters waited there patiently and once again relied on Zer0 to do his thing. Their fate was on his shoulders.

Zer0 didn't use the front door and the stairs; it was the rooftops for him. His years of experience as an assassin aided him well in padding silently towards the Raiders HQ balcony. There weren't doors or a window but a Crimson Raiders banner was draped over the entrance to Lilith's bedroom. He wouldn't kill her but he was more than ready to knock her out if he needed to, especially before she powered up.

He slowly moved a corner of the crimson banner out of the way and saw that the room was dark but not empty. Lilith was snoring loudly in her bed. She wasn't exactly a peaceful sleeper. An ellipsis appeared on Zer0's visor showing his flat surprise. Zer0 crept past her towards the vault. He could feel its aura within its depth; he could even see an ethereal outline of its shape in the metal. He caressed the spot where he could see the outline and drew the key towards him…

Zer0 found himself disappointed that Lilith couldn't feel the key leaving in her sleep. He realized then that Maya was just more connected to the vaults than Lilith or Angel were; he made it to the balcony without incident. As consumed in his own thoughts he was, he could still feel the auras of several figures on the roof above and behind him.

He turned around in time to cut in half a large, serrated ax that was thrown at him with his sword. Unfortunately, it was a decoy as Cutty the rat was right behind it. With Zer0's blade out of the way, he left open to get kicked by Cutty directly in the face with both feet.

Zer0 was knocked backwards in a flip over the balcony to the cobblestone below, with Cutty landing in front of him on both clawed feet. Zer0 landed on his back, but rolled over on his stomach. He was nearly knocked unconscious. The Vault Key rolled away from his grasp, allowing one of Cutty's midget rat brothers to pick it up. Cutty pulled his gas mask from his face up to the top of his head to get a better look at his victim. His yellow, reptilian-like eyes and cracked, pale face barely contained his savagery.

Zer0 struggled to push himself up but Cutty kicked him across the face, almost knocking him out. He then crawled over to him and tapped him on the helmet with a sharpened nail, causing his head to bob.

"Are you still there, Vault Hunter", he asked. "Pleasse ansswer; I ssssooo love to gloat!"

Zer0 groaned and looked up in a dazed state. Cutty hopped back in response.

"Oh goody", shouted Cutty. "Thanksss for the treeeat, Vault Hunter; Now, we can go hoooome!"

Zer0 looked up at the rats as they hopped up and down, dancing in celebration with the charged vault key in his face. Never had he felt so ashamed.

"You think you can have all of Pandora's spoils and leave nothing for usssssss", asked Cutty to Zer0. "Wrong!"

He sucked up a bloody loogie and hocked it right on Zer0.

"The Vaults and the key aren't yours", Cutty told him. "You'll die miserably if you reach for them again. The Hands that Hold the Vaults told us so and so it should be, suckersssss!"

Cutty and the rats took off and scampered down the street away from him. Zer0 lunged for the midget rat with the key but he pulled up a single stone and hopped into his tunnel. Zer0 dug one arm into the hole but the rat was already gone.

"Zer0", Maya called over echo. "What's going on? We're hearing some loud noises coming down the street."

"Rats", shouted Zer0. "Rats stole the key! Get to the Fast Travel station! It's the only way they can leave!"

"Crap", shouted Maya. She ran from Tannis' apartment, with Gaige and Axton hot on her trail.

Cutty was just outside the Fast Travel Station building with the other rats when their key holding midget emerged from the ground. They all ran into the building together to find that Salvador had just arrived. He was confused at first but saw the large vault key in the emaciated midget's arms.

He outdrew all of them and pulled out his rapid-fire shotgun. He quickly put a shell in all of them in quick succession. Seven of them.

Maya, Axton, and Gaige ran in to find Salvador straining to pick up the Vault Key from the array of rat corpses.

They stopped around them.

"I'm gone for one day and this is what happens", teased Salvador.

"Yep", Axton said with a smirk. "Thanks for the late game save."

"Where have you been", Maya asked. "We've been trying to call you for hours."

"I missed you too, sweetheart", said Salvador, puckering his lips at her.

"Whatever", said Maya, shaking her head.

While they were preoccupied, Cutty managed to crawl over to the Fast Travel station and teleport to The Fridge.

They turned in time to see him digitize but weren't too worried about it. They had the key so what did they care if one surviving rat made it back to the Fridge licking his wounds?

Zer0 arrived shortly afterwards.

"I'm real sorry, guys", Zer0. "They all caught me from behind; Dishonorable."

"It's fine, Zer0", Maya said. "It's fixed."

Dr. Tannis was the next to rush to the scene, carrying her bags of notes and Eridian scripture.

"Did you get the-", she started and breathed a sigh of relief when she saw Salvador with the key. "Thank God. How nice of you to join us. We really have to go. People are starting to investigate all of the shooting. It would be pretty difficult to explain to Lilith."

"Okaaaay, minions", yelled Claptrap as he levitated in. "I'm ready to go!"

"Who invited Claptrap", wondered Ax.

"I did", answered Gaige.

"Um, why", he wailed.

"He figured out that we were chasing another vault", said Gaige.

"So", said Tannis. "You should have dissembled him."

"Hey", objected Claptrap.

"He's the last of his line", said Gaige. "I can't do that! Look, I weaponized him! He's coming and he's helping us!"

They heard approaching voices, including one that may have been Lilith's.

"Alright, Joey is already waiting on us", said Tannis. "Let's go."

They moved for the fast travel station.

"We'll talk about this later, Gaige", said Maya before they digitized at the Travel Station and left for the Highlands.

Next Episode: Episode 4, Part 3

Synopsis: The Reveal of the Underwater Vault!