Murphy and A.N.N had finally reached the cave near the old mining facility. Oddly enough the entrance to it was blocked by a garage door but what they found near the cave averted their attention from the door. What they found was an old Hyperion train station, the tracks were completely destroyed and train carts littered the area around it.
"What do you think caused that Murphy?" wondered A.N.N as she stared at the wreckage.
"Looks like the rails were hit by C4 explosives attached to a pair of toy rockets" said Murphy as he studied the area. "After the rails were blown off, the train could have derailed."
"What makes you think it was C4" asked A.N.N
"The burn marks on the rails and the residue on the ground around the train carts" said Murphy who was studying the residue on the ground "These are signs of a C4 explosion." Murphy was part of Eden-5's bomb squad for 2 years before he joined the S.W.A.T team, he knew almost everything about explosives whether it was disarming them, studying a blast site, and even making them.
"And the toy rocket" asked A.N.N. Murphy then pulled out the piece of a broken toy rocket from the wreckage near a train cart and showed it to A.N.N. "Good eye Murphy." Murphy dropped the toy piece and walked back to the cave entrance blocked by the garage door.
"This is going to be a piece of cake" said Murphy, cracking his metal knuckles as he prepared to knock the door open. Before he could even take a swing at the door, A.N.N stopped Murphy.
"Murphy, wait!" yelled A.N.N "I'm detecting a heat signature coming from the inside of the cave, be on guard." Murphy heeded A.N.N's warning and pulled out his Hyperion Shock Development and prepared for a fight. Suddenly, the voice of a young girl came out of the mine's old speakers.
"Oh hi" said the voice from the speaker "Give me a second and I'll invite yous to my lovely abode." The door to the cave began to open up slowly. Murphy knew he was not in any form of danger and he lowered his weapon. After the door opened what Murphy saw surprised him, he was expecting a bandit psycho but instead he saw a young girl around the age of 15 with white hair wearing dirty clothes with a bloody psycho mask on the side of her head. "Sup sucka, the names Tina. Come on in and make yourself comfortable."
Murphy walked into the cave, the area was filled with children's toys, explosives, a table with a tea set and the back of the cave housed a small workshop with bunk beds inside. "You made it just in time for one of my muthahumpin tea parties" said Tina "You can sit next to Princess Fluffybutt, who has gazongas like you would not believe and I'll get the tea ready." Murphy sat on the chair next to the small doll with a grenade for a head. Tina then ran to a cooler next to the table to get drinks for her guest. "So big man, what do I call yas."
"You can call me Murphy" said the Enforcer, trying to be respectful to Tina.
"Not to sound nosy or anything, but I heard yous talking to a lady outside my crib, where is she anyway?" asked Tina who was still digging out of a small cooler to retrieve the small beverage for her guest. Murphy removed A.N.N from his helmet and she appeared over the chip in her usual holographic form. Tina grabbed a large bottle of liquid out of the cooler and turned around to continue the conversation and was amazed to see the AI.
"Hello Tina, I'm A.N.N, pleased to meet your acquaintance" said A.N.N. Tina stopped staring and placed the bottle on the table and opened it up to drink.
"Wow, she's really pretty but she so tiny" said Tina, commenting on A.N.N's appearance "How do you two bump uglies?" Murphy and A.N.N remained silent for a couple seconds as the conversation became very awkward after Tina asked that question.
"We're more like brother and sister, Tina. We're not a couple" said A.N.N trying to keep the conversation going while trying to clear up any misconceptions.
"Oh, whoops" said Tina. Murphy tried to change the subject by talking about the explosives in Tina's home.
"So Tina, judging from the amount of explosives scattered around your home, I'm guessing you were the one who blew up the railway outside of here" said Murphy, still curious about the wreckage outside.
"That's right cowboy" said Tina "about 2 years ago the Vault Hunters asked me to do a flava for them and destroy that Hyperion choo choo train with my explosives so they could steal the vault key from Jack."
"Impressive" said Murphy "Where is your family kid?
"Would you like a bottle of my finest tea sir and madam" said Tina, obviously trying to avoid the question. Although her face was filled with childish glee, Murphy could tell she was hiding something painful because he had the exact same look when he tried to hide something from someone ever since his sister died. At that moment, Murphy realized that she was alone in the universe like he was. During Handsome Jack's campaign to conquer Pandora and summon the Warrior, Jack used many of the planet's inhabitants for his slag experiments killing many innocent lives, including Tina's parents. The only reason Tina was not a victim of Jack's experiments was because of a grenade her mother gave her so she could use it to escape.
Murphy proceeded to take the cold bottle and try to change the subject. When he examined the bottle, he realized it wasn't tea but a bottle of soda. "Um, not to sound rude but this isn't tea, its soda" said Murphy.
"I know it's not my usual brew but it's still pimpin son" said Tina "I had bottles of the good stuff in my coola but one of my guests decided to get busy with his lady and then they had a baby together. He decided to go sober so he could be a good daddy. I decided to do my part to help him by dumpin the booze in the river and getting more appropriate beverages for the happy couple."
"Wait, how'd you even get alcohol Tina" asked A.N.N who was a bit surprised to hear that Tina used to keep booze.
"Long story" said Tina "But enough about me, let's talk about you two cowboy and madam."
"Ask away kid" said Murphy.
"First things first, why are you wearin that goofy outfit anyway" asked Tina as she attempted to hold in her laughter.
"Let's just say that he got mistaken for someone else" said A.N.N, answering for her partner.
"Makes sense to me" said Tina "considering you look like a giant killer robot I think the cowboy clothes would help deal with the unwanted attention, kinda."
"Thank you for your comment Tina" said Murphy, grinding his teeth because he was insulted again about his disguise.
"No prob son. So what brings a gentleman of your stature and a beautiful woman to a horrid planet like this" asked Tina but with a fake British accent.
"We were asked by a family from our home world, Eden-5, to look for their daughter who happens to be one of the Vault Hunters" said Murphy "A.N.N and I know she is in Sanctuary and we were headed there but the fast travel station in the city seems to be out of order at the moment so we can't get there. We've decided to camp out for the night and wait for the station to be back in operation and that's how we found this place."
"Oh, you must be talking about Gaige" said Tina who instantly remembered the young Vault Hunter after Murphy told her the reason why he came to Pandora. "If you're looking for place to crash, you could use the bottom bunk in my workshop to catch some Z's but you gotta do me flava first."
"Sure, we can help with whatever you want us to do" said A.N.N, eager to help the young bomb maker.
"My old boyfriend, Sir Reginald has decided to camp out in one of varkid hives near the old bandit mines just south of here" said Tina with disdain in her voice "he still pissed at the fact I dumped him because I learned he was violently racist. I need you to take care of him for me."
"Ok, I'll take care of him for you" said Murphy. He thought this was just some silly children's game and it would be another easy job. He stood up, placed A.N.N back in his helmet, and began to walk out of the cave.
"Wait up playa" said Tina "if you're planning on killing my ex you're gonna need to take off the cowboy suit because it's gonna get messy. Also you're gonna need one of my boomers." Tina then gave Murphy a rather large bomb with the codes to activate it on the side. "Once that thing starts counting down you better huff it."
"Ok, thank you, I guess" said Murphy. As he studied the bomb, he could tell that the payload was large enough to leave a huge crater in the ground. He then began to wonder if this was more than some game and that this job would be much more than he bargained for.
"No problem man" said Tina "Just to let you know, Sir Reginald has gotten a lot bigger since the last time we met so be careful. And don't worry about the varkids near the hive, they won't attack you. They would if you smelled like human flesh but yous my friend smell like burnt metal and motor oil so you should be safe for the most part."
Murphy carefully placed his disguise and the bomb Tina gave him inside his duffle bag and walked toward the hive where Sir Reginald resided.