A/N Hey everyone! I hope the blunder I made on the last chapter didn't ruin the story for any of you. That would be bad. To prevent this from happening in the future, I have been replaying Borderlands 2. So now my memory has been refreshed and I shouldn't make any more mistakes. Enjoy the chapter.

Chapter 10: Nightmares? Or bad memories.

They had just fast travled into the floating city. Apart from the shootout over money that was going on near the edge of the town, it was farely peaceful. Gage however, paid no mind to that and made her way to Mike and Tina, who were playing bunkers and badasses in their room.

"So..." Tina started. "The gun slips from your hands and flies away, but not before... breaking all... your... fingers... Ooh, yea. Take, like, a lot of damage." She finished with a cringe. She then saw Gage and waived. "Hoooooi!" Gage chuckled at the silly girl and tossed Mike the thing he wanted.

"Here's your whatsamajig." Gage said.

"Fusion core." Mike corrected.

"Whatever. I hope you get your thingy working. Bye" She started to walk out, but then she stopped and looked at them. "You know... I was at the wildlife exploitation reserve resently..." The kids stiffened.

"Oh rly?" Tina said in a joking way, but it did nothing to mask her disgruntlment.

"Yea. And I found this strange computer... Mean anything to you two?"

"N-no... Can't say we do... Why?" Mike asked.

"Oh... nothing. Take care Kiddies." with that, the 18 year old turned on her heels and left to join her friends. At this point, the kids snuck away to a place only they knew of. It was a farely large hidey-hole big enough to stand in and put some furniture in as well if they saw fit to do so. However, only one thing stood in the room. It was a tall, lanky device that was now unrecognizable. Tina nodded to Mike, who went to the back of the device and slipped in the fusion core. The machine sputtered to life and was sustained for a few moments. The children's hearts fluttered with anticipation, but was quickly shot down as the machine went dark again.

"Damn..." Tina said.

"I was so sure I did it right this time... more work... It always needs more work..." Mike shook his head sadly. Tina went up to him and hugged him.

"Soon Mike. Soon." He hugged her back and went to work on the device.

Meanhile, Gage joined her friends in the main roon. She saw Mordicai downing the rakk ale, not that she could blame him. She saw Brick beating a wall up because reasons. Then she saw Roland and Lilith talking to Angel with the others.

"You did it soldiers. But it's downhill from here. If you thought the first task was hard, the other two will be damn near impossible." Roland said.

"That's his way of saying, one down, two to go." Lilith added.

"I liked his version better." Salvador replied. Then angel broke in.

"Difficult, yes. But not impossible. I know where you can get the things you need to be Jack." Axton scoffed.

"Like I'd want to be that jackass."

"Was that a goddamn pun?" Salvador questioned.

"Enough." Angle interrupted. "You need to go to Opportunity. It's a city-in-progress that Jack's building. There, you'll find a Hyperion worker with a watch on him. It'll make you talk like Jack." Just as she finished, two exausted looking teens staggered in while rubbing their eyes.

"Roland..." Tina said. Roland knew what they wanted all too well.

"Coming." He said as he excused himself. The ex- crimson lance soldire collected the two kids and took them to their room where he tucked them in nice and snug. He then went back to the others and explained himself. "Night terrors. They've been having them for years but I founs out that they don't have them if I tuck them in." The others nodded in understanding and went back to planning. Unfortunatly... recent events would overpower Rolands tucking abilities. In the kid's dreamland, darkness and terror took over...

Dreamland

He opened his eyes. He didn't know where he was or why he was there. The sounds of machinery and distand screams filled the air. The screams were familiar, how couldn't they be? They belonged to some people he held most precious in this world. But through the clanking, banging, wailing and suffering, he heard sobbing. The sobbing of a terrified little girl. He reached out for her, but found that he was locked in a cage, just far enough so that he couldn't touch her. Then, he too began to sob. But then everything stopped. All of it. There was nothing, no breathing, no small insects, not even the sound of his own blood rushing through his ears. The silence was defening. But then... Then he heard something. It was faint, barely audible. He tried to listen for it and was rewardes by it getting slightly louder. It sounded like... Beeping? He strained his young ears as hard as he could. Then it got louder... And louder... And louder still. It was now at the point he wished he stopped listening. The beeping filled his ears and invaded his skull. He covered his ears but it didn't help. The beeping was in his head now. Just as he thought he was going to go insane, the beeping was replaced by a monstrous explosion that rattled the sky itself. He was then surrounded by metal and rubble and smoke. He coughed and choked on the smoke for a while until he heard a voice call his name. He looked up and all he could see through the smoke was a hand. He reached for the hand, which began dragging him away to safety. He choked and sputtered on the smoke but he managed to catch his breath and look around. He was in a hallway, which had a massive hole in a wall that used to be a door leading to a lab. A lab that he just left. He sneared at the hole for a moment before the person who rescued him got his attention. They told him it was time to go. They told them they had to leave. They told him... to run.