(Opening Theme: Hamatora the Animation Opening)

-Sometime Ago on Pandora (Rhys & Shadow's P.O.V)-

"wAKey, wAKey sHAdY. yOuR nOT dEaD yEt, So qUiT sLeEPiNg."

Shadow's eyes shot open when he heard the distorted voice echo through his head again. He sat up quickly, but regretted doing so when he felt dizzy. "Ow…" Shadow couldn't help but groan, "That was a bad idea." Soon enough he heard a familiar voice call out to him. It was his best friend Mion.

"SHADES!" She shouted as she ran over to him.

She moved some of the debris of crates that was on him and helped him to stand up, "RHYS! I FOUND HIM! HIS OVER HERE!" Mion shouted. Shadow had soon saw Rhys in view. "Hey!" Rhys said as he waved over to him; he got over to where they were, "Good to see your not dead!"

"I could say the same thing to you." Shadow said as he rubbed his head, "What happened with the case?"

"It flew on the track." Rhys explained, "Mion said the last time she saw it, it was with that guy Felix."

"Felix huh?" Shadow said, "That's good I guess."

"At least now we got the ten million dollars." Mion said with a smile, "It can only get better from here."

Mion spoke to soon when they heard an explosion nearby. This had caused them all to jump. "I spoke too soon didn't I?" Mion said.

"Was that what I think it is?" Shadow had asked.

Rhys's eyes widened, "AH! NO! NO! NO!" They saw that the money from the case was all burnt and just raining from the sky.

"Oh shit…" Shadow said.

"That's not good…" Mion said.

"Okay…" Rhys said, "This is officially the worst day ever…"

They soon heard someone screaming; they looked up and saw that it was Bossanova. He fell on his back hard, and then they saw Zer0 land on a crate and jumped onto the floor. He stabbed Bossanova right on the woofer.

"OW! MY WOOFER!" Bossanova cried out.

An emoji appeared on Zer0's mask which was a smile. Bossnova's voice started how you say remix with his normal voice. He started to press a couple of buttons that was on his belt.

He then started to say to Zer0, "I really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, hate you." The platform moved just above him and Zer0. And with a press of a button, it dropped on top of the both of them.

The three covered their eyes from the sand that flew when the platform landed hard on the ground.

"ZER0!" Shadow, Rhys & Mion couldn't help but shout. The three of them saw Zer0 when the dust started to clear they saw that a metal beam was sticking out of Zer0's stomach which made their jaws drop. Surprisingly enough, there was no blood. Zer0 turned over to them.

"How are you not dead!?" Rhys couldn't help but shout over to him.

Zer0 didn't answer and they soon realized why there was no blood at all. The Zer0 that had a metal beam sticking out of his stomach was nothing more than a hologram when had casually walked out and disappeared. The real Zer0 stood up from the floor and picked up his sword.

He then contacted someone on an ECHO device. He had said, "Bossanova's dead. / I don't think he was lying. / Gortys is not here."

They heard what appeared to be a woman on the other side. "Don't sweat it babe. That's one less Bandit Lord we have to worry about." She said, "That's one less Bandit Lord we have to worry about. There's plenty of time for sweating later, once you've come back to me for your reward."

Zer0 turned over to them; Looking at Shadow specifically.

Shadow silently nodded to him as did Zer0 as their way to of saying goodbye to one another. Zer0 turned to walk away, talking with the woman on the other side of the line as he did.

"My quest is not done." Zer0 said.

The woman had replied, "My reward is gonna be long, hard, and powerful."

"Gortys remains out of reach." He said.

"It's a rocket launcher."

"Yes… Innuendo."

Zer0 couldn't help but shake his head as he walked away. "Always nice to see that guy." Mion said to Shadow.

"Yep, I'll admit to that." Shadow replied.

Vaughn had soon met up with them as did Sasha, Fiona and Plutia. All Plutia was doing was just hugging her doll tightly. Mion went over to her, "Hey there Plutie! I was wondering you ran off too. What happened to your braid?"

Shadow sighed and shook his head knowing very well what had happened with Plutia. "I'm glad to see that you're not hurt-" He was cut off when he saw that she was crying. Her eyes were welled up with tears and her cheeks were puffy.

He kneeled down to her, "Hey what's wrong?"

Plutia didn't say nothing. Tears continued to fall, leaving a wet spot on her doll's head.

"Plutia? Are you okay?" Mion asked her.

Sasha looked around, "Where's Felix? I thought that Mion said he had the case."

"Well…" Fiona started to say as she rubbed the back of her neck.

"Fe… Felix…" Plutia choked, "He… He…"

Fiona patted her on the head, "Let me explain it to them Plutie."

Plutia nodded her head and hugged her doll even tighter than before. Fiona had then explained what had happened. All of them were shocked, but Sasha on the other hand she was pissed.

She kicked a nearby crate and shouted, "GOD DAMN IT!" She exclaimed, "I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT BASTARD!"

"Well that explains what that explosion was." Shadow said.

Mion had added, "I can't believe he would actually try and take the money for himself."

Fiona turned to Sasha, "Listen… About what happened with Felix-"

Sasha had cut her off, "Stop! Okay!" She said with anger in her voice, "I don't want to talk about it right now." Sasha walked over to a corpse of a bandit.

"So as of right now." Fiona said, "We have no money, no Vault Key… Nothing."

Mion had then followed Sasha's lead. She went over to a corpse next to the corpse Sasha was searching.

"Umm… What are you doing?" Vaughn asked Mion fixing his glasses. Mion had replied, "Checking the bodies. They might have something valuable on them, or at least a hell of alot cash."

"Why are you doing that exactly?" Rhys couldn't help but ask her.

"With ten million dollars gone out the window, we've gotta get the money another way." She replied.

"She's got the right idea." Sasha said.

Vaughn had then pointed out, "It's not like there's going to be ten million dollars lying around-"

"You have better ideas?" Sasha said to Vaughn with a glare.

Fiona had found her hat in the middle of the arena. She picked it up and got some of the sand on her hat. She had then said to Vaughn and Rhys, "You two came here to Pandora, now you get to live like we do." She placed her hat upon her head and proceeded to check the bodies. Soon enough Rhys and Vaughn went looking as well.

Shadow was about to go help, but stopped when he turned to Plutia. She was sitting in a fetal position still in tears by what had just happened. He couldn't help but feel sympathy for the poor girl. Just by the way she was acting he knew she had taken it hard; harder than Fiona & Sasha probably. She just kept crying and crying; all while occasionally squeezing her doll.

He went over to her and sat by her side; she didn't even notice that he was there. She had only registered that he was next to her when he placed his hand on her head.

He had finally said to her, "I'm sorry about your friend Felix."

"I-I…" Plutia choked, "I don't understand… Why would Felix do that to us…? I thought, we're his family… So why…?"

"Sometimes the people you love or care about… Aren't at all who they appear to be." Shadow said, with a bit of hesitation in his voice.

"But why…?" Plutia said turning to him with her bloodshot eyes, "Why would he do it? I don't understand why…"

"Who knows what his reason is." He said to her, "It might be good or bad. Maybe, it's best for you and your sisters if you don't know his reason."

"How… How would you know?"

"Because I was in the same situation you were in when I was as old as you. Someone… I cared about was killed by a person whom I treated like family. What his reason was, I'm not sure to even this day."

"You don't know?"

"No unfortunately. I'm hoping I can find him, and find the answers to why he did what he did."

"What are you trying to say?"

"All I'm trying to do is make a point. They're going to be a lot of people that will end up throwing away your trust. It can be anyone really, even those you love. Sometimes you'll know the reason, and sometimes you won't. Someday, you'll get your answers, and hopefully you'll get them soon. Probably sooner than me."

Plutia wiped away her tears and let out a small smile, "Thanks…" She said, "That makes me feel a little better."

"No problem." Shadow said, "I'm glad I could help. What do you say we go and help the others find anything valuable?"

Plutia nodded her head; She placed her doll back on her belt and they both got up and went to go search the bodies. They managed to find a couple of things, mostly weapons and upgrades for some of them.

Vaughn had eventually said, "This junk can't be worth much."

"That pistol over there is worth at least a hundred bucks." Sasha replied.

"Ah good." Rhys said as he stood on Bossanova's stand, "We just need a hundred thousand more and all set."

"Hey, at least it's a start on something." Shadow said to him, "Just wait and see. Before you know we'll have the ten million dollars to split with the each of us."

Before Rhys could say anything more they suddenly heard the sound of rockets. Each of them turned their heads to try and find the source of the sound. "Does anyone else hear that?" Vaughn asked them.

The ground shook when something landed in the middle of the arena. The floor that was under Bossanova's stand started to crumble.

It had turned out that it was Loader Bot. "Righteous father!" Loader Bot said to Rhys, "I have found you!"

The floor under the stand finally gave out and Rhys let out a scream. "RHYS!" Shadow, Vaughn & Mion shouted.

"Try to roll with the fall!" Loader Bot had said.

The group ran towards the open hole where Rhys fell. They saw him in the middle of the floor where he had landed. "Oh my god!" Plutia exclaimed, "Is he dead?!"

Shadow immediately jumped down the open sword using his chain attached to his sword to ease himself down. After he had gotten it back, he sheathed his sword and ran towards Rhys. "Hey Rhys!" Shadow said as he shook him, "Rhys, I know your alive, wake up!"

He heard Rhys let out a groan and opened his eyes. He then helped him to stand up. "Ow…" Rhys said, "Everything hurts…"

"Don't worry, you'll get over it." Shadow said to him.

"Hey Shades!" Mion shouted, "You guys okay down there!?"

"Yeah, we're fine!" Shadow shouted back, "Rhys is okay too!"

Rhys had then said, "Yup I am totally fine! I meant to do that!"

"Well good." Sasha said, "Because, it doesn't look like there's a safe way down to help you two. So figure out a way out of there."

Rhys and Shadow both nodded their heads and they started to look around. They both saw that they were surrounded by what appeared to be Atlas. There was computers and such in the room. They saw a total of three buttons; Two of them on the counter and the third button was in the middle.

"What's down there?" Vaughn had said to them, "I mean what do you see?"

"There's a bunch of Atlas tech down here." Shadow said.

"What kind of tech?" They

Rhys had then added, "Well it's mostly off prototypes. Some tech and weapons-"

"WHERE!?" Both Mion and Sasha said in unison.

They both jumped down and went down the stairs. "Too dangerous huh?" Rhys couldn't help but say to her. They towards one of the buttons. Sasha pressed it and it was revealed to be a weapon. Mion couldn't help but let out a squeal.

"OH MY GOD!" Mion exclaimed turning to Sasha, "Do you realize what this is!?"

"No way!" Sasha said, "No fucking way! This is…This is…!"

"THE ATLAS SILVER!" Mion and Sasha both exclaimed turning to each other.

"Ummm, the Atlas Silver?" Shadow said a bit confused.

Mion turned to him, "Shades, how can you not know it!? You spent most of your life on Pandora, and you don't know what the Atlas Silver is?!"

"All I see is a gun." He said to her.

Sasha than said picking up the gun from it's holster, "This is one of the rarest SMGs on Pandora! These things are a legendary, said to be a rumor! These weapons were never released!"

"I still see a simple gun." Shadow said.

Vaughn, Fiona, and Plutia had soon joined them. Vaughn went over to the second button and pressed it. It had revealed to be a watch. He's widened in shock.

"No… Way… " Vaughn exclaimed taking the watch from its holster; he exclaimed, "IT'S AN RETRO ATLASIO! I THOUGHT THESE THINGS WERE JUST A RUMOR!"

He placed it on his wrist and walked over to Rhys, "Just check this out! It tells time, and it's a caculator! Just give me a math problem!"

"Is it worth a lot of money?" Fiona asked him.

Vaughn had replied, "Sort of yeah. I mean yeah it's not ten million dollars worth, but ah man to the right people… Atlas tech in mint condition like this is worth a hell of a lot to collectors! Some Hyperion execs buy it just to put it on their shelves and gloat! And unreleased prototypes at that. I mean, who knows what this is worth!"

Soon enough, Rhys, Fiona, Shadow & Plutia noticed the button within the middle of the room. They walked over to it. "Would you care to do the honors?" Rhys asked Fiona and Plutia.

"Well, this is the only left." Fiona said, "It would seem right for all four us to press it."

"That sounds fair to me!" Plutia said with a smile.

"Whatever." Shadow said.

The four of them reached for the button and pressed it. The line just under the button had started to light up, leading to the third and final hidden item. It surrounded the Atlas logo and it had opened up revealing two strange items. One was what appeared to be a circle that was incomplete the other one being of a smaller piece that had fit the missing part of the circle. Both of them were core's.

A computerized voice had said, "RESET IDENTIFICATION REQUIRED."

"What is it?" Plutia couldn't help but ask, tilting her head.

"Don't know but whatever it is…" Rhys said.

"It looks incredibly valuable." Fiona had finished for him before saying, "And there's two of them so I don't have to stab you."

"That's a bonus." Rhys said, "I call the bigger half."

Just as said, Rhys took the bigger half while Fiona took the other. They removed it from where it was place. Plutia couldn't help but look at it in awe. "Whoa… I don't know what it is, but it looks kinda of cool."

Fiona then turned to Sasha, "Alright we got what we came for, now let's-"

All of a sudden the two halves had attached to one another with the help of a magnet, completing the circle surprising the small group. It had started to spin and they couldn't help but stare.

"Hey Vaughn, can you find us a crowbar?" Rhys asked him, "Maybe we can-"

The core had suddenly projected a hologram. Appearing were the initials GP. Soon enough it had projected the whole planet of Pandora. A trail had appeared going around Pandora to a point. The trail had appeared to lead a symbol to a vault.

"No way…" Mion had said with wide eyes.

"Is that… A map?" Fiona had asked.

Before Shadow could say something to her, he heard a familiar voice.

"sO, sHe'S THe bRaInS oF tHe oUTfIt?" The voice joked. Shadow started to look around and he saw that he wasn't the only one that heard it; Rhys heard it as well and they both started to look around to try and find out where it came from.

The voice continued to speak.

"iS tHAt A mAp?" The voice said, "i- i- i doN'T kNoW, iT's sO cONfuSIng!"

Just than, Shadow saw what appeared to be a silhouette of a person; a man specifically. It had appeared to be a hologram of a person of somek kind but it was all blurry. In a matter of seconds, the holographic image started to become clear as well as the voice.

"ThIS LaDIes & GeNTlemAN Is tHE GoRtys ProJect aNd iT's gOnnA lEaD us… To a Vault."

The holographic image was now all cleared up. Shadow couldn't help but let out a surprised gasp and his eyes went as wide as dinner plates when he saw the person behind Rhys and Fiona and had his hands on each of their shoulders.

"N-no…" Shadow stammered, "It ca-can't be…"

Plutia noticed this, "What is it? Is there something the matter?"

Rhys soon noticed the look on Shadow's face as well. He was about to ask when he heard a voice all too familiar to him say with his voice not sounding like a demon from hell, "And then I'll probably kill you."

Rhys turned and he couldn't help but let out a small scream.

Both Shadow and Rhys couldn't believe who they saw. It was him… The man that once ruled Pandora. The man who was killed by Vault Hunters…

The man that stood before them… Was Handsome Jack.

(Ending Theme: Bleach Ending 6 My Pace)