Primed For Extinction Part 3

by dougaude

With Maya out of commission - suffering from the rare and fatal Siren disease Starlight - Zero is forcing himself to search for the Cure. Supposedly the rare extract of a long extinct mineral can cure any disease, even Starlight. Zero's search leads him to the continent Aegrus, where he finds something nether he nor Sir Hammerlock expects.

14. Destroying Jack's DNA Part 1

A/N: The next 3 chapters or so will be much shorter, just thought I'd give you a heads us. I promise to make the last chapter much, much longer.

Chapter 14: Destroying Jack's DNA Part 1

Mission(s): A-Hunting We Will Go (NC)

DLC: Sir Hammerlock's Big Game Hunt

After Claptrap spoke Zero turned away from the flames and walked away. He exited the burning skag den area and after reentering the lab plus passing a glowing mushroom Zero turned left. He went up a wide metal staircase and after coming to the top Zero turned right and walked along the metal ground. A 'patch' of grass lay stretched out from where a smaller glowing ghostly blue mushroom was growing.

After passing the small growing mushroom Zero walked up another short wide metal staircase to a relatively small metal platform. Zero turned left and after reaching the end of the platform turned left again walking up longer wide metal staircase.

Once he reached the top Zero moved along a metal platform that worked its way around a pipe extending into the ceiling. At the end of the platform Zero came to an open doorway and steeping through Zero came to a room with four corners constructed (like the rest of the station) entirely out of metal.

In front of Zero set in the middle of the wall was another open doorway, and to the right of it growing out of another moss/grass 'patch' was another weird alien looking glowing blue mushroom. Zero walked across the room through the doorway and came out to a courtyard like area. A stretch of ground went from left to right evolving into pure grass hemmed in by 30 foot rock walls to the left and to the right it cut a path through the base of the station providing much of the ground.

Zero walked to the left and after going for perhaps 100 feet came to a very large group of very large scaylions. 3 scaylion Broodmothers, and 12 scaylion Berserkers; the sight of the pack of big vicious armored brutes sent Zero into clutch mode. Using his deception primarily in three different spots surrounding the group Zero flitted around them invisible flinging 2 kunai into each scaylion every time he was forced to change his decoy to a different position. Eventually the acid combined with the slag from the 15 kunai sticking out of each gargantuan scaylion took each beast down one by one; each time one died it let out a final screeching roar of pain.

Professor Nakayama spoke, "Ah yes, that's one of my secret DNA samples; the life force of my INCREDIBLE secret plans that you will never, ever uncover."

Sir Hammerlock informed the professor, "Claptrap already told us you're planning to clone Handsome Jack."

"I … sonofabitch."

After the fight and the conversation between Sir Hammerlock and Professor Nakayama, Zero found a safe in the middle of the ring of scaylions. It was then that Zero realized they had been protecting what was inside. On the smaller top shelf inside the safe was a metal tube shaped like a section of a double helix DNA strand; at each end a metal object, flat when it connected to the double helix but away from it the metal object was rounded off, capped the DNA object off.

Zero smashed the middle of the DNA object with the butt of his katana, and as he closed the door of the safe he saw scrawled on the inside of the door, "dahliscious".

Claptrap: That's one sample destroyed! I can practically smell the dying handsomeness from here!

Nakayama said over the ECHO, "Uhhh … who opened one of my DNA safes? … Hello? Anybody?"