Thirteen
The six Vault hunters were making their way back into the city of Sanctuary when Tannis called them over the echo. "Hello all lesser beings your presence is need." Then the echo device went dark.
"We'll lets go." said an annoyed Vulcan. As they went up stairs to the HQ they were met with a peculiar sight Tannis smiling. "So Tannis I'm guessing that you finally got the last text translated."
"Precisely, it was a doozy but after a few months of blood,sweat and tears, I've finally got it and I do mean that literally. The last fragment is located here at psycho's cave."
"Next stop the Vault." Vulcan had a vague smirk when he started to walk out towards the fast travel station. He punched in the coordinates and they were off. At the fast travel station the got to the closest catch-a-ride and drove off.
"You something strange, we haven't seen much of Hailfire."said Doris.
At that moment Thompson spoke up"She early in her campaign. I read up on her, she always sends small groups at first but then, well."
"But you'd think since she's after the vault she would send half her army."
"For what A monster, a small pile of guns."
"If I could interject." Hunter spoke up. "Whatever comes out of the Vault can turn the tide of war."
"You make a fine point there Hunter." Doris said kindly.
"Hey where come up to Psycho's cave at be prepared." When the group bandit technical was at the foot of the cave Vulcan hopped out and walked towards the the mouth and stopped. "Drezir take driver seat, Grom take gunner and follow me in."
"What are you doing?" asked Thompson.
"Well I going to check the cave to see if it is an ambush while you guys guard the mouth of cave."
"And if the ambush is going to happen here?"
"Then we'll know and you run into the cave to regroup." Vulcan then walked into the cave and soon the technical soon followed. Thompson waited for the amber haired man to come back but it was ten minutes and Thompson started to get worried.
"Where are they?"
"Don't worry, Thompson. Grom, Vulcan and Drezir are the best fighters now come sit down and I'll deal you in." Doris said calmly.
Meanwhile
"So how much farther Vulcan, the road is getting narrower and soon we'll all have to go on foot." yelled Drezir. After a few moments Drezir yelled again and still no answer so he and Grom got out of the technical and founded Vulcan in front of a collapsed area of the the cave.
"Damn it this far."
"Don't worry Vulcan I bet the vault hunter know someone who can clear the debris."
"Good point." They soon left the cave and found Doris, Hunter and Thompson playing blackjack.
"Ha ha." Thompson laughed grabbing a large pile of money he then turned his head to see Vulcan. "Oh Vulcan, what did you find?"
"Well the most direct path is blocked, so were going to find some way to open it up."
"Good luck with that." Thompson then went back to playing blackjack and Vulcan made a call over the echo.
"Hey Lilith we got a problem." Vulcan said over his Echo.
"What kind of problem."
"We just need some huge explosive to clear out debris blocking our way to the fragment."
"Good news I know someone close to your position that can help her names Tina and she set up shop bout twenty-five miles away."
"Thanks." He then turned off his Echo and yelled. "Alright lets load up we got places to be." Vulcan and the rest got back into the technical and drove off. After a good ten minutes they made their way to a concrete fortress with a metal gate.
"Lilith told me you were coming." said a young women. "Let me just open the gate." Soon the gate opened and the Bandit technical rolled in and a women came out. (Intro) (Not so) Tiny Tina. "Hello. Names Tina. Lilith told me you needed something."
"Ya, we need a bomb." Thompson said.
"Well I'd like to help but I got a small problem."
"What kind of problem?"
"Some threshers ate some bombs I kept at a off site storage shed. I can make you a bomb but, it will take about a week or you can kill the threshers and I can put together what ever wasn't digested."
"Wheres the thresher nest?" sighed Vulcan.
"Its not far maybe forty feet. Oh one more thing on any circumstances don't use fire weapon, gunpowder doesn't digest in threshers gut so it will explode and the bomb fragments will be unusable."
"Alright we'll be back." Thompson said readying his gun. Soon the group left the compound and followed the location dotted on their echo. When they reached their destination they all had their guns ready but nothing was there. They soon looked around, Doris wander to a egg looking object and then she felt something on her leg. When she took a look it was already too late and huge tentacle was wrapped around her leg she shot at it but it did little. Then the thresher came out of the dirt and hung Doris upside down.
"Kamikaze help me!" Doris yelled to her little robot. It then flew out of her bag and shot electric bolts at the thresher, which caused it to drop Doris and soon a bunch of threshers sprung up and attacked the vault hunters. Drezir threw his hand held scythes killing a thresher guppy. Upon its death it spit out a piece of a bomb. Drezir picked it up and put in his bag. Thompson pulled out a normal shotgun and shot at a badass thresher it swung one its arm and sent Thompson flying across the field. Across the field Hunter was surrounded but formed into pwr loader and began to cut through the threshers. When he was done he picked up four more pieces. Vulcan had a cryo smg he shot at a badass thresher but it did little damage. In frustration he threw the smg at the beast and pulled out his trusty four shot fire revolver and fired. At first nothing happened but then a there was a huge explosion.
"Son of a bitch." Vulcan yelled while being sent flying. He got back to his feet and mumbled something to himself. "Note to self don't do that again." He put away his revolver and pulled out a regular gun and fired away. Grom had a torgue shotgun and he fired away killing a large thresher but she was pulled into a black hole threshers but he was saved by Drezir before too much damage was dealt. After a couple more minutes of killing threshers the group left and returned back to Tinas.
"This is all you could bring back?"
"Ya, do you need more?" Vulcan asked.
"I can work with this. The boom won't as big, but give me an half hour, hour tops." Tina then walked into her workshop and closed the door. The group waited by the bandit technical after forty-five minutes the doors opened and Tina walked out with the bomb in her arms and Vulcan ran towards her and took from her.
"Thanks Tina." Vulcan said while grabbing the bomb.
"One more thing." Tina then reached in her pocket and pulled out a small controler. "This is the detonator. You have to at least fifteen feet from the bomb and you'll have five minutes to get out of the blast zone." Vulcan nodded his head and walked back to the technical. He jumped into the back and the truck drove off. After a good while they were back at the cave. Vulcan jumped out and planted the bomb at the cave in. He activated it and ran by the time he had made it to the mouth of the cave the ground shook.
"Guess the bomb went off." said Drezir. The group then walked into the cave and saw what the bomb had done. The entire pass was opened and they walked into the pass. After they did they came across the eridian ruins. They then proceeded to look around the ruins.
"Find anything?" yelled Drezir.
"Nothing but rock." Thompson yelled back.
"Yo Hunt having any luck?"
"Negitive."
"Thompson can't your robot eye scan for the fragment?" asked Vulcan.
"I've already tried that and no luck."
"Hey guys I got something." Doris yelled. Soon all of the vault hunters rushed to their companion.
"What'cha find?" asked Grom.
"I found a new chamber. I sent Kamikaze in and he found a power fluctuation. I think this might be where the is ."
"Well, lets go." Vulcan said entering the new chamber as he enter he saw levers he pulled one a door opened. When he looked inside he found it full of varkids he rushed back and lifted the lever and the door closed.
"What was in there?" asked Thompson.
"Varkids." Vulcan shook it off and lifted the next lever and another door opened and when he look inside there it was the final piece of the key. "Hunter will you do the honor?" Hunter enter and grabbed the key. The whole group rejoiced and exited the chamber laughing but it was short lived as they exited the second chamber they saw a group of well armed pointing their guns at the group. Soon a woman in black armor confronted them. (Intro) The dark sister. WOW.
"I would really like to thank you for finding the last piece, saves us the trouble. Now hand me the fragment or I will kill all of you and everyone in sanctuary." hissed The Dark Sister. Hunter looked around and sighed he handed her it in order to save his friends.
"Fine, here you go."
"Thank you for making this easy. Kill them and dismantle the Loader. Oops sorry I halved lied, you'll die but the people of Sanctuary will live as long they surrendered." She then walked off with her prized in her hand. Her men raised theirs weapons and fired. Drezir closed his eyes, but Hunter formed into a ion loader and casted a shield around the whole group and when he opened his eyes he was safe around the blue shield. He and the rest of the vault hunters raised their guns and the first second the shield came down fired killing all of Hailfire's men. They ran towards the Dark sister.
"Hand over the key, bitch." Vulcan yelled putting his revolver to the temple of her head. She slowly raised lowered her but then uppercutted Vulcan and got out duel saw off shotguns and fired hitting Vulcan. His shield took most of the blow but some buckshot landed in his left shoulder. Doris summoned Kamikaze to cover Drezir while he helped Vulcan up. Kamikaze a few critical hits before taking too much damage and exploding in her face. She got up and ran out, but Thompson tackled her, she got a hold of her guns and fired but it had no effect.
"My turn." He shoved his a cryo pistol in her gut and fired a couple of shots before being pushed off and slashed across the face with a short katana. He stumbled back holding his face. Drezir threw a slagged grenade and it exploded. He fired his gun landing several hits before she landed a shot on Drezir's leg. Grom summon his legion drones and they exploded in flash of different element types. Grom walked towards her as he got closer she used the last remaining energy to raise her gun towards head.
"We are the fire, purging the worlds of the weak. Hail Hailfire." She then pulled the trigger and dropped dead. Grom shook his head and grabbed the fragment and wrapped with a blanket he had found. He help carry out Vulcan and put him in the back of the Technical. After an hour of driving they were back at Sanctuary. Grom dropped Vulcan off at Zed's for his wound to be clean and met up with the rest of the group at Town hall with all of the vault hunter present. Grom dropped the fragment on the table with the rest and in the blink of an eye all of the pieces came together.
"This is amazing." Tannis said under her breath.
"So when do we go after the vault?" asked Thompson.
"You guys aren't going after the vault thats for the pros." said Axton.
"We have every right. We've been looking for the keys and killing things while you guys go do what, exactly?" said an angry Grom.
"Looking for the vault." said Lilith.
"What do you mean by looking for the vault? Do you already know where it is?"
"Not exactly. We know the area its at just not the location but we're close, don't worry we'll give you a share of the treasure." Gaige said while jumping into the conversation. "Now go enjoy yourselves you've earned it."
"Fine." said Thompson rolling his eyes. They all soon left the Town Hall and walked down the streets of Sanctuary. "Why are you so happy Drezir?"
"Well we finished our job and now I'm going to throw a party at my place. You guys can come over if you want." After Drezir finished his sentence he ran towards his place. Grom, Hunter and Doris started to go the same way.
"Hey Thompson you comin?" Grom asked.
"Ya I'll be over in a bit. I'm just going to check up on Vulcan." He then left towards Zed's he went in and saw Vulcan and Gale. "Hey dude hows the shoulder?"
"Zed cleaned it pretty well. Why you look so bummed out?"
"Its so messed 're not going to be able to open the vault."
"What!"
"I know, oh by the way Drezir throwing a party at his place." Thompson then left.
"Im sorry Vulcan." Gale said looking down. "But do think we can go to the party."
"Alright for you." Vulcan said while brushing her hair out of her face. He got up and walked out Zed's. They walked down the streets until they came to a brightly lit house with loud music and people coming in and out, they went in and was greeted by Drezir.
"Glad you could make it. And welcome to mi casa Drezir. Drinks are over there." Drezir said pointing to assortment of drinks for hard liquor to brand name soda. "Have fun." He then walked off. Vulcan quickly made to the drinks and poured himself and his girlfriend some drinks. She began to dance but he wander off. He soon came across Hunter. He laughed when he saw the night shade on top its head.
"Doing the robot or just moving?" Vulcan joked to the the black colored loader.
"What do you mean?"
"Never mind. Have you seen Doris?"
"Uh ya. She in the kitchen."
"Thanks." He soon made his way towards the kitchen and found his companion in a book. "Why are you here anyways?"
"Oh, I don't know." She then went back to her book. Vulcan got up and went out back where he found Grom and Thompson in a fist fight. He sat down and watch the two fight. Grom uppercutted Thompson. Vulcan he rushed towards them but he stopped when Thompson reached in his pocket and paid Grom.
"Told you Tom I'd win." He went back inside and found his girlfriend.
"Hey there you look happier."
"Ya."
"Still not mad about not being able to open the vault?" asked Gale.
"Oh I'm still going after the vault, but tonight I'm going to take it easy."
"Thats nice, so care to dance."
"Fine for you." After a good hour Vulcan and Gale left and returned home.
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