AN: Hey guys! Sorry for the long wait! Cold has been a brewing and it doesn't really help me with keeping productive and such! I hope this chapter's worth it! Enjoy!

Chapter 19

"Three Horns?" Axton pondered "Why would he touch down there?"

"Well when we get there," Kurt said looking back at him "You can ask him that question."

The three of them made their way back to the Raiders headquarters to be greeted by Salvador, Zero, Maya and the rest of the hunters. Mordecai was polishing his rifle with a damp cloth to try and take most of the rust and grime from the gun itself. Brick was over in the corner doing one-handed push-ups with his knuckles on the ground.

"Jakobs huh?" Kurt asked looking at Mordecai's sniper, causing him to glance at Kurt for a moment

"Yeah," Mordecai said looking back down at the gun to try and get the dirt off it "Piece of shit can barely even stay together, let alone fire a damn bullet straight...I gave my favorite sniper to Axton when he got me ale after Bloodwing died.." He was trying to get a smudge off the gun, but it wasn't exactly coming off. He kept on trying and trying but that smudge wasn't budging, causing to become more frustrated with the gun itself.

"Here, avoid all that trouble and use this instead," Kurt said holding the LR-89 Sniper in front of Mordecai, leaving his jaw dropped at the sight of the rifle itself.

"Ay Dios Mio..." Mordecai said silently when he took the gun from Kurt's hand's.

"LR-89 Sniper System, best sniper Thatcher arms makes...at least since I got to Pandora, don't know about now though..." Kurt said scratching the back of his neck

"What's the caliber?" Mordecai asked looking inside the chamber

"Chambered at .50 BMG, but the barrels can be interchanged up to .950 JDJ" Kurt explained holding a .50 caliber bullet in his hand, which was approximately the same length of Brick's middle finger.

"Holy Jesus..." Mordecai said looking at the round "Mind if I fire it a bit?" He then asked standing up.

"Go for it." Kurt said looking at it "It's yours man,"

"Gracias," Mordecai's said patting his shoulder "This'll be put to good use."

All of the hunters gathered around Mordecai to see him shoot various bottles from across the entire city with speed, accuracy, and patience all rolled into one deadly weapon. As Mordecai finished shot the last bottle, he let out a small laugh and put the smoking barrel of the gun facing downwards.

"This is how a sniper should be..." Mordecai said looking at the shattered bottles through his polarized goggles.

"That's what my dad was thinking...speaking of dad, I just got a ECHO from him, says he touched down on Three Horns." Kurt explained looking at his ECHO.

"I'll go with Kurt to Three Horns to grab his father. Sal, you come with us. Rest of you guys should stay here," Axton explained pointing to each of the hunters.

"Why can't I come?" Maya said putting her hands on her hips and craning her neck slightly to the left.

"We need people to watch over the city incase things go south while were away. Now that we know where Lilith is, Jack won't be shy to take any course of action against us... We lost enough Vault Hunters as it is..." Axton said quietly thinking about Roland.

Maya looked down at the ground for a bit, then looked back at Axton. He said the same thing Roland told Lilith. Lilith denied Roland's only request that she stayed in Sanctuary with Mordecai in case things went south. While she may have helped Roland get to the top of the control room inside Angel's chambers, she inadvertently got her self captured and is now being used to charge the key. If she would have just listened...they may have never gotten into this mess.

"Alright..." Maya muttered quietly looking back at Axton

"Don't worry," Axton said putting his hand on her shoulder "Shouldn't take us long.."

"Just make it back in one piece.." Maya smirked looking at him with one eyebrow cocked.

"Noted," Axton smirked back "Okay, Kurt, Sal, we're outta here!" he then said walking towards the Pierce station motioning with his arms for Salvador and Kurt to follow.

The Fast travel station digitally recomposed Axton, Salvador, and Kurt's genetic makeup so that they could proceed onwards with their journey. Walking was out of the question when it came to Sanctuary, because...well...there was nowhere to walk, only fall.

"Never geet used to that stinkin' fast travel crap.." Salvador muttered in a thick Spanish accent.

"Yeah well until they bring parachutes to Pandora, I don't see any other way traveling around the place." Axton explained smiling at Salvador.

"Okay, his beacon is pointed near the 'Happy Pig Motel', let's head there so we can grab him and go," Kurt said looking down at his ECHO.

"Were gonna kill ya Military Man!" The voice screamed in the distance, presumably a bandit, followed by volleys of varied gunshots.

"C'MON YOU DUMB APES!" Albert said through the ECHO "YOU WANT BREAKFAST? YOU GOTTA CATCH IT!" He then said sending off gunshots through the ECHO.

"Shit, he's in trouble..." Kurt said shutting off the ECHO "We gotta move fast!"

Axton, Sal, and Kurt ran as fast as they could, passing many streets, strafe shooting skags that were attacking, and for plain fun, until they came across the Happy Pig Motel. They say a rather large ship that was powered off, with the back hatch opened. Axton took note of all the Bloodshot bodies that had bullets in their chest, neck, head region. They proceeded to walk forward until a man in a trench coat was visibly presentable between the three of them.

"Sheet, one guy took down all those bandits?" Salvador said looking at the man.

The man was shifting his vision left and right, depending on which direction psychos, marauders, and goliaths were heading in. Each of them tried to get a clear shot on the man, only to catch one straight in the head. Psychos tried to flank him and come from the back side. The man pressed a button that was located on his assault rifle, springing out a giant bayonet. He turned around to impale the psycho that was coming from behind him in the chest, holding it there for a few seconds, before drawing out the sharp blade, then turning around to decapitate another psycho trying to flank him. The final psycho tried a different approach, head on (Bandits aren't exactly the smartest people in the world), the psycho realized this was a fatal mistake, after getting his leg scooped clean off with the man's large revolver that was holstered on his thigh. The psycho tried to crawl away, whilst trying to stop the profusely bleeding coming from his now-gone leg. The man made his way up to the psycho and plunged the bayonet blade right through his chest, twisting it around a bit, before pulling the blade out slowly and spitting on the corpse.

"Stupid fuck.." The man growled

Axton, Sal, and Kurt were left to look and gawk at the total carnage a single man caused on a entire group of bandits.

"Hoooooly Shit." Axton said looking around at all the dead bloodshot bodies

"What a gore fest!" Salvador said holstering his 'Spinigun' on his back.

"That's my Dad for you.." Kurt said smiling walking closer to the man,

"Hee's Padre deed all thees?" Sal said in a thick accent looking at Axton

"Apparently so.. Let's go meet him" Axton said following Kurt.

Kurt began to walk closer to the man, prompting him to look towards his direction. He scoffed and shifted his body towards him.

"Bout time you showed up!" Albert said looking at Kurt with his arms crossed.

"Yeah...Bad traffic sorry," Kurt said jokingly to his father

"Good to see you again, son," Albert said holding his hand out, which Kurt grabbed and pulled him in for a short embrace.

"You too, dad," Kurt replied looking at him

"So you're Albert Thatcher?" Axton asked looking at the father's beret.

"In the flesh," He replied "And you are?"

"Axton," He responded "That's Salvador,"

He waved at Salvador, then shifted his eyes back at Kurt, he looked at his arms and scrunched his eyes a bit.

"The fuck happened to your arms boy?" Albert said pointing to Kurt's arms. Kurt looked at both sides of his shoulders, then looked back at his father.

"I'll explain later...let's get this ship up and running again," Kurt said beginning to walk over to the carrier ship, only to be stopped by his father's hand on his shoulder.

"Whoa, hold your horses, kid, ship ain't broken." Albert said looking at the carrier hull.

"Then why'd you make us come down here?" Kurt asked looking at his Dad, causing him to smirk at his son,

"Because I wanted to show you that your old man's still got some fight left in him!" Albert laughed "Let's get back to this place called 'Sanctuary' and we'll see what we could do about Jack.." He then said before walking towards the carrier, he walked up the platform that led into the ship, before stopping and asking the three of them,

"You comin?" He asked motioning his hands in the direction of the ship.

Without hesitation, the three of them walked towards the ship, that began to slowly power up.

"Typical Dad," Kurt said to himself "Always the showoff..."

They finally got into the hull of the ship and the back hatch began to slowly come up. Although it wasn't fully closed, the pilot began to dust off and gain altitude. The three hunters settled down on the seats of the ship.

"Well, since you're here," Albert said taking a seat "Let me introduce you to Venom Company,"

Maya was always the person that had her nose in a book when she wasn't doing anything else productive in the time being. The monks let her read many manuscripts during the course of time she spent in the monastery. She always thought of it was a way to enhance her ways of perspective on several different elements of common society and relativity. The book she was reading was written by Malcolm Thatcher, Kurt's grandfather, explaining several theories about relativity and how all things are somewhat related to one another. She had to admit her self that this was a fascinating piece of literature. The only things the Order of the Impending Storm allowed her to read were manuscripts and past collection from other monks during the years of the activity in the Order. She found them to be completely boring and meaningless, and above all, bullshit. That's all the Order was in her opinion, just a bunch of bald-headed hags circle-jerking over their spiritual dominance over Athenas. Right when she killed Brother Sophis, Hyperion invaded the city of Mombasa, killing 600 innocent civilians. Maya would never forget that day. It was the day she saw so many dead people in one setting, it was also the first place she met Axton, only for a split second though..

"Whatcha readin'?" Gaige asked looking at the book Maya was reading currently

"General relativity," Maya answered paying no attention to the girl standing next to her.

"Oh, cool, I was taught that kinda stuffs in high school. About how mass equivalence governs mostly anything, and that theres infinite universes out there and stuff..I was gonna learn more in the next semester...but the science fair was going on...so...yeah.." Gaige said quietly looking down remembering why she was on this planet in the first place. She was a wanted criminal, and the Holloway's had so much money that they could never get that search called off.

She felt a hand placed on her shoulder, she looked up to see Maya was looking at her with a smile on her face. Gaige let off a small smirk at the sight of this.

"Don't worry, you still have us right?" Maya said looking at the teen.

"Yeah.." Gaige said perking up slightly "Guess I do!"

She then walked over to her bed, blankly looking at her prosthetic arm, which was a production line that was designed by Kurt ironically. As she looked at her arm twisting and turning it around, she heard a voice say in front of her.

"You love him don't you?" Maya asked looking at Gaige, she hesitated at first, but until she confirmed that the Siren was the only person present in the room, she gave off a slight nod facing the ground. Maya giggled lightly and walked over to Gaige's bed.

"Nothing to be ashamed of. I mean, who can blame you? He's smart, bold, handsome.." Maya began, only to be interrupted by Gaige

"Hey! That's my crush you're talking about there!" She said scolding the older women, causing her to laugh lightly.

"Don't worry, Gaige, I got my own piece of meat for myself..." Maya said before covering her mouth after realizing what she said. Gaige;s eyes slightly widened after hearing this..

"Geez Louise!" Gaige said standing up "Keep it in the bedroom whydontcha?" she then began to walk outside the door, leaving Maya alone and embarrassed at what she said.

'Goddamnit...' Maya thought 'What's wrong with me?'

"Maya, it's Axton!" He said though her Echo device "We've succeeded in extricating the father, were heading to Sanctuary now!"

Maya picked up her Echo and pressed the microphone button.

"Alright, see you in a few," She said before shutting it off. She then closed her book that was on her lap and placed it on the table. She then walked outside to welcome back the three hunters.

"Were coming in hot!" Kurt said through the ECHO as the rather large aircraft slowly hovered over the city centre, which was next to Scooter's garage. The aircraft pulled out it's landing gear and slowly placed it's legs on the ground of Sanctuary.

Axton was the first to step out of the aircraft, followed by Salvador, Kurt, then finally Albert. Zero, Maya, Mordecai, Gaige and Brick stood near the ship to greet Albert's arrival.

"You Mordecai?" Albert asked looking at the lanky man wearing goggles.

"Yeah, pleasure to meet you Mr. Thatcher," Mordecai said shaking his hand.

Albert shifted his attention towards Maya, before letting off a smirk.

"Well I'll be damned...never thought I'd see a Siren in my lifetime..." Albert said looking at the blue-haired woman.

"You know about us?" Maya asked looking at Kurt's father

"Yeah, read up about your rare kind." Albert responded "Only six of you can exist at a time..."

"Yup..." Maya said

He then shifted his attention towards Gaige, causing him to develop a big smile on his face.

"Well hello Gaige!" Albert said walking over to the Mechromancer "Last time I saw you, you were only about yay high!" He then said holding his hand midway from his thigh. "You probably don't remember me though..."

"No I don't, sorry," Gaige said rubbing her neck slowly, causing Albert to chuckle a bit.

"So," Mordecai said "What's the deal with this 'Venom Company' I've been hearing about?"

"They're a company of my privatized military group. I guess you can get to say 'Hello' to my merry soldiers." Albert explained, he then went into the position of 'Attention', then making an about face turn.

"VENOM COMPANY. POST." He shouted, as soon as he said that, two lines of eight-foot tall soldiers marched out from the hull, in synchronized step. They continued until 30 Soldiers were present in total. It was a small company but not much was needed due to their size and strength. They stood still in the position of attention, until another command was given

"BALRA. AT!" Albert yelled in Hungarian which meant left face.

"At ease!" He then yelled causing the soldiers to put their hands behind their backs.

Kurt wasn't' kidding around. These soldiers were fucking massive and intimidating at the same time with their combat armor prepped and ready to go. Mordecai looked at the soldiers slack jawed at the sheer physique and size of the soldiers...Maya couldn't look away, they could probably break her spine by just punching her in the right place. What kind of toxins were pumped in these soldiers so they could be that giant?

"Jesus..." Mordecai said looking at them "These guys are almost as big as you, Brick..."

"Yeah, Almost.." Brick said crossing his arms while looking at them.

"Well then..." Albert said looking at Kurt "Where do you want Venom Company to go son? After all, you ARE the company commander...Lieutenant Colonel..."

AN: Hey guys! I hope this was a worth while chapter! Might be a little short, sorry bout that. I'll make the next chapter longer I promise! Just been really lazy recently and haven't been able to function properly, due to my cold and sinuses...Rate and fave please! It helps!

-LT