A/N: We're reaching Hero's Pass to kill Jack and deal with The Warrior! I'm so hype! There will be a few more side missions to this story before I end the story and start the DLCs. Speaking of which, there will in fact be other DLCs. I'll be doing Wam Bam Island and Mercenary Day as well. Mercenary Day should be a small one to three chapter story. Just thought I'd like to give that an update. I'm also going to go through and rename the chapters. I don't know why, but I just want to. Look at them if you want to. Whatever. Enjoy the chapter!
I walked up to the main base with a strong stride with Krieg and Maya behind me.
My eyes were filled with a cold fury that I never knew existed in man or machine. Krieg told me that the Warrior's location was in Hero's Pass, and that's where we were going to stop Jack. I walked up to Mordecai and I looked at him with a knowing look.
"This. Ends. Now," Mordecai said in a rough tone. I nodded and had my arms crossed while looking at him with the same cold fury I had when I walked inside. I was still restraining myself from teleporting there and taking on the bastards myself.
"Jack, Lilith, and The Warrior are in Hero's Pass. So that's where we're headed. This is the final fight amigo - if you gotta to prepare, do it now. Go check around the city. These people don't have much, but they still want to help you," Mordecai told me.
"Noted," I said simply.
"Hyperion's locked the entrance to Hero's Pass. Get back to Claptrap; you'll need him to open the way for you. Brick and I will meet you once you're in. Win or lose, we're going to finish this together For Bloodwing. For Roland. For Pandora!" Mordecai exclaimed.
I turned to Krieg and Maya with an even expression.
"Start asking around. You guys need the gear more than I do," I said, rubbing my eyes slightly.
"You need rest more than we do. Look at you. You're eyes are bloodshot, you got enough bags to pack yourself in them, and you look so weary,"
Krieg told me. I looked at him with an angry look.
"And you think I give a shit? I've been going through the last few weeks like this. I'm not missing the final fight," I said furiously.
"I know, but..."
"END of discussion," I growled before walking out. I was not going to let this opportunity pass. He tells me to take a break now?
I went down the stairs and addressed Tannis.
"Jack's close to awaken the Warrior. All of us are going to Hero's Pass to stop him," I said.
"You've survived this long. Though it's unlikely you'll survive an encounter with a world destroying Warrior," Tannis said in a logical tone. "But even though I have trouble verbalizing words that will not utterly confuse or nauseate you, I find my mental processes are surprisingly focused. I have only two words for you - perhaps the most important two words ever spoken on Pandora: Kill. Jack."
While the words themselves sounded narcissist the way she said it, but I couldn't help but agree with her. Considering I don't know all of the words that were spoken on this planet.
"Here - this may help you in your efforts to but a hilariously large hole in Jack's face," Tannis said, handing me a type of glowing object shaped like a circle. I picked it up, and when I put it on, my arms felt considerably more solid and stronger. I guess these things had magical powers or something?
"I'm going to talk to Zed. Maya's gone to talk to Scooter. You can handle Marcus, Moxxi, and Hammerlock," Krieg told me.
"Yeah. I'll give you what gear you might need and I don't," I said, walking to Marcus' shop. I walked up to him and he seemed to already know what was up.
"Jack's monopoly on weapons is running me out of business. But that's not why I want him dead. I want him dead because he's a greedy, murdering son of a bitch(Pot meet kettle) who deserves to die screaming. Good luck," Marcus said in a cheerful voice. "Here. You might need this." He held out a Vladof assault rifle out to me with the fire element. I grabbed it and put in my inventory. It wouldn't do much good against loaders, but Maya could easily use it.
I walked out of his shop and started heading toward Moxxi's bar where Hammerlock and Moxxi were. I walked in the shop and instantly began to register Moxxi.
"Mordecai told us everything. About how this is the last raid. All or nothing," Moxxi said before I could say anything.
"Yeah. If you have anything to help out, that would be appreciated," I said evenly.
"Gladly. I've had just enough of that Handsome Jackass. Get rid of him, and you'll never have to pay for a drink in here again," Moxxi told me.
"I may just hold you to that," I said, thinking about the backlash that was sure as hell coming to me once this was over. If I survived.
She then pulled a slag Hyperion SMG out of her breasts(you expected it to be anywhere else?) and I grabbed it, as wary as I was of it. Luckily, this wasn't covered in cum.
I went over to Hammerlock and he faced me with a smile.
"Well old friend, I wish you the best of luck. May you return with Handsome blood on your hands, and a smile on your face!" he said, holding out a sniper rifle. "Oh, and in case I forget. Here you are. Thought it might be of some use." The sniper was Vladof with a shock element. I nodded respectively and left the bar.
"Sup sucka! It's Tina. I wrote you a poem and it goes like this. BREAK IT DOWN. Ahem. Kill Jack. Kill Jack. Kill Jack. Kill Jack. Kill Jack. KILL Jack. Kill Jack. A poem by Tiny Tina," Tina said on the ECHO. Even I had to smile a little at that 'poem' of hers, regardless of how shitty I felt.
I walked near the Fast Travel station and Krieg was standing next to Maya, waiting for me. I tossed the weapons I got from the others to Maya who was almost overwhelmed by the weight of all of them.
"Vengeance will be mine," I said in a tone full of malice before traveling to Eridium Blight. My patience to wait was gone and I just continued to Eridium Blight.
"You ever get that feeling where you're just aching to murder someone?" Jack asked me.
"I have it right now," I said in an angry tone.
"Haven't felt that in such a long time," Jack said, making me call bullshit on that one. He's murdered so much, but no more. He dies tonight.
I teleported and saw that Claptrap was waiting for me near a few ammo containers.
"This is it! Our vengeance is finally at hand! Let's tear this planet a new asshole! Yeah!" Claptrap said, flailing his arms and yelling. Personally, his vengeance pales before mine. I was willing to die to achieve mine. I'm pretty sure Claptrap can't say the same. Well, say the same and mean it.
"We're going to make Jack regret ever setting foot on Pandora! I'm going to get that door open, so I can take care of that Handsome bastard myself!" Claptrap exclaimed. Even though I doubted he would make it past one Hyperion soldier, I still wanted to make sure he knew this.
"Fuck off. He's mine," I said in a dark and menacing tone. Meaning that I would rip him apart if he didn't listen to me.
"Er... I'm gonna get the door open," Claptrap said meekly. He walked up, but then loaders started forming. "AHHH! Draw their fire with your face while I cloak my way over to the door controls! Invisible!" Then came the fight that I ached for.
I pulled out my Jakobs sniper and effortlessly shot the loaders in their eyes as they spawned. Quick and efficient is what I was looking for.
"Good job! I've uncloaked by the controls! Let me just get this door open!" Claptrap exclaimed while trying to hack the panel. I rolled my eyes.
"Execute Phase Shift," I said, placing my palm on the console. My mental influence was inserted inside the Hyperion database and I was looking to find a way to open the door. Even in death, Angel was a big help.
"Door access unavailable while security lockdown is active. Siren Suppressors engaged to prevent unwanted access. Loaders must be disabled for door access to be available," the computerized voice said.
"He's been busy," I said evenly as more loaders started showing up. Two of them on the platform near Claptrap and two more came out of doors.
I didn't have the mood to deal with all these loaders, so you know what I did?
"Turrets deployed," I said, tossing all 3 of my Dahl Sabre turrets out in the middle of the field. The only difference between them was one didn't have slag bullets. Regardless, the infinite rockets and the slag made quick work of the loaders. They were reduced to scrap metal in seconds without them even taking down any of the turret's shields.(In this case, they don't have a time limit until they deform. They have to be destroyed before I have to wait to use them again. It would make more sense then the way they were designed in the game. Though having 3 Dahl Sabre turrets with no shutting down until they're destroyed is OP as shit)
"YES! I've done it! Shutting down the door defenses down... NOW!" Claptrap exclaimed.
"Activating additional door defenses. Turrets deployed," the computerized voice said. As crazy as this was, I knew Claptrap was making progress. These were just additional fail safes. I'm thinking he's trying to send everything he's got at us to buy enough time to charge the Key. And I can't teleport past this door because of these damn Siren Suppressors. I was scared to think what would happen if I tried.
"GOD DAMMIT!" Claptrap yelled. I don't think there was a door that Claptrap couldn't open, so this was making him frustrated.
"These loaders are handled. Just focus on getting through the door," I said over the roaring of rockets, bullets, and loaders. Normally I would've taken care of these fools myself. But I don't have to waste bullets and we were in one spot the entire time, so this is where the turrets really shined.
I looked past everything and saw that Krieg and Maya had finally showed up. But they don't dare stand in the middle of the bullets and rockets flying everywhere. They would be hacked to pieces. Second winds or no.
So I settled for teleporting them over here and Krieg looked at me with crossed arms.
"Thanks for waiting for us," Krieg said sarcastically. I simply shrugged. Just wasn't in the mood. The turrets can go on forever, and I'm going to take this time to rest until those turrets run out. The shields were down, and they were smoking slightly, but still holding strong. The main problem were those damn turrets at the top. But it seems as if Claptrap heard me.
"I got an idea! I'm hacking those turrets so they'll fight for US!" Claptrap exclaimed.
"Please do so. It's the main thing that's eating up my turrets," I told him, looking up at the shielded monstrosities. The turrets were focused on the loaders more because they constantly kept coming. The Hyperion turrets weren't touched.
"Access denied," the computerized voice.
"Come on, baby, don't be like that. Gimme... those... TURRETS!" Claptrap yelled.
"Access... granted," the woman said. I was pretty surprised. What, did the Hyperon lady have a soft spot for Claptrap?
"Holy *bleep* IT ACTUALLY WORKED! The turrets are fighting for us now! I ACTUALLY DID SOMETHING!" Claptrap yelled. I shook my head at how surprised he sounded when the Hyperion lady gave him access.
"I'm overriding the door locks! Just stay alive!" Claptrap told me. That was being pretty easy at the moment while my turrets were still kicking.
"How long before we actually do something?" Maya asked.
"Until those turrets are destroyed, or until Claptrap gets that door open and we have to move," I told her in an ever tone without even facing her.
"Dispatching additional troops," the woman said.
"How many of these guys are there?!" Claptrap asked in disbelief. "Badasses incoming!" Now, I was actually worried for my turrets. And then we had these stupid surveyors. They had no pattern for killing a target. They killed whoever the saw fit.
When the surveyor came flying toward me, I shot it out of the air with one quick shot from my Jakobs pistol, which stopped it in his tracks. I had to shoot it twice more to finish the job. Stupid thing had a shield.
There was a random explosion, and I looked to see one of my turrets had finally been destroyed. It was the one I took off Axton.
"AVOID the bullets! AVOID THEM!" Claptrap yelled.
"Thanks Captain Obvious!" Krieg yelled as one of the bullets came dangerously close to hitting him. He tossed one of his axes in the eye of a loader and it went down easy.
A badass was opening rocket launchers on his back and started launching them toward my turrets. My turrets would be demolished by the sheer power of them. So I had to think fast.
Focus a critical eye on the rockets, I shot specific ones in the air that would blow up their counterparts effectively. While managing to keep one bullet in my mag. Sometimes it felt like my eyes were mechanical from how accurate they are.
"Reinforcements... depleted," the computer voice said. My eyes widened. They were out of loaders to kill us?
"Don't worry baby! Happens to a lot of girls!" Claptrap exclaimed.
Maya looked at Claptrap strangely before looking at me. I rolled my eyes and moved my finger in a circular motion on the side of my head, indicating that I thought the robot was crazy.
"AAAAAAAAAAND! OPEEEEEEEEENNNNNNNN!" Claptrap yelled, rolling to the center of the platform to address us.
"We did it! Jack thought he could stop us with a door? HA! I was MADE to open doors!" Claptrap exclaimed.
"Rethink that statement as you look at the mound of scrap metal behind you," Krieg said, jerking his thumb behind him. But Claptrap seemed to be in his own little world.
"There's no stopping us now! Together we shall free Pandora! I shall lead you into battle. I will..." Claptrap seemed to rethink that statement once the doors opened. "STAIRS?! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
I don't know what made me do it. Maybe it was because I was going crazy or I was trying to find humor in... something, but I started laughing.
It started off as a small little chuckle, but then it began to grow. And grow. And grow. And the laugh sounded insane. Sort of like Krieg did before he 'found his voice.' (Leaning more on the way the Joker would laugh after killing someone) Sooner or later I couldn't breathe as I was on the floor laughing. I could feel eyes on me and I knew that Krieg and Maya were looking at me strangely.
"He's losing it," Krieg said evenly. (And this is Krieg we're talking about here. The man who knows all about that)
I wiped the tears from laughing and faced Maya and Krieg, who looked at me strangely. I chuckled slightly.
"What the fuck is wrong with me? Alright, let's go," I said, heading up the stairs. But I could hear Claptrap as I walked up the stairs.
"Dammit, Jack - how did you know stairs were my ONLY weakness?! Next to electrocution, and explosions, and gunfire, rust..." His voice begin to fade at that point and I was heading into Hero's Pass.
"Hmm, you feel that child-killer? The Key's nearly charged! This world is gonna end!" Jack yelled. Ok, he brought back the cold rage that I had when I was coming here.
I ran forward in a blind rage with my blade at my side. I ran up recklessly and my shield had even broken before I reached them, but that didn't stop me from taking the bullets they could dish out and slicing them all into pieces as quickly as I could. More loaders began to respawn and this time Krieg and Maya helped me handle them.
There was a PWR loader behind me and Maya hit his arms with the Vladof sniper I gave her. Krieg tossed an axe right past me and hit the GUN loader in the eye.
We continued forward to a narrow walkway and I could see a drop barge in front of me with turrets that started firing at us. Krieg instantly took the attention of the turrets, but then 3 Hyperion soldiers starting showing up. Then I noticed a red drop barge coming close. That did not look Hyperion.
"I'm here amigos!" Mordecai said.
"Slabs! Lemme get this out of the way!" Brick yelled, ramming the drop barge into the Hyperion one. It sent the thing tumbling down into the lava. I beheaded a sniper while Maya was preoccupied with one of the armored soldiers. She ended up grabbing his face and burning it to a crisp. Even the armor couldn't withstand that.
But then I saw Brick in the air with his fist gestured down. And he landed right on top of the remaining soldier. What wasn't smushed, I heard a satisfying crunch. I smiled.
"You get the HELL away from my friends!" Brick yelled over his corpse.
"Oh God, is he screaming again?" Mordecai asked.
"Yup. But it is what it is," I said, as Brick walked in front of a reflector shield.
"Dammit! We can't get through! Mordecai!" Brick yelled.
"Hold up! I got this!" Mordecai said, navigating his drop barge to change his sniping position. I noticed the drop barge had things like 'Down with Jack' and 'For Bloodwing' on it. Guess they took the opportunity to make the drop barge their own.
Mordecai obviously found the source of the shield and shot it down because there was an explosion followed by the shield disappearing. I stood in front of my 3 comrades on the ground with me.
"You all ready to kill this son of a bitch?" I said, my tone filled with fire.
"Hell yeah!" Krieg exclaimed, raising his axe in the air.
"He's as good as dead," Maya said, holding her sniper on her shoulder.
"You better believe it!" Brick yelled, looking toward the loaders that were dropping in on the other side. "Mordecai's in position, and my fists are hungry! Let's GO!"
Brick then began sprinting into a run with the rest of us trailing behind him. I felt warm on the inside knowing that my friends were right here beside me, helping me put an end to this fucker. I only hope I was able to land the killing blow on that Jackass. He damn near took everything from me. Today, he died.
A mortar strike took out the bridge in front of us, but that didn't stop us from easily jumping over it. (Half of the time I attempt that jump, I get blasted by a rocket and it sends me over the edge. Damn RPG loaders. lol)
"You won't enjoy this," Maya said, Phaselocking one of the loaders in mid-air.
Krieg leapt over the gap and sliced on of the loaders clean in half. Then went over to aid Brick with a couple of loaders that were attempting to surround and overwhelm him. (Overwhelm Brick? *chuckles* Yeah right)
I don't know how I knew, but I knew one of the loader drops was about to land on top of me, and I Phaselocked the loader in mid-air before he even formed.
"FUCK OFF!" I roared before holding my hands close to my chest before spreading them out wide in a powerful corrosive shockwave that broke the loader apart before he even melted.
A loader landed right next to me and I grabbed it by the legs before tossing it off the edge, watching it flip as it went down. I then followed everyone else up the stairs and I saw Mordecai slag one of the Hyperion soldiers I saw on the left.
"Boom skaglicker!" Mordecai said as I finished him with a Jakobs shot to the head.
There was a loader to the right of us, and there was a corrosive barrel next to him. Maya shot it with what looked liked Krieg's old Vladof pistol and the corrosion as well as the force of the barrel itself put him down easy.
"We got to push!" Brick yelled, ignoring the steps at the end of this walkway and jumping down.
"Enemy in range. Engaging auto cannons," the Hyperion woman said.
"Hate these fucking things," I said as I followed Brick's example and jumped down to get back into the fight.
"AGH!" Mordecai yelled. I noticed those auto cannons were firing at him and I guess on of them hit him and he had to move back.
Enraged by the thought, I teleported behind the auto cannons and literally ripped out from where they were planted and tossed them over the edge before roaring loudly. I was turning more and more primal as this battle went on. But I had more pressing matters.
"You alright?" I asked in a concerned tone.
"I'm alright. Nicked me on the shoulder. Give me a second and I'll be fine," Mordecai assured me.
"Robert! Heads up!" Krieg said, grabbing a soldier by his legs and tossing it toward me. I smiled.
"Thought you'd never ask!" I exclaimed happily before jumping in the air and kicking him off the ledge like he was a fucking soccer ball.
Brick performed a ground pound under a soldier that Maya had Phaselocked and smashed his legs. At least, all of the bones in them before stomping on his head and crushing it like it was a bug.
"That's for Roland!" Brick yelled at the soldier.
"Maya! You feeling lucky?" I asked as I grabbed a SGT loader by his arms and spun him around and tossed it towards Maya. With surprising strength on her part, she grabbed the loader out of midair and held it in her hands while imbuing her hands with Phase energy while her tattoos were glowing and it broke apart right after Mordecai sniped it with his Slag sniper. I sent Maya the thumbs up and she smiled.
"YEAH!" Mordecai yelled in a hyped up tone. I was actually smiling now. We were all working in perfect harmony and decimating these things without even trying.
Krieg took out the last loader on the right and then there were no more loaders or soldiers for the time being. But we had another shield in front of us.
"Shoot the door Mordy!" Brick yelled.
"I got to circle around to make the shot - just stay alive!" Mordecai told us.
"Doesn't seem that difficult," I said, standing in the center of the area, swapping to my Striker. Something told me more were going to show up.
Sure enough, more loaders were being launched on to the battlefield. Brick tackled the SGT loader that was launched in front of him and did a Spinebuster on it, breaking it to pieces.
"That's for the bird!" Brick yelled.
Then there were a few EXP loaders that came running up to us. I pulled Maya back from the explosion by her shoulders and dived out of the way to get us both out of the way.
"Thanks," she said. I gave her a two fingered salute.
"No problem," I said, hitting the gun arm of an RPG loader to get rid of those damned rockets. Brick forced his hand through the center of it and ripped it out forcefully, making the loader tumble while standing up, taking a bit of time to fall over.
Krieg had been busy in throwing a Tesla grenade in the center of the platform, wearing down that troublesome War loader. He finished it with a burst fire from the Jakobs Sledge's Shotgun he owned.
"Dispatching JET loaders," the Hyperion woman said. Fuck. Mordecai might be in trouble.
"Goddammit - we're taking fire! Just hold on!" Mordecai exclaimed.
Krieg sliced a SGT loader in half while Brick ripped the arms off another loader and bitch slapped it with them before sticking a thumb in its eye and disabling it.
"Over here Slabs! I'm up here!" Brick said after he jumped up to a platform near the shield.
"Boom, baby! The path is clear!" Mordecai yelled. The shield wasn't down, so I was guessing it had a bit of delay on it. But sure enough, the shield went down and we were all clear to go ahead.
"Hell yeah!" Brick yelled. But then I saw that Mordecai's barge was being surrounded by JET loaders.
"Dammit - they're swarming me, Brick! Just leave me - keep going!" he yelled.
"Like hell! I got you Mordecai!" Brick said, about to take a leap and roaring with a battle cry. But Brick's fists were no good against enemies that could fly.
Before I could try to teleport, a soldier charged me and tackled me to the ground while placing a boot over my chest and holding the assault rifle in my face.
"Goodbye bandit," the soldier said.
My expression became angry as I grabbed the boot of the soldier and twisted so hard, I broke it and you could hear a loud, distinctive crunch. Then I punched him in the balls so hard, I could hear a squish and I knew they were busted. Armor or no, I could punch hard when I was angry.
While the soldier was screaming in pain, Krieg sliced his head off and offered an arm to me to get up. I took it, and my attention was immediately averted to Mordecai and Brick on the barge. Maya was doing her best to get rid of some of the JET loaders that were swarming them, but they could move fast.
"Locking onto drop-barge. Commencing lunar bombardment," the Hyperion woman said. My heart froze in my chest as I knew what was going to happen after that. I made to teleport to them, to try to get them off, but I could feel a hand grab my shoulder.
"It's too late. Even for you," Krieg said solemnly.
"Crap! They got a lock on us!" Mordecai yelled.
"Just go Slabs! Go!" Brick yelled right as the lunar bomb hit the drop barge. Brick was roaring as the barge sunk into the lava. I sunk to my knees.
"No... Not again! NOT AGAIN!" I roared in rage as I pounded the ground as hard as I can. But it wouldn't bring them back. It wouldn't bring any of them back. I sunk my head in defeat and I could feel Krieg's hand on my shoulder.
"We got to keep moving. We'll make the bastard pay. But we got to keep going," Krieg said.
"They will pay," I said. But my voice was not my own. It was deeper and sounded like it was traveling down a long tunnel.
"What?" Krieg asked me. He sounded confused and a bit unnerved. I stood up slowly as I could feel my eyes beginning to glow.
"They will pay! All of them!" I roared in a voice that sounded less and less like myself and more and more like a demon.
My fists tightened into balls as I could my body go rigid. I could see a big flash of purple light before all that was left of thought process was blinding rage. At Hyperion. At Jack. They all had to die. Each and every one of them. They will PAY.
Suddenly my skin wasn't my own. It had turned into a hard rock like substance while moderately sized cracks were showing, a bright Eridium purple shining through it. (If you want a good summary, look up an image of Corrupted Shinnok from Mortal Kombat X with purple Eridian energy through the cracks on him instead of fire, and instead of the horns at the top, think of the black weave(or something among those lines) on the side of Predator's head(reference Alien vs Predator), except they are only at the back of the head and they're glowing with purple energy. If you have the imagination, you'll be able to piece it together. Wish I had someone to draw that for me. It would look so dope)
I let a loud deep roar that seemed to shake the rocky walls around this place before I continued forward.
"Insignificant worms!" I roared as I continued forward. There were a bunch of loaders in my path, but I threw Phasebombs around with the rate of a Vladof assault rifle. It obliterated anything that was 10 meters away to it. Holes were dug in the ground cause of the power. My powers were overcharged and I didn't even feel the least bit tired. Power and rage was my entire being. And it wasn't going to stop anytime soon. Whatever I was, I wasn't human and I wasn't weak. Not by a long margin.
I blasted everything that came in my path from GUN loaders to fucking constructors. The Super Badass loader in a hangar? The Badass Constructor at the end of the area? All obliterated in the blink of an eye. Easily destroyed by the power I was wielding.
Where was Krieg and Maya? At the moment, I didn't care. Nothing mattered except killing Jack. I moved past the elevator and my feet weren't moving me. Somehow I was levitating without a care in the world.
"You're a plague bandit. You and you kind have corrupted Pandora with your greed and your hatred. It comes down to me to save this world from you kind. But I am more than happy to do it," Jack told me.
"Insignificant words from a weak man," I said in my deep and vicious voice.
"Who are you?" Jack asked me.
"The man you attempted to break. The man you attempted to kill. The man you damn near took everything from me. But I'm very willing to return the favor," I said, teleporting to Jack and I could see Lilith floating in the air, being forced to charge the Key. Jack then turned to face me with a different look. This one resembled fear.
"So it's you," Jack said, his voice even though his eyes were fearful. But there was something I found strange. He knew who I am. So why was he surprised who I was? Well, I may look different, but even then.
"Me. Get ready to die," I said. Jack chuckled.
"Well, you're right on time. Key's nearly ready. But before I cleanse this planet for good, I am going to avenge my daughter!" he told me, turning invisible. That sentence set me off.
"YOU TOOK HER FROM THIS WORLD! DEAD BEFORE SHE COULD MAKE A LIFE FOR HERSELF! BUT YOU WILL PAY FOR EVERY LIFE YOU'VE DESTROYED! ANGEL! ROLAND! MORDECAI! BRICK! ALL OF THEM!" I roared, my voice somehow growing even more demonic.
I was easily able to find him while he was invisible and punched him to where he was leaning on his console to support himself. I wasn't going to use guns or my Siren powers. No. I'm going to kill him with my bare hands.
He hit a button on the shield and a reflector shield was put up while a surveyor was flying around.
I laughed evilly before forcing my hand through the shield and grabbing him by the throat before tossing him into a rock formation that broke half of the structure.
"Weak. Even more pathetic than the scum you command," I said, my voice dripping with that sort of evil anger. It was raw, and ready to destroy.
Loaders dropped down from the moon station and began firing at me.
"Phase Strike!" I said, lifting my hand in the air as if I was summoning something from the heavens. Pretty accurate actually.
Falling from the sky, at the speed of light, was Dark energy that resided on the deep ends of space. It kills and destroys but holding pressurized energy that can break anything more effectively than Jack's lunar blitzes. Powerful, yet takes well developed power to do it.
Jack was retreating back, trying to shoot at me, but the bullets hit my rocky skin that was harder than Poly-Kryten and they easily bounced off. I laughed again at his feeble attempts to try and kill me, and I walked toward him and made energy claws on my right hand.
I sliced his stomach open and blood start dripping out of it before I started making minor and torturous cuts all over his body, even slicing his ears off. I then punched him in the face and his mask seemed to creak from the impact. I tore it off and looked him directly in the eye.
His face looked horrible. Seemingly, the Vault symbol was burned onto his face. His mask looked like his face, but his actual face was horribly disfigured. Regardless, I didn't care as I threw him toward the center, right beside where the Vault Key was being charged.
"That it? HUH?" Jack asked me.
"Haven't even begun scum," I said in a deep voice.
Then I noticed that the 3 parts of the Key had all of a sudden come together.
"No! The Key's charged!" Lilith yelled.
"I'm not dying yet!" Jack said, attempting to insert the Key, but I batted him away with my right arm and inserted the Key myself. "NO!"
"The Warrior is now mine to command!" I said, holding out my arms as the beast rose from the lava and roared so loud, I bet everyone on Pandora could hear it. The most powerful Eridian warrior know to mankind was mine.
"WARRIOR!" I roared at the beast. It regarded me with a simple look, awaiting instruction.
"Destroy yourself," I said simply.
"WHAT?!" Jack yelled.
Regardless, The Warrior stuck a hand inside it's chest and punched a hole through itself. It then began to spit out fire as if was coughing up blood. Then it fell to the ground with a thud and then the whole place was glowing a blinding purple and Lilith and Jack were standing side by side while this all happened.
I then reverted back to my normal human form and I looked at my hands. I was slightly curious what just happened, but I too angry at Jack and too concerned for Lilith to really acknowledge it.
I turned to Lilith's fallen form and helped her up.
"You OK?" I asked.
"I'm fine. But... why?" Lilith asked, pointing where the Warrior was summoned.
"The Warrior was way too powerful. Power like that won't stay contained forever. I decided to destroy it before that happened," I said, looking up into the sky at the Hyperion base of Helios. We would destroy them eventually.
"No, no, no... I can't die like this... not when I'm so close.. and not at the hands of a filthy bandit!" Jack yelled, making Lilith raise an energy fist at him, but I waved her down.
"No. Let the fascist have his final words," I said in my deep voice. "You call me a filthy bandit? What about the people you murdered for no reason? Like my parents, you piece of shit?"
"You are delusional. I did not order to have them killed. You are insane in these accusations that you're accusing," Jack told me.
I was shocked, even though I tried not to show it. I knew he was telling the truth. He didn't order to have my parents killed. But.. what happened to them?
But Jack seemed to have moved off the subject completely and started ranting.
"I could've saved this world! I could've actually restored order! I wasn't supposed to die at the hands of a child killing psychopath!" Jack yelled, his voice growing more and more frantic. "You're a savage! You're a manic! And I AM THE GODDAMNED HERO!"
"Hardly. A hero wouldn't have done what you've done," I said, grabbing him by the throat. "A hero wouldn't have killed innocent people. A hero wouldn't have enslaved his daughter. A hero wouldn't have attacked a person who came here to help you. I came to Pandora to help you. Not to fight you." Then I began to laugh at the irony of a scenario.
"What's funny?" Jack snapped.
"What's funny is I came here to Pandora to help you clean it up. And you try to kill me," I said, my chuckling growing louder in volume. "The icing on the cake is... if you had kept it that way, I would've been on your side along with your Hyperion soldiers, trying to kill the 'bandit scum.' Brick, Lilith, Mordecai, Roland, and the Crimson Raiders would've all put a good fight. But even if I didn't kill them on the first attempt, I could've easily bought you time to charge the Key and awaken the Warrior. All it would've taken was one big assault and poof. The Crimson Raider resistance? Gone."
Jack looked at me with wild and surprised eyes. Probably because of the fact he knew I was right.
"But, I'm glad you tried to kill me. If it wasn't for that, I would've never have discovered how corrupt you were and you deserved to die," I said viciously.
"Well then? Go ahead! DO IT!" Jack yelled, holding is arms out. "I'll be glad to watch you go to hell along with your Vault Hunter p-"
The rest of his words were cut off as I let out a roar of rage and tackled him down to the ground and began punching him in the face with all of my strength right off the get go. A lid was restraining my anger up until this point. I didn't realize it would be so bad, so painful, and so consuming that I was blind to anything but punching him.
Then what felt like a second later, I could feel gentle arms pulling me back. The touch seemed to calm me and I was brought back to the present. Whoever it was pulled me close and hugged me tight.
"He's dead. He's dead. It's over Robert. It's over," she said comfortingly. I recognized the voice as Lilith. Right then and there, I began to fall apart. I had started to sob while burying my face in Lilith's shoulder. I felt like a baby while doing this, but I didn't care. There was so much pain to handle. Too much turmoil. So many haunted memories.
And now it was over. The nightmare was over. Handsome Jack was dead and no one was going to bury him. Let his corpse stay here to rot. He was dead. But the memories of what he had done? That was probably going to last forever. The hard times were only halfway over. There was still a lot more to be done.
A/N: And that concludes the journey to kill Handsome Jack. Whew. Took me hours to finish this. As far as that transformation goes? That will not be revealed until Ruler of Eridia? What is that? Glad you asked. It's going to be my version of Borderlands 3. Yes, I thought about what the plot can be and I decided that I will make my own version of Borderlands 3. I hope you all enjoy it too. But it won't be introduced until we do all of the DLCs. And we have 8 stories in front of that, so we got a journey! If you decide to stick around, I hope you enjoy the adventures that are destined for our Vault Hunters. I'll do a few chapters on side missions for this story before I wrap it up completely. After that, expect the Hammerlock DLC for the next story. As always, stay beautiful people and I hope you enjoyed! Fin. P.S: In case any of you were curious, the relic Tannis gave me was a melee relic. Just sayin.