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(A/N: Hello again guys! So yeah no one reviewed the last chapter, not that I'm surprised or anything I mean what were you guys supposed to review right? I'm a tad bit….extremely excited because of the new story that Garfield413 is working on! Even if you don't like her which is fine that's your opinion that's fine, but it does not change the fact that she is by far the greatest author on this site! And all of you should go check out her work rather than waste your time on this garbage. That said let's move on to the garbage.)

Chapter 21: move timer

The next morning generation three walked through Tannis' lab and up into the map room as the message they received on their echoes instructed them. As they walked in they noticed that everyone was already there. This didn't surprise them; this place was home for most of them anyway. Tannis stood at the doorway of the balcony.

"Everyone here? Good," She pressed a button on her emote that made all of the screens in the map room show the same image. Everyone looked to the holographic projection on the table in the center of the room which showed a spinning three dimensional image of one of the retro guardians. "According to my analysis and the information found in the Sin Sity computers each retro guardian is an Eridian weapon that has been augmented with stem cells and Eridium to turn it into a body then programmed with a directive, combat skills, and the ability to follow orders,"

"Wait a second, how can you program a living thing?" Maya asked only because others couldn't first.

"The brain of a retro guardian is sort of like an organic computer. In the year two thousand and twelve Earth scientists made the world's first organic motherboard out of a cockroach's nerve system and stem cells. From there the practice could have expanded into a wide array of uses if the government hadn't forced it underground and destroyed almost all of the evidence that it ever existed for moral reasons. At the time those primitive scientists thought that they had opened Pandora's Box," Explained Tannis.

"Well they sort of did, didn't they?" Church interjected.

"I'm not going into a conversation about ethics right now. My point is that Ace your abilities aren't going to affect them. By analyzing the enhanced soldier's brains I have evaluated that they function in the same way, but have their own advantages. They see in infrared so Lilith be careful, elemental rounds don't affect them with the exception of explosive so I suggest getting a Torgue or Jakobs, They have ridiculous strength though not as much as Krieg or Brick over here, and last of all they are regenerative. If you do not put a bullet right through its brain it will eventually heal and come back after you."

"So what you're saying is that we need to kill an army of monsters, great," Smokey groaned. "I bet they don't even scream too,"

"Shut up, Smokey," Church said in a rather low and annoyed tone.

"Thank you Church. Next up I do believe that I have found out how S&S have been charging the vault key," A small dot glowed in red on the left side of the image of the retro guardian's chest. "This is the charge core that's in every Eridian weapon. It allows the weapon to charge up the energy to fire a certain amount of shots before it must recharge. My hypothesis is that they are harvesting the energy given off by the charge cores to charge the vault key,"

"So how long do we have until the key is fully charged?" Lyme asked a tinge of urgency in her voice.

"I took the liberty of doing the math last night," She pressed another button on her remote and page after page of numbers appeared on the screens. The vault hunters tried to comprehend the advanced calculus for about five seconds before asking the eccentric scientist to translate for them. She let out a frustrated sigh "Three months. We have three months before the vault key is fully charged and the end begins," The vault hunters let it sink in. They had all fought on a deadline before; for Elpis, for Pandora, for their freedom, for a friend, but never had they thought that the universe would rest on their shoulders. In less than three months either the universe would either be saved or ended, all of which depended on every decision that they made. Another situation like Sin Sity and that could be the end of it all. The new members of the alliance were taken aback at this realization. Violette's expression turned to one of mortal fear, Smokey's turned to one of indifference, Ace's face also showed hints of fear for his life, Vincent's fear was that he would die before he could finish his book and be forgotten, Saphyre just grinned insanely as usual, and Tex seemed a bit pissed off though it didn't stop her from feeding Brice treats for being good while she was on her missions.

"Now that that's out of the way we also found schematics and maps for the base that S&S has built around the vault of dynasties," Tannis said this like it was nothing, but to the rest of the room's occupants it was a cause for elation. They had finally done it; they found what they needed to make an actual plan. No more pointless raids on S&S control points and no more grinding away aimlessly at S's. They could take some time to regroup their forces and make a plan and once they won the Eridians would be free and would kill all the S's left alive. Finally they could rest.

"OH GOD THEY'RE KILLING US! IF ANYONE IS HEARING THIS SEND HELP! SEND HELP!" Everyone was dragged out of there pondering by the eruption of screaming and gunshots from the echoes. Lyme immediately put her echo up to her mouth.

"This is control point Sanctuary to control point Badlands; what is your status?!" Silence

"Come in control point Badlands!" She shouted again. Static followed after. "Shit!" She yelled as she through her echo onto the ground. "It looks like we have a new problem on our hands. Church, Smokey, Ace, Vincent, Violette, Saphyre, Tex, Athena, and Claptrap go investigate. The rest of us will stay here and look after the place," They nodded in agreement as they walked out the door.

"Do you think it's S&S or bandits?" Violette asked not looking forward to what was to come.'

"I don't know why, but I have a feeling that it's neither," Claptrap said in an uneasy tone.

(A/N: You know what my writing's not garbage. For real it's gonna get really good. Like RVB was good seasons 1-5, but season 6 was when it got really good.)