Disclaimer: I don't own borderlands

(A/N: And here we are again everybody. So check it out, last chapter when I made the guard immediately jump to the spy conclusion and Made Smokey happen to call the gang almost immediately after. It wasn't lazy writing or anything, it was just supposed to be comical; you know like how everything went to shit in an instant. It also showed that the guard had good intuition, and trust me that's important for later on. And don't worry that's the last time I let Torgue do my title.

St4te of Gr4ce: Thanks for the advice, pal. I do remember reading somewhere that blue makes us more creative.

Guest: Thank you and I'll try my best to get these up quickly.)

Chapter 25: Insurgency

Tex stared down the barrels of the Jakobs shotgun that would be the end of shield and probably even her at this range.

"Take us with you," The guard requested, throwing the three before him for a loop. The young siren let go of the vault key and Eridium and pressed her hands against the Plexiglas.

"Are you sure about this, Clint?" she lightly inquired.

"Sure as I'll ever be; look at these guys they came along right after we take one of the alliance bases. Logically speaking it makes the most sense that they would be alliance soldiers," He reasoned out loud before lowering his gun and shooting Violette a look. "Unless of course I'm wrong,"

"Why do you want to come with us?" Tex asked skeptically. She drew her smooth fox SMG showing her suspicions.

"Like I said Day in and day out for the last five years I have done nothing but guard this little girl. Who do you think taught her how to speak, or walk, or read? Who do you think fed her and cared for her? Do you think I want this for her?" Clint asked rhetorically.

"it's okay, Clint; this is the chance we've been waiting for," She called out from her indestructible prison.

"I know, Seras It's our lucky day," He called behind him.

"What's the plan then?" Tex asked

"We get the hell out of here. The second I open that cell door during an unscheduled time period an alarm will go off," Clint answered.

"It's not that simple; we have more people aboard and one of them is in the ward,"

"I have the clearance to get your friend out of there if he's still alive,"

"Alright, so We get Saphyre out of the ward, have everyone meet us here, and then fight our way out of the ship while the core melts down and destroys the whole ship," Violette stated aloud having finished her practice of thinking three steps ahead. She hit her contact button. "Smokey how much time does the countdown have on it?"

"Let's find out," He responded. Silence was interrupted by a synthetic voice that came over the loud speakers.

Teleken engine meltdown in T minus ten minutes; please evacuate in an orderly fashion to prevent bodily harm to those around you.

"About ten minutes," he responded a second time. Church whipped his echo off his belt and shouted into it at full volume.

"SMOKEY YOU STUPID MOTHERFUCKER IF WE LIVE THROUGH THIS I'M GOING TO RIP YOUR ARMS OFF!" Smokey didn't respond.

"Change of plans everybody! Clint grab the kid and the key," She activates her echo. "Everyone get to the nearest exit this ship's gonna blow,"

Clint opened the door to Seras' cage, and put the vault key in his pack, and handed Seras a pangolian shield. Normally this would've activated an alarm, but since it was already screeching do to the meltdown, so no one noticed a difference.

"Alright kid this it, I'm going to put you on my back and I need you to hang on as tight as you can, Okay?" He said with his hands already on her sides.

"Clint I'm scared," She whimpered. He looked into the little girl's teary eyes with confidence. If he would panic the kid would too.

"I know, sweetheart, but trust me we'll make it out of here just fine. Just close your eyes and hang on tight," She gave him a trusting nod as he placed the little girl on his back, and took the lead. "Come on, the ward is this way!" He said as he and the others ran through the door. Along the way Vincent and Ace joined them and ran alongside the otters.

"We didn't even get to do anything, mates!" Ace complained through strained breathing. Smokey joined too.

"You fucking idiot!" Violette started to yell at the shirtless sadist.

"Yeah, yeah put it on a post card!" He responded as he kept running. The process wasn't easy since everyone else on the ship was panicking and running towards the exit as people took shots at them for trying to steal the siren; though most just wanted to get out of there. They came up on the ward. Clint let the machine scan his eye and the door opened. Right then and there Saphyre flung herself from the thresh hold and onto Violette much like a dog would do. A group of solace soldiers came around the corner.

"They're stealing the siren! Open fire!" One of them shouted.

"Saphyre we need to go!" Violette panicked trying to move with her friend still wrapped around her.

"FREEDOM!" one of the psychos bellowed as he and the remaining content of the ward flooded the halls and ran towards the soldiers granting the vault hunters a chance to escape. Athena was the one to join as they ran through the halls.

"What took you so long?!" Tex inquired over the alarms.

"Had some business to attend to," She answered stoically as she flashed a thumb drive in-between her thumb and forefinger.

Upon reaching the door that they had entered through, they found that it was closed. Why? Nobody knew.

"Claptrap can you integrate with the door and open it?" Athena asked.

"Hey come on dude my girlfriend's right here,"

Three minutes until teleken engine melt down

"Now!" She screamed.

"Okay, okay" He drew a wire from his body and plugged it into the console. And with a plume of sparks and pained screams from Claptrap the door opened. "Ta-da" He said while panting even though he didn't have lungs. Everyone ran as fast as they could for two and a half minutes to escape the blast radius. When the ship finally exploded, the vault hunters watched in awe as the enormous vessel reduced itself to scrap as flames filled the sky.

"And boom goes the dynamite," Smokey joked./ Church just shot him a glare and punched him in the stomach; laughing as he doubled over in pain.

"I got their carbon copy archive. What did you guys get?" Athena asked.

"We found a siren and a vault key," Violette replied nonchalantly in hopes that it would make her sound cooler. Athena's jaw dropped as she pointed to the little girl who was now playing in the sand, and enjoying the sensation of something other than cold metal for once. Violette nodded in affirmation.

"She didn't mean anything, baby I swear," Claptrap pleaded with Sereena as she turned her back on him.

(A/N: Does this chapter suck? Feel like it sucks. What do you guys think?)