Do Not Own Borderlands

Rebirth of a Siren

Chapter 25: The Night of The UnNed Part 1 – Steele

Steele suddenly found herself in a Halloween-themed landscape that is stuck in perpetual night time. she could see graveyards, lava flows and numerous pumpkin patches in the distance. She frowned as the last thing she remembered was going to sleep after defeating The Nomad Taskmaster, so she had no idea what the hell happened. She heard a voice say "Welcome to Hallowed Hollow, the only community for Pandora's exiled and retired undead. I'm the town's lookout. T.K. Baha. Why don't you come on and find me would ya?" Steele figured she had no choice in the matter as the path led in one direction. He said unhelpfully "Just follow the sound of blind, redneck zombies voice." Steele continued up the path to an old caravan with dead looking one legged man wearing goggles. He said making Steele jump slightly as she thought he was dead, "Lately, a sourpuss named Jacques O'Lantern has been hasslin' the local townsfolk on orders of Doctor Ned. They so scared these days they won't even step out outside. Why don't you go out there and give 'im the ol' one-two for me?"

Steele became interested as she remembered The Watcher saying, "Speak with the creator the zombies, Doctor Ned or is it Doctor Zed." Steele left T.K Baha before he could say anything else hoping to find Doctor Ned and followed the same path down into a large graveyard area. Nothing stopped her from walking deeper into the graveyard.

"Jacques O'Lantern should be in that clearin' on other side of that gate." stated T.K Baha as she neared a giant open gate. However, it slammed shut and a magical lock appeared on it. "Aw horseradish, Doctor Ned must of have created a lockin' spell to seal that gate. You gonna need an enchanted skeleton key. Why don't ya dig up some graves and let's find ourselves some enchanted bones." After he had finished speaking, a legion of Undead Bandits and Undead Psychos smashed out the nearby graves. Steele pulled out her trusty pistol took out the Undead Bandits and Undead Psychos by shooting them in the head. "That looks like an enchanted skeleton right there." T.K Baha said as a skeleton with distinctive blue crystal bones broke out of a nearby crypt. In its right hand was a long bone with a skull attached to its top. The Enchanted Skeleton shot a ball of electricity from its left hand at Steele.

The Enchanted Skeleton said in a dark voice "Welcome to your nightmare Commandant Steele" He laughed evilly and shot more balls of electricity at her. All of these missed her as she dodged them. Her shots did nothing to The Enchanted Skeleton. "Your gun is too weak to harm me. I have become more powerful in death but to make sure I will win" He empowered himself into The Empowered Enchanted Skeleton and summoned brutes known Tankensteins. The Tankensteins attacked Steele on the orders of The Empowered Enchanted Skeleton. Steele shot the barrels on each of their backs causing a lot of explosions that damaged The Empowered Enchanted Skeleton and The Tankensteins. "You may have hurt me but you will never defeat me as I brought you back so I can return you to the grave"

"Doctor Ned or is it Doctor Zed?" Steele said realizing The Empowered Enchanted Skeleton was Doctor Ned or Zed.

"I am never telling" The Empowered Enchanted Skeleton said laughing and destroying a couple of the Tankensteins to energize himself. The Energized Enchanted Skeleton then shot balls of electricity at her more quickly than ever. "Once I kill you then I can return to the land of the living in your body" He boosted as he forced her into a corner. However, Steele is saved by the arrival of a legion of Undead Lance Royal Guards. They teared apart the remaining Tankensteins with their guns. The Empowered Enchanted Skeleton turned his attention on them. Unfortunately for him, Vulcana, a Lance Assassin who had been killed by The Four Vault Hunters and now was a zombie emerged from nowhere and impaled him with her blades. He said as he fell apart, "You haven't seen the last of Doctor Ned" confirming his identity. Steele grabbed his bones.

"Alright, now you got the enchanted bone, head to the blacksmith and forge yourself a skeleton key. While you there say hi to Sully the Blacksmith for me" T.K Baha said.

Vulcana then said keeling in front of a confused Steele once T.K was finished "Commandant, it is good to see you again."

"Vulcana, what are doing here?" asked Steele as she had been on Pandora.

"Hera, Minerva, Ceresia, Helicon and I were sent here by General Knoxx and Admiral Mikey to eliminate The Vault Hunters. We of course failed, and they ended up killing General Knoxx."

"How have you come back?" asked Steele not understanding the undead thing in general.

"No idea but all five of us came back. We believe it is an effect of Doctor Ned's experiment at Jakobs Cove when he animated the dead. Come, we set up camp nearby" Vulcana and Undead Lance Royal Guards brought Steele to a nearby creepy looking town where the zombified Hera, Minerva, Ceresia, Helicon and more undead Crimson Lance had set up shop.

Helicon, the leader of Omega Assassin Squad, "Commandant Steele, I wasn't expecting you to arrive, but It is good you are here. We can do with your help in defeating Doctor Ned and Jacques O'Lantern so we can take over Hallowed Hollow as the first step in retaking Pandora for Atlas. Even if we are dead, we will still serve Atlas."

"Atlas is long gone" Steele said, The Omega Assassin Squad all looked at each other.

Helicon said, "It is not gone if you are still around. We will serve you directly in that case and rebuild Atlas starting with gaining control of Hallowed Hollow"

The Voice of Doctor Ned said, "I told you I be back." as a giant undead Rakk Hive came crashing through the graveyard, it destroyed the entire graveyard apart from Jacques O'Lantern's gate as it stomped towards them. On top of this Rakk Hive was the form of an undead General Knoxx in his robot suit but with the face of Doctor Zed. "Say hello to my Nightmare Skrakk Hive, home of the Nightmare Skrakks. Combining the physical power of a skag with the aerial mobility of a rakk. So part Rakk and part Skag. Try to stop me now" General Ned Knoxx boosted with glee. The Nightmare Skrakk Hive advanced on Steele, The Undead Crimson Lance and Omega Assassin Squad. on top of this Nightmare Skrakks poured out of The Nightmare Skrakk Hive.