Disclaimer, I own nothing. The characters presented by my story belong to Gearbox and 2K. The characters are fictional, any events that occur are purely coincidental. (IE If one day a Siren walks up to you, Phaselocks you, and shoots you, please don't sue me)

Also, this story is based on Maya. She is my favorite character and I will be writing this story in relation to how I believe she is thinking. In the interest of not plagiarizing the entire game, I will find ways to skip unimportant dialogues and go straight to my own work.

*Italicized texts are Maya's thoughts*

Chapter 29

You Done Fucked Up

Maya was on her way back to the Crimson Raiders Headquarters after listening to Axton's ECHO message. She swore that she was going to make him pay for having her clean up the picnic, it took forever. Maya's devious mind began concoctingpranks she could play on him as she was passing through the center of town. Suddenly she stopped dead in her tracks when she heard explosions coming from Lilith's apartment.

She dropped the picnic in her arms and made a dash for the house, narrowly dodging people along the way. When she got to the door Maya slammed her body against it, but was unsuccessful. She reared back and slammed on it with even more force, but still got no give. Maya then took a step back and reared up to kick, suddenly she felt a wave of energy push her back very slightly.

Shit. Lilith's Phaseblast, what the fuck is going on in there? Is she okay?

"Lilith! Lilith! Are you in there? Hey!" Maya screamed desperately while pounding on the door. After a few tense seconds of no reply she whipped out her pistol, shot out the door's security system, and unceasingly slammed her body against it.

"Jeez woman! Did you forget your keys?"

Maya snapped around to see Salvador standing behind her, looking on in confusion. From where he was standing Maya looked like a sweaty, rabid dog that was going after a piece of meat.

"Salvi! KNOCK. THIS. FUCKING. DOOR. DOWN. NOW!" Maya's command caught Salvador off guard because her tone was far from calm, he knew something was wrong. Without another word Salvador positioned himself about five meters from the door, gestured for Maya to move aside, and charged. The door fell over with a loud thud, Salvador quickly composed himself and got up, Maya was fast on his heels.

The scene that greeted them took both Vault Hunters by surprise, Lilith was pummeling Axton. In an act of pure instinct Salvador rushed at Lilith and grabbed onto her, trying to yank her off his friend. However her Siren powers were stronger than anything he could have anticipated and no matter what he did, Lilith didn't budge.

Meanwhile Maya just stood there, petrified.

What…..do I do? Salvi couldn't do anything. What could I do? Axton, please...get up. Lilith….I'm begging you, please stop. Lilith, why are you doing this? I don't want to hurt you. Please stop hurting Axton. No….no…..

Salvador was huffing and puffing on the ground because all his efforts to pry Lilith off were in vain. It drove him mad. He looked up at Lilith, then turned only to see Maya frozen where she stood, all the rage in his heart roared out in frustration, "DAMMIT MAYA! DO SOMETHING!"

Salvador's call to her broke Maya out of her pool of self-pity, with all the will left in her body Maya lifted her left arm and shut it tightly. Her face was blank, no emotion could be seen in her empty eyes, but a lone tear crawled its way down to her cheek.

Maya stared intently as Lilith's body floated helplessly in the air, all of Maya's rage and despair poured into her. Maya could see Lilith's muscles twitching, her body burning up, and her mouth gasping for air. As the sight unfolded in front of her, Maya's mind was in turmoil, a part of her wanted to keep going and make Lilith suffer, but the other part was begging her to stop. Maya was entering a Siren bloodlust, something she suffered only once before, for Kyle.

That's right, you deserve this you bitch. How DARE you hurt Axton. I hope you die an elongated and painful death…

NO! Stop! You're hurting her Maya! She's in pain, can't you see? Please, STOP!

Agh, it doesn't fucking matter! She can choke you to death, beat you, harass you, or what the fuck ever, but NO ONE fucks with FAMILY!

Dammit Maya! Calm yourself, you're going to kill her at this rate! Come on...breath. Please. Maya…. Don't you remember? You. Love. Her.

Maya screamed out in agony as she let go of her Phaselock, she fell into a fetal position. Tears were now streaming down her face, partly because she was worried for Axton but another part was because she just put Lilith through a pain that no one should ever experience.

Although Maya's Phaselock was usually painless, that was because her mindset was calmer. Based on past experience Maya knew that the angrier she was, the more pain the person being put under Phaselock would feel. The rage that Maya felt just now would have been enough to melt a mere bandit's brain into soup. Even though Maya knew Lilith was more or less unharmed, it still hurt her to the core that she put Lilith through it at all.

Salvador limped slowly to Maya and held her tightly, "Hey hey, it's okay. Go see if Axton is alright, I'll check up on psycho bitch over there."

Maya wiped her eyes, nodded meekly and crawled over to Axton. As she got closer Maya's eyes blurred once more as a fresh wave of tears flooded her eyes. Axton was completely bloodied, his face was cut up, his body was beaten, and his beautiful eyes were swollen shut. Maya pulled out a clean cloth and began wiping away the blood from his face, making sure to be as gentle as possible.

"Zer0's coming to get Axton. Lord knows I'm not sending him to Zed," Salvador said, tapping Maya's shoulder.

"Anything is fine. We just need to get him rested."

"Understood," Salvador turned to give her some privacy but his mood went sour when he saw Lilith, "so what about this bitch?"

"Leave her."

"Really? Leave her? That's it? After what she's done to Axton?"

"Salvador. I'm not asking you. Leave her."

Salvador glared at Lilith's hunched body, he noticed her eyes open and bitterly stepped toward her. He kneeled down and whispered menacingly, "You are fucking lucky that Maya vouched for your ass or I would have been personally sending you to hell myself."

On that note Salvador got up and stepped outside to wait for Zer0.

Maya didn't hear his comment because all her attention was focused on caring for Axton. However as she inspected his wounds, a pestering question crept into her mind. What made Lilith snap like that?

What happened between you two? I know Lilith almost strangled me for breaking her picture with Roland, but even she stopped when I was about to pass out. What did you say to her Axton? What did she say to you? Dammit, am I supposed to be mad or sympathetic? Fuck my life.

"I'll take it from here Maya," Zer0's voice stopped Maya's train of thought and she looked up. He was kneeled down next to her, motioning at Axton. Maya moved aside and let him go to work. Zer0 picked up Axton, then headed out the door.

Salvador followed suit, but then turned around and called out, "You coming?"

Maya sighed, "No. Please put the door back up on your way out. I have some business to take care of."

Salvador nodded and lifted the door back to its original position. As he left Salvador sighed deeply, "Life sure is a kick in the head."

Zer0 chuckled, "Indeed it is."

**Recap: Axton got beat up by a girl, that girl got beat up by another girl, now we can only assume that more ass-kicking is in order. As per usual, please shoot me some reviews, click on them favorite and follow buttons, and have a kick ass day**

Random Brain EXPLOSIOOOOOON:

1) Maya's skill tree has some very interesting powers and I'm merely attempting to explain why sometimes she heals you, while others she melts your face off!

2) All the powers from every character will improve with time as it does in the game, I will throw in tiny tidbits of how they improved and what exactly was the improvement. Considering that I've only really played Maya, I rely on my friends to tell me about the other three haha

3) As for news on Axton's pairing, I have made my decision! Not tell you yet! But y'alls shall see….PS It's exactly what you're expecting xD