Don't Own Borderlands, Only The Oc.

'thought'

"Speech"

System

"Speech through echo devices and Text via book, notes, or newspaper... when those are around..."

(Mid Chapter Authors Notes)

Gaige and I sit in silence, across the room from each other, I am fairly certain Gaige is getting bored as well.

"So." I begin. "How are you enjoying the vacation so far?"

"It's nice." Gaige responds quietly as she continues eating her sandwich.

"Yeah." I agree with a small nod.

We both stare at the screen on the wall. "How long do you think It'll take for those fucking idiots to realize that we can see them?"

Beside our boat is a sand skiff full of pirates wearing red bandanas. Scarlett's men.

"Eh, probably until Scarlett is all 'Haha! Thanks for opening the way to the treasure! Stay where you are! I've captured your two friends!'." Gaige deadpans with exaggerated hand movements.

"Oh absolutely." I agree with a nod. "That is totally something she would do."

We see an absolutely massive, bright beam of light pierce the sky, arcing downwards and smashing into the ground several miles away.

We hear a loud thump up on deck as the pirates leap up onto it.

"YOU DID IT!" I can hear Scarlett exclaim from my echo device in the other room, I slowly stand and walk over to the ladder.

Just as I hear the door upstairs thrown open, I leap up the ladder and stop time, several pirates are frozen in place, moving towards the ladder downwards.

I calmly grab the first one by the throat and lead him outside as I drain him, shoving him into his companions as I nudge them all onto the deck.

"Hey... thanks for the meal, Captain Scarlett." I mutter. "I was getting a little hungry."

With several loud snaps all that is left on the deck are statues with eridium crystals poking through them.

I look around, spying no other threats, then I calmly walk back inside and slide down the ladder.

"You lot really did do a damn good job. You have my respect." I hear Scarlett compliment from Gaige's echo as she dully looks down at it.

"But now, I suppose this is where we bid you a-due or however those pompous assholes say it." She continues. "Noooow. Don't even think about coming down off that rock... I've had my men capture your two weakest links... if you even think about coming down, well, I can promise you that they'd have a bullet to the brain."

I loudly sip from my drink.

"Huh. Are we really captured?" I mutter to Gaige.

"Being held hostage has always been on my bucket list." I hum only for Gaige to slowly look over.

"A little weird, Dude." She responds.

I look down to the echo device with a feral grin. "You see, your first mistake was assuming Gaige and I were the weak links, we just wanted a break. The second mistake is making enemies out of us."

"Wh- What the hell?! What did you do to my men?!" She asks.

"Dead. They're all dead. In under a second. With no time to scream, fight back, or even blink... And with this action you have won a prize! An all-expense paid trip to the fucking void! Tina, please show the woman what she's wooooon!"

There's a loud explosion over the echo device as Tina cackles. "AHAHAH BOOM BUTTOOOOON!"

Captain Scarlett's line falls quiet.

"Did you just blow up my bloody ship?!" She asks after a moment.

"Yep." Tina hums.

"What the fuck is wrong with you?!" The pirate continues.

"Hn, you're sounding awfully alive for someone who should be paste right now." I note with a small frown. "And don't you DARE pull that shit with us, we have warned you over and over and over and over again not to betray us... and look at what you just did. I am so tired of dipshits betraying us and acting like we won't kill them. Like dear god, first Jack- which is sort of understandable, he's currently sat in his space station that's difficult to get to and has a robot army, he at least has a reason to be overconfident in his ability to betray- then Piston, and now a saggy cunt with a murder fetish. If even ONE more person betrays us, I swear to God, I'm going to lose my mind."

"Rant aside." I finish with a small sigh as I flop down on the couch, tiredly running a hand through my hair. "You better run, because if we see you again, we're going to murder you."

"Better men than you have tried." The red-haired pirate growls moments before ending the call.

"…"

I slowly look to Gaige.

"Yoooo she's a bish!" Tina exclaims through the echo. "Also, yeah, she's probably gonna die... it looks like the light is leading out to- oooh I can see her with my binoculars! Hey Zer-ee-o, wanna see if you can take her head off from here?"

"Sniping from long range/ This shot will be difficult/ I will try it out." I hear Zero murmur as he quietly walks closer to Tina.

"Yeaaaah." Tina continues. "She's only still alive because she got on a smaller sand skiff and drove away from her big boat... I can see the plume of smoke from here!"

All is silent for a moment.

Gaige and I hear a gunshot from the echo, then a slightly de-synced shot from above.

"YOOOO, YOU FUCKING HIT HER! HOW THE FUCK?!" Tina shouts. After a second, she pauses. "Wait, she isn't dead, damn. She had a shield but it looks like she is shitting her pants- oh, using her crew as human shields? How dreadfully dull. Complete rrrrrubish. Hit her again."

"…"

*BANG*

"Awww. You hit the crewmate. Damn." Tina pouts.

"You know... Zero must be casually making sniping shots of more than a mile up there... calculating the speed someone is going in a vehicle and the drop of his shots..." I note to Gaige as I gesture upwards. "You people call me bullshit, but most of my nonsense is just pure brute strength, that requires inhuman accuracy. Hell, I doubt even a robot could get that good."

"Also. Mental note: make Zero a sniper... if he had a legendary sniper, Scarlet would probably be paste right now."

"Please." Zero states, like the complete loot goblin he is.

"Think you can hit em' another time?" Tina asks. "I wish she would call us. I want to hear her screams of panic!"

Gaige and I glance at each other, silently debating if we should talk about Tina's apparent sadism.

"She's Illusive prey/ with no care for her allies/ this next shot ends her."

"WHAT THE FUCK?!" Tina shrieks abruptly.

"…"

"A giant sand worm/ Huh... that's really spooky/ oh wait. we're going"

He is silent for a moment.

"There." He finishes.

"Did she just get eaten by that?" Maya mutters quietly into the echo.

"If we are going to fight a giant fucking worm, we're leaving my boat in a catch a ride." I deadpan. "We'll just use a different skiff, or hell, I'll make a badassasaurus for us to ride in. Hn. I sort of forgot I could do that, actually."

"Alright, where the hell are you piss for brains?!"

Gaige and I both flinch as an extremely annoyed- and annoying- voice comes through the echo.

"…"

We both pale considerably.

Damn it. There goes our vacation.

"Got nothing to say to me? My my, that's pretty rude, brat."

I loudly sip a drink. "Ah. Jack. How annoying to hear from you again. Tina your bomb blew up the Jammer."

"FUCK!" Comes her response.

"Language." Jack chides. "Now. Where are you and what have you been doing."

"Why would we tell you that?" Maya asks

"You've drained a vault monster. I know you've done something." He frowns. "Also, I expected you to brag... you finally got one over on old Handsome Jack."

"I... built a boat?" I suggest with a shrug.

"You built a boat." Jack Deadpans.

"Yep."

"In the middle of the desert."

"To be completely fair, it's a pretty cool boat. Also thank for confirming that you now know where we are."

I can hear him sharply inhale then exhale a moment later. "You irk me sometimes, brat. But you know what, why don't I tell you all what I have been working on."

"Our scientists have been working heavily on dozens of creatures to wipe sanctuary off the face of the planet... each stronger than the last... hey, brat, I'll let you drain them all if you join me right now." He begins. "Just think of all that power you could gain. All of the things you could make."

"Pass. I don't trust you as far as I can throw you... which would be pretty far now that I think about it. Hn. Might need a better idiom" I murmur.

'Mental note: build an echo jammer with my powers.'

I yet out a yawn and make a shoo-ing motion to the echo. "You can just leave. I was enjoying the peace and quiet before you got here. But man... wouldn't it have been a good idea to... y'know... not betray us like a dumbass. We might have even worked for you... who knows~"

"…"

"Welp." I sigh. "Vacations over. Let's go kill a giant worm thing then... I don't know... treasure maybe?"

"Yeah." Gaige nods as she yawns, bringing up a hand to rub one of her eyes. "Ugh. Well. A day and a half is better than nothing."

"True." I shrug as I slowly stand. "Wanna help me toss the statue corpses overboard?"

"We're coming down now." Axton states through the echo.

Gaige stands up behind me and follows me to the ladder with a shrug. "Sure. I've been dying for something to do for the past hour or two."

'Ah. So, she was bored.'

I gesture towards the ladder. "After you?"

She chops the top of my head with her nonmetallic hand and gives me a half-lidded glare.

I pout and silently climb up the ladder. "Damn. I thought that would work."

I stand up on the deck with my arms crossed, a large spotlight shines on the sands about three hundred feet before us.

I nervously tap my finger on my arm as we slowly approach.

"If my boat gets even one scratch, I'm killing you all and then myself." I growl as I turn back with narrowed eyes.

"Sure, sure, kid." Axton shrugs

"Salleeeey can I shoot the gun at the big worm?" Tina asks.

"No." He rejects bluntly.

"W-Whyyyy?" Tina asks, with a slightly heartbroken edge to her voice.

"My gun." Salvador simply states.

"What?! Come on! That's totally unfair! You can't just hog the cool cannon!" Tina responds. "Lemme shoot it just once!"

"No, chica. I am going to shoot the large sandbeast right in the face! This is my glory!" Salvador sighs

"DAVEEEY SALVADOR IS BEING MEAAAAN!" Tina calls up to me.

"I don't know what to tell you, Tina." I sigh down into my echo device. "Salvador called dibs."

"DAMN IT! Can't argue with the dibs." Tina growls. "Next time we fight against a giant monster in like a vehicle of some sort, I will be the one in the gunner's seat! I'm calling my dibs right now!"

There is a massive blast of sand as a humongous head shoots from the ground, it's a massive worm with no eyes it has two large fangs that jut out on its upper jaw, and two smaller ones in between those two on the bottom, under its chin is a large cyst of some sort, causing several blue lines to arc throughout its long neck.

It looks down.

"IT'S BIGGER IN PERSON!" Tina shrieks. "IT'S GONNA EAT THE BOOOOAAAAT! AAAAAHHHHHH!"

Pharyngeal Jaw the Invincible.
A Very Very Big 2 for 1 Sale.

"Oh dear..." I mutter as I look up at it. 'pharyngeal jaw? The fuck does that mean? Ugh. It's sort of expected that the Leviathan would be an Invincible class enemy.

It lunges downwards, mouth gaping wide, only for it to freeze in place a moment later.

With a flap of my spectral wings I float up to its head and repeatedly punch it in the snout.

Time resumes as I watch its snout crunch inwards, its head snaps backwards and is carried away where it eventually crashes into the ground, sending a massive spray of sand everywhere.

I hold out a hand as I drop from the sky, a purple hand appears on the beast's neck as it slowly tries to right itself.

I land on the deck with a crouch as the sand skiff swerves around the sand wurm's massive body

"What's the deal with the pulsing veins?" I slowly ask as the worm shakes its head and lets out a colossal shriek.

"Oi! Chico! I can't shoot it when we are running away like this!" Salvador growls from down below.

I see Salvador's turret almost turned completely one hundred and eighty degrees, I had stopped it from doing so, because I didn't want Axton to get shot accidentally.

"Hn. Yeah, that may be a flaw in the design... I should have given it a back gun instead of the couch." I sigh as I scratch the back of my head.

The worm turns and shrieks at us again and begins to dive after us.

"The couch was a good idea." Tina states.

"Hn." Maya hums. "I mean, it's comfortable, but he's sort of right. A back gun would have been more useful."

"Now hold on a minute." Axton cuts in from behind me. "That couch is pretty good. If needed I can just toss my turret out the window and have it sit on the roof, blasting anyone who gets near us with missiles and machine gun fire."

"Are we seriously debating on whether a couch is a better use of the corner than a gun?!" Gaige asks as the worm dives and begins following after us.

"You're sitting on it right now." Maya points out with a small snort.

"I probably could have at the very least used that spot as like a vending machine zone or like... maybe a quick-change?" I mutter as I cup my chin.

"SERENDIPPITY! THE SQUISH FEELS PURE ON MY MANFLESH." Krieg shouts.

"…"

"The couch is soft. I like it." He states a second later.

"WOAH!" I shout. "DID YOU JUST FUCKING TALK?!"

"HOLY SHIT!" Gaige exclaims.

"Krieg?!" Maya asks. "Are you alright?"

"Woah, you can actually speak in non-psycho speech? Damn bruh, that's pretty cool!" I can hear Tina grin.

"CRUNGMAN IN THE BRAIN CASE!"

"And he's back." Axton sighs.

"It's a giant worm/ don't forget about the worm / The FUCKING worm, DAVE." Zero states from inside the cabin, looking particularly panicked.

"Hn?" I hum as I look back, the worm is still a good thirty or so feet behind us, I mean, it's approaching rapidly but-

…

You y'know, I don't think there is a 'but' to that.

I turn my body and hop up onto the ship's cabin and with a small flash the Excalibadass appears in my hand.

I swing the blade in front of me, creating a small blue arc that rockets towards the worm's head, it makes contact with its snout and causes it to let out a shriek of pain as a large gash appears in its flesh.

I swing the blade again, again, and again, creating several cuts that mar the creature's face, it slows down its vicious pursuit and begins to sink slightly into the ground.

Two large objects burst from the ground behind it and begin quickly following behind it, it begins slowly retreating towards the... shark fins? Two large tan shark-like fins rapidly follow along behind the sand wurm, the only strange thing is that they are... backwards? They look incredibly durable as well, plus they are sharp, so they are... blades?

Each one is WELL over thirty feet long as they rise higher and higher.

Forty. Fifty. Sixty.

'Oh right. Isn't the sand worm only a part of the giant beast? Those are its front legs, right?'

The sand worm eventually falls behind so much, it comes in between the two large fin-like blades, only its head and upper neck are above the sand...

Its head is pulled under the ground as it looks like an entire mountain of sand rises from the ground

A massive blast of dust is sent skywards, sand pelts the ground as something pulls itself from the earth.

The dust eventually settles revealing... a thing... nay, a complete mutated abomination.

It is absolutely massive. If the phoenix was as large as this boat, that thing could be compared to Scarlett's ship.

The head of the sandworm slinks back into its mouth, large and powerful vertical jaws clamp shut behind it as the beast growls and shakes its head, the rumblings of its snarl causing the sand to actually get pushed away from it in waves, it has dozens of large blue cysts over its body, on its back it has trace amount of barnacles and coral, long since dried out, it stands on four limbs, two large scythe-like blades for its front legs, similar to that of a praying mantis, while the back legs are short, stout, and stumpy, having small fins around them, behind that is a large powerful looking tail, with a row of several flippers at the end.

Everyone on the sand skiff is dead silent.

Leviathan the Supreme Invincible.
Big. Angry. Terror of the dry seas. Mortal enemy of the Sand Kraken. (Just kidding. Sand Krakens don't exist... anymore... right?)

My shoulder slump as it shakes its head and arcs its strange eyeless face to look directly at us.

"Hey, God?" I ask. "It's me... David... I know I might have killed a couple... thousand... people, but please get me off of Pandora. Amen."

"AAAAAHHHHHHH!" Tina and Gaige begin screaming almost immediately.

"HOLY SHIT!" Salvador shouts.

"O-Oh my..." Maya weakly mutters.

"Big." Krieg simply states.

"Fuck." Zero curses, a string of curses potentially limited by his one syllable at a time or haiku speech.

"Well." Axton states. "We're fucked. We had a good run."

"YO! I F*CKIN FOUND YOU COOL BADASSES AGAIN! I HAVE SO MUCH TO SAY TO YOU ALL AFTER YOU WON MY TOURNAME- HOLY SH*T IS THAT ANOTHER GIANT F*CKING MONSTER?!" Torgue shouts.

I raise my sword above my head and wait, a blue light begins shining from the floating orb in the center.

It isn't... moving? It is just standing in the same spot.

"Axton." I call out. "Just run away from it for a while. I'm going to hit it with my sword."

"YOU HAVE A F*CKIN SWORD?! YOU'RE GONNA FIGHT A GIANT MONSTER WITH A SWORD?! YOUR IN A F*CKIN PIRATE SHIP AND LOOKING FOR TREASURE?! THE ABSOLUTE LEVELS OF BADASS YOU ALL RADIATE REGULARLY IS F*CKIN INSANE! YOU ARE TRULY PANDORA'S NUMBER ONE BADASSES!"

"Gotcha." Axton calls up.

"Maya." I command. "You use phase lock to grab any projectiles it flings at us. If we lose the boat, we are really fucked. I've already tagged it with a leech, so now we just need to wait for it to slowly weaken and die."

"Done." Maya states. "I'm on my way up."

"I'll shoot it when I get a chance!" Salvador grins.

"I think I got enough to build a missile! I'll do that- wait... it's going to be dead by the time I finish... ugh. I'll do it anyways." Tina adds in.

"Hey Zero. Want to see if I can multitask? Hop up here with me and let's see if I can charge this and create a gun at the same time."

"Ok." He replies as he reforms atop the captains' quarters with an illusionary ripple.

I hold out a hand towards him as I screen appears in front of me.

'let's go for maximum damage.'

"HEY. CAN I LIKE, USE YOUR LIKENESS IN A BADASS TORGUE COMMERCIAL?!"

"Go for it." I shrug.

Legendary weapons don't get nearly as many upgrade slots as Effervescent ones do.

"Done!" I grin as with a purple flash as large sniper is tossed to him. The barrel is slightly blocky and silvery in color, but there are two long flame decals that go along the side of the barrel, each black in color, it has a large gap going down the middle of the barrel, the scope is slightly futuristic, there are two large exhaust pipes that that go on either side of the scope, so you'll be looking down one no matter if you look through the scope with your left or right eye, the stock has a large flame decal and is made out of the same silvery material as the barrel.

"ALRIGHT! F*CK YEAH!" Torgue shouts. "DO YOU CARE IF I RECITE A COUPLE OF LINES?"

Zero looks down at the gun as his mask projects a smile.

Sirsplosionation Railmaster: (Legendary) (Torgue)
"For when you want to kill someone in the next country"
High Base Damage.
Has two firing modes, one is a single shot, the other uses all of the ammo held within the gun, yet increases the damage by 25% for every bullet used.

"See if you can snipe those blue tumor things." I nod towards the beast.

Zero nods once and hops down, heading back into the cabin, I can hear a window sliding down.

"It has two firing modes." I explain. "One is a single shot, and the other burns your entire clip to fire one bullet that does increased damage."

Annoying that I had to swap my time stop out for that, but eh... Zero will probably-

*BANG*

The ship rocks forwards as the backwards facing bullet proof windows crack from the sheer force of the gun firing, I watch a purple line arc towards the beast which is now a good two thousand feet away, there is a slight drop off as gravity begins to yank on the shells, but the bullet strikes it right in the throat, directly on one of those large blue sacks.

"HOLD THE F*CK UP, DID YOU JUST F*CKING MAKE A TORGUE SNIPER?! WHAT THE F*CK?! THAT'S SO MANLY AND BADASS! TED! QUICKLY WRITE DOWN 'RAILGUNS' TO OUR IDEAS!"

It lets out a shriek of pain and stumbles to the right, it shakes its head and roars up at the sky.

'Damn it, Zero... my fucking windows! You are absolutely going to be paying Scooter to fix that when we get back to Sanctuary.'

The large sand worm shoots from its gaping maw and looks down at us from a couple hundred feet up in the air. It opens its mouth and a whirlwind of sand pours from the beast's mouth, I can see a couple holes open on the larger body's back, blow holes perhaps, and it is using those to suck in more air, fueling the gritty twister

Axton turns the sand skiff, but the twister dies out before it reaches us... what it does accomplish, however, is block Zero's sight, from taking more pot shots at it.

"What the hell even is this thing anyways?" I mutter. "Do all sand worms have some... thing... attached to them?! What's with the blue stuff?! Why is it actively protecting Captain Blade's treasure?! How does it survive with a body of that size?! What does it eat? What does it drink?"

"Ahem." Torgue clears his throat quietly.

"TORGUE WEAPONS ARE AWESOME! THE VAULT HUNTERS USE THEM AND THEY ARE PHYSICALLY ATTRACTIVE!"

The beast abruptly bursts through the cloud, it is galloping towards us with its strange scythe front legs.

"OH MY GOD!" I shriek as it cleared those one thousand feet in about ten seconds.

"FLOOR IT! FLOOR IT!" Tina yells. "OH, MY FUCKING BOMBER JESUS PEDAL TO THE FUCKING METAL!"

The skiff picks up speed, steadily circling this large... sand whirlpool we find ourselves in?!

I look towards the center, past the large beast chasing after us and slowly gaining, there is an absolutely massive hole that leads downwards, sand is steadily filling it, that must be where it broke free.

Dozens of sand wurms begin poking their heads out of the ground, diving after us as the massive leviathan slowly grows closer and closer and closer.

Maya grabs one of the side turrets and begins shooting any sand wurms that stray too close.

The leviathan's inner wurm mouth shoots out, trying to snatch up our sand skiff in its large jaws, I swing the blade downwards, creating a large sword beam that arcs towards the leviathan, it lets out an absolutely titanic shriek of pain as its face is split in half, the blue arc of force continues several feet down the neck, cutting it in half vertically. The blade eventually fades about half way towards the main body's face, neon blue blood sprays across the sand below as the wurm mouth flops forwards, seemingly losing all life as it quickly gets sucked back in the main body's mouth.

"LOOK AT HOW COOL THE VAULT HUNTERS ARE! IF YOU DON'T USE A TORGUE WEAPON, YOU AREN'T AS COOL AS THEM- WAIT IS THAT A GOD DAMN LASER SWORD?! TED ADD SWORD WEAPONRY TO OUR LIST OF PRODUCT IDEAS!"

Blue blood drips from the corner of its mouth as it lets out hacking breaths, blood spewing from its mouth with every heave.

It stops chasing for a moment to raise up onto its back legs and slam its two front scythe limbs into the sand.

A wave of sand begins rapidly catching up to us.

"IT CAN MANIPULATE SAND?!" I shout in confusion as the wave gets closer and closer, picking up more size and speed the further it goes.

"HEY, CAN YOU USE MORE TORGUE GUNS, WE NEED MORE FOOTAGE OF YOU KICKIN ASS WITH TORGUE GUNS!"

I slash my blade downwards, chipping away at the wave, I do it again and again, eventually creating a hole large enough for two thirty-foot-tall waves of sand to pass on both sides of us with no real damage.

*BANG*

The sand skiff rocks again, another purple line arcing out towards the leviathan, this one strikes it right in the chest, a little to the left of the very center, aiming right for the large glowing blue sack.

"IN A MINUTE MISTER TORGUE!" I shout back as I begin readying my sword again.

It lets out another shriek of agony as it writhes briefly, thrashing its head back and forth as it begins charging after us, this time at a much faster pace than before.

*BANG*

The sand skiff rocks again as Zero fires another shot, this one strikes the blue sack right under the beast's armpit, causing it to trip and stumble.

It crashes face first into the sandy desert, it raises an arm and slams it on the ground, creating a large tendril of sand in front of us.

I whirl around, launching a horizontal slash at it, the blue arc strikes true, cutting the tentacle short as Axton swerves around it, it seems to immediately heal from my slash, as the deforming sand from above just simply falls onto the stump, but a shot from Salvador detonates the base of the tentacle and causes everything above that to lose form and rain down upon the ship.

This thing is a problem.

Several more tendrils of sand begin raising from the ground, causing me to let out a growl as Axton barely avoids a slam from one.

"Hit it again, Zero." I call down as another sand tentacle behind me loses form from a well placed canon shot.

"SAND HENTAI!" Krieg roars on the deck as he lights the fuse on several sticks of dynamite and begins hurling it off the sand skiff, creating large explosions all around us.

*BANG*

The boat rocks again, this time Zero's other shot striking the other armpit, causing the leviathan to face plant into the sand as it seemingly loses feeling in its arms.

"This gun is special/ Every shot hit like a truck/ I'm out of ammo"

"Shit." I lowly curse, I could always make him more ammo, but the five-minute legendary creation cooldown isn't up yet.

"ARE YOU RUNNING OUT OF AMMO IN THE FIELD? ARE YOUR BADASS TORGUE GUNS NOT ABLE TO FIRE DUE TO RAMPANT BADASS AMMO CONSUMPTION? DO YOU FEEL LIKE YOU HAVE TO CONSERVE AMMO AND HOLD YOURSELF BACK FROM UTTERLY DESTROYING EVERYTHING IN YOUR WAY WITH A HAIL OF BULLETS?! WELL, NOT ANY MORE! SAY HELLO TO THE TORGUE BRANDED AMMO BACKPACK FOR ALL YOUR AMMO NEEDS! SEND YOUR FOES TO KINGDOM COME WITH THE NEW TORGUE AMMO BACKPACK! WHERE SPRAY AND PRAY IS NOW AN OPTION!"

Sand begins to rise from the desert floor and combine above the leviathan-

"SORRY, I DIDN'T ACTUALLY SEND YOU AN AMMO BAG, BUT I THOUGHT THAT WOULD BE A GOOD OPORTUNITY FOR THE COMMERCIAL! I HOPE YOU DON'T MIND ME USING YOUR FUNNY WORDS BADASS ASSASSIN MAN!"

A swirling orb of sand appears above the leviathan, it quickly splits into several that elongate and seemingly harden.

"H-hey Maya? You might be needed." I weakly state as I watch the several large points in the air shift slightly to be pointed at us.

"What do you-" she looks back. "Ah. Shit."

Suddenly three absolutely titanic spears made of sandstone rocket forwards, I slash forwards, cutting the centermost one in half and causing the two halves to crash on either side of the sand skiff, the next is halted mid-air, causing Maya to flinch back, a trail of blood seeping from her nose, her phaselock dropping not even a millisecond after halting the attack, but she did her job and bled off practically all of the momentum, causing it to drop into the sand below.

The final spear crashes just behind us, smashing into the two halves of the first spear and sending rocks of assorted sizes everywhere, I am forced to slash a couple out of the sky, and Maya recovers quickly to stop any smaller pieces I might have missed.

"THE VAULT HUNTERS USE TORGUE GUNS! THE VAULT HUNTERS LAUGH IN THE FACE OF DANGER! THEY'RE LIKE 'HAH DANGER! YOUR DUMB AND YOU HAVE AN UGLY FACE WHICH ISN'T AS HOT AS MY FACE WHICH IS TOTALLY HOT!'."

"Are you like... coming onto all of us or something?" I mutter with a raised eyebrow as I glance towards my echo device.

"SORRY! THIS IS GOING TO BE A RADIO COMMERCIAL! SO, I HAVE TO HAMMER HOME HOW MUCH BETTER HAVING A TORGUE GUN MAKES YOU THAN ALL OF THE OTHER MANUFACTURERS! YOUR FACE IS GOING TO LOOK AWESOME ON RADIO!"

"Here, Zero. Have some more Ammo." Gaige states from below me.

"MISSILE'S DONE!" Tina exclaims.

I see the tip of a missile poke out from the back window of the cabin.

"BADABOOM BABY!" She grins as it rockets outwards.

"SHIT! THE FLOOR! DAVEY'S GONNA BE PISSED." She gasps.

"What did you do to the floor." I slowly ask.

"Uhhhh left a couple of black marks." She cautiously mutters.

"Oh. Well, considering what we are fighting... I'll overlook it... this time." I sigh, shoulders slumping.

The missile smashes into the beast, causing it to let out a shriek of pain as it flops to the side, breathing heavily, its flesh is blown away.

In the center of the hole is a massive pulsing blue sack, it is bleeding heavily as it lays in the sand, every breath it takes seems to cause pain to it.

"Wait... this thing has multiple hearts?! Is that what we were shooting this entire time?!" I ask as I see the barrel of Zero's new gun poke out from the back window. "Ah well... Zero... finish him!"

"Right." He nods as I see him line up the shot. I dispel my sword into its simple bracelet form and let out a small sigh of relief. The sand skiff didn't take that much damage.

Oh, yeah. We're also still alive. That's a good thing too.

*BANG*

The sand skiff rocks one final time, the purple line arcing towards the large beast in the distance.

Zero hits his mark, blasting a massive hole in the leviathan's heart.

"Fatality." I grin as I watch the beast twitch once then fall unmoving.

'I drained quite a bit from it... shame I didn't get to do the whole thing.'

You have leveled up x3

A Perk has been Acquired:

Master of the sands: (The Leviathan The Supreme Invincible)
A new lord of the sands has risen, with this perk you can control sand with such precision, it becomes practically an extension of your hands! With this perk you gain move, gather, control, compact, harden, and fling sand around at will, however you may only control 5 Cubic feet of sand per level you have.

I hop off the roof and slowly look back to the group. "Well now... why don't we go get us some treasure?"

You know, at first I was in complete writers block, thinking 'oh my god. This sucks. Why am I writing so slow? Why are these interactions so difficult today?! Then the next thing I knew I was 4.2k words in, had no sleep, and it was like 5am.

Anyways, the pirate adventure is almost complete! Now all they have to do is gather the treasure and head back to Sanctuary! Then it's back to focusing on Jack!

Guest Reviews:

JustAFan123: Nah, no harem story despite Tina's wishes.

Daisy: Thanks!

Guest 001: Thank you as well!

Not many guest reviews this time... anyways, I'll see you all whenever I next update!