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)

I let out a yawn as I lounge on the couch, Tina to my left, Gaige to my right.

I stare dead ahead with a half-lidded expression as Roland quietly gestures to a large board with a large stick.

"Man... the lengths of what we will do just so Jack doesn't catch wind of our plans." I sigh as I shake my head.

Lilith in the corner rolls her eyes.

"Do you all understand?" Roland asks.

"Hn, yeah, but I seriously doubt that plan needs all eight of us... Zero could accomplish it in ten minutes." I state with a small frown.

Everyone in the room glances over to Zero who simply nods once in acceptance that he could do that.

"I have a better idea of what to do with my time... you five can handle that plan, I've got my own plan... a great plan!"

Gaige looks over. "You don't have good plans... they are either average of bad ideas. So tell me, what sort of level is this plan? Fist fight some dude immune to physical damage-"

"I cant believe Moxxi told you what his relic did." I pout.

"-Or is it stick a needle in a transforming Varkid, making a creature which can EXPLODE MOUNTAINS?!" She continues as if I hadn't even spoken.

"You are never going to let me live that down, are you?" I frown with narrowed eyes.

"There are only two instances where I have legitimately felt like death was on my heels here on Pandora... the first, that robot guy that apparently wrecked Lilith, Roland, Brick, and Mordecai."

"Oi." Lilith frowns. "That wound is still a little sore, Gaige."

"Sorry-" She swiftly apologizes before continuing. "The second, David, is that fucking varkid. So no. I'm never going to let you live down almost killing all of us."

I cup my chin. "Hm. There are probably larger varkids, actually... maybe I should get Hammerlock to give me some more of that Serum."

"David. No." Gaige growls as she points at me as if she were chastising a dog.

"What? I'll need to make my own vault monsters eventually." I scoff.

"Why though?! Why would you do that?" She asks.

"…"

"Food." I suggest with a shrug.

She rolls her eyes. "Honestly, you are unbelievable."

"If you two are done with your little lover's spat, can we get back on topic?" Axton asks.

"Anyways." I continue. "Before I was hideously derailed. I was going to state my own plan. It's called making Jack really, really mad."

"…"

Everyone in the room blankly stares at me.

"That is a horrible idea." Maya deadpans.

"No, no." Salvador waves off. "he's got a point."

I stand up and walk to the chalkboard, looking over it as I cup my chin.

I snap my fingers and create a second chalkboard in front of the first. "You see, your plan is flawed."

I quickly write out. "Make Jack think we are doing this for petty reasons."

Most of the vault hunters seem confused so I quickly clarify.

"Make jack think we are doing this just to piss him off with no greater goal, we are stealing his voice so we can make echo-net videos of him saying stupid shit... NOT because we have a greater plan and want to break into the Guardian angel's safe space."

I seem to be getting through to them as their eyes widen in comprehension.

"So, so we need to think that this is just a petty plan to piss him off." I write. "Then he won't be prepared for our sudden strike on the guardian angel."

"The main problem is, we need three schemes." I mutter under my breath as I cup my chin. "Zero has the first one, Gaige, Tina and myself will cover the second one... that leaves four of us free."

"…"

Roland takes this time to speak up. "Uh, Moxxi has been griping about something Jack was building there... maybe you could also help her?"

"And thus, the plan is established." I grin. "While Zero is doing plan one."

"Gaige, Tina and I will be drawing Jack's attention by hitting him where it hurts." I write.

I draw a picture of jack atop a plaque, looking heroic.

"Statue Heist!" I write just below it.

"What's the point of that?" Gaige asks with a bored expression as she does a small gesture towards the chalkboard in confusion.

"One. Just to piss him off, and two. These are solid gold, baby!" I grin.

The vault hunters widen their eyes before slowly nodding one by one.

"I can see Jack doing that." Lilith mutters.

"Ohoho! You are making me want to join in on this heist Chico!" Salvador cackles.

"I..." Zero Begins only to pause for a good ten seconds. "See."

Krieg just doesn't seem to care, nor does Maya beyond muttering. "Keep yourselves safe. He is prideful, so if you do that, you'll have his full wrath."

Axton slowly nods as Roland seems to be a little disappointed that I have taken over his whole plan and irreversibly changed it.

Tina is hungover.

Hungover Tina has nothing to add to this conversation.

I write down. "He will ignore all of you."

I underline the phrase.

"SO." I grin as I gesture to all the vault hunters.

I point to Zero. "You will be infiltrating Lynchwood's train station, gathering the shipping records in an attempt to find out where Jack has taken the key. This place has an eridium mine, and it constantly ships to Jack, so if we can find out where he ships the eridium, we might be able to find the key."

The other vault hunters slowly nod in acceptance of what I am doing. Another layer of misleading and illusion.

I point towards Maya. "Maya, you Salvador, Krieg, and Axton will be collapsing said Eridium mines to just really piss Jack off with the added benefit of allowing him to have less Eridium, and Gaige, Tina... the three of us will be robbing a bank, luring out Jack's girlfriend and murdering the fuck out of her."

"Now, you might be thinking, why would we kill this random chick?" I ask, cutting off Gaige's slow blink, she wasn't really going to say anything because, well, we won't be going to Lynchwood anyways.

"It's quite simple." I continue. "She put the Lynch in Lynchwood, she killed Brick's dog in front of him, and is just overall a complete bitch."

Gaige opens her mouth, then closes it. "Alright."

"We'll be leaving in eight, plus two, minus twelve, plus one, plus half, plus four, minus a quarter, times three, divided by two-point five, plus one, minus three quarters hours." While I am going on a complete tangent, I write "3-4 hours, so if Jack can hear this, he will spend resources defending lynchwood."

"Why are you announcing all this outloud?!" Axton exclaims. "If he is listening in, Jack will be prepared for that?! What's the point of this chalk board nonsense."

"Well, Axton, it's because I want a challenge." I grin. "And damn it. If Jack doesn't give me one I'mma be pissed. Besides? What can HE do to stop us? We are a well-oiled, vicious killing machine that has already slain 3 vault beast level enemies. What could he possibly throw at us?"

Pov: Elsewhere

"What can HE do to stop us? We are a well-oiled, vicious killing machine that has already slain 3 vault beast level enemies. What could he possibly throw at us?"

A masked man rubs his temples before letting out a quiet growl. "Pride cometh before the fall, eh brat?"

"Angel. Please ship Hyperius to Lynchwood and give me a connection to Nisha." He sighs.

"If you want a challenge, brat... well, I'm about to give you one." The man mutters under his breath.

"Whad'ya want, Jack." A rough female voice with a thick western accent suddenly begins from a nearby echo.

"I have reason to believe that the vault hunters will be coming to Lynchwood." Jack states to the woman on the other side of the echo.

"Oh, good. I'll kill 'em." The woman states.

"Well, I need some of them alive, sweetheart." Jack responds with a low voice.

"Hn. We'll see. Which ones?"

Honestly the masked man has no idea what he sees in this woman, I mean, sure. She is hot, and doesn't complain about what has to be done to make Pandora a better place, but... she's kind of a bitch...

And sure, she did murder that dog in front of that large dumbass... that was a little uncool.

"I NEED three of them alive. You can do whatever you want with the others. Just make sure you bring me the male Siren, the little bomber brat, and the girl with a mechanical arm. I don't like to say this, but if any of those three are hurt by you, I will be less than pleased."

The woman lets out a hum. "Jacky, are you really going to let three brats ruin our relationship?"

"Yes." The masked man deadpans down at the echo device. "David is far more important than you know."

The woman lets out a huff. "We'll see."

Pov: returned.

I stand in front of a large golden statue about fifteen feet tall, smoothie in hand as Gaige stands to my left and Tina to my right.

"You know... it's a lot bigger than I expected..." I mutter as I gaze up to the massive statue.

I look to my two companions, fully expecting at least one of them to have some sort of comment for that statement, but Tina just blankly stares ahead, dark circles under her eyes, and slightly bloodshot eyes.

I reach over and pat her head, channeling quite a bit of essence to cure her hangover.

She blinks slowly and looks around, then rubs her eyes and takes a deep breath.

She slowly looks over a slightly menacing smile on her face. "You can... cure hangovers?"

"Yeah." I shrug. "What of it?"

"Then why, pray tell, David my boy, did it TAKE YOU THIS LONG TO DO IT?!" She quietly glares at the side of my head.

I frown back at her. "Do you know how many lives were just sacrificed to cure your hangover?"

She cocks her head to the side. "I dunno, like... five?"

"Twenty." I deadpan. "Besides, if I have to deal with the messy- and sort of sad- flirting of drunk Tina, you need to deal with a hangover."

"David..." She responds in an equally deadpan tone. "First off. I would personally drag fifty people before you to slaughter and maim with your powers if it meant you got rid of my hangover headaches. Secondly. WHAT DO YOU MEAN 'MESSY AND SAD'?!"

"Alright. Chill out, you psychos." Gaige scoffs.

I scratch the back of my head as I look back over to the statue. "Anyways... I don't think this will fit."

Tina elbows my side. "I'll be saying that to you one day! Heyoooo!"

"Really?" I ask with a half-lidded expression. "Right in front of my girlfriend?"

Tina leans back and looks around me towards Gaige who looks back at her with a raised eyebrow.

"Whaaaat?" Tina asks. "Psh! She doesn't care!"

"I sort of do." Gaige flatly states.

"…"

"oooooh I see. You're jelly I'm not flirting with you too!" The blonde bomber grins. "Maybe one day you can show me how that vibrator hand works, hmmm?"

Gaige lets out a long groan of annoyance. "Cease. I am one hundred percent straight. Plus my boyfriend is right there."

"Psshhh" she waves off. "don't think of it like that think of it as mutual mastur-"

I silently cover her mouth without even blinking.

She is incredibly smug right now as she leans back, away from my hand. "-Bation. Hell, maybe even Davey could join in! That'd be hot!"

I think she might be hiding the remains of her breakdown behind a wall of flirting.

"You hear that?" I slowly ask as I grab her face, stopping her from stepping away and speaking any more lewd comments.

The two girls slowly look around the surroundings, we are in a fairly high tech city, dozens of skyscrapers are being built in the distance... nobody is here, however. It appears that Jack hasn't opened this city to the public yet, and the Hyperion engineers are all over by where the buildings are actually being built, not in this mostly empty park area surrounded by a few completed restaurants.

"N-No?" Gaige mutters as she looks around cautiously.

"It's silence. Complete and total silence."

"And that is... bad?" Tina slowly asks as I release her face.

"Nah. It's really good." I grin as I turn to look at her. "And I'd prefer for it to stay that way!"

"Ouch." Tina blinks. "That's a little hurtful."

I walk over to the large statue of Jack standing with a foot atop a bandit, he is holding the barrel of a sniper as the stock is placed on the ground as he looks up, heroically.

"Welp." I begin. "Let's get this over with."

I draw my sword and slam it into the base of the statue, below Jack's foot.

A hologram appears to the left. "ALRIGHT WHO DARES?!"

The hologram of Jack looks around, eventually freezing as he spies me, slowly cutting the statue's feet of the pedestal.

"YOU?! What the hell are you doing here?! You are supposed to be at-" he falls silent as I look of realization slowly crosses his face.

"Ah. I see... false information... you devious little shit. You got me." He sighs. "Why are you chopping down my statue? What's the point?"

"To piss you off?" I shrug with an impish grin.

"To- To piss me off?! Seriously? That's it?" He snarls. "That's stupid! Petty Vandalism?! That's how far you have fallen?! That's just sad!"

"Mayhaps." I agree. "But it's working."

*Creaaaaaak-THUMP*

The statue falls as I give it a gentle push, crashing to the ground with a loud thumping noise.

The hologram's eyebrow twitches. "Alriiiight I get it, you don't like the statue. That's fine. I look a bit too heroic with my foot in that bandit's face. I get it. You're jealous."

I toss out a cargo container and frown.

Yeaaah. This isn't going to fit. It's wider than the container and legitimately taller than it.

"Ohoho! You look like a peasant now! It's not going to fit in that small cargo container!" The hologram cackles. "You done now? Got that out of your system? Great. Now go home and stop messing with my stuff before we have a frickin' problem."

I turn to glare at the hologram. "What? Can't a guy go on a date with his girlfriend and a third wheel to pull off a statue heist in peace? Also, what's with the hologram, normally you'd just call us to whine at us. What's so special about today?"

"You are messing with my stuff!" He growls. "And This is Opportunity. There are dozens of hologram projectors across the city. I can be anywhere at any time. It really helps me articulate just how much you're pissing me off."

"I see." I slowly nod.

I cleave the arm off the statue in one swing.

"WH- WHAT THE HELL IS YOUR PROBLEM!? Do you know how expensive that was?!" The hologram shouts.

I slowly look over and smirk at the statue as I turn the sword back into a bracelet and toss it over to Tina. "Tina. Dice it up some. Not too much, just enough to stuff it in the crate."

She catches the bracelet and looks down at it, a quickly growing smirk appearing on her face.

"Ohoho!" She grins. "Heheheh AHAHAH!"

"Oh." I call out. "Make sure you leave the head intact."

"So... you are saying I can behead it... as long as I don't hurt the head?" Tina asks as the bracelet shifts into its sword form.

Jack's hologram looks like he can't decide if he is dumbfounded or horrified right now.

"Go for it." I shrug.

The next thing I know, there is a severed jack head about the size of my torso rolling towards me as Tina giggles madly.

"Dear god!" Jack shouts. "You savages! What the hell is your problem?!"

After about a minute of slicing and stuffing the statue is completely gone.

"Well onto the next." I grin as I wipe my forehead.

"NEXT?!" Jack shouts. "Oh nonono if you think I am going to let you just waltz in here and take all my statues, you're dead wrong. I might want to conscript you three into Hyperion, but I will not pull any punches with defending my damned statues."

I grab Tina and Gaige under my arms and quickly rush across the city, using my wings every now and then to give us a speed boost.

We slide to a halt in front of a statue of Jack sitting atop a stump reading a book. All around us is some sort of outdoor museum for Jack, telling the 'history' of Pandora! Things ranging from generally just explaining eridium, all the way to 'Jack fought the destroyer one on one and kicked its ass'.

"No..." Jack begins as his blue hologram materializes in between us and the statue.

"No no no." He chastises as he waves a finger at us like a disappointed parent. "Step away from the statue, brats."

I take my sword from tina for a moment, stop time, quickly running past the jack hologram, then pry the statue off its base.

Time resumes as the statue crashes to the earth below.

"THAT'S IT!" Jack snarls before raising a holographic hand and snapping his fingers.

Dozens of Loader Bots begin digistructing from several ports around us.

I swing the blade weakly through the air, killing two and destroying the digistruct port behind them.

I turn and do the exact same thing seven more times, Tina running around with a grin as she shoots Loader Bots in the chest with four swords... that explode moments after piercing through their torsos and turning them into pincushions.

Gaige raises her new sidearm and begins shooting it, it seems to shoot large orbs that travel at high speed, each the size of a softball and grey in color.

The orb misses a nearby Loader Bot, smacks into the wall behind it, and bounces back, right into the loader's shoulder joint.

The loader bot promptly explodes as its arm is shot off.

All the loaders are practically dead, no more of them are being summoned, and Jack looks annoyed at the fact that by destroying those digistruct points we have probably cost him trillions in addition to the statue.

He lets out a low click. "I can actually see why you'd want to tear that particular statue down. Clearly you are illiterate, and the thought of me enjoying a good book hurts your little hea- HEY! Don't you frickin' ignore me! Listen to me when I'm shouting at your annoying face!"

I walk over to Gaige as she frowns down at the gun in her hand. "Gaige did you just fucking miss that?"

"Yeeees?" She slowly and cautiously mutters.

"It was twenty fucking feet away! How did you miss?!"

"It startled me, alright!" She pouts. "And don't give me that! I still killed it!"

"How?!" I ask.

"I don't know!?" She responds. "Ever since that damned tournament all my bullets just FUCKING kill people! Even if I don't hit them!"

"That makes no logical fucking sense!" I exclaim. "Bullets don't ricochet like that!?"

"I KNOW!" She shouts back. "I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON AND IT'S FREAKING ME OUT!"

"WHY ARE YOU SCREAMING?!" Tina yells.

Gaige and I slowly look to each other and back to Tina.

"eh, it sort of just felt right." I shrug.

Gaige lets out a long sigh. "Damn my aim. How do I keep killing stuff even though I am missing."

"Some sort of luck ability? You are blessed by god? Secret siren power?" I suggest with a shrug as I turn back to the statue. "Ah well, it doesn't really matter. Let's get back to stuffing statues into small spaces."

"Are you KIDDING ME?! What's wrong with that statue?! I'm holding the vault key AND a baby! You know what babies are, right? Those weak pink fleshy things that your kind slaughter at large."

"Hm." I lowly hum as I cup my chin, looking at the prone statue. "Normally I might have left that one, but nah, the objective is to piss of off, and piss you off I shall."

"Also." I continue. "I hate babies and children in general. All children are sociopaths, and are walking petri dishes of every germ known to man."

"Thas' pretty dark, dude." Tina mutters. "Dark and evil."

There's a massive explosion in the distance, a cloud of smoke slowly rising up into the sky, Holo-Jack blinks slowly and disappears into motes of light as he seemingly realizes 'oh wait... weren't there supposed to be three schemes going on?'

"What?" I ask as I turn to look at Tina, not even bothered by Jack's sudden disappearance. "I just don't like babies. It's not like I'll go out of my way to stab an infant or anything! I just avoid them!"

Tina slowly walks around me then pauses next to Gaige, causing the girl to slowly look over to her with a raised eyebrow as the blonde continues. "Man, your life is going to be pretty hard when you-"

She wraps an arm around Gaige's midsection and pats her stomach. "Put a baby in here!"

Tina ducks Gaige's reflexive swing and cackles as she backs away as she pats her own stomach. "And maybe here?"

Gaige glares at Tina with a raging blush.

I point at Tina. "Absolutely not. Stop being so fucking weird. You are starting to make me seriously uncomfortable."

She pouts as I move on and point to Gaige. "Maybe one day."

Her head snaps over to look at me as she narrows her eyes, blush still very much present.

"If you don't chop up that damned statue and move on from this conversation, I am going to kill both of you. And it will be violent."

"Awww" Tina pouts. "You're no fun, Gaige."

Gaige turns and points at Tina. "They'll never find the body. Don't test me, Tina."

'She is so fun when she gets worked up into a blushing mess.'

I let out a quiet huff of amusement and turn back to the statue.

With a couple of swings of my sword, the statue is reduced to small chunks that are easily stored in a shrinkable cargo container.

"WHAT THE HELL?!" Jack yells as he watches me tossing gold hunks into the cargo container. "This and then the battle dome?! Alright! Great! Success! You are pissing me off! Good for youuu! Here's your PRIZE!"

I look up to see three large fireballs arcing through the sky.

Two land on either side of the town square we are standing in, and one lands in the distance where the other vault hunters- minus Zero are.

A loader bot, easily twenty feet fall quickly folds outwards from the capsule-

I stop time, rushing to the first, with two swings I cleave through its shins, the body just floats there amidst the paused time,

I whirl around and send a sword beam towards the other 'Super Badass Loader Bot', but it stops after it gets five feet away from me.

I summon my siren wings and float up, bisecting the robot beside me from crotch to head.

There is the sound of screeching metal as time resumes, the two halves rub against each other for a moment before splitting down the middle,

The other loader is knocked backwards as a deep cut appears across its chest, nearly going all the way through.

It slumps on a building as the glowing red light of its eye flickers off, the next second the loader bot falls through the wall and collapses the building on top of itself.

"What is this even accomplishing?!" Hologram Jack shouts.

I smirk and return to tossing hunks of gold into the container.

"What do you mean 'what is this even accomplishing'?" I scoff. "I wanted to piss you off... I also want a small horde of wealth that I can sleep atop like a fuckin' dragon."

I pick up a large golden Jack head with both hands and toss it in the container before sealing it and shrinking it.

We quickly move onto the last statue, it's just Jack holding a sniper rifle.

I step over to it and shove it off the base with a lazy push, like I am a cat knocking a glass cup off a counter.

I cleave the statue into small pieces and toss out the cargo container, open it with a hand of fate, then slowly begin shove all the pieces inside.

"You are SERIOUSLY doing this to piss me off, you petty little shit?! Well CONGRATULATIONS! Mission accomplished, jackass. When I'm curb stomping your friends in Sanctuary to death, I hope you take solace in the fact that- for about eight seconds- you mildly irritated me. Good for you. Your parents must be so proud!"

He falls silent as he disappears into motes of light.

I snort at his anger as Tina begins cackling.

"AHAHAH! This has been GREAT! Fuck you, Jack!" She proceeds to flip off the air with both her hands.

I pull out my echo as I finish tossing every single bit of gold in the container, I can't really fit anything else in there, these statues were massive, even if I diced them up a bit.

I seal the cargo container and shrink it as I call Maya.

It rings for a moment before she picks up. "Are you finished? I could hear Jack's shouts from here."

"I am" I nod. "What about you?"

"We are. And Zero showed up, he's done as well."

"Well." I begin. "In that case, call our ride to get us out of here."

"Please don't call me a 'Ride'." Lilith sighs.

"Lilith carpool!" I cheer.

She lets out a long groan. "Just get to the others."

I look down at the large smirking head in my grasp.

"Alas, poor Yorick." I mutter to the smirking, masked, golden statue head.

I wordlessly toss it upwards into the air, it goes into a large funnel, falling into the machine below as a gout of heat rushes out the top.

"HEYOOO!" I cheer. "Another point!"

A gout of smoke is spat out the top of the strange furnace as a large tray slides out the side and flips over.

Dozens of gold bars about five inches long and two inches thick thump on a flat metal surface as I gain a small grin.

Gaige tosses up a statue chunk with her metal arm, it lands in the funnel and sinks down inside.

"Man," I begin as I toss two more chunks up to the machine. "This is nice."

Eridian Fabricator: (Effervescent) (Relic)
"TrUUst mEE I aM MeTAL FABriCATor"
This strange furnace allows you to break down objects to their base materials, a gun with a wooden stock for instance would be broken down into bars of metal and wooden planks. Please note that this cannot be used on any 'perishables' such as food or drinks. The only exceptions to this rule are blood, which can be used to create Iron, and other items which hold some sort of mineral, such as salt water. Any and all items unable to be broken down are instead burnt off with a large puff of smoke.
Additionally, this has a second mode which can be used to combine several items of Legendary Quality or less into a new, form of typically greater value.

Yep, this took a good two hundred years to make, leaving me with roughly one hundred and fifty left.

It will allow us to make use of all those epic rarity guns we got from captain blade's treasure and turn them into Seraph quality weapons.

But right now, it is currently being used to melt down statues into gold bars.

Damn, it feels good to be rich.

"You think Axton and Salvador are done filming those Echo Net videos?" I ask as I toss another part up into the fabricator.

"I don't know." Gaige shrugs. "But seeing Jack so pissed off definitely made the trip worth it."

"I mean, then there's the fact that the three of us are now multi-millionaires if we sell all this gold." I add with a smirk.

"It sort of feels nice being the universe's youngest self-made millionaire." Tina grins. "I wonder how many bombs I could buy with all that cash-money!"

"Probably a lot." I guess as I pick up the rapidly cooling bars and set them aside, stacking them in a metal box, one atop the other.

This is the third crate we are filling.

Maybe I was wrong about being millionaires... we may be nearing billionaire territory... depending on how expensive gold is, of course.

As the crate is filled, I pick it up and carry it into the large cargo container.

I had made a second a while back, it's what we used to steal all this gold, if we used the semi-filled one from the pirate adventure, we wouldn't have been able to fit the last statue.

Spatial Storage Container (Pearlescent) (Relic)
"Let me check my bag."
This special storage container is twelve feet by twelve feet by thirty six feet, it allows you to store considerable amounts of nonliving material, once safely stored within, the container may then be shrunk to a handheld 4 inches, by 4 inches, by 12 inches.
It is also capable of being stored within an Echo device, taking the slot of an item.

I load the third crate of gold into my 'Personal' container, all that is in there is my four smaller chests, one large chest, and five miniature chests, the others let me have them because I allowed us to carry all of the loot out instead of just some of it.

I haven't even looked at what I got, now that I think about it.

Also, Gaige has decided to place her own chests back inside- after I spray painted a red 'G' on them, of course- and we have decided to share the storage space.

Now there's the boxes of gold about three feet wide, tall, and deep.

One of these days, I think I'll buy myself a mansion.

I place the crate down and quickly walk back over to the piles of roughly cut gold.

I hurl another chunk of gold up into the furnace.

But right now? This is the life.

My greed sated, a cute girlfriend by my side, all the preparations set to drain the life- and powers- out of a poor, abused siren, thus potentially gaining a fifth skill tree.

Who knows if I'll actually use it, but it'll be nice to have.

Now we just need to wait for Angel to signal us when Jack is busy.

Thus, another chapter of shenanigans has been completed! And wow, they really pissed off Jack, hm? I wonder which will win out, his desire to beat the shit out of a small child, or his desire to get said child on his side... who knows!

Guest reviews:

Guest 001: No, I don't plan to weaken him at all when borderlands 3 comes around, that's a stupid trope- unless there is a REALLY good reason for it. I won't pull a 'oh, lol, his echo got damaged thus he has to restart from level 1 hehe.'

JustAFan123
the problem with making his varkids evolve, it takes more essence than he gets back, technically he COULD just make a varkid farm where he waits for them to slowly evolve, but making them go from larva to badasses just isn't cost efficent.

Guest 002:
Nah, Jack has already realized this, which is why he is being FAIRLY cautious in what he sends at the group.

Bitch:
I'm glad you appriciate the power scaling- even if I was kneecapping his progression by limiting his time stop... but now that he is legitimately going into it... weeeell... it won't be long before he just starts slapping the 'I win' button.

A fanboy:
I am glad you enjoy this so much! Reviews like this is what gives me motivation to continue writing

Guest 003: I've actually had people say my fights are my strong point.

Anyways, I hope you all enjoyed this chapter of David pissing off Jack while Tina makes him REALLY uncomfortable.