So, uh hi. I haven't been on in a long time. But I've been playing Borderlands a lot and wanted to write this. I don't know if it's any good. But I'm adding in a OC. I figured that if I was going to make my own storyline I'd add a character in. I added in this new character and he's very different as revealed in this chapter. Gaige in canon is 16, so she's 16 in this. Not much else. So I guess read.
Chapter 1: Introducing The Crew
A lone platform raised elevated above the scorching sands of the Pandorian desert. A railway a few feet away from the platform was held by various beams. A figure stood next to the bench.
He stood around 6ft tall, he wore a hood over his head and had a mask to protect his face from the blowing sand. He wore a black jacket and the hood was black. His mask was black and it's visors were red and slightly illuminated the dark night around him. He wore camouflage genes and had on running shoes that were black in color.
"Train approaching, please stand back." The female voice came from a speaker near the bench. The 18 year old watched as the Hyperion train began to slow to a stop.
One of the doors began to open and he walked in and looked around the dimly lit room around him. There were 6 others in the same room.
One was a young man that looked like he was a military man. Another was a siren as he noted with the blue tattoos on the left side of her body. There was also a short man, with a lot of black hair around his head.
On the other side stood a limber figure that had a bodysuit and had 0 on the left side of his? Her chest? There was also a creepy looking man standing behind him, he had a mask and from the looks of his eyes showed he wasn't completely there. Finally there was a young girl, she had red hair tied into pigtails and her left arm was cybernetic.
He noticed all of their uneasy looks, except for the creepy psycho who just stared at him with his one unmasked eye. The figure took off his mask and unclipped the hood from his jacket and they destructed. A look of confusion crossed the Siren's face as the red glow of the destruct faded away, and her face turned neutral. The young man had hazel eyes and dirty blonde hair on his somewhat tanned head.
Everyone's faces became somewhat relieved that this new guy wasn't aggressive or making aggressive movements.
The short one spoke up, "Hey there amigo, the name's Salvador."
"It's Maddox." The newcomer said.
"I'm Maya," the Siren greeted.
"Zero." The figure in the suit said. Maddox went ahead and assumed it was a him.
"I'm Axton, used to serve in the military." He greeted.
"I'M THE CONDUCTOR OF THE POOP TRAIN!" the psycho said.
"Uh…What's his actual name?" Maddox asked.
"His name is Krieg." The Siren told him.
"I'm Gaige." The young girl said holding out her right hand. Maddox shook her hand and went on ahead and leaned against the wall.
The train ride was silent for a long while. Nothing eventful was happening, Maddox peeked outside the window seeing snow was in place of the desert sands he had been in earlier.
Suddenly, the train jolted a little bit. Nobody paid much notice, thinking it was the train switching rails. Suddenly a wall burst open and Hyperion Loaders came from the other car and started firing on them.
Axton immediately ducked and deployed a turret that began to shoot the loaders.
Maya's tattoos glowed blue and a loader became trapped in a ball of purplish energy.
Salvador swung in from a hole in the side and pulled out two guns and released a barrage of bullets on the enemies.
Zero jumped through the ceiling and a engineer tried to punch him but his fist only went through a hologram. Zero then stabbed one all the way to the hilt and he jumped over him and kicked another engineer so that they were impaled by the same sword.
Krieg took out a buzz axe and ran towards the loaders and began tearing them apart.
Gaige then raised her left arm and a hovering robot digistructed. The robot went and began to help Krieg by slashing at them or using his eye laser.
Maddox eyes began to glow red and and suddenly he turned into a black cloud and of dust and entered into the remaining loaders. The loaders shut down for a few seconds. Suddenly they all sprung to life but were not making any aggressive actions.
Then an awesome loader stormed in and all of the smaller loaders began firing at it. The smaller loaders managed to knock off one of the arms but were quickly taken out. The black dust cloud then reformed as Maddox and he ran towards the larger one and a double sided glowing red sword ejected out of his wrist and he jumped over slicing it's arm off with ease. Then his other arm turned into a cannon and shot a large hole through the loader.
Gaige heard a noise and ran towards the other side of the car, she opened the door and a fake bloodied body turned in a chair with various explosives sticking out of the Handsome Jack replica.
"BOMB!" She shouted half scared herself.
Out of instinct Maddox caused a red shield to surround the 7 of them just before the explosion took place.
Maddox vision was blurry, he felt around finding that he was nearly buried in the snow. Once his vision cleared he got up and looked around for everyone else. Krieg was leaning against a snow pile, not making any movements. Maya was laying on the ground. Zero somehow was still inside the wreckage of the train. Axton was on top of Salvador. Maddox looked around for the remaining person. He saw a shine of metal coming from the pile of snow next to him. Maddox bent over and dug slightly around it. Finding it was just a piece of train metal.
Maddox heard something began to move and looked in the direction of the sound. A small Hyperion robot that moved with it's single wheel rolled around with a shovel. Maddox ducked down into the snow, preparing to take out the robot before it would notice his presence. Maddox then felt cold metal touch his arm. Out of instinct Maddox made his arm superheat and the snow around him quickly evaporated.
"Ow, ow, ow, why was that so hot.?" Maddox heard a young girl say. Maddox looked up and saw it was Gaige holding her arm. She hadn't even noticed he was there. Maddox noticed the small piece of metal he found earlier was lodged in her human arm. Her arm trickled with blood, and she carefully grabbed the Metal chunk with her other arm.
"Don't!" Maddox whispered. She jumped at the sound.
"Why no-" She began to ask half whining because she wanted the pain from her arm to be removed.
Maddox covered her mouth with his hand and before she could protest he pointed to the small robot rolling around.
She understood and layed down. Maddox crawled onto the other side of her where her severely bleeding arm was. He knew she was facing a large amount of discomfort and pain but yet she was fighting it pretty well. Maddox hovered his hand over the piece of metal and his eyes glowed red as did his hands. The piece of metal began to turn to dust and flew out of the wound. The cut was at least a fingernail deep.
Gaige was surprised at how painless the removal was and was even more surprised when her wound began to instantly heal.
"You want it to scar?" he asked quietly.
"I… uh, I guess." Gaige answered seeing he had a surprise every second she met him. Sure enough the wound scarred instead of completely healing. They both silently watched the robot roll around digging up corpses with its shovel. Out of the corner of his eye he saw Salvador stir. Because Salvador was under Axton, Salvador pushed him off and got up. Axton woke up and looked confused at what was going on.
"Oh look, another dead Vault Hunter, Jack's been busy." The little robot said as he stuffed the shovel into the ground. His high pitched voice woke Maya and she began to get up. "Wait you're not dead!. Yes my ticket off this glacier has finally arrived!"
Krieg woke up and decided to stand on top of the snow mound he was unconscious on a few moments ago. "BIG METAL BOX GO BOOM!" he shouted at the top of his lungs. This shout was loud enough that Zero began to regain consciousness.
"Woah you all survived?!, yes I now have my own minion army. I'm CL4P-TP, but my friends just call me Clap Trap… that is… if I had any friends. Now follow me." Maddox and Gaige had already gotten up and began to follow the robot. "Oh right I almost forgot, here's an echo communicator." Clap Trap said giving everyone a echo device.
Maddox looked at his echo device and wasn't really sure what to do with it. "Is everything alright?" Axton asked.
"I've never used one of these, what's it for?" Maddox asked.
"Have you been living under a rock this entire time?" Gaige asked looking at him like he was crazy.
"I've only been on Pandora for a week." Maddox revealed.
"Ok? I just got here two days ago and I know what it is." Gaige countered. "These aren't just on Pandora."
"Oh… I guess my planet never got any."
"Oh, what planet are you from amigo?" Sal asked.
"I'm from Rehtona Noisnemid."
"Rehtona Noisnemid/ A mysterious name/ Never heard of." Zero spoke.
"That doesn't surprise me, it's a fairly rural world, out in the outer colonies. Not as bad as Pandora but we're not very high in tech."
Maya looked confused for a second. "Did anyone else just get that?"
"Get wha-" Maddox began to ask.
"BRIGHT LIGHT! ANOTHER VOICE IN MY HEAD!" Krieg shouted.
"Yea, I just got it too. Some girl said she'd explain everything later and that we are alive for a reason." Axton confirmed.
"Minions! Over here!" Clap Trap shouted from a distance.
Everybody ran and caught up with the Steward robot. He then stood in front of a scanner. "Aaaand open." A door opened up leading into a place where they assumed he lived.
"Sorry about the extra security keeps Bullymongs out." They all followed him in. "This is my home, a lot more cozy than it is out there."
His home was definitely more cozy than they expected there was a small table with money and cards a few cabinets around and lots of offline clap trap units. There was even a couch near a furnace where it's pipe was going out of the ceiling and a massive Bullymong coming down the top of-
Wait there's a giant Bullymong climbing down the pipe. The beast grabbed Clap Trap and ripped his eye out. Maddox was the first to react making his arm turn into a cannon however as the Bullymong escaped he hit part of the pipe that began to collapse and fall into the home. Everyone got out of the way of the falling pipe except for Madoox, as part of it had landed on his arm tearing it off.
Maddox got up and didn't seem to notice nor care he was missing an arm. "Maddox your arm is… wait why aren't you bleeding or at least acting like it hurt? Are you a robot?" Gaige asked looking impressed and confused at the same time.
"Oh… yea I didn't even know it was off. I'm not really human, not anymore at least. I'm a freak not a robot."
"So then what are you?" Maya questioned.
"I'm more of a freak that's pretty much it. I've never met anyone like me. But I'm organic… I think."
"Not human or machine/ a unique species/ are you Eridian." Zero said in his haiku.
"I'm definitely not Eridian. I know there is at least one more out there like me. I just don't know where to find him or her. The Eridians are extinct."
"Wooaah, that is so dope." Gaige said. "There could be another you, and what if he's on Pandora?"
"That's one of the reasons I'm here. Of the clues I found he's somewhere here. But that's all I got." Maddox confirmed. "Anyways we should probably stop standing here and open the cabinet that Clappy keeps mentioning."
Maya nodded and opened the cabinet. "There's money, some med hypos and one repeater gun. Does anyone already have a weapon?" Everyone shook their heads. "Ok let's look around for anything useful and get going."
"Found some money." Axton said.
"Same here." Maya answered.
"I just found a Negotiator." Sal celebrated.
"Anaconda." Zero said holding a pistol.
"Got some ammo." Gaige said
"SHINY CASE!" Krieg said holding up ammo.
"Money." Maddox said.
"That's everything. Let's get going." Axton said.
"Alright just follow me and we'll get my eye back."
Probably figured it out, but I'm not good at talking Psycho, or Haiku. I try my best. I'm also not familiar with a lot of the items so I kinda just have the basic names for the weapons. Now this is very important, there are no New-U stations in this. One reason is if a character is going to die, they are dead dead. No rrrrrespawn. One more thing, as you can tell Maddox can still use his ability, there is a reason for that which I plan to reveal in later chapters. The others don't realize that they can't use their's yet.
Inventory Update
Axton
none
Maya
Dahl Pistol- Repeater
Salavador
Dahl Pistol- Repeater
Zero
Dalh Pistol- Anaconda
Gaige
none
Krieg
none
Maddox
none