Songs: Pearl Jam - Once; KMFDM - Me & My Gun

"Alright, before we head back, I've got something to do here in Helios. Anyone up for it?" she asked us.

"I can do it, I'm getting nervous again." I said immediately. I really needed to be busy and I was kind of scared of what I'd find when we got back to camp.

"I'd go, too, don't need a break yet." Anouk replied while she was searching the room for more ammo.

"Perfect. Anyone else? Axton? Salvador? Would you be okay to go with them?" Lilith asked. The two of them nodded.

"Great. So here's the thing. I've found an old prototype of Angel's Chamber. We can't let that technology fall into the wrong hands. So I say we destroy it. I've sent the location to your ECHO devices, so you can go and find it." Lilith explained to us. Alright, that sounded pretty important.

"Alright, sounds good. We'll be on our way, then." I answered and got my guns reloaded and ready to go.

"Thanks. I'll get back to camp with Tina and the rest, come back once you're all done with this job." Lilith said. I nodded and waved at her, before our little group left the room to make our way towards the chamber that Lilith had marked. It looked like the room was close to Loader Bay #24, so we didn't have to walk very far.

"Man, how did people not get constantly lost in this place? Literally everything looks the same." Axton said while we were making our way through the hallways and corridors of Helios.

"You kinda get used to it when you're working for a big corporation. When I started with Vladof, it took me a week or two to find my way through the work place." Anouk replied. Salvador looked surprised.

"Really? That doesn't sound like a very long time." he said.

"Well, I could find my way from the entrance to my workplace and from my workplace to the canteen and the meeting rooms we used regularly. If anyone sent me anywhere else I was just as lost as I was on my first day. You only ever know the routes you need to know, but you usually never go anywhere else, so it's okay." Anouk answered and shrugged. Hearing that, I was kind of glad that I never started a job with one of the big corporations. It sounded kinda stressful.

"Lilith! Wonderful news. I've discovered a predecessor to Angel's chamber on Helios! Imagine what we could learn from it!" Tannis suddenly echoed us. I raised an eyebrow and looked at the computer terminal just in front of us. Whatever Tannis wanted to learn from it, I couldn't imagine it was good.

"I've already sent the Vault Hunter to destroy the chamber." Lilith informed her matter-of-factly.

"Looks like we have to hack this terminal to get in. Anyone any good at that?" I asked the rest of the group. Everyone was shaking their heads and shrugged. I sighed. I was by no means good at hacking stuff, but I had learned a little bit from Mordecai, so I probably was the most qualified to do this.

"Destroy it?! First you deny me a plant-monster army and now this?! No! I need the data from Jack's early experimentation on Angel for my Sirentology studies. And yes, that is a word I made up. But all words are made up, so hmph." Tannis complained while I did my best to get the door to open. It looked pretty hopeless, though.

"You saw what happened to Angel, and to me. That information is too dangerous. We're going to destroy it. All of it. Keep going, Vault Hunters." Lilith said. I looked at the console. This should be opening the doors. But for some weird reason, it didn't. I tried refreshing the process, but that didn't help.

"What's wrong?" Salvador asked.

"Well, this should be working, but it doesn't." I answered while staring at the console. I couldn't figure out what was wrong with it.

"Any other ideas on how to make it work?" Axton wanted to know. I shook my head while scanning the screen again.

"Not really, at least not at the moment... I might have to echo Mordecai, maybe he has an idea..." I mumbled. Anouk came up to the console and punched the side of it really hard. The screen went blank for a second and then the doors opened. We all looked at her completely dumbfounded.

"Old Vladof trick." she just said and shrugged.

"Great job, guys. The chamber should be just down there." Lilith told us over the ECHO. I looked back at the screen and then at the group again.

"Alright, guess we're in, then." I replied and started walking down the narrow corridor. It was dimly lit with what looked like emergency lighting. At the end of the corridor we found a big chamber that looked similar to Angel's Chamber, just smaller. I recognised the way it looked, and all the memories of Roland's and Angel's death came crawling back to me. Hopefully this wouldn't take long.

"Consider this, Lilith. The more we know about Sirens, the more we know about yourself. We still don't understand where these powers come from, or how they might manifest in the future. You of all people should see the value of that information." Tannis pleaded with Lilith again, just as I heard a shot and a bullet was passing by my head, missing it by just a few millimeters.

"Sniper, get down!" I shouted and took cover behind a wall. Shit. Hector's people were in here as well. This was really bad. Hopefully, they didn't get any data back to Hector. Or even worse to some corporation.

"Lil, we're under attack right now." I informed here while waiting for the sound of shooting to stop.

"Hold that thought, we're not the first ones to find this place. Vault Hunter, clear out those soldiers!" Lilith told Tannis.

"Axton, when it gets quiet again, go and deploy your turrets. Sal, don't hold back and shoot anything you can. Anouk, the two of us will be sniping from here. All clear?" I quietly whispered into my ECHO. As I looked over at them, I saw them nodding and giving me thumbs up. Just then it quieted down.

I got up quietly and looked through my scope. I could see the sniper right there, out in plain sight. That was pretty careless. I signalled Axton, Sal and Anouk to get ready and quickly pulled the trigger. Clean headshot. Now we could only hope they didn't have more snipers here.

"Okay, we're working on clearing this place, Lil, we'll keep you updated." I informed her and aimed at the next soldier. He seemed to be just a recruit, no special armor or anything. It would be easy to get through his shield.

"See, Tannis? Hector already sent his engineers to check out the equipment. We can't let them get it!" Lilith said.

"Fine! Do your worst. Just send me the data first! We cannot pass up this opportunity!" Tannis replied. I could hear Lilith sighing at the other end, while I blew out this recruit's brains. Poor guy probably had no idea what he had signed up for.

"Fine. Vault Hunters, do it." Lilith told us.

"Sure thing, we're almost done clearing out the chamber." I replied.

"We got three left!" Anouk shouted at me.

"Only two now." Salvador answered promptly. I barely had time to check where the other two of Hector's soldiers were, before Axton informed me that we were indeed done clearing out the chamber.

"Alright. Let's upload all the data, then. Tannis, we're working on sending you everything from this place. Let us know, if you get it." I echoed her, as I made my way up to what looked to be the main console in the room. Thankfully, it was easy to get to the data from this console and it didn't take me long to get it all together and send it back to Tannis as a bundle.

"Receiving the data now..." Tannis said, sounding almost a little too excited. Who knew what she hoped to get from that data. I was sure being in here was pretty traumatizing for Axton and Salvador. I knew it made me uncomfortable to be here and I had only watched the ECHO transmission of the whole thing that went down in Angel's Chamber. The two of them were actually there in person.

"This place brings up a lot of bad memories. Even after Jack... after he tortured me, I can't imagine what Angel must have gone through. A caged bird. Her whole life. She could have been so much more." Lilith said over the ECHO. She sounded like it was difficult for her to talk about it, but I was glad she at least sometimes tried to take my advice not to keep all the bad stuff to herself.

"We'll be right back in a few, alright, Lil? The data's just finished uploading, so we only gotta destroy this place and then we're good. Hang in there." I echoed her. Axton looked over at me.

"Any plans on how to destroy this thing without killing ourselves in the process?" he wanted to know. I shrugged.

"I dunno. We'll figure something out, I guess." I replied.

"Mmmnh! So much data to analyze! Ah, delicious! Now, you may carry on with your smashing." Tannis echoed us, confirming she had received all the data. I looked around the chamber to see if there was any obvious way to blow this thing to pieces. Technically we only needed to destroy the console.

"Let's tear this place down. Good riddance." Lilith told us.

"Are you thinking corrosive weapons or...?" I asked her, after taking a look at the console. Corrosive always worked well against any piece of machinery, so that was probably the easiest way.

"Corrosive, shock, whatever gets the job done. Just smash this thing to pieces." she replied. I nodded and grinned.

"You heard her, guys. Let's do this." I said to the rest of the group. We stood in front of the console and just fired whatever gun we had at hand at the console. There were sparks flying and there was metal melting and some smoke came out of the console until it caught fire. It was probably dead for good now.

"I guess we're done he-"

"Unsafe Angel activity detected. Executing "Fallen Angel" failsafe protocol." a robotic voice announced, before I could finish my sentence.

"Oh for fuck's sake." I mumbled, waiting for whatever failsafe protocol Hyperion had in store for us.

"Ah. I will work to resolve the issue. Stay alive!" Tannis told us. Nothing was happening yet, so we just waited expectantly.

"Vault Hunter, you've got bots coming your way!" Lilith warned us. It was then that we saw several bots being digistructed around us.

"Of course, the one thing that still works in this wreck is the failsafe that kills us." I mumbled. I was getting pretty fed up with this space station right about now. Maybe I really needed that sleep, after all, even though I'd been keeping it off until the very end. I didn't want to admit it to myself, but I was just really, really scared of some nightmares returning. I had a feeling about this.

"Okay, you can stop the digistructing by destroying three circuits. I sent you some ECHOmap markers on where they should be, according to the floor plans of this place." Tannis echoed us after we had been fighting off the first round of bots. They were pretty tough for Hyperion bots.

"Alright, guys, I'm going after the circuits, while you fight off the bots!" I said and made my way towards the first circuit. They all seemed to be up around the platform in the middle of the chamber. There were some ladders up towards smaller platforms that were connected to the middle by some sort of light bridges. I made my way up one of the ladders and quickly ran towards the middle platform. I took out the first circuit and then went around towards the other two circuits.

"Guys, is it safe down there?" I shouted from the platform.

"All good, seems like the digistructing stopped working after the first round. I think we're done." Axton replied. I nodded and looked down. The platform looked pretty high, but I'd probably survive it without injuries if I managed to land on my robotic foot.

"I knew I could count on you to get this done. Now come on back." Lilith echoed us, just as I jumped down from the platform.

"You alright?" Salvador asked.

"Yeah, I'm fine. I'm tired as fuck, though."