I instantly feel my lose control as I step past the threshold. I take off one of my bracelets and use it to my hair back. a sneer marring my face as I feel the wind attempt to push me around.
"Alright Claptrap get us the fuck outta here, I'm already over the blizzard." I told him to which he replied.
"Great minds think alike minion! glad I thought of it! since I'm blind you will be my seeing-eye-skag! You are required to tell me ever-oof." The robot collapses a small snowdrift on himself.
"I'll just assume you didn't see that, now onwards my minions! To victory! To glory! To getting intimate with particularly attractive power couplings!" he then coughed and looked around warily. "Ignore that last one minions! it was a joke!"
Riiiight...really hope those instructions have a "for dummies" edition, whatever sick fuck made this thing clearly put a lot of effort into replicating his own twisted desires. This place is fucked isn't it?
I heard some malformed fusion of a screech and a growl and turned to see half a dozen bullymong pups? Barreling towards us with a handful staying behind packing together snow from what it looked like.
I looked down to see a massive blade in my hands, the edge being a solid three feet. It some kind of large teeth at the end made of what looked to be chain. The blade itself sat on a big squarish guard that reached all the way to the end of a two handed grip, it looked to be made of some kind of rusted metal. a small black chain dangled off the butt of the handle connected to a black crown tipped with gold.
"What the fuck it this?!" I asked as I inspected it.
First off, why the fuck does it weigh nothing?? This thing is clearly massive and made of lots of metal? Second where did it come...from...? Did that dream cause this? Maybe it wasn't a dream? But then what was it?
My thoughts were interrupted by a thirty mile an hour snowball whizzing past my left shoulder. My brain cleared and eyes widened immediately zoning in on the threat.
adrenaline began to pump as I started my dash towards it, I sidestepped two more projectiles before closing the distance and slamming the blade downwards as it seemed to magically gain weight for just long enough to cleave the creature in half.
Spattered with blood my heart pumped faster, something feeling wrong I swung to my left before getting knocked in the left side with what I now know to be a snowball with ice shards and rocks in them.
I clenched my jaw and let out a pained expletive, I need to stop hyper focusing, better yet stop thinking so hard in the middle of a fight. isnt this a fight? Pretty sure it counts maybe I should focus harder?
I zoned back in to see a bullymong midair, looking to use my face as landing strip. Not enthused by this idea I brushed the crap off my side and rolled backwards.
I take the chance to regain my bearings, only to see a lot of corpses littering the canyon. I felt bad instantly not only for making Zer0 do all the work, but also for nearly dying twice.
I wander towards the assassin, rubbing the back of my neck. "Sorry, I got distracted, never really had to fight much before I think? Plus this thing, whatever the fuck it is. Its kinda weird, kinda cool, Kinda breaks the laws of physics I think?" I spoke at him.
A question mark and a tilted head. "You don't recognize/The Items In Your Echo Dev?/They Are Personal." He replied.
"I've never had an echo device before." I say as I finally relax a bit and watch it vanish in a flash of rust and smoke. "I uh...don't think the echo device stores things like that does it?"
Zer0 shook his head. "No" He thought for a moment before replying. "Quite a strange weapon/Pulled forth like a siren skill/And dismissed as such." Zer0 postulated.
Siren? another thing to look into after I get to Sanctuary, I think she called it? hopefully I can find someone to speak to at length about this place, nothing against Zer0. He's a cool enough guy but the haiku is a little much. probably to deter people talking to him.
anyways, after looking around a bit we continued forward for a ways longer before seeing a massive crater, that the dumbass robot immediately fell into, tumbled all the way to the bottom, I'm impressed he survived. I'm also glad I can't hear whatever he is screeching about down there.
I'm broken from my thoughts by a light shove and a finger pointing towards the very large bullymong who stole the eye earlier. I sigh and turn to him. "I'll clear trash mobs you take on tall, white and smelly? you can even take the gun on his necklace if it works?" Zer0 thumbs up-ed me and vanish as I made my way down to the center.
There I had about five medium sized bullymongs at about a ten foot distance, I let the adrenaline flow, as I tensed my muscles, allowing the threat of battle to sink in.
like a rubber band snapping energy returned to the area, three immediately charging me while the others send objects at me.
I kite the closest one before closing in and swinging parallel with the ground sending its legs one way and its chest the other. I immediately jumped back as the second leapt towards me missing by a mere half foot.
Immediately I bring my blade down in a helm splitter, bisecting the fucker down the middle. Not letting the third take the advantage I race sped towards him, I cut two more snowballs from the air and slide under another before coming upon the next opponent.
It sent a high speed punch towards me and I put the blade between us, one hand on the grip, the other against the flat at the opposing end. three fists collide sending me flying back a few feet rolling head over ass a couple times.
My head was spinning and neck sore from the tumble I look up to see the bullymong on me, I roll left to avoid a haymaker that left a small crater.
Throwing myself to my feet I dodge another wild swing, and cleave off two of his four hands, before turning on my heel and removing it head from its body. I scanned the area to see the two ranged mongs scampering away as the largest feel to the ground with large thud a glowing katana inserted into its throat coming out just below the base of its skull.
I walked over as Zer0's cloaking stopped, pulled his katana from its throat as he snagged the necklace with gun and seeing receptacle on it. He fires the gun to see it leave a sizzling green ooze on the ice a ways a way. he nods and it vanishes in a cloud of boxes and light. he then throws the eye to me which I accept and pocket.
Zer0 walks up and grabs my echo pressing a few buttons and a twisting a few nobs. anything that didn't need to be in immediate reach vanished like his gun did. I raised an eyebrow and curious acted like I was holding a small ball, the eye came back, I let it go and it vanished again. Neat, that's how it works I guess.
The blade was gone, maybe it only showed up in high stress moments? It kinda comes and goes as it pleases I guess? Whatever, moving on, I turned to Claptrap and asked him. "How do we put your eye back in?"
The robot gasped over dramatically. "You!? My minions?! Do surgery on? Are you insane?! Do you wanna kill me?" It shrieked.
'kinda'
"Alright then, what do we do?" I asked with a sigh and rolled eyes.
"Take me to Liarsberg! There's a man there named Hammerlocke who is exceptionally skilled in repairing me!" He declared.
I turn to Zer0, "You know where this Liarsberg is?"
For unlikely the last time today, Zer0 once again animated his non understanding before grabbing my echo pressing some more buttons, and twisting some more knobs.
a mini map showed comfortably in the corner of my vision, with a small diamond pointing towards our destination. Nifty. "Thanks, I was hoping to learn how to use this in Sanctuary, didn't expect the haul to be so long I guess? Must be a fairly large planet if settlements are this rare."
Zer0 nodded both at my thanks and my guess, that put somethings into perspective for me a bit timewise, it had to have been at least six or seven hours since we arrived with no sign of change in weather or time.
Putting my hands in my pockets I get the sneaking suspici-Static fills my brain again as the woman appears once more.
"You are not the first vault hunters I have helped in saving this planet. Just like previously I am here again to help prevent pandora's destruction. Unfortunately the only way to do that is if Handsome Jack's head rolls. follow the robot, he'll lead you to Sanctuary, there you'll find the last group of hunters I guided." she explained.
"Hey so uh...I don't suppose you know where we can get Zer0 some arms? I mean to be honest, and I can't explain it, I just feel comfortable with the weird come-and-go sword? hmm." I turn to Zer0. "Hey Zer0! would you call that thing a sword?" I shouted.
about fifty feet away he put a hand to his chin for a second and shrugged before giving a thumbs up.
"Sword." I confirmed.
"Riiiight." she says. "While I am unsure what you are talking about I'll try to take a look soon, but to answer the question, there is a crashed hyperion convoy up ahead should be some fairly okay models in there to choose from." Finishing her statement she vanished.
We decide to wander in, noticing it was almost made to be the way out of the cavern from the otherside, towards Liarsberg. Maybe the residents moved it there to keep out the mongs? Did it crash there? Doesn't really matter.
Claptrap moved to open the door, only for an alarm to sound and red lighting to fill the room. "Ah ah kiddos." It said. "You know better than to steal from Handsome Jack."
My brain was filled with static again. "Shit! I mean crap, I forgot about his Claptrap policy, gimme a sec. Executing Phase Shift." She said.
The alarms stopped and lighting normalized, with a voice line saying. "Dunno how you tripped the alarm but try not to be such a fuck up next time."
The static was already gone and the door open, Zer0 and I stepped out the storm seeming to have cleared leading to a still absymally cold temperature with the sun shining brightly in a clear blue sky.
