Chapter 5: No rest for the Wicked

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Drax lost his cool maniacal persona for a more impatient one. "Well, I haven't got all day." He called as the audience looked to Nine Toes who was looking down at his pets digit and pinky.

Drax sighed and began running towards Nine Toes and his pets. Nine Toes glanced up to see him running and fumbled with his gun before dropping on his toe. Nine Toes shrieked in pain and Drax jumped on the blunt end of the crudely made spikes before wall running up 3 feet and grabbing the edge. Drax pulled himself up to see Digit staring at his face before doing a handstand and flipping over the skag right as it leapt at him.

Digit missed Drax by a hair and fell into the ring with the rest of the Vault Hunters who stumbled over to the downed Roland trying to make sure he survived. Digit was more worried for its master and was trying to jump up out of the stage but was always just a foot short. Drax landed on his feet and stared down Nine Toes who stopped hopping on one foot and was now just staring up at the blood soaked maniac.

Drax crouched down and rested one elbow on his knee and held his cheek with the bloodied hand. Drax gave Nine Toes an endearing smile for a few seconds as the two stared each other down. Drax leaned forward a bit and his eyes opened just enough to give his once endearing smile a more sinister feeling. Drax pushed off the ledge and grabbed Nine Toes mask and smashed his head on the toilet seat that Nine Toes used as a throne.

Nine Toes screeched in pain as Drax righted himself up and gripped Nine Toes even harder causing fractures in the mask he wore. Drax lifted him off the ground and held him face to face as Pinky charged with her head lowered to ram Drax. Drax noticed before she got close and dropped Nine Toes before standing full front towards the charging skag. Pinky neared and as she got close to Drax, Pinky launched herself into the air like a torpedo which made Drax grin like savage. Drax sidestepped the offender and smashed his knee into her midriff causing her to fly further than intended straight into the crowd who screamed and roared as the skagg smashed into the stands.

Drax turned his attention back to Nine Toes and grabbed the Clipper. Drax took the sharp blade that was held underneath the gun and shoved it into Nine Toes stomach. Nine Toes shrieked and pleaded as Drax pushed the blade deeper until his hands was in the wound. Drax looked Nine Toes dead in the eye before pulling the trigger and holding it down. Unleashing all 20 rounds of the fiery hellfire that this gun produced. It tore through Nine Toes stomach and painted the surrounding area red. Nine Toes himself burst into flames and Drax let the flames lick his hand that was buried into the burning corpse. Drax watched as the life left Nine Toes eyes and his body lost its remaining strength before literally falling apart into a pile of ash.

Drax stood up and watched as the crowd ran as fast as they could to the exit making him grin. Drax grabbed additional ammo out of the toilet that Nine Toes had and reloaded. He turned his new found gun onto the mass of people pushing and shoving to get out before unleashing hell. Out of the 300 bandits that came to the arena that day. Only 4 left to tell the tale of red eyed demon that was Drax.

The remaining Vault Hunters managed to pry open a sewer lid and escape before the smoke killed them all. The hideout was engulfed in flames and Drax sat on the toilet throne watching as everything burned. Smoke filled the arena and the crowd that tried to run was burning corpses in front of the door. Explosions echoed off from barrels filled with gasoline met the rising flames. The cave began to collapse and Drax began cackling as everything fell apart from around him.

The Vault Hunters pushed their way through the small tunnel that was the sewer pipe and into a large cavern. Pieces of rock were falling, Brick was carrying roland in a fireman carry, and mordecai was holding a hand over Bloodwings nose. Mordecai asked bloodwing to find an exit and she began lifting her wings to feel for flowing wind. She felt a breeze to the left and squaked in that direction as the gang hurried along.

As they exited the cave a large boulder fell and blocked the entrance leaving it a sealed tomb for Nine Toes. The Vault Hunters panted as they had just ran through at least a mile of tunnels to escape. Lilith crumbled to the floor and muttered something under her breath that no one else heard.

Mordecai crouched onto one knee and stroked bloodwing and barely managed to break out of the cage and fly back to Mordecai before the inferno began. Brick laid Roland down carefully before collapsing onto his back and laughing.

"Drax was crazier than I thought he was!" Brick laughed out as the adrenaline disappeared. Mordecai glanced at Brick "The puta nearly killed us and you think its funny?" Lilith snapped out of her stupor and looked towards the bickering two. "This is no time to argue amongst ourselves. Drax saved us regardless of how you looked at it and I didn't see him leave the Hideout."

Mordecai scoffed. "It would be a blessing if he died. Drax wasn't needed and joined us after stopping the bus in the middle of nowhere." Brick stopped laughing and leveled a hard stare from where he lay. "Drax saved your life and Bloodwing's life from that arena and you say he wasn't needed?" Brick growled and he stood up towering over Mordecai's crouched form. This caused Bloodwing to fly up and circle Brick dangerously as Mordecai drew his kukri. Brick pointed a beefy finger at him "No matter how much you bluster that Drax didn't save your life, you and me both know that without him you would have died to that bigass psycho."

Mordecai stared up at him for a few seconds before sheathing his knife and standing up. He held out his arm for Bloodwing and walked away as she landed. Lilith opened her mouth to try and bring him back but stopped when Roland grabbed her ankle from where he lay. "Let him be. He needs a moment to himself."

Somewhere off planet

"Did you see what I mean? He lost all control there and nearly killed everything around him!"

"Sweetie I know what he did. But I can control a mindless beast much easier than an intelligent one"

"You keep calling him mindless but what he just demonstrated was a cold and calculated temperament that resulted in the deaths of hundreds!"

The man raised his hand to silence his female cohort.

"Nothing about that was calculated. He reacted to a situation as it occured. No intelligence was shown except when he pulled the trigger but even a thresher could do that."

The man walked out of the room and left his companion with one last idle threat.

"THIS is the last time I hear of how "dangerous" he is. That man is nothing but a wild animal and can't even be considered human." He spun on his heels as the door was closing. "So leave it!"

The door shut and locked leaving the female alone to her systems.

"Not dangerous? NOT DANGEROUS! Fine. I will show you how dangerous he can be."

The female began furiously working with the computers as she began her plan.

Skag Gully, Pandora

The ground shifted and pushed as a skag walked by it. The skag sniffed the ground and lost interest. It walked not even three feet away before the ground exploded open and a larger skag jumped out. This skag was massive easily being a Badass level skag with huge thick plates of armor protecting its front and large deep azure spines sticking up from the center of its back. These spines trailed with its spinal cord and stopped at its rear where the plates ended. This armored skagg was none other than Reikon. Reikon grew and became a Badass Alpha Skag. It was when Reikon was eating through the rock with its bile attempting to save its unconscious master did it run into some shock crystals. Reikon ate some believing it was just treats before digging free and growing spines from the crystals.

Reikon could feel a large amount of energy in its center that trailed to his spines. When Reikon pushed this energy upwards with a roar he became coated in an electricity field that sparked and zapped anything that touched him. Reikon shut it off and reached its head into the hole before dragging an unconscious Drax by his ruined shirt.

Reikon turned and growled at the smaller adult skag that watched him emerge and stared doing a weird chirping laughter moment when it ran with the tiny tail between its legs.

Reikon curled around his master and protected him from prying eyes as he scanned the surroundings with his deep blue eyes. Two bandits ran towards them with a collar and a large whip. They made whooping sounds and stood a distance from Reikon who growled. The adult skag came back hiding behind its master as they attempted to goade it into a trap that they sat unbeknown to Reikon.

Reikon finally stood up and his sheer size caused the bandits to rethink this plan. Reikon was slightly bigger than your average Badass skag. His massive muscles and plates of hardened tissue added to the intimidating factor that he had.

Reikon sparked before roaring and consuming his body in a torrent of electricity. The bandits dropped their taming gear and drew their smgs. They almost opened fire until one shrieked in fear and fell to the ground, pointing at the unconscious body of Drax.

"That's the Bloody Demon!" The bandit shouted out to his friend in a country accent. The other bandit dropped his gun in shock as they both looked at each other and back to the massive skagg and the unconscious male.

"We need to report this to the boss."

Thanks for reading chapter 5, doing a wrap up for the introduction of Drax and Reikons ability as well as bringing in the first arc.

I am accepting OC's who will be essentially bandits. Nothing to insane just named bandits and a few lucky ones will get premiered in a little secret if the OC fits the bill. All I ask is that each OC has a "talent" like hunting, taming, cooking, and whatnot as well as one personality trait and personality flaws.

I plan on bringing more to everyone and hope to see you in the next one