Inside the Sanctuary ship, Maya enters the Moxxi bar and orders a drink from Ol' Balloon Tits, as Maya drinks her mild alcohol, a certain operative enters the bar and scratches the back of his head, wearing his usual black-ops uniform.
As Zane sits down beside Maya, the Siren smiles as him, "I take it you're tired from doing errands from Tannis?".
"Ahh - Tannis is alright, but her needs are waaay out of my league - thankfully that tin can and his little jungle will take care now. Moze and Amara are hanging out by the Cargo Bay, and I am finally alone with me self - and me drink ~ " he takes out his canteen which is filled with alcohol and downs it in one go.
Maya flinches a bit, "Woah - never seen someone drank that much since my last Vault Hunter friend. He was one hell of a drinker than Mordecai, and a quite a Gunzerker."
Zane closes his canteen and unwinds a bit, putting the back of his arms on the counter, looking at the door. "Well that's one of the perks of being in Pandora - you get to drink anythin' from luxurious drinks like this, to utter skag piss, but mostly the skag piss."
"You were from Pandora?", Maya asks.
"Born and raised, lass. ~ That's right. The name's Zane Flynt.", he smirks at her, confident about his name and his looks, despite the oldest Vault Hunter.
However, Maya widens her eyes and shakes her hands a little bit and slowly looks away, "Uhh - y-y-yeah. F-F-Flynt. Say, by some chance, have you ever hunted down or met a . . . Captain Flynt?".
Zane nods, "Right you are, lass. But I know more about him - because he's me brother! HAHA! Tried to kill me a lot of times during me black ops days. But for some reason, recently, he hasn't been sending me assassins. I wonder what could've happened to him.", he wonders about his brother, not knowing the real killer of his brother is sitting right next to him. "Eh, he'll be fine. At least he won't have a ship like this to catch me, right lass? Lass?", he looks around to see Maya already gone from her seat. Did he said something wrong?
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Back on the ship's cockpit, Lilith is monitoring the nearby planets for any COV activity, since the Cringe Twins are suspiciously dead silent. She's checked Promethea, Eden-6, and even Nekrotafeyo, but somehow, there wasn't anything that involves the COV. She sighs and closes the map and sees Maya, nervous about something. Lilith approaches her, "Maya, is something the matter?"
"Lilith, we need to talk about . . . Zane."
"Zane? You mean the new guy? I mean, he's not "new" considering he has quite the combat experience he has been. He's been quite the charmer with everyone so far - ", Lilith shrugs nonchalantly.
" - I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT THAT! - Look, that man is dangerous, and he's going to kill us all if we don't finish him off! - ", Maya loudly whispers to her Siren friend.
Lilith backs off her, walking slowly. " - Maya, what's going on? I can't do that to a fellow Crimson Raider! - "
"That Crimson Raider, is a brother to Captain Flynt! You know - the same Flynt that tried to kill Claptrap in the Southern Shelf?! And what's worse, he doesn't know about Captain Flynt's death! If he knows, he's going to bring Sanctuary to a Red Giant and we'll be all dead if we don't deal with him first."
It's now Lilith's turn to be shocked, remembering the time she killed Baron Flynt, the leader of the raider gang back in Pandora, he was a former Dahl prison warden before he used the prisoners as his men to get what he wants. And that's a far cry from Zane Flynt, who's literally worked for every corporation, and being hunted by every corporation along with several people who wants him dead.
"This can't be happening - I-It's impossible. Back when Mordecai, Brick, Roland and I were together to hunt the Vault of the Destroyer, we killed Baron Flynt, another big bandit leader around Pandora, he was calm and collected. But those three aren't related right? I mean, it's weird to have names like that; Baron, Captain, and . . . Zane? That's stupid."
"Acutally, I have pre-recorded audio of that.", a voice utters from the console. A teddy bear.
"Balex? What do you mean you have audio?", Lilith and Maya approach the bear.
"When I was inside of that fucking giant Saurian on Eden-6, that old man along with the short stuff, tin can, and buff gal arrive to help me claim the part of the Vault Key fragment. I shared why my name's Balex - and how stupid it is, and they shared theirs too; here, I'll play'em for you."
"Hey, could've been worse. My brothers were named 'Baron' and 'Captain', I got off lucky with 'Zane'."
"My 512-character alphanumeric designation has no meaning, but I have shortened it to 'Fl4k' for the sake of time."
"Nah, I get it. I'm Moserah Hayussinian Yan-Lun al-Amir Adreyevna. Call me Moze."
"I'm Amara. It means 'deathless' on thirty-seven worlds, and it's a brand condition on eight."
Both Lilith and Maya were both silent as Zane truly admits that he's from the Flynt family and they were both internally terrified if word gets out to Zane. Lilith turns to Maya, "What're we gonna do? - "
" - WHAT?! DON'T PASS IT ON ME, I'M THE ONE ASKING FOR HELP! - Uhh, but if it was up to me, I'd say, ditch him on a dead planet.", Maya suggests.
"No, the Drop Pods have access to the Fast Travel Stations, whether we're lightyears away, he can still come back - I think we should just kill him while he's sleeping - but not too messy."
"Are you kidding? Everyone will suspect that, especially that bot with the skag, spiderant and that jabber! Lilith, I occasionally sometimes wish that I had the skill of smelling things accurately from miles away, because that's basically what the jabbers are good at! The moment we finish him - it'll bite us back in the ass - LITERALLY!"
Both Sirens are exhausted at how are they going to do about the old man, but slowly turns to Zane and his Digi-Clone, pointing their guns at them. "You gals seem to be quite the dayplanners. Too bad you talked to me man Balex when he spoke up."
"Yeah - sorry girls.", the bear apologizes at the Sirens.
Lilith raised her hands up, "Zane, listen - about your brothers. - "
" - Shh, enough about that Lil' I know everythin' now. My brothers' are dead . . . and I can safely assume my nephew's dead too, ain't that right, sapphire?", Maya clicks her tongue and frowns at Zane. However, the Operative smiles, "I'll take that as a 'Yes'. Now the question is - what to do with you two? Shoot you both dead here and now? Nah, that won't be fun. Maybe give a proper send off in the airlock, I'll let Clappy do the honors. Or ~ ".
There was a moment of silence before Zane gives them a blank look and lowers his pistol, and deactivates his Digi-Clone. " - Eh. This sucks.", Lilith and Maya exchange glances before going back at Zane.
"Wait, you're not gonna kill us?", Maya steps forward.
"Nah, if you really were the one that killed me brothers, and nephew, you should've killed me when you had the chance. But I get it, looks are everything.", he boasts himself with a smirk.
"But what about your brothers? Your family? Don't you care about them?", Lilith asks the Operative, only to be met with jovial laughter.
"DAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHA! ME?! CARE ABOUT THEM?! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA OoOoOoOoOo ~ THAT was a good one, Firehawk! - Actually, I have been planning to kill them meself once I was back on Pandora. Baron didn't care about me for shite plus he is a bit of a sadist, and Captain, although he's keeping in touch by sending assassins at me, ruined almost ALL of me plans and one of the reasons why I want to retire on me assassination business. But since they're both dead - I suppose I owe you both. I mean I'm disappointed that I never got to see them again - but good riddance to all of 'em. I get to have me peace and quiet for a long time."
Maya and Lilith are both confused at how the Operative just laughs it off, his brothers and nephew are all killed by them and he only gave his thanks? No revenge? No grudge?
But before Zane leaves, he goes back to the Sirens, "But - seriously, if you wanna plan a betrayal, don't talk in the middle of the cockpit - that's Backstabbing 101. Though I'll give ya both a pass . . . for now.", the Operative ended with a grim note before leaving the room and head out.
Suddenly, Claptrap arrives, "That old geezer is related to Captain Flynt?! . . . Huh, small world."