Old Program
Chapter 2: Back in the Saddle
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"Yeah what Maya said" Gaige said.
Fragtrap was more than happy to explain "well you see minions five years ago Jack reprogrammed me to be a vault hunter so five others and I could help him get to a vault on Pandora's moon Elpis. After that the six of us went on a journey into my mind because there was something important stored away in it. Once he got it, he shot me and killed my product line. However, a small part of my software managed to keep me from permanently shutting down, I was then found by a guy called Hammerlock (who funny enough was the brother of one of the vault hunters I worked with on Elpis, small universe huh) and he repaired me. Since then I've been living in this frozen hellhole as a simple Claptrap. But it seems Gaige accidently reactivated my old Fragtrap program" he finished explaining.
The vault hunters took a few minutes to digest this information "huh a vault hunting Claptrap, there's something I never though I'd hear" Axton said "THE TOASTER DOESN'T JUST BURN TOAST HE BURNS PEOPLE" Krieg yelled. "Well minions since I have my old badass program back it only makes sense that I come along with you on your quest to murder Jack" he said. The vault hunters looked at each other "uh hey Cl-Fragtrap, do you think you could give us some privacy to talk about something" Maya asked. "No problem minions, I'll go check out that barge on top of the ridge and see if I can get it open" he said.
The six vault hunters huddled together "there is no way we're bringing him along" Axton said. "What, why not" Gaige asked "you mean besides the fact he's the most annoying robot ever" Axton replied. "Well yeah but we're going up against the Hyperion corporation, we're gonna need all the help we can get" Gaige said. "You seriously believe that story, you probably fried his processor and wrecked whatever sanity he had left" Axton countered. Zer0 spoke up at this "actually I heard stories of the Elpis vault hunters and one of them was said to be a modified Claptrap unit."
"See he's an ass kicking Claptrap; that's like a unicorn or a good goblin, you think it can't be real but then you find it" Gaige said. "But he's so annoying" Salvador said, "too much of him and I'll probably save Jack the trouble and blow my own brains out." "He may be annoying, but I think he deserves a chance, I know how it feels to be betrayed by someone you thought you could trust" Maya said. "Maya, and I can't believe I'm saying this, but you're letting your personnel feelings cloud your judgment" Axton said, "Claptraps were some of the most cowardly robots ever made, he'll probably just get in the way." "let's put it to a vote, all for letting Fragtrap come along raise your hand" Gaige said, she and Maya raised their hands "all opposed" Axton and Salvador raised theirs.
They looked to Zer0 and Krieg "well, what do you two think" Maya asked. Zer0 shrugged his shoulders "I don't care either way, so I'm abstaining" he said. They looked to Krieg who had been surprisingly quiet throughout the whole discussion. 'Say no man, I can only handle so much annoyance in my life' his inner voice pleaded. "THE MURDER BOT HAS A CONSITUTIONAL RIGHT TO MURDER, MURDER BOTS V POOP COURT WHO KNOWS WHEN" Krieg yelled 'I fucking hate you' the voice said.
"Well that sounds like an "I" to me" Gaige said; Axton, Salvador, and Krieg's inner voice sighed at this. They walked up the ridged and saw Fragtrap standing by the door. "Bad news guys, I forgot to mention my Fragtrap protocols sacrifice the ability to open doors" he said. Before they could say anything, Angel spoke up "let me help you with that" she said. "Initiating phase shift" she said, after a few seconds the door opened.
"uh what just happened" Fragtrap asked. "Oh, right an AI is talking to us over our echo devices, since your coming along we should get you one too" Gaige said. "No need minion, when Jack reprogrammed me, he included a built-in echo feature, I was so excited that I forgot to turn it on" Fragtrap said. They heard a click from Fragtrap, Angel chimed in to test it "can you hear me Fragtrap" she asked. "Oh, hey you must be the AI my minions were talking about" he greeted.
"Hello Fragtrap" Angel greeted "it's good to know there's another vault hunter going up against Jack." "Damn right, Jack is gonna pay for trying to murder me and killing my product line" Fragtrap replied. "Well before you can do that you'll need to get to Sanctuary and the resistance" Angel said.
Soon the vault hunters approached Liar's Berge, from the ridge overlooking it they saw bandits wandering the town. "oh, hey it's Captain Flynt's crew, they used to torture me for fun" Fragtrap said. "Well then this should be cathartic for you" Maya said. Fragtrap pulled out a pistol he found on the barge and the group approached the gate. After killing the bullymong's at the gate Fragtrap used his echo to call the town's only living resident that wasn't a bandit "hey Hammerlock, think you can open the gate for us" he asked.
An English accented voice groaned on the echo channel "spectacular, first Flynt's men show up now Claptrap, I must have been horrifyingly cruel to puppies in a past life to deserve this" he said in annoyance. The gate began to open but then simply fell off it's hinges. The bandits were surprised by this which gave the vault hunters a chance to attack first. They opened fire with their pistols which killed a few bandits, sending their comrades scrambling for cover.
A bandit stood up from behind a barrel only to be hit in the head by Krieg's buzz axe. Another stood up to fire when his head was sliced off by Zer0 who had flanked the bandits. Krieg charged towards his buzz axe while firing his pistol at any enemy he saw and once he reached it he put away his pistol and simply jumped into the fray alongside Zer0 as he chopped away at bandits. They were soon joined in this by Salvador when his ammo ran out.
Gaige sat behind a thick ice wall trying to calm her nerves "okay Gaige you can do this, they're bandits they wouldn't hesitate to do the same to you" she said to herself. Then a bandit armed with a knife came around the corner ready to stab her, she let out a yelp of fear and surprise and fired her pistol reflexively. The bullet went into the bandit's head and he toppled backwards dead. Gaige took some deep breaths and wiped his blood off her face and worked up enough courage to start shooting at the bandits.
Axton and Maya were behind a metal crate as they fired at the bandits. Axton had received military training, so he found shooting a pistol as easy as taking a walk. Maya struggled a bit since she was getting used to guns because the monks didn't think she needed to use them, so she was mostly new to firearms. Meanwhile Fragtrap shot at any bandit in his sight "that's for tossing me in the ocean, that's for setting me on fire, that's for stealing my wheel" he listed off everything the Rippers had done to him every time he killed one.
Things became more chaotic when a group of bullymong's joined in. a brat jumped onto a bandit's back, knocking him over and was joined by two monglets. The bandit screamed as they tore into him, blood and an arm being tossed out from the group. An adult bullymong jumped from the roof of a house and landed on a bandit, crushing him. Another adult grabbed a bandit's leg and pulled him to the ground, this caused the bandit to drop his gun.
Before he could grab it the bullymong swung him into the air and slammed him into the ground, the bandit grunted as he felt and heard his bones crack and break. The bullymong proceeded to repeat this several times before tossing the dead and broken bandit at Zer0, only for the meat projectile to be punched away by Salvador. Zer0 gave a nod of thanks and continued killing both man and beast. An adult bullymong landed in front of Fragtrap, knocking him on his back next to a dead bandit. He aimed his pistol and pulled the trigger only to be met with nothing, he was out of ammo.
The bullymong loomed over him when Fragtrap felt something by his hand flaps. "You hungry big guy" he asked, the bullymong roared in his face as if to answer "then eat THIS!" He threw his hand forward and stuffed it in the beast's mouth before pulling it out and running away. The bullymong instinctly swallowed what Fragtrap stuff in its mouth. it turned to Fragtrap when its gut exploded, Fragtrap watched the carnage, a grenade pin in his flaps.
Soon the fight began to die down and eventually the vault hunters stood victorious.
AN: hope you enjoyed everyone, and I hope this chapter was exciting enough for you. As you can see, I'm doing some things with the vault hunters, Gaige still needs to get used to intentionally killing people and Maya, well I doubt until she fell out with the monks, she had much practice with guns. Read, review, helpful criticism, but a flame and I'll sic Krieg on you.