This fanfic is about Borderlands 2.
It will be told in the POV of my OC, Terra.
It will contain lesbianism, possible lemon, cussing, violence, gore, blood, and character death.
With all of this out of the way, let's get started.
Chapter 18
Once we moved through the mines, we saw that there were a number of orcs running the first areas and that there were a few more spiders we had to deal with on top of that, but nothing we couldn't handle (except for Angie, as she still hid behind rocks when the spiders came out to say hello). We continued until we came across the dwarves themselves, all of them working and all of them having the head of Brick, but with a large beard on almost all of them. "We need to try and get these guys on our side and help us against the Handsome Sorcerer," Tina said, us approaching one of them and wondering which of them was the leader, since almost all of them looked exactly the same.
"Um... Excuse me? Can I ask which of you is the leader of the dwarves?" I asked aloud, getting all the dwarfs' attentions and making them stop working. One of the dwarfs approached me, him having the biggest and most impressive beard of the bunch, but his head still being as bald as Brick's. "I'm King Ragnar, the leader of the dwarves and leader of the resistance movement. You want to go after the Handsome Sorcerer, correct? Then please, shake my hand," Ragnar said in a very ye olde English, stereotypical dwarvish thing in his voice. "Nice to meet you," I said as I held out my hand and shook his hand... only to see something that we wouldn't have expected.
Upon me touching Ragnar, he immediately transformed into Brick himself, the shock on all the dwarves' faces and Angie's making me uncomfortable. "Whoa... what just happened?" Angel asked. "It must be my Siren powers... some of these beings in this world are made up of Eridium from Tina getting experimented on with it in the real world... so Ragnar must've been slightly contaminated by it," I said with concern. "I don't know what yer talkin' about, maiden, all I know is that I'm now extremely tall," Brick said with Ragnar's voice, making me relieved that he still had his original personality... in terms of Tina's mind.
"Yeah... apologies for spooking you guys... it was completely unintentional," I frowned. "Anywho, we can help you out in the good fight against the Handsome Sorcerer, but the gate leading to his dungeons and castle is blocked by ancient dwarvish magic. You'll need 4 special runes to open it and then say the passphrase to get through the gate. I can lead you to the ones I know of, but Greedtooth, who is being controlled by the Sorcerer's foul magics, has the final one. And he has a giant golden golem to help him out in battles," Ragnar explained. "Sounds great! So where do we go to find the other runes?" Roland asked.
"The first rune was stolen by an annoying, lonely wizard who has also locked the gate that leads to the other ones. The second requires you to jump across magic platforms in order to reach it. And the final one is a block puzzle with the rune hidden within the block. Find out the code to unlock it and you may be allowed to get the rune. Only by having 3 of the previously mentioned runes will Greedtooth open the way to his area. He's incredibly greedy, so he's sure to want the other 3 to complete his collection," Ragnar explained. "Understood. We'll defeat that Sorcerer and have you all live in peace, believe me," Angie smiled at them as Tina then touched Brick and he transformed back into Ragnar's smaller form in an instant. "Thank you, young bairn," the dwarf king smiled at Tina. "Yeah, yo welcome, girl," Tina smirked in her own way as we then moved up to the area that held the road to the wizard, us seeing and smiling awkwardly about how the wizard happened to be everyone's lovable steward bot.
"What the hell?... I didn't know you liked Clappy, Tina," I admitted to her. "I don't. He's in here solely because I think he's annoying and I wish he could be even more lame," Tina frowned to me right in front of Claptrap. "Aw, Mistress Tina, your words of oppression bring joy and sadness into my life at the same time," the robotic wizard said. "Listen, we need to collect 4 special runes filled with dwarvish magic, great wizard. Can you please open the way so we can get them?" I asked him, getting his attention when I said 'great wizard'. "Haha! You've got me in a good mood, fair maiden, so I shall open the gate for you," Claptrap smiled as he then took us up a ramp to the gate and he cast a spell.
"Alaka-and-open!" Claptrap said, me smirking at his words as the gate then opened and we moved through and we happened to see Clappy's rune, which was a T. "Can we have this rune?" I asked him. "Sure, go ahead," Claptrap said with a happy attitude. I then took it and pocketed it in my bag, making sure it didn't touch any of the slag weapons I had on me. And just as I was about to head out to the jumping puzzle, I got a call on my Echo, which I answered of course. "Hello? Who is this?" I asked. "Tara? This is Lilith. Listen, it's been a whole day since you've been inside of Tina's mind and we've started getting calls from Hyperion on our Echos to wonder where their new president went to. We told them that Angel got hung up on something important, and they asked who was in charge in her stead. We still don't trust any Hyperion personnel ourselves, so which of us should be in charge of talking to Hyperion?" Lilith asked. "Well, honestly, I think it should be you," Angel said into my Echo for Lilith to hear. "Really? Well, okay, I guess I can handle that," my sis smiled. "Okay, anything else? Particularly involving Fluffy?" I asked her. "He hasn't wanted any food for a bit, but he said that, when lunchtime comes tomorrow, he needs to eat. What should he eat, though?" Lilith asked. "Take him to either the Highlands or the Caustic Caverns that propped up after Sanctuary flew into the skies. He needs to get a taste of the dangerous wildlife such as Varkids, Spiderants, Skags, and Stalkers specifically. He needs to learn to eat something other than humans," I said. "Understood," Lilith smiled.
Lily then hung up and we finally arrived at the first jump puzzle, it looking pretty difficult, so I simply jumped on the different purple floating rocks like I was doing the Triple Jump, me making it to the top of the final platform with ease. "I got the second rune. This one says F," I said as a bridge then formed after I got it, allowing me to have a safer route back to the main area. "Okay then, now that that's settled, let's deal with the block puzzle," Tina smirked as we continued to trek through the mines and eventually reached a room that had both lava and a large floating block, a ton of different cranks as well. "Maybe turn the cranks?" I smirked.
I then turned all of the cranks all around the place and the block puzzle then fell down to a mid-hover above the ground and the lasers then started to change different runes inside of the cube, me recognizing the pattern with each one that happened. "Hmm... I think I may have an idea... maybe try doing turning the cranks from end to beginning?" I asked. "That may work," Roland smirked as we then proceeded to turn the cranks in reverse order, us smiling at how the block puzzle glowed brightly and spat out the rune from the bottom of it, also forming a bridge to a super cool chest, one that had 2 10 sided die. "Hehe, I roll both for initiative," I smirked as I then would regret that a bit. "Ack! It's taking the Eridium from the nearby dwarves!" Angel exclaimed in shock as I noticed all the dwarves turned into carbon copies of Brick, them looking shocked as all hell when they did.
"What the hell happened?" the one dwarf asked, his voice still there, thankfully. "Sorry, I didn't know this chest required Eridium to open," I admitted honestly as the chest then rolled a perfect 20, which I immediately knew was a good loot drop. And lo and behold, the chest opened and I immediately exclaimed profanity as I had to grab onto Angie, Roland, and Tina and jump us away from the chest! Why? Because it was actually a mimic treasure chest! A living monster that disguised itself as a chest and eats unwary travelers. I knew enough about fantasy to know that much. "Dammit! Why did it have to trick me? Mimics absolutely blow!" I groaned as I took out my Veruc and shot the mimic all over, the monster actually taking awhile to go down because of the Eridium he absorbed. "Hot dayum, girl! You took care of that mimic with ease!" Tina smirked at me.
"Yeah, now let's go find Greedtooth," I said as I pocketed the rune and the Eridium then entered each of the different dwarves again, them returning to normal instantly. "Well, that was a strange experience," one of the dwarves frowned as we then moved backwards and we saw a large golden gate towards the north, which we heard a voice on the other side of it. "You have the three runes?! GIVE 'EM TO ME, YA CORKERS!" I heard a dwarf say inside of the other side of the gate, which we then entered and jumped down into the arena, us seeing the dwarf in question on the other side as well as... a strange bubble that held a grog jug inside of it. "That weird ass magic bubble is what the Sorcerer is using to control Greedtooth! Destroy it, but don't hurt him!" Tina exclaimed at me. "Why is he so important?" Angel asked as I then started to pepper the bubble and the grog within it while Tina explained. "He's my memories of Flesh Stick! When you get him freed from mind control, I'm gonna kill him myself," Tina growled lowly.
"Flesh Stick? Who's that?" I asked as I finished shooting the grog just as Greedtooth got into and started to pilot his golden golem. "Flesh Stick is the one that sold me and my parents out to Hyperion Eridium testing. I handled him in real life before you all arrived, but I still feel rage towards him. That's what Greedtooth is," Tina growled as the grog then exploded and Greedtooth came to his senses. "Oi! The Handsome Sorcerer doens't have control over me anymore! Thanks, friends," Greedtooth smiled as he jumped out of the golem, which gave way for Tina to punch him directly in the face, Greedtooth transforming into a Psycho, which I frowned at. "You're gonna get it now, bitch!" said the voice of a Psycho, that being Flesh Stick. "Once I eliminate you myself, I can finally move on from the horrors that you did to me. Terra? Give me your Veruc," Tina frowned at me. "Okay, don't go crazy," I frowned at her.
Flesh Stick tried to run away, but Tina shot him directly through the head, killing him instantly. But she didn't stop there as she continued to shoot his arms, legs, and torso until all of his body was getting eaten away by corrosive acids. "He's done... goodbye, Flesh Stick. I can finally move on, mommy... finally..." Tina said with tears in her eyes, her looking very upset right now. "To think that my father would allow an innocent family to be ruined in his mad lust for power... and to a little girl as cool as you... it's honestly sickening," Angel growled as she shot a bullet into the lava. "Let's just go and get the runes to the door so we can go after the Sorcerer," Roland frowned.
