Heyo!
Sorry for such a long gap between chapters but I've been working on a lot of other things at the moment. But I had some free time and thought that I'd work on this.
Chapter Six
There was a blue flash of light and Scarlett and Sir Hammerlock digistructed into the middle of Sanctuary.
Scarlett was sitting on the ground, her arms behind her leaning back on the ground and Sir Hammerlock standing over her.
"Well that was an exciting little bit now wasn't it?" She said in a somewhat dazed voice.
"We almost got killed by pirates." Hammerlock said. "You're pirates I might add."
"True… But the point is that we didn't get killed. And I don't know about you, but I had quite the time."
"You weren't sprinting around carrying a pirate captain who is surprisingly heavy for her size."
"Speaking of carrying me around… Could you help me up? I'm having some trouble standing.
Hammerlock extended a hand with a sigh and Scarlett took it. He pulled her up off the ground and she stood up shakily.
"I don't feel so good right now… I think one of them might have shot me..." She said.
Scarlett looked down and saw a slowly expanding pool of red on her white jacket.
"One of them definitely shot me." She said
Her eyes rolled back into her head and she collapsed. Sir Hammerlock caught her as she fell.
"Oh bugger..." He mumbled to himself.
He picked up Scarlett again and quickly made off towards Dr. Zed's Medical Clinic.
He ran out of the building that housed the Fast Travel Station and across the small square in the middle of town. As he went he accidently knocked over a passing citizen who fell backwards and crashed into a pile of boxes. He yelled out a quick apology to them as he rounded the corner.
He reached Zed's in record time, kicked the door open and ran inside.
The good doctor was nowhere to be seen.
"Dr. Zed? Zed?! Are you in here?" Hammerlock yelled.
"Yeah... Yeah... I'm comin'." He said walking in the room. "Watcha need?"
"I need you to help this woman."
"Put her on the table." He said pointing to the bloodstained operating table.
Hammerlock put Scarlett on the operating table like he was told.
"Now before I do anything I'm legally obligated to tell ya, I'm-"
"You're not a doctor I know." Hammerlock interrupted. "Just help her."
"Alright." Zed said in an annoyed voice. "What's the problem with her?"
"She has a bullet wound in the chest."
"That would explain all the blood."
Zed grabbed a pair of gloves from underneath the operating table.
"You're gonna want to leave the room." He said as he pulled the gloves on.
"Why is that?" A confused Hammerlock asked.
"You ever seen a live human get gutted like a fish with a buzzsaw?"
"No."
"You want to see a live human get gutted like a fish with a buzzsaw?"
"Not particularly. No."
"Then you're gonna want to leave."
Zed pulled a saw from under the table and revved it up. He moved it towards Scarlett and held it a few inches away from her.
"Like now." Zed said.
Hammerlock turned around and left the clinic. As he closed the door behind him he could hear the muffled hum of a buzzsaw and a slight splattering noise. Hammerlock cringed at the sound and then walked away from the clinic.
Hammerlock decided that Scarlett's fate was more or less out of his hands right now and into Zed's. So Hammerlock made the trip to Moxxi's Bar in an attempt to keep his mind occupied with other matters.
He walked inside, sat down on a stool in front of the bar and waited for Moxxi to finish pouring a drink for someone else.
She walked over when she noticed Hammerlock sitting there at the end of the bar.
"Hey sugar. What can I get for ya?" She said.
"Glass of scotch please."
"Sure thing."
Moxxi grabbed a glass and bottle from under the bar and poured the drink for Hammerlock.
"That all sugar?"
"That's all." He said.
Moxxi was about to walk away but she hesitated. Something was clearly on the hunters mind and she wanted to know what.
"Something bothering you?" She asked him.
"Hmm?" He said looking up from his glass.
"You're usually pretty talkative, but right now you seem quiet. Besides you obviously have something on your mind. You want to share it?"
He shrugged.
"I suppose so."
"I'm all ears sugar." She said leaning up against the bar.
"Well... You see, I went out to Oasis some days ago on a hunting expedition. I wanted to try my hand at hunting sandworms."
"How'd that work?"
"Awful. The buggers smell worse than Salvador on a bad day and they tend to explode when you shoot them so there's nothing left to mount or stuff. But I digress. On the expedition I met a former pirate captain, got captured by her mutinous crew of sand pirates, escaped with little more than our lives, hid in an underground grotto, got chased by the same pirates again, escaped again and now I'm here and Scarlett is with Dr. Zed having a potentially fatal bullet removed from her."
Moxxi raised an eyebrow.
"Scarlett? As in Captain Scarlett?"
"Yes. You know her?"
Moxxi smiled.
"You could say that."
"Why did you say it like- Oh... You slept with her didn't you?"
"Yep." Moxxi said with a smile
"Is there anyone on Pandora that you haven't slept with?"
"Not you sugar..." She said leaning over the bar towards him.
"Not interested." He said quickly.
"Fair enough." She said backing off. "Anyway, as far as I remember Scarlett was a nice enough girl if a little a little devious. I think the Vault Hunters met her too a few weeks back... I'm not sure though… I tend to tune out Axton when he comes down here and Salvador never talks."
"Well then maybe-" Hammerlock was interrupted by a ringing noise. "Please excuse me a moment."
Hammerlock picked up his Echo-Device.
"Hello Dr. Zed, Sir Hammerlock speaking." He said into the Echo.
There was some incomprehensible chatter and a whole lot of voices shouting at once.
"Zed? Zed? What's going on? Zed?"
The Echo went silent.
Hammerlock set it down on the bar.
"Something's going on over there. I should go have a look."
"You do that sugar."
Hammerlock reached into his pocket and pulled out a wad of cash. He placed it on the bar and hurriedly walked out of the bar.
He started walking across town to Dr. Zed's clinic, but not even halfway there he realized that something bad was happening at the clinic.
He hurried the rest of the way there are ran into the main room of the clinic.
"What's going on in here?!" Hammerlock yelled.
He took a quick look around the room. Dr. Zed was still holding the buzz ax that he had when Hammerlock had left, although he had apparently used it since seeing as it was bloody and Captain Scarlett had a rather large cut where the bullet wound had been.
Next to Zed was a Axton, wielding a pistol and threatening the doctor with it. Next to Axton was Maya, holding an SMG and pointing it at Scarlett. Zer0 was holding his katana in one hand which was pointed at Maya and a pistol in the other hand which was pointed at Axton. Gaige was also in the room, standing next to the door and holding a shotgun but it was in a relaxed position and not pointed at anyone else. Scarlett was unmoving, but a heart monitor said she was still alive.
"What's going on in here?!" Hammerlock repeated.
The room got silent.
"What's going on?" He repeated a third time.
"The doc here is trying to save this bitch's life." Axton said. "And we don't all exactly agree with the idea. Especially not since she fucked us over a couple of weeks back."
"Lovely." Hammerlock thought. "Now I can add Vault Hunters to the list of things that want either me or Scarlett dead."
