Chapter 6

As zer0 awoke, he felt...strange, like something happened the night prior, he remembers bathing the injured siren, the siren threw a wet sponge at him, he caught her doing something and...oh the 'slip-up' when he felt her, he is lucky to be alive, he is unsure why she let him live when something like that happened, he must question her.

As he looked over he saw her sleeping form still lying there, 'Perhaps later, one does not want to deal with a pissed-off siren' so he decided he would just get up and cook some spidera- oh, they were left on the fire and are now completely inedible, 'i'll fetch more later' zer0 thought, as he turned to do one final inspection of the cave, he noticed something rather odd, an echo was left on the floor next to the siren, his bed was in the shadows so he knows the intruder did not see him, but still, it is unsettling knowing someone could have done away with his siren, he will not allow this, he walked over to the echo and awoke the siren, he showed her the recorder and she press play, still pissed at zer0 for waking her, a male voice came over the echo and said

"Lilith, for when you wake up to this i'll be back at sanctuary, i've made contact with the other four vault hunters but they said there was a fifth supposed to be there with them, some big tall skinny guy, the only distinguishable feature of his is a mask, dark and reflective to hide an identity, he could be another assassin comin for you, look out when you go hunting, anyway one of the others is a siren, markings and powers to match so, yeah keep an eye out for her, another is an ex dahl sergeant and arrogant bastard, watch out for him, and the last two are a midget with a steriod and pain addiction and a schoolgirl who's apparently a 'prodigy at robotics and all round badass' so look out for em cos i sent them your echo co-ords, they should be there at around mid-day for ya, anyway i'll be back in sanctu-*BANG,BANG*, ahh, shit i'm being attacked, i'll get you in sanctuary and-"

Zer0 noticed a worried look wash over her face and asked her

"Do you know this man?, is he an ally?"

"Yeah, he's...a friend, a close friend who's just been attacked, so i'm goin to look for him"

"Not with an injury, you will stay here and wait for the others, they will assist you in finding your friend"

"I'm not just gunna sit around and wait_"

"With that injury you will pass out in combat and be killed, your friend will not be killed, he sounded like he has seen many battles, like you have"

"Yeah, he's one of us, a vault hunter, a strategic master and elite tactician, he and the other two-"
"Mordecai and Brick? And i assume the tactician is Roland,correct?"

"Yeah, wait how did you-"

"They all have bounties, i was planning to kill you all, but that has changed"

"Wait wh-"

Just as she was about to start her sentence, a thick truxican accent echoed throughout the cave, it was shouting about 'Puddles of bandits are awesome', he recognised that voice from the train, the one known as salvador, the 4 vault hunters came bursting around the corner, anxious to see this 'Lilith', they froze as they saw zer0 next to her, they looked at each other and Gaige, the schoolgirl, yelled out

"Hey, you're that guy from the train, right?"

Zer0 nodded yes, she ran up the stairs and aimed a submachine-gun at him,zer0's hand slowly moved down to his waist for his blade, he was ready to split the teen in half, but the soldier came in-front of them and forced a temporary truce, he asked zer0 how he survived the train ride, zer0 simply replied with

"I killed my way to a boat, took the boat and sailed here, killed more and ended up here"

The soldier asked,

"Wait, you took the little shits boat, that robot screamed for 3 hours before we shot it, still up there gettin repaired, you left us up there?"

Zer0 wanted to punch the soldier, but instead simply responded with

"You all left me, i watched you walk from the wreckage and forget about me, i survived, you all seem...alive at-least"

Axton was ready to respond before the siren stood between them, not the red-headed one, not his one, the blue haired one, she was obviously fed up of this and wanted to speak to the other siren, from the research zer0 had done in the past, there were only six sirens alive in the universe at one time, two were in-front of him, he could kill two sirens with one swing from his blade, but no, he decided against it.

After a few hours and siren filled conversations later, everyone was 'friends' or as friendly as you can get between a master assassin, schoolgirl, midget, soldier and two sirens.

"So, Roland told me all you guys are lookin for the vault?" asked lilith

"Ci chicka, we're hyped up and ready for murder HAHHHAAAAH!"

"Shut up sal, but yeah, we're here for it, why, is that why you're here, huh beautiful?"Zer0 was ready to split the soldier in two, he refrained when Maya punched him, Maya being the other, blue haired siren.

"Hey, come on guys, this chicks guy friend has been jumped and we're arguin like schoolkids?"Gaige said, Sal laughed and replied with,

"You're the schoolkid here, chicka"Gaige simply glared at him, she was about to shoot him when lilith announced,

"I know where the guys are, the ones that took Roland!"

"Well siren, where are they, they will die for this act"Zer0 spoke up at last.

"The echo had a bandit kings voice, someone named Flanksteak, he holds up at the old dam"

"Well, what are we waiting for, i'm gunna tear this guy apart HAHA-"

"Shut it sal, but yeah we're gunna kill this guy, and maybe after it we can get a few drinks, waddya say fiery redhead?"

At this point zer0 rose from the floor and unsheathed his blade, he pointed it at Axton and uttered out

"If you attempt to flirt with anyone else while we are planning an assault on a bandit stronghold, i'm going to spread parts of you across this planet you piece of s-"

"Zer0!, i can handle a flirt, Axton shut up, take the hint when i'm not interested, jackass"

"Ahhh alright, I know when it's a lost cause, so the plan for the dam assault is?"

"We kill any and all who stand in our way until we find this 'Roland', once found we extract him back to sanctuary and kill whatever tries to stop us from accomplishing this task"Maya took a breath after saying that, she received funny glances but no objections.

Lilith just said,

"Lets go then"

"Lilith you will remain here, your wound prevents you from optimal combat, remain here and we can return here when available"Zer0 said, but there was no time for an argument as the vault hunters took off through the cave, leaving lilith in her cave with alot to think about.