Borderlands 2

~Upon a Star~

Echo Log: 01

Lucky, the armory had been mostly undamaged, though there wasn't much in it at this particular moment just their gear. Lance picked up his pack, a simple black pack and rummaged through it, pulling out a large black and blue bracer that he clamped onto his left arm. He slung the pack onto his back before he tapped the bracer, the underside a digi screen that sent out a hologram showing all the digitized items that were stuck in the device.

His flipped past the map screen to the gear section and tapped on the weapons icon while his brother connected his Gauntlet to the network as well, Malcolm's pack was more…. Showy with the Green and Yellow design and racing flag checkers design, the Torgue logo emblazoned on the pack. Malcolm clicked on two icons and held up his hands as weapons started digistructing. They were a pair of mismatched weapons, in his right was a large Torgue hand cannon colored Black with a single strip of Checkered of black and white on the Barrel.

In His left hand was an SMG with a Bandit style Double Clip rear mounted louder that was missing a stock and featured a Hyperion style barrel for the increased accuracy. The heavy gun in his right did the damage, while the left was all speed. Malcolm nodded as he spun the Hand cannon around his finger and rested the smg on his shoulder, looking at his brother as he checked his weapon.

Lance pulled back the slide of his rifle and peered inside before letting it slam shut, resting the rifle against his chest. Its body was of the Torgue 'Lance'(Yes, it was named after him) design, with a black and blue paint scheme and the standard checkered design on the Dahl style Barrel that had a 2x magnifying scope that could be flipped over to give way to a standard iron sight.

"Alright, our gear is good, activating shields." Lance said as a light blue film formed around him then went invisible, the same for Malcolm.

"Ready brother?" Malcolm said with a raised brow and smile.

Lance took a deep breath and slowly released it before saying. "Yeah." Lance led the way to the torn up hull and stopped at the edge, Malcolm coming up beside him. They both looked over the desert that they had crashed into, seeing a massive sand cloud off in the distance that was getting closer.

"Heh, they are coming Bro." Malcolm said, his eyes lit up in anticipation as he gripped his guns tighter.

Lance didn't respond, instead bringing the bracer up to his mouth as he said. "Computer, digistruct the rover."

Malcolm watched as a vehicle was created before their eyes, Lance already dropped from the wreckage and walking towards it. "Lance, what about the ship?" Malcolm dropped from the wreckage and jogged up to his brother. "We just are going to let them have it?" Malcolm frowned, he didn't like that idea, their father had made it for them.

Lance brought the bracer back up to his face. "Computer, set up perimeter defenses, unauthorized personal not allowed, lethal force enabled." Malcolm looked back to see a series of heavy guns start digistructing over the hull of their ship, and a massive sign that had a cartoonish woman in a race starter outfit and a sign that said, "All Are Welcome." Malcolm looked back at his brother as they reached the Rover. "Sweet."

The rover was a light buggy like vehicle that had little to no armor and a small back mounted turret and two forward mounted miniguns. Lance took the driver seat as Malcolm took the back mounted turret. "Hey Lance, should we contact that pretty lady from before?" Malcolm called as Lance started the rover's engine.

Lance paused as he thought about it and figured there were worse ideas. "Sure, but let's find some shelter first. Preferably close by but not too close." Lance took off, the back tires spinning in the sand for a second before they shot off. Lance didn't let it show but he was beyond pissed, these bastards had shot them down so they could ransack their stuff and he would be damned if that happened.

He looked out at the rising sand cloud and scowled before bringing the bracer up to his mouth. "Computer, scan the area and find a suitable place to make a camp, preferable with good cover." It took a quick moment as the Bracer sent out a high frequency wave and brought up a map of the area.

"Anything Lance?" Malcolm asked, watching the dust cloud approaching.

"Seems there is an old complex to the north of here, seems to be an old junkyard, it will do for now." Lance called back as he set the new course and hit the gas as hard as he could. It didn't take them long to arrive at the complex, having to drive through a veritable small canyon of junk to get to the main building and he brought the vehicle to a halt in front of it.

The 'complex' consisted of a single building and a massive compacter to the right of said building and in front of the two massive water towers. There was a beat up sign hanging from the beams connecting the main building and the water towers that read 'EllieS'. The brothers were careful as they investigated the main building, finding it to be mostly a garage for working on vehicles, but the second floor was home to a small apartment with a kitchen and two bed rooms.

"Hey Lance, look at this thing." Malcolm said as he hopped up onto the massive bed in the master bedroom, bouncing the springy mattress. "You think a giant lives here?" Malcolm said with a smile.

Lance looked down at the floor and walked over to an item lying on the ground, using the barrel of his gun to pick it up for his brother to see. "Or an exceptionally large woman." It was a pair of massive panties and Lance walked over to the open window and shook it off his gun.

"Damn, she must be the size of a fucking-" Malcolm cut himself off at a look from Lance. "I mean I am sure she has a great personality." Lance gave his brother a small smile as Malcolm shrugged apologetically.

"Regardless, this place hasn't been lived in for a while, at least half a year." Lance nodded as he looked over the junk yard. "It will do."

Malcolm laid back on the bed, his hands beneath his head. "Good, I call this room." Lance looked back at his brother and shrugged before heading back down to the garage, clearing the work table and placing his rifle and pack down on it before taking off his Duster. It was too fucking hot for it right now. Lance rummaged through the pack, pulling out a leg mounted holster and attached it to his right leg.

"Revolver." Lance said as he held out his right hand, a large revolver digistructing. It was a Jacobs's heavy revolver special edition called 'The Unforgiven'. It featured a long barrel with a simple iron sight and had a wooden, hand carved grip that was molded to fit his hand alone. The metal was solid black, the wood a deep brown. It could hold eight shots and each one was a guaranteed kill, capable of punching through a shield and a skull with ease but the recoil was enough to break a weaker man's arm.

Lance holstered the revolver before picking back up his rifle and maneuvering it around his back, letting the magnetic strip on the lower back of his shirt attach to the body of the rifle and let go, the gun staying attached to the magnet. He used the digistruct feature, but he still liked feeling the weight of his guns. It…reassured him. (He might be over compensating for something… Nah.)

Malcolm came walking down, twirling his hand cannon around a finger. "So, what now?"

Lance brought the bracer to his mouth and said. "Computer, connect me to the woman that contacted me earlier." A digi-screen popped up with a small CL4P-TP unit showed holding an old time phone to the side of its body and a 'Please hold' written beneath it. "Computer, enlarge screen."

The digi-screen moved back as it enlarged, so Malcolm didn't have to stand particularly close to him so he could see. Lance crossed his arms as he waited, Malcolm hopping up onto the work bench for a seat, twirling his gun around to pass the time.

~In a series of rocks not that far away from Lance's and Malcolm's new base.~

"Alright, so the ship crashed in The Dust near Ellie's old place." The golden eyed woman said to her companions who were seated on the rocks, "And a large force of Gasstraps are currently heading in that direction, too large for us to take on alone so this isn't going to be an assault, just a rescue operation." She looked at her other three companions, in clockwise order. The first was Maya, a woman with Blue hair, had gold eyes and a similar tattoo all over the left side of her body and was dressed in a yellow, black, silver and blue outfit. Her top had a small hole at the base of her neck and her jeans wore worn in a diagonal fashion, revealing her left hip and the tattoos.

Her left arm was entirely bare and her Brown belt had a book holster attachment with a book slotted in, the book had a large white cross on it with a red backdrop. Her hair reached down close to her shoulders, a dark orange and grey stripped bandana on her head with grey lensed goggles nestled over it. She had a set of spider bites on the left corner of her mouth and a circular nose ring through the septum of her nose, along with a skull choker around her neck.

Next was Mordicai, a short, skinny man with a red bandana on his head, a long goatee without the mustache and a pair of green lensed goggles. He wore a hunting outfit of brown with a red cloak wrapped about him with a steel pauldron on his right shoulder and a canteen attached to his left hip. He had a large sniper rifle laying on his lap and his feet propped up on a rock with a bottle of alcohol held loosely in his hand.

The final companion was another girl named Gaige, this one the youngest of them all. She had her red hair done up in pigtails with yellow lensed goggles (I call them the Great Goggle-y moogley team… that sounded better in my head.) on her forehead, a single clump of hair sprouting through the nose strap. She had mischievous green eyes and a band aid on her right cheek. She wore a red shirt with a skull design in the center of the chest with the right sleeve torn and hanging loose on her one flesh arm, her left arm robotic in nature. Over the shirt was a sleeveless, grayish blue vest and hood combo that was buttoned up as high as it could go and had a skull design on the back.

She had a glove on her right hand, red, along with two bracelets of gold and a red scrunchie up farther on the arm. She wore a red skirt and a pair of tattered, white and black striped stocking that lead to a pair of combat boots and a wrench holstered on her right leg. She also had a holster on the back of her skirt and a vault symbol accessory on her belt with a lunchbox.

Gaige raised her hand. She got the urge to just ignore that but Gaige didn't give her the chance. "Hey Lilith!?" Lilith sighed inwardly but said.

"Yes Gaige?"

"Two questions, first. Why are we the only four here?" Gaige motioned to her companions.

Lilith sighed aloud and pinched the bridge of her nose in her fingers as she responded. "Cause Brick is busy with his slabs, Axton is passed out on top of Salvador, Salvador is still unconscious from drinking five barrels of actual Skag Piss and Zer0 is out on a mission killing….something."

Gaige made an 'o' with her mouth before continuing. "Second question, who are these people?"

"That's a good question." Maya seconded as Mordicai took a swig of his drink.

Lilith paused and frowned. "Yeah, that is a good question actually."

Gaige tilted her head to the side. "So, if we don't know who they are, why are we going to save them?"

Lilith when to say something but was interrupted by the beeping of her echo unit. "Receiving new call." A synthesized voice said and Lilith checked to call log. "Ah, that would be them right now." Lilith turned around and said. "Computer, big screen." A Large Digi-screen appeared and after a quick moment an image appeared, causing them all to sit forward.

Lilith got her first good look at the man named Lance at this point; she put him around six, one, his arms crossed and practically bulging with muscle that was visible through the clothes he wore. Their eyes met and at first she thought he was staring her down, and then released he was simply taking a measure of her as well. She shifted her gaze to the man sitting on a table behind the taller man, the short blond hair glinting in the sun as he spun a large revolver on his finger. She looked back at the taller man and he gave her a quick nod.

"De-yam," She heard Gaige say, "You never said that they were a pair of hunks Lil. That changes everything." She heard Gaige give a girlish giggle as the man with short hair perked up and said.

"Oh, thank you, ya hear that Lance? We are hunks apparently."

Both Lilith and Lance shot a glance over their shoulder towards their respective talker and said. "Quiet." Before looking back at the other.

Lilith began. "I see that you and your companion are unharmed."

"Yes, thanks to your warning we managed to blunt most of the damage, though I figured the crash would have been worse than it was." Lance said the last part more to himself then Lilith but she responded with.

"Pandora has a lighter gravity level then other planets, could have had something to do with it."

Lance frowned as he thought about it and then shrugged.

"Now, if you don't mind us asking but," Lilith continued. "But who are you?"

Lance looked back at Malcolm, who shrugged and gave a 'why the hell not' motion. (Whatever the hell that is)

"I'm Lance," Lance motioned towards the other man who waved at the screen. "And this is my brother Malcolm." Lance raised a brow. "And you are?"

Lilith started with the introductions. "Names Lilith, and these are my companions Maya," The Blue haired woman stood up and said.

"Hello."

"Mordecai" the man in question raised his bottle in salute before taking another drag.

"And Ga-" Lilith was interrupted as Gaige jumped up in front of her, waving both of her arms as she smiled wide and said.

"Hi, I'm Gaige, nice to meet you both, nice Gauntlet Malcolm, I have one too except I cut off my arm to get it. How much can you Bench Lance? Anyone ever tell you that you look like a hotter version of a badass bandit? What's your Gauntlet called Malcolm? Mines called Death Stick!"

Lance widened his eyes in surprise at the energetic girl as she fired of the barrage of questions; Malcolm simply widened his smile as he stood up and walked to stand next to his brother, crossing his arms as well as Gaige continued.

"Hey Lance, if you flexed would you rip your shirt, it looks awfully tight. Where are you guys from? You guys have girlfriends? Probably, see we don't get a lot of good looking guys here, I mean sure there's Axton but he is kind of a dumbass and Salvador is…" Gaige frowned. "Salvador, anyways I am sure that Lance is exactly Maya's type, isn't that right Maya!?" Gaige looked back at Maya, whose mouth was open a bit as she stared at the hyper girl who returned back to the Digi-screen.

"That's a yes, anyways how old are you guys? I'm legal by the way, no jail bait here on Pandora." Gaige paused to take a breath and felt a hand clamp down on her head and a subtle heat on her head. She looked up into the glowing eyes of Lilith and saw a wisp of fire on Lilith's fingertips.

"Gaige, be quiet or I will give you a new hairdo." Lilith said quietly. Gaige smiled but did as she was told. Lilith sighed and shook her head quickly before returning to the screen. "Sorry about that, she gets excited easily."

Lance raised a brow and looked at Gaige as she pouted and all he could see was a puppy dog, her pig tails even dropped down like a pair of ears. "No worries, I'd be curious too. Anyways," Lance continued. "What can you tell us about the guys that shot down our ship?"

Lilith frowned as she rested a hand on her waist. "The Gasstraps, they are the largest gang of bandits on Pandora and have been making life hell here."

Lance frowned. "I thought this place had Hyperion keeping the bandits in check."

Lilith sneered at the company's name. "After the death of the Handsome jackass Hyperion pulled out most of their workers and cut off their entire tech including their bot builders and the new-U stations."

"New you?" Malcolm asked.

"If you died here, it would reconstruct you from a Dna profile." Gaige chirped up, getting a glare from Lilith.

"Huh, so without a massive company like Hyperion to shut them up, the local Bandits started getting momentum huh?" Lance said to himself. "And these…"

"Gasstraps" Malcolm interjected.

"Gasstraps," Lance gave a quick nod to his brother. "Are causing a lot of problems on Pandora, not just this area?" Lilith nodded and Lance cupped his chin in a hand. "Heh, must have one hell of a leader to keep that much chaos in check."

"Her name is Captain Scarlett." Lilith said, causing Maya and Gaige to scowl and Mordicai took another swig of his drink.

Lance blinked. "I take it you two know her?"

"Yes, we worked with her to find Captain Blades lost treasure before the death of Jack, good score but she betrayed us and tried to kill us." Maya said, and then added. "Then again she did say multiple times she was going to, don't know why it came as a surprise."

Gaige picked up. "So we beat her ass and sent her running but now she's back after subjugating a lot of the bandit crews and is taking over."

Lance looked at his brother, who shrugged. "Anyways, what kinda gear do they carry, or are they random?"

Lilith gave him a funny look. "You aren't planning on fighting that group are you?"

"Of course we are, they shot down our ship." Lance said and Malcolm smiled alongside him.

Lilith shook her head. "Look, I like your enthusiasm, but there are hundreds of them."

"True," Malcolm said. "And that is why we need to understand their gear, so we can be prepared when we face them."

Maya popped in. "that's practically suicide."

"We aren't going to be going into a head on fight with them." Lance said with a smile. "We have three days before the defenses on the ship run out of juice, we can take our time."

The vault hunters stared at the man on the other side of the screen, even Mordicai had stopped drinking to stare.

"You're serious, aren't you?" Lilith said quietly.

"Of course." Lance said.

Lilith slowly shook her head before looking at her fellow vault hunters. Mordicai nodded with a smile on his face, Gaige looked ready to start jumping from excitement and Maya gave her a devil may care smile. Lilith looked back at the Digi screen and said. "How can we help?"

Lance gave her a soft smile as he said. "Computer, name contact as Lilith and send her our Coordinates."

End

That's ch. 1, hells yeah hope you like it so far, if not why are you still reading this? For those of you that did like this, I thank you very much and just simply ask that you let me know that you liked it, again I love feedback and if anyone has interesting character idea's let me know, I would love to commit acts of terrible violence on them in the name of me. Cause, you know. I am kind alike god in this story.

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