Echo log: 02

Maya hung to the railing of the Technical as it bounced through the terrain, her back pressed to Gaige's as Lilith drove and Mordicai sat in the saw blade turret. She did her best to listen to Gaige over the sound of the engine and wind.

"Anyways, I was thinking that maybe it is time for me to start putting myself on the market again, you know get out there and meet new people, ya know?" Gaige said and Maya nodded curtly. "So lo and behold two, not one, two very attractive guys just crash into our lap." Gaige paused. "Metaphorically of course, that would probably hurt if they crashed into our lap, especially that Lance fellow, what with his muscles and all."

Maya looked over her shoulder at the red head as she pretended to wipe drool from her mouth.

"Man, and his Brother Malcolm." Gaige sighed dreamily. "While not as muscly he is just my type."

Maya smiled as she asked. "Breathing?"

Gaige pushed her back against Maya's hard to jostle her a bit. "Hahah, funny." Gaige paused a moment. "But yes, that certainly is a requirement." Gaige scratched at her head. "Why do you think they are here?"

"Cause they were shot down?" Maya said honestly.

"I meant on Pandora, why come to this shit hole?" Gaige asked. "I mean, all the vaults here are already opened so there is no point is their?"

Maya frowned as she thought about the question. "Hmm, they might be here for the Eridium rush. Word has had to spread about the stuff by now and it is a valuable resource."

"Bor-ing." Gaige said as she let her weight fall back on Maya, who countered with her own weight. "I know,"Gaige said as a light bulb lit up in her head. "They have come in search of the All-mighty Siren warrior Maya and her Bestie the Mechromancer Gaige to Sweep them off onto a grand adventure of action, uncountable amounts of Loot." Gaige let her head fall back onto Maya's shoulder, her eyes meeting Maya's golden globes as she said in a quiet and smoky voice. "And don't forget the nights of untamed Passion."

Gaige closed her eyes as she smiled modestly. "And as the far nobler of us, I will even let you have Muscle's Mcgee."

Maya smiled as she slowly shook her head. "Thanks Gaige, that is very kind of you."

Gaige lifted her head as she closed her eyes and said, placing a hand to her chest regally. "It is fine my dear, kindness is my middle name."

Maya looked up over the vehicles roof, past Mordicai who was still drinking from the same bottle, towards the piles of junk they were closing on quickly. "Yeah, right along with 'Bullshit' and 'Anarchy' right?"

Gaige smiled widely. "Of course."

~Lilith~

Lilith sighed as she listened to Gaige's and Maya's conversation, they should learn by now to check when their Echo comm was on. But they had brought up a good point, why were these two here on Pandora? They didn't look like Eridium miners, no. She had gotten the same feeling from the two as she had gotten from her fellow vault hunters. These two were exceptionally dangerous people and they had a very large goal in mind.

She drove the Technical through the junk valley into 'EllieS' parking lot and came to a stop, seeing the head of Malcolm poking out of the top floor window before it quickly disappeared. She looked at the other vehicle in the lot and frowned. She had never seen something like that before. She pulled herself out of the driver seat as Mordicai landed on the ground, Maya and Gaige doing the same.

"Alright, now let's not do anything stupid here, be calm and for the loot of all the vaults in the universe." Lilith said as she turned to Gaige, pointing a finger at her. "Do. Not. Say. Anything. Stupid." Gaige made a zipping motion over her mouth and batted her eyelashes at Lilith.

Lilith was tempted to tell her to stay with the vehicle but she let out a short 'Huff' and started walking towards the building. She didn't reach it before Lance came walking out with his brother close behind. She blinked as Lance walked right up to her and extended his hand out to her.

"Pleasure to meet you, Miss Lilith." They had all seen that Lance was massive on the vid but to see him up close in real life was another thing. He had a small waist and broad shoulders, giving him a 'V' shape and his eyes were even brighter then she had thought. She took his hand and gave it a firm shake.

"Same here Muscles Mcgee." Lilith felt the air freeze. She brought her free hand up to her mouth as she said. "Oh god." Malcolm blinked before letting out a loud snort of laughter; she heard Mordicai start choking on his drink and Maya saying.

"What… did she just…?"

Gaige busted out laughing and managed to get out between her heaves of giggles. "Yeah, no worries about me saying something stupid here." Lilith made a mental note to kick Gaige's ass later.

Lance titled his head to the side and raised a brow at her, taking a moment to simply stare into her eyes. She felt her face start flushing but couldn't look away as his eyes held her to the spot. He started nodding his head slightly. "Let's start over." He shook her hand again. "Pleasure to meet you, Miss Lilith."

"Same here…Mr. Lance." She said before taking her hand back.

Lance motioned for the four to follow him as he turned and walked away; Malcolm looked at Lilith and gave her a broad smile. "Don't worry about it, lots of girls make an ass out of themselves around Lance." He turned to follow his brother as he laughed out loud. Lilith's face flushed again as she snarled at the retreating man.

Gaige walked up next to her and placed a hand on her shoulder. "It's okay Lilith, we all mess up once or twice, just let it roll of your back."

Liltih felt some very harsh words coming up her throat but fought them back, after all it wasn't Gaige's fault she had said something so stupid. "Great, awesome first impression Lilith." She berated herself as she started to follow after Lance and Malcolm.

"Oh," Gaige said as she turned off her echo recorder. "This is so going on the Echo net."

"Hey, send me a copy of that." Mordicai said as he walked past the red head. Gaige looked at Maya, who simply looked back at her.

A moment passed and Maya coughed into her hand, looking away. "Me too." She said quietly. Gaige's smile widened.

~Malcolm~

Oh god was Malcolm was having fun. This was just turning into the greatest trip he and his brother had taken so far, sure it seemed most of the attention was falling on his brother but seeing Lance's reactions was hilarious. While the others surely thought that Lance had seen what just happed as a tad bit annoying and odd, Malcolm knew better. He could read his brother like a book and right now Lance was trying not to smile.

Lance had built that body of his, and while he would never admit it, to have that hard work so blatantly admired and noticed made him exceptionally happy. Malcolm had to razz him a bit. "You know, some people find big muscles kinda creepy." Malcolm said aloud.

Lance gave him a quick look over his shoulder and responded with a quick. "And some people find skin heads creepy." Malcolm gave his brother a raised brow before running a hand over his shorn head.

"Says the man who has only had one girl friend to my, what?" Malcolm pretended to count in his head. "Sixteen? Seventeen?" Lance looked like he wanted to say something, but clamped his mouth shut and looked ahead again.

Malcolm licked the fore finger of his right hand and made a tally mark in the air. "One for me, zero for you."

Malcolm went back over to the work table and hopped back up on it as Lance turned to watch their guests come in. Lilith, her face still kind of red was trying not to look at Lance to closely and Malcolm smiled wider. He then looked at the man with the bottle and raised a brow, its five o'clock somewhere he supposed. Next was the red haired girl with pig tails, Gaige. Malcolm had already taken a liking to the hyper girl, their sense of humor close from what he had seen and waved at her.

She returned it with a quick double wave and he watched the metal arm closely. It was good work, not something an amateur could build, at least not with that level of skill. He could see that it was used as a catalyst for something, but what he couldn't figure it out, not without a closer look but that probably wouldn't be the smartest thing to do at the moment. Lance had switched to operative mode, as he liked to call it. All business and no play made Malcolm a really dangerous guy.

Then came in the blue haired woman, Maya he thought, in all her punkish glory. He stared at her tattoo's and looked back at Lilith, the similarities blatant now that he stopped to look.

Lance leaned towards him and said calmly. "Sirens." Malcolm's eyebrows rose.

"Then that would make them the-"

"Yes." Lance interrupted him before straightening. "Alright, we have gathered here for one thing." Lance tapped the digiscreen of his bracer and said. "Computer, hull camera, large screen." Lance turned to project the image on the wall behind him.

The Digi screen opened to a scene of chaos, the sound of heavy caliber guns firing and the screams of dying men and tearing metal as the auto defenses tore into the Bandits that had gotten too close.

"To kill them," Lance looked back at their guests. "To kill them all."

Mordicai whistled before saying. "Damn, your turrets might do the job for us chico." He took another swig.

Lance smiled curtly. "If only, but they have a very limited range and about only half of them were able to digistruct due to the damage to the hull. No, the bandits will find out how close they can get and will probably sit around and wait till the juice runs out. After all," Lance looked back at the screen. "they have all the time in the world."

Malcolm clicked his tongue. "So, let's just blow'em the fuck up." He said. "Get some plastic explosives, plant them around the camp they are bound to be setting up and fuck'em."

Lance frowned as he thought about it but it was Lilith who perked up with. "I like explosions as much as the next chick, but that would take a lot of explosives and you might get the ship caught up in the explosion as well."

Lance looked back at Liltih and gave her another look. 'Beauty and common sense' He thought, 'Rare.'

Malcolm frowned as he scratched his chin, Mordicai tossing out. "We can still plant smaller explosives around them, not to close to the ship but enough to get a few of them." He finished off his bottle. "Make them squirm a bit."

"Guerilla tactics." Lance said as he looked back at the screen. "Hit them with the explosions on one side, and then have a team sweep in from the other and hit them in the back."

"And then disappear before they have a chance to organize a counter strike," Maya added, "Then hit them from another side while they are searching for the first team."

Lance frowned as Gaige said. "Do we have enough people for that?"

"We can call in Axton and Salvador, they should be up by tonight." Lilith said.

"Tonight?" Malcolm said with a raised brow and Lance gave him a look.

"Yeah, we need time to get the explosives, set them up and night time is always the best time to strike." His brother said before turning back to the others. "Speaking of procuring the explosives, any idea's?"

Gaige pointed to the vending machines in the corner, Malcolm hadn't noticed them before. "Yeah, we can just get them from Marcus, though I doubt high grade explosives are going to be cheap."

Lance raised a brow as he looked at the device in the corner. "This Marcus character leaves high end explosives in vending machines?"

"Nah Chico," Mordicai said with a smile. "He sends it via Digistruction after you pay."

Lance nodded. "Alright, Miss Gaige. "Lance said as he turned back at her. "Can I trust you with procuring the explosives?"

Gaige raised her brows. "Umm…maybe?"

"Maybe?" Malcolm asked.

"Yeah see," Gaige started out with a nervous giggle. "Marcus and I haven't always had the best relationship." Gaige quickly reversed course and said. "B-but I will try it."

Gaige went hopping over to the vending machine and Lance gave Malcolm a quick look. Malcolm nodded and hopped off the table, walking slowly over to the vending machine while his brother continued with. "So, what is this?"

Malcolm looked over the red head's shoulder as she pressed a button on the machine. " 'The Ammo Dump', huh?" He said as he stared at the picture on the machine.

Gaige jumped a bit and quickly turned around, her back going against the machine. "Fucking A!" She placed a hand over her chest and took a deep breath. "Don't you know it's rude to sneak up on a girl?"

Malcolm frowned and furrowed his brow. "Umm, okay, sure." He relaxed his face. "I sneaked up on you, right."

Gaige gave him a look. "Don't give me lip, son." She turned back around to face the machine. "I will smack a beyatch."

Malcolm raised a brow before leaning back a bit and looking at her ass. "Please tell me that isn't how you speak all the time."

Gaige looked back at him and narrowed an eye. "Back of ma grill, son!"

Malcom held his hands in the as to surrender and took a step to the side, a small smile on his face. "Ma'am, yes ma'am"

A digi screen popped up and Gaige looked at it with a sweet smile on her face. Malcolm peered at the man on the other side and raised a brow. He was older, had a kind of afro thing going on with his hair with wings of white at his temples and a goatee. His double chin shook a bit as he sat forward.

"Hello Marc-" Gaige started before she was cut off.

"No." Marcus said before the digi screen disappeared.

Malcolm frowned. "…Charming fellow."

"Damnit!" Gaige said as she pressed the call button again, the screen popping back up. "Marcus jus-"

"No." The screen cut again.

Malcolm's eyebrow twitched and he gave a fierce smile. "Move over."

He pushed past Gaige and brought up his left arm, the gauntlet starting to glow with blue energy. "Hacky Jack." A single massive spike formed in the depression between his middle and ring finger made of solid lightning and Malcolm pulled his arm back before slamming the spike into the device.

Gaige's eyes popped open as Malcolm did so, unable to blink as she saw a digiscreen pop up in front of Malcolm's face, a series of codes and firewalls popping up from what she could see. Whatever Malcolm was using was tearing through all of the machines defenses before going over the echo net back to the source code. He was taking over Marcus's network.

She saw a large Access granted pop up on the digi screen before it split to a video com and Marcus's angry face. "What the hell are you doing!?"

Malcolm gave him that fierce smile. "Hey, we need to have a quick talk about your customer service." Gaige felt a smile spread over her face.

"Vaults, you're hot right now."

~Mordicai~

Mordicai was seriously wishing he had brought another bottle with him, not because he was bored or such, but because he was starting to remember. When Jack had been alive he had a goal, something to focus on, and something to cover the pain. For the past year, he had nothing but the drink to help him through.

He sighed as he watched Lance pull up a map of the surrounding area and motioned to a large facility to the north.
"So, what is this?" Lance asked as he looked back at them.

Lilith frowned as did Maya, the Dust wasn't their usual hunting grounds after all. He, on the other hand was quite familier with the area. "It's an old Hyperion storage facility, bout a three hour drive."

Lance looked back at the map and rested a hand on his hip. "Do we know what they stored there?"

Mordicai frowned as he scratched at his beard. "Nah, not really, it was a smaller one and so far out of the way we never bothered with it."

Lilith nodded. "Bandits have probably already picked it clean of anything valuable."

"But, it could be worth checking out." Maya said, her thumbs stuck in her pants pockets as she rested her weight on her back leg. "We could use any advantage we can get against these numbers."

"My thoughts exactly." Lance agreed and Mordicai sniffed loudly.

"If there is anything left in that facility, it would be under lock and digital key, unless you have a Hyperion personel log key, good luck getting to the good stuff."

Lance gave him a small smile before looking over at his brother. "I have something better."

They all looked over to see Malcom with his left arm reared back and a massive, lightning blue spike formed on his hand. He quickly slammed it into the vending machine and Lilith raised a brow. "Marcus is gonna be pissed."

Lance turned back to the map on the wall and said. "Computer, lock coordinates to this facility and set way point." A small, white Diamond outline appeared overlaid on the facility and Lance looked back. "Now, who wants to tag along for this recon? My vehicle can hold three people at most and Malcolm has to come along."

For some reason Mordicai felt his arm raise up and said. "Count me in."

Lance nodded and Lilith looked back at him with a raised brow. "You volunteering?" She shifted her weight. "You feeling okay?"

"Of course, just don't feel like sitting around doing nothing." Mordicai said

~Marcus~

Marcus didn't understand what was happening, one moment everything was fine, his network completely optimal. But then something had infected it, ripped through all the firewalls he had bought to protect his investments and corrupted everything, including his bank statements, effectively leaving him broke.

Then a Digiscreen had popped up and he had come face to face with someone he would never forget. "What the hell are you doing!?" Marcus practically screamed.

The young man his hair short and a fierce smile on his face said. "Hey, we need to have a quick talk about your customer service."

Marcus gritted his teeth as another Digiscreen popped up next to the vid comm. It read out a list of codes and numbers he didn't quite understand.

"A screen should have popped up by now and I will just assume you can't read binary so allow me to explain." The young man said, that smile on his face. "it is a virus that will completely wipe all your data and demolish your network, get it?"

It took Marcus a moment to comprehend that statement. "You mean that I would lose-"

"Everything, all your money, your merchandise, everything." The young man said. "Gone."

His words hit like hammer blows and Marcus felt his mouth drop open, the young man continuing. "Of course, you would be wondering why I would do this," The young man said. "Well, I don't plan on doing so. I just wanted to get your attention."

Marcus went to snap at him, but realized that wasn't the best idea. "Well, you got it, so what do you want?"

The young man looked to his left and said. "Miss Gaige, the floor is yours now."

The digi screen turned to show the red haired vault hunter and Marcus felt his face flush. "You! This is your doing!"

Gaige quickly shook her head. "Na-ah, Malcolm did that by himself, even if it was totally awesome." Marcus gritted his teeth in anger.

"What do you want!?"

Gaige scratched at her head before answering. "How many explosive charges do you have?"

End

Yeah, kind of a sudden ending I know, but hey. That's it, I really got nothing else to say about it, anyways next time we finally get to see the Brothers in Action and could their possibly be some bromance between the brothers and Mordicai forming? Fuck no, they just get to kill shit like bosses and make witty one liners doing it.

Also more girl talk about the brothers while they are gone, Axton and Salvador waking up from one hell of a party, innuendo's from Gaige, Penis jokes and more galore.

Also, merry Christmas, happy new year and no, I don't give a fuck that it is too late to say this.-TheXWheel