(Opening Theme: Hamatora The Animation Opening 1)

-Sometime Ago on Pandora; Underground (Rhys, Shadow's & Plutia's P.O.V)-

After the hatch had slammed shut, Rhys turned on a light on his robotic arm to see where they where they were going exactly. "Big sister!" They heard Plutia shout, "Big sister open the door!"

"Fiona!" Sasha soon shouted, "Open up, it's pitch black in here!"

"Ha, ha." Rhys said, "You're hilarious Vaughn, now open the damn hatch!"

"Mion!" Shadow shouted, "If this is a joke, it's not funny!"

All of them didn't receive an answer from anyone.

"Why isn't anyone answering?" Plutia asked questioningly.

"Damn it someone must've seen them outside." Shadow said.

"In any case we should keep moving." Sasha had said before saying to Plutia, "Don't worry about Fiona Plutie, I'm sure she's okay."

"I hope you're right." Plutia said, and with that they all descended down the ladder. They had managed to hit the ground. "Alright Rhys." Sasha said, "Where do we find the money?"

Rhys opened up the tracker, "The money is definitely in here. But from the looks of it's on the move, so we had better hurry."

The four went down the hall, be very careful what if there were any Bandits and such. There was silence between the four as they walked quietly. As they went towards the end of the hall Shadow couldn't help but still think about the voice he heard while he was knocked out.

He was still trying to figure out who was speaking to him. The voice didn't sound at all familiar, to him at least. "Damn it, this is driving me crazy." Shadow thought to himself, "That person, whoever was talking to me. Does it somehow have something to do with that ID drive?"

His eyes turned over to Rhys, "If Rhys plugged in that ID drive in his head, did he hear that person too? Well it couldn't hurt to ask."

He got his attention, "Hey Rhys? You mind of I ask you something?"

Rhys turned to him, "Yeah? What is it?"

Shadow had then said, "It's about Nakayama's ID drive. When you passed out after you plugged it into your, did you hear someone well… Talking to you?"

"Someone talking to me?" Rhys had asked him with a quizzical look, "What do you mean?"

"Like a voice that by the sound of it you could swear that you were almost getting taunted by him?"

"Can I ask why you want to know this?"

"Well, for one thing, this will drive me crazy later on and… Earlier when I was unconscious, I heard someone talking to me. I don't who he was, or why he would say what he said to me, and this might sound a bit crazy, but it seemed like he knew me somehow."

Rhys thought to himself but eventually replied, "Now that you mention I heard someone talk to me."

"Really?" Shadow said, "What did he say?"

"Probably the same thing you heard."

"I see. I'll be glad that I'm not the only one who heard him."

They soon heard something come down the hallway. They turned to see that it was a giant cage filled skags. All of four of them moved to the wall so they wouldn't get run over. Once it passed they quickly moved towards the end of the hall. The room was filled with only but six Bandits; two of them upstairs and the others downstairs. One of them had the case in hand.

"There it is!" Plutia whispered, "There's the money!"

Three of the Bandits got into the center of the room; there in the middle of the floor was revealed to be a lift. They ascended up into the upper floors. Sasha then took out the gun and prepared to shoot one of them.

"Wait, wait! No, no, no, no, stop stop!" Rhys immediately said to her.

"I've got a shot though!" Sasha said back to him.

"No his right." Shadow said to her, "It's too late."

Before Sasha could say something to the both of them, she saw another Bandit walking by, stopping a moment to look around. He walked away and they saw that the lift had already to where it needed to go.

"Crap." Sasha said.

"Alright it's obvious what we need to do now." Shadow said, "We have to get up to that lift."

"But they're Bandits around." Plutia said, "What do we do about them?"

"We'll take them out." Rhys had replied, "Besides there is only two of them."

"Yup, that sounds easy." Sasha said, "I'll take out the one on the right and Shades will take out the one on the right. We'll figure out how to take care of the one downstairs."

"Alright that won't be a problem. I'll take care of him" Shadow said drawing his sword, "Rhys you back me up in case the other one tries to come at me."

"You got it." Rhys said to him.

"How are you going to- Wait a minute, you sure he can handle it?" Sasha had asked him, "I mean has he experienced stuff like this?"

To which Rhys replied, "Oh I wouldn't worry about me. I mean I did help Shadow take out a bunch of Bandits earlier today. Are you sure you can handle it?"

"Are… You serious?"

"I don't know. You talk a big game but I haven't seen you in action."

"You just make sure you don't get scuff on your little nice shoes okay Hyperion boy?"

"They're skag skin."

"They're atrocious. Come on."

Plutia had then asked, "I thought we were going to get the case, right?"

"Right." They both said.

Shadow went ahead first and Rhys followed behind him. With his sword armed he snuck up behind the as Sasha took out the Bandit on her side. He pressed a button on the back of his sword, and a chain was released. He adjusted his aim and threw it towards the Bandits hand, which had killed him instantly. Leaving Sasha and Plutia impressed.

He pulled back and the sword landed right back in his hand, without the Bandit in front of them noticing. He prepared to strike the other one when he suddenly he heard that loud ringing again, which caused him to groan; it had forced him to stop in place and fall to his knees he dropped his sword to the ground causing the Bandit to stop walking.

"Shadow!" Rhys whispered and quickly got to his side, "What's the matter?"

Shadow didn't answer; In fact he didn't have time when Rhys saw the Bandit about to turn around. Rhys immediately went to rush the Bandit.

"Rhys no!" Shadow shouted.

Rhys jumped on the Bandits back and attempted to strangle the life out him, but-

"Oh, Eric?" The Bandit said, "Aw, is that you?"

"Are you kidding me!?" Shadow had exclaimed.

"Wait, wait, wait, wait, is this for real?" The Bandit said, after hearing Shadow, "Is this for real or is this-is this a joke?"

"OH THIS IS FOR REAL REAL!"

"Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, that's not Eric!"

"NO! IT'S NOT ERIC! IT'S YOUR-DOOM! NOW STOP SQUIRMING!"

Sasha, Plutia and even Shadow were at a loss for words by what was happening at the moment as Rhys tried over and over again to choke the life out of the Bandit.

"Ummm…" Plutia said who was now standing beside Sasha, "Do you need help Rhys?"

"You look like you're struggling there." Sasha stated.

Rhys had shouted struggling to choke the man, "HEY RELAX!"

"Nah, nah, nah!" The Bandit shouted over to Sasha not making a big deal by what was happening at the moment, "Don't help! Let him do it himself! If he can!"

"SERIOUSLY!?" Shadow shouted.

"SHUT UP!" Rhys had shouted at the Bandit.

"Nah I think he's right." Sasha said with a smile, "You should handle it yourself."

The Bandit managed get Rhys off in the process getting the stun baton fall out of his vest. "RHYS!" Shadow exclaimed. The Bandit picked up the stun baton and pointed it at the two making them lift their arms up.

The Bandit laughed, "I got ya now!" He said, "Now get back man."

"Uh-oh." Plutia said, "This looks bad."

"Wow." Sasha said sarcastically, "Nicely done."

"I DON'T NEED THIS RIGHT NOW!" Rhys shouted to her. The Bandit was going to kill them, but he just had one problem; he didn't how to use it.

"Uh…" The Bandit said all confused, "How do you, uh… turn on the…"

Rhys and Shadow let out a smirk seeing as how the Bandit was holding the baton the wrong way. "Here let me get that for you." Rhys said. He then turned on the stun baton with a press of the button. As soon as he did, the Bandit went flying towards the wall letting go of the stun baton in the process letting Sasha and Plutia's jaw drop. Shadow caught the stun baton and turned over to them; He handed it back to Rhys and they proceeded to brofist each other.

Plutia clapped, "That was amazing!" She said with a smile.

Shadow gave a wink while Rhys took a bow to Plutia, but saw that Sasha didn't have much enthusiasm as her little sister did. "OH COME ON!" He said, "YOU CAN'T TELL ME THAT WASN'T COOL!"

Sasha rolled her eyes and shook her head and all she gave was a thumbs up. "Thank you." He said.

"Alright no more fooling around." Shadow said to them, "We gotta get that lift working."

Rhys put the stun baton away and proceeded towards the computer. Rhys looked around the place, "Huh, I recognize this technology." He said, "This is old Atlas tech." Sasha and Plutia were the first to the computer. Sasha went ahead and tried to get into the computer's system.

Sasha growled and slammed her fist on the keyboard. "What's wrong Big Sis?" Plutia asked her. "I can't get in." Sasha said, "This stupid thing needs a password."

She continued to slam her fist, "You stupid piece of-!"

Rhys went to stop her, "Hey would you stop that!"

"You're gonna end up breaking it if you keep using the computer as a punching bag!" Shadow told her.

Sasha immediately stopped.

"Listen." Rhys said, "I can hack this, but I'm gonna need time."

"Alright." Sasha said, "Then do it."

Rhys nodded his head and went straight to hacking while the rest kept a lookout. There was a bit of silence between the group; There was nothing but Rhys mumbling to himself as he started to hack.

Sasha finally broke the conversation when she said to Rhys, "I'm not gonna lie. Your friends there, Shadow and Mion was it? I never expected to see teens like them work for Hyperion."

"Yeah well." Rhys started to say, "Up in Hyperion no one expected to see them work for in Hyperion either."

"Do they even realize what Hyperion did to us here on Hyperion?" She asked, "All the havoc they caused when Jack was in charge? The pain?"

"They do. They do realize it. Besides it's been crazy up there too. It just hasn't been easy especially for them."

Sasha was very curious about this now. "How did they end up in Hyperion anyway? I mean how did they come to work there?" Rhys replied as he typed, "I'll be honest, I've only known the two for a short while. Shadow especially doesn't really like to talk much of his personal life, but all we do know is believe it or not, they both grew up here on Pandora."

Sasha's eyes widened at that, "Seriously? He-" She turned to look over at him who was talking to Plutia at the moment. "Well that explains why he's more experienced than you."

Rhys had explained, "He said his mom died of an illness when he was a baby, so for awhile it was just him and his dad. He owned a weapons shop, called 'The Blacksmith' and sometimes he would help his old man out with making the weaponry. He even taught him how to use a sword and a gun."

"Sounds like a great dad." Sasha said, "What happened to him?"

"Well, the only thing that he told me was that he died when he was thirteen." Rhys said, "He never did say what the cause of his death was."

"Why?"

"Like I said, he never liked talking about his personal life."

Before Sasha could ask anything more they heard Plutia clear her throat. They turned to see that she was carrying around Shadow's sword which made them jump. "Look at this big sis!" Plutia said waving it around a bit, "This makes me look so cool right?"

They both turned to Shadow and gave him a look. "She asked if she could hold it." Shadow said, "She just wanted to see what it felt like holding that type of sword."

"What about those elemental things you're sword has?" Rhys asked, "Won't she hurt herself?"

"Don't worry about that." Shadow replied, "The elemental abilities the sword has is programmed to activate on my DNA signature, so she won't hurt herself."

"This is a lot lighter than I thought it would be." Plutia had said.

"Cool! That's just like the Black Winds weapon!" Sasha said. Shadow froze at that name, but Rhys was a bit confused by that name. "Black who?" He asked.

"What? You mean to tell me that you Hyperion guys heard of most Vault Hunters but never heard of the Black Wind?" She asked.

"Can't say that I have." Rhys replied, "Who is he?"

Plutia had replied, "The Black Wind was a legend. He was a hunter, and a gun for hire and a Siren. He took on any job no matter how dangerous it was."

"Whoa, a hunter?" Rhys said, "You mean a Vault Hunter?"

"No." Sasha said, "He was a Bounty Hunter. He was never interested in things such as Vaults. Besides he earned himself a cult following here on Pandora. I even heard that when Handsome Jack was in charge of Pandora, the rebellion Crimson Raiders tried to recruit him, but he always turned them down. He was always the type to play the lone wolf."

Plutia had added, "But despite him being a loner he always helped other people, whether if he was on the job or not. A lot of him people loved him for that, respected him."

"Yeah." Sasha had said, "No one knew who he was or if he was the bad guy or not, but everyone just looked up to him. He was like everyone's role model."

"Sounds like a really cool guy." Rhys said, "I actually want to meet the guy."

"I don't think you'll be able to." Plutia said sadly, "He went missing a long time ago. A lot of people are saying that he was killed by Bandits."

Sasha added, "A lot of people have been trying to find him, or at least his body if he is really dead, but most them just gave up." Plutia was still looking at the sword and swung it around a couple of times, "But still, it's really rare to hold a weapon like this. Only two of these weapons were ever made."

"Three." Shadow had corrected her causing everyone to look at her, "Three weapons were made actually."

"How do you know that?" Rhys asked him as he went back to hacking the computer. Shadow had replied, "My father. He helped me make the sword. The materials that we used to make them however ran out. We didn't know where to get more. Two of the three swords was stolen."

"It's no wonder there so rare." Sasha said.

"Hey would you look us now!" Rhys said, "We're all like best friends now!"

"Not quite." Sasha said.

Plutia then handed the sword back to Shadow. "Thanks for letting me hold it." She said.

"You're most welcome." He said back to Plutia.

"And… We're in!" Rhys said as he finished typing.

They heard speaker come on, "PASSWORD OVERRIDE. SYSTEM ONLINE."

"Yes!" Rhys said, "That's what I'm talking about!"

"Okay, I'm impressed." Sasha said, "I suppose you're not completely useless after all."

Rhys had let out a sigh, "Well that's a relief."

"Alright than." Shadow had said, "Let's get that lift working."

Rhys had then said, "Slight bad news I managed to get in but it didn't give me the right clearance. Give me a second."

Sasha took a moment to look at the skags up in the cages, "Well… hurry up."

Rhys got out the controls to the room but saw that the controls were messed up. The three of the buttons were messed up and had error codes. "What the hell!?" Shadow exclaimed, "What's up with the controls?!"

"I-I don't know!" Rhys said.

"Well just push something!" Plutia had suggested.

Rhys pushed the button in the middle but it didn't get the lift working; instead it had lowered the cages and released the skags.

"THAT'S NOT GOOD!" Shadow exclaimed.

"RHYS!?" Sasha shouted as she took position and started to fire on the skags.

"I CAN'T READ THE BUTTONS!" Rhys had explained, "THEY'RE ALL GLITCHED OUT! JUST-UH-I DON'T KNOW STAY OUT OF THERE WAY!"

"THAT WON'T BE A PROBLEM!" Sasha shouted sarcastically as she started to fire on the skags.

Shadow was about to go help her when suddenly the ringing sounds started echo through his head again, the moment Rhys pressed the first button which played music. He fell to his knees and screamed a bit since it hurt more than it did last time.

"SHADOW!" Plutia shouted running to his side.

Sasha had shouted as she continued to fire, "OH TERRIFIC! AT LEAST NOW WHEN WE DIE IT'LL HAVE A NICE SOUNDTRACK!"

"HANG ON, HANG ON!" Rhys exclaimed, "I ALMOST GOT IT!" But then, the voice which Shadow heard before spoke to him again when the ringing stopped; only this time Rhys heard it as well.

"dO YoU cHaMp?" The voice had said, "YOu ALmOSt GoT It?"

Both him and Shadow slightly jumped at the sound of it. "Yes he does!" Shadow had said to the voice. "He does what?" Sasha had asked.

"Nothing!" Rhys said, "He said nothing! Give me a second!"

He pressed the third and final button, which managed to get what they needed. The lift started to move. "QUICK! GET ON!" Rhys shouted to them. Shadow and Plutia ran to the lift, but Plutia tripped and fell on her face. A skag attempted to jump on her, but Shadow threw his sword which was attached to the chain and it killed the skag instantly.

"COME ON!" Shadow shouted, as he grabbed her arm and ran to the lift with her.

The ringing in Shadow's head started again and Rhys grasped his head when they heard the voice speak to them again.

"lOoK aT tHE TwO oF yOU." The voice said, "a PaIR Of ReAL wINnERs."

They both turned to each other. "Seriously, who is that!?" Shadow couldn't help but shout.

"How the hell should I know!?" Rhys shouted back. Plutia turned and saw another skag on the second floor. "BIG SIS! GUYS!" Plutia exclaimed when she saw it.

Shadow attempted to throw his sword but the chain ended up getting stuck. "SON OF A TAINT! NOT NOW!" He shouted angrily.

Sasha attempted to shoot it, but realized that she was out of ammo. The skag jumped at them and they ended up screaming as they shut their eyes to prepare the intense pain. They were all surprised when they didn't feel the skag bite either of them.

They opened their eyes and were surprised to see that it appeared to be stuck in midair.

"It stopped?" Plutia couldn't help but ask. They soon saw the reason why the skag got stuck in midair. Zer0 had appeared right in front of them, with his sword in hand.

He removed the skag from his blade and turned to them. "Could you let me know / if you see a Gortys Core / I really need it." Zer0 had asked them; none of them could answer. Zer0 had noticed Shadow there not surprised by what had just happened. He silently nodded to him in greeting, and Shadow did the same not letting anyone notice except for Plutia.

Rhys had then said to him hesitantly, "Sure… Yeah. We'll let you know."

Zer0's mask lit up an emoji which was :D. He put away his blade. Rhys got the tracker up as they ascended to the upper floors along with the Vault Hunter.

(Ending Theme: Bleach Ending 6 My Pace)