(Opening Theme: Hamatora the Animation Opening)

-Sometime Ago on Pandora; Death Race (Rhys & Shadow's P.O.V)-

"And now-maniacs, degenerates and scumdogs- it's time for what you've all been waiting for: the very first motorized killtacular event of Murder Rally twelve-thousand! Also known as That Big Chariot Race Thing Where Everyone Dies!"

Rhys, Shadow, Sasha, Plutia and the Vault Hunter Zer0 was riding the lift and they had unknowingly entered the middle of the arena of the Death Race. The small group looked around the track. "Whoa… They certainly changed the style of the vehicles." Shadow couldn't help but say.

"Yeah, no." Sasha said, "I really don't like this!"

"This looks scary!" Plutia said now hugging her doll named Iris, "I don't like it here!"

"Don't worry!" Rhys reassured her, "We've got Zer0 with us, right buddy?"

Zer0 said nothing to him, he didn't even turn to look at the small group. Instead he had his eyes on Bossanova who was on what appeared to be a crane.

They heard Bossanova say:

"Whoever is the last mongrel still screaming at the end of the race will win the Hyperion Mystery Case of Wonder!"

"I really, really, really don't like this!" Sasha couldn't help but say.

"I'm scared!" Plutia had exclaimed before grabbing Sasha's leg.

"Just stay calm it'll be okay." Shadow had said to her.

Soon enough Bossanova noticed the Vault Hunter standing in the arena.

"Zer0!" Bossanova said before announcing, "Uh… actually, the uh, last freak standing still gets the mystery box, but whoever kills that guy, gets twenty g's cold hard cash!"

"Huh?" Plutia had said, "Where did Zer0 go?"

They saw that Zer0 wasn't in front of them anymore. They turned and instead found him standing on one of the containers with a sniper in his hand. With a single shot he shot the case right out of Bossanova's hands; it had landed just a few feet in front of them.

"I'm gonna drum you upside the head, shred you to bits, and de-base your corpse!" Bossanova had yelled, "YOU PLASTIC NINJA FREAK!" He attacked Zer0 with the soundwaves from the speaker in his chest. Luckily Zer0 managed to dodge the attack with ease.

The small group ran to the side to avoid the attacks from the bandit lord.

"Okay, let's go!" Sasha had said.

"Big sis wait!" Plutia shouted running after Sasha.

Shadow turned to Rhys; they both shrugged and ran after them. A Psycho soon came into the arena riding on a motorcycle stopping the small group in their, tracks. He managed to grab the case that was filled with the money. He stopped and drove straight towards them.

"Plutia get behind me!" Sasha shouted to her little sister; Plutia did what she was told.

Sasha pulled out her gun and shot at the Psycho. She managed to get a hit on him causing him to lose control of the bike. The bike fell on it's side and headed straight for Shadow and Rhys. Shadow managed to jump over the bike while Rhys quickly moved to the side.

A few more Bandits came into the arena as well as another Psycho. The Psycho picked up the case while the Bandits fired at them. The small group ran to the side to avoid the bullets.

"Sasha, can you back me up?" Shadow asked her, drawing his sword.

"I can't make any promises." Sasha told him.

"Just keep those bullets off of me, I'm gonna try and grab the case." He said before charging at the Bandits, killing one of them.

Most of the Bandits turned their attention to Shadow occupying him so that he couldn't go after the Psycho that had the case, but some continued to fire on them. Sasha managed to hit the Bandits, but one of them ducked to the side. "Ahh okay…" Sasha said, "We need to get out of here, we're outnumbered!"

"I'm open to ideas!" Rhys said.

It wasn't long till they heard a ringtone go off. "Huh? What's that noise?" Plutia asked.

"That's gotta be Yvette!" Rhys said immediately answering the call, "YES! She can send the Loader Bot!"

But it wasn't Yvette, it had turned out the one who called was Vasquez.

"Oh Professor Nakayama!" He said, "You sound different."

"Who is that?" Plutia asked Rhys.

"Vasquez." Rhys said.

A Bandit came out from his hiding place and tried to shoot Sasha in the head; Sasha however managed to shoot the Bandit to the ground.

"Is that your boss?" She asked while firing.

Rhys didn't answer, he just talked to Vasquez, "You know what, I really don't have time for-"

"Then I'll make this fast." Vasquez said cutting him off, "I know about the Vault Key, chum. Okay? I know. So now we've got this problem: a lot of Hyperion cheddar's missing."

A Bandit came up behind Sasha. "BIG SIS! BEHIND YOU!" Plutia shouted. Sasha was almost taken by surprise by the Bandit, but instead, Shadow caught the Bandit by surprise by using one of which was fire; it burned his leg with the swing of his sword causing him to cry out in agony and he kicked the Bandit to the side.

"Thanks." Sasha said to him, "I owe you one!"

Shadow didn't reply, and noticed Rhys on the phone with someone all too familiar to him. "Rhys please, tell me that's not Vasquez you're talking to." He said throwing his sword to a Bandit killing him.

"Look." Vasquez said over the phone, "No one else needs to know about this little faux pas, all right? So you bring the money and… tell you what? I'll give you your old job back. Before the janitor thing. The respectable job."

Rhys turned to Shadow who sliced bullets and blocked bullets from the Bandits that had fired.

"What about Shadow?" Rhys asked him (Luckily Shadow didn't hear since he was too focused on the Bandits), "Does he get his job back?"

"Yeah… No." Vasquez replied, "See here's the thing, someones gotta take the fall here, so we just have to blame it on him, and your two other pals, Vaughn and Mion. Okay? I mean it is Vaughn's ID associated with the account transfer, and it does seem like something Mion and Shadow would come up with since they were born there, so it would make sense."

"And why on Pandora would I trust you Vasquez?"

"Because that's a lot of money. Money I want. Money I don't have. Money you have. Money-"

"Yeah, okay, I get it."

"Look as much as I hate to admit, you screwed me. You really did. Cool moves, Rhys. Cool moves. Hyperion will want my dick in a sling. So you get your cybernetic rear up here with the money and I'll split it with you fifty-fifty. You scratch my nuts and I'll scratch yours, that kind of thing."

Sasha couldn't help but roll her eyes, "Really?" She said while she continued to fire.

Plutia who was listening to their conversation the whole looked at Rhys with eyes of worrying. She asked Rhys, "You're not going to do it are you?" Plutia had asked him tugging on his arm, "You won't do it will you?"

Rhys turned to her but didn't say anything to her; he just saw the look that that she was giving him. He will be honest with himself, it was a pretty sweet deal, but he couldn't let that get to his head. He's friends and him are all a team.

He couldn't just stab them in the back just like that. Plus even if he did accept his deal, Shadow wouldn't be able to get his job back, him and Shadow both made a promise that he would be the head Hyperion, and Shadow his right hand man.

He couldn't leave him in the dark of all that.

"You know what? For all I care you can go ahead and scratch your own nuts." Rhys had said, "Because I'm not gonna turn my back against my friends like that!"

"Scratching nuts? That sounds a bit dirty." Plutia couldn't but say to Rhys.

"I agree." Sasha added.

Vasquez was a bit surprised by what Rhys had said.

"Oh I'll scratch em. I'll scratch em real hard." He said, "You messed up Rhys. You coulda been back home living the good life. Passing that up for the sake of your friends. Ya have fun dying on the poop chute of a planet where you belong."

With that Vasquez hung up.

"Good riddance to that guy." Shadow had said to Rhys hearing what he had said to him.

Sasha had said, "No more phone calls okay? We have to-"

Sasha was cut off when they the Psycho from earlier jump over them with the case in his hand. "Hey!" Plutia shouted, "Get back here!" She then after the Psycho.

"Kid wait!" Shadow shouted as he ran after her.

Sasha had shouted before saying to Rhys, "Plutia hold up! Come on, after them!" The Psycho ran to the garage just on the other end of the arena. He pressed the big green button and the door opened; The Psycho ran inside.

They stopped in their tracks when they saw the Psycho run back out screaming like a girl. Out of the darkness came an alpha skag. It managed to grab the Psycho and started to chomp on him. "HOLY HELL!" Shadow couldn't help but exclaim.

"THE MONEY!" Plutia exclaimed.

Rhys ran and grabbed the Psycho's legs and tried to pull him out of the skags mouth. But instead he only pulled the bottom half of the Psycho out of the skags mouth. Rhys shrieked and immediately dropped the legs. Plutia's eyes were wide with shock, as was Shadow and Sasha's eyes when they heard a gulp sound from the skag.

"Did it just…" Shadow had said with his words trailing off.

"Swallow the case?" Rhys finished for him, "Yeah, it just did that."

"Well, one of you get it out!" Sasha shouted.

"That's easier said than done!" The teen said to Sasha.

The alpha skag slowly walked towards Rhys. Rhys hit it with his stun baton; but the giant skag shook it off. Rhys did the only thing he could think; run away from the skag.

"DAMN IT RHYS!" Shadow had shouted running after him.

"GET BACK HERE!" Sasha shouted running not too far behind from Shadow.

Rhys ducked to the side and the skag slide by him. Sasha started to fire right on the giant skag, and threw the sword at the skags leg hoping to hinder its movements. But it didn't seem to have any effect.

"GAH SON OF A TAINT!" Shadow shouted angrily.

He soon saw Zer0 atop on one of the crates where Rhys took cover. He saw Bossanova aim right where Zer0 stood when he was distracted the by the alpha skag. "RHYS WATCH OUT!" He yelled over to him. Rhys took cover when Bossanova's soundwaves fired towards Zer0, hitting them both, and the crates shattered into pieces.

None of them didn't realize that Plutia still standing there, with her hands twitching and her blood boiled with anger.

"It ate it…" She said to herself, "It ate the money…"

The markings on her arm and legs started to glow purple instead of blue. "That makes me mad." She said, "So very mad…"

With the alpha skag knocked out more Bandits came in; Sasha fired upon them. She soon felt this uneasy feeling in the pit of her stomach and quickly turned to Plutia; she noticed her marks glowing purple. "Oh crap…" Sasha said.

Shadow turned to Plutia and noticed the change in her expression, as did Rhys; they saw that she had a sadistic smile plastered on her face and she was chuckling to herself. As this happened Bandits began to surround the little one.

"Uhhh…" Rhys started to say, "Is that normal for her?"

"I don't think so." Shadow said to him.

They soon heard Sasha yell, "PLUTIA NO! DON'T LET HER OUT!"

Plutia had said to Sasha with a smile, "Sorry big sis. But I don't think I can control myself now. I know you, big sister and Felix tell me not to let her out, but now I can't help it."

The Bandits prepared to fire, causing Shadow to run towards where she stood to try and help her.

"SHADOW WAIT!" Sasha shouted to him, "DON'T!"

With a single blink of her eyes it had changed from magenta to red, "Something...someone is going to die…"

All of sudden Shadow stopped his tracks when a bright purple light illuminated all around her body, blinding everyone there. When the light stopped shining everyone was shocked to see, instead of a preteen standing in the arena, it was a fifteen year old girl. The ribbon that once held her braided hair fell to the ground letting her long hair flow through the wind.

Instead of the color lavender her hair was dark purple and had transitioned to a lilac blue at the ends. Her marks were purple instead of the usual light blue, and she was taller; her eyes were a cherry red color.

Shadow had soon realized she had the same appearance as Plutia's doll which was still attached to her belt.

She took in the air and let out a sigh and a smile, "Ahhh, it feels so good to be out." She said with her voice different and as she stretched her limbs, "And here I thought I was going to be left out of the party."

Shadow's jaw dropped at the sight of the woman before him.

"What the…?" He couldn't help but say.

Sasha said as she rubbed her eyes, "This is the last thing, we didn't want to happen."

"WHO IN THE HELL IS THAT!?" Rhys shouted, "AND WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT GIRL PLUTO!?"

"It's Plutia." Sasha corrected, before groaning, "And believe it or not… that is her."

Rhys's eyes widened in shock and his jaw dropped as well, "That's… WHAT!?"

"Plutia?" Shadow said with disbelief, "SHE'S PLUTIA!?"

The woman let out a chuckle and placed a hand on her hip, "Now the party can really get started." She said all while doing the peace sign.

IRIS HEART

THE ROSE WITH THE POISONOUS THORNS

Iris looked around her and whistled at the fact that at least five Bandits had guns pointed towards her. "Well, well, well…" She said, "I didn't expect someone to roll out the red carpet. Am I to take it that you boys are going to take me out to dance? Fine, I'll lead."

Her marks started to glow a bright purple color; in her left hand there materialized a sword. The Bandits on her all at once. Iris spun as if she was a ballerina dancer and her sword had suddenly moved like a whip and cut off the surrounding Bandits heads off.

"HOLY SHIT!" Rhys and Shadow couldn't help but exclaim. Iris stopped spinning and turned to Sasha, Shadow and Rhys. "So then…" She said placing the sword on her shoulder, "Who do I have to fuck so that I can be satisfied?"

"Ummm…" Rhys said turning to Sasha, "So is this a thing she does?"

"That's a bit hard to explain." Sasha said, "Let's just say, Iris is used for emergencies only, and we clearly told Plutia not to let her out! At least not right now!"

Iris had said, "Oh how you wound me, my dear sister Sasha. I've come all this way just to see you, and this is how you greet me? Shame on you."

"Look Iris, we're kind of in the middle of something right now." Sasha said, "So just-"

"Who do you think I am? A fool?" Iris said cutting her off, "I know about the little money problem."

Shadow and Rhys were both surprised at this. "Wait a minute you know about-"

Shadow was cut off when he saw the alpha skag got up from the floor.

"Oh crap." Rhys couldn't help but say.

"Ooo, he's a big fella isn't he?" Iris had said with a smile, "And sure as hell ugly."

Iris stepped forward with her sword in hand. "She's not planning on taking that thing on by herself is she?!" Shadow said to Sasha.

"You'd be surprised on what she can take on." Sasha told him.

Iris chuckled to herself as she approached the alpha skag. "So your the one that pissed Plutia off and let me out. I appreciate it. Really I do."

The alpha skag charged at Iris, and attempted to bit off her face. Iris had dodged with ease and send a powerful kick right in the skags face, making Shadow and Rhys's jaw drop at the site of what she had just did. The alpha skag toppled over on it's side.

Iris couldn't help but laugh and spun her sword. "Seriously? Is that really all you got? Man what a joke."

The alpha skag got up and charged at her again; doing yet another attempt to bit her face again.

"Seriously? Don't you ever learn?" Iris said with a smirk. With her left arm, her arm glowed a purple light and punched it's face actually knocking a tooth out. Than with her sword she stabbed it in the eye causing to cry out in pain. Iris removed her blade and couldn't help but lick the blood off of her blade as the alpha skag tried to shake off the pain. She licked her lips, "That's what you get when you come face to face with me."

Iris than heard Sasha shout, "Look Iris, not disturb you from your fun but we've got bigger problems! We gotta get the money out of that skags stomach!"

"Okay, okay." Iris said with a pouty look, "You also gotta kill my fun don't you Sasha?"

Iris prepared to cut the skags stomach that was until-

"WATCH OUT!" Shadow had shouted.

"Huh?" Iris said before she felt something hit her hard; turns out it was the skags giant paw. The impact caused her to let go of her blade and fly into a pile of crates.

"IRIS!" Sasha shouted running over to her. Shadow and Rhys ran over to help Sasha move the crates off of Iris.

"Good God are you okay!?" Rhys asked her helping her up.

Iris managed to stand on her on two feet. She stretched her arms and cracked her neck. She couldn't help but chuckle, "He packs a punch doesn't he?" She pushed Rhys off as well as Sasha, "Step aside ladies, let Iris show you how it's done."

She spun her sword a couple of times and went over to the skag.

"Is she insane!?" Shadow exclaimed, "She just got hit by that thing and she still plans on taking it on!?"

"Good God, this is why we use her for emergencies…" Sasha said, while rubbing her forehead.

The alpha skag prepared to charge at her again. Iris cracked her wrist, "You ready for round two big boy?"

The alpha skag gave her one final charge, and in turn Iris charged at it and swung her sword. This had caused the alpha skag to jump right over her.

"Gotcha." She said with a smirk. She lifted the sword above her head and the blade made contact with it's stomach. It's stomach had sliced open and she was soon drenched in it's blood; her dress became stained as was her hair and all of it's insides fell out.

The alpha skag was dead in an instant.

Rhys and Shadow was stunned by what had just happened as Iris laughed like a little psycho.

"God that felt so good!" She said practically spinning; she turned to Sasha, "I tell you that never get's old!"

"Yeah, glad to see that your happy Iris." Sasha said.

"Is Plu-I mean Iris always like this?" Shadow asked her.

"Yes she is." She replied, "Don't worry I had the same reaction you did when she first showed up."

Rhys saw the other half of the Psycho that the skag ate earlier. He soon saw the case, "GUYS THE CASE!" He said to them prying it from the Psycho's corpse. "Alright good!" Sasha said, "Let's get-"

Sasha was cut off when Zer0 had landed right back in the arena with them. He picked up his blade which was near Iris's feet. "Thanks." He said to her.

Iris shrugged her shoulders and said, "Whatever."

Zer0 soon jumped to the side which confused the four. But soon Shadow had realized why he had jumped to the side.

"MOVE NOW!" He shouted to them.

Bossanova's sound waves hit the four sending each of them to the ground, all except Iris who flew towards the track with the case.

(Ending Theme: Bleach Ending 6 My Pace)