-Sometime Ago on Pandora (Rhys's P.O.V) Old Haven-
After Shadow and Mion were dropped off over at Hollow Point, both Rhys and Vaughn immediately made their way to Old Haven to see what if they could find wherever the Gortys Project is. Loader Bot flew to the skies holding onto Rhys and Vaughn. As they flew the two of them looked down at Pandora from below.
"Y'know, from up here, Pandora is kinda of pretty." Vaughn said to Rhys, "Don't you think? I mean you know, with the reflections on the water and everything? And you can't smell all the animal carcasses! So that's nice right?"
Rhys, being afraid of heights couldn't help but cling onto Loader Bot tightly. Vaughn couldn't help but stick out his arms and legs, almost as if he was flying all on his own. "WOOOO!" He cheered before asking, "Hey, would you catch me if I fell?"
"Gahhh…" Rhys said, almost throwing up, "I really wish you wouldn't do that."
"I'll never let go." Loader Bot said.
Soon enough, Loader Bot flew down to the abandoned town below. He touched the ground with ease holding Rhys and Vaughn by their shirt. He than set them both down to the ground. They looked around Old Haven not really finding anything out of the ordinary. Vaughn said, "Not to be a downer, but I'm not seeing any Atlas Facility. Are we sure this is the right spot?"
Rhys said to Loader Bot and Vaughn, "Alright guys, sure it's not a fancy resort, but we're not here for a day at the spa. We're looking for a top secret military facility."
"Still it doesn't look like there's anything here."
"Don't worry, I'm sure we'll figure something out. Pretty sure I can figure this out…"
Rhys activated his ECHOeye; when he did, he saw that there were some kind of power lines, all of them connected to one place. Of course he found this to be interesting.
"Well look at that…" Rhys said to himself, "Now we're on to something."
He followed the powerlines to what looked like a power box. Looking what was in front of him and saw something interesting.
"Hey guys! Come check this out!" He called out to Vaughn and Loader Bot.
"What is it?" Vaughn asked him.
Rhys had replied pointing over to the other part of Old Haven, "It looks like it's a whole grid. It all leads right to here."
Vaughn went over to a red box and said, "I mean, with all these power lines everywhere… They've gotta be connected to something. Right?"
Rhys looked over and saw a red box behind a billboard. He moved it out of the way, and proceeded to scan it, just to make sure it was the actual thing. When it was confirmed that was where the power lines lead, he opened it and saw a red wire that was unplugged; there were three more electrical sockets as well. He proceeded to plug the red wire into the socket that was next to it.
"Okay, let's see what that does."
The bar in the middle filled up halfway, activating the satellite. One of the satellite's on the buildings moved slightly to the left; Rhys noticed this. He took the red plug out of the second socket and plugged it in all the way at the end. The bar in the middle filled up and it lit up showing the initials GP. The sound of a loud clang was heard.
"Alright! Now we're on to something!"
He saw that the second powerbox was up on top of the building. Climbing up on the dumpster (After getting his foot stuck which sucks cause he still has only one shoe :P), he climbed up onto the roof of the building and went over to the power box. He used the red wire to plug into the last socket like he did with a previous one. Once again, a loud clang sound was heard.
"Two down, one to go."
Vaughn and Loader Bot couldn't help but give him a thumbs up. He went to the final power box which was right by Vaughn. He opened it and did the same as the others.
"And… There we go!"
All of a sudden half of Old Haven lifted up into the sky. Underneath all of the buildings was an even larger than the others; the logo GP was on the middle of the building. Rhys and Vaughn both backed up as the building kept going up to a point. The door that had the logo across opened up for him and Vaughn.
"Underground hidden doors!" Vaughn said with excitement, "Ha! Atlas man…"
Rhys turned to Vaughn, "Alright, let's go ahead and check this place-"
"Well, well, well."
Rhys and Vaughn turned around and they found themselves standing at gunpoint, by the man whom they meet when they almost bought the fake Vault Key; It was August, but he had bought back-up.
"Hello again, ten million dollars." August said with a smirk, "Miss me?"
"Oh shit." Rhys and Vaughn said in unison.
-A Few Moments Later-
The caravan drove into the old mining town of Old Haven, and the first thing they saw when the caravan first drove up was a huge building that had the initials GP in the middle of it. Fiona, Sasha, Plutia, Mion and Shadow exited the caravan, and couldn't help but stare in awe by it.
"Whoa… This place is huge." Plutia said, breaking the silence between them.
"I'm just gonna hazard a guess that this is our Gortys Building." Sasha said to them.
"I'm thinking the signs would point to yes." Fiona said to her.
Sasha took a closer look at the building, "This looks like it was unburied recently. I'd say within the last hour. You guys really think your Hyperion buddies did this?"
"We're both confident that it was them." Mion said to Sasha, "I know they don't exactly look it, but they're pretty smart when it comes to technology."
"I don't know, I'd say that Loader Bot of yours might have badass enough to do this." Fiona told the teens.
"You can think what you like." Shadow said.
Plutia looked around and asked, "Where are they anyway? I thought you said that they would be here?"
Mion replied, "If Shades and I know them, they're probably already inside checking the place out."
Sasha said to the group, "Well what are we waiting for? Let's head in, see what this place has to offer."
They nodded their heads and proceeded inside the building. The first thing they saw when they walked down the steep hill was a statue of a muscled man holding a globe with the word Atlas going around it. They also saw several dead bodies all over the floor and blood stains on he floor and walls. Sasha and Mion went to examine the body; both of them recognized the uniforms.
"Crimson Lance." Sasha said, poking the head, "These guys are serious badasses."
"From the looks of it, it was Athena's handiwork." Mion said.
Fiona took a closer look at the bodies, "Looks like. I'm starting to think that we might've just gotten lucky with back there."
They soon heard an additional voices in the room; they all knew who they belonged too.
"You'll do what we tell you to do, or you die. Simple as that."
"Well, yeah, but it seems like you're gonna kill us anyway."
"Shut up smartass."
"Shit, get down." Shadow said, they all got behind what made the statue stood, and they all took a peek. They saw August at the other side of the room, August was there along with his men. They saw Rhys and Vaughn there as well, with there hands up; Loader Bot was standing down.
"Rhys! Vaughn!" Mion exclaimed softly.
"Damn it all, we can't even leave them alone for one second!" Shadow whispered facepalming himself.
"This looks really bad." Plutia whispered, hugging her doll tightly, "Since August is here it has to be bad."
"What are we supposed to do?" Sasha asked her sister.
Fiona turned to Shadow (Who still had the broken arm), "You think you can take out those guys?"
Shadow replied, "Normally I would, but considering I have a broken arm, which by the way is also my good arm, I think I'll be able to take out maybe four of them."
"Alright better than nothing." Fiona said, "So you'll provide a distraction, while Sasha, Mion and I-"
"Well, well, well, what do we have here?"
They turned around when they heard a voice just behind them. They slowly turned around, to see that it was man that Shadow and Mion knew all too well. "Shit." Both of the teens said. They were brought over to the rest of the group. They all had their hands up (Well Shadow has one hand up since his arm was still broken) and they're weapons were taken from them by August's men.
"Hey August, look who finally decided to show up to the party." Vasquez said pointing a gun to them.
"Oh crap." Rhys said.
"Vazquez." Vaughn said with a glare.
"Vaughn, Rhys." Vazquez greeted before saying, "Didn't think you'd given me the slip now do you? You didn't think I'd have August holding all my dirty work, didja?"
Rhys groaned and said, "Oh my god, I am so sick of thi! Would you just screw off already!?"
"Yeah, take a hike would ya!?" Mion said.
"Why do you waste your time just screwing with us?" Shadow said to her, "They're plenty other people in the world you can be tormenting."
"True." August said to him, "But none of them have the Gortys Core."
Vaughn had shouted, "LOADER BOT! ARM WEAPONS OR SOMETHING!"
"I'm helping." Loader Bot said.
Right when Loader Bot was about to throw a punch at Vasquez, he pulled a small remote with a red button out of his pocket. He pressed the button and the Loader Bot suddenly froze in place.
The small group was dumbfounded. "What the-!?" Rhys said in disbelief.
"Come on guys, you didn't think I'd come all the way down here before grabbing a universal remote did you?" Vasquez said.
"What?" Loader Bot said questioningly.
Vasquez said to them, "The Gortys Project, the two halves of the Core, everything that'll lead us to a Vault… We got it all. Checkmate, amigos."
"I am shame-"
Loader Bot was cut off when Vasquez hit the button again; this time his legs shut down and it caused him to fall over. "Loader Bot!" Mion exclaimed.
Rhys glared at Vasquez as did Shadow. Their former boss noticed the looks on their faces, "Oh come on what did you two think? That you and your buddies could pilfer something from my toybox, no strings attached?" He stepped on to of Loader Bot and rested his arm on his knee, "The two of you could never follow through. And that's why I beat you everytime."
"You…" Shadow said with a hiss.
"Oh you're payback is coming asshole." Rhys said walking over to him, "I don't know how, I don't know when, but you're gonna make a mistake and when you do… You can bet your ass that Shadow and I will be there."
"Sure, sure." Vasquez said, "I'll be sure to bring flowers."
Rhys said, but stammered at the end of his sentence, "Yeah, you'll bring-Wait a second you'll bring what?"
Vasquez punched Rhys right on the head, which caused him to fall over on his side, dropping the core half he carried. When he was hit on the head, Shadow heard that painful ringing sound in his head causing him to groan in agony. Plutia noticed this and went over to him, to make sure he was alright.
"To your graves. Cause you'll be dead."
It wasn't long before both Rhys, Shadow, and this time Plutia heard a voice that started out distorted, but then sounded normal. Of course it was none other than Handsome Jack.
"oOOoH, YoU gUYs wiLL nOt BELieVE tHE drEAm i JuST haD! hOLy cRa-"
Jack cut himself off when he saw the predicament that they were in. "Wait, wait, wait, what the hell is this?" Jack asked as he got up, "Didn't I just do this? With this guy? I mean kiddo, I admire your consistency but, god…"
Jack noticed August there about to pick up the core, "Oh and who is THIS Princess?" He asked crossing his arms.
Plutia stared at Jack a bit dumbfounded by the fact that he was standing there. "It's you again…" She whispered. Jack of course heard and turned to her in disbelief when he realized, she was staring at him.
"Wait, you can see me kiddo?" Jack asked her.
Plutia didn't have time to answer when she saw August about to pick up the core. "NO AUGUST DON'T!" Plutia yelled, "THEY-!"
August touched it but of course he got shocked, and it caused him to throw the Core half in the air.
"GAH!" August cried out, "SON OF A-!"
Rhys caught the Core before it could hit the ground. "Shock other people." Vaughn finished for Plutia.
August shook the pain from his hand from the shock. "Oh yes, I knew about that." Vasquez said to him, "Don't touch the Cores August."
"Yeah, thanks for the heads up!" August said sarcastically before mumbling, "Jackass."
"They're going to have to do it for us." Vasquez said before asking both Rhys and Fiona, "You'll cooperate, right? Because I figure if you don't… Well I can think of all sort of things to do to your little friends."
"How exactly can we cooperate with you, when we don't even know what this Gortys Project is?" Mion said to him.
Rhys had added, "We don't even know what these Cores do!"
Vasquez nodded his head, "Fair enough. I vote that we find out together."
August noticed that there were two doors; both of the doors had logos that looked exactly like the Cores. "Two hallways…" August said, "Two halves."
Vasquez said to August, "I'll take my soon to be dead janitor here, and you take Miss Fancy Hat down the other one."
Before they could make there way down, Vasquez said, "Oh, and just in case if you don't cooperate…" He grabbed Shadow by his broken arm, causing him to cry out in pain; Rhys could almost swear that Jack had a pissed off look at that.
"He's gonna be the first to die, if you try anything funny." He said still holding him by his broken arm. Thus Rhy, Shadow and Rhys, Jack included went into the hallway on the left.
August got a similar idea, and took Plutia by the arm. Fiona and Sasha both got a pissed off look on their faces, "Same thing's gonna happen to her, if you don't cooperate." He said Fiona before turning to Plutia, "Walk in front of me, and don't try anything you'll regret."
Plutia hesitantly nodded her head, and they both started moving, August still pointed his gun right Plutia.
(Rhys & Shadow's P.O.V)
The three of them walked down the hallway, Vasquez still hanging onto Shadow's broken arm. "I'll admit: you two have impressed me." Vasquez said, "And that sort of thing doesn't happen often. I'm surprised you both made it this far."
Jack kept looking at Vasquez questioningly, "Hmmm, Hugo Vasquez… There's something I remember about this guy. What hell is it?" He said to Shadow
Shadow mumbled over to him, "How the hell should I know that? I didn't work for you then remember?"
Vasquez didn't hear him, as he continued to talk, "Really. It's unbelievable. You two must have some sort of help. Couple of desk jockeys like you. I'd say fifty/fifty you'd survive the moon landing… Much less as getting far as you both have."
"Desk jockeys." Jack said laughing; before saying to Shadow, "If he only knew the real you."
Rhys wondered what he meant by that, but shook it off and replied to Vasquez, "There's nothing you or Pandora can throw at us that's tougher than navigating the halls of Hyperion."
Vasquez chuckled at that and said, "I know what you mean. It does go down in the H-Town doesn't it?"
"It most certainly does." Shadow said.
Vasquez said, "You two might think of me as a self made man and for the most part you'd be right. But there was a time, when I'd looked up and admired one man in particular. The most impressive man I've ever known."
"He's gonna say me." Jack said to Rhys and Shadow.
"Handsome Jack." Vasquez said like Jack had predicated.
"You idiots always say me." Jack said, "Well, not counting Shady and Mimi. I still can't figure out who he is though."
Vasquez had explained at one point letting go of Shadow's broken arm, "We had this special rapport. He would do this thing where he would punch me in the face whenever he'd see me. It didn't matter if he was busy. He always made time for me."
Jack crossed his arms and shook his head. "Nah, still nothing." He said, "I punched my mom for christ sake."
Rhys and Shadow both gave Jack a look to him. Jack looked at them both and said, "What? No joke, I did do that shit."
"Just boom right in the kisser!" Vasquez said, "I was drinking a mug when he got me one time."
"Woah…" Shadow said with sarcasm, "What a deep relationship…"
"He thought we were exclusive, that's adorable." Jack said amused.
Rhys on the other hand said, "Man… The best I ever got was him spitting on me once. He was walking by and I was like there getting spit on. I'm kinda of jealous of the relationship you guys had."
"It's only natural…" Vasquez said, "Clearly he saw me as… Special."
Both Shadow and Jack gave an equal look of confusion and disgust; and they couldn't help but look at each other both thinking the same thing.
"I miss our time together." Vasquez said.
Jack rubbed the back of his head, "Okay, seriously, this is driving me crazy, it's right there on the tip of my tongue."
Vasquez had continued, "...But through me, his legacy carries on."
Rhys gave Shadow a confused as did the young teen; he shrugged to Rhys. In the next second Vasquez had punched Rhys right in the gut, causing Shadow and even Jack to back up. Rhys fell on his side, putting his arms over where it hurt.
(Fiona & Plutia's P.O.V)
Fiona walked in front of Plutia and August was right behind the little eleven year old girl; his gun was pressed against her back. She held onto her doll hugging it tightly; It calmed her down a little but not by that much.
"Plutia come on!" She heard Iris say through her thoughts, "Let me at this bastard for what he's doing to us!"
"Iris, I can't." Plutia replied in her head, "He might kill big sister and big sis if I let you out now."
"Than let me out before that can happen!"
"And what about the others? They might kill them too."
"Face it, this asshole and that other asshole, might kill you all anyway once this is all over. Didja ever stop to consider that?"
"We don't know that for sure. Please just wait a bit longer Iris. I don't want anyone to get hurt."
She heard Iris grunt in her head; from what she could tell, she was annoyed by Plutia's decision, "Don't say I didn't warn you."
Fiona looked over to August and finally asked him, "How the hell did you get paired up with an asshole like Vasquez?"
"He's not that bad." August said, "He's just… A little dumb."
"Yeah, I'll bet." Fiona said to him, while rolling her eyes. August sighed and explained, "Vallory… The woman that I work for. She's just got a lot of contacts up in Hyperion, Vasquez being one of them. Problem is we tried to cut her out of the deal. Obviously that was a bad idea for a lot of reasons. The fact that the Vault Key was bullshit from the first and foremost. Well, Vallory found out about it, so now, we've gotta convince her that whatever comes out of this room is worth more than ten million dollar deal slip under her nose. Then hopefully, she doesn't kill us all."
Silence once again came over the three of them. Plutia still hugged her doll tightly. "She ever talk about me?" August asked Fiona.
"What? Who?" Fiona asked him.
"Sasha." August said, once again asking, "Did she ever talk about me? I mean you guys are sisters. I figure you talk once in awhile. Just curious if she ever mentioned me."
Fiona replied, "She thinks you're dangerous."
"Yeah, well, I am." August said, "So that's fine. Maybe that's something she likes about me."
"It's not." Fiona said, "You killed a guy right in front of us. Don't you remember?"
"Oh… Yeah right… That was rash."
"Ya think?"
"But listen, that guy… He was a bad guy. Ripping my family off for years. Just stacking lies on top of lies until he couldn't remember what the truth was. He had plenty of outs. He choose not to use'em. Just so you know, as far as you, Plutia and I are concerned, there's no hard feelings."
"That is so generous… I'll remember that when you shoot us both in the back."
"Come on, don't be like that. You're the one that hustled me remember?"
(Rhys & Shadow's P.O.V)
Vasquez was already giving his speech on why he did what he depromoted them to janitor when they still worked up in Hyperion.
"-And that you see is what I was trying to provide for the two of you." Vasquez said finishing up, "Some guidance, some mentorship. A father figure. I was trying to help you. The janitor gig… It was to test your mettle… your resolve. And I gotta say, you two reacted with some balls. Some big old balls."
Shadow couldn't help but think in his thoughts. "Father figure and mentor huh? That sounds familiar…"
Rhys and him looked over to Jack; he was looking over to Vasquez close up, trying to recognize his face.
Vasquez didn't notice this and said, "You see you two, I started from the bottom and I worked my up… I uh… I used to be in the mailroom."
Jack's eyes widened in realization, "Whoa, wait a minute!" Jack said before exclaiming, "WALLETHEAD!"
Rhys and Shadow both looked at him with a confused look on their faces. As Vasquez continued to talk, Jack had explained to them, "He used to be bald and he was going through these hair in plants, and I would stick money to his head and it was…" Jack laughed in the middle of his sentence, "It was hilarious! But that was a long time ago, go on, ask him about it, he'll tell you. Ask him about it."
Shadow helped Rhys to stand up on his feet, and Rhys had said to Vasquez after clearing his throat, "Listen uh… Wallethead."
Vasquez was taken back by that name, "Wa-Wa-Wallethead?"
Jack laughed at his expression.
Rhys continued, "Yeah, so… While Shadow and I both appreciate the advice, we'd much rather take your two cents and shove them into your wallet you have in the back of your head that you are ashamed of, because you are a Wallethead."
Shadow's mouth hung open, as did Vasquez. Silence came over them; the only thing that was heard was the sound of Jack's laughter (Even though Vasquez couldn't hear him)
"I'm not gonna lie…" Shadow said finally breaking the silence, "I'm at a loss for words."
"I uh…" Vasquez said, "I was trying to be nice to you."
He went grab Shadow's broken arm, causing him to groan in pain; He said to Rhys, "Let's get this over with." Rhys started to walk, going through Jack (Much to his displeasure). Vasquez said to them as he forced Shadow to walk., "When I take your corpses back up to Helios, I'm gonna make sure they save one of your skins to make a wallet out of. Whenever I see it, I'll remember the look on your faces at this moment."
Jack said as he watched them walk down the hall, "Woah…. That's… Legitimately creepy." They got the end of the hallway they saw that there was a platform in front of them, with a console; in the middle of the console was the shape of the core. In the room, it looked as though that they were staring into outer space.
Rhys stepped inside and turned to Vasquez. "Well, what are you waiting for?" Vasquez said to him, "Go ahead and do it."
"Hand Shadow over first." Rhys said.
Vasquez complied, pushing Shadow over to him. Shadow stepped in with Rhys, and glared over at Vasquez, rubbing his arm to rid himself of the pain.
"You alright?" Rhys asked him.
Shadow nodded, "Yeah, I'll be fine. Let's just get this over with."
Rhys nodded his head. He placed the core inside the console. Both him and Shadow stumbled when they felt the platform move. But when it did, a red shield had activated right behind them, blocking off Vasquez.
"No! NO!" Vasquez shouted trying to break the shield, "HEY! HEY!"
(Fiona & Plutia's P.O.V)
"I just…" August explained to Fiona and Plutia, "I just need some reassurances. That it was just about the money and nothing else. Relationships have to be built on trust. I don't know if I can take Sasha back without it. How do you even start a conversation like that? At this point I assume she's just embarrassed."
Fiona could tell by the sound of his voice, that he wants to make it up to Sasha after what he did; although being protective over Sasha, she didn't want him to have her back, even if he was conned in the first place.
Fiona decided to give him the benefit of the doubt.
"You two should talk." Fiona said to him, "Clear the air. See where that get's you."
"Yeah…" August said, "We should do that."
They soon approached the end of the hallway. "Well, here we are." August said.
They saw through the door there was a console and in the middle it was in the Core. August allowed Plutia to go over to Fiona; She couldn't help but hug her.
"Go on." August said, "Stalling's not gonna do you any good."
Fiona went inside along with Plutia; they saw Rhys and Shadow in the middle of the room. Fiona placed the Core in the console and they stumbled when the platform moved. They saw a red shield had activated.
"HEY!" August shouted, "WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS!?"
He tried to break the shield as he shouted, "NO! NO! NO!"
The platform started to move surprising the two sisters. It started to move to the middle of the room where Rhys and Shadow were. When the platforms turned the Consoles with the cores moved on opposite sides of the platforms.
Rhys and Shadow stood at the opposite sides of Fiona and Plutia.
"Hey." Rhys said to Fiona.
"Hey yourself." Fiona said to Rhys.
"You guys have a nice chat?" Rhys asked, "I mean I can't imagine he's too happy with you guys. At least, that's the vibe I was getting."
Fiona replied, "We're working a few things out."
Rhys said to her, "That's good, that's good. It's important to clear the air with your captors."
Plutia placed her doll back on her belt, ran over to Shadow hugging him; he hugged her back with his good arm. "I was really worried about you."
Shadow broke out of the hug, and asked her, "He didn't hurt you or your sister did he?"
Plutia shook her head and Shadow sighed with relief. They heard a computerized voice echo throughout the room, "GORTYS UNIT READY FOR ASSEMBLY."
They heard a knock on the glass and turned to the source. Vasquez point the gun towards Vaughn while one of August's men pointed a gun towards Mion.
"WE GOT IT! WE GOT IT!" Rhys shouted to him, before saying to the small group, "Let's hurry and get this done. Fiona, help me out with this." Fiona nodded her head and went over to the console on the left while Rhys went to the right. Shadow and Plutia watched from the sidelines.
They started to push the consoles towards each other. Slowly but surely they started to get closer to one another. Electricity started to surge between the middle and both Rhys and Fiona were struggling with it now.
"GAH!" Fiona groaned, "KEEP PUSHING!"
"WHAT EXACTLY DO YOU THINK I'M DOING!?" Rhys shouted over to her, as he continued to push.
Finally, the two consoles that contained the Cores, connected with one another; Rhys and Fiona both took a moment to catch their breath.
"PROGRAM COMPLETE." The computer voice said, "RECONFIGURING PROBABILITY MATRIX."
After a few moments the consoles separated with one another and it was revealed to be a red and silver sphere, with small yellow lights. The group of four within the room, couldn't help but looked at it curiously as it floated in the middle of the platform.
"What is it?" Plutia asked curiously.
"That… Is a metal ball." Rhys said to Plutia.
"Could this be this the Gortys Project that Atlas was working on?" Shadow asked.
Fiona tilted her head, "How is this going to get us into a Vault?"
Rhys had said, "At this point it's the only leverage we got."
"Meaning?" The Con Artist asked him.
Rhys gestured over to the rest of the group behind the glass window; seeing Vaughn, Mion, and Sasha pretty much being held at gunpoint.
"Right." Fiona said.
"We've only got one bargaining chip." Shadow said.
The group looked over to where there friends were. August knocked on glass, obviously getting impatient.
"OKAY!" Fiona shouted over to him, before saying to them, "Let's just grab the thing and go."
Rhys gave a single tap on the sphere, but then it suddenly dropped to the ground. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?" Fiona exclaimed.
"I GOT IT!" Plutia yelled, diving to grab the sphere. She managed to catch it but almost slid off. Luckily Shadow acted quick and grabbed Plutia by the leg with his good arm.
"WARNING. GORTYS DEVICE COMPROMISED." The computer voice said.
Jack was suddenly there, and had seen what had happened. "Real smooth kiddo." Jack said sarcastically.
All of a sudden, the Atlas Security Bots came online and flew up to where they were; they armed themselves. Plutia squeaked, almost dropping the sphere again. "Uh-oh." She said.
"No! It's fine!" Shadow said to the bots, "It's not damaged! Really!"
More of the same bots flew up to where they were.
"Ooo." Jack said seeing the many bots, "It didn't like that Shady. Did not like that at all."
Shadow and Plutia both stood up; Plutia hanging on to the sphere. "This isn't a problem!" Rhys said, feeling panicky, "Everything is okay!"
About four bots started to circle them with guns armed and ready to fire. If that wasn't enough of a problem, the bots were now seen outside, with their guns armed and ready to fire at the large group.
"MION! VAUGHN!" Shadow shouted.
"BIG SIS!" Plutia cried out.
From behind the glass they saw August arm his pistol; he was aiming it right at Sasha's face.
"HEY!" Fiona and Plutia shouted, with anger in their tone of voice.
A purple light surrounded Plutia and she changed her appearance; her braid had once again fell out of place, taking Shadow and Rhys back by surprise.
"Get away from Sasha you fucktards!" Iris shouted her had materialized and was armed and ready.
"Holy shit!" Jack exclaimed when he saw Iris there, "I didn't see that one coming!"
Fiona held Iris back, "Wait a second!" She said, "I've got an idea. Give me the sphere."
Iris turned to Fiona, and was about to protest. It wasn't long until she saw Fiona was holding something of use in the palm of her hand. She nodded and handed the sphere to her.
"Wait!" Rhys said, "What are you doing!?"
"What are you planning!?" Shadow said to her.
"Just trust me." Was all Fiona said. She turned to look at the group behind the glass. All of a sudden she held in the air and it was revealed to be a grenade, "BACK OFF!" She shouted to them.
"WHOA! WHOA, WHOA, WHOA! WHAT IS SHE DOING!?" Jack exclaimed, turning to Rhys and Shadow, "This isn't good! This is bad!"
Vasquez had grabbed a hold of Vaughn, and held the gun to his head. Mion was about to charge at Vasquez, but was grabbed by August's men.
"Rhys!" Jack said, "Rhysie! You gotta let me in to your subsystems man!"
"What good will that do!?" Rhys whispered to him.
"I can easily hack into the systems!" Jack explained, "And… Almost guarantee no one dies, unless you want em too!"
"Almost guarantee?" Shadow said to him.
"Probably! I don't know!" Jack said, "Just let me in!"
Rhys didn't know what to decide exactly.
Vaughn and Mion were both struggling out of there hold. Vaughn almost fell to the sighed, but Vasquez kept a firm grasp on him; Mion was punched in the gut. "VAUGHN! MION!" Rhys and Shadow shouted.
"You guys it's under control." Iris told them, Jack included, "You just have to trust us!"
"What?! No don't listen to her!" Jack said, before saying to Rhys, "Look, we can take over the whole facility kid! We got this."
"I'LL DO IT! BACK AWAY!" Fiona shouted to them.
"They don't even have a plan!" Jack said to them.
"Rhys!" Shadow said, "Make a decision!"
Rhys thought about it, and he thought about it quick; he had made his choice, and it was one that Jack didn't like. He turned to Fiona, "Whatever you're gonna do Fiona, do it!" He said.
Fiona turned to him and smiled.
"NO! NO!" Jack shouted, "YOU'RE MAKING A HUGE MISTAKE!"
But it wasn't long till Jack remembered what he could do. He turned over to Shadow, and hatched an idea of his own. Iris saw Shadow fall over; She managed to catch him before he hit the ground.
"Shadow!" Iris said trying to shake him awake, "Shades! Hey wake up!" It was only after a few seconds before he started to twitch.
Fiona didn't take notice of this as she stepped forward with the grenade in hand. She said with a smile, "No one lives forever."
And just when she was about to arm it, a hand had suddenly grabbed a hold of her wrist. Fiona turned to see that it was Shadow. "Shadow!?" She and Rhys exclaimed.
Shadow started to chuckle; he picked up his head, and Fiona saw that his ECHOeye was blue. "Now that was too close for comfort." Shadow said with a grin, "What did you expect to with that, huh? Just through it in the air and hope for a miracle, man aren't you dense?"
"Shadow, what the fuck are you doing!?" Iris shouted to him.
He turned to her and she and Rhys were taken back when they saw his eye was blue. "Do you kiss your mother with that mouth?" He asked her.
"Oh no." Rhys whispered when he recognized that familiar color eye.
He turned back to Fiona and let go of her wrist, "Why don't you just sit back and let a professional handle this sweetheart?"
"Sweetheart?" Fiona said with confusion.
Shadow chuckled and suddenly snapped his fingers. The robots had suddenly stopped circling around them. The teen started to move his hand in many motions, all the while his grin grew wider.
"Ho-How is he doing that?" Fiona asked Rhys.
"He's not." Rhys said, see the hologram of Jack motioning his hand in many directions while Shadow copied his movements. He lifted his hand, and the bots turned over to the group behind the glass; the lights had suddenly turned to blue.
Both Jack and Shadow couldn't help but laugh.
"HAIL TO THE KING BABY!"
(Opening Theme: Hamatora the Animation Opening 1)
To be continued in "Borderlands: Journey to the Vault"
Okay before you go raging on me, let me explain why I'm making this in a two parter. I wanted to put my own original stuff in this series. In I Feel Like A Monster I was able to put my own stuff making it a subplot. But I can't do that in Tales from the Borderlands fanfic. So I wanted to add my own original stuff in this without making too long while also tying fit it in to the main story. Plus this was mostly about them finding the Gortys Project, so I hope you guys understand that. Be on the lookout for the Journey to the Vault, cause I might be posting soon. :)