Chapter 4: Introducing Aubrey Callahan
Mission(s): Burying the Past * Side Mission
Message In A Bottle * Side Mission
DLC: Captain Scarlett and her Pirate's Booty
Zero sat in his and Maya's Sandskiff, it became harder and harder for Zero to ignore Maya's stare – she was standing leaning up against the hanger wall, while Zero was sitting sideways in the driver's seat of the Sandskiff. Eventually he gave in and looked her way, she was holding up her ECHO device. "Hey Zero," Maya says, "you're gonna want to hear this."
Aubrey Callahan's voice entered Zero's suits sound receptors, "My great grandma used to be a sand pirate around these parts. But I don't want anyone to know that. Her old ship is outside of Oasis, I need you to scuttle it and erase all the evidence of the creepy stuff my gram-gram used to do. Go get the explosives I stashed for you."
"Now we have a job / it is time to get started / can I drive this time?" Zero asked.
Maya nodded her assent and hopped on the machine gun mount in the back of the Sandskiff.
They sail rather unorthodox-ly on the boardwalk and off to the left past shade's shack on a raised section of rock towards the location Aubrey marked on their ECHO. Along the way they encounter some try tailed stalkers, but Zero managing the Harpoon manages to not only keep them at bay – but eliminate them as well.
The explosives are contained within a wreck of small ship sitting slightly in the sand on its side.
Aubrey provides a brief comment, "Thanks for agreeing to destroy gram-gram's old ship. I don't wanna tell you the kind of stuff she was guilty of, but let's just say it rhymes with "child-schmafiking", And some "Schmanibalism" on the side."
After grabbing the explosives and gingerly strapping them to her pack, Maya jumps back into the Sandskiff. Zero directs her to the wreck of the Koronus. The two have a lovely conversation where Zero at first tries to get Maya to talk about her feelings on the 'event'. Instead all he gets out of her is a dissatisfied retort, "This place hasn't come up with any good loot yet."
As Maya pulls up alongside the Koronus, Zero grabs the explosives from Maya's pack and jumps out. After attaching it to the middle section of the wreck, Zero jumps back on the Sandskiff and Maya takes them to the detonation switch.
A little distance away from the Koronus, on an outcropping of rock a small collection of huts contain some sand pirates. Zero quickly deals with them while Maya hurries to the detonation switch, she depresses it and the entire middle section of the shipwreck explodes in a fiery fashion.
Aubrey comes on the ECHO and says, "Great! Now nobody can ever find out I was related to that child-schmafiking bitch. Get back to the bounty board whenever you're done here. I mean I don't really care, but whatever."
The duo sails back to Oasis in silence, Maya's still upset that she hasn't found any good loot yet. As they both hop out of the Sandskiff, Zero shifting his sniper rifle catches – by chance – a mysterious bottle in the far off distance. With red exclamation point Zero practically drags Maya back on the Sandskiff after a short trip they sail off a ramp and into the middle of a pirate camp, after joyfully eliminating the pirates Maya discovers the Message in a Bottle.
"You have found one of Captain Blade's bottles. Inside the bottle you will find a key. The key opens a chest the chest has loot. The loot will help you kill things. Find the chest my friend," Shade says.
While heading back to Oasis, Maya examines the map as Zero takes a turn driving. Maya gets excited since Captain Blade was a legendary treasure hoarder, and that meant following his bottles would lead to some sweet treasure. The moment they get back, Zero goes to turn in the mission they did for Aubrey at the bounty board. Maya saying, "I'll catch you later," goes and searches for the treasure.
Maya finds a garage door with an x marked on it. She hits the switch to open it, and find a chest full of loot a badass weapon, and an ECHO recorder.
"Blade's log. Had to stage another fake execution today. One of the cooks was caught stealing from the treasure hold, so I had to pretend to kill him to keep the rest of the crew in line. Gave him enough cash to disappear, shot him overboard with a blank – [sigh]. Keeping up this "fearsome captain blade" routine is a hell of a lot of work."
Meanwhile Zero reaches the battle board and turns in the mission from Aubrey.
Aubrey responds with, "I godamn hate my great grandma."
A/N: Just a quick update, the next chapter will be two more side missions again. Chapter 6 will be a main mission for sure, and it's where we'll meet Captain Scarlett! (^_^)