Chapter 6: Meet the Bloody Queen
Mission(s): A Warm Welcome * Main Mission
DLC: Captain Scarlett and her Pirate's Booty
Shade's voice comes from his shack echoing across the dark courtyard, "Captain Scarlett has been tracking the treasure of the sands for several years – you should sail out to meet her in your Sandskiff!"
By now it's getting late, but Maya doesn't want to fall asleep without Zero. She has a feeling that he doesn't sleep, and since he cares for her so much he'll guard her no matter what. Maya hops in the Sandskiff, and tears out of the hanger with a long push from the afterburner.
She sails through Oasis, past the place where her and Zero killed the sand worm queen, and to the Wurmwater Passage.
Shade says in protest, "Wait, you're going NOW?! We were just beginning to connect!"
The first thing Maya sees when entering Wurmwater is a giant skeleton of a very large fish, that's long enough to be considered a Wurm. Sailing to the right Maya passes under a few archways of rock. Turning left down into a cove, Maya beholds Captain Scarlett's looming ship – hidden away to the right in a recess of the hidden cove.
A woman who could only be Captain Scarlett says, "Huh. Is that a skiff coming from Oasis? That's, uh – alright well –"
"Sandman wants your part of the compass bitch, hand it over!"
" And I'm being attacked. Great. Wonderful. Hey stranger – you give me a hand with Sandman's boys; I'll make it worth your while all right?"
Maya's lips turned up in a grin, it had been so long since she had a proper vehicle battle. However she was slightly disappointed when the rockets made short work of their three Sandskiffs. The explosions made up for it though.
"Huh. Killed 'em all? Nice. Get up here and we can talk business," Captain Scarlett says.
Maya drives up to the back of Scarlett's ship, and a platform lowers with a ladder attached to it. Parking the Sandskiff, Maya climbs up the ladder and walks forward into the bowls of the ship. Its surprisingly clean and there are a few pirates milling about, Maya spots a locked door – too heavily reinforce to be a good thing. Thinking some horrible monster is hiding behind it, Maya quickly ascends the stairs to the deck of the ship.
Zero sits trapped inside the room, behind the heavily locked door, contemplating how to murder his kidnapper.
Up on the deck Maya sees a pirate fall from the crow's nest; a woman slides down the ladder, starts talking, introduces herself and shoots the downed pirate twice in the head.
"Nice moves out there – you're a Vault Hunter, ya? Never meet one of you guys before. The guns, the power – it's all – very striking. If you're looking for the treasure of the sands, you've come to the right chick. But – gah – I'm being rude. Haven't even introduced myself! Do that a lot. Sorry. I'm uh, Captain Scarlett. Nice to meet ya!"
Maya is stricken with Captain Scarlett, almost as much as she is with Zero – wherever he is. She walks over to Scarlett and says, "Hello, my name's Maya."
"Oh right. I should probably get you up to speed on the legend of the treasure, eh?" Captain Scarlett asks.
"Yeah maybe, can I like stay here? In a bed and stuff?" Maya responds.
Scarlett nods and directs a crew member to show Maya to her own chambers. Maya is taken to the captain's quarters, and despite the fact that Scarlett would be joining her soon, Maya falls onto the bed almost immediately. After the crew member leaves, Maya undresses and taking her PJs from her pack and puts them on – she puts her pack on the floor under the bed.
Maya snuggles under the extravagant covers and falls asleep and indeed a short while later Captain Scarlett comes into her bedroom and sees Maya asleep under her covers, smiling she undresses and dispensing with the PJs slips under the covers as well.
Not knowing who really came into bed with her – and thinking it was Zero – Maya snuggles up to Captain Scarlett.
A/N: If you didn't know the bedroom scene wasn't in the DLC, I just put that in there because 1) it's my fanfic 2) I am writing this with a slight AU.