A/N: Oh by the way I won't be uploading every day anymore … I'll make it every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

Chapter 11: Rusting Hearts Part 2

Mission(s): Catch A Ride, and Also Tetanus * Side Mission (NC – they finish all the objectives just needs to be turned in)

Message In A Bottle * Side Mission

Crazy About You * Main Mission

DLC: Captain Scarlett and her Pirate's Booty

Zero shook Maya's shoulder and held up her ECHO device. Maya grabbed it and turning it on said, "Hello?"

Scooter answered saying, "Sup, yo? This here Scooter commin' at you from Sanctuary. I needs me some old-ass scraps from y'alls Rustyard to keep the cities engines a turnin'. If it's sturdy and metallic and could give you lead poisoning just from lookin' at it? Grab it and ship it my way alright?"

Maya agreed to the mission and Zero followed once he saw Maya heading back through the long way around the gap. When he asked why Maya says, "We need to get some scrap parts for Scooter, on my ECHO there are two located in the old ship wreck. They make a trip back through the Rusty Cog Settlement. They came to a point just right of the entrance in a ways and sitting on 6 crates covered by a cloth. Maya insisting she's recovered enough from her injuries goes and retrieves a control switch.

They then come to the place where they killed Toothless Terry, after eliminating only a few pirates they went to the other side of the sand and searched the compacted collection of buildings. Zero finds a circuit box 5000 sitting on a crate.

After checking her ECHO map Maya tells Zero that they should probably finish up with Herbert at the same time as collecting the parts. Zero agreed and they crossed the bridge, headed up the elevator, blasted some spiderants, and knocked on Herbert's front door. He came out and started talking.

"If I help you complete the compass, Scarlett will be so happy – ohhh, yes. But no – the compass alone won't do. She needs to know how much I care…the TAPES! Yesss! Get the tapes, get the tapes! I'll mark them on your ECHO."

Taking the quick way down Maya and Zero jump down a rocky level, after landing Maya jogs forward hits the elevator switch to bring it back down then headed forward towards the ECHOs marked on both hers and Zero's maps. They went through a place called Coobie Gorge.

There were multiple spiderant hives along the wall of the gorge, Maya and Zero took care of them fairly easily both using explosive weapons. They found a bridge and crossed it going left across the gorge. After turning left again they encountered another group of spiderants. After eliminating them and Maya throwing a spiderant knight into the gorge, they both walked on a dangerous bridge. It was basically three medium metal platforms spaced apart and connected by chains.

Zero started lightly jumping across the platforms and landed on a small wreck of a ship. Right as Zero jumped on the wreckage an explosion happened scattering all the ECHOs in random locations.

"I was worried something like this would happen. Just…collect his little love letters as quick as you can. Sorry," Captain Scarlett says.

Maya walked up beside Zero and pointed out another part for Scooter. Maya picked up a rockbolt and shoved it in her pack, she said to Zero, "Looks like you'll have to put the rest in your extras pack – mine's full."

After acquiring the part Maya and Zero jumped back across the suspended metal platforms they headed right and went along the rock wall until they came to a door leading into a wreck of another ship. "Wait!" Maya said desperately, she turned around and dashed off crossing the bridge across the gorge. Maya then turns left and across a smaller bridge to a bit of a stranded pillar of rock attached to the rock wall. There in the middle of the platform sits the first ECHO.

"Scarlett…I wrote you a haiku. Ahem. You got a nice butt/You also got a nice chest/Your face is okay too – NO! SIX SYLLABELS! I screwed—OH, IT'S RUINED! GODAMNIT!"

Maya broke out in laughter and by the time she quieted down and got back to Zero she saw a :D symbol on Zero's helmet, it disappeared a moment later.. The door to the wreckage slammed down and two Anchormen charged out. After slamming his katana into the neck of one Zero watched as Maya Phaselocked one and not only threw it in the gorge put pumped it full of holes with her shotgun.

Maroonie's Clipper was the name of the wrecked ship and Maya looking to her left saw a nightmare. All uphill and heavily guarded even including a gun turret. Zero looked right however and not only spotted another scrap part but his intuition told him there was something more.

After climbing a staircase Zero entered a small enclosure and picked up the second to last scrap part for Scooter. Maya stuck her head out the window looking out against the metal side of the ship. Looking left she saw nothing, but looking right Maya spied another message in a bottle.

Not wasting any time because they had a lot to do Maya and Zero began the long and arduous climb up ship. Surprisingly it didn't take that long, it just was so intense that it seemed to last for hours instead of 30 minutes. After finally making it to the top Maya and Zero were rewarded with another one of Herbert's ECHOs.

'Sounds of Scarlett snoring softely'

'Whispering' Herbert, "This concludes, "the sounds of Scarlett sleeping", tape number fourty-eight."

Captain Scarlett wakes up, "Hunhn. Somebody there?"

'Whispering' Herbert, "Oh crap…"

After grabbing the ECHO Maya and Zero headed left and crossed a metal bridge connecting the shipwreck and a rocky pillar with a junkyard on top. Once they came to it Maya saw that there were multiple objectives in this one place. The closest one was leaning up against a pile of junk, and was another one of Herbert's ECHOs.

"Today, Scarlett caught a crewmen stealing from her. She's so honorable – through my telescope I saw her give him a gun to defend him self. As she ran him through with her sword I knew – I knew! She's the one."

A bunch of spiderants populated the junkyard but Maya and Zero using singularity grenades shotguns and explosive rounds managed to stave them off and kill some of them. A little ways off to the right Maya found another scrap part, a broken turret engine and handed it to Zero who stuffed it in his pack.

After finding a relic that returned a portion of health on killing something, Maya found a way to cure herself of her injuries. Granted she had to kill the remaining spiderants; but it still made her feel a helluva lot better, and both her and Zero were happy for that.

After going right then taking a sharp left up a winding path they hugged the edge of the tip of another wrecked ship. After passing a weapons chest they found the last of Herbert's ECHOs mysteriously sitting on a chair.

"Okay, this is mix tame number two hundred six. I call this one, "Scarlett: I would like to touch you in places." [singing] Ohhh, SCARLETT –"

Maya shuts the tape off just as Captain Scarlett says over the ECHO, "Oh god, did you find one of his songs? Musical gonorrhea. Still you found all of his tapes better return them to him. And wash you hands afterwards."

Glad that was over, Maya and Zero take the trek back to Herbert's cabin, both of them lost in their own thoughts. Maya's thoughts: Oh dear god, he's still with me. Why the hell hasn't he left yet? Why is he still here, stuck behind and getting slowed down by me? I know for a fact that he can go for days without sleep. I once stayed up for 4 days straight – so did he – and by the end of it he was wide-awake!

Zero's thoughts: She is a challenge, and one I'm willing to take, I crave when I win.

They eventually get back to Herbert's shack.

"You found the tapes? Once you deliver those with the last piece of the compass, Scarlett will have to take me back. The last compass piece is in that chest," Herbert says pointing to a chest.

Zero crouches in front of the chest and tries to open it with his hands.

"Ah – must be rusty. Rusty rusty. Just shoot the lock," Herbert says again.

Zero takes out a pistol and shoots the lock. It busts open, and he finds the compass piece … in pieces.

Maya stays silent as Herbert speaks, "Oh. You're shot destroyed the last piece of the legendary compass. Woops."