A/N: So hey and stuff. There's A LOT of sci-fi and talking in this chapter, and if you notice anything that makes no sense, don't hesitate to review or message me about it. Read on!

Mordecai was the first to speak, while we took in Angel's words, "How can we trust you? You could still be under Jack's control for all we know."

The mountain of muscle growled in agreement, "Exactly. We can't leave you to walk around without proof that you're really on our side."

Maya leaned over to me, and whispered "That's Brick and Mordecai. They were two of the four original Vault Hunters, like Roland and Lil." I nodded, understanding now. It was pretty easy to work out which name fit with which man.

Angel thought for a minute, and then asked Mordecai quietly, "Do you have any implant or Bio-scanners around here?" He nodded, and she said, "If you go get one, I can prove that there is nothing that Jack can use to make me work for him, and you guys know my personal allegiance lies with you already."

Mordecai went over to a desk in the far corner, and picked up a small contraption that I recognised from the chamber as a Bio-scanner. He returned and activated the device, scanning Angel from her head down. But as he was scanning, Brick said "Hang on, how are supposed to know you aren't fooling the tech with your crazy Siren powers huh? Prove that."

I spoke quickly, "If Angel was using her powers, Maya and I would be able to tell. It's pretty obvious when she does things in the Phase."

Brick nodded, and Mordecai finished the scan.

"Completely clean. Not an implant in you, and a healthy body to go with. You are a bit on the light side, but that's no problem." He reached out and helped her off the table. She moved confidently, any side effects of the first time generation from the New-U station having worn off.

I noticed something different about her power too. When we had been fighting in the control core, her power had been immense, but it felt tainted, overused and seemed to be less pure and free then it did here in Sanctuary. She was completely reborn, and I was glad she had a real chance at the life she had been denied.

I asked her, curiosity in my mind, "So, Angel, just what can you do with your Phaseshift? How much will you be able to help us in combat or in strategy as it may turn out to be?"

She smiled, and spoke clearly. "I can win you the war." She grinned at our reactions, and laughed lightly, "My power is pretty much telekinesis crossed with hacking. This allows me to alter everything in a computers wiring and programming. I can also, when enhanced by enough Eridium, rewire the human brain into seeing what I want it to see," She motioned to the six of us who had been in the Core, "You guys saw this when you found me in my chamber. I guess all this is a little hard to believe, but all throughout the time I was captive, I was thinking of ways that I could destroy any and all Hyperion tech, as well as experimenting with my powers."

Her tattoos glowed, and the holostation activated, the image of a Hyperion gun loader rotating in the view field. "I spent years in there, my only contact with the outside world being with Jack, or ECHO's to Vault Hunters, or even looking through the eyes of cameras and sensors. But I did more to Jack's precious Loaders and Constructors than just watch through their cameras while they were torn apart by bullets and acid."

At this point, she separated the robot into its various parts, discarding the majority and leaving a single one on the screen. It was a long oval shaped casing that had been fitted over a glowing, electric blue cell. "This," she said, "Is what I can use to destroy and army of any type of Loaders in less than a second." I looked at the part, wondering what was so special about it and why it would have been built into the Loaders if it was such a weakness. Angel continued, "Instead of having to use my Phaseshift on the robot as a whole, which requires much more energy, I can access this part singly, and destroy it with minimal effort. I called it the A.I. core intercooler, which is precisely what it does. I developed and suggested it to Jack when I first saw the plans for updated A.I. cores in his files at Hyperion. I told him it increased the robots energy efficiency by 15%, as well as increased the overall speed of the robots calculations by about 10%."

She smiled, "He took the bait like a child takes free candy. He was very pleased by the work I had done, and immediately the plans were submitted to his engineers. Within about 6 months all Hyperion Loaders and constructors in service had the part installed. Only thing he did was have me create one for the constructors too, but that was easy enough." She returned the view of the Loader to full size, and brought up versions of its more advanced models to rotate next to it.

"Did it work?" I asked, impressed, "I mean, did the part increase the efficiency, like you said?"

Angel nodded, "Oh yeah, it worked. If it hadn't Jack would've punished me for lying, and all forms of punishment from him are severe. You never show anything to that lunatic without knowing it works, and works perfectly, first."

Maya frowned, " But how does it work? Not the efficiency part, but the 'allow you to destroy them really, really easy' part."

"I simply move that wire there," Angel said, while she highlighted a particular line on the screen and crossed it over another, "to here, and the A.I. short circuits, causing a catastrophic systems failure and deactivating the robot permanently."

We were all pretty impressed, to say the least. Angel had planned for her eventual escape well, and seemed so excited about being able to help us.

Axton motioned around the room, and asked, "Well, if you can do that sort of thing easy as hell, what can you do to improve equipment? What modifications could you make to our tech to make it more efficient?"

Angel nodded, "I thought you might be the one to ask that." She motioned to the holostation, "As you can see, activating and controlling things is as natural to me as talking. Off the top of my head, I could improve you power efficiency, increase the computing speeds as well as the range of any communications, and," She motioned to Axton and Gaige, "add the same to your turret and Gaige's Deathtrap." Axton's eyebrows raised in scepticism. It seemed a pretty big ask, but Angel was a Siren, and he had yet to learn just how much power we really had.

"Don't believe me, huh?" She turned to Mordecai, "So, should I upgrade the computers now, or, wait till question time is over? It will only take five seconds."

Mordecai was a little surprised at her eagerness, "Ah, sure, go ahead I guess."

I felt Angel reach out in the phase, the power moving throughout the room. Focusing it in little groups here and there, and after she had covered everything, I felt it dissipate again. Her efficiency was impressive, and Maya and I exchanged a look of wonder. If she has this kind of control without Eridium, it's no wonder she was able to do so much with it in the Control Core. I looked forward to discussing it with her in more detail.

"Done," she said, "Axton, Gaige, I can do those upgrades for you now, if you want. I'll be able to edit everything through your digistruct modules."

Gaige was curious it seemed, and she asked, "Just how much better will you make DT? I want to know, because it will make a big difference to what I can do with him." Axton nodded. The information would make a big difference to their effectiveness in combat.

Angel replied without hesitating, and I marvelled at the mathematical ability of her mind. "DT will be out about 17% faster, give or take a few seconds, and will be able to remain out for about 12% longer, too." She turned to Axton, "Your turret will digistruct quicker by 19%, regenerate quicker by around 16%, have a 14% larger ammo capacity and the fire rate will be up by 100 rounds a minute," She shrugged, "but I could add more specific things if you guys want."

Axton whistled, and Gaige's jaw dropped, "Wha-Bu- Seriously? That's AWESOME! Do it, do it do it do it!" The girl jumped up and down in excitement. She really did love that robot.

Again, Angel concentrated for a few seconds, focusing Phase around Gaige's mechanical limb, where the young Mechromancer had installed the digistruct unit for DT. Gaige had built the metal contraption as one of her first creations, then amputated her own arm to attach the robotic add-on. The insane engineer was extremely dedicated to her craft, and would be ever so happy to have an improvement as potent as this for free. I'm sure she would be studying every little detail of the piece of hardware to see what Angel had done when this was over.

Angel, keeping her power ready, but not using it without permission, turned and gave Axton a questioning look. He didn't hesitate, and nodded his consent. While the Dahl Sabre turret was a pretty awesome piece of battle hardware on its own, the improvements that Angel would be making would make it a much more potent force in any fight. The whole thing was done in a few seconds.

"Oh yeah, I almost totally forgot," Angel turned to Zero, and said, "I can improve your hologram and cloaking tech too. Mostly just the length and quality of you cloak, as well as the realism of the hologram. Later, if you want, I could spend a few minutes on developing it an A.I., so it could act just like you would in a fight." Zero, his face unreadable, nodded and Angel finished her work quickly.

Thanks to this prodigy of a Siren, our effectiveness in combat had been dramatically increased, the HQ was running at insane speeds, and we were all pretty excited about it. I guess all we really had to do now was see whether she would be any good in an actual combat situation. I hoped she would be able to handle herself, or a lot of her potential would go to waste. The possibilities were immense, and not just for taking out Loaders. Any doors that need to be opened, hacking Hyperion data terminals, and having an extra gun in the group couldn't hurt either.

Mordecai sighed and said, "All this is great, but are you gonna be a liability out there? Or can we trust you with our backs in a fight? I, and I'm sure everyone else in this room, needs to know if you can handle yourself. If not, then you will have to stay here, and I feel that that's going to be a waste of a lot of talent."

The rest of us nodded. Mordecai had hit the nail on the head. At the moment, we worked together flawlessly, and we did not need an unexperienced girl out there to protect.

Angel seemed nervous, "Well, I have been watching all of you do it for over 5 years now, so I've picked up a thing or to."

Salvador grinned and laughed, "Well, senorita, I think we'll be the judge of that."

A/N: This chapter was an all talk one, but the next will be some cool Angel combat action. Thanks for reading, and next chapter up soon!

~Terrorbyte~