Chapter 5

He was wrong, he kept hearing voices in his mind, no matter how much he tried to block it out.

'You think It'll work out?'...'This place needs a good fixin''...

'NO'

Axton, as involuntarily scheduled by his fucked up mind would shoot up from the nightmare he was having for the past 2 years.

'Godammit' Axton thought ' I Can never get a good night's rest...'

The only was Axton thought would be the only way to end these nightmare was to get rid of Handsome Jack. For good.

'I should have killed him when I had the chance...'

Axton woke up from his nightmarish sleep. He's lucky to even get 3 hours of sleep every night, no matter what he tries, it never helps.

100 pushups, 30 Pull Ups, and 100 Inverted situps later, he put on his shirt and backpack, then went to find Roland so they can prepare for the assault. He then walked back upstairs and tapped Zer0 on the shoulder, prompting him to wake up. He then walked downstairs to go wake up Maya.

'I hope she still isn't baked' He thought to himself.

He shook Maya's shoulder before telling her.

"Hey..wake up.."

Maya's eyes slowly opened up to see the man who carried her to her bed because she was too stoned to get up and walk herself.

"Hey...Morning," Maya said softly

"How'd you sleep?" Axton asked asked

"Mmm, amazing..." Maya said closing her eyes and smiling before sitting up.

"Yeah, joints will do that to you." Axton said joking.

"How about you?" Maya said rubbing her eyes.

"Yeah yeah, slept like a rock," Axton lied.

"You aren't giving Sal a break again are you?" Maya asked standing up from her bed.

"Nope," Axton said smirking.

Axton then ran upstairs with a empty bucket in his hand. He ran up to where Salvador was sleeping, and quickly shoved the bucket over his head, then whacked the bucket, making a bell noise, which of course startled Salvador and caused him to fall over. As usual, the entire building was filled with laughter. Salvador threw the bucket off his head and yelled.

"Damnit Axton!" He said loud "Not funny!"

Axton was laughing very hard at this point in time. So was Maya and the rest of the people.

"Well," Roland said "Now that we got that outta the way, lets get ready to assault the base,"

"I still don't know why I ain't goin!" Lilith said

"Look Lilith," Roland said "We need somebody to look over Sanctuary in case this is a trap of some sort,"

"It's because of Angel isn't it?" Lilith said putting her hands on her hips.

"No! Damnit Lilith, just trust me please!" Roland said denying that question.

"Fine, but I'm going to be very pissed if you die!" Lilith said

"Noted," Roland said.

"But if you pull this off, I'm tearing those clothes right from your body!" Lilith said motioning Rolands figure.

"Uhhhh also noted," Roland said confused.

"Ughh! Lilith! We don't need to hear that!" Mordecai said disgusted at Lilith's remark.

"Alright, so we gotta get Clap Trap to help us through the first gate, then with enough firepower, we can breach the bunker, then Axton can use the voice modulator to get through the final gate. I'll meet up with you guys in the chamber by climbing up the cliff side. Any questions?" Roland asked

"Yeah I got one." Mordecai said "Why ain't I going?! These motherfuckers have to pay for Bloodwing!"

"And you will get it Mordecai! I just need somebody defending the base in case this is a trap, alright?" Roland reassuring him.

"Okay..If you say so.." Mordecai said giving in. He could trust Roland more than anybody else.

"Give 'em hell guys!" Lilith said.

Just before the Vault hunters and Roland were going to walk out. Lilith grabbed Roland's shoulder

"Hey Roland..." Lilith asked.

"Yeah Lilith?" Roland asked.

"You remember when we first got to Pandora?" She asked

"Heheh, crystal clear..."

The bus began to slowly creep up on the 'peaceful town called Fyrestone.

"Next stop, Fyrestone!" Marcus yelled

Marcus began to slow the bus down before it came to a halt at the station. Marcus opened the doors to let his four passengers out of the car.

"Man, what a shitty ride that was, what do you think, Blood?" Mordecai asked talking to his bird, who screeched in agreement.

"The seat was sticky...Why was it sticky?" Lilith asked while stepping off the bus

"They need to make these thing more 'badass' accessible," Brick said while stepping off, squeezing through with his giant muscles.

Roland was the last to get off the bus, as he stepped off, he handed Marcus some extra money, then asked him.

"Can you stay here a bit? We need to check out the town, make sure it's safe."

"No worries my friend!" Marcus said to Roland.

The four then began to walk over to the funny little robot (Per instructions from the guardian angel).

"Welcome to Fyrestone," The annoying voice said.

"I am called CL4P-TP, you may call me by my locally designated name, Claptrap! Before continuing, please accept these ECHO communicators and heads up display, provided free of charge, by the Dahl corporation!" He said handing each of them seperate communicators.

"Cool," Lilith said looking at it.

"Yes! It is indeed 'Cool'!" The robot chimed in.

'Now let's head into the peaceful town of Fyrestone!" Claptrap said trying to open up the gates.

The was a faint motor revving heard in the distance, which gradually became louder and louder.

"Oh no...is that?...Oh no! Not again! RUUUUUUNNNN!" Claptrap screamed before ducking for cover.

A bandit technical launched off a hill, landing onto the other side of the gate, began spinning in circles while shooting up the town. The technicals dropped off 15 Bandits to fight off the intruders.

"Alright boys, take 'em out!" The bandits yelled before opening fire on the Vault Hunters.

"Shit take cover!" Roland yelled at his allies.

"There's too many of them!" Mordecai yelled to Roland "We should have never come here!"

As soon as Mordecai said that, faint gunshots were heard from a distance, the Bandits began to get taken out, one by one. Some getting shot in the heart, others getting their heads completely scooped off. The gunfire didn't cease until all of the bandits were dead. Only one bandit was remaining, who climbed up onto the rocket turret on the car and fired a rocket into the distance, to try and kill the assassin, but was instantly shot in the head.

"Well," Mordecai said standing up. "That guardian angel chica lives up to her name,"

"Yeah seriously," Lilith concurred "She saved us badly."

As soon as she said that, the bus operated by Marcus Kincaid suddenly took off like a bat outta hell, despite Roland telling him to stay there.

"HEY!" Mordecai yelled running out to the road

"YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO WAIT FOR US! VENTE EL DIABLO YOU SONUVABITCH!"

"Damnit!" Mordecai yelled throwing his sniper rifle down "I knew we shouldn't have trust that fat bastard!"

"Forget it Mordecai," Roland said calming his friend down. "We gotta keep moving, lets go find Claptrap so he can get this door open for us."

"How could any of us forget Lilith?" Roland said

"Well," Lilith said "Go get 'em Tiger"

Lilith then pressed her lips against Roland's, holding it for about five second before pulling away.

"Well...uh...uhh...See you when I get back I guess," Roland said stunned at Lilith's actions.

He then took one look, then walked away from Lilith, praying that he'll get to see her again.

"So wheres Claptrap?" Salvador asked.

"He's probably at his little house-slash-dump right next to Zed's" Axton said.

"Oh and FYI," Roland said, "It may take some serious persuasion to get Claptrap to come with us."

"Minion!" Claptrap said to Axton "Let's go to Thousand Cuts!"

"Or not..." Roland said.

By the time they reached Thousand cuts, the sun was directly over the Vault Hunter's. Roland split up from the group so he can climb the cliff face to reach the chamber.

'After this Jack...' Axton thought 'There's nothing stopping me from killing you...'

'There's the gate," Zer0 said to the three.

"Alright Claptrap," Axton said, "Time for you to shine,"

"You betcha minion!" Claptrap said "Charge!"

Claptrap then went full speed through the forcefield, not vaporizing him, signifying that the update was successful and Bloodwing's sacrifice wasn't in vain. Claptrap then stopped then looked back at the four.

"You...you coming guys?" Claptrap asked confused. "Oh yeah, you're not a Hyperion robot, well lemme get this gate open for you!"

Claptrap then punched the codes into the computer, shutting off the forcefield.

"Yes!" Claptrap said in success "Now we'll take the fight to Hyperion!, they will pay for what they did to my kind, I will kill them all!"

A couple of WAR Loaders were tossed in front of Claptrap by the moon base.

"EXTERMINATE. ANNOYING ROBOT"

"I take it back! I won't! FUCK THIS SHIT!" Claptrap screamed while speeding away as fast as he could, leaving the hunters to deal with Hyperion.

"Oh this is great!" Axton said "How are we supposed to kill them all?!"

"Like this!" A gruff voice from the ECHO device said, while dozens of Buzzards flew in to deal with the Loaders.

"Brick!" Roland said in shock over the ECHO "Man am I glad to hear from you!"

"Yeah likewise" Brick said, "Now what do you say we kill some Hyperion bitches?"

"Sounds good friend," Axton said over the ECHO.

After countless hours of battling to get to the top. They finally reached the summit of the base, thanks to Brick's army of Slabs (Who were friggin idiots) . As they reached the top, they heard over the ECHO a familiar laugh, it was cocky, it was confident, it was evil, it was...

"Jack..." Axton muttered to himself.

"Oh come now!" Jack said over the ECHO "You seriously think I would protect Angels chamber with a couple of pathetic robots and flimsy guns. No... Dipshits, I would like you to meet..."

He took a pause to activate a giant floating robot that came from the face of the bunker

"BNK-3R' Jack said in pride "Designed it myself!"

'Bullshit...' Axton muttered 'I DID'

"Now do me a favor and die..." Jack said coldly cutting off the microphone.

"I don't think so," Axton said "Listen! The robots weak point is the underside, there should be a little crevice that isn't properly protected! SHOOT THERE!"

"How do you know that?" Maya said confused

"Just trust me Maya!" Axton yelled before opening fire on the bottom side on BNK-3R.

The must've spent 45 minutes and $5,000 on ammunition to bring BNK-3R on the brink of destruction, before it was finally finished off by Axton's rocket launcher.

"Suck on this," He said before launching the rocket into the crevice of the giant robot, completely destroying it. It made a crash landing on one of the pillars of the bunker. All of the Vault hunters heard the evilest and sinister laugh coming from Brick, signifying they were victorious over the best piece of military hardware Hyperion could make.

"Were not outta the woods yet," Axton said "Let's get to the final gate,"

"I hope this works," Maya said

"Me too, " Axton concurred, "Otherwise, this would be all for nothing."

Axton then put the voice module on his neck, transforming him to the likenesses of Handsome Jack, also giving him his voice too.

"Ohhh great," Axton said in Jack's tone "Now I have the voice of a fucking douchebag...dandy."

They made their way into the final gate, which was located under the bunker, they came across a small door.

"Well, here it goes," Axton said before walking into the chamber,

"Executing bio scan." a robot voice said beaming a laser across Axton's body, scanning to make sure that he looked like Handsome Jack.

"Bioscan complete; Hello Sexy! Please enter the password into the microphone." The robot said.

"Alright," Angel said "The password is: 'I love you'".

Axton then pressed the button on the Microphone and spoke into the microphone the same words Angel said.

"I Love You," He said.

"Access Granted!" The robots said prompting a sigh of relief between the four of them.

Axton then forcibly ripped the module off and crushed it with his foot, so nobody can impersonate Handsome Jack. The walked over to the elevator, which took them down into Angel's chambers (hopefully).

"Thees ees a beeg ass elevator," Salvador said.

They got off the elevator and began to walk to the chambers, but were seemingly warped into a different dimension.

"The only way The Vault key can be destroyed, is if the Catalyst who is powering it is, which is a Siren in this case." Angel explained "The Vault key is indeed here, but in order to completely destroy it, you have to destroy...Me." Angel said revealing that she was the third Siren Jack was talking about earlier.

"My God...Angel..." Axton said completely stunned "It really IS you isn't it?"

"Axton?" Angel said "Is that you? You need to help me destroy the Vault key, without it, Jack won't be able to-"

"GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM MY DAUGHTER!" Jack screamed over the ECHO the pulling Angel into her incarceration chamber, which kept pumping and pumping her with pure Eridium, so she can charge the key again.

"Angel!" Axton said

"How do you know her?!" Maya said now extremely confused

"I'll explain later! But now we gotta end this!" Axton told Maya

"Axton!" Angel said "Make sure you kill that ba-"

"Ah, ah, ah, LANGUAGE" Jack said scolding her daughter.

"Destroy the three pumps that supply me with Eridium!" Angel said "That should do it!"

Axton then took one look at Angel before saying softly,

"I'm sorry..." Then began to open fire on one of the pumps, causing it to burst and make Angel scream in pain.

"Oh no you dont'! Shields up!" Jack said putting defense shields on the pumps.

"Did I miss something?" Roland said entering the room "Or is Angel a goddamn Siren?!"

"Roland!" Angel yelled to him "Turn off the shield mechanisms on the top part of pump so they can destroy it!"

"Alright!" Roland said hacking into the computer.

"Angel please!" Jack pleading over the speakers in the room "Don't do this please! I'll still forgive you sweetie!"

"Make sure you kill him Axton.." Angel said

"Oh I will..." Axton said reassuring her.

"Okay!" Roland said "Shield 2 is down! Destroy it!"

Maya then opened fire on the second pump, despite hesitating at first. She didn't like the fact that she was killing her own kind, but knew this would end her suffering for good. The pump finally burst, spewing Eriduim all over the place, causing Angel to scream in pain again.

"I don't think so, asshole!" Jack said turning off the bridge Roland used to access the computer.

"Damnit!" Roland said "Now how the hell am I supposed to get up their?!"

"Sup..." A Voice from behind him said.

"Lilith?!" Roland said "I told you not to come here!"

"Yeah, and I didn't listen." She said defiantly "I can help you get up there so you can shut off the generator!"

"Alright, lets do it!' Roland said before getting phased up to the computer mechanism

"This may take awhile, champ, so make sure you defend yourselves against the loaders!"

'Champ?' Axton thought.

"EXTERMINATE" The Robotic voices said.

"Here ya guys go!" Axton said pulling out his Sentry gun.

"TWO GUNS BITCHES!" Salvador yelled while dual-wielding his Spiniguns.

After five minutes of constant fighting, Roland yelled down from below.

"Okay! The Shields down! Finish this!"

"Gladly," Axton said shooting the final pump, thus ending Angel's suffering.

"Axton...thank you...I knew I could count on you.." Angel said

"NOOO! ANGEL! PLEASE!" Jack screamed over the microphone.

Angel then collapsed on the floor, she knew her time was up.

On her last breaths she managed to say this:

"Dad? There's always something I wanted to say to you...Fuck You,"

She then collapsed on the floor, finally breathing her last breaths.

"What kind of a father would do this to their own daughter?" Lilith asked

"The kind who deserves to die," Roland said sternly.

"Angel...I'm sorry," Axton said softly looking at her dead body. He did the right thing, but he couldn't help but feel guilty about it.

Roland kneeled down besides Angel, checking her pulse, there was none.

"Angel's dead..." Roland said "That means Jack lost his only way to get into the Vault, Lilith."

"Yeah?" She asked

"I need you to go back to Sanctuary and tell Mordecai that we have the Vault key,"

She nodded in agreement.

"As for you guys, I need you to take the Vault key and make sure Jack doesn't-"

BANG

"ROLAND!" Lilith screamed as she saw the bullet pierce through his chest.

Handsome Jack teleported behind Roland and shot him in the back, prompting him to greet his adversaries with a simple:

"SUP,"

"You Bastard!" Lilith said, her rage becoming more and more amped up thinking about her ex, but probably become boyfriend had he not been shot and killed.

"I'M GONNA-"

She was interrupted by Jack who threw a mind controlling device that twisted her way of thinking, ceasing all her rage.

"Ah Ah Ah, watch the language." Jack said coolly.

"I can't believe you would kill my own daughter." Jack said walking out of the chamber "What's that saying? Don't fuck with a man who has nothing to lose? Well you all are about to know how that feels."

"I already know..." Axton said

He then charged at Jack with his hatchet to try and finish him off, but was suspended mid air along with the rest of the hunters by Lilith, who was being controlled by Jack, he laughed a little at Axton.

"Axton, my old friend" Handsome Jack said while walking up to him slowly.

"You should have never set foot on this shithole of a planet. Now that I have Lilith under my control, I'll have the key charged in no time. So Lilith." Jack said coldly

"Do me a favor, and kill these Vault Hunters."

"NO!" She screamed before teleporting them into the town square of Sanctuary.

Silence.

"What the fuck just happened!?" Mordecai yelled over the ECHO "First Bloodwing, now Roland?! Vault hunters, get your asses back to HQ, we gotta get Lilith back!"

Axton hung his head down to the ground in guilt.

'Goddammit' he thought 'Why Roland?'

He was in a trance for a couple of second before a half pissed, half confused Maya asked.

"Okay, what the hell was that? What does Jack mean by 'Old friend'?!" Maya yelled

"Maya, please," Axton said

"NO! Don't say 'please' and walk away! I want answers damnit, and I want them NOW." Maya said, now fully angry.

Now it was Axton's turn to get angry.

"Okay, you want answers? FINE."

Maya then said "Well tell me then!"

Axton then paused for a minute, then sighed and said,

"It's better if I show you..."