Chapter 15

Hello! Thanks to to people who Voted! HORY SHET! It was a pretty big turn out but the results are:

SAVE KURT: 10

KURT MUST DIE: 2

NEUTRAL: 1 (Props to starfighter-105)

I think It's clear what the result is! High fives to RatedRSuperstar87 and BubbyGum24 for being the 15%! *High Fives*!

KURT IS SAVED! Thanks so much for the voter turnout! Definitely might do something in the future! Enjoy the next chapter!

Kurt was sitting on an office chair making the adjustments to the modulator as he promised to the rest of Vault hunters. It still baffled Kurt how they just trusted him out of the blue. Maybe he was wrong about the people of Pandora. Maybe they weren't all just drunk, brainless, hillbilly degenerates as he pictured years ago. They seemed to have some basic human fundamentals, especially from the Vault hunters.

Kurt was wearing a pair of sleek eyeglasses to ensure that each one of the components would be soldered on appropriately, if he screwed up once, he could wreck the entire chip. He was just wearing a pair of pants, with some combat boots and a undershirt. He heard a slight groan from upstairs and shifted his attention to the stairs to see Axton walk down without his shirt on, rubbing his eyes and holding on to the guard rails while making his way down the steps.

"You look like shit.." Kurt mused looking at his half asleep face,

"'Cause I FEEL like shit," Axton scoffed rubbing his temples before walking into his workout room.

"Where you heading?" Kurt asked

"Workout...Need to get rid of this hangover.." Axton said. It baffled him how he got a hangover this bad. Usually he's the one that keeps his alcohol in check but I guess that's what happens when you drink four giant mugs filled to the brim with Rakk ale and Bladeflower whiskey.

Kurt then rolled his seat around to resume working on the chip, before being stopped by Axton who asked,

"Whassat you're working on?"

"The chip I promised I rewire for you." Kurt said holding his soldering tool to Axton's direction.

"Kay, cool," Axton said then walking into the exercise room.

Kurt was about to put the hot steel onto the chip before he thought to himself, 'how long has it been since I've worked out? Maybe Axton could be a sparring buddy or something. I reckon nobody wants to spar or box with him due to unequal proportions.'He then walked into the excercise room to see Axton boxing with a homemade punching bag he presumably built. The bag was taking Jabs, hooks, haymakers, and various forms of boxing moves, before Axton stopped to catch his breath.

"That scar." Kurt said pointing to the one in the center of his chest "Is that from a E-Tech?"

Axton looked down to see the giant hole-like scar that relatively healed over the past 5 years or so.

"Yeah...How'd ya know?" Axton asked looking back at him,

"Can tell by the lacerations, and the vein like scars that surround it." Kurt said motioning his hand in a circular form motioning around Axton's chest.

"Oh..." Axton said quietly panting for air.

"Made that yourself?" Kurt asked pointing to the punching bag.

"Yeah," Axton panted wiping the sweat from his face.

"I guess punching bags could help with your speed and accuracy, but do you know the one flaw it has?" Kurt then asked holding out his cybernetic index finger.

"..No?" Axton said raising an eyebrow.

"They can't fight back," Kurt answered taking off his shirt to revealed his slightly scarred body shrugging his shoulders in a circular motion loosing up his joints and cracking his neck. Axton looked at him for a second, scoffed and said

"You wanna spar me huh?"

"Yup." Kurt said smirking at his question.

"Well, you got cybernetic arms so it would be an unfair match up," Axton said pointing to his prosthetics.

"I can mentally control how much thrust my punch can deal," Kurt explained "The average force of a human punch is about 2000 Newtons. I can tune my arms to punch to that limit, so it's quite fair,"

"They're also made of metal," Axton said bringing up another point

"Wrong." Kurt said "They are made from microfibrous, computer operated bio-carbon cells that can tune up or down at the users will. They can be like normal flesh, or as solid as a diamond."

"How much did those things cost?" Axton said still looking at the arms.

"5 Billion per" Kurt said letting off another smirk, causing his eyes to widen in disbelief,

"Holy..." Axton baffled

"Well come on! Lets get to fightin'!" Kurt said going into to the standard fighters stance,

"Fine then! 'En garde'!"

"Thanks for the warning!" Kurt said throwing a jab towards Axton's left side, which he dodged and followed up with a hook that nearly connected with Kurt's side.

It was a trade-off with jabs, punches, hooks, blocks, kicks, with many dodges to follow.

"C'mon! Stop trying to hit me and hit me!" Kurt taunted as he was dodging all of Axton's punches, only to catch one straight in the jaw.

"That's more like it!" Kurt said cracking his neck delivering a swift blow to Axton's side.

"GRAPPLE!" Axton yelled and tacked Kurt to the floor, hoping that he would get him to say 'uncle and proclaim him victor of the match, but Kurt wasn't going to give up easily.

Maya was awoken to the noise of constant thumps and shouts from across the room.

'What the hell's that noise?' Maya wondered getting up from her bed, she decided she would let Gaige sleep in a little more, seeing as she probably didn't get much sleep last night.

Maya began to walk to where the noise was coming from, which was Axton's workout room that he built himself.

"Alright! What the hell's with all the noi-" She was cut off at the sight of two (sweaty) shirtless guys grappling to try and be the victor of the bunch. She had so much heat come up to her cheeks that you could fry an egg on top of them. As she stared at them slack jawed, seeing both of them tumble and twist over each other, putting them in to arm bars, chokeholds, and sleepers, only to be broken free to start the process over again, she silently said to herself,

"Laaaady Boner..."

Finally, Axton managed to flip over Kurt and wrap his legs around his, grabbing a hold of Kurt's feet and putting it securely under his arm to insure he wasn't going anywhere, he began to pull back on the muscles. Axton's got him, no way out of this one.

"Say it!" Axton said keeping a firm grip on Kurt's leg,

"Alright! Uncle!" Kurt yelled finally giving in to Axton's hold.

Axton quickly let go of Kurt so he wouldn't hurt him anymore than he needed to, both of them stood up and leaned against a side of the walls, gasping for air and wiping sweat so it wouldn't get into their eyes and such.

"Whooo!" Kurt said "Haven't had that much physical conditioning since the time I wrestled Knuckle Dragger!" He then walked over to Axton and patted his shoulder "Thanks, I needed that," He said before walking towards the door, the one that had Maya standing in front of.

"Excuse me," He said politely to Maya, which she did with no hesitation, leaving Maya and a exhausted Axton in the exercise room.

"Hey," Axton said hunched over with his hands on his knees gasping for air, "I won,"

"You sure did," Maya said walking up to Axton, by this time Axton caught up with his heart beat and began to settle down. He grabbed a rag that was hanging from the pull-up bar, and wiped up his face. He lifted the rag from his face to see a blushing Maya looking at his largely defined body.

"Yes Maya," Axton said lifting her chin up with his hand "My pecs are down there," He said before kissing her lips and walking out of the room to find his shirt and backpack.

'Yup' Maya thought to herself 'Pandora ain't that bad'

Kurt put on his glasses and resumed working on his chip, now that he was in a more relaxed mindset. He looked over to Gaige, who was sleeping on her bed silently. Kurt put a little smile on his face while looking at Gaige sleep, she looked so relaxed, so peaceful, so...cute.

'I'm not lettin' you down Doc, even if the AI takes advantage of me' Kurt thought to himself. He then put his soldering tool down and said to Gaige who was still asleep,

"Hey Gaige, wake up.."

Gaige then tossed on the other sighed of her mattress and moaned out

"C'mon Daaaad, it's Saturdaaay," Burying her face in the pillow, which caused Kurt to laugh slightly loud.

"I can assure you Gaige that I'm not your father, and the fact that it's not Saturday, rather a Wednesday." He said looking at Gaige.

After she realized what she said, she tossed on the other side to look at where that voice was coming from. It was Kurt she saw in the room, the person who opened up on her and told what was going down with his life. He was shirtless, with some hints of sweat, wearing pants, and a pair of glasses.

'God...those glasses..' Gaige thought 'They make him look sooooo handsome'

"Mornin'" Kurt said looking at Gaige, who was still on her bed at this point in time,

"M...Morning Kurt," Gaige stuttered out looking at Kurt in awe, before standing up and putting on her goggles then walking over to where Kurt was.

"What'cha workin' on?" Gaige asked looking at the little chip Kurt was soldering,

"Doing what I promised, rewiring the info chip so it can actually be one." He answered finalizing the process. "Not the makeup kinda girl are you?" He then asked pointing the soldering tool to her face,

"Meh," Gaige said "A little here and there, but nothing too overkill,"

"A littles fine," Kurt said "It covers up the true beauty of people,"

Gaige felt a little heat come up to her cheeks at that statement, she vowed never to put too much makeup on her face ever again, she'd live by Kurt's statement of true beauty, some makeup is fine, but not too much.

"Welp," Kurt said standing up, revealing his abdominals and such "Chip's all done, we can get this plugged in to let us know where Lilith exactly is,"

"Cool!" Gaige said looking at the chip "How long did that take you to do?"

"20 Minutes..Tops" Kurt said "There was a delay since I had a boxing match with Axton in the other room,"

"Wow," Gaige said, he knew how to completely rewire a computerized device to do a completely separate task? In less that half an hour? This man was truly remarkable, in more ways than one.

"You got that thing ready? Great" Axton said looking at the chip "We best keep moving to the blockade, I'll go wake up the others,"

"Axton?" Tannis said walking into the room "Have you seen my Macaroni stethoscope? I seemed to a misplac-" She was cut off at the sight of Kurt, she put her hands on her hips and said to him,

"Kurt,"

"Tannis," Kurt replied

"You two know each other?" Gaige asked

"Yeah, she was doing volunteer work for Hyperion while I was head of the research team," Kurt explained

"And I hated it as much as you did!" Tannis added "Now if you'll excuse me, I'm scheduled to have a meeting with a ghost," Before walking out of the room

"Still batshit insane as ever..." Kurt said shaking his head slightly.

Axton walked upstairs to give Sal and Zer0 a tap on the shoulder, for them to wake up which they did. Salvador stood up from his bed, cracking his back and twisting his neck around,

"Couldn't tink of a hilarious way to wake me up eh?" Sal said looking at Axton

"See me after the war..I got plenty ideas," Axton replied laughing a bit,

"While they are funny / They are sometimes bothersome / Taking up some time" Zero said cracking his neck

"Yeah, yeah," Axton said "Kurt finished up the chip, so we can get going"

"Alright! Leet do theese!" Sal said walking downstairs, to met up with Kurt, Gaige and Maya.

All 6 of them walked outside and begun to head for the fast travel station that was located in the center of the town. There was usually commotion that was going on around town, mostly about Roland's untimely death and the fact that some people may have a severe case of 'super cancer' as they say.

"Alright..Arid Nexus," Axton said "Lets get goi-"

"Hey! Wanna hear the new dubstep song I wrote?!" Claptrap said to the 6 of them "Wub wub wub wub wub wub wub wub wub wub wub wub wub wub wub wub wub wub wub wub wub wub wub wub wub wub wub DROP wub wub wub wub wub wub wub wub wub wub wub "

With each 'wub' Claptrap yelled, he made Kurt more and more frustrated, until he finally snapped. He walked over to Claptrap and picked him up by his singular wheel and held him upside-down saying in a very deep, almost robotic sound,

"I. HATE. DUBSTEP."

he said coldly before giving Claptrap a solid poerful uppercut to his body piece, sending him skyrocketing in the air .

"WAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" He screamed while flying in the air, ending up landing in a garbage dumpster that was on the other side of town "Owww..." He silently muffled under the dumpster.

Axton walked up to Kurt looking at the Dumpster Claptrap landed in

"Damn...Nice punch, Kurt," he said baffled at the power Kurt had in his arm,

"Yeah...That's only a quarter of my full strength," He said looking at his arms.

"Wow.." Kurt said "Love to see a boxing match between you and Brick!"

"Who's Brick?" Kurt asked looking at him

"You'll find out eventually," Axton said patting him on the shoulder "Let's get going,"

AN: Hey guys! once again thanks for voting on the fate of Kurt! It really was awesome to see so much support over the fanbase! Anyway I'm going to do a Q and A so any questions you wanna ask me, leave in the review, or just PM me if you wanna! I'll post them on the front page so everybody can see!

POP QUIZ TIME: How many chapters are references to songs? Remember, they don't have to be the title, and you gotta say the song and artist name for it to count! Winner gets a shout out and a free roundhouse kick, courtesy of Norris enterprises! Leave your answer in the review and see if you won!

Spanks!

-LT