AN: What's up guys? Sorry I couldn't update sooner, I came down with the fever (103.4 O.O) and couldn't move a single muscle! Hope this chapter will be worth the wait! I'll be updating soon, so stick around!

Congrats to Avagantamos for guessing right on the 'Name the song' contest! Props to thou dude.

Well now I'm gonna shut up and let you guys enjoy this chapter.

Chapter 18

Axton woke up from his slumber, only this time, he slept the whole night. Axton fluttered his eyes open to see Zero and Salvador were still asleep, Zero having a hologrammed Z on his face, and Salvador snoring rather loudly. He tilted his head to see Kurt was passed out on the floor right next to him, which he's sure is super comfortable for Kurt. Mordecai asleep on the couch his bottle barely in his grasp. He rubbed his eyes and sat up on his bed, and looked around the room. He found Brick was sleeping on a bed, clutching on a teddy bear, whilst sucking his thumb. Axton had to admit, it was funny as hell to see Brick like that, but he decided not to tell everybody. It's probably his secret, and if he told everybody, he was sure he would have to say bye-bye to his arms.

Axton rubbed his temples a bit, picking all of the eye crusts that was created over the night. He never slept this good since he had sex with Maya, which was the best night of his life. Although this was different. He didn't have any nightmares or anything like that. Instead, he dreamt about Her.

Axton could remember like it happened 5 minutes ago. Axton remembered dreaming about walking through a rather nice house., and heard a slightly sizzling from the kitchen. He tiptoed through the house until he heard the sizzle getting gradually louder. As he made it to the kitchen, he laid eyes upon a woman with blue hair, wearing his t-shirt and a pair of light-blue panties. He simply couldn't take eyes off the woman who was cooking breakfast for him.

'Bacon...' Axton thought to himself while smiling

For some reason, Axton wasn't wearing a shirt, assuming she was wearing his shirt, it's a dream. He couldn't simply take his eyes off the woman, as his eyes slowly shifted downwards, he heard her say,

"So how long have you been staring at my ass Axton?" Maya asked not shifting her attention towards the commando. Axton let out a small laugh and said

"How'd ya know?" He asked looking at her

"Shadow gives you away, and I thought you were military trained for this kind of stuff? Sloppy Axton, sloppy indeed..." Maya said looking back at him, using her spatula as a finger, moving it in a scolding fashion, while smiling at him.

"Almost as sloppy as you bacon cooking skills?" Axton replied smiling back at her

"Oh, shut up," Maya scoffed "Stupid little things won't cook properly..."

Axton then walked up to Maya, and wrapped his arms around her, softly grasping her hands while smelling her scent she gave off on her neck. She was a little surprised at first, letting off a little gasp, but settled down after figuring out Axton's body was touching hers. She found pleasure in this, as she rested her head on his neck.

"It's like this..." Axton whispered in her ear moving her hands shifting the slabs of meat around on the pan. He began to move in a rhythmic pattern, almost as it was a waltz. He moved a hand through her hair, stroking it while smelling it. He kissed her neck that sent shivers through her spine. Maya then turned off the stove that was cooking the bacon, she spun around and pulled Axton in for a passionate kiss.

'Fuck if that doesn't come true, I'm gonna be pissed.' Axton thought to himself while standing up.

Axton then kneeled down to shake Kurt, "Hey dude, wake up," Axton said slapping his face lightly.

Kurt then let out a small moan while rolling around to rub his eyes.

"Uhhhhhhh, what's up?" Kurt slurred out looking at Axton

"So Mind telling me why you're sleeping on the floor?" Axton asked looking at Kurt and pointing at the ground.

"Dunno...Took a bongie...The fell sleep," Kurt said sitting up.

"Well...Not much you can do sleeping on the floor, we need to get you an actual bed dude."Axton said.

"Yeah...Gonna go work out...the open the weapons cache," Kurt said standing up,

"Alright...Think I'm gonna skip working out and wake up the others," Axton said back to Kurt

"Alright, meet me by the giant box when you're ready." Kurt said walking down the steps.

Axton began to follow Kurt, but then went their separate ways. Kurt went to work out, and Axton went to wake up the others.

Axton walked over to Maya, who was asleep on her bed. She was the best thing to happen to him in a while. He walked over to Maya and kneeled down beside her bedside and shook her shoulder lightly.

"Maya...wake up..." Axton said softly to his angel.

She fluttered her eyes open to see the only love of her life. She's never had the chance to love a person since she was forced to stay in a monastery her whole life, with little to no freedom.

"Good morning..." Maya said smiling at Axton.

"How'd you sleep?" Axton asked not taking her eyes off her.

"Mmmmmm, not too bad.." Maya said sitting up in her bed "How about you?" She then asked

"Slept like a rock..." Axton responded.

"Oh?" Maya said looking at him

"Well I'm sure you'd slept good too if you dreamt about Maya the Siren..." Axton said smiling

"Were you now?" Maya said suggestively

"Hell yeah.." Axton said kissing her lightly.

"Gonna go meet up with Kurt, apparently he's got weapons for us." Axton said standing up.

"Kay, I'll go wake up everybody else." Maya said standing up from her bed.

"Save Gaige for Kurt.." Axton laughed lightly

"I will.." Maya said looking back at him while smiling, then walking up the steps.

Kurt finished up the morning routine he usually did, which was relatively similar to Axton's except for a few minor changes.

He walked out of the room to see Gaige was still curled up on her bed, sleeping like a baby.

He smiled and walked over to her bed. He shook her shoulder lightly and said to her.

"Gaige...Wake up," He said softly

Gaige fluttered her eyes open to see the man who carried her to his bed because she fell asleep on his shoulder. She smiled at Kurt and sat up a bit on her bed.

"Mornin'" Gaige said softly,

"Well hello there," Kurt said smiling "SO how'd you sleep?" He asked

"Awesomely.." Gaige said "How bout you?"

"Meh...You couldn't sleep very good if you slept on the floor.." Kurt said looking away,

"What? Really?" Gaige said rubbing her eyes while sitting up,

"Yep...Can't really remember.." Kurt said "I'm gonna go get some weapons for Axton...Wanna come?" Kurt asked

"Okay!" Gaige said standing up putting on her goggles on her forehead.

Both Kurt and Gaige walked outside to see Axton was waiting over by the weapons cache. The cache was locked tight and could only be opened by Kurt himself. As Kurt and Gaige made their way over to the stockade, Axton craned his head towards their direction.

"Took you long enough.." Axton said looking at Kurt smirking

"Yeah, Yeah," Kurt said walking up to the cache "Hopefully this opens..."

Kurt put his eye next on the small identification laser, which scanned his eye color, amount of dilation, and other features exclusive to Kurt's body.

"Access Granted," The machine said before releasing the locks on the weapon chest.

"Sweet," Kurt said lifting up the lock hatches on the chest, then a computer operated motor kicked, automatically lifting the heavy top half up. There were two side panels that came out to reveal another set of guns. After that, the main latch released and the main panel rose up, revealing the big guns that Kurt mentioned about.

"Jesus.." Axton said looking at the various assortments of weaponry. All of the weapons were sleek, metallic, and look incredibly badass.

"Yeah...Let's take these to to the shooting range in Marcus' store, test em out," Kurt said grabbing some of the weapons "Careful, some of them are pretty heavy."

Kurt, Axton and Gaige walked over to Marcus' store where they could test out some of the weaponry Kurt provided them.

"Hello friends!" Marcus said "Welcome to my shop! What can I do for you?" He asked

"We need to use your shooting range if you don't mind," Axton said looking at him

"Sure thing!" Marcus said "But might I ask, where did you get those guns?" He inquired looking at the case both Kurt and Axton were carrying

"Kurt supplied them," Axton explained

"Okay, so long as there no other retailer on this planet, I made sure of that..." Marcus said grinning a bit.

"We know, Marcus," Axton said making his way towards the shooting range.

"One more thing Axton," Marcus said "Have you seen my TV anywhere? Some friggin' thief stole it from my store..."

Axton looked at Kurt for a few seconds, then looked back at Marcus "Nope, can't say we did..."

The three of the made their way into the shooting range, before being asked by Gaige,

"Sooooo, we gonna give that TV back to him?" She asked

"Nope," Kurt said smiling before opening up the cache again to reveal the weapons.

"Okay, so," Kurt began "Let's start with something simple," He said picking up what seemed to look like an assault rifle.

"This is a MI45 Battle Rifle," He said handing it to Axton "It's a bullpup, gas-operated, magazine fed assault rifle that fires a triple-burst fire rifle. It has computer operated scope that automatically calculates the ranges and sight the rifle to compensate for adverse conditions."

Axton moved the rifle around his hands. He never felt a rifle that was this comfortable and this light. He noticed that there was a small screen that displayed how much ammunition was left inside of the magazine, a useful tool if he was in the heat of battle.

"Wow...This is...Wow.." Axton said marveling over the rifle. It was truly a work of art.

"When your done gawking over it, fire a couple shots down range," Kurt said pointing to the targets.

Axton took aim at one of the targets with the high tech scope attached to the rifle, he then squeezed the trigger on the rifle. The rifle had such a high fire rate that it seemed like it was only firing one shot. All of the bullets hit the target dead on in the head. Axton also took note of the little to no recoil the rifle had.

"That was cool." Axton said giving the gun back the Kurt.

"Try this now," Kurt said handing him a rather large machine gun that had a drum magazine on it.

"This is the M743 Light Machine Gun," Kurt said "It's a drum-fed weapon that fires and at about 1100 rounds per minute, It has a reduced recoil stock so you can stay relatively accurate while firing this," He finished

"Cool," Axton said picking up the gun, noticing that it had some weight to it

Axton aimed the rifle down range, pulling the trigger releasing a storm of bullets that tore all of the targets to shreds in a matter of seconds. He stopped firing the gun, leaving the barrel in a smoking heat, which was cooled down rapidly.

"The barrel is constructed of a Tungsten lead alloy, so it cools down faster than normal machine guns." Kurt explained

"Badass...Salvador would love this gun," Axton said handing it back to Kurt.

"Okay so,our company doesn't manufacture this, but I thought I could share it with you," Kurt said pulling out a peculiar looking pistol, causing Axton's eyes to widen,

"No way! That's a M1911 pistol!" Axton said looking at it "How did you manage to keep it preserved like this?" He asked looking at the pistol, no rusting edges, nothing. It seemed like it came fresh from the box.

"It was given to me as a gift, actually," Kurt said holding the pistol up

"By who?" Gaige asked looking at the pistol, which caused Kurt to smile

"Your father," He said taking aim and firing the pistol's 7-round clip down range. The pistol's slide locked back to signify that it was out of ammo.

"My dad?!" Gaige asked looking at it "Where'd he get something like this?"

"No clue, he gave it to me when I got my PhD...It's a nice gun suffice to say," Kurt said looking at it before putting it on the table "Now then, let's move on"

Kurt then reached in the chest and pulled out a shotgun, holding it in front of Axton,

"This is the M45D Close-Assault Shotgun System, or the CASS if you must," Kurt said handing it to Axton

"It's a pump action, gas-operated shotgun that fires 8 gauge shells, the downfall is that you must insert the shell manually, which isn't much of a flaw." Kurt said "It can be outfitted with slug shells, dragons breath, and other shells."

Axton took aim and fired the shotgun. The gun had relative recoil, but that was expected for a shotgun this powerful, he pumped the action back to expend the used shell out of the gun, reloading a fresh shell in the gun. He rinsed and repeated until all of the shells were used. Axton pumped the action back to let the gun cool down.

"Badass," Axton said looking at the smoking barrel of the shotgun, then handing it to Kurt.

"Now this," Kurt said pulling out what appeared to be a sniper rifle "LR-89 Sniper System, It fires a 55 Caliber round, a stock that reduces the recoil significantly, and the best scope money can buy. It has a 8 shot clip, and the scope features a gyro-controlled stabilizer, so you can be more precise with your shots," He said handing it to Axton

"Mordecai's gotta try this..." Axton said looking at the beauty of a sniper.

"You might wanna plug your ears, Gaige," Kurt said to her, which she did

Axton then aimed the rifle down-range, squeezing the trigger, letting off an ear ringing sound. The bullet obliterated the target with one single shot. Even though the recoil was supposed to be reduced, Axton reckoned it felt like somebody whacked him on the shoulder.

"Damn thing packs a punch," He said loosening up

"I plan on letting Mordecai using it, probably best shot out of all of us." Kurt said grabbing the sniper.

"Now this is one of my favorite guns," Kurt said pulling out a carbine that looked very strange to Axton. The gun seemingly had two giant prongs sticking out of it in replacement of the barrel. It was a metallic finished gun with sights and a stock.

"The ARC-57, or the railgun," He said "This gun relies on electromagnets to power it. It takes awhile to change up the shot, but when it's fully charged, it hurls a piece of molten Tungsten across the field, setting off a high explosive, give it a go."

Axton picked up the gun and aimed it down range, be pulled the trigger of the gun. He noticed that the magnets began to create an energy field inside the two prongs. After about 3 seconds, the railguns power was unleashed and sent a piece of explosive metal hurling towards to target, blowing it to smithereens. Axton thought the recoil was so high, it could dislocate a shoulder if you're not careful. Axton looked at the target that was obliterated moments ago, slack jawed.

"Hoooooly Shit!" Axton said looking at the mayhem he caused. Gaige was equally as stunned as him.

"That could cause some seeeerious property damage!" Gaige said looking at the target.

"Oh you ain't seen nothing yet," Kurt said reaching in the chest again.

Kurt pulled out something that looked similar to a cannon. It was sleek design, featuring a scope and had a metallic, tough look to it.

"This is the Mass Accelerated Cannon 876, or the MAC Cannon" Kurt said "This is a battery operated mass accelerated weapon. Basically, it fires a big ass laser, obliterating anything in it's path...Seriously," Kurt said looking at both of them "I don't think we can test it inside here, might blow a hole through this place."

Kurt walked outside with the cannon in his hand. He was followed by Axton and Gaige, eager to know what this thing can do.

"Theres an empty house right there," Axton said pointing to the structure not being used by anybody.

"Alright step back a bit.." Kurt said looking back at him, the taking aim at the structure. Kurt pulled the trigger on the cannon. A faint laser could be seen from the gun, illuminating a target on the building. The noise the laser made became gradually louder and louder. 5 Seconds later, the cannon's laser power was released, sending a giant beam of light towards the structure. The noise it made was equivalent to the power is had. The building had a solid 5 inch hole punched through it, both entering and exiting the building. The cannon was smoking from the energy it was put through, the gun finally subsided and the smoke cleared.

"Jesus..." Axton said "That thing could take out Badass Loaders like nothing..."

"Yeah..." Kurt said "Meant for taking down air assault and such too. As well as-"

"Kurt! Come in! This is Albert Thatcher!" The Echo said. Kurt picked up the Echo frantically, and pressed the microphone button.

"This is Kurtis Thatcher! Where are you Dad?" He asked

"My ship has touched down at what is known as Three-Horns divide! I am in the shit here! We need assistance ASAP!" Albert said over the ECHO.

"Okay! Were heading down there now!" Kurt said before shutting off the ECHO device.

"Well," Axton said walking up to Kurt, "Let's go meet your dad then..."

AN: Hey guys! Hope this chapter was worth the wait! If your wondering about the weapons, my inspiration came from Halo 4's weapon arsenal (Quite Badass guns I must say), Just look up the weapons if your having trouble picturing it. Please review and Fave!

Thanks!

-LT