AN: I own only my OC
Max coughed as he dove to the side, pressing his back against one the broken ruins of the vault entrance, panting as Axton tossed his dual turrets out, the two Dahl guns opening fire on the behemoth that was the Warrior. After fighting through an onslaught of Hyperion Loaders with Mordecai and Brick at their side, Max and his six comrades found themselves confronted by Handsome Jack as he forcibly used Lilith to charge the Vault key. He had used some kind of holographic technology to make multiple battle ready, if not squishy, Jack clones. Max scoffed at the idea, while it had been slightly, ever so slightly, satisfying it was still a cowards move. Something that described Jack to a T. The fight had gone just as he suspected, Jack spent the whole time hiding behind his clones and only fighting when they were all gone, and even then the combined fire power of seven Vault Hunters ate through his shield faster than a Skag through a corpse. In the end they defeated the tyrant quickly and decisively, and when they all stood over him, holding his bleeding side as he glared up at them the worst possible thing happened.
The key finished charging.
Faster than any could have followed he leapt forward, forcing the key into place. That led to their current predicament. They had been in a gun battle with the monstrosity for some time but it really was an ancient warrior that could destroy planets, and thus their weapons were doing minimal damage at best. Kreig was holding his bleeding side, spouting something or other about meat bicycles as Maya patched him up. Salvador was crouched behind cover, cursing as he slapped in his last remaining mags into the his assault rifles, Zero was off in cover some ways away, attempting to pick out the Warrior's weak points. Max could see Gaige as she tinkered furiously with her damaged Deathtrap, the robot sparking randomly.
'This won't work' The teen thought angrily, 'If we had more ammo maybe but as it is now well run out before we can kill this thing' He glanced at back at the purple field that separated him from Lilith and Jack, protecting them. He growled when he saw the tyrant's bloody smile, taunting him.
He knew they wouldn't last as it was; they had too little ammo and too little time to come up with a plan. Max grit his teeth, biting into his lip as he did so. He felt his anger bubble over, his fury reach the boiling point. He wanted nothing more than to wipe that smug smirk off his face. He wanted Jack dead. Suddenly, it happened. Amidst all the anger, all the fury, and all the hatred, Max felt something else deep inside him. He felt power. Power like nothing before. He gasped as the energies that fueled his technopathic powers expand, adapting, and growing until his whole body was alight with crimson power. He felt his skin burn as it increased, images familiar yet foreign appeared across his right side. Instead of soft waves, came vicious blades, smooth curves became hard angles. What would have been blue became a harsh red. Meanwhile the battle seemed to cease as all focused on the teen, even the Warrior stood enraptured.
Jack blinked as he took the sight in, panic setting into his body. 'It can't be' he thought, eyes wide. 'Their born, they don't awaken. Their all female. How can this be happening?!' Max roared as the energy finally stabilized, the glow subsiding. When all was clear Max stood tall, his right arm exposed, a myriad of tattooed blades tearing their way up his arm and to his face, coming to a point just under his eye. He glanced to the Warrior, emerald eyes focused. In an instant he was gone in a flash of red. A red phantom streaking across the battlefield and slamming into the beast's chest sending it sprawling. Lilith who had seen the spectacle blinked at the familiarity of the attack. Suddenly he appeared in the air, scowling down at the monster. With a wave of his hand a single orb appeared just above the Warrior, before it shot forward. Colliding with its chest and holding the beast down. It was then they all realized something. Jack had assumed the boy to be some kind of latent Siren. However he was nothing of the sort. Siren's only ever had one power. Where he had two, thus far. Where Lilith Phased through dimensions, entering and exiting as she pleased, Max tore though the dimensions, ripping the fabric of reality apart as he did. Where Maya held her opponents captive in a powerful singularity, Max turned it into a physical force that entrapped its targets indefinitely. Jack swallowed as he watched the boy raise a hand, finger pointed to his moonbase. Whereas Angel could control that which she was linked to, Max dominated it. He brought his hand down, the mortar firing off as he did.
Time seemed to slow for the Tyrant as he watched the high powered blast crawl to his Warrior. Unable to do anything but watch. The Warrior let out one final defiant roar as it attempted to escape the large singularity that had it pinned. The resistance however was short lived as not a second after the moon shot caved the monster's skull inward. The Ancient Eridain went limp, its struggle over and its life ended.
"No…" Jack whispered as Max landed with a light grunt. "No…." he repeated as the shield that had protected him fell. He pushed himself up, backing away from the vault hunters as they turned their attention to him.
"No, no, no… I can't die like this…" he stumbled backwards, "not when I'm so close…" He pushed himself up again, glaring at Max as the teen strode forward. "and not at the hands of a FILTHY BANDIT!" he looked at the broken corpse of the Warrior, eyes wide with disbelief. "I could've saved this planet! I could have actually restored ORDER!" HE pointed and accusing finger at the boy.
"I wasn't supposed to die at the hands of a CHILD-KILLING PSYCHOPATH!" he screamed, "You're a SAVAGE! You're a MANIAC! You are a bandit… AND I AM THE GODDAMN HERO!" he collapsed, shaking his head. "The Warrior was practically a GOD. How-HOW in the hell did you kill my Warrior? Where in the hell did you get that power?" he shook his head, not waiting for an answer.
"You idiots! The Warrior would have brought peace to this planet! No more dangerous creatures! No more bandits! Pandora – It could have been PARADISE!" He might have continued had Lilith not kicked him hard in the face, sending him sprawling.
"This is it guys. Either one of you kills Jack, or I'll do it for you." Max nodded to the woman, stepping forward. In one swift motion he thrust his hand forward, phasing it into the tyrant's chest. Jack screamed as the teen lifted him up. The eridium burning the man's insides.
"Suffer you son of a bitch." Max growled as he upped the power outage. "Suffer and know that you have lost totally and completely." Jack didn't respond he only screamed before his disintegrated. The only remnant of the mad man his mask as it clattered to the ground. Max lowered his hand inhaling once and exhaling out.
"Wow…." He whispered, turning back to the group, smirking as he did, "That was a million times more satisfying than I could have possibly imagined." A few chuckles from the group.
"What do we call you?/ A male Siren, unheard of./Quite anomalous." Max jumped, turning to Zero just as he had come out of cloak. The assassin managed to get the drop on every one, literally nobody was safe. It was nearly impossible to tell when he deployed his decoy.
"Yea big man." Axton snarked, giving the teen a light shove, "You going out there and kicking yourself some Warrior ass. What should we call you now? He-Siren? Sirno?" The commando trailed off, not noticing his comrades cringe with each new title proposed.
"Please stop." Max pleaded, "It hurts just listening to you."
Axton recoiled in mock hurt, a hand over his heart. "Well fine then." He scoffed, "What do you think then oh name master?"
Max sighed, smiling as he did. "Well…" he thought for a moment before answering. "Call me… The Sentinel."