AN: Pairing for Harry isn't decided yet, but I'll be showing interesting for him on the part of Angel and Moxxi's daughter before asking for final opinions on the pairing.
AN2: Sorry about slow updates, wanted to update much sooner but I've gotten a new job and I have classroom style training along with field training which can become eleven or twelve hour days.
Deadshot
Chapter 4
-Angel-
"You can call me Angel." The daughter of Handsome Jack smiled at someone actually asking about her, "Stay safe out there and I'll talk to you soon." With a thought, her ECHO channel to Harry and the others closed out. Sighing, she floated around her illusion filled prison, the orb she had been trapped in since she was six years old always filled with holograms. A gilded cage but a cage still, her father her ever watching jailor.
Glancing at a screen, she looked at the biometrics and data she had on the six vault hunters. She had everything from medical records, military service files, medical reports, even Gaige's ECHO blogs that she had followed even before they started becoming popular.
"Alright Angel, you're tracking those six right?" forcing down her scowl, Angel turned to look at a giant screen where her angry father was looking down at her, apparently not having taken Harry's insults well.
"Of course Sir." She replied tonelessly, hating having to work for Jack, hating the lies and the betrayals and the death he forced her to commit day after day. Thinking about that made her hands flinch to the collar at her neck, knowing he had ways to influence her should he need to make her obey. "They're loading up on ammunition before continuing to Liar's Berg. The glacier is currently populated only by themselves, the local bandit clan called the Blood Rippers, wild animals, and a hunter who happens to be the brother of Aurelia."
"Oooh, two birds with one stone." Jack gave a dark smirk before pushing a button, a general Echo being sent out. "Attention, people of Pandora! Handsome Jack here," the masked bastard smirked "offering a million bucks to whomever brings me the heads of the vault hunters who just arrived in Liar's Berg. I'll add an extra million if you bring the specky black haired sniper in alive as well as that broken down old hunter named Hammerlock. Oh, and I'm still offering a reward for Roland, the mass-murdering leader of the Crimson Raiders. Good hunting everybody!"
"Was that truly necessary Sir?" she asked with a sigh, both at singling out Harry and putting a bounty on Sir Hammerlock.
"He he he, of course it was." Jack chuckled out, "That'll teach that little shit not to call me by that damned name."
"And Sir Hammerlock?" she asked, wondering what Aurelia will do when she learns of the bounty on the head of her little brother.
"Eh, he was in the right place at the right time…or is it wrong place at the wrong time?" Jack looked off in the distance in thought for a moment before shaking himself "Anyway, it'll teach that backstabber Aurelia what happens to those who betray me." With that the ECHO call ended as Jack disappeared.
"Asshole." She muttered, wincing in pain as her collar shocked her for cursing and not correcting herself within a set time limit, "Worth it." She panted, slightly out of breath from the shock but pleased at the small private act of defiance. Pulling up holograms of the six vault hunters she smiled, perhaps soon she could finally be free. Her eyes focused on Harry, the rising leader of the latest generation of Vault Hunters. Anyone who could get under Handsome Jack's skin as easily as he had was certainly someone worth watching.
-Harry-
Smiling as Angel vanished from his ECHO vision, Harry walked into the Hyperion bunker she unlocked, seeing various ammo containers, and even a weapon chest, open up. "Shotgun huh," he mused, before tossing it to Krieg who grinned and pumped it, "how's it feel big guy?"
"GLORY TO THE POOP TRAIN!" Krieg yelled out, jabbing the shotgun into the air. At the Psycho's yell a faint cry could be heard from the nearby scrap piles. Sharing a glance with the others he moved over and followed the sound, glancing into the burnt-out shell of a car he saw a bullymong infant, showing some similar signs to Knuckldragger.
"This that mong's kid?" Axton asked warily as the baby bullymong stopped crying and tilted its head at them curiously.
"TINY MONKEY!" Krieg yelled, pointing at it dramatically as it let out a small babyish yell back.
"You bringing it with us?" Axton asked, looking down at the bullymong intrigued as Salvador kept making silly faces at it, much to the baby creature's amusement.
"Well it is all alone now." He shrugged as Salvador picked up the little baby, "I don't want to just leave it to die."
Before anyone could respond to that their ECHOs lit up as Handsome Jack's profile picture appeared in their holographic heads up. "Attention, people of Pandora! Handsome Jack here," the masked bastard spoke to apparently all of Pandora "offering a million bucks to whomever brings me the heads of the vault hunters who just arrived in Liar's Berg. I'll add an extra million if you bring the specky black haired sniper in alive as well as that broken-down old hunter named Hammerlock. Oh, and I'm still offering a reward for Roland, the mass-murdering leader of the Crimson Raiders. Good hunting everybody!"
"Average Joe just doesn't give up, does he?" Harry sighed, hoping Jack was listening to piss the little backstabber off some more.
"I will kill you…slowly." Jack appeared on his ECHO.
"Are you just constantly watching me to comment on my life?" Harry made a horrified face, "Aaah! Pedophile! I need an adult!"
"…I want you to know, I hate you." Jack growled out before hanging up the call.
"I'll say it again Cap'n, Kahones of steel." Salvador shook his head in disbelief as the rest of the Vault Hunters nodded, even Krieg doing so although Harry figured it was more to copy Maya than actually understanding what's going on.
"Maybe I'll write a book," Maya bumped his shoulder playfully as the group, now plus one baby bullymong, continued through the Hyperion Bunker to the village of Liar's Berg that Claptrap mentioned, "the tale of Captain Iron Balls."
"Will the rest of us get a part?" Axton asked, grinning at Maya as their group relaxed and bantered, Claptrap stumbling around behind them.
"Of course," Maya chuckled, "Captain Iron Balls serves under General Krieg along with his sister the mighty Necromancer, his sidekick Salvador the dwarf lord, and I can be the adult who keeps you idiots in line."
"PRETTY LADY IS THE SHINY!" Krieg yelled out, shaking his head rapidly.
"He says you're the Queen." Harry translated as Maya blushed a vibrant red and Krieg nodded happily.
"Wait, what about me?" Axton pouted at not being mentioned.
"You're the court jester." Maya patted his cheek mockingly as Krieg laughed hysterically.
"TINY NOODLE MAN!" Krieg guffawed as Axton sulked "NODDLE MAN IS SQUEAKY WHEEL OF THE POOP TRAIN!"
"No I'm not!" Axton protested.
"All in favor of Axton being named our official Jester say aye!" Gaige called out, fist in the air.
"AYE!" came five voices and a baby bullymong cry, only Axton remaining silent.
"Well, the ayes have it Axton, you're the jester." Salvador laughed only to yelp when Axton, again, shoved him headfirst into a snow drift.
-Aurelia-
Looking out the window of her ship, Aurelia sipped her wine and viewed the stars. Ever since Athena had helped herself and Jack's doppelganger Timothy escape the lunatic she had been on the move, using a chunk of the family money to buy a weaponized ship where she travelled the various systems in the area of Pandora, looking for anything relating to the Vaults before Jack could get them. While travelling she had recruited fighters who had potential, medics who knew what they were doing, weapon designers and hackers who impressed her. Preferring quality over quantity, preferring a small elite strike force over a massive army.
"Ma'am," her right hand walked into her quarters, his tone showing this was business and not social, "we've picked up an ECHO from Pandora."
"Regarding Jack and the vault?" she demanded, turning to look at the man. She had given orders to observe all Pandoran ECHO communication for any sign of Jack making significant progress on a Vault.
"Jack yes, the vault no." the man frowned "He's put a million-dollar bounty on your brothers' head." The only answer the man received was Aurelia's wine glass shattering in her grip.
AN: The baby bullymong is the child of Knuckldragger (who's female in this) and King-Mong. It's going to be the special of one of Moxxi's kids like how Mordecai had Bloodwing. The other will have Dukino as they're fond of Mordecai and emulating him. Wanted to clear up any confusion before it set in.