AN: Hello again everybody! Been playing Borderlands 3 and the DLC's and I've got to say, I both love parts and others annoy me. For example, Aurelia…SHE HAD A BLOODY CHARACTER ARC! Not to mention it was explicitly stated that she was recruited by the Crimson Raiders vault hunter army if you play 'Pre-Sequel'. Since I already showed something that goes against what Gearbox had decided with her then you can expect some things to be different from regular canon as shown by 3. It also gave me a few new ideas to use in this story eventually and, finally, a decision in relation to the pairing. After doing the quest that went over Angel's backstory more (and deciding to limit the amount of what's essentially OC's even if they are mentioned in a way in canon) the pairing for Harry will now officially be Harry/Angel.

Deadshot

Chapter 6

-Harry-

"Noooooooo!" Claptrap whined and flailed, struggling to get past Axton as Gaige handed over their collected bullymong fur to Sir Hammerlock, "My Bullymong fur! I was gonna make a fur mohawk!"

"That's not your fur Claptrap." Gaige scolded the talkative little robot.

"But miniooooooon!" Claptrap sobbed "I waaaaaaant iiiiiit!"

"Anyway." Hammerlock happily added the fur to his hat, "How went the elimination of Midge Mong?"

"That annoying little turd wouldn't stop bouncing everywhere." Harry grumbled as he did some maintenance on the revolver he'd picked up at the Southern Shelf.

"It was quite funny watching Harry trying to snipe Midge Mong in the head." Axton snickered, "Every time he missed he would start cursing up a storm and I'm pretty sure the little bastard-"

"Hey!" Salvador protested.

"Not you, the one riding the monkey." Axton didn't even miss a beat as Salvador gave a happy thumbs up, "As I was saying, I'm pretty sure the little bastard started doing it on purpose to piss Harry off."

"Captain is really creative." Salvador grinned, "I learned some new ones."

"You all suck." Harry grumbled as he leaned against the wall with Maya, Krieg sitting by them as he made a snowman.

"Still, you've returned with both prizes, I see you've repaired your equipment, and we can proceed onward." Hammerlock grinned happily as he opened a wooden crate to show enough sniper riffles for everyone, their new baby bullymong bouncing happily and trying to paw at the fur in Hammerlock's hat.

"I'll be your guide!" Claptrap bounces back from his crying fit and happily starts wheeling out of Liar's Berg "You see, Flynt and I had a gentlemen's agreement in the past: I give him the loot from the bodies Jack ditches in the glacier, he promises not to torture me for hours at a time, then he does it anyway. But that ends today! We're gonna take him out, steal my ship back, and sail to sanctuary! Let's go this way!"

As Claptrap happily wheeled through the snow, Harry's ECHO flared to life as a man in a horned helmet that he recognized as Captain Flynt was shown, "Here's what's gonna happen, Vault Hunter. My first mate Boom Bewm is gonna kill ya, Jack's gonna pay us, and I'm gonna play hopscotch in your chest cavity!"

"So childish." Gaige shook her had in mock sadness, "So naïve. Thinking Joe would actually pay anyone."

"Thinking Joe could pay anyone." Maya gave a grin to Harry and his sister, "I heard he was in massive brunch debt."

"Poor sad little Joey, he just can't get enough of them eggs." Axton whipped away a fake tear.

"And Hookers." Salvador added.

"Eggs and hookers, part of a balanced breakfast for the sad lonely incel." Harry declared in his best announcer voice, positive he could hear Jack's scream of fury through time and space.

Their laughter was sadly cut off by the voice of Claptrap, "Now be careful taking down Boom Bewm minion. He's one of the 'Ripper' clan. As in 'Flesh-Ripper'. I don't have to tell you why they're called that… they're called that because they rip people's flesh off."

"I never would have guessed." Maya snorted.

"RIP THE FLESH!"

-Angel-

Humming to herself, Angel continued to sketch in her notebook, drawing in it the one thing she could keep for herself and hide from Jack. "Hey there Angel!" hearing Jack come on the video call; Angel reluctantly closed her sketchbook.

"What is it Jack?" she asked the man who pretended to still be her father, her voice dead and emotionless.

"Looks like those Vault Hunters are finally leaving Liar's Berg, so I want you to pull up satellite feed of them." Jack was sitting in his office with a big bowl of pretzels as he gave the order.

"Executing Phase Shift." Angel sighed as the screens in both her cell as well as Jack's office flickered to life to show Harry and his friends walking down a snowy slope.

"Hey!" Jack called out happily as he called the group on their ECHOs "How-ah, these pretzels suck…So, how's your day been buddy? We haven't really gotten to talk all that much since I, you know, left you for dead. Hey, you think you'll freeze to death out there?" Jack paused a moment to enjoy the, to him, pleasant thought before shaking his head "Nah, probably not. The bandits'll get you first. My day? It's been pretty good. Just bought a pony made of diamonds, because I'm rich." Angel was very tempted to just cut off Jack's signal as he talked "So, you know. That's cool. Kay, bye!"

Angel had to just sit and watch as Harry started sniping bandits, taking each one of his kills down with a head shot. "How's that for impressive Angel?" she heard on her private screen, having made sure not to let Jack hear her or Harry.

"Very impressive." Angel whispered to herself as she sat against the wall of her cell, rolling her eyes as Claptrap started pretending to scold Harry and the others for killing bandits before giving up the pretense and laughing.

"You know, I'm rackin' my brain trying to think of a name for that diamond pony I bought. I was gonna call it 'piss-for-brains' in honor of you, but that just feels immature. What about 'irritating little shit'? No, too mouthy. Maybe…'Butt Stallion'? Nah, that's even worse. Tell ya what, I'll give it some more thought." Tuning Jack out, Angel continued to watch Harry go as she went back to her sketch, one of Harry as a knight rescuing her in a princess' dress from a tower. A dragon with some 'familiar' face markings laying dead on the ground.

"Maybe I could illustrate their book." Angel giggled to herself as she remembered Harry's group joking about writing an adventure book.

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaand open!" Claptrap called out loudly as a bridge lowered.

"You know, I should probably clarify." Jack tossed a pretzel up to catch it in his mouth "the diamond horse I've been telling you about? It's not a sculpture or anything. It's a living horse that actually happens to be made of…actually, I'll just go get her, Butt Stallion! Say hello!" in the screen that showed Jack's office, Angel saw an actual diamond horse trot in as she gaped, the horse whinnying loudly while Jack chuckled happily "Butt Stallion says hello." Angel grit her teeth angrily as she saw her father with Butt Stallion, a drawing Angel had made years ago of her imaginary friend that was a gift for her mother. "Wait a minute, why aren't they sassing me?" Jack looked confused as every other time he'd called the group they had mocked him mercilessly.

"Hmmm, it seems that they have you muted on their ECHOs Jack." Angel managed to keep from laughing as Jack began to curse and scream in his office, throwing the pretzel bowl at the wall. Muting Jack as well, to 'block her poor innocent ears from the profanity' of course, Angel began to hum to herself as she made some changes to her previous sketch, added some changes to make Harry's horse look more like Butt Stallion. "Keep impressing me hero." Angel smiled as she watched Harry move, showing he was more than just a long distance sniper as he ran and dodged Boom Bewm's canon's along with his friends, firing with a revolver with fast precise shots, "I want to see what all you can do."