I always thought that being a vault hunter was the coolest thing ever. Because you get to explore dangerous places and get riches from a vault made by some ancient aliens, of course, you get all kinds of cool guns that kill people in all-bloodly spectacular ways. One of the places you could find a vault would be Pandora, a good place to hide out from the authorities on Eden-5 and bounty hunters because of that 'accident,' I like to say. However, I didn't think about the possibility that the train I was on would explode in some glacier.

Now I'm in the cold, my body hurts all over, with no idea what to do. But I saw something in the distance, and I started to crawl to it. It was a Cl4p-TP unit burying dead bodies in the glacier.

"Great- another dead Vault Hunter, Handsome Jack has been busy." The claptrap unit turned around and saw me; the little robot was happy. "Wait a minute, you're not dead! Yes! Now I can get off this glacier! Claptrap, your metaphorical ship has come in! But first, can you get up?"

"I-I'll try," I said.

I slowly stand up, feeling pain in my body. God, it was like spikes of pain kept popping up all over my body.

"Great, now allow me to introduce myself. I am a Cl4p-TP steward bot, but my friends call me Claptrap if any of them are still alive or even exist in the first place. I've got some time for you."

"...That's sucks."

He takes some device out of the pill of snow with a skull and a hand and gives it to me.

"It's an ECHO communicator that I totally didn't loot from one of these corpses. It comes with a class-12 heads-up display complete with a minimap come come friend, let's get you inside."

I see the head-up display that shows I'm low on health. Maybe Claptrap has something to help patch me up. I follow Claptrap to his place and quickly learn why his name is Claptrap.

"Man, this is GREAT! Now that I've got a mighty Vault Hunter. I can finally join the resistance in Sanctuary and take vengeance against Jack for killing my product line and my central processor, so I stop thinking out loud! I wonder what it's like to have a belly button?"

"Um, who's Jack?" I ask. I swear I heard that name before?

"Jack, aka Handsome Jack, is the CEO of Hyperion and the guy who probably blows up the train you're on."

That's right, I heard on the echo-net that he became the CEO of that company, with rumors that he killed the former CEO.

"But why?"

"To stop any Vault Hunters from getting to the vault before he does."

"What so great about this vault he would go to this extreme?"

"No idea but Jack wants it."

Then, an image of a beautiful girl appeared in my mind. I was about to freak out, but she started to talk to me.

"I'll explain everything soon, but I know this. You're alive for a reason, and I am here to help you." Then she disappears.

I don't know if that was real or just hallucinations from a head wound, but I just need to get out of the cold.

I follow Claptrap to what seems like his place, but it has broken machine parts, trash, and snow all around it.

He turns to me and says, "Well done; your ability to walk short distances without dying will be Handsome Jack's downfall."

"That's great, but is there something that can heal me up because right now I'm going to collapse again?".

"Yep, just follow me, and can you please wipe your feet." We go to the door. Claptrap stands in front of it, "and open." The door scans him and opens up. "Just a little added security. Gotta keep those bullmongs at bay or they'll rip your eyes out!"

I walked into Claptrap's place and saw the dead bodies of both Cl4P-TP units and people with a giant furnace in the middle of the room.

"Sorry about the mess! Everything Jack kills, dump here bandits, Vault Hunters, CL4P-TP units. If I sound pleased about this, it's only because my programmers made this the default tone of voice. I'm actually quite depressed." said Claptrap

"Dang that sucks," I said

"It does. Now the creature around here is dangerous, none more so than this bullymong named Knuckle Dragger, who killed everyone I know."

"And what do you have for protection?"

"Oh I keeps a pistol in the cabinet for emergencies. But here, we should be pretty safe."

Then an ungodly noise came from above, and a bullymong came down from the roof, grabbed Claptrap, took him up on a pipe, and ripped his eye out. He takes the eye and drops Claptrap on the ground.

I went up to him and asked, "Are you okay?"

He points to a cabinet and says, "The gun in the cabinet."

I looked around and found the cabinet next to a bed, which I opened it to find a Dahl pistol and a few placebos. Thank God, I need something for the pain, and I inject a few placebos into my body until I fully heal myself and all the pain goes away. I grabbed the pistol, and suddenly the woman from before came back.

"Four Vault Hunters changed Pandora forever, but their reign over Handsome Jack has passed. Pandora needs a new hero. I know that hero is you."

She disappeared again before I could say anything to her.

Claptrap breaks my thought with him talking, and while bumping into things, "Apart from the excruciating pain, this is GREAT! I've been waiting for a mighty Vault Hunter to help me reach Sanctuary. I will be your wise mentor, and YOU shall be my fearsome minion." He laughs before hitting a small door in the back of the cave. He went out and then later opened a gate from me.

So now I'm a Vault Hunter, and this was my start to it. Man, I wish I was recording this for my Echo net.