As the sun went down, I blasted a marauder in the head. Man, I was going through Frostburn Canyon, dealing with all sorts of things, from marauders to burning psychos, pyros, and other kinds of bandits to psychos. Not to mention Spiderant God, I hate these things, and they managed to get some web in my hair.

The only thing I had to follow was the Bloodshots signs that Angel told me to follow to find this Firehawk person. While looking for the Firehawk, I found a chest near the edge of a cliff. I opened it to have a Dahl sniper rifle and a Hyperion shotgun. Seeing the guns, I grabbed the shotgun because it had shock damage, and I love shock damage.

Angel tells me as I walk into the tunnels, " This is unusual. The Firehawk has harassed the Bloodshots for some time, but they never mounted such a large-scale assault on the Firehawk before. I wonder what's given them such confidence?"

"Maybe they got some sort of secret weapon."

"Not sure about that."

Then Flankstank came on the call, " Keep goin, Bloodshots! That demonic THING will rue the goddamn day it messed with us! We're gonna make The Firehawk choke to death on his own feces!"

"That's just so wrong," I said

"And disgusting," said Angel

Then I took out a couple of burning psychos with my new shotgun, and it was working like a hot knife on butter. I kept fighting the bandits until Handsome Jack came to my Echo.

"You think the Firehawk's got Roland, huh?"

"How do you know that?"

"Please, I got that hell hole planet full of spies and tech to get me an update about you bandits."

"And yet you don't know who the Firehawk is?"

"Please, like I need to know a person who turned people into human smoothies and midnight snacks. Speaking which Roland wouldn't be in a situation for being a dumbass he wouldn't…oops almost spoil the secret pumpkin."

Then he went away just as this big psycho with a cattle skull and other bones holding a large pipe. I quickly got Deathtrap to help me out. Deathtrap slashed the badass psycho on the head and shot his chest full of shock buckshot. It took a bit to kill this psycho, but it was done.

I made my way to another bloodshot sign, and Handsome Jack called me up again.

"Lemme explain something: even if you DO rescue Roland from this Firehawk guy, the Crimson Raiders ain't exactly long for this world."

"Please with me. We're going to kick your ass."

"Ha please, I have my kitty gloves for you. You know what? I think you deserve a little hint. My secret involves your pathetic resistance dying, and me laughing, heh-heh-heh! A lot."

"How about um eat a dick."

I end the echo call before him. Show that asshole. Anyway, I get closer to the Firehawk base passing more Bloodshot signs. Finding the sixth Bloodshot sign Angel told me.

"This is the Firehawk's hideout. Be careful, friend: there are bound to be traps everywhere."

Then I saw a bandit catching on fire from one of the said traps and fall down a cliff.

"I see I got it."

Going through the trap was difficult enough, but then I had to deal with two badass psychos and walking on beams that one slip, I would fall into a cold, watery grave. After crossing a beam, the ground started rumbling again, and Handsome Jack called again for the third time now.

"Oooh, you feel that? The sound of those earthquakes marks my drills getting closer and closer to the Vault! That's the sound of progress, baby."

Then he hung up. I swear he just keeps calling me to piss me off or bragging. Probably both.

After walking for a bit, I see ahead of him the Firehawk hideout, which is being held by wires and steel beams. But I heard screams of bandits and fire. I got to get ready to face this Firehawk. Running up the stairs, switching to my pistol, I saw two beefy psychos with Torgue guns looking around for someone. Then a small fireball was in the middle and boom the psychos turned into ashes and appearing in the middle was a redhead woman with glowing tattoos that look alien and flaming wings. Then I remembered a book about sirens and edridians.

Oh crap the Firehawk is a siren. The glow died down and her wings went away.

The woman said to me, "'Sup."

THen woman slump to the ground looking exhausted.

"Um, are you okay?"

"I'm just exhausted. Help me out here."

I got the Firehawk up from the ground and took a deep breath.

"Can you get an Eridium nugget that's a little safe on a shelf?"

Doing what the Firehawk told me I grabbed the nugget from the shelf. It felt strange on my robotic arm. It felt hot and the electricity was surging through my whole arm. I quickly handed it to the woman and she absorbed the blue glow and energy all around her and it disappeared.

"So what's the deal here because right now you're not trying to kill me?" I said

"Nah, those rumors are supposed to scare bandits and psychos. My actual name is Lilith. I'm with the raiders."

"So you know Roland?"

"Yeah I helped him out with keeping the raiders out here in line so he could focus on Jack. And are you the vault hunter that Roland was talking about?"

"Yep, the name Gaige."

Lilith looked at me with a mix of emotion, and she settled on being cool with it.

"Huh, I thought you would be taller and older?"

"Well I'm centrally a badass all that counts."

Lilith smiled a little, "That would do on this planet."

"So do you know where Roland is?"

"That's the thing Roland got nabbed by the Bloodshots. They have gotten cocky since then, coming closer to my HQ."

"At least he's alive."

Then explosions go off, and I hear shouting of bandits and psychos.

"The Firehawk and Vault hunter are in there kill them," said a random bandits

"Get ready kid. We got company show me what you got," said Lilith

Psychos came running in, and I blasted them with my pistol. Lilith disappeared and then reappeared, taking two psychos with a strange blast. Three large bandits with shotguns. I took out my shotgun and took one of them out, and Lilith did her thing again but pulled out a Maliwan pistol and shot him in the head, leaving a fiery hole.

The last guy, I blasted the bandit over the railing.

"Great shot," said Lilith, then two badass psychos dropped down, "Look out badass."

I bring out Deathtrap, and he fires a laser at one of the psychos in the chest, vaporizing his heart. Lilith killed the second badass psycho by using her siren power to burn him into ash. We managed to survive the Bloodshots surprise attack.

"Great job Gaige. That was fun." Lilith fell on her knees. "I need another pick up. Can you get Eridium from an ammo chest?"

I went to the ammo chest and grabbed the Eridium and handed it to Lilith. She was absorbed and felt all better. Man she looked totally pale when she used all of it. Does that happen to all sirens?

I asked, "What's up with absorbing Eridium?"

"Yeah when I was a vault hunter with Roland and two others I might have heard of. It boasted my power but I can get weak when I use them."

"So Erdium help?'

"Hell yeah it just makes my powers a bit more awesome."

"I guess that's a good payoff."

"Now let's save my boyfriend, I mean ex-boyfriend."

…

I was back in Sanctuary, lying in bed. The plan was to go to the Bloodshot base tomorrow, fight through the gang, and rescue Roland. Man, tomorrow was going to be a long day. I should probably upgrade Deathtrap. I'm sure I can find a few junk around Sanctuary.

I felt my eyelids getting heavy, and I was about to drift off to sleep when Angel came to my ECHO.

"Gaige did you find Roland?"

"Roland was not with the Firehawk but got captured by the Bloodshots."

"Crap."

"Don't worry. I'm going to rescue him tomorrow."

"That's good. Also Gaige can I ask you something?"

"Shoot."

"Why are you on Pandora in the first place?"

Aw fuck. I knew this conversation was going to pop up, and I didn't have an excellent way to explain the situation without coming off as a psycho. God dammit Marcy.

"Let's just say mistakes were made at a science fair and a very rich father got a huge bounty on me."

"Huh?"

"Well, you're a super AI, so I know you're going to look it up when I go to bed."

"How bad was it?"

"It's about 9 out of 10."

"Okay Gaige good night."

"Good night."