I had a strange dream. I was driving a luxury car on the perfect road on an icy grassland. Weird enough, I didn't have my robotic hand; instead, it was my old arm. Then a most beautiful girl was in the passenger with raven black hair and bright blue eyes that you couldn't look away from. She wore a black and yellow dress and a gorgeous diamond necklace. I turned to her and asked her.

"How do you like the car, honeybuns?"

She smiled and opened her mouth. I was expecting a sexy or cute voice instead. It was a voice CEO douchebag.

"I like it better if it was a flaming wreck."

The girl took the steering wheel and drove the car off the road into a boulder. I flew out of my seat and through the windshield. I had glass all over my face and was coughing a lot of blood. Then I heard footsteps and saw a blonde girl standing before me. She was about my age, had blonde hair, and was missing half of her face. I couldn't forget that face ever.

"This is for killing me." The girl pulled out a Mailwan pistol and shot me in the face.

That caused me to wake up in the middle of the night sweating like a pig. I was pretty sure Pandora doesn't have a licensed therapist, but I just need to keep it together. I fall back asleep.

…

It was a new day, and it was time to save Roland from the bloodshot. I meet Lilith at the gate of Sanctuary.

"So what's the plan, Lilith?" I asked

"It's simple: grab yourself a ride, go to Three horns Valley; that's where the Bloodshot stronghold is located and kill any bloodshot between you and Roland," said Lilith

"That's it? I thought it was going to be more complicated?"

"Nope. go get them killer."

Leaving Sanctuary, I got myself a Light Runner and headed off to Bloodshot Stronghold. I was expecting Angel to call me for some information about the Bloodshot right now, but I guess she's busy. Can A.I. be busy? Never mind that I focused more on the road with these Bullymong throwing large snowballs or rocks at me. I drove through a tunnel, and I was at Three Horns Valley, and the Bloodshot Stronghold was hard not to miss.

Lilith called me on the echo, "Okay, just drive up and honk the horn."

I drove up to a large gate and honked my horn. It took a bit for one of them to call me.

"Yeah, yeah, I'll get it," said one of the bloodshot member

Huh, I thought I had blown up the gate or something. Then Flanksteak stops the bloodshot member.

"Hold up, that's not one of our vehicles. They might be here for the hostages; kill that bitch."

Then turrets came out and began to shoot at me. I backed up and fired back at the turbines with rockets and bullets until both blew up.

Lilith called back, "Are you in?"

"Nope, they aren't going to let me in now."

Then Scooter joined the call, "Yeah, you need a Bandit technical to get in."

"Alright, where do I get it?"

"Most of them are in Dust, and that's bandit country. But don't worry, I got kin out of their name, Ellie. She got a mechanic shop, and she can hook you up with some wheels."

"Well, Gaige, I guess you're going to the dust," said Lilith

"Yeah, be careful; don't get lost in the sand storm."

"Right, heading there now."

I should because a bunch of suicide psychos are jumping down from the gate. Driving away from them, I saw the road to the dust. Man, I knew this wasn't going to be simple like that. I moved onto the road and made my way to the dust.

After a two-hour and a half drive, I made it to the dust. It was like a massive desert with bandits' camps and spider hives. Scooter called me on the echo.

"Finally to the Dust, huh?"

"Yes, it was a long drive, and I managed to avoid any sandstorms."

"That's good because I thought you got dead because you were echo might be those sandstroms."

"So where, Ellie?"

"At her garage, there is a large sign with her name on it. You can't miss it."

"Alright, I'll meet her."

"See ya."

Then Angel called me as soon as Scooter got off the echo.

"Gaige, where are you? Are you rescuing Roland?"

"Yes and no?"

"What do you mean, yes and no?"

"I'm rescuing Roland but I need to get a Bandit technical to get into the Bloodshot stronghold. So I'm at the Dust to get one from Scooter's sister Ellie."

"Okay, just be careful; you don't want to run into a bandit clan called Hodunk Clan. They might think you were the Zaford Clan."

"Who are the Hodunk and Zaford clans."

"It's a long history. But to oversimplify it, a bunch of rednecks and irish have a massive blood feud that may or may not have started by Moxxi."

"Huh?"

"I got to go; good luck."

Huh, I wondered what she had to do. I should focus on getting to Ellie's garage and not getting ambushed by a bandit. I saw Ellie's garage, and it seemed to have a large amount of junk in and out. It was perfect. I could get some gear to upgrade Deathtrap and maybe my arm. I drove into the entrance. Then I saw a huge woman in blue overalls and an orange t-shirt. She was talking to a bandit in a bandit technical who was in a crusher. I overhear the conversation.

"You fucking bitch, I should kill you when I had the chance," said the bandit

Then the large woman took out a controller, and she pressed a button and the crusher.

"Sorry, what was that? I couldn't hear you." She turned to me, "Ah, you must be the vault hunter Scooter told me that's going to be here."

I exited my vehicle and told her, "Yep, and you must; Ellie do have a Bandit technical to spar."

"Of course, sweetie, its just that use one to...crash that guy...crap."

"Are there any other ones you got?"

"I do, but there's one problem."

"What's that?"

"Follow me."

I walked with Ellie into her garage to see a clean-looking technical that was missing a grill, tires, some engine parts, and doors.

"You see, I need to make those vanilla technicals ugly and murder Bandit technicals."

"So, do I look around here to find those parts?"

"Nope, you have to get those parts the fun way."

"Fun way?"

"Blowing up bandits rides to get their parts."

"Ah, demolition derby."

"Exactly, plus you can do me a favor and go after the ones that had hood ornaments of me."

"Why would they have hood ornaments of you in the first place?"

"Just to mock me, fucking Hodunks."

"Good enough for me to wreck them."

Ellie smiled, "I'm starting to like you, Vault Hunter."

So I hopped back into my ride and drove further into the dust. While driving, I had to avoid spiderants that went underneath the sand and popped out; even one of them was in flames. How was that possible? Then I saw the Bandit technicals that had Ellie Hood ornaments.

Man, those technicals were tough, even using rockets on the Lightrunner, not to mention some of them either threw explosive barrels or buzzsaws. I describe about four of them, collecting the parts and stuffing them into the trunk of the Light runner. Now, I just need an engine part, and I'll be good to go. Then Handsome Jack got into my echo.

"So Bloodshot is probably torturing Roland, and you are out in the middle of a desert blowing up bandits. I call you dumbass, but I don't want to offend the dumbasses in the whole galaxy."

"Well, I bet you were really ugly when you were in high school, and that's why you have that weird mask."

"You know I'm really going to enjoy killing you and all your pathetic friends."

He hung up. Ha, I guess I got a leg up on insulting him today, but let's get back to what I was doing. So I destory the fifth Bandit technicals and got the last part. I drove back to Ellie with all the parts and her hood ornaments. She took the parts from the trunk.

"Good work, Gaige. While I'm making you Bandit technical, you can put the hood ornaments of me around the garage." Ellie said

"Got it and can I use some of the junk laying here to make a few upgrade."

"That's fine with me."

I put the hood ornaments around the garage: one on a desk, another on the catch-a-ride, the third on a toolbox, the fourth on a window, and the last one on top of a vending machine. After that, I walk around, grabbing all sorts of parts from wrecked vehicles to bust up weapons. I brought out Deathtrap to make upgrades. I made two major upgrades: one for him to move faster when undigitized and the other to make him spin around and cut down people into bits. Then I upgraded myself using an old shock shield to put into my robotic arm. When I punch someone, I give them a shock; sometimes, when I reload, I cause a shock explosion.

Damn, I really am a kick-ass engineer.

…

Ellie was finished with Bandit technical, making it look bloody red with a touch of barbed wire on the vehicle's edges. It had machine guns and explosive flaming barrels.

"What you think?" said Ellie

"Look awesome."

"Thank you. Now digitize in the catch-a-ride so you can spawn whenever."

I pressed the scan on the catch-a-ride, and it was registered. I hopped into the Bandit technical, and I was ready to go.

"Alright, now go save Roland's ass and come back any time. I might get a job or two for you."

"Thanks and see you later."

I drove out of the garage and headed back to the Bloodshot stronghold. I'm going to rescue Roland no matter what.