The Vault Hunter (A Borderlands 2 Fanfic)

The Vault Hunter

"Holy. Fucking. Shit." Was the one phrase on everyone's mind as Stevie finished showing her skills. Maya, Axton and Zer0 recovered from the shock of being completely pulverized and were now standing with the others by their Bandit Technical.

"So, was that convincing enough? Or should I do something else?"

Roland snapped out of it first and replied, "No, No! That was... amazing. Welcome to the Crimson Raiders Stevie." He saluted her and she saluted back. She smiled.

"Thank you Roland. It's an honor."

"Alright. Can we go back to Sanctuary before my head explodes?" Asked Lilith, rubbing her temples trying to process what she just experienced.

"Sure. Everybody fall in. You guys have to continue with the mission in the Tundra Express." Said Roland, filing everyone into the technical.

A few hours later...

"So this is it... the Tundra Express. Cool." Said Stevie as they digistructed there.

"Yeah, wait'll you meet Tiny Tina and Mordecai. She's and explosive expert and he's the best sniper out there." Said Gaige.

Zer0 showed a ':(' on his helmet.

"Well besides Zer0." She added. His emote immediately changed to a ':)'.

"Tiny Tina? That reminds me of... no not now. Keep it under control..." Stevie thought.

"So what mission are we doing now?" Asked Stevie.

"Well before we talk missions, I should ask if you have a gun or if your just gonna show off your muscles." Said Axton.

Stevie realized that she has yet to pull out a gun since she's met everyone.

"Oh right! Let's see here..." She took out her ECHO and scrolled through it. "No...No, not cool enough... Used that one yesterday... not a sniper, AH HA! An assault rifle."

Stevie digistructed an orange rarity assault rifle from her Echo. "This is my baby, the KerBlaster. Got her from some stupid wannabe in the Southern Shelf, think his name was MigeMong or something." She said.

"SEE! I told you pendejos that we should've taken that mission from Hammerlock!" Yelled Salvador gawking at the assault rifle.

"It's beautiful, what can it do?" Asked Gaige stroking it like it was the most precious thing in the universe.

"Check it." Stevie turned towards the snowman next to the New-U and fired. A bullet sized rocket shot out and blew the snowman into smithereens.

"Why can't you stop being so badass?! Leave some for the rest of us!" Yelled Axton.

"Oh and that reminds me!" Stevie reached into her ECHO and pulled out three huge wads of cash. "I'm sorry about killing you guys. This should be enough to pay you back the fees for the New-U. Hope there are no hard feelings between us." She handed a wad to Maya Axton and Zer0.

"No of course not. Thank you Stevie." said Maya smiling at their newest addition.

"Yeah what she said!" Added Axton as he marveled at the cash in his hand.

Zer0 flashed a ':)' then a '$$$'

"Yeah so like you were saying Axton, the mission?"

"Oh yeah, that. Well we have to go meet up with Tina to get her Badonkadonks we left and set them up...uh some place."

"You set them up by the train tracks. Ah, I see you got a new friend there. Sup, names Mordecai and my partner in crime Bloodwing. Say hello Blood."

The message was followed by a loud cawing sound.

"So your Mordecai? Nice to informally meet you." She replied.

"Mmhm. Well like I said, You set up the explosive by the train tracks. I'll mark the place on your ECHOs when you get them from Tina."

"Thanks Mordecai, let's go everyone! We got a Vault Key to find."

"So you already found the vault key? Nice! I knew I picked the right group to stick with!" Stated Stevie as she followed behind the group.

"Yeah we are pretty awesomely badass. But now we're ten times as badass with you here!" said Gaige as she fell behind to walk with her newly found crush.

"Yeah that's true."

Gaige started out with small talk like what gun types her favorite and what element she favors. You know like a normal Pandoran conversation.

"You know I'm still waiting on that backstory." hinted Gaige as she playfully nudged her with her robotic elbow.

Stevie smirked and chuckled. A sound that made Gaige's heart flutter. "When the time is right. But I don't know what your excited about," Stevie's smirk disappeared. "It's pretty depressing." She sighed and shook her head. "I try to...forget my past. It's not a very good one."

"Alright." Gaige would let it go for now. But one day she would get her to stop avoiding her questions.