Adolescence; Borderlands 2

Epilogue

"What supplies are here? is there any for the last day? Do we have any more?" asked Zer0, as the quartet gather supplies for the long train route to sanctuary. Ideally, they'd take a car, but since Jack just had to tag along there wouldn't have been enough room. Jack was driving the train through the dust, because all the train drivers were eventually killed by bandits. The group's trust for Jack wavered, especially Salvador, who still held a bitter rage towards him for attempted robbery. Jack was always everywhere, and somehow always being sketchy. Zer0 still kept a degree of fondness for him, he really did make the best milkshake.

They only had a couple of rations left, because Jack drunk and ate half of the supplies. They all regret agreeing to let him join now. Axton sits slumped against the wall. This trip had been hard on them all, but Axton had only recently received an echo containing news of a tragic death, the one of his ex-girlfriend Sarah, despite the bitter broken end between them, he still loved her to death. Another brutal murder by the Hyperion corporation. Maya is laying on her front, legs over her head in a kind of contortion.

"What are you DOING." moans Axton begrudgingly.
"I'm training. It's easy to work with my powers when you're flexible."
"Stop with that dumb bullshit, between you and Zer0 you're making me angry."
"Oh, leave it out."
"Fuck off already."
"WHAT."

Vroom.

Maya phaselocks Axton and holds him out the door where Salvador is sitting.
"HEY WHAT THE FUCK!" screams Axton, Maya pulls him in at the last second of the phaselock and he barely scrapes the edge of the carriage. She yanks him up and holds him by the collar.
"Choose your words more carefully next time, or who knows, my hand might just slip." Axton trembles but nods in fearful assent. Maya let go of his collar.

Jack walks back in and starts laughing, joking that Axton got played by the hottest girl in Three Horns High.
"That's what you get when you're the biggest slut in the school's side piece!"
Axton would punch his face in at this point but after his encounter with Maya he didn't want to risk it. Jack carried on teasing him and Maya could of been sure she heard sobbing.
"She's fucking dead, you moron!" She stood up, punched him in the gut and administered a roundhouse kick over the back that left him bawling for Angel and his wife.

"He was going over the line." she said in a monotone voice, sinking down next to Axton and offering him an arm. Jack left the room once more to go to the front of the train.
Rattling noises echo from the roof of the train carriage. Several Hyperion loaders pile into the train.
"Whoa!" yells Salvador, spinning in unison with the others. Axton does a running slide down the carriage and throws his turret to the ceiling and pulling out an assault rifle. The loaders explode, sending a blast down the hallway. Instinctively, Maya, who got the full blast, shielded her face. She pivoted on her axis and phaselocked a loader, throwing him out of the carriage leaving a hole open, knocking Salvador back out of the gaping slit in the wall. He swung back in, a shotgun in his left hand and his right hand reaching for another. Bullets were spraying everywhere and shards of scrap metal littered the floor.

Zer0 placed his palms firmly on the handrail above the gap in the wall. He swung his legs out of the hole, gracefully climbing to the roof of the train where his metallic footsteps echoed on the inside. Two combat engineers climbed up behind him. Instinctively, Zer0 deployed his hologram, running behind an engineer and impaling him. He front-flipped over the Hyperion minions, kicking off one of their backs. The other was impaled in a bloody sandwich of murder. He removed the sword and hopped back into the train. The four raced to the front of the train, desperate to find Jack. They burst through the door, only to find a rag doll nestled in a chair, surrounded by explosives. They tried to sprint away before the train would inevitably be derailed, but the fuse fizzled out, blasting the vault hunters across the icy plains.