Borderlands 2 - The Extended Cut

Chapter 1: My First Gun + Blindsided

The four Vault Hunters found themselves laying in the frozen wastes, snow piling up on their freezing bodies. A whirring sound came from the distance, one of a small rotary engine, and along with it game a small rectangular robot, rolling around on one wheel. He had large blue eye in the center, with a worn out, fading white stripe horizontally across his dim yellow body. He carried a shovel, which he used to immediately start digging up bodies.

"Great- another dead vault hunter. Handsome Jack's been busy." The robot moaned at his own sarcastic comment, and began digging up frozen corpses from their half snow graves. After a while he looked over to the next set of 'corpses', before having his eye light up.

 "Wait a minute - you're not dead!  YES!" The robot helped up the vault hunters, who slowly staggered to their feet. The four Vault Hunters stood there, bent over in pain from the large explosion that they had barely survived. Zer0 stood with a tall, skinny build, a mask covering his face, and sporting a large blade with four fingers on each hand. Axton had a strong, matured body, with a well chiselled face and the uniform of a Dahl soldier. Maya stood next to him, with short blue hair and strange, glowing tattoos of an ancient race on her right arm. Salvador stood the smallest, at 5'4", and had a short muscly body with a spiky mohawk and beard.

"Allow me to introduce myself - I am a CL4P-TP steward bot, but my friends call me Claptrap! Or they would, if any of them were still alive. Or had existed in the first place! Oh - I've got something for you." Claptrap handed the vault hunters four small boxes, roughly the size of their heads, with a small blue screen on them. "Here - take this ECHO communicator that I totally didn't loot from some of these corpses! It comes with a class-twelve heads-up display, complete with a minimap! Now – come, come, friend. Let's get you inside."

After the four vault hunters connected the ECHO devices to themselves through various wires, they found several new features appear. They synced up to the ECHO net, which lead to them gaining the ability to see various stats, such as their current health along with ammunition reserves and the world around them in the form of a small compass like map.

"Uhh, so, Mister Claptrap? Where exactly is this?" Maya asked the small robot the question as they hobbled along behind him through the snowstorm.

"This place is called Windshear Waste, and it is home to viscous creatures known as Bullymong. Fear not though minions, for I will protect you with all my might." Claptrap held himself with high power, despite being a small robot who had begun to rust.

The Vault Hunter's minimal concentration, spent on walking, was interrupted by a voice inside their heads.

"I'll explain everything soon, but know this – you're alive for a reason, and I... am here to help you." The four staggered upon hearing this, not knowing where the voice came from. They stumbled, but managed to get back up and on their way.

"HAHAHA, what a funny little voice, I LIKE IT!!" Salvador had a very outgoing personality, and was very much the type to shoot first, ask questions later.

"I am not too sure. It came from inside our heads. I'm on high alert." Zer0 spoke his slightly poetic haiku, which he spoke in exclusively. A shroud of mystery surrounded Zer0. No one knew where he came from, what he is, or even what his overall goals are.

Eventually, they come upon a rather large hill, almost like a small mountain, that contained a small wooden door.

"Well done! Your ability to walk short distances without dying will surely be Handsome Jack's downfall!" Claptrap's small remark was not appreciated by the vault hunters, who groaned lightly whilst standing in the freezing snowstorm. Claptrap walked up to a small blue circle embedded into the door, similar to his eye. The door scanned Claptrap for what seemed like an eternity "Aaaaaand open!" The door swung open, allowing the Vault Hunters in.