Based on a Role Play experienced on Shamchat. This story is an AU that takes place outside the events of the game. Shortly after Rhys gets mixed up with the fake vault key, he gets separated from his friends and lost in the harsh desert of Pandora. Rhys had almost not chance of surviving before a mysterious stranger passing by found him and saved him, and took him back to the nearby town. Rhys is grateful and surprised that he didn't kill Rhys on the spot for being a part of Hyperion. The man ended up asking a lot of questions about Hyperion, seeming almost interested, as if he was once there. Rhys notes how things have been since Handsome Jack died, and oddly, this stranger sounds almost exactly like him....