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Deadshot
Chapter 20
-Harry-
Reappearing in Sanctuary, and pointedly ignoring the shouts from several of the rescued civilians screaming 'Worship the Vault Hunters!', Harry led the way to the Raiders Headquarters. Inside, he found Roland, Lilith, Maya, and Krieg consoling some of the rescued civilians who weren't outside trying to form a cult.
"T-they got in through the Fast Travel Network." The shaken civilian hugged themselves, "How the hell did Bandits get in here?!"
"I don't know." Roland frowned, "But I can find out." The large ex-Atlas soldier nodded to Tannis who rapidly began typing something into a computer "Little known fact but Sanctuary's Fast Travel Network works differently from others. It doesn't have a singular password," as he spoke, Tannis' monitors lit up with lines and liens of names and passwords "but one for each person."
"Meaning if they got their hands on someone's password…" Harry trailed off, realizing what that meant.
"You'd know who sold us to them!" the rescued civilian's eyes widened before they realized the rapidly growing tension.
"Did you say…'sold'?" Maya demanded, her and Lilith's tattoos flaring angrily.
"Y-yes." The civilian gulped, "We heard the cultists paying someone for the password before we were knocked out, but we couldn't see or hear who it was."
"Got it!" Tannis announced "A half dozen instances of 'Crazy Earl's password being used both ways along with the people Lilith brought back."
"That son of a Bitch!" Lilith snarled, "Maya, think you can use your Phase Lock to rip that bunker door out?"
"Can I do it? Yes. Can I do it without bringing down the building? No." Maya scowled, clearly not happy at her current level of control.
"I can get it open." Harry clenched his fist, "Just don't ask me how."
Roland and Lilith shared a wary glance at that statement but nodded, the group following behind as Harry moved swiftly to Earl's Door, making sure not to knock like most would when they wanted to buy the digistruct storage upgrades that the insane asshole had managed to get a monopoly on. "Alohom*ora." He whispered, waving an overdesigned gizmo that in all honestly didn't actually do anything as a distraction, the door's locks and latches flying open swiftly.
"Krieg, get him!" Maya's voice filled the alleyway, the group following him noticing the locks popping open from what he'd done.
"STRIP THE FLESH!" the massive psycho roared, charging in as the door was thrown open.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!" Crazy Earl's panicked scream carried through Sanctuary "Skrappy! Get him Skrappy! Get him! Save meeee! SKRAPPYYYYYYYYYYY!"
"I AM THE ONE WHO KNOCKS!" Krieg shouted, loud gunfire being audible from outside as Harry and the others ran in, to back up Krieg.
Inside they saw a few bullets on the ground, flattened on impact with Krieg's shield. They saw stacks and stacks of ammo and storage deck upgrades. They saw a new looking box of Iridium ingots with the Firehawk Cult's emblem on the side. And they saw Krieg, swinging Crazy Earl by the ankle against every surface he could find.
"PRETTY LADY IS ANGRY!" Krieg declared as he continued to slam around Earl "SO I AM RAGE!"
"That's enough Krieg." Roland's voice was firm as Krieg paused, glancing over his shoulder at the leader of the Raiders, the large crowd that had gathered all wondering why he was stopping this, "We need to question him, see if we can find out what all he's done besides this incident. Athena, you mind handling the interrogation?"
"Gladly?" Athena's smirk was vicious enough that everyone could tell right away that Earl would not be getting off easy.
"Lilith, could you take a few raiders and start going through whatever Earl had stashed in here?" Roland looked at the red-haired siren "I don't want any more surprises."
"On it." Lilith nodded, Maya, Krieg, and a few soldiers moving into the crazy bastard's now open bunker.
"As for you lot, I have a request." Roland led the group back to the Headquarters upper floor.
"You said you had a request for us?" Harry stood across from Roland once they were in the command center, "Does it have something to do with the key?"
"Not exactly." Roland shook his head, "My main spy is still looking for where it is. No, this is prep work. Whether it's in some sort of Bunker or if it's being transported, we'll likely need some quality demolitions to get to it. I have an old friend out in Tundra Express who is the most gifted explosives expert on Pandora. I want you all to go help her out, clear out the local threats and get her supplies. After that you'll have some leave time until we find the Key so you can stay there for a bit or head back, your call."
"We'll head out." Harry nodded, shaking the soldier's hand as the group set out.
Stepping into the frigid cave Roland had given them decorations to, Harry and the others stopped as they saw a blonde girl, maybe Thirteen, skipping around a tied-up bandit covered in explosives. "All around the Sta-actus Plant, the stalker chased the bandit. The stalker thought 'twas all in fun – POP!" the girl jumped on a detonator as the bandit blew apart "Goes the Bandit!"
"…That is a scary kid." Gaige was the only one to find words right away, the rest of them just nodding along with her.
"Oh haiiiii!" the girl saw them and waved happily, "You're the ones Roland said would be coming by, right?"
"Yeah, he said we'd need your help in an upcoming job and to do what we could to clear out the area and get you what supplies you need." Harry nodded.
"Sounds good, good, gooooood!" the blonde grinned "Names Tina. Now let's see," she began counting things off on her fingers "There's a bandit camp nearby where they have some badonkadonks that they stole from me. There are a few important guests for my Tea Party that are missing. Oh! And there's an Iridium mine being run by the bandits who sell the Iridium to Hyperion."
"We can handle those." Harry nodded, recognizing the look in Tina's eyes when she mentioned a 'tea party' and knew it wasn't anywhere as innocent as it sounded.
"Sweeeeeet!" Tina fist pumped "After that if you guys stick around, we can play the most awesomest game EVER! Bunkers and Badasses!"
"Hell yeah!" Gaige fist pumped "Harry and I wanted to get into that back home, but we couldn't find any groups willing to let us in. f*cking Marcie." He just pat his sister's shoulder consolingly.
"Alright you lot, let's get these jobs handled, then we can chill for a bit." Harry grinned at Gaige, Max, and Robo Angel who all nodded back eagerly, looking forward to a bit of fun without anyrealdanger to unwind.
"Alright guys, looks like it's time for a good old fashioned train robbery." Lilith's voice over the echo had an audible smirk in it as the group grinned, grabbing the explosives from the mining camp. Even from the mine they could see the Hyperion train station run by bandits who used the area to deposit the finds for cash, ripe for robbing.
"Won't whoever's running the train not stop if they see us or notice the bandits are gone?" Gaige frowned, tucking the dynamite into her bag.
"No, Hyperion doesn't trust the bandits not to try anything if they sent workers on the train. That or Jack doesn't trust his workers not to pocket the cash themselves and just toss the Bandits a few bottles of Booze instead." Lilith denied "Point is, the train is fully automated."
"Oh, well in that case." Harry grinned and leapt from the cliff top, summoning out his Iron Dragon mech as it landed with a boom "We don't need to be sneaky." Hearing Angel jump down onto the mounted turret, he charged, barreling through the barricade by the train station as Gaige rode in on Deathtrap and Max on Dukino.
"Let's kick some ass!" Max gave a wild grin as they started firing at the startled bandits, not giving them a second to recover or plan.
"Robbing trains huh?" he heard Angel whisper into his private Echo line "I did always want myself a bad boy." He wassoglad that being inside the mech hid his blush from everybody.
-Omake-
"Aaaawww yeah, make it rain!" Gaige threw her head back to bask in the literal rain of cash from the blown-up train cars, the bandits at the station all currently dead.
"Good work you lot." Lilith chuckled at Gaige's exuberance "Go handle Tina's other jobs then have some fun. We'll call you if anything comes up."
"Thanks Lil!" Harry nodded as the line cut. He'd barely had time to pick up a couple stacks of cash before his private Echo beeped, alerting him of new messages, a glance down showing two new attachments…and Angel was smirking.
They were both comics, clearly made by Angel herself. One showed a train robbing desperado Harry stealing a southern belle Angel from the train and 'having his way with his blunder'. The other hadAngelrobbing the train, snagging him as a hostage, and how he might 'get himself out of it'.
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