It had been some time since Twilight had originally told Axton and Gaige about the Gala, but since then, the rest of the vault hunters (both new and old) were brought up to speed on the situation in a more detailed and informative letter from Princess Celestia herself.
However, there was one… slight complication with preparing for the gala… and that was something Rarity had to handle personally. “Like I have said for a few times now, Brick. A tuxedo t-shirt does not qualify as dress clothes! If I am going to make you an outfit for the gala, I am not making just a tacky shirt for you.”
“NO, for the LAST time I am going in my DRESSY CLOTHES! AND IT IS NOT TACKY!!”
That was the first thing that, when the door opened, Gaige was greeted with as the sheer volume of Brick yelling almost caught her and Lilith by surprise. “What’s going on?” The Siren asked as Gaige was trying to clear out her ears and make sure that she wasn’t deaf.
“I’ve been trying to convince your friend here that a tuxedo t-shirt is not actually a tuxedo, but it seems like whatever I say goes through one ear and out the other.”
“Or into his ECHO spam folder.” Gaige sarcastically commented. “Still, I don’t see the reason why we need to wear clothes in our pony forms. You guys don’t normally wear clothes anywhere else around town.”
“It’s a formal party. Which would mean that you would have to wear formal clothes as well and not the ones you have now.” Rarity said… which did not sit well with Gaige.
“Oh no… I’m fine with a lot of things, but I draw a line when it comes to dresses. I haven’t even been to an event like this before.” The Mechromancer replied.
“You haven’t?” Lilith questioned. “I would’ve thought that since you lived up on Eden-5 and what not.”
“Yeah… sadly enough, the Marcie Holloway incident up there had me expelled from school and a wanted felon for just an accident.” Gaige paused, before saying the second half of her sentence. “If you call her being blown up into tiny pieces just by getting struck by Deathtrap an accident…”
“HELL YEAH, THATS WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT!!”
“You did what?” Rarity now questioned, hearing this statement from Gaige.
“It’s a long story…” Gaige insisted, trying to not talk about it so much… only for her to take a deep sigh and actually speak on the matter moments later. “Back home, I had a rival classmate that copied my designs on Deathtrap and bribed the judges at the science fair I was trying to win. But her shoving me after the competition lead to Deathtrap identifying her as a threat and…… you might have a feeling where this is going.”
“The whole… blowing up thing?” Rarity then asked.
“Yeah… fortunately, my dad was able to buy me a distraction for me to make my escape using a golf kart and a lot of gasoline and got me a ticket to Pandora… Ironically, it was the same train that Axton and the rest of the vault hunters were on when it was sabotaged by Jack a few months ago.” The Mechromancer summed up her story.
“Wow… Honestly, I didn’t expect that the story of you having to escape a planet would lead to how you met up with Axton and them.” Lilith then spoke up. “Besides, there’s not a lot to say about Brick and I for that matter.”
“Speaking of Axton…” Gaige then replied, shortly before the Commando himself walked through the room and was looking around all over the place.
“Ok, what the hell is Brick yelling about this time?” The Commando asked as he walked in.
“Rarity told him that his Tuxedo shirt was tacky and not actually formal clothes.” Lilith said to bring him up to speed.
“And she expected him to comply with that?” The answer to his question was seen when the unicorn was now holding Brick by her levitation spell in the air.
“If you would just be compliant, I can make you some actual clothes… same goes for Axton.” She added while trotting to the back while Brick was still floating in the air.
“Can you at least let me down?” Brick asked, while looking very uncomfortable.
“Rarity, I appreciate you for asking but no thanks I’m good.” Axton said.
“Oh no, I insist… I do this for my friends all the time. I can just add a few more for each of you on the side.” She said, bringing Brick down to one of her rooms in the back as they could hear her hard at work. “Now just hold still or-.”
“OW!! WHAT THE HELL?!” They all hear Brick shout from said room.
“I told you to hold still darling. The needles I’m using to sew your clothes together are very sharp-.” Rarity tried to calm him down… unsuccessfully.
“I TOLD YOU I DON’T NEED NEW CLOTHES! MINE ARE PERFECTLY FINE THE WAY THEY ARE!! AND THOSE NEEDLES F*CKING HURT!!!” That just had Gaige look at Lilith and Axton as she then posed a question.
]“Should I be amused that Rarity is trying to man handle Brick… or be worried that we might be next?” The Mechromancer asked.
“I think the latter would be the right one… However what are the odds we see Brick go rage mode?” The Commando responded.
“Unless there’s something cute and cuddly to calm him down, then…” Lilith said, just as she noticed a white cat happen to slip through the door that Rarity had taken Brick. “Wait… did anyone else see that cat?”
“Oh sorry, Opal. I didn’t notice you were in here.” They heard Rarity say… followed by something else a few moments later. “Well now… I think she likes you Brick.”
That even had Lilith surprised as she sighed for a moment. “Hunh… Never thought that Brick was into cats since he spent most of his time with Dusty until the Sheriff of Lynchwood did a number on him. Poor puppy.”
“Alright, as long as I can hold the cat, I will stand still. Sound good?” Brick soon said. In which Rarity agreed with as she got to work.
“Wow… That is… surprising… Rarity can now be added to the small list of people that found a way to calm Brick.” Gaige then commented. “Again… small list.”
“Very small… and that will soon mean we will be next.” Axton then sighed heavily. “Great that means I will be in a monkey suit, Grand.”
“More like a formal suit a stallion would wear,” Lilith corrected him. “The letter Twilight read to us did say that Princess Celestia wanted us to be in our pony forms so we don’t draw attention to ourselves… course, that doesn’t stop Brick or Mordecai sometimes, but you get the point.”
“That also means you’re getting a dress too. Along with Maya and I.” Gaige reminded her… which upon realizing that, did not suit well with the Siren.
“…… Well sh*t.”
“Yeah… Us and… oh sh*t… I forgot Tina as well.” The Mechromancer realized.
“I think Tina won’t mind that much, and for the record I am still calling it a monkey suit.”
“Yeah, just wait until she tries to get Krieg into a suit… If Brick was hard mode, then Krieg is like beyond that.” Gaige then replied to Axton’s comment.
“If she can manage that, I would honestly be impressed. And I mean with him keeping the shirt on.” The Commando then said.
“You mean getting it on him? Because Krieg doesn’t-.”
“PECS ON PECS!!!” All three of them heard from outside as they saw him with Tiny Tina and the Cutie Mark Crusaders riding piggyback.
“Well, time to find out if she can handle it.”
“Yeah… you go do that… I gotta trade some things out in my inventory really fast so… yeah.” Before Axton or Lilith could ask, Gaige was out of there rather quickly. Leaving both of them rather startled… and confused.
“Any reason why she would be in such a hurry?” Lilith asked the commando.
“Do you really need to ask that? I mean it should be somewhat obvious.” Axton replied in a flat tone. “And as much as I hate to say it, it would be easier to get this out of the way instead of pushing on the embarrassment even further.”
“Heh… I’m with you on that one… Though, I’m not sure if Mordecai would exactly be open to this. Matter of fact, Salvador.” She added on to what she was originally saying.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if Brick just dragged Mordecai here. But you are right about Salvador, who knows what he will do.” Axton then sighed. “How much longer until she’s done, I mean I haven’t been this anxious in a while.”
“Just a trim of this hair… one last stitch and WALA! Done!” They heard Rarity in the back say as it sounded like she was finishing up with Brick. “Now, I made it loose enough to where you can easily move around in it, but don’t be trying to yank it off or else you’ll tear the threads… Now, Brick… can you do me a favor and tell me about your friend Lilith. I’m trying to think of some ideas for her dress and need some… inspiration.”
“Hmm, well before she joined up with the other Vault Hunters after Jack attacked New Haven, she was known as the Firehawk. Do you think that could work?” Brick soon commented.
“That… really does! I’ve always been wanting to do a dress based off of a phoenix!! This is just MARVELOUS!!” Hearing Rarity though surprised both of the vault hunters in the waiting room because of one thing she said.
“Uh… how do you know about a phoenix?” Brick asked.
“Why Celestia has one named Philomena. Why do you ask, dear?” Now Lilith herself was a bit curious on her part as well.
“She has one as a pet? Seriously?!”
“Yep, everypony has some kind of pet. Twilight has an owl, Applejack has her dog Winowa, Pinkie Pie has her alligator Gummy, Rainbow Dash has her tortoise named Tank…” The Unicorn began to tell her as Axton and Lilith were walking over to where they were right now so Rarity could be ready for them. “I have Opal, which you are petting, and Fluttershy has her bunny named Angel.”
Brick then stopped petting Opal and set her down, before sighing deeply. “Why does that name have to be brought up now?” He said as he rubbed his chin.
“Oh… I’m sorry, did I somehow trouble you?” Rarity asked, trying to sound apologetic like she had done something wrong.
“It has nothing to do with you, just the name “Angel”, it brings up some bad memories is all.” Brick just said, before shaking his head. “Anyway, while I don’t normally like to admit it, you did a nice job on the suit.” before muttering under his breath “Even though I would much rather use my dressy clothes.”
“I heard that, Brick.” Lilith then commented, which had both of them looking back at Lilith and Axton as she spoke up. “Sorry, am I interrupting something? I kind of heard you guys talking about me and I was wondering what’s up.”
“Rarity here just needed inspiration for your dress, and I told her you were once known as the Firehawk.”
“Right… is she asking for a demonstration or is it just something to help spark some creativity?” She then asked. “Because we know that Zer0 gets creative by forming haiku’s with his regular speech.” It was then she noticed the Unicorn using her magic to go through multiple rolls of fabric, all of them in which demonstrated particular qualities similar to that of burning flames as the siren then realized what she meant. “Oh… Nevermind then.”
“Well I think it is safe to say who is next, so I will be outside waiting then.” Axton said as he walked away, awaiting his turn. Shortly before Gaige came back through the door a few moments later with another pony alongside her.
“Oh hey… I was coming back from the storage unit Mr. Torgue had set up a few days ago and Starlight was going to the boutique as well, so now we’re here.” Gaige said as the mare next to her said a brief ‘hello’ for a short moment. “I was wanting to add some things to my inventory that I picked up from when we went through Tannis’ training gauntlet sometime back.”
“And those were?”
“Something that would probably make Salvador jealous.” Gaige chuckled.
“Alright, well Brick just got done, so now it is Lilith's turn with Rarity.” Axton then informed her.
“So we have Lilith and you… followed by Starlight, since she still needed to get her dress done, and then me… I really wish that mine doesn’t turn out really… well… girly.” Gaige groaned for a moment as she looked around in order to keep her mind off things.
“I just hope this goes over fast, I mean the last time I was in a suit was when I got married, even if it was somewhat more military formal, I still hate the suits. I much rather prefer my current attire.” The Commando said. Which seemed to get the attention of Gaige and Starlight for a few moments.
Because it wasn’t going to be much longer until it was their turn to have Rarity prepare a dress for them… and from the way she handled Brick… Gaige was not sure whether to be relieved… or concerned for when it was her turn.
It had been some time since Rarity had begun designing the clothes for the vault hunters as well as Tiny Tina. It may have been… well… difficult at first given that she had to allow room for the pair of wings that both Tina and Mordecai had on hand as well as trying to get Krieg to cooperate, but nevertheless, she endeavoured and was… actually quite successful to say the least.
As in terms with suits, the seamstress was able to make them for Salvador, Zer0, Krieg and Axton along with Mordecai too. Each one with a different collared shirt on the inside to tell them apart from one another. Salvador and Mordecai had an orange collared shirt, Axton was green, Zer0 was gray and Krieg was bright red. She would’ve wanted to add some ties or bowties to top it all off, but the idea would just make the rest of the process a bit harder since she was unsure if she would have enough time… or fabric in order to make them.
As for Dresses, all she needed to do was make them for Lilith, Maya, Gaige, Tina and also Starlight since this was her first Galloping Gala. For Lilith, hers were based on what Brick had told the Seamstress about when she was once known by the bandits on Pandora as the Firehawk. Maya’s was different since unlike Lilith, used more than one element when it came to her powers. So Rarity was able to come up with a dress that reflected each of the specific elements that Maya would use not just in combat, but also with the weapons she would use. Starlight’s was easy since she did the color of her dress based on both her magic and also her cutie mark as well to match things up quite well.
Gaige and Tina were the trickier ones though. For the Mechromancer, Rarity had to come to a tough decision revolving around if she were to do her dress based on either her robot, Deathtrap… or her cutie mark. It was a tough decision, but Gaige decided to help move things along by having the colors for the dress itself be based on her school uniform so she wouldn’t have to take things overboard with the design and make things simple.
Yet, for Tina… well… that was what was currently being rather… difficult for her. Mostly because she couldn’t decide what colors she would want for her dress. Originally, she thought the same color of her clothes like Gaige, but then thought that a dress that resembled gunpowder and sticks of dynamite would be more badass than just a regular dress… that or she would have to do the dress for Princess Fluffy butt.
Not to mention that her other ideas were a dress based on either chocolate chip cookies or crumpets. “I want to have the dress make me look like a WALKING CRUMPOCALYPSE!!”
“Tina, you just can’t expect Rarity to-.”
“You were able to get your dress based off of a firebird, free lily, so I want it to be as BADASS as possible!” The 13 years old demolitionist snapped. Which in turn made the siren sigh a bit.
“Maybe you can do yours based off of your normal clothes like mine and then add to it?” Gaige then suggested.
“I… girl, you make a valid point.” This, came as a surprise to almost everyone. Tina had been rather indecisive for almost an hour and just with one small idea from Gaige, she now had solved something that could’ve been fixed way earlier. Meaning that Rarity would’ve had an extra hour in order to prepare it for her. “I’ll go with what she said.”
“Did it… really take you an hour just to decide what colors you wanted?” Lilith then questioned as she looked back at Tina with a raised eyebrow. Only for it to be utterly ignored as Tina was prancing around in place happily.
“You do you realize this is Tina we’re talking about, right?” Axton asked her.
“I get that, it’s just… normally when it comes to decisions, she either takes her time or makes her choice rather quickly. Never has she taken almost an hour in order to decide something before.” The Siren told the commando while she was still getting adjusted to both her pony form and the newly crafted dress.
“While true, I am just not surprised with something like this.” The Commando said as he then stared down at his suit in annoyance. “I just hope this will be the only time I wear this.”
“Come on now, wearing a suit isn’t that bad now… is it?” She then said, looking back around the room and also outside. “Oh hey look, Spike’s wearing a tuxedo jacket.”
“Uh… Why is he wearing a tux? I thought he wouldn’t want to dress up for something like this.”
“Perhaps he’s helping out with the festivities,” Gaige replied, looking to see him walking towards the boutique. “Matter of fact, why don’t you ask him yourself?”
“I guess.” Axton then walks out and meets up with Spike. “So Spike, what's up with the tux?”
“Ah!” He shouted for a moment, before shaking his head. “Sorry Axton. Didn’t quite recognize you with the suit on.”
“... I got nothing to say to that that doesn’t end with me punching something.” Axton mutters. “I got this suit from Rarity for the Gala, but why do you have one?”
“Oh, did Twilight not tell you? I’m coming along with you guys. Discord too… for some reason.” The Dragon shrugged before looking back at him.
“Alright, well after an hour, Tina finally has a design that Rarity will work with.”
“It took her an hour? That’s less than the amount of time it took for Rarity to come up with the designs for Twilight and them during their first time at the Gala.” Spike pointed out.
“Well the thing is, normally Tina would have made a decision a while ago, but she said she wanted a dress that was badass. And it wasn’t till Gaige pointed something out that she finally figured out what she wanted.” Axton clarified for him as the dragon began to understand what he was talking about.
“I see… Well, trust me on this, the gala sometimes seems to attract the weirdest shenanigans sometimes. Last time, Discord thought that a friend of Fluttershy’s was trying to take her away from him and… it’s a long and pretty weird story.” Spike replied. “One involving a Smooze, puppet dimensions and other random things only a chaos spirit would have knowledge about.”
“Well, that does sound weird, but considering I dealt with a lot of weird on Pandora. Though that is still weird.”
“Not as weird as when Athena told us about how she and a few others went inside Claptrap’s brain.” Lilith pointed out.
“Oh yeah, I remember!” Tina then spoke up. “The de-origin story!”
Spike just raised an eyebrow at that, but decided to keep it to himself when Gaige told him that it would be better for him not to ask in the first place. “Right… Well, just to let you guys know, the train for Canterlot will be leaving close to sundown so Twilight advises you that if you need to make any sort of preparations, to do so beforehand.”
“Thanks buddy, but I’m good to go right now.” Gaige informed him. “What about you, Axton?”
“Same here, all set to go.”
“Yeah, a lot of us are already ready ahead of schedule. Zer0 himself is even trying to meditate.” The Mechromancer pointed out as she pointed a hoof at where Zer0 was sitting as he was in a pony style lotus position. “Doing pretty well too from the looks of things.”
“Not surprised since it is him, I just wonder how long it took him to do so.” Axton commented on Zer0 and his meditation. All they could see from his forehead was the letters ‘thx’ while he continued to remain in that position.
“So I guess this means we’re almost ready then… any idea what you think the party is going to be like?” Gaige asked Axton for a moment.
“Since we have to dress up like this… Boring as f*ck is my guess.”
“Honestly, it depends on if they got a full bar or not,” Lilith then stated. “I know Mordecai’s not drinking anymore, but I know that Moxxi would think that at any party, someone’s bound to get thirsty… and no, I don’t mean it in that way if that was what you were going to ask.”
“What way?” Spike posed the question, causing Gaige to sigh a little.
“We’ll tell you when you’re older.”
It took a few hours to get everyone dressed up and ready to go to Canterlot as they were soon approaching the train station for the city. The ladies had their dresses, including Tiny Tina, and the guys all had their suits too. Yet… none of them were actually expecting who was going to be greeting them that evening.
“Greetings fair travelers-... Holy *bleep*! Minions!! Who knew that you were invited to this weird ass, but awesome party!” Yes… it was Claptrap… and judging from his appearance, it looked like the panels of the robot now resembled a tuxedo as he greeted everyone.
“And just when I thought we were going to have a calm evening…” Maya sighed, while Gaige agreed with the siren on what she said.
“Welp, if I am going to survive this evening with him, I need alcohol.” Axton commented, shortly before another one of the vault hunters soon agreed with him… in their own way of course.
“MOTHER’S MILK!”
“Uhh… What was that about?” Twilight asked, followed by Lilith asking the same thing as everyone got off of the train and began to walk towards Celestia’s castle.
“Around a few months ago, a friend of ours in Sanctuary named Moxxi was trying to get two lovers from rival families that really hated each other to get married so the war between them could end. However, when there was trouble in paradise, she wanted us to get the ingredients for a love potion by getting something new, something old, something borrowed and something gold. The old part happened to be old whiskey… and Krieg himself was doing the taste testing.” Maya then explained. Which, of course, had surprised the original three vault hunters since they didn’t quite exactly hear about this at all.
“That’s new… Moxxi never told us about it.”
“For good reason,” Salvador then spoke up. “Wedding day turned to wedding day massacre!”
“Salvador!!” Gaige snapped, shortly before the Gunzerker then spoke up as everypony else’s faces were either stunned beyond belief… or horrified.
“What? It’s true!”
“I want to hear all that happened, sounds like I missed a hell of a wedding!” Brick said shortly afterward.
“All that talk about a love potion reminds me of one that mah sis and her friends tried to use to get my brother to fall in love with their teacher… fortunately, they were able to reverse it.” Applejack said, before posing a question that really caught Axton and Gaige off guard. “What happened to the couple?”
“Uhhh… it was called a massacre for a reason.” Axton hesitantly said.
That single statement caused the color from Fluttershy’s face to disappear in a heartbeat. “Oh… my…”
“Really Axton?” Gaige then asked. “Maybe this is the reason why you don’t do so well with the ladies, Axton. You either scare them or your ego gets ahead of ya.”
“What, did you want me to just say we killed them after they drank that potion that caused them to go into a bloodthirsty rage?”
“That could’ve helped…” Twilight mentioned, having all eyes on her now. “What? I mean, with that, Axton says that they did it in self defense.”
“Well, I still missed out on something fun. Now, I think we should go “introduce” ourselves to these ponies.” Brick called out to the rest as he started to walk off.
“And I think we should stay with him just to make sure that his way of introductions… doesn’t involve punching them.” Mordecai then said as he and Lilith soon followed Brick inside while some of the other ponies soon went around the castle while Axton and Gaige mostly stayed with Starlight and Spike as they walked throughout the courtyard outside of Celestia’s castle.
“So Spike, what can expect from the other ponies here?” Axton asked to start a conversation.
“Well it depends… some of the nobles, like Fleur de Lis and Fancy Pants are fine. But others like Prince Blueblood… are stuck up jerks.”
“Seems like the ones I hate, and I would not be surprised if the ones like this Blueblood meet Brick. That would be a riot.” Axton finished with a smile.
“Yeah, he better be careful though. Despite his personality, he’s actually Celestia’s nephew.” Spike informed him. “One time though, Rarity really chewed him out for when he used her as a shield to protect himself when food was being thrown around everywhere… at least, that was what I was told.”
“Well him being related to Celestia won’t matter to him, though he is the type I really just want to give them a good kick in the balls, see if they can speak a few tones higher.”
“I would want to punch him with my metal arm and then see him trying to walk out of here afterwards.” Gaige chuckled in response
“Now that I would pay for, just to see him walk and his reaction.” Axton smiled wide at that thought.
“I… would have to agree. That does seem interesting… but I have never seen or heard of this Blueblood guy before-.” Starlight said… just as they saw a golden mane stallion race out of the room to dump his head in a fountain.
“ …… I betcha ten bucks if that was Blueblood and Maya or Lilith got to him first before we did.” Gaige then replied. “Is that him, Spike?”
“Yeah, that’s him.”
“Well, should we push him in or…” Axton said leaving the question open for suggestions.
“I don’t know… I kinda wanna watch and see what happens. Who knows if this is just a warning or not.” Gaige mentioned, which Starlight and Spike agreed on as they saw the prince have pieces of a burned mane and his clothes partially burned.
“I think that answers some questions, Lilith is not in a good mood right now.” Axton commented with a flat look on his face.
“Right… and everything seems a little boring right now, so I’ll excuse myself for a moment,” Gaige said as she trotted over to where the bar was on the other side of the room and then stated something. “Barkeep, do you happen to have any whiskey?”
The stallion in charge there looked back at Gaige, a little puzzled for a moment before he asked her something. “Aren’t you too young to be drinking, lady?”
Gaige’s answer… was an Unkempt Harold pointed at the barkeep’s face… followed by one of her own questions as she held the weapon with her magic. “Aren’t you too old to be asking stupid questions?”
Axton then walked over to the bar, while the barkeep was going cross-eyed and shaking in fear. “Better make that two, i'm having a somewhat boring time and need something to drink.”
“O-okay, what would you like?” He then asked, before Gaige then spoke up as she decided what she wanted.
“Just something light for me… for my friend here, give him something with a kick.” The barkeep nodded and trotted off, while Gaige put her weapon away as Axton looked back at her.
“Works for me, and cool it with the weapons a little. He didn’t deserve that… maybe.”
“Hey, I hate it when people try to use my age as an excuse to deny me something. I may be 16, but I act a hell of a lot older around you guys.” Gaige replied back to her, while Starlight was sitting to her left and asked for some water. Spike himself went to go check on the others while the three of them were taking a break and getting a drink.
Once the barkeep got back and served the drinks, Gaige and Axton used the chance to try to unwind a little while also starting up a conversation with Starlight. The three of them soon took the conversation outside, but over the course of it, have been noticing that many ponies have been moving indoors instead of staying out.
“I guess they don’t like the outdoors so much. Oh well more room for us.” the Commando said. Starlight originally laughed at that… but after a few moments, she noticed something that made her lose the grip on her drink and stare behind both vault hunters as her pupils began to shrink and her eyes widened.
“You okay, Glim?” Gaige asked, finishing her drink for a moment. However, Starlight was paralyzed with fear and only when the Mechromancer turned around could she see why.
“Oh son of a taint…” She said, looking at what was behind her. “Axton… We got trouble.”
“What kind of trouble… Sh*t.” Axton said as he turned around.
What was behind them was what looked the Guardians that Athena had described on her visit to Elpis. But there was a difference to them, for one their mask like face were more of a pony like design to them. Their bodies looked they had some fur to them, but the rest of the upper body were shaped similar to that of the guardians from Elpis… and then looked rather angry.
"W-what are those-?” Starlight asked, before Gaige turned to her.
“Starlight, get help-.” Those were the only words she said before the guardians went at both of them.
“Leave the pony alone, these two have what the master needs.” One of the Guardians said in a low, raspy voice.
“Woah woah woah! What the hell is their problem with me-!?” Gaige snapped, before one of the guardians lunged at her and knocked her backwards.
“Damn it all, try and fight back!” Axton snapped back as he tried to shoot the guardians coming after him with the Sandhawk.
“It would be easier if you didn’t fight back.” Another guardian chuckled, confident that they would take them away. Gaige thought of that line for a moment, and then got an idea as she did not fire off her weapons immediately like Axton was doing. Instead, she waited to draw hers out once the guardians thought that they got her.
Then, she brought our her little… surprise. “Eat lead, suckas!!” Digistructing from her hands was a red colored shotgun with a torgue manufactured barrel, but upon squeezing the trigger, it fired off multiple shotgun rounds continuously and at rates that would honestly make someone think she was using an assault rifle. Not before long was her focus on the guardian that was going after Axton instead of her. “Axton, you alright?!”
“Heh, here's your answer, Time to start Chewing them up!” Axton yelled out as he pulled out his two turrets… while as they fired at the guardian, one of them moved a hand up and slowed the bullets down and making them stop… before having them turn back around and aimed at Axton as they began to pick up speed.
“Oh come the F*CK ON!!” the Commando yelled, while being thankful he had the Sham on right now. However, the more shots that were fired from his turrets meant the more that were redirected back at him… which ultimately depleted his shield and left him vulnerable.
“I call hacks!!” Gaige shouted.
“God damn it all.” Axton coughed a little blood up as well. That was when Gaige noticed something and raced on over. Doing something that the commando did not expect and actually reclaiming his turrets as they reverted back to their case.
“Um, what did you do to my turrets?”
“I reverted them back to when you carried them,” She said, looking back at him. “If you haven’t noticed by now, the reason why your shield went down was because they were redirecting your turrets fire back at you. If you just put them away, then it’s no longer a problem since there would be nothing for the guardian to send back at you.”
“True, but that won’t stop them from attacking us directly.” Just as they said that, Axton felt himself get grabbed as he was taken away. However, as the guardian was leaving… and before Gaige could get a shot off… something else happened.
“None of that now. The master has something special planned for you.” A guardian said as it grabbed Gaige and carried her off.
“H-hey, lay off already-!!” She snapped, struggling to get some room as the guardians grip around her tightened and made it harder for her to switch weapons.
Soon enough a gunshot was heard and the Guardian that was holding Gaige fell over.
“Don’t worry now Vault Hunter, I got you covered.” An all too familiar voice said to her. The mechromancer was still trying to process what exactly happened… or what exactly was going on. But it was only when she got her head back in the game and remembered about Axton that she heard him say something. Something that… not only caught her off guard, but also made her wonder how such a thing was possible.
Axton heard the gunshot from behind him but was too far away to see who it was.
“Would you let go of me dammit!” Axton continued to struggle before another gunshot was heard and he dropped to the ground. Shaking his head he got up and noticed he was surrounded by guardians. He quickly got out his shotgun before something else happened. A turret formed around him with a healing field and shield. One that he has seen before.
“Keep fighting Vault Hunter.” A voice calls out next to him.
Axton simply smirked when he saw who it is. “Wasn’t planning on stopping, Roland.”