given the relatively small wall to the bandit camp from the gas station there was only enough time for a basic introduction and overview of each others skills.
"So your entire bloody skeleton is made of starship grade metal?" Was the flabbergasted response to my introduction from Zane.
"Yeah along with these" I popped my claws to show them and Fl4k seemed quite interested in them along with my supposed hyper regeneration. "You are a being supposedly unable to find its way into deaths embrace, I wish to know if this is true" so other than a death threat from the beast master we continued our trek.
The bandit base was incredibly easy to find as it was covered in blood and skulls along with a massive sigh reading 'the children of the vault' and other such nonsense.
"What do ya reckon is the chance the bot blows this whole operation" I got a yes from all of them as we watch claptrap go up to the main gate and demand the total surrender of the bandits.
I made sure I stab my claws into the ground when the magnet was activated so as to not end up a hostage like claptrap, when the gate was ripped open by the magnet and I was sure I wouldn't be sucked up by it I rushed to catch up to the vault hunters that had already entered the compound.
Ducking under some bullets and rolling out of the way of a exploding barrel as I starts to do as it name suggests I sprinted up to a random marauder to stab through his face and use his body as a shield to avoid being hit, grabbing a card from my deck and after checking my target to see the other VH's weren't in the blast radius I charged the card and slung it at the head of a phycho ducked behind cover.
The card detonated with a satisfying boom and a shower of liquid phycho so I pulled my claws out of the bullet riddled human shield and charged at the next nearest enemy.
I was interrupted in my charge by a spray of bullets spreading my body and getting stuck after smashing into my skeleton, pushing the bullets out was actually more painful than them entering but I ignored it for now to bamf behind the bandit and stab through the back of his head and start charging his 'entre god damn skeleton' (invincible reference) and chucking the cadaver bomb at a group of the bastards ducked behind cover.
Taking a moment to observe the other vault hunters I see Moze liquefying bandits with her iron bear and Amara turning people inside out from how hard she's punching them, Zane I can see with a Guinness in his hand like any Irishman should as he telefrags some poor bloke with his digi-clone while fl4k goes about his killings like a killing machine (hehe) shredding the bandits with his and his jabbers gunfire, mauling them with his skag and his spider ant performing sublimation on people (turning something from a solid strait to a gas, basically turning them to mist).
Nodding at them being able to take care of themselves I bamf up to the control mechanism of the crane to release claptrap now, after doing so I turn and make my way inside the arena you'd fight shiv in and sure enough the big man himself is waiting for me.
Making sure I don't fuck this up I grab three cards and charge them as much a possible as I make my way directly above him, when I'm sure I am I grab the railing and vault over to drop my considerable weight on his head while also throwing the charged cards as I fall.
With a boom of me smashing into him from above and bamfing back up to the railing I hear the second, third and forth booms of my cards detonating against his back and turning him from a person into a distant memory, so I grab the rail and yeet myself off the catwalk to land heavily next to said cadaver to see if he dropped anything.
I search shiv and notice that gunfight outside had ended along with the doors opening and the vault hunters assembled like they were about to fight a boss, "sorry for the disappointment but I already killed the guy" the response to my statement was groans and grumbles about kill stealer so I grabbed what I had found (a nice SMG and a grenade mod, I wonder if I can charge a grenade?) and made my way back out passed the whining VH's to help claptrap back up.
"Get up" I say as I kick the bot to wake it up, "I am now awake" was the annoyingly chippy answer from the bane of my existence, "call the commander claptrap" I try to remind the bot of his only real reason for being here.
"Oh yeah, I can do that" I back up and start to wonder as the vault hunters get ready to meet the FireHawk, I pay them no mind and instead start grabbing small bits of trash or rubble and charging them before seeing if I can skip them by having a delayed detonation.
I spent a minute doing this before Zane comes up, "the boss lady was asking who we are and was wondering who the wacko setting of explosives over here was" I nod and follow him back over to Lilith.
"Names Gabriel, I'm a mutant with a starship grade metal skeleton and claws, I can charge objects with kinetic energy to make them detonate on impact and also the ability to teleport to anywhere I can see" I get the introduction out of the way as the other seem to have already done so before I walk to the back of the group.
"Alright killers, the reason why you were given the mission to clear out this camp was because apparently this bandit clan managed to find the vault key" we follow after her as she starts making her way to the big locked door behind where I killed shiv.
I stop paying the woman any attention as I already know the full prologue of borderlands 3 off by heart already and I don't really feel like listening to it all over again.