“Great, another vault hunter, handsome Jack has been busy.” Said a metallic voice.

‘Handsome Jack? That guy that wanted me dead?’ The Vault Hunter then felt the cold wind. ‘Am I lying in the snow?’

Claptrap was busy digging through the remains of the train that had exploded thanks to a man called Handsome Jack, while digging he could hear a loud groan. Claptrap looked in the direction of the groan and boy was he happy.

“Wait a minute, you’re not dead! YES! Now I can get off this glacier! Claptrap, your metaphorical ship has finally come in!”

‘What an annoying robot.’ The vault hunter thought. ‘How come I am not dead?’ The vault hunter asked himself. The vault hunter in question wasn’t a human, he was a pony. He had red fur with blond hair and tail, he was wearing blue pants, a with t-shirt and a brown coat that reached just down of his ass. The pony managed to sit up. “My head.” He rubbed his head and notice that something was missing, he looked up. “My hat, where’s my hat?” He started to look around after it.

“Your hat? I didn’t see any hat.” Said Claptrap.

The pony then stood up, he was way higher the Claptrap, he then grabbed the robot and lifted it up to his face. “Listen to me you trash can, my father gave me a hat on my tenth birthday, if you don’t want me to rib out your circuits, you are going to help me look for it. Got it?” The pony said in a threatening tone.

Claptrap saluted. “Sir, yes sir.” The pony nodded and dropped the robot down with a thump. It didn’t take long before Claptrap managed to find the hat, it was lying not far from them, it was a brown Stetson hat. The hunter placed the hat on his head. “Now that we have found your hat, let me introduce myself. I am a CL4P-TP steward bot, but my friends calls 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!” The pony just stared at the robot knows as Claptrap, just wondering what was wrong with it. Claptrap then picked up something from the snow. “Here! Take this ECHO communicator that I TOTALLY didn’t loot from one of these corpses. It comes with a class-12 heads up display complete with a mini map! Now, come friend. Let’s get you inside.”

The pony wasn’t sure if he should take the ECHO device, he did eventually. He didn’t have one himself. “Thanks.” The hunter place the ECHO device in his hips and immediately he could see a map and how much life he had left? He just shrugged it off. He then place the earpiece in his ear.

The Claptrap started move and the hunter followed him. “Man, this is GREAT! Now that I’ve met a mighty Vault Hunter, I can finally join the resistance in Sanctuary, take vengeance against Jack for killing my product line, and repair my central processor so I stop thinking out loud! I wonder what it’s like to have a belly button.”

The hunter couldn’t help but question what the robot just said. ‘He wants to have a belly button, what’s wrong with this robot?’ As the hunter walked, he could fell the could. ‘Dame it’s cold, I must have landed in the cold part of Pandora, fucking Jack.’ The Vault hunter didn’t exactly want to follow the robot but at this point, he didn’t have any other option and besides, it looked like Claptrap knew where he was going.

As he was walking, a female human appeared in front of his face. “I’ll explain everything soon, but know this, you are alive for a reason, and I am here to help you.” Then she disappeared. “What was that?” He asked no one in particular.

“Did you say something?”

The pony saw that Claptrap was staring at him. “I just saw a woman she was right in front of me.”

“I didn’t see anything, maybe you are delusional thanks to the cold. I wouldn’t know considering I can’t feel the cold.”

The robot had a point, he was freezing. Claptrap started to move again, the pony wrapped his arms around himself to try and get some war, he followed the robot.

It didn’t take them long before they arrived at something that looked like a house. The hunter could see a sign that said, ‘I see you’ and ‘welcome.’

“Well done! Your ability to walk short distances without dying will be Handsome Jack downfall!” Claptrap said while waiting near the sign.

“That’s good and all but can we talk inside? I am freezing.” The hunter said while walking towards the robot.

“Sure, just let me get the door. Oh, I never got your name.”

The hunter couldn't help but frown. ‘He could at least wait until we are inside to ask me that.’ The hunter decided to answer Claptrap. “It’s Big Macintosh, just call me Mac.”

Claptrap but a hand under his ‘chin.’ “Nah, I am going to call you minion.” Said Claptrap as he rolled towards the door.

Mac just stood there. “Wait, that’s not my name.” But Claptrap wasn’t listing at all.

When Claptrap reached the door. “Aaaaaand open!” then a blue beam scanned him. “Just a little added security. Gotta keep those Bullymongs at bay or they’ll rip your eyes out!”

Mac swallowed a lump he had in his throat when he heard that. “That doesn’t sound very pleasant.”

The door opened the they both went in. Once inside, Mac could see many other different CL4P-TP robots, just laying around. Once they got to the living room, it looked like one. Mac saw one thing he was glad to see, fire. Somehow Claptrap had managed to make fire and it was good.

Claptrap rolled over to the fireplace and started to poke it, he then turned around and faced Mac. “Sorry about the mess! Everything Jack’s kills, he dumps here, bandits, Vault hunter, CL4P-TP units… if I sound pleased about this, it’s only because my programmers made this my default tone of voice! I am actually quite depressed!”

Mac looked around the room, he could see what Claptrap was talking about. “I can see why you are depressed. You mentioned Bullymong, what’s that?” He asked Claptrap.

“They are the creatures that lives around here, and they are very dangerous, especially this Bullymong named Knuckle Dragger, he kills everyone I know! Anyhow, I keep a pistole in the cabinet over there for emergencies, but in HERE, we should be pretty safe!”

Somehow, Mac didn’t believe a word he was saying, it was a freaking hole in the celling for fuck sake. And mac was right. Then he heard a roar and he saw Claptrap trying to protect himself by hiding? Then Mac saw a giant four arm beast coming from the hole in the celling, the beast jump down and grabbed Claptrap, jump up the furnace and managed to rip Claptrap’s eyes out. It then disappeared.

Mac saw the whole thing and he wanted to help the robot, but he was frozen by fear, he didn’t think it would beast on Pandora that was twice his size. He was pretty big for an earth pony, but the beast was just so much bigger than himself. He then watch as Claptrap fell on the floor thanks to the lack of an eye. “The gun! The gun in the cabinet!” Claptrap said in a ‘weak’ tone. Somehow, Mac knew that the robot was faking it all.

That didn’t matter now, Mac looked to his right and saw the cabinet that Claptrap was talking about. He ran towards it and opened it, inside was a handgun. Mac picked it up and cocked it a few times to make sure that the gun was working, it was superlight working good, Claptrap must have maintained it. Mac aimed the gun towards the wall to get a feel of it, this was not the first time he had just a gun. On the train, he and the rest of the vault hunters had been ambushed by some Hyberion robots and soldiers, they managed to kill them fast but unfortunately, Mac lost his guns when the train explode, that included his favourite shotgun.

As soon as he got the gun, the woman appeared in front of him again. “Once upon a time, four Vault Hunters changed Pandora forever. But their time has passed, thanks to Handsome Jack, Pandora needs a new hero. I know that hero is you.” She told him.

“Who are you?” Mac asked the mysterious woman, but she didn’t answer him.

Mac then heard someone crashing into something behind him, it was Claptrap running into a wall. “Apart from the excruciating pain, this is Great! I’ve been waiting for a mighty Vault Hunter to reach Sanctuary! I will be your wise leader and YOU shall be my fearsome minion! Ahahah”

Mac wasn’t listing to the crazy robot, eh busy finding ammo and think about what the woman said. She called him a hero Mac wasn’t a hero, sure he had saved Equestria a few times but he never considering himself a hero, that was Dusk Shine’s job, not his.

When Mac was finished gathering ammo and some help packs, he saw that Claptrap ha somehow managed to open a door, which was weird considering he was blind.

Then they were in another room with some more ammo, which he didn’t need. Mac decided to take some money that Claptrap had lying around, something told him that the robot didn’t need it.

“Great! Just let me get this door open and we’ll hunt ourselves a Bullymong.” Claptrap managed to roll over to a control panel, he the opened the door which surprised Mac. “Onward, seeing-eye minion! Let me know if I’m gonna run into anything.” Claptrap told Mac while he exit his own house.

Big Mac took a deep breath. “Time to hunt a Bullymong.” He then walked after Claptrap.

Author's Note

I hope you all enjoyed the first chapter to my new story and I hope that you all will continue reading.