After defeating Handsome Jack, the Crimson Raiders on the floating town of Sanctuary wanted to learn what really happened to the Jack, before he become a crazy murderous psychopath. Mordecai and Brick kidnap another Vault Hunter by the name of Athena to get some answer.

Mac, Maya and Gaige was currently walking towards where the entrance to Sanctuary should be, which it wasn’t anymore considering that Sanctuary was now a floating town.

“I can’t wait to meet the Vault Hunter that Brick and Mordecai brought in, I heard that she put up one hell of fight.” Said Gaige the Mechromancer.

“You sound exciting to meet this Vault Hunter.” Said Maya the Siren.

“She’s been too the moon for fuck sake, of course I want to meet here.”

Mac was about say something when he saw Brick and Mordecai walking towards them, Brick was leaning on Mordecai’s shoulder. It looked like they had taken a beating. “What happened to you two?” He asked them.

“We got beaten up by two girls.” Mordecai told them as they stop.

That made Gaige laugh. “Oh man, I knew that you two got beaten up by one girl, but two? That’s hilarious.” She then started to laugh even more. Even Mac and Maya couldn’t help but contain their laughter, they didn’t laugh as much as Gaige, but you could hear them.

“It’s not funny.” Said Brick in a humiliated tone.

Gaige didn’t listen to them she was now laughing so hard that she had fallen on her back, she was rolling around her back.

Mordecai and Brick started to walk again. “Come on Brick, let’s het to Zed and get patch up.” They really didn’t want to go the Zed, but considering he was the only doctor in Sanctuary, they didn’t have a much of a choice. They also wanted to get away from Gaige.

When they were gone, Gaige had finally managed to calm down. She, Maya and Mac continued towards where Lilith had the Vault Hunter knows as Athena held capture.

Once they got there, they saw a woman with a hood tied up to a pol with four Crimson Raiders pointing guns at her. When Athena saw Mac, she couldn’t help but smile at him. Mac wonder why.

Then Lilith said something. “Now, I will ask you this only once… why?”

Then Athena stared to tell her story. “That is a long story.” They started to listen to her. “After the fall of General Knoxx, I wandered Pandora as a hired gun. One day, I received a job offer from a low level Hyperion programmer. ‘Come to the moon,’ it said. ‘Hunt a Vault be a hero.’ I didn’t trust Hyperion, but I was too hungry to pass up a paying job.”

“And what did you find?” Lilith asked her.

“Violence. Insanity. And… A hero.”

Gaige leaned towards Mac and Maya. “Is she talking about the same Handsome Jack that tried to kill us several times?” She asked the pony and Siren, they both nodded. “Ok, that’s weird.” They agreed on what the Mechromancer said.

“What about the others that help you? Who was the other Vault Hunters?” Asked Lilith.

“It was me, Wilhelm, Nisha, your friend Claptrap and a pony named Tempest Shadow.”

Everyone was speechless when they heard the last Vault Hunter, especially Mac. He thought that he was the only pony on Pandora, not anymore.

“Another pony? I’m not the only one?” He said in a whispering tone. He then started to walk towards Athena with anger in his eyes. “Tell me what you know.” He said in a threating tone.

He didn’t get very far Lilith block his way. “Easy there Mac, let’s hear her story first.”

“Hear her story? I just found out that’s another pony on Pandora before me and you are telling me that I have to listen to her story? I am not going to do that I am going to beat it out of her.”

Athena couldn’t help but smile. “Then you should beat up Lilith too, she was there. She also help Handsome Jack.”

That made Lilith freeze, she didn’t expect Athena to say that. Mac looked at his friend. “Tell me she is lying, tell me that you didn’t help Jack.” Lilith didn’t say anything. “TELL ME.” He shouted at her.

“Yes, it’s true I help Jack and you aren’t the first pony I have seen on Pandora. Tempest was the first one.”

Mac wasn’t sure how to feel right now, he had been lied to and if there’s one thing he hate more than anything, that was been lied to. “I knew you gave me weird look when we first meet, it was like you weren’t surprised to see me at all.” Lilith looked down on the ground. “And the reason is that I was not the first pony you had seen.”

“Yes, it’s all true.”

“Then why did you lie to me?” Lilith tried to say something, but no words came out. “WHY DID YOU LIE TO ME.” He shouted at her.

“BECAUSE SHE IS DEAD.” She shouted back at him. That shock Mac. “Because she is dead, Jack killed her.” Mac was in utter shock he didn’t want to hear those words.

Then they heard laughter from Athena, they looked at her. “Is that you heard? Jack didn’t kill Tempest she is still alive.”

That just confused everyone. “But Jack told me that he killed her.” Said Lilith not understanding what was going on.

“And you believe him? This is what really happened.” Then Athena started to tell her story.

Athena had just entered the rocket that was going to take her to Helios, she could see a CL4P-TP united, a woman with a hat that looked like a sheriff, an elderly man who had a metallic eye. What surprised her the most was the fourth Vault Hunter, a female anthropomorphics pony with purple fur, blood red hair and tail? She had scar on her right her eye and her horn was missing. She was wearing black pants, a purple t-shirt with a black leather jacket.

The pony saw that Athena was looking at her. “What? Are you looking for a fight?” The pony asked Athena. Athena shock her head. “Good, I am here for the money not to make friends.” Athena just nodded and walked to her seat.

Athena was sitting in front with the man, the CL4P-TP united was sitting behind here and the sheriff was to the right of the CL4P-TP. The pony was sitting alone behind the rest.

As soon as Athena sat down, they heard Jack in the speakers. “Buckle up kiddos, you are going for the ride of your life.” Then the door to the rocket closed, there was no turning back now.

The pony looked at her seat. “We can’t ‘buckle up,’ we don’t have…” that was all she could say at the rocket started to move and she was pushed back in her seat.

As the rocket took off, a bunch of bandit and psychos drove up the side of the rocket with their cars. They then fired grappling hooks with launchers, once they were attach to it the swung over to the rocket, the they started to climb up. One bandit was hit in the head by a barrel that was launched by one of the cars, he fell of the rocket. Once the bandits had climb up, they opened some hatches and managed to clime inside just before the rocket launched into the atmosphere.

Inside the rocket, the pony had enough trouble not throwing up. “This is insane.”

“It may be insane, but this is the only way of Pandora.” Said the sheriff in a calm tone.

As they entered space, they all heard something landed behind them. It was bandits. “Just fucking great.” Said the pony.

One of them took out a sawblade and started to swing around with it, he then charge the Vault Hunters. That made the elderly man jump into action, he jump into the air and fired a few shout of his shout gun, he then landed on the bandit and showed the blade into the bandit.

Wilhelm as the Enforcer.

Then the bandit took out their weapons and started to fire, that made Athena jump over Wilhelm, she landed in front of him and activate her shield on her right wrist, which stopped the bullets. She the threw her shield at the bandits, some of the bandits managed to doge the shield but not the last one, he was hit. The shield then flew back to its owner.

Athena as the Gladiator.

Then the woman with the hat step forward, she took out two guns and started to shoot the bandits and killing some of them.

Nisha as the Lawbringer.

Then one of the bandits ran into the CL4P-TP united, then a disco ball appeared above the robot head and he started to dance. He then pulled out a wand and he had a wizard het on its head, then he pulled out a sniper rifle and shot the bandit.

Claptrap as a mistake.

Then it was only two bandit left, but before anyone could do anything, they were lifted up by purple energy. He Vault hunters looked behind them and saw that it was the pony and her hands was glowing, the pony then threw both bandit into the wall, killing them.

Tempest Shadow as the pony.

Athena. “If the Lost Legion hadn’t ambushed Helios station… everything might have gone a different way.”

While the Vault Hunters was fighting the bandits, a giant space ship fire a missile toward the rocket they were in. Then the light started to flash red and they all knew what was going to happened, they were going to crash.

Author's Note

Here we go again.