Equestria's Vault

by Demonic Lemon

Prologue

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Oh so, you're here to read another fanfiction? One where the character/protagonist(s) gets transported to Equestria to start their journey of finding true love & friendship while overcoming their own problems while helping save Equestria? Well if not then too bad it ain't gonna be like that over cliched stuff.

Our story begins when the Vault Hunter is on a mission to retrieve or destroy what ever is inside the Vault along with his companion/friend CL4P-TP after the fall of The Maliwan Corporation. But CL4P-TP is now entirely different (much to the dismay of mostly everyone back at Sanctuary lll). Different how? You might ask. Well,

1) He no longer has the boxy, trapieziodal body.
2) Can walk on stairs, yes you read it right WALK.
3) Has a humaniod shape as well being over 6 feet tall.

All thanks to the new Vault Hunter that joined the group of the second generation to help bring down the Tyranny of Handsome Jack had on Pandora when he was first transported here. But enough of that, now let's get on with the story.


Planet:??? Current Location: Below the moons surface.

Inside the Vault, CL4P-TP giving his partner/friend cover fire by taking out the Eridian Guards & helping him take out the Vault Monster every so often.

"Keep aiming for it's eyes! It's about to go down!"

"I can't! I'm being pinned down by these fucking assholes! ARRGGHHHH!!!"

Things weren't going in their favor but then again does anything really? They were soon thrown back when it slammed its palm onto the floor releasing a huge electric shock depleting their shields. "God damnit!!" getting angry he, along with CL4P-TP, threw several Dahl slagging sticky longbow bouncing betties to increase the amount of damage being unleashed upon the Guardians. Switching from his Bitch SMG to Norfleet he shot towards CL4P-TP. The Norfleet, one of the most powerful Rocket Launchers ever made, it even outperforms the Torgue Legendary rocket launcher! (Nukem). Doesn't matter if you're hiding behind cover, full shield & health, or you have an entire platoon of armed personal you are fucked if you get hit with plasma orbs. It's like essentially the BFG from the DOOM franchise. Utilizing E-tech that was manufactured & sold by the Hyperion Corporation when the Vault opened on Pandora every 200 years. Upon firing the Norfleet, it shot 3 projectiles towards CL4P-TP, one of the orbs flew over completely missing but the other two hit their intended targets. Upon contact the orbs disintegrated the Guardians to nothing but a pile of ash the others near by although weren't out right killed were set on fire due to them being slagged by the bouncing betties. However, "Nnnggghhh!" It sets the wielder on fire or whatever elemental effect it has, even if they aren't in the blast zone or hit anything.

Seeing that he is now free, they both fire every single bullet, rocket, grenade at the Vault Monster. It's overwhelmed by the hell storm of projectiles it desperately tries to cover it's self to lessen the damage. It loses its arms, face, & life in the process. As it falls over in pain mumbling something in an unknown language, probably Eridian, they begin to pick off the remaining Eridian Guardians, once the Vault Monster slams down face first on the ground the monster gives a shout with its last breath before sinking into floor.

"Is it over?"
To answer that question the ground began to ripple, then an explosion occurs in the middle of the area (Eridium, moonstones, weapons, ammunition, shields, & Relics) making it rain loot.

"NOW it's over."

They begin to walk around picking up the loot as well replenishing their ammunition. In the midst of collecting the loot they begin to hear something rumbling.

"I spoke to soon."

CL4P-TP pulls the Legendary assault rifle the Hammer Buster, Corrosive Lyudmila, & equipped a Explosive Incendiary Nova shield a.k.a the Flame of the Firehawk while the other pulls out the Legendary Conference Call Shotgun, Incendiary Infinity Pistol, Corporate Bitch SMG & melee riot shield, The Hide of Terramorphous. As the rumbling continues to become louder they look everywhere weapons ready, they spot something rising out of the area where there's no ground just floating debris. They notice that most of the debris floating around them are all now falling into place forming a stairway to an area that was unaccessible before.

"Alright let's see what's in store for us this time." He lowers his weapon down, bends down to grab one of the shit quality weapons from the ground & throws it at the stairwell to see if it's trapped. Nothing happens, the weapon bounces over the stair & falls into the abyss of the cosmos below.

"Really?" CL4P-TP deadpanned.

"Hey, you never know what might happen & seeing how there's a surprise, sort of, in these Vaults, it's best to be cautious."

They both go up the stairwell and weapons ready in case anything gets the drop on them. Once they reach the top they see a container 5 feet tall & 4 wide just leaking large amounts of energy in between the cracks the lid flowing upwards similar to that of waterfall but in reverse or steam rising.

"Woah." CL4P-TP is amazed by the sight & proceeds to reach out to it but his partner is concerned about something. *Wait. Where have I known this before? The realization hits him, *That's right! Zer0 told us that something happened to Fionna & Rhys when they summoned a Vault onto Pandora! He looks at CL4P-TP & sees him about to touch the lid he tackles him to the ground.
"What are you doing?!" CL4P-TP shouts in confusion.

"Stopping you doing something that'll get us in deeper shit."

He gets off CL4P-TP & takes out his Echo Device to call the other Vault Hunters specifically Rhys & Zer0 but has trouble having a stable connection. He looks away from the Echo Device & turns to CL4P-TP, "Don't do anything, specifically DO NOT touch the container. Understand."

"Alright, alright. Geez, I thought you were my friend"

He looks at CL4P-TP then responds, "Oh I am, I just don't know what's going to happen if we, specifically you, opening the box. Because apparently Zer0 told me that Rhys & Fionna encountered the same thing & disappeared for quite sometime until Rhys came back out alone."

"Oh. And here I thought you were just being an asshole." He just scoffs, "Everyone back at Sanctuary is already doing that. Especially after when I gave you that cybernetic body I had when went & came back to my world or timeline." After that he goes back to trying to stabilize the connection. "Thanks by the way for giving me that & keeping your promise" -sniffs- "If I had actual eyes I would be crying right now."

He just smirks underneath the helmet. *Yeah. I remember after Moxxi transferred your conciseness into the Sentinel body & powered you up. You had a breakdown when you realized that you were taller than me, Moxxi, the rest of the gang, but a bit shorter than Brick & Krieg.* Once he went back to the task at hand, CL4P-TP kept looking at the Eridian container.

*Argh. I know he told not to open but I'm curious of what's inside in the container. Maybe if I take a quick peek.* He thought, looks back at his friend/partner. He was still struggling getting a stable connection when it finally gets through but gets Zer0's voicemail.

"To whom am I speaking to?/Just kidding busy at the moment./Just leave your message" -gunshot-

"Ah god damnit. Well we'll just have to wait fo-," he is cut off abruptly when he hears a low pitch whooshing noise. He looks around to see where the sound is coming from & turns around & sees CL4P-TP has ready opened the lid. He runs & shoves him away from the container shouting, "What the FUCK did I just say!!!"

CL4P-TP flinches turning around, "I'm sorry! I was just curious of what's inside! Can you possibly blame me!" Before the both of them can do anything (specifically he can punch CL4P-TP in the face) a flash of purple light washes over the both of them. Once the light died had down, the space where the two Vault Hunter once occupied are now empty. The Eridian Container that was overflowing with energy slowly comes to a stop, now with the lid removed, the container held nothing inside.


Badlands, Changeling Hive, Queen Chrysalis's Throne Room, same time of what has happened earlier

Chrysalis is having a difficult time reearning the trust of her subjects ever since the failure of the Canterlot invasion at the hands of Twilight Sparkle. Since then not everyone survived the blast most were killed by the impact, killed off by the wildlife, or captured & starved/tortured to death in cell somewhere. Now she is in the throne room disscussing with the other changeling superiors on how to secure more love for the hive without alerting the other nations specifically Equestria as well as protection from the Mualwurfs. As the discussion continues & becoming more heated, Chrysalis is mentally questioning about herself. *How can I call myself a leader when I can't even protect my own children! I can't let them continue suffering like this. Please what ever gods or goddesses are out there, please help me & my children survive.* But unbeknownst to her & everyone, two objects have entered the planet's atmosphere & hurling towards the surface, one crashes in the Badlands just in between a forest & the changeling hive, while the other is still heading father out into the distance. A few minutes later, just about when the conversation about to be more heated a couple of changeling soldiers burst in, breathing heavily.

"Forgive me for my interruption," one of them says with a panicked look on both of their faces, "but we bring very bad news!"

"What is it?" she asks nervously.

"It seems that we may have an attack force approaching" This sends in the entire room into chaos.

"WHAT?!" she shouts before getting off the throne, "How come you didn't inform us earlier!!!" One of the soldiers gulps nervously before replying,

"We were switching posts & when we got to the entrance we both saw a bright flash of yellow light creating a smoking trail behind it."

"This is bad. Get a platoon of the strongest guards & meet me outside the entrance. We'll defend our hive from these invaders!"

"Yes your majesty!" They shout in an unison before turning around to exit to gather them. *I hope they show mercy upon us or else I fear that the hive may not survive to live another day.*


Few minutes earlier

The crater created by crash, held a burnt & mangled body of the Vault Hunter where there are certain parts of the body are missing chunks of flesh & muscle have been burned off from the reentry onto the planet & crash landing, exposing the bones. Even being fully covered in body armor, equipped with a shield, & full on health it seems he has perished. . . Or so you thought, the body begins to release a black substance all over the individual that creates a hissing popping noise as well as something squirming inside which regenerate the wounds made by the crash/reentry & grow back the flesh & muscle as well as returning to the original color around the burnt areas. Once that's done they body begins to move & our Vault Hunter gets up gasping for air before crawling towards the crater.

"God damnit CL4P-TP! I fucking told you that not to touch it but yet you still fucking did." He yells & waiting for a response but realizes that his companion/friend isn't responding all he hears is the howling wind. He gets up after getting his bearings then looks around notices he surrounded by sand with CL4P-TP nowhere to be found along with his equipment, money, & medical supplies scattered all around him as well as his damaged armor. He thought he ended up in the Dust, Nexus Badlands, or some sort of dessert but doesn't see Hyperion tech, Bandit camps, or form of settlement anywhere. Looks at the sand & sees that sand is also different that it's more brown than tan. He looks off into the distance & sees a line of trees, at most a couple hundred meters from where he is at, indicating that he's near a forest causing him to slightly panic.

"I can worry about where I am after I check my equipment." He begins to remove his damaged armor except for his helmet leaving him in his jumpsuit. *I regret choosing almost all black now.* goes to the crater, gathers all of his equipment & sees that most of them (especially ammunition, medical supplies, Relics & 'food') were okay, especially his melee shield which is surprising considering that he crash landed on it. But their were some that were unsalvageable but they were the green or blue rarity & more importantly the Echo Device for contacting Sanctuary. He stores the Legendaries & purple rarities in another storage deck unit amongst the 5 that he has.

-Sighs- "Well their goes several hundred thousands of dollars down the trash. Luckily I have another Echo Device!" He pulls it out to contact the others only to met with black screen. "Oh god damnit." He growls, then he remembers, "Oh thank god I kept the flare gun. You don't need it, they said. You have the Echo Device, they said. Don't worry CL4P-TP where ever the fuck you are. I'll come looking for you to beat your face in once I fix my Echo Device." He aims the flare gun towards the air but a thought a comes to mind before he puts his finger on the trigger. *Wait. What happens if I fire it. Will I attract bandits, rouge personal, or the local fauna? I really don't have any ammunition to waste seeing how there's now way to replenish them without leaving myself vulnerable also because I really don't want it to fuck up my corporate weapons. Even if I do overcome that nothing can't be said about my armor & seeing how CL4P-TP is stranded & has those Relics in his storage deck unit. Gah this harder than I thought.* So he lowers it & looks around to see if he can come up with a plan. *I got it. I'll just bury myself & use my ghost to fire it for me so that I have the element of surprise if they are bandits, animals, or rouge personal. Luckily there was a dead tree near by with a couple of small boulders & goes over to it to check to find the tree completely hollow. So he snaps of the branches that will allow him breath underground. *Can't be too careful.* He digs in between the roots behind the tree, along with his ghost. Once the hole is his size he enters it, takes off his damaged helmet, puts on another helmet from his storage deck unit, & gives his ghost the flare gun & a command to bury him & to cover up their tracks. Once the ghost has completed its task, he takes control. He walks over to where the crater is & he finally aims the flare gun, fires, & tosses the gun aside. Jumps over to the boulder near where he's hiding, turns around & stays put. He waits for several seconds until he hears a buzzing sound that's similar to that of an insect. *Varkids? It can't be them, I thought they lived in the damp or cold places like Tundra Express or the Caustic Caverns.* Those thoughts are immediately thrown out the window when he turns to see what's creating the noise.


A Sphinx just sits around bored out her mind. *Nothing exciting happens now that I've been beaten at my own game,* she thought, *especially after that mare mysteriously disappeared & definitely is long gone. Now all I do is lounge around, nap, & eat. Goodness I hope I ain't getting fat.* As she was about go do the same damn thing an explosion startles her, causing jump with her fur & tail all raised up as if she had been electrocuted. *Raiders!* she quickly dismiss that thought, *Wait how can that be? I'm far away from the nearest settlement as it is. What can it possibly be? After that commotion everything is quite & the only the thing audible is the Sphinx's breathing & the howling wind outside. Grabbing few pieces of precious materials in case there's a trap already been set. Once she reaches the entrance she, ever so cautiously & hesitantly, throws a couple of gold coins to see if it's motion activate. Nothing, so exiting her home she looks all over the place to see a crater not so far from her entrance off to the left. She walks closer & tosses two more coins in the crater only be met with a sound of a metallic clang. This peaks her interest & upon getting closer she sees a weird thing/golem in the center along with scattered objects. It's roughly over 6 feet tall, has a yellow & black coloring scheme with bits of grey to it, & has unidentified objects attached to it.

"Interesting," she says out loud then smiling deviously, "I have seen anything like you before through out my entire life. Yes you'll make fine addition to my collection."

As soon as she gets closer to pick it up, it comes to life with his eyes glowing a neon blue while trying to get up but shuts down to save himself some power but not before sending out a distress signal to his partner to come find him. She jumps away thinking that it's going to attack her but is relieved when she finds that it's no longer moving after a full tense minute. After picking up the body of the unknown being she finds herself speechless upon closer inspection that it's a being made entirely out made & not somepony covered in armor. She picks up the gold coins she threw earlier she turns around & heads back inside thinking & chuckling to herself, *Well this is no longer another boring day of my life. Things are get interesting now.*


Author's Note


For those of you that haven't played the games of the Borderlands franchise, here's the overall summary of the first game.

Borderlands is a game where you play as a mercenaries that hunt the Vaults of a wiped out civilization eons ago.

The first game is where you get to play as Mordecai the Hunter, Roland the Soldier, Lilith the Siren, & Brick the Berserker when they riding a bus driven by Marcus. The story begins when they're dropped of the bus & are contacted by a mysterious figure called Angel. They get off the bus & into the settlement of fyerstone with the help of CL4P-TP unit to help the locals to earn their trust, specifically Dr. Zed, Helena Pierce, & Scooter. This CL4P-TP is mostly there as an Oblivion civilian until the DLC. They activate the fast travel, it's a mechanism that allows the player to 'teleport' to a region without either walking or driving there. After they enter the city of New Haven after killing the bandit lords, Sledge & Nine toes, while being contacted by Commedant Steele (BTW is also a Siren altough it's unclear what her powers are) of the Crimson Lance, about handing over the Vault fragment. Then the Vault Hunters are sent to the place of Patricia Tannis, a scientist chosen by the Dahl Corperation. After the 7 year winter ended, the local fauna began killing & eating the employees working there. Dahl sent a message to Patricia but she chooses to stay. The Atlas Corporation began to conquer the planet when they caught wind of another Vault on Pandora as well as to bully the Dahl Corperation.

Tannis slowly began to go insane when her teammates were killed by the local fauna, specifically skags as well as the heat/days of the Planet. Pandora has 90 hours of sunlight (this happens years before she meets the Vault Hunters). She deduces that the Vault opens every 200 years & that if she leaves now she'll never make it back in time but the key is stolen by a bandit lord. After obtaining the other parts from a bandit lords & a Rakk Hive, she tells that theirs is a fourth key part that Baron Flynt has which the Vault Hunters comply only to find out that after killing him there is no fourth key & Tannis wanted him dead. When they're about to go back they're contacted by Commedant Steele that Patricia Tannis was working the Atlas Corporation & the Vault Key & will disable the Echo-net. This leaves New Haven vunerable to bandit attacks. They go & inflintrate the Atlas Fast house where they find Patricia & reactivate the Echo-net & Fast travel. They head towards the location of the Vault when they that she has activated the key. They get there after fighting hordes of Eridian Guardians & Crimson Lance only to find that Steele has opened the Vault claiming that whatever is in there is rightfully theirs. But upon opening the Vault Commedant Steele is impaled by a tentacle & eaten. A blob of flesh known as the Destroyer, exits the portal attacks & kills the remaining Crimson Lance & it's the Vault Hunters to stop it. Angel informs them that although it's maybe immortal in its own realm it can be killed in this dimension. They succeed in pushing it back in the Vault, after that they vanish into the wastelands knowing the truth about the Vault. The ending shows Angel's face fading away from a camera lens of satellite belonging to the Hyperion Corporation.

The first DLC is where they go to a zombie island after getting a Echo message from the surviving Jakobs Munitions employees. They go around killing lycans & infected employees ordered by Dr. Ned. A CL4P-TP unit gets hacked by Marcus who warns them of Dr. Ned. Turns out after doing tasks for Dr. Ned (brother of Dr. Zed) is the reason of why the zombie out break occurred. The Vault Hunters kill him ending the zombie out break.

They get another Echo message from an Crimson Lance Assassin named Athena who promises them Loot, money, & guns too which they comply. They raid the Atlas Base to kill General Knoxx. Moxxi during this time opens a arena to see who comes out on top will be her next lover/date. She sends them out to kill her 1st ex husband who goes by the name Mr. Shank who also is at the same Atlas Base. His men capture Athena after Atlas payed them money to do so. When they come to rescue her turns out she enjoyed being locked up as the prisoners didn't do anything other paint her nails as well as talking about boys. After this they go out to kill General Knoxx who throughout the entire game play is telling the Vault Hunters to kill themselves so he can get off this shitty planet because of Corrupt Atlas is & because he's taking orders from the admiral who's a literal 6 year old child to which he quotes,

"Goddamn Nepotism."

Hyperion decides to reprogram the CL4P-TP unit to kill the other gun manufacturers, specifically the Vault Hunters, on the planet but it backfires horribly. One of them, specifically the one the player met from the beginning gains awareness of it's brethren are mistreated on thus sparks the Robo-Revolution. This makes every CL4P-TP unit on the planet to go on a Genocide run. The Vault Have come into contact with Mr. Blake a Hyperion secretary. Along with his help to shut down the Robo-Revolution & putting the CL4P-TP units back to normal. They manage to defeat & destroy the Inter Planetary Ninja Assassin before it can go to space as well as turning the first CL4P-TP back to normal.

Here are a information on the weapons manufacturers.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IlDYhRulqL8
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VGIAluyU9zc

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