Chapter 3, A bullet for Hammerlock
(Entering Frostbite Crevasse)
(David's POV)
The blind Claptrap falls off a short cliff and plants headfirst firmly into snow, attracting the attention of several Bullymongs. Not knowing if I can take fall damage or not, I decide to climb down the cliff instead of jumping. The retarded Bullymongs rapidly advancing towards me at lighting speed. In the game, this part was the introduction, the Bullymongs were suppose to be slow and stupid easily killed with a Hand-Gun. But here, they were still stupid but they were very, very fast. I thanked myself for using a Saber made out of literal plasma instead of some sh*tty gun. I ran to them, Madara style, twirling my loud Lightsaber at them. Jumping into the air, I cut, stabbed, decapitated the wild creatures without much effort, while I could hear Claptrap rambling on "Hey! What's that noise? Are you fighting?". It took me some time to deal with all of the Bullymongs but I managed not to get any blood in my mouth... Well this time at least.
"You still there? I don't hear Bullymongs anymore. Kinda just waiting on you. To get me outta here. But please, take your time. Can't help but notice you're not getting me out of here. Maybe you're thinking, 'Oh, Claptrap's such a strong and noble paragon of justice and skill, he can get out himself.' Which, most of the time, you would be totally right about. But as it stands right now, I could use some help. And if you don't I'm gonna have to pull out the big guns: I'll hit ya with the silent treatment. See how you like that, … Yep. Giving you the silent treatment. Feel the sting of my passive aggression. Being totally silent, … Not talking to you. Not at all. Silence, … Total silence."
I let the mentally unstable robot wait a few minutes before digging him up. "Many thanks, friend of friends! Onward! " I wanted to kill myself already.
While picking up some loot, my communicator turns on, " Hey, kiddo. Jack here – President of Hyperion. Lemme explain how things work here: Vault Hunter shows up. Vault Hunter looks for the new Vault. Vault Hunter gets killed. By me. You see- seeing the problem here? You're still alive. So, if you could just do me a favour and off yourself, that'd be great. Thanks, pumpkin. " said Handsome Jack.
"I could off myself but then who would disable the Sanctuary shields now? You? No you're to busy trying to find the Destroyer's location." I replied with a smirk on my face.
"Wait what?" Jack almost choked, "So still want me to off myself ?" I said.
"Hey, kiddo, tell me again what's you're name?"
"David Harel" I replied trying not to smile.
"Pumpkin, have you ever thought of civilizing the psychos on Pandora ?"
"Sure, that what I was going to do anyway, I first wanted to get rid of Rolin, wait I think he's name was Roland actually. If you want I can kill him for what, a few billions? I am in need of some quick cash." I said amused.
"Haha, I like you pumpkin, how about you work for me? But first you need to pledge undying loyalty to me, and then off yourself on the highest cliff you can find!" said Jack with a forced laugh, hanging up from the call.
"That went better than expected... I think" I said to myself.
(returning to narrator POV:)
Thinking back about his conversations, an evil grin appears on David's face, such a shame, the resistance will learn about Jack's secrets plans. The chaos that will ensue would be terrible. Well, David knew he needed to control the war from the shadows to be able to complete his plans.
(a few hours later)
David arrived at Knuckle-Dragger's base just in time to hear Claptrap say "Oh! My eye just switched back on! I see a tough-looking minion, and an incredibly handsome robot. Which means that whoever has my eye... is very close."
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Title card for Knuckle Dragger: This is gonna hurt
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This was new, David didn't think Title cards would appear. Knuckle-Dragger was like any other Bullymong just bigger and dumber. Well this was still the introduction to the game, so its hardly a challenge.
Knucke Dragger charged at David with incredible speed, but David was faster, he dodged the charge, by rolling sideways and proceeded to stab the beast in the eye before decapitating it. The damage surprised David, he didn't think his Lightsaber was almost a one-hit-ko weapon although he didn't mind that, in fact he was happy.
(sometime later)
The Bullymongs were now all dead, their heads still rolling around. David picked up the cash and a revolver.
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(ECHO communicator: INITIALIZING: WEAPON DISPLAY MODULE)
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"Woohoo! If you would retrieve my eye for me, i'd be grateful. Got my eye? Great! Now we just gotta find someone to put it back into me. Much as I'm sure you'd like to jam your fist into my skull, optic surgery is best left to professionals -- my pal Hammerlock in Liar's Berg can fix me up! Allons-y! " said the annoying robot.
Well, David did try and jam his fist into Claptrap's skull.
Arriving at a Hyperion barge blocking the way, Claptrap speaks up "Liar's Berg's on the other side of this Hyperion barge. What say we cut through it, chum?"
"How?" David replied.
"HA! This door's Hyperion tech – child's play! Aaaaaaand OPEN!" Shouted the robot like an infant as he stands in front of a digital-optical scanner next to the door and gets scanned by it.
--Hyperion AI: Intruders detected. Locking door. --
"Well, it was nice knowing ya! I hear getting eating alive by Bullymongs isn't such a bad way to go." the robot said with a happy voice.
"Let me get that for ya. Executing phase shift." Angel said.
"Thanks" David replied.
"You're welcome! Perks of being an Artificial Intelligence. I'm networked into almost everything in this planet. " said Angel.
"This way to Southern Shelf, minion -- let's go! …or, not! We'll go at your pace! I'm obviously the brains of this operation of course, but you're the Vault Hunter with the brawn. And the guns. And the power of sight. Which is exactly what you want out of a minion, really. That's like, three of the top four things one generally wants out of a minion. You'll figure out the fourth when the time is right. The fourth is pizzazz." Said Claptrap bumping into walls.
"Keep your wits about you, minion -- this glacier's run by a bandit named Captain Flynt. The jerk kept me as his torture plaything for a few months. We played games like 'dodge the blowtorch', and 'don't get dunked into the pool of acid.' I was really good at the first one." continued Claptrap.
Claptrap's monologues are getting annoying, David thought to himself, he needed to get rid of him soon.
(Entering Liar's Berg)
A few bandits patrolled the town, David let them fight the Bullymongs raiding the town while he watched them. Normally in the game, the bandits would go after the player after Handsome Jack puts a bounty on the player's head. But since David had revealed interesting information, Jack didn't put a bounty on him, Jack probably wanted to know if David was a friend or foe.
At the end of the raid, David walked over to the surviving bandits and proceeded to decapitate them. He then walked over to Hammerlocks home.
"Hey, Hammerlock! Since my minion just saved your town, you wanna do your bestie Claptrap a favour and repair my eye?! " Screamed the blood stained robot, well he was standing blind next to David when he decapitated the bandits.
A voice replied to Claptrap, "Yes, I suppose I am in your debt now, aren't I? Come to my shack, and I shall restore Claptrap's sight. First, I shall shut off the electrical fence for you. Please stay back, Vault Hunter – let Claptrap go first." said Hammerlock.
"I knew Hammerlock would come around eventually. Me and him are like two peas in a pod! Two bullets in a mag! Two cannibal midgets in a fat guy's ribcage!" laughed Claptrap.
He then gets electrocuted by the electric fence and temporarily incapacitated. "Haha, serve him right" David said laughing his ass off.
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A pleasure to meet you, Vault Hunter. I am Sir Hammerlock –
(Title card for Sir Hammerlock: Hunter. Scholar. Gentleman.)
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" I came out here to research the Bullymongs for my almanac, but Captain Flynt's men trapped me on this glacier. Many thanks for disposing of them, by the way -- to survive a direct run-in with Handsome Jack AND defeat Captain Flynt's bandits? Unheard of! I'm headed to Sanctuary, myself -- from what I hear, the Crimson Raiders there could use a hero like you. Now, if you could hand me the robot's eye, please." said Hammerlock.
As he talks, Hammerlock puts Claptrap's eye into its socket and screws it clockwise several times, finally finishing the repair by hammering his fist onto the eye.
"Now, I need only connect this to this, and… That should do it!" stated the Hunter.
"Ha-HA! I am ALIIIIIVE! Minion! Now I've got my eyesight back -- and you're far uglier than I remembered! Time to join up with the Crimson Raiders in Sanctuary! This glacier's full of nothing but murderers or jerkbags, like that Hammerlock dude! " Shouted the robot, he seems dumber than before.
"Now that Liar's Berg is clear, I might as well turn on the main power -- this town's full of things that may be of use to a go-getting slayer of men like your- "
BAAM! Sir Hammerlock was interrupted by a bullet lodged in between his forehead. "Damn, this revolver is more powerful than I thought." David said calmly.
David had shot the poor man, for one simple reason only, to know if he could kill NPCs. And now he knew he could. Did he regret it? No, of course not.
David walked over the now dead Hammerlock with a hole in his head, flopped over on the ground like a pancake to power on the generator. While Claptrap didn't respond to what happened, but the robot understood he shouldn't annoy the Vault Hunter anymore.