AN: Hey everyone. I know it's been awhile since I updated but I was on vacation for a bit and then tragedy struck my family. My cousin, someone I saw as a beloved little sister, has sadly passed away. She'd had issues with being bullied and other problems at school and started getting into the wrong groups. I want to take a moment to tell those who are in a bad place, it gets better. As someone who grew up bullied in school, and who even had suicidal thoughts when I was younger, that's never the way to go, things get better, and to never give up. I want everyone to think about their friends, their family. To go find your best friend and make them laugh, to give your siblings a hug, tell your parents you love them. Never take the people in your life for granted and know that there is always someone out there to support you and help pull you up on your feet.

AN2: I realized the mistake in the last chapter about Mordecai teaching Harry to shoot instead of Zero and it has been fixed.

Deadshot

Chapter 8

-Harry-

"Finally!" Gaige threw herself to the snowy ground as they finally got off the ship they had been stuck on with Claptrap, "Freedom! Land!...COLD!"

"Yes sis," Harry rolled his eyes as he followed behind calmer "snow is cold, so glad you understand this."

"Don't be an ass Harry." Gaige pouted as the rest of the group disembarked, Hammerlock and the baby bullymong staying behind as Claptrap needed maintenance…again.

"Well I like your ass at least." Angel whispered into his ear as Harry held back a blush, he refused to give Gaige any ammo to tease him with. On the clifftop ahead they could see a car chase going, their ECHOs picking up the argument between the drivers, one of them sounding like a bandit, the both of them blowing up the bridge that connected the cliff faces.

"Now that was just rude." Maya pouted at the sudden lack of glacial infrastructure.

"Truly, one-star review here." Axton nods with as much mock seriousness the man child could muster.

"Come on guys, let's go." Harry waved everyone onward, guns out.

As they walked, looking quite badass if Harry said so himself, Angel flicked on to talk to them as a group, Pandora is a violent and dangerous place. Sanctuary is…slightly less so. You'll need a car to reach the city gate. Get to the Catch-a-Ride."

"Will do, thanks Angel." Harry nodded as the rest of the group gave their own thanks while Angel beamed at them happily, "Alright Morons, Maya,…Gaige." Harry looked at his fellow vault hunters.

"Hey!" Gaige tried to swat at him which he was smart enough to duck, thick headed or not that metal hand hurt.

"Anyway, you lot heard the lady, we need a car. Axton, Maya, and I'll drive." Harry continued calmly as they walked, lazily blasting Bullymongs that charged their way with all the grace of a bludger.

"What? Why can't we drive!" Gaige protested.

"Yeah, why not por favor?" Salvador nodded in agreement, the smaller man having to jog to keep up with them.

"I don't trust Krieg not to get distracted by something shiny on the side of the road, I doubt you can reach the peddles Salvador, and Gaige…I've been in a go cart while you drove. Never again are you allowed anywhere near a steering wheel." Harry deadpanned at the now sulking duo, Krieg didn't care so long as he got to say with his pretty lady.

Getting to the car vendor, Angel reappeared "This machine will digitally construct a vehicle for you. Give it a try."

Ignoring Gaige, who he would swear muttered "I bet Harry'd like to give you a try.", Harry approached the machine which beeped angrily at him.

"WHOA!" a voice shouted from the device "Unauthorized user up in my grill! You trying to hack my Cath-A-Riiiiide?! Uncool bro, uncooooool."

"Damnit!" Angel scowled before her eyes showed wide eyed wariness "Oh, sorry…darn it. A man named Scooter controls these Catch-A-Ride machines. He may be short a few chromosomes, but he's a savant when it comes to vehicles. He's locked this station to prevent the bandits from using it, but I'm reading an inactive Hyperion bot in the nearby bloodshot camp. If you can attach its interface adapter to the Catch-A-Ride, I can hack the machine and get you a car."

"Offering me a car huh? Well they do say bribery can get you anywhere." Harry chuckled "Let's go folks, we have some vacancies to open in that camp."

-Angel-

Letting out a breath, Angel mentally slapped herself for her slip up. There was no way Harry and his friends wouldn't have noticed if her collar shocked her for cursing if she hadn't corrected herself fast enough. At the moment Jack wasn't paying attention to Harry and others, having been drug away by Nyssa although whether it was to have sex or do something like kick puppies she wasn't sure, it was impossible to tell with those two.

Tuning out the sounds of gratuitous bandit slaughter, Angel focused on her current sketch. It was of the group in their personas that they joked about for their book, Maya was there in the most elegant dress Angel could design, Krieg standing by her as a guard in the best compromise she could do of skilled general and shirtless barbarian. On the other side there was Gaige in a witch's robe, Deathtrap there was a large grim reaper like figure, Salvador at her side in fancy dwarf armor with matching beard. Harry stood in center focus, looking dignified and powerful in his officer's outfit, Angel even included herself as a fairy on his shoulder. She admittedly was so focused on making Harry's design as perfect as she could so almost forgot to add Axton, in the end having him hanging upside down from the rafters with a bow aimed at the cover, grinning like a loon.

Feeling the ping, she looked up to see Gaige installing the Hyperion Adapter to the Catch-A-Ride "Executing Phase Shift." Angel intoned, summoning her siren power as she plunged into the system's firewall, rewriting code to give the new vault hunters authorization.

"Authorized user accepted. Enjoy the ride, and there's a pimento taco, a 'pimentaco', in the glove box." Scooter's voice declared happily, and Angel could easily picture the man shooting finger guns as he said it.

"Cool." Angel giggled, "Try requesting another car…with free tacos."

"Sounds tasty!" Gaige called out happily as they summoned some cars, "Dibs!"

"Other Dibs!" Salvador shouted eagerly.

"CONDUCTOR SHALL CONSUME THE FIERY CRUNCHY CRUNCH!"

"Krieg said he calls dibs too." Harry translated for his friends as Angel giggled at the ridiculousness of the situation.

"We figured." Maya chuckled as she got in her car, the three designated gunners finding their tacos and happily chowing down…or at least two ate happily while Gaige screamed about it being hot.

"Yes sis, peppers are hot. So glad you understand this."

"SHUT UP HARRY!"

-Roland-

"Ah, so you're the ones I've been hearin' all this radio chatter about." The leader of the Crimson Raider's grinned as he held his ECHO device in hand, "Name's Roland, I used to be a vault Hunter like you, until I formed the Crimson Raiders. We'll catch up when I get back to sanctuary but for now, I need your help. My men tell me Corporal Reiss hasn't returned the power core that we need to keep the city's shields running. Bring Reiss back to Sanctuary and you'll have earned your place in the Raiders."

"What about Hammerlock? He's still down at our ship with the bullymong we adopted and Claptrap." The voice of the new Vault Hunter leader asked.

"Hammerlock is already a Sanctuary citizen, so he has access to get past the walls along with that Mong, and I've got a case of booze waiting for him from having to deal with Claptrap." Roland gave an amused smirk "You'd best hurry up and get Reiss back here before he drinks it all." Hearing the group scramble to their cars, Roland chuckled and went back to sneaking further from Bloodshot territory, having only paused to make the call. He had to get back to sanctuary with the intel he'd swiped from that Hyperion convoy. Deciding to be cautious, he hooked his device up to an earpiece to listen in for any progress as he ducked behind a rock to avoid detection from a bandit patrol. He'd already killed hundreds of these morons and was admittedly starting to run short of Ammo.

"Got the power core from the Bloodshots!" he heard the distorted voice of Reiss come through is ECHO, the vault hunters having likely found a recording, "Blew the bridge! I'm hit…gonna lose 'em in the Marrowfields- RRAAGGGHHHH!"

"Reiss in in trouble?!" Roland hissed into the microphone, "Damnit, we're spread thin enough as it is. Find him soldier." Roland ordered the group, trying to control the worry he felt for his friend's life. Panicking wouldn't do him any could and would only get him caught.

All he heard was running and shooting for the next several minutes as he hunkered down before finally, he heard his friend's voice "A vault Hunter? Heh, didn't think I rated that much of a rescue! One of those psychos ran off with the power core. Without it, Sanctuary'll be defenseless!"

"No." Roland to himself as he knew what was coming.

"Get that core back to Sanctuary." Reiss let out a wet cough "I'm just gonna take a nap…wake me up when I'm not on Pandora anymore." With that, he heard a shaky breath as Reiss breathed his last.

"No!" Roland snarled, clutching his knife tightly as he worked to control himself, "Reiss…he was one of the first Crimson Lancemen I recruited to the raiders, a good soldier and a damn good friend. Get that power core back and while you're at it, kill some bandits for Reiss…it's what he would have wanted." Ending the call, Roland continued onward, grabbing a bandit as they walked by and slitting their throat to loot em for ammo. He had to get back to Sanctuary for Reiss, and for those still left.