At their house Raider did a bit of cleaning on his valdof pistol, the Vault hunters needed a bit of time to set up. And he needed to clean his weapons, unknown to him someone had entered. However being hunted for most of his life, he was just about always ready for anything. Just then the intruder gently hit something making him very aware of their presence. He had a back up Dahl pistol to his side, and brought it back to make it look like he was doing something. The sound of soft footsteps sounded behind him.

Now was the time, he moved fast and used his legs in a sweeping motions tripping up the person before pinning them down and pointing the pistol at their head.

"Well, still as speedy as ever." a voice said.

"Athena?" he asked as the person pulled back her hood showing her face. "What are you doing here? What about your wife?"

"Well, you know the reason why."

"Po…." he stared to say but turned away and coughed loudly.

Athena could see blood coming out of his mouth and slapped his back hard until he stopped coughing.

"That bad huh?"

"5 years, that's all I have left."

"Shit, you dumb asshole but then again, given how reckless you are..."

"Yeah, well like I care. Take cover, soon we'll have our chance."

OOOOO Road to Info stockade.

"Ahh shit!" Axton yelled as he ducked for cover as a round was deflected from his cover.

"We really should have thought about this!" Gaige yelled. "We need heavy weapons."

A rocking hit the concrete in front of them sending up tarmac everywhere.

"I would love to use my EMP grenades but the info stockade is too close for me to use them." Raider yelled as he pulled out his maliwan fire sniper.

He took a pot shot at one of the RPG leaders which exploded. Sal getting mad took out a pair of rocket launchers and fired them repeatedly at the loaders. He cleared the way and the two military experts took point. Zero ad Giage held back offering support as the heavy hitters and combat moved up to the objective. Loaders where falling down around them and soon enough the four made their way to the terminal at the top.

"Ok guys cover me." Raider said as he moved into the small room and used the device.

Looking to see if anyone could see him he then typed in the Hyperion master code which unlocked everything for him. All he did then was type in 'location, Vault and warrior'. The images moved and he got the location.

"HERO'S PASS." he said. "The warrior and Jack are at hero's pass."

"Ok let's go." Axton called.

OOOOO

Maya soon realised why she hated to meditate. It was the most boring thing in the 6 galaxies, it wasn't relaxing, it wasn't calming it was infuriating. Why Raider asked her to do this was unknown but she knew that she had to protect her child. She in truth didn't know what to do, she'd never been a mother before, sex yeah she had that even after she left that cult but a child she didn't know. Moxxi could be of help but she wasn't sure, Moxxi while the kind to give advice, may not be the kind of advice she may want.

But who else on Pandora would have children and offer advice? She wasn't sure.

But as she thought a knock on the door interrupted her.

"Maya, let's go." Brick called out.

"Finally, coming." she yelled.

OOOOO

The six hunters made it into Hero's pass but had an ambush to deal with. But that didn't last long, soon enough they came to a crevice with lava at the bottom, as soon as the got close a Hyperion barge came into sight. Brick jumped off it and down a Hyperion commando with his big fists. Maya soon followed him and phaselocked another commando before blowing his head off. He then joined the others.

"Ok let's move!" Axton yelled.

The group of eight then moved off into the fort that was built onto the rock. The way was paved with Hyperion troops and bots. The seven knew each other well, and knew what each one was going to do. They where organised, an organised mob moving fast taking out each group of enemies with ease. As they made it to a refining station one of the BUL loaders took his chance and engaged at the hunters. It hit Raider and knocked him off his feet and into a pool of liquid eridium.

"RAIDER!" at least Gaige, Maya, Axton and Brick yelled.

A movement later he came out covered into eh stuff. Maya was about to move to him but he held up his hand.

"Stop." he yelled. "Don't touch me."

"Any reason why?" Gaige asked.

"Yeah, Lilith, she used eridum to overcharge her powers. However she seemed to have a bit of nervousness about her."

"You mean, like a drug." Axton said.

"Yeah, like a drug and given that Maya is well you know." he said getting up and shaking himself down. "Ok let's move."

They made it to a kill wall as they where ambushed by loaders and soldiers. As they engaged Mordi took out the side of the to force the shield down, however several Jet loaders took down the barge with Birck jumping after him

"MORDI!" he yelled.

But as he landed rockets hit the barge taking it down.

"Brick!" Axton yelled as he and the others ran to the edge and watched as the ship melted in the larva.

"Brick, Mordi." Gaige said.

"We must move." Zero said. "Morn for the dead later."

"I hate to admit it…" Sal said. "… we must move."

The others nodded and continued on.

OOOOO

They reached the alter and saw Lilith in the air.

"STOP HIM!" she yelled.

"Hey right on time," he said. "The Key's nearly ready. But before I cleanse this planet for good, I'm gonna avenge my daughter." he then disappeared from the naked eye.

"Stay calm, he's here." Raider said but as soon as he said it multiple Jacks appeared around them.

"Oh..." Axton said

"….shit." Gaige said