A/N: I feel like I have to leave an A/N because this chapter's so short … also it's the last! I hope you enjoyed my retelling of the DLC Captain Scarlett and her Pirate's Booty! Playing this DLC helped me get my Commando in the game up a couple levels, so it helped me.
For those of you curious about a sequel I will be doing another story called Primed for Extinction Part 2. It will be along the same format as this, however it also follows Mr. Torgue's Campaign of Carnage, the DLC! So that's awesome.
Thank you for reading my story, it's much shorter than my usual. Please leave a review it'll help me out a lot. Also if this chapter seems a bit rushed … eh. I really wanted to end this so I could move on to something different. When will I publish Part 2? I haven't decided yet, to tell you the truth it might not be next Monday. But I assure you once I've made my decision, I will stick to the schedule of uploading every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
Chapter 14: Battle of the Leviathan
Mission(s): X Marks the Spot * Main Mission
DLC: Captain Scarlett and her Pirate's Booty!
Captain Scarlett suddenly shouts, "You did it! It looks like the treasure's buried in Wurmwater! Ha HA! I'll meet you out there!"
Maya hears this over the ECHO and she walks back to the base of the lighthouse, next to the elevator waiting for Zero. Once Zero starts descending Captain Scarlett says something else.
"Top notch my friend! And don't worry – I still need your help getting past whatever traps that might be in the treasure chamber. I will not betray you until we find the treasure room."
Zero and Maya walk forward and as soon as they get near the pool, Scarlett's Pirate crew appears out of nowhere.
"Just kidding! It's honestly been a lot of fun, but this is where you die."
Now that they're reaching the end of their journey, and in light of Scarlett's betrayal Maya and Zero go on the warpath. Since they had taken down Pandora's dictator, taking down an obsessed pirate captain's henchmen should be no problem.
It turned out to be quite easy and once they were finished with the rabble, two lutenient showed up. Lutenient Hoffman and Lutenient White. Both of them had shields, quite a bit of health, and more then enough experience to be challenging kills. But Zero and Maya chewed through them like butter, they were both pumped up and ready to kill both Scarlett and the Leviathan – albeit Zero a lot more controlled and methodical then Maya.
Shade said with concern, "My friend are you alright? I here explosions coming from the lighthouse – is that you exploding? I see Captain Scarlett heading to some bright light in Wurmwater. I would go very, very fast beat her to the treasure and possibly shoot her multiple times."
Maya and Zero rush to the malfunctioning fast travel station, and transport themselves to the now deserted pirate ship. They hurriedly digistruct their Sandskiff and get inside.
Captain Scarlett says, "If it's any conciliation, I mean everything I said to you. You're an awesome warrior, a real stand up individual. But my men and I just reached the spot pointed out by the lighthouse so this is where I say – {great rumbling noise of the Leviathan}
Maya sits in the drivers seat, and Zero stands at the gunner position. They race towards the spot marked by the lighthouse. As they reach it Maya sees that the lighthouse is shining on a bare spot of sand flats. Driving directly on the spot, a deep rumbling within the ground occurs. A giant different looking sand worm pops out of the ground, this one massive, and swallows Maya, Zero plus the whole Sandskiff.
When Maya and Zero regain consciousness they find themselves in a fleshy passageway. Looking up among muscles they see a spinal cord stretching along the ceiling. Around their feet in various pools is some type of acid that steams and smells horrid.
They move forward down the fleshy passageway. As they pass a health and ammo vending machine they find themselves at the top of a slope in the passageway. They begin following it down, but soon loose traction and end up falling straight down into an open area. Captain Scarlett greets them.
"So, the bad news is, the Leviathan swallowed us. The good news is, it's taking us to the treasure room. But the best news is, you remember my pet Roscoe – I found him!"
In front of them across a pool of acid, and at the other end of the huge chamber constructed out of flesh and bone … is something straight out of the previous vault hunter's nightmares. Lilith, Brick, and Mordicai would've been horrified that the Rakk Hive would've had a child like ancestor, only Roscoe was a lot smaller, but just as ugly.
The only tricky part for Maya and Zero was the awful smell coming from the flesh acid and Roscoe himself. It turned out to be easy enough, once Maya aimed for the crit spots. In fact with her Sand Hawk, Maya was able to take down Roscoe pretty easily. Zero aimed his sniper rifle right at Captain Scarlett right as she dropped off Roscoe's dead corpse.
"You killed Roscoe! What a shame. Ah, well – discursion's the better part of running away. 'Till we meet again, Vault Hunter! Oh, damn, I dropped my pistol. Do me a favor, and don't grab it would you? Because that would be stealing and stealing is wrong."
Zero in the need of a lovely incendiary pistol grabbed it anyway.
Scarlett scolded him, "Ah, you stole it anyway. Shame on you. And, also well done."
Maya sounds pissed and she wants chase after Captain Scarlett, but Zero calmly reminds her that they still have a Leviathan to kill. They traversed around the pools of acid, and climbed up a fleshy slope. They came to a corridor much like the one they started out in. It had pools of acid along its bottom, but Maya and Zero while sprinting and carefully placing their footing were able to successfully avoid them.
Once they got far enough ahead, the Leviathan roared and spat them out onto a rocky ledge. It roared and slammed two gigantic blades in place of hands down on the rocky shelf they were standing on. Maya and Zero saw around them a massive cave, even huger than the Leviathan – but that did in no way detract from the Leviathan's enormous size.
Seeing no immediate way of killing it Maya begins to panic and she looks to Zero. He points to three blue sore like things on the Leviathan's hide. Maya brings out her Sand Hawk, but Zero shakes his head, Maya then realizes that the bullets travel too slowly.
Suddenly the sand flats they stand upon starts upchucking several sand worms, Maya finds a use for her Sand Hawk. As Maya desperately tries to stem the tide of sand worms, Zero uses the Incendiary Greed dropped by Captain Scarlett to shoot out one of the blue sores on the Leviathan. The behemoth suddenly roared and slammed its blades down on the rock platform; despite close proximity the power of the slams did help Maya take care of the sand worms.
Zero suddenly had an insane idea, but he knew if Maya were doing her part he would be able to pull it off. In a moment Zero placed a hologram of him self to distract the Leviathan, and then ran invisible and light-footed up the arm of the Leviathan. Unsheathing his katana while still invisible, Zero zeroed in on the blue scab. He then, with one mighty thrust plunged his sword hilt deep into the Leviathan's flesh.
The monstrosity roared again, and plunged the blue sand worm acting as its extendable head into the rock. It ripped a great chunk out and threw it up in the air. That didn't concern Zero, but then the rocks fell at a trajectory that would most definitely hit Maya stills struggling with the sand worms.
Maya suddenly spun around screaming, "WHY OH GOD WHY DID SHE HAVE TO END UP LIKE THAT? GAIGE DOESN'T DESERVE IT! NONE OF THEM DID!" Maya pulled out an E-tech sniper rifle from the golden pouch of her pack. Zero immediately began to get nervous since he was still on the Leviathan. Looking closer Zero recognized the weapon as the Longbow, and Zero knew two things. One) he had deeper feelings for the Siren than he originally planned 2) he knew she wouldn't survive much longer without his steady guidance. She's still a challenge, Zero thought.
Just then Zero got flipped forward by a jerk of the Leviathan, it landed him right next to Maya who stood their with completely blood lusted eyes, holding a still Longbow in her hands. She was breathing heavy, and after a moment Maya calmed down and looked at Zero. "That … was … so … awesome!"
Zero agreed and once he looked behind him he saw that all the sand worms were decomposing on the ground.
Shade congratulated them, "You did it! The lost treasure of the sands is yours my friend! They were amazing weren't they Lionel?"
"[Tape corrupted] I agree!" Lionel said.
Finally after a long, arduous journey Maya and Zero finally make it to the treasure chamber. They walk across a conveniently fallen Leviathan blade and came to a door that slid open into the rock. A great pyramid of Eridium rock lay in the center of the spacious chamber. At the top Maya spied at least 14 separate treasure chests, and they all looked rather stuffed with loot.
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Orphan: So ended the story of how the vault hunters defeated the treacherous Captain Scarlett, and slew the Leviathan. And as the sun set on Pandora, the Vault Hunter's realized that while they'd found Captain Blade's armory the true treasure of the sands had been inside them all along the end. How was that?
Marcus: That wasn't half bad, good job. You know, I'm gonna need someone to tell these stories when I'm gone.
Orphan: I love you Marcus.
Marcus: That's weird.
