A/N: Welcome to Hyperion Vault Hunter! Now, to truly understand my character, you'll have to read the alternate story to this "Borderlands and the Male Siren." Everyone who's already read it will know what's going on. I hope you all enjoy this alternate turn of events. It'll start when I'm on the shuttle with the Hyperion officer when we're getting down to Pandora.

I looked down at the surface of the planet with an analyzing eye. I spotted various creatures roaming around and a even a few bandits on the porches of houses and patrolling around Hyperion train stations.

"I see a bunch of bandits around Hyperion stations. Are you setting me down there so I can kill them?" I asked the Hyperion pilot.

"Nah. These bandits are working for us for now. They're actually digging their own graves and they don't even know it," the pilot said in an amused tone. I raised an eyebrow.

"How so?" I questioned.

"I'm not allowed to say. Only Mr. Jack or General Wilhelm have that authority. They'll likely inform you when we get there," he told me. I nodded, but I was a little unhappy about it. The urge to know was killing me. But I would have to patient.

"Ok. I'll wait," I said idly.

"Mainly cause you have no other choice," the pilot said, smiling. I smirked. God, this guy was an asshole. But he was a fun asshole.

"That too," I said, staring out of the window again.

I ended up falling asleep on the shuttle a few minutes later. After a while of not having anything to do in a quiet shuttle, staying awake was hard to do. So I fell asleep with my head against the window and my mouth open slightly. I was snoring silently while a trail of drool went down the side of my mouth.

Then I could feel a weird sensation in my mouth. It tasted fleshy(don't ask me how I know that), and it was thin. It was a finger. I instantly thrust my hand out toward the person's throat before opening my eyes and seeing that I was choking a Hyperion officer. The officers alongside him were laughing their asses off.

"NOT funny," I said, walking up to the front of the shuttle and spitting in the trash can several times. "I assume we're here."

"No shit. Anyway, Mr. Jack would like to have a word with you," one of the officers said.

"Where is he?" I asked.

"He isn't here per se, but there's a digital communicator on one of the upper floors of the base. Talk to him, then refer to General Wilhelm for your first assignment when he gets here," the officer told me. I nodded.

"Ok. Simple enough," I said, stretching my arms before stepping off of the shuttle. I could see that there were guard lights, loaders and soldiers patrolling on the ground with various doors all over the place that likely contained workers or additional guards.

Putting that aside, I walked into the building the officer mentioned that had the communicator inside. An engineer gestured for me to walk over to him and I did.

"You the Vault Hunter Jack assigned?" he asked me. The title 'Vault Hunter' still felt sort of weird to me.

"That's me," I told him nodding. He then gestured into the door next to him.

"Communicator's in there. And I suggest you play nice with Jack. He doesn't take nicely to disobedience or betrayal," the engineer warned me.

"I wouldn't either, but thanks for the heads up nonetheless," I said before walking inside the room. I noticed an ECHO was sitting on a table in the center of the room. I then hit the play button on it and Jack's face showed up on an ECHO.

"How you doing kiddo?" Jack questioned. I raised an eyebrow.

"Kiddo?" I questioned.

"In case you're wondering, I call just about everyone kiddo. Like I've told the other officers I've worked with or killed, keep it your pants," he said with a cocky smile. He struck me as the 'fun asshole' type. Again, I liked these kind of people.

"Oh, and in case you were wondering, this is a recording dumbass. What, do you think I had the time to associate with mercenaries like a dinner date?" Jack questioned. I face palmed. I'm attempting to chat with a fucking recording. I think these Hyperion officers need to find out what a communicator really is.

"Nah, I'm just fucking with you. It's a communicator. I control everything from Helios until I feel it's necessary to go down there. I.E., when the Vault Key is ready," he explained to me. I had so many questions through my head, it was ridiculous. But I had to take this one step at a time.

"Ok, I've got so many questions..."

"I'm sure you do," Jack said with the same cocky smile. I rolled my eyes.

"BUT, let's keep it simple. Firstly, what is Helios?" I asked.

"The giant fucking space station that's in front of Elpis," Jack said, gesturing up in the air like I'm sitting right next to him. "That's the Pandoran moon. It's visible on the planet year round, so everyone can see the space station and who really runs this planet. Sweet, huh?"

"Very," I said, wishing this room had windows where I could see the moon. "Next, what's the business about the Vault Key? What did you mean when you said you're charging it?"

"Ah. Well, I can say that if you tell any of the bandits or the Crimson Raiders about this piece of information, you're gonna regret it," Jack said in a dead serious tone. I knew he wasn't lying about that. I also needed to know who these Crimson Raiders were. I feel like that's a very important piece of information. They sounded very much related to Atlas soldiers, which made me blow air out of my nose angrily.

"Well, I'm sure you probably didn't know that there's actually more than one Vault on this planet. There are actually multiple ones all over this planet and all over the galaxy," Jack explained.

"That I didn't not know. When people mention the Vault, I assume there's only one Vault," I said.

"Well, you guessed wrong kiddo. Anyway, one of the Vaults I'm looking to open has the potential to wipe out all of the creatures and bandits that infest this planet. Then we'll a Hyperion utopia from the ashes! It's gonna be great, right?" Jack said after his temporary laughter died down.

"That's definitely a good idea, but what about the people who aren't bandits? I mean, some of them around bound to not be bandits, right?" I asked.

"I've thought about that. You see, I can control where the destruction happens. Which means I can make sure no one but the bandits suffer. It's a plan, right?" Jack said, making me smile in satisfaction.

"Oh, yes. Who are these Raiders?" I asked.

"A bunch of assholes if you want the short version," Jack said.

"That I could've figured out. I want the longer version," I told him.

"They're mercenaries. Former Vault Hunters and former Crimson Lancemen. They used to work for me, but they betrayed me and nearly killed me. But they didn't though, and I'm going to make them suffer for it," Jack said in a vicious tone. By the sound of things, they had affected him on a personal level. I wasn't going to question it though. But I definitely wanted the honor of killing the last of those Lancemen. They were going to die for what they tried to do to me and my family.

"Noted. How much longer do you think it will take to charge the Key?" I asked.

"Depends on how much Eridium I can get. This takes time to do, and these pesky Raiders keep attacking my Eridium mines," Jack said, making me think I understood what he wanted me to do.

"So you want me to kill them?" I questioned.

"Not in the way you might think. I've got an excellent solution to destroy them all at once, but I'm going to need your help. As long as you aren't as incompetent at everything except shooting things. This is a job of finesse," Jack explained.

"Believe me, I'm far from incompetent. What do you need me to do?" I asked.

"You're going to play double agent. Some of my boys will rough you up a bit and you'll limp out of here with your ECHO and some of my loaders destroyed. There's someone in this area associated with the Raiders, and they can easily take you there. I'll explain what you need to do next when the situation comes. Until I say otherwise, you do everything the Raiders say. But also report everything they want you to do. Earn their trust. That's important. But we'll hold you here for a few weeks. These kinds of things take patience. Can you handle it?" Jack questioned.

I fell into a silence at this point. It's more than likely I was gonna be in pain for a long ass time. But for opening a Vault? Wiping out the scum of this planet? It was very much worth it.

"I can handle it," I assured him. He smiled in satisfaction.

"That's what I like to hear! You get this done, and we'll be best buds! Which can easily change if you turn your back on me. Just sayin," Jack said in an excited tone. "Anyway, me and Wilhelm are the only ones you have to listen to. Everyone else you can order around. You can have fun with that." Then the ECHO shut off. I smiled and walked out of the room while calibrating Jack's signal to my own ECHO.

"Time to get busy," I said as I disappeared through the door.

A/N: Kind of short, but I don't want to get to excited about writing this. I'm enjoying typing this already! Everything's coming along so naturally! Hope you all enjoyed it! Next chapter will be longer. Hopefully.