A few days after the last chapter

As Commandant Steele and I finish prepping the supplies, and setting up a spot for me to snipe from. I take out my sniper rifle, and set up on top of a nearby column.

With myself in place, Commandant Steele takes a few deep breaths and grabs the vault key just as the Vault Hunters show up. A chill goes up my spine and I look around and speak into my earpiece

Crimson: Something's not right. I got a bad feeling about this. Just let them have the Vault!

Steele pauses what she was going to say and looks right at me. A look of conflict appears in her eyes and she winces before turning back to the Vault hunters and starting her speech.

Lilith(present): You're not giving me reason to keep you alive, and what happened to the A.I?

Crimson(present): I don't entirely know, but I think Dahl got it's hands on a copy of her.

Athena tenses up and coughs

Crimson(present): Athena, did you happen to-god DAMN IT!

Lilith(present): What? Did Athena do something?

Crimson(present): I'll get to my theory later! But if it's right, then our contract is terminated Athena!

I try to line up my shot to snipe the key from her hands, but she activates the key, and opens the Vault

Steele: I'll just have to throw you Vault Hunters into Tannis's ce-

Before she can finish her sentence, a tentacle impales her through the stomach.

Crimson: NO!

I leap from my perch and grab my assault rifle to charge the monster.

Lilith(past): What the hell is that thing?

Roland: I don't know. keep your distance and hit that thing with everything you got!

Mordecai pipes up while heading towards my previous perch.

Mordecai: you read my mind, amigo!

I growl and start shooting at the Destroyer, my gun doing nearly nothing against it. It roars and a health bar appears over it on my HUD.

Crimson: You're all registered in the New-U system, right?

They all were and Lilith Phasewalks her way out of being crushed under a tentacle. I growl a bit louder once I notice this and duck under a bone spike that shot past me. As I roll to my feet, I throw a MIRV grenade and it's eye. The exosion takes a small chunk from it's health, but more than anything else had done.

Crimson: AIM FOR THE EYE!

Roland nods and deploys a Scorpio turret. I take a quick glance at it before saying something.

Crimson: You know they replaced the Scorpio turret with Sabre turrets in Dahl, right?

He confirms this and reloads his gun. I grab my knife and slice a thin tentacle slithering towards my arm.

Mordecai: This asshole's halfway dead!

I grin as Brick grabs his hammer and leaps at the Destroyer, weapon raised. The gargantuan slam and a few well placed rockets from Roland bring the Destroyer down to a quarter of the original health.

Brick: HAHA! THIS IS AWESOME!

I pull a chip from my pocket as I duck behind a boulder and place it  into my ECHO HUD. A red figure flickers to life in my vision as her holographic form stands up and brushes her arms of any imaginary dust.

I leap from my spot, noticing the large dip in health during my time behind the pillar.

Steele A.I: Lieutenant Crimson, what the hell happened!?

My gaze meets her stern one and I feel a tear well up. I temper my nerves and leap onto the Destroyer, knife in hand.

Crimson: This is for Commandant Steele you son of a bitch.

I stab my blade I to its eye and start to cut my way down, it's health trickling away. Right before I can land the final blow, brick's hammer flies into the Destroyer's eye. It explodes into a shower of blood, guts and loot. Glorious loot. I hit the ground flat on my back and groan in pain.

Vault hunters: We did it! We killed the Destroyer!

They walk around gathering the loot that they wanted, it being digistructed to their inventory spaces. I look to my right and notice an pearlescent rarity sword on the ground.

The HUD couldn't even come up with a name for it. It appeared to be several hundred years old, yet also brand new at the same time. All the HUD could tell was that the blade was corrosive.

A few days later, just outside of Old Haven

I stand in front of a large hole in the ground, a red coffin with the Atlas logo on it laying in the ground. I don't want to open it, what lays inside, is something I can't take

Steele A.I: I'm in your head you know. I'm not exactly dead.

Crimson: I know, but now things are different. While your conscience is alive, you are dead. And I need to find Felicity. I can't lose her. Not for good.

Steele A.I.: Oh, so you have problems with being left alone, you fear loss.

I click my tounge in annoyance and place my knife into a gap in the box without opening itand start burying the coffin into a grave marked "Commandant Helga Steele: a loyal soldier who made a bad choice." I pray for a moment before walking away, making a cross as I walk. Touch the head, then the sternum, left shoulder, right.

Steele: You are ridiculously overdramatic

I chuckle quietly while unsheathing my sword, dubbed molecular Scathach, and walk into the desert.

Present

The sun continues setting as we get back to modern day Sanctuary. Athena looks heavily annoyed and Lilith as some point got a box of Moxxi's pizza.

Crimson: And that wraps up the first chapter of my story! Can I get some feedback on my storytelling?

Lilith: One question, when did you get that robotic forearm?

Athena: Can you please just get rid of him already?

I laugh at Athena's response and look directly at Lilith

Crimson: Can you let me go now? I'm getting really bored just hanging here.