Tales from the Borderlands

Chapter Two

~Chase's POV~

"What's taking so long?!" Rhys yells out in frustration. I looked up at Helios and saw a moonshot heading to our location. Then, a loud boom and a smoke cloud appears. Out of the cloud comes a Loader Bot.

"Yeah!!" Rhys cheered.

"Hi," Loader Bot said without a care.

"Loader Bot, destroy them!!" Rhys pointed to the bandits and let an evil laugh sip out. They switched their fire to Loader Bot.

"We're still not safe here, Rhys!" Vaughn informed him. Out of nowhere, a bandit jumps behind the car and aims a knife at us.

"Oh, crap," Rhys muttered. I quickly turned into my hologram form and went behind the bandit. He noticed me and tried to stab me. My hands lit up and I quickly shocked him. He screamed in pain and then went limp.

"Woah, what was that?" Rhys asked.

"I applied the same electrical wave as a stun baton and shocked him with it."

"How did you do that without touching the stun baton that Rhys has?" Vaughn asked.

"There's tons of them at Hyperion. They're in every office. I just memorized the electrical code and voila, I have free access to a stun baton in my hands without an actual one." I grinned at the end. Rhys was still looking at me with shock written all over his face.

"You should know. After all, you're the one who built and programmed me, Rhys," I said and put my hands on my hips.

"That was eight years ago! I can barely remember what I ate yesterday," he defended himself. I sighed and watched as Loader Bot was being pushed back.

"We need to get out of here before we're killed!" Vaughn scolded. Rhys and I stopped talking and nodded in agreement. Another bandit came out of nowhere and grabbed Vaughn's briefcase. He threw it into Vasquez's car and was about to drive away with Vaughn hanging out the side. He was handcuffed to the case. I shocked the car and it caught on fire. The bandit ran out of the car screaming and was on fire.

"Thanks, Chase," Vaughn said.

"No problem," I said and smiled at him.

"Hey, isn't that where we need to go?" I pointed to a sign.

"Yes! But....how do we get in the gate?" Rhys asked.

"Well, we have a huge robot that does anything you say, Rhys. Ask him to lift you two up and you can then jump over." With what I said, Rhys commanded Loader Bot to lift them over the gate.

Bandits started jumping all over the robot.

"Why must the universe always punish the good?" Loader Bot spoke and twirled around to shake off the bandits. One flew off and saw me. I was still on the other side of the gate. He started firing at me.

"Come on, Chase!" Rhys yelled. I held up a finger to signify one minute. Rhys tried to climb back over to help me, but ended up falling to the ground. I approached the bandit as he kept shooting. Fear was spreading all over his face as I kept walking forward. He couldn't understand why his bullets were going through me. He was reloading and accidentally dropped the clip.

"Oh, so close." I grin evilly and I shock him like the first bandit. I pass through the fence and stand next to Vaughn. Loader Bot came back and was protecting us from the gunfire again.

"Rhys, Loader Bot can't handle much more," I said as I changed to my physical body.

"Should he evacuate or self-destruct?" Vaughn asked.