A/N: First and foremost thanks for reading. Even though this is one of many main retellings of the campaign of Borderlands 2, this will be completed. I am very dedicated and you can be sure to see the end of Part 1 and the start of Part 2 within a month … hopefully.

Chapter 1: Frozen Wasteland

Mission(s): My First Gun, Blindsided

"Great, another dead Vault Hunter. Handsome Jack's been busy."

Salvador groans and shifting slightly in the snow, he looks to his left then right. To his right Kreig's legs stick above the snow. To Salvador's left he sees Gaige way off in the distance; she gets up and spots Salvador lying half buried in the snow almost immediately.

The high-pitched robotic voice from before speaks again and Salvador sees a claptrap unit in front of him.

"Wait a minute - you're not dead! YES! Now I can get off this glacier! Claptrap, your metaphorical ship has finally come in."

Salvador finds strength now knowing both his friends are alive albeit a cold, and heaves him self out of the snow. He stands there out of breath, and listens to the robot.

"Allow me to introduce myself; I am a CL4P-TP steward bot. My friends call me Claptrap! Or they would if any of them were still alive, or had existed in the first place. Oh I've got something for you."

Salvador reaches into his pockets and only finds two items, two broken ECHO communicators. He shoves them back in his pockets, knowing that with the extra parts among the corpses Gaige could build knew ones for her and Krieg.

"Here - Take this ECHO communicator that I totally didn't loot from one of these corpses! It comes with a class 12 heads up display, complete with a minimap. Now – come, come, friend. Let's get you inside."

Salvador feels a hand on his shoulder and nods his head to Krieg; he then gestures with his left hand to Gaige who is having some trouble breaking her way through the deep gathering snow. Krieg, somehow oblivious to the cold trudges over to Gaige, and puts and arm under her arms helping her up.

Claptrap buzzes on, "Man this is great! Now that I've meet a mighty Vault Hunter, I can finally join the resistance in Sanctuary, take vengeance against Jack for killing my product line, and repair my central processor so I stop thinking out loud! I wonder what it's like to have a belly button?"

Listening to the chatter of Claptrap, to try and keep the cold at bay, Salvador lifts his feet out of the snow and gingerly places them on top of the fresher snow. He's weight is held, and this leads Salvador to believe that there is ice under the snow. Also using his intellect that he rarely shares with anyone, Salvador concludes that the heat of the train explosion must have melted the ice where he had fallen.

Krieg now carrying Gaige joined Salvador. Taking the role of leader for his little group, Salvador trudged forward and Krieg and Gaige followed behind staying quiet the whole time.

Salvador sees an image of a very pretty lady appear before his face, above his line of sight but still existing in his peripheral vision. The other two aren't reacting to the lady's voice and Salvador knows this is because their ECHO communicators are broken. Salvador is glad that he somehow kept the two broken ones.

"I'll explain everything soon, but know this – you're alive for a reason, and I… am here to help you."

The walk feels long, and after a few minutes Salvador feels his limbs beginning to numb. He realized that his health was sitting dangerously low, that and his adrenaline wasn't pumping keeping his body moving therefore warm. The short but muscular man tried not to think about skinny high school aged Gaige, she was having a worse time then either him or Krieg.

"Congratulations, your ability to walk short distances without dying will be Handsome Jack's downfall," Claptrap says.

They come to a door, built into a metal structure stuck into the ice. Claptrap stands in front of a door with a scanning node sitting in the high middle of the door, and speaks, "And open!"

As soon as Claptrap speaks the door's node scans him, and opens after the system's satisfied.

"Just a little added security Gotta keep those Bullymongs at bay, or they'll rip your eyes out!" Claptrap explains.

Salvador turns around and Krieg almost shoves him saying, "Keep trudging small man, the smart one's blood will freeze." Salvador can tell that the cold was getting to Krieg; he usually yelled almost indiscernible nonsense most of the time. Salvador turned back around and went through the door, by the time he did Claptrap was gone.

Trusting that it couldn't have gotten far, Salvador lead Krieg down a tunnel whose sides were constructed out of carved blocks of ice, and metal circular supports every 20 or so feet. Here and there were a few dead claptrap units, which didn't excite Salvador in the least. Now Salvador know the cold was getting to him, because usually dead things excited him because that meant something mean and nasty was lurking nearby.

The small group of three kept walking farther until they came to Claptrap's Place; Salvador knew it was called that because that's what his ECHO called it.

Claptrap says, "Sorry about the mess, everything Jack kills he dumps here – bandits, Vault Hunters, claptrap units … if I sound pleased about this, it's only because my programmer made this my default tone of voice! I'm actually quite depressed."

Salvador looks around and directs Krieg to a furnace saying, "Over there amigo." Krieg trudged over to the marginally warmer room to the furnace, he deposited Gaige in front of the furnace, and after a few seconds she began to stir.

Claptrap continues, "Now, the creatures around here are dangerous, none more than this Bullymong named Knuckle Dragger – killed everyone I know. Anywho, I keep a pistol in the cabinet over there for emergencies, but in here we should be pretty safe."

Suddenly there was a roar from above, and a giant blue Bullymong with ice white fur jumped down from a hole in the ceiling and swung around the furnaces exhaust pipe. The creature landed and grabbed Claptrap, swung him up tore out his shiny eye, and swung/climbed back up the furnaces exhaust pipe and out into the frozen wasteland.

"The gun, the gun in the cabinet," Claptrap said weakly.

Krieg nods to Salvador, and the Truxican walks left from the furnace to a cabinet. He, being devoid of weapons, decides to take what he can when he can. It was a dangerous new world, and Salvador knew that he couldn't afford to be picky … for now.

The pretty lady says, "Once upon a time, four Vault Hunters changed Pandora forever. But their time has passed – thanks to Handsome Jack, Pandora needs a new hero … I know that hero is you."

"Apart form the excruciating pain, this is great! I've been waiting for a mighty Vault Hunter reach Sanctuary! I will be your wise leader, and you shall be my fearsome minion!" Claptrap said enthusiastically.

Salvador goes back to Krieg, and tells him the current situation. Salvador ends up repeating his instructions once Gaige regains consciousness; how she got unconscious in the first place Salvador concludes he'll ask her later. "Listen, we need to move now. I'm the only one with a gun, but I'm sure we'll find some more along the way. It seems like almost everyone here seems to think that I'm the leader of this little group, and if that's alright with you two amigos then that's alright with me."

Gaige nods and holds onto Krieg, and they walk off following Salvador. The Truxican knew that those two wouldn't be much help in a fight just yet, Salvador felt confident enough in his abilities to handle whatever awaited them … as for Knuckle Dragger, Salvador felt like he might need some help from Krieg when that fight arrived.

"Great! Just let me get this door open and we'll hunt ourselves a Bullymong," Claptrap says.

They stand in a second room, with an active Fast Travel station. When Salvador uses it he realizes he doesn't know any of the coordinates to the other locations. Ignoring it, Salvador brings up his pistol and reloads it, checking the firing mechanism as well. Salvador loved guns, almost as much as he loved drinking so he was pretty knowledgeable about how to take care of a gun.

Claptrap says, "Onward, seeing eye minion! Let me know if I'm gonna run into anything. Ah! I'll just assume you didn't see that!"

Salvador stops himself from chuckling, he knows Gaige is still in pain from the cold – he basses this off of the painful teeth chattering gasps coming form behind him. Gaige then sneezes and Salvador fears that she's come down with the cold. Salvador stops a moment, and takes the last two remaining med hypos he got from the cabinet. Giving them to both Krieg and Gaige, Salvador hopes they'll be enough and moves on.

Claptrap explains, "Even though Knuckle Dragger blindsided me, I know my way around this glacier. I bet ya will find my eye in Frostbite Crevasse."

"Stick close to the robot – he will help you get off this glacier and into the city of Sanctuary. That is the only place you will be safe," the pretty lady says.

The group moves into an area that is basically a dead end. Ice walls surround them and Salvador hears a roar.

"Ah! I hear Bullymongs! Sic 'em minion! PROTECT ME SQUIRE!" Claptrap yells.

"Stay back you two! You don't have a gun I do, let me handle these chumps!" Salvador yells, and then readies himself. About six small Bullymongs show up, and thanks to Salvador's recovering reflexes and good reloading skill he manages to take them out with his pistol. Salvador reloads a couple times thanks to some ammo he had found along the way. Some more small Bullymongs break through an ice wall; after Salvador kills them a way onward is open.

"Let's go! If we don't get my eye back, we'll never get to Sanctuary," Claptrap says.

They continue to trudge onward, the hypos are helping but as Salvador looks back while following Claptrap (who is currently showing his knowledge of the glacier by running into parts of the ice surrounding them and changing course) he sees that Gaige still is covered in ice. Her skin is slightly blue, and Krieg though how meaty he is isn't doing much better.

Salvador then realizes that they must have been in the snow for a while; he realizes they must have been because Claptrap doesn't move that fast and hadn't awoken him and the other two for a while. Suddenly as they walk through an icy archway the ground itself shakes.

"Ugh – AGAIN?! Jack's tearing Pandora apart to find the Vault. They say Jack's drilling operations are causing those earthquakes, that or your mom just got out of bed. ZING!" Claptrap says jokingly.

Since the robot is helping them, Salvador lets slide the jock about his mother. They continue onward for few more feet then the pretty lady appears before Salvador again.

Angel: You'll need that funny little robot's help to reach Sanctuary, the last bastion of the resistance against Jack, and the only place you'll be truly safe. Get to Sanctuary.

Moving forward, Claptrap's blindness causes him to fall off the edge of a cliff. Salvador manages to stop him self and the others from doing the same just in time. Claptrap falls in the snow, and appears unharmed. He is stuck however, and down below and ahead Monglets (small Bullymongs) come out of nest in the wall down below. Salvador takes position at the top of the cliff and starts shooting down the Monglets.

"Hey, what's that noise? Are you fighting?" Claptrap asks.

Salvador manages to take out the Monglets as they jump up the cliff, but when a slightly larger Bullymong jumps up the cliff it knocks Salvador backwards. Gaige rushes forward, low to the ground and gets under the Brat Bullymong. She swings upward with her robot arm, and punches a hole in the Bullymong's chest.

"Great! Now get me out of here before more Bullymongs arrive," Claptrap says.

Salvador jumps down the cliff and lands on the ground without … any mishap. He calls back up the cliff, "Hey guys I didn't take fall damage!" Gaige replies with something about low terminal velocity, but Salvador is content with no fall damage.

Both Krieg and Gaige jump down, and Krieg pulls Claptrap out of the snow and sets him down in one swift movement.

"Hey, kiddo. Jack here – President of Hyperion. Lemme explain how things work here: Vault Hunters show up. Vault Hunter looks for the new Vault. Vault Hunter gets killed. By me. You seein' the problem here? You're still alive. If you could do me a favor and off yourself that'd be great, thanks pumpkin."

While listening to Jack drone one, Salvador comes to what is obviously a shell of a Hyperions supply crate. They move forward up a slope and come to an open area hemmed in by walls. Near the back of the area, a slope leads up to the back of a Hyperion barge stuck in the ice.

"Oh! My eyes just switched back on! I see a tough looking minion, and an incredibly handsome robot! Which means that whoever has my eyes – is very close!" Claptrap says in fear.

Knuckle Dragger appears and grabs a flaming car, raises it above his head and throws it down smashing it into the ice and announces him presence. Salvador takes his pistol and begins firing on Knuckle Dragger, he has no idea if the bullets are having any effect on the creature but Salvador keeps at it. "Amigos stay back! Take cover in that supply crate back there!" Salvador yells to Krieg and Gaige.

The fight is long wit only a pistol, and after 30 minutes of dodging reloading and constantly trying to actually hit some of Knuckle Dragger's week spots the giant Bullymong jumps back up the ice shelf. More roars sound and Salvador knows that more Bullymongs are about to join the fight.

"Oh god, they're coming out of the wall-sphincters!" Claptrap yells.

Several Monglets and a few Brat Bullymongs jump down from the nests in the walls. Krieg joins Salvador for a moment, and using his buzzaxe slices up the small threats leaving Salvador to focus on Knuckle Dragger. "Where'd you find you're killing stick, Krieg?" Salvador asks.

Krieg responds with, "THE SMART GIRL HAD FOUND IT IN THE SNOW, AND I WILL NOW USE IT TO PAIN THE SNOW RED WITH BLOOD!" It takes some time still until Knuckle Dragger jumps down from his precipice, but when he does Salvador shoots his head with his pistol and Krieg buries his buzzaxe into the creature's side. After a minute of Krieg's mutilation, Knuckle Dragger finally falls dead.

"Woohoo! If you would, retrieve my eye for me. Oh, and I apologize for saying "wall sphincters" I say that a lot when I'm frightened," Claptrap says.

Salvador fins a revolver dropped from Knuckle Dragger's corpse. He picks it up chuckling, "I bet Gaige will like this, it must have come form a Vault Hunter Knuckle Dragger devoured." Gaige hobbles over, still not fully recovered from her freezing/frightening experience with the train wreck. Salvador hands Gaige the revolver still covered in blood. Gaige grins, but even Salvador can see that she's forcing it through serious pain.

Salvador looks over Knuckle Draggers corpse, or what's left of it, and picks up Claptrap's eye. After doing so Claptrap speaks.

"Got my eye? Great! Now we gotta find someone to put it back into me. Much as I'm sure you'd like to jam your fist into my skull, optic surgery is best left to professionals – my pal Hammerlock in Liar's Berg can fix me up. Alones-y," Claptrap says.

After that they four of them go up the slope, which curves up the ice wall to the left and connects with the back of the Hyperion barge. They reach a closed door, and a scanning system to the left of the door.

"Liar's Berg is on the other side of this Hyperion barge. What say we cut through it chum?" Claptrap says.

Claptrap wheels up to the scanning system.

"Ha! This door is Hyperion tech – child's play! Aaaaand open!" Claptrap says again.

The node activates and scans Claptrap several times, the scanning beam turns read and a robot voice announces, "Intruders detected. Locking door."

Claptrap turns to the three Vault Hunter and says, "Well, it was nice knowing ya! I hear getting eaten alive by Bullymongs, isn't such a bad way to go."

"Lemme get that for you. Executing phase shift," the pretty lady says. Salvador decides to call her Angel, since she looks like one.

Angel's voice tells Salvador, but not Gaige or Krieg. So it is a surprise for them when the door suddenly opens.

"You're welcome. Perks of being an Artificial Intelligence. I'm networked into almost everything on this planet. It's a long way to Sanctuary – please take whatever you need for the journey ahead," Angel says.

Salvador turns to Gaige and pulls out the two broken ECHO communicators and says, "You can fix these right/" Gaige replies that she can and goes and sits on one of the Hyperion ammo crates sitting in the barge. Krieg opens the red loot crate sitting in the middle of the barge, and finds a shotgun. Salvador takes the pistol back from Gaige, since she's too focused on the ECHO communicators, and holsters the two pistols.

Krieg feeling sorry that the genius child is defenseless goes over and hands her the shotgun. Gaige smiles nervously at Salvador, but the Truxican isn't watching so he doesn't notice the admiration in Gaige's look.

Claptrap says somewhat subdued, "Lemme know when you're ready to go meet with Sir Hammerlock, minion."