The Beginning of a New Life
A train blows up and 5 people go flying onto the frozen ground. In this ragtag group is a soldier with little honor in the battlefield, a space witch with powers beyond our knowledge, a dwarf with a streak of mass murders and little self preservation, and a samurai cowboy.
My name is Clint McCree and my life is a weird one. I was a normal guy in high school back on Earth. I had friends, played sports, played video games, and the most important thing on my mind was if I had a test next week. Life can throw you some curveballs now and then, such as me being set into a new body out of nowhere. The new me was a kid no older than 8. He lived in a middle of nowhere town with his mom, dad, and sister. The place we lived was a complete shit hole, no kind of modern technology, few other families, and most importantly the places was in the process of being raided by bandits on fucking dinosaurs. The bandits burned the town and took the resources. My parents died in the attack, which forced me and my sister to move to the closest big town of Vestige. By the time we got to Vestige we were able to figure out why the town was attacked. A group called The Company just left this planet for dead, now most of their workers that couldn't leave turned to banditry.
As me and my sister got settled in at Vestige the death of our parents set in for her, as for me not knowing them for very long I wasn't hurt by the pasing. So I had to find a way for us to live while in Vestige, this led me to 2 options: I work for the law or against it. My choice was made easier as in the time I took for us to settle in 3 different sheriff's had been killed by the largest group the devil riders. The devil riders were the group that attacked our town. I didn't want to work with them but the competition was small and getting smaller as they expanded. I joined the group with some other kids. The group was mostly lackies for the higher up in the devil riders.
As the years went on me and a few others from the group stood out. The ones that stood out was the leader of our group Rose, she was a black haired Asian looking grilled. She was really good with the saurians that the devil riders ride. The muscles of the group was Kormash, he was a mountain of a man with a rough face and a lot of the dive rider tattoos. We also had a girl a bit younger than us named Juno, she was another mountain of meat. Juno had a set of codes she would follow when fighting, even with these codes it didn't stop her from gaining the name butcher. Finally there's me. I was the gunman of the group. My appearance shocked me as I grew into it. I look almost exactly like McCree from Overwatch, funny how the universe works with our last names being the same. As I already had the man's face I decided to dress like him too just adding some eastern flair to the pancho he wears. I had mine designed in a cherry blossom pattern. My main weapons were a trusty Jacob's revolver and a devil rider's katana. The devil riders brought from a mixture of classic Japanese and Asian influences, along with the classic American Western. The devil riders tattoos that all higher members have I got on my left chest and arm, as I had an unfortunate accident with a hungry saurian and my left arm.
As my time in the devil riders went on I found out I was in the Borderlands universe. When I found this out I was excited as the game series was one of my favorites and I would love to meet some of the characters. When I heard about the first vault opening on Pandora I decided to leave the devil riders, unknown to me as a child that wasn't really an option without killing my way out so that's what I did as an 17 year old about to go from one uninteresting shit hole of the universe to an interesting one.
As I was making my way to Pandora over the next 5 years I gained a reputation as a bounty hunter. In the time I ran into some people I recognized from the main games I saw Zane Flynt, I met him as he was trying to kill me. I guess I messed with the wrong people and got one of the better hitmen on me. He tried to get me while I was on Promethea waiting for a trip to Pandora. He started by trying to snipe me from a rooftop. I moved to a back alley where the fight eventually turned to melee. At the end of the fight he had a gun to my head, while I had my katana to his gut. "We're at a draw here mate." Zane said. "Yes we are. How about this as a fellow professional I pay you what is on my head and we get a drink after?" I asked. "I like the way you think. I get paid, get a drink, and save a bullet." I don't remember anything after we got to the bar, but the hangover the next day I won't ever forget. I also saw Zero in all his haiku and mysterious glory every once in a while. Never too many meaningful conversations with him, but always good to see a friendly emoticon every once in a while.
As my trip towards Pandora was coming to a close I stopped on Elpis just to see the Concordia even if all the main characters from the Pre Sequel aren't there.
Once I made it to Pandora I stayed around near Jack's Vault Hunter hiring stations till I saw one of the 4 form Borderlands 2. Mya was the one I found as her fish out of water look and siren tattoos stood out especially when they started to glow. I couldn't find any of the others because Axton fit in too well with the other ex-military ones, Salvador would be lost in any crowd with his height, and I would be hard pressed to find Zero if he was in the same room with me.
I was lucky enough to be put on the same transport as the 4 of them, time for the chaos to begin.