Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel

Story

The beginning of The Pre-Sequel starts some time after the events of Borderlands 2 and immediately after Episode 3 of the sequel game Tales from the Borderlands in the flying city of Sanctuary, where the three former vault hunters Lilith, Brick and Mordecai interrogate the ex-Atlas assassin Athena after capturing her. Athena tells her story, which began after the death of General Knoxx, when she received an offer from a Hyperion programmer named Jack to find a vault on Pandora's moon Elpis. She joins the other vault hunters Claptrap, Nisha, Wilhelm, Timothy and Aurelia in a spaceship headed for Hyperion's moon base Helios. On the way, they are ambushed by the Lost Legion, an army of former Dahl Marines led by Colonel Tungsteena Zarpedon, and crash-land on the moon base. After meeting up with Jack, they attempt to use Helios' defense system against the Lost Legion, but find that a jamming signal is coming from Elpis. They try to escape but are stopped by Zarpedon and a mysterious alien warrior, so Jack stays behind to fight them off and sends the Vault Hunters to Elpis with a moon rocket. After landing on Elpis, the Vault Hunters receive help from Janey Springs, a junk dealer who leads them to the spaceport city of Concordia. Here, on Jack's orders, the hunters enlist the help of his ex-girlfriend Moxxi to find the jamming signal. After raiding a former Dahl station, they find that the signal was set up by Meriff, the man in charge of Concordia, and Jack's former subordinate from Hyperion. Meanwhile, Zarpedon activates Helios' main weapon, the Eye of Helios, and fires a powerful beam at the surface of Elpis to stop Jack from opening the vault. Jack confronts and kills the Meriff in his office. With Concordia secured, Jack and Moxxi lead the vault hunters to the next step, retaking Helios. They infiltrate a Lost Legion base run by two Dahl officers, the Bosun and the Skipper, to find an artificial intelligence that Jack plans to use to build a robot army. After defeating the Bosun, it turns out that the Skipper, who has renamed himself Felicity, is the AI they were looking for. The Vault Hunters travel to a robot manufacturing facility, where Jack enlists the help of another Hyperion scientist named Gladstone to build his robot army. Gladstone suggests using his robot prototype, the Constructor, which can build an infinite number of robots. At first, Felicity agrees to work as an AI for the Constructor, but when she sees the violence done to her, she begins to hesitate. After being forced into the Constructor bot, she takes control of it and fights the Vault Hunters. Felicity is defeated and her personality is erased from the Constructor Bot. After obtaining his robot army, Jack and the Vault Hunters travel to Helios, enlisting the help of Moxxi and two former Vault Hunters, Roland and Lilith (who were vacationing on Elpis). On Helios, Jack ruthlessly kills Gladstone and the other scientists working for him after suspecting one of them of being a spy for the Lost Legion. The Vault Hunters defeat Zarpedon and her forces and reboot the Eye of Helios. It turns out that the Eye is actually the Eye of the Destroyer, the monster released from Pandora's Vault in the first game that Jack kidnapped and weaponized. The Vault Hunters, under Moxxi's guidance, inject slag (Eridium effluent from Hyperion) into the eye. In an attempt to reboot the computer, Moxxi, Roland and Lilith betray Jack and destroy the Eye to prevent him from gaining ultimate power. Seeking revenge, Jack and the Vault Hunters travel back to Elpis, where they discover that the Vault has already been opened, as Zarpedon mentioned before her death. The Hunters fight several Vault Guardians and defeat the last Guardian, the Deva-like Empyrean Sentinel. After the Sentinel is dead, Jack enters the vault but finds nothing of value except a mysterious symbol floating in the air. When he touches it, the symbol shows Jack a vision of the warrior. However, he is interrupted by Lilith, who stands in front of him and pierces the vault symbol, burning it onto Jack's face and disfiguring him. She teleports away, leaving a scarred and insane Jack who vows revenge on Lilith and all the "bandits" on Pandora who now plan to awaken the warrior to take over the planet. When Athena realizes that the hero who once saved her on Helios is no more, she leaves Jack's service. After Lilith finishes hearing Athena's story, she orders the Crimson Raiders to execute her over the protests of Brick and Mordecai. As they open fire on her, Athena is saved by the alien warrior who had appeared on Helios with Zarpedon and turns out to be one of the legendary Eridians. The Eridian warns the Vault Hunters of an impending war and that they "