Background Info

At the end of Borderlands(1), the previous vault hunters open one of multiple vaults on Pandora, releasing a giant creature known as The Destroyer and defeated it. The opening of this vault caused an erruption of a resource called Eridium with unique properties and powers. A company called Hyperion, ran by Handsome Jack has been mining for eridium and collecting it for reasons I will reveal later. The opening cutscene of the game introduces us to our vault hunters and ends in a scene of them confronting a doll of Handsome Jack surrounded by explosives which then go off.

The Beginning

The game starts with our vault hunter waking up having survived the blast infront of claptrap. Claptrap celebrates we are not dead and that we an help him make it to a place called Sanctuary. Claptrap escorts us into his home when a creature known as a Bullymong named Knuckledragger drops in and rips Claptraps eye out. This is when claptrap tells you to grab the gun in his cabinet. After you aqcuire your first weapon you escort a blinded Claptrap through the first area of the game. As you progress through small herds of bullymongs you get messages from the real Handsome Jack. Jack ask us to off ourselves and save him the trouble because obviously a vault hnter may be an issue if he is looking for the vault himself. After continuing forward Claptraps vision turns back on, meaning Knuckledragger is close. There is a small intro cutscene and then you fight and kill Knuckledragger. Claptrap then mentions you need to find someone to put his eye back in. This is when Angel introduces herself as an artificial intellegance connected to everything Hyperion and opens a large Hyperion door blocking our way to the next area. Jack puts a bounty on your head for a large sum of money, which attracts the attention of some bandit groups in the area. One of which had overun a small town. After clearing out the town its sole surviver Sir Hammerlock introduces himself. He fixes Claptraps eye and restores power to the town. After fighting through the rest of the bandit clan on their turf, you and Claptrap take a ship to a new area.

Road To Sanctuary

When we enter this new area Angel informs us we will need a vehicle and sends us towards a Catch-A-Ride station. After she fails to hack into it Scooter yells at us for trying. After grabbing a chip off a Hyperion robot near to the station and inserting the chip into the Catch-A-Ride Angel succesfully hacks the station allowing use of a vehicle. With this vehicle we drive up to a gate and hit the comms. This is when a person from inside Sanctuary, the last peaceful city anywhere around, tell you to go away you filthy bandit but relizes your a vault hunter and connects your comms to Roland. Roland tells you one of his boys is lost and you have to find him. You find him where hes been killed and pick up the power cell he was holding. After returning to the gate with the powercell the gate opens and you enter Sanctuary.

The Firehawk

After entering Sanctuary and using the power cell to restore the shields around the city the gaurd at the inner gate tells you Roland has now gone missing and you must speak to Scooter about Rolands backup plan in case anything happened to him. Scooter instructs you to grab 3 fuel cells, 2 can be found, but one must be given to you by Earl(He wasnt important enough to introduce)after buying something from his black market. After inserting these fuel cells into certain slots around the middle of Sanctuary Scooter reveals plan b is making the city fly. This fails. This is when a inhabitant of Sanctuary calls you over to the base Roland uses and says there is a message for you. This message is from The FireHawk, a infamous bandit killer. The message exclaims that if you want to see Roland you must find her at her base. The area her base is in is flooded with a bandit tribe so after fighting through them we meet The Firehawk which is just Liliths nickname. After helping her finish off the bandit tribe she ask for help rescuing her boyfriend, well ex boyfriend.

Saving Private Roland

Lilith informs us that Roland was kidnapped and being held hostage by The Bloodshots, another bandit tribe. After approaching their base in a vehicle and honking to signal the gate they see its not one of their vehicles and reject us. After realizing we need to look like them our chracter takes a drive to meet Ellie. Ellie tells us if we can get the parts, she can recreate one of their vehicles so we do and she does. After tricking the bandits into opening the gate we enter their stronghold. After a long fight through we find Roland in a cell. This is when a large Hyperion robot known as a Constructor named W4R-D3N breaks through the wall and kidnaps Roland, again. After fighting through some other robots we fight and kill W4R-D3N, freeing Roland and returning to Sanctuary.

Freight Train

Roland informs us that the vault Jack is after houses a ancient alien beast known as The Warrior, but to awaken it he needs a "Vault Key" and whoever awakens the beast controls it. He then tells us to meet with his informant. After waking him up from his hangover Rolands informant Mordecai tells us that the vault key is being transported on a train and we have to stop and rob it. To stop the train we are told to find an explosive expert named Tina. After meeting Tina she ask us to find her bombs which have been stolen by bandits. After retreiving and returning them she makes them remote detonated and after you set them up at the right angle she sets them off, destroying the rails and crashing the train. When we approach the train we are confronted by Wilhelm, a tall cyborg who works for Jack. After defeating Wilhelm we realize the key isnt on the train but Wilhelm dropped a powerful power cell so we pick it up for use at Santuary since the last one we brought is running low. After inserting the powercell it is revealed Angel was loaded onto it and she works for Jack, lowering Sanctuarys shieds allowing Jack a orbital attack on the city. After grabbing some stored eridium and giving it to Lilith it is revealed sirens can absorb the power of the rock for a powerboost which she uses to phasewalk the entire city out of there but without us on it. With some help from Angel who may work for Jack but isnt with him we recalibrate Sanctuarys fast travel station and return.

A Great Loss

After reuniting with the squad Angel contacts us being met with untrust from the squad, but informs us of how we can stop Jack. Jack needs to use eridium to charge the vault key artifically since the key naturally charges every 200 years but can be sped up. Angel tells us where its being charged, in a facility on top of a mountain, but warns of the defences, a laser wall only Hyperion tech can pass through and a voice regonization system tethered to Jacks voice. Realizing Claptrap is Hyperion tech our next task is to go get him an upgrade cause he is old and unrecognized by the laser wall. This is when we meet Mordecai outside of the Hyperion Wildlife Preserve where Jack runs experiments with eridium on living subjects. This is when Mordecai tells us his bird Bloodwing has the upgrade on her collar but she has been kidnapped by Jack. After fighting through the preserve we find Bloodwing, who Jack has experimented on and powered up. After weakening Bloodwing Mordecai loads up a tranquilizer before Jack reveals he put a bomb in her. Rest in peace Bloodwing. We then grab the chip we need off her collar and return to Sanctuary.

The Slab King

Roland gives us a letter and ask us to deliver it to an old friend of his. Once we arrive and begin to fight through the bandit tribe they assume we are Hyperion and the leader starts to threaten us.(It's justified, they killed his dog)After we fight through their turf we meet The Slab king Brick who after realizing we are not with Hyperion gives us an initiation to his tribe AKA killing all its members. When we give him the note(Roland requesting his help because Brick owed him a favor)Brick agrees to give us backup as we fight up the mountain.

The Body Double

One last problem and we have a solution. We make our way to Opportunity, a city being built by Hyperion in search for one of Jacks body doubles. Each double has a watch that can record audio so we kill one and take it. We then go around the city getting clips of Jacks voice which we send to Angel who makes us a voice module with jacks voice.

The Bunker

With all the pieces we need for our plan we begin our journey to find the vault key. We meet Claptrap outside the laser wall and let him go through and he deactivates it. We then start to scale up the mountain fighting Hyperion bots and soldiers on the way up with ammo and health drops from Bricks tribe. After reaching the top we are on a large platform where jack reveals The Bunker isnt a place but actually a giant weaponized drone called BNK3R meant to gaurd the facility with the key. After defeating BNK3R we take an elevator where we use Jacks voice to say a password and get through, the password being "I love you", you'll see why.

Angel Core

Once we reach the bottom there seems to be a singular circular room which when we enter it turns all digital and Angel reveals herself as a human but also a Siren.(Her power is known as Phaseshift, allowing her to communicate with electronics and such)She informs us Jack needs a siren to use the power of eridium to charge the key and this is when Angel reveals we have to kill her to stop Jack. As we start to shoot Jack puts sheilds around her. As we disable these shields it is revealed Angel is Jacks Daughter. Sadly we kill Angel and as we are calming down Jack teleports in behind Roland, Shooting him in the chest and killing him. Rest in peace Roland. This is when Lilith charges jack but he puts a power dampening collar on her intending to use her siren powers to charge the key and demands she kills you. She instead teleports you back to Sanctuary.

Prep For Last Stand

Mordecai tells us we need to find where the vault is and informs us that there is a Hyperion data center so thats our next stop. After reaching a bridge that takes us towards the center it lifts up blocking our path. Brick then orders us to go rob a rival tribe of their bombs and we do. Brick then has his boys use the explosives to lower the bridge. We then realize we need to take a pipeline to get to the center, so how do we get inside the pipes. Mordecai then has a genius idea. Build pressure and ram it. We do. It works. After getting the the location of the Vault we return to Sanctuary for a regroup before our final stand against Jack.

The End

After talking to some residents of Sanctuary and getting whatever items they give you to help you on your last stand you start towards the vault. After fighting through ALOT of Hyperion bots and Soldiers you finally enter the vault and stand face to face with Jack. After a long fight you knock Jack to his knees where he crawls to the vault key and inserts it into its place. This awakens The Warrior and we hear a loud roar before we see it jump up in which Jack gives it its order. Kill. We then fight The Warrior and in traditional video game fashion we kill it against all ods. We then kill Jack and the Squad regroups when Lilith touches the vault key and it begins to project a map of vaults all over the planet. This is when our squad realizes they must hunt and open these vaults before anyone else stating "There ain't no rest for the wicked".