the introduction sequence introduces the 5 new vault hunters, lured on any train by handsome jack, like they are ambushed by hyperion robots and also the train is destroyed, leaving them for dead within the whole frozen wasteland. when waking, the surviving vault hunter is rescued via the last claptrap unit and is taken to actually his home. the guardian angel contacts the new hunter and explains they will are there to assist and to maintain the claptrap unit safe and also to head to actually sanctuary, the capital of one's resistance movement, the crimson raiders. when acquiring a weapon the vault hunter is cause liars berg and meets with sir hammerlock. when serving to hammerlock, the vault hunter assists claptrap in retrieving his ship from captain flynt, the native bandit leader. the vault hunter successfully defeats flynt and with claptrap in tow, heads for sanctuary. when arriving, the vault hunter is tasked with proving his worth and successfully is inducted straight into the ranks of one's crimson raiders. coming into sanctuary, the vault hunter is now tasked with rescuing roland, the leader of one's raiders. an echo-communicator direct from bounty hunter known as firehawk demands the vault hunter to fulfill with him to actually acquire roland. when fighting through many bandits, the vault hunter meets with firehawk that is revealed that should be lilith, a previous vault hunter. as a result of the introduction of giant quantities the most substance called eridium, lilith is currently vastly additional powerful currently being a siren and was tasked with keeping the bandit clans in check with roland targeted inside the resistance. lilith tells the vault hunter that the native bandits have kidnapped roland and make plans to sell him to actually hyperion.
assaulting the bandit stronghold, the vault hunter meets roland during cell, other then hyperions loaders attack the facility and retreat to actually extract roland. following the loaders, the vault hunter successfully rescues roland. accompanied by lilith, the cluster heads here we are at sanctuary to actually reassess the situation. obtaining data that the vault key will just be transported by a native train, the cluster head to actually assault the train. meeting up with former hunter mordecai and psychotic orphaned 13-year-old little tina, the vault hunter successfully derails the train. upon attacking, the vault hunter encounters wilhelm, a hyperion cyborg. when defeating him, the vault hunter learns that the key was never inside the train, other then take wilhelms energy increase because it could possibly be useful. roland tells the vault hunter to actually plug the energy increase into sanctuarys protect generator. in spite of this, upon plugging it in, angel speaks when using the player and apologizes before deactivating the shields. handsome jack tells the player he has actually been controlling angel all along, even manipulating the events of the initial game, to actually acquire the vault key. upon rerouting power, lilith uses her siren powers to actually activate the spaceship beneath sanctuary, that prompts whole town floats towards the sky. lilith then teleports the town out of every handsome jacks attack vary. upon reactivation of one's sanctuarys fast travel station, the player meets back with roland.