When the Hyperion Corporation took over Pandora, everyone was in fear. If you weren't killed you were enslaved as one of the corporations, "workers". When you were a worker you would get a five to six second lunch break and you would be forced to listen to everything that the leader, Jack, had to say. If you were lucky enough to not be killed then you would most likely have to become a bandit or a marauder, And if you were to fall that low into the cycle of craziness, you would eventually start to become insane and all you could think about would be meat bicycles and salting wounds. Doesn't sound like much of a friend huh? Well I am here to tell you that one can befriend a psycho like that.
The story starts with a psycho named Kreig. He was a psycho but not the ordinary one. He was simply property of the Hyperion corporation. why? Well the rumor is that a man named Zen was experimented on and then his soul was implanted into a psycho and that both the psycho and Zen could talk to each other. The worst part is that Zen cant control the psychos voice. He just kinda says what he says.
Now you might be wondering who could be crazy enough to befriend one of those "monsters"? Well, someone that has lots of patients. His name was Zer0. His story was that he was obsessed with knives,rifles,and death when he was a child. He used to build swords and sneaking suits designed from traffic signs and sheet metal. He didn't like his face to be shown so once he grew up he vowed never to show his face to anyone. Crafting masks and painting his own armor for certain jobs and assignments, he would go and assassinate different politicians and high ranking military officers and captains for money. Once the four vault hunters opened the vault, Zer0 would go after higher ranking officials just so he can grab some of that valuable eridium that was highly banned and restricted by Hyperion. Hyperion actually had over 90% of the eridium sources plugged up or mined out for reasons I will explain later. Anyway you might be wondering how Zer0 and Kreig got to be such good partners.
Well it all started in the frozen wastes of southern shelf. Zer0 was on a train to meet Jack, who at the time appeared friendly to Zer0, that was until things took a turn for the worst. The signs in the train went out and changed to "Nothing personal". Hyperion robots flooded the train and then dispatched one of the known sirens in the universe, Maya. As she laid lifeless on the cold ridged train floor, a Spanish midget named, Salvador took out three of the twelve loaders and screamed,"I AM INVINCIBLE!". He was then launched out of the side of the train by a Hyperion JET loader. The only two alive were Zer0 and a bounty hunter named Axton. As Salvador and Maya were being decimated by the Hyperion forces, Axton was on top the train with his turret killing waves upon waves of the Hyperion loaders. Everything seemed to be going alright until a group of three engineers crept up behind him. Right before the engineer's hydraulic arm punched threw Axton's frail back ripping apart anything that was in the way, Zer0 slashed the Engineers arm off mid punch. The momentum of the hydraulic punch was still present allowing Zer0 to literally launch the arm threw the Engineers chest, threw the other Engineer behind him and finally knocking the third Engineer down. Zer0 snickered and slowly walked over to the down Engineer. Zero muttered,"How would you like to die?". The Engineer, frightened, simply babbled," P...PLEASE!". Zer0 finally pulled out his katana rested it against the Engineers throat and ended his life with a slight side swipe. Zer0 then put away his katana and pulled out his Maliwan corrosive SMG. Zer0 looked at Axton. Axton was horrified and asked,"What are you?". Zer0 said nothing and hopped down into the train car. He made his way into the trains front and approached a locked door. Zer0 stabbed the lock and opened the door. With his katana in hand, he looked around and found a seat with a figure that looked like handsome Jack. The seat swiveled around. Zer0 raised his sword and prepared to strike at the figure. He studied the figure once it was illuminated by the light. All the figure was, was a stuffed doll of Jack. It said "Goodbye" on it and was held up by a bundle of explosives. A speaker rang in and the door that Zer0 "unlocked" with his sword was blocked by a unbreakable shield door powered by a SH-3ILD Loader. A semi deep voice sarcastically said," Looks like the assassin is about to be assassinated". Zer0 looked around for a way out of the death trap. He was unsuccessful. A ringing beeping sound coming from the explosive pile filled the room. The voice then said,"Nothing personal, right?". The train Exploded knocking Zero unconscious.