The Vault Hunters watched as the kid in a long, white suit ran, his black combat boots digging into the ground. He formed a snowball out of his black-gloved hand, and threw it into Terramorphous' eye. Terramorphous fell down, and sprung back up, and threw the kid over towards the Vault Hunters. Zero noticed some cold air coming out of the kid's helmet.
The helmet was light-gray and metallic. It had a small, exposed, respirator-like device on the front. There were some light blue, glowing circles on it.
The kid created a huge wall of snow. He then made a bunch of snowballs on the ground. He picked them up, and started throwing them at Terramorphous. After literal days, He finally killed Terramorphous. He then said one thing: "Nevermore."
"Uh... Hi!" Gaige said.
"Nevermore," the kid said. Close up, his voice was extremely robotic, however it was possible to tell that it was a human, male, kid's voice.
"Who're you?" Axton asked.
"Nevermore," the kid continued. It seemed that this was all he would ever say.
"Freezing Raven is/twelve years-old and my brother./Why all the staring?" Zero asked, everybody turning towards him with wide-eyes.
"You have a brother?" Axton asked.
"What I can't figure out is why he keeps saying 'Nevermore,'" Maya said.
"WHY QUOTE 'THE RAVEN?!'" Krieg screamed.
"Favorite poem./'The Raven,' by Edgar Poe./Middle name Allan," Zero said.
"OKAY!" Krieg yelled.
"About my brother./I will tell you later, 'kay?/This should be alright," Zero said.
"So, since you killed Terramorphous, what do we do now, Freezing Raven, I think it was?" Gaige asked.
"Nevermore," Freezing Raven said.
"Call him Raven, now./He has always told me that./I hope it's okay," Zero continued, half-cut-off by Gaige, half-not.
"Let's just go. He'll respawn," Axton said, very annoyed.
"The loot?" Maya asked. Axton just gave Maya a look that said "No... just, just no," as he turned and went through the now-open treasure room. As they left, Maya began wondering what the hell was wrong with Axton.
Back at Sanctuary, Lilith was doing quite a bit of questioning.
"Would you fucking stop saying that?!" Lilith yelled, her head in her hands.
"Nevermore," Raven said.
"Why do you insist on constantly saying 'Nevermore?'" Lilith screamed.
"Nevermore," Raven said once again. Zero decided to step-in, frustrated.
"Lilith, let him rest./He just killed Terramorphous./Please, I'll tell you things," Zero said.
"Fine. Just... stop with the Haiku, okay? Then I'll let him rest," Lilith said.
"Alright," Zero said, hesitantly.
"That was easier than I thought it would be," Lilith said, somewhat excited. "Oh, and what's his name?"
"Just call him Raven," Zero said calmly.
"Um, Raven, you need to claim a bed. Anywhere, really, just go rest," Lilith said, slight annoyance in her voice.
Raven headed downstairs, and tried to get onto one of the beds. When he touched metal to get up to the top bunk, he quickly backed away, clutching his hand.
"Holy shit, that's hot!" Raven thought. He went over to a different bed, which, fortunately, didn't have a metal post that felt like magma, and climbed up. He slept.
Back upstairs, Zero was filling in Lilith.
"We're brothers," Zero began, "Not by blood, but by Maliwan's secrets. Project Magma, and Project Ice. I was Project Magma, but that story can wait for another time. Project Ice was a project to create a gun that shoots ice-covered bullets, designed to cause extreme cold-damage to anything it touched. "
"Wouldn't the ice just have frozen the gun?" Maya asked.
"I don't know," Zero explained, "Whether or not the gun malfunctioned, or what I heard was true, but what I heard didn't involve the gun malfunctioning. So, for now, I'm just going to say no. Anyway, when Raven shot, the air started to freeze, from the super-ice on the bullet. Normally, Raven would have been killed, but something in his body caused him to absorb the frozen air into his body, and allow him to start making snow-forts and have makeshift snowball fights."
"He sounds like a great ally," Brick said. "Don't worry. If anything goes wrong, I'll punch him."
"I wouldn't," Zero began. "The ice in his body can go through his suit, potentially freezing anything it touches. Oh, nobody try to take off his suit. He will die. The suit keeps the temperature around him at nearly Absolute Zero."
"Heh. Zero. I made myself sad for some reason," Mordecai said, amused then sad.
"Oh, nobody tell him about Project Magma or Project Ice. He doesn't know that we aren't brothers genetically," Zero said, worry in his voice.
"Why does he keep saying 'Nevermore?'" Lilith asked.
"Alright, I tell people that it's because The Raven is his favorite poem, but he actually uses it to symbolize the fact that the ice is causing him to descend into madness," Zero said.
"Okay. So, about Project Magma-" Lilith began, cut-off.
"HE SAID A DIFFERENT TIME!" Krieg screamed.
"I punch time," Brick said. With this, Zero walked out of the Crimson Raiders HQ and jumped from the balcony down to the ground.