A/N: Thanks for the reviews as always :D. Have to say sorry for how long it's been since I updated but I want you to know that I plan to finish this, it won't be left hanging if I can help it. Please enjoy what I have to offer for now even though it is a tad short for my liking.

Chapter 4

So the assassin waited and waited, but he didn't wait idly. He thought deeply about how he would tear and slice his captors' flesh, and he also gave thought his escape plan- of course. It was taking him a while to get used to his new body, he tried to hold his chin like he usually unconsciously would when in thought, as his new claws would scratch his mask, and he hated the screeching noise. Just as he was about to do it again though he noticed that he lift his robotic arm anymore, all the way from where it fused with the flesh in his shoulder it was busted. He sighed and wished that Gaige could be there to fix it; she always tweaked it for him- even though he could do it, with the right tools, himself. Ever since she had first insisted that she fix it for him and he had begun to let her, he realised that he actually liked the attention. He liked that they had something like this in common.

He smiled at the memory of when Gaige first found out that his left arm was actually robotic, much like her own digistructed arm(, except that his didn't digistruct anything). He prioritised using his left arm for critical strikes just for that extra power it boasted. Zer0 was once sitting on the roof Raiders HQ in the dead of the night. It was a night just like any other; a clear dark sky dotted with twinkling stars, the bright moon and that big ass Hyperion artificial satellite looming over Pandora . He thought he was alone on the roof, well he couldn't sense any life forms, so he felt safe enough to take just five minutes to check his robotic arm. So he carefully undid a hidden small latch which gave access to a hidden zip which he pulled open. Revealing the smooth metallic limb, he pressed a small button and the enclosing hissed slightly as it popped up and split sideways allowing one to look at the inner circuitry and connections.

"Wow!" Gaige couldn't help but gasp at what she had happened upon.

Yup Zer0 was caught at a bad moment, like someone sneaking up on you when you're half dressed. He quickly tried to close it up again but the seal was jammed.

"Dammit" He cursed. He whipped his head around to Gaige with a _ emotion displayed. He sighed audibly. "Come here Gaige", he beckoned in a monotone voice. He figured he couldn't hide it from her anymore, he wondered how she sneaked up on him.

"Yeah! So badass Zer0! And here I thought you couldn't even get anymore badass-er (I think thats a word if it ain't I'll make it one.) !" Gaige squealed as she hopped over to Zer0's side.

"Shhhhhhhh!" The assassin replied. "I'd rather you not wake anyone else up, this-" he pointed to his robo-arm, "- is meant to be a secret."

"Oh" Gaige clasped he hands over her mouth as she sat down next to him. "Sorry" She mumbled. Her hands lowered slowly to reveal the most manic/estatic/'Gaige is high' expression that Zer0 had ever seen. Her eyes widened and reflected a glint of the moonlight. Zer0 was actually a little scared by it, no rather he was thinking he should start to worry...

After like ten seconds of silence and Gaige just ogling him Zer0 thought he had enough.

"W-What are you staring at? Its not that unfathomable that I would-"

"Its just awesome! I was just thinking about how I could fix it for you. Lemme touch it please? Pretty please?" Even if he said no Gaige would just tie him down somehow and do it. She just itched to get into all those wires and components, perhaps he would let her take a few bits and bobs and make some tests and adjustments, and modifications and-

"...okay." He replied. She snapped out of her thoughts.

"Huh?" She blinked a few times. "Really!?"

He nodded she was a professional at this stuff right? It wouldn't hurt to have her look at it.

"Cooool!" She hugged him and Zer0 visor showed a :s . "Thanks" She grinned.

The young mechromancer immediately got to work for the first time out of many that were to follow. Zer0 watched in silent admiration and stayed completely still, she got out Deathtrap who shone a torchlight on the arm, he started handing her tools and holding the others too. Whenever she'd point to a few parts she had never seen before she eagerly lapped up the knowledge when Zer0 would explain.

It was when he saw how much she enjoyed doing her craft that he started to think that it wouldn't be so bad to let her fix it now and then. A few of Gaige's stray hairs were in her mouth and she was about to blow it out, instead of freeing her hands, before Zer0 used his free hand to brush the strands away gently. She felt a little spark, not unwelcoming at all, not at all. Their eyes met. Zer0 was wearing a helmet that resembled a ski mask so she could tell that his eyes were behind those goggles.

"Thanks" She whispered quickly and her gaze shifted back to her work, she was nearly done. Actually she could of done it faster but she wanted extra time to just examine the masterpiece. She clicked the encasing closed.

"No, I should thank you Gaige, you did a wonderful job."

It was Gaige's turn to blush now and she did so with a magnificent grin.

A banging sound from the door bought Zer0 back from his trip down memory lane.

The large door hissed and groaned before it slowly started rising upward, volumes of dust spewing from the crevices. A row of bodies stood at the door.

"My king!" They all proclaimed and bowed in unison.

No time like the present, the assassin thought.

Zer0 digistructed his katana, immediately going into stance and rushed forward, ready to decapitate them all save one who he would question and use as hostage. He would aim for the one on the far left since they were so conveniently lined up and looked about just ready to be beheaded. But none of this happened. When the first rat raised his head, someone had blocked Zer0's attack by holding his arm in a death grip and intercepted with his own- an injection to the back of the ribs. The other rats now stood aloof wondering what was going on.

"King? King? What is our King doing?" A whole group of rats started to cause a ruckus questioning and wondering.

"SILENCE!" Zer0's assailant bellowed behind him. The crowd quickly shut up, visibly scared.

Zer0 coughed and choked, he fell for the same trick again! What was wrong with him? He was losing strength again like last time...no not only the last time, he has felt this way before- numerous times. The hunter slowly turned his head around. The moonlight caught on Zer0's visor and reflected onto his attacker's eyes, glinting in a dark grey glee, the being that stopped him was no rat, it was a man.

"Y-you!" The assassin spat. (although he wish he hadn't the spit kinda went inside his helmet.)

"We meet again, number zero." he whispered.

Zer0 collapsed to the ground. His limbs were to weak and numb for him to even put up a fight.

"Take the king away, into the throne room now." The man ordered the rats. "He is still morphing and needs to rest in his throne now, that should help him remember his rightful place."

"Yessss, my liege." They replied, and promptly lifted Zer0 up, it took six of them to carry him on their shoulders.

Down dark corridors and up low lit staircases and lifts, around winding corners and over metal meshed floors. Zer0 processed the journey through blurred vision and dizzy consciousness.

They finally reached the throne room, it was hardly majestic the walls were just like the rest of the complex, but they were rats after all. The place was sparkly though, there were piles of shiny metals dotted around. The ceilings were high like Zer0's prison room. The room was more like an overlook, a huge horseshoe shaped balcony that looked down over a lower floor. It was only when they were more in that Zer0 noticed a huge window that spanned an entire wall on his right but he couldn't even look in that direction for too long, for the moonlight was even too bright for him now.

He was hardly aware that they had bound him and once he reached a sitting position on the throne that faced the window. He grunted and took his head to the side. They had locked hand cuffs over his arms that rested on the armrest. After a few whispers and chatter the rats left him to himself.

"Some king I turned out to be." Zer0 groaned.

His head was spinning with memories now ever since his eyes landed on that man that stopped his attack. What was he doing here? If Zer0 recalled correctly he was a scientist of Division 0, that was meant to be with Atlas. So why was he still on Pandora? None of this was making sense for Zer0: rats, king, Atlas, that needle. It all linked somehow...the needle, he had been injected twice now. Was he injected with the virus again? Would it accelerate his morphing into a rat? Or was it something else?

"Shit! Double shit!" Zer0 swore. "This is getting ridiculous now."

He felt exhausted and was starting to miss the comforts of his home. Yeah he could call Sanctuary a home now, funny that, he never had a home yet he found one with fellow looting, shooting, badass, kickass vault hunters. He started to miss them a bit now. Tonight was meant to be games night right? And he was meant to act in as the music source for karaoke too. He sighed, and he left things like that with Gaige aswell. He felt like such an idiot now.

He had to get out of this mess.