"What do you mean he took Bloodwing?" asked Zen
"Yeah he took her after we partied." He said
"Whelp let's go get her"
The group then walked down to the gate and pulled the lever when the gate failed to open they frowned. Zen then smacked himself in the head. He walked over to the gate and pushed his hand against it. The gate froze and he tapped it. It shattered completely and surprised the engineers on the other side.
"Open fire on the Experiment!"
They took cover and started shooting.
"KRIEG LETS GO!"
"ROGER SNOWMAN!"
They jumped over cover and started running towards the enemy. An explosion happened and both Zen and Krieg went down.
"You think this changes anything? YOU'RE STILL DEAD!" Zen yelled
"I'll lick your spine clean!" screamed Krieg
As they got up soldiers started appeared, lots and lots soldiers. Krieg yelled "GET BEHIND SOME UN-FLESHY SUBSTANCE!"
Zen yelled "DROP THE HAMMER!"
As he took cover lasers started closing in on one point. As soon as they reached one point, it exploded and decimated everyone in the area. Once they looked up it was charred and burnt everywhere.
"What was that?"
"Experimental technology from Vladof."
They advanced through some enemies up to a giant gate that once they got there it opened. Out came an ultimate badass loader. It started to charge up its gun and once it opened fire Zen ran to the front. He threw his hands up and ice started to form a 400 ft wide and 800 feet tall wall rapidly. He started panting and blood started to drip down from his nose. He ignored it and then grunted in exertion and pushed his hands on the wall. Giant spikes shot out from wall and impaled the bot. The bot didn't die and Zen pulled out his revolver and fired. It hit the bot in the eye and it died instantly. All of the Vault hunters advanced to the container holding Bloodwing. They got there and opened the door the walked in and the room was empty.
"Looking for Bloodwing? Oh, I moved her a few hours ago. Somewhere a little more...dramatic."
"Lets just keep moving." Said Maya
They started to come out when they heard sirens. They ran out of the enclosures and saw that all of the gates had opened.
"Look out!" yelled Zen as he thrust his hand toward Maya.
She turned and saw an ice spear impaling a Badass Corrosive Skag. It wasn't dead yet so Zen pulled it to him and smacked its chest then threw it toward a group of enemies. When it reached them it exploded sending ice shards everywhere. The group looked towards Zen in shock. When they saw him they saw his nose was heavily bleeding.
"Zen your nose." Said Maya
"No I don't want any cookies Mommy."
"What are you talking about?"
"Five more minutes please." He said as he lay down.
"He passed out due to blood loss, he must have been bleeding for a while." Explained Zer0
"SNOWMAN MUST MAKE IT TO THE FREEZER OF ALL HOLY MEAT BAGS!" screamed Krieg as he picked up Zen and started running toward the waypoint. The group had to sprint to catch up with him. When they got there they saw Krieg had his axe in one hand and Zen in the other and was swinging them both at the enemies.
"Should we stop him?' asked Gaige
"Probably"
"Yeah lets stop him before he charges into the large group of enemies I just picked up on the radar." Said Maya
"KRIEEEEEEG THEEEEE PSYCHOOOOOOOOOOOO"
"OH GOD HE JUST RAN IN!" exclaimed Gaige
"Save him!" exclaimed Maya
They all ran over the wall that had been destroyed. When they got to the other side they saw that all of the enemies were dead either by fire or gashes. They followed the trail of destruction to an elevator where Zen was leaning on the wall catching his breath. Krieg was standing staring at an engineer who had just died.
"GET UP WALKING BAG OF SOUR CREAM IM NOT DONE POWDERING MY COCKATEIL FOR THE RIB CAGE SLAUGHTER!"
They ignored him and walked over to Zen who was still pale.
"You ok buddy?" asked Gaige
"Fine just can't use my powers for a little while." He replied
"Ok just hang back while we fight ok?" asked a concerned Maya
"Screw that noise. I'm going to be fighting with you just wont have my powers. You forget that I have other skills too right."
"Oh yeah."
They took the elevator down and walked forward and then Jack came back.
"Want Bloodwing back, huh? Shame - I've been doing some really interesting Eridium experiments with her. Hate to see her go, but heck with it—she's all yours"
When he finished that statement a part of the ground opened up and out came a monstrous version of Bloodwing.
"Oh my god..." came Mordecai's voice
"Just, just weaken her then I'll hit her with a tranq!"
The vault hunter sprang into action. Maya was firing a slag weapon and so was Gaige. Zer0 was in the back shooting with a sniper rifle. Krieg and Zen were up front with shotguns. Krieg had two, while Zen had one but it was shooting three times the rounds as Krieg. After shooting and dodging for a while Bloodwing was weakened. After she got hit with the tranquilizer she hit the ground and the Vault Hunters ran up to her and took the data. Then Jack spoke up
"You know how she had all of the Elements, right. That means all of them. Even EXPLOOOOSIIIIIVE!"
As he finished the group heard beeping. Bloodwing started to get up when her head exploded in a shower of blood and gore.
"Oh my god." Maya said in shock
"I'm gonna be-" Gaige said but interrupted herself by throwing up
"…" Zer0 remained in silence
"No…" Krieg said in disbelief
"Jack is going to die by my hand." Zen said with barely contained rage.
"God damnit, Jack! I'M GONNA KILL YOU! YOU HEAR ME?" screamed Mordecai
The vault hunters were leaving when Jack came on and started saying something about violins. They got down to the grassy area and Jack made himself known
"Woah woah woah - you didn't think you're getting out of here ALIVE, did you?"
Loaders started getting shot down from the Moonbase.
"Vault Hunters. Get down."
"DIE, ASSHOLES! SCREW YOU! SCREW YOU! VETE AL DIABLO, YOU SONS OF BITCHES!" he screamed in rage.
As he was screaming loaders were exploding due to Mordecai's efforts. They made it back to Sanctuary and Mordecai appeared right behind them. All of them walked back to the HQ in silence. When they got there everyone was solemn.
"I'm...sorry about Bloodwing, soldier, but we've gotta keep moving. Get that software upgrade to Claptrap, and we'll be able to get through the security field leading to Control Core Angel." Roland said
They walked over to Claptrap and gave him the upgrade. They ignored him and walked back to the HQ.
"Take this note to thousand cuts." Said Roland.
They walked to the Fast Travel station and left for Thousands Cuts. Once they got to Thousand Cuts they fought their way to the waypoint. Once the got there they dropped down into a room.
"What do you MEAN they ain't from Hyperion? Ohhhh - must be a new recruit! Alright, boys, let's put 'em through the ringer!" Shouted the Slab King
The Vault Hunters were fighting for a while against waves upon waves of slabs. After a while the waves start dying down and eventually end. The slab king jumped down and took his helmet off. Turns out the Slab King was really Brick one of the original four Vault Hunters.
"Slab King we got Hyperion mortar strikes incoming!" said one of his Lackeys.
The group didn't even wait for Brick to catch up they just sprinted out the door, eager to get some revenge. They got outside and Zen pulled his scythe out. Zer0 pulled his sword out, and Krieg his axe.
"This is a good sword/It helps me kill many foes/Thank you very much." Zer0 said to Zen.
"I'M LATE, I'M LATE, I'M LATE FOR A VERY SPECIAL DATE!" Krieg screamed hacking away at his enemies.
"Winter is coming." He said as something strange started to happen. It started to get foggy and cold. The enemies started slowing down considerably. Zen started to appear and disappear and every time that would happen a robot would explode. By the time Brick, Maya, and Gaige got outside everything was dead.
"What took you so long?" Zen asked from the top of the pile of bodies in the middle of the courtyard.
"I like you. But we have to destroy the beacons!" said Brick
"How many are there?" asked Zer0
"Three" responded Brick
"Lets split up"
"Two for each Beacon?"
"Yup"
"Ok Krieg, Maya you take the first one! Zer0 and Gaige will take the Next one and finally me and Brick will take the far one!"
"Got it lets move!"
The groups ran off Krieg was fighting if the Loaders while Maya worked on the beacon. After a while Krieg turned kicked the beacon and then smashed it in half. Zer0 and Gaige were at their beacon and Gaige saw the shield surrounding it.
"Pfffft that's child play"
She ran up to it and tapped different areas and it collapsed and she shot the beacon. Zen and Brick came upon the last one and found out it was guarded by lots of loaders.
"Hey Brick you ever seen the movie 28 Weeks Later?"
"Yeah why"
"Remember the Helicopter scene?"
"Yeah—Oh I see!"
He picked up Zen as Zen pulled his scythe out. Zen started spinning his scythe extremely fast. Brick then threw Zen as hard as he can. Zen cut through the Bots like a hot Knife through butter. He landed right by beacon and brought Samantha down like a guillotine onto it. It deactivated right as the other vault hunters came onto the scene.
"We done here?" asked Brick
"Yup lets head back"
"Gotcha"
The group walked over to the fast travel station and selected Sanctuary.
Once they appeared they all started to head for the HQ when Zen stopped.
"What is it?" asked Maya
"I just had ideas for weapons go do the last mission before we head to assault Control Core Angel."
He ran off into a building and almost immediately welding, hammering, sawing noises, and yelps of pain came from inside.
"He works fast." Said a surprised Gaige.
"That he does." Said Krieg
They kept walking to the HQ. Once they got there they received their mission and set off.
Zen was walking out of the house with burns all over his hands and face.
"Zen can you come here please?" asked Lilith over the ECHO.
"Yeah, I was actually on my way there right now."
When Zen got there he saw that the troops from all the companies were present.
"Why am I needed here exactly?"
"You are to pick three people to join you in an advanced training regime courtesy of Vladof. He calls them Head Hunters."
"When will I have time for this exactly?"
"After we assault the control core. We were able to predict that Jack won't be able to make a move for at least six months."
"That long? Really?"
"Yup"
A trooper walked up to them. "Sir, The Head Hunters will work as covert assassin's, demolition experts, and recon. Each one will undergo augmentations to enhance the body's abilities. Vladof has procured the experiments that Hyperion performed. He took them and perfected them to the point where anyone can have powers like yours, Sir."
"You mean people would be able to control the elements?"
"Yes sir."
"Henderson is a must."
He then proceeded to walk around the troops he stopped and inspected two different troops.
"Private Shepard forward, PFC. Kinsley forward."
The two came forward and Zen said, "Congratulations, you will moved up to the Head Hunter division and will be selected for Augmentations."
Henderson came forward and spoke, "We all knew you would pick me so I already under went all of it." He then made a ball of electricity "It will bring out your inner element and grant you use of it."
"Until we get Shepard and Kinsley up and running it will just be I and you repping the Head Hunters." Said Henderson
As he finished the other Vault Hunters came into the room.
"Ah perfect timing. I bear gifts." Spoke the Ice Wielder
He walked up to Gaige and gave her a new arm. It had four fingers and one thumb it was made to be just like her real one and was built just like it to. He pushed a button and the fingers turned to laser guns. (Arsenal's arm)
He then turned to Maya. He handed her a pair of bracelets that seemed to have multiple barrels on it. He then pulled a little lever on the inside and the barrels shot out lasers. (Black widow's Wrist blasters)
He turned to Krieg and threw him a shield. Krieg caught it and looked it over. It had three outer stripes yellow, red, yellow then it had an inner circle with the Vault Symbol in it.
(Modified Captain America shield)
"A shield?" asked Krieg
"Twist the handle."
He twisted it and out popped blades making it look like a giant saw blade.
"I will enjoy this." Spoke Krieg
"Zer0 catch."
He threw Zer0 a wrist piece Zer0 caught it and looked it over.
"Put it on."
Zer0 did and felt the instinct thrust his hand. He did so and a blade came out.
"See the little clip?" asked Zen
"Yes."
"Clip it to the bottom of your sword and throw it." (Assassin's Creed Hidden blade. And the Cable from Hiden's scythe.)
Zer0 did so and out came a small cable that allowed him to control where his sword went.
Wolfe Kingston came in and he carried with him two cases. He handed one to Henderson and the other one to Zen then left.
"That was weird right? That's not just me?" asked Zen
They all shrugged in response.
"Open them"
They looked over to Roland who had walked in.
"They are weapons."
The Heterochromic Ice Wielder opened his first. Inside was a bow. He picked it up and inspected it. It was a simple recurved carbon composite design. When he pulled back the string an arrow digistructed. (My version of Green Arrow's bow)
"He said that if you think of a specific arrow it would appear."
He thought of an arrow that would corrode anything it makes contact with. He pulled the string back and inspected the arrow that appeared. It looked a lot like the first arrow except the tip was a sickly green. He let it fly against a wall. Upon contact with the wall it started corroding the wall at a super rapid rate. Henderson started getting exited so he opened his case. Inside was a sledgehammer. The head of it was considerably larger than normal. (Two Handed Mjolnir, the description sucks I know)
He picked it up and swung it.
"I like this." Was his simple response.
They were talking when Lilith came back in.
"It's time."
-20 minutes later-
A lone Hyperion loader was walking around doing a security sweep. Suddenly an arrow impacted its face. The arrow started to spark and short-circuited the robot.
"Lets go." Said Zen as they snuck up to the giant death wall.
"Why are we sneaking again?"
"So it can be a surprise attack."
"DON'T WORRY MINION I WILL BE AS QUIET AS A MOUSE!"
"Target Acquired. Commencing firing."
"CLAPTRAP JUST TURN OFF THE DAMN WALL ALREADY"
"OH SORRY RIGHT!"
As Claptrap shut down the wall the group ran into the area. They started shooting at everything that moved. Buzzards flew overhead and were providing covering fire. Brick, who decided to tag along on the trip, was punching everything left and right. He didn't see a SWRD loader sneaking up behind him. Krieg saw this and twisted his handle then threw his shield it sawed through the robot like butter. It bounced off of a wall and back into his hand. A constructor came out and started shooting at the group. Zen fired a corrosive arrow at it. The arrow hit its mark dead on. The armor hull started to melt then Zer0 threw his sword and impaled it through the melted spot. He pulled out and swung it and cut through another bot. Maya was back to back with Gaige shooting lasers at bots. She called out to Krieg to pull up his shield. He did and she shot lasers at it, the shield reflected them and hit multiple bots. Henderson swung his hammer and hit one bot. He channeled lightning through it and created an arcing pattern, it jumped from one bot to the next. They cleared out the area and proceeded up the hill. The got to a giant gate and Brick walked up to it and punched it.
"Knock knock, bitches! Open up!"
It proceeded to completely and utterly disintegrate. They ran forward and saw a Super Badass Constructer land.
"I got this!" yelled Henderson as he ran up there as he ran explosions, rockets, and bullets impacted all around him. He ran up to the constructer and jumped, high thanks to his element.
"LIVING END!" shouted Henderson.
The minute he made contact with the constructer a lightning bolt came from the sky. It oddly looked like a giant cross. He noise the hammer made upon contact made a church bell like noise adding to the whole 'cemetery' vibe the attack had going. The group caught up to him and was impressed. In the attacks wake was a giant crater. The continued to advance through out the complex. They eventually made it to the bunker. After killing some AA guns the ground started to shake. The bunker actually rose into the air and started attacking the group minus Brick who had to go help some slabs that were pinned down. After firing back for a little while Zen got an engines idea. He started to make a cage of ice around himself.
"Cover me!"
They started to cover Zen as he did his thing. After about 20 minutes the air above the platform had been frozen into a giant spear!
"LANCE OF YMIR!"
With that the Spear plunged into BUNK3R killing it. They all regrouped at the door that led to the control core.
"The password is… I love you." Spoke Angel
"I love you" spoke Gaige in Handsome Jack's voice.
The door opened and they all went in. They piled on an elevator and started descending.
"I promise I'll make it quick for you. But I swear, you take one more step, every soul back in Sanctuary will die staring at their own lungs as I rip them from their chests." Spoke Jack
They ignored him and kept going. They came upon a button. Once they pushed it everything became grey and looked like they were in a loading sequence.
"I am not an artificial intelligence." Said a girl about the age of 20 who they assumed was Angel.
The group had varying reactions. Zer0 looked a little shocked. Gaige and Maya were speechless. Krieg looked just fine. Zen was blushing. Henderson was laughing at Zen's reaction. Right as Zen was about to grab her hand, she got yanked back to a shielded dome.
"Don't you get it bandit I will murder you if you try to take her away from me." Spoke Jack
"Ignore him, please get me out of here!"
"How?"
"Shoot the Eridium injectors!"
"But that will kill you!"
"I died long ago."
They didn't say anything but aimed at the injectors. Right before they pulled their trigger, shields popped up around the injectors.
"Oh no you don't shields up!" said Jack
As he said that advanced bots started to form.
"Vault hunters hang-" "ANGEL SHUT THE HELL UP!" screamed Jack
Zen getting flashbacks to when he was being tortured by the way Jack was treating Angel, started to shake in pure unadulterated rage.
"STAY OUT OF MY HEAD!" he screamed so immersed in his flashback forgot where he was. Krieg knowing what was happening pulled the group into the previous room, and to safety.
"Krieg what the hell?" asked Henderson
"Zen is having one of his episodes and when he is like that he has a hard time knowing the difference between friend or foe."
"Was it that bad?"
"Yes."
-Zen's POV-
I was seeing everything that happened to me over and over again. The tests, the beatings, everything. Lashing out at the nearest thing with my powers I froze 18 loaders in a line. I screamed out in pain, I looked down to see a sword through my chest. I started to shake from rage or pain not even I was sure anymore. It was like watching a movie; I had no control I just watched my body tear through waves and waves of Loaders. I saw that the shields had fallen and I looked up to see, what was his name again? Oh yes Roland he was my friend. I shot out an ice spear at the injector. It exploded in a shower of slag. This continued for a little while, me killing things and Roland trying to deactivate the shields. He got one more down before the light bridges shut down. When that happened a violent explosion of purple drew my attention. Standing there in all of her siren glory was Lilith, my friend. I did my best to not hit here in the crossfire as she helped Roland deactivate the shields.
-Normal POV-
The rest of the group came in as things died down. When they came in they stared in shock at the damage Zen had done. Half of the room was frozen and the other half was covered in robot pieces. As the last shield fell they destroyed the injector quickly. As Angel started to die Zen walked up to her.
"Do you trust me?"
"Yes I do."
"Good" He touched he forehead and she suddenly got cold and chilly. As Zen finished putting her in cryo-sleep he picked her up in a bridal carry, Roland walked up. There was a flash behind him that no one paid attention to. Right as he began to speak a bullet punched through his shield and tore through his heart.
"ROLAND!" cried Lilith "You bastard, I'm gonna -"
"What's that saying? Don't pick a fight with a man with nothing left to lose? I'm going to show you just how much you have left to lose - and I got the most powerful Siren on the planet to do it with. Lilith, kill the vault hunter. We've got a date to keep with the Warrior." Spoke Jack
Zen was growling like a caged animal. Jack actually took a step back but quickly recovered. Lilith turned to the group and started to glow, but instead of killing them she teleported the back to Sanctuary.
"What happened? What the HELL JUST HAPPENED?! First Bloodwing, now THIS?! Vault Hunter, find me in Sanctuary - we gotta get Lilith back"
They all started to jog to the HQ with the Cryo-sleeping Angel in Zen's arms. Once they made it back they explained to Mordecai what had just transpired.
"So that girl, is the 'Guardian Angel'?"
"Yes"
"Get her hooked up to life support. We need answers."
"Yes sir."
Zen hooked her up and started to thaw her out. Once she woke up she started to grow pale.
"Eridium" She choked out. Zen ran out of the room and ran back in carrying a chunk of the mystic purple stone.
She grabbed it and absorbed it into her body. Once it was done she grew some skin color back.
"How am I alive?" she asked
"I put you in Cryo-sleep."
"How?"
He poked her forehead and said, "Your old man messed with my body, remember?"
She blushed from embarrassment "Oh yeah sorry about that."
"It's all good. Kind of his downfall in a way."
"How?"
"He made a Mentally unstable psychopath with crazy powerful ice powers." He elaborated
"Sorry to break up this touching moment but Zen you have to leave for the Head Hunters." Interrupted Mordecai.
"Oh yeah" he chuckled and stood up moving for the door. Before he could though Angel grabbed his wrist.
"Take me with you. Please"
"Why?"
"I want revenge for all the years of torture."
"I don't think your stable enough for training."
"I can get over it in time. Please I want to give my part to help takedown Jack from power."
"… Are you sure?"
"Yes."
"Whelp okay let's go"
"Wait that's it?" asked Mordecai
"Yep" said Zen as he picked up Angel in a bridal carry, much to her embarrassment, again. On the way out he grabbed a bag of Eridium.
"Lets go bust some heads in Boot camp."
HAHA I did it. Let me know how I did. Next time it's after headhunter training. And yes Zen shrugged of a sword to the chest like it was a mosquito bite.
Vodka cookies here I come!
