All the Vault Hunters regroup at Sanctuary where they prepare their next move on Arid Nexus to locate the Vault of the Warrior to rescue Maya and Amita, yet the absence of Zer0 slips their minds. Angel was resting on one of the bunk beds as Tannis looks over her. Once inside the Crimson Raiders HQ, Moxxi bursts through the doorway grabbing Roland by the collar, screaming in his face.

Moxxi-"Where's Amita?!"

Roland-"T..that's what we're trying to figure out."

Moxxi-"And her daddy?"

Brick-"Who?"

Salvador-"El padre's gone loco trying to find them."

Moxxi-"No shit, I can't even imagined how pissed that Zer0 would be if one of his children were harmed and I fucking let that happen. I failed Amita as a mother, damn it!"

Lilith-"Mother?...Anyway we need to keep calm if we're gonna save Maya and Amita, Moxxi."

Moxxi-"Maya was taken too?! Where's Kaz, he needs to know what happened."

Everyone, except for Mordecai and Brick, look away from her remembering a dreadful sight of Kaz being brutality murder by Handsome Jack, putting a concerned face on Moxxi.

Moxxi-"...What happened...to Amita's brother...Kaz?"

Lilith-"He was..."

Roland-"He was killed by Handsome Jack."

Moxxi wanted to break down hearing Amita's family literally falling apart, but never got the chance once everyone heard the sound of a someone slamming the door open. It was Tina with lifeless eyes and shaky arms bracing the wall to keep her from collapsing.

Moxxi-"Tina."

Tina runs out the door and Moxxi yells at Roland to follow her. Catching her at the fast-travel station, Roland tells her to calm down, but Tina under her breath tells him to let go. Keeping his grip tight around her arm, Roland tries to convince her that Jack will pay and everything on Pandora is going to be okay. Tina turns her head towards Roland, showing her eye's flooding with tears and trembling lips.

Roland-"I know he was a good friend, but let us handle it."

Tiny Tina-"No*hick*... I think Kaz deserves to be called *hick*something more than just a...good friend for making me want to kill *hick*shithead Jack this much. He was *hick* he was *hick* my Sir NinjaButt von MusicFace!"

Roland-"...Then we have to find Jack first, right? That is why you will promise me not to be reckless."

Tiny Tina-"You're really bad *hick* at sweet-talking, but even *hick* Kaz told me to be more careful."

Tina jerks her arm out of his grasp and walks back to the HQ, feeling exhausted from the news, she finds an empty bunk and falls asleep. Inside her dream, she replays the memory of Kaz walking Enrique, or more like being dragged around while she laughed like a maniac at the spectacle. Roland walks in to see Tina still shedding tears, but smiling in her sleep. Reaching the others, the mission "Data Mining" was on it's way.


While in the Eridium Blight, Zer0 stands in front of a gate to Hero's Pass surrounded by destroyed badass loaders and turrets. Zer0's true appearance started to show as his height increased by a foot, his skinny frame became more muscular, and his suit was torn even more from his body expanding showing claws, grey and black scales and the tail of a reptile. He impales the door with his sword and begins to force the blade to cut out a circle in the thick metal. In the matter of seconds, Zer0 gets through the gate and ascends up the stairs. Looking at the GPS, knowing Maya and Amita were at the end of Hero's Pass and Hyperion was in his way. Zer0 begins his rampage with some loaders and commandos facing an ill fate of getting sliced in half. This triggers the alarm and everyone was battle-ready for the assassin. Zer0 is hit with lead rounds, burned by lasers, and blasted by rockets, but Zer0 slowly makes his way to the end of Hero's Pass leaving behind Jack's Hyperion army in shreds. Though badly injured, Zer0 continues on without hesitation, fearing the safety of the two currently being held by Handsome Jack.

Limping with wounds all over his body and one arm missing, Zer0 stops at the ledge over looking a small area surrounded by a sea of magma. Zer0's GPS in his helmet shows his target nearby, so he gets a better look at the area. Walking closer, he can see Jack working on a console with his back turned on Maya who was currently hovering over the vault key with her siren wings out and groaning in pain as the key drains her powers. What made Zer0 lose his mind was when he saw Amita on the ground, tied up and unconscious next to vault key slot. Zer0 loses it and roars, leaping towards Jack with the intent to send him to the afterlife. Jack managed to turn around and dodge the attack at the very last second as Zer0 not only slices the console in half, but the hard rock beneath it too.

Zer0 just roars again as he attacks once more, smashing pillars. Jack now goes on the offense by going invisible, but he should have known better than to use Zer0's own ability in order to fight against him. With that said, Zer0 snatches Jack by the head, causing him to become visible and immobile. Struggling, Jack is then thrown into a rock structure where Zer0 could hear bones crack while Jack begins to talk to himself out of desperation to calm himself. Jack starts regaining his composure and rushes to the key. Zer0 watches as he pushes in the key into the slot, resulting in Maya descending back onto the ground and a shield to appear, covering them. Feeling a violent rumble on the ground, Zer0 comes face to face with the Warrior.

Jack-"This is for Angel, you child-killer. WARRIOR...KILL!"

The Warrior dives into the magma and emerges even closer to them.

Zer0-"Your child for this?/You are truly inhuman/Divine Punishment."

Jack-"You're inhuman and what punishment, I'm avenging by baby."

Zer0 drops his sword and readies his fist to smash through the shield. Jack only laughs until Zer0's claw finds his neck and pulls him out of the barrier. Once he puts Jack in between him and the Warrior, Jack screams at the Warrior to stop.

Jack-"I'm the hero, dammit. Bandits should all die!"

Jack starts wailing his arms and accidentally sets off the Moonshot delivering a deathblow to the Warrior. The Warrior stumbles and falls into the magma, creating a wave that starts swallowing up everything. Letting go of Jack, Zer0 quickly scoops up Maya and Amita with his only arm and starts running for the exit, but is stopped short when a shot rips through his leg, causing him to fall on his knees. Jack was on a small island surrounded by a fiery sea, aiming his gun at them. Zer0 being in the condition that he was in, thinks quickly and tosses Maya and Amita onto the ledge above, safe from the incoming wave. He soon finds himself engulfed in flames and swallowed up by the magma. Jack laughs seeing the fate of the assassin, but returns to a panic state, trying to figure out how to get out of the sticky situation. He starts cursing after the state of his teleportation device was confirmed unusable and decided to wait it out.

An hour passes and the other Vault Hunters arrive. Quickly aiding the sirens, they all come in view of a hopeless Jack, dying of thirst.

Jack-"A little help here."

Lilith-"You're kidding right?"

Roland-"Jack, you're finished. Pandora is the way it should be and ..."

Jack-"Yeah yeah, I lost okay. Now help me."

Maya-"Why would we save a child-killer, Jack?"

Jack-"The power drain get to your sensitive siren head, you are the scum that killed an innocent child, I've done nothing wrong."

Angel emerges from the group holding an unconscious Amita in her arms, causing Jack's jaw to hit the ground.

Jack-"Angel, baby, you're alive. You understand my intentions right? So, save your daddy."

Angel-"Just stop. You kidnapped my friend, used her like you used me, and worst of all, you took away her precious brother like you did with mother."

Jack-"I don't know what those bandits told you, but I'm still your father."

Angel-"Where's Amita's father, Zer0?"

Jack-"That thing had a child? Then I did everyone a favor by watching him burn. Monsters can't have children, if that thing had a child, he would probably eat it for lunch."

Angel looks down at Amita who was now alone, feeling the guilt that Jack should be feeling. Maya, along with everyone else remained silent after hearing the news. It was until a tall figure covered in magma emerged in front of Jack turning his smirk into a frown. It was Zer0 with his body heavily scorched to the point where you can see his bones on different parts of his body. What made Jack piss himself was seeing Zer0 melted helmet covering one-side of his face and on the other side, a burnt skull with reptilian features.

Angel-"What"

Maya-"The"

Jack-"Fuck"

Zer0 walks towards Jack with a distorted :D switching between :C causing Jack to crawl away, but feels a painful grip around his leg. Zer0 looks back at the group and bows his flaming skull a little before walking into the magma with Jack. Getting closer to the edge, Jack spontaneously combusts into flames and lets out blood-curdling screams. The noise soon fades as the two disappear into the magma leaving behind a speechless crowd. The magma tide begins to retreat revealing the charred remains of Jack near the vault key and his melted mask.

Mordecai-"What a way to go."

Roland-"Well, Jack is dead and Pandora is at peace."

Brick-"Still we missed the action."

Lilith-"So that is the vault key?"

Lilith touches the artifact and it suddenly projects a holographic map of the galaxy, revealing many vaults on other planets. They decide to bring back the key and reunite with the others in Sanctuary with news of Jack's death. Angel wanted to search around more for Zer0, but everyone accepted Zer0's death as a heroic sacrifice so quickly, but Maya, Axton, and Salvador didn't see it that way. Zer0 didn't sacrifice himself for Amita, he was taken away from her. Angel really wanted to meet Zer0, but that chance slipped away as Zer0 choose to use his last ounce of life to get rid of Jack.


Back in Sanctuary, all the vault hunters were studying the maps, except for a few. Axton was drinking with Salvador, Gaige was welding a mask, similar to Zer0's, to her DeathTrap, and Maya was resting in a bunk next to Amita while Tannis was on a computer doing more outrageous research nearby. Angel was in the room too and decided to ask some questions that have been bugging her.

Angel-"Uh Miss Tannis."

Tannis-"Yes darling?"

Angel-"Can you shine some light on why I'm still alive and not dead from Eridium withdraw?"

Tannis-"Hmmmm Love, strong will, genes...that necklace. Yes, what is that weird stone?"

Angel-"Amita's gift, that makes sense. I guess I owe her my life."

Tannis-"That's only a hypothesis."

Angel-"It's good enough for me."

Maya-"Tannis, how well are you in Alien demographics?"

Tannis-"What do you think, are you underestimating my intelligence, but to answer your question, yes."

Maya-"What do you know about reptile-like beings?"

Tannis-"They're all over the place, especially the bug-eating kind, they're great for food too."

Maya-"No, how about something more on the human side."

Tannis-"Oh, that kind. I'll need to do more research on that."

Maya-"Alright, tell me if you find out anything."

Moxxi suddenly bursts into the room and power-walks to Amita, gently hugging her sleeping form.

Moxxi-"Thank God, how is she?"

Angel-"She's fine, but tired."

Moxxi-"Good to hear, dear. Where's Zer0, I owe him a free drink for taking my eyes off her."

Angel-"Umm..."

Maya-"Zer0 is...gone."

Amita-"*Yawn* Where did he go, Maya? I also want to see brother and Tina, I have to tell them about this nightmare I had. Angel! Did you run away to be together with us?!"

Angel and Maya let out a nervous gulp as Amita looks at them smiling and confused.