A/N: Sorry about the delay!


One Month later:

Tannis enters the alien cruiser with her progress on the research of species related to lizards where one stood out way more than the others. Upon boarding the ship, Tannis calls out in the hallway, receiving no reply, but heard a muffled laugh. Following the voices, Tannis stands in front of the glass door to the bath then opens it to see a gathering of sirens plus one Mechromancer.

Tannis-"Well, if I didn't know better, the total bounty here is probably $1,000,000,000,000 or more."

Maya-"Anyway, what did you find?"

Tannis-"Straight to business as always. I found a lead in Sir Hammerlock's hunting dairies about sightings of things similar to the description of your friend."

Lilith-"This just got interesting."

Amita-"I wonder when father and brother will come back from their trip in Oasis. They're taking too long, right, Angel?"

Angel-"Y...yeah, I wonder."

Gaige-"Well, hurry up and close the door, professor. You're letting all the warm air out."

Minutes later, Tannis waits to see only Maya, Lilith, and Angel show up for the news while Amita was preoccupied with Gaige and an overly-passionate Moxxi. The professor then gives her explanation on the discovery which turned out to be a surprise to Angel when the journal entry from some years ago stated that he witnessed a lizard-man in Hyperion clothing. Angel suggested that she could dig up more on Hyperion activity in the past couple of years in Opportunity. Instead of going there, Angel being the siren that she is, transferred the information from Opportunity to Tannis' computers in a snap.

Angel-"The data from back then is badly fragmented so only a few things can be pulled up."

Angel brings up personal logs of Hyperion employees recording their discovery.


Log E-928(Engineer)

"It is currently day 28 from our voyage and we are currently examining the specimens obtained from NumerCron. Though these things are in their teens when comparing to human years, they still pose a challenge when handling them. NumerCron's current status is terminated due to unforeseen circumstances."

Log S-991(Soldier)

"What ever those scientists are doing, I don't like it. These monsters took out so many of us when attempting to obtain the newly found element, Zenmium. Lizard bastards, no more than hundred of em, yet they took out at least 2,000 of us. We were hurting so bad, we had no choice but to destroy the whole planet. Still, we captured a few little ones. I better get a raise."

Log E-443

"This element Zenmium is quite possibly the greatest find of the century. The sample is small but the effects of being near the element is mind-blowing. The experiments we injected with Eridium began to show sighs of recovery from the slag effects, which explains why they failed to provide any assistance in the attack on NumerCron as they all were destroyed by the reptilians."

Log S-780

"Another thing that keeps me up at night are the nightmares of those ...things, 'cause I remember perfectly when I encountered some of them. Crush em, burn em, shoot em, or whatever, they always come back from the dead. And I know, the ones we thought to be death are same ones fighting the next day. I hope destroying that planet finished the job."

Log E-091

"Another discovery! The reptilian children have shown us far superior regeneration abilities in the past tests. None have died, giving everyone the notion that these things are practically invincible. The one showing the most promise is the one known as Kaiman. They have even proven their excelling intelligence in learning our language so quickly as well as other subjects."

Log Z-370

"All ten specimens have escaped in high-speed cruisers going into different directions, they have even locked all the doors in the facility! *Crash* What the hell?! There's a self-destruct sequence on the monitor. Someone stop it! What do you mean you can't stop!? Shit...um..uh...I'm sending this log to warn *Boom*Ahhhhh! *bzzzzzzzzz*"


Angel turns off the monitor and meets the eyes of the others.

Angel-"So, this necklace is made of Zenmium,something that cures Eridium poisoning and heals the body. Sweet."

Lilith-"What a history, but we're not sure if those recordings are talking about him."

Maya-"Still, I think we should believe in it. Which could mean..."

Back in the Vault of the Warrior, a black and grey scaled tail slips into the shadows with red eyes staring onto magma lake, growling in pain. In the destroyed Bunker, stalkers crawl around looking for food. One unfortunate one finds a spot on top of a pile of rubble where it is suddenly pulled in by surprise. The other stalkers snap their heads in the direction of the rubble pile, hissing as they heard a dying screech and bones breaking from inside. They cautiously crawl closer to the noise and smelled the blood of their own. Suddenly, the upper half of a figure's body pops out with his back turned. Stalkers start screeching at him then the figure turns and roars through the opening of the helmet, baring fangs and spitting blood, scaring away the prey. Kaz can be certain that he is alive after a week of a dirt nap, because assassins never die.

Tannis-"Impossible, Zer0 perished in magma meaning nothing is left."

Maya-"He technically walked out of it then back in, so maybe."

Angel-"Then Amita's brother is still..."

Lilith-"Let's not get our hopes high."

Maya-"I guess we'll wait a little longer then, but sooner or later a decision has to be made about this."

Back with Zer0, he finds himself completely nude in front of a Quick-change, banging on the machine with a fist trying to get the damn thing to work. When Zer0 acquires a new skin and helmet, it turns out it may be a little tight in turn caused tears in the material. Kaz was no better off, trying to get the other half of his body out of the rubble, thrashing around like a maniac.


A/N:Sorry for the short chapter too, I'll make a longer one next time.