Author's Note: Sunshine Muncher: Thank you, sir/ma'am! hdwkj: Yeah, it is... anyways, really glad you enjoy it.

Maya, Lilith, Axton, and Brick stared, eyes wide-open, as Zero simply walked passed them, and went upstairs. Zero went and flew onto a bed, and he sat. The bed burned, and turned to ashes. Zero simply hovered where the bed was, and thought.

"My powers have finally awakened," Zero thought. "Well, then. Now what?" Zero heard a female, robot voice. (Much like GLaDOS' voice.)

"Congratulations, Project Magma," it said. "Maliwan's work is complete. No thanks to you're destroying their Nanobot. Project Ice will be dealt with." Zero sighed.

"Project Magma, you should be happy," the voice continued. "Project Ice is your own work, after all."

"No," Zero began in his mind. "No, he was like a brother to me. What'd you do to Raven?!"

"Nothing much. Just brought him back to the lab for experiments. Of course, it wasn't the most pleasant of experiences for him," the voice said.

"NO! YOU KILLED HIM, DIDN'T YOU?!" Zero thought.

"Of course, not," the voice continued, in a very relaxed tone, "We will not be continuing work until you give us the resources required to continue." Zero dropped down to the ground, and jumped over the balcony at the Crimson Raiders HQ. He left towards Pierce Station, and Fast Traveled to the Hyperion facility in the Highlands.

The Hyperion Engineers shut off all Loaders and started running, not knowing what they were facing. One particularly stupid Engineer started pouring shotgun rounds into Zero. Zero's right arm became surrounded by fire, and, without looking, blasted a fireball into the Engineer.

"I just finished my comic collection!" He said with his dying breath. Zero sighed and started walking. He found himself nearing Opportunity City after a while, and started heading in. Just before the entrance to Opportunity, Zero found a small tube, which was painted white, with blue and orange stripes.

"Welcome," a traditional robotic voice began, "Maliwan customer and/or suspicious person and/or Maliwan employee. If you have not heard of this area from a top-ranking Maliwan employee, you have no business being here, and should turn back immediately. Those who do not will not enjoy their stay. Thank you!" Zero continued on, and ended up in a tunnel of pure black, lit with dim orange lights.

The lights got dimmer the further Zero went down the hall, to the point where there was pure darkness. Zero lit his arm on fire, and noticed a door, with a key-pad-lock. Zero placed his hands on the door, and allowed the heat to course through his hands and to the door. The door melted almost instantly.

Zero went through, and every single person he saw cowered in fear. He began to fly down the new hallway, lit with blue, green, purple, red, cyan, orange, and every other color you could think of. The experiments always simply carried on, not realizing anything was happening on the other side of the glass that protected them.

Zero finally arrived at a large, gray, rectangular door. He threw a fireball at it. The door opened up to a large room, a perfect cube. It glowed with blue and red, and three people were standing inside. Two were armed, protecting the third.

"Hello, Project Magma," the man in the back began. "What took you so long?" Zero stared at the two people in front of him, and assumed a defensive stance. He lunged at the two, cutting through them with his arms. The blood on Zero's arms simply evaporated.

"I would have had them stand down, if you would've just said something, Magma," the man continued.

"Let him go," Zero said in a terrifying, whispery voice. "And I don't go by Magma, anymore. It's Zero!"

"Well, then," the man began, turning around. "Zero, have you met Butt Stallion?" The man was Handsome Jack.

"Fuck. You."