Chapter 2
Authors Note-There will be no haikus for zero, but he will be dark and shady as always, Remember reviews are appreciated soooo yeah.
As Zer0 watched the others from the train walk from the wreckage with the box shaped robot, it was made clear that he was forgotten about, the teen,Gaige he heard her refer herself to,had saw him and does not look for him? He is angered by this but pushess away his feeble human emotions so as to not cloud his judgement on whether to kill them or not, he decides no, he will let them live and he will make his own path towards his ultimate challenge, The Vault.
He knows little about the vault and it's contents, but that which he does know is little to none as far as being useful goes. He figures he may have been too hasty to leave the group, knowing that he knows of nowhere to for now he wanders the frozen landscapes, in hope that he may find shelter or better yet, a challenge.
He had not been challenged in any previous contracts or jobs before, he is so bored now, 'oh god, why must life be so empty and un-fullfilling' He wanders for several hours before coming upon a small and miserable looking place known as 'Liars Berg', he decides it would be in his best interests to kill all of the marauders that appear to be in abundance here, and set-up a temporary shelter for himself and repair any damages sustained to his suit or mask.
As he nimbly lept down from his icy perch, he slinks up to the wall and climbs over under the cover of the shadow from the walls and nearby houses. With a loud bang, a marauder fell on what would be his face if it had not been blown to bloody crumbs, one of his allies notices this and starts spraying into the shadows wildly, hoping to catch the elite killer, little does the bandit know that a blade is being thrusted at his back as he is shooting, with a sickening squelch, he falls limply to the ground with a gaping hole in his chest, the others take notice of this and start shouting out profanities at him, hoping to stir the assassin from his bloodlusted state.
In a matter of 7 minutes, all bvandits were dead and strewn apart all over liars berg, zer0 took a last look at his handy work before leaping up into one of the nearby windows to rest and plan his path out.
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As the morning approached for a well rested master killer he spent no time around the village any longer, he packed his sword, jakobs revolver and headed further down the path towards what looked like more bandit encampments, he looked down upon the camp before him, before unleashing more silent hell upon these scum,his helmet beeped an annoying tone,he answered quickly to avoid detection, the message he opened up was from HYPERION and it read;
" To any and all bounty hunters or assassins out on pandora, we at hyperion are offering a considerable sum of money for the following offenders:
Mordecai,Hunter-$1,000,000,000
Roland,ex-crimson lance-$45,000,000,000
Brick,Bandit king-$60,000,000,000
Lilith,siren-$90,000,000,000
Good hunting to all that accept"
Zer0 considered this apparent siren, he had not been tested by any regular being, but a siren that has been battle hardened by pandora? He accepts this contract and looks for a locationon her, from the supplier, nothing...well shit.
Another look at the message shows that there is an even greater sum of money for an apparent 'Firehawk' and it totals at $120,000,000,000, zer0 had his doubts about hyperion actually giving out these ridiculously high payments for these killers, but his longing for a challenge has been too great, he accepts this challenge and will seek out this firehawk hunter, and kill first...the bandits that are in his way.
He nimbly slinks down towards this encampment of bandits and dispatches the firs one wift a swift swing to his head with the blade, the other heard his friends head rolling down the small slope and charged him, it amused him slightly as he thought to himself 'Ghosting', with a slight inaudible chuckle he swept behind the psycho that was pre-occupied with his decoy, with a squelching noise the psychos head joined his friends at the bottom of the slope, 'Ever so boring' Zer0 thought to himself with a sigh. It may be worth it though, for what little these bandits offer him may be nothing compared to what this 'Firehawk'may offer him.
Zer0 swepth through most of the camp with ease, seeing as he had no allies to look out for he thought it was looking up for him and his pursuit for blood and challenge. He was surprised and a little shocked as to what came next, a huge built man with a horned helmet and an anchor for a melee weapon lubered down to the deck that zer0 had found himself on, he progressed through the camp faster than he had thought.
"Well, well, well looky here boys, it's the suited spaztic whose lost his way home" a flurry of dark and menacing chuckles echoed around the assassin, alerting him to their locations and their presence. "That may well be true you mountain of flesh and wasted IQ, but i'm the 'spaztic' who has murdered and slaughtered your camp like little sheep" zer0 pointed his blade outright to Flynt and uttered out darkly,"And you will be no different than them" and with that said he activated his deception, and leapt out of the way of a vent of fire, he charged Flynt and sliced at his knee, he wouldn't let him get away with a quick death, as he came back into vision for flynt and his men, flynt swung his anchor at where zer0 was, but like the last attack, it passed straight through him and into the metal floor. zer0 by this time had crept behind him and approached the wounded behemoth and dug his blade into his back, as flynt screamed out in a dreadful battlecry, he flung zer0 off and yanked his anchor from the floor, leaving a considerabley large hole in it's zer0 was flung into the air he notice his blade was still lodged in the captains spine, he thought fast and as he had landed leapt with incredible power through the air and grabbed onto the handle, as Flynt felt the added weight on his back again he yelled out "Get em' boys!" zer0 laughed and dragged the blade down Flynts back, taking most of his spine with it,Flynt was now his to toy with, he fell from the now grounded Flynt and landed with elegance. "Your boys deserted you, they ran from me, i shall bring you the now not-so-slow death i promised myself i would bring to you" and with that zer0 dragged the blue hyper-heated side of his blade down the captains chest, opening up and revealing the ribs and vitalities, he lunged his hand in and ripped his ribs out, stabbed them through his helmets eye holes and watched as he tried to squirm with a broken spine.
After a few minutes zer0 simply slit his throat and proceeded to acquire a boat, small and still seaworthy he lowered it into the water and piloted the vessel. "I'm coming Firehawk", he had messaged hyperion back to confirm he would take up this job and recieved the location known only as 'Frostburn Canyon', Zer0 knew this would be a challenging task to get to this all powerful hunter, and even more so to defeat the being, it was worth the 12 hour boat ride, knowing this would await him.