With Zen

Zen sighed as he flew towards the ground at a rapid rate.

"Stupid Zombie things." He complained

"I should probably save myself now."

He flipped to where he was facing the rapidly approaching ground and threw his hands out. A ramp appeared, as Zen landed and started sliding down it. He made it curve back toward the Dam. He launched toward and in mid-air he formed two rock-climbing axes. He slammed into the wall and stabbed into with his axes.

"Oh, this is gonna suck." He complained as he started his long climb up.

-10 minutes later-

Zen had climbed up to the very top and pulled himself up, then flopped down to his back.

"I… Hate… Heights." He said as he wiped sweat from his forehead.

He stood, looked around and set out for his destination, when an explosion happened behind him.

"I knew where I was going." Zen said as he stared directly at the readers.

"Oh don't give me that look!"

"OK! Fine I didn't know. Now can I get back to my quest of awesomeness?"

He turned and started walking toward the rising smoke. He reached a door that was shut tight, but he could hear gunfire from behind it.

"Don't worry guys, I will save ya!" He called out to the group.

He gripped a small hole in the door and started lifting with his robotic arm. After it wouldn't budge he sighed and then used both hands and tried again.

"OH COME ON!" he cried out.

He kicked the door and suddenly, the door flew up.

"Wow, um, ok."

He ran into the ring and saw that a Badass Loader pinned down the group.

"I got this!" Zen said as he ran toward the giant robot and picked it up, showing how strong he really was.

He turned and threw it off the dam; he then turned his attention to the constructor who was about to be picked up by a Hyperion ship. He pulled his climbers axe from his back and ran at the bot. He leaped into the air and stabbed the axe into the robot right as the ship picked it up with a magnetic crane. He was pulled into the ship with the Constructer.

"Uh, amigos you think he is ok?" Salvador asked after about five minutes of silence.

The group heard a noise and looked up to see a giant ice spike sticking out of the hull.

"Ha-ha, yup he is just fine." Jake said as he tried to fix Zen's scythe.

Another explosion rocked the area, everyone looked up to see the ship starting to dive straight for Three Horns, with Zen's laughter ringing out.

"HAHAHAHA THIS IS FUN!"

"HEY WAIT FOR ME AMIGO!" Salvador cried as he ran for the edge of the dam.

He leaped off and crashed through the roof of the descending ship.

"Those ships are made of like tissue paper. I mean Sal crashed straight through the roof like nothing was there. Oh. Roland is still on that ship." Maya said

They all shared a look then ran for the fast travel system and selected Happy Pigs Motel. They appeared at the motel just in time to see the ship crash land a hundred meters in front of them. A large ice spike appeared and on the top was the giant constructer.

"You two remind me of an old friend of mine, he was a Vault Hunter too, you know." Roland said as he walked toward the rest of the group.

"Oh really?" Zen asked as he wiped blood from his nose.

"Yeah, are you ok? Your nose is bleeding quite a lot."

"Yup, it's just that my powers put a lot of stress on my cranium and tends to make my nose bleed, so the more I use it the more it bleeds." Zen explained as he stuffed pieces of clothe in his nostrils to stop the bleeding.

They met up right outside the motel. Maya started fussing over Zen's nose, and Jake started laughing at him.

"Ay, shut up Jake! I'm fine Maya!"

"No you're not! That is a lot of blood!"

"Oh relax, Zen is too stubborn to die. Plus our species don't die that easily." Jake elaborated.

"What do you mean your species?"

"Wait you didn't know? I thought it would be kind of obvious with the fact we are extremely tall, have special powers, super strength, and seem to be able to survive anything." Zen explained.

"No we thought you were just escaped experiments!" Gaige exclaimed.

"Fair, enough. But yes we are of a species that come from the planet Eden-13, the Mandalorians. We were a warrior species with a history too long and tedious to be explained in one sitting." Jake started explaining.

"But we are standing." Gaige asked in confusion.

"Shh, young grasshopper, he is about to get to the good part." Zen said.

"As I was saying, we were warriors. We had grew up through blood and retribution, when we were ten years old, Hyperion came and started to wage war against us. The war lasted five ears, Zen and me were fifteen, fighting on the front lines. At that point we were down to one major city, Lorien, the capital and we were losing, badly. Our people started taking risks; the scientists came up with the idea to give our elites powers. Many underwent the experiment, but only a handful came out, alive that is, we started winning battles. Our group dubbed, the ARCs were sent to take over a Hyperion base and it was successful, we had won. While we were there a gipsy lady came into the bar we were in."

"You were drinking at fifteen?" Axton asked.

"Old enough to kill, old enough to drink." Zen spoke.

"Anyways, she started giving us advice, fortunes, and they were all good, when she came to me and Zen, her expression darkened. She said that Zen would go insane due to the law, said I was to never have love. Then her eyes glazed over and she fell to the ground. We rushed to her side and checked her pulse, only to find that she did not have one. As we stood and started to clear a path, her hand shot up and grabbed Zen's wrist, she started to scream as if in pain, and shouted, 'It is of no use! Your efforts will prove fruitless! You all shall die!' Then she collapsed as if she hadn't just come back to life. We were scared now, but nonetheless we went on. A week later we were on a mission to destroy a Hyperion supply line, but when we arrived it turned out to be a trap. Hyperion overwhelmed with the sheer numbers of their loaders. Our squad was slaughtered, all but us two. They took us to their General and he told them to send us back to the base for experimentation. We were tortured and experimented on for five years, when we caught wind of an escape attempt. We heard that some people were going to flee to Pandora on a cargo barge. We had managed to get aboard; after about three weeks travel we made it to Pandora. The others didn't make it because they rushed off to soon, Zen and me waited till nightfall. When we made it off we took up arms and set out, we traveled for three months. Making friends and enemies as you saw with those bandits. Zen got captured by some bandits and that's where we met up."

"Wow, what happened to the rest of your race?"

"We heard that Hyperion had killed them all. We are all that is left." Jake spoke sadly.

They heard some commotion and looked up just in time to see the hustle and bustle of Sanctuary.

"We're back already?" Jake asked.

"We just made it." Maya said.

The walked toward the base to see that Roland was already talking to Lilith, they turned to see the rest of the group. Lilith looked at the group, and smiled.

"Good to see you guys. Jake and Zen, Roland told me about your history, I'm sorry."

"Nah, its all good cause if not for that we wouldn't be here right now." Zen said as he rifled through his SDU, apparently looking for something.

"Where is my scythe?" He said as he dumped all of the stuff in his SDU out.

There was guns, shields, grenades, arrows, his bow, a hammer, and an anvil, basically everything minus the kitchen sin… oh there is one in that pile.

"Uh Zen why do you have so much stuff?"

"Tactical… Stuff." Was his ingenious response.

"Uh-huh, sure." Jake said with a role of his eyes.

"HEY SHUT UP, AT LEAST I STILL DON'T HAVE A SECURITY BLANKET!"

"IT IS NOT A SECURITY BLANKET! IT IS CLOTH THAT COMFORTS ME!"

"THAT IS THE SAME THING!"

"SHUT UP MR. I-STILL-HAVE-MY-TEDDY-BEAR!"

"DON'T BRING MR. SNUGGLES INTO THIS!"

By the end of the shouting contest there was sparks flying in between their eyes.

"WILL BOTH UP YOU SHUT UP!" Snapped Lilith, who currently had a tick-mark on her head.

The two aliens cowered under her intense gaze.

"He started it!" Zen said meekly.

"I did not!" Jake said.

"Well guess what? I'm finishing it!"

"Yes, Ma-am!" came the scared voices of Zen and Jake.

"Good if we can get on track here-"

"But, I haven't found my scythe yet."

"Jake broke your scythe." Zer0 said calmly.

"HE DID WHAT?!" Zen cried, as he turned to see a fleeing Jake.

He sprinted after him only to receive a face full of metal. Zen stood back up to see a metal fist sticking out of the wall.

"IT WAS AN ACCIDENT!" Came Jake's fleeing call.

"I DON'T CARE!" Zen roared as he ran after him again.

After they were out of the room Lilith sighed violently and pinched the bridge of her nose.

"Anyways as I was saying we need to find out what Jack is up to. We have a spy out in Tundra Express. Probably sleeping off a hangover. Bring a few fire weapons to burn some Varkids to wake up." Lilith explained.

"AHHH I'M SORRY!"

"SORRY DOSEN"T FIX MY SCYTHE!"

"We will brief them on the way to Tundra Express." Axton said as he lit another cigarette.

"You know those things kill, right?" Lilith asked.

"So do bullets."

"True, whatever just don't smoke inside, OK?"

"Nope." He called over his shoulder as he walked out of the HQ.

-15 minutes later-

Gaige just stared at Zen, Jake, Salvador, and Krieg as they ran around cutting, slicing, and shooting anything that moved.

"Guys! Hammerlock gave us something to do while we were down here!" Maya called.

"WHAT IS IT THAT THE PRETTY LADY WANTS?" Krieg yelled to her.

"Once a Varkid takes enough damage, not enough to kill it, but still a little. It will go into a pod and start to evolve, he wants us to inject one of them with this serum, and watch what happens." Maya called back to her secret boyfriend.

Yes that's right they are dating, in secret of course.

"Ok I got this one, cause what's the worst that could happen." Zen said as he walked off, so his wouldn't pod to get hit in the crossfire.

Not even five minutes later Zen came sprinting around the corner firing behind him screaming, "AH THIS IS EXCACTLY WHAT I SAID WOULDN'T HAPPEN!"

Behind him flew a giant Varkid that was spitting acid at the brunette.

"AH JAKE, HEELP!"

Jake turned and shouldered his incendiary assault rifle and fired, setting the Varkid on fire. The noise it emitted was a banshee on voice steroids. Yes I said voice steroids.

"Rrrghh… SHUT UP ALREADY!"

A sniper round pierced the head of the Varkid, killing it instantly. The group looked up at the top of the tower to see a sniper.

"So loud, so angry… so dead." Mordecai said while taking a drink of booze while talking.

He walked to edge of the tower and waved them over. The group walked over to the tower and he called down.

"Hey, Vault Hunter - welcome to the Crimson Raiders. Sorry you had to wake me up - I mighta celebrated a little too hard last night after Bloodwing and I raided a Hyperion convoy. Ain't that right, Blood?" He asked and in response he got a 'caw'.

"Ok what is our plan of action now?"

"A Hyperion train is speedin' through the Tundra Express. If my intel's good, and it usually is, the vault key itself might be onboard. My advice? Do what I'd do - steal the key. Get drunk. Pass out." He responded.

"How are we going to do that exactly?" Axton asked.

"Without the vault key, Jack can't control the Warrior - you've gotta hijack that train, soldier. My old friend Tina can help; go talk to her. Tina's a bombmaker and a friend of mine - I've saved her life a few times, and she's saved mine even more. She'll help you, but here's a tip: don't make any sudden movements near her." Roland said over the ECHO.

"Ok thanks." Maya said.

The group followed the trail of bombs and dead bodies. They came across a cave with a huge metal door in front of it.

"Come on iiiii-iiiiin! You're missin' the fun!" A childish voice called.

They huge door slid up to reveal a little girl prancing in circle around a bandit strapped to a pole with tons of dynamite around him.

"All around the Sta-actus plant, the stalker chased the bandit. The stalker thought 'twas all in fun - POP! Goes the bandit!" A teenaged girl sang as she hopped on the plunger as she said the word 'pop'.

She stood straight and the group could finally get a good look at her.

She stood at around 5'6 with blond hair and a psycho mask on the left side of her face. She was wearing a dress with a bunny on the front of it. She had two mismatched shoes, the left was a sneaker with a knee-high sock, and the right was a ballet flat shoe with a normal sock on it.

"Roland told me you were comin' - I still owe him for all that buttcrap with General Rancid. So, you gotta hijack a train, hunh? Chiiiilds play! Lemme introduce you to my ladies." She spoke as the group walked forward ignoring the smell of burnt flesh.

"You're a lot younger than we were expecting." Maya said surprised at the young age of the girl.

"Hey, I got skeeells for days, gurl." She said slightly agitated that people underestimated her due to her age.

"Naw, shorty we just a little wacked that a youngster is walking the walk." Zen said trying to reason with her, in her form of communication.

"Word." She threw back as she opened the door to her Workshop-Room.

"This here's Mushy Snugglebites, and this is Felicia Sexopants. These fiiiine-ass womens could stop that train for yas, but I'ma need their badonkadonks first, and they got stoled by the bandits a few days ago. Go get em!" Tina yelled at them.

"Split up four go get one and the other four go get the other one."

"Axton go with Zen, Jake and Krieg. Keep them in check."

"I WANT A NEW MEAT BYCICLE!" Krieg cackled as he sprinted out of the cave.

"PUNCH BUDDY, WAIT FOR ME!" Zen cried as he ran after him.

"ZEN DON'T KILL ALL OF THEM!" Jake bellowed as he ran from the cave.

"Pretty sure we can get both of them. Just stay her and, uh, do stuff." Axton said awkwardly as he walked away from the group that remained.

"Ah man, why do they get all the fun?" Gaige depressingly spoke.

"Ci, me want to shoot stuff too!" Salvador complained.

"Yous is puting a damper on my mood. Go grab Sir Reginald, Madame Von Bartlesby, make me a teacup from buzzard parts, collect Princess Fluffybutt, and, oh yah, GET ME SOME CRUMPETS!" The teenager said to them as she shooed them out of her cave.

-One shooting spree later-

"What do you mean you've never played bunkers and badasses?" Zen asked in shock.

"Say what?" Jake asked as he looked up from the cleaning of his sniper rifle.

"Is you deaf? I said I never played that game!" Tina said as she lay on her bed.

Zen's hand shot down to his SDU and pulled the game out.

"I am going to leave this game here. By the time I return I want you to worship this game." The metal-armed man spoke with the upmost seriousness in his voice.

The rest of the group returned right as Zen put the game down.

"Who is ready for the best robbery ever?" Salvador said as he bounced up and down.

"LET'S GO ROB A TRAIN!" Gaige shouted as she ran out of the cave and to the left.

Maya got on the ECHO and said, "Wrong way, Gaige."

Soon the Mechromancer came flying past the entrance, "I knew that!" she called behind her.

The group caught up the young female as she set the explosives. After Tina didn't say anything, Gaige went ahead and set off the explosives.

"Ten, Nine, Eight-" She started, before Salvador walked up and pushed the button for her.

"Amigo, you are too slow." He spoke, as there was distant explosions.

The train sped along until it reached the broken track. Massive damage ensued.

"WHOO!" Zen called as he jumped the rail and landed on the train car. He jumped and grabbed a surveyor, and threw it into an EXP loader. He laughed manically as he sprinted up the busted pipe. Right as he got to the top he was tackled by a new variant of the Hyperion troop. She was called the 'Hyperion Assassin' she was a Yellow color, she had two swords in her hands, the blades appeared to be holographic; they also were a yellow color. Her armor consisted of a helmet, shoulder pads, and full body armor.

She tried to slam her sword into Zen's face. He managed to move out of the way of the blade. He managed to stand up and drew his revolver, and fired two shots. The first hit her shield and managed to take down most of it. The second however got cut in half b her sword. She spun and slashed, cutting the gun in half.

"Uh, guys, assistance, please, now." He called out to the rest of his party, only to see that the group was being restrained by another group of assassins.

The tallest one walked forward and spoke through a synthesizer, "Stand down, Bandit."

"How about, BOOT TO THE FACE!" Zen asked as he pulled out another boot and threw it.

She dodged and turned back only to see an ice spear flying toward her head. She tried to dodge, but the spear grazed her helmet, knocking it off. Her face was gorgeous, but Zen didn't care, she hurt his friends. She is going to die.

What she didn't see, however, was that the spear had struck the assassin holding Zer0. He disappeared, but not before grabbing one of the swords she had on her belt.

"A new instrument, / Waiting for a sonata / that I will conduct." He spoke through the deception, making it seem as if he was all over the place.

He struck quickly and violently, bisecting the assassin holding Jake hostage. Jake slammed his hands on the ground and spikes shot up stabbing through one of the assassins, the others had managed to dodge.

"GET THE OTHERS!" Zen bellowed as he swung a punch crushing an assassin's skull.

Jake nodded and was about to when a sword pierced through his chest. Time seemed to slow as Zen saw this out of the corner of his eyes.

"JAKE!" Zen cried out, an assassin tried taking advantage of his momentary distraction.

She swung in a downward arc, as she was about to hit him an ice spike shot through her chest nailing her to the wall. Zen started walking slowly toward the leader who still had Jake on her sword.

"Get out of here." Zen spoke calmly to the other Vault Hunters, "Get to the waypoint, we'll be there in a little while."

Maya was about to object when she saw Zen's eyes. Pure unrestricted rage was all she saw, and the whites seemed to be taking over his entire eye.

The group started running toward the pipe, when an assassin started running toward them, when an ice wall crushed her into another wall, completing the dome that was surrounding Zen and the assassins. He turned back to the assassin leader, Aella his HUD told her name was. She pulled out a new handle, it was about five feet long, and out of the sides came Digistruct axe blades.

"That was a mistake locking yourself in here with us." Aella spoke arrogantly.

Zen stopped his march, and looked around him. Besides Aella, there was fifteen assassins.

"I'm not locked here with you, you're locked in here with me." Zen spoke as he stared straight at Aella. Assassins tried rushing his sides, but without even looking at them, he threw his hands out and sent the fling back with giant fists of ice. He looked to the side when he heard a noise. A handle was coming out the ground he grabbed it and pulled. Out came a sword, the handle was about eight inches, with two hand blocks, one on each side. The blade was six feet long and 3 inches wide. The handle was grey with white highlights, the pommel of the sword was a circle with long skull with two horns coming from the cheekbone and going down then curving back in toward the skull. (Mandalorian Symbol)

Zen looked over to Jake to see him with a bloody smile and his hand on the ground, "Go get em."

Zen launched himself forward slicing through three of the assassins, as if they were hot butter.

"Hang on, Jake!" Zen called to his brother in all but blood.

He ducked under a slash, and stabbed through the assassin's torso and into another one. He pulled it out the right side of their torsos, spun and delivered a kick to another's neck, snapping it. He sung his sword, but the assassin ducked under it, but did not anticipate the knee to her chin. When the knee hit her jaw she bit off her tongue due to the force of the blow, and due to the helmet she had on, she couldn't spit out the blood, so she drowned in her own blood.

A blade went straight threw his chest; he reached around his body, wrapping his arm around the assassin's neck. With a jerk, he turned her head completely around, and when she dropped he grabbed the handle and pulled it out, he threw it, beheading another assassin.

Completely ignoring the injury he lashed out with a horizontal swing, cutting another two in half. While all this was happening, Aella was standing near the back, analyzing her opponent. She signaled the remaining four to attack. They all went to a different side and all tried to cut him in half, instead he jumped over their swing, causing them to cut each other in half.

Zen landed and spit out some blood and asked, "Is that the best you got?"

She laughed and went for a vertical slash; he brought up his metal arm, and the axe cut through the metal, severing the metal limb. Zen swung his sword with his left hand, cutting through her neck, as her head fell to the ground Zen stumbled over to Jake, collapsing once he reached his brother-in-arms. Once he hit the ground, the ice dome started to evaporate and collapse.

"Ah this sucks." Jake struggled out.

"Heh, just like old times, eh buddy?"

"Hah, Ow, fuck, don't make me laugh."

The two fell into a silence as they both lay on their back, staring up at the passing clouds. As they passed out a humanoid shadow fell over them.

-With the rest of the group-

The group just walked through a little divide in the ice and dropped down, into a large clearing.

"I hope those two are alright." Maya spoke, her motherly side coming out again.

"Don't worry, those two are too dedicated to die now." Axton said.

"Ci, those two could give El Diablo a run for his money in a one-on-one fight, but together, I doubt anything could stop them." Salvador spoke, looking around the area.

"There is the train car!" Gaige exclaimed.

As they walked up to it, the car started to shake.

"Get back!" Axton ordered.

They all jumped back and good thing to, because where they were previously standing was now a train car. They looked at what had thrown it; there in all his glory was Wilhelm.

"GIVE IT EVERYTHING YOU HAVE!" Axton yelled as he unloaded his clip at the monstrosity of an engineer. Once his clip ran dry, he threw out his turret. The turret teleported behind the giant, catching him in the cross fire.

Zer0 had taken up a position on a small little mound of snow, shooting his sniper rifle at Wilhelm shrugged off all of the bullets like they were flies.

"HOLY FROZEN FISH BATMAN, IT'S TIME TO POWDER MY PARROT." Krieg screamed as he launched off of a train car, and into Wilhelm, causing the engineer to stumble backwards.

Gaige summoned Deathtrap, who had some new modifications.

On its right shoulder was a Gatling gun and mounted under its left wrist was a shotgun.

"Go get him!" Gaige ordered.

"Yes, your majesty." The massive machine said in his deep, metallic voice.

He shot forward and slammed his shoulder into Wilhelm, knocking the Hyperion man back. The gun on his shoulder started spinning, and opened fire, destroying the shields of Wilhelm. The engineer grabbed a train car and swung it, knocking Deathtrap backwards.

Before his shields could recharge, Wilhelm heard, "Bring it, Pendajo!"

Salvador unloaded his two shotguns into his face. Once he ran out of ammo, he switched to his two Vladof Spiniguns; shooting everything he had at Wilhelm.

As Wilhelm was distracted Maya threw out a phaselock, trapping Wilhelm, and triggering her elemental explosions. Wilhelm landed and started to summon some bots when some kunai pierced into his chest.

"AGH!" Wilhelm screamed out.

"THIS IS NARNIA!" Krieg screamed as he kicked Wilhelm off the side of the plateau.

The large engineer hit the ground headfirst, with a large snap.

The group looked around taking in all the damage they caused. They all realized something. Where were Zen and Jake?

"Where are they?" Axton asked, slightly annoyed.

"Um, sorry to interrupt, but you need to get back to Tiny Tina's place." Angel spoke, "It is urgent!"

The all nodded and started running back, once they reached the pipe, again they all stopped dead in their tracks. In front of them was mass destruction. Ice spears were everywhere, the bodies of all the assassins and finally, a partially collapsed ice dome.

They kept going all wondering one thing, "Zen did this?"

They reached Tina's to see Mordecai cleaning the wound on Jake's chest.

"Ah, that hurt, nice to see you guys. Any luck with the Vault Key?"

"No it was all a trap, Wilhelm was there."

"What!?" Mordecai asked in shock, "Are you ok?"

"Yeah, he was no problem, we were all like, 'pow', and then he was all like, 'ahh'-" Gaige started.

"Where is Zen? Wasn't he with you guys?" Jake asked.

"No, we thought he stayed with you. Why? Is he not here?" Maya asked.

"No, after I passed out I thought he brought me here and met up with you guys." Jake said.

"I have your friend." A new voice spoke over the ECHO system.

"Who the hell are you?" Mordecai demanded.

"Relax, I am a friend. Your friend is unconscious, and the wound in his chest is healed, but he is missing his right arm." The mysterious female spoke.

"Doesn't he have his metal one?" Krieg asked, concerned for his friend.

"Not that I saw, no. Tell you what I will make him a new one, help him recover, and even train him with that sword he has."

"What do you want for it? There is no way you are doing this out of kindness." Axton spoke.

"All I want is, when I return him to you me and my band of renegades want to join your group." The unknown female spoke.

"Deal." Jake spoke, completely serious about getting his best friend back.

"Good I will meet you in the dust in about a weeks time." She spoke.

"We will be there. You better try to pull anything, because if you do, you will not make ten feet before you will die." Jake negotiated.

"Fair enough, oh and call me Diana."

YAY chapter three is done! I am about to close the poll so, in a landslide victory of One to Zero, Angel has won! So he will stay with her.

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