Tales from the Borderlands One Shots

Minds Alike (Zer0 X Reader)Part 3

Now this is the last part.  Next one shot is different, gonna be a while before I do another Zer0 XD  Hope you all enjoy :)

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"This is the place."

You and Zer0 found the recent village that your target had recently destroyed.  It was the same thing as when you first experienced, everything was burnt, ashes scattered the ground and you could see the burnt corpses of villagers scattered everywhere.  Smoke rose from the fallen houses and trash was thrown everywhere, once again the Crow  had gotten away, but this time he wouldn't.  Your eyes searched the area while Zer0 began to move debree and toss scrap to the side, hoping he'd uncover at least something from the ashes.  He'd stand up and look over at you, you had your hands limp to your sides, fist clenched and teeth gritting, you looked terrifying.

Suddenly Zer0 turned his head the other direction opposite of you, he had heard something off in the distance that you didn't hear.  He went off on his own for a minute to scope the area.

You still stood there, taking in the surroundings, you could feel the pain and agony here and it made you furious.  Your eyes shot up to see Zer0 no longer there.  You were alone now.

"Zer0?"  You called out to your friend, but you didn't receive and answer.  You called out again.

"Zer0!?"

Then suddenly you saw a shadow move quickly out a ways in front of you, it was dark and small.  Your feet then carried you over a small hill to see more burning houses and ash.  You could hear echoes come from the horizon, but they were too far away to clearly hear them.  Your eyebrows furrowed as you focused on your eyesight rather than your hearing, you looked beyond the edge of the village to look for any movement. 

That's when you were harshly dropped to the ground, someone had their arm around your waist very tightly.  You landed roughly on your side, groaning as a sharp pain went through your lung.

"Ow!  Damn it, what the hell--!?  Zer0?"

Just as soon as the assassin looked down to you a loud explosion sounded just a few feet beside you, then you realized why your friend had done this.  You were standing on a mine plate before this happened, and not knowing it it was about to go off.  Zer0 had his camouflage on so you weren't able to see him, but thankfully he got to you just in time.  His body protected you from the blast, debree and ash fell on both of you as Zer0 covered your head with his arms.

"That was close."  He said quickly.

"No shit.  Thanks for that."

Zer0 stood up and lent you his hand to hoist you up from off the ground.  You began to brush yourself off when you noticed a rather large figure off in the distance, and once you realized and recognized it, your eyes widened in anger.

"Bastard. . ."

Zer0 looked at you for a moment before following your gaze, turning to see the same figure your (e/c) eyes were staring at. 

There in the middle of the debree field was the Crow, bloodied and black from the ash.  He had a couple of his men by his sides, their guns in their hands and pointed towards you and Zer0.  You could hear him laugh off in the distance.

"Well, well," he said as he began walking slowly towards the two of you, "looks like we didn't clean this place out after all."

You immediately pulled out your assault rifle and readied it in your hands, ready to tear this bastard apart.