Yes, Zed was alive though, and minus a few additional mechanical parts, and a few repairs later, he was as good as ever, or at least as lucky as ever. The way he would tell his tale was that he shocked Zoggurtz with some of his mechanical bits, and in some tellings he might have even implied it was intentional. The truth was that this was backwards engineered. He remembered little after he had been shot in the eye by the other boss, just standing over Zoggurtz’ corpse with smoking blasta in hand.