Chapter 13 – Penny Polendina
On the airship of General Ironwood, Seryu has spent the last day in the research and development branch. She and Coro have been doing multiple physical test to for the scientist aboard.
The general observes from a one way glass window. He wonders who this person is. He looks at one of the scientist and asks a question with a multitude of answers.
"So what do we know about them now?"
"She was hiding more than prostatic arms. After an X-ray, we see that she has had a few body modifications like hidden guns and a bomb in her head. But an X-Ray of that dog shows it has no bone structure, only an eight inch diameter sphere inside its body." A scientist says showing General Ironwood the images of the X-rays.
"The dog she calls Koro is not a dog. It only looks like one but can transform into a beast even more terrifying than a Grimm. She called it an organic imperial arm. According to her, they are all powerful weapons that only a person compatible with can use." Another scientist adds on.
"What has Ozpin said about this information?" The general asks.
"He responded saying he is looking it odd anomalies that have happened since yesterday. However, he has also been preoccupied by major issue of the death of the Schnee student and a team of students from another kingdom." One scientist says as General Ironwood remembers Qrow is away on another mission, unable to help on this issue.
Another scientist looks over a digital map of the city to see that Grimm activities have increased, but notices something odd. "Look at this General Ironwood, there seems to be no Grimm around this location, but no hunters have been sent there." The scientist says as Ironwood look down, he raises an eyebrow in confusion. "Why would not Grimm invade that area, especially after an increase in activity?" He think as he considers it a hiding spot for someone not wanting to be found.
"That is odd, I think we should send someone to investigate." The General says as he looks at Seryu walk out of the testing room. The scientists all look at General Ironwood with astonishment as they all speak at once, "You are not saying to send that girl?"
"Do not be crazy, Seryu cannot be trusted with a mission from us." General Ironwood says in an angry tone, "I have a different girl in mind, one that could handle any enemy."
Seryu walks down the hallway with smile as Koro followed. She stops walking and turns around to see a guard, who tries to not make eye contact with the woman. She looks at the guard with a slight smile.
"Are you following me, because I was planning on using the restroom? I would like to not have a man go in with me. That would require me to administer my justice on a pervert like you." Her smile turn sinister as her pet dawns the same smile. The guard backs up in fear and walks back to the general.
Seryu turns around and takes a few steps happy at her success. In doing so she does not see the person in front and walks into her. Seryu falls on the ground from the impact as the person she ran into still was standing. Koro goes to his masters add and looks up the person with eyes of hate. Seryu tries to recover from what happened, when she sees a hand offering her help up. She looks up to see a young woman with orange hair and blouse.
"Salutations! May I help you up?" The girl asks.
"Thank you, sorry I need to watch were I am going. My name is Seryu."
"A pleasure to meet you, my name is Penny. I do have to get going sadly. I have a mission to investigate a disturbance in a Grimm infested area."
"Grimm? What are those, the scientists said they thought that is what Koro they were wrong." Seryu says as Koro starts smelling Penney.
"Grimm are creatures of nothing but the negative emotions of people. They are the embodiment of evil and have no soul." Penny says in a serious tone before smiling, "but I was created to kill such evil."
"Created?" Seryu inquiries.
"I said nothing!" Penny says quickly, finishing the sentence with a slight hiccup. She starts to walk away before noticing Seryu's robotic arms and points at it. "Oh, are you a robot also."
Seryu then looks at her arm and explains to Penny, "No, I am not a robot. I just have had a few modifications to help be become better at dispensing justice." Seryu says full of pride as she thinks about what Penny had said. "Wait did you say a robot 'also'?"
"No, I did no say also!" Penny says hesitantly with a small hiccup at the end her sentence. Seryu looks down at Koro sniffing Penny's leg, the dog then nods at its master. Penny begins to back up, thinking she said too much. However, Seryu looks to with glittering eyes of happiness. "You are a robot and you are helping out the government to better the world. You are amazing, do not hide who you are from friends." Seryu says with a smile.
"Am I your friend?" Penny says, gaining a smile.
"Yes, I am friends with all those who fight evil. My enemies are the terrorist group, Night Raid. I believe they are like the Grimm you mentioned, soulless." Seryu says as she looks into Penny's eyes, grabbing her shoulders. "We both are administers of justice. To purge evil is our job to the government. Never forget that Penny."
"I will not ...friend." Penny says with a smile as Koro jumps in joy.
"Great, now go at make this world a clean place." Seryu says as she lets go of Penny and walks away from her new friend. Koro follows bowing to say good bye to the robotic girl also. Penny wave goodbye as she continues way to the air dock, happy having another friend. She meets with two other guards who have been waiting for her.
"Where have you been? We are over the location now, so get in the airship." One other guards says to her in an irritated tone. Penny looks at two and apologies for her tardiness.
"If we are over the area, why do I not just go now and skip the airship, that should make up for lost time." Penny asks as she moves to the airlock hatch.
"What do you mean?" One of the guard say, but before Penny could answer, she opens the hatch and jumps out the airship. The two guard try to find something to hold onto as they try not to get sucked out and fall to a gruesome death.
Penny falls at terminal velocity at the ground. Her backpack opens with seven of her swords falling out. She aims for the destroyed buildings and sends two of her swords in the walls. The robot girl redirect herself to reduce the impact damage when landing.
She maneuver through the area, with her the energy blast from her other swords to launch her. Penny scans the area and notices two organisms that were not Grimm. She moves over to the top of the building and confronts the two. One is a man with green hair and googles. The other was a woman with black skirt and a katana.
"Salutations, my name is Penny and the two of you should not be here in this Grimm infested area." The two look at each other in confusion at who this person was and try to find a way to talk their way out of this. Penny notices the two have not eaten anything in while..
The man with green hair says, "Sorry, my friend, Akame, and I not from here and a just waiting for a friend. We will leave when she gets back" the woman nodes in agreement, but Penny looks uncompromising on the issue. "You two cannot be in this area. It is not safe to be here, only Grimm live around here." Penny says as the two look at each other, not knowing what to say. Suddenly, Penny hears a ringtone from her pocket and reaches for her scroll. She looks to see a call from General Ironwood. Akame looks in confusion over what device the girl was holding.
"Are you at the location, what have you found out?" The General says over the phone.
"Two teenagers, possibly a Hunter and Huntress in training." Penny says as she looks at the weapons of the two, one holding a katana. The other having somethings over each hand. "Both have weapons I do not recognize and are odd designs." She ads on, General Ironwood goes quite. Penny looks at the phone to see that he had hung up.
"What team are you two apart of?" Penny inquiries, still wondering why might have the General hung up, to the man with green hair.
"Night Raid." He says as Akame looks at his with confusion. She whispers to him "Lubbock, why would you say that?"
"I doubt this world has heard of us and do not think any of our friends could have made a bad name for us in one day." Lubbock says he smile at Akame. However, his smile fades as he looks at Penny start to twitch.
"Night Raid, the soulless evil. No better than Grimm." Penny says in a vengeful tone.
"Who told you that?" Akame says as she grabs her hand of Murasame, still in its sheath.
"Seryu." Penny says as she looks at both of them with an evil stair. Lubbock remember the name as the person Mine said killed Sheele.
"That woman is a psychopath, do not believe her." Lubbock says, trying to calm the situation to no avail.
"She is my friend!" Penny declares as the swords reemerge from her backpack. They all point at Lubbock and Akame.
"Lubbock, there is no use talking to her now. Get ready." Akame says as she draws her weapon. Lubbock transforms his tread into a large ax and readies for the fight. Penny send four of her swords, two each, at her enemies.
The man with green hair blocks the projectiles while the red eyed assassin dodges then and strikes her enemy. Penny uses her other swords to block the katana from making contact with her body. The she pushes back the foe with her swords and changes there from. From the swords, a blast of energy is shot at Akame. The red eyed assassin tries to dodge, but is shot in her lower thy. She grabs the wound and looks backs away from Penny. The robotic girl smiles sinisterly at her enemy.
"Akame!" Lubbock says as he sees his comrade in danger and rushes to protect her. Penny calls back her other swords so that all seven are aligned to form a circle. Energy builds in the center as destructive blast forms.
"What with this world trying to kill us?" Lubbock says in fear as he gets in front stands near Akame, he reforms his thread into a barrier for both him and Akame. Penny fire her blast when it has finished charging, destroying half the building and creating a tower of smoke.
She then uses her weapons as thrusters and rushes into the smoke. The robotic girl finds Lubbock in the smoke and grabs him by the neck.
"You cannot hide from me, Evil Night Raid." Penny says as she strangles her enemy. She smile grows more sinister as Lubbock struggles to breath. Akame emergency from the smoke and slashes the foe on the back below Penny's backpack. The red eyed assassin expected to draw blood, but instead only saw a metal plate under the clothes.
"What?" Akame says in astonishment, Penny looks back at Akame with eyes of anger. She see sends the sword at the red eyed assassin. Akame tries to parries the onslaught but starts to tire. Lubbock tries to call her friends name but is unable to speak.
Penny throws him over the edge of the building and turns to try to finish off Akame. She starts to walk over but is pulled from her left leg by thread over the edge. The robotic girl falls of the same edge she just threw Lubbock.
Penny used her swords blast of energy to reduce her and subsequently Lubbock falling speed. The man with green hair survived the fall, painful landing on his right shoulder, while the robot girl lands her feet. Lubbock struggles to get up and sees Akame scale down the building, running from the swords. Penny fires a blast of energy were Akame was, causing the red eyed assassin to free fall back to the ground. She lands near Lubbock and looks at him with worry.
"This is not good, we are not in any condition to continue much longer. She has the advantage in ranged and close up combat." Akame say seeing that her enemy is getting ready for a rush attack, "My Murasame could not kill her in one cut because she is a machine. What do we do?"
"I have one idea." Lubbock says, whispering a plan to Akame, who nods in agreement. Penny smiles sinisterly as her sword thrust her towards the enemies.
Akame stands in the path of her enemy and throws her weapon as a javelin at Penny. The robot girl intercepts the attack and sends the Murasame up into the air. She encloses on her enemy and is ready to attack. The robotic girl smile as Lubbock raises his hand and lowers his hand.
"You will die from jusssssssss" Penny says, unable to finish her thought as Murasame has plunged into the top of her head. It had been sent back down at the ground with the help of Lubbock's thread. Penny's eyes slowly become deprived of life as she falls to her knees. The robot girl had powered down for good as her artificial life had ended.
Akame walks over and removes her weapon form her enemy and putting it back in the sheath. She helps up Lubbock off the ground. "It is over now, Lubbock. We can rest now." Akame says.
"I do not think so." Akame hears an unfamiliar voice call from beyond the ruble of the destroyed building into the street. It sound like it came from a young man in an arrogant tone.
"Wow. They were right about the Night Raid members being strong. I thought it was just some lost hunters making all that noise. But you two look do not look like hunters, am I right Mercury?" another unfamiliar voice says, sounding like a pretensions young woman.
Akame and Lubbock look over the see a women with dark skin and mint green hair with a man with gray hair and some metal armor on his shoulders.
"I think you are right, Emerald, they do look like the portraits of members that woman with blue hair gave us. Now look, they have just killed one of our enemies who stopped our old shipment of Dust from coming in a while ago. I did not know she was a robot" The man says as he walks over and kicks Penny, knocking the dead robotic girl on her side. Lubbock and Akame realize the real danger they are in now as they know who the woman in blue hair is.
Emerald continues, "I think that means they deserve a reward. What should we give them?" She say as she pulls out two guns and points them at the Night Raid members. The man positions himself in a fighting stance and answers Emerald's question.
"I know, how about a quick death?" Mercury says with a sinister smile as he stomps on Penny's head, crushing it into scrap metal.