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"Y-You… But I-" She choked on the words, on what she'd been about to say and what she'd done, and Penny cocked her head to the side in confusion. Anger, revulsion, and confusion warred inside of her while she stammered like a frightened child would when they saw a ghost. "Penny we, I, that is to say you were… In the tournament I-I didn't mean to, I swear, it… It wasn't-"

"What is wrong, Friend Pyrrha?" The android asked quietly, face a mask of innocent confusion and head cocked to the side. Taking a wary step towards her, with the watching god at her back, Penny smiled and offered a hand, "Whatever is the problem, we can get through it together. We are friends after all, aren't we?"

"B-But I… Penny, don't you remember?" That had to be it, she decided, turning her gaze on the dark god looming over them and scowling. Even as frightened as she was of the great being she still had to ask, as politely as she could manage through her hammering heart and roaring nerves. "Did you play with her mind? I know you are able to do so, you've quelled my emotions before."

"Your faith in me is absolutely lovely to behold, my dear." The dark being chuckled, the sound rolling into a tired sigh as her eyes narrowed. Shaking its great head and then leaning his chin on the palm of his hand, elbow on his throne's arm, he answered boredly. "I did nothing to the little thing. She's simply too sickly sweet to blame you for an accident."

"Thank you!" Penny turned, beaming a smile up at the surprised deity. "I always try to be sweet and kind to my friends. And you saved my life, so you're my friend too!"

"I… Am a god-"

"Who is my friend!" Penny nodded simply, the deity turning purple eyes on the still shocked Mistralian, clearly begging for help. Penny misunderstood the look, or didn't care about the real reason, and turned to smile at Pyrrha as well. "And you are my friend as well, Friend Pyrrha. Even if you were made to accidentally dismember me, I assure you it is all quite alright."

"I dismembered you…"

"It was an accident! And really, what is a little dismemberment between good friends?" Murder, Pyrrha wanted to say. It was murder, but the bubbly little android's wide smile and bright eyes robbed the words from her. "So let's leave it in the past and move on, like friends should when they accidentally murder each other."

"B-But I…"

"I forgive you. That's what matters, right? So now we can be friends again! Like before, but better and closer friends." Growing more serious when Pyrrha didn't respond, instead stuck doing her best impression of a breathless fish, Penny spoke, "My power capacitors let me see for a time after my disassembly. I saw the look on your face. You were shocked, broken. I don't believe that you meant to hurt me."

"She was tricked by the Semblance of another, which pushed her past what her already taxed mind could take." Darkness offered, the Mistralian and Android gazes both snapping to him in surprise. With a sardonic roll of his great, violet eyes, the creature sighed. "And you both forgot I knew all for my godly sight. Didn't you?"

"In fairness, a deity is a very strange friend to have. And we only just met so it is completely understandable we wouldn't know you so well yet!" The deity groaned at the contradiction there, but waved Penny off. Arguing with her, Pyrrha had swiftly learned even by just watching her with team RWBY, was a pointless affair. Still he grumbled about being her god not her friend, and Penny pouted cutely. "You saved me, and brought me back to my friend to make things right, so you are my friend."

"You should just give up." Pyrrha coached gently, finally feeling a sense of calm wash over her. Darkness' interference, she assumed, shrugging it off and sighing. Blinking, she added a more reverent, "My Lord, I mean. You should, uh, give up. Penny can be quite assertive about who her friends are."

"Don't force it now. We wouldn't want you to hurt yourself or anything silly like that, hm?" The being chuckled, though, and seemed content with the respectful term regardless of his snipping. Finally, he turned his gaze on Penny and nodded gently. "Call me what you like, girl. I find that I do not care."

"Understood, Friend God."

"Right…" The deity shook its head and turned to Pyrrha now, moving on and ignoring the bubbly android's 'sickly sweetness' as he'd called it. Instead, he spoke in a more firm, official way to her. "You will reappear in your world close to your destination. Penny shall be with you, and how you two come together is your own problem to solve."

"I understand." She nodded, giving Penny a look and explaining in brief, "I, that is to say we now so long as you agree, are headed to guard a free clinic on a space station. It should be rather safe, and the doctor there is a good man, albeit… Strange. So long as you keep secret what you are, it should all be well."

"A real space station?" Her eyes widened when Pyrrha nodded, silently praying the girl had heard everything else she'd said. Clapping her hands, the girl bounced on her heels and giggled excitedly. "Sensational! Absolutely sensational! Oh, if only Father could see it… He so loved the ideas of going to space, even as impossible as he assured me it was to accomplish such in his lifetime."

The mention of her father seemed to dim her mood for a moment, her gaze turning hazy and unfocused while she stood frozen where she was. Then she blinked, smiled again, and gave Pyrrha a look, "Oh, I am so excited!"

"Penny…"

"Should you need to speak with me, you need only pray." The god cut in, not wanting to extend their being in his realm any further. Or feeling left out of an emotional conversation, she supposed. Clasping his hands in a pantomime of a maiden, the god dramatized, "Oh dear Lord of Darkness and my savior, I beg of you for a favor! That sort of thing. Got it?"

"I suppose…?"

"Yes, Friend Lord of Darkness and-"

"That isn't my name, girl, I just meant to show how you both should… Ugh. Forget it." The deity waved her off and reclined in his throne, seeming tired but… Satisfied, in a way she couldn't claim to understand but still saw. It was in the way he sat, shoulders sloped comfortably and chin in his hands, relaxed rather than tense. "Now, if none of the students have any questions, I can return you and-"

"Mm!" Penny grunted, actually raising her hand and bouncing on her heels.

"Is she…?" Darkness' violet eyes turned to the Mistralian and Pyrrha grimaced.

"She is raising her hands to ask a question, yes." A blink again and she stammered, adding an out of habit, "M-My lord, I mean. You, ah, you did ask if the students had any questions, after all."

"This is my existence now, isn't it…? This is it. Dealing with attitude and snark from a girl I am unable to be angry with." The deity sighed and waved towards the android girl, sounding even more exhausted but oddly amused. "Fine. Ask your question, girl. I'll remember to be more literal next time to avoid this but I am a primordial force of fury of my word."

"Why do you keep calling me 'girl'? And who is going to maintain my inner mechanisms? And-" The deity held up a hand and Penny paused, smiling pleasantly while the god pinched the bridge of his nose and groaned. When he didn't speak, Penny rattled out, "Sorry, I had a few questions, because you kept talking and I kept thinking up more."

"I call you girl because you are one, and I'm feeling snide, frankly. It's a character quirk of mine, being snide all the time. You'll adapt to it, I'm sure." Penny preened at that answer, oddly, and Pyrrha had to fight not to giggle. He knew them, she was fully aware, and thus knew Penny better than even she did. And he seemed to be playing off of something, which was making the android happy. "The second question is rather simple, really. Your internals are infused with my own blessings and will mend over time. For energy, simply eat a meal or, more rapidly if you need it, touch raw electricity somehow. That will give you a boost."

"Can I taste food?" Penny suddenly erupted, "Please tell me I can taste food!"

"You can, yes, I felt that-" The being sighed as Penny squeed excitedly and then, seeing his agitation, coughed into a hand and smiled apologetically. Giving her a look to see if she intended to actually remain calm, he finally sighed. "Now I am afraid we are out of time for questions. Do your homework, or don't, have some drugs, whatever. I'm sending you back now."

Neither got the chance to speak before his fingers snapped and thunder rolled, the two blinking owlishly at the filthy walls of an Omega alleyway. Grimy, crossed overhead by old and rusty piping with a grated walkway - or the bottom of a room, you could never tell frankly - and lined in garbage and sleeping people, it was everything she was used to. Gently, and fighting her own once again rising guilt, Pyrrha took one of Penny's hands and tugged her toward the end of the alleyway.

"Penny, this is Omega. You need to be careful, here, as people aren't friendly and will turn on you if you-"

"So it is like Vacuo from our home is then?" Pyrrha gave the girl a look as they stepped out into a wider passage of sorts, the sounds of the crazy preacher she'd been told about reaching her. Smiling primly as they walked toward a distant checkpoint and the trio of guards at it, minding the quarantine, Penny explained, "Father always said the same of Vacuo. That you couldn't trust those 'patent ignoring sandy gits', as he phrased it."

"Yes. Just like Vacuo, yes, people here aren't… Trustworthy all the time." No, Vacuoans were a more kindly, honorable people than one would expect. A product of the harsh desert and nomadic life, apparently. But it made explaining it to Penny easier, and when it came to those particular kinds of battles she didn't mind cheating. "Just follow my lead and you will be fine, alright? And for the love of the God of Darkness, don't let anyone try and sell you anything."

"I will trust what you say, Friend Pyrrha." The girl nodded, beaming a smile and waving at a Batarian as they passed by. The alien scowled but Penny seemed unbothered, instead turning her head to look around as they made their way. "Everything here is so interesting! And dirty. Do you think they need me to show the Atlesian maintenance protocols?"

"No, Penny." She rolled her eyes but she smiled nonetheless, grateful for a reminder of home. Even laced with lingering regret as it was, if was a comfort. "Just come with me. We've a nice alien man to protect, after all."

"Mhm!" She nodded eagerly, seeming at once like a little girl even as she rolled her shoulders and grinned widely. "We will disassemble anyone who thinks they can hurt your friends, Friend Pyrrha. Do not fret, I am combat ready."

The combination of adorable little girl and apparent murder bot was… An odd one, to say the least. But one she ignored well enough, pausing to introduce herself so the guards - and her Human escorts, apparently - let her by and showed her through to Mordin's Clinic. What she had to say wouldn't reveal their secrets, so she took the time to relay how Penny would need to behave on Omega as they walked.

Starting with a ban on Penny ever going into Afterlife by herself, or preferably at all.

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"So, Brother?" His aggravating, no doubt eavesdropping sibling started significantly less than a quarter of an hour after the children - his children now, he supposed - had been sent on their way. Shining as sickeningly bright through their communication portal as always, and smiling to boot, the other god asked, "How did it go? Did you take my advice, ask them to actually pray? Make your desires known?"

"You were watching, I don't doubt it for a moment, so you would know. Wouldn't you?" He was mildly satisfied when the golden one grimaced and stiffened, if only for a split second. The Favored One was always watching, he'd learned that eons ago. And there was no point arguing over it, as it was in his brother's nature, and he wouldn't oppose that. "As I thought, you are ever the predictable one. So, tell me how you felt it went, Brother."

"Before or after the elder girl stopped screaming?" Darkness snorted at the joke and that seemed to ease the tension between them, if only just. Though the Light God's expression grew stern in the emptied air, and Darkness knew he was about to become patronizing again. "I believe it went well, actually. They speak to you with reverence in their wording, at least, though you should discipline them when they fail to. Not wave it off."

"They are learning fast enough, Brother." He argued simply, idly inspecting one of his nails like he was checking for dirt. An act in futility both were aware of, since dirt couldn't cling to him any more than a blade could cut him or a bullet could penetrate his divine skin. As always, though, his brother didn't rise to the petty baiting. "And those two are a grateful, dutiful kind of people. Especially young Pyrrha, which is part of why I so eagerly picked her. Once they adapt to having a god watching over them, and fully come to terms with their changes, they will do it simply to make me happy out of gratitude."

"You could enforce it." Light remarked dryly, speaking in that quiet, tired voice he often used when he broached a topic he believed would front an argument. Typically, he was right about that, too. "Cow them into submission, maybe. Or make them reliant on your powers, perhaps in the form of gifted magic or weaponry to protect themselves even better."

"I want true love and devoted adoration, Brother. Not the fear and the adulation of trembling slaves, afraid not to kneel and grovel and have me strike them down." That actually drew a scowl from his light-aligned brother and a smile from his own dark visage. It was so rare that his brother scowled that way, and he had to fight not to capitalize on it and be petty, even with the quite literally golden opportunity presented to him. "I rule my subjects as I see fit, just as you did back on the World. That is how it has always been."

"Yes, because my way earned me more of what we both desired. Love, worship, adulation, servitude and above all obedience." Light countered hotly, voice low and only just echoing with a crackle of heat and fury. A crackle that was as to a roar to Darkness' experienced ears, for his brother was normally so reserved. "Yours, on the other hand, had you alone. Only worshipped in any extent by fools sacrificing each other to your Grimm, thieves and murderers, and the like. None of whom came to see you in your holds."

"One did, if you recall." He challenged, "She came to me to ask my favor and prostrate herself, and you took exception to that."

"She sought to trick you, Brother, and you know this." Light snapped hotly, now breaking free of even his own imposed discipline and cold visage. Swiftly, though, it was back and he spoke more, tone quieter and calmer. "And then she brought our own creations and servants against us when we punished her. Our own children turned against us, if you recall."

"Your creations and your servants you mean." Darkness corrected, raising an ethereal brow and grinning widely. "And besides, we both now know how your chosen punishment turned out at its ultimate end. Don't we?"

"Brother…" Light warned, voice frosty in an ironic way, given his sun-like appearance. Around him, his asinine natural scape dimmed, the animals and insects skittering away from him like they sensed a storm. Which wasn't exactly an inaccurate way of seeing what was coming, Darkness supposed. "Do not tread there again, my Brother. We have made amends for that between us, I thought."

"I have forgiven your little betrayal, yes." Light seemed to relax at the words even if his eyes narrowed at how he phrased them, but still those dim silver eyes watched him. Waiting for the other foot to fall, he supposed. A wait that Darkness wasn't going to so cruelly drag out. "What I have not quite gotten over is that you made us hypocrites in the eyes of those who might find out your indiscretions. Your change of mind to slight the woman and your… Other ones."

"I don't know what you-"

"Do not think to lie to me, Brother.I see and know as much as you, through the eyes of my children." He hissed, watching his beloved brother's mouth shut with a muted 'click' of shock and shame. Rare emotions from the deity, to be sure, and for a moment he felt a pang of guilt at having stirred them up. "My lovely creatures are weak to your powers, did you not think I would notice your creations being gifted enough of your authority to so easily destroy them?"

"Your beasts ran amok in the borderlands, Brother." He answered simply,voice low and cowed for once. Even if it was only temporary, it still told the tale of his brother's regret at them arguing over something. "My worshippers pleaded for my aid. It was gift those warriors with my blessed eyes or intervene myself. I felt you would prefer their being gifted a modicum of power to my direct, personal interference."

"Indeed, and I have known of that for centuries upon centuries yet I didn't care when it happened nor do I care now. No, as always I leave you to do with your followers as you see fit." The point was made and, begrudgingly, Light nodded understandingly and Darkness sighed. "And I demand the same courtesy, though I do appreciate your input. That's all."

"A fair demand." Light sighed, "Very well, then, I'll leave it be."

"That is all I could ever ask you to do, Brother." A bit rude to say, frankly, but he didn't much feel the need to not barb him a bit here and there. It would be too unnatural for either of them if he didn't snipe. "Beyond our difference of approach, then, how do you feel things went?"

"Well enough." Light answered with a tired, weary sigh that spoke volumes of him being glad the argument part was over. Then he smirked cheekily, and Darkness was already sighing before he started to speak, "I did find it quite adorable how you kept calling the synthetic 'girl' because you knew she wants to be one."

"That is not why I did it."

"I believe it is." Light argued, "I believe you are quite soft hearted, deep down, in fact."

With a flick, Darkness dispelled his brother's connection to him and he growled, flexing a finger. Distantly, he felt a mountain's death knell as it was annihilated and he sighed. Catharsis was a pleasant experience, really. And a needed one, after his brother started being cheeky with him or they quarrelled. At least this time, he'd not resorted to blowing up moons and planets to be rid of his fury.

Though, that gas giant could do with one less, and he was rather bored…

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Penny Soul Guy (Guest) :

Depends on your interpretation of Penny, souls, AI sentience and so on. For me, I see no way Penny's data could get to Atlas with the CCT destroyed and thus a direct transmission impossible. The next step would be a nearby Atlesian storage place, but all of Ironwood's ships were destroyed, so THAT wouldn't work either. Another Penny could be built, of course, but without the memories, experiences and ideas Penny Mark I experienced, that would be a different end person. And even WITH THEM, she'd be a twin, not the original Penny.

Mr Medan (guest) :

I agree! That is all.

Mercenary 9814 :

Good! Because there will be lasers.

Japanese Optics :

Glad you're enjoying! Thank Espa.

The Prime Cronos :

Oh, but I can be serious! I just tend to prefer not to be. XD

Knightwolf :

Not at all! I do too.

Henri :

Spoilers~

Red Shirts :

Abused in like… A bad way, or teasing? *concerned character builder noises*

Green the Ryno :

Oh shit… OH SHIT! *pins that comment*

Omega Ultima :

Nu, don't ship the robot loli. She needs protecc!