"Alright everyone, this one involves everyone's favourite and only robot friend, Penny," Slays announced.
Penny and Ruby's eyes both respectively lit up.
"What exactly will my daughter be doing in this?" Pietro smiled.
"Mostly murder,"
"Wha-"
"Not of people, well… just start the video Jimmy,"
Jimmy made a monkey noise of disgruntlement and started up the video.
"Dude, she wasn't worth it, you gotta let her go,"
"Oooh ahh" The monkey said, realising his friend's point.
The first thing seen was a black screen, the text on it read.
STATUS UPDATE:
MACHINE ID: PNY-1
LOCATION: APPROACHING HELL
OBJECTIVE: FIND A WEAPON
MANKIND IS DEAD
BLOOD IS FUEL
HELL IS FULL
"What's Penny doing in Hell?" Ironwood looked incredulously at Slays.
"Well, this Penny needs blood to live, and Hell has a lot of that," Slays explained. "Any other questions?"
Penny put her hand up.
"Yes, you, what is it?"
"H-How did Humanity die?" She asked, looking a little shocked.
"Before you ask, this version of you wasn't entirely responsible for it I think; it was mostly the other machines,"
Penny looked a little relieved.
"Other machines like Penny?" Ozpin asked.
"Other machines that use blood as a fuel source, humans have a notably large amount of blood," Slays explained, visibly getting tired of explaining things.
"Good to know,"
This version of Penny was far different to the one The Audience was used to: every trace of green on her had been replaced with blue, her eyes were a bright yellow, her arms and legs were completely blue and more metallic looking, she had mechanical wings on her back; she looked more obviously like a machine, she looked unfinished.
Penny ungraciously fell down a red and grey elevator, a blank expression on her face, classical music was playing, she then landed with a thud in a grey, industrial room.
"Ooooo, she looks so cool!" Ruby fangirled, which made Penny giggle.
"Seems I never got to finish this one," Pietro commented.
There was a hallway covered by boards, Penny punched them off and slid her way into a near pitch black room, the only thing illuminated was a grey and blue high tech looking revolver, sitting upon a pedestal.
Penny walked towards the gun and grabbed it
"Ohmygodthat'ssuchacoolgunhowdoesi-"
"It shoots metal shrapnel so that it doesn't need to reload," Slays interrupted Ruby. "Those are batteries in the cylinder,"
"Ooooo, I should shoot shrapnel," Ruby was scheming.
"Rubes, that's a war crime," Yang reminded her sister.
"The Grimm don't count," Ruby said, Salem tried her best to not be offended by this.
PRELUDE FIRST / INTO THE FIRE
Three Filth appeared behind Penny, attempting to bite her with their oversized mouths.
Penny dashed backwards and shot two of them in the head, before lurching forward, and punching the other's head off. A horde of them then appeared around her, one managed to sink its teeth into Penny's arm, piercing the metal and causing a drizzle of blood to come from the wound.
Penny grabbed the Filth by the neck, jumped into the air, and punched it downwards into its fellow Husks, the Filth that didn't die from this were picked off by her revolver.
The blood absorbed from these Filth caused the bite wound to quickly close up, as she continued deeper into the Industrial labyrinth of the Mouth of Hell.
She tore apart more Filth as she moved through a cramped hallway, any wounds she took quickly healing from the blood she absorbed.
"The hell are those?" Roman gagged a little upon seeing the Filth.
"Filth, your appearance in Hell depends on your status on Earth, these people had no impact in the grand scheme of things," Slays shrugged.
"She seems to use the blood for much more than fuel," Ironwood pointed out. "Do Grimm give off anything that could be absorbed?" He asked to himself, anything that could tear Grimm apart this easily would be a godsend.
Ruby was continuing to gush about how cool this version of Penny was to the, now blushing profusely real Penny.
Penny entered a room with a glass floor overlooking a grinder, a horde of Filth appeared before her and she got an idea. She jumped into the air just as the Husks could attack her, she then shot the glass pane, the Husks let out a deep scream as they fell to the grinder. She did the same trick in the next room, though this room had a giant fan instead of a grinder; still, she took advantage of the Filth's low intelligence to kill them with little effort.
The next room had two humanoid statues in it, and was separated into upper and lower sections.
Two Strays appeared next to the statues, a horde of Filth appeared in the lower section. Penny held the trigger on the revolver and released a blue beam of energy that pierced through the Filth, she then took out the strays with two headshots, sliding to avoid the balls of Hell Energy the skinless husks launched at her.
"So, how impactful do I gotta be to get arms in Hell?" Roman asked as he smoked his cigar, Neo also wanted to know this considering that her afterlife will definitely not grant her speech.
"Iuono," Slays shrugged.
"Do those things just know magic or?" Weiss asked, nearly gagging at the sight of the skinless Strays.
"Hey, those were people at some point," Yang jokingly nudged Weiss.
"They're in Hell, Yang,"
"Nuh uh, they're just outside of Hell," Yang corrected.
"She's got you there," Blake shrugged as Weiss pouted.
Penny entered another hallway, two strays appeared and shot a ball of Hell Energy at her, she punched the ball back and blew the two Strays to pieces.
"Holy shit she punched a bullet," Yang deadpanned. "Now I'm self conscious about my inability to punch bullets," she looked wistfully at her hands, neither of which could punch bullets.
"Don't worry Sister, I'll let you punch my bullets," Ruby said, taking a small break from making her robotic friend blush to hug her sister.
"What are they doing?" Weiss asked.
"I dunno, I was an only child," Blake shrugged.
Penny entered a room full of pipes and launched herself threw its glass ceiling, killing Filth and Strays alike on her way through.
She fought her way through another room with a large fan at the bottom and stood in front of a door with a skull on it.
She entered it and encountered her first demon, The Malicious Face, a stone statue of a head held up by four translucent spider legs.
The Demon shot a volley of Hell Energy at her, which managed to make a pretty good dent in her arm, she responded with a couple shots from her revolver. The Face launched another volley, which it found reflected back at it, the blood from it mostly healed Penny's wound.
Just as Penny was getting cocky, The Demon shot a beam of pure Hell Energy near her, which exploded and sent her flying into the wall.
"Oh dear, I seem to be getting my er… poop stomped in," Penny commented.
"C'mon Penny Dash One, you can do it!" Ruby cheered at the screen.
The Face charged up another beam, instead of dodging it, Penny instead dashed towards The Demon and punched it in the mouth, causing the thing to explode into a shower of stone and blood, which quickly healed whatever wounds Penny had gotten.
"See?"
Penny looked at the elevator that had opened in front of her, leading further into Hell's mouth, as she walked in; she made the first of many decisions, speaking with a decidedly more robotic voice than the real Penny.
"Those are now named Maurice,"
"This Penny can talk?" Weiss asked.
"Why'd she name the Face thingy Maurice?" Yang asked the real question.
"I think it's a nice name," Jaune added.
"Well-" Yang got a death glare from Pyrrha. "Maybe it's a perfectly acceptable name,"
PRELUDE SECOND / THE MEATGRINDER
Before Penny entered the next part of the facility, she walked towards the Terminal located at the front of the elevator, pressing a couple buttons on it caused it to spit out a weapon from a small hatch located under the terminal's screen.
It was a revolver like the one Penny already had, but this one was green and came with four coins, she flipped one of the coins in the air and shot it, it hit the Terminal which let out what sounded like a high pitched, mechanical whine. Penny patted the top of the terminal and then left the elevator.
"Are those things-"
"Yes they're sentient, the Terminals are sentient, it feeling pain should've let you know that," Slays interrupted Ironwood.
"...Now I feel bad about calling them things," Ironwood said to himself.
"You should,"
Penny first entered a room with two pipes leaking blood into a grinder below, with a statue sitting between the two pipes. Penny also saw something yellow through the door to the next room, though the door shut too quickly for her to make anything out.
Filth and Strays appeared in an attempt to stop Penny. She shot a piercing shot at the small horde of Filth and then launched two coins into the air, each of them splitting into two more coins, and going straight through the heads of the Strays as they were shot.
Two Filth lunged towards her as she enter the next room, before quickly being crushed by a… crusher that was mounted on the ceiling.
The room that followed had a crusher in the middle, with four statues adorning the corners. 2 Strays and some Filth appeared. Penny parried the Stray's orbs back at them, she then dashed under the Crusher, the Filth lunged towards it and got pancaked.
"What was that?" Ruby said in anticipation.
"Why would anyone build that?" Weiss asked in relation to the crushers.
"Now, now sweetie, don't discard the idea," Jacques suggested. "We have been needing to upgrade our home security lately," He entered a thinking pose.
Penny entered a long hallway with two sets of crushers, two Strays spawned in front of her, which immediately walked away from her straight into the crushers.
Dashing past the crushers Penny saw three Strays ahead of her, but just as they were launching an attack at her, they were slaughtered by the Motorised Blade of that yellow thing she saw earlier.
It looked like a cobbled together, asymmetrical effigy of Yang, put together with yellow scraps, and with wires and bits of its grey endoskeleton exposed. It even had a mass of yellow wires acting as Yang's hair.
"Oh my God Yang its you, and your weapon is so cool and-" Ruby pointed excitedly.
"Rubes, this means this Penny has to kill me," Yang deadpanned.
"Oh yeah…" Ruby pouted.
"Don't worry girls, you and this Penny are both robots, that's gotta mean something, right?" Tai smiled.
Penny uncharacteristically whispered something about "Clankers", no one heard her say this.
"Velvs, shield my eyes that thing looks horrible," Coco whispered in disgust,"
"Coco that's mean!" Velvet whisper yelled.
Penny entered a room that was separated by some bars, on the other side was the Swordsmachine, the effigy of Yang.
Both machines tore apart enemies in their respective half of the room, nothing survived in their mutual quest for blood.
The Swordsmachine headed into a door on its side, Penny moved forward into the next room.
"Well, it's definitely not on their side," Qrow joked.
The final room was a sloped hallway, with a pit holding an obscene amount of crushers in it, a river of blood flowed into it.
A horde of Filth and Strays spawned. Penny parried the Hell Energy blast into the Filth, blowing most of them to bits and knocking the ones that didn't die into the crushers; she then finished off the Strays by ricocheting her her revolver fire off of her coins.
The elevator opened, and Penny walked inside, scraping some metal shavings off of her revolvers to top up her ammo for it.
"This kid's good, excited to see how she goes when she gets into Hell," Qrow chuckled.
"Me too, Eternal Damnation has never sounded so fun!" Penny beamed.
"That's not… nevermind,"
PRELUDE THIRD / DOUBLE DOWN
Penny landed and lunged towards the door, entering a tall dark room, she quickly dispatched the Strays with headshots and the Filth with a piercing shot from the blue revolver.
Penny entered a large room with a glass pane ceiling and found herself grazed by an inaccurate barrage of hell energy, she looked at what shot it and saw what seemed to be two husks fused together: with three arms, a cannon fused into its right arm, a face on its shoulder and a bit of metal sticking out of its stomach.
She shot it, but it seemed bulkier than other husks; the husk shot another barrage of Hell Energy, which Penny parried to instantly kill the thing.
Two more then spawned, Penny threw two coins into the air and then charged up a piercing shot, instantly killing the two husks before they could shoot at her.
"Oh loremaster, what the hell are those?" Roman asked, grossed out by the abomination.
"Schisms, they're two husks that manifested in the same place,"
"I should mash my Grimm together," Salem took a mental note. "No, that's stupid nevermind,"
Penny entered a room with a narrow spiral staircase, and a door to her left, which she elected to enter. She ran through a long, darkened stairway adorned with more sitting statues into another door with a skull on it, she opened the door and entered the room.
Rubble blocked the entrance as she-
Thud
The Swordsmachine made a Dramatic Entrance from the ceiling, slamming its sword into the ground with one hand, Penny finally noticed that the machine also had a shotgun for a right arm.
"Them both being machines didn't count for something," Tai shrugged.
"Dammit," Yang grumbled.
Penny dashed backwards as she shot the machine, she then dashed sideways to dodge her shotgun fire. Yang then charged full force into her enemy and hit her in the chest, sending her flying backwards with a deep cut. Yang smirked as she charged towards Penny again.
PLINK
Penny punched the blade with her unoccupied hand, sending it straight into Yang's own chest and causing the Swordsmachine to make the noise of a text to speech bot groaning in pain, kneeling to regain her non existent breath. Penny shot four coins into the air and ricoshotted them into the stunned machine who had quite literally turned red out of anger.
Penny smirked as Yang stood up, a look of both confusion and anger on her face as the coins hit her. She wildly slashed at Penny, who parried the first hit, dashed out of the way of the second and got grazed by the third.
Penny focused her fire on Yang's shotgun arm, getting potshots at it as she did her best to weave out of the way of her enemy's attacks.
Yang noticed this and held her shotgun arm up, shooting a volley that was instantly punched back right into her arm, knocking it right off.
Yang let out a shrill screech as she kneeled, before being quickly teleported away before Penny could finish her off.
"Jeez… that's uh… real brutal," Ruby was sweating.
Yang put a comforting hand on Ruby's shoulder. "Ruby, you can think the fight was cool; it's literally just a really poor imitation of me,"
"Oh yeah,"
Penny picked up the grey and blue shotgun as Yang's blood healed her wounds, she pulled the trigger and instead of bullets shot pure heat out of the barrel; she then held down a button to shoot out the core of the shotgun, which destroyed the rubble blocking her way back to the stairs.
"Oooooo… that's so cool! Whatdoesitdo?" Ruby asked, bouncing up and down.
"Calm down, it shoots heat from a purposefully overheated core; its ammo is basically infinite,"
"Ooooo, I gotta make Crescent Rose… wait that's also a war crime," Ruby pouted again.
Penny went to the top of the stairs and blew up the rubble blocking her way, entering a long corridor. She used her newfound shotgun to tear through the Filth that blocked her way, parried the shots the far away Strays launched at her and… got an idea.
She saw two Schisms, both of which were far away, their blasts were too inaccurate to easily parry, so Penny jumped up in the air and punched her own shotgun blast at the Schisms, which blew them into bloody chunks and blood.
She went through a tunnel, tearing through four Filth with the shotgun and then punching a singular Stray's head off as it spawned in front of her.
Yang felt even more insecure at her inability to punch bullets.
Penny entered and even longer set of hallways, separated by crushers, and with giant fans at both ends.
A Schism and some Strays shot at her from afar, she parried one of the Stray's Orbs to quickly kill the Schism, then some Filth jumped at her, so she parried another Orb towards the Filth to kill them, she finished off the strays with a quick projectile boost, punching her shotgun bullets at them. 2 more Strays appeared, she pushed both into the crushers. As she moved past the crushers she was jumped by some Filth, one of which managed to attach themselves to her arm via its teeth, Penny swung this Filth at the rest of them as an improvised weapon, before punching the Biting Filth's head so hard that it exploded.
Penny entered a doorway to a tall room with a glass floor, she could see the spiral staircase room below, a set of ramps led to a door guarded by two Strays. Penny climbed up to the door and Shot a Shotgun core between the two Strays, she then broke the glass floor with a charged Revolver shot, the two Strays quickly fell to their deaths.
This doorway lead to another stairway adorned with statues, and another door with a skull on it.
"Ooo it's rematch time," Penny smiled.
Team RWBY looked a little concerned, but overall weren't too worried. This was probably just something that looks really similar to Yang.
Yang teleported into the room without much fanfare as Penny entered; The yellow, now one armed robot snarled robotically as it rushed towards her, Penny dodged this and followed up with her own shotgun blasts.
Yang threw the blade at Penny, who parried it right back at the Swordsmachine, creating a huge dent in her chest; Penny then shot three coins in the air and shot them with a charged blast, knocking the head off of the stunned machine who let out one last mechanical wail as she died.
Penny mockingly flipped one coin on the body, smirking as she entered the elevator.
"Okay that was just mean," Taiyang sounded annoyed.
"Can't stay on can you?" Yang jokingly grumbled at her arm, she swore it produced a quiet, apologetic beep in response.
Before leaving the elevator room, Penny walked up to the terminal.
TIP OF THE DAY: SHOTGUN PARRIES A POINT SHOTGUN ATTACK TO AN ENEMY JUST BEFORE AN ATTACK LANDS CAUSES MASSIVE DAMAGE
Penny nodded at the tip as she bought a new weapon, a grey and green shotgun with a pump on it, she stored it along with her other weapons in her wings.
PRELUDE FOURTH / A ONE MACHINE ARMY
The first room Penny entered was huge, with platforms and walkways around the entrance and a flight of stairs to a raised floor. Strays surrounded her and a horde of Filth ran at her from the front.
Penny jumped up and slammed herself into the ground, knocking herself and the Filth into the air, she then launched the core, killing all the Filth and launching herself backwards towards one of the Strays, she shot him with the shotgun to heal her wounds from quite literally blowing herself u-
Penny was grazed by a barrage of Hell Energy, an accurate barrage of Hell Energy.
A Maurice stood before her, the Stony Demon began to charge up a Hell Energy Beam.
Penny dashed and jumped at the same time towards The Maurice, pumping her shotgun two times, shooting the Demon point blank just as it launched the beam, causing it to explode into stone, Hell Energy and refreshing blood.
Penny swiftly took out the rest of the Strays with coins
"Impressive, that was quite literally instant," Ozpin hummed.
"The Terminal didn't lie, the point plank shotgun attack to an enemy just before an attack landed caused massive damage," Yang shrugged.
The next room was a rotating hallway Strays blocked her exit and Filth burst through glass walls on the side, a shotgun projectile boost quickly took care of the Filth, and a parried Hell Energy Blast took care of the Strays.
The final room was a large, arched room, with a glass floor overlooking a giant fan, Strays, Schisms and the largest horde of Filth thus far blocked her exit.
Penny shot all four of her coins to deal with the Strays, she then stood directly on the glass floor; she goaded the Filth to charge into her, then she punched her shotgun blast into the glass, breaking it and shredding every Filth.
Penny then rushed towards the Schisms, she parried the first one's blasts at it, killing it instantly, she then pumped the green shotgun two times and blew the second Schism to bits.
As the elevator opened, she wondered what happened when she pumped the shotgun more, she pumped it three times and-
4
The Overpump Explosion sent her careening down the elevator shaft, with her chestplate burnt.
"Nevermind my earlier compliments, why would it do that?" Winter facepalmed.
"It's like a 10 year old, let it be curious Ice Queen," Qrow said.
"It just depopulated an entire… whatever the place its in is supposed to be,"
"Kids do crazy things sometimes," Qrow waved his hand.
Penny landed on the floor of the elevator room with a hard thud, she looked up to see the Terminal which read
TIP OF THE DAY: DON'T DO WHATEVER THAT WAS
Penny pouted as she stood up and left the elevator room
PRELUDE CLIMAX / CERBERUS
As Penny entered the chasm she was greeted with two options, a large pit of lava that lead to a door with a skull on it, or the path that didn't involve possible boiling alive in lava.
Penny elected to wall jump over the lava and then dash to the door.
Penny entered a small room, with two of those statues she'd been seeing every where to the left and right of the gates to Hell, a door with the words "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here,"
As Penny walked towards the door, she suddenly heard cracking.
The cracking of the statue breaking free and standing up, one last obstacle before she could enter Hell.
"What are those?" Penny asked.
"Eh- y'know what, I'm tired of talking gimme a minute," Slays said as he put a USB drive into Penny, downloading everything there was to know about this Universe to her brain. "Now she can explain things, hurray, yipee," He waved his hands as he sat back down.
The Statue threw the glowing orb it was holding in its hand at Penny, it managed to graze her foot as she dashed just a moment too late. Penny pulled out both her shotguns and fired them one after another, firing burst of heat after burst of heat into The Cerberus' chest, it responded by dashing forward, launching Penny towards the wall though this time she dashed before hitting the wall. Penny fired potshots with the blue revolver as she dodged Cerberus' stomps and dashes, just as the second Cerberus stood up and threw Its orb at her
PLINK
Time froze for a second as Penny punched the orb, the explosion hit both of the Cerberi, causing noticeable cracks on the first one. Penny pumped her shotgun twice and punched the heat into the cracked one; Penny grinned as the first Statue fell to pieces.
The other one stomped its foot on the ground and turned a menacing red, Penny just barely managed to slide by Its dash; she tossed all four of her coins in the air and shot them with a piercing revolver shot, The Second Cerberus began to crack.
It stomped, Penny dodged the shockwave, she began to punch heat blast after heat blast at the Cerberus until it couldn't take any more and broke just like Its friend.
The gates to hell opened, revealing a hallway full of an uncomfortable amount of Cerberus Statues, all dormant thankfully.
Penny entered the Elevator and made her way to the first layer of Hell.
"And that's it for now, I probably have the rest of her journey through Hell if you wanna see that," Slays said as Jimmy the Monkey took the tape out of the tape recorder.
"Hell yeah we do," Yang cheered, the pun earned her a groan from everyone except for Taiyang.