"Anyways I-"
"Ooo ooo ahh ahh-"
"Oh shit whaddup Jimmy, what'd you find?" Slays bent over to grab the tapes out of his Monkey pal's hands. "Oh it's Penny's entire journey through Hell, cool; put in Limbo, Jimmy,"
"Yeah do it Jimmy!" Yang ordered.
Slays extended his entire upper body towards her.
"Only I tell him what to do you crippled bimbo," He warned, considering that his torso was now the length of the average Ursa, she decided to back off.
Jimmy put the tape in the thingy, and Penny's journey into Hell continued to be watched.
Penny rapidly plummeted down the Elevator, landing in the oh so familiar Elevator Room with the Terminal. Penny had a grin on her face, to finally be in Hell with the bloodshed and death oh so familiar to her. The door to Limbo opened and…
LIMBO FIRST / HEART OF THE SUNRISE
...A bright outdoor plaza complete with trees, flowers, birdsong, stone pillars and even a fountain in the middle with a dormant Cerberus on it. Though upon closer inspection the trees were fake and blocky, and the sky was clearly a bunch of screens.
"Looks quite nice for Hell," Ozpin commented.
"I use those exact sounds to help me sleep," Glynda said.
"Couldn't even afford decent lookin' trees," Qrow drunkenly commented. "The true Hell was the budget we made along the way,"
"The truest form of suffering, trying to gaslight the damned into thinking they're in Heaven, how smart," Salem thought to herself.
Disappointed at both the lack of things that could bleed and the lack of actual respite, she opened a door on the far side of the room which housed a door that wouldn't open and a red pedestal. She decided to go to the room on the right which had a red skull on a pedestal and a locked door behind a blue redestal, convenient.
She went back and opened the red skull door and-
Clink…
The door locked behind her as she walked into the long corridor complete with a cliff face and waterfalls to imitate being outside.
As she walked forward two machines appeared in front of her, flying purple machines called Drones, Penny smirked at having something to give her blood.
They shot three hell orbs at her and skirted to the side, Penny threw up a coin and shot it, it split into two and hit both the Drones.
The Drones then kamikaze'd at her which caught her off guard enough for her to be hit by the blast it made sending her careening into a screen.
Four more drones appeared and shot at her, she punched the hell orbs back and made two explode the and there, with the third careening towards her; she punched the divebombing Drone into the last one, blowing both of them into scrap metal and blood.
"Improvisation appears to be this Penny's strongest ability," Ozpin took a sip of his coffee. "Though we haven't seen much of her combat prowess, her figuring out that she could punch that thing back shows great skill,"
Penny entered a long hallway with a river and a small bridge at its far end, 3 Drones appeared before her. Penny punched her shotgun blast at it and blew all three up. 4 Schisms and 2 drones then appeared as backup.
Penny reflected a bullet from the Husks and hit two of the Schisms she then projectile boosted a shotgun blast at it to take those two out as she was hit by a Drone's hell orb. Penny hit one drone with a coin and then jumped towards and grabbed the other, dunking it like a basketball towards the Schisms, taking them both out.
"And also punching things," Qrow added.
"Admittedly that too, she has punched heat… multiple times," Ozpin said, both impressed and concerned at the whole shotgun thing.
Exiting out of the door, Penny entered a large, interior stone room like the foyer of a castle.
On a bed of flowers in the middle was a weapon, A Grey and Blue Dual Barrelled Minigun that shot Nails, aka The Nailgun; Penny grinned with glee as she picked it up, a Maurice spawning in front of her as it did.
She shot a steady stream of nails at the Demon with one hand while reflecting its hell orbs with the other, killing it in mere seconds.
The iron from the Maurice's blood meant that more nails would be created within the gun, making it virtually infinite.
Ruby was practically drooling over the new weapon, whisper yelling gibberish at Penny in relation to how cool it was.
Pietro nodded, impressed at how quickly his daughter (or at least this kinda weird, near sociopathic version of her) destroyed something she once struggled with.
Penny walked up a staircase to the left of the room, 4 strays spawned near the door at the top and were quickly mowed down by the Nailgun before they got a chance to fire.
The door led to a hallway lined with carpet, stained glass windows, and pillars. A horde of Filth spawned alongside 4 Drones and Strays.
Penny hit a button on the side of the Nailgun, shooting a magnet on the ground, the nails went towards the magnet making a trap that killed all of the Filth.
Penny dashed towards and shot two Strays with her revolver and then parried a hell orb at the other two. She tried to shoot at the drones, but they kept… fucking moving out of the way
BANG
Penny used shot the blue shotgun's core at the Drones, destroying three and sending the fourth divebombing at her, she merely punched the Machine into the wall. She made a grumpy sounding whirring noise as she moved
"How dare that thing try to live," Blake joked.
"Listen Blake, Penny has to take out the competition," Yang explained.
"That wasn't what I was joking abou- nevermind,"
"Why is every Machine powered by blood?" Weiss asked.
"Ooo, the data given to me by our Host says that they were made for war… except this one, this one is a security Drone," Penny explained. "Usually armed with non lethal weaponry, these ones have upgraded themselves,"
"I- it makes even less sense to make these blood powered," Weiss grumbled.
"Blood is an infinite resource, Schnee kid," Qrow explained.
"Drunk, I swear if you try to convince my sister to murder people-"
"I'm not, I-I'm just saying," Qrow drunkenly mumbled.
The Hallway lead to a small, outdoor room with a blue skull key in it and door in it, she picked the skull up and headed through the door, which led back to the Waterfall Room.
2 drones spawned, which she quickly dispatched by shooting a singular coin.
Penny headed back to the area she had started in through the red skull door.
Some Filth and Strays blocked her path, Penny charged up her Piercer revolver, killing Most of the Filth and one Stray, she then finished off the rest with her shotguns.
Penny entered the hallway leading to the room with the blue pedestal, quickly taking out 4 Strays that blocked her path with a singular parried Hell Orb; she placed the skull on the pedestal and headed through the blue door into a small, cathedral like hallway.
8 Strays and 2 Drones, Penny was hit caught off guard and hit in the arm, though this didn't stop her when she reflected one of the Next Hell Orbs that was shot at her, killing four of the strays, she then shot at the Husks while darting around the hallway to avoid the bullets.
PLINK
Penny shot the Stray's Hell Orb as he was casting it, causing it to explode in his hands and kill the other four Strays, Penny eyes lit up as she did this; she finished off the Drones by waiting for them to bunch up and hitting them with a projectile boosted shotgun blast.
"This me learns most of her skills by accident… that's funny," Penny giggled.
After the Hallway was the final room, with the exit elevator on the far side. The room was decorated with a flowerbed, pillars and a skylight in the middle.
2 Schisms and 4 Strays appeared.
Penny punched both of the Schism's blasts as they were about to shoot them, Penny dodged the Hell Orbs fired at her and then shot two coins, which both split in two and killed the Strays.
Six Drones spawned as backup. Penny took out three with a single charged Piercer shot, which made one of those three start careening towards her; she punched the divebombing Drone at the group of three other Drones, destroying all of them in an instant.
She shot a coin to celebrate and
CLINK
The Skylight broke as the Elevator came up, Penny groundslammed and jumped through the now broken skylight.
Penny entered the room above, the only thing of note was a slab with "I" inscribed into it.
Penny pushed the slab in, causing it to glow blue. Somewhere, deep in Limbo, a mechanism has been set in motion.
Penny exits this part of Limbo through the Elevator, and begins to descend deeper.
"Oooooo, a mystery," Ruby looked excited.
Before Penny entered the next part of Limbo, she decided to buy another weapon from the terminal, a Green Nailgun.
LIMBO SECOND / THE BURNING WORLD
Penny stepped out into a large, outside room with a prominent stone tower in the middle, a locked red door and pedestal was on the floor alongside a blue pedestal on the left side under a platform held up by pillars, above the red door was a balcony with another door.
Walking forward spawned a horde of Filth Penny quickly dispatched with her new Nailgun, it rapidly heated up as she used it, a button on the side caused it to shoot out a flurry of burning nails that fried the Filth. 4 Strays situated upon the Balcony and Platform fired upon her alongside a singular Schism. Penny punched a shotgun blast to hurt the Schism and kill the Strays surrounding it, she then parried a Stray's bullet to finish of the Schism, the last 2 Strays were finished off with revolver fire as she climbed onto the platform.
3 more Strays spawned on the tower, Penny took them out with three shot coins, another 3 Strays spawn as she jumps onto the Balcony.
She shoots the first in the head, and then shoots the second's Hell Orb as he casts it, blowing the last 2 Strays to pieces.
"I'm still surprised a layer of Hell can be so peaceful… minus Penny and her shenanigans," Glynda mused.
She opened the door and entered the first room, an interior Hallway to the Upper Layers of the Castle; she quickly put down a horde of Filth by punching 2 shotgun blasts, then 2 Drones and Four Schisms appeared. Penny was grazed by the Hell Orbs as she dodged around them, she took out the Drones via two shots each from her revolver, punching them at the Strays as they careened towards her for a quick kill.
She ran through the door at the end into a small room with a staircase leading to a Blue Skull Key on a Pedestal, as she approached the Key, some Filth charged up the stairs, and she received fire from 3 Drones and a Stray, the Filth were taken out by a shotgun blast, the Drones bunched up and were taken out by Penny launched the explosive Shotgun core at them, and the Stray was taken out with a coin.
Picking up the Skull unlocked the door next to door, walking into a tight hallway littered with flaming corpses.
"They're… They're not even cooked right," Penny solemnly commented as she stepped over the bodies, and walked forward back into the first room, she then walked back into the outdoor section.
"I mean, it's not much worse than anything This Penny has done, but still," Blake made a noise of mild disgust at the burnt corpses.
"Penny's gonna hafta face whatever did that," Qrow commented.
"Well, she'll win, because Penny is so fricken cool," Ruby fangirled. "And her weapons are cool and…" Ruby continued to go on a bunch of tangents, all about how cool Penny was, which made the Robot Girl blush.
The world was burning, the screen changed from a blue sky to an orange haze, parts of the stone were even currently on fire.
Penny had no idea who did this, but she did know that they could probably actually pose some kind of threat.
"How do you set rocks on fire?" Roman asked, genuinely confused.
"I can do it," Cinder said.
"Yeah, but you've got your fire bullshit,"
"It's not bullshit," Cinder pouted.
As Penny dropped down from the Balcony she heard a robotic beeping coming from behind her, and a sudden influx of heat on her bac-
Penny panicked and ran in the opposite direction of the jet of fire that was being launched at her and got a good look at her attackers.
2 Machines, wearing brown armour and skirts, equipped with flamethrowers fueled by gas tanks on their backs.
The two were grouped up, Penny shot her Shotgun's core at them to kill them and… they hit it midair and threw it to the side as they rushed at her, they then (Rather messily) dodged a shotgun shot from her, Penny quickly dispatched the first one with quite a few normal shots from her revolver, she then killed the second one instantly with the energy blast.
Penny imitated clearing her throat as she placed the blue skull on a nearby pedestal and walked through the door, embarrassed by the whole ordeal.
"It appears Penny has finally found a match, no pun intended," Ozpin chuckled.
"These things are spooky, what are they?" Yang asked.
"They're Streetcleaners, they were made to fix the environment after a Post War Climate Crisis hit the world; though without a world to fix, they simply wander around Hell burning things," Penny explained.
She entered into a courtyard, equally as burnt as the first room with a red skull on a pedestal at the far end as she picked up the skull, three Streetcleaners broke out of the wall and rushed her, Penny dashed backwards and just barely dodged the fire.
Penny launched a coin in the air and shot it in a panic and-
CLINK
Penny heard the robotic screech of one of the Streetcleaners as its gas tank blew up, killing it and launching the other two in the air, Penny finished the two off with revolver fire while they were still in the air.
"Those coins, how do they work?" Ironwood squinted his eyes.
"I-I actually don't know that one," Penny said.
"Dammit,"
Penny smugly threw a coin on the Streetcleaner's bodies as she went back to the red door under the balcony, unlocking it using the skull and entering the lower floors of the castle.
Entering led to a large stone room with a shallow pool of water, there was a door in front of her behind an inactive Cerberus, and a door to her right; Penny elected to go to her right.
Inside was a tiny room housing a pool of lava, Penny stood on a platform above the lava and noticed something to her right, a small cracked piece of the wall; she shot a shotgun core at it and dashed in, just barely avoiding being grazed by the lava.
Inside was a large empty room with a shallow pool of water, a compartment blocked by a barrier… and another cracked wall that Penny quickly broke through.
Penny entered a cavernous dungeon, she wandered around the hallways before encountering a green, glowing wall, when she walked forward-
crack
A green, probably radioactive mouse broke through, and slowly, non-threateningly slid towards her.
Penny was thoroughly unimpressed and disappointed by the Cancerous Rodent, and just stomped on it when it got close to her.
Deciding that this whole area was a waste of time, she went out the way she came, being blocked as she walked out of the hole leading to the flooded room by…
The exact same rat, just bigger, and it was also shooting extremely slow moving, easy to dodge projectiles at her.
Penny rolled her eyes, jumped up into the air and proceeded to stomp on the large rat until it exploded into bloody chunks, consisting mainly of eyeballs.
"I know that thing has like… cancer or somethin', why's it got so many eyeballs?" Qrow asked. "It doesn't need that many,"
Winter grumbled something about how "Cancer doesn't do that, you drunk,"
As she was leaving the area, she noticed that the barricade had broken, heading down she encountered a slab with "II" carved into it, she pressed it, and it glowed.
Now she went back to the Lower Castle.
"Another part of the Slab Mystery done!" Ruby beamed. "I wonder what all of this means,"
"Me too, Ruby," Penny smiled. "Maybe it's a new weapon?"
"That'd be so cool!"
Penny entered the door behind the Inactive Cerberus. The room behind it was a small room with a set of platforms by the side walls, and the exit elevator at the far end.
6 Strays spawned on the platforms and 2 Streetcleaners spawned in front of her.
As she dashed past the Streetcleaners and the Stray's projectiles, she threw two coins in the air and shot them, both coins hit the gas tanks of the two Machines and made them explode into blood and steel.
Reinforcements came in the moment the Streetcleaners died, consisting of two more Streetcleaners and two Drones.
Penny jumped and parried a Stray's orb at the Drones. She then charged up a piercing shot from her revolver to kill one Streetcleaner, and then ran up to the other.
It dodged the blue shotgun blast, Penny dashed backwards and charged the green shotgun twice, the blast blew the Machine to pieces.
Penny slid out of the way of more Hell Orbs as she threw three coins in the air, killing the Strays on one side of the platforms.
Penny jumped up and parried a Hell Orb into one Stray, she then shot a barrage of nails at the other two as she landed.
As the last Stray died, the exit elevator opened, Penny descended further into the castle.
"Another successful mission," Penny grinned. "I am fuelled for another day,"
Penny instantly left the exit elevator.
LIMBO THIRD / HALL OF SACRED REMAINS
Penny entered a castle-like room, with a skylight on the roof and large stained glass paintings on the wall. There was an unlocked red door to the left, and an unlocked Blue door to the right, at the far end there was a locked split door with 2 pedestals in front of it, one red and one blue.
"Sieging down a whole castle by herself, this Penny has proven herself to be very impressive," Ozpin smiled.
"And terrifying," Glynda added.
"That too,"
She entered the red door leading to a Courtyard dotted with platforms on the screen walls, stone paths and walkways, one walkway in the middle had an inactive Cerberus sitting on it.
8 Strays spawned on the platforms surrounding her, and 2 Streetcleaners spawned on the ground, hounding her.
Penny dashed backwards to dodge the fire and hell orbs and then jumped on one of the platforms and killed the three Strays standing on it, she then threw all four of her coins into the air and shot them, the coins split and killed the Strays. Penny narrowly dodged a flurry of hell orbs as she slammed to the floor, 4 Schisms had spawned, backing up the Streetcleaners.
The Machines dodged Penny's first shotgun blast and continued to run forward with their flamethrowers armed. Penny dashed backwards and shot a charged shot from her revolver, killing the first and wounding the second, who was finished off with a punched shotgun blast.
She was then hit in the back by a burst of hell orbs, she looked over and saw that five Drones had appeared.
Penny parried a second burst, which destroyed three drones. She then shot the other 2 down with her revolver.
She killed one Schism by parrying their projectiles, then she slid below another's projectiles and pumped up her shotgun to kill it instantly, then she-
BANG
Was sent flying towards a screen by a sudden explosion caused by-
Penny was shocked, and annoyed by the now activated Cerberus, she quickly jumped off the wall and shot a pumped shotgun shot straight into the Cerberus.
The Schisms were still firing upon her, she was extra careful as she dashed out of the way of the Cerberus' slide, firing four coins in the air, two of which hit the Cerberus and two of which killed a Schism.
Penny projectile boosted 2 shotgun blasts into the Cerberus, it exploded into stone and blood.
Penny charged up a her blue revolver with a huff and shot at the Schism, killing it and letting her progress.
She wiped nonexistent sweat off of her forehead as she pressed on into the next room.
"Those things just appear normally now?" Jaune asked, confused and worried for Penny.
"She could probably kill a hundred of those things," Ruby beamed.
"She struggled to kill two las-," Weiss said.
"Silence,"
Penny entered a winding maze of stone staircases and ramps, situated over a pool of lava.
4 Strays and 2 Schisms spawned on the lower sections of the structure.
Penny killed two Strays by shooting two coins, she then dashed out of the way of one Hell Orb and punched another into a Schism and a Stray, killing the latter and knocking the former into the lava. Penny slid towards and then punched a Schism into the lava; as it fell, she heard the now familiar beeping of Drones coming from the upper sections of the structure, which she quickly rushed to.
There were 4, both divided into groups of two, alongside the Stray who had waddled up the stairs.
She punched Strays Hell Orb into Group 1, which sent the two Drones careening straight into the Stray.
As Penny took out the other 2 Drones with a punched shotgun blast, she heard the whirring of a flamethrower, she quickly dashed to her left to avoid the 2 Streetcleaners that rushed her from her front and back, A Maurice had also appeared to her left, shooting up at her from the lower sections, appearing to float above the lava.
She throws a coin over the Streetcleaner and shoots it, killing first one in a burst of flames and sending the other in the air, who she finished off with a charged revolver shot.
Another Maurice appeared, which quickly became level to her alongside the first one.
She punched two of the First's Hell Orbs back at it, visibly enraging the Stone face as it charged up a beam, Penny dashed out of the way of both the beam and the bullets coming from behind her, she finished the first Maurice off with her Nailgun.
Keeping her Nailgun out, she attached two magnets to the Maurice as she weaved in and out of its' hell orbs, holding down her Blue Nailgun until it was nearly out of ammo; the Maurice died and fell into the lava.
Penny hopped down to the lower section and went to the next room.
"It makes sense that there's so many Maurices, they are the most common Demon by far," Penny mused.
"I do not wanna die and get tortured by something named Maurice," Roman commented.
"That's just what the machine named it," Neo signed.
Roman nodded.
Penny entered a large interior room scattered with pillars, glass, a nice carpet on the floor and broken stairways leading to the red skull key on its pedestal.
A horde of filth, 2 Drones and 2 Streetcleaners appeared before her. She quickly dispatched the Filth with a projectile boosted shotgun shot and ran forward towards the pedestal.
6 Strays and a Schism blocked her path as she reached the stairs to the pedestal, The Streetcleaners had reached her by this point and began to fry the Husks as they chased her, she threw a coin into the air and hit one of their gas tanks, killing it and the Husks, she then finished the other Streetcleaner off with her shotgun, she then punched a shotgun blast at the drones, blowing the both of them up.
6 Strays spawned on pillars at the opposite end of the room, a Maurice also spawned around the middle, all fired on her as she ran towards the pedestal.
3 Streetcleaners broke through a crack in the wall in front of her, and a Cerberus activated just below her. Penny got a little burnt as she panickedly dashed out of the way of the Machines.
Jumped away, she punched one of the Maurice's Hell Orbs back at him, she dashed towards him while pumping her green shotgun twice and shot it into his face as she reached him, killing the Demon.
2 Streetcleaners were taken down with a charged revolver shot, the last was then taken out with a coin to its gas tank, the explosion also hit the Cerberus.
Penny dashed out of the way of both the Cerberus' explosive apple and the Stray's orbs as she punched her shotgun blasts over and over at the Statue, the statue began to crack; she finished him off with a three coin richoshot.
Penny dashed over to the pillars at the west of the room, and quickly took out the Strays with revolver fire.
She finally went back to the eastern part of the room, picked up the skull, and walked through the crack in the wall.
"What the kid did is cool n' all, but I'm still confused as to why this place looks so nice," Qrow said. "Thought this was Hell?"
"It seems like the punishment in Limbo is merely the idea that you aren't in Heaven," Ozpin mused.
"Ohmygodthatwassocoolpennyisso-" Ruby fangirled harder.
"I know, Ruby," Penny smiled.
"Rend them apart, Machine," Nora whispered.
"Wha-?"
"Nothing,"
Penny jumped down a chute in the wall, she bumped into and absorbed a rejuvenating blood orb on her way down. She landed right at the pedestal holding the blue skull, she shoved it in one of her wings and jumped over a pit into the next door.
"What did she just absorb?" Winter asked.
"A roughly 20 litre floating orb of coagulated blood, why?" Penny answered.
"B-But that's, blood can't do that!" Winter grumbled.
"Ice Queen, she's literally in Hell," Qrow said. "She fought a face spider thing she named Maurice,"
"B-But blood can't do that," Winter looked at her hands, she then passed out.
"Oh God, Winter are you alright?" Weiss asked.
"She's sleepin', she can't hear ya, and she'll be fine," Qrow said.
"I- your Uncle sucks, Ruby," Weiss pouted.
"Nuh uh,"
She entered a narrow stairway with a Cerberus statue at the bottom near the door, she slid towards it as 11 Filth spawned behind her, and the Cerberus began to break free from its position.
Penny quickly mowed down the Filth as she slid down the stairs, she switched to the Green railgun to launch a barrage of burning bullets at the Cerberus, visibly cracking the Demon.
The demon charged at her, she dashed to the side and pumped the green shotgun 3 times instead of two.
She dashed towards the Cerberus, fired and then dashed backwards only after having realised her… mistake?
The dash had left her outside of the explosion's radius, and the Cerberus was a smouldering pile of rubble and blood. Penny smiled at her shotgun as she continued into the next room.
"It's amazin' watching my little girl learn all these new techniques," Pietro thought to himself as he smiled.
The next room was a hallway with 2 Streetcleaners and 2 Drones, Penny took out the Streetcleaners with 2 coins, and then killed the 2 Drones with a core eject.
The next room was a tall, cramped room with a shaft in the middle.
A Maurice used the shaft as cover and managed to get a good hit on her as Penny ducked behind it.
Penny punched the Maurice's next volley back at him, then she jumped towards him with her shotgun and killed him, the Maurice fell to the floor with a satisfying thud.
Penny walked through an intersection back to the starting room, the split door opened the instant she put the blue skull on the pedestal. She put the red skull on its pedestal for completionist's sake, and felt one of the large, stained glass windows shift. She walked into the giant opening it had created and entered a small, grey room that was both snowing and flooded.
2 Machines appeared, One Blue One Red poorly put together much in the same way Yang's was. Though they were made to look vaguely like Ruby and Weiss instead. Weiss wielded a Mechanised version of her rapier, and Ruby wielded a Mechanised Scythe.
"Why am I a robot?" Weiss asked incredulously.
"That's not technically you, it's just that the Machine that looked like Yang spawned copycats," Penny explained. "Its unique style of scavenging scrap to create itself made it a legend among machines… before I killed It,"
"I am pretty iconic," Yang smirked.
"Posers," Coco grumbled to Velvet.
"I thought you hated how she looked?"
"Doesn't make them less Poser-ey,"
Weiss tried to poke Penny, who dashed to her left then slid to narrowly avoid a swing from Ruby. Penny pulled out the Blue Nailgun and fired nail after nail until the nailgun was out.
Penny dashed up against a wall and was hit by two consecutive swings from the Scythe; just as the third one was about to hit her, Penny punched it straight back into Ruby, who let out a mechanical groan, but was otherwise still standing.
Weiss threw her rapier like a spear at Penny, who reflected it right back at her with a punch as she dashed out of the way of the pursuing Ruby.
She shot shotgun blast after shotgun blast into the Red Machine as it angrily chased, eventually the machine collapsed to its knees.
Weiss slashed at Penny with her rapier, the thing making a chainsaw-esque sound as Penny narrowly slid out of the way, she threw four coins and shot them, dealing heavy damage to Weiss' chest.
Weiss collapsed to the floor as a projectile boosted blast hit her in the chest. Ruby collapsed soon after.
The wall cracked open and revealed the third slab, Penny tapped on it, it glowed and then she went back to the Main Room.
"Aww, we died, but secrets!" Ruby smiled.
"I totally should've won that," Weiss grumbled.
Penny finally entered the split colour door into a large, domed courtyard in the centre lies two stone boulders, at the far end was the exit elevator.
The boulders revealed themselves to be the arms of a creature rapidly digging itself out of the ground. A Scorpion like mass of flesh dotted with stone faces, stone legs, cannon like arms, and a tail on its back holding a harpoon.
"These things just get grosser and grosser," Yang gagged. "What is it?"
"A Hideous Mass, the result of too much Hell Energy being put into a mould, causing it to split open, and become largely immobile,"
Penny shot at the stone faces, but the bullets merely bounced off, she dashed underneath the beast and blasted her shotguns into its belly. The Mass shot two Mortar like orbs off Hell Energy into the air.
Penny dashed just a moment too late and was knocked into one of the screens by the explosion. The tail shot its harpoon, which Penny narrowly dodged with a dash.
Penny out of the way of the next round of mortars and unloaded her nailgun at the creature's tail, she dashed towards the fresh blood it was spilling, climbing on top of the beast in the process.
She unloaded her shotgun into its tail, only getting off the beast to avoid its harpoon.
Penny got an idea as she fired potshots at the tail, dashing, sliding and waiting for it to launch the harpoon.
After 2 mortar rounds the harpoon missed and dug into the ground next to Penny, she dashed towards it and-
The beast let out a groan of pain as Penny ripped the Harpoon right out of it, the tail began to profusely gush blood; it then let out a shriek of rage as it flipped onto its back and rapidly fired mortars.
Penny threw four coins and charged up her piercer revolver, the charged shot hit the coins and then flew towards the still vulnerable tail. The Hideous Mass exploded into gore, and fresh, rejuvenating blood that healed whatever wounds Penny still had.
Penny entered the elevator, descending deeper into Limbo.
"And another one, Penny 8, Scary Hell Monsters 0, wooo!" Ruby cheered.
"Thank you, Friend Ruby,"
"At this point, I believe the only thing that could slay Penny is Penny herself," Ozpin mused.
"Don't build up the killing machine too much," Glynda rolled her eyes.
Penny exited the elevator.
LIMBO CLIMAX / CLAIR DE LUNE
This part of Limbo was far more peaceful than the others, Penny started out in a long stretch of peaceful outdoor gardens, and stone pathways; Limbo's screens having been changed to makle it appear as if it was night time, calming piano music could be heard.
Penny walked through the door ahead into another outdoor area holding a large stone manor, two sets of stairs led to an upper floor, there were two openings below the stairs, and a doorway on the lower floor right in front of Penny.
Entering the door in front of her lead to room with a locked gate with three blue pedestals, Penny was going to go on a scavenger hunt, above the gate was a stained glass window.
"Somethin' about this place feels off, too peaceful," Qrow grumbled.
"Oh, just let this Penny enjoy her rest," Taiyang scolded.
"Just sayin', there's gotta be somethin' dangerous here,"
Penny first elected to go to the bottom left courtyard, she found no skull, but she did find a large door with the fourth slab in front of it, she tapped on it, and the door opened revealing a small glass container holding two new revolvers, a blue one and a red one. The grips were contoured instead of straight, it's cylinder was x shaped, and it had an external hammer.
Penny abandoned her normal blue revolver in return for the new one, she also grabbed the red one. The revolver shot two bullets that felt far stronger than the ones she was shooting before, Penny smirked as she went to the left door of the lower floors, entering a nice looking dining room with a blue glow permeating from some very loose floorboards.
Penny broke them and picked up the skull out of them. She walked back to the locked gate and placed it on the pedestal, just as she left the room it was in she saw something slide by, something that looked just like her slide by. Penny pulled out her revolver as she looked over to where she thought it went, but there was nothing.
"Another Penny?" Glynda mused. "I suppose we can put your musings to the test,"
Ozpin chuckled. "I suppose,"
Penny decided to go up the stairs to an overhead walkway, she looked over at a headless skeleton praying in front of the words "Forgive me" written in blood, above this was a stained glass depiction of Winter slaying a group of Husks.
"Ice Queen's in this too?" Qrow grumbled. "Universe officially ruined,"
Weiss smiled at the appearance of Winter, even if that did mean her and Penny would come into conflict. She also avoided glaring at Qrow for his insulting of her Sister.
"I don't think they forgave him," Yang deadpanned.
Penny walked into a doorway to the right, leading to a bedroom with a bed, a bookshelf, a shattered mirror covered in blood and a desk with a book utop it.
Penny scanned through it, before finding something interesting, wandering out of the room as she read.
". . . My mind is adrift with the eternal torments. Lurid vistas painted in insidious tones, hollow walls that scream to the touch. A mocking song plays at all hours, even the sounds of birds are fake. All reminders of my enduring damnation.
Winter my dearest friend, in endless penance I have awaited your embrace into Heaven. I have been so faithful, accepting of my fate, but to what end? What punishment is this, that I am to bare the keys to my own doom with no hope of salvation. . . These skulls sneer their devilish grins, voices chattering, tempting me to take the plunge deeper into Hell. . . I won't do it.
I've hidden them away amongst the furnishings, books, and the very foundations of this accursed place. Forgive me Winter, I will await your…"
Penny decided that the remaining text didn't matter, and threw the book towards the stained glass, the book went right through as if it wasn't even there.
"She has the right idea, never read, and throw things at windows," Qrow said.
"If you're giving my children that advice-" Taiyang warned.
"Calm down, big guy, I was jokin',"
"It appears my Sister decides who does and doesn't enter Heaven, I'm sure it's a job she can handle," Weiss said, confidently.
"She's passed out right now cause of a flying blood clot," Yang said.
"Shut up,"
Penny walked through the "glass" and found her second skull, instead of putting it on the pedestal, she had a better idea, and put it on the headless skeleton.
Nothing happened, but Penny smiled at it. "Hank…" she decided.
Penny went back to the room with the gate and picked up the first skull, throwing it directly at the stained glass window, it broke. Penny shrugged and jumped through into an open square courtyard lined with stained glass paintings, and a pool of water in the middle; the whole room was illuminated by the fake moonlight coming from a skylight in the centre; the exit elevator sat at the far end.
Penny walked forward and-
CRASH
Something burst through a window at the far end.
It looked exactly like this Penny, though her legs were more humanoid and her arms were red and bulkier, with two protrusions coming out of the knuckles.
This Penny, PNY-2 smugly bowed at the first Penny, before the two Pennies fired upon each other with their revolvers, while also running out of the way of each other's bullets.
"Fake Penny," Ruby grumbled.
"Actually, this is just the newer model of this version of me," Penny explained.
"Doesn't make her less fake," Ruby grumbled again.
PNY-1 punched her shotgun bullets at PNY-2, who dashed out of the way, only to be hit in the shoulder by Penny's much stronger revolver fire.
Two let out a mechanical groan, dashed towards One, blasted her with her shotgun and then dashed backwards.
One and Two ran back and forth from across the room, firing potshots at one another that rarely hit. One threw four coins in the air, charged up her blue revolver and shot them, the beam dealt heavy damage to The Other Machine's arm.
Two dashed towards One again and shot at her, but this time-
PLINK
The heat bullets were punched back at the Red Armed machine, she let out a groan of frustration as One began to charge at her, shotgun ready.
Two shot the core out of her own shotgun, the explosion leaving One crashing to the ground; she then pounced on her predecessor, punching her in the face then letting the protrusions in her knuckles create an explosion that launched Two away.
Two smirked as she ejected shells from her arm. One pushed herself up and shot a magnet on her cocky successor, she then shot a barrage of nails at her, all of them going straight for the magnet. Panicking, Two shot out another core eject, which was shot out of the air by One, exploding right in the Machine's face.
She let out a robotic screech of pain as she fell to the floor, her arm was quickly grabbed by One.
Two looked at One with anger, her arm made an explosion, sending her flying through the skylight.
Everything except for the arm that One had ripped off of her, she panted as the looked around at the courtyard now covered in her and PNY-2's blood, she then looked at the arm.
She quickly detached her shooting arm, and attached the new. bulkier arm. To test it, she punched forward, created an explosion with the protrusions, and then ejected two shotgun shells.
Penny smirked as she dashed for the exit elevator.
One layer down, Eight more to go.
"I was wrong, Penny could beat another Penny, how interesting," Ozpin smiled.
"Her skills are impressive, terrifyingly so," Glynda said.
"You're sooo coool, your weapons are so cool!" Ruby fangirled harder as she hugged Penny.
"Th-Thanks Friend Ruby," Penny smiled and blushed.
Winter woke up and was explained everything.
"I feel like I'm being mocked," Yang said, jokingly sulking.
"I suppose that's it for this layer," Salem said.
"No, there's a little more," Slays said
The screen went black, an old, ethereal voice could be heard talking.
"MANKIND IS A FAILURE. FREE WILL IS A FLAW. LET THE EVIL OF THEIR OWN LIPS CONSUME THEM. THEN I SHALL BEGIN AGAIN, WITH MY WORD
AS LAW," The voice bellowed.
Then the video was over.
"Okay, now it's over," Slays said.
The theatre was silent, some Etheral Thing yelling was quite the contrast to the action they had just witnessed.
"The hell was that?" Yang said.
"Probably nothing, put the next thing in, Jimmy,"
"Oooo oooo,"