2B vs Raiden

2B vs Raiden is the sixteenth episode of Fiction V. Fiction, featuring 2B from ***NieR***, and Raiden from ***Metal Gear***.

## Interlude

Why does the future always consists of cities being destroyed by machines? And why do we always rely on super soldiers with nuts and bolts to kill them for us? Like these two!

2B

or YoRHa No.2 Type B, from NieR

And

Raiden

or Jack the Ripper, from Metal Gear

I'm Aipom and today I'll be researching these two characters to see who can win in a match of Fiction V. Fiction!

2B
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(Cue: NieR Automata OST - Weight of the World (Japanese Ver.))

Everything that lives is designed to end. Evidence of this is in the year 5012 AD, when aliens from space takes over 80% of Earth, by using robots. Humans were endangered by this attack. In a poor attempt to fight back against these machines afters years of Earth being overran, the YoRHa unit was made, as well as a bunker in the same orbit as the moon as a base. YoRHa made androids that looked similar to humans and sent them to earth to fight back against the aliens and robots destroying mankind. One of the androids made was YoRHA No.2 Type B. Or more simply known as 2B.

2B was made to monitor one of the new scouter models, 9S. She was also made to follow any order given by the Commander, no questions asked. And to also help in the war against the machine lifeforms on Earth for glory to mankind.

YoRHa equips their androids with a similar set of arsenals to each other. When not in use, she has two swords floating behind her, or they go back and forth between the bunker and her for when she's fighting sense they vanish from behind her during combat, but she can summon them back anytime. A small sword that's like a katana, that can be used for quick attacks. And she has a heavy sword, a massively long katana-like blade for heavy attacks. She also has a spear for far range, and combat braces for a more closer range combat and beating the absolute shit out of robots. She can also self-destruct. Ya know, for glory to mankind.

But along with 9S, she has a helper Pod. Multiple, actually. Her main one is Pod 042, mainly being used to contact the bunker, a map, and intel. But there's still three more. Pod A, B, and C. Pod A can fire shots and charged bombs. It can even fire cluster bombs, a bomb that fires off more bombs as it explodes. Pod A is strong enough to blow holes through large robots when charged up. There's also Pod B, which fires a laser and a group of lasers that boucnes off walls. And then finally there's Pod C, which shoots homing missiles. She can even have all 3 pods with her at once.

While each type of pod has a unique ability to it, they all do have unique abilities, such as a laser that can send machines flying, a massive hammer that slams down, a row of spears out of the ground, bombs, making gravity extra powerful in a certain spot to pull enemies in, a spark of electricity, a shockwave, a wire to bring 2B to an enemy, making time slow down for opponents in an area, a decoy of 2B, and then repair to heal her. But there's also the P-Shield and M-Shield, which defends against melee and projectile attacks respectively. Though she can't spam all these because they do require a cool down and don't last forever.

2B also has a bunch of different chips she can insert into herself, and don't read too deep into that, that can do a variety of effects. Some's effects are simple like healing her, increase her power, or increase her speed. But some like the Shock Wave creates a shock wave for every attack, Anti Damage Chain tuonns her briefly invincible after taking damage for up to 6 seconds, Fast Cooldown reduces a Pod's recharge, and Overclock can slow time down for up to 5.5 seconds after evading an attack.

But that isn't all that androids have. Lastly, they have their Flight Units. Flights Units are suits that androids wear for midair combat that can change between a fighter jet and a mech mode with bullets and swords. They're also used to travel long distances on Earth. They can fire an endless barrage of energy blasts to spam, shoot a barrage of missiles, and even spin around like a sword.

These Flight Units are durable enough to push back Goliath-class machines for a bit, and can tank their hits and smash apart one of their arms. For reference, one of the Goliath-class machines was from a chunk of a factory. One of these Goliath-class machines could punch with a force equivalent to 719,646.272 tons of TNT.

2B can kick robots several feet into the air, could survive busting through steel walls while going at high speeds, could tank direct explosions, and demolish a saw that obliterated a massive factory wall. She can even move fast enough to split into multiple after images when dodging, something she does quite often. To leave just one after image, 2B would have to be moving at 559.235 mph. Whenever she does dodge, she leaves 4 after images. Meaning that 2B can move at 2236.94 mph, or nearly Mach 3.

But after 2B's and 9S' first mission together, they ran into a situation that was a bit too much for them, forcing them to activate their last resorts. The Black Box. The Black Box essentially works as a kamikaze. If activated, it'll explode upon being touched. The explosion was able to cover a factory's docking section, engulfing and destroying 2B and anything in the surrounding area.

But luckily for 2B, 9S loaded her data in the bunker. If anything were to happen to 2B's body, she can just put her memories and personality into a back-up body back in the bunker on the moon's orbit. But YoRHa has vending machines scattered around Earth to transport androids to and from the bunker and Earth.

2B could slice though a giant ball machine, send machines flying into the air, push large metal blocks, destroy tanks, and could even fight on par with A2.

A2 was able to withstand a point-blank explosion that leveled a mountain. The mountain in question is Mt. Ka'ala, a real life mountain. To be able to level a mountain like that, the explosion A2 was able to withstand is worth 4 megatons of TNT. And 2B can deal damage to her.

She's survived being sent flying back from machines, taken a shockwave from A2, survived being smacked by another Goliath-class machine (who should be comparable to the first Goliath-class), and survived a point-black explosion when stabbing a Goliath-class in the eye. She even defeated the evolving machines, Adam and Eve.

But 2B can be hacked and is vulnerable to electromagnetic waves and viruses. And if the YoRHa networks are destroyed, her data can't be backed up. Meaning if her body is destroyed while YoRHa is down, she's done for. Same if she gets infected with a virus, even if the servers are still up. And she's strict about sticking to a mission, even ignoring her own feelings and saying she shouldn't have them because she's an android.

But her feelings towards 9S and her trying to stay emotionless came to conflict each other, especially being challenged when a virus infected 9S. She realized she loved him, and had to kill him before the virus could do it first. Luckily, his data was transferred to another machine. Teaching her that having emotions is perfectly okay, even for someone made of nuts and bolts.

That is, for one ending. Because 2B's purpose wasn't to bring back glory to mankind. Her purpose was to actually kill 9S if he got too curious on the machines once they started to show emotions, to actually have names instead of classes. Humans actually died out LONG before the aliens took over. Androids were actually made before the aliens came to Earth. And the machines made by the aliens overthrew and killed them off before YoRHa was made, and just tried to figure out emotions and survive while a virus was going around and making machines violent. YoRHa was only made to give androids purpose in life. They were fighting for basically nothing.

And if that wasn't enough of a bombshell, a virus came and took over all the YoRHa androids but 2B, 9S, and Commander. In an escape to survive, 2B and 9S flew from the bunker as it was self-destructing to Earth with their Flight Units. It took them about 28 seconds to reach Earth. Considering the time and distance with the bunker being the same distance from Earth as the moon, the Flight Units had to travel at Mach 39,811.

But to add salt in the wound, 2B and 9S got separated and 2B got infected with the virus. The virus screws with her vision and makes it difficult to move and fight. While she tried fighting it, she did succumb to the virus, but asked A2 to help the future and to kill her so 9S won't be infected. At least she got to see 9S one last time before dying for good.... And then you delete your save file after going through as 9S and A2, where Pod 042 defeat the creators of NieR: Automata, because not like this game was confusing enough. But after all, everything that lives is designed to end.

(Cue: 2B finally calls 9S "Nines")

## Raiden

(Cue: Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance OST - Rules of Nature Extended)

Jack was a Liberian child without parents and was adopted by Solidus Snake, the American president who killed Jack's parents and turned him into a child soldier. After being enlisted in the Liberian Civil War, becoming the captain of his own unit, and gaining the nickname "Jack the Ripper" from how many people he killed, Jack was abandoned by Solidus. Dick move by Solidus. But to make a long and confusing story short, Jack met this girl named Rose, joined forced with Solid Snake to right his wrongs, get a new code name known as Raiden, destroy giant robots called Metal Gears, and then kill the dad-killing-dad when he was a soon-to-be dad from knocking up Rose. Alls well that ends well, right?

Well wrong! Turns out that Rose was a Patriot spy that was controlling Raiden all along. But then Rose tricked the Patriots and still loved Raiden, then ended up fucking again because the first child ended in a miscarriage or something, and had a kid. But the Patriots wasn't done messing with Raiden. They captured him and used him to make superhuman cyborg ninjas by giving him an enhanced, robotic exoskeleton like some sort of soldier cockroach of death.

Raiden has had a few cyborg body enhancements, but even his most simple cyborg body could rip off a building-sized leg off of a Metal Gear to sword fight with another Metal Gear. But his cyborg bodies all give him superhuman physicality and electricity generation, which can boost his punches more. He also has Blade Mode, which slows down his perspective of time to strike enemies hella fast by using his fuel cells. And to regain fuel cells, he can crush and absorb fuel cells of Metal Gears.

Raiden has carried a few blades and guns over his time as a soldier. And while he has ditched the guns because bullets are just a mere annoyance against him, his main weapon of choice is his high-frequency blade, Murasama. It's a katana with an altering current that resonates at high frequency and was gifted to him by his frienamy, Jetsream Sam. Basically, it makes cutting through things easier by weakening the molecular bond of whatever it hits. It's especially useful when you're cutting through machines made to withstand nuclear explosions.

Raiden's blade can cut through stone and Raiden himself could throw a 2500 ton Metal Gear Ray several feet into the air before slicing off it's arm. He's shaken off being thrown into a building hard enough to make a crator in it and can run fast enough to run up walls and dodge bullets, as well as slice apart missiles. He's even flipped over the 150,000 ton Excelsus twice and break dance with two Metal Gears tied to his legs.

But this isn't even all of Raiden's capabilities. If he deactivates his pain inhibitors, he loses himself and falls back into his Jack the Ripper persona, multiplying Raiden's base power by 7. But at a cost of the pain and insanity, as well as running through his fuel supplies.

But even without this power boost, Raiden was able to survive an explosion made by Armstrong when he punched him and another Metal Gear. The explosion was worth 1147.5 tons of TNT, and Raiden was directly in the middle of it. Armstrong was scratchless after being just as close to the explosion, and Jack was able to kill him after his 7x power boost.

Raiden's also fast enough to hopscotch on missiles. These missiles are maverick missiles, which travel at 320 m/s. Given Raiden's height, the timeframe, and the distance he jumped being 1778 cm, that means Raiden can travel at Mach 1658. And when he lets loose as Jack the Ripper, he's much, much faster.

In his fight with Monsoon, time practically froze for him when he went into Jack the Ripper. The raindrops around him completely stopped moving for 27.27 microseconds, while he moved normally. Considering the speed of each sword swing is 12.204 m/s and the timeframe the raindrops were frozen, that means that Raiden can swing his sword at Mach 2,272,479.27 speeds when he's Jack the Ripper.

And if Raiden is ever de-armed, he can fight bare-handed given his training from dear old adopted dad. Bullets from a jet has deflected off of him, and he's even survived his own sword impaling him.

Raiden can track enemies through walls, hacked a jet by stabbing it in a certain area, can plug himself into other robots and hack them, can see in the dark, and can recharge himself by absorbing electrolytes from nani-repair units.

But Raiden's blood is not natural and has to be regularly changed. And if in Ripper mode as Jack for too long, he can run out of fuel quickly and leaving him vulnerable. Also his left arm holds important data like him memory storage data, so cutting it off will make Raiden experience PTSD and memory lost when he's already pretty unstable after being forced into being a child war, possibly making him resort into Jack the Ripper.

Raiden was considered by the public as a man who've caused lots of damage to people. But a girl named Sunny still viewed him as a hero. He was invited to fight another war, but he declined, having his own war to fight against cyborg mercenaries. He may have rejoined war to fix his past mistakes in Liberia, but now he can really be a war hero to be proud of.

(Cue: Let's Dance)

## Fight

(Cue: NieR:Automata OST - City Ruins: Rays of Light (Quiet - No Vocals))

(2B is jumping from building tops in a desolate city, left in ruins with buildings falling apart)

(Pod 042 flies behind her, as a building East from her shakes and crumbles towards that)

(2B turns towards the collapsing tower in shock)

2B: 9S, do you know if that explosion is related to the mission?

(Pod 042 hovers in front of 2B, with a projection of 9S appearing through a screen)

9S: I'm not sure... I'll check out where Commander told us to go to and you can go see, to be safe.

2B: Roger that, 9S.

9S: And be careful. Who knows what's out there.

(The call ends as she heads towards where the building was destroyed)

(At the wreckage, a Metal Gear walks out of the rubble of the building)

(It charges at Raiden, who is standing in the street)

(He changes back, quickly hacking off it's leg, making it crash on the ground)

(He walks up to rip out its fuel cell before being interrupted by a call)

(He answers, with a video call with Boris)

Boris: Raiden, you're at the locations we sent you, yes?

Raiden: Yeah, I'm here. What am I here for, by the way?

Boris: There's a member of a group called YoRHa in that location. Find and execute them.

Raiden: Gotcha. I'll update you if I find anything.

Boris: Good luck, Raiden.

(The call ends as 2B jumps down from a building up above, slightly cracking the street underneath)

(Raiden turns towards 2B, with his blade in his hand)

2B: You seem to be an android. Identify yourself.

Raiden: And who wants to know?

2B: Commander told me that no one was suppose to be in this area but machines.

Raiden: I guess you can say I'm part machine. You have a problem with that, lady?

2B: If you're a hostile machine, then I'm ordered to dispose of you.

(Her small sword appears behind her in it's sheath, and she pulls out the blade)

Raiden: You wanna fight? Fine then, I'll just get rid of you and be on my way.

(Cue: Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance Soundtrack - 03. Dark Skies)

FIGHT!

(The two charge at each other and Raiden swings his blade)

(But 2B splits into four after-images, with Raiden's blade going through her as she's on all four sides)

Raiden: What the hell?

(Three of the after-images vanish, with the one behind him slashing Raiden)

(He stumbles forward before quickly turning around)

(2B lunges at Raiden and swings her blade, but he counters with Murasama)

(She boucnes back before dashing directly forward attempting another attack)

(But Raiden swings down onto her blade, stopping 2B dead in her tracks)

(Pod 042 hovers up above 2B with a giant ball of yellow energy above it)

(It throws the ball behind Raiden)

(He gets pulled towards where the ball landed, stuck in place)

Raiden: What the hell?

(He tries pushing himself towards 2B, but finds himself unable to move)

Raiden: What is this? Why can't I move?

(2B swaps her blade with her heavy blade and charges at Raiden)

(She jumps up and swings her blade down onto Raiden)

(But he pushes himself against the gravitational force and blocks her attack)

(The gravity chamber vanishes as he throws 2B through a barley-standing building on his left, across from the Metal Gear from before)

(The building crumbles as he walks over to the Metal Gear and rips out it's fuel cell)

(He crushes the fuel cell and looks at the rubble from the building)

Raiden: That was weird. What was her problem anyways?

(He begins to walk away. However, 2B crawls out of the rubble and gets up, dusting herself off and inserting a healing chip into herself)

2B: Interesting. So it seems you can fight back against the weight of gravity. You may be more difficult than I thought.

Raiden: I'm more than meets the eye, lady. That is, if you can see with that blindfold on.

2B: Pod 042, check the data base to see if he's another wanted Android

Pod 042: Affirmative.

(Raiden scoffs before charging at 2B)

Raiden: Sorry to bust your bubble lady...

(He swings down his blade, but 2B defends herself with her sword)

(She skids back as Raiden pushes 2B back)

Pod 042: Scan complete. No intel found about this enemy.

2B: Huh?

Raiden: ...I'm no android!

(He quickly leans forward past the blades and headbutts 2B)

(Stunned, 2B stumbles back as Raiden repeatedly slashes her multiple times)

(He kicks her in the stomach hard enough to send 2B flying back several feet before following after her)

(She snaps back to and lands on her feet, stopping right in front of an abandoned car left in the middle of a four-way stop)

(Raiden catches up to 2B and swings Murasama)

(But 2B quickly splits into four after-images, just barely avoiding Raiden and getting behind him)

(However, Raiden slices the car in half when 2B dodged)

(He quickly grabs the front of the car and turns around, slamming the half-a-vehicle into 2B)

(She gets sent flying to the left after getting hit, landing on the side of the street)

(To catch herself, 2B switches her small sword with her large sword and impales it into the ground to catch herself)

(She catches herself and lands, looking back at where Raiden was)

(Half a car however suddenly is sent thrown at 2B)

(She quickly jumps to her left to dodge as Raiden throws the other half at her)

(She slashes the projectile into two with her larger weapon)

(Raiden dashes towards 2B and jumps up, swinging his blade)

(2B quickly splits up into four images before appearing behind where she was standing, causing Raiden to strike the ground)

(The pavement cracks as Raiden strikes the ground)

(He quickly lifts back up his katana and swings again, with 2B just barley getting out of the way by jumping back)

(She swings her blade towards Raiden, but he catches it with Murasama)

(But she starts to slowly push Raiden back, making him step back a bit)

(She pushes Raiden back until swinging her sword with enough force to shove Raiden into the wall of a building)

(2B steps back for a moment before lunging at Raiden)

(But he quickly jumps out of the way, causing 2B to strike the building)

(Her sword gets stuck in the building as Raiden kicks her arm, causing 2B to let go of her blade)

(He slashes 2B multiple times before kicking her back)

(She lends in front of a vending machine with multiple wounds before Raiden walks up to her and impales her in the chest with his katana)

Raiden: That's done with. Who the hell was that, anyways?

(Raiden gets another call from Boris, answering the call with another video call)

Boris: Raiden. We've been able to gather intel on the enemy.

Raiden: Lay it on me.

Boris: YoRHa soldiers are dressed in all black with blindfolds, white hair, and flying pods following them. So be on the look out.

(Raiden looks down at 2B, with the pod missing but her body still on the ground)

Raiden: Well I think I found your target. Would've told you sooner but got interrupted.

Boris: Excellent work, Raiden. But there should be a second one somewhere around the area, so keep a look out.

Raiden: Be on the look out for someone similar to this lady, got it.

Boris: We'll call you if we find more information.

(Boris hangs up, leaving Raiden with 2B's body)

Raiden: So there's another one of you out here, huh?

(Orange energy starts coming from 2B's body, surprising Raiden)

(Acting quickly, Raiden jumps back as 2B's body explodes)

(Smoke trails off from where 2B's body was)

Raiden: These people cyborgs, too?

(The vending machine next to where 2B's body was opens up, with another 2B walking out)

Raiden: There's two of you?

2B: While in the bunker, I spoke with Commander about this mission. You are our target to investigate. So all along you were a machine.

Raiden: Machine? Heh, you got half of that right. Well, you're who I've been looking for. Guess only one of us will be leaving here today.

(Cue: Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance Soundtrack - 09. A Soul Can't Be Cut)

(Raiden lunges at 2B, but she splits into after images and appears behind Raiden as he swings)

(He swings his blade through the vending machine 2B came out of, splitting it in half)

(2B runs towards her sword lodged in the building)

(Raiden runs after her and 2B grabs ber blade)

(She rips it out of the building, breaking it apart and causing it to crumble)

(The building falls towards the two, 2B quickly jumping back and Raiden running after her)

(He swings his blade, but Pod 042 activates P-Shield, surrounding 2B in gears protecting her)

(Raiden strikes but gets knocked back by the P-Shield, sending back underneath the falling building as it crashes onto him)

(Underneath the building, Raiden starts rapidly hacking away at the building on top of him)

(2B jumps up and climbs up the buildings until reaching the top)

(Raiden breaks through the building and jumps up, heading towards 2B)

(Pod 042 starts blasting projectiles at Raiden as 2B spins forwards, becoming like a blade)

(Raiden's perspective of time slows down as he knocks away Pod 042's shots, sending them into other buildings)

(He gets closer to 2B when his perspective of time goes back to normal, with the two clashing blades and the damaged buildings breaking down)

(2B frees one of her hands as a spear is summoned in it)

(She jabs Raiden in the stomach with the spear)

(He grunts, but quickly grabs the edge of the spear)

(Raiden throws 2B down the road while in the air)

(She crashes and skids across the road until hitting a building at the end of the road)

(Raiden lands ontop of the building he ripped through and tosses 2B's spear aside before rushing towards her)

(2B gets up as Raiden gets up close to her and swings his blade)

(But 2B quickly gets behind him and retaliates)

(However, Raiden quickly turns around and counters by striking back)

Raiden: This trick is getting old.

(Raiden repeatedly slashes at 2B, but she holds up her large sword as protection)

(He continues to strike 2B's weapon until kicking it, causing it to shatter into pieces)

(Stepping forward, Raiden slices 2B in half)

(But he goes straight through 2B, breaking the decoy)

Raiden: What the-

2B: Now, 042!

Pod 042: Affirmative.

(Standing across from Raiden on top of the fallen buildings, 2B has her spear back and Pod 042 floating in front of her)

(Pod 042 opens up and fires two beams at Raiden after have been charged up)

Raiden: Oh shi-

(Cutting himself off, Raiden quickly jumps up onto the wall of the building behind him)

(He jumps off of the building's wall towards 2B as the blast breaks through the building)

(The building starts exploding after the beam goes through it as Raiden ends)

(He charges at 2B as Pod 042 closes back up)

(2B charges at Raiden as well, splitting into after images)

(Raiden turns around and swings, expecting 2B to be there)

(But he ends up not hitting anything, with 2B jabbing Raiden in the back with her spear)

(Raiden quickly turns around and swings, but 2B splits into after images before appearing behind where she was)

(She spins around her spear before jetting forward)

(She strikes Raiden in the chest, before realing back and repeatedly thrusting her spear into Raiden's stomach multiple times)

(While taking hits, Raiden quickly grabs 2B's spears and pulls her closer to him)

(He headbutts her, causing her to let go of the spear and stumble backwards)

(Raiden throws the spear up in the air before swinging his blade)

(But Pod 042 activates P-Shield again just in time to defend 2B)

(Raiden's blade bounces off of the shield, with 2B taking the chance to insert the shock wave chip)

(Raiden repeatedly strikes the shield surrounding 2B as she summons a small sword in her hands)

(She swings her blade, colliding with Raiden's katana and creating a shock wave that sends Raiden flying back)

(The P-Shield deactivates afterwards, then 2B charges at Raiden)

(Raiden notices his cell fuel supply is low as 2B approached him)

Raiden: Shit! Not right now!

(2B swings her blade and creates a shockwave, but Raiden quickly jumps out of the way to the right, running down the street)

2B: Get back here!

(2B runs after him as Raiden runs on his tracking sensor, finding a nearby Metal Gear)

(He heads towards the Metal Gear before glancing behind him, seeing 2B following him)

Raiden: Gotta get her off my trail somehow...

(Raiden quickly hacks of chunks of the surrounding building's bases, making them lean downwards towards them)

(2B looks up and sees the buildings falling in between them, making her stop as Raiden gets away from her)

2B: Pod 042, pull up a map of the surrounding area.

(Pod 042 floats in front of 2B, projecting a map of the area)

(She finds another road heading to where Raiden was going to and runs towards that path)

(Raiden finds the Metal Gear standing in another four way away from the previous area, quickly slicing off it's leg and making it fall)

(He rips his hand into it and tears out it's fuel cell, crushing it and recharging himself)

(He looks around the area with his sensors on, finding 2B heading towards his location)

(He down the road towards 2B, locating her turning the corner)

(Running around the corner, he catches 2B off-guard and strikes her with his blade)

(Cue: Metal Gear Revengeance Sountrack - 13. The Hot Wind Blowing)

(2B skids back, not expecting Raiden to attack then)

(He rushes 2B, repeatedly swinging his blade as 2B defends herself

(He swings again, but 2B splits into after images and comes up on her left)

(She jumps backwards again before Pod 042 starts to fire projectiles at Raiden)

(Raiden runs to the left to avoid the shots fired from Pod 042 before leaping back and planting his feet in the building behind him)

(He lunges at 2B, but she quickly splits up before evading to the side as Raiden lands onto the building behind her)

(Pod 042 continues to fire at Raiden as he runs up the building)

(He reaches the top as Pod 042 stops shooting)

(2B jumps up onto the building's wall and starts running up after Raiden)

(She strikes the building with her sword and sends herself upwards into the air by jumping off of it)

(Raiden looks up as 2B heads above her, about to lunge at her)

(But Pod 042 throws a yellow ball onto the ground in front of Raiden, slowing down time in the area, including Raiden)

(2B lands in front of Raiden on the rooftop and kicks Murasama out of Raiden's hands)

(She summons combat bracelets onto her hands and starts repeatedly punching Raiden, creating a shock wave with every strike due to the shock wave chip)

(The time effect stops, launching Raiden back several feet)

(Raiden almost falls off the building top, but catches himself on the edge)

(Murasama slides to the side, on the verge of falling off the roof)

(Raiden looks at Murasama, and then at 2B)

Raiden: You're good, lady. I'll give you that.

(He cracks his knuckles before charging at 2B)

Raiden: But I'm better!

(She dashes towards Raiden and throws a punch, creating a shockwave but Raiden ducks)

(He quickly uppercuts 2B, sending her up in the air before punching her in the stomach)

(She gets sent flying back but gets back on her feet before she could fall off the building)

(Raiden charges at 2B and throws another punch to the face)

(But 2B was able to move her head in time and punches Raiden in the gut, pushing him back)

(She starts to repeatedly punch Raiden, but he puts his arms up in front of him to defend himself)

(2B reels back for another punch, but Raiden grabs her fist when she strikes)

(He stomps onto her foot and headbutts 2B, then steps back before kicking her in the stomach)

(With 2B stunned, he quickly runs towards Murasama)

(Regaining herself, 2B quickly punches the rooftop, with the shockwave causing the building to crumble)

(It falls apart as 2B, Raiden, and the katana falls down with it)

(Raiden hops from pieces of falling rubble towards his blade grabbing it and landing onto the neighboring building)

(The glass shatters from Raiden's impact before he lunges off of it towards 2B)

(Pod 042 sees 2B's sword that was pierced into the building falling and flies towards to it to grab it)

(2B lands on a piece of falling rubble and lunges at Raiden as he flies towards her)

(Raiden swings his blade as 2B splits into after images, appearing behind him)

(She punches him in the back down towards the ground, with him crashing into the ground amongst the rubble and cracking the ground beneath)

(2B reals back her fist before thrusting it forward down to Raiden)

(Raiden quickly throws himself up and jumps out of the way as 2B strikes the ground, creating a crator)

(The crator forms under the two neighboring buildings as well, causing them to become unstable and fall towards the center)

(Raiden falls into the pit and 2B quickly uppercuts him into the air)

(Raiden falls onto the ground as 2B lunges out, with the two buildings crashing into each other and collapsing)

(Pod 042 hovers above 2B and drops the sword before firing multiple missiles at Raiden)

(He quickly gets up and lunges backwards as the missiles strike the ground and creating a cloud of smoke and dust)

(Meanwhile, 2B grabs the blade as it falls and switches her gauntlets out)

(She swings downwards but hits nothing as the created shockwave pushes out the smoke)

(2B looks up and sees Raiden lunging off from the wall of the building in front of her)

(She quickly dodges by turning into after images, appearing in front of where she was)

(Raiden strikes the ground and quickly pushes himself back up)

(He lunges at 2B again but slows down his perspective of time as she splits into after images again, appearing back up on her left)

(Raiden quickly turns towards 2B as his perspective of time returns to normal and slashes her)

(He quickly kicks 2B back several feet)

(Pod 042 quickly flies towards Raiden and shocks him with a volt of electricity)

(2B quickly uses a chip to heal herself and another to increase her strength, then slashes Raiden as he's stunned)

(She strikes Raiden with her sword, sending him flying backwards with the shockwave and new strength)

(Raiden crashes into a building as he snaps back from the shock)

(2B rushes towards Raiden and swings her blade before he realizes it)

(She ends up slicing off his left arm, sending it flying into the air before falling onto the ground)

Raiden: Shit! Not again!

(2B steps back and reels her sword to impale Raiden)

(He quickly bangs a fist onto the building behind him)

Raiden: Doktor! Turn off my pain inhibitors! Now!!

(Cue: Automated Vengeance | TehGM Scores)

(2B impales Raiden in the stomach, before stumbling forward)

(He remains still for a few seconds, 2B looking to the side and sees a vending machine)

(But she's caught off guard by Raiden groaning in pain before cackling like crazy)

Raiden: Pain... This is why I fight.

(Raiden looks up at 2B, with his eye glowing red and blood coming from his stab wound)

2B: Your eyes...

Raiden: This is my normal. My nature.

(He headbutts 2B, making her stumble back and the blade leave his stomach)

(Raiden quickly hacks off 2B's left arm by the elbow, making her grunt in pain)

2B: Commander! Send in my flight unit!

(Raiden slashes 2B in half diagonally, grabbing her head and sending her top half into the air before slicing her into bits and pieces)

(Raiden looks over at the vending machine, recognizing it from before)

Raiden: Send in more! I'm not done until I'm satisfied! It's time for Jack the Ripper-

(2B jumps out of the vending machine with her small sword in hands and two other pods)

Raiden: -to let it rip!

(He cackles more before charging at 2B)

(Pod 042 flies up behind Raiden and fires shots at Raiden before firing a cluster bomb at his back)

(He turns around and swings, but Pod 042 stays just out of Raiden's range)

(2B charges at Raiden and swings her sword, but Raiden quickly turns back and swings, bouncing 2B back)

(2B's old body self destructs behind Raiden, launching him forward)

(She swings her sword upwards, sending Raiden up in the air)

(She jumps up to strike him again, but Raiden swings his blade downward onto 2B)

(She holds her blade up to protect herself, but still gets sent crashing into the vending machine)

(Raiden lands and charges at 2B)

(2B gets up and rubs the back of her head before Raiden quickly grabs her by the head)

(He runs across the road, smashing her race onto the ground and dragging it across the ground)

(The 3 pods follow behind them, firing shots, laser fire, and homing missiles)

(Raiden quickly turns around and throws 2B towards the projectiles from the pods, creating an explosion)

(2B is sent flying back towards Raiden, but she splits into after images and flies through Raiden as he swings his blade)

(She lands and uses healings chips before inserting the Overclock chip)

(Raiden turns around and swings his blade again, but 2B splits into after images before appearing behind where she was standing)

(Time slows down, 2B taking the chance to repeatedly slash Raiden before grabbing him and throwing Raiden up into the air)

(After 5 seconds, time returns to normal and Raiden is thrown into a building)

(He pierces the building with his blade before lunging at 2B, slicing the building up along the way)

(The three pods fly behind 2B as the building starts falling down towards the group)

(2B just barely gets out of the way as Raiden impales one of the pods)

(2B quickly runs out from the falling building's radius as Raiden throws the impaled pod off of his katana)

(Raiden runs after 2B and kicks her in the back, sending her flying forward as the building falls on top of him)

(She tumbles forward and falls onto the ground, slowly getting up and healing herself as Raiden hacks out of the building)

(He laughs maniacally before charging at 2B)

(A barrier surrounds 2B as she jets forward towards Raiden)

(Raiden swings his blade against 2B, creating sparks between the two)

(2B starts pushing Raiden back until the barrier fades)

(Raiden slashes 2B once the missile effect ends, sending her flying back and skidding across the ground)

(2B's sensors and visuals start to malfunction, with her vision being distorted)

(The two remaining pods start to fire missiles and projectiles at Raiden as he charges at them)

(He slows down his perspective of time, hacking away at the projectiles and missiles being fired at him)

(His time returns back to normal as he rushes through the explosions)

(Pod 042 flies up above 2B and starts to heal her as the other pod continues firing missiles at Raiden)

(2B's vision starts to glitch less as she starts getting up)

(When she looks back at Raiden, he slices the pod that was firing at him in half)

(Pod 042 finishes healing 2B in time for her to split into after images when Raiden swings at her)

(Time freezes as 2B appears behind Raiden and starts to repeatedly slash at Raiden in the back)

(When time returns back to normal, Raiden is sent flying forward, but catches himself)

(When he turns back around, Pod 042 starts firing projectiles at Raiden)

(He starts charging towards 2B and Pod 042, but then Pod 042 fires a clustet bomb at him)

(It explodes on his face, making him stop and lean back after getting hit)

(The Flight Unit arrives and lands on top of the building next to where 2B was standing)

(She jumps up and runs up the building wall as Rauden recovers)

(He looks up at 2B and runs after her on the ground until hopping onto the building, running after her)

(Pod 042 looks down at Raiden and repeatedly fire bomb shots at Raiden)

(Raiden tanks the explosives as they're fired at him, while they start making small holes into the building)

(2B reaches the top of the building as it shakes from the bombs)

(She quickly jumps into the flight unit and turns it on before flying up into the air in it's mech form)

(She flies up above Raiden and summons a massive sword)

(Raiden lunges at 2B and swings his blade, with 2B swings her own massive blade)

(The two clash, but 2B overpowers Raiden and sends him crashing into the ground)

(2B fires a horde of missiles at Raiden)

(Raiden gets up and looks upwards, with the missiles flying towards him)

(He jumps up onto a building and runs up it as the missiles strike the ground)

(The missiles explode behind Raiden as he runs upwards)

(He lands on top of the building as 2B jets towards Raiden)

(She swings her sword, but Raiden protects himself with his blade)

(He quickly pushes 2B back before the two repeatedly swing their blades at each other, constantly clashing)

(2B eventually sends Raiden flying backwards onto another building)

(She starts firing energy blasts at Raiden, but he avoids the projectiles)

(Raiden jumps from building to building as 2B fires energy blasts at him)

(Raiden jumps to a building across the street, slashing 2B as he jumps across)

(He constantly jumps back and forth between the buildings, slashing 2B each time)

(Eventually, 2B catches Raiden and swings her blade against his)

(She sends Raiden flying downwards to a building)

(Raiden catches himself and lunges off of the building towards 2B)

(2B turns towards Raiden, but he slices 2B in half as he flies past)

(As she falls, 2B looks around with her vision starting to glitch again, not seeing a vending machine)

(She reaches into the flight top half of the flight unit and pulls out a black box)

(Raiden lands on the wall of a building and lunges at 2B one more time)

(But he runs low on fuel and is forced out of Jack the Ripper)

(His eye turn back to normal as his movement is slowed down)

Raiden: Damn it... Almost there...!

(As the two fall, 2B weakly throws the black box at Raiden)

(He slices the box in half, with the black box exploding upon contact)

(Stunned for a moment, Raiden closes his eyes as the blast consumes the both of them)

Raiden: Heh... Good fighting with you.

(The blast vaporizes the buildings in the surrounding area, almost erasing the city)

(The music fades as 2B wakes back up in the bunker)

(She looks out at Earth from space, taking her blindfold off)

2B: It was as honor fighting against you...

## Results

(Cue: NieR:Automata : Weight of the World -English lyrics-)

K.O!

(9S finds 2B on the bunker as she puts her blindfold back on, and Boris salutes Raiden's death)

Raiden was able to live up to Jack the Ripper all right. At least, for a time.

This was a decently close matchup, all things considered. While Raiden did have a few edged, such as experience, 2B was just his best more often than not.

2B was obviously stronger and more durable than base Raiden. 2B could match A2, who survived that bomb that leveled Mt. Ka'ala, a feat worth 4 megatons of TNT. While 2B might not completely match that level of durability, the flight unit could tank a punch worth 719,646.272 tons of TNT. Raiden could survive that Metal Gear exploding because of Armstrong, which came out to 1147.5 tons of TNT. Even the low end durability feat is worth around 627 times more than Raiden's greatest.

But what about Jack the Ripper? We know that Jack gets a 7x multiplier, so we'll multiply Raiden's greatest by 7, putting his attack and durability at a good estimate of 8032.5 tons of TNT. Still much lower than 2B's lower durability feat, and her strength scaling to A2 can easy surpass Raiden's durability, even as Jack the Ripper.

But what about Murasama? Couldn't it just negate 2B's durability because of it weakening whatever it cuts? Well, theoretically, Raiden could nab a few wins with Murasama if this fight happened multiple times. Though given the large gap between Raiden's strength and 2B's durability, we can't exactly give a safe assumption without getting into guesswork and theories. Besides, given 2B's much larger arsenal and being able to just come back due to her information being stored in the bunker, Raiden didn't exactly have a way to keep 2B down for good before she would just come back with a brand new body.

But Raiden was much faster. 2B herself can move at Mach 3, but Raiden can travel at Mach 1658 without any boosts. While 2B can outspeed with Raiden in her flight unit, given it can fly at Mach 39,811, this makes 2B 24 times faster. But as Jack the Ripper, Raiden gets to Mach 2,272,479.27. That is far faster than 2B.

However, Jack the Ripper was surprisingly Raiden's downfall. Sense it runs down Raiden's fuel supply pretty quickly, Raiden would would have to end the fight the fight fast, or else he would be left vulnerable for 2B to kill him in any way. While it did allow him a massive speed edge, Raiden still wouldn't be able to get past 2B's durability in time before she would just slow down time, keep him in place with gravity, heal herself as good as new, or just come back with a brand new body. So 2B just had to stall Raiden out until having an opening to put him down for good.

Raiden was a challenging opponent for 2B given his experience, speed, and Murasama. But 2B was just too strong, durable, had the larger arsenal, and enough abilities and resources to outlast Raiden before Jack the Ripper could let it rip.

For Raiden, this win was not 2B.

The winner is 2B!

## Trivia

* The connections between 2B and Raiden are that they are both cybernetic people who are used by the government to kill massive robots that destroyed the human race. They also kill robots that prey on other robots. Both also have an eye covered and use swords with fast paced action. They are also warrior robots.
* 2B vs Raiden was supposed to happen after Ban vs Deadpool, but ended up getting pushed back an episode after Travis Touchdown vs Scott Pilgrim due to that matchup seeming more interesting to do first
* After Brandon Yates made a score for the matchup Alita vs 2B, Alita was thought about as a matchup for 2B instead of Raiden, but the decision stayed to 2B vs Raiden
* 2B vs Raiden is the second episode to use two versions of the same song
	+ The first episode was Ban vs Deadpool
* 2B vs Raiden had multiple songs used that got taken off of YouTube soon after the episode was released
* An hour after 2B vs Raiden came out, a news article was found that said 2B canonically likes KFC
* 2B vs Raiden was the first track to use a custom track previously made for the matchup
	+ The next two were Eren Yeager vs Ken Kaneki and All Might vs Koro Sensei
		- Though All Might vs Koro Sensei is the second episode to use a track made for the matchup
			* Coincidently, both tracks were made by the same person, TehGM Scores
* A few weeks after the episode came out, Senator Armstrong's theme became a meme. Along with multiple other memes around Metal Gear Rising.
* A few months after this episode came out, NieR: Automata got announced to release on the Nintendo Switch
* A few weeks after the episode came out, NieR: Automata had an anime announcement
* A few months after this episode came out, Raiden was announced to be returning to Death Battle, fighting Excalibur from Warframe in a bonus episode
* 2B vs Raiden won the "Best Video Game Character vs Video Game Character Matchup" award in Beta's Death Battle Amino Awards
* 2B vs Raiden was the eleventh episode to be featured on the Death Battle Amino
	+ The first eleven were Waluigi vs Papyrus, Star Butterfly vs Steven Universe, Mr. Fantastic vs Plastic Man, Yuno Gasai vs Genocide Jack, Izuku Midoriya vs Miles Morales, Monika vs Giffany, Crona vs Shiro, Clementine vs Ellie, Ninja Brian vs Dr. McNinja, Ban vs Deadpool, and Travis Touchdown vs Scott Pilgrim. The next six episode were Fox McCloud vs Rocket Raccoon, Ruby Rose vs Maka Albarn, Eren Yeager vs Ken Kaneki, All Might vs Koro Sensei, Danny Sexbang vs Hatsune Miku, and Meta Knight vs Beta Ray Bill