Aigis vs. Penny Polendina

## Description

*These two prove that they are more than just machines. Deep down within them, they truly are human. But which mechanical maiden is superior?*

## Interlude

Hiro: Built to battle against the monsters of their worlds, these two androids have a lot more to them than just their purpose.

**MBStarscream: Deep down, they're just as human as any of us, with all the social awkwardness that comes with it.**

Hiro: Aigis, the Anti-Shadow Suppression Weapon from Persona.

**MBStarscream: And Penny Polendina, the artificial soul from RWBY.**

Hiro: I'm Hiro Hamada.

**MBStarscream: I'm MBStarscream.**

Hiro: And it's our job to examine both warriors' strength, abilities, weapons, and weaknesses to see who would win in a fight.

## Aigis

Hiro: By the dawn of the 21st century, the Kirijo Group became so prominent in every facet of life in contemporary Japan that their name was known the whole country over. Behind this seeming front of progress lied a dark secret, however.

**MBStarscream: The Kirijo patriach, Koutetsu, had a vested interest in Shadows, monsters born from the darkness of the human psyche. His experiments with these Shadows and the mental realm they hailed from gradually drove Koutetsu to madness as he buried himself further in his research.**

Hiro: When Koutetsu and his scientists discovered their work was part of a prophecy heralding the end times, they chose to expedite the process, but they were interrupted, releasing the gathered Shadows and various phenomena of darkness into the world. The group would go on to develop Anti-Shadow Suppression Weapons, a series of androids created to wield a Persona and contain the monsters they had unleashed.

**MBStarscream: One of these androids was simply called Aigis, and her Persona was Palladion of the Chariot Arcana, which specializes in physical skills and status buffs. She was taken out of commission after sealing the Death Arcana Shadow in a fight in 1999, but would later be reactivated in order to help the Specialized Extracurricular Execution Squad, or S.E.E.S., wipe out the Dark Hour phenomenon, struggling with her social issues, insecurities about her robotic nature and guilt for sealing Death inside Minato Arisato along the way.**

Hiro: Such inner demons haven't stopped Aigis from doing her job, however, and she does it with her ability to ultize Personas, powerful manifestations of the mind and soul. Personas can move and attack independently of their users, allowing for double-teaming between their user and the equipped Persona. Each Persona has a set of elemental affinities, which also apply to their user while the Persona is equipped.

**MBStarscream: The most powerful form of Aigis' Persona is Palladion, which represents the Chariot Arcana and resists strike damage, but is weak to electricity damage. It lets Aigis do all sorts of attacks, like dealing multiple attacks to a single enemy or all enemies at once, removing all stat penalities from targets, increasing the target's Hit/Evasion rate and durability, and even reviving the target to fully restore their health.**

Hiro: Orgia Mode boosts Aigis' combat abilities for a short time, while also removing negative status effects. The improved version known as EX Orgia Mode further boosts Aigis' attack, speed and defense, while also granting regeneration during the time that the mode is active and refills her bullets.

**MBStarscream: After being given the power of the Wild Card after the death of Makoto Yuki, Aigis became capable of using multiple Personas at once. Makoto's initial Persona was Orpheus, which now lets Aigis deal light to moderate fire damage, heal light wounds on one ally, half the defense of a foe, and deal one to three hits of strike damage to all foes.**

Hiro: Thanatos, the Ultimate Persona of the Death Arcana, reflects dark damage, resists slash and strike damage, kills fearful foes in an instant, and doubles damage dealt with a one-handed sword. Makoto's final Persona, Messiah, reflects light-elemental damage and was used alongside the Universe Arcana to defeat the Nyx Avatar.

**MBStarscream: This Persona deals out plenty of damage to foes while also giving plenty of health to both the user and their party, even reviving the user at full health upon defeat and strengthening all magical skills, including Almighty, by 50%. But Aigis doesn't just have Personas; she's got a plethera of weapons built into her.**

Hiro: All ten of her fingers can fire high-powered bullets at high speeds, she can turn her head into a sniper, turn her hand into a grenade launcher, and spin her hand at high speeds like a drill. Her eye scanners let her scan her foes for information and can be used as scopes, her hands can turn into flamethrowers, her arms have a massive gatling gun inside them, a giant cannon or six missile launchers are hidden in her back, several machine guns hide in her body, and rocket jets in her hips and back give her boosted speed and flight.

**MBStarscream: All of those Personas and weapons certainly make Aigis a formidable foe, even for allies. When she wasn't fighting alongside the members of S.E.E.S., she was easily overpowering any one of them, even Akihiko Sanada and Mitsuru Kirijo, who was the heiress to the group who had created Aigis.**

Hiro: Aigis can dodge lightning, tank blows from Shadows, understand any language and talk to animals, kill any Shadow with ease, and overcome her own programming. But there are some flaws that even Aigis has a hard time overcoming.

**MBStarscream: Orgia Mode is quite risky to use, as Aigis suffers from overheating after using it and is briefly rendered immobile as a result. In addition, when a Persona is injured, the user is affected as well; albeit through extreme mental anguish than through any physical damage; Aigis and her Personas are no exceptions to this.**

Hiro: But any Shadow or enemy of the Kirijo Group had better beware of this artificial Persona wielder, because Aigis will use her gifts to right the mistakes of her creators by taking down any Shadow in her way or opposing literal gods. The Kirijo Group is lucky to have an Anti-Shadow Suppression Weapon like this one on their side.

*Aigis: Aigis, ready for combat.*

## Penny Polendina

Hiro: In the world of Remnant, the Kingdom of Atlas boasted the greatest scientific advancements and military prowess. One such achievement of Atlas was the creation of the world's first synthetic being with their own Aura.

**MBStarscream: A robot created by Atlesian scientist Pietro Polendina with the support of General James Ironwood, Penny was intended to be the next breakthrough in the innovation of the Atlesian military - a protector with a soul. After convincing her father to let her compete in the Vytal Festival Tournament being held in Vale, Penny befriended Ruby Rose of Team RWBY and had an encounter with Roman Torchwick and the White Fang.**

Hiro: Tragedy would strike in the Vytal Festival, however, when Penny was accidentally destroyed by Pyrrha Nikos and Beacon Academy was subsequently destroyed by hordes of Grimm and White Fang soldiers. But while Beacon may have fell, Penny's core - which had remained intact during the destruction of her body - was able to be salvaged and she was rebuilt in a new form.

**MBStarscream: This was a one time deal, however - when Penny's body was built, a portion of her father's Aura was siphoned off and transferred to her in order to give her a soul. This left ol' Pietro with less and less Aura for himself each time, and after her most recent rebuild he believed he no longer had enough Aura left to repair her if she was ever destroyed again.**

Hiro: Penny's new responsibility was defending the city of Mantle as a member of Ironwood's inner circle consisting of himself, Winter Schnee and the Ace-Ops. A responsibility that would burden her as chaos gradually spiraled throughout both Mantle and Atlas, Ironwood reached the end of his rope, and Salem herself came knocking on the kingdom's door.

**MBStarscream: But Penny never stopped fighting to save people along with her friends, and the benefits of being an android have only helped her with such. She's the only artificial being in all of Remnant to have an Aura, which functions as a forcefield with a cumulative durability and allows her to take dozens of hits from opponents as strong as herself without any significant injury.**

Hiro: Even if one breaks through this Aura, Penny's mechanical body is much more resistant to fatal injuries than human beings, able to survive dismemberment as long as her core is intact. No matter how severe or gruesome an injury, Penny can, or at least could, always be rebuilt from her core just as long as it was untouched.

**MBStarscream: Being a robot also makes Penny twice as strong as humans, enough so that she can bring an incoming truck to a complete stop with her bare hands, pull aircraft out of the sky, and even lift Amity Colosseum.**

Hiro: By measuring the entire weight of the colosseum and dividing it by the number of the stablizers holding it up, we can determine that Penny was lifting over 49 million tons.

**MBStarscream: Penny also has impressive mobility that lets her jump great distances and is shown to have a have a type of jetpack that goes by the simple name of Flight Unit in the Manga. And after being rebuilt, she wouldn't need that after getting rocket thrusters in her feet that let her fly on her own.**

Hiro: Penny would receive more gifts when she became the newest Winter Maiden, inheriting the position from the prior Maiden when she died of old age. With this power, it gives her the ability to control the elements.

**MBStarscream: Her preferred element to use in battle is wind, but she has also used ice as well as fire, and she can magically conjure her own swords.**

Hiro: Before becoming a Maiden, Penny originally used swords in the form of Floating Array, a series of blades controlled via thin cables that are stored in a backpack when not in use. In addition to the blades, the weapons are capable of firing green blasts of energy, and can work in concert for more powerful beams.

**MBStarscream: Velvet Scarlatina was able to destroy an Atlesian Paladin when replicating Penny's Floating Array, so that should tell you how powerful this attack this. It could even knock out Cinder Fall, halt a charging Alpha Megoliath and damage its tusk to the point where Ruby was able to severe it, and oneshot Neopolitan, who has contended with a holding back Cinder.**

Hiro: Penny has matched the likes of Pyrrha, Sky Lark and Russel Thrush, Cinder, and the Ace-Ops, defeated a large group of White Fang thugs on her own, and competed in the Vytal Festival Tournament. But Penny isn't without her own shortcomings.

**MBStarscream: She's quite naïve, hiccups when she's lying, and can't depend entirely on her Aura in combat, as it can be depleted with enough damage and even run out of juice. Being a robot also has its disadvantages, like magnets and hacking.**

Hiro: When Arthur Watts implanted a virus in her that commanded her to open the Atlas Vault and subsequently destroy herself, Ruby and her allies were left with one choice: asking the spirit inside the Staff of Creation, Ambrosius, to excise Penny's robotic aspects to make her human. Penny's dream of getting to be a real person had come true.

**MBStarscream: And Cinder messed it up!**

Hiro: Jaune Arc could only do the unthinkable: Kill a wounded Penny at her own request so the power of the Winter Maiden would still be in good hands. The heroes had lost another ally in the war against Salem, and ended up in an otherworldy void for their troubles while Atlas and Mantle were reduced to nothing more than ruins, with Ironwood joining his kingdom in death.

**MBStarscream: At least Penny got the affirmation of her own personhood that she wanted her whole life in her last moments. Atlas may be gone, but Penny will always be the best thing that came out of it.**

Hiro: She was combat ready, no matter what.

*Winter: Thank you... for trusting me with this. When you’re... gone...*

*Penny: I won't be gone, I'll be part of you.*

*Winter: (sobbing) Good. I'm glad.*

*Penny smiles one last time as she fades into light.*

## Fatal Fiction

*Mario flips a coin.*

Hiro: Well, since Amity Communications Tower is where these two androids will battle, Penny has territory going for her. Who will win, and who will be scrapped?

**MBStarscream: If I had a penny every time we did a robo fight, I'd have two pennys. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice, right?**

*Silence.*

Hiro: ...Really?

*Amity Communications Tower*

Held afloat by the huge Gravity Dust crystals at the bottom of it, the Amity Communications Tower floated in the night sky, the moon shining behind it. Within its boundaries, one girl floated into the center arena, landing with a smile on her face. She had long orange hair with a cowlick on top, bright green eyes, and wore an olive green German styled dress with a black hem that was striped with emerald green.

This girl was **Penny Polendina**, creation and daughter of Pietro Polendina.

And she would soon get a visitor.

Outside the tower, another figure flew through the air, approaching the floating structure. A moment later, Penny saw another girl floating above the arena, having entered the tower. They had short, blonde hair and dark blue eyes, but what caught Penny's attention was her mechanical-looking appearance. When her scanners comfirmed to her that this girl was indeed another robot, she gasped with joy and said the first thing that came to mind while saluting.

"Salutations!"

The other girl, whose name was **Aigis**, also scanned Penny and realized this was another robot. "Greetings, fellow model." She floated down and landed in the arena in front of Penny. "My name is Penny!" Penny greeted. "It's fantastic to meet another android!"

"I am the 7th Generation Anti-Shadow Suppression Weapon, Aigis." Aigis introduced. "I would like to test your capabilities."

"What did you have in mind, Aigis?" Penny questioned. Even she thought that title was a mouthful.

"I am initiating combat mode. Are you ready to spar?" Aigis said, before forming a series of machine guns from her back. "I am combat *ready*, Aigis!" Several swords then appeared from behind Penny and spun in a ring motion.

"Begin."

**FIGHT!**

Penny fired her swords at Aigis, but Aigis flew upward with her jets and fired a powerful barrage of bullets down at the android. The floor was riddled with bullets as Penny flew backward, drawing her swords back to her and used them to deflect more bullets. Aigis then flew down towards Penny and grabbed her by the face, dragging her across the arena. Lifting Penny off her feet, Aigis stuck an explosive onto her chest and kicked her in the stomach, sending her flying back even before the explosive went off.

Hitting the nearest wall hard enough to crack it, Penny groaned in pain while Aigis aimed her finger guns. As Aigis opened fire, two of Penny's swords deflected the bullets while two more wrapped their wires around Aigis' legs, pulling them out from under her and dragging her towards Penny. Penny flew upward and sent her swords down towards Aigis, who promptly rolled away as the swords embedded themselves into the ground.

Aigis pointed up at Penny and shouted, "Summoning Persona!", before Athena appeared behind her summoner in a flash of light. As Penny gasped in awe, Aigis gestured towards the android, who Athena immediately threw her spear towards. Penny quickly dodged the projectile and sent her swords flying towards Athena, the blades slashing away at the Persona's quickly raised shield. Aigis flew towards Penny, who narrowly blocked the incoming punch aimed for her face, and the two engaged in aerial hand-to-hand combat.

Once her swords were back by her side, Penny managed to uppercut Aigis with her blades before repeatedly slashing at her with them. Then from her right, Athena jumped towards her and bashed her with her shield, sending Penny to the ground. Penny aimed her swords at Athena and fired a barrage of laser beams from them, the Persona blocking with her shield while being pushed back by Penny's assault. Above them, Aigis unleashed a barrage of missiles that flew towards their intended target, who looked up and gasped before flying back, using her swords to slice through any missile coming at her while flying through the arena.

Unfortunately, Aigis managed to grab Penny from behind, forcing her to take the brunt of one lucky missile that sent both of them flying back. Penny hit Aigis with an elbow and drove two swords into her arms, pushing her towards a wall and pinning her there. Penny readied her reminaing swords, but Aigis activated her Orgia Mode and easily broke free, stunning Penny. Aigis charged at her and tackled her away, sending themselves towards a window and smashing through it.

Now outside the tower, Aigis blasted Penny away with her finger guns before exclaiming, "Orpheus!" before her next Persona came down upon Penny. Orpheus attacked with Agilao, dealing fire damage to Penny. The android's swords impaled themselves through the Persona, causing him to disappear. Retracting her swords into her backpack, Penny grabbed Aigis' wrist as the Anti-Shadow Suppression Weapon tried to punch her and tossed her away. Aigis turned around to look at Penny, who closed her eyes and started to focus.

A blast of wind pushed out from her, shoving Aigis back. She was slammed into the outside wall of the communications tower. Penny held out her hand, and several bolts of lightning struck the tower, one slammed right into Aigis and sending her back in the arena in the huge hole that had just been formed. Aigis weakly got up as Penny floated through the hole, envoloped by a tornado that crackled with green lightning, matching the color of the flames pouring out of her eyes. Clouds quickly filled the entire interior of the tower, the tornado growing in size until it reached the ceiling, trapping both androids inside it.

Aigis looked up at her floating opponent in awe. "Incredible." She remarked. Penny's look suddenly turned solemn. "These powers are more of a burden than a gift." She said. More lightning bolts forced Aigis to dodge quickly before she could question that self-deprecation. "Thanatos!" She called, summoning her third Persona. Thanatos promptly dealt Penny two slashing hits before the artificial Maiden sent forth a blast of ice that froze the Persona solid. Aigis activated her flamethrower hand and laid out a stream of flames towards Penny, who flew around Aigis in a U-turn before sending another blast of ice to met Aigis' flames head on.

The ice quickly spread from the flames to Aigis' hand, freezing her entire arm. Aigis stared at her frozen limb in shock, but as soon as she looked back at Penny, another ice blast hit her in the chest, pushing her back. Aigis clenched her frozen arm, the mechanical limb shaking until it broke free of the ice, and Aigis shattered the ice on her chest with her other fist. Then, she cried out "Messiah!" and her fourth Persona entered the fray.

"Another one?" said Penny.

As of in response, Messiah attacked with God's Hand, and followed up with Megidolaon. Penny blocked another attack with her swords before slicing Messiah apart with them. Aigis flew above Penny and threw a few grenades down at her, but the android blew them away from her with a gust of wind, sending Aigis backward in the process. The grenades exploded around her, the balls of fire thankfully not hitting her.

Penny flew towards Aigis, ramming into her and knocking her back, before she flew up into the air and called her swords back to her side. Penny then formed her swords into a circular ring that spun rapidly, launching a single green laser at Aigis that hit her head-on, pushing her towards a wall.

"This was fun, but I'm afraid it's time to end this." Penny said simply. Trying her best to block the attack with her hands, Aigis glared at her. "I cannot lose." was all she said before she suddenly summoned a massive cannon, which emitted a small burst of steam as blue energy began crackling inside the barrel. "I must win at all costs."

Aigis then fired a single massive blast of blue energy from her cannon, which pushed Penny's own blast backward. Penny pushed as hard as she could, keeping the two of them in a beam-lock as she struggled to keep Aigis' blast at bay, putting all the energy she could into her attack. Penny flew upward to try and get some distance, then shot more ice out of her hands down at Aigis. Aigis was pushed towards the wall and frozen to it, but this did not deter her attack. The Anti-Sahdow Suppression Weapon struggled to break free while frantically looking around, then got an idea.

Aiming her finger guns at Penny, Aigis fired a few shots that hit the android's foot, blowing out its jet thruster. Penny struggled to stay airborne using her one working thruster, feeling her other foot burning. Aigis then took out another grenade and threw it at a distracted Penny, and it exploded in front of her. Her attack was cancelled out, and Aigis' blast scored a direct hit.

Penny managed to scream before the blast blew out of the other side of the tower. When Aigis finally ceased her attack, another hole was freshly formed in the tower's walls, and Penny was gone. The tornado dissipated to match its creator's fate until all was quiet in the arena once more.

Aigis managed to shatter the ice holding her and floated in mid-air, looking at where Penny once was. "Opponent defeated. It seems I am the superior robot."

Victorious, Aigis flew out of the tower.

**FATALITY!**

## Results

**MBStarscream: Welp, third time's a charm.**

Hiro: What do you me-- oh. Well, anyway, Penny did have a few tricks up her sleeve, like her Maiden powers that could've exploited a few weaknesses and her Aura to protect her from deadly blows, but while one was a living weapon, the other was a walking *armory*.

**MBStarscream: Aigis had way more in her disposal than Penny could dream of, not to mention being a Wild Card Persona user let her change Personas as will, making her even more versatile. Aigis also had Penny outclassed heavily in overall stats.**

Hiro: Penny could lift a 49 million ton communications satellite and contend with a fellow Maiden like Cinder, but Aigis could fight on par with people capable of destroying an entire universe, far greater than even a Maiden's power. Penny could keep up with individuals faster than lightning, but Aigis can be directly scaled to individuals who can fly into orbit in seconds, or dodge attacks that cover the entire universe in one second.

**MBStarscream: Penny was quite tough on her own, but Aigis was far more so by contending with universal level foes, as mentioned. Penny really had no way to take out this tough robo-cookie.**

Hiro: Aigis also fights far more monsters than Penny on the daily; no amount of Grimm on Remnant was half as deadly as the shadows that Anti-Shadow Weapons like Aigis are created to destroy. Penny was unique in her world as an android, but she wasn't really anything Aigis hadn't seen before, given how she can be compared to other androids of the same model as her in the world of Persona.

**MBStarscream: And since she was already so much more powerful and versatile, this was a walk in the park for Aigis. Penny was just over*shadowed* by the competition. Nothing *personal*.**

Hiro: Aigis wins.

## Advantages

### Aigis (Winner)

* More versatile arsenal of weapons
* Had plenty of Personas at her disposal as well
* Stronger
* Faster
* More durable
* Experienced in battling foes far stronger than anything in Penny's world