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[color=Gold]"This isn’t even my final form."[/color]

[color=888888]— Isra Mahmud[/color][/center]

If Oros the Mad were alive, she would gaze upon her endless eclipse and gleam Penny’s thoughts about her apparent inability to overpower someone. She'd promptly laugh, likely in the company of another, and tell them all about the absurdity of the most powerful magical girl’s inability to overpower someone. The friend, likely more scientifically minded than herself, would go on to explain that leverage was likely at play. But Madness would cast aside their observation, insisting it was more likely that the two patrons had envisioned the scene with the magical girls in slightly different positions. The conversation might move forward with the two discussing the combatant’s power sets. They would eventually settle on the idea that while Penny wasn’t actually the strongest magical girl (physically) but was strong enough and her reputation came from having enough utility to get out of any situation. This would be illustrated by how effortlessly Penny managed to escape being pinched between two shields and could quickly heal away any damage. They would then reflect on Isra’s far more limited, yet no less impressive kit that made her more specialized. They would then reflect that even if some ninjitsu was being conserved on her part, it only made sense that the largely powerless scorpion might be allowed to stand up to a magical girl that shared the title engine of destruction with it. Then they might go on to discuss other topics, such as the perception of power in stories such as this. Fortunately, Oros the Mad was dead, so the readers only had to be subjected to this one paragraph about her ramblings. 

As for Osiris, it didn’t really matter. She knew Penny was a strong opponent, and the fact that any of her other opponents would be dead right now did cross her mind. She had heard legends of Penny’s power, how she was favored by the gods, and the rumors were starting to seem true. She pulled back her extra claws and looked at her opponent. She couldn’t even be mad at them. Osiris was only here because Nykannis had upgraded her so extensively, and somehow Penny was able to go toe to toe with her without getting put out of action instantly. Everything that Osiris had done, all the heart stones she had collected and monsters she had slain. All the simulated battles she ran through with the other Oros, what sort of story did Penny weave to become as mighty as she was. Stirred with a strange sense of determination, perhaps the first time in her entire life, she decided to show her respect to her opponent with a few well spoken words. 

[color=ffd700]"Huh, cool."[/color]

But that was about the extent she would honor her opponent. In the end, she was just a task Nykannis had put her on. And with Penny’s voice booming out of speakers like a creepy villain, Osiris hunkered down and put up her nanite shield. She didn’t know what was coming, but it wasn’t often opponents dissolved into pure lightning to do anything other than an attack. And attack she did. Before she felt the blow, her nose caught a whiff of ozone and sulfur. While Penny didn’t hit any of her targets directly, hitting Osiris’s shield at speeds comparable to light in several points was more than enough to throw her shield into her, and then her into the scorpion of destruction. Then she scrambled to get out of the way of the flying cars, while the SoD was forced to just sort of Block Penny’s blows as they came. One smashed i’s poor tail, which did only some damage but the greywash nanites from earlier would ensure it didn’t recover. This prompted more admiration out of Osiris. 

[color=ffd700]"Wow."[/color]

This might have been it. Osiris and Penny had been almost equally matched up until now, and Penny had quite the ace to play. Turning into lightning? You’d have to be able to turn into energy yourself just to avoid the attacks. Not that Osiris stayed in school long enough to know that. But she wasn’t really done either. She knew anyone this revered couldn’t have been fighting at full power. That, and the simulated battles that Nykannis had prepared for her, paired with Oracle’s view of the future, let her see exactly what she was going to go up against. Though Penny’s uncharacteristically showy introduction to her next form had caught her off guard. Part of Osiris wondered if Penny’s personality was breaking down as her destructive tendencies surfaced. Another part of Osiris was just relieved that the tag team session was over, and she could move onto her own next form.

The next thing to hit the SoD wasn’t Penny, but Osiris herself. She hopped backwards at it, shoving her tail down it’s throat. It’s body suddenly blew apart like an exploded engineering picture. Its pieces hovered in the air, arcing with all the same elements that made up Penny’s magic. Then those pieces changed. Quickly, it had to be quick. Penny was as fast as lightning, and this was going to beat her to her next punch. The metal grew darker, shapes grew more intricate and dangerous, and then they closed around Osiris. Ruined cars were pulled into the mess too, their metals intricately restructured at the atomic level by billions of nanites. Plates shifted around, changed shape, and even grew. Damaged parts were replaced, perfect parts were upgraded. The grey wash that remained on the scorpion had dissolved in the transformation. Osiris was ready to resume combat with Penny, now an engine of destruction herself.

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The next time Penny threw a punch at Osiris, her entire body flared up. While it wasn’t visible to most, she could see that her new form was drawing in electricity. The current that still ran through the houses beside her, and even from Penny’s electric form. It wasn’t enough to rip her body apart, but it was clear that if she got too close, Osiris could drink up the energy she had turned into. Though it didn’t seem like she had become much faster, as she was still able to land a punch on Osiris’s massive form. Though she was getting better at blocking them, and anything metal she was smashed over the head with was simply absorbed. Imperfections were stripped away until some brand new type of metal was added to her form. 

Then Penny had an opening to fire a gauss shot, but it was only because Osiris had decided to fire her own modified version of the attack. Her mouth glowed blue, and then a long tongue with a glowing tip shot out at Penny as she rushed in as a bolt of lightning. Was now the time to fire back?