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Aigis VS Noel Vermillion is the 24th episode of DBX, featuring Aigis from the Persona series and Noel Vermillion from the BlazBlue series in a battle between blonde artificial girls.
Exhibition
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AngelFalse by Sakuzyo 
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In a rocky cave, Noel Vermillion arrives to check the surrounding area before walking deeper in. However, she stops and turns around to dodge an attack fired at her and looks to the source of the attack to reveal Aigis on top of a rock pillar as she jumps down to combat the Azure's Successor.
Aigis: Target firing!
Aigis then launches her missiles from her Pandora Missile Launcher at Noel, who skillfully evades them before counterattacking with a kick that sends Aigis backward. After firing a shot at and kicking her to send her back, Noel quickly advances to deliver an overhead kick, but Aigis intercepts and counters with an uppercut that propels Noel into the air, following it up with a knee strike.
Aigis: Firing!
Aigis then shoots two more bullets at Noel, but she jumps out of the way and starts shooting Aigis with Bolverk. However, Aigis dodges the last shot and delivers a sweeping kick to Noel's legs and a subsequent uppercut as she flies into the air and drops a flashbang grenade as Noel recovers and runs towards her.
Aigis: Try this!
The grenade explodes, blinding Noel for a moment before she looks behind her and receives a lunging kick to the chest from Aigis.
Aigis: Orgia Drive activated!
Noel hits the ground twice before Aigis catches up to her.
Aigis: No escape!
Aigis and Noel then start trading blows, which ends with Aigis kicking Noel and taking out her Pandora Missile Launcher again.
Aigis: Firing rocket!
Aigis fires mores missiles while charging at Noel, who counters by using Type XIII: Revolver Blast to obliterate the incoming projectiles. As Aigis closes in, she becomes distracted by her hip thrusters overheating, providing Noel with an opportunity to knee-strike her in the face. The impact sends Aigis crashing into a stone pillar, and Noel follows up the attack with a kick that propels Aigis through the structure. In mid-air, Noel readies her own missile launcher for the next move.
Noel: Thor!
Noel subsequently launches Zero Gun: Thor at Aigis, but she successfully calls upon her Persona, Pallas Athena, for protection. As the scene flashes white from the missile's explosion, it fades to Aigis descending further into the cave, where she sees that Noel is in pursuit. Noel then delivers another overhead kick on Aigis and unleashes Bullet Storm to bombard her.
Aigis: Persona!
Aigis summons Athena again to protect her from the bullets before she launches her spear at Noel, who dodges it as she keeps pressuring Aigis with more bullets. During this mid-air scuffle, Aigis throws a falling rock chunk at Noel as she manages to get her footing behind another chunk of rock that Aigis promptly kicks through before summoning Athena to send Noel falling farther into the cave and firing a rocket at her before giving chase. At the bottom of the cave, Noel crashes onto the ground as the rocket hits her and sends her off-screen.
As Aigis lands on the ground, a shockwave of blue smoke envelops her, momentarily confusing her...
Aigis: Huh?
...before Noel, now transformed into Mu-12, delivers a kick to her chest. As she orients herself after the blow, Aigis manages to fly over Mu's oncoming slash but is caught by the subsequent one. Mu-12 follows this up with the Sword of Decimation, propelling Aigis onto a large crystal. Aigis narrowly avoids another attack from Mu, which cleaves through the crystal, allowing her to ascend into the air.
Mu-12: You cannot escape!
Mu-12 subsequently dispatches her Divine Radius: Murakumo via a portal, and while Aigis manages to evade some of the blades emerging from them, she is shortly struck by them as Mu-12 does a backflip to land a blow on Aigis.
Mu-12: Now!
Mu attempts to do the same attack again, but Aigis dodges it and delivers a kick to Mu from behind, sending her hurtling backward.
Aigis: Limiters disabled!
Aigis then goes into Orgia Mode once more and charges toward Mu.
Mu-12: Die!
Mu attempts the same move again, but Aigis dodges it as she kicks Kusanagi from behind which she gets sent flying back.
Aigis: Full power!
Aigis then flies towards Mu...
Mu-12: Impudent!
...and strikes her five times before turning around and bringing out her machine gun.
Aigis: Machine Gun!
Aigis unleashes a barrage of bullets from the machine gun as Mu uses her blades to block them. However, Athena is summoned once again and hits Mu to break her guard, allowing Aigis to deliver a powerful kick that sends her soaring into the air before flying forward to go after her.
Aigis: Go down!
Aigis sends Mu crashing onto the ground with a powerful downward kick, causing smoke to cover the field. Aigis then looks down to see if her opponent is down for the count, but Mu gets up and blows the smoke away.
Mu-12: Ineffective.
Aigis lets out a disgruntled sigh upon seeing Mu still alive before rushing toward her once more.
Aigis: Presuming!
However, during this charge, Aigis notices her thrusters starting to overheat again. However, she disregards this warning and continues her advance toward her opponent.
Mu-12: Analyzing target.
Mu backs up and quickly dodges Aigis' charge as she lands on the ground.
Mu-12: Target identified.
Aigis then lunges at Mu again, but the latter leans back to dodge the attack before using her blades to slice off the former's legs.
Mu-12: This is the end!
Mu subsequently dispatches her swords through portals one last time, finally impaling Aigis with her giant blade, an attack that causes the Heartless Armed Angel to explode, ending her life.
With the battle over, Mu then reverts back into Noel before she falls to her knees, exhausted from the battle.
Trivia
Production
- The core connections between Aigis and Noel are that they are both blonde, firearm-wielding artificial females who were created by shadowy organizations (the Kirijo Group and Sector Seven, respectively) to fight the influence of a dark being (Nyx and the Black Beast, respectively). In addition:
- Both are members of a team (both SEES and the Shadow Operatives and Team Remix Heart, respectively).
- Both have access to a super mode that increases their powers (Orgia Mode and Mu-12, respectively).
- Both have accepted their roles over what they had started with, albeit in opposing ways compared to each other (Aigis started out as a robot who followed orders but later developed human emotions, while Noel lived most of her life as a human before learning and accepting her true self as a Murakumo Unit).
- Both befriended and formed close relationships with the main protagonists of their series (Makoto Yuki and Ragna the Bloodedge, respectively) and inherited their abilities when they passed away (Aigis inherited the Wild Card from Makoto, while Noel inherited Ragna's Azure abilities).
- Both found new purposes in life relating to their friends after experiencing life-changing events (Aigis wanting to continue her relationships with her friends and Noel deciding to live for hers).
- Both had split off a part of themselves due to a traumatic event (Aigis separated her human emotions to escape the burden of Makoto's death, which later became Metis, while Noel separated herself from Mu-12 as well as her memories after seeing the Gate inside Ragna when he became the Black Beast) before later reuniting with them.
- Both sealed their world's incarnation of death in their stories (Aigis sealed Death inside Makoto when he was a young boy, while Noel sealed Hades: Izanami inside herself).
- Both appeared as playable characters in BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle with Aigis being DLC and Noel being playable in the base game.
- Years after this episode's release, Therewolf Media would make a track for this matchup called "Eye of the Angel" as part of his "What If?" commission tracks.
- This makes it the second DBX episode to receive its own commission track after its release, after Ness VS Sans, and with the next one being Bendy VS Cuphead.
Other
- This is the third Females-themed DBX episode, after Trish VS Jeanne and Sakura VS Rin Tohsaka, and with the next 10 being Lara Croft VS Jill Valentine, Chun-Li VS Tifa Lockhart, Harley Quinn VS Domino, Amy VS Sakura, Juri VS Mileena, Chie VS Karin, Catwoman VS Black Cat, D.Va VS Tron Bonne, Boa Hancock VS Rider Medusa and Mulan VS Lucina.