(? POV)

Time travel. TIme travel is a dream to some people, others try to find ways of achieving it. Many people think time travel is something beautiful and that the mistakes of the past can be corrected.

This is not true. I am a time traveller, and let me tell you something, time travel is a curse, not a blessing. It is a burden that I would not wish for even on my worst of enemies. But I shall carry this burden, as long as I must. In order to save Madoka I shall keep trying over and over again and one day I will be able to save her and everyone else.

I stood gazing out at the wreckage of Mikatahara city as I once again failed to save Madoka and everyone. How many times has it been again?, I don't know I've stopped counting after the 140th timeline but I estimate the timeline to be around the 500's.

"I estimate that Madoka will completely wipe out all life on the face of the earth in 10 days."

The incubator... my worst enemy, and one and the only enemy who a bullet to the head won't kill. Apparently, he is an alien race that has been on earth since the time of cave men.

and he uses our hope and despair to fight against entropy or such bullshit. If he is truly an alien who has lived for billions of years then why haven't they researched something like zero-point energy or something? or maybe they did but they still turn our souls to gems to harvest energy simply because it is more efficient to not build a zero-point energy reactor or something similar.

"Oh well, it's humanities problem now. We have gathered more than enough energy to fill our quota"

Really, I swear that thing can be a dick without even trying. It does not have any sympathy, after all it is not human. I wouldn't be surprised if it already had built one and is simply using us as extra energy.

"Akemi Homura, aren't you going to fight her?"

"No, after all, this is not my battlefield," I reply as cold and frigid as ice. If I let my emotions dictate my action I will likely fall into a grief spiral. Something I'd like to avoid even if I likely have enough grief seeds to spare.

The Incubator gave me a look. "Akemi Homura are you-" I don't let him finish his sentence as I yank my shield harder than needed to start the process again.

My vision turns blue as I start my journey walking backwards in time...but unlike the other times this time I felt a bit off. Something was wrong I knew it. But I can't stop now, not in the middle of the time stream.

"I have never thought that I would see someone merely walking along the path of time. There have been several circumstances of time-travel throughout the multiverse, to access to the time stream a connection to the speed force or sufficient velocity is required, preferably both" the strange voice paused as I continued walking "You have neither a connection to us, the speed force nor do you have sufficient velocity to travel through the timestream." "So how is it that... I see... So that's how it is. Very well" "Akemi Homura, normally we don't interfere with time-travellers unless they break the rules" "You, however, have broken the exactly 567 times."

I continued to walk not stopping and not looking back... I can't stop now...

"Normally we would punish you quite severely ... However, the reason you have done so was to save the life of your friend. We approve of the reason but there is a reason that these rules are placed, as such we decided to give you a gift" "So that you do not break the rules again, we shall give you a small piece of us"

"What are you?" I questioned the voice hoping it did not stop me.

"We are a force that came into being since the moment of the big bang just like all the other forces out there, People have called us by many names, but we are mostly known as the SPEED Force" "Good luck in your quest Akemi Homura"

I knew that my journey came to an end the moment I woke up to a familiar white ceiling. I wonder what that was? That definitely cannot be the incubator. It is impossible as the incubator cannot utilize magic of any form.

I get out of bed and continue my routine which I apparently have done 567 times by now that it's ingrained into my very being.

However, when I look at the calendar I notice something odd.

I realized something that could be horrifying or hopeful. No way...

And cliffhanger Mwuahahaha hahaha *cough, cough, wheeeeze*