Akuma Homura saves the World
Episode 1 – No use crying over spilled bento!
It was a beautiful morning in Mitakihara. Besides, of course, for the enormous meteor hurtling through the sky. And, as it would so happen, the meteor's trajectory was dead-set directly on the Kaname household.
To say the least, of all of the people freaking out about this sudden appearance of a meteor, the Kaname were of especial notice for the degree of their panicking.
"Holy shit, is that thing heading directly toward our home?" stated Tomohisa.
Above the sky, currently focusing all of her effort in keeping the meteor from striking its target, was a figure in a rather revealing black dress. She had long black hair, and a fetching dark red ribbon in her long black hair. Currently, this figure was also in severe panic, because despite her godly power, she was having a rather difficult time keeping this meteor from crashing into things, the Kaname household in particular.
"Goddammit, can you stop this shit already!?" she exclaimed fruitlessly at the meteor.
Just as the meteor was within several thousand meters of hitting its target, the picture froze. It then started going in reverse, and then sped up to a significant degree in reverse, as if a video was being rewound.
-Title Card: 36 hours earlier-
It was a regular afternoon. Class had just ended, and the students were making off in various directions, some for their homes, some for the park, some for the mall, some to each other's homes, and some others to each other's beds… but none of that is important.
What was important was that a battle had just recently started between Akemi Homura and Miki Sayaka.
"You damn demon! Why'd you have to go and ruin it all?"
"Me, a demon? You're one to talk, Miki Sayaka."
A fallen Tupperware container laid between the two girls, its contents spilled on the ground.
"It wouldn't have fallen if you hadn't panicked so much when I started to lose my grip on it and dashed to grab it out form me!"
"That is irrelevant. You stuffed it so much, so that of course it would burst open if it fell!"
They had collaborated together on making a special bento for Madoka. However, as the reader can plainly see, it had not gone over too well.
"All of that hard work, and for nothing!"
Sayaka bent over and began cleaning up the mess, hoping that something could be salvaged from the mess. Homura folded her arms and turned the other way. However, while Sayaka was preoccupied with her task, Homura snapped her fingers and suddenly the bento was back to the way it was, and Sayaka had a dull expression on her face.
"Huh…? Why… why am I here again? And why do I feel I should be angry with you?"
"I am not sure, Miki Sayaka. Perhaps your cycle is nearing its end?"
"Perhaps… anyway, let's go meet up with Madoka!"
The two girls proceeded to make their way to the local park, where they were planning to meet up with the other members of their group. When they arrived at their destination, Mami, Nagisa and Madoka were all sitting on a blanket that Mami had laid out for them all underneath a tree.
"Homura-chan! Sayaka!" greeted Madoka cheerfully.
"Hey, Madoka! We got a special surprise here for you! Consider it a sort of 'welcome back' gift!"
They had made the bento to celebrate Madoka's return from the United States a week earlier.
Madoka gasped when she saw how large the bento was.
"All of this is for me?"
"Yep. Just be sure to not eat it all in one setting! We can't allow you to get a tummy, now can we?"
Sayaka then started to tickle Madoka in her stomach, prompting much giggling form all girls involved sans Homura, whom merely smiled at the sight of Madoka's smile.
That's right, my love… enjoy yourself. I have made this a new world for you to live your life in. Though, to be honest, I wish I could in indulge in such pleasures as tickling with you… and maybe more…
Homura's chain of thought was interrupted by Kyoko suddenly leaping form the tree above.
"Gotcha!" she said as she landed on Sayaka. Or, at least she intended to. She missed her target by several centimeters and landed firmly face-first into the ground.
"Kyoko, are you okay?" shouted a concerned Madoka.
"Oh, she'll be fine. She's just being her usual self right now." Sayaka said as she went over to Kyoko and gave her a light prod with her foot.
Kyoko mumbled through the grass and dirt "I resent that remark".
As everyone shared a laugh at Kyoko's expense, Homura blinked and suddenly found herself in an empty world.
"Wha… what?"
She looked around, but could not see a single living thing.
"What is this?"
A light suddenly shone from the heavens, and a voice was heard, loud and rumbling.
"Akemi Homura… are you aware of what you have done?" it asked.
"If this is about what I did a short while ago, yes, I am. And I frankly don't give any damns. It was this, or a fate worse than death for Madoka. I had no other cho-"
"No, no, not that! What you did just a moment ago?"
"What? Fix the bento?"
"Yes, that's what I mean? Don't you know what cause and effect are, girl?"
"Yes, but how is that relevant to-"
"Silence! For I am an agent of the Macrocosm!"
"…the what?"
"No time for explanations, girl! By stopping the fall of the bento form ever happening, you've messed around with cause and effect! You could have just simply reversed time and kept the bento form spilling, but instead you simply fixed it!"
"…and?"
"Well, then why would Sayaka be holding it as she was? Why would she feel residual anger towards you?"
"And this is relevant how?"
"Don't you see? You stopped the effect, but the cause still exists! And now that you've stopped the bento box form ever having fallen, something else must now fall so as to restore cause and effect!"
"You lost me."
"Alright, in a nutshell: you fucked up cause and effect, and now something terrible is going to come falling out of the sky!"
"Wait, how the hell does that make sense?"
"I don't know, I don't write the rules! And don't go thinking you can simply will this issue away like you do with your other ones: you've gone and fucked with a primal force of the cosmos! That means you're going to have to work your ass and come up with a solution to the problem before everything goes to hell!"
"Alright, if that's the case, how long do I have?"
"About 35 hours and 45 minutes, plus or minus about three seconds."
"…fuck."
Homura blinked again and found herself back in her reality. Madoka was eating the bento, Sayaka speaking to her while doing so, and Kyoko offering to help Madoka eat it. Nagisa was blowing bubbles while Mami watched, an un-washable joy form her face.
"Homura-chan, want to help me eat this?" asked Madoka.
Homura snapped out of her funk and went to sit down beside Madoka.
"Sure, Kaname-san."
-35 hours later-
Homura, in her ultimate form, stood suspended in the upper atmosphere, awaiting for whatever it was that was coming her way. Out in the distance, she saw it: a meteor, but of an unusual color: pitch black with red outlines, blue and green flames spitting form behind it.
"That's no ordinary meteor." Homura attempted to will it out of existence, but it did not work. She then tried to blast it away with a large energy blast, but that did not do anything either.
"Damn it!"
She just barely had time to brace herself as the meteor came smashing into her. It was rather small, about 27 meters across, but even a small meteor could cause enormous damage. She pushed against it, straining with all of her might to keep the meteor form smashing into the Earth. After about a moment of falling, Homura did a bit of mental math.
"Oh no! The trajectory… it's heading right towards Madoka's house! But why?"
Meanwhile, back on the ground…
People noticed the ominous shape in the sky, and naturally, panicked.
Sayaka was over at the Kaname household to pick up the bento container (Maodka had taken it home the day before, so she could eat the rest of it later). Madoka then came up with the idea of making a bento for Homura in return. So as they were doing that, the meteor was hurtling towards the Earth, a helpless Homura attempting to stop it form its target.
"Fuck! Think, Homura, think!" An idea then suddenly occurred to her as she remembered that Maodka took the bento home with her yesterday. She stopped trying to keep the meteor form falling and instead teleported herself into the Kaname household.
"Hi, Madoka, Sayaka! Whatcha guys doing?"
"Ah! H-homura-chan! Uh, we're, we're…" Madoka stated nervously while trying to hide the bento she was making for Homura form her.
Suddenly, Tomohisa burst into the room.
"Madoka, Sayaka! We got to go now, a meteor is falling towards the sky toward-"
Homura paused time. She went towards Madoka, whom was trying to hide the bento, and picked it up from the counter.
"'Thanks, Homura-chan!'" Homura read out what it said. She then let out a sigh.
"What a waste… but it's for your own safety…" Homura then left the bento suspended in the air, and then allowed time to resume itself.
"-s uh… wait… why was I just yelling?" said Tomohisa.
The bento box at the same moment spilled onto the floor. Suddenly, the meteor stopped just as it was about to impact, then reversed direction and sped out into space. Somewhere a bell rang, and a ray of light shot through parted clouds, meaningfully casting the Kaname household in glow.
"Nooooo!" shouted Madoka as she saw the bento hit the floor, clutching her face in horror.
"Aw, dammit!" exclaimed Sayaka.
"Oh no! And I just cleaned the floors, too!"
"I-I'm sorry, Dad…" said Madoka as she bent over and began cleaning it up.
Homura bent down to assist Madoka.
"Homura-chan… I-I was making this for-"
"I know."
"Huh?"
"Yes, I know. And I really appreciate it."
"But wait, how did-" started Sayaka until Homura snapped her fingers.
"…what was I about to say?"
After cleaning up, Homura suggested that they could begin again and make meals for everyone tomorrow after school again, to which all the girls agreed full heartedly.
Meanwhile, elsewhere….
In a dark room in some high-rise building a lone figure sat in a swivel chair facing the window, back to the audience.
"I see… I am surprised that she was able to deduce the solution to the problem."
A monitor built into the wall came to life, saying HAKU-I.
"Yes. This is most unexpected, but predictable. The outcome as was foreseen in our scenario was not too different form the one that has just occurred." A static, booming voice sounded.
"Yes. Our scenario shall continue as planned. The girl has proven her capability. Let us see just how far she can go." A second monitor came to life, labelled HAKU-III.
The figure on the chair stood.
"Yes… it has begun…"
"And may it be a glorious experiment. Long live HAKU!" exclaimed both monitors.
In the shadows, the figure smiled.
