Prologue
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Devastation was the only word for what surrounded Madoka. Walpurgisnacht had unleashed a path of devastation across the entire area, leveling whole city blocks, toppling skyscrapers, and crushing everything else. Madoka wondered if anyone had realized that there was something more than a simple typhoon going on.
Hanging high above her releasing the odd cackle of mad laughter was the super witch, Walpurgisnacht. To Madoka it looked like a figure from an old music box that had been turned upside down. She knew it from the dream she had weeks ago, a dream she now knew to have been another timeline.
She felt no fear of the creature, only pity. She wondered how many magical girls had suffered only to produce the creature. The only answer she could think of was to many. But she had other business to attend to.
'Just a little bit further,' her guide assured her.
Kyubey. The Incubator. For weeks it had pressured Madoka to form a contract with it and become a magical girl. In that time however she had seen first hand the dangers of that role and how Kyubey had fooled countless innocents. The price had been to high for such gains however. Mami, Sayaka, and Kyoko... She couldn't let them have died in vain.
First however she needed to find Homura.
'Almost there,' Kyubey reported.
They skirted around a fallen skyscraper before Kyubey came to a halt. Madoka clapped a hand to her mouth to stifle her scream.
'Here we are,' Kyubey said brightly.
There, lying motionless at the base of the rubble was Homura. A large piece of concrete was crushing her right leg, blood was trickling down her face from her scalp, and her left hand was underneath a fallen beam of steel of skyscraper. She was in her normal school clothes rather than her magical girl outfit, her eyes staring blankly into space, and she was completely still.
"Homura!" Madoka cried out running over to the fallen girl. She grabbed Homura's wrist but couldn't feel a pulse. That didn't mean Homura was gone yet though. She couldn't be gone yet. Madoka grabbed the steel beam and gave it a hard tug. It was to heavy to move however. What little movement she did see however caused blood to ooze forth from under the beam.
"Where's her soul gem?" Madoka demanded.
'I'm afraid you're to late to save her,' Kyubey said. 'Oh well. That makes this easier.'
Tears welled up in Madoka's eyes. This was wrong so wrong. Homura couldn't be gone, she just couldn't be gone. The magnitude of what she had come to do hit her once more and suddenly her original wish felt so feeble. What good was it to erase all the Witches when everyone she cared about was dead and gone?
In that moment her wish changed.
Silently she closed Homura's eyes, and wiped the blood from her forehead. Then she stood and turned to face Kyubey.
"I'm ready to make my wish," she said tears still rolling down her cheeks.
'Excellent,' Kyubey said waving it's tail like an excited dog. 'With your potential Karmic destiny you can make any wish you want to come true. Anything you desire Madoka Kaname, is within your grasp. So what is it do you want?'
Madoka glanced over her shoulder at Homura's fallen body. Then she took a deep breath and spoke.
