Chapter 11: I Have To Do Something
Mami and the other girls were enjoying tea and crackers when the brown stuff started to hit the fan. It was like they were living in a little snow globe, and someone kept shaking it until they dropped it on the ground and it shattered.
Suddenly, their world was changed in an instant. They found themselves in Kyubey's pocket dimension, which started to merge with the witch barrier.
The merge resulted in a half-formed Mitakihara, with chunks of the city floating in the air.
"Damn it!" Kyubey huffed. "That was a rental pocket dimension!"
Meanwhile, the girls were getting their bearings.
"What happened?" asked Mami.
Kyoko munched on some crackers while directing their attention to Homura in the glass box. She was seizing up, like a fish out of water. "Looks like Homura's finally lost it."
"I was worried this would happen, peeps," Sayaka muttered.
They watched as Homura's body started to transform. She grew too big for the box and broke out of it, but her transformation didn't stop. It was like watching a beanstalk grow, only it looked horrible, and Mami had to shield Bebe's innocent eyes.
And at last, Homura became her witch form, which looked like a tall ghostly woman with a flower for a head. The huge witch loomed over the girls, and began to summon her familiars to deal with them. These familiars looked like toy soldiers and walking teeth with cork guns.
"Looks like we've got to battle," Mami announced, and she, Sayaka, and Kyoko transformed into their magical outfits. They did a team pose when they finished.
"Hey guys, I'm here too!"
Mr. Vacan moonwalked in, carrying Madoka on his back like a backpack. "Sorry we're late, Kyosuke ended up in this strange place, but now he's safe inside a fort of bricks."
Mami looked surprised. "Mr. Vacan, you were a magical boy all along? Why didn't you help us fight before? And what's with that dress and those shoes? They don't match at all."
Bebe jumped out of Mami's arms, and she too transformed. She became a little girl with white hair, and a pink dress.
"Ta-dah! I was a magical girl all along too!" Bebe's true form was a girl named Nagisa, and she sensed that this would be the final battle.
Mami didn't mind too much. "Alright, girls... and boy. Let's go!"
So the magical team charged forth, battling the first wave of familiars. Mami shot them down with her guns, while Kyoko slashed with her spear. Sayaka stabbed them with her sword, and Mr. Vacan cleaned them up with his toothbrushes. Nagisa attacked with a trumpet that blasted sonic booms, and Madoka fired a rain of magical arrows down.
"Hey Madoka," Kyubey called out to her, he was still floating in a bubble. "Have your memories of being the Law of Cycles returned?"
Madoka jumped in surprise, and her head got stuck inside Kyubey's bubble. "Kyubey!? You can talk after all! Mr. Bacon was right!"
Kyubey brushed his tail against Madoka's nose, making her sneeze.
"You can try to defeat Homura, but I think you will fail."
"I'll show you!" Madoka defied Kyubey, and bit into the soap bubble, popping it. She was free, and Kyubey fell down. She returned to the fray, and kept fighting the familiars.
Kyubey whistled, and Michael came to him, inside his bubble. Kyubey jumped inside, and he and Michael watched the battle.
"So the world seems to be ending, innit," Michael mused. "My only regret is that I spent too much time watching the telly."
And so the fighting continued. It was an exhausting battle, but with everyone's help, soon all the familiars had been slain. All that remained was Homura.
Mr. Vacan and the girls all attacked at once, aiming for any spot they could hit.
However, none of their attacks seemed to have any effect on her. They just phased through like the witch was made of fog.
"No good," Mr. Vacan griped. "How is she avoiding our attacks?"
"Maybe we need to try harder!" Nagisa suggested. She trumpeted, blowing more sonic booms at Homura, but it still didn't work.
Witch Homura's arm reached out and grabbed Madoka, and gripped tightly so she couldn't move. The flower on her head morphed into a pair of lips, and she dropped Madoka inside, swallowing her!
"Madoka!" The girls all shouted.
"I have to do something!" Nagisa exclaimed. Without a second to spare, she went ahead, and picked up Mr. Vacan while jumping up to the pair of lips, and threw him inside.
"Slam dunk!" she cheered.
Mr. Vacan and Madoka tumbled down the twisted esophagus of the witch, into a dark and scary realm.
The other girls stared in shock. Throwing Mr. Vacan into Homura's mouth didn't seem to help at all. Mami and Kyoko were surprised.
"Why'd you feed Mr. Vacan to the witch?" Kyoko asked, while eating a cookie shaped like Mr. Vacan. It was baked by Mr. Vacan himself.
"I thought Madoka would fight harder if someone was there with her," Nagisa explained. "And I picked Mr. Vacan because... I thought he needed the lesson in humility."
"Fair enough," Mami noted, "but Bebe, you need to be careful. Now that you're not a cute doll anymore, you can't float."
"Stop talking!" Kyubey shouted from inside his bubble. "We came here to see some action!"
But Nagisa tooted into her trumpet, and blew the bubble away.
"Seeya later, Incubator!"
Witch Homura didn't stay still for much longer. She could use Madoka and Mr. Vacan's powers while they were trapped in her, and her arms transformed into big toothbrushes with molten pink toothpaste on the bristles.
The girls dodged the first swing, but the toothpaste splattered when it hit the ground, sending boiling blobs of toothpaste flying. Since they couldn't attack Homura, they had to keep dodging, even though it was very tiring, and they couldn't step on the boiling toothpaste.
Still, they hoped Madoka would make a comeback. She always did.
As for Mr. Vacan, they thought he would be okay too. After all, Madoka was with him.
