As this Witchification process occurred, Niji unwittingly reflected on her life….her real life. She remembered waking up one Friday morning at six as she put her glasses on and got out of bed. She looked in the mirror and saw a young American girl with messy light-brown hair and blue eyes wearing the same Grell shirt she went to bed in last night.
"Honey!" a familiar called out from downstairs in the kitchen "You're gonna be late for school if you don't hurry up! "
"Coming, mom!" the girl replied "I just need to get dressed first!"
As soon her morning routine was completed, she barely caught the morning bus as she arrived at her actual middle school. She carried out the same school day as usual ,but today was Friday so that's when the anime club met in the library. She excitedly ran towards the doors before quietly walking inside. She then sat next to her best friend, Katie, as some of the others were setting up the DVD player to watch Ponyo.
"Oh, hi Katie-chan" she said "How are you?!"
"Ummm, hi █████" her friend replied as Niji tried to block out the memory "So did you watch more K-On! last night?"
"Yep, I've been marathoning the heck out of that show on Crunchyroll! It's really good! So what new shows have you've seen?"
"Well I've recently been watching this new anime that came out in Japan a few months ago. It's hard to pronounce, but I think it's called Puella Magi Madoka Magica. Sadly I was only able to watch the first two episodes due to an important art project I'm working on ,but so far it's a really great Magical Girl anime. I can't wait to see more!"
"Oh, is it free on Crunchyroll?"
"Yeah, it's really cute too"
Luckily she didn't have that much homework, so when got home from school threw her backpack on the bedroom floor, got onto her computer and looked up the show on Crunchyroll. While the first few minutes of episode one were kind of confusing, she was instantly hooked. The next day, she saw Katie while shopping at Hot Topic, but she looked rather glum at the counter.
"Ummm, Katie?" she asked "What's wrong?"
"Nothing, I just saw Episode Three of Madoka Magica yesterday. I won't spoil it for you ,but it left an impact on me."
Katie left with her purchase, but █████ was rather confused on how vague she was. Now she really had to check out Episode 3 and….Mami died. It was by the most "kawaii" thing ever, but it was still heartbreaking for her to suffer such a cruel death. She just had to keep watching to see where this was going
Episode 4: Sayaka became a Magical Girl...okay not so bad, right?
Episode 5: Kyoko tries to kill Sayaka!
Episode 6: Magical Girls are the undead!
Episode 7: Hitomi loves Kyousuke!
Episode 8: Sayaka becomes a WITCH!
Episode 9: Kyoko dies with Oktavia/Sayaka!
Episode 10: Homura has been time traveling this whole time and wasn't always so dark and brooding!
Episode 11: Magical Girls are the reason for mankind's advancements!
And finally, Episode 12: Madoka is forced to leave Homura to become a God.
█████ couldn't believe it. It started as such a carefree Magical Girl show, but turned into something so dark and twisted. And Homura basically just challenged everything she believed in. She thought this just wasn't right. She thought that if she was there, she could've fixed everything and avoided the others from falling into despair.
"Hello there" said a voice "██████████"
█████ turned around in shock that some random person knows her name, when she saw the familiar cat-like alien on her bed. She quickly got a statue of Miku Hatsune in her hand and quickly aimed it at the Incubator.
"Wh...What is this?!" she asked "Incubators are real?!"
"Not in your universe. Where I come from Madoka Kaname and all the other people you saw are real. But in your universe, such concepts of Magical Girls and extraterrestrials are just escapist fiction and speculation."
"You did this to them! How could you live with yourself?!"
"You watched it as if you were there ,but you still you don't understand that they were responsible for their own demise. All of that tragedy,destruction and despair. But you change all of it if you make a contract with me?"
█████ wasn't sure what to do. On one hand, Kyubey can't be trusted and indirectly caused the deaths of thousands if not millions of girls. But on the other hand, that would be showing Homura what a true selfless wish is. She put down the Miku statue and thought long and hard about it until she made up her mind. Even if the circumstances are kind of ludicrous if you really think about it.
"I wish to save Madoka, Homura and everybody! And have everything necessary to do it!"
At first she wasn't sure if she made the right choice, but then she experienced great chest pain as Kyubey stretched his ears out. Her Soul Gem was then forged, but she was no longer in her bedroom.
"Sadly your body can't come with you" Kyubey said "But you can create a new one in order to enter Madoka Kaname's world."
The first thing that came to █████'s mind was Homura Akemi, so she decided to make a body based on her "innocent self" ,but with different hair and eyes. And that was when Niji was born. She practiced her transformation once arriving at the spot of her first Witch and she became similar to Ultimate Madoka.
"What's this?" she asked when she noticed the weapon in her hand
"That's the Rainbow Staff" Kyubey replied "It's said that the more karmic destiny you have, the greater impact the weapon will have"
At first, the hand-like Witch was almost impossible to defeat ,but a fairly experienced Magical Girl named Kenko noticed the newcomer and helped her learn the basics of combat. Kenko mentored "Niji" for the first few weeks, until she was able to finish a Witch all be herself. As she flew through the air, she realized she had to come up with a quick phrase before the finishing blow, like Mami's "Tiro Finale". So she shouted her favorite phrase out loud:
"Kawaii~!"
Niji of course thanked Kenko for all her help, but she wasn't here for this random Magical Girl. She was there for Madoka-chan and the others. At the very least, she was curious about these super powerful Witches she hasn't seen before in the show. They seemed even more powerful that Walpurgisnacht, but every native Magical Girl seems to forget about them as soon as they're gone, they don't even notice the Grief Seed. Thankfully, Kyubey dropped her in the world several months before the actual events of the show so she can gain experience from fighting Witches, albeit for some reason she didn't learn any real Japanese as she continued to speak "Weeaboo". Even better is that, she learned that she can manipulate people, but for some reason it only worked on adults, into doing her will. So the staff at Mitakihara instantly believed her when she said that she was Homura Akemi's sister and enrolled her into the school the weekend before Homura entered. The rest was history, but as the days progressed, she thought there were more changes that were to be made, and it wasn't just death that contributed to Madoka's "demise" and Homura's despair. One perceived threat was as Hitomi Shizuki, who she thought was a selfish harlot who only existed to make Sayaka miserable and that Kyosuke should thank her and should be her boyfriend forever. Her "OTP" as it were. At first she tried taking Sayaka's Soul Gem until Walpurgisnacht, but Homura just took it back. She tried to intimidate Hitomi to the point of bullying, but that only earned her the scorn of Sayaka. So her Final Solution was a "life for a life", but Sayaka turned into a Witch anyway and caused the death of █████/Niji's favorite couple. She was split about the outcome. At first she felt guilty about what she did since she failed to save everyone like what she wished for, but on the other hand her maddened conscious ensured her that she would replace Sayaka and that "Happy End" will happen anyway. At first all she wanted was everyone's protection, but her powers showed her that she could've had just as much karmic destiny if she was born into this world instead. She that everyone would praise her for saving the world from Walpurgisnacht, Homura will finally "lighten up" and maybe she would become even more powerful that a Magical Girl. Maybe even a god like Madoka. But alas, she turned into a creature she vowed she would never turn into. Because her ego blinded her into believing that she was a strong warrior who knew no fear. In reality, she was just a young girl who thought she could undo everything the "Urobutcher" did.
Back in the present, Niji realized she was in a Labyrinth and realized that she had to destroy the Witch inside.
