I bet you never expected this sort of crossover, ever.
Homura Akemi woke up in cold sweat, the adrenaline from the last timeline somehow catching up to her and making her blanket fall on the floor. The last timeline had been a bit…crazy, to say the least. Everything was falling apart in the end – as usual. But the crazy part was when Walpurgisnacht appeared.
Homura was quite certain that the titanic witch was zombified.
"Okay…what the hell did Sayaka do this time?"
Homura almost immediately afterward pinched her own nose for assuming that this one was Sayaka's fault somehow. Sayaka had been a lot nicer in that last timeline than usual. Homura's just being too harsh on the bluenette, and she knows it.
"Ugh…I can only hope that this is just a one-time deviation." Homura muttered, before looking out the nearby hospital window with a determined expression. "I can do this…This time will be different!"
Homura had not yet lost count of how many times she has repeated this month. If she's not mistaken, she is currently in her 20th timeloop. Okay. Seems bad at first, but it could have been worse. As she made her way out of the hospital, Homura was already thinking of plans to acquire some arsenal in order to save Madoka and everyone else, but mainly Madoka.
Usually, she would go to the nearest Yazuka hideout before going to the nearest military base for supplies, but she found out – since the previous timeline – that a military truck carrying crates of weaponry was conveniently near the hospital. If this truck proves to be able to provide her with enough weaponry, then perhaps there would be no need to raid the other two places, which would save her some precious times to do literally anything else.
The truck was parked and was actually a couple of blocks away from the hospital, Homura only had to walk over there. As she approached her current objective, it turns out that whoever was supposed to be in charge of the truck was having a late lunch at the nearest kebab shop. The only thing guarding the truck is a single steel padlock, which Homura sneakily and easily unlocked with a bit of magic.
With no time to waste, and perhaps a bit too hastily, Homura summoned her shield and shoved whatever crates within arms reach into her shield without even looking at the content of these crates. Homura was more concerned on being caught. She can figure out her spoils and loots later in her home.
After making her way back to her home, Homura immediately went with opening the crates with a crowbar that she also found inside that truck. To say that her expectation was utterly crushed would be a major understatement. Homura was expecting guns, fuses, bombs, et cetera. Instead, she got herself some plant seeds. Looking at the side of the crate, Homura could see a label that says 'BLOOM & DOOM SEED CO.'.
Homura thought it was just corporate trying to be quirky with their brand name, and thus she paid no mind to it.
Homura facepalmed and sighed. "Why would the military need plant seeds?!"
Is the universe trying to mess with her? Is it finally done with Homura's time shenanigans? She had just wasted a few, but very precious magic…on plant seeds.
Homura would love to simply hit the hay and try to have a good night sleep on the first day of the loop, but looks like she'll have to hunt for some grief seed now.
First things first though, she'd rather not have these seeds dirty the interior of her home, so Homura first took the already-opened crate outside.
Just a few steps outside, Homura tripped on a rock, spilling all the seeds on the pavers in front of her home. Nearly all the seeds rolled onto the dirt between the pavers.
At this point, Homura was too frustrated to care anymore. So she locked her front door, transformed, and immediately went witch-hunting, armed only with a single SIG Sauer P220 handgun that she had also found in that military truck. Homura will have to do this as efficiently as possible if she were to pull this off. Hopefully the first witch that she finds would be an easy one.
The first witch that she found was not an easy one. This witch – looking like a wolf that is bald from the neck down – just kept on chasing her throughout the city, and Mami Tomoe is nowhere to be found to help Homura…for some reason.
Had Homura found an actual adequate arsenal, she would have easily defeated this witch. But now her only firearm already ran out of ammo, and now she's just jumping from roof to roof, hoping for Mami or, heck, even Kyubey, to finally take notice of her struggle.
She, ironically, didn't pay attention to how long she had been in this cat-and-mouse chase, but she had managed to reach her home again, and the pavers in front of her home were overgrown with unusual-looking plants, which consist of sunflowers, at least a dozen of green cannon-shaped plants, as well as some yellow mushrooms. Each and every single one of them were big and tall enough to reach Homura's waist.
For a moment, Homura nearly forgot that she was still being chased by a witch, but it seems like the witch momentarily stopped on an even higher building to observe these plants as well.
Seeing this momentary distraction, Homura jumped behind the plants that suddenly grew in front of her home as a temporary place for meager cover.
As for the witch, it broke out of its stupor and sent its familiars down below to get Homura.
As the familiars impose their collective despair to create a labyrinth smaller but similar to its master's own. Homura's front lawn started to visually distort, but not enough to cause anything serious yet.
It certainly did not affect Homura.
Nor did it affect the plants.
It was only just now that Homura noticed that the plants have eyes, and they're all glaring at the familiars.
Homura did not expect the green cannon-shaped plants to start shooting substantially-sized peas at the familiars. Nearly every shot struck with precision. Two or three peas was all it took to take down a single familiar. With the familiars falling one by one, the visual distortion in reality started to dissipate, until it was replaced with a much stronger presence as the wolf witch jumped down from all the way up there.
It wasted no time tearing through the sunflowers and cannon-shaped plants that are scattered about. Homura, in her panic, hastily looked for the hardest object that she could find around here, until her hand landed on a nut with wide, calm eyes. Homura threw it at the witch, and it easily caught the nut in between its jaws. The witch was about to crush the nut between its jaw, but was confused that it could not tear the nut apart as easily as it does with the other plants. Wasting no chances, the rest of the plants attacked the witch, their peas slowly but surely hurting the witch.
With the witch once again distracted, Homura hastily grabbed whatever is left of the crate that she spilled. Seeing as these plants can actually do something, Homura started reading through the label of a seed packet that she got in her hand, which reads 'Snow Pea'. Wasting no time, Homura spilled the seed on whatever dirt or empty pot nearby.
The effect was instantaneous.
What grew was something similar to the green cannon-shaped plants, but colored blue and emanating low temperature. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that it has something to do with ice.
Of course, the peas that were shot were also different, and Homura could see its effect on the witch…
The witch moves slower now!
Now's her chance to finish this! Even with stopped time, Homura could not safely slice through the witch as much as she likes. As soon as the witch was touched when time was stopped, its reaction time far surpasses even magical girls and was able to counter Homura's attacks easily. But now that the snow peas are making the witch significantly slower…
Homura pulled out a tanto that she conveniently found on the street, just near the military truck that she raided. With it, she should be able to slice at the witch with much lesser risk.
And so she stopped time and started the hack-and-slash.
After slashing and cutting the witch many times (and many more times for good measure), she sheathed her tanto, stored it away, and allowed to time to resume. With mild satisfaction, she watched the witch violently fall apart, leaving a grief seed behind.
As Homura went to pick up her reward, she could almost swear that she could hear a faint victory jingle somewhere nearby.
This whole thing might be starting to drive her crazy.
Shaking the thought away, she looked at the remaining plants in her…front yard, she supposed. It's not like anyone else lives here…probably…
The plants seem happy with themselves for the victory, not at all daunted by the loss of some of its kind.
"Huh…now I'm starting to see why the military needed these plant seeds…" Homura muttered.
What have I done...?