20 days before the story began

Mami had had a rough time. She had just broken up with her boyfriend of 2 years and wondered how long she could continue to live alone in an apartment.

On that night, she was out on witch patrol when she spotted a young girl with white hair shaking and shivering in the cold night. She also appeared to be crying. Mami called out, "Are you okay?" The girl turned to her and said nothing. Mami then ran over when she noticed that she had several bruises on her face. "You seem a little hurt there, kiddo. Where do you live?"

"They... They took it..." She shivered not from cold, but in fear.

Then, Mami noticed she had a rapidly darkening soul gem. "What?! You're a magical girl?! We need to get you a grief seed!"

"The witches took my home," the young girl said. "But they're not the witches I fight with magic... They're my mom and dad."

"Mom and dad?" Mami then paused. "Alright, come with me. You'll be safe with me. I got a spare seed at my apartment." She then picked her up and noticed cigar burns on her forehead. "Ouch. Who did this to you?"

"Daddy did it," the girl replied. She then began to wrap her arms around Mami, trying desperately to get warm.

"What's your name, kid?"

"Momoe Nagisa," the girl replied. "I'm 12 years old."

"You don't deserve this, kid. You'll be safe with me. Trust me. Why did you get kicked out?"

"Mommy and daddy fought again and they kicked me out."

Mami took a deep breath and thought, "At least your parents are still alive, regardless if they're assholes." "You can stay with me as long as you want, Nagisa."

"Thank you..."

"And that's how I ended up raising Nagisa," Mami said to finish the flashback. "Pretty crazy, right?"

Madoka turned to Nagisa and said, "Oh my God, I am so sorry. I had no idea..."

Nagisa simply replied, "Sorry for what? You did nothing wrong."

Then, good Homura said, "Quiet! I think I hear something!" As the group listened, they thought they heard someone counting something in a different language. Good Homura whispered, "Is that the bad Homura?"

As it turns out, it was. By now, she had drawn pictures of each victim she had killed. Now that the drawings were finished, she smiled as she began counting and said, "Eins. Zwei. Drei. Vier. Fünf. Sechs. Sieben. Acht. Das lässt 6,999,999,991 mehr Opfer." Bad Homura then laughed.

Madoka said, "I'm scared. She was chanting something in German."

"She said she has 6,999,999,991 more victims to go," Mami said. "She ain't fucking around. She's willing to kill everybody but you, Madoka."

Madoka began to cry from fear. Good Homura hugged her and said, "Don't be scared. Everything will be alright."

Then, everyone heard running footsteps nearby. "Police! Come out with your hands up!"

Bad Homura replied by gunning down 6 heavily-armed police officers, killing all of them.

Sayaka's eyes shot wide open and her expression turned from that of worry into pure fear as she said, "No way... This... This is true evil..."

"That's fucking it," Mami said. "I'm ending this fucking bullshit right now." She then used her ribbons to spawn a musket. "All I gotta do is aim this gun at this psycho and she'll be going straight to hell where she belongs."

"Mami! Don't!" Good Homura tried to grab onto Mami to get her to stop, but Mami refused.

"I'll do what I must, God damn it!" She then fired a single round at bad Homura, striking her in the shoulder. She then got up and returned fire with a SPAS-12, hitting Mami in the right eye with birdshot. "Agh shit!" Mami fell back as the round hit her. Good Homura immediately took out a Beretta pistol and returned fire, finally hitting bad Homura in her soul gem, killing her.

"I got her! I got her!" Good Homura immediately ran over to where bad Homura had fallen as the rest of the team attended to Mami's injuries, expecting to find that the battle was finally over. Instead, when she leaned over to see what had become of the bad Homura's body, she screamed.

It was rapidly decaying into a black mass with deformed facial features and long, bony hands and fingers. Good Homura ran back as the black mass finally took full human form. It said, "I am still the devil, and nobody can stop me!"

As 2 police officers rushed Mami and the rest of Madoka's family away to safety, the rest of the group got ready to fight the entity. Eventually, a portal formed, sucking the entity and the team into another dimension. It would be here where the final battle was to take place.

Meanwhile, outside, as police rushed into the building to secure it, the horrified screams of spectators drew their attention to another being, this time in the sky.

It was a giant upside-down humanoid creature that constantly laughed in a mocking tone.

A police officer said, "What the hell is that thing?!"

A voice from the crowd then said, "Walpurgisnacht!" It was a girl with long, black hair, a large hat, and carrying a cross-shaped staff. Eventually, several other girls emerged from the crowd beside her. The girl said, "Ready?"

Everyone in the group then shouted, "Let's go!"

6 of the girls focused on wearing down Walpurgisnacht with numerous attacks of various types. As the crowd below watched in amazement, the giant witch was slowly weakened by the attacks. Surprisingly, it seemingly didn't bring along any familiars this time.

Meanwhile, in the portal dimension, the black entity said, "You see, I created this universe so that I could be the one in control, so that I could protect Madoka on my own terms. I ultimately decided to also implant some other magical girls from past timelines to help mess around with you idiots. Hopefully, you all would end up killing each other, and I could have Madoka all for myself."

Homura replied, "You heartless bitch! You don't know what love is! You don't love Madoka at all! You're just a selfish bully who would let the world burn if it was somehow for Madoka's sake!"

Madoka said, "Love?! What's going on?!"

"Oh really, other me? You don't love Madoka!"

"Like hell I don't!" Homura got really angry. "Unlike you, I treat her like an actual fucking human being instead of a weakling who can't stand up for herself! Sure, I may take things a bit too far, but at least I don't go against Madoka's wishes!"

The entity got so angry it sent out an arm of black mist that grabbed Homura up. It then said, "You take that back, or else!"

"Or else what?!"

"Or else I'll kill you!"

Homura then took a deep breath. "Fine. Kill me if you want. But let me talk to Madoka first."

"Fine. I might as well."

Homura then turned to Madoka. "Madoka-chan... I've had feelings for you for a long time. Even if I've only known this incarnation of you for mere minutes or hours, I want you to know that I've fought to protect you countless times."

Madoka screamed, "Homura! Don't do it!"

"If I have to die so that you may live, so be it. But I refuse to die without getting to tell you how I feel first. Kaname Madoka, I LOVE YOU!"

Then, the entity squeezed Homura until she exploded, splattering blood and guts all over the place. Madoka screamed, "HOMURA!"

Nagisa said, "Oh my God..."

Sayaka angrily said, "How... How could you?"

Back outside, Walpurgisnacht had been successfully weakened. Now the team could focus on killing the witch and saving the city. A girl with glasses said using a radio, "Kazumi, you ready?!"

"All ready to go," Kazumi replied. "Saki, Kaoru, Umika, Mirai, Satomi, Niko, this will be our most dangerous battle yet. We need to trap this witch in, and then I can destroy it with the magic beams. I wish all of you good luck. Let's give this witch hell, guys."

Saki then said, "Thank you. PUELLAE LEAD THE WAY!"

6 of the girls, apart from Kazui, then shouted, "EPISODIO INCROCIO!" This was a powerful joint binding spell that constricted Walpurgisnacht's movements.

Finally, Kazumi said, "LIMITI ESTERNI!" A massive beam of light flew from Kazumi into Walpurgisnacht. After 15 seconds, the witch finally blew up. Kazumi shouted, "We did it!"

As the 7 girls descended back to the ground, Saki radioed, "Guys, we still have an army of familiars nearby we need to take care of."

Umika replied, "I think there's about 50 of them all huddled in one particular area near the port."

Kaoru replied, "They're gonna be dead meat. Let's go over there and kick their asses."

Saki said, "Agreed. Let's roll out!"

Back in the other dimension, Nagisa said, "Enough is enough! I've had it with this killing! Everybody strap in! I'm gonna tear down this barrier or whatever this is!" She then fired barrier-cracking bubbles that would damage the stability of the dimension. As they hit the outer walls of the dimension, the surrounding sky began to glitch up like a computer.

Sayaka then charged at the entity with a cutlass, but she was knocked to the ground, landing in some of Homura's blood. "God damn you!"

Madoka then said, "Stop! I can't take this anymore..." As tears began to fall from her face, she said, "I... I wish to make a contract!"

Immediately, Kyubey appeared. "Finally," he said. "What do you wish for?"

"I... I heard that you can only grant so much up to how much potential someone has, right? How much do I have?"

"Limitless, actually. You could wish for anything you want, except more wishes."

Nagisa shouted, "WISH FOR SOME GENIES TO GRANT YOU MORE WISHES!"

"No... Instead... I wish... I wish to bring the Homura that was killed here back from the dead and into her original form before she was killed."

"As in her original body before-?"

"Yes!"

Kyubey's ears then extended to Madoka's chest. "Your wish has been granted." Kyubey then extracted Madoka's soul, an extremely painful process that caused Madoka to scream and go unconscious from the pain. "Huh... That's odd... It's painful, but never that painful... Well, when you wake up, your soul gem will be right here next to you, Madoka. All I gotta do is now resurrect the other Homura as she was before she pretty much exploded."

When Madoka woke up, Homura said, "Madoka, what did you do?! Madoka!"

"Homura! You're alive!" Madoka then hugged her. "I contracted with Kyubey to bring you back."

"You... You contracted..."

The entity said, "NOOOO! YOU FOOLS! DON'T YOU REALISE WHAT YOU'VE JUST DONE?!"

"I know full well what I just did! I just sealed your defeat!" Madoka then transformed and pulled out a bow and arrow, aiming it at the entity. "Prepare to die!"

After destroying the 50 familiars, the Pleiades Saints were welcomed with a loud applause by the crowd. Saki shouted, "Thank you! Thank you! Whenever this city or its neighbours are in danger of mass destruction, you can count on us being there to help! PUELLAE LEAD THE WAY!" The 7 girls then disappeared.

The police commander at the scene then got a frantic radio message over the air. "Team 10 to Command, the 3rd floor is enveloped in a black substance! It's not smoke!"

"Then get off the 3rd floor!"

"Message received! Everybody, avoid the 3rd floor! It's too dangerous up there!"

Madoka fired 2 flaming arrows at the entity, who said, "You really think 2 burning arrows are gonna kill me?!"

"Nope. But the explosives will."

"What explo-?!" The 2 arrows then exploded, killing the entity for good and causing the dimension to begin to collapse.

Homura said, "Everybody, let's get outta here! The exit's this way! Hurry up!"

The 5 of them managed to jump out in the nick of time. As they landed on the floor in the real world, the darkness surrounding them began to evaporate as the dimension finally collapsed in on itself.

As the team caught their breath, Nagisa said, "That was amazing, Madoka-chan!"

Sayaka hugged Madoka, saying, "Welcome to the team, Madoka! The 3 of them then laughed.

Homura then said, "Madoka, I didn't want you making a contract. You know what happens when Walpurgisnacht appears, right?"

"Uhhhh..." Sayaka scratched her head. "I think that was supposed to be today, Homura, based on what you said to us."

"Shit!" She then looked at the clock. "If it's today... It should have already been here..."

Then, Kyousuke's phone got a news alert. "Woah! It says here that 7 mysterious girls fought a giant monster in the sky and killed it."

"Let me see," Homura said. "Oh my God, that's Walpurgisnacht! Wait... I know who those girls are... They're the Pleiades Saints! Looks like my bad self wasn't joking when she said she brought some old people around to this universe. Speaking of that, have you guys ever heard of 2 girls named Oriko and Kirika?"

"Oh yeah," Sayaka said. "They attacked Mami and Nagisa. I ended up going over to assist and killed one of them. They're both dead now."

"Good. They're magical girls who went rogue and try to kill other magical girls."

"Wow... That's bad." Madoka then got up. "Let's go see how Mami-san and my family are doing."

Kyousuke helped Sayaka up and said, "You did great out there."

"Of course." The 2 then kissed.

Homura said, "Wait... You 2 are dating?"

Sayaka replied, "Yeah?"

"I'm surprised. Then again, considering that Kyoko's dead..."

"Let me guess," Kyousuke said. "She and Kyoko date in other timelines?"

"No, but they get very close to doing so sometimes."

20 days later

By now, the Pleiades Saints and the gang had enjoyed generally good relations, sometimes assisting each other for big jobs. Still, the Saints remained rather mysterious to the rest of the group. Homura especially didn't trust them.

Tonight, Homura and Madoka were going to go out to see a movie. As the 2 walked to the theatre, Homura said, "Hey Madoka, have you ever wondered about the Saints?"

"Yeah, I guess," Madoka replied. "Why do you ask?"

"A magical girl named Akane Sumire recently disappeared in Asunaro a few days ago. When I try to talk about it to Saki, their leader, she always gets really nervous, as if she knows something about what's going on but won't tell us."

"That does seem suspicious," Madoka replied. "After the movie, let's go to Wakaba Mirai's place. I have her number. She's a really nice girl."

"Alright."

3 hours later

Homura and Madoka had called Mirai, asking her if they could see her. Mirai said yes.

Mirai greeted them outside her museum, which was gaining popularity in the area. "Hello, Kaname-san and Akemi-san. What movie did you see?"

"We saw Star Wars Episode 9," Madoka replied. "It was one of the best movies I've ever seen."

"Nice," Mirai replied. "I'll let you in. We closed an hour ago, but I'll let you slide since you're damn good at fighting witches."

"Why thank you," Homura replied. After Mirai opened the doors and turned on the lights, she said, "So you made all these stuffed animals by yourself?"

"Indeed I did," Mirai replied.

"I am impressed," Homura said. "These bears are higher quality then what you'll find in a store. Much higher quality."

"I know. I try to strive to do that."

Madoka then said, "Anyway, do you know what happened to Akane Sumire?"

Mirai turned around and looked at her in fear. She then said, "No, I don't."

"Are you sure?" Homura then whispered to Madoka. "Should we use some force?"

"No!" Madoka objected to Homura. "At least, not yet."

"I am sure, Akemi Homura." Mirai's tone changed from fear to denial. "I never even knew who she was until recently when she disappeared."

"Okay then. By the way, what does that basement door lead to?"

"I'm not telling you. That's secret."

Madoka said, "Homura, come on."

Homura then flashed a gun from behind her shield and said, "I'm giving you one chance to tell me what happened to Sumire. If you don't tell me the truth, and I know when you lie, I will kill you." She then pointed the gun at her. "Tell me... NOW!"

Mirai began to shiver in fear as she said, "Uhhh..."

Homura then marched up to her and slammed her against a wall, "Fucking answer me!"

"Fine!" Mirai then began to cry. "The Saints killed her. They killed Sumire. I saw them do it and helped get rid of the body. It's downstairs. If I let you show it, please don't tell the rest of them I did. I don't wanna die!"

"Thank you." Madoka and Homura then walked to the basement and turned on a light. What they saw made Madoka scream and Homura throw up.

It was a long, hall-way like room filled with tons of liquid-filled tubes carrying numerous girls, including Akane Sumire. Homura stormed back upstairs in anger. Mirai said, "What's wrong?"

Homura then punched her in the hose, breaking it, before dragging her downstairs. "Tell me what the everloving fuck is all of THIS?! What have you assholes been doing to these girls?! Why do you keep them like cattle?!"

"Agh... You broke my damn nose!"

"I don't give a shit if I broke your nose or any other bone in your pathetic body! Answer me!"

"Fine! If you want your answers so goddamn bad, I'll tell you!" She then took a deep breath. "The Pleiades Saints lost one of our most skilled and beloved members a long time ago. Her name was Kazusa Michiru. We were desperate to save her, so we began to create clones of her. Kazumi was her nickname. The current Kazumi is the 13th clone of her."

"So you kidnapped innocent girls for this? Why?!"

"Because Michiru-chan wasn't killed in action. She turned into a witch! We've been harvesting soul gems to figure out how to prevent this."

Madoka said, "Turned into a witch?! Homura, do you know this?!"

"It's the truth! Oriko and Kirika have killed magical girls because they wanted to end their suffering! Your friends would have been their 7th, 8th, and 9th victims!"

Homura yelled, "Shut the fuck up, Mirai! I never wanted Madoka to know of this because she could end up like Mami!"

"What do you mean?" Madoka began to cry. "What happened to Mami-san?"

"Ugh... You see, in a past timeline, after Sayaka turned into a witch, Mami went crazy and tried to kill all of us. After that, I swore to never tell the full truth about magical girls unless I absolutely had to."

"How? How do you turn into one of those things?!"

"Wanna know why you need grief seeds to keep your soul gem clean? Because if you don't keep it clean, it will turn black, and if it turns black, you will turn into a witch. That's why you need to keep a constant stream of grief seeds in store, or else you won't last long. I've harvested hundreds of unused grief seeds, so if you or any of your friends desperately need one, I can hook you up with a few. Additionally, familiars can turn into witches if they break free of their barriers and wander around in the open long enough. A majority of witches around here are actually familiar-born, probably from stray familiars of Walpurgisnacht."

Mirai then shouted, "Now you know why we must commit these murders! We do it to keep ourselves alive!"

"Shut up already!" Homura got really angry. "You can't! All you can do is get grief seeds and manage to live as long as you can! Stop trying to solve an unsolvable problem and kill girls in the process!"

"Hey Mirai-chan," Saki called. "The team got your distress message. What's wro-?" Saki stopped dead in her tracks when she found Mirai, Madoka, and Homura in the basement. "What's going on?! Why did you let those 2 into the basement?!"

Homura shouted, "You little bitch!" She then pulled out a gun and shot Saki in the stomach, causing her to fall to the floor, just barely missing the water below.

"Saki-chan," Mirai exclaimed. "No! Nooo!"