Mami and the other girls couldn't believe the sight they were seeing. Here she was, about to have her head turned into the dinner of a witch. But now another massive entity had appeared to fight it, and Kamina was apparently inside.

"Mami-san! Are you all right?!" Madoka shouted. She and Sayaka immediately ran over to her once they got over their initial shock.

"He…saved my life. I…almost died there." Mami stuttered. The image of that monstrosity about to close in on her kept replaying in her head. The more the realization of how close to death she was, the more she found herself unable to move, almost getting hit by the giant mecha who had stepped back. "He called that machine Gurren Lagann. Were those stories that he told true?!" Mami thought. She didn't even have time to process those thoughts as she watched the giant robot fight the witch.

The witch had made another counterattack, and it wrapped itself around Gurren Lagann. As Kamina struggled to get it off, the witch went for Lagann. But as Kamina struggled, it threw off its aim, and the witch was only able to bite off the helmet, revealing Lagann's cockpit.

"So you want to fight dirty don't you?" Kamina shouted. "Well than get a load of THIS!" He moved both of Gurren Lagann's arms and shot them both to the side as the witch bit down on Lagann. It flinched backwards, and Kamina saw his chance. He grabbed the witch by its tail and swung it around and rammed it into the wall, dazing it for a moment. Kamina knew this was his chance. He quickly looked behind him at Mami, who was with Madoka and Sayaka trying to cover themselves. "Hey blondie! What are you sitting around for? This is a team effort! Let's go!"

"K-Kamina-san." Mami stuttered. "I-I don't know what I can…" She found herself unable to finish the sentence as the scenes of what could have been her final moments kept playing in her head. Kamina of course, did not approve of that.

"Dumbass!" Kamina shouted. He quickly turned around and saw the witch was about to strike again. "Look, don't ask questions just come on!" Kamina immediately grabbed Mami with Gurren Lagann's massive metal hands and threw her into the air. Mami screamed as she saw herself falling into the open spot on the mecha's head. When she landed, the top of the head closed and she found herself sitting in darkness in a small space before she saw the rest of the labyrinth above her. "You fit in there okay blondie?" Said Kamina, who had appeared on a screen slightly above her. "Hope so, cause you're gonna be piloting Lagann today!"

"W-What are you talking about?!" Mami yelled back, not understanding what was going on. Suddenly, a small hole opened up beneath her, and a small little trinket came out of it as the hole closed. Mami picked it up and looked at it. It was a small, golden cone with lines that spiraled around it. There was a small handle on the back of it similar to a car key. "W-what am I supposed to do with-AAAHHH!" She didn't finish her question as she saw the witch heading towards them again. She prepared herself to get attacked by it once again, only for Kamina to hold it off with the mecha's arms.

"Take that drill and put it into the little hole in the big circle you see in front of you!" Kamina shot back as he held off the witch. "Make it quick! This thing sure doesn't give up, and we could use the drills right about now!"

Mami looked at the small drill in her hands, and to her surprise; it glowed a strange green light for a second. She looked at the drill, and then at the hole Kamina was talking about, and put it in there, while still trembling in fear. Then everything around her changed. A gauge had appeared where she put the drill in, and the entire room she was in glowed that same green light.

"What's going on? What is this?" Mami asked. She didn't receive an answer, as the witch had broken away from Kamina's grasp and had leaped into the air directly above them. It then grinned a fierce evil grin and shot down above them, openings its jaws wide and bringing them down on the mecha.

"Mami-san! Kamina-san!" Madoka screamed as it looked like her two new friends had just gotten devoured by that monster.

Mami was really trembling now. There was nothing but darkness and that strange green light around her now. She knew that she and Kamina had just gotten swallowed by the witch, and that her death was inevitable at this point. She knew she should have just let herself die back at the accident, so she and her three new friends wouldn't have to meet this horrible fate.

"Everyone…I'm so sorry." She said to herself while quietly sobbing.

"BLONDIE! What the hell are you doing?" She heard Kamina's voice as he appeared on the screen above her. "This is nothing! Use the power of Gurren Lagann's drills and smash your way out of this thing!"

"Kamina-san, please. We've lost now. Save yourself and the girls if you can, but it's over for me." Mami replied, her voice had gotten completely soft and had lost any sense of confidence. However, Kamina's voice only got louder.

"Like hell it is! Now you listen here! That thing tried to make YOU its dinner! That means YOU'VE got to be the one to make the final blow! Are you really going to let this measly thing get the better of you?"

"But I can't-"

"Don't worry about it! I know you can take this thing down! Listen blondie, don't believe in yourself. Believe in me! Believe in the Kamina that believes in you!" There he went with that phrase he said from last night again. The area around them shook; no doubt the witch had changed its position and was prepared to strike again, probably at Madoka and Sayaka. Mami grabbed her Soul Gem off of her head and looked at it. It was the source of a magical girl's power. It was part of what saved her from the accident. The memory of meeting Kyubey at the accident flashed back to her. She remembered the pain and the horrible fear she felt back then as she could barely even move. It all happened so fast that she had to focus with all of her might on the small creature. She remembered her wish.

I...want...to live.

I want to live.

I WANT TO LIVE!

She gripped her two hands on the two bars inside the machine as that thought screamed in her mind. The gauge where she put the drill in filled up from the smaller spaces to the large ones in a spiral. Then she screamed. Not a scream of despair, but a scream of willpower, and without her noticing that her Soul Gem was showing a tiny green spark in it for a brief second.

"Do it blondie! Bust through this thing with Gurren Lagann's mighty drills!" Kamina shouted as he screamed along with her. The entirety of Gurren Lagann's body shined a brilliant green light as brighter lights shone from holes that appeared on its body and they shot forward at an incredible speed.

Madoka and Sayaka both looked completely stunned as they saw the massive caterpillar-like witch devour the mecha with Mami and Kamina still inside it.

"Madoka! Sayaka! Make a contract with me and become magical girls! Hurry!" Kyubey cried out to them.

"That won't be necessary." Madoka turned around to find Homura running up to them. "I will be the one to-" She stopped herself from finishing that sentence as she heard a faint screaming noise. It sounded like Mami and that man she was with. Her eyes widened as she could swear that she was seeing a strange green light come from inside the witch. Madoka and Sayaka saw the light and heard the noise as well and wondered what was going on. Then the screaming got louder as the witch flinched from the pain it felt on the inside. It looked down in horror to find that pointy objects seemed to be coming out of its body an-

BOOM!

The witch could no longer see or hear anything, as nothing more of it remained. What stood in its place was the giant red and black mecha with many drills shooting out of its body. The drills went back inside and the mecha ripped its own head off and placed it on the ground. Kamina and Mami then proceeded to get out of both mecha and ran up to the others. Madoka and Sayaka cheerfully ran up to Mami and hugged her, while Homura walked up to Kamina.

"So, what'd you think kid? That's the power of Gurren Lagann! It's what you get when you combine two manly souls!" Kamina said to her with a grin on his face. Homura's serious expression still didn't change.

"Why did you make the contract?" She asked. She also wanted to ask how he was able to make the contract, but that wasn't a priority to her right now. "Do you have any idea what mess you've gotten yourself into?"

"Listen kid, I knew something was up with this "magical girl" business. That's why I wished for me to have the mighty Gurren Lagann back in my possession! It's a machine created from my very soul!"

"You made an incredibly reckless wish. Magical girls have to work in secret. If people see that thing running around…"

"I can help with that." Kyubey replied. He walked over to the two mecha, and a bright light shone upon them as they shrunk down to the size of a small child's toy. He tossed them over to Kamina who caught them. "That should solve the problem of people seeing them. If you want to enlarge them, simply call upon them with your Soul Drill." He finished as the labyrinth around them disappeared and they found themselves back in front of the hospital. Mami finished hugging Madoka and Sayaka and walked up to Kamina.

"Soul Drill?" Mami said in a question tone, her expression turned into a shocked expression. Kamina-san, what is he talking about? Don't tell me you…"

"You got that right! I got to make my own wish with that little fuzzball! Only this time I'm bending the rules a bit!" Kamina replied as he turned around. He picked up two things on the ground where the witch once was. One of them being the grief seed. He threw it over to Mami. "I think you'll need this more than I do." He saw the look on her face change and knew what he was going to say. "Don't even think about giving it back just because you think I saved your life and all. YOU were the one who took that thing down." He pointed his finger at her with a grin. Sayaka started laughing.

"Man, you're one crazy person you know that right? Here Mami is about to get her head bitten off then you come in with a giant robot to tear the thing apart!" She continued to laugh at the absurd method on how they had been saved. "Bet you never expected anything like THAT to happen, right Madoka?"

"R-right Sayaka-chan." Madoka replied. She smiled, but there was small worried tone in her voice. "Homura-chan, what did you think of-" She turned around and looked to find that Homura was no longer there with them.

"What the?! Hey transfer student where the hell are you?!" Sayaka shouted, wondering where she ended up. Kamina walked over patted her on the back.

"Ah, don't worry about her. She's got her own problems and you've probably got yours." He assured her. In reality what that black-haired kid said mystified him. What did she mean when she said that he got into a mess? He could only guess that she saw many magical girls end up as a side-dish for a witch in her time as a magical girl.

"Sayaka-chan, he's right. We… should probably get going. I don't want my Mom to worry about me again." Madoka replied. She grabbed Sayaka's hand and she ran off with her. Mami called out to Madoka.

"Wait! Madoka, I thought you wanted to come and…" But she had already run off. The expression on her face suddenly changed from happy to sad. Kamina noticed the sudden change in tone in her voice as she started walking in the direction of her apartment.

"What's the deal with you?" He asked as he walked beside her.

"While we were in the labyrinth…" Mami replied, her tone going softer. "Madoka told me how much of a role-model I looked like to her. I told her that I'm not someone she should look up to and I only tough and confident. I told her how lonely being a magical girl would make her feel, but then she reminded me how I wasn't alone anymore. She promised to stand and fight with me when it was over. But when she saw how close I came to being devoured by that witch…" Tears started to form in her eyes as she shuddered at a horrible memory. "She must be incredibly scared now. I acted like a coward back there. She probably doesn't want to be a magical girl anymore." Kamina walked in front of her and knelt down to her level.

"You didn't seem like such a coward to me when you were inside Lagann." He replied. "Thanks to you, we were able to smash through that thing's big ugly mug!" He then took something out of his pocket. It was the drill that activated Lagann.

"When I made my contract with that little fuzzball, this thing popped out of my body. I would have been dammed if I didn't recognize what it was. This thing used to belong to Simon. You remember him from the story right?" Mami nodded. "He dug up both Lagann and this drill, so seeing this thing being created from my wish fills me with confidence." He put his hands behind his back and looked at the horizon on the pathway to her apartment. The giant sun in the air looming over the green trees. "Y'know, now that I think about it; you're a lot like me in some ways blondie." Mami looked up at him in surprise. "You were trying to guide those two down a path you believed was right. I can tell you're not using that magic for yourself, you honestly want to be the kind of girl that can help others."

"Kamina-san, I-"

"Let me tell you something blondie. There was a time back in my village when I was in a real jam. We were trying to make it up to the surface just like my Dad did. But we ended up screwing up and we were surrounded by dirt and rocks everywhere. We were lost underground." His face suddenly turned gained a sympathetic expression Mami didn't think he could have. "My confidence was shot, and everyone was whining. I was only acting tough. Everyone gave up and stopped digging. But Simon-" He smiled, and it wasn't a boastful smile or a mad grin, it was genuine regular smile. "He kept digging on forward, and through sheer dumb luck, he drilled right through that last boulder. Seeing him drill on like that let me put on a brave face. So now whenever I feel timid and weak, or if I lose confidence; I picture the sight of him all hunched over drilling away. I tell myself that I refused to be laughed at by that hunched back of his."

Mami didn't know what to say. She had only known this man for a day, and she never thought that Kamina of all people could lose confidence. Every time she was around him all he showed was that bravado of his.

"It may have been pure dumb luck that saved us that day, but I have faith in that luck, and in Simon who brought us that luck in the first place." He looked at the small Gurren Lagann in his hand and smiled. "I thought of a wish that didn't succumb to that fuzzball's rules. Gurren Lagann doesn't run on Grief Seeds blondie. It runs on a man's fighting spirit!" He shot his hand towards the sky as his bravado came back to him. "So, are ya still opposed to me helping you take down the witches?" He put out his open hand.

Mami looked at him in awe. If what he was saying was true, then Mami could work together with someone without having to dispute over the spoils of the battle. This was an offer she was waiting for her entire life. Wiping away her tears, she shook his hand. Kamina grinned.

"We're the invincible team Dai-Gurren! With the power of Gurren Lagann, we'll smash through any witch that dares to attack a person in this city!" Kamina shouted, thrusting his hands towards the sky. Mami nodded.

"Right! Thank you Kamina-san!" She replied, not noticing the strange green light shining in her Soul Gem.

"You made the contract with him?" Said the Anti-Spiral.

"Yes, and he made a wish that allows him to fight witches without the aid of magic, or as what you call it: "non-organic Spiral Power." Replied the Incubators in the deep space. "Spiral power truly is an interesting thing indeed. His Soul Gem wasn't even a gem at all. It was what he called a "drill."

"And what are you planning on doing with him?" Replied the Anti-Spiral, a questioning tone arising in their voice. "I have warned you of the destructive power of the Spiral. If you allow his Spiral power to evolve and awaken, it will spread and corrupt your non-organic Spiral livestock."

"It is much more simple than you think, Anti-Spiral. He will meet the inevitable fate of all magical girls, where he will no longer be a problem and we will have collected a considerably good amount of energy." The Incubators replied, staring at the Anti-Spiral, making a mental note of the questioning tone of its voice. "To get started, we must inform another magical girl about what has recently transpired. But first, we feel that another contract is going to be made soon. Between that man and the potential in Madoka, we may very well be witnessing the end of entropy."

Welp. The Incubators are plotting something with Kamina and the Anti-Spirals don't know what it is. Not good.

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Next Chapter: We Fight for Tomorrow!