Madoka looked on at the scene in front of her, helpless to do anything. Both Kyubey and the Anti-Spiral were about to go head-to-head in a full-on-fight. She was thankful that the horrible pain that had seeped through her had finally stopped. But she didn't know how long it would last. It didn't matter now anyways, as the fight was about to begin. The Anti-Spiral and Kyubey began walking slowly towards each other. Their speed went from walking, to running, to charging, until they finally met. They both threw their arms at one another, both delivering a powerful punch to the recipient's face. When the two collided, it created a force so powerful Madoka thought she would be blown away.

Attempting to regain control, the giant Incubator threw its long ears around the Anti-Spiral's Grazenboma in an attempt to throw it. However the Anti-Spiral swatted them away with its large appendages similar to the Incubator's ears. The appendages then shot forward towards the giant Incubator's legs, grabbing them. It slammed them down onto the labyrinth's floor, over and over again.

"Is that all you have, INCUBATORS?!" The Anti-Spiral roared. Freeing itself, the giant Incubator leapt off of the floor and onto its feet. Its eyes glowed a bright blue and bright beams shot out of them, striking the Anti-Spiral's Grazenboma in the chest area, causing a huge explosion. But much to their surprise, the Anti-Spiral came out of the blast unscathed. It suddenly began to laugh. "Foolish creatures! This space is now under our complete control! Your chances of victory are absolutely ZERO!" The Anti-Spiral responded by firing beams of its own from its body.

"That attack was a direct hit! There was no possible way they could..." The Incubators thoughts were interrupted as it threw up its giant ears and used it as a shield, but even with that, the Incubators could still see the damage affecting their giant form. "Impossible!" The Incubators mentally exclaimed when they realized what was happening. "They're negating the probability of us successfully defending against their attacks!" Regaining their focus, the giant Incubator charged at the Anti-Spiral again, dodging the laser beams being fired at them.

Madoka closed her eyes as the giant battle went on. Looking past the Anti-Spiral and Incubators, she realized the images of where her friends were in the labyrinth were still being shown. Every single one of them was fighting. Fighting for her sake.

Sayaka didn't know whether she was lucky or unlucky. She wasn't sure what exactly happened, but she had suddenly found herself underwater. She was a good swimmer, and the fact that she had the powers of a magical girl only made her faster in the water. The downside was, the Sayrune was in front of her, and it seemed to be good in the water as well. The Sayrune was dodging every single one of her attacks, and the closer she got to it, the harder she was swatted away in the water. Adiane could only laugh at her in her gunman.

"Stinking human! I don't know what kind of cheap trick happened back there, but if you think you can best ME in the water, I'll make sure to drag you straight to the bottom!" Adiane smirked. Her Sayrune immediately twisted into a compact circular shape. "Bloody…Clasper!" She shouted. Her gunman spun around at the speed of a buzz saw, to which Sayaka swiftly swam away in an attempt to evade it. They both raced through the water, and they swiftly collided with one another as Sayaka attempted to damage the gunman with her cutlass, but to no avail. Their clash caused them to rocket towards the surface, where they continued to attack each other in mid-air.

"Don't underestimate me just because I don't have a mecha!" Sayaka shot back as they fell back into the water. At speeds faster than torpedoes in the water, they continued to slam into each other. Whatever wounds Sayaka gained from the Sayrune were instantly healed by her magic. However she knew that it would only last for so long, and she needed to conserve her strength to fight the Anti-Spiral. Unbeknownst to her, her comrades were having the same problem.

Kyoko was really unhappy with the fact that she did not have wings. She was currently in what looked like an endless blue sky, and when she looked down she couldn't even see a ground anywhere. She was currently standing on one of her red barriers. She grunted to herself as the Shuzack stood hovering in the air in front of her.

"Your struggling is completely pointless." Cytomander muttered from inside his mecha. He charged forward with it as Kyoko had to run. She leapt and created her red barriers to serve as platforms. She jumped to each one of them, creating new ones as the Shuzack gained on her. Its large hands began to reach for her, so she swatted the massive metal hands away with her extended spear. However it only felt like a small slap on the wrist to Cytomander. "You're armed with nothing more than a mere stick. My Shuzack towers over you! The more you struggle the more pain you will receive before your demise!"

"SHUT UP!" Kyoko shot back, enlarging her spear and going for its left leg. "I don't give a damn how big you are. That oversized action figure you're sitting in? I fight things bigger than that every day!" She twirled her large spear on her barrier platform and bore her fangs at Shuzack. "So gimme your best shot! I don't give a damn what you throw at me, cause I know another magical girl who always gets back on her feet!"

Cytomander could only grin at her audacity. The nerve of that naked she-ape! She was nothing but a cornered rat attempting to show bravado. His grin turning into a mad smile, he prepared himself in his Shuzack.

"All right you worthless naked she-ape. That's how you're going to act? Very well then! In that case…"

The entire cockpit turned a dark red as his Shuzack transformed. Suddenly, its entire body was covered in spikes. The legs with the spheres at the bottom folded onto the mecha's head. It then gained a new, monstrous face with red glaring eyes and a large mouth with sharp teeth. Cytomander's voice bellowed with demonic fury as his transformation finished.

"ALLOW ME TO SHOW YOU…WHAT SHUZACK IS MADE OF!"

Mami's fight was like shooting down an impenetrable wall. No matter how many times she fired at the Gember, the shots merely bounced off. The luxury of being on land barely served any purpose in this fight. The only thing she could do was summon ribbons to tangle it. But that only slowed it down. She found herself unable to do any offensive damage. The more she fought against the Gember, the more the beastman inside of it smiled.

"This is almost disappointing." Guame mocked. "When the voice told us we'd be fighting super powered humans alongside Gurren Lagann, we prepared ourselves for some kind of challenge." Guame continued to smile as he looked at Mami's panting body. "But now it seems we overestimated you."

"Why…" Mami uttered, still catching her breath from the assault she launched on the Gember. "Why are you working for…that monster? What have we done to earn this hatred from you?"

"Didn't we tell you?" Guame replied. "This is about fulfilling our duty to the Spiral King, no matter where we are!" Guame's smile disappeared as he recalled the events of the crushing defeat of the four generals. "We have disgraced the Spiral King with our failure. Even with all four of us against them, those filthy humans still managed to defeat us! Do you not understand the depths of the shame we felt as servants in that one instant? We swore allegiance to the Spiral King only to fall when our power was at its maximum!" Guame then charged forward towards Mami in his Gember once again. Mami anticipated this and created more ribbons in the form of a lasso. She threw it on the Gember's antennae and swung to its face, firing at it some more. However it only produced the same result as before. She was swatted away like a fly and hit the ground hard. "That's why we must finish all of you right here and now. This isn't just revenge. This is our redemption." Guame finished his reasoning as Mami got up once again.

"So that's why you're trying to kill us? You're trying to redeem yourselves in the eyes of a monster that isn't even here?" Mami grunted as she was ignored. The Gember immediately threw a punch down at her, which she avoided. "It's no use." Mami thought to herself as she evaded the giant mecha. "It's just as it is with witches. They don't listen. All they care about is destruction." She prepared to strike again when she noticed the Gember charging towards her at an enormous speed. However instead of throwing a punch, it extended its arms around Mami as if it tried to hug her, only something was very wrong. Large spikes began to emerge from the insides of the Gember's arms, and they were slowing moving towards Mami, who had been ensnared by the Gember's antennae.

"It's all over for you now! GEMBER…PRESS!"

Madoka continued to watch her friends struggle to keep up with their respective enemies. While Kamina and Homura seemed to be barely managing against Thymilph and Kittan was fine fighting the Mugann, everyone else was on the verge of defeat. She could only look at them in sorrow as she made a terrible realization.

None of this would be happening if she hadn't made the contract. It had been bothering her when the Anti-Spirals told her what would have happened if they didn't stop her wish. It was one thing knowing that her wish would accelerate the universe's destruction, but now her friends were placing themselves on the edge of death all for her sake. Tears began to form in her eyes as she realized that it was all her fault. She was the one who had brought everyone into this mess.

"It's…my fault." Madoka thought as the battles raged on. "Everyone told me that I didn't have to make the contract. But...the wish that I made…the wish that was supposed to save all magical girls…would only hurt everyone in the end." She added, remembering the images she saw from the Anti-Spiral. "Then…the Anti-Spiral monster would turn me into one of them, as a messenger of despair." She looked down at her body, which was partially covered in the strange design. But then she noticed something, her Soul Gem that was below her neck. It was beginning to grow dark. Her eyes widened when she realized what that meant. Her Soul Gem grew even darker once she realized how hopeless it truly was. Her thoughts became interrupted when she noticed the bloody giant Incubator falling in front of her. "Kyubey…" Madoka uttered softly at the broken creature.

"Ignorant race tainted by the Spiral!" The Anti-Spiral exclaimed inside the Grazenboma. "You disregard our warnings about the Spiral Nemesis in hopes that it would be a more effective solution than the magical girl system!" The giant Incubator mustered all the strength it could to get back on its feet, but it only ended up being grabbed by the large appendages of the Grazenboma yet again. "We defended the universe by killing our fellow Spirals and locking ourselves away in a pocket universe! We had once deemed you an intelligent race who knew how to properly defend the universe! But now we see that you are unfortunately like all the rest! A lowly species that must be kept suppressed by us!" The Anti-Spiral slammed them towards the ground yet again in front of Madoka. "We will make you regret your INSOLENCE!" To Madoka's shock and to the Incubator's surprise, the Anti-Spiral suddenly grabbed two galaxies in the distance of the labyrinth and merged them together with its giant appendages. The Incubators were left speechless once again.

"This energy they're building up…it's...on par with the birth of the universe itself! Are they actually creating…a big bang?!" The Incubators were completely stunned when they realized what they were up against. They, who had the power to grant wishes and create magical girls, were standing before something with power equivalent to a god. They could do nothing but watch the Anti-Spiral prepare to throw the massive ball of energy at Madoka and the Incubators.

"INFINITY…BIG BANG!" The Anti-Spirals shouted, throwing the energy at them.

"STOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORM!"

A hellfire of blue energy was rained down upon the Incubators. Galaxies of different shapes and sizes were created in the explosion. It took every fiber of the Incubator's body to shield itself from the intense blast. The giant Incubator called upon every last reserve of power they had to hold out, but it was not to last. They quickly felt their power draining from the massive attack.

"BURN IN THE EVERLASTING HELLFIRE OF CREATION! BE UTTERLY AHNNILIATED! DOWN TO THE VERY LAST SCRAP OF DNA!" The Anti-Spirals roared. At that sentence, the Incubators could hold out no longer. Their strength completely diminished, they could do nothing but disintegrate in the attack. The Incubators stared at the monstrous face that was delivering the finishing blow. Their minds were racked with questions on a possible escape. But all answers lead to nowhere but defeat.

"This feeling..." The Incubators thought in their last moments. "Our strongest form is powerless against this being. There's no way out of the situation. All possible paths towards our victory have been sealed off. Is this…despair?" When the blast dissipated, and when Madoka opened her eyes again, all she could see were the millions of bloody Incubator corpses all around her. Only one of them was able to even weakly walk before collapsing. That was it. It was over. If the Incubators couldn't stand up to the Anti-Spirals, how could Kamina and the others face them? Her Soul Gem immediately grew darker along with the green Spiral energy inside her Soul Gem. There truly was no hope left. In the end, Kyubey was right. Despair really is the one, true end of magical girls. Madoka closed her eyes, and waited for her inevitable transformation into a witch. Unlike Sayaka, she wouldn't come back. She couldn't come back. Not after all the damage she caused. All she could do now, was accept her fate.

"No!"

Madoka's eyes shot open at the sound of that new voice. It sounded female and soft, but determined and powerful. She looked to find another soul had entered the labyrinth. There was a woman there. She appeared to be fully dressed in the same outfit that was partially covering Madoka's body. Her hair was a long, puffy pure white color. Her eyes seemed to sparkle with what looked like tiny flowers that were inside them. The Anti-Spiral noticed this as well and reverted back to their ordinary dark humanoid form.

"Irregular!" They exclaimed.

"You and I are linked together. You know that better than anyone. As soon as you made the contract, I could hear everything that you were doing in this universe. That's why I came here." The Anti-Spiral's eyes widened as the realization hit them.

"Ah, now I see. It makes perfect sense. In order for us to use our power in this universe, a part of us had to leave that universe. It would appear that when we made the contract, our consciousness split into two, allowing us to rule over both universes. That's how you were able to arrive here." The Anti-Spiral's replied, bemused. Madoka looked at this woman in surprise. Who was she? Was she working for the Anti-Spiral? What did she have to gain from coming here? Her confusion only grew as the woman began walking towards her. She threw out her hands in a defensive position in front of her, as if to defend her from an attack. She looked towards Madoka and smiled a soft, sweet smile.

"Don't worry. I won't let what happened to me happen to you." The woman gently spoke to her, before hardening her expression and facing the Anti-Spirals.

"As usual, your actions are baffling irregular." The Anti-Spirals replied. "Why do you take a stand before this being whom which you've never met before? You are nothing more than a virtual life-form that was spliced into the genes of Lordgenome to awaken when the Spirals would pose a threat against us. There is nothing special or unique about you. So why do you defend that magical girl that is to be our next messenger?"

"Didn't I tell you that I could hear everything you heard when you made the contract?! I defend her because I heard her wish of hope!" Madoka's eyes widened at that. "I may not know the details, but I know that this girl…holds out hope for her friends! The same way I do with Simon!" At that name, Madoka suddenly realized who this person could be. Could she be the Nia that Kittan was talking about? "I would do anything to stop you…from turning her into what I have become!" She shouted. Suddenly, new images filled the labyrinth. They all showed a young boy and his friends, fighting strange creatures above ground in mecha. Madoka noticed Gurren Lagann was among them. Each one of the images them showed them laughing, smiling, and pushing on forwards towards victory.

"How amusing irregular. You are attempting to reintegrate your information by recalling your past memories?" The Anti-Spiral replied. "It is admittedly an impressive effort, but unfortunately it is a wasted one." The long hand of the Anti-Spiral then reached out to the woman and grabbed her head, as she suddenly screamed in pain. "This self-awareness you have gained is indeed troublesome. However, now you can be of good use to us." To Madoka's shock, the woman started to disappear! "Do not forget that we are above you, and we will do with you as we see fit. You shall return to our universe where we can examine your data to the fullest!" As the woman began to disappear, she turned her head towards Madoka, using every bit of her strength.

"Madoka!" She cried out. "I heard your wish, and what you dreamed for! Back home…I believed in my Simon with everything I had, and we were always able to pull through. That's why…you mustn't lose faith!"

"M-Miss I-" Madoka uttered.

"Your friends…will come! You can be sure of that!" Nia replied as her disappearing rate increased. Her voice was getting harder to make out because of it. "You must always believe in them! Just how I did with Simon, and how I believe...that…his drill…" She then released herself from the Anti-Spiral's grasp, and rushed towards Madoka with her hand stretched out towards her. "IS THE DRILL THAT WILL PIERCE THROUGH THE HEAVENS!" Those were the last words Madoka heard from her, before she faded from sight completely. Madoka could only stare at the place where she once was with tears in her eyes before looking down. The Anti-Spiral only looked at it with their usual stoic, blank expression.

"Such is the fate of an irregular like her. The information she carries could provide the key to exterminating all Spiral life forms. But before that, it's time you took her place!" The Anti-Spiral then reached out towards Madoka once again. But then something happened. A shockwave occurred, and green energy exploded out from Madoka's Soul Gem. "What?" The Anti-Spiral exclaimed; shocked at what happened. The transformation on Madoka to an Anti-Spiral had been completely cancelled. She was now in her full magical girl outfit, with no infection by the Anti-Spiral. She slowly descended towards the spacial floor of the labyrinth.

"Of course…" Madoka uttered, looking down at her Soul Gem. It was now shining brightly with that green light after Nia's last words. "How could I have been so silly? I wished…to bring hope to the magical girls…" The Anti-Spiral reached for her again, but this time, Madoka looked at it straight on. Another explosion of Spiral power erupted from Madoka's Soul Gem, flooding throughout the labyrinth for a brief moment. "And for that goal, I…must have no reason to despair!"

"Y-You!..." The Anti-Spiral's uttered when they realized what would happen with that massive outburst of energy. They immediately looked to where the other members of team Dai-Gurren were in the labyrinth. What they saw didn't amuse them.

Sayaka could only struggle as the Sayrune had her caught in the mecha's hands in the water. Despite her agility, her strength would only last for so long. Adiane smirked as she finally got a hold of her prey.

"I'll admit, you put up a good resistance stinking human. But now it's over for you!" Adiane yelled as she prepared to bring the Sayrune's fist down upon the magical girl, when something odd happened. There was a bright light in the distance of the water, and it got larger and larger as Adiane realized it was heading straight towards her! The light zoomed by, and Adiane had to close her unpatched eye to protect her sight. When the light disappeared, her pray was no longer in her hands. Instead, it was right in front of her, hovering in the water. Adiane prepared to attack once again, when she noticed something was off about the magical girl. The gem on her body was shining a bright green light similar to the one before. The light flickered on and off at a very fast pace. Suddenly Sayaka felt something within her, something bursting inside of her.

"What's…happening to me?" Sayaka thought before she looked down at her flashing Soul Gem with surprise on her face before something she thought was impossible happened. Her Soul Gem shattered, and the same green light enveloped her body.

"What the hell?!" Adiane cried.

"Ba-awk?" Cytomander squawked when the massive influx of energy shot through the labyrinth. He was just about to wreck that naked she-ape with his Shuzack before that interruption startled him. He looked around confused for a moment, before looking back at his target. He knew that as one of the four generals, he couldn't allow himself to be swayed by something unexpected! At least that's what he thought, until something strange happened to his target.

Kyoko's Soul Gem had shattered after the green light shot through. The green light enveloped her body, and her weapon underwent a transformation. The chain-linked spear grew in size, and it continued to grow, with Kyoko standing on top of the spearhead, while she was holding another spear. She grinned and bore her fangs against Cytomander.

"I don't know what the hell just happened birdbrain, but I'll make sure I put it to good use!"

"What…what is this?" Guame wondered. After the green light shot through the labyrinth, he had lost his focus while doing his Gember press. The blonde magical girl had undergone a strange transformation. The gem on her hair had shattered, and she was covered in a green light. Her muskets grew to a tremendous size, to which she stood on top of one of them, looking down in surprise at what happened as well.

"This energy…where did it come from? What happened to my Soul Gem?" Mami wondered as she looked down at her now giant muskets. The green light felt like it was empowering her. It felt like it was giving her strength as her hair waved in the wind from its force. Guame was just as surprised as she was, and also a bit frightened.

"I don't believe this…" Guame uttered. "The power of the Spiral? How did you-UGH!" Guame found himself unable to finish that sentence as he felt himself hit and knocked back by one of the giant guns. Mami looked at him with a stern look on her face.

"I don't know where this power came from, but I mustn't forget our task. To help out Madoka, I must fight with all I can!" Mami thought as she began her counterattack.

"Wha…What the hell was that?!" Kamina mumbled inside Gurren. The bright green light had come out of nowhere, and suddenly Gurren Lagann found itself graced with a lot of power! The Spiral gauge inside Lagann had gone up an extra layer as well! "Homura! You all right up there?!" Kamina called out. Homura could only stare at her body in response. Her Soul Gem had shattered as well, and she too overflowed with the green light.

"M-My Soul Gem…" Homura uttered in shock. If it shattered, then why wasn't she dead? Her soul couldn't have returned to her body, could it? If it did, did that mean she was no longer a magical girl? She looked around at the inside of Lagann. It and her body were overflowing with the green light. Homura could feel the power surging inside her. "No…I can feel that I still have my powers, but…how?" She asked. She snapped out of it when she saw the Anti-Gurren Lagann running towards them.

"I don't know what just happened Kamina and I don't care! We're finishing this NOW!" Thymilph shouted. He pulled the mecha's giant fist back and threw it forward to strike Gurren Lagann. However, the attack did not hit. Gurren Lagann had grabbed the fist, and both Kamina and Homura were smiling inside.

"All right Homura! Let's pay this guy back ten times over!" Kamina shouted. Homura only nodded in response.

Back where Madoka was, she was watching the scenes unfold along with the Anti-Spiral. The Anti-Spiral watched this scene with pure shock on its face. Madoka knew what was happening. The Anti-Spirals knew this as well. That shock turned to rage.

"You said that the continued evolution of Spiral power in our Soul Gems would cause them to shatter. You told me that they would become pure Spiral life-forms, and become human once again." Madoka calmly stated before shaking her head. "They're more than humans and more than magical girls now! They became magical girls of the Spiral! Spiral Magi!"

"You…you would unleash the power of the Spiral upon them, turning them into pure Spiral life-forms even knowing what you know?!" The Anti-Spiral roared.

"Of course I will. For my wish to grant the happiness of all magical girls to come true…we have to keep going. I'm not going to regret doing nothing because of a future that might not ever come!" Madoka shot back, her eyes full of confidence. To the surprise of the Anti-Spirals, a staff with a rose on its top end appeared in Madoka's hands. The staff then unraveled and extended in length. A pink line appeared in between the ends, forming a bow. Madoka readied an arrow of light, and aimed it at the Anti-Spiral. "So until Homura-chan and the others come to help, I must do my part!" She let the arrow fly, which the Anti-Spiral only barely dodged and grunted in annoyance. Madoka smiled softly.

"Thank you…Miss Nia."

FINALLY. Man was this was a tough one like the others! Intertwining all the ideas I had for this chapter was really a tough thing to do. I so many ideas for this chapter you have no idea.

But it looks like with the help of Nia, Madoka was able to break free from the Anti-Spiral's control! Will she be able to stand up to the Anti-Spiral's massive power? Will team Dai-Gurren be able to fend off the four generals? Will Kittan make it back to the team? Find out next chapter!

Next Chapter: Let's go, my friends!