Note: This chapter has MAJOR spoilers for the anime Puella Magi Madoka Magica and the various manga spin-offs. If you have not seen the series yet and do not want to get spoiled, I suggest you hit the back button.

Arisugawa's Locket

Madoka Magica

Once upon a time there were two girls, Madoka Kaname and Homura Akemi. Both were ordinary girls, for certain values of ordinary, and found themselves caught up in the affairs of Puella Magi. As the dark destiny of magical girls crashed down on them, each fell, only to have Honura's magic give them a second chance. In the end they won against fate and destiny, but in the process everything changed...

"So," Ryouko said as she poured the young woman a drink, "you transcended reality and became a semi immortal incarnation of hope?"

Madoka Kaname nodded, her long pink hair flowing down her back as she answered, "Yes, pretty much." She waited to see the woman's expression of disbelief, knowing how she would have reacted to such a revelation.

Ryouko shrugged casually as she said, "Well, it's not the oddest story I've heard."

That made Madoka blink in surprise, wondering what kind of place she had landed in. "Though I don't quite understand what I'm doing here," Madoka conceded as she looked at the drink, "I mean, I thought I had lost my ability to interact with normal people."

"Huh," Ryouko looked thoughtful. "I think I know someone who might figure it out at least, but I need to get a hold of her first. You gonna be okay?"

"I'm fine," Madoka reassured her, then sipped her drink as she took in the bar.

Madoka hadn't really expected to be standing in a bar, having a drink after all she had been through. After watching magical girls die one by one, being manipulated by Kubey, then finally making her wish and becoming a magical girl, it had all been kind of overwhelming.

Not to mention the whole ascending to godhood thing and becoming a embodiment of hope. When Madoka made her decision to save all magical girls, everywhere, she had been prepared for the consequences. But understanding it mentally was a entirely different thing than finding yourself jumping through all space and time, finding magical girls when they reached their limit and helping them reach a sort of magical girl valhalla.

For a moment Madoka wondered what was happening with the magical girls she had saved, but she couldn't... feel, for lack of a better word, that aspect of herself that grabbed and saved them. She decided that things would take care of themselves, at least for now, and decided to have another drink.

Alpha smiled as she served the two young women sitting at the corner table by the library their sodas. "I'm sorry I can't get you alcohol." the green haired woman said respectfully, her skirt swirling around her legs.

Oriko Mikuni smiled sweetly, the white clad girl sipping her glass of pop. "It's fine," she reassured Alpha. "In fact I was rather surprised to find ourselves here."

"It's a pretty cool place," the black clad girl beside her agreed. Kirika Kure looked relaxed, or at least as relaxed as the tightly wound girl ever got as she looked around. "Hey, there's kareoke! Oriko, can we go sing?"

Oriko laughed. "Let me finish my drink first, at least," she chided her girlfriend. She looked at Alpha, "So, do people just appear from nowhere here very often, like we did?"

"Well, they don't usually appear from midair, but I assume it happens," Alpha admitted, "I've only been working here a year or so."

"I thought it was fun," Kirika said cheerfully. She looked at Oriko curiously, "If something's wrong, can your vision power tell you?"

"Visions?" Alpha asked.

"I can see the future occassionally," Oriko admitted. She looked thoughtful as she mused, "But it doesn't seem to be working now."

"Well, it probably doesn't matter," Kirika shrugged. She tugged at Oriko's arm, "Finish your drink! I wanna do kareoke!"

Oriko laughed, "Just a few minutes..."

Meanwhile Midori Sugiura was bustling between tables, noting the decidedly odd young women who seemed to be in the club tonight. There were a lot of teenagers mixed into the crowd tonight, and unlike usual when the bar seemed to 'appear' as needed, the girls were just popping into the bar in bursts of pink energy.

The busty girl (And what was it about well stacked girls lately? This kid rivaled Mai!) in germanic looking clothes was looking at the girl in white robes in disbelief. "You're Joan of Arc," she said weakly.

The girl looked at her mildly, her hair cut severely short and her face unmarked by makeup. "Some have called be that," Joan conceded.

"Why is this so strange?" the other woman asked. She looked like the image of a Egyptian princess, with the stylized headdress and brief robes. Which made sense, since she claimed to be Cleopatra. THE Cleopatra.

Incidentally, while the girls with the boobs spoke english, each of the other girls was speaking her own language. Thanks to the genius of the eccentric scientist who modified the bar years ago everyone understood everyone else, but it was a bit surreal.

"So this is... tea, Tomoe Mami?" Cleopatra noted as she swished the fluid around dubiously. "I would rather have wine."

"Apparently the staff here think we're too young to drink," Mami said mildly. "And you can just call me Mami is you wish."

Deciding this would be a good time to step in again Midori smiled at them cheerfully. "Would you like to order something to eat?" she offered.

"You are most comely for a serving girl," Cleopatra noted, looking Midori over. "How old are you?" she asked curiously.

"Seventeen!" Midori answered promptly. Before any of the girls could point out how impossible that was she swiftly rattled off the day's specials, leaving two of the girls looking quite perplexed.

Mami ordered quite quickly, while Cleopatra and Joan looked rather confused. "Could I get a serving of roast boar?" Joan asked meekly.

Midori blinked, but she recovered pretty readily. "I think Sasami can whip up something," she told the girl. As she trotted off to the kitchen she wondered what else was going to happen...

In the bathroom at Arisugawa's Locket, Kazuko Saotome kissed the other woman nervously, the young looking teacher leaning against her partner. She had been invited out with friends but they disappeared on her, and she ended up being chatted up by this quite attractive lady. One thing led to another, and she ended up in the bathroom being smooched.

"Shiori, is this..." Kazuko gasped as the purple haired woman unclasped her bra.

"Hmm," Shiori purred as she kissed the older woman's breasts. Things were going just fine for a seduction when the girl fell from the ceiling.

"Aaaah!" the blue haired girl cried out in alarm as she crashed down on them and sent poor Kazuko sprawling.

"Well crap," Shiori blinked. Random people falling from the ceiling was not the strangest thing she'd seen, and she tried to make sure the newcomer and her potential lay were okay.

"Oww," Kazuko sighed, sitting up with her blouse open. Realizing they had company she switly did her bra up as she took in the strange girl dressed in a top, skirt and a cape... then froze. "Sayaka Miki?" she breathed out.

Sayaka Miki went dead still, the blue haired girl's eyes going very wide as she recognized her teacher. In a bar. Possibly having sex with a WOMAN. Sayaka practically felt her brain overloadfing as she mumbled, "Uh, hi."

Shiori sighed, deciding that sexy fun time was officially over. She helped both of them get up as she said, "You two all right? You seem to know each other..."

"Yeah, you could say that," Sayaka said dryly. Hoping someone would explain what the heck was going on, she followed them out into the bar.

Up at the main bar, Kyoko Sakura was arguing with the other bartender about surrendering her spear weapon. "Come on," the redhead waved, "it's magical. And it's not like I want to hurt anyone here anyway."

"This from the woman who tried stabbing someone when she arrived," Minagi noted dryly.

"I was startled," Kyoko said defensively as she took a bit from her apple.

Before they could argue more Minagi's twin Ryoko emerged from the back, accompanied by a redheaded midget and a pink haired girl who looked oddly familiar. Unable to explain the urge she moved nearer, trying to overhear them.

"What do you think, Washu?" Ryoko asked the midget.

"I think I've figured it out," Washu admitted with a excited smile, "it's quite simple really."

"Really?" the pink haired girl asked tentatively.

"Madoka, when you made your wish to save all magical girls across space and time," Washu said, "you became a kind of anomaly, a space/time disruption. When you passed through the bar my Time/Space engine here locked onto you, making you physical."

"Is that why the magical girls are turning up here?" Juri Arisugawa had to ask, the owner of the bar investigating the scenario. Not that she minded, exactly, but the new girls were only buying the less expensive non-alcoholic drinks.

"I think so," Washu nodded.

Madoka looked miserable, "I'm so sorry..."

"So it's your fault I appeared here?" Mkyoko demanded, rushing over to the pink haired girl.

"Wait I..." Madoka started as Kyoko grabbed at her arm.

Kyoko stayed angry for maybe a second, then gasped as memories rushed in. She suddenly remembered another timeline, where she kept running into a normal schoolgirl named Madoka. Kyoko died in battle, but she saw Madoka make a choice, turning magic against their tormentors and becoming a savior to magical girls everywhere.

"Madoka," Kyoko started then grabbed her in a bear hug, "MADOKA!"

Madoka made a uncomfortable meeping noise. "You remember me now, I guess?" she asked.

"Of course I do, you idiot," Kyoko said. She saw Sayaka and dragged Modoka over to her, "Let's see if this works again..."

Up at the bar Juri watched the happy reunions taking place even as she looked at Ryoko and Washu. Washu shrugged as she answered the unspoklen question, "I can probably set it up so she doesn't appear here, but she'd turn into a conceptual entity again."

"A what?" Minagi asked.

Washu gave her a look, "A ghost, pretty much."

Juri sighed as both women looked at her. There was no way she was hard hearted enough to condemn a girl to non-existence as she philosophically mused, "I suppose we can add on a back room or something for the magical girls."

Just then the main door to the club slammed open as a grey haired young woman in purple and black strode in. "It took me days to find where everyone disappeared to..." she started, then seemed stunned when she saw Madoka. "Madoka...?" she breathed out, tears glistening in her eyes.

"Homura!" Madoka exclaimed and ran across the room and ended up in her arms.

"Awww," Sayaka, Kyoko, Mami and even Kazuko sighed. The younger girls looked at the teacher who shrugged, "What? They're adorable."

Meanwhile, outside the bar part-time bouncer Cyber Six stared down at the odd creature that was trying to get in. It looked vaguely like a cross between a cat, a bunny and a alien, with a almost desurbing kind of cuteness.

"I need to go inside to see my charges," Kubey demanded.

"Sorry, male familiars are not allowed," Cyber Six answered, deciding that the thing was male. Or at least that it creeped her out enough not to let it inside.

To be continued...

Our Cast: Arisugawa Juri and Shiori are from Revolutionary girl Utena, Cyber Six is from the series of the same name, Alpha is from Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou, Ryouko, Washu and Minagi are from Tenchi Muyo, and Midori is from Mai Hime.

Characters: Madoka, Kyoko, Mami, Sayaka, Homura, Kazuko and Kubey are all from Puella Magi Madoka Magica, as are Cleopatra and Joan of Arc. Oriko and Kirika are both from Puella Magica Oriko Magica, a spin-off manga.

Notes: I haven't read Kazumi Magica yet, or I'd toss them in too. As it is I'll probably do a rewrite later to work them in...