Starlight limps back through Mitakihara’s smoke-veiled streets, one shoulder buckled and its power couplings bleeding heat. Homura Akemi follows close behind, weapon lowered but ready.
Mami Tomoe remains at the industrial corridor with the unconscious salvage unit, guarding the perimeter and the damaged machine while the wider conflict spreads beyond the district.
At the Kaname household, the bunker access doors cycle open. Madoka, Junko, and Tomohisa emerge into the reinforced garage as Starlight settles heavily behind the house.
Madoka Kaname
Dad, you came back.
Madoka stops beneath the mech’s scorched silhouette. Her eyes move over the damaged armor, then toward Homura, as distant detonations pulse beneath the city’s emergency sirens.
Homura Akemi
He kept the machine away from your home. Mami stayed behind to secure it, but this was not an isolated attack.
Junko Kaname
Then the bunker is no longer enough. Whatever is happening out there, it is moving toward us.