Hm. The Law of Cycles doesn't tend to work with true randomness. You wouldn't doubt that any girl would clamor to taste vicarious life, but they all strive to put their best forward. Perhaps... there's a reason for these specific Magical Girls. "Shinji-kun, Itzli has power over memories. Can you try anything with Rei-chan?"
He sighs, cracks his neck, and drags his feet over to Rei, retorting, "I'll see what I can do, but I've never used a power like this." He takes his Evoker to his temple, and fires. As the large-brained interstellar jellyfish appears over his head, and his face twists with seething rage, he balls his fists and punches himself in the chest as Itzli gently touches Rei with her tendrils.
"Zen, I want tempura, now..." She complained, and he just nodded.
"After this, I'll get you some." That made her smile and wait compliantly, as film reels spooled out of her head and spun themselves around the Velvet Room. Their images were blank. Frustrated, Shinjiro canceled the magic.
"She didn't just forget; there's nothin' in there. They really were taken." At that, you cup your chin in thought. You didn't think it'd be that easy, and you're not seeing any obvious application of everyone else's magic at the moment.
"Well, let's just go clear Wonderland then," you decide. There are no complaints; everyone is ready to try out their new powers.
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It was going well. Your team was pretty much an unstoppable powerhouse even before you powered them up, and Fuuka was happy to contribute to the battles. Eventually, you took a break. "I'm exhausted; is anyone else tired? Rei, back me up!" Junpei complained.
"Oh, yes, I'm starving," he exclaimed, with absolutely no loss of cheer or energy. She spotted an area of giant sweets on display, and started approaching them like a moth to a lightbulb.
"Uh--Rei, I don't think you can eat those," Labrys interjected, and Aigis supported her.
"Given the gritty feeling and the presence of ink, I hypothesize these are made from 100% pulp," she said, gesturing to a giant cardboard cookie.
"Pulp, huh?" Rei took a bite out of it, and commented, "Yup! This pulp has a really sweet flavor, with a mysterious texture. ...Bleah."
"You're eating fuckin' paper, girl!" Sho snidely laughed and pointed. "Did you forget what cardboard is?"
"Well, I mean, it's good that it is; Otherwise I'd be breaking the scales in no time," Yukari remarked.
Rei, who somehow had corndogs and takoyaki to stuff her face with, said, "Dontcha like sweets, Yuka-chan?"
"U-uh. No, of course I do, I'm a girl after all. I'm just surprised at how much you can eat without getting fat."
You cough in amusement, biting your tongue knowing that Rei is, in fact, a literal hungry ghost. "...Fat? Zen, have I gotten fat?!"
"You haven't changed," He said, and Rei looked... disappointed.
"Aww."
Ken changed the subject; "Rei-san, is there anything you don't like to eat? Like bell peppers, or black coffee, or--"
"I don't like pulp."
"...That's not food," he reminds.
"As long as it has a flavor, I like every kind of food."
"You'd get along well with my friend, Kyouko-chan. She has the exact same sort of appetite as you," You wonder if that could be a clue. Kyouko Sakura basically had a trauma-based eating disorder. Maybe Rei used to be starving? Maybe she... died of starvation?
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Putting it out of your mind, SEES reaches what seems to be the bottom of the labyrinth, seeing a large....fairy tale Queen, the size of a small kaiju. Guarding a locked chest. Yeah, the situation is pretty evident, to such a point that Fuuka didn't even give much of an analysis. What surprised you all, however, was that the Queen of Hearts... spoke.
"Oh, no, you don't, I WON'T let you have this! You'll stay in this world forever!" She deploys a seemingly endless army of card soldiers.
Individually, they were nothing under your power; however, there was simply, literally, endless soldiers. You weren't human, but your friends were. Exhaustion was wearing down on them. You were about to suggest a course of action when...
"Yo, sorry for the wait!" A golden light backdropped a series of new arrivals, posed dramatically at another entrance to the parlor than the one SEES had taken.
A blonde woman in blue, a person in a bear costume, a brunette girl in a green jogging jacket, a silver-haired boy, a brunette boy in headphones, a familiar girl in a red cartigan, a young girl in a cap, and a bleach-blonde delinquent boy. You immediately recognize the first as a Resident of the Velvet Room by her aura, and the rest ping as Magical Girls, so... Persona Users. Except the bear. He simultaneously was pinging as a Witch, in quantum superposition. Huh.
Yukari pointed, shouting, "No, sorry, excuse me, what?" The new group jumped into the fray, thinning the horde through speed of putting them down faster than they can replenish. You, Minato, Zen, and the silver-haired boy rush the Queen, who snaps her fan shut in battle-ready defiance.
"I won't let you have this! Not even if our king demands it!" She uses vines and floral magic primarily, so between Elfriede and Orpheus, you and Minato provide the most damage using fire magic.
When the queen fell and vanished into darkness, everyone stopped to catch their breath, except the girl in red, who was breathless as she stared at you all.
"I... I don't believe it. None of you have aged a day." She was particularly fixated on Sho. "How am I older than you?!"
You smile, as the pieces click. "Yukiko Amagi, right?"
"Yes! You were there too, um..." She blushes and hangs her head. "I don't remember any of your names, I'm sorry. It's been years."
The members of SEES, excepting Koromaru, Ken, Shinjiro, Aigis, and Labrys, turn to you in absolute confusion and astonishment. "Miss Madoka, please explain," Chidori demands.
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