Author's Notes: A small break to keep in touch with the canon characters, after all while original characters can be fun I know people come to the fandom to read about the canon cast at least a little :D.
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As Reiko and Arson made their way to the Temen-Ni-Gru, something most bizarre was transpiring atop the very same tower.

Mary Sue had finally stopped waving to the helicopter, and turned back to her captives. Vergil and Dante, bound and trapped in ropes of dark energy, distilled from the essence of negative reviews, sat in front of her. Between them lay a cute child's tea party table so hideously pink it would have turned Barbie gothic in disgust. "Alright boys, back to our tea party!" she chirped, the rival twins taking a break from staring daggers at each other to stare daggers at her.

Vergil had in fact literally stared daggers at her earlier, summoning his phantom blades in an attempt to strike her down despite being tied up. They had proved ineffective however against her dark defences, and she had threatened to punish him with something so severe, so horrendous, that even the elder son of Sparda had been cowed into not trying it again. Of course he vehemently insisted it was simply a waste of energy to reattempt when the attack was obviously ineffective. This sort of thing would have been delicious to Dante, only he wasn't having a fun time either, the evil creature humiliating him as punishment for his brash cockiness again and again until even he was biting his tongue, for the moment.

"Now, where were we? Oh I remember, Dante, you wanted some tea from your darling brother, remember?" Mary Sue prompted innocently. Dante glared. He remembered, it wasn't the sort of thing he imagined he'd ever remove the mental scarring of, being forced to play tea party with Vergil.

Turning to Vergil, Dante forced himself to ask "Please, may you pass... The tea, dear brother?", doing so in the same manner one might say 'will you please jump off a cliff?'. Vergil slowly lifted one arm, which was partially freed from its bonds for the task, and with iciness Cerberus would have been in awe of, poured first Dante then himself some tea.

Silently, the brothers drank their tea.

Mary Sue watched this with absolute delight; their tea party really was going great now. At first it had been a bit of a fuss she thought, what with Dante and Vergil bickering and fighting and trying to kill each other and her, but now they seemed to her to be getting into the spirit of things.

With a sudden wicked smirk, Mary Sue used a mental command to make one of the dark bands of energy tug at Vergil's arm, jostling it forcefully, and causing him to spill his tea over his face and neck. "Aww, was little Vergil careless?" she chuckled, Dante wearing a dark grin as he eyed Vergil over the rim of his cup, the younger Sparda suddenly enjoying his drink a Hell of a lot more for the show. With a motherly cooing, she bent over, pulling out a napkin from somewhere. She wiped down Vergil's face and neck, tidying him up like a baby, while he gave her a stare so venomous it could corrode steel.

When she was finally done, she dropped the napkin and stood up again, smiling. "There, all better" she stated happily, looking over Vergil in approval as the twin looked away from her in disgust, and caught his brother's sadistically delighted gaze. That was crossing the line, he thought to himself darkly. Vergil hadn't tried to kill Dante with his phantom blades while they were bound as it broke his sense of honour since he was defenceless. However he allowed himself to bend his code and summoning a tiny phantom blade underneath Dante's cup, he raised it mentally and tipped the remaining tea inside over Dante's naked torso.

Dante yelped, more out of surprise than pain, as his half-demon flesh could easily handle the hot liquid, but he hadn't expected it. The phantom blade dematerialised before Mary Sue could turn around. "Oh Dante, really, what will I do with you two?" she said disappointedly, and turned to pick up the napkin again from besides Vergil.

However by the time she turned back to the younger devil, she saw the liquid was actually evaporating off of Dante's skin, such was his fuming. Vergil too was watching with interest, and suddenly realising what was about to happen, braced himself as best he could. Mary Sue merely cocked her eyebrows at the silently raging half-devil, an intense energy seeming to build inside him so greatly it was palpable on the outside.

Suddenly, the build-up overloaded. An explosion of raw power ripped out of Dante's body, sending Vergil flying back on his side, the dark bindings around him thankfully taking the brunt of the force. The tea table and its contents simply evaporated where they lay as Dante Devil Triggered for the first time, and with a powerful DT Explosion to boot. Vergil sat up sorely, having been painfully close to his brother's newest and so far, most powerful technique. The younger Sparda had been due to unlock his devil's powers at the end of their interrupted duel, but it seemed in its place the tea party had driven him over the edge instead.

The transformed half-devil panted, still bound in dark energy, though the rush of power had catapulted him to his feet. With a fading, draining noise he dropped out of his DT, unable to sustain it as it was his first time ever after all, stumbling but managing to stay on his feet.

Mary Sue, who was coughing slightly and had backed off a little, but was otherwise unaffected by the blast, walked up to him silently. She glared at Dante, then slapped him once, snapping his head to the side sharply, "Bad Dante! You broke the tea party, you're getting a spanking for being a bad boy!".