[Scene: Zoi's in Mamoru's bedroom to deliver a beatdown]
Mamoru: That didn't take long, did it? So you finally show your true colors, Monster?
[Grabs Mamoru by the collar]
Zoi: You're a fine one to talk about showing your true colors.
[Zoi punches Mamoru again]
Zoi: I know what you did! That blood your aunt saw all over your shirt wasn't your own, was it? I know for a fact you and your cult have been attacking those campers.
Mamoru: [snarls] Like we have a lot of choice in the matter.
Zoi: So you admit it! You've been attacking innocent people. Then you had the nerve to lie and say I hit you! Well, if I'm going to pay the penalty I might as well do the crime.
[Zoi tries to punch him again, but Mamoru catches Zoi's fist in his hand.]
[He squeezes until Zoi's bones break.]
[Zoi howls with pain and shakes his hand as Mamoru rolls off the bed.]
Zoi: Geez, that hurt- [he lets out a shriek as Mamoru rises wielding a baseball bat]
Mamoru: Time for you to die. Shitennou!
[Mamoru takes a swing at Zoi and Zoi dives off the bed to escape the bat]
[Mamoru leaps after him. The bat smashes cleanly through a shelf of trophies where Zoi was standing just a second before.]
[Zoi takes a moment to stare at the shelf, which was undoubtedly sturdy enough to withstand an attack by anyone of normal human strength]
Zoi: What the heck are you?
Mamoru: I am what the Princess of the Moon has made me into. To protect me from the evil clutches of filthy creatures like you!
[Zoi sidesteps again as the bat smashes a bookshelf. He knows it would be best to teleport away. Unfortunately, teleportation requires a far amount of concentration. And it's impossible to concentrate on defensive magic with a mangled hand and a madman swinging a bat at your head.]
[Zoi's only saving grace is that while Mamoru is undoubtedly stronger, Zoi is a lot faster. Especially with his his adreniline pumping. As he zaps from place to place in the room to avoid Mamoru's wild swings, he's certain he must look like a blur.]
Zoi: Why you are helping Minako's Moon Cult attack the people of Earth? Out of gratitude? Or is this revenge?
Mamoru: It's none of your business, Monster!
Zoi: Because either way, you're a bigger monster than I am, that's for sure.
Mamoru: [brandishes the bat and snarls] I know that makes me a monster. But what more do you expect me to do?
Zoi: You could try not swinging a bat at my head.
[Mamoru swings the bat at him and Zoi zaps to the far end of the room.]
Mamoru: Ha! You're such a hypocrite, you stand there and judge me, while you, yourself are an abomination! How is that fair?
Zoi: Hypocrite? How does stating an adverse opinion of the crazy murderer swinging a bat at my head make me a hypocrite?
Mamoru: Ugh! Would you listen to yourself?
Zoi: What?
[Zoi ducks as Mamoru charges and swings the bat at his head. He tries driving his fist into Mamoru midsection. Despite his elevated strength, Mamoru doesn't even wince. Zoi goes back to feeling like the eighty pound weakling he was in junior high.]
Mamoru: [snarling] I'm so sorry I can't be the right kind of monster for you. I guess I'm just not as good as your boyfriend, who has butchered millions upon millions of innocent people!
Zoi: I'll have you know Kunzite hasn't murdered anyone human in all the time I've known him.
Mamoru: And that makes a difference to you?
Zoi: Of course! It makes all the different in the world! It's not what you are, stupid! It's what you do that makes you a monster!
Mamoru: [enraged] What's supposed to mean?
Zoi: You need to calm down.
Mamoru: I'll calm down once you're dead!
[Zoi feigns like he's retreating, but when Mamoru charges, he drives his foot into the crease in Mamoru's ankle as hard as he can.]
[Mamoru falls howling in pain. He drops the bat, which falls to the floor and rolls away.]
[Zoi makes the mistake of going after it. As he reaches for it, he is yanked back violently by his ponytail.]
[He falls to the floor with Mamoru grabbing his face. Zoi tries to push him away with his bad hand, damaging it further.]
[Mamoru loops his hair around his throat like a noose, pulling as hard as he can. By instinct Zoi grabs at the noose with his good hand. Another mistake, since Mamoru loops his hair around his throat again, binding his only functional hand in place, his knuckles biting into his larynx.]
Mamoru: Time for you to die.
[Strangled to death by his own ponytail. The prospect would be terrifying, if his Shitennou body required oxygen. As it stands, all Mamoru is doing is giving Zoi's broken hand a chance to heal so that he can go on the attack.]
[Zoi has to stifle a giggle as Mamoru pulls the noose even tighter.]
[Zoi waits. As soon as his hand heals he intends to summon a crystal blade to finish Mamoru off once and for all. It's a pity, really. The old Mamoru was his friend, but the new Mamoru is a mad dog that needs to be put down.
[Zoi is dismayed to realize that the idea is not nearly as distressing to him as it would have been back when he was human.]
[Then Zoi remembers he doesn't have to wait for his hand to heal. He can just drain away all of Mamoru's energy.]
[He closes his eyes and quiets the inner voice that has to constantly remind him it's not ok to drain the life out of all the people around him. When he does the unexpected happens.]
[First off, his hand heals in an instant. The bones knit back into place, and the pain vanishes as if it were never broken.]
[More startling still, the energy draining seems to have no effect on Mamoru. It's as though he has an unlimited amount. It's not very satisfying energy, as far as human energy goes, but no matter how much energy Zoi saps away from him, Mamoru seems to have more. ]
[For the first time since Zoi has been elevated as a Shitennou, he finds himself reaching his limit. The hunger is gone, he's practically bursting with a low grade energy, but Mamoru's strangling hasn't relented one bit.]
Zoi: [awed] What are you?
Mamoru: [oddly lucid for a guy in the process of strangling someone] Uh, Zoi… How are you talking?
Zoi: Shitennou, remember? I'm an energy creature. I don't actually need air in my lungs to talk anymore.
Mamoru: So you admit you're a Shitennou!
Zoi: I don't recall ever denying it.
[Mamoru shifts to face him, never loosening his pull on Zoi's ponytail.]
Mamoru: So if you don't need oxygen, why aren't you trying to kill me?
Zoi: I probably shouldn't be telling you this, but I'm trying to drain away all your energy, but you seem to have an awful lot of it.
Mamoru: Really?
[Tries to nod but he can't, on account of his being strangled]
Zoi: Yes. As in an unlimited supply. As impossible as that sounds. It's not very good energy but it seems to have healed my hand.
[curls and uncurls a fist to demonstrate]
Mamoru: Oh. That actually makes sense. Selenity told me she's made it so I'd be able to draw my strength directly from the Earth.
Zoi: [impressed] No kidding?
[They both turn as the door bursts open to see Mamoru's aunt standing in the doorway in her slippers, pajamas, and flannel robe]
Aunt Sue: WHY THE HELL ARE YOU MAKING SUCH A RACKET! I'M TRYING TO BE UNDERSTANDING! BUT THESE NIGHTTIME TANTRUMS OF YOURS HAVE GOT TO—
[She stops talking abruptly and her eyes go wide as she realizing her nephew's room is trashed and he's in the process of choking Zoi.]
[Her frown turns upside down]
Aunt Sue: Oh…Don't mind me. I was just going to run off to the store for a few hours. You boys need anything from the store?
[Mamoru releases Zoi's ponytail, which unfurls as they stare at her, slackjawed.]
Aunt Sue: You know what? Don't answer that. Just keep doing whatever it is you're doing and pretend I'm not here. I'll be just a minute to throw some clothes on, and then you'll have the place all to yourselves.
[See starts to leave, but peeks her head back in]
Aunt Sue: I'm so glad you two have made up.
[She leaves and Zoi giggles]
Zoi: Mamoru, your aunt is a freak.
[Mamoru chuckles]
Zoi: So? Are you going to go back to swinging a bat at my head?
Mamoru: Hey. You came into my room and attacked me.
Zoi: I did, didn't I? …Fair enough then. I think we need to have a long talk.
Mamoru: Want to go for a walk on the beach?
[Zoi looks around at all the destruction]
Zoi: I guess we'd better.