[Scene: Metalia's inferno. Neffy and Dev and facing off against each other, while the rest of the denizens of the dark realms are encased in glass pyramids. All but El in a state of suspended animation]
El: [banging on the glass] Stop! You can't do this!
Dev: [ignoring her] Here is how this is going to work. A dual to the death. If I win, I spare your life, and we go home and we never bother Metalia again. I think that satisfies Metalia's demand that you dispose of us permanently. If I lose, you kill me and toss my sister into the portal so she can go home to her Big Daddy.
[El screams louder and bangs on the glass]
Neffy: Why should he have all the fun? I mean won't he just kill her anyway? For failing her mission and breaking up the set, and making herself totally worthless to him as a tool of divine retribution in the process?
Dev: [gives Neffy a puzzled look] You think Big Daddy wants us to fight you?
Neffy: You said so yourself, pipsqueak. You said your Big Daddy is going to take a belt to your bottoms if you steal the Silver Crystal and don't use it to kill Metalia.
Dev: I think you got the wrong idea. We ran away from home precisely because Big Daddy wouldn't let us kill Metalia. When he whips our asses it won't be because we failed, but because we put ourselves in danger and made the attempt in the first place.
Neffy: [Circling] Please. I may be drunk but I am not stupid. You said you have been training for this battle your whole lives.
Dev: [Circling] Yes. Because Big Daddy was certain that if anything were to happen, it was because Metalia was going to send YOU after US. She sent youma to kill us in the past and he destroyed them all. All he has ever done is try to protect us, after Metalia destroyed everything he loved and left him as a broken shell of a man.
Neffy: [scoffs] You must really think highly of yourself as an actor, if you think I am going to fall for any of this maudlin bullcrap after all the things I have seen you do.
Dev: I'm serious! Ask El. She is really bad at lying, so you will know it is the truth. El. Tell him.
El: FUCK YOU BOTH! LET ME OUT OF HERE!
Dev: In any event, you might not have noticed but... we have made no attempt to kill you or the others, even when we had the chance.
Neffy: You say this like any of it matters.
[He lets out a savage warcry and charges as Dev. Dev tries to block without success and receives two deep slashes while El screams.]
Dev: Ok, then. I guess we fight to the death.
[He lunges at Neffy, who parries his blade with lightening fast reflexes. They cross blades in pitched battle, Dev grim and determined while Neffy appears to be merely toying with him.]
El: DEV! STOP THIS MACHO BULLSHIT AT ONCE! YOU AREN'T NEARLY GOOD ENOUGH WITH A SWORD TO DEFEAT HIM!
Neffy: Good to know.
Dev: Damn it El! Whose side are you on?
El: I'm on whatever side gets your ass through that portal!
[Neffy laughs cruelly then lets out a savage warcry and leaps at Dev with an attack he barely dodges.]
[They fight, and Dev is working up a sweat while Neffy looks like he is just getting warmed up. Dev manages to trip him and them flees to safety behind Jeddy's prison.]
Dev: Kill me if you want, but please release her. That would best for everyone. I'm not any good without her, anyway. She can live a normal life with me gone. Big Daddy won't miss me. He never liked me, and the feeling is mutual. She is the glue that holds us together. But if you kill her, neither of us will rest until you have been turned to dust.
[Neffy kicks Jeddy's prison aside like it weighs nothing.]
Neffy: You realize your pathetic little pleas for mercy just make me more determined to kill you both?
[He slashes at Dev's throat and Dev jumps back, but not far enough to avoid having his throat cut. Neffy chuckles, but the throat cut doesn't seem to have any effect beside a trickle of blood.]
Neffy: Ok, this has been fun, but I'm starting to get a bit hungover, so now it is time for you to start losing parts of your body.
[He aims a flying kick at Dev that knocks him on his back, then he stomps on his chest, pinning him to the floor. He then stomps his other hand on Dev's arm and lines up a blade with Dev's wrist.]
Dev: *El! I'm going to release you, and when I do, you run for the portal while I keep him distracted*
[El raises both her middle fingers and presses them to the wall of her prison in response.]
Dev: Damn it, El! Stop being a bitch and do what someone tells you without arguing for once!
El: Fuck off!
[Neffy gives El a quick glance to make sure she is still caged and taps Dev's wrist will the blade like a golfer ready to tee off. Dev bites his ankle, making him jump back enough for him to pounce back to his feet.]
El: If let me out, and I will kick your ass right through the portal, and then throw myself on Neffy's sword.
Dev: You masochistic little attention hog! It's always got to be YOU, YOU, YOU! [swinging his blade at Neffy, who easily ducks] You can't stand letting me be the hero for once, even if it means dying for nothing!
El: You think this is a contest to see who can be the more self-sacrificing asshole? Fine! You win, Mr. Popularity! You've proven what you need to prove to the world. I hereby declare you the hero of the hour! Now get up and jump through the portal before Drunken Uncle Neffy lops off your head, you fucking moron!
Neffy: Are you sure you are brother and sister and not some old married couple?
Dev: SHUT UP, EL! I'M TRYING TO SAVE YOUR LIFE!
El: I DON'T WANT YOU TO SAVE MY LIFE! DON'T YOU GET IT?
[Neffy and Dev stop their fighting as she collapses against the wall of her pyramid, sobbing uncontrollably.]
El: I can't go back to a world where my Daddy doesn't love me.