[Scene: A trashed out foreclosure in Hen Tie, WA. El is sitting in a rocking chair in front of a cracked bay window, staring at the woods beyond. Her face is pale, her eyes have dark circles and she's in her pajamas with her hair hanging down, uncombed. The God Gun is sitting in the corner, gathering dust]
Dev: [smiling shyly] I've made you some coffee...and I stole you some cake.
[El doesn't acknowledge his presence]
Dev: You need to eat something. It's been days.
El: [in a thin little girl croak] I'm not hungry.
Dev: [strikes an arrogant post and sneers at her] You also need a bath! You stink to high heaven! I never could understand how you could stand to be so slovenly!
[She continues staring out the window. Dev crosses in front of the it.]
Dev: Please. Get up. Slap me. Call me names. Stomp your foot and tell me why I'm an idiot. Pick up the tray of coffee and cake and hurl it at me... Just, please whatever you do stop sitting in that chair.
El: Why?
Dev: Because you're all I have in the world! And you've stopped being yourself! Ever since we saw Metalia, you've been sitting in that chair, staring at nothing.
El: [soft whisper] I'm not staring at nothing. I'm watching my little birdie friends.
[Dev lets out a profound sigh and buries his face in his hands.]
El: Dev...why are we still here?
[Dev looks up, smiling gently, his eyes shining with hope]
Dev: You want to go home? So we can see Big Daddy? [smiles gently] Come on, lets go home.
El: I meant 'Why do we still exist?'
[Dev's smile vanishes]
El: She knows who we are now. She must know it would be a mistake to create us. So why haven't we faded from existence?
Dev: [closes his eyes and heaves a heavy sigh] It's because of the Silver Crystal...I let it slip that we have Silver Crystal, and now she wants to steal it from us.
[El stares, wide-eyed]
[Dev paces around the room]
Dev: Mommy Dearest may be intellectually lazy, but she isn't stupid... She must know that we went back a thousand years to steal the Silver Crystal from the White Queen...and you can't interrupt a war to ball up a thousand years of destiny without shredding a gaping hole through the universe.
[El throws off her blanket and turns in her chair]
Dev: ...thus, since she knows stealing the Silver Crystal didn't change history, she can safely assume it was missing and or destroyed in the original timeline, and therefore, if she never conceives us, the Silver Crystal will remain lost forever.
[El claps and squeals then skurries over to give her brother a hug]
El: Dev! You're wonderful! That was a genius mistake on your part!
Dev: Why? It's not like we can sneak up on her a second time.
El: [clinging to Dev] We don't have to!
Dev: You have a plan?
El: [nods with excitement] Let's offer her the crystal!
Dev: [flabbergasted] ...what?
El: ...in exchange for our lives! And Big Daddy's too! And that way we'll all get to live happily ever after!
[Dev glares at his sister in horror, while she gives him a proud smile and then a peck on the cheek]
Dev: ...have you completely lost your mind? We can't give Metalia the Silver Crystal!
El: Why not? When this is the only way things can end well for us?
Dev: Because it's the most powerful artifact on the planet! And she's HORRIBLE!
El: So what? What do I care? I'd be willing to do a lot worse, as long as she promises she won't hurt you, or Big Daddy.
Dev: And you expect her to keep a promise like that?
[El's smile vanishes]
Dev: You don't want her to hurt Big Daddy? She's already DESTROYED him! She made us EAT the love of his life! He wanted to MURDER us for that! He TRIED to murder us for that! Instead he bought us toys and dressed us in little twinsey outfits and raised us as his children! And now you want to repay him by giving the world most powerful weapon TO HIS WORST ENEMY?
[El's sinks back into the chair, and closes her eyes.]
El: I really screwed this up for us, didn't I? We had one chance to kill Metalia. One chance to make everything right again...But I took one look at her, and my mind stopped working...All that brilliant planning of yours...All that hard work...and it is was all for nothing. Because of me.
Dev: No...no...no [rushes back to her side and buries his face on her knee] Please don't blame yourself. This wasn't your fault, it was mine.
El: [groans] How could this possibly be your fault.
Dev: [take her hand] I failed to consider how terribly she abused you... It's only natural you would have been traumatized by the very sight of her...I should have known you wouldn't able to carry this out...
El: Oh. So this was all *your* fault for not factoring in *my* incompetence? How very condescending of you.
Dev: [presses her hand to his face] You're not the one who is incompetent... I am! I didn't think this through! I chose to attack her at that wedding so that we wouldn't disrupt destiny, without taking into account that she was ready to replace her existing Shitennou with new ones of her own making!...Twins! A perfect little blond boy and a girl, her very own Adam and Eve...And 'Viola!' there we were! [Dev is shaking] Oh, El, I couldn't have timed it worse if I tried! Even so, I could have taken her out myself, with the God Gun...But it never even occurred to me that I could do it...without you...
El: ...Are you crying?
Dev: SHE WAS RIGHT ABOUT ME! I'M WORTHLESS! ALL MY LIFE I'VE WANTED TO PROTECT YOU FROM HER, AND WHEN I GOT MY CHANCE ALL I COULD DO WAS GROVEL LIKE A LITTLE BITCH!
[Dev sobbing like a toddler and El's expression morphs from sorrow to disgust]
El: STOP IT!
[Dev cries harder]
El:STOP THAT PATHETIC SNIVELING THIS INSTANT!
Dev: I CAN'T!
[Dev cries harder so she pushes him away]
El: Oh, HELL NO! She does NOT get to do this to us!
[She gets up]
El: It was never your job to protect me from her! She's a major God of Chaos and YOU WERE A BABY! What were you supposed to do? Bite her in the ankle like you bit Big Daddy?
Dev: [still crying] Yes. At the very least.
El: Then she would have squished like a bug! Just like Big Daddy did! Only she wouldn't have felt bad about it and healed you afterwards.
[She bursts into flames like a phoenix when they die down she is clean and groomed and dressed in a red leather catsuit]
El: And if you died, I would have died, too! Because YOU are the only thing this world that makes this miserable existence worth bearing!
Dev: No. You don't need me. You're the smartest girl I know.
El: Dev! We can't EVER lead normal lives! We are WARPED because of her! Do you have any idea what the all kids from school would think about us if they knew we still have to sleep in the same bed? Our lives would be over! And explaining its only because we're afraid the scary monsters are going to get us isn't to help matter AT ALL!
[Marches over to the God Gun and slings it over her shoulder]
Dev: [stops crying] Where are you going?
El: I'm going to find that rancid old hag and I'm going to kick her in her ass!
Dev: But...you can't...we only had one chance...if we make a time jump to after the wedding, she'll know why we are there, and kill us on sight... If we jump to before the wedding, we'll be battling against destiny, since our first attempt was supposed to be at the wedding-
El: I'm not going to make a time jump. I'm going to kill in the Here and Now. Before she even has a chance to figure out what we were up to.
Dev: But... we're too far in the past... we'll undo years of destiny...do you have any idea what that will do to the fabric of reality? If we take her down now, we might just tear a big gaping hole through the galaxy.
El: What do we care? We'll both be dead anyway.
Dev: [smiles] Good point.
[He morphs into a matching blue bodysuit and struts over and puts his arm around his sister's waist]
Dev: Let go kill that bitch.
[The cackle evilly as they both teleport away.]