[Scene: A Vault door recessed into a ziggurat. Thetis looks to the Heltry Twins for guidance and they both nod.]
[Thetis places her hands in a pair of square cavities in the door, and her eyes against a retinal scanner, both decorated with spikes and blades to discourage wrongful access.]
Door: State your name.
Thetis: My name is Thetis, Greater Youma, loyal handmaid of the Greater Chaos Goddess Metalia.
Door: Enter your passcode, Youma Thetis.
[Thetis types with both hands within the recesses.]
Door: Passcord accepted. Enter.
[The door slides open, the Heltry twins step through into a stone corridor beyond]
Thetis: Wait! You can only go through one at a time!
Dev: Or?
Thetis: The hyenas! You can't use magic! Come back here to where we can protect you!
[The twins shrug as a grinding noise fills the chamber as the wall drop, revealing hundreds of starved canines, their snarling jaws filled with blood and saliva.]
El: [pushes Dev back with the God Gun] Maybe you should stand back and let me handle this, just in case something goes wrong.
[Meanwhile, at Seattle general.]
Mamoru: You're right. I only liked you because you were a princess. And now that I see you without your tiara, I'm starting to realize what an annoying bunhead was underneath it.
[Usagi looks down, tears falling for her eyes.]
Rei: Oh, please! You're not fooling anyone. [looks at Usagi] Ok, you're fooling Usagi, but you are not fooling anyone with half a brain.
Minako: Oh, mind your own beeswax, Rei. Love is a curse.
Usagi: [looks up] What? Love is a curse? How can you think that!
Minako: [shrugs] I was cursed to love Kunzite, and he killed me for it. You and Endymion were cursed to love each other, and it lead to our downfall. And now Kunzite has been cursed to love Zoi, and that's how we are going to get back at him. By killing Zoi.
[The others stare at her in alarm.]
Minako: What? It will be easy. According to Artie, they aren't even together at the moment. Zoi is off in some flowerfield somewhere, while Kunzite is off protecting Metalia from the Heltry Twins.
Usagi: Um..Minako. Who are the Heltry Twins?
Minako: What? You remember being a princess a thousand years ago, and you remember Zoi throwing a crystal at your heart, but you don't remember your evil archenemy who kept trying to steal your boyfriend?
[Usagi shakes her head]
Minako: [to Rei] You know who the Heltry Twins are, don't you?
[Rei shakes her head]
Minako: [to Ami] You know who the Heltry Twins are, don't you?
Ami: I'm certain I've never heard of them.
Minako: [to Makoto] You know who the Heltry Twins are, don't you?
Makoto: I should hope so, given that Devon is my boyfriend.
Minako: [looks at Makoto with admiration] No way! You're smashing that?
Makoto: Fingers crossed.
Minako: High five!
[They high five]
Makoto: Though now that I think about it, I don't really remember what he looks like.
Minako: [ponders] Huh...I think he...Wait a minute! He looks just like Fiore!
Makoto: Oh? [smiles faintly]
Rei: Ok, this is bad. Does anyone else not see how this is bad? Artie knows who the Heltry twins are, and frankly he's scared to death that we don't. They are sinking like quicksand from our minds and he think that has everything to do with them screwing around with forces that were never meant to be screwed with.
[The others look at Rei in confusion]
Rei: We're talking End of Times bitches!
[Strides over to the blinds and opens them, revealing a swirling green Aurora Boralis.]
Usagi: Oooh! Pretty!
Rei: No. Not pretty! I've seen a sky like this before! In my nightmare! Right before everyone dies! None of you can see this, but Artie is freaking out right now. He said he wants no part of your crazy Fatal Attraction schemes.
[Walks over to Minako and gives her a shove]
Rei: You lied to him. He said he promised to keep an eye of Zoi and Kunzite because he thought you wanted to save the world from the impending apocalypses the Heltry Twins are about to bring about by screwing around with the fabric of reality.
Minako: [unfazed] And why would I want to save the world?