[Scene: Dev and El are watching the youma disarm traps.
El: What do you suppose is going to happen to us when we kill Metalia?
Dev: I try not to think about things like that.
El: I do. It gives me comfort to analyze all the probable outcomes.
Dev: [tickles her] Ok, then maybe the Karmic overload will redeem us of our evil natures and we will sprout angel wings and fly straight up to Heaven.
El: [giggling] What would the two of us have to do in Heaven?
[Dev stops tickling her]
Dev: Good point. Maybe they will create a very special five star resort hell just for the two of us.
El: If we even have an afterlife, once we get erased, which I pretty much doubt...So, when we kill Metalia, do you think we will blink out of existence?...or will we fade away like that Mcfly kid did in 'Back to the Future'?
Dev: What is 'Back to the Future'?
[El gives Dev an incredulous look]
El: Oh man. [sulks] The fact that you will never get to see the glory that is 'Back to the Future' is probably the most tragic element of this entire scenario.
[Meanwhile: at the center of the Inferno]
Metalia: They are getting closer! I am concentrating on my determination never to create them! That should be enough! Why do they still exist!
Kunzite: [without looking away from the entrance] Did you ever want to conceive children of your own before this, Mother?
Metalia: Never!
Kunzite: Then nothing has changed!
Metalia: Did you just snap at me.
Kunzite: Yes, woman! I just snapped at you! Because I'm trying to concentrate on keeping you safe and you won't stop yammering!
[Scene: Seattle General]
Minako: And just who are you calling a traitor, Mamoru Chiba?
Mamoru: You. Because that's what you are. Minako Aino. The glorious leader of the C'est La Vie Gang until she sold us all out. Just like she did a thousand years ago when she gleeful sold out everyone and everything to impress a Shitennou. And here she is, doing it all. over. again.
Ami: That's not a fair thing to say, she-
Minako: [unfazed] Thank you for the moral support, Ami, but I can handle this. [To Mamoru] Mamoru. I apologize. What you say is completely fair and very true, but this isn't about helping the Shitennou. This is all about saving the world and everyone in it.
Mamoru: [scoffs] Saving the world...The world is not going to end because Rei had a bad dream!
Rei: I have a gift-
Mamoru: Yeah? Well so do I! I draw my power from the earth, don't you think I'd sense if it was in any serious jeopardy. [gestures at the window] This is just a glorified sunset. It's going to heal itself just fine without us helping it!
Makoto: I hope you're right. But if you're not...
Mamoru: Then what? Everyone dies? I've been dead. Death is not the worst thing that happened to me. Beryl is the worst thing that happened to me! [stares at Minako] You were right before. It's worth risking a planet full of people to rid the universe of an evil like Metalia and her Shitennou. Because a hundred years from now, we will all be dead again anyway. But Metalia will still be alive. Unless these Heltry Twins kill her and end her reign of evil once and for all!
Ami: Except we don't know that they won't be worse.
Mamoru: [scoffs] Oh so we are going to kill a couple of kids because they might be a threat somewhere down the line? Now we really aren't any better than Metalia!
Usagi: Nobody is going to kill anybody! We're going to talk to them. Try to get them to listen to reason.
Mamoru: And what if they won't listen! What if they force you into a kill or be killed situation! You don't have your powers anymore! Which is probably for the best since I don't know what would be worse, watching you die, again, or seeing you murder a pair innocent kids who are just trying to make the world a better place!
Minako: They're not innocent. I've used my true sight on them and they are made up of pure evil-
Mamoru: So what! Evil isn't who you are! It what you do! And as far as I know, these two kids we are going after have never done anything wrong!
Minako: They trashed your car.
Mamoru: They...what?...that was them?
Minako: [nods] I'm afraid so, manbitch.
Mamoru: [morose] That car was all I had in the world...Why would they something like do that?
Rei: Because THEY'RE EVIL?
Mamoru: [sets his mouth into a grim line] Fine! They destroyed my car! Beryl destroyed MY LIFE! She murdered my parents right in front of me! She tortured me for two decades, until I was broken in every way it is possible to break a person! [To Usagi] You made me better. You healed me with your love and with your magic, and she killed you for it. Right in front me. The only person I allowed myself to truly love- [buries his face in his hands]
Usagi: [hugs him] I understand. And at any other time I would love you all better, but right now, we have a planet to save.
Mamoru: [pushes her away] You don't understand anything! [Gestures to all the girls] You knew the Shitennou what? Two years? Most of which was icecream and rainbows, until they stopped pretending to be your friends long enough to murder your planet? Beryl was never my friend! The Shitennou tortured me when I was a child. I wasn't strong enough to fight back...but these two twins...I can't imagine they were treated any better than I was, but they somehow pulled each other through...and now we have to fight them? In order to protect Metalia? [buries his head in his hands] Do have any idea how messed up that is!...I won't help you... You can't ask this of me...
Makoto: We're not asking anything of you. You just got out of major surgery. You couldn't even help us if you wanted to.
Rei: Yeah. About that...Artemis said we won't be able to stop the Heltry Twins in time unless we teleport, and Selenity gave Endymion all her powers.
Makoto: Damn.