[Scene: The center of Metalia's inferno. Kunzite is crouching with an energy blade in each hand glaring at the exit. Metalia is still seated at the go table]
Metalia: I see now. To love is weakness and insanity. But to be loved. That is true power!
[points at Kunzite who does not turn]
Metalia: You are First Among Kings. Your power eclipsed only by the gods, but this Zoisite of yours has you completely ensorcelled. And it's not merely his beauty, or his youth, or his skill in the bedroom, or the novelty of him would be wearing thin and you would have tired of him by now.
Kunzite: You are correct, Mother. I am completely and utterly enthralled by everything that he is.
Metalia: Interesting...to enslave a greater being so thoroughly, without even having to try...
You know, they say a mother's love is unconditional, but I've seen too many women abuse and murder their offspring to buy into that lie...But a child's love for its mother...? I've seen children put up with all sorts of torture from the females who bore them, hoping for just the tiniest crumb of approval...
Yes. I can see why I decided to beget a child now, but my mistake was in creating two of them! Their bond as twins must have distracted from their true purpose, which was to whimper and seek my approval. When the time comes, I will create just the boy... No, the girl...No, the...you know what? I'll create them both and then get rid of the one I like the least.
[Kunzite turns and glares at her with his mouth hanging open]
Kunzite: Mother, are you really this stupid?
[Meanwhile: At Seattle General. Beryl is standing in doorway of Mamoru's hospital room.]
[Mamoru reaches for Usagi, pulling her roughly to him in a fit of mindless terror]
Mamoru: SELENITY! NO! GET AWAY!
Beryl: [Has no idea what is going on] What's wrong with him?
Minako: [Knows exactly what is going on] Bitch, that was your cue to get your bitch ass out of here.
[Minako shoves her out the door and Beryl rakes her claws across Minako's face]
[Minako staggers back as three bloody stripes appear on her face]
[Mamoru lets out a scream and reaches for the nurses cart, grabbing a pair of scissors.]
Usagi: Mamoru! No!
[He crouches on the bed, and lets out a savage cry as he hurls them right into Beryl's heart]
[For a moment, Beryl just stands there. Looking down in dismayed astonishment. She reaches with a trembling hand.]
[Then her lips curls and she hurls a blast of dark energy at Mamoru sending him sprawling.]
[He crumples in a smoking heap, and the monitor screeches and display flat lines.]
Usagi: NOOOOO! MAMORU!
[Minako lets out a cry and leaps at Beryl with a sword of light in her hands]
Usagi: MINAKO! STOP!
[Beryl wheels on Minako and releases another blast, which sends Minako flying into a wall, her arm at an odd angle. She sinks, leaving a smear of red behind her head]
[Rei and Makoto come at Beryl from opposite directions. Beryl lashes out with her hands, her clawlike nails first into Rei's throat then Makoto's chest.]
[They fall. Dead.]
[Beryl looks to see who is still standing. She sees Usagi trembling and sobbing by Mamoru's bedside and Ami nearby, looking grim and determined. She approaches Usagi with the grace of a cobra.
Ami: [Standing protectively in front of Usagi] Stay back! I won't let you harm the princess!
[Beryl approaches them and Usagi sobs]
Usagi: Forgive me, mama. I'm not strong enough.
Beryl: You're not strong enough to kill me?
Usagi: I'm not strong enough to forgive you!
Beryl: [taken aback] Forgive me?
Usagi: [sobs] I'm not strong enough to forgive you and..I'm not strong enough to help you save Metalia!
Beryl: [laughs] I don't need your help. And I certainly don't need your forgiveness.
[She leaves, stepping over the corpses of the fallen girls, and takes one last look at Mamoru's corpse before pulling the scissors from her chest and tossing them away.]
Beryl: I was going to heal him, you know. This is the last time I do anything nice for anyone.
[Back in Metalia's inferno. The youma stop working abruptly and turn to face Dev and El, then all drop to a bow]
El: What's going on?
Dev: Why have you stopped?
Thetis: This is it. They have removed all of the traps between you and Queen Metalia.
Dev: Are you certain?
Thetis: Of course they are certain. None would dare to put our beloved Emperor Devon and Empress Eleanor at risk.
El: [gasps] This is it then...
Dev: [hoists the Godgun over his shoulder and offers his hand to his sister] Come my love, lets go make history.
[They clasp hands, smile at each other and take off running for Metalia's chamber, while the youma cheer them on.]