[Scene: Seattle General. Usagi and the C'est La Vie gang are staring out the window at green lightning and clouds that swirl like a whirlpool.]
Makato: Oh. This is bad.
Minako: Ya think?
Usagi: We need to teleport! Now! Quickly everyone join hands! Rei! Have Artemis guide us!
Mamoru: Do you think we can make it in time?
Usagi: We have to try!
A calm female voice: No. You do not.
[They are turn and see a tall, stunningly beautiful woman with dark skin and long mallard-green hair standing in the doorway, holding a giant key]
Usagi: Puu! You're alive!
[She runs up and hugs Satsuna]
Satsuna: I never died. My place is at the Time Door. Not the Moon Kingdom.
Usagi: You're the Guardian of Time! You've come to make everything right again!
Minako: Wow. Talk about a Dues Ex Machina. *
[*She's glad, but if the planet wasn't in mortal peril, she would consider this a pretty lame twist]
[Satsuna looks at the group and then gives them a sad smile]
Satsuna : No. I'm afraid not. I protect Destiny, I do not meddle in it. I've merely come to pledge fealty to the new queen, now that she has proven herself worthy in the eyes of the spirit of her mother.
[Bows low to Usagi, while Rei stares with her mouth open]
Rei: What the hell! Get off your high horse and help us save the planet!
Makoto: Yes, what she said!
Minako: I don't wish to be rude, but if we don't stop those twins, Usagi won't have anything to be queen of!
Ami: And you are the Guardian of Time, and these two are time travelers. They are interfering with Destiny.
Satsuna: And you think Time Travel cannot be a natural facet of Destiny?
Rei: Look out the window, bitch!
[Does, but only for an instant]
Satsuna: You have done all you can. This is a battle between gods, not mortals, and neither side will be pleased if you try to interfere. There is nothing you can do anymore. Other than die, needlessly.
Minako: I don't accept that! Apparently, I'm the only one here who has any clear memories of the twins, but they are actually pretty cool, as far as evil demi-gods go. I'd hang with them. We've just got to go talk them out of launching a suicide attack again Metalia!
Mamoru: I agree. [putting his hand on Minako's shoulder] Though they might be cut from an evil cloth, we must show them that with the thread of love, and the needle of friendship, they might sew themselves into golden soft garments of virtue!
[Satsuna sighs sadly]
Satsuna: I'm afraid it's not that simple. The two had a rough beginning, and were abandoned into a demon wilderness during their weakest and most formative years, but they were rescued and raised by a loving father who dotes on them and has steered them to the path of righteousness.
[The others stare, openmouthed]
Satsuna: They are creatures forged out of Love, as well as Evil. You can't reform them any more than they have already been reformed.
Usagi: But...then...why are they doing this?
Satsuna: They wish to assassinate Metalia to prevent her from committing acts of unspeakable cruelty to the people they love most. To spare them, they are willing to sacrifice themselves, their loved ones, even the entire universe.
Usagi: But...this is all the more reason for us to help them! There has to be another way!
Satsuna : My queen. This isn't your fight. You've already done more than enough.
Minako: But can't we-
Satsuna : No. You can't.
[Satsuna turns and walks away]
[Meanwhile...]
[Metalia's inner circle. A ball of cracking black antimatter is forming between her hands.]
Metalia: They are coming.
[Kunzite says nothing. He merely scowls, crouched, a pair of energy blades gripped tightly in his fists]
Metalia: [smiles] They are finally running to their deaths, the young fools...It is time to end them once and for all!
[The ball of dark energy increases in size and intensity.
Matalia: Here they come [rises] THREE! TWO! ON-
[Kunzite lets out a savages howl and rises to his full height, blocking her shot]
Matalia: WHAT YOU DOING YOU FOOL! GET DOWN!
[By reflex the ball of antimatter vanishes as Kunzite crosses his arms over his chest and lets out a battlecry as he hurls the energy blades in the direction of the archway.]
[In that instant, time stops in Metalia's inner circle.]