[Scene: Metalia's inner circles. Time has stopped]
[The Heltry twins enter, cautiously]
El: Did we do it?
[Dev's gaze sweeps from the glowing energy blades suspended in midair, to Kunzite, frozen in midsnarl, to Metalia, standing immobile with her mouth open]
Dev: I believe we have.
[Seconds pass, and Metalia remains immobile]
El: Oh! Yes! It worked this time!
Dev: That's because she never saw it coming.
[El laughs a mocking laugh as she looks at Kunzite.]
El: He looks mad.
Dev: I'll bet he is.
El: Not a lot he can do about it, praise darkness.
[They walk past him, El kissing her palm and smacking it against Kunzite's mouth in passing, then stop in front of Metalia]
El: Would you look at that hag. So weak, so helpless, so completely at our mercy...why...is that a tinge of terror I detect in those soul-draining eyes of hers?
Dev: She had nothing to be afraid of, until she forged the tools of her own destruction.
El: Well, what are we waiting for. Let's roast this bitch. [Raises the God Gun]
Dev: [lowering her arm] Not so fast...
El: Dev! We don't have a lot of time! This temporal bubble is going to collapse in less than five minutes!
Dev: [Gathers his sister into a bear hug] And I want every single one of them.
[Rests his forehead against hers and takes a deep breath]
Dev: If there is an afterlife for us, I want you stay where you are. Because I will find you. I don't care what hell dimension we are in, or what I have to do, I won't let you suffer alone.
El: [her eyes fill with tears] Oh Dev. I...I'm not good with words like you are, but I want you to know that you have been the best brother a girl could ever hope for.
[Dev nods, sniffling and pulls her closer, his hand tangling in her hair]
Dev: We came into this wretched world together and we are going to leave it together, and the thought of it fills me with great joy.
El: Me too. I love you, Dev.
Dev: I love you, El.
[They kiss. It's not a passionate kiss, but it is still an inappropriate kiss, filled with the warped affections of two innocents who have been through a hellish existence with nothing to rely except each other.]
El: Ready?
Dev: Almost. Lets make a portal home.
El: [laughs mockingly] My brother. The eternal optimist.
Dev: [shrugs] It can only help, so why not?
El: Why not, indeed. When we go poof, the portal poofs with us. Plus, if it will make you feel better...
[They clasp hands and the ground trembles as a glowing purple portal forms in the far wall of the chamber]
El: Happy now?
[Dev nods]
Dev: Ready?
[El nods]
El: Lets do this.
[They stand apart and raise the God Gun, aiming it right at Metalia. Each twin takes a deep breath and with one last solemn nod to each other, they pull the trigger]
[The God Gun makes a faint clicking noise, but nothing else happens]
[The twins exchange a look and pull the trigger again, and then again, and then again]
[Click. Click. Click]
Dev: El! What the hell is going on! Why isn't this working!
El: It...it's got to be a loose wire. [Grabs the God Gun to pry off the cover]
Dev: A LOOSE WIRE?
El: [prying off the cover] These things happen all the time. I'll just tighten it up and we'll be in business.
Dev: A LOOSE WIRE? WE HAVE LESS THAN TEN SECONDS BEFORE TIME RESUMES!
El: THEN MAYBE YOU NEED TO SHUT THE FUCK UP AND LET ME CONCENTRATE!
Dev: [pacing and running his hands through his hair] OH MY GOD, EL! A LOOSE WIRE! YOU KNEW WHAT WAS AT STAKE HERE! HOW COULD YOU BE SO SLOPPY!
El: YEAH! WELL I DON'T SEE YOU-
[Her voice stops abruptly into a rattle as the cover flies off and they see an empty cavity where the Silver Crystal should be]
Dev: THE SILVER CRYSTAL!
El: IT'S GONE!
Dev: WHERE IS IT?
[The twins stare at the God Gun with their mouths hanging open, then Metalia, who is slowly jerking back into motion, then each other, before each letting out a terrified scream]
[Metalia grins balefully as time resumes, she holds out her palm as the twins are blasted into opposite corners. Then the half of the chamber that the twins are in fill with darkly glowing webs, pinning them in place, and completely blocking the portal with a thousand threads of dark energy]
[Kunzite, Beryl, Jadeite, Nephrite, and Zoi appear looking a bit startled and wearing Dark Kingdom uniforms]
Metalia: [coldly] Torture these two in whatever manner you see fit. Defile these two in whatever manner you see fit. But nobody leaves this chamber until they are disposed of permanently.
[And with that, she teleports away, leaving her children to fight the final battle]