[Scene: Metalia's Inferno. Beryl and the Shitennou have been teleported in by Metalia who had fled to safety, ordering Beryl and the Shitennou not to leave until Dev and El are disposed of.]
[Zoi looks up at Kunzite and moves closer to him. Kunzite pulls him even closer. Meanwhile the Heltry Twins are tangled up in webs of dark energy in opposite corners of the room, while a portal to their own time is on the far wall behind them, completely blocked by the network of threads of dark energy.]
El: [frowning down at the threads of dark energy binding her arms and body] Well this is certainly inconvenient.
[She tries to pull an arm free and lets out a scream of pain, but her arm is undamaged]
[Meanwhile, her brother looks down, and grins. He touches a thread and it makes a sound like a harp being plucked, and then it vanishes]l
[He hits another one, which makes a slightly different sound before vanishing.]
Dev: They operate on harmonics, my love. Like music. You just have to hit each with the right resonance.
[El tries touching one, and it lets out a hideous screech before sending painful shockwaves through her body.]
El: That's easy for you to say!
Dev: [tapping away threads] Hang on. I'll free myself and then I'll come get you.
[El stares at the Shitennou]
El: I don't think 'hanging on' is a viable option at the moment.
[She lets out ear-rending scream as she pulls herself free by sheer force.]
Dev: [Calming zapping threads off him] Suit yourself.
El: [whimpering in pain] God I hate how much fortune favors you sometimes!
Beryl: HEY!
[The twins direct their attention to Beryl and raise their hands in surrender]
El: Please! Don't fight us! Our quarrel is not with you. Only Metalia!
Jeddy: [laughs] You don't want to fight us because you know you will lose.
Dev: No. [In wide-eyed certainty] We won't.
El: [nods frantically] We absolutely won't. We've been preparing for this battle our whole lives. There isn't a spell you can throw at us we won't be able to counter.
[The Shitennou laugh mockingly]
El: It's true! You haven't seen the future! Metalia didn't create us out of the goodness of her heart. She created us as your replacements!
Kunzite: That just sounds like all the more reason to kill you.
El: Oh...you reeeeaaaallly don't want to fight us. We obliterated a god.
Jeddy: Yeah. We saw. Together, you could probably take us. If you got lucky. But separated?
Neffy: [swaying] That's right...kids... [hiccups] We know all about you... and all your little secrets...
[Beryl's jaw drops and she stares at Neffy in disgust]
Beryl: You're DRUNK!
Neffy: And you're ugly... in the words of my old drinking buddy...Winston Churchhill...or was it W C Fields...I never could tell them apart... [hiccups]
[Beryl huffs and looks away from him]
Beryl: The point these two witless imbeciles are trying to make is...that we know all about you! We know who you are and what you are!
El: No you don't. Otherwise you wouldn't be so eager to fight us.
Jeddy: You're Metalia's biological children.
Dev and El: NO WE'RE NOT!
Jeddy: What?
Dev and El: SHE'S NOT OUR REAL MOTHER!
Kunzite: ...what?
El: Our real parents loved each other! But our mother wanted children and she couldn't have them! So she made a deal with Metalia! Two perfect children, a boy and a girl!
Dev: Only Metalia corrupted us in the womb. Clearly our real mother hadn't read enough fairytales to know that a deal like that never ends well.
El: Metalla turned us into flesh eating monsters and we devoured our real mother from the inside.
Dev: When our father saw us, he fled in horror.
El: And Metalia collected us and made everyone pretend she had given birth to us herself!
Dev: Be we hated her! So she got rid of us!
El: And then our real father came back for us! And we became a family again!
Dev: And he explained that since we were conceived out of true love, we could never truly be completely corrupted by Metalia's influence!
Neffy: Did your "Big Daddy" tell you that?
[They nod vigorously]
Neffy: Did it ever occur to you that maybe he fed you a bunch of bullshit fairytales to keep the two you in line?
El: ITS THE TRUTH!
Beryl: It's not! You are not any known species, so you don't have a mother and father! You are energy creatures, made by Metalia, so we're not falling for your lies!
El: They're not lies! We're just a pair of frightened children who just want to go home to our Daddy.
[The Shitennou laugh again]
Jeddy: Frightened little children? Ha! You're no innocents. We all saw that makeout session you had in Zoi's bedroom.
[Zoi stares at Kunzite]
Zoi: What makeout session?
[El and Dev exchange glaces and then start laughing]
Zoi: The incestuous weirdo twins made out with each other in my bedroom?
Kunzite: Yes.
Jeddy: No, not with each other. They- yow. [As Beryl brings the scepter down on his foot.]
Zoi: Why would they do that in my room of all places?
[The twins laugh harder]
Kunzite: Oh, this funny to you?
El: Very.
Kunzite: [between gritted teeth] What, exactly, do you find humorous about this
Dev: You see, we could explain but it will only make up sound worse, so I think it's best we just keep our mouths shut.
[Kunzite pushes Zoi behind him, glaring, and summons a pair of energy blades.]
[The twins stop laughing]