[Scene: Metalia inferno. Kunzite lets out a savage roar as he sends a pair of energy blade flying toward Dev, who is surrounded by a web of of threads of dark energy.]
[The blades slice through the webbing, dissolving the threads they touch. At the last second, Dev leaps ten feet straight up, and the blades pass through harmlessly before returning to Kunzite, while Dev stands on a thread with his arms crossed like a tightrope walker] ]
Dev: Thanks for the help, old man. Only a few thousand threads to clear before we can reach our time door.
[Leaps down and stands passively in his previous spot.]
Beryl: [snarling at Kunzite as she works her long nails behind her summoned crystal ball] You incompetent fool! Do I have to do everything myself?
El: You're wasting your time. You can't beat us. Why don't you spare yourselves the humiliation and just let us go home?
Dev: It's no use. They have taken the Unbreakable Oath of Enslavement. We have to fight.
Beryl: A ceasefire? [bitchcackles] Those are demanded by cowards, from a position of weakness! Today is your day to die!
[Dev's eyes widen in alarm as Beryl summons forth energy and directs her gaze at his sister, but El does not look concerned]
El: Shield yourself, Dev.
Dev: Shield...myself? [uneasy] El this isn't what we practic-
El: Do it!
[Dev has already surrounded himself with a bubble of dark energy. El makes no move.]
Beryl: DIE!
[The room washes out as a bolt of pure white light flies towards El, who smiles grimly and holds up a prism. She does a back bend as she hold the prism to the light, splinting the beam into colored rays that shoot in all directions, severing the majority of the threads of magic that Metalia left behind.]
[With her back still bent, El drops a small glass object to the floor, which skitters over to Beryl, where it unfolds and enlarges, trapping Beryl frozen in a pyramid of glass.]
El: One down. Four to go. Who wants to be trapped next?
Dev: Bravo, my love! A few more shattershot attacks like this from the Shittenou and we should be able to waltz right home.
[Jeddy laughs mockingly]
Jeddy: Sorry to kill the little buzz from the little catfight, sweetheart.
[fans out into four identical Jeddy's]
Jeddy 1 - 4: But lets see how well you fare hand to hand against the masters of illusion!
[El leans forward and raises her palm to her mouth, as if blowing them a kiss. A gold shimmer fills the air, and Jeddy's 1,3 & 4 turn to face Jeddy 2. Jeddy 2 seems startled by this, as Jeddy 1 pins his arms behind his back and 3 & 4 start beating him]
[El drops a glass pyramid during the pummeling. As it surround Jeddy 2, the others vanish and the single remaining Jeddy is trapped, frozen in time.]
El: [turns and gives her brother a guilty look] I'm sorry. I seem to be having all the fun.
[Dev points to Kunzite, who is standing protectively in front of Zoisite, and Neffy, who is swaying drunkenly, smirking in amusement.]
Dev: Don't worry. You know I'm saving myself for the big guys over there.
Kunzite: [snarling at Dev] You dare to make a mockery of the Four Heavenly Kings!
Dev: Absolutely not. I wouldn't dream of taking your job.
El: [shakes her head] So mean.
Dev: Yeah? Well I'm a rotten kid.
Kunzite: And all bad kids, you could benefit from a time out. [his hair whips around and his eyes for white as a hemisphere of dark magic surrounds Dev and El]
Kunzite: Your powers cannot harm, nor penetrate that orb, and slowly very slowly it will shrink until-
[Dev steps forward placing his palms on the inside of the shield. His eyes glow white as well as the shield evaporate, seeming to suck the energy right out of Kunzite as he does.]
Kunzite: How on earth-
[El drops a glass pyramid to trap Kunzite while Zoi screams in outrage.
Zoi: ZOI!
[Zoi directs a wave of razor petals at El, but before they reach her they turn harmlessly into butterflies. She points to the cloud of butterflies and they turn into hummingbirds, who divebomb Zoi.]
[As Zoi shields his face, El drops a glass pyramid to trap him as well.]
[All alone, now Neffy looks as his trapped comrade, then back at the twins, swaying a bit drunkenly.]
Dev: So what's it going to be, Neffy?
El: Starlight attack?
Dev: Soul shadow?
El: We know how to counter them all.
Neffy: I don't doubt you do. [slurs drunkenly as he summons an apple] It's clear you two little pests have done your homework, so my magic will be worthless in this battle. And since I have no intention of being humiliated by a pair of eleven year olds, I think I will just stand here and enjoy my apple.
[The twins watch as Neffy bites into the apple. The wait warily, then Dev clears the threads separating him from his sister.]
[When they are clear, she runs up and hugs him.]
El: Dev. We survived.
Dev: Yes, but we lost the crystal.
El: So what do we do?
[Dev gives a warning look toward Neffy, who is watching them while eating his apple with seeming indifference.]
Dev: There is nothing left to do but go home. [They give Neffy one last cautious look as they walk hand in hand to the time portal, glowing darkly, still crosscrossed with hundreds of Metalia's thread of dark energy like barbed wire.] I just need to clear all these away.
[While he examines the threads, Neffy finishes his apple and tosses the core over his shoulder. He charges at Dev, giving him a swift kick from behind, sending him flying into the threads which zap him as if electrified.]
El: HEEEEY! [El scream of rage is cut short as Neffy punches her across the face.]
[Both twins are on the ground, and look up at Neffy in newfound terror.]
Neffy: Clearly this Big Daddy never told you what I used to do for a living. [laces his fingers and cracks his knuckles] You see, I don't need magic to defeat the likes of you.