[Scene: Metalia's hideaway. A previously unknown youma is bowing low before Metalia, while her more familiar servants look on.]

Metalia: So I sent you here from the future? To warn me so some impending calamity that results from my choices?

Bree: That's is correct, My Queen. You said it would be best if you dismissed your followers so we can talk in private.

Metalia: [narrows her eyes suspiciously] Feh! A likely story! You are clearly an enemy! If I wanted someone to have a word with me in private, I would have sent back Kunzite, or Thetis, or someone I actually trust! Not some puppet I've never laid eyes on before today!

Bree: [remains bowed low to the floor] You had no choice, my queen, but to create a new youma to act as a messenger. You told me to tell you that the laws of time travel make it impossible for the same being to be in two places at the same time. Otherwise you would have come here in person.

Metalia: So these beings that call themselves the Heltry Twins...?

[Bree waits until she is certain Metalia is done talking and then nods]

Bree: ... have not been born yet.

Metalia: Do we know who or what they are? Or why they have targeted the Pantheon of Chaos for assassination?

Bree: Yes, my queen. [gives a slightly uneasy look at Beryl and the Shitennou] They are your children from the future.

Metalia: My children? As in future Shitennou?

Bree: Yes.

Metalia: That makes this easy! I simply choose not to elevate them!

Bree: You won't elevate them. You'll...conceive... them. For want of a better word.

Metalia: [takes on a look of abject disgust] Are you saying these are my children in some biological sense?

Bree: Yes, my Queen, in a manner of speaking. More or less.

Jeddy: [wideeyed] They are Metalia's children? [whispers to Beryl] So who fucked Metalia?

[Beryl summons her staff and brings it down on his foot]

Metalia: Feh. Why would I ever want to have children!

Bree: [gives Beryl and the Shitennou another uneasy look] I believe it was because someone told you that babies love their mothers unconditionally and you thought that if you raised a pair of infants from the cradle, they would turn out to be more malleable than your other high ranking followers.

Metalia: Clearly, it didn't turn out the way I hoped it would!

Bree: Indeed.

Metalia: So? What went wrong?

Bree: I don't know, My Queen. In my time, they still haven't been born yet.

Metalia: Then why are you here!

[Bree rises from the floor]

Bree: You sent me here to tell you that these children will make two attempts on your life-

Metalia: When!

Bree: Soon. The first attempt will come soon. They will make a lot of trouble for you, but you must let them survive.

Metalia: Why?

Bree: The second attempt will come approximately six years from now. When they do, they will be too frightened to pull off the assassination. You must resist the urge to gloat. Instead, kill them both at once and seize their weapon. After that they will be of no further use to you.

Metalia: Why should I wait? Why not seize their weapon and kill them during the first attempt?

Bree: You didn't say, but I assume you must have had a reason...

Metalia: Doubtful.

Bree: You said all will be made clear in due time, and the important thing is not to worry-

Metalia: That is the trouble with prophesy! It only makes sense in hindsight! Was there anything else you needed to tell me?

Bree: No, my queen. That was all. There is nothing else I can say in front of the Shitennou.

Metalia: Good. You were becoming tiresome.

[Waves her hand and Zoi screams as Bree explodes like confetti.]

Zoi: [clutching Kunzite while screaming in terror at Metalia] Oh my god! Why would you do that?

Kunzite: [stroking Zoi's hair] It doesn't matter. It was just a youma. Come. You need to help me pack.

Metalia: No! Let the monkey speak.

Zoi: Why did you kill her? She was loyal! She wanted to talk with you in private! She might have had more information!

Metalia: What little she had to tell me was of no value. Other than to tell me these two little brats are my own offspring. The key to defeating them is to simply decide never to create them. Which I have.

Jeddy: Mother. Perhaps you should heed the advice of your future self and use them to gain the Silver Crystal?

Metalia: At the risk of my own safety? No. If anyone sees these two they are to be killed on sight.

Jeddy: But your future self assured you that you are in no danger-

Metalia: That was before she meddled by sending a message into the past! Haven't you fools heard of the Butterfly Effect? For all I know that one little act might have turned Fortune's Wheel against me! [To Zoi] Don't you monkeys have a saying that the definition of insanity is doing things differently and expecting the same outcome?

Zoi: [bows low] Yes, of course we do, My Queen.

Metalia: I see you're not incapable of learning. Jadeite, find Nephrite and tell him to alert me the moment they fade from existence.

Jeddy: [bows low] Yes, Mother. [teleports away]

Metalia: [to Kunzite and Zoi] You are dismissed for the evening. Both of you. But I expect Kunzite back here before dawn. Alone.

Kunzite: Yes, Mother. It is an honor to serve you.

[Both he and Zoi bow low and teleport away]

Metalia: [looks down at the smear that was Bree] Someone get a mop and clean up this mess.