She was running through the corridor as fast as possible, trying to find a way to get to the lowest level.

"No. No, nononono! I have to get there, I have to find her! Why? Why her? She can't be... Please... Please, don't hurt her..."

She had tears in her eyes, fear in her mind, following her. It wasn't holding her back, it was her fuel. She couldn't allow Zepar to do that, she just couldn't. She had to protect her.

She tripped and fell on the ground. She hurt her knee. "Ha... ah..." Her breath was getting faster, she was weak, couldn't stand up, but she had to...

"Sis..."

1st floor

"Nicolas, he can't be," Ema said. "I know, but Kyra..."

"Why don't you join us, Nicolas?" Kyra asked standing next to her "father", "we can be a family again. Together."

"Kyra!" Nicolas shouted. His sister looked scared of him. "He can't be here! He's dead! He died! Wendy watched him die, Kyra!"

"No... Nicolas... Stop..." Kyra whispered, "stop saying this!" She was crying. "Nicolas, stop," Ema told him, "you're scaring her." "Do you have another idea?" Nicolas snapped, "he is not my father."

"Nicolas..."

"Kyra, snap out of this!" Kyra only smiled, she looked more creepy.

"Isn't she under Akuno's control?" Ema asked, "I never saw her like that." "No... She's just more herself," Nicolas said. "What?" "After his death, Kyra was left with emotional scars. She was blaming herself and desperately wanted to see him again. She tried that. She tried to kill herself," Nicolas explained.

2nd floor

Dark opened the door. "So, this is Akuno..." Bel said. "Si... We have to find others... I think... They'll be on the 1st floor."

Both of the girls were still wet, they just got out of the water.

"Okay, Dark, lead the way."

They headed away.

3rd floor

"Hikari Yori...? No... You can't be..." Kenji murmured.

"Yes, I am, Kenji," the woman said. Kenji started to cry.

"M-mom!" He wanted to hug her, but Zakuro took his hand. "Kenji, stay away from her!"

"What? Zakuro, let me go!" Kenji yelled. "Kenji, listen to me!"

"Why should I do that?" he wondered, "you aren't my real mother!"

Zakuro only gasped and let go of her stepson.

1st floor

Justin was tied up with wires, upside down in the control room. J was on the monitor.

"Um, J?"

"What do you want?" J asked, "I won't free you." "No. I just wanted... If you should turn me around for a few minutes somehow. My head is spinning. The b-blood... runs to my head when I'm upside down," Justin said.

"Fine."

The wires controlled by the program changed Justin's position.

"Thank you."

2nd floor

"Zoe!" Rex ran to her and helped her stand up. "Zoe... How are you?" he asked. She didn't answer. When she realized she can run again she said: "I... Reese! She's... We have to-"

"Zoe, calm down." He took her hands.

"No... We've gotta... She can be in danger!" Zoe turned and wanted to continue with running, but Rex was still holding one of her hands. "Rex! Let me go!" she yelled at him.

"Zoe. Listen to me."

"No! We have to go there!"

"But that's exactly what Zepar wants!" Rex shouted. Zoe shut up, she was staring at him, her mouth and eyes wide opened. "Rex..." "Zoe... I... I didn't... Didn't want to yell at you. I'm sorry..."

"It's okay. I was just too rushed. Rex, I am afraid," Zoe confessed, "I'm scared... We don't know what Zepar can do."

"Zoe, it'll be fine. We'll find her," Rex assured her, still holding her hands. Zoe came closer, it looked like she wanted to kiss him.

Bel has hidden behind the corner. She growled. Anger was running through her veins. "Get away from him!" she wanted to scream, but then Zoe changed her mind.

"No. I can't."

"What?" Rex wondered. "I can't just kiss you," Zoe said, "Rex, I used to feel something for you, but... I can't betray one of my friends." "What are you talking about?" he asked her. "Alice loves you for a long time and I just can't-do this to her. Even that new girl Bel, she has a crush on you, but they are my friends. Why am I saying this to you when we're running out of time?!"

"Zoe..." Rex was just standing there, blushing, couldn't say anything.

"Reese needs our help!" Zoe told him and dragged him away.

"She was hiding her feeling because of her friend?" Bel whispered.

"She would do anything for her friends!"

"She's the best friend anyone can have."

"Zoe gave up on her love for Rex because she wanted him to notice Alice," Bel assured herself that she understood, "I can't just 'take' Rex. It would make Zoe's sacrifice pointless. I'm sorry..."

She turned around and wanted to find Dark that was already gone, but there was a blond 10 years old girl with a blue bow, Bel's bow in her hair.

"Who are you?" surprised Bel asked her. "My name is Erika," the girl introduced herself. "What do you want?" "I was sent to destroy you," she answered with a smile on her face.

"What?!"

A yellow-green dinosaur similar to Iguanodon appeared, walking towards Bel. "Fukuisaurus?"

1st floor

"Kyra, hey, I know how it feels to lose and miss someone you love," Ema said, "it doesn't matter how much you want or try, they can't come back. But they want us to be happy. Kyra..."

"But he is back," Kyra said with that creepy smile.

"He isn't back!" Nicolas shouted.

"Nicolas..."

"Kyra!"

Kyra looked at her "father", he said nothing the whole time. Suddenly, several spikes hit him, he disappeared. Kyra was watching it with a scared face.

"Nick!" Niki, Stegi in the battle form, Ellen, Jessica, and Ria ran to them.

"No... Dad..." Kyra sobbed, "not again..."

"Nick, you okay?" Niki wondered, "where are the others?" "That's what we wanted to ask you," Ema said. "Well, we found out Kyra is gone, so, we split up," Niki explained.

"Ally!" Kyra said, "where is she?" "When Drack told us about these illusions we decided to find you," Nicolas said, "she's with Cruz. Hey, how you feel?" "Bad," Kyra answered, "but let's find Ally, I'll feel calmer knowing she's 100% fine."

3rd floor

"Kenji..."

Zakuro was looking away from her stepson. "Sorry for bothering you, Kenji," she said.

Kenji turned to Hikari. He hugged her. "Mom..." She patted his back.

"Kenji, I'm sorry for leaving you," she said.

When he let go of her there was someone else standing, the ginger girl. "Mary!" he growled, "why are you playing with me like this?!"

"I am not playing with you, Kenji," Mary replied. "You're taking over the face of my mother you've killed!" Kenji yelled at her. "Killed?" Mary repeated, "what did you tell him, Zakuro?"

"He was asking me about his real mother his whole life," Zakuro told her, "what was I supposed to tell him? That his mother is a murderer, she plays with men, and she left him because of Akuno?! That you left him, Mary?!" She covered her mouth when she realized she let another secret go out.

"You can't keep any secret, can you?" Mary wondered.

"What...? No..." Kenji was looking at Mary with his mouth wide open. "No! You can't be! You can't be my mother! Hikari Yori was my mother, not you!"

"Kenji... Hikari Yori never existed. I made out her body to get your father," Mary explained, "and I did it alongside with Zakuro. Sora was under my control until Dengyo wasn't born, he was interested in her. Kenji, after you were born, I had to leave you, because of Akuno." "I guess you're the same as your mom at this," Zakuro said.

"Why should I believe you?" Kenji wondered, "you already killed Kato, your own son. And kinda my brother...?" "Rather don't think about that," Zakuro murmured. "Why do you care about me?"

"Kenji... I didn't want to kill him, Zepar forced me to," Mary sobbed, "I used to play with men like with puppets, but then somebody told me something."

"You don't care about anyone... Everyone even your own dinosaur is a puppet for you!"

"She was right. I was forcing them to love me, that's why, you Zakuro, took them away. Sora, Kenji. Thank you for that. You are a better mother for Ken than I would ever be."

In another moment Mary screamed in pain. She fell to the ground. She had a bloody scratch on her back. "Mary!"

Andy with his pocket knife with Mary's blood on it was standing behind her. "Andy? Why?!" Kenji snapped. Dengyo, Sabi, Shadow, Star, and Aaron ran to them.

"Andy!" Sabi yelled at him when she saw Mary lying on the ground, "what are you doing?!"

"Revenge," Andy replied, "for my father and for her playing and hurting you."

"Mary, you okay?" Zakuro asked. "Yeah, I'm immortal, did you forget?" Mary stood up.

"Why do you care about her?" Dengyo asked his mother. "Den, it's the only 'secret' I kept," Zakuro said, "it's complicated."

"Mary, what do you want?" Sabi wondered, she looked a little bit angry seeing her.

Kenji stood up in front of the ginger. "Hey, guys, leave her alone!" "Kenji, are you crazy?" Dengyo asked. "Don't you know she killed my father?!" Andy shouted at him. "You don't get it. She's..."

Kenji was quiet, he didn't feel comfortable about telling them the truth.

"Mary, you traitor," they heard two female voices talking as one. "Zepar...? No! It's not like that!" Mary said she was scared, "p-please... Don't..." "Don't? What? You mean this?!"

A dark sharp thing came from the ground, it was about to hit Kenji, but Mary pushed him away. It stabbed through her body. "Mary!"

There was no blood.

"Ah... Kh... Kenji..." "Why...?" he asked her. "I-I couldn't protect you... Thi... This is the best I can do for a-anyone... Sis... Zakuro... Take care of him, please..."

Zakuro nodded.

Mary's body was slowly turning into a dust. Everyone was only watching.

1st floor

Alice and Cruz were walking through the corridor, still haven't found the control room. "Cruz, I thought you said you know where the room is," Alice murmured. "Si, but it seems that Zepar isn't using only illusions of humans, but changing the place too. We're walking in circles."

"Please, Justin. Just hang on."

There were two roars sounding. Tashi the Pachycephalosaurus and River the Allosaurus with the plate and the bracelet in their mouths were heading their way. "Here you are!" They ran into their partners' arms.

"But if they found us, they can find even Justin," Alice said. "Maybe..."

"Where do you think they can be?" sounded from the distance. Ema and the others ran to them.

"Ally!" Kyra immedetaly hugged her sister. "K-Kyra...? I'm okay..."

"So, you haven't found Justin yet?" Niki asked. "Zepar is just playing with us," Cruz replied as he shook his head.

"You can't search one stupid floor?" Nicolas growled. "Shut up!" Alice snapped. "Stop arguing and let's find Justin," Ema said. "Agree."

But when they were about to continue a Megalosaurus stepped in their way. It had a weird colorful light around him. "Uh-oh..."

Drack was standing behind him. "Hey! I thought you are on our side!" Ema yelled. "What?!" Niki and Kyra looked at her. "Your side?" Drack repeated, "I would never do that." "Then why did tell about the illusions and how to defeat them?" Cruz wondered.

"You don't get," Drack said, "I have no choice. She is..." A shadow fell into his eyes. "Mary is dead! Zepar gives me no choice!"

"Wait, Mary...?"

"Attack!"

Komatsu twins looked at each other and summoned their dinosaurs in battle forms.

"If you wanna fight here you have it!" the twins said at once. "Wait, there isn't enough space for a fight," Cruz said.

"We can't leave a fight!"

"I can't believe Zepar just killed her," Alice admitted. "Mary was the most loyal person to her," Nicolas said. Their plates started to glow, they put their finger to them. A dark red and blue shining crystals came out of the plates.

In another moment, a flashing light lit up and blinded everyone for a second. When they could see again Megalosaurus and Drack didn't move.

"What...?"

"How did you? Why did you?" Kyra wondered. "Time crystal and ice crystal. Maybe it... No. That's nonsense," Ema whispered. "It's exactly what you think. Fusion of two crystal moves," Cruz said. "So, it froze them in time?" Niki asked. "Weird," Kyra admitted.

"We can attack them," Ema said. "That would be unfair," Cruz told her. "Let's find that little loser." "Stop calling him like that!" Alice yelled at her twin.

They ran around Drack and his dinosaur.

When they were far enough, Alice and Nicolas turned Tashi and Ria into chibis and broke the effect of the fusion move.

Then a door in the corridor closed in front of them. "What?! What now?" Kyra asked.

"Drack is after us, how are we going to get from this trouble?" Ema wondered.

They heard a roar of the Megalosaurus. When they turned Drack and dino were already standing there. He changed Megalosaurus back to a card.

"What the..."

"Since my sister is dead, I have no reason to be here," Drack said. "So, you'll just let us go?" Niki wondered. He nodded. "You really cared about her, didn't you?" Kyra asked. Drack only disappeared.

2nd floor

Bel tried to escape, but the corridor was shut. "Where do you think you're going?" a robotic voice asked.

Fukuisaurus was still walking towards her.

"No... Think! What would others do? Except summoning their dinos..."

"Why? Who are you?" Bel asked again. Erika didn't answer.

When Fukuisaurus was close enough to attack a fireball hit her. She disappeared, not like the other dinosaurs, she turned into a smoke.

"A fire attack? Was that..."

"Bel!" someone called her. There was a group of three people with Daspletosaurus in adult form standing behind Erika. Cole, Sue, and Dark. Bel smiled at them.

"Hey, you girl! Don't even try to hurt my friends," Sue yelled at Erika. The girl looked a little scared. "Hurt...?" she wondered, "I... I didn't want to..." She turned to Bel, tears streaming down her face.

"Why is she reminding me of Rex?" Cole asked, "like he was a girl... Weird."

"No... I didn't want to!" Erika cried and ran to Bel. She hugged her and changed into a smoke just like her dinosaur before.

Bel was still confused by that. Who was that girl?

"The hell just happened?" wondered Sue. She changed Annie in a card. "Akuno's illusions..." Dark replied, "beings... created by Zepar... not able to... touch the life... Similar to Mary's ability... to change appearance... They can take any possible face and... keep the character of the person..."

"Illusion?" Bel repeated as she came to them, "but of who?" "I thought you know her," Sue said. Bel shook her head. "Bel... Please... Don't do this to me ever... again..." Dark whispered. "Sorry for leaving you without any word, but I saw Rex and Zoe," Bel told them. "Really? Dude is with her?" Cole wondered.

"Bel, were they all right?" Sue asked her, "wasn't she hurt?" "They looked okay," Bel answered. Sue sighed. "But Zoe was stressed. She was saying something about they have to find Reese here."

"What?! She's here!? No... Where is she?" Cole asked. "I don't know... They ran through the locked corridor," Bel said as she pointed to the door. "We've gotta get there!" Cole decided. "Wait!" Bel interrupted him, "I need to talk to Alice first. W-we can't follow Rex and Zoe, so..."

"Fine..."

They were walking back the way the three of them got there, but the door shut.

1st floor

Back in the control room, tied Justin was hanging from the ceiling again upside down.

"So, you are locking my friends?" Justin wondered. "Of course," J answered. "Clever..." "And you can't stop me."

"Oh really? He is right, I cannot. What would Reese do? She would not doubt herself like me. Think. I am now the part of D-lab, I cannot fail. But I need some coffee! Moment! The coffee!" Justin remembered how easily you can break a computer by spilling a coffee.

He opened his bag and took a thermos from it. He opened it, he had to be careful not to spill the coffee inside. "I just have to hit it and hope it will work."

Justin threw the thermos at the computer, the coffee spilled on it. "Wh-Whaaa! N-no-" The computer shut down. The power in the whole Akuno turned off.

2nd floor

Someone screamed in the dark.

"Alright, who the hell is hugging me?!" Sue's voice asked. "Not me," Bel's voice next to her replied. "You really think it's me, ladies?" Cole wondered.

"Lo Siento..." Dark sobbed, "I..." "Dark, you don't have to be afraid," Sue told her. "We're here with you," Bel said. "Gracias..."

3rd floor

Max lit up horns on his visor.

Rod put an orange card to a hexagon he had. Terry collected fire in its mouth, shot it to the ground and hit Chomp. Max and Kami couldn't see the battle in the dark, they only heard Chomp's roaring of pain.

"No... Chomp!" "Be careful, you know you fall into Rod's traps easily."

They had to do something, but they couldn't in the dark. If Max would use Lightning strike, he can hit them. Chomp can't hit the enemy when he can't see him.

"Terry, stop!" Kami shouted. "Don't worry, we can do it," Max said. "No. I learned something about you fighting, Chomp's maybe strong, but he never won without using a move card. And you can't use a move card because you can attack us since Chomp can't see his target." "I know, but what else can we do?"

"Maybe Terry will recognize me, but I'm not sure if Zepar doesn't control even him," Kami said, then shouted into a pitch dark, "Terry, please! It's me!"

They heard unhuman steps heading their way. The red T-rex came from the dark.

"Hey. I'm sorry I let Zepar take your card away from me, Terry. I wanted to protect all three of you, but I couldn't," Kami said. Both pairs of green eyes were staring at each other. "Please, stop fighting and help us."

"Attack!" sounded from the dark. Terry growled and roared. He was ready to attack them. "Laura!" Max stood in front of her. Terry opened his jaws, then Chomp ran into him and threw him away.

"That didn't work. Laura, leave it to us," Max told her. Kami only sighed.

The light from Max allowed her to see a spiky rolling ball. She recognized it and picked it up. It rolled off. It was Saichania. Kami smiled at her. "Tank, you're okay." Tank growled: "Spiny, where are you? You're taking your time at the worst possible moment!"

There was a roar at Kami's feet. When she looked down she saw a little Spinosaurus with the hexagon in his jaws. "Spiny, thank you," Kami said as she took the hexagon, "but I won't need this. Not this time. Can you two distract Terry?" "Terry?!"

Both dinos growled in agreement.

Kami was heading in the dark and grabbed Max's hand, dragging him with her as a source of the light.

Spiny looked at Tank. "Is he really here?" "She wouldn't want us to distract him if he wasn't here! C'mon! We have a job!" Tank growled and ran to the sounds of the battle. "Just hope you have a plan, Tank..."

"L-Laura! What are you doing?" Max asked Kami. "I need to see on my way," she replied. "Why?"

"You'll see."

Tank and Spiny were heading to the fight, but couldn't see anything. Spiny tripped over something. "Spiny! What are you doing?!" "Sorry..."

Suddenly, the lights turned on.

Kami saw her brother and headed with Max to him.

Spiny got up and ran with Tank to Terry when they saw him. He was stomping on Chomp. "Chomp?"

"Terry, stop!" Spiny roared. "Spiny? Tank? What are you two doing here?"

Rod noticed two other dinosaurs, he smirked and took another move card. "This will be fun. Fire scor-" "Rod, no!" Laura yelled.

He was confusedly staring his little sister. "Do anything you want, but please, never use this move again! Don't you remember what it did to Terry the first time?"

She had tears in her eyes. "Snap out of this! Please. Remember..." "Why? Zepar can give everything. Why should I leave this?" he asked her. "Because you're leaving everything behind!" Laura cried and found a little yellow projector device, "you're leaving everyone..."

"Everyone...?"

"Rod, don't let Zepar win," Max joined. Rod shook his head and smiled.

Laura ran to him and hugged him. When she let go of him he fell on his knees. "Rod! Are you okay?" Laura turning into Kami asked. "Yeah. Just a little exhausted. Max, go to the next room. Zepar's there, but remember, she can play with people and manipulate them." "Why are you telling me this?" Max wondered. "There is something... You have to see for yourself," Rod said as he changed Terry into a chibi form. He started to play with Spiny and Tank.

"Okay... Chomp, let's go," Max told his partner. Chomp got up to his feet and headed with Max to the big door. It opened.

Max and Chomp ran into another room. The door closed behind them.

They were expecting the enemy, but Zepar was nowhere to be found. They noticed someone else, a blonde. Long wavy hair, a white lab cloak. She turned around.

"I was expecting you, Max," she said by two different voices.

"No... R-"

To be continued...