A scientist walked down the hall, as a loud thumping sound can be heard. The scientist, being curious of the noise coming from the room he was passing by, opened the door and saw X, his eyes flashes at the scientist.

Feeling fear rising inside him, he was just about to scream until X closed his mouth. Staring into the scientist eyes, X's flaring spirit can be felt from the look on his face.

"I'll be borrowing that coat of yours!" After he said that, the door closes on its own.

April landed on her bottom, as Jet leans himself on the wall. Taking quick breaths before looking at her. April seemed to have appeared inside a room. She looked around to see where she is. The room has a small table, a sofa and surprisingly... "Yuri!" April hopped toward her friend that she haven't seen for some time and gave her a hug, Yuri was surprised at Jet and April sudden appearance.

"A-April? How did you get here?"

"Hm~ I don't really understand myself." April answered her friend's question, who seemed to have relaxed. As he leans against the wall.

The yellow haired girl looked toward the black haired man, who looked away instinctively. She smiles at the man regardless. "You were worried about me... right?"

Jet replied bluntly. "I was just taking her hostage." letting out his intentions, April looked at the man, and hopped toward him.

The man glance at the purple haired teenager, as she gave him a smile and whispers to his ear. "You're lying right?" feeling a bit taken back by her words, April gave him another smile, before turning around while Jet said.

"You're overthinking about it." Yuri, who seemed to have question marks growing from her head looks at them.

"Um..." as she tries to think of something to say, an idea pops out. "Since you're here April! Can we talk about how we met each other?" April looked toward her friend, as she jumped and landed on the sofa, next to Yuri.

"Sure~" she cheerfully replied.

Jet was wondering in his thoughts, What is wrong with this girl? Why is she so relaxed after being kidnapped? as he thought this to himself, Yuri and April was just minding their own business.

"Did you remember how you saved my life when I was in trouble? I was really entranced by your beautiful appearance!" Yuri leans closer to April, who doesn't seem to mind.

"Hmm~ about that story. Can you please tell me about it again?" she asked, without a second thought. Yuri smiles brightly and said.

"I'M PLEASED TO DO SO!" she raises her hand to the sky, hopping in one place while April giggles at her funny actions.

"It all began when I was-" as she was just about to began her story, an explosion broke out.

Yuri sucks her lips, somewhat angered at the sudden change of events. Small tears was escaping her eyes. Jet emerges in front of Yuri, his black jet sword formed on his hand.

A man walked into the room,wearing a spectacle and a lab coat, X stood proudly in front of them.

"X!" April cheered.

"X!" Yuri also cheered at his appearance. "You survived from that fall too?" she added a question. The robot smirks and push his glasses up to his nose.

"Of course Yuri. And I'm glad to see you again." the robot answered, as he glanced at Jet, glaring at the robot in disguise.

"You infiltrate this laboratory and find this room in such a small amount of time... That is something no normal robot could do." Jet said, swinging his sword and stood straight. "Not even that, you also seemed to have emotions and a brain that functions like a human. What kind of technology were you created with?"

X turned his arms into the two steel blades. Walking slowly toward Jet as he looked up with a smirk. "You shouldn't ask personal question like that. If you really want to know about it. Then become someone I respect, someone that I'm envy of." X raise his steel blades to the bulb, reflecting light to Jet who instinctively moved away from it.

"Afraid of the light?"

"No. I can't stay here for too long or my body will weaken." Jet explained, raising his sword and appeared in front of X, his sword was so close to cutting X's body, but the robot blocked it with his other steel blade.

"So it's the basic concept of darkness and light huh?" X said, pushing back against Jet's blade, noticing that Jet's strength has been lowered down to the extent of a master swordsman.

April took Yuri's hand and dragged her away from the sofa. "W-Where are we going?"

"Run away obviously~" April answered, as Yuri halted. April stopped at her actions as well.

"Is something wrong?~" the purple haired girl asked, looking at her kidnapped friend. Yuri had a worried look on her face, glancing at X and Jet from time to time. Noticing this, April smiled. "X~?"

"What is it, April?" X smiled at hearing his name being called by April, turning his back to Jet immediately to look at April with a perverted expression.

"Don't kill Jet, can you?" she winks at the robot, steam was coming out of X's head. As he salutes and said. "I won't April! Killing is never an option in my command list!"

April giggles, and looked toward Yuri. She seemed to be a bit relieve now. The purple haired girl took her hand and dragged her away again. Jet, took a step forward, but he stops when X slashed the table in half.

"You're not going anywhere." the robot smirked, as the door behind them closes.

When April and Yuri was running down the hallway, Shade was standing there. Waiting for them, he wears a lab coat without buttoning the buttons. Revealing his abs that he always show. The demon looked toward the two girls. "Huh. This plan look easier than it sounds like." Shade muttered to himself. Mentioning the two girls to follow him.

"Shade~ where the others?" the purple haired girl asked, letting go of Yuri's hand as she started running on her own.

"They're going toward where Maro is supposed to be." the white and black haired demon said, stopping near a corner as he knocked out a scientist that was just coming out of the corner.

"W-Was that necessary?" Yuri asked, as the demon glance at the girl. He raises his index finger and puts it on his lips, as if saying "Shh" for the moment. He took out something for the scientist's ear and closed his hand, when he opened it back. A device was broken into pieces.

"Yuri, right? These people eventually has a device that lets them talk to each other." Shade said, letting the pieces of the device fall from his hand.

"You mean something like a walkie-talkie?" she asked, which made the demon tilted his head to the side.

"Walkie-talkie?" Shade asked. As April giggles at his expression.

"Let's talk about that later~. Did anyone found Aylife?" looking at Shade, the demon seemed to be thinking about it.

"Aylife... I'm not sure. X told us to regroup in a certain room." he looks around to see if anyone is around before saying, "Let's go." leading the way, they ran down the hallway. Shade was reminiscing back about what happened before all of this happens.

Shade, Mizuki, Flamer, Tren and Mare was hiding inside a room. It was the security room, all of the guard has been knocked out by yours truly Shade.

"These guys aren't even worth beating up." Shade said, cracking his fist while Mare hides behind Tren, the prince laughed nervously at this sight while scratching his head.

"You people sure is strong." the prince compliment them. Who just ignored him. Flamer lean the boy he was carrying on the wall. Looking through the camera feed, he saw where Maro is. She was unconscious, and her body was strapped onto a chair.

"Found her, she's on the-" the door was cut open as a blast came from it, black smoke began to cover their eyes as it cleared by itself. Revealing X in his disguise.

"WHO ARE YOU?!" Flamer suddenly screamed, as X waved at them.

"It's me, X."

"Don't lie! X would never be a scientist!" feeling stupid by looking at Flamer's accuse, Mizuki proceed to remove X's glasses, as Flamer jaw dropped.

"I-IT WAS X!"

"ARE YOU A MORON?!" Shade rebuttal against Flamer's shock.

X sighed and put back his glasses on. "Listen here. I already know where April is being held." he said, handling out a printed map of the laboratory. "You three are going here, here and stops here." he pointed on the marked X with his fingers. Mare couldn't follow the speed of his finger since he was in a rush. "In the meantime, Shade, you are going to escort April back to us. I will distract that darkness dude."

"O...kay?" Flamer said, unsure about this plan. Before X could stand up, Mizuki asked.

"If what you just said that Jet person had just abducted April. Weren't Firodile supposed to be with you?" X halted halfway, sweating a bit before turning his back from all of them.

"...I... think he's just busy fighting with a huge worm! So I left it in his care!"

Feeling a bit of mischievous aura flowing out of Mizuki, X proceed to exit the room. "Don't worry about that pervert. For now, we need to rescue April."

He dashed away from the room, Flamer stood up and shouted out loud. "WHAT KIND OF FRIEND ARE YOU?!" Shade blankly stared at the robot dashed through the hallway.

Shade sighed at the flashback he had in his mind.

"Hm? Are you okay Shade~?" April asked.

"Not really. Not until we get back to our real dimension." Shade seemed to be concern of X's current personality. Running down the hallway, another explosion broke out, as he saw a sign up ahead.

He squinted his eyes to see what it reads, there were two signs that pointed to two different direction. As he tried to read the signs, Yuri turned around. To see a scientist looking at them, the man desperately shouted. "The suspect has escaped!"

"W-We have been discovered!" the yellow haired girl shouted, turning back around to chases after Shade and April.

Shade grunts angrily and stretches out his claws, scratching the signs as they turned to the right. Which read "Experimental Room" before Shade cut it. The other sign says "Main Laboratory". April pulls out her gun in case of emergency. As they reached to a door that opened up after the sensor reacted to Shade's presence. The door closes when Yuri made in. Shade stopped for a while to survey the area. April hops around as her eyes slowly adjust to the darkness.

"Someone's here." Shade said, looking at the center of the huge room. Yuri's eye was radiates a yellow light for some reason.

"How can you see clearly through the dark?" April asked.

"I'm a demon. We were born from the Hell, where darkness and twisted logic applies in our place. Being able to see in the dark is a trait for being a demon." Yuri shivers at the word 'demon'.

April hums as she could also see the man in the middle, a golden and silvery light was surrounding him. Recognizing the blue hair, April ran to him.

"Aylife!" April said as the light disperse from the blue haired teenager. Who seemed to be conscious.

He looked up and stared at his friend. "Urgh... April! You're safe!" he said, he sounds happy to see her.

"What happened to you?" the girl asked, trying to get the chains off as she fails miserably.

"I saved Maro but we got caught. That damn professor is trying to use her for his own reason!" Aylife gritted his teeth, Shade walked over to them and told April to move aside. With his unsheathed claws, he cuts the chain that was holding Aylife with ease. Before the claws slowly goes into his body.

Aylife moves his wrist and grabbed the handcuff that was around his wrist, squishing it as hard as he can as it starts to bent. He removed it with force and throws it in a distance. Grabbing his swords and puts it on his back, there seemed to be a small hole knitted to his jacket. It resembles the one that you often found on a jeans, the place where you would put your belt in it. Putting it directly at the place. His swords stayed on his back.

"Let's go find Maro quick!" Aylife said as he dashes to the direction they came from. As soon as he saw Yuri, "Yuri! I'm glad you're safe." Aylife said as Yuri smiled brightly at him. He nods before running to the door, which opened automatically.

Shade, April and Yuri followed him from behind. Aylife looked around frantically as he saw a few guards looking at him. He gritted his teeth as he grabbed his golden sword, and hit both of them before they could make a report on the walkie-talkie. Shade looked toward the blue haired traveller when April spoke up.

"Aylife~! Firodile is in danger! He's still out there fighting a big worm!"

"Firodile?" he turned his head around for a while, before turning it back to the front. "He's going to be fine. Besides, a giant worm is nothing compare to him." Aylife said without concern.

Shade wondered by himself. He trusted that pervert against that giant worm? Did he even know how big was the worm was?

Yuri stayed silent as the wall beside Aylife was suddenly destroyed. A white mist began to came out as Shade tried to look over the mist, seeing that two silhouette was dodging each other's attack. As the mist was cleared, they could see X and Jet in a fast-paced battle of dodging and slashing.

"Get going Aylife!" X said in the midst of his battle. "Maro should be located at the end of this hallway! Everyone should be headed right there!"

Aylife took some time before recognizing the voice. "Oh, X! Thanks for telling us the way!" Jet was caught off guard, as X used this momentum to push him away from the path. His skin had turned a bit red, as if he was overheating from all of the intensity.

"Hah... now go! I'll hold him off as long as I could!" X said, Aylife nodded as he passes by X, Shade and Yuri does the same as April hopped in front of him.

"Don't die now okay~?" she said, making the robot flushes despite his overheating state.

"I-I WON'T APRIL!" she nods as she ran to catch up to others. X grinned like a pervert, before sensing something coming his way.

A dark blast was heading his way. He dodged at the last minute possible, as Jet appeared from it, his sword was close to his neck, realizing that he had lose his cool. X gritted his teeth and lets out his jet thruster, slamming himself into Jet before the blade could cut his head off.

"I WON'T LET YOU CATCH UP TO THEM!"

Aylife kicked open a door at the end of the hallway, which lead to a gigantic lab that reveals a part of the giant cube Shade and the others saw before.

In the middle of the room was the man who is responsible for all of the kidnapping, Xitalu and his assistant Delta. Who turned around with a serious glare, not until she saw Aylife's face. The room were filled all kind of monster that resemble from the previous one that attacked him.

"Ah. They're finally here." Xitalu said, expecting this to happen with all of the explosion happening in this giant lab.

"Xitallu!" Aylife mispronounced the man's name, as he felt ticked by his mistake. "Where's Maro? Give her back or I'll beat you up!"

"Cocky brat... you won't be able to save her this time!" Xitalu said, he pulled out his hand from his pocket and showed a red button, and pressed it. The giant wall and the walls were opened, revealing the gigantic cube instead of the part, a TV came from the floor, showing a footage of Maro. Her hands and legs were tied up what it seemed to look like an iris of an eye. As the camera zooms out, it reveals that on the top of the cube. There was a giant eye, the rope that ties Maro up was tied on it's eyelid. The eye wasn't moving away from where Maro is.

"Maro!" April shouted, seeing that her friend has become a hostage.

"Let me tell you something... this giant thing is called the Eye Cube. It has the ability to destroy this planet's fake reality!" he laughed menacingly, smiling toward the traveller and the demon. "For us to activate this, it requires years and years of patience for it to absorb the life force of the planet itself. And then a strong power source to complete it." he pointed at Maro who was in the TV. "And she is the perfect Key for that!"

Aylife listened quietly, pulling out his swords from his back. "She's beyond saving now human! There's nothing you can do now!" Xitalu shouted, Aylife's eyes flashes at this statement.

"...You don't have the right to say that..." April muttered, grabbing the attention of the professor. "Maro... is our friend... She won't lose to some big eye!" April bursts, tears in her eyes.

"Who are you to talk? That eye has been here for more than 1000 years! There's no way a human like her could resist a strong being that has been living that long!" Xitalu said, as Shade stepped up. His claws unsheathed.

"Just shut up already you annoying prick." Xitalu was ticked by this as Delta hold him back, telling him to stay calm. He sighed before fixing his glasses that almost fell off his face.

Shade closed his eye, and opened it back, revealing a crimson red eye glaring at the monsters around them. "Hey Aylife." Aylife looked at the demon. "If you really care about that girl, then you better save her quick." he glanced at the blue haired traveler. "She's your friend, right?"

"Don't tell me what to do." Aylife said back angrily, as he stood beside Shade. "I will save even without you asking me too!"

April smiled at this as she walked to them, Yuri was just hiding in a corner. Uuhh... I feel so useless here... she thought to herself. As the trio stood still in place, the monster were glaring at them as if they've found a new food.

"Foolish brats... get them!" Xitalu commanded, the monster howls to the sky and charged toward them.

TO BE CONTINUED

Next time on Dimension Traveller!

"Hang in there. Maro!" -X

"Oh, isn't that Aylife and April?" -?