Lloyd took the risk of rolling out of the way while he had a sword at his throat. It worked and the commander's blade never even brushed up against him while dodging.

Lloyd sprung up and looked the commander in the eye. The commander was obviously angry that he didn't kill Lloyd while he had the opportunity. To make up for this, he started savagely attacking the moment Lloyd was on his feet.

Lloyd had to rely heavily on both of his material blades in order to keep himself alive and out of harm's way from the commander's heavy swings. Lloyd started ducking very quickly in order to keep himself safe, but he knew that wouldn't be too helpful after he got tired.

The commander seemed to be getting a bit more tired as well as the two continued clashing blades and doing their best to finish the other. But both seemed equal in strength and capability, and it looked like the fight would never end.

Lloyd jumped back after a few swings so the two of them were now several feet apart. He then started casting a series of Demon Fangs at the commander.

The commander saw all the attacks coming right for him, but he seemed to dodge them without too much trouble. He jumped over all the waves Lloyd's attack created as he started getting closer and closer to Lloyd. After the commander made the last jump, he was only inches from Lloyd.

Lloyd got both of his material blades in a fighting position again as the commander pulled out his sword. Both of them immediately started clashing their swords once again, but this time, much more violent and much faster. If either one of them let their guard down for a split second, it would definitely mean instant death.

Finally, Lloyd just came to a realization. "This is stupid," he thought to himself as he was fighting. Lloyd tried to make one quick kick to the commander's stomach and succeeded.

The commander fell on the ground, but he was up in a moment. But knocking the commander onto the ground and finishing him wasn't Lloyd's objective. Instead, Lloyd used that small bit of extra time to reach into his red shirt and pull out the teleporter. Lloyd mashed the button on his teleporter, and the bright lights sent him away.

The commander stared in awe, confusion and rage when he saw that Lloyd had gotten away. "What the…" he managed to choke out.

Meanwhile, Lloyd saw all the bright lights cascading around him as he felt like he was riding through an invisible roller coaster. When the lights finally cleared and he slowly felt like he was no longer moving, he once again found himself in the dark realm of Derris-Kharlan.

Lloyd knew the way well enough by now after being teleported there numerous times over the course of his new journey. He was looking for Yuan.

Lloyd started making his way down the long rock paths of Derris-Kharlan. This time, he wasn't disturbed in the slightest by how lifeless and how empty the entire place was. With Kratos gone, the new invasion in Iselia and the thought that maybe the journey wasn't over after all, Lloyd had more important things to worry about.

After running the fairly long distance, Lloyd finally found Yuan in his usual spot. Yuan almost seemed to be expecting Lloyd, because he was already facing in Lloyd's direction with his arms crossed, patiently waiting for something to happen.

"Lloyd? What are you doing here?" Yuan calmly, yet assertively asked.

Lloyd took a moment to catch his breath. After bending down and supporting himself by clasping on to his kneecaps, he looked up to answer Yuan's question.

"Well, earlier today I was down on Iselia, and the next thing I know, the entire place is attacked."

"Attacked?"

"Yeah. Some guy in the Tiberian army came down with a bunch of his soldiers and destroyed Iselia all over again. When I tried fighting them off, they captured me and brought me to Tiberia.

"How?" Yuan asked, now confused. "I didn't think the portal was accessible during the daytime."

"It's not," Lloyd confirmed. "But they had some sorta device, I guess. They used it to bring me to Tiberia."

Yuan let a small "hmmmmm" escape from his sealed lips. He looked at Lloyd and said, "Lloyd, take me to Iselia and show me this device that they used."

Lloyd took out his teleporter and had it warp them to Iselia. When the lights cleared, the two were back in Lloyd's home village. Even Yuan seemed shocked at the destruction and the devastation that the Tiberian soldiers did to the town.

Yuan let out a small grunt and turned his attention back to Lloyd. "Show me their way of getting here."

Lloyd led Yuan to the device that he had to go through once the Tiberians captured him. Yuan investigated it for a while before he looked at Lloyd. "Well then, let's go."

"Wait, what are you talking about?" Lloyd asked.

"You're going to Tiberia to find out what's going on here," Yuan answered. "And I'm coming with you."

"Are you sure?" Lloyd asked. He thought the Tiberians would prove to be a real challenge even to a fighter of Yuan's magnitude. Seriously, look what they did to Kratos…

"Don't question me. Now go!" Yuan ordered.

Not even saying anything back, Lloyd ran into the giant device and Yuan followed. In a quick flash, they were both on Tiberia once again.

"How convenient," Yuan commented. "That'll be useful whenever we want to make a quick strike."

Lloyd didn't know what else to say. He looked in front of him, and sure enough, there was the giant building that served as the headquarters right in front of them. And once again, Lloyd noticed the amazingly high tower that was off far in the distance. He still had no idea what the very tall, very thin building was used for.

"Lloyd, is this their stronghold?" Yuan asked as he looked at the giant building in front of them.

"Yeah. This is their headquarters," Lloyd answered.

"I see. Then it looks like we're going to have to completely destroy this place," Yuan softly said. "Lloyd, what do you say about going in there now and making a mess of this place?"

"Sounds like a good idea to me," Lloyd said, ready for this nightmare to be over.

Yuan and Lloyd went over to the giant door that stood between them and the entrance to the headquarters. Lloyd tried opening the door, but it was locked.

"Err…" Lloyd grumbled. "I guess they locked it after they took me in so I wouldn't escape."

"Well, try to break it down then!" Yuan ordered.

Lloyd gave Yuan a bit of a dirty look for acting like an aggressive leader, but decided he had little choice. He took out both of his material blades and started slashing at the door with them.

The blades gave a high-decibel clashing sound every single time they swords came into contact with it. He tried striking the door over and over, but with little success. Lloyd even tried some of his stronger moves on it, but the door still didn't show any sign of weakening.

"It won't open," Lloyd said as he looked at Yuan.

Yuan scoffed and walked over to the door. "Move aside, Lloyd. I should have known to never send a kid to do a man's job."

"Excuse me?" Lloyd asked harshly, slightly offended.

Yuan didn't answer. He pulled out his giant sword and started swinging it full force at the massive door in front of him. He bashed it over and over, but he didn't have much luck either.

Yuan grumbled, but still persisted. He repeatedly struck the door with his mighty sword, but nothing happened.

Now Yuan was becoming stubborn. Even though he was clearly getting annoyed, he still tried his best to smash the door down. Lloyd started laughing to himself when he saw how angry Yuan was getting that the door wouldn't break down, despite how hard it was being hit. Lloyd thought it was pretty hilarious.

After Yuan had hit the door easily over thirty times with no success, he was panting heavily and looked very angry.

"What's the matter, Yuan?" Lloyd remarked. "Not manly enough to do a man's job?"

Yuan looked at Lloyd with an annoyed expression, but realized that the matter at hand was too important to be getting angry with Lloyd over.

"This door doesn't look like it's coming down," Yuan remarked. "Very well, then. Lloyd, we're going to have to make a giant weapon."

"Wait…what?" Lloyd asked.

"A giant weapon," Yuan answered. "We need to construct a weapon with enough force to blast this door down."

"Uh…okay," Lloyd said, not sure how Yuan planned on making a giant weapon. "Is there anything you want me to do?"

"Yes," Yuan precisely answered, almost like he was expecting Lloyd to ask that question. "I want you to find all your former companions from the journey of regeneration and gather them. They'll help us put the weapon together."

"Uh…okay," Lloyd said. "Wait a minute! What are you going to do?"

"I'm going to Derris-Kharlan to work on the design," Yuan calmly answered.

Before Lloyd could say a word, Yuan pulled out his teleporter and warped back to Derris-Kharlan. Lloyd could only stand there, not knowing what the heck he was supposed to do now.

"I…guess I should start rounding everyone up," Lloyd said to himself.

Just as he was about to pull out his teleporter and warp himself back to Iselia where he would start looking for everyone, a voice called out, "there he is!"

Lloyd turned around and he saw the giant door to the headquarters was open. Several Tiberian soldiers were standing there with their sharp boomerangs ready to go.

Lloyd pulled out his material blades and got ready to fight, but before he even started running close to them, one of the Tiberians threw their boomerang at Lloyd and hit him in the leg, knocking him to the ground.

As Lloyd fell to the ground, he looked up and expected to be finished by the Tiberians. But instead, they all parted and created an aisle, and the commander Lloyd had just finished fighting against was walking down the aisle.

"Ah, I see that was short lived," the commander said with a nasty look on his face. "I think it's time you gave up."

The commander beckoned for two of his soldiers to come over to him. The soldiers knew what to do immediately. They each grabbed one of Lloyd's arms and started dragging him into the headquarters.

"Where do we put him, sir?" one of the soldiers asked.

"Throw him in the dungeon," the commander calmly ordered.

Without hesitation, the two soldiers threw Lloyd down the long, solid flight of stairs into the dungeon, trying to cause him the most amount of pain possible.

Once Lloyd landed in the dungeon, he heard the sound of footsteps approaching. He looked up and saw that the Tiberian commander was walking right towards him. He put his hands on his hips and looked at Lloyd with a sick glare.

"Ha! You thought you got away. And you decided to come back here, anyway? Hmmmm…I don't see the logic in that, but it doesn't matter, because we have you now."

Lloyd tried getting up, but the moment he was pushing himself up, the Tiberian commander slugged him in the side of the head and knocked him back on the ground.

Lloyd moaned in pain as he slowly started trying to move, but ever single time he tried, the commander would just knock him on the side of the head again. Lloyd decided it would be smarted just to stay on the ground.

"There's a good boy," the Tiberian commander remarked when he saw that Lloyd wasn't going to try to fight or get up anymore. He turned his attention to a guard who was standing at the top of the staircase. "Inform everyone that we have a prisoner!" the commander ordered to the inexperienced soldier.

"Yes, Commander Zyn," the soldier obediently said as he ran off.

Zyn looked at the guard as he ran off, and then he turned his gaze back to Lloyd.