After all Tiberians had either been killed, surrendered or were forced to retreat, Lloyd and his group took back their leader, Zyn, to hold him as a hostage and to hopefully find out anything useful. Anything would work as long as it would give them an edge.

Zyn was taken back to the place where Lloyd and his friends were spending the night. His weapons were taken from him and they made it very clear to him that he would get a painful stab wound to a non-lethal spot if he tried anything suspicious.

Zyn was thrown in the corner of the small room with everybody giving him a hostile expression. He had to breathe deeply and try to come to his senses before the group could question him about anything.

"Kill me if you'd like," Zyn coldly said, a few patches of blood appearing on his dark mustard colored uniform. "It's not going to stop Tiberia from destroying your world."

"That's exactly what we want to talk about!" Lloyd insisted. "We wanted to know why you want to destroy our world when we haven't done a thing to you!"

"What are you talking about?" Zyn said, starting to wake up a little.

"Your army was trying to destroy Aselia!" Lloyd recalled. "You sent a bunch of troops down here to try to retrieve that crystal so you could power up that giant space weapon and completely annihilate us."

"It was out of defense," Zyn calmly said.

"Defense?" Lloyd asked, a strong hint of confusion making its way into his voice patterns. "What was there to defend yourself from?"

"Don't play dumb," Zyn said. "You and your military wanted to obliterate our world. You can't deny that."

"Where did you get that from?" Yuan asked, stepping in. "This world has no ties to Tiberia."

"Of course it does!" Zyn yelled. "You wanted to destroy us!"

"Look, I don't know where you're getting this from, but whatever it is, it's a bunch of garbage," Lloyd scolded. "None of us have ever heard of Tiberia, right guys?"

Lloyd turned around to his comrades and received a chorus of "Yeah"'s, "That's rights"'s, and several other phrases to represent an agreement.

"You all cannot be serious," Zyn said, shocked at the group's ignorance of Tiberia.

"None of us even knew it existed before you guys showed up," Genis said in an understanding tone to the Tiberian commander.

"But…that's not…" Zyn stuttered. "You must be joking."

" 'fraid not," Lloyd casually said, never once taking his eyes off Zyn.

A long silence followed. The group was completely confused about what was going on. They knew that their world had no ties to Tiberia before they invaded, and Zyn was sure that their world was going to be destroyed unless they did something about it and attacked Aselia.

"Obviously, there's been a miscommunication," Raine said, crossing her arms.

"Hmmm…no ties to Tiberia," Yuan said. He meant to be thinking to himself, but in reality, he was talking out loud. "That's definitely true. Unless Tiberia is…"

Lloyd turned around and stared at Yuan with fascination. "Did you say something?"

Yuan grunted. "It's nothing. Let's keep hearing Zyn's side of the story."

"Our army received information that your world was going to destroy ours!" Zyn yelled in an aggressive way at the people taking him hostage. "We had to come down here, retrieve the crystal and destroy you; it was the only way to insure our own world wouldn't be destroyed."

Lloyd pulled out his sword, staring at the man he considered to be responsible for this entire situation from the very beginning. "You're a commander, and you told everyone you thought we were going to destroy you!"

"Lloyd, put the sword away," Yuan calmly ordered.

"But…"

"Put it away!"

Scowling, Lloyd sheathed his Flamberge and went back to staring at Zyn. He crossed his arms and waited for somebody to say something.

"You're absolutely positive you heard that our world wanted to destroy yours?" Raine asked. "None of us even knew a world called Tiberia existed until your army intruded."

"But this cannot be true!" Zyn yelled. "I don't trust you people! I want to ask some civilians if they've ever heard of Tiberia!"

The entire group escorted Zyn out of the inn and followed him to wherever he was going. There were still a few people out on the streets at night, and Zyn asked each and every single one of them if they had ever heard of Tiberia or if their world had any intention on destroying it. And the look was completely the same from all of them: confused and annoyed.

Zyn was led back to the room at the inn where they were staying the night. He had a look of disbelief written all over him.

"So, think we're a bunch of chumps now?" Zelos asked in a cocky tone while giving Zyn an unpleasant glare.

"I…I don't understand," Zyn said, looking at the floor. His facial expressions appeared to be a mixture of anger, confusion, and maybe even a little bit of disappointment. "But…I was told…"

"Zyn," Lloyd said with a sad expression, "We're not horrible people here. We wouldn't go around trying to destroy a world for no reason at all."

"Surely you've figured it out by now?" Raine asked in an equally depressing voice. "Our world was doing nothing to try to hurt you."

Zyn looked like he had a thousand thoughts rummaging through his mind at that moment. His blue eyes met the floor, not knowing where else to turn. After a long time, he looked up.

"This may seem a bit shallow, but I have a request," he pleaded as he looked at the people who were taking him captive.

Yuan scoffed. "You honestly think we should grant your request after you just led an attack on us in hopes of killing us?"

"I know it's selfish," Zyn said, "and for that, I apologize. But I need to get back to Tiberia. I am convinced that the knowledge we were given was incorrect."

"And what do you honestly hope to do there?" Yuan asked, suspicious.

"I'm going to report to my leader that we were wrong about you guys being the enemies," Zyn explained.

"Your leader?" Lloyd asked. "You mean you're not the one in command of the Tiberian army?"

"Me?" Zyn asked. He started laughing, which is the first time the group ever saw him do it. "Please. Do I honestly look like a leader of an army?"

Lloyd started to say something, but Yuan cut him off. "Very well. We'll take you to Tiberia."

A smile spread across Zyn's face. "Thank you so much! Are you going to use those devices that I've seen you use before to escape?"

"You mean these?" Lloyd asked as he pulled his teleporter out of his pocket.

"That's it!" Zyn said, starting to get slightly excited. "Can those take us to Tiberia?"

"Yeah," Lloyd said.

Lloyd didn't waste a moment from there. Hitting the button on his teleporter, a bright blend of white lights began cascading around the new group of ten.

After the lights cleared, the group once again found themselves in Tiberia. The world looked exactly the way Lloyd remembered it, but for everyone else in their party (with the exception of Zyn) was experiencing it for the very first time.

The group began staring at the works of architecture and buildings and eyed them very carefully and admirably. (except for Raine-she stopped every couple of steps to really study the houses, the roads, even the rocks and see how much Tiberia differed from their own world)

Zyn led the group through the long streets. Several Tiberian civilians stared at the group like they were aliens (when they actually weren't too different from) and didn't say a word. They did, however, seem to take a bit more kindly to everyone once Zyn passed them a glance that appeared to say, "Don't worry, they're not going to hurt you."

"Wow, Tiberia isn't much different from our own home!" Genis blurted out during the walk.

"Yes," Regal said sternly. "It would appear as though these people are very similar to us."

"Just because they are from another world doesn't mean they are completely different from us," Presea sadly said. "Those that come from other worlds do have feelings, just like all of us here. They are no different than us except for the world they live in."

"Yeah," Lloyd said, slowly realizing it. "And to think I once considered them war-lovers…"

Raine smacked Lloyd hard over the head. "Don't you dare ever be prejudice like that again!"

"Ow…" Lloyd whined, clutching the sore spot on his head.

The group continued walking for a very long time. Everyone seemed to be getting tired. When Zyn noticed how everyone seemed to be clearly getting weaker, he offered them a few words of encouragement: "We're almost there".

And indeed they were. In just a few short minutes, the group was standing at the entrance to the headquarters. Yuan wanted everyone to build that weapon so they could break down the door to the headquarters, but maybe Zyn would render that weapon completely useless by talking to his leader about why the war was even going on in the first place.

The hallways to the headquarters were long and seemed very creepy. There was just something dark and foreboding about the entire place that made it seem like bad news. The lights hanging from the ceiling reflected off the yellow uniform that Zyn was wearing, making his outfit look brighter. The reflected light showed itself on the dark gray walls of the headquarters.

After leading the group through all the hallways and forcing them to make sudden turns several times, he finally came to a stop in front of a large door.

Lloyd then looked at Zyn, and his face suddenly looked very malicious and hateful. A wicked sneer spread across his face as he banged on the door.

"Lord Tiberius!" Zyn screamed excitedly. "I have them!"

"What?..." Lloyd asked, his voice heightening.

The door slowly opened and a figure walked out. He seemed rather tall and had hair that was very dark. A few bangs of hair hung in front of the man's face, partly covering his piercing green eyes. His uniform was completely silver, from the collar down to his shoes. He had no metals, merits, badges or anything symbolizing rank; it was obvious enough just by looking at his uniform that he was probably the one in charge.

As soon as the man in the silver uniform walked completely out of the door, Zyn got on one knee and bowed down to him.

The man in silver clothes started snickering. "So, Zyn, these are the ones who destroyed my space station and temporarily thwarted my plans?"

"Zyn, what's going on!" Lloyd yelled.

"This better not be what it looks like," Sheena said coldly.

"Yes, lord Tiberius," Zyn said, getting back on both feet. "These are indeed the ones."

Tiberius, the one in the silver uniform, turned towards Lloyd's group. "I was hoping just to catch the one responsible for my space station being destroyed and the crystal getting lost forever, but to have all your companions is more than I could have asked for," he said in a very plain, but very masculine tone.

"Zyn…you rotten…"

Zyn laughed when he looked at the shocked looks on Lloyd's face. "I hope you don't mind being executed, because I have a feeling it's about to happen very soon."

"Wonderful work, Zyn," Tiberius said with a smile on his face. After finishing this statement, he clapped his hands and several guards came out.

All the guards looked like high-ranked Tiberian soldiers. They pointed their swords at Lloyd and his party, ready to kill in case any of them tried to do something.

"Oh, and by the way, I hope you weren't planning on escaping with these," Zyn said with an insincere grin on his face. He reached into his pocket and pulled out two small black boxes: Lloyd and Yuan's teleporters.

"What!" Lloyd yelled. "But how'd you?..." Lloyd started frantically feeling all the pockets in his shirt and pants, hoping to find the teleporter in one of them, but he had no luck. Yuan's appeared to truly have been gone, as well.

"Once again, Zyn, wonderful work," Tiberius complemented. "Guards, take these intruders to the dungeon. I shall spend all of tonight thinking of what way I'll like to see them die the most."

Lloyd and his group were led off by the guards to the dungeon where they would spend the rest of their final night alive. As they were walking away, Lloyd turned around and looked at Zyn as he was being led off.

Zyn stared back at Lloyd with a cold glare that Lloyd had no idea what was meant to be said by it.

The nine of them were in the dungeon now and the guards locked the door. In the jail cell, Lloyd looked at his allies…no, his friends. Genis, Colette, Raine, Zelos, Sheena, Regal, Presea and Yuan. All of them had looks of despair on their faces. They were all evidently furious about Zyn just double crossing them like that. And without their teleporters, the group had no hope of making it out.

Lloyd continued looking at his friends. He knew that tonight would be the final night any of them would be alive.