Lloyd was breathing heavily after making it into the control room just by hair. He had to press his hands on his kneecaps to support himself, but he kept his cold glare on Tiberius the whole time.

Tiberius had his back turned to Lloyd and was pressing an assortment of buttons and dials on the control panels. As he hit the buttons, Lloyd could hear the sounds of the heavy weapon charging outside, ready to fire and cause complete annihilation.

"So, I see the son of Kratos has made it all the way here," Tiberius said, not turning to Lloyd. As he continued to press buttons on the controls, Lloyd started speaking.

"Tiberius, you gotta stop this now!" Lloyd yelled. "This is an entire world we're talking about here! Real people are going to die if you don't stop this!"

Tiberius snickered and turned around.

"As I was saying," Tiberius said, "the son of Kratos made it here. Several times I've heard the stories of Kratos from the Kharlan War and I even heard that he had a son. I always knew that somebody, one of us superior Tiberians would put you away, but never in a million years did I think that Tiberian would be me."

"You're not going to kill me," Lloyd promised, trying to keep his courage up. "You can stop this right now, you know."

Tiberius just started laughing. "Don't think bargaining now is going to help you anymore."

"Tiberius, you're just doing this because of something you were taught growing up, and the people who taught it to you were taught by someone else. All you're doing is holding a grudge for something that happened thousands of years ago. I'll bet you don't even know why you want to destroy Aselia now!" Lloyd tried to reason.

Tiberius didn't say anything; he just turned around and stared out a gigantic window that showed just how high up they were. They were both standing in the top room of Tower Tiberia, and it looked like it was literally hundreds of feet in the air. The only way Lloyd could tell which soldiers down on the ground were from Tiberia and which were from Meltokio were from the color clothes they were wearing.

"Perhaps you don't know what this room is for," Tiberius said, still not looking to Lloyd. "Allow me to demonstrate."

As he finished saying that, a red button started flashing in front of Tiberius on the control panel. He mashed the button with the side of his fist, and a loud whirring sound was heard.

Lloyd started looking around very quickly as he tried to figure out where the noise was coming from. It wasn't until too late when he realized what it was.

Lloyd ran over to a window and he could see the laser above them. Suddenly, the laser let out a giant thick beam of energy (Lloyd assumed it was mana) and it hit a group of ten Meltokio soldiers. All of them were obliterated on impact, and the only things that remained of any of them after the beam disappeared were piles of ashes.

"Holy cow…" Lloyd said breathlessly when he saw the laser's magnitude.

Tiberius started chuckling. "And that was only on low-power," he hissed. "Wait until you see the destruction I can cause when I fully charge it. Your pitiful world of Aselia will be nothing but dust after I'm through."

Lloyd pulled out both of his material blades. "Tiberius, this is your last chance! Stop the weapon right now!"

Tiberius turned back towards Lloyd and pulled out his giant sword and got in a fighting position.

"Your death will make my victory all the more worthwhile," Tiberius said heartlessly.

Lloyd didn't take a moment after that. He charged at Tiberius with both of his material blades in an attack position, and before long, the two of them were viciously swinging at each other.

Lloyd was now swinging his material blades so quickly that they were nothing more than blurs of red and blue. But Tiberius had his share of lightning-quick reflexes as well. Every single time Lloyd swung with one of his swords, he was able to block Lloyd's swings every single time. Several times, the two swords clashed so quickly and forcefully that a spark or two came flying out.

Tiberius finally got the upper hand and shoved his sword right on top of Lloyd's, but with enough pressure to make it impossible for Lloyd to fight back.

Lloyd soon found himself knocked on the ground, and Tiberius was just about to finish him off with a quick stab to the throat.

Instinctively, Lloyd put up both of his material blades in a crossed formation and created a block for Tiberius's swords. The two combatants pushed their swords against each other, desperate to be the one to come out on top. (Especially Lloyd-his life was literally over if he didn't win)

"You're…not going…to…win…Tiberius," Lloyd struggled to say as he pushed his two material blades against Tiberius's giant sword.

"Just give in," Tiberius said with a wicked smile on his face.

"…no," Lloyd said.

The struggle between the two kept going for some time before Lloyd finally had one last ounce of strength and pushed Tiberius away. Lloyd promptly flung up without using his hands and put both of his material blades in a striking position again.

Tiberius only needed a moment to recover, though. By the time Lloyd was ready to start fighting again, so was Tiberius.

Tiberius started charging violently at Lloyd with the tip of his sword pointing right at him.

Just as the blade would have gone right through Lloyd, Lloyd jumped in the air and did a frontward somersault over him. He gracefully landed on his two feet behind Tiberius and started attacking as if nothing had ever happened.

Tiberius soon turned around and scowled at Lloyd, but it wasn't long before the two of them started fighting again.

Tiberius took one heavy swing at Lloyd's head, and Lloyd ducked just in the nick of time. As a result, Tiberius's sword ended up making a huge slice across the wall of the control room and leaving a very visible mark there. (it only proved more to Lloyd had painful it would be should he get hit by that sword)

Lloyd decided that he had to start doing a few quick moves. He started casting a series of demon fangs across the room.

Tiberius, however, had no trouble jumping over the series of waves as they came hurtling towards him. Lloyd was pretty disappointed to see his attack wasn't as reliable as it usually was.

Suddenly, Tiberius stopped moving and pointed the tip of his sword right at Lloyd. "If you think you're going to win that easily, then you're in a for a real shock, kid!"

The tip of Tiberius's sword started glowing and a thick steam of lightning came out of it, and it was heading right towards Lloyd. Lloyd took one giant leap back and put up his vorpal sword in the path of the lightning bolt. The sword absorbed the bolt, but that was it.

" 'You're in for a real shock, kid'? Come on, I've heard Yuan make wittier remarks," Lloyd taunted to Tiberius.

Instead of making a comeback, Tiberius jumped right in front of Lloyd and then jumped in the air. He instantly started firing more bolts of electricity from his sword and aimed them directly at Lloyd.

In order to avoid getting hit by the powerful lighting, Lloyd had to make giant jumps all across the room. He started jumping so fast and so far to save himself that one would think that he was a human monkey. (Which wasn't too far off from what Raine and Genis considered him a lot of the time)

When Tiberius landed, he stopped firing the electricity from his sword. He gave Lloyd a sneer and started swinging his sword again.

Just to defend himself, Lloyd had to put up both of his material blades and put them up very quickly so he wouldn't get stabbed. The fight went on for a very long time before Lloyd finally got a slight advantage.

After taking a small step back, Lloyd took his vorpal sword and he ducked. As soon as he ducked, he swung the icy blue sword around and he skinned Tiberius's ankle with it. The slice tore open the part of Tiberius's pant leg where Lloyd hit, and it revealed a gashed open wound with a fresh trail of blood trickling from it.

Tiberius didn't seem to take any affect to this, as he only continued fighting just as hard as he did before. He jumped right in front of Lloyd and started to bring down his sword as if he were about to chop Lloyd in half vertically.

Lloyd put up his two material blades to block, but he was clearing getting tired. If he had to keep continuously blocking to insure he would stay alive, then the fight wouldn't go on for much longer.

Tiberius was clearly growing more and more frustrated with how Lloyd refused to give in. But now he had a new strategy. Instead of just trying to push Lloyd's blade away and have the upper hand for a moment or so, Tiberius instead resorted to lifting the blade away from Lloyd's until the swords were a few inches apart. He then started mercilessly smashing his giant sword back down on top of Lloyd's two smaller ones.

Tiberius just kept smashing Lloyd's material blades harder with each blow. And every time Tiberius's blades made contact and were rammed into Lloyd's two swords, Lloyd audibly grunted louder.

Lloyd clearly would not last much longer. At long last, Tiberius performed an uppercut with his sword and knocked the flamberge out of Lloyd's hand. Lloyd let out a small gasp when he realized how huge trouble he was in, but he didn't have much time for it.

Less than an instant later, Tiberius stuck his sword right into one of Lloyd's ribs. Lloyd started moaning in pain and he dropped his vorpal sword. His eyes were squeezed shut and his teeth were grit. All traces of color had left his skin tone as he fell on his knees.

After kneeling on his knees for just a few seconds, Lloyd just collapsed on the ground and didn't move.

Tiberius started snickering to himself. He started taking his foot and lightly nudging Lloyd's side with it. Lloyd moved and flinched a little, indicating he was still alive.

"Heh, you are one stubborn kid," Tiberius remarked. "I think I'll torture you for a while."

Instead of dealing a final blow to Lloyd and finishing him, Tiberius went back over to the controls. He sheathed his sword as he got back and cast Lloyd a dirty look.

"I at least want you to be alive when you see this, kid," Tiberius said.

Lloyd only let out a small moan. He took his hand and pressed it against the spot on his ribs where Tiberius had stabbed him. He removed his hand only to see it encased with blood. This was probably the most serious wound Lloyd had ever gotten in a battle.

"Tiberius…don't…" Lloyd moaned as he slowly started reaching his open hand out.

Tiberius started laughing like a maniac. "And to think you thought you could beat me! Hmmmm…for the son of one of Mithos's Four Seraphim, I expected more a fight from you."

Tiberius turned his attention back to the controllers and started hitting a few buttons. Instantly, Lloyd felt the cold metal tile from beneath him start rumbling. It almost sounded like something was collapsing from beneath the floor.

The walls started shaking and rumbling themselves quite a bit. Lloyd honestly thought Tiberius had done something to make the entire place around them start collapsing.

"Tiberius…" Lloyd tried to mutter through his own pain and through the noise of the loud, shaking control room. "…no…"