"Is that a huge pipe?" Sieg said as he intensely stared at the Plom-met pipe. As the group began to walk, they had been interrupted by a huge red pipe with blue arrows covering it's entire….figure?

"Um, Sieg. I think it's best if you don't question it." Sieg felt Neptune's hand on his shoulder as she said that.

"Alright, let's get the action started!" Rushing towards the Plom-met, Uzume yelled into her megaphone. Strangely enough to Sieg, the Plom-met grunted when the sound waves came into direct contact.

"Why is the pipe making human noises?"

"Sieg, it's your imagination." Neptune said, trying to reassure him that the pipe did not talk.

"But it-"

"Imagination Sieg. Imagination." With that said, with her dual wielded swords out, she made quick work of the Plom-met with effortless sword strikes.

"Um Sieg, I know that you're new to our world, but most of the population in these dungeons are enemies." Nepgear said.

"I-I understand. No matter how strange looking they look like, they are still enemies." Sieg unsheathed his sword as to prepare for what's to come.

A few minutes later…..

"...Is this one harmless?" Sieg asked the group as they were dealing with a Survival Machine.

"Huh? Sieg, yes that's an enemy as well!" After dodging a laser from the Survival Machine, Nepgear answered Sieg's strange question.

"But...it's a cat right?" Sieg pointed at the Kupokitty that continued to stare at him waiting for his next move.

"Sieg remember! No matter how they look, they are still our enemy!" Nepgear answered again as she swung her sword down at the robot, defeating it. Sieg paid no mind to Nepgear as he was petting the Kupokitty, which was purring from Sieg's petting.

"Sieg!" Nepgear started to rush to Sieg's side.

A few more minutes pass….

"..."

"Sieg, that's-" Nepgear and everyone else but Sieg sweatdropped at the new enemy in front of them.

"Our enemy…" Sieg rushed at the Christmas enemy and cut the portrait into two.

"I think we should skip some of these enemies….anyone agree?" Neptune asked. Only the hands of Nepgear and Uzume went up.

Even more minutes pass…

"Finally, we reached the boss room!" Neptune celebrated. After skipping all of these monsters, it made quite an easy journey to find the room where they needed to be. According to Uzume and Nepgear, the share energy seemed to be radiating from the purple room that they were currently inside of.

"I feel like we skipped out on a bunch of experience points…" Uzume's head hung low missing the opportunity to level up even more.

"Experience points?" Sieg asked with his head tilted to the side.

"Gee Sieg, have you ever played a video game before? I mean, who doesn't know about experience points?"

"Master...I haven't played a video game before…"

"..." Neptune looked at Sieg with her mouth agape, and widened eyes.

"Alright so Sieg. Experience points are the points for leveling up. Each time you defeat a monster, you gain experience or EXP for short." Nepgear explained.

"Does this leveling up help you grow stronger?"

"Of course, every single one of stats boost when you level up. Let's talk about this later. We have some share energy to store up!" Neptune and the others walked up the ramp to the center of the room.

"I've been waiting children." Hearing those words, everyone looked to see Arfoire in the center of the stage.

"Wait, Arfoire!? Why are here!?"

"Tch. I should've known." Uzume clenched her fist in frustration.

"Well we are talking about you two after all. It's like guiding a pack of monkeys to their cage. I knew that the both of you would be attracted to the share crystal's power." Arfoire answered.

"This was a setup afterall." Uzume said.

"Correct. It's way too predictable when all I have to do is use a silly crystal to draw you all in. What fools you are."

"I'm the one who found it you know!" A familiar voice had caught Nepgear and Neptune's attention.

"Wait, that voice…" Nepgear knew who that was. It was someone who caused pain for her and her sister.

"Crostie!"

"How's it hanging Neptune? Having fun with your new friends? It seems that you were able get a hot boyfriend too!" Croire said as she looked at the group.

"Besides getting the new friends part, it's no fun at all! You left me behind to almost die out of pure loneliness! And Sieg is not my boyfriend just so we're clear!"

"Whoops, my bad. Coming to this world had got me kind of excited. The huge amount of negative energy that comes from a single world is something rare to find." Croire said.

"Nepsy, this is the Crostie that you've been talking about?"

"Actually the name's Croire. Some bimbo head over there began calling me that for so many painful years!"

"Take that back Crostie! You know that you had fun with me for all of those years! There's no point in hiding it! You might've been a book, but I can tell when your having fun! I can read you know!" Neptune yelled in a hurtful tone.

"...And this is why I'm glad I broke free from that prison. Anyway, you for sure know that Croire is related to "chronicle" so stop calling me that stupid name!" Anyone could tell that Croire was beginning to feel heated up.

"Chronicle as in a historical account?" Umio asked.

"Where...where did you come from? A-Anyway, nice work fish brains. Yes, I can record history. Whenever I travel to a new dimension, I record all of the history from that dimension."

"Wait, that sounds like a pretty important job. Why is someone like that hanging around with some purple skinned hag?" Arfoire began to glare at Uzume after she said that.

"If I'm with someone like her, then the history that I record is going to get really juicy. She's one step away from destroying this dump of a world. Do you know how rare it is see a world come to a end?" Croire smiled.

"So…. you aren't our ally then? Umio asked.

"Dumb question. I ain't anyone's ally. All I want is to record some good history!"

"..The destruction of this world? If that is truly your goal, then you are our enemy." With that said, Sieg unsheathed his sword once again, and rushed at the two villainous enemies.

Sieg's sword collided with Arfoire's spear in a breathing second.

" I'll admit, you are really strong, but you won't be defeated me with that pathetic strength!" As she began to use some of her energy, Sieg parted their weapons away from each other and gained some distance away from her.

"I've regained a huge amount of my power, so don't think I'll be taken down again so easily!"

"I care less of the power gap between us. I've defeated you before with tactics and I will simply do it again." Positioning himself with sword once again, he prepared for the fight against Arfoire.

"We'll just see about that boy."

"Woah! Calm down for a second hotshot! We haven't even brought out the fighting stage!" Croire yelled out.

"Sieg has a point Crostie. If you both want to the destroy the world, then I have no other choice but to stop you as well." Neptune got into battle stance with her dual wielded blades.

"Why don't you just abandon these boring twerps? C'mon it'll be fun you know. We'll get to see the world end together."

"No thanks. I can't just abandon these people. With the little time I had with them, I still consider them as my friends. I'll seal you back up in the Nep-note for good this time! That is something I promised myself when coming here."

"I see. It's a shame. You would be missing out on some rare history. Oh well then." Croire was about to leave the stage until Neptune spoke:

"I've considered you as a friend too Croire. I might be a blockhead, but I'm not some person that would abandon their friends." Croire immediately turned around to look at Neptune when she actually called her by her name for once.

"...Friends. Yeah right." With that said, Croire became quiet.

"Croire, if you're done with this pathetic gossip, then leave. I have some work to be done and it involves killing a certain foolish boy." Arfoire said as she was clearly aggravated.

"Geez, don't blow a fuze will ya? Don't lose now, I still want to see this world coming to an end." Before leaving, Croire looked at Neptune that could potentially be the last time they see each other again.

"See ya, "friend." With that said, the room was entirely coated with darkness. The only thing that could be heard was Arfoire's maniacal laughter.

Um, so cliffhanger. Yeah…..I'm so sorry! I wanted to make this scene a bit more different from the game, and as you can tell, I don't know if its good or not. So next chapter is the final chapter for the Zero Dimension. After next chapter, Sieg is going to have more troubles in his path in the Hyper Dimension that involves a certain blue haired girl. See you later guys.