"The world is not just a single entity.
Another world similar to ours exists in another dimension."
As I have explained in the Home page, the story is about the second Chrono Trigger, Serge. And most of the story is based on time travel, so you will be going through two different parallel worlds many times in the game. In short, Serge is the key to this world splitting in El Nido Continent, he is to solve the mystery of El Nido. And this is the summary of the game. I didn't make it, this is all thanks to Terrageist and Crono228.
Serge, a nice kid from Arni village, is summoned (by a future Kid) into Another
after chatting with his girlfriend. He falls out of the sky on the beach to here
and finds out he's dead which sucks royally for him because he has no girlfriend
here (because he's dead) or a mom. His mom died of loneliness, or a broken heart,
a while ago. Sucks STILL more because Lynx and the Acacia Dragoons attack him
after he gets the morbid pleasure of reading his own grave. Worthe yet, he may
or may not be thtuck with a pink dog who hath a thpeech impediment.
Kid helps save his butt and they head off to Termina (after shaking the snot out of
pathetically pathetic Solt and Peppor). From here, they realize that they'll have to
go to Viper manor to figure out what's going on with the Frozen Flame. One way or
another they get there, but don't find the Flame. Harle warns them about Lynx (and
pisses off Kid) but they ignore her and press on. They find out about Lynx and Viper's
little deal and piss them off. To escape Lynx, Kid takes Viper's daughter, Riddel,
hostage but is stabbed and poisoned by Lynx, who confronts Serge and messes with his
head something nice.
They manage to get to Guldove, thanks to a kid named Korcha who seems very proud of
his body to wear so few clothes. Kid's dying, Harle visits and annoys, Serge sees a
Dragon priestess, a Hydra and an ecosystem die, Kid is saved and then robbed by Korcha's
bratty little sister, Mel(CHA!).
They get a boat some new friends, and head off to further the plot but bump into Another
Fargo's S.S. Invincible, a pirate ship. The pirates are big meanies until our gang saves
their butts from the ghost ship. Fargo gives them some info and they head off to a little
old man on a little island that's been attacked by a little Harlequin and beat her down
a little. Uh, Radius sez go get Blue Dragon's blessing, so off to Home world.
Unless you're insane, and braved Mt. Pyre WITHOUT the Ice Breath.
Let's see, our gang saves some faeries from some trolls, gets a couple gifts from the
Blue Dragon and heads back to Another.
Finally, they go to Mt. Pyre and Ft. Dragonia, solve some annoying yet simple puzzles,
confront Lynx, and Serge gets a wardrobe change, about 50 lbs. of muscle, 4 inches of
height (without the hat), and fur. Kid gets stabbed and abducted...sorta.
Serge...er...Lynx...er...you know, boinks around in |_1m8o for a while, meets a nice old
lady with a unique ability, gets a lecture from Harle and goes back to Home reality.
Problem is, he's hated/feared/not recognized in this new body, except by his mom (moms
are great that way) and Home's Radius, Arni's chief. Umn, they head up to sucktastic
Home Termina (thanks, Porre >_<) and then to the burnt-out shell of sucktastic
Viper Manor, where Norris explains stuff, like the fact that Home's Viper, Lynx, Harle,
and the Dragoons are MIA. Oh, somewhere here they also realize that they can't travel
between worlds anymore. (THANKS FOR NOTHING LYNX! err...SERGE...err...)
They investigate and find that they went to explore the Dead Sea to find the Frozen Flame
...and didn't come back. They decide the best thing to do would be to maybe check out the
Dead Sea. Oh, wait, they can't get into the Dead Sea, heh.
Wait, the demihuman sage of Home Marbule might know, Marbule is so close to the Dead Sea
and he's, like, a sage and all, but Home's Marbule is sucktastic thanks to Home's Fargo.
So our gang hitch aboard the S. S. Zelbess CRUISE ship where they have zany
misadventures! They have their boat cheated away, get turned into cats by a stage
magician, fight in a Pokemon battle--I MEAN the Zelbess Grand Slam (and either win, or
get creamed, like I did), and win their boat BACK after figuring out that cheating Home
Fargo's little scheme. Seriously, though, they might discover why Marbule is sucktastic,
make some friends, but might not quite convince Captain sucktastic Home Fargo to help
out. So they find the sage, and convince him to give our gang the key to the Dead Sea (and
aside, restore a little of his faith in humanity).
Oops, the entrance to the Dead Sea is also blocked by the EVIL Masamune. Home's Radius,
after giving some history on this, knows that to counter the Masamune, one needs the
Einlanzer (bleah...fake German). So, um, they get it, after fighting Garai's spirit at
the Isle of the Damned (guess he's still mad at Radius about the being killed thing).
Umm, they explore the Dead Sea, discover it's an unstable dimension, as in 1999 AD Leene
Dome Day of Lavos Ground Zero, with a little 2400 AD Time Crash ground zero thrown in,
spiced with 2300 AD's Dead World. Its condition wasn't helped by Lavos reaching across
time for Chronopolis, Schala's well-intentioned meddling, nor the dimension split.
It's like somebody took a big ol' scoop outta the Tesseract and smushed it on top of
Home's Chronopolis. Gee, I WONDER who can reach beyond the Tesseract to influence
time-space, hmmm? Ok, let me stop the sarcasm because Balthasar probably had a hand
in it too. FATE, despite its lack of power over either Frozen Flame (for different
reasons) managed to hold this place together and install Miguel as its guardian. Oh
yeah, all the people who ventured into the Dead Sea: Lynx, Harle, Viper, Riddel, and
Devas are dead.
CONJECTURE:
Oh, and it's very possible that Home's Kid went in too and also died.
I believe that there is only one FATE currently in existence. You see, there WERE
two FATEs when the world split, but they likely behaved as one since each was in tune
with the other dimension. Remember, FATE was in the past before the split and was
likely in both futures too, since they guided the development of the world. Also
the dragon gods do refer to the goddessES of FATE, perhaps knowing of her dual
physical existence. I believe, though, that Home's FATE was destroyed in the Time
Crash experiment when Schala started mucking with time-space while Another's FATE
was spared thanks to Schala's non-influence here. Still, one FATE in tune with both
worlds seems to be enough to hold it all together for a while...until Serge drops in.
Miguel and the CT kids explain all this, and Miguel challenges Serge on behalf of Fate
(in front of the ruins of the NADIA BELL AND LEENE SQUARE! How DARE he!). Serge & Co.
hand him his HolyDragSword buttocks and FATE, not wanting the Frozen Flame to awaken to
Serge's presence, nukes the place...HARD. Luckily, the Holy Sky Dragon, not wanting
this to end so soon, saves some sons of man and hints them on their next move.
Regaining the power to cross worlds, they...cross worlds, and find Another's Viper
and 2/3 the Devas at the Termina bar. The Acacian group are pretty teed off at
Lynx...now "Dark Serge," betraying them, and the fact that their absence allowed
Another's Porre army to finally make some headway into El Nido and kidnap Riddel.
They did take what's left of Another's Dragon Tear (of Hate) in hoping that it
would help somehow (does it ever!).
Our gang picks a Deva and goes to rescue Riddel from the EVIL (except for Mr. Norris
Niceguy) Porre empire. Um, they go in, deliver a few beatdowns (on Grobyc, Porre
soldiers, and dork sword mech), save the girl and a captive pirate captain, and
adopt a cyborG.
Everybody meets back at the S. S. Invincible and decides on a course of action: get
into Home's Ft. Dragonia and get Serge's body back, but not before obtaining Home's
Dragon's Tear (of Love), in Home's Guldove, which Steena will only give to those who
can beat down 6 dragon gods.
Um, to prepare to fight the dragon gods, they do cool subquests! First, they take
badass pirate Fargo to meet sucktastic casino Fargo, who, after getting tongue lashing
about the depths of his levels of suck, agrees that saving at least ONE Marbule might
be what Zelbess really wanted. So, Nikki and Miki sing, dance, and elaborately
perform the life back into Marbule. Home's Fargo finally gets a clue (and officialy
stops sucking) and Serge & Co. play exterminator, and piss off Another Marbule's sleeping
Black dragon god after Home's Marbule is cleansed and restored.
Next, Another's Riddel and Karsh discover (quite by accident) that Home's Dario was
not killed (possibly saved by the Masamune's power) and washed up on a tiny island,
except he has no memory. The Masamune goes all evil and now Serge, Riddel and
friends have to fight Dario. Um, they beat him, and Doreen drops in on Masa & Mune
and gives them a schooling about how holy swords should conduct themselves. Serge
now gets the 100% enmity-free, 3-spirit-enhanced MasterMune (GrandDream) swallow, after
the spirits leave the other sword and stop making Dario go nuts. Serge becomes an
overpowered butt-kicking machine, second only to Glenn with 2 Einlanzers (making X-Strike
so powerful I had to reset my PSX, thinking there was a glitch with my game). Norris
has the Porre army withdraw from Home's Viper Manor so that Riddel and Dario can
rebuild Home's sucktastic Viper ruins into a really nice orphanage for all the war
orphans. Despite otherworld differences, they continue their relationship and the
3 Devas are finally 4 again.
Finally, Serge allies with a space alien, who is NOT from the same planet Lavos is. I
mean, he's too gosh darned cute.
Ok, back to main plot. 6 Dragons get beaten down. The Dragon's Tear (of Love) is given
along with Home's only Dragon shaman, Steena (poor Direa). Harle gets frustrated with
all this and leaves the group. Serge & Co. get to Home's Ft. Dragonia and gets a
lovely lecture about how reptites really were supposed to inherit the planet and
humans are just a symptom of Lavos' presence. After enduring humanity's sucking
through history, SERGE FINALLY GETS HIS BODY BACK, and we get to see ALL of it.
...groan...
Uh...okay...Now they go to the Sea of Eden (the indirect way, through FATE's leftover
distortions) and visit Chronopolis. All right, I forgot WHY they go to Chronopolis.
Sue me. They find out looots of stuff, which has been more or less outlined in the
history and future sections so I shall NOT repeat myself. Anywho, FATE/Lynx/Dark Serge
is pleased to finally see Serge and friends. He/she/it's even more pleased to beat
them out of existence! Well, not until explaining why the whole Lynx body-switch thing,
which is to override the Prometheus software lock (poor Robo!) and mimic the genetic
makeup of the Frozen Flame's own Arbiter (Serge) in order to transfer control to FATE.
Now all that's left is to get rid of REAL Serge so he doesn't do anything like taking
back control of the Flame. Uh, FATE gets a beat down, and Serge finally finds Kid.
Unfortunately, Kid is not right in the head and possessed by a lot of enmity. Harle
tries to stop Kid but it's too late. Kid activates the Frozen Flame (thanks to her whole
Schala-Time Devourer connection) and our poor harlequin is forced to join the other
6 dragon gods to form the great Lunar Dragon. Oh, Sky Dragon Isle becomes Terra Tower
and the big, Flame-possessed Lunar Dragon is just itching to get a few eons worth
of vengeance on behalf of the planet. Of course, its "righteous indignation" is just
a tad perverted by the influence of the Frozen Flame.
At least, thanks to FATE's final destruction, the Dragon artifacts are freed. Serge and
Steena use the power of Divine Dragon falls, plus the 6 Dragon artifacts for supplication
(probably the last shred of the dragons' mercy) to merge the Dragons' Tears of Love and
Hate to form the lost 7th Element (really the sextessence of the other 6), HARLE! Well, no,
she's the spirit of the 7th Element, the dark moon, the result of 2 worlds forced apart and
then together again. Really, they form the Chrono Cross, the essence of the planet,
the final note in the melody and the harmony which can ultimately heal this planet's
shattered dream. Wow, I really went off there, didn't I?
Also, they save Kid using the power of the 3 essences of the MasterMune (after another
schooling by Doreen--this time, about mercy). Lucca, through Luccianna, gives Kid
a farewell message 9with an inside regard to Janus Zeal).
Anywho, Serge and friends borrow Starchild's anti-grav device from his flying saucer, whack
it onto the boat, and fly up to Terra Tower. They beat down some Elementals, and meet
Balthasar for one last time. He explains his and Lucca's rather LARGE part in all this and
basically says that all this work was just so Serge could get the Chrono Cross and the
Time Egg and save Schala. Belthasar wishes them luck and they reach the top where they get
o meet the Lunar Dragon and the TRUE Frozen Flame. After the fight of their lives, Terra Tower
undergoes a...unique and perplexing transformation and settles down to earth.
After a group meeting they decide the best thing to do is go to where all this started,
yes, Opassa freaking beach and use the Time Egg to umm, beat down the Time Devourer. At
the beach, 3 familiar faces (one recently overcoming a speech problem) fill in what was
up with all this and clue them into Lavos, Schala-Kid-Zeal, and the Chrono Cross.
Blarg. If you just kicked TD's butt, um, Schala gets completely consumed by enmity
and they go around devouring universes and stuff. If you pulled off the melody and
the harmony (used the Chrono Cross), the bond between Schala and Lavos is broken,
Schala is healed (body and soul) and I think she unites with Kid, making them
"whole". The planet is healed and the last of Lavos and his spawn unexists.
Now we're treated to a vague ending filled with good music and postage stamp black
and white FMV. I mean, it's GOOD, but only worth it on a big TV. The book is closed
on this saga and Schala Kid Zeal, humanity, and the planet go on with their lives and
dreams free from all annoying control-freak influences. I think. Look, the only thing
that's certain is that the Time Devourer doesn't go around devouring time-space
continua and leaving "Dead Seas" and Tesseracts in its wake. That, and after being
part of the Time Devourer for who knows HOW long, she hasn't lost any of her talking
and philosophical musing skills.