"The world is not just a single entity.
Another world similar to ours exists in another dimension."
- Prophet of Time -

Story Guide
Some of you may want to know the cause of all this big time havoc happening in Chrono Cross. Actually the havoc of time had been there since the Chrono Trigger era. I mean, uum.., Crono and co.'s doing in Chrono Trigger triggered Chrono Cross accident. Got it? Oh yeah, this section is quite hard because it is written and analyzed by Terrageist and Crono228. They're both crazy so that they can make a great guide like this.
Then, before reading this section, please read this first. Someone or something from the future, causes an event in the past, which causes a new event in the present and future to happen. Try Terrageist's example. Kid from 10 years in the future travels back in time to save young Serge in 1010 AD, so that he can exist in the future to save Kid in the present and near future (new event), so she can exist in the future to travel back to the past to save Serge! Confused???
My example is like this. Lavos crashed into Azala's castle in 65,000,000 BC and remained sleeping, so that the sleeping Lavos can be found by the Zealots in 12,000 BC, and Queen Zeal can make a Mammon Machine (new event), which causes the Machine, I mean Lavos, crashed through time to 65,000,000 BC. See? So history is always repeating itself. If you haven't got confused yet, keep on going to Terrageist and Crono228's story guide.
1. Sequence of Events Up to The Big Split 1010 AD
2. Parallel Worlds --> see the section itself
3. Lost Futures and Other Dimensions
4. Chrono Cross Present 1020 AD --> see the Main Story section
zulwarn, 2006