Etwas Trigger: Chapter One: The Millennial Fair
Author: GuinevereKoopa and Meo. Guin writes odd, Meo writes even.
Fic Note: Okay, what to say here.well, this is a crossover fic. Characters most of you have never seen before, but hey. You can read The Legend of Etwas over at http://www.angelfire.com/rpg/plumberingreen/contents.html if you really want to find out who these characters are. Here, for your convenience, we even have a cast list.
Party
Crono- Jsi; Marle- Goyd; Lucca- Perlin; Frog- Niftiness; Robo- Mope; Ayla- Doron; Magus- Nome;
Present
Crono's Mom- Jsi's Mom, Kiara; Lucca's Parents- Perlin's REAL parents, Martin Hiaki and um...Mrs. Hiaki...; Gato- GATO!; King and Queen Guardia- Mope and Doron; Chancellor- Uncle Fred; Pierre- Hush; Melchior- Hugh;
Middle Ages
Flea- Rick; Slash- Gen. Nick; Ozzie- Kierz; King and Queen Guardia- Mope and Doron (we're low budget); Chancellor- Uncle Fred; Yakra- Hamster Monster; Tata- Todd; Fiona- Jack;
Dark Ages
Queen Zeal- Gajda; Janus- Um...Chibi Nome?; Schala- Snazzy; Dalton- Blade;
Prehistoric
Kino- Lee; Azala- Wendy Gretson;
End of Time
Spekkio- Fluffy; Gaspar- Harlan;
Future
Doan- Jurieno; Belthazar- Hugh (we're low budget, I said that already); Johnny- FONZY!;
Nu- As all begins with Nu and ends with Nu, Nu shall be portrayed by Nu
On a sidenote, we don't own the story of Chrono Trigger and all that.Guin, however, does own the Etwas characters in conjunction with Sandy Grey. Let it also be known that the whole Etwas Trigger crossover thing was Meo's idea. Because she's cool.
.Okay, this is the only chapter with an 8-page-long Note at the beginning.let me just get you back to your regularly scheduled fic.
"Crono! Wake up you lazy bum!" The curtains flew open and Jsi sat up, blinking. His mother was standing by his window, tying back the shades. She turned and looked at him displeasingly. "Get up, Crono. You're supposed to go to the fair today, you good-for-nothing."
He opened his mouth to speak but couldn't. He blinked. His mother stomped over to his bed and tore the blankets off, shouting for him to get up again. He stood and realized suddenly that he was fully clothed. Shoes and everything. 'How weird...' he thought.
As Jsi stood there, marveling at the oddity of it all, his mother yelled at him again to go feed the cat. So he went down the stairs, and on his way he passed by a mirror. His hair was tied back with a headband, as it normally was, but it was white now rather than orange. And his hair seemed a bit spikier than usual. Not only that, but it was a rather odd shade of purple, as if somebody had tried to dye it red over its natural blue colour, and botched it badly.
He reached up to flick one of the spikes but it didn't budge and he ended up injuring his finger. 'Ow! ...That's some hair gel,' he marveled, staring at the reflection.
The weirdest thing though was how he suddenly found himself to be mute. Try as he might, he couldn't say anything. Not even "Arglfrzm."
But nonetheless, he continued downstairs to feed the cat. When he was done, his mother reminded him, none too kindly, that he was to meet Lucca at the fair. He desperately wanted to shout, "Who the HECK is Lucca?!" but being suddenly mute, he was unable to.
His mother gave him 200 gil and sent him out the door. He stood there staring at the strange currency in his hands, wondering what the heck it was for. 'What happened to Kasha?' He looked around and realized that he was on the Overworld. 'Better get to that one place...Leene Square...' He blinked and searched around, realizing he didn't know where it was.
'Must be the pixilated map location with all those weird balloon- looking things floating over it.' So he started walking toward the pixilated map location with the weird balloon-looking things floating over it.
When he got there, it suddenly transformed to a townscape. 'Just like home. Only pixely!' he thought as he looked around. There was a tent on the right side of the square that looked rather ominous in that odd pixilated way. 'Okay, avoid that place. But what was I supposed to do...?' He stood there and pondered a moment, then realized that maybe he should talk to random bystanders.
Then he realized he couldn't talk.
'Well damn, I'm screwed now.' But he walked over to somebody anyway. Amazingly enough, the person started talking to him when he approached.
"Lucca's setting up at the back of the square."
He blinked, considering this odd, but decided to take the information into consideration and walk to the back of the square. As he get near the huge bell in the middle of the next screen, a girl ran, rather forcefully, into him and they were both bowled over.
"Watch where you're going you stupid spiky-haired sonofanotter!" the girl shouted at him as she stood.
He blinked. The statement didn't affect him. Technically, he WAS the son of an otter.
Her hand went to her neck as if in sudden realization and she started looking around in a panic. "Oh no, my pendant! I must have dropped it when you knocked me over!"
He was about to shout, "Hey, you knocked ME over!" in response, but then remembered that he couldn't talk. So instead, he got up and started looking for her pendant. It was on the other side of the screen, so he grabbed it and gave it back to her, wondering why she only looked for it by walking along the same line and not actually walking all the way around the square to see if it had been thrown somewhere by the fall.
"Oh, thank you. If I'd lost this then Daddy would've been reallyfriggin'mad!"
He blinked. Reallyfriggin'mad? Was that a legal term to use in this game?
"So what's your name?" she asked.
He immediately replied "Jsi!" Or tried to anyway, but he still couldn't talk.
"Crono? Hi, Crono, my name's Marle!" she smiled.
That smile was familiar. She had white skin with a slight blue tint to it, and fangs. Her long black hair was tied back in a ponytail. When he saw her hair, combined with the earring pattern on her large pointed ears, he recognized her immediately.
"GOYD?!" But he didn't actually SAY anything, he just MOUTHED it loudly.
"So why did you knock me down?"
'I didn't you moron! YOU knocked ME down! AUGH! WHY CAN'T I TALK?!' he screamed mentally to the sky.
She blinked, then laughed. "You're funny, Crono. Can you give me a tour of the Millennial Fair?"
He sighed and nodded. Might as well have some company, even if he didn't actually know where he was going either.
So he led her around the fair, though he had no clue what he was doing. They even found a lost cat and returned it to the little girl all the way on the other side of the screen. She thanked them kindly, which prompted a remark of, "You're so sweet, Crono," from Goyd. Who still claimed to be Marle.
They ended up getting lost and turned completely around, and they turned up back near the fountain at the center of the first screen of the square. One of the girls next to the fountain mentioned that Lucca had finished setting up at the back of the square, so Jsi led Goyd back there.
Annoyingly enough, she stopped near the candy stand right in front of the steps because, apparently, she wanted some candy. So Jsi stood there and waited impatiently. The long wait gave him a little time to think.
He froze, realizing something. 'This is awfully similar to that one game Nome told me about...' He looked around the fair one more time and recalled everything he'd seen here. The creepy tent, the odd world map, the huge cat robot...Gato! Yes, Gato. He should've realized immediately!
'I'm in Chrono Trigger... Dear lord...this is bad....' He paused and looked at Goyd. '...That means I can't just start dragging Goyd everywhere because it'll make bad things happen later in the game! NOOO!'
He stood there, staring blankly into space, screaming in his mind. Goyd turned to him and said, "Okay, let's go!" but he didn't move.
She glared at him and grabbed his arm, dragging him forcefully up the steps. "Damn sonofanotter! Move!" she shouted at him.
She finally managed to drag him up all the steps to the last screen of the fair.
There were two machines in the last screen, and a man with suspiciously dark skin and pointy, bat-like ears standing next to one of them. A girl with similarly suspicious dark skin and bat-like ears walked onscreen and stood beside him.
"PERLIN!" Jsi mouthed with similar volume as his earlier nonexistent shout of "GOYD?!"
"I'm Lucca! I'm great and powerful and smart and pretty and other such things!" Perlin announced to the crowd. She adjusted her amazingly thick glasses and motioned to the machine on the left. "This is my newest invention. The Telepod. Any volunteers want to try it out?"
She glanced around the crowd and, seeing Jsi, immediately picked him out. "Crono! Come on, try out the Telepod for us, you brave, brave soul you!"
Jsi, having no real choice, walked up and stood on the platform. Perlin and the man, her father, did some complex thing involving switches and such on the machine, and he suddenly found himself on the other side of the screen.
'Wow. I could've walked from there to here in less time,' he blinked.
"That looks like fun!" Goyd grinned. "Can I try, Crono? Can I?"
Lucca looked at her and blinked. "Nice find, Crono. Where'd you pick this one up?"
Jsi glared at her, but she turned away and stepped back up to the machine. "Just step right up little missy," she said.
Goyd ran and jumped up on the left Telepod. Perlin and her father went through a similarly long spiel of button-pushing and random statements of "MORE POWER CAP'N!" But rather than appear on the right Telepod, Goyd vanished into a pixilated blue and black vortex, leaving only her pendant behind.
Jsi blinked. 'She coulda just walked...'
Perlin walked over and picked up the pendant. "Well, that's no good. Must be something to do with this pendant. Crono, can you go through and find her for me? She must have teleported somewhere else."
'No friggin' duh.' But he took the pendant anyway, and went to stand on the Telepod.
They set the machine running, and he was transported through the same vortex that swallowed Goyd. But the pendant stayed with him, rather than being left on the floor of the square. Must be a hero thing.
Author: GuinevereKoopa and Meo. Guin writes odd, Meo writes even.
Fic Note: Okay, what to say here.well, this is a crossover fic. Characters most of you have never seen before, but hey. You can read The Legend of Etwas over at http://www.angelfire.com/rpg/plumberingreen/contents.html if you really want to find out who these characters are. Here, for your convenience, we even have a cast list.
Party
Crono- Jsi; Marle- Goyd; Lucca- Perlin; Frog- Niftiness; Robo- Mope; Ayla- Doron; Magus- Nome;
Present
Crono's Mom- Jsi's Mom, Kiara; Lucca's Parents- Perlin's REAL parents, Martin Hiaki and um...Mrs. Hiaki...; Gato- GATO!; King and Queen Guardia- Mope and Doron; Chancellor- Uncle Fred; Pierre- Hush; Melchior- Hugh;
Middle Ages
Flea- Rick; Slash- Gen. Nick; Ozzie- Kierz; King and Queen Guardia- Mope and Doron (we're low budget); Chancellor- Uncle Fred; Yakra- Hamster Monster; Tata- Todd; Fiona- Jack;
Dark Ages
Queen Zeal- Gajda; Janus- Um...Chibi Nome?; Schala- Snazzy; Dalton- Blade;
Prehistoric
Kino- Lee; Azala- Wendy Gretson;
End of Time
Spekkio- Fluffy; Gaspar- Harlan;
Future
Doan- Jurieno; Belthazar- Hugh (we're low budget, I said that already); Johnny- FONZY!;
Nu- As all begins with Nu and ends with Nu, Nu shall be portrayed by Nu
On a sidenote, we don't own the story of Chrono Trigger and all that.Guin, however, does own the Etwas characters in conjunction with Sandy Grey. Let it also be known that the whole Etwas Trigger crossover thing was Meo's idea. Because she's cool.
.Okay, this is the only chapter with an 8-page-long Note at the beginning.let me just get you back to your regularly scheduled fic.
"Crono! Wake up you lazy bum!" The curtains flew open and Jsi sat up, blinking. His mother was standing by his window, tying back the shades. She turned and looked at him displeasingly. "Get up, Crono. You're supposed to go to the fair today, you good-for-nothing."
He opened his mouth to speak but couldn't. He blinked. His mother stomped over to his bed and tore the blankets off, shouting for him to get up again. He stood and realized suddenly that he was fully clothed. Shoes and everything. 'How weird...' he thought.
As Jsi stood there, marveling at the oddity of it all, his mother yelled at him again to go feed the cat. So he went down the stairs, and on his way he passed by a mirror. His hair was tied back with a headband, as it normally was, but it was white now rather than orange. And his hair seemed a bit spikier than usual. Not only that, but it was a rather odd shade of purple, as if somebody had tried to dye it red over its natural blue colour, and botched it badly.
He reached up to flick one of the spikes but it didn't budge and he ended up injuring his finger. 'Ow! ...That's some hair gel,' he marveled, staring at the reflection.
The weirdest thing though was how he suddenly found himself to be mute. Try as he might, he couldn't say anything. Not even "Arglfrzm."
But nonetheless, he continued downstairs to feed the cat. When he was done, his mother reminded him, none too kindly, that he was to meet Lucca at the fair. He desperately wanted to shout, "Who the HECK is Lucca?!" but being suddenly mute, he was unable to.
His mother gave him 200 gil and sent him out the door. He stood there staring at the strange currency in his hands, wondering what the heck it was for. 'What happened to Kasha?' He looked around and realized that he was on the Overworld. 'Better get to that one place...Leene Square...' He blinked and searched around, realizing he didn't know where it was.
'Must be the pixilated map location with all those weird balloon- looking things floating over it.' So he started walking toward the pixilated map location with the weird balloon-looking things floating over it.
When he got there, it suddenly transformed to a townscape. 'Just like home. Only pixely!' he thought as he looked around. There was a tent on the right side of the square that looked rather ominous in that odd pixilated way. 'Okay, avoid that place. But what was I supposed to do...?' He stood there and pondered a moment, then realized that maybe he should talk to random bystanders.
Then he realized he couldn't talk.
'Well damn, I'm screwed now.' But he walked over to somebody anyway. Amazingly enough, the person started talking to him when he approached.
"Lucca's setting up at the back of the square."
He blinked, considering this odd, but decided to take the information into consideration and walk to the back of the square. As he get near the huge bell in the middle of the next screen, a girl ran, rather forcefully, into him and they were both bowled over.
"Watch where you're going you stupid spiky-haired sonofanotter!" the girl shouted at him as she stood.
He blinked. The statement didn't affect him. Technically, he WAS the son of an otter.
Her hand went to her neck as if in sudden realization and she started looking around in a panic. "Oh no, my pendant! I must have dropped it when you knocked me over!"
He was about to shout, "Hey, you knocked ME over!" in response, but then remembered that he couldn't talk. So instead, he got up and started looking for her pendant. It was on the other side of the screen, so he grabbed it and gave it back to her, wondering why she only looked for it by walking along the same line and not actually walking all the way around the square to see if it had been thrown somewhere by the fall.
"Oh, thank you. If I'd lost this then Daddy would've been reallyfriggin'mad!"
He blinked. Reallyfriggin'mad? Was that a legal term to use in this game?
"So what's your name?" she asked.
He immediately replied "Jsi!" Or tried to anyway, but he still couldn't talk.
"Crono? Hi, Crono, my name's Marle!" she smiled.
That smile was familiar. She had white skin with a slight blue tint to it, and fangs. Her long black hair was tied back in a ponytail. When he saw her hair, combined with the earring pattern on her large pointed ears, he recognized her immediately.
"GOYD?!" But he didn't actually SAY anything, he just MOUTHED it loudly.
"So why did you knock me down?"
'I didn't you moron! YOU knocked ME down! AUGH! WHY CAN'T I TALK?!' he screamed mentally to the sky.
She blinked, then laughed. "You're funny, Crono. Can you give me a tour of the Millennial Fair?"
He sighed and nodded. Might as well have some company, even if he didn't actually know where he was going either.
So he led her around the fair, though he had no clue what he was doing. They even found a lost cat and returned it to the little girl all the way on the other side of the screen. She thanked them kindly, which prompted a remark of, "You're so sweet, Crono," from Goyd. Who still claimed to be Marle.
They ended up getting lost and turned completely around, and they turned up back near the fountain at the center of the first screen of the square. One of the girls next to the fountain mentioned that Lucca had finished setting up at the back of the square, so Jsi led Goyd back there.
Annoyingly enough, she stopped near the candy stand right in front of the steps because, apparently, she wanted some candy. So Jsi stood there and waited impatiently. The long wait gave him a little time to think.
He froze, realizing something. 'This is awfully similar to that one game Nome told me about...' He looked around the fair one more time and recalled everything he'd seen here. The creepy tent, the odd world map, the huge cat robot...Gato! Yes, Gato. He should've realized immediately!
'I'm in Chrono Trigger... Dear lord...this is bad....' He paused and looked at Goyd. '...That means I can't just start dragging Goyd everywhere because it'll make bad things happen later in the game! NOOO!'
He stood there, staring blankly into space, screaming in his mind. Goyd turned to him and said, "Okay, let's go!" but he didn't move.
She glared at him and grabbed his arm, dragging him forcefully up the steps. "Damn sonofanotter! Move!" she shouted at him.
She finally managed to drag him up all the steps to the last screen of the fair.
There were two machines in the last screen, and a man with suspiciously dark skin and pointy, bat-like ears standing next to one of them. A girl with similarly suspicious dark skin and bat-like ears walked onscreen and stood beside him.
"PERLIN!" Jsi mouthed with similar volume as his earlier nonexistent shout of "GOYD?!"
"I'm Lucca! I'm great and powerful and smart and pretty and other such things!" Perlin announced to the crowd. She adjusted her amazingly thick glasses and motioned to the machine on the left. "This is my newest invention. The Telepod. Any volunteers want to try it out?"
She glanced around the crowd and, seeing Jsi, immediately picked him out. "Crono! Come on, try out the Telepod for us, you brave, brave soul you!"
Jsi, having no real choice, walked up and stood on the platform. Perlin and the man, her father, did some complex thing involving switches and such on the machine, and he suddenly found himself on the other side of the screen.
'Wow. I could've walked from there to here in less time,' he blinked.
"That looks like fun!" Goyd grinned. "Can I try, Crono? Can I?"
Lucca looked at her and blinked. "Nice find, Crono. Where'd you pick this one up?"
Jsi glared at her, but she turned away and stepped back up to the machine. "Just step right up little missy," she said.
Goyd ran and jumped up on the left Telepod. Perlin and her father went through a similarly long spiel of button-pushing and random statements of "MORE POWER CAP'N!" But rather than appear on the right Telepod, Goyd vanished into a pixilated blue and black vortex, leaving only her pendant behind.
Jsi blinked. 'She coulda just walked...'
Perlin walked over and picked up the pendant. "Well, that's no good. Must be something to do with this pendant. Crono, can you go through and find her for me? She must have teleported somewhere else."
'No friggin' duh.' But he took the pendant anyway, and went to stand on the Telepod.
They set the machine running, and he was transported through the same vortex that swallowed Goyd. But the pendant stayed with him, rather than being left on the floor of the square. Must be a hero thing.