While she was used to standing out in a crowd, Marle in this case found herself as just one of about a dozen gathered to watch a local inventor display her latest. Which was a nice change of pace, even if the fiery girl still would've preferred to be part of a more lively crowd than this one.
"We are ready!" announced Lucca as the device they were all gathered around began to fire up - the crowd seemed to have various degrees of reaction to that; Marle personally kept her eyes on the quiet redhead who had led her to this exhibition and was now lined up as the official guinea pig.
A second later, as her father flipped a handful of switches on the control panel for the invention a certain energy began to crackle around Crono's feet. Then, just a second later, he vanished!
Before the crowd could show any reaction beyond general shock at the young man's disappearance, though, he appeared again, on another half of the device. And when Chrono did there were instantly a lot of impressed ooo's and ah's from the many onlookers.
Then there was Marle. "Me next! Let me try out that thing!"
"Hm." With a smirk, Lucca adjusted her glasses, "Step on up! What's your name?"
"Marle!" came the dishonest answer, but at a moment like this there was no way the girl's real name was going to get casually mentioned just yet, in a situation like this.
As Crono walked down and joined the rest of the onlookers, Marle skipped up and took his place on the first of the two pads devoted to the teleportation device. As she came to a stop on it she paused only to fiddle with her pendant, and then watched eagerly as Lucca's father began to fiddle with buttons and levers.
Only there was no simple spark.
No, instead Marle found herself being raised straight off of the floor of the device, much to the apparent confusion of onlookers. The princess in disguise was a little too fast to look at them, but she could definitely hear the voices of Lucca and her father sounding very unsure as they fiddled with buttons.
And a second later, there was a flash of light as the girl crashed to the pad of the machine once again.
The very first thing she noticed was that Crono had dashed over to get a look at her - and he looked huge! The same applied for the other onlookers that came over to get a glimpse at her.
"Uh... Wha' 'appuh?" was the gurgled question from the now young royalty, standing in a pool of her clothes without quite realizing it just yet.
"If I am correct," Lucca began as she came over, "The machine malfunctioned in some way, and that caused - AH!"
Marle didn't quite grasp the inventor's sudden cry of alarm, even as a liquid began to seep out of her, through her clothes and onto the device.