Chapter 1: The Nightmare

I looked around. I knew I was at prehistoric times because of the roaming dinosaurs, but there was a sea of lava surrounding the area around me. I looked down as the rocky substances known as meteors were falling from the sky.
Reptile like creatures were panicking and running all over the place. I refused to move since it was certain that it was the end.
The ground opened up and I fell right in. A moment before I would've got burned to ashes from the lava below, everything went black.

"Arty... Arty!" I heard my name being shout out a couple of times. I uncovered myself from the sheets. "Finally, you got up! You'll be late for the race!" I haven't been so relieved to hear my older sisters voice. I just remembered I had to run the annual race at the Crono Festival, dedicated to a past hero, Crono. I got changed and opened the door. "Oh, and I almost forgot." I turned around seeing something wrapped up hurled towards me. It landed on my face.
I yelled, "Hot! Hot!"
"Don't forget to eat that before running, and good luck! Another thing, the race doesn't start until two hours from now, so feel free to relax a bit." I quickly nodded and got out of our humble home. The Festival was just across the bridge. On the way, a couple yards before the bridge, I could visit my best friend, Crystal, and maybe bring her to the festival.
After 30 minutes of running, I was at her front door. I knocked on her door. Crystal's dad opened it.
"Hi! Is Crystal home?"
"Sorry, she ran off to the festival to show off her new invention. Man, she's just like her grandmother." I think he was referring to Lucca. She had something to do with Crono, but I forgot. I ran to the bridge. I struggled to get through because of all the people head into the festival. The race started in an hour and 15 minutes, so I had that much amount of time to procrastinate. I finally made it to the entrance. I showed the admission booth person my race ID and I started to search for Crystal.

I saw a group of people looking at something. It was a gargantuan blue robot.
"Arty! You made it! Now we can get started!" She cleared her voice. "Look at this! It's the upgraded version of my grandmothers Gaundelez robot! More improved! Let me demonstrate." She threw her hammer at it, then it quickly grabbed it, and threw it back. Crystal took out her plasma gun and shot the hammer, destroying it in the process. "See?" There was a lot of oooing and aaaing, but the training robot wasn't finished.
Its stomach opened, letting out a big iron fist, knocking Crystal out. Everyone gasped, then the training robot was going to finish her off in one strike with its giant, metallic fist.

I raised my arms up for some reason, then a bolt of lightning hit the training robot in the head. It stood there, frozen.
"Okay folks, nothing to see here. You can leave now." As everyone left, Crystal got up. "Did I really make my machine too overwhelming?"
"I guess so. You're lucky that lightning coincidentally hit it. At least it's over." I was totally wrong when I said that. The training robots stomach opened up again, but there wasn't a big metal fist. Electricity flowed everywhere. A pitch black sphere was in the core. It opened up, creating some kind of black hole, sucking me and Crystal in.

So this is basically Chrono Trigger after present time in the game. Credit to Square Enix to the game itself, and all the other characters and part of the storyline! Sorry if I have some things in the game mixed up or wrong. Things may start to be confusing, but hopefully later on in the story, it'll start to make sense. :(