Sorry to keep you waiting, but I was worrying about a loose string that I had left, and I wanted to tie it up. You'll probably notice what I'm talking about later.
Anyway, here's Chapter 4! Hope you like it!
Note: I do not own any of these characters, nor do I have any association with Square.
Chapter 4
Crossing Again
"Hey Lucca! Wait up," shouted Kid, following Lucca as she ran out of the house and turned into the forest, Serge right behind her. They sped up a bit, until they were running next to her. "Hey! Just what are these 'Wings of Time'?"
"Don't you remember," asked Lucca. "The vessel we used to go back and forth trough time after you were forced to seal up the gate to Zeal! The Epoch!"
" Oh! Ya know what, I still don't remember anything from that time. I guess that I just haven't recovered all of my memories yet."
"Yeah, it'll probably still take a while for it to come back to you. It may never come back. But maybe that's a good thing. When you were fused with Lavos, you saw a great many things, past, present, and future. Maybe too much for your own good. It probably would be best if you never remembered it."
"Hmmmm… Maybe. But hey, I thought that the Epoch had been lost."
"No," Lucca shouted back. "After we said goodbye to everyone, and they had gone through the gate, Crono's mom ran right into it, chasing his cat! We had to use the Epoch to go back in time to save her. After we got back, we decided that the ability to change time was too dangerous for anyone to have, so we hid it, and put a barrier around it so that if anyone accidentally stumbled upon it, they wouldn't be able to use it or damage it. The only people that can break the seal are the ones who have piloted it before. Crono, Marle, Glenn, Magus, Ayla, Robo, and I are the only ones who can break the barrier. We promised each other that we would only use it if a disaster struck, and traveling through time would stop it. Come on! It's not that far away!"
They had been running while they talked, and Kid now noticed that they had come out of the woods, and were approaching Truce village's town square. They ran through the "square" (it was more of a circle), and found themselves at a barricaded path. Lucca stopped at the barricades for a moment, and used her fire magic to burn them away before continuing down the path, Kid and Serge still following closely. At the end of the path was a small courtyard. Lucca stopped here, and stood in the center of the area.
She turned and smiled at Kid. "This is where it all began," she said. "I had just finished setting up the tellepod, and Crono had mad the first test through successfully, but when Marle tried it, a gate opened, and she was sucked inside. We never figured out what had caused it." She reached into her satchel, which she had been wearing when she had come out of the gate. She pulled a small scepter like devise out of it. It looked like it had a star on the end. "This," she explained, "is the gate key. And if I'm correct, then…" She held the gate key up in the air, and pressed a button. Suddenly, a gate much like the one that had appeared inside of the basement opened up in front of them.
"I was right," she said, lowering the key and allowing the gate to disappear. She turned back to the others, thinking to herself. "But why?" Remembering them, Lucca smiled at Kid and Serge.
"It's hidden right over here," she told them, motioning over to the far side of the courtyard.
"But Lucca," said Kid, "That's just a bare wa-" She stopped in mid-sentence when Lucca walked straight through the wall. Lucca stuck her head back out of the wall.
"Come on, hurry," she scolded. "It's just a hologram, I designed it myself!"
Kid walked up to the wall as Lucca's head disappeared again. She stuck her arm through, testing it, and was suddenly pulled through when someone grabbed her arm. She found herself in a large darkened room. Lucca was gripping her arm, looking slightly annoyed. Kid turned back to the wall. But it wasn't there.
She could see Serge looking where she had been, with a worried look on his face, and realized that even though she couldn't see the wall anymore, he could. She stuck her arm out, and yanked him in with them.
"Finally," muttered the scientist. She walked over to the wall and flipped a small light switch. The group squinted in the sudden light for a few seconds, until their eyes adjusted. Then they all turned to look at the inside of the room.
Kids eyes widened in awe at the site before her. The room was huge, twice as big as Lucca's house. Electronics and machinery lined the walls and littered the floor, but right in the center of it all, was the strangest thing she had ever seen.
It was a large, silver pod shaped craft. Out of either side came large, black wings, with gold lining, and on the very top, behind a dome shaped cockpit, a large black fin protruded, also with gold lining. "Is that the…" she started.
"Yep," stated Lucca, walking up to the craft and stroking the underside. "And it looks like it hasn't been touched since we last used it." She turned to Serge and Kid, who were still standing by the entrance, looking at the small ship. "I'd better run some diagnostics on her before we take off. It may take a while, so maybe you should go get your gear. There's no telling what may happen after we've left."
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A few hours later, Kid and Serge rested against a small diagnostics machine, while Lucca was tweaking something in a small control panel on the bottom of the Epoch. Kid sat deep in thought, wondering about something that had been bothering her since Lucca had first arrived. Finally reaching a decision, she looked up at the scientist.
"Hey Lucca," she said. The scientist looked up at her. "I've been wondering, ever since you first got here, and something just doesn't seem to make sense."
"What's that?"
"Well, when Serge brought me back out of that strange sleep I was in, before we went up against Lavos, the old man who had been watching over me had told me to go see one of our friends, Luccia. She had a letter to me, from you, and she said that she had known you, when you had been Lynx's prisoner. But…if you were never captured, then how could I have read that letter?"
"Well," said Lucca, stopping her work to think, "that is a good question…Hmmm…Well, after you defeated Lavos, didn't you say that you had come to at the point in time right after it had all started?"
"Well, yes."
"Then, technically, that letter doesn't exist now."
"What do you mean?"
"Well, If you were brought back in time, and all that had happened had been erased, then you've never read that letter! And I'm guessing that you didn't go and look for it again after you beat Lavos, did you?"
"No. I didn't."
"Well, you said that when Serge used the Chrono Cross, that he had re-combined the two different worlds. My guess is, that in one world, he did capture me, and in the other, I went through the gate. And it seems that when the two worlds were combined, the best of the both were kept, and the worst were gotten rid of. An example would be how you said that Dario was still alive, and so was Glenn. According to what you told me, Glenn had died in one world, while Dario had died in the other."
"Ya know what, I think you're right. You always did know how to make sense of things, Lucca," kid exclaimed, smiling up at her. Lucca smiled back, then turned back too her work.
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"Well, it's ready!"
It was almost night. Lucca, Kid, and Serge stood looking at the Epoch. Lucca turned to look at the couple. "I hope you've got everything you need."
Kid was once again wearing her white top with the red jacket, and her short red skirt. Her rainbow dagger was sheathed at her belt. Her hair was up in a ponytail again. Serge stood beside her, also in his old battle garb. A bandanna covered his blue hair, and he wore his black shirt with the mail vest. He also had on his blue shorts and leather gloves. The Mastermune was gripped in his let hand. Kid nodded to Lucca.
"Yeah," she told the scientist. "We've got all our elements."
Lucca smiled at the thought. "Elements," she muttered, shaking her head. She looked back to Kid and Serge. " I'd better bring you to see an old friend, after we find out what happened to Crono and Marle." She jumped up to the top of the Epoch, and opened the cockpit. "Come on," she yelled back at them.
Jumping up, Kid was surprised at how roomy the cockpit was. See her confusion, Lucca turned to her.
"When we defeated Lavos, we decided that we really needed more space in the cockpit. There were originally only three seats, but after ridding home with Crono, Marle, Me, and Crono's mom, we decided to upgrade!" She hoped down to the pilot's seat, and Kid jumped down to the seat behind her. Serge jumped up to the cockpit, and sat down beside Kid.
"Well, here we go," shouted Lucca as she started the engines. Flipping a few switches, she grabbed the control yolk and lifted the ship off the ground. The ship slowly turned, and flew out of the hanger. Once they were out in the air, Lucca turned back to a nearby control panel, and started to enter some numbers into the display. "What day did they disappear exactly," she asked Kid.
"It was the same day you did. June 8th, 1010."
"OK!" Lucca turned back to the controls, and entered a few more numbers, and then turned back to the flight yolk. "All right," she warned them, "here we go!" With that, she slammed her fist down on a large red button on the controls. With sickening acceleration, the Wings of Time shot forward, looping around the world in a split second, and disappeared from time itself.
And that's it for Chapter 4. Hope you liked it! Did you find the loose string? If you didn't well, then why should I tell you? Oh yeah, please send any comments you have to my e-mail at Vegito1000@hotmail.com
I don't know how long Chapter 5 will take, but I'm working on it now.