"Let's move out!" A commanding Slasher yelled to his troops after examining the scarred battlefield, "They're not too far ahead of us. I would guess an hour or two, so we can still hunt them down!" He spun his blade above his head in the typical Slasher manner, and turned to leave.

"Je suis Desole, but moi cannot let you pass... Moi cannot let mon Serge be attacked again." The Slasher quickly turned to see who was the owner of the feminine voice tainted with the strange accent.

Upon seeing her he scowled, "Harle! You traitor!"

The small jester was perched upon a shifted pile of rubble, "You shall not attack mon Serge and his comrades."

"First you betray Lynx for the dragons and now none for other than the Chrono Trigger! We're gonna get such a promotion for taking you out!" The Slasher confidently boasted.

Harle chuckled lightly to herself and smiled, "Tsk tsk tsk... have vous learned nothing about moi? Then you shall be sorry." She back flipped, disappearing into thin air.

The Slasher, who was preparing to charge, stopped dead in his tracks, "Where?"

The Jester's small frame appeared behind him, "Au revoir."

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Leena struggled to keep up with the rest of the group, almost tripping on a small rock, "Why are we going towards Opassa Beach again?"

"We're going back to where it all started, " Schala explained, "...where angels lose their way..."

She and Serge had not left one another's sides since they had left Termina—or what was left of Termina. Of course the only one who really cared was Magus, who was struggling to keep himself in line in the midst of the teenage romance. He had to remember not to yell at and strangle (Not necessarily in that order) Serge to keep his hands off his sister. 'Whatever Schala wants is best... I must remember that...' He told himself over and over.

Glenn and the Devas were in the lead, and keeping a steady march. Except for Marcy, whom Glenn was currently giving a piggyback ride.

"So, are ve going to ze odder dimension?" Luccia asked.

"Yes, we have a few things to take care of there," Lucca answered.

"We must find some things there." Magus added, "Though, as a precaution I think it would be wise to be wary. Anything or anyone good that we may know in this dimension, will most probably be evil in the other." He swung his scythe to clear a path through the vegetation to Opassa.

The group looked at the sand, where the gateway was once was. There was a light green pillar of shifting light, streaming to a height of about three feet, and a width of four.

Chrono took charge and stepped forward, brushing his unruly red bangs from his face, "All right, here's the deal. Only six of us can go into the other dimension. After a bit of thinking, I'm pretty sure it would be best if those six were me, Magus, Marle, Serge, Glenn and Guile." He motioned to the pillar, "Schala, you can't go because you have to keep the gate open... Once we get back you can close it."

Schala nodded understandingly, but she seemed a bit disappointed, "Right. Everyone ready?"

After a few nods, she pulled out her pendant and gave a quick little chant, "Okay, you guys can go in now." She watched as each of the six slowly walked into the pillar, and winked at Serge when he turned to give her a quick smile before disappearing. Once he was completely gone she stopped chanting.

"Well, I hope they aren't gone too long." Leena sighed as she plopped down into the sand next to Radius.

The elder nodded, "Who would have known that our little trip to Termina would end up like this?"

"Yeah, but at least we got all of our memories back." the redhead replied softly. Radius silently nodded.

Starky ran up to the two. "We're gonna go get some food, so do you want anything in particular? Lucca says it'll be a bit until they get back."

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"Well, Slash, it would seem your team has been bested, " Flea said, laughing, "Aww… too bad!"

Slash growled, "As if your team could do any better. After all, my team was against Harlequin of the dragons!"

"That is no excuse," Flea had picked up a mirror, and, while gazing into it, said, "Your troops lost because they had neither power nor beauty."

"Oh, would you just shut up with that!?" Slash yelled as he stomped out of the room.

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"Lynx, why are you in such a quiet mood? Usually you're fuming and ranting about how much you want revenge on that accursed Chrono Trigger." Zeal said as she walked up to stand next to the tall, panther-like creature.

Lynx growled, his fangs glistening slightly in the darkness, "I do not know what it is, but it is strange... Not too long ago, near Arni Village I felt a spark of dark energy. Only it felt like Serge. For a while I could feel his presence within two different places, but now I only feel one again."

"It is probably you just stressing too much." Zeal commented with a self-righteous smirk, "Why don't you relieve that stress by hunting down that treacherous Harlequin?" The queen grinned evilly to herself, "After all, she did destroy all of Slash's team."

"Actually, that sounds like fun." Lynx flashed his own toothy grin, "Go and get Dalton. We're going after her." He roared as he picked up his scythe and marched purposely towards the door, his black cape rustling behind him.

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The wolves' dry blood was caked onto the rocky ground of Fossil Canyon, "This is at least a day old... They must be long gone." A tall, blue haired teen said out loud as he got up from his kneeling position. He let a bit of bloody sand sift from his fist to the ground before shaking his hand from the sand and wiping it on his pants. He looked towards the direction of the city of Termina, "They may be gone from there as well... I need to gather some more recent information..." He was speaking quietly to himself as he walked over to a large rock, where he could see down on the entrance of the canyon.

"Hmm… What's this...?" He said in amusement as he watched a small creature, an alien perhaps, in a white outfit began arguing with a tall, strange yet menacing looking robot. He could barely hear their voices.

"We-do-not-need-to-be-here. We-should-go." Grobyc said, his dry monotone voice echoing slightly within the canyon.

"NO!" The alien replied, "Starky hears somethingggggggg." He walked quickly over to a patch of dry blood, where not moments before the teen had been standing. He turned and sighed as the answer to his problem came walking towards him.

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Meanwhile, the group of six had just materialized one by one within the other dimension.

Serge gazed around. It was the same place he was at before going through the gate...only not the same place, "It's been a while since I've been to this dimension."

"Okay then," Crono once again took charge, "We're gonna have to split up. Serge, Marle, and I are gonna go look for the Mastermune and Fargo."

"Fine, then I shall take Soldier-Boy and the Wannabe to go find the Einlanzer." Magus finished as he started walking off towards Termina. Guile and Glenn quickly followed.

"Okay, let's go to your village, Serge!" Marle said perkily as she began walking, "We can get a boat there." Crono and Serge nodded and followed.

Upon entering the general area of Arni, one by one they all gasped. Serge's eyes widened and he stumbled a bit.

"What the...?" Serge trailed off as he saw the entire village in flames, "Lynx... it had to be him..." The disdain in his voice was dripping from every word he spoke.

"No." Crono put a hand on Serge's shoulder and shook his head, "It couldn't have been. He's back in the Genesis dimension."

"Then how the heck did this happen?" Serge said as he began to dash towards his almost-home.

Only a few people were left, and they were barely alive. Upon seeing Serge coming they all ran or hobbled away in fear.

"What...? Guys, it's me… Why are you so scared of me?" Serge stood still and stared at the running villagers with pain in his eyes. Crono and Marle came running up behind him.

"You monster... How could you do this then pretend to not know what's going on!" A familiar voice yelled venomously from behind. Serge spun to see a terrified Leena standing there, hatred and malice visible in her eyes, "You burned everything... and you laughed as you watched it go up... You laughed as your mother screamed from within the flames... Everyone! Una, Poshul, Radius, Grandma... they're all gone, thanks to you! And now you're back to finish the job!"

"No..." Serge collapsed to his knees, looking past Leena and into the flames of his house, "I didn't do this... I couldn't have done this...!"

"Serge, of course you didn't do this... You were with us, remember? But whoever it was must have disguised himself as you. Keep in mind that this isn't your dimension..." Marle comforted the blue-eyed teen.

"No excuses!" Leena yelled, "Your going to pay for this, Serge!" Leena ran towards him, tears running down her red cheeks. She wasn't armed with her normal frying pan, but instead with a deadly dagger, "You'll pay!"

Crono quickly used his Katana to cut the smaller knife in half, while Marle jumped up and grabbed the angry red head from behind.

"No... No... No! Grandma, Una... Radius..." Leena was sobbing, "Serge... You monster... I hate you! Get away!" She pushed the blonde off of her and staggered towards the remainder of her house.

"Leena..." Serge whispered as he turned his eyes towards the ground.

"Serge, don't worry. This isn't your dimension and it doesn't matter. As soon as she can Schala is going to finish merging the dimensions, and it will be like none of this ever happened." Crono reassured him.

"Let's go get one of the boats before we wear our welcome." Marle said. Her usual perkiness was severely drained.

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"Hey, the Einlanzer is gone!" Glenn said, quite stunned the blade wasn't in its normal spot.

"It must have been moved." Guile said, stating the obvious.

"Glenn, go into the town and ask around. See if there are any clues as to whom took it." Magus ordered as he walked towards the grave where the sword should have been. Glenn shrugged and followed orders.

"Shouldn't you be looking for clues?" Guile asked.

"I am," Magus began to chant, "I am going to identify what type of person it was by their magic aura."

It didn't take long as Magus finished up his chant, and the ground around the grave gave a startlingly eerie blue glow.

"Blue. A demi-human." Magus deduced.

"So then... Off to Marbule." Guile floated off to find Glenn.

'The magician will challenge the great Magus.... and five days later the team shall fall.'

"What could it mean...?" Magus said quietly to himself... It had been something his father had told him, and something Gaspar had mentioned to Guile, "It is better not to dwell on this... we have more important things to worry about." Magus shrugged as he enshrouded himself in mist, and teleported to find Guile and Glenn.

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"Well, there's the Dead Sea entrance..." Marle said dryly, "And right in between us and it is the S.S. Invincible..."

"Well... so we'll have to wait a while, though the Mastermune would be nice in dealing with Fargo." Crono said, slightly more optimistic.

"Well, I've dealt with him before, it shouldn't be too much more different." Serge stated.

"You forget Serge, in this dimension, Fargo is evil... not a crook but evil." Crono explained as he strapped his katana to his back, "Lets go."

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There was a sickening shriek of steel being sliced in half echoing throughout the canyon. The upper blade of a swallow had just cut right into Grobyc's head.

"Ahhhhh!" Starky backed up as the teen spun his swallow, beginning to stalk the small alien, "But... but whyyyy are you atackingggggg Starkyyy?"

"Where are they?" The boy stated. After receiving nothing but a whimper he reiterated himself, "WHERE ARE THEY!?" He brought the Swallow above his head.

"OPASSA!" Starky answered, dashing behind some bushes.

"Good... thanks for your help." The teenager replied bringing down the Swallow to attack the small alien.

Another clang rung out, and several sparks flew from the Swallow's blade as it clashed with another smaller blade. "Starky... Vous devez courir, hurry!" The Harlequin yelled as she pushed the blue haired boy away.

"Starky thanks you, Harle." The alien said as he took off, running quickly.

"Mon Serge, why are vous attacking the small one? Is he not your friend?" Harle asked in confusion.

"Harle... Long time no see. Still playing the role of traitor?" The boy identified as Serge replied.

"No, vous are not Serge. Moi does not know who you are!" She said, slowly backing away.

"I hate to disappoint you, Harle, but I'm really Serge. In fact I'm more real than anything you've ever seen." He chuckled evilly to himself as he charged up his energy for a powerful Dash and Slash.

Harlequin quickly back flipped, firing several small throwing knives at her attacker. The sickening sound that they made when they implanted themselves in his skin made the small jester squirm.

Laughing deeply, Serge continued to dash forward, dodging a few Lunar Beams.

"No... I cannot fight you, even if you are not the same as Mon Serge..." Harle jumped into the air and vanished.

"Coward..." Serge sneered then grinned as he pulled three bloody throwing knives from his body. One from his shoulder, one from the side of his stomach and one from his leg.

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"The Einlanzer should be here." Magus said, stepping onto the dock of Marbule. He had teleported them fairly easily to the island, which was most definitely not the same as the Genesis worlds Marbule. Humans and Demihumans alike roamed, but it was not peaceful. The people were quite simply different. They were, for the most part, thieves, and they were all battle scarred in some way shape or form.

"Hmm... This definitely doesn't seem too right." Glenn eyes the crowd.

"The Einlanzer... I can feel its energy from up there." Guile reported, pointing to Steena's tower. And just as he said this a gruff bunch of Demihumans approached.

"You after the Einlanzer?" A tall, lion like Demihuman asked, his yellow fangs glistening from beneath his scarred, fur covered muzzle.

"Yes, do you have a problem with that?" Magus challenged.

"We ain't lettin' you t'rough den." Another Demihuman, this one bird like, threatened. The Demihumans formed a circle around the group.

"Guile, I believe you can manage. Glenn and I shall get the Einlanzer." Magus ordered as he and the swordsman disappeared within a black mist.

As Guile dealt with the attackers, Magus and Glenn reappeared in front of Steena's tent. The guard at the door made a quick move to stop them, but was quickly taken care of by a wave from Magus's hand. The two stormed into the tent, only to see Steena standing there, holding the Einlanzer.

"Hello, Glenn, and you, you must be Magus..." The Shaman said, looking curiously at him, "I've heard a lot about you...funny. I thought you'd be taller." She posed, in an offensive stance, her thin form handling the blade quite well, "I'm sorry, but you can't have this." Her eyes, normally kind, now gleamed with a strange light, something wrong.

"Magus, let me take care of this. I'm afraid you'd just kill her anyway." Glenn stepped forward.

"What's so bad about that?" Magus asked, "In this dimension she is not the Steena that you know. She is actually a collective entity of all the real Steena's evil."

"Ah... well that's still no excuse for not being chivalrous." Glenn argued as he unsheathed his own Einlanzer.

"Einlanzer vs. Einlanzer... this should be interesting." Magus said under his breath. "And I was afraid I'd be bored today."

The Shaman rushed forward at Glenn, attacking with a surprisingly skillful uppercut slash with her blade. The swordsman dodged and prepared to attack, when suddenly Steena pulled out a second, silver blade from a hidden sheath on her back. She then continued to rush at the younger fighter with two whirling blades.

Glenn dodged and parried as many attacks as he could, but this Steena was surprisingly skilled. She was almost as good as he was.

"Ah, poor Glenn, didn't make it into the Dragoons, and now is getting beaten by a girl..." Steena laughed as she began to summon up a Holy Light element.

"Actually..." Glenn replied confidently, "I'm the leader of the four Deva's, top unit of the Acacia Dragoons." He attacked with a Sonic Sword, sending Steena slamming into the altar behind her.

Glenn took the second Einlanzer from his fallen adversary, and walked back to Magus. The magician mumbled something along the lines of "You should have just let me kill her, it wouldn't have taken so long and then we wouldn't have to worry about her later," then teleported them to the place they had left Guile.

The Magician sat on the back of the lion like Demihuman, who was unconscious. Some of his other foes had not been as lucky. "It took you long enough." Guile said as he stood up and picked up his staff.

"That isn't my fault. Blame the boy." Magus said, waving his hand to summon up his dark mist.

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"Harle might have a few problems, but being a coward isn't one of them." A voice behind Serge said.

Serge turned to see a man in a Porre military uniform. His head was slumped funny and his movements seemed odd. "And let me guess. Who are you supposed to be, the cavalry?' Serge sneered. "From the look of things you can barely stand."

"It's just rigor mortis." He smiled. "Call me Skelly. Of course, you could call me Norris if you prefer."

"Well then. Let's see what you can do." Serge readied his swallow for battle. Serge charged him, and ran him completely though with the swallow. Norris smashed his head down on Serge's. Serge fell backwards, leaving his weapon impaled in the soldier's gut.

"Oh, come on!" Norris said as he looked down on the blade sticking through him. "Dead guy here. You really can't hurt me." Serge's twisted smile spread. He had never fought an opponent that couldn't die before. It would be interesting see how much damage he could do to him.

"Bring it." Serge challenged him. "Let's see just how far you can go."

"Guys?" Norris called. Starky, still shaking pointed his blaster at Serge. Grobyc lifted his hands. He was sparking and sputtering, the lights flickered in his eyes, but his body was still moving and his weapons were still on line. Norris/Skelly pulled his blaster as well. "Give up yet?"

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"Serge, watch it!" Marle yelled as she took down another pirate. As soon as they had showed up on deck they had been jumped by the lot of them, and Fargo was sitting back conformably watching.

Serge dodged as a pirate lunged at him, and brought his swallow down in a deadly arc. The pirate screamed in pain, collapsing into a heap.

"I'm getting tired of this..." Crono stated, while summoning up all the lightning energy that he felt would be sufficient to take out Fargo's bunch. He then unleashed it, sending the lightning in the form of bolts scurrying across the floor of the deck. Only two of the pirates were intelligent enough to jump when it came rushing at them... The rest lay either dead or unconscious at the three heroes' feet.

Fargo smirked as he readied his weapon for battle.

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"You feeling okay, Schala?" Lucca asked. "Can I get you anything?"

"Fine. It's remarkably easy once you get it started." Schala smiled back at her.

"Well, let me know if you need anything. I've got an invention that's been sitting around for the last several hundred year that I have to go check on." Lucca said as she started to walk away. "Anyone want to come with me?" She called to the rest of the group.

"Why not?" Karsh said in utter boredom. Anything would be better than staying there were he was.

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"Hmm... Seems we have ourselves a tad of an anomaly here." Zeal said as she peered though view screens and crystals alike to the worlds of the past.

"What?" The tone of Lynx's voice was not a curious one but a tone of someone who demanded information.

"Look." Zeal said as she widened the view for Lynx. He could see a blue haired boy that seemed to be the perfect reflection of the latest Chrono Trigger. This individual was battling against a walking corpse, a small alien, and a damaged robot.

"A ripple in the time stream, clone, or alternate version of the Trigger?" Lynx asked.

"It's unknown at this time, but he radiates dark energies." Zeal said. "We have a mystery on our hands, it seems.

"I wish to know more," Lynx said with a twinkle of greed in his eyes. It was time he asserted more control over things. Flea and Slash would be just the individuals to serve as his avatars.