Disclaimer: I do not own Chrono Trigger or any other licensed properties.

Chapter one: Meet the Asylum

"Ahh" James moaned as his dog Smokey finally managed to lick him awake. "Not now girl" Unfortunately she ignored him, as usual, and James soon gave up and opened his eyes. Then he moaned again as he discoverd that the three-foot high pile of Sci-fi novels on his nightstand had collapsed again. "Oh well at least this time the videotapes didn't fall on me."

He slowly rose from his bed "Note to self, Never accept a dare which involves going more then 24 hours without caffeine again. Hey wait a minuite yesterday was the last day of the dare. That means I can drink caffeine again." James rushs to his kitchen, throws open his refrigerator and garbs a cup of what looks like soda. He gulps it down and nearly hurls. "Additional note to self, never mix black coffee and cola again. Now maybe if I sweetened the coffee and/or used a different kind of soda it might work."

James staggered over to the cube of Dr. Pepper he kept by his chair and grabbed three cans out of it. He popped the tab on the first can and poured it down his throat. "Sweet lovely caffeine." he walked over to the pantry to get breakfast, drinking the second can as he walked.

A miniute later James had finished his Pop Tarts and was drinking the third can of soda for dessert. He looked down and noticed a strange light coming from under the garage door. Now anyone with any common sense might have called the cops or something but James never was one for common sense, and he didn't trust cops or the government in general so he began to open the door.

Author's notes: I decided to split my original idea for chapter one into two chapters. Chapter two should be up in two or three days. This is only my second Fan-Fiction and the first that anyone besides me has read so it's probably not the best. On top of that I slept through most of my grammar classes so I probably made a few errors. Feel free to review. And do I have to put the disclaimer at the beginning of each chapter or just the beginning of the story?