A/N: No excuse for not updating for 7-8 months except I had writers block and I was lazy. I think the quality of my work has dropped from when I first started this. But I never considered myself a writer in the first place.
Disclaimer: I do not own Chrono Trigger or any of the places/characters/names ect. that appear in the games. Square Enix does.
Chapter 15: This Sucks
Frog opened his mouth and shot his tongue toward Slash. Wrapping it around Slash's, he ran behind him and then retracted his tongue. Slash was spun around, against his will, by Frog and then pulled toward him. Using his fingers he tried to tilt his sword so that once he got close enough, he could stab Frog. Frog however anticipated this and once Slash got too close, slid under him, turned around retracted his tongue, and then left a huge vertical gash on Slash's back. Slash screamed in agony, and then fell face first to the floor.
Frog got up and charged at Magus, hoping to save Marle in time. Flea stepped in between them.
"Glenn darling, I'm hurt that you would try to crash in on my party like this," Flea said in an offended tone, "and even more hurt that you would ignore me!"
Flea put his hand over his mouth as if he made a mistake.
"Oh I'm dreadfully sorry! I forgot that you're Sir Froggy now." Flea said in a teasing tone.
"Stand aside Flea or I shall strike you down!" Frog threatened Flea.
Frog pointed the Masamune at his foe, and then peered past him. Marle had put some distance between Magus and herself by casting Haste on herself. She then pulled an item out of her bag: A brown orb wrapped in an orange shell in three places and a blue gem in the center. She used this item, a Barrier, to reduce the damage from Magus's magic attack. Magus was apparently casting a spell. He held his arms out to his sides and started chanting. The area below Magus turned gray and then spread. From the center of that area, a hole opened and started sucking everything in.
"MAGUS, NO!" Frog and Marle both yelled at the same time.
Black Hole - a spell that consumes all unlucky enough to get caught in its path and sends them to another dimension. Marle felt herself being sucked into the enormous void. She looked for something to grab onto. The only thing close enough was Slash's throne. It, however, was not bolted to the floor, and gave way. Frog flung his tongue out to grab Marle, but Flea cast Flame Heart, a spell that surround the enemy in an area of flames shaped like a heart. He singed his tongue and pulled back.
Thinking quickly, Frog cast Water 2. If he couldn't get past Flea to get to Magus, he would attack them both at once, hopefully canceling Flea's "The Stare" and Magus's Black Hole. Flea was too slow to counter and was dragged into a wall with the current. Magus, however, was able to keep casting, as the water from the tidal wave was sucked into Black Hole. Even though he was unable to stop the spell, Frog saw this as a chance to grab Marle. He began to shoot out his tongue to grab her when he felt a sharp pain in his back and abdomen. He fell to his knees and looked down to see the bloodied blade of Slash.
"Payback's a bitch ain't it?" Slash taunted.
"Damn you!" Frog mumbled.
Slash hadn't exactly made a new wound in Frog except for the one in his back. Instead, he widened the one that he made before, the one that Frog had struggled to ignore. Frog collapsed and fell unconscious. The injured mystic jumped back to the other side of the room and dropped to his knees to rest, feeling the pain from the wound left by the Masamune. Flea on the other hand had got up and floated in the air to avoid Magus's black hole. Frog and Marle, however, were unable to fight the force of the Black Hole. Marle was being dragged along the ground, as was Frog.
"No, I can't let it end like this!" Marle thought. "Everyone would be so sad if I did. Father, Chancellor, Lucca…and Crono! We've all been through so much. There must be a way out of this."
Again she looked around for something to grab onto. She looked at Frog and saw the Masamune in his hand. He was sliding toward her. She took the opportunity to fire off an Ice spell to propel her away from the vortex. She got within reach of Frog and then snatched up the Masamune. She slammed the tip of its blade into the ground and held on with one hand. With the other hand, she grabbed Frog and held on.
"Oh no you don't!" said Slash with a sinister grin.
"Hmph. How smart…for a woman." said Flea.
Slash let loose a "Slash" attack and Flea threw a fireball toward Marle. Marle pulled the Masamune from the ground and thrust it into Frog's cape. The attack was headed for her so he would still be safe. She let go and flew toward the Black Hole. Content with the results, Slash and Flea set their sights on Frog.
"I think I'd rather finish him off myself." Slash told Flea. "Light me up!"
He held his blade in the air as Flea set it ablaze with his magic. He then prepared to let off their Blazed Blade attack. However at the time of release something big and metallic rammed into him. The blow sent Slash flying toward the wall and the Blazed Blade attack in the air toward Flea. He barely dodged it and it grazed his arm.
Marle, who was completely oblivious to what was going on near Frog, was right on the boundary of the Black Hole when she felt something grab her. She looked at her arm and saw a metallic arm holding her. Confused, she looked for the source of the arm and saw an old friend. He pulled Marle over to him and placed her on his back.
"Please hang on Marle. I shall attempt to force Magus to close the Vortex." Robo told her.
Marle was confused. What was Robo doing in the Middle Ages? She decided to save that question for later and simply nodded her head to Robo's request. Robo pounded his chest and then fired off his Rocket Punch. Despite the forces of gravity pulling on it with extra effort, it was able to hit its target perfectly. Magus felt the blow and regained his senses. The first thing he did was close the Black Hole. He was aware of what he was doing, but was not able to stop himself. This was the power of Flea's mind control attack – "The Stare".
"I want to split that metal body of yours in half, but I'll let it slide since you set me free." Magus told Robo.
"Damn! We would have killed them too if it wasn't for that meddling golem!" yelled Slash.
"We still can!" Flea replied viciously. "RAINBOW STO-!"
The blade of the Doomsickle pierced through Flea's chest and he let out an extremely sharp shriek. Magus removed the scythe from Flea, but kicked him to the ground. He glared at Flea with eyes colder than the deepest glacier filled ocean. Flea looked back up at him with not only great fear, but also great hatred.
"There is no way you are more beautiful, more powerful than I am." said Flea.
Magus held out his hand and started to cast. "Dark Matter will finish both of those freaks off for good." He thought.
Meanwhile, Robo had engaged Slash. Slash staggered around with the deep wound on his back, while trying to keep some distance between Robo and himself. Robo however was closing in fast, getting a good hit in whenever he can. He pulled out all the stops. Rocket Punch, Robo Tackle, Uzzi Punch, Laser Spin you name it. However, only the first three attacks hit their mark. Slash was able to either dodge or reflect the laser beams. Marle was off tending to Frog's wounds. She used the medicine she brought with her to physically treat his wounds and started to finish off with Cure 2. Robo pushed Slash into a corner and then opened his chest plates. It flashed as he charged up the electrical energy needed to perform a Shock.
No one noticed the figure standing in the doorway.
"Tch tch tch. So incompetent these days." the figure said to itself. The figure snapped its fingers and in an instant, two Gates appeared below Slash and Flea and they found themselves being sucked in. The figure then disappeared within another Gate.
Marle thought she saw something flash out of the corner of her eye. She looked toward the doorway to see nothing. "Someone was definitely there. They must have helped Slash and Flea escape." she thought. She turned her attention back to Frog just as Robo came and joined her. He opened his chest plates and a beam of energy shot out.
"My advanced technology will greatly reduce the threat to Frog's life." Robo stated.
"Thanks Robo." Marle said, looking at the doorway again.
"Did you sense it too?" Robo asked Marle.
"Sense what?" Marle asked.
"My sensors detected a distortion in the time/space continuum originating from the doorway just before those gates opened up." Robo replied.
"I thought I saw someone there. But who?" Marle asked.
"Whoever dared to oppose me will receive a painful death." Magus answered as he appeared beside the group. "There is nowhere for those two to run. That goes for that coward Ozzie either. If those two are around, then he's bound to be hiding somewhere behind them."
Marle ignore Magus and instead turned to Robo.
"What are you doing here anyway?" she asked. "How did you get from the Future to the Middle Ages?"
"I'm afraid there is no time to answer that." Robo replied and pointed to the entrance. "We have company."
Marle turned her gaze toward the entrance. Soldiers from the Black Quartz army flocked into the room. She grabbed her crossbow and aimed at them.
"Today's just not their lucky day." Magus said and teleported over to them. "BLACK HOLE!"