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Vampire_Lowell
10-15-2002, 11:30 AM
Hello hello. YES this is something i wrote this time. I hope you enjoy. This is going to be a long adventure. Oh sorry about any mistakes...i didn't proofread -_-; ACK. :oops:

A4 FanFiction: Worlds Apart.
Chapter 1: Press Start

The doors had just closed as the last group of people walked into the hall and almost everyone had taken their seats. There was nothing else to do but wait. Everyone inside the dance hall was excited and couldn’t wait for the assembly to begin.

“Augh, not again. I TOLD NOT TO GET COFFEE! Now we’re sitting in the back row!” Lowell started to jump up and down whining to Lady Avi and Angel Stardust.
“Oh shutup Lowell, we’ll be fine in the back.” Avi brushed Lowell off and sat down next to Angel. They continued their eye gazing as they had been doing the past few days they’ve been staying together at the hotel.

“I guess I’ll walk around now then...OHH FOOD! Eat eat!” Lowell walked off smiling towards the table full of food and drinks.

The majority of the crowd was sitting down. Some people were sitting next to people they’ve met before while others were sitting next to people they talked to online for years but only met for the very first time that day. There were others standing setting up video cameras along the aisles and near the front of the dance hall.

“Hey Sheikah, was HuhWhat able to come? I talked with him last week online and he said he might be busy to come” Love Soldier said, as she picked up a shrimp donut.

“Oh don’t worry, we were able to bring him over. He’s over there reading a .hack manga. HUH!” Sheikah said, then turning towards the direction of HuhWhat. HuhWhat didn’t respond. “WHAT, wave to Jess!” Sheikah shouted again to HuhWhat in the 8th row.

HuhWhat looked up from his manga, waved over to the location of the voice and then looked back down.

Ultimaterra and Ultima came up to the table of food. Sheikah and LoveSoldier took notice and glanced over to their name tag. LoveSoldier noticed that both names said Ultima.

LoveSoldier questioned both men, “Wait I keep getting confused, Who’s the demon and who’s the 2005?”

Both raised their hands at the answer of the question, then took a plate of food and left together. LoveSoldier raised her eyebrow to both Ultimas then to Sheikah.

“Ok, I’ll talk to Ian now I guess.” LoveSoldier said as he waved bye to Sheikah and walked over to the stage.


The back of the dance hall had a small short stage with a mic, a big screen television, and some chairs set up. There were four people already sitting down waiting. All of them were talking with each other with smiles on their faces. All of them couldn’t believe that the assembly was about to begin. There were two others behind the stage but only the front row could actually see them. They were making sure that everything was set and ready. After giving a last look over them, the two men gave thumbs up to the man sitting closet to the microphone.

The man stood up and walked over to the podium with the mic. Everyone began to quiet down and put their attention to the man walking to the podium. Those who were standing and talking in the seats went back to their seats ready to continue their conversations after the speech. The man took a deep breath and spoke.

“Ladies and gentlemen, it’s been a great 5 year run and I can’t believe we’re all here today at the Anime Expo in California. When I created Anime-forums.com I wouldn’t have imagined that in just five years that we would all be here sitting next to each other together. When it first started, we were just a few people separated by many miles of water and land brought together by the World Wide Web. And today, Anime-forums.com is one of the world’s most famous websites responsible for bringing a new Anime/manga revolution. And that is something all of you should be proud of.”

A round of applause and cheers exploded in the room to that part. People outside of the dance hall walking past got a little shock when they heard the ovation. Some continued down the hallways while others tried to get in to see what was going on. Two security guards were posted there to detour those who weren’t invited to the assembly. The man on the podium began to speak again.

“Thank you. I don’t know what else I can say. Anime/manga has brought all people around the world together. I’m sort of surprised to see some of you all! I didn’t think any of you would come”

There was one female, who went by the name of Kikuchi, who yelled out “Who would want to MISS this?”

There went another cheer and applause. Some others began whistling in agreement. The crowd died down again.

“Heh, thank you again. Well what is there to say? Oh for those who haven’t seen my picture online and have no clue who I am, thanks a lot!”

Most of the crowd began to laugh. The rest really had no clue who he was. Some joined in the laughing so they wouldn’t look stupid.

“But that’s all right. My name is Brycie, but I believe you all know me as Knuckles. And I’d like to thank you and WELCOME you to Anime Expo of 2006 and to the First Annual Assembly of the Anime-Forum members!”

Everyone stood up hollering and rooting for Knuckles. Some began a Knuckles chant which then had everyone in the room chanting.

“Knuckles! Knuckles! Knuckles! Knuckles!”

“You are all invited to try out the food and refreshments plus we have computers online already, setup with the MIRC on for those individuals who couldn’t make it with us today. But before that I’d like to bring up two individuals who have been working very hard for the past 2-3 years making this …machine for this occasion today.”

Knuckles waved his hand towards the two in the back. The two people wheeled our their machines out in front of the stage. The people in the seats on stage got up and helped the two bring up the machines onto the stage.

“Now lets give a round of applause to two people you would know as Titan Scholar and Quinn!”

A big “Chii!” chant began out of nowhere as both men came to the podium. Quinn shook Knuckles hand and took the microphone.

“Thank you. Well, when Knuckles first mentioned to us of a possible real life assembly I decided to think of something big, something unique to show to you all. But I couldn’t do it alone so I asked for Titan Scholar’s help…”

Titan Scholar jumped up for joy at the call of his name, “Chii!!!”

“…Right. And I’d also like to thank the organizations who helped fund our project. It took us three long years to make it, so let me explain it first…well why don’t we just show you instead.” With that Quinn put down the microphone, and with Titan’s help, removed the cover over the object.

Everyone started to move up to get a closer look. SigmaYatoihei had to take out his binoculars out of his bag because he was sitting in the back row seats. Cid and Lina had a better view thanks to their good seats in the front row. But they had to push back some people off themselves from trying to move up rows to get a better look. Bonzi Buddy took his digital camera off the pedestal to capture the object into disk. Ein and Wastaz, who were sitting next to each, began swatting people down, like Mobile-suit Goten and Mei, so they could also get a good look at it. Vampire Lowell poked Angel and Avi.
“WHAT?” Avi screamed into Lowell’s ear. Angel gave a mad glare to Lowell.
“Ya know we could just grab our chairs and move it over to the front right?” As Vampire Lowell grabbed his chair and moved it to the front. Angel Stardust and Avi gave each other a look, shrugged, and followed right behind Lowell.
“Hey if they blame us for budging, blame Lowell.” Angel whispered to Avi.

Everyone kept looking at the machines, whispering to each other of what it could possibly be.
“Maybe it’s a 1000 disc DVD player with Anime already inside!” John Hea said.
“I think its some sort of new Eva. Probably Eva .00001. Its so small and dinky.” Pistola replied.
The whispers began to turn into loud conversations soon enough.
“Maybe it’s a television”
“Maybe there’s a persocon inside!!!”
“Oh don’t be an idiot, its clearly some sort of new computer”
“Is that a pot?”
Everyone began quiet with that answer.

Saheen tried to get a good look up in front to see who said that oblivious question. She gave it some thought and asked Cain, who was sitting next to her, “…Was that Lowell?”
Cain replied, “Of course it was… the moron.”
Cain’s answer made it clear to everyone to continue talking once more. Quinn looked around and took back the mic, trying to bring order back to the dance hall.

“People, please I’ll tell you what it is if everyone would please sit down now”

No one listened and continued conversing. Quinn’s continuing pleas didn’t reach the crowd. Titan could only watch and when he just couldn’t take it any longer he took the mic from Quinn’s hand. Titan Scholar took a deep breath and let out a loud shrill.

“CHIIIII!!!!!”

The dance hall became quiet again. Titan handed Quinn the mic back smiling at him. Quinn only just raised his eyebrow at Titan and then looked back at the crowd.

“To think I had to deal with this for 3 years and I’m still not used to him.” Quinn said under his breath.
“Um, thanks Titan. Ladies and Gentlemen. What you have here is the very first digital energy converter entertainment system or DECES for short. With this, it will convert carbon based life forms into digital information and making the user truly become one with the game. It will give a new meaning to interactive gaming. You will be able to fight along side with your favorite characters in your favorite games. We tried a few games from a variety of game systems from Nintendo to the Playstation 2.”

Quinn took out a laser pointer in his pants pocket. “As you can see, we installed an NES and six Playstation 2’s. We tried most of the Final Fantasy games we could rustle up in the short period of time we had for testing.”

Quinn continued on talking about the technical aspects of the machines. Some of the crowd all looked upon him with awe and wonder. Others were antsy to just jump into the game. Knuckles could hear whispering going on in the crowds.

“We decided as a treat for everyone here joining us, we’d be able to bring everyone into one particular game first to demonstrate. Time will actually slow done when we’re inside the game so we can actually finish this game off and be back without missing a single event of Anime Expo. Titan and I decided to use the game Chrono Trigger for your amusement. For those who don’t know Chrono Trigger is a Playstation and a once Super Nintendo game whose character art was drawn by none other than Akira Toriyama who drew the Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z series. Oh, right” Quinn looked down on the podium. “And I have to announce also that he will be signing autographs tomorrow afternoon from 1 to 4. Again, he will be signing tomorrow afternoon from 1 to 4.”
Quinn put the mic back down on the podium and walked over to the DECES keyboard and computer screen.

Quinn started typing up the commands to begin operating the machines as Titan did the same on the other machine. Both machines started to light up and pulse.

While both men were typing up the commands, Banessa-chan stood up and asked what was on some people’s minds. “Excuse me. I think its great and all that you guys made this but is it safe to step on? When we’re in the game, if we get hit will we get hurt? Will we feel pain?”

“Don’t worry everyone; we took every precaution to make sure that no one would get hurt in the game. The worse thing that happens when you “die” is that you will be sent to a virtual waiting area. It’s like a giant virtual room floating in a larder giant virtual void. You’ll stay there until the game ends or until you get revived again. Titan and I have tested this personally and we have found no problems with the DECES. So let’s begin already shall we?”

Four little pads popped out of each machine and landed on the carpeted floor. They looked very much like Dance Dance Revolution floor pads. Some small orbs popped out from behind the machines and floated above each pad.

“Knuckles since you are the owner and creator; I invite you to be the first one to enter the game. We will also get three other volunteers will join you as well, so don’t you worry.”

Ian and Neko, the first two mods, stood up from their chairs. They were the two others sitting down with Knuckles before the assembly began. The third volunteer was Paranoid Janitor coming out of the third row. All four of them took their places on the pads. Each pad lit up as soon as they stepped onto the pads.

Titan and Quinn went up to each volunteer and gave each person what looked like an electronic armlet. They strapped it on their left arm. Titan made sure each bracelet was on properly while Quinn went back on stage and took the mic.

“What I’ve put on them is a status armlet that will give out the proper information they’ll need during the game. For example, in this case with Chrono Trigger, it will allow you to tell you what abilities you have, what experience you’ll need to level up, and what level you are. This armlet will also help you change your weapons and keep track of your inventory. They’re all voice-activated so you just need to speak clearly and ask for the proper information.”

He took the mic with him from the podium and walked to one of the machines. He entered the last commands for proper data transfer. He moved the mic back to his lips.

“I wish you four good luck! And please wait for us! We’ll all be there soon”

With those words, the crowds start to clap for the four brave travelers. Each one of them took a deep breath. Ian closed his eyes immediately. Neko and Janitor began waving at the crowd. Knuckles looked around and couldn’t help but just stare at the incredible machinery. Titan walked away from the pads and then pointed at Quinn and gave him the signal to go by pointing at him and yelling out. “Hideki!!”

Quinn pressed the return button and watched as the pads and machine lights turned off. All the people became quiet thinking that the machine failed on Quinn. But then the orbs began to swirl around the four travelers bouncing light off them and back to the orbs slowly at first. The orbs did this for a few seconds and began to speed up until it looked like a DNA strain of light around the travelers. People began to step back at the sight at first, but began to step closer to get a better look. But before they could, a bright light filled the room and then there was nothing except for the crowds of people, Titan, and Quinn minus the four travelers.

Quinn turned on the giant screen tv on the stage. The intro sequence of Chrono Trigger appeared. Quinn took a control from inside the DECES. He clicked onto a new game. And there came the name screen. It was for the Chrono character. He assigned the name to Knuckles. The opening sequence and music were seen and heard from the big screen. And then was the intro to the hero. Chrono was supposed to be inside the bed awakening to his mother’s call. But instead, there came out a different character sprite.
It …looked …looked like KNUCKLES!
Quinn looked at the crowd and watched their reaction of shock and amazement. Quinn looked towards the machine at Titan who was smiling back at him happy at the success. Quinn turned his attention back to the crowd and with a small smirk, he spoke into the mic one more time.
“Who’s next?”

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Next Chapter: "The Queen is Dead. The Queen is Dead. Long Live the Queen!?!"

Lina Inverse
10-15-2002, 11:46 AM
Oh...my...

Oh well ^_^ Good job Lowell, I like it so far, I didnt know you could write fics ^_^;

MORE!! o.o;

Jake.
10-15-2002, 11:47 AM
Weeeiiirrrrddddd O_o me like .. Lowell will make more! yes yes!

And you called Ki-chan(Kikuchi) a fellow, Ki ish a girl o.o;

CHII!!

Hideki
10-15-2002, 11:49 AM
I like it Lowell. I don't know you like these other people seem to know you but I like it. Yes and make some more. I shall read.

-=Brandon=-
-=Hideki look-a-like=-

No joke either....

Avi-chan
10-15-2002, 01:05 PM
Very nice, Lowell. Even though I don't yell that much! ...sorry.

No, seriously, it's good. You always come up with good ideas for stories. Remind me to steal one sometime. :D

Keep it coming, Vampy.

Vampire_Lowell
10-15-2002, 01:29 PM
thank you one and all. ^_^ i apologize again for the mistakes...and i correct that ki is a girl not a guy.
(GOMEN KI!!!)

and yes you do yell that much...especially when i irritate you =D

wastaz
10-15-2002, 01:56 PM
So...so....so......PERFECT!

I lub this ficcie Lowell ^_^
Beautiful! Just beautiful!

Give me more! Or I'll bite your leg off. ^_^

and something tells me that the message of this story will be "Never use a machine built by Quinn and TitanScholar." Which actually sounds quite logical to me ^_^

petey-san
10-15-2002, 02:43 PM
well i shocked
when i heard u here writing a fic i expected n3kk1d woman........
but this is great!!!!

we need more!!!

emm.... 1 question which im sure ur note going to answer, what are the games that are in it? theres 1 nes game, and 6 PSX2 games oh.. and 1 psx game ^^

Sheikah_
10-15-2002, 04:06 PM
Yeah, no Snes? I mean, FF and all...
Ah well.
I know what happens next! In true Chrono Trigger fashion, the machine "goes wrong" and the gang is stuck there in the game. One of them was carrying an amulet or the like that triggered off that reaction in the machine...

So it goes from there.
As long as in further chapters you say no to my coming out of the closet and proposing to Huhwhat, I think I'm gonna like this one.

And, hey, you actually wrote your own fic. Nice!

Ian the Korean
10-15-2002, 04:27 PM
D00000000000000000000D!!!!!!!!!!

This is a phuking awesome idea for a story, i cant wait for it to get going, keep up the good work lowell, its well written, and seems to fit everyones personalities pretty well!^^

Ultima
10-15-2002, 05:52 PM
Wow, that was sw33t lowell! I am hooked! I look forward to more of the same! 8)

Yuutsu no Ame
10-15-2002, 06:51 PM
this is great lowell. i can expect this fic to be pretty long, and thus, interesting considering that all the a4 members are in it. keep writing and posting those chapters. i'm sure you have loads of fans already.

ok, i'll go off and ponder where i'll appear and who i'll be now.

The Real Cyan
10-15-2002, 10:12 PM
That looks great so far...

Wonder what is going to go on....

EinMk.II
10-16-2002, 04:58 PM
Ein's assesment: Not enough Ein. ^_^
j/k
much goodness. And as I know a bit of what's gonna happen, I await the goodness to come.

DS2 may have a little competition, it seems....

Foxee
10-16-2002, 05:09 PM
:o That is so coooool!

...When do I appear, kuya?

Anyways...

GOOOOOD JOOOOOOOOOB KUUUYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Vampire_Lowell
10-17-2002, 02:32 PM
I'd like to apologize for the wait
Midterms is hanging over my head, but theres only one left tomorrow and i can begin writing chapter2. (good thing i have a good idea of what i'm doing or its going to take another week to write)

Oy. I hate midterms.

Cain
10-17-2002, 03:49 PM
*licks Lowell*

And I hate exams *glares at textbook*

But do post another one ^^

Paranoid_Janitor
10-17-2002, 07:26 PM
This is great! Lowell, this could turn out to be the most popular A4 fic, keep writing it!
its well written, and seems to fit everyones personalities pretty well!^^ yeah, that's true, but if it were like me, I'd have tried to slip a copy of Star Ocean in there, and most likely failed to.

Cain
10-18-2002, 08:59 AM
Ok now that sounds so like you O.o
Why am I not surprised by this?

he he, no worries Pj I am not attacking you^^

Android21
10-19-2002, 01:22 AM
Wow, that was great stuff Lowell! :o :D Hehe, lots of funny moments

*Waits patiently for 2006 to swing around when it will all happen in real life*

LoveSoldier
10-19-2002, 08:35 AM
Wooowwwwwwie! ^_^

This is really well-written, Lowell. And, damn, what an awesome concept! I hate to repeat what others have said... but this is a great fic! Oooohhh, I neeeeed moooore!! ^^

I love the characterizations of NCB and Quinn... soo perfect. ^^ "Chii!!" hee hee. And that smirk at the end... just perfect.

Me grabbing a shrimp donut... -_-
Heh, but it did make me laugh. ^^

Whee, more ficcie, now! *cracks whip*

Vampire_Lowell
10-22-2002, 12:28 PM
Sorry sorry. Midterms. Failed exams. And other things have been prohibiting me from posting this. As well as the occassional chat ^_^;;

I give you the new chapter

Chapter 2: The Queen is Dead. The Queen is Dead. Long Live the Queen!

The air exploded with fireworks and its still morning. The fireworks announced the beginning of the festival at the Leene Square. Knuckles left his character’s mother from the town of Truce. Knuckles had transported into the body of the main hero, Chrono, of Chrono Trigger.
This is what he knew. First he was standing in front of almost all the users of A4. The next minute, he was in bed and there was a woman opening the curtains. Knuckles knew so little of the game, but he knew that was the Chrono. He left in a hurry with Crono’s wood sword and some money.

Ten minutes after Knuckles had arrived, many of the other users appeared. There was one spot chosen far away from the town and the festival to allow users to appear without any troubles.
Let’s speed up to the present where four users were lying down on the grass where they seem to be waiting for something or someone.

“Wait, so how long do we have to wait for the group?”
“I dunno, Quinn mentioned to us before we transported to wait here until the next group.”
“Argh! Can’t we just go and leave them behind? We’re missing the festival activities!”
“I told you! We have to wait for the next group”
“I just wish you remembered EXACTLY what Quinn said”

3 minutes ago back at AnimeExpo dance hall.
“All right, if anyone can spot Knuckles, please tell him to just stay put in the festival! I’ll be there soon to help him. I already sent Titan Scholar ahead to take care of some matters with the veterans. You newbies will be sent safely to the present time. There won’t be any trouble for you there so we hope you can handle that. Just to keep it safe, I’ll send in eight people into the game. Four of you will stay put at the destination point. The other four will go off to the festival. I will be sending in eight people every transport. When the new group appears the first four people waiting will pick a person each and walk off to the festival. Those not chosen will stay put until the next group appears. You all understand”

The group of newbs weren’t listening and just kept looking at the machines. All they wanted to do was jump on the pad, get blasted into the game, and just have fun.

Jump back 3 minutes to the present in the Chrono Trigger game.

The four newbies were still lying on the grass admiring the landscape around them. They could see from a distance the big group of people walking towards the Square. On a farther distance they could see Guardia Castle. With its flags waving proudly, it was really a sight to see.

“Hey.”
“What’s up?”
Everyone started paying attention to the first who spoke.
“What are all your names?”
“The name's maatiuu. I'm the guy with the BDSM cat in the signature”
“I'm Sailor Pluto! tee hee. ^_^”
“I'm wildstar.”
“Cool. Nice to meet you all, my name is Ares!“

After the introductions, two portals opened up two feet up in the air and eight people came out. One female from the new group stepped up to the waiting group. She was wearing glasses and holding a small handbag around her shoulder with a hammer inside. She looked like she was 14 years old.

“You guys wait long?” The girl said as she looked at the waiting group then up to the sky.
“Well you won’t be waiting any longer. You all can go to the Square now. This is the last group so four of you don’t have to wait here for another group because there is no other group.”

The eleven users just stared at her wondering who she was.
“Well? Go already. I’ll meet with you all there soon” the girl replied.

The eleven decided not to worry about who she is, and walked towards the Square. The girl stood at the target point watching the group walking. What was she waiting for? Or who? Another portal opened to answer that question behind the woman. A big buff man came out. A lot taller than the girl and a lot stronger. The man got his bearings straight and looked around at his surroundings then saw the girl. He walked towards the girl with a purpose. When he was face to face with her, he raised up his arm up. The girl stared up at the buff man. She didn’t show any fear whatsoever.
“Chii!!!!” as the man waved at the female. He had a giant smile that didn’t seem right to come out of the mouth of that man.
“Yes, nice to see you too Scholar.”
“Chii. Chii chi chii.” The man waved his arms all over describing something only the woman could understand.
“All right, so they do understand. Good. I hope they don’t get bored. Well lets go, we have our own little ‘things; to do right?”
"Chi chi!!" Titan said laughing.
"Har har. Just because your my 'dad' doesn't mean anything right now."
“Chi. Chi chi.” Said Titan. The armlet reacted to the “Chi chi” command. Another portal opened and both Titan and the woman stepped thru.
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Knuckles during this time had met up with most of the arrivals, talked with them, and joined with them to have some fun at the festival. Knuckles joined up with some the aussie group of Goob and Krash. Knuckles and his group spent their time at the hammer game, “Hit the Leene Bell!”
They later spent their time outdoing each other on the Soda Guzzling game. He was able to round up 40 silver points from that game before he started throwing the soda back up.

Goob mentioned the Gato game made by Lucca, one of Chrono’s friends. Knuckles took interest since he was the one carrying the wooden sword. He was also interested hoping to find another user in a game character’s body.
As Knuckles, Krash, and Goob walked towards the Gato, Knuckles noticed a sack of food sitting on a table. There wasn’t anyone nearby except a man looking towards the Gato Booth. He didn’t have any food when he reached here, and he sure didn’t have any food when he got to the Anime Expo dance hall. He decided to ignore the food sack. Besides the food sack reminded him of the forty or so bottles of soda that he threw up.
The aussies arrived at the Gato Booth.
There sat a robot twice the size of Knuckles and three times as wide. The robot had the look of a giant fat cat, thus the name of Gato. It scanned the group and detected Knuckles holding onto his wooden sword. Goob and Krash went up to the stands to watch.
“Greetings, are you here to play?”
Gato stood up and brought up a microphone up to its mouth and started to sing. “My name is Gato. I have metal joints. Beat me up and win 15 silver points!” Gato put away the mic and stood in front of Knuckles.
Knuckles took the wooden sword into a ready stance. Knuckles then just realized that he had no idea how he did that stance. But when he looked at Gato, he thought of several different ways of attacking the robot. Before he could figure out why he could, Gato started charging towards him.
“Oh Sh*t!” Knuckles jumped out of the way of the charging robot. Knuckles rolled along his side and leapt back on his feet. He got his wooden sword back into an attack stance with the sword pointing back at Gato.

Gato turned around and aimed its metal fist at Knuckles. Knuckles waited for Gato to charge at him with its fist but instead he got something a little different. The fist launched towards Knuckles and knocked him right in the stomach. The fist flew back into its wrist socket by a chain. Knuckles flew back eight feet away far from where he stood. Knuckles used his wooden sword as a crutch to get back up. He clasped his stomach and looked at Gato. His stomach felt sore but he still had to go on because that robot sure isn’t going to stop. He brought his sword back to an attack stance. The robot began to do another charge at him. Knuckles made another dodge to the left side of the robot.
Goob couldn’t take it any more. “ATTACK THE STUPID ROBOT ALREADY!”

Knuckles rolled his eyes. He yelled back at him. “Fine, fine I will! But attacking is a lot harder than it appears to be!” Knuckles looked back at Gato. Gato raised its fist once again. This time Knuckles knew what to do. The fist flew out of the wrist socket of Gato. Knuckles jumped off the ground and landed on the chain attached to the fist. He ran quickly along the chain, raised his sword up in the air and hit Gato in the head.

After striking, he jumped off the chain and landed back on the ground. He could hear sirens and alarms going off. He looked at Gato and saw the robots eyes flashing red.

He decided to go for another attack stance when Gato took out the mic again and said, “I lost. You won. Here's 15 Points. Now wasn't that fun!?”

Knuckles fell on his knees and took a breather. Gato came up to Knuckles and handed him 15 silver points. Gato sat back on the ground just the same way when Knuckles first entered the area. His armlet started to beep.
Knuckles raised his arm with the armlet close to his mouth. “Umm…armlet thing…hello?”
The armlet showed that he gathered up to 60 silver points. And then it showed that he went up one level. And gained one new skill.
“Good work Knuckles”
Knuckles turned around to see the girl with glasses clapping.
“Hi Miss. I haven’t met you yet. What is your name on A4?”
The girl winced at the word miss.
“Knuckles. Its me.”
Knuckles raised his eyebrow and had a confused look o his face. “I’m sorry, I really don’t know who you are.”
The girl sighed and said, “I’m Quinn”
Knuckles gave …Quinn… a look.
“Yes, yes I know. I’ve received that kind of reaction every time I’ve mentioned that to the others. I’m in one of the character’s bodies. I’m in Lucca’s body. I thought you needed some assistance so I programmed to be put into this body. Besides I wanted to use a gun. So did you find the Marle character?”
“Who?”
“Marle. The princess. Didn’t you bumped into a girl before you reached here?”
“No, I just joined the guys over there and we went around the festival. I didn’t know I was supposed to bump into anyone.”
“You were supposed to have run into Marle or whoever was chosen to be Marle.”
Titan Scholar, as the big buff guy, ran into the Gato field. He kept pointing towards the northern part of the festival and yelling out chi’s here and there so quickly that even Quinn couldn’t understand. Quinn was able to calm Titan down and was able to get a few words out of him.
“Holy crap!” Said Quinn, as she…he started running towards that direction Titan pointed at with Titan following behind.
Knuckles followed Quinn and was able to keep in step with him when he asked, “Quinn, what did Titan say?”
“Titan just told me that the Marle character just jumped into the time portal and already went back to the Medieval Period!”

All three arrived at the teleporter area. Some of the NPC (non playable characters) were still talking to each other about the girl who disappeared thru the time portal. Some of the newbs had also heard the news and followed right after Knuckles, TS, and Quinn arrived. Titan ran towards the main console. Quinn and Knuckles walked over to the pod and saw a pendant on the floor of the pod. Knuckles picked it up and showed it to Quinn.
“What’s this?”
“Excellent, the pendant still stayed here. We can go thru and follow right after her.”
Quinn grabbed Knuckles by the arm and lead him onto the pod where the pendant sat. Quinn joined him and gave a hand signal to Titan.
“QUINN! What is this pendant?”
“It’s the pendant that has the …” but Quinn was interrupted by the power of the machine coursing thru the console to the pod.

The pod’s power reacted with the power of the pendant and the same process that happened to the Marle Character started happened to the two heroes. Electricity started to form inside and outside of the area of the pod. The pendant started to glow and caused the time portal to appear and drag both Quinn and Knuckles into the portal.
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The year 600 a.d.

The Queen of Guardia Kingdom was the pride and hope of the land. She provided the kingdom with the love and kindess it needed during the troubled time of war they were involved in. Without the Queen, there would be no possible hope of a future. Morale around the kingdom would have decreased without love and kindess of the Queen.

So when there was a big commotion about how the Queen was abducted and missing, half of the army of the Guardia Kingdom was dispatched to find her. She had been missing for three days now. And hope was dying on finding the Queen. But then came a ray of hope. Troop 09 of the Guardia Army found the Queen at the Truce Canyon. She was a bit dazed and befuddled but they were able to bring her back to the castle alive. An odd thing though on the way back to the castle, she kept on insisting that she was no Queen. She kept insisting that she was some sort of goddess. The troop muttered to themselves that she was probably confused by her ordeal at the canyon.

Troop 09 was to be commended and awarded by the Captain of the Guards as well as the King. And the Queen was said to be on her way to recovery from her hardship. The news brought forth hope back into the kingdom. Everyone was thrilled of the return of the Queen. The Chancellor however didn't seemed all that thrilled on the news.
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A time portal opened directly in the middle of the field where Troop 09 found the Queen. Two people came out from the portal. One however fell on their ass.

“Ow. Dammit. Pain. I felt Pain!” said Quinn landing on her…his butt.
Knuckles helped Quinn back on his feet. Knuckles looked around and began surveying the area. It was beautiful. He had seen nothing like this back home and nothing like this on Earth. Running water could be heard to the east and there were falling leaves everywhere. He could only assume it was autumn here.

“Armlet. Locate. Marle.” Said Quinn as he talked into the armlet.
The armlet started to react to the voice commands and blinked for a few seconds before it gave Quinn his answer.

“According to the armlet, it says she’s at the castle!”
“Wow, it looks exactly like Guardia Castle.”
“It IS Guardia Castle, Knuckles. Have you EVER played this game before?”
“Not really.”
“Then it’s a good idea that I chose to be Lucca and not Titan.”
“Ok. First off that portal we went thru is a time portal and we just jumped into the past to the year 600 A.D. We’re standing on the same spot as we were a few minutes earlier except 400 years in the past in the game.”
“All right, I understand that. I have a question though”
“Ok one question but we have to hurry.”
“I met a lot of the newbies at the carnival. What happened to the other guys? Like Ian, CP, Paranoid Janitor…heck even Lowell. I was expecting to see Lowell and Wastaz trashing about in the carnival. But there was no uproar or frantic screaming and yelling. I was sorta surprised by that.”
“Well Knuckles, to put it simply. We spread the users around the history of Chrono Trigger. Most of the vets we believed could handle themselves are located in the harder parts of the game. We put the newbies and the younger kids in the present or the time period we just came from. There aren’t a lot of dangers there so I was content on placing them there of all places. Don’t worry we’ll see them as we progress to the game. But we have to hurry now! The Queen I mean princess, Marle, the girl…or guy, is going to disappear soon!”

Knuckles got a little confused by the last sentence but before he could ask another question, Quinn had already made a dash towards the castle. Knuckles sheathed his sword and followed Quinn in hot pursuit.

Who was this Marle? Why is this person going to disappear? Why does Quinn sound nervous about it? Is she really a queen? All these thoughts running in his head. Nothing he could get answered just yet. That’s when Knuckles, not paying attention to where he was running to, ran into Quinn.

“Ack! Quinn whats happening?” said Knuckles as he looked in front of Quinn to see why he stopped.

There stood two imps and one ball-like creature. It stood in their path and they didn’t look like they were going to move.

Knuckles stepped in front of Quinn and took unsheathed his wooden sword once more.
“Stand back Quinn, I got it”

Quinn looked at Knuckles with a raised eye. He moved his way back in front of Knuckles and turned his head to talk.
“Knuckles. Although I look like a girl I’m not helpless. Another reason why I chose to merge with Lucca is this.”

Quinn went thru his armbag and took out an object. The two imps moved behind the ball as Quinn took aim. He then threw the object into the air, and flamed started to come out of his hand and fell on all three creatures. All three creatures began running around in circles on fire. Both imps fell on the ground dead still in flames. The ball creature was still moving around and rolled towards the two heroes direction.

Knuckles took up a defensive position with his sword and stood his ground. Quinn took out another object from the bag. It was a gun.

Quinn took aim and shot the ball with one swift move. The ball jerked back and rolled no longer. It was dead as well. It was also still on fire.

“Heh, great ball of fire.” Quinn remarked under his breath.
“What?”
“Nothing, nothing.”
“Hey Quinn, how were you able to do that? And WHY do you have a gun??”
“Like I said. This is why I chose Lucca. And also I’m at level 5 right now. You better start leveling up if you want to reach me. But enough talk. We have to save a user.”

Knuckles and Quinn checked for items on their fallen enemies and proceeded towards the castle once again. With the weapons prepared nothing was going to get in the way of getting towards the castle.


Stayed tuned for the next chapter.
Same Chrono thread. Same chrono url.

YES THE DUCKTAILS MOON LEVEL!...
Sorry heh..listening to Big Mog Radio for inspiration

Next chapter:
Chapter 3: EnterTheFrog

petey-san
10-22-2002, 01:05 PM
lowell i alwas thought of u as just a perverted vampire, u'v proven me wrong, thats was the best chapter of a fic i'v read in a long time, it was just quite simply outstanding, i can't wait of more but im not going to push u, i'll leave that to the other A4ers 8)

soz to hear about ur exams, im sure we are mostly to blame :cry:

Vampire_Lowell
10-22-2002, 01:10 PM
Heh. not really. just some really tough tests. my mind was scattered. Don't worry about it. Besides I wrote that entire thing like...saturday night from 11:00-12:00 while watching the midnight hour! lol.

But thank you for the compliments =D Hope i can do better or at least at the same par as the other chapters.

wastaz
10-22-2002, 02:01 PM
Loooowelll
Moooorrreeee

It's really great ^_^
Not that I've actually finished Chrono Trigger (yes, I'm blasphemous and should be shot) but I still liken this ^^
I want to see the frog! The frog ish cool! ^___^

Mooooore ^^

Avi-chan
10-22-2002, 02:10 PM
We talked already, but I thought that I'd say that despite some grammatical and style stuff, it's a lot of fun. Yay for Lowell!

And if only this person next to me would put their food away... *goes insane*

Looking forward to more, no da. :D

Sheikah_
10-22-2002, 03:12 PM
Ah! I love how you put the Chrono stuff in this...
..........well you know!

Like Gato, the man with the food (do NOT take his food! Trust me on this one!), soda guzzling contest...but where's the prehistoric-like dancing?

Ah well ^^
I like this fic. Well done and keep it up! ^^

Cain
10-22-2002, 04:21 PM
*licks Lowell*

So like you my lovely Vampire ^^

sailorjupitersakura7
10-24-2002, 03:30 PM
so lowell......when am i gonna be in it?? :wink:

Failed Expectations
11-03-2002, 04:03 PM
I missed this fanfic entirely. I like it. Write the next chapter as soon as possible lowell.

Vortigar
11-04-2002, 01:56 AM
I didn't finish chrono either waz-chan.I'm ready to go down together with ya...

Rather inspiring fic, makes you want to go chrono trigger again.

I don't think I'll be in it. I've never been in any other so far... :(

I could be introduced as the 'old guy at the centre of time'.

I wonder who is going to be the fluffy trainer thing...

this is gonna be so much fun...

Vampire_Lowell
11-04-2002, 08:00 AM
There will be a little downtime in the A4 story. Plus a revamp of some things.

(in other words, i thought of something really interesting. Don't worry there will be an A4 FF story, But the thing is going to be big soooo...please wait patiently as We go off the air for awhile
BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEP)

Morningstar Smiles
12-08-2002, 09:17 AM
Hey I just got caught up on this fic. :D This is really cool Lowell! Keep posting I want to read MOOOOOORE!!!

Ian the Korean
12-08-2002, 09:49 AM
nice job on the next chapter, lowell, enjoyed reading it. few typographical errors in tenses and such but overall very good work.^^ Sorry your taking downtime on it, but I'll be sure to read the next chapter when your able to get it up.