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Chrono Cross

by The Dark Id

Part 100: Alternate Ending #5: Fuck It! Let's Just Rock Out!


Alright, for this next ending Kid has to have recovered from her poisoning. Also, both Ziggy and Razzly need to have been recruited into the party as well. And this all must be done before the body swap with Lynx, of course.

Music: Another Termina


This one once again begins in Lisa's Shop (why the hell is she getting to star in so many endings out of nowhere) with Leena rushing in the door.


"We won't be able to get good seats if we don't leave now!"
"I'm sorry. I seem to have misplaced the tickets. Where could they be?"
"What!? I don't believe this... Hurry up and find them! We'll be standing all the way in the back at this rate!"
"I'm looking, I'm looking!"
"Maybe if you didn't waste all your time insulting all your costumers, then karma wouldn't come bite you in the butt now."
"Oh please! I am the last person that karma needs to be biting in the rear.... There are definitely better candidates out there."



"Ziggy was almost begging her to join."
"What amazes me is that he picked her... Why didn't he pick me?"
"My, my... Don't we have an ego..."
"Well, I did get two endings where I ended up with the main character. How many did you get, miss country bumpkin...?"
"Hey, I got one too!"
"Yes. One. Which was still less than two last I checked. Do they not teach you arithmetic down in the sticks...?"
"Oh, just shut up and find the tickets already. We are already late!"



"OK, Leena! Let's go!!!"
"Yeah, come on! We have to hurry!"


Huh... Lisa actually has a bottom half. I thought she was just glued to the back of the counter. Well, let's see what the big fuss is about...




Well...Termina is pretty friggin' packed... Where the hell did all these people come from? That's like five times more NPCs than every town in the game combined and doubled.


"The Magical Dreamers concert, featuring Ziggy, is about to begin! I would like to take this moment to extend my apologies for the unforeseen delay. Please enjoy the show!"


Oh... Oh no... Not another rock opera... Please no... I don't think I can take that again...


"Many thanks for coming out to see our gig! I hope you're all having a great time at the Viper Festival! At this time, I'd like to introduce some of our new band members!"
"On percussion, Serge!!!"


"Let's rock, bitches!!"

The crowd cheers...

"And on vocals, we have Kid!!!"


"Kid's me name! You guys ready to rock!?"

The crowd cheers...

"Good! Cuz I'm gonna rock yer arses so hard you'll kiss the moons!"
"Last, but not least, our mascot, Razzly!!!"




"Hells YEAH!!! Lemme hear some nooooise!!!"

The crowd cheers some more...

"With our new, powerful line-up, we're gonna rock you out of this world!"
"And now...our opening number....!"








"A one... A two... A one-two-three-four!!!"

Magical Dreamers ~ The Wind, Stars, and Waves


"What the heeeeeell....was this game's plot aboooouut...?
Oh what oh what the heeeeell...just thinkin' of it makes me wanna poooouut...
And tryin' to make sense of it just makes me wanna shout!
Oh what oh what was this game's plot abooooouut?!"


"The beginnin' of this mess first unfurled,
when me mate Serge was dead in another world.
Seemed to have somethin' to do with that Viper mob,
so plans were made to break into his manor and find some secrets to rob."


"Next thing I knew, I got poisoned by that bastard Lynx...
But, me mate Serge bailed me out and worked out the kinks.
We chased the darn cat all the way to the mountaintop dragon fort...
Looking back I'm not even sure what his plans were that we were supposed to thwart..."


"What the heeeeeell....was this game's plot aboooouut...?
Oh what oh what the heeeeell...just thinkin' of it makes me wanna poooouut...
And tryin' to make sense of it just makes me wanna shout!
Oh what oh what was this game's plot abooooouut?!"


"That's when things got weird...
Lynx stole me mate Serge's body and I almost got smeared...
Don't know much of what happened after that but I bet it was a real bother...
Especially later on when it turned out that Lynx was really his father!"


"Next thing ya know me mate Serge was fighting for help from every stinkin' dragon to get his body back...
He beat every last one of 'em from yellow to black.
Then there was something about takin' a dragon's tear back to that fort...
If I had to put up with all that lousy crap just to continue I'd just friggin' hit 'abort!'"


"Turned out Lynx was a computer from the future named FATE...
All that rubbish about the Frozen Flame had just been some stupid plot bait.
He'd just barely beaten 'em too before next came knockin' was the fused god dragon...
Turned out that they too got on the soddin' anti-human bandwagon."


"What the heeeeeell....was this game's plot aboooouut...?
Oh what oh what the heeeeell...just thinkin' of it makes me wanna poooouut...
And tryin' to make sense of it just makes me wanna shout!
Oh what oh what was this game's plot abooooouut?!"


"At that point everything was gettin' real convoluted...
I thought all these non-humans were pissed about the world getting' polluted.
But things didn't get clear, they just got more bizarre...
Turned out the one behind everythin' was some geezer called Belthasar."


"The rest was just phoned in and overblown...
A buncha unconnected twists outta nowhere like I was some girl named Schala's daughter-clone.
Kinda hard to follow how to figure how ya got from 'A' to 'C'...
When ya never had the motivation in the middle called 'B'.
At least it's finally over and we're all finally as ya can probably see...
From Masato Kato's clusterfuck we're finally free..."


"What the heeeeeell....was this game's plot aboooouut...?
Oh what oh what the heeeeell...just thinkin' of it makes me wanna poooouut...
And tryin' to make sense of it just makes me wanna shout!
Oh what oh what was this game's plot abooooouut?!"
"Don't ask me... I don't bloody know!!"



And that is that... Serge, Kid, and Razzly join a rock band and go on tour. Serge spends the rest of his days banging Kid and other random groupies until he dies of an OD at the age of 23 from lacing Nostrum with Hydra Humour. Good for him.






























Meanwhile...


At Fort Dragonia...


"......"
"......"
"......"


"Where the hell *is* everybody....?"


Music: Fragments of a Dream


Welp, that is 50% of the alternate endings down. We're half way there.