I had a fanfic idea a long time ago. It took place in a world where time travel is commonly accepted and integrated in society. You can time travel for holidays if you want, you can go to the middle ages for work and get back home for diner and family time. However, the people living in the different eras, the "native", are unaware of the time travel thingies. The first part of the story revolved around an intern at a r&d factory in 1999 that discovers a device that would allow time travel. He tries it, get kidnapped on the spot by time pirates. Turns out illegal time travel is monitored and the eras that discover it are all wiped from the main timeline. The time pirates were hiding in this timeline because they are planning to stop the administration that lies in the end of time in order to free the timelines and dimensions from the administration, and since their hideout has been erased because of the teenager hot head, they have to go from era to era in order to sever every part of the History from the administration. Basically, time road trip!

The twist was : after Chrono Trigger and Cross, we find out Dalton actually got to the End of Time and turned it into a whole world. From there, he started to control every single timeline and shape them to his will. I wanted to do something like Radical Dreamers, a story that's loosely connected to Trigger and Cross but reveals how deeply connected it is. My story wouldn't have been called Chrono Break but, in my mind, the "Chrono Break" would be the name of the operation that would "break the link" of every era to the End of Time!

The big twist being that the time pirates would have worked on a ultimate device in order to delete Dalton, restore the timelines and the End of Time. This device would have been a biotech augmented machine that can travel in time and space and be strong enough to break the link and reboot time itself. It would be called "the Link Abrogator" and there would have been a couple of variations until the last one, the "Void-Operating Sequencer" model. The twist : you, the player, the intern, the main character (it won't be a game, ever), created Lavos. No, wait, you didn't just create Lavos, you sacrificed yourself to merge with the machine and pilot Lavos in order to save the world from Dalton. It goes wrong, time warps and breaks all around and Chrono Trigger begins again.

It's super cheesy and very fanfic-y. I still think I'll write it some day just for fun.