It's confusing because in the original time line, the ruby knife turned into the Masamune. In Crono's interfering time line, another Masamune was produced, with another set of Masa and Mune to go into it. WTF?
An idea would be that since Crono and co. weren;t there the first time, Queen Zeal didn't get sucked into the Mammon Machine, hoping ontop of Lavos and making the palace become one. She could of fallen unconsious or something.
Another thought would be that Schala stopped giving the Mammon Machine energy, turning her back on Queen Zeal. Gaspar and Belthasar would have protected Schala from the Queens wrath, Melchior throws in the knife, Masamune is created. The Mammon machine is destroyed, Lavos wakes up because he realises that something is going on and destroys Zeal.
From here on Schala either dies, teleports out to give the pendant onto someone else or is gated to the DBT anyway.
Just a question. Would Chrono Cross exist even if Crono and Co never started time traveling.
If not, then that would mean that El Nido would never have gotten occupied by Chronopolis, no time crash, Kid is not created since Schala doesn't have to clone herself or is dead. Serge might have never been born.
Would it be possible for a single dimension to have 2 different time lines?
Hohoho, how interesting if that was in a sequal to the Chrono Series x.x