2015
On the afternoon of October 21st, 2015, Marty McFly Jr. went to the newsstand and bought a virtual newspaper. The images and headlines flashed by and altered themselves with every new update every couple of seconds. He also checked it out on his iPhone 6. As he walked along, Marty Jr. rubbed the back of his head. He had hurt himself during an encounter with Griff Tannen and his buddies that morning in the 80s Cafe. When he had come to, the bullies were gone and he was lying behind the counter. The last thing he remembered was someone telling him to "stay down and shut up!" He did not have time to see who it was before he blacked out.
As he continued through Hill Valley, California, Marty Jr. observed the flying cars touching down at the LAND HERE crossings on the pavement Others were getting the latest hover conversion at the Hover Station across the street. Movable billboards were flashing commercials featuring Mayor Goldie Wislon III, followed by updates on a press conference by U.S. President Barack Obama. At the other side of the fountain, the Hill Valley Museum looked as though an accident had occurred there not too long ago. A windowpane was broken, and cop cars were all over there….
Later that same afternoon, Marty Jr. bought a used Hoverboard at the convenience store. He had had his last one busted by Griff, and began to make his way on it outside the city limits. When he reached there, he suddenly saw an odd sight: a full-blown locomotive steam engine flashed out of thin air into the sky. Marty stopped and watched as it touched down with its thrusters beside an old painted billboard advertising Hill Valley. Speeding up his overboard, he approached. A hatch opened on the side of the hover-converted locomotive and an old man with wild white hair stepped out. He held a tape recorder in his right hand and seemed to be speaking into it.
"I, Dr. Emmett Brown, have returned to October 21st, 2015, 3:06 PM. The continuum seems to have remained unchanged since my last visit here with Marty."
At the mention of his name, Marty Jr. perked up. "Excuse me, but…" The old man, Dr. Brown, whirled at the sound and upon seeing the lad let out a shriek of fear. "Great Scott! I was wrong! The time-space continuum must have created an alternate version of Marty and left it here in the future!"
The future? What was this guy on about? Marty Jr. wondered. "Dr. Brown, I, uh…"
"No time to explain!" the Doc said hurriedly. The sound of a car backfiring made him turn around. He blanched. "Great Scott! They must have been waiting for me!" A hover car was approaching from the skies above them, with what looked like an Arab perched out of the sunroof, brandishing a new model of the AK-50. Doc pushed Marty Jr. onto the train. "We must return you to 1985, Marty, quickly!" Before Marty Jr. could ask what was going on, the Doc punched times into a keypad on the wall of the engine room. As he turned around to close the engine hatch, he saw the hover car with the Arabs floating several feet away from them and off of the ground. Rapid fire from the AK-50 hit the Doc squarely in the chest and he fell flat on his face. "NO!" Marty Jr. screamed. The Arabs turned on him and Marty Jr. instinctively closed the engine hatch, which was then peppered with bullet fire. He revved up the accelerator (the only button the Doc had not yet pushed to get - this must be a time machine, then, is that what it was, right? - the time machine going) and began to clumsily fly the train into the air. The hover car with the Arabs followed. As the chase began, Marty Jr. bumped into a floating virtual Speed Limit billboard. Unbeknownst to him, the destination time changed from "1985" to "1925." Blaster fire made the boy flinch.
"Alright," he growled, gritting his teeth. "Let's see if you fuckers can do 90," and he hit the gas. The hover car was left far behind. Just before reaching 90 MPH, the air around the train began to crackle with electricity. Marty Jr. kept going until the train had disappeared in a trail of blue sparks and flame…
