Legacy of the Hero
Part 3: Back to the Future IV
Written by: Joseph Sockolof
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
Dr. Emmett Lathrop Brown – Inventor/Time Traveler
Marty Seamus McFly/Clint Eastwood/Calvin Klein – Doc's Assistant/Time Traveler
Jules Brown – Doc's oldest son
Verne Brown – Doc's youngest son
Clara Clayton Brown – Doc's Wife
Einstein – Doc's Dog from 1985
Marshall Strickland – Hill Valley 1885 Sheriff
Maggie McFly – Marty's ancestor from 1885
Seamus McFly – Marty's ancestor from 1885
Jennifer Parker – Marty's Girlfriend from 1985
Lorraine Baines McFly – Marty's Mother
George McFly – Marty's father
Biff Tannen – Witless trouble maker from Present Day Hill Valley
PROLOUGE
Hundreds of years into the future, in a distant distant distant land known as Hill Valley, California a local scientist has a concussion and when he wakes up he has a picture of the flux capacitor in his head. The flux capacitor is what makes time travel possible. 50 years later he puts the flux capacitor into a DeLoreon. On the night when he conducts his first Time Travel experiment with his dog, Einstein, he gets shot by Libyan Terrorists and seventeen year old Marty McFly accidentally gets sent back 50 years into the past! And you know the rest of the story…
Chapter 1
September 7, 1885
9:30 A.M.
Hill Valley, California
Doc Emmett L. Brown along with Clara Clayton had just witnessed Marty and the DeLoreon travel 100 years into the future and a colossal train wreck. All of a sudden Marshall Strickland showed up with a couple deputies asking Emmett and Clara what happened. Marshall was getting pretty spooked out and suspicious of Doc so he paid no attention to his story but paid careful attention to Miss Clayton's. Clara had the whole story formed in her head the minute 'Clint' and the Deloreon drove to 1985. This is Clara's story.
"I was on the train when two masked men came aboard and hijacked it. The next thing I know they had unhooked the compartments from the front part and had switched the tracks and were heading for Shonash Ravine! I was just about to head for town when I saw Emmett and Clint hastily riding after the Hijacked part of the train. When Emmett reached me I rode with him on his horse. By the time Emmett and I had reached the train Clint was already aboard and trying to both stop the train and subdue the hijackers. The hijacked train was nearing the edge of the ravine when one of the hijackers pulled out a stick of dynamite! Emmett and I tried to grab Clint before the train exploded and fell into the ravine, but the hijackers just sped up the train and had knocked Clint out! A few moments later the train with the 2 hijackers and Clint inside exploded and fell into Shonash Ravine!" Clara said.
Marshall accepted the story and ordered the deputies to head back to town. After a few more words of regret over Clint's death he too rode for town. Doc just hoped that Marty had made it out of the Deloreon before the 1985 train ran it over. For he had memorized the 1985 train schedule and had arranged for the time machine to arrive just seconds before the train. He was just glad Clara had survived the ordeal with the train. Clara was full of questions on their ride back to Hill Valley. Doc did his best to educate Clara on time travel and his adventures with Marty McFly. Clara was pleasantly surprised to learn Marty 'Clint' was related to Maggie and Seamus McFly. By the time they reached Clara's house Emmett had filled her in on who he was and where he was from.
"Now I need to build another time machine," he told Clara.
Clara asked Emmett why he had to build another one. Doc told her that her presence in 1885 was a danger to the space-time continuum and that it could create a major paradox. Although Clara did not really understand that much about time travel and paradoxes she agreed with him when she found out that she was supposed to fall into Shonash Ravine. A few weeks later Emmett had purchased a steam train and started working on a new flux capacitor. While he worked on it with Clara he told her the story of how the idea came to him that morning 70 years into the future. It took 3 months to build the flux capacitor and once he had finished that he installed it on the front of the steam train. He then married Clara a week later. One year later they had Jules. Two years after that they had Verne. Doc was so busy for the next 6 years with the boys he had no time for the time machine! It took another month to build the other items needed for time travel into the train. Finally it was ready to time travel! He took Clara and the boys aboard and took the train to Hill Valley, California 2055!