Notes: Ok, for this new story I've decided to try my hand at a bit of
comedy! So this is just a bit of light fun, all I can say here is enjoy!
Disclaimer: I don't own the whole Back to the Future concept, in fact, all I own is the storyline **boo hoo** I have created this purely for entertainment and I'm not making any money from it at all!
Back to the Past
The Izumi household was relatively quiet early that morning. However, the garage was a different story. From the house, various clatters, explosions and exclaimations "Great Scott!" could be heard emitting from the garage. The Izumi's knew very well to ignore their son when he was working in the garage. He was always busy on some kind of project, usually related to science or computers.
This time however, the red-headed genius had surpassed himself. As he stepped back from his latest project, he could hardly hold back the proud smile on his face.
"Great Scott! I did it"!
**
Yamato flipped his skateboard expertly into his hands. The blonde teen knocked on the door of the Ichijouji apartment. After a few seconds and no- one answering, he tried again. "You looking for Ken"? an old woman asked. Yamato recognised her as the neighbour lady from next door to Ken. She was well known for sticking her nose in where it wasn't wanted. "Yeah" Yamato replied.
"I saw him and his parents leave early this morning, I can't tell you what direction they went in, I couldn't see from the window" The lady answered.
"Ok, thanks" Yamato nodded at the lady and turned to leave.
"Wait a minute! Are you the little idiot who has been leaving skid marks in the hallways"? She pointed an accusing finger at the skateboard in the teen's hands. Yamato slipped on his walkman quickly and turned the volume up. "Sorry can't hear you"! The teen yelled, and with a cheeky wink, he sailed past her on his skateboard.
**
"That was a good bit of soccer playing you did today Dai" Taichi congratulated. The two friends were heading to the local café where most of the teenage population of Odaiba hung out. "Y'mean I might even make the team"? Daisuke replied with eyes twinkling. "After all I do know the coach" He nudged Taichi jokingly.
"Don't push it kid" Taichi grinned back. Suddenly, he felt himself flying through the air. He landed with a soft bump a couple of metres ahead of Daisuke on the pavement. Taichi shook his head to try and register what had just happened. He heard Daisuke giggling quietly. Taichi turned around to see the smiling face of Yamato looking down at him. "Hey there Taichi" Yamato greeted sheepishly, helping his friend up.
"That skateboard of yours is dangerous"! Taichi complained, dusting himself off. "You should get it classified as a deadly weapon"!
"Yeah, sorry about that buddy, I should really look where I'm going" Yamato replied, the cheeky grin never leaving his face for an instant. "Better luck next time" Taichi fired back, sticking his tongue out at his friend.
"Anyone seen Ken? I was supposed to be giving him his first guitar lesson today. I went over to his place and it was dead, except for that interfering old bag from next door" Yamato asked.
"I take it you've forgotten the date" Daisuke replied.
"August 25th" Yamato said with a confused look.
"Osamu died 4 years ago today" Tai said solemnly.
"Oh God..I'd totally forgotten" Yamato replied, the grin quickly disappearing. "They must've gone to the cemetery"
"Yeah they did, Ken said he'd meet us at the local café though, actually he should be there now" Daisuke replied, checking his watch.
"Is that where you guys are headed"? Yamato asked, he got ready to once again board his skateboard. "Yeah and we're walking" Tai replied, taking the skateboard and tucking it under his arm.
"Spoil sport" Yamato teased.
**
The local café was crammed full of teenagers. As usual, the chosen children sat at their table in the corner. They were joking and chatting noisily, all that was, except Ken. He was sitting in the very corner, absent mindedly sipping his Pepsi. The only ones who seemed to notice his mood were Izzy and Yamato. "Hey Ken, what's eating you"? Yamato asked.
"Nothing really, just thinking about Osamu" The violet haired child replied quietly.
"It must be rough today of all days" Izzy added his two cents.
"You'd think I'd be used to it after four years, it doesn't seem to get any easier" Ken said as he spun the straw around his glass and watched the brown liquid swirl. All Yamato and Izzy could do was nod along in agreement. Neither of the two teens were very good at comforting people. "Sometimes I wish I could go back in time and make sure that car never hit him, but I know that's impossible" Ken continued, not taking his eyes off the glass.
At that statement, Izzy seemed to jump out of his seat. He tugged on Yamato's t-shirt sleeve excitedly. He whispered something into the blonde's ear. Yamato couldn't hide the shocked expression on his face. With that, the two friends excused themselves from the table and left the café.
**
"So, what's this way of helping Ken"? Yamato asked as he stood in Izzy's garage. Izzy was rushing around with tools and papers seemingly doing nothing in particular. Yamato noticed a dust sheet covering a large object in the middle of the garage. He lifted up a corner to take a peek. "DON'T TOUCH THAT"! Izzy yelled.
"woah." Yamato let go of the sheet and leapt back. "Chill Iz, but I still don't get why we're in your garage"
"All will be revealed Yamato, in time" Izzy replied cryptically. Yamato just raised an eyebrow. "You see, it hit me a while ago while I was in gym class. I'm never good at that sort of stuff so my mind tends to wander. I realised, the one thing I've always wanted to do".
"Which is"? Yamato interjected.
"Travel through time" The red head exclaimed excitedly. "That's why, after six months of hard work, I built this" Izzy tapped the dust sheet.
"Oh the thing I'm not supposed to touch" Yamato replied.
"Exactly, it's highly advanced and I'd hate to see what would happen if it were to fall into the wrong or inexperienced hands"
"You're calling me the wrong hands"? Yamato asked, slightly angry at the assumption.
"No inexperienced" The red head replied.
"Like that's any better" The blonde said, sounding slightly hurt.
"Well Yamato, you'll be the first to see my latest project" Izzy said as he whipped the dust sheet off whatever it was covering. "Behold!"
"It's a car." Yamato replied in an unimpressed tone. The red head had merely revealed a black car, admittedly, Yamato had never seen a car with what appeared to be so many add ons on the back. It was like the engine was on the outside. "What's all this for"? He asked pointing to the added parts. "For time travel" Izzy said simply.
"Duh" Yamato replied as if the answer should've come to him sooner. "How do you know it works"?
"I've run a couple of tests" Izzy said, obviously not wanting to elaborate.
"Wait a minute.you're telling me you built a time machine out of a car"? Yamato asked in disbelief.
"That's correct"
"But you can't drive" Yamato pointed out.
"I know the basics, besides, I figured you could do most of the driving"
"Well dad taught me a few things but...wait a second..you want me to drive that"?
Izzy nodded. "Where"? Yamato asked.
"Back to the past" Izzy replied with a smile.
**
"Ok we just need to type in our destination time" Izzy said more to himself as he tapped in the date they required. August 25th 1998. The date, Yamato realised, that Ken's older brother Osamu, had been tragically killed in a road accident. "Right, let me get this straight. You, a simple high school student, built a time machine. Which you plan to use to go back to the past and make sure Osamu doesn't get killed"? Yamato asked, he gripped the steering wheel of the car until his knuckles turned white. He couldn't believe this! "That's correct" Izzy replied.
"Oh man.this is.heavy. It's gotta be a dream"! Yamato said, eyes wide with a mixture of shock and disbelief.
"Weight has nothing to do with it Yamato. Nor is it a dream, I knew that this machine would come in use some time and it just has. If we can make sure Osamu doesn't get involved in the accident then that'll mean that Ken is happy now".
"Well it's a good plan, if it works" Yamato had to agree with his friend, it would be nice to see Ken smile. Even though his life had changed since his emperor days, Ken still seldom seemed to smile. "Of course it'll work. Now then, I've made sure we have everything we're going to need so let's get ready to go"
"Uh..Iz..exactly how do we go"? Yamato asked.
"Oh yeah sorry, I forgot to explain that part. Well we have to be on a long stretch of road, when the speedometer gets to 80 miles an hour, it'll automatically transport us to our given destination. In this case it's August the 25th at nine thirty in the morning, precisely thirty minutes before the accident took place. All we have to do when we get there, is make sure Osamu is not involved in the accident" Izzy explained.
"Yeah yeah, that's peachy and all, but how exactly do we stop the accident from happening"? Yamato replied.
"Simple, all we have to do is get him out of the way of the car"
"And you plan to do that how"?
"Easy, I have some extra clothes in the trunk, all you have to do is dress up in them and pull him out of the road in time. That way he won't recognise you as you when we get back to 2002 and he's still alive" Izzy continued.
"Right" Yamato replied, he didn't really understand what his friend had just said. However, he decided that Izzy knew what he was talking about, so he decided to trust him. "The perfect road for us to use will be the highway, it's always dead on a Sunday" Yamato nodded and recalled what his dad had previously told him about driving. He pushed down the clutch, put the car into gear, accelerated and set off for the highway.
Luckily the highway was dead, therefore no-one was around to witness the spectacular sight of a car suddenly disappear in a brilliant flash of light.
**
Yamato opened his eyes just in time to see the truck, he screamed and managed to swerve. He brought the car to a rest in the car park of a nearby service station. "Holy shit that was close"! Yamato exclaimed as he released his grip on the steering wheel. He then came to a realisation, he never remembered a service station anywhere along the highway. This was getting weird..
"Perfect, we made it" Izzy said, he seemed extremely happy. Yamato looked had him in disbelief, did the red head not care that they had just had a brush with death? "How do you know"? Yamato managed to ask.
"Are you blind? We're at the Odaiba highway services!! This place burnt down in 1999 after a gas leak from one of the pumps"!
"Ah" Yamato replied. So that's why he didn't remember the service station being around in 2002. Even so, this was such a strange sensation, had they really gone back in time, or was this all a crazy dream? Yamato felt a sharp pain on his arm. Izzy had nipped him. "OW! What the hell was that for"? Yamato demanded.
"You're not dreaming" Izzy grinned. What the? How did Izzy know what he was thinking? For Yamato things we just getting stranger and stranger.
**
"So where did this accident happen"? Yamato asked. He felt like he'd been walking for hours, even though in reality it was about fifteen minutes. "Right on Main street" Izzy replied. "It happened just outside this ice cream shop. Ken once told me that he and Osamu where having ice cream, when they finished they left the shop and they were about to cross the road when the car lost control and ploughed into Osamu. That's where we come in. I'm going into the ice cream place, wearing a clever disguise and tail them. Through the use of walkie talkies which I brought along, I'll communicate to you when they're leaving the shop. I want you to be standing outside the shop, when I give you the signal, be ready to pull Osamu out of the way. Once we've saved him, we can leave and get back to the future". Yamato processed all this and nodded. "But wait Iz, why go all that way of making the machine, then only spend thirty minutes here? Can't we have a look around.I mean I was only eleven at this time, and I heard of some pretty wild fifteen movies I'd like to see"
"No way Yamato, we can't risk toying with the past too much. Otherwise it could have devastating effects on the future as we know it. We're taking a large risk as it is saving Osamu. That's as much playing around I want to do" Izzy warned.
"Ok" Yamato nodded, slightly disappointed.
"Plus our past selves might be around, we can't risk running into them or them running into us, I don't even want to think of the consequences"! Yamato nodded again, this time more sure that what Izzy told him, was for the best. He liked the way 2002 was, and he didn't want to risk anything to change it.
**
"Yamato do you read me"? Izzy's voice came through loud and clear on Yamato's walkie talkie. "Yamato do you read me"? The message was repeated. "Don't tell me you're still pissed about the disguise"
Yamato frowned at the walkie talkie. He couldn't believe what Izzy had dressed him as. He peered down at himself one more time. He was wearing a dress for God's sake! The worst thing about it was, that because of his hair, Izzy had told him he didn't even need a wig! He looked like such an idiot! "I'm here" He said sulkily into the walkie talkie. He heard Izzy snigger from the other end. Yamato was going to kill him for this! "Right, well they're about to leave so get ready" Izzy replied.
"Ok" Yamato kept an eye out for the traffic and another eye on the door of the ice cream parlour. As he saw an eight year old Ken exit with his brother, Yamato knew this was now or never. He heard the screech of brakes, people yelling. He saw the car.it was headed straight for Osamu. Yamato leapt into action, he grabbed hold of Osamu and pulled him back, the car swerved, neatly missing Yamato and Osamu and going in the opposite direction. Yamato breathed a sigh of relief, and realised Osamu from his grip, the eleven year old dropped to the floor. Eight year old Ken rushed to his brother. "He's just fainted from shock, he'll be fine" a voice said behind Yamato. He jumped and turned to see Izzy smiling behind him. "You did a good job there, now let's get out of here". Yamato nodded in agreement, he'd had way too much excitement for one day. As he and Izzy ran off to where they had hidden the car, they heard a small voice call out. "Thank you Miss! You saved my brother's life"!
**
Yamato threw that disgusting costume back into the trunk of the car. He was pleased to be back in his jeans, t-shirt and sneakers. He was also pleased at the prospect of going back home. He hopped into the drivers seat and got ready to go. "Nice bit of work their partner" Izzy said as he climbed into the passenger seat.
"I'll say, but next time, how about I don't wear a dress"? Yamato asked jokingly.
"I don't know, it suited you" Izzy smirked. Yamato swatted at him, but Izzy managed to dodge. "Ok, let's go back home" Izzy said as he typed the correct destination date into the keypad. "Back to the future"!
**
The truck driver lifted his eyes away from the paper he was reading while he was relaxing in the old service station lot. He couldn't believe his eyes as a car seemed to appear from a flash of blue light. He shook his head to himself, noting to drink less coffee in the future.
**
"Alright! We're home"! Yamato cheered as he drove down the highway. He was pleased to see that the service station was no longer there. Just as it was meant to be! "I never knew that the time machine could've been this much of a success" Izzy said with a wide grin. "Hopefully we've changed Ken's life for the better". Yamato nodded as turned off the highway and down main street back to the café where he knew his friends would be waiting.
**
TK flipped the skateboard into his hands as he entered the café. He ran over to the table where his friends were situated. "Hey TK"! Tai greeted.
"Hey guys" TK replied sitting down and grabbing the menu. "So what's our plan of action"?
"Well, we're having a bit of trouble coming up with one.since Izzy's not around.it's hard to think of a plan" Tai said quietly.
"Oh.well maybe we can think of a good idea." TK replied
"Although I don't know what good it will do, Osamu and Ken are just too powerful together" Cody moaned.
"Yeah, they're unbeatable" Kari added.
"There must be something we can do" Tai muttered, he wanted to be hopeful, but he didn't really have much to be hopeful for now. Not after what had happened..
"Hey hey"! The deadpan conversation at the table was interrupted by Yamato's cheerful greeting. "Boy is it good to see you guys again! Where's Ken"?
"Uh..who are you"? Tai asked.
"What"? Yamato felt the panic in the pit of his stomach. Tai didn't know who he was? What was going on here? Wait a minute.he thought, Tai must just be messing around with him. Yeah, that was it, it was one of Tai's crazy jokes. "Man Tai you had me worried for a second there! You know who I am"!
Tai just looked at Yamato blankly. So did the others at the table, including TK. "No we don't" The younger blonde said.
"Ok ok guys, you got me, you can drop the act now" Yamato replied, hoping to god that it was just some dumb joke. "We don't know what you're talking about" Sora said with a strange look. Yamato gulped.
"It's me guys.Yamato" Tai jumped up and punched Yamato in the face. Yamato fell back and hit the floor, seeing stars. "You sick bastard! How dare you"? He shouted, the fire burning in his eyes.
"What"? Yamato asked, shakily standing to his feet. Where the hell was Izzy when he needed him? "Just get lost and you better hope I don't see you again you sicko"! Tai warned. He turned to TK who had started crying. The others at the table where also shooting dirty looks at Yamato. Yamato blinked back his own tears and ran out of the café, what the hell was going on?
END OF PART ONE
Notes: ok that's the first part for you, as always I appreciate your opinions so please review my work. The next part will be coming soon! (unless I've decided on a mass upload, then it's already there now so turn to it NOW!) Yamato
Disclaimer: I don't own the whole Back to the Future concept, in fact, all I own is the storyline **boo hoo** I have created this purely for entertainment and I'm not making any money from it at all!
Back to the Past
The Izumi household was relatively quiet early that morning. However, the garage was a different story. From the house, various clatters, explosions and exclaimations "Great Scott!" could be heard emitting from the garage. The Izumi's knew very well to ignore their son when he was working in the garage. He was always busy on some kind of project, usually related to science or computers.
This time however, the red-headed genius had surpassed himself. As he stepped back from his latest project, he could hardly hold back the proud smile on his face.
"Great Scott! I did it"!
**
Yamato flipped his skateboard expertly into his hands. The blonde teen knocked on the door of the Ichijouji apartment. After a few seconds and no- one answering, he tried again. "You looking for Ken"? an old woman asked. Yamato recognised her as the neighbour lady from next door to Ken. She was well known for sticking her nose in where it wasn't wanted. "Yeah" Yamato replied.
"I saw him and his parents leave early this morning, I can't tell you what direction they went in, I couldn't see from the window" The lady answered.
"Ok, thanks" Yamato nodded at the lady and turned to leave.
"Wait a minute! Are you the little idiot who has been leaving skid marks in the hallways"? She pointed an accusing finger at the skateboard in the teen's hands. Yamato slipped on his walkman quickly and turned the volume up. "Sorry can't hear you"! The teen yelled, and with a cheeky wink, he sailed past her on his skateboard.
**
"That was a good bit of soccer playing you did today Dai" Taichi congratulated. The two friends were heading to the local café where most of the teenage population of Odaiba hung out. "Y'mean I might even make the team"? Daisuke replied with eyes twinkling. "After all I do know the coach" He nudged Taichi jokingly.
"Don't push it kid" Taichi grinned back. Suddenly, he felt himself flying through the air. He landed with a soft bump a couple of metres ahead of Daisuke on the pavement. Taichi shook his head to try and register what had just happened. He heard Daisuke giggling quietly. Taichi turned around to see the smiling face of Yamato looking down at him. "Hey there Taichi" Yamato greeted sheepishly, helping his friend up.
"That skateboard of yours is dangerous"! Taichi complained, dusting himself off. "You should get it classified as a deadly weapon"!
"Yeah, sorry about that buddy, I should really look where I'm going" Yamato replied, the cheeky grin never leaving his face for an instant. "Better luck next time" Taichi fired back, sticking his tongue out at his friend.
"Anyone seen Ken? I was supposed to be giving him his first guitar lesson today. I went over to his place and it was dead, except for that interfering old bag from next door" Yamato asked.
"I take it you've forgotten the date" Daisuke replied.
"August 25th" Yamato said with a confused look.
"Osamu died 4 years ago today" Tai said solemnly.
"Oh God..I'd totally forgotten" Yamato replied, the grin quickly disappearing. "They must've gone to the cemetery"
"Yeah they did, Ken said he'd meet us at the local café though, actually he should be there now" Daisuke replied, checking his watch.
"Is that where you guys are headed"? Yamato asked, he got ready to once again board his skateboard. "Yeah and we're walking" Tai replied, taking the skateboard and tucking it under his arm.
"Spoil sport" Yamato teased.
**
The local café was crammed full of teenagers. As usual, the chosen children sat at their table in the corner. They were joking and chatting noisily, all that was, except Ken. He was sitting in the very corner, absent mindedly sipping his Pepsi. The only ones who seemed to notice his mood were Izzy and Yamato. "Hey Ken, what's eating you"? Yamato asked.
"Nothing really, just thinking about Osamu" The violet haired child replied quietly.
"It must be rough today of all days" Izzy added his two cents.
"You'd think I'd be used to it after four years, it doesn't seem to get any easier" Ken said as he spun the straw around his glass and watched the brown liquid swirl. All Yamato and Izzy could do was nod along in agreement. Neither of the two teens were very good at comforting people. "Sometimes I wish I could go back in time and make sure that car never hit him, but I know that's impossible" Ken continued, not taking his eyes off the glass.
At that statement, Izzy seemed to jump out of his seat. He tugged on Yamato's t-shirt sleeve excitedly. He whispered something into the blonde's ear. Yamato couldn't hide the shocked expression on his face. With that, the two friends excused themselves from the table and left the café.
**
"So, what's this way of helping Ken"? Yamato asked as he stood in Izzy's garage. Izzy was rushing around with tools and papers seemingly doing nothing in particular. Yamato noticed a dust sheet covering a large object in the middle of the garage. He lifted up a corner to take a peek. "DON'T TOUCH THAT"! Izzy yelled.
"woah." Yamato let go of the sheet and leapt back. "Chill Iz, but I still don't get why we're in your garage"
"All will be revealed Yamato, in time" Izzy replied cryptically. Yamato just raised an eyebrow. "You see, it hit me a while ago while I was in gym class. I'm never good at that sort of stuff so my mind tends to wander. I realised, the one thing I've always wanted to do".
"Which is"? Yamato interjected.
"Travel through time" The red head exclaimed excitedly. "That's why, after six months of hard work, I built this" Izzy tapped the dust sheet.
"Oh the thing I'm not supposed to touch" Yamato replied.
"Exactly, it's highly advanced and I'd hate to see what would happen if it were to fall into the wrong or inexperienced hands"
"You're calling me the wrong hands"? Yamato asked, slightly angry at the assumption.
"No inexperienced" The red head replied.
"Like that's any better" The blonde said, sounding slightly hurt.
"Well Yamato, you'll be the first to see my latest project" Izzy said as he whipped the dust sheet off whatever it was covering. "Behold!"
"It's a car." Yamato replied in an unimpressed tone. The red head had merely revealed a black car, admittedly, Yamato had never seen a car with what appeared to be so many add ons on the back. It was like the engine was on the outside. "What's all this for"? He asked pointing to the added parts. "For time travel" Izzy said simply.
"Duh" Yamato replied as if the answer should've come to him sooner. "How do you know it works"?
"I've run a couple of tests" Izzy said, obviously not wanting to elaborate.
"Wait a minute.you're telling me you built a time machine out of a car"? Yamato asked in disbelief.
"That's correct"
"But you can't drive" Yamato pointed out.
"I know the basics, besides, I figured you could do most of the driving"
"Well dad taught me a few things but...wait a second..you want me to drive that"?
Izzy nodded. "Where"? Yamato asked.
"Back to the past" Izzy replied with a smile.
**
"Ok we just need to type in our destination time" Izzy said more to himself as he tapped in the date they required. August 25th 1998. The date, Yamato realised, that Ken's older brother Osamu, had been tragically killed in a road accident. "Right, let me get this straight. You, a simple high school student, built a time machine. Which you plan to use to go back to the past and make sure Osamu doesn't get killed"? Yamato asked, he gripped the steering wheel of the car until his knuckles turned white. He couldn't believe this! "That's correct" Izzy replied.
"Oh man.this is.heavy. It's gotta be a dream"! Yamato said, eyes wide with a mixture of shock and disbelief.
"Weight has nothing to do with it Yamato. Nor is it a dream, I knew that this machine would come in use some time and it just has. If we can make sure Osamu doesn't get involved in the accident then that'll mean that Ken is happy now".
"Well it's a good plan, if it works" Yamato had to agree with his friend, it would be nice to see Ken smile. Even though his life had changed since his emperor days, Ken still seldom seemed to smile. "Of course it'll work. Now then, I've made sure we have everything we're going to need so let's get ready to go"
"Uh..Iz..exactly how do we go"? Yamato asked.
"Oh yeah sorry, I forgot to explain that part. Well we have to be on a long stretch of road, when the speedometer gets to 80 miles an hour, it'll automatically transport us to our given destination. In this case it's August the 25th at nine thirty in the morning, precisely thirty minutes before the accident took place. All we have to do when we get there, is make sure Osamu is not involved in the accident" Izzy explained.
"Yeah yeah, that's peachy and all, but how exactly do we stop the accident from happening"? Yamato replied.
"Simple, all we have to do is get him out of the way of the car"
"And you plan to do that how"?
"Easy, I have some extra clothes in the trunk, all you have to do is dress up in them and pull him out of the road in time. That way he won't recognise you as you when we get back to 2002 and he's still alive" Izzy continued.
"Right" Yamato replied, he didn't really understand what his friend had just said. However, he decided that Izzy knew what he was talking about, so he decided to trust him. "The perfect road for us to use will be the highway, it's always dead on a Sunday" Yamato nodded and recalled what his dad had previously told him about driving. He pushed down the clutch, put the car into gear, accelerated and set off for the highway.
Luckily the highway was dead, therefore no-one was around to witness the spectacular sight of a car suddenly disappear in a brilliant flash of light.
**
Yamato opened his eyes just in time to see the truck, he screamed and managed to swerve. He brought the car to a rest in the car park of a nearby service station. "Holy shit that was close"! Yamato exclaimed as he released his grip on the steering wheel. He then came to a realisation, he never remembered a service station anywhere along the highway. This was getting weird..
"Perfect, we made it" Izzy said, he seemed extremely happy. Yamato looked had him in disbelief, did the red head not care that they had just had a brush with death? "How do you know"? Yamato managed to ask.
"Are you blind? We're at the Odaiba highway services!! This place burnt down in 1999 after a gas leak from one of the pumps"!
"Ah" Yamato replied. So that's why he didn't remember the service station being around in 2002. Even so, this was such a strange sensation, had they really gone back in time, or was this all a crazy dream? Yamato felt a sharp pain on his arm. Izzy had nipped him. "OW! What the hell was that for"? Yamato demanded.
"You're not dreaming" Izzy grinned. What the? How did Izzy know what he was thinking? For Yamato things we just getting stranger and stranger.
**
"So where did this accident happen"? Yamato asked. He felt like he'd been walking for hours, even though in reality it was about fifteen minutes. "Right on Main street" Izzy replied. "It happened just outside this ice cream shop. Ken once told me that he and Osamu where having ice cream, when they finished they left the shop and they were about to cross the road when the car lost control and ploughed into Osamu. That's where we come in. I'm going into the ice cream place, wearing a clever disguise and tail them. Through the use of walkie talkies which I brought along, I'll communicate to you when they're leaving the shop. I want you to be standing outside the shop, when I give you the signal, be ready to pull Osamu out of the way. Once we've saved him, we can leave and get back to the future". Yamato processed all this and nodded. "But wait Iz, why go all that way of making the machine, then only spend thirty minutes here? Can't we have a look around.I mean I was only eleven at this time, and I heard of some pretty wild fifteen movies I'd like to see"
"No way Yamato, we can't risk toying with the past too much. Otherwise it could have devastating effects on the future as we know it. We're taking a large risk as it is saving Osamu. That's as much playing around I want to do" Izzy warned.
"Ok" Yamato nodded, slightly disappointed.
"Plus our past selves might be around, we can't risk running into them or them running into us, I don't even want to think of the consequences"! Yamato nodded again, this time more sure that what Izzy told him, was for the best. He liked the way 2002 was, and he didn't want to risk anything to change it.
**
"Yamato do you read me"? Izzy's voice came through loud and clear on Yamato's walkie talkie. "Yamato do you read me"? The message was repeated. "Don't tell me you're still pissed about the disguise"
Yamato frowned at the walkie talkie. He couldn't believe what Izzy had dressed him as. He peered down at himself one more time. He was wearing a dress for God's sake! The worst thing about it was, that because of his hair, Izzy had told him he didn't even need a wig! He looked like such an idiot! "I'm here" He said sulkily into the walkie talkie. He heard Izzy snigger from the other end. Yamato was going to kill him for this! "Right, well they're about to leave so get ready" Izzy replied.
"Ok" Yamato kept an eye out for the traffic and another eye on the door of the ice cream parlour. As he saw an eight year old Ken exit with his brother, Yamato knew this was now or never. He heard the screech of brakes, people yelling. He saw the car.it was headed straight for Osamu. Yamato leapt into action, he grabbed hold of Osamu and pulled him back, the car swerved, neatly missing Yamato and Osamu and going in the opposite direction. Yamato breathed a sigh of relief, and realised Osamu from his grip, the eleven year old dropped to the floor. Eight year old Ken rushed to his brother. "He's just fainted from shock, he'll be fine" a voice said behind Yamato. He jumped and turned to see Izzy smiling behind him. "You did a good job there, now let's get out of here". Yamato nodded in agreement, he'd had way too much excitement for one day. As he and Izzy ran off to where they had hidden the car, they heard a small voice call out. "Thank you Miss! You saved my brother's life"!
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Yamato threw that disgusting costume back into the trunk of the car. He was pleased to be back in his jeans, t-shirt and sneakers. He was also pleased at the prospect of going back home. He hopped into the drivers seat and got ready to go. "Nice bit of work their partner" Izzy said as he climbed into the passenger seat.
"I'll say, but next time, how about I don't wear a dress"? Yamato asked jokingly.
"I don't know, it suited you" Izzy smirked. Yamato swatted at him, but Izzy managed to dodge. "Ok, let's go back home" Izzy said as he typed the correct destination date into the keypad. "Back to the future"!
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The truck driver lifted his eyes away from the paper he was reading while he was relaxing in the old service station lot. He couldn't believe his eyes as a car seemed to appear from a flash of blue light. He shook his head to himself, noting to drink less coffee in the future.
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"Alright! We're home"! Yamato cheered as he drove down the highway. He was pleased to see that the service station was no longer there. Just as it was meant to be! "I never knew that the time machine could've been this much of a success" Izzy said with a wide grin. "Hopefully we've changed Ken's life for the better". Yamato nodded as turned off the highway and down main street back to the café where he knew his friends would be waiting.
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TK flipped the skateboard into his hands as he entered the café. He ran over to the table where his friends were situated. "Hey TK"! Tai greeted.
"Hey guys" TK replied sitting down and grabbing the menu. "So what's our plan of action"?
"Well, we're having a bit of trouble coming up with one.since Izzy's not around.it's hard to think of a plan" Tai said quietly.
"Oh.well maybe we can think of a good idea." TK replied
"Although I don't know what good it will do, Osamu and Ken are just too powerful together" Cody moaned.
"Yeah, they're unbeatable" Kari added.
"There must be something we can do" Tai muttered, he wanted to be hopeful, but he didn't really have much to be hopeful for now. Not after what had happened..
"Hey hey"! The deadpan conversation at the table was interrupted by Yamato's cheerful greeting. "Boy is it good to see you guys again! Where's Ken"?
"Uh..who are you"? Tai asked.
"What"? Yamato felt the panic in the pit of his stomach. Tai didn't know who he was? What was going on here? Wait a minute.he thought, Tai must just be messing around with him. Yeah, that was it, it was one of Tai's crazy jokes. "Man Tai you had me worried for a second there! You know who I am"!
Tai just looked at Yamato blankly. So did the others at the table, including TK. "No we don't" The younger blonde said.
"Ok ok guys, you got me, you can drop the act now" Yamato replied, hoping to god that it was just some dumb joke. "We don't know what you're talking about" Sora said with a strange look. Yamato gulped.
"It's me guys.Yamato" Tai jumped up and punched Yamato in the face. Yamato fell back and hit the floor, seeing stars. "You sick bastard! How dare you"? He shouted, the fire burning in his eyes.
"What"? Yamato asked, shakily standing to his feet. Where the hell was Izzy when he needed him? "Just get lost and you better hope I don't see you again you sicko"! Tai warned. He turned to TK who had started crying. The others at the table where also shooting dirty looks at Yamato. Yamato blinked back his own tears and ran out of the café, what the hell was going on?
END OF PART ONE
Notes: ok that's the first part for you, as always I appreciate your opinions so please review my work. The next part will be coming soon! (unless I've decided on a mass upload, then it's already there now so turn to it NOW!) Yamato