Back to the Future
It's About Time
SATURDAY
OCTOBER 26
1985
"Alright, I'm ready," Marty McFly said.
"Good evening, I'm Doctor Emmett Brown. I'm standing on the parking lot at Twin Pines Mall. It's Saturday morning, October twenty-sixth, 1985, 1:18 am, and this is temporal experiment number one. C'mon Einy, hey hey boy, get in there, that's a boy, in you go," Doc said as he opened the gull wing door of the DeLorean to let Einstein hop inside. "Get down, get your seatbelt on, that's it."
"Whoa, whoa, okay," exclaimed Marty as he moved around Doc to get a better shot of the dog in the car.
"Please note that Einstein's clock is in precise synchronization with my control watch," Doc informed as he held up the two clocks for emphasis as they simultaneously changed from reading 1:18 to 1:19. "Got it?"
"Right, check Doc," Marty confirmed.
"Good. Have a good trip Einstein. Watch your head," said Doc as he closed the door to the oddly modified DeLorean.
Doc took a few steps back and unhooked a remote control from his belt. Marty noticed this.
"You got that thing hooked up to the… car?" he asked as Doc flipped a switch and the car came to life.
"Watch this," Doc said with excitement evident in his voice.
"Yeah, okay, got it," Marty agreed as he focused the camera on the car.
Doc manipulated the controls and the DeLorean took off in reverse. Doc made the car do a few maneuvers around the empty parking lot until it was on the other side of the lot from where they were standing. He had chosen the Twin Pines Mall parking lot to conduct the experiment for a reason: the length. The lot measured a quarter mile in length. It was perfect for his purposes that night. Or morning depending on how you looked at it.
"Not me, the car, the car!" Doc exclaimed as he noticed Marty train the camera on him.
Doc moved and dragged Marty along until they were right in the path of the DeLorean, which was only a blur of light from this distance.
"If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88 miles per hour, you're gonna see some serious shit."
He flipped another switch on the remote and then nudged the throttle forward. The sound of the tires on the asphalt could be heard as the car gained speed. Doc watched the speedometer on the remote rise and disengaged the brake lock when it hit sixty-five mph.
"Watch this, watch this," he said as the DeLorean bore down on the two of them.
Marty attempted to move to one side but Doc pulled him back. Marty kept the camera on the car that was getting closer by the second. The DeLorean hit 88 mph and a flash of light filled the camera. When it was gone, so was the car, having left a pair of flaming tire tracks that went right between his and Doc's legs. Doc looked flabbergasted for a second and then looked down at the remote's speedometer. His face broke out in a grin and he started jumping up and down like a madman.
"Ha! What did I tell you? Eighty-eight miles per hour!"
Marty looked at the fire trails that had been left behind and saw something spinning around like a top in the middle of the trials. It was the DeLorean's license plate which read 'OUTATIME'.
"The temporal displacement occurred at exactly 1:20 am and zero seconds!" Doc continued ranting.
Marty bent down to pick up the plate but dropped it instantly.
"Hot! Ow! Doc, you disintegrated Einstein!"
"Calm down Marty," the scientist reassured as he got out a small notebook and began scribbling in it, "both the molecular structure of Einstein and the car are completely intact!"
"Then where the hell are they?"
"The appropriate question is when the hell are they? You see, Einstein has just become the world's first time traveler! I sent him into the future!" explained Doc. "One minute into the future to be exact. And in precisely 1:21 am and zero seconds we shall catch up with him in the time machine!"
Marty's mind struggled to process all this information. "Wait a minute Doc, are you telling me that you built a time machine… out of a DeLorean?"
"The way I see it, if you're gonna build a time machine into a car why not do it with some style? Besides, the stainless steel construction made the flux dispersal-"
Doc didn't get to finish the sentence as his watch beeped and he took a look at it.
"Look out!" he exclaimed as he jumped to one side, dragging Marty with him.
The pair waited but nothing happened. The wind blew some trash around the lot but the DeLorean was still missing. Finally Marty broke the silence that had fallen.
"Doc?"
"Hmm, that's peculiar," he muttered and walked forward a few steps.
"Where's the car, Doc?" Marty continued to question.
"It should have caught up with us, twenty-seven seconds ago," he answered.
"Doc, what happened to Einstein?"
"No need for concern," Doc continued. "It's probably just a minor miscallibration of the time circuits. Marty, could you get my notebook? It should be in the tool box."
Marty walked back to Doc's van where the tool box was lying right outside.
"Notebook, notebook," he muttered as he searched the toolbox. "Got it!"
Marty opened the notebook to a page that had a sketch of a 'Y' shaped device labeled 'Flux Capacitor' and had some calculations scribbled on it. The page next to it had more scientific formulae on it that Marty couldn't begin to decipher.
"Flux Capacitor?" Marty read.
"That's it!" exclaimed Doc as he walked up behind his young friend.
"What the heck's a Flux Capacitor?" Marty questioned.
"My latest invention. The thing that makes time travel possible!" he explained as he took the notebook from Marty and flipped through the pages. "In this notebook I've detailed the nearly three decades of scientific breakthroughs necessary to build a working time machine. If it ever fell into the wrong hands the consequences could be catastrophic! Now let's see, is mass = I times z and E equals the square root of z time c squared and the flux dispersal rate is…"
"Doc? Something's way off here," Marty interrupted the scientist's rambling.
After Marty had finished his sentence the sound of thunder was heard and a lightning bolt lit up the sky.
"Uh, Doc?"
The sign near the entrance to the parking lot that read 'TWIN PINES MALL' changed to read 'LONE PINE MALL'.
"Great Scott," Doc finally exclaimed.
"Doc, what is it?"
"I've made a horrible mistake."
The notebook fell from his hands and Doc started to fade out.
"Doc!" Marty exclaimed and made a grab for his friend only to have his hand pass right through. "No!"
Doc turned to Marty. "I'm sorry Marty…" he said as he faded completely.
"DOC! COME BACK! DOC!"
"DOC!" Marty exclaimed as he bolted into an upright position.
He looked around him. He was back in his room and not at the Lone Pine Mall parking lot. He looked at himself. He was still there, jean jacket, vest and all. His room was still the same. On the wall there were posters for Frankenstein and Weird Science. Did that mean it was all a dream? Marty was pulled from his thoughts by a voice outside his door.
"Marty? Is everything alright?"
"Yeah, Mom. It was just a nightmare... I was in the past... and Doc was there..."
At the mention of his friend's name Marty glanced at the picture of the two of them in 1885 at the clock on the stand beside his bed. It was the only evidence besides the rebuilt DeLorean of his time travelling experiences.
"Well you're safe and sound now," his Mom continued, "back in good old 1986. Well you'd better get up, your father's waiting for you."
"Huh?"
"Weren't you going to meet him over at Doc's?"
"Holy crap! I'm late!"
A/N: There you have it, the first chapter! What do you think? Good? Bad? Need to read more before you make up your mind? Well don't worry, there's still more to come. But what is Marty meeting his dad at Doc's for? Post a review to find out.
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