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Chapter 4: The Time Machine
My sleep was peaceful, until the ringing of my cellphone blasted me awake. I quickly sat up slightly from sleep and looked around my room, it was dark, maybe midnight or later. With a yawn, I tiredly reached for my phone by my bed side. Once I had reluctantly grabbed my phone, I pressed the answer button and placed it to my ear.
"Hello?" I asked, trying to make myself sound more awake then I was.
"Marlie, you didn't fall asleep did you?" Doc's voice came on the phone, which made me bolt up completely straight
"Uh Doc." I replied, I never really got just a 'hi' from him, but then that sentence snapped me awake, I forgot about Doc's newest thing he wanted to show me. I looked over to my alarm clock across the room, it read '12:38'. I still had time.
"Um no, no don't be ridiculous." I managed to reply, stifling another yawn, I didn't want Doc to know I fell asleep on him.
"Listen, this is very important, I forgot my video camera, could you stop by my place and pick it up on your way to the mall?" He asked, his voice still surprisingly in a whisper. I glanced over to my clock once more. Thank goodness I still had time, but just barely. It did take a while to get to the Doc's house, and the mall was a pretty good distance from my house too.
"Uh, yeah, I'm uh...I'm on my way." I told him, and with that I hung up, I searched my dark room for some regular pants after slipping my pj pants off. I ended up grabbing a pair of black skinny jeans, I figured those would work and put them on, I still had my black t-shirt on and buckled on my studded belt. I put my hair up in a pony, slipped on my wrist watch and placed my phone and I-pod in my pocket. Doc had given me the wrist watch as a gift for my 12th birthday. Now normally kids would have cellphones for the time but Doc said the best sense of time was on the wrist. So, I wore it for him to make him happy, and well, now it was a usual thing for me to wear it.
"Jeesh the things I do for Doc." I said to myself with yawn, ever since we met I've been there for the guy, and he's been there for me. Yet that story, is for another time.
"But hey, I guess it might be fun." I told myself with a shrug, blowing a loose stran of hair out of my face, I glanced over to my clock once more '12:57'. I cursed my luck and tied my black skater shoes on, then slipped out my window, but not before grabbing my board. I skated out of my neighborhood to town and straight to Doc's place. I took the key from under the mat and opened up the door rushing inside. I checked my wrist watch '1:11' Damn, I was gonna be late. I eagerly searched around for the Doc's camera and finally found it plopped on his bed, or what he called a bed. I rushed over and scooped it up, then ran out slamming the door and hoped on my board. I finally made it to Twin Pines mall as soon as the giant clock in front of it struck '1:16'. I halted to a stop only to see Doc's white truck there, it read 'Dr E. Brown Enterprises. 24 hour Scientific Services'. I yanked out my headphones connected to my I-pod and continued my way into the parking lot only to see Doc's dog, Einstein sitting there obediently, I looked around. He was there, but Doc wasn't. I skated over to Einstein and bent down petting him and acknowledging him. I could see the breath forming in front of my face, it was a cold October night that was for certain. But it didn't really matter to me, I was used to the cold and such, it never really bothered me.
"Hey Einstein, hey buddy. Where's the Doc huh? Didn't blow himself up did he?" I asked him, the last question a half joke half real question. But just then as if he had rehearsed it, the back of Doc's truck opened up, and two ramps were let down. I watched in aw as a DeLorean sports car backed out slowly, and it was quite dramatic with all the smoke I could almost hear the Star wars music playing in the background. After the car was neatly parked the door opened up, up words and Doc came out, wearing a white radiation suit. He also had a brown tool belt around his waist and was holding a scientific looking clipboard. It made him look like your typical wild scientist, which in short terms, he was.
"Doc?" I asked, taking some steps towards the car and him hesitantly. He looked to me and smiled, pulling out the pen from his mouth.
"Marlie, you made it!" He exclaimed happily griping my shoulders. "Yeah." I replied, trying to match his tone of voice, he then gestured me towards the DeLorean.
"I'm glad you could come! Welcome to my latest experiment this is a big one, the one I've been waiting for all my life." He told me, I smiled, glad he was happy with his work; yet I was still incredibly confused to exactly 'what' his work was.
"Um, well uh... it's a DeLorean, right?" I asked, he took his hand off my shoulder and gathered up his clipboard.
"Bare with me Marlie all your questions will be answered. Roll tape and we'll proceed." He told me, I nodded and held the video camera up, it was an old piece of junk but it ran well.
"Hold on Doc could you just-" But I was cut off once again.
"Please Marlie, I said I'll explain." He told me, this time more firmly, I rolled my eyes and shrugged it off as I glanced towards the car and questioned.
"Doc, is that a de-" But I was cut off yet another time. "Never mind that now, never mind that, not now..." Doc told me, what he didn't know was that I had already started recording and hooked up the recorder to my I-pod with a single cable. I shrugged off my mistake and nodded my head to Doc in a cue I was ready.
"Okay, I'm ready." I stated, just so he knew. He then cleared his throat and stood up straight, looking tall and proud.
"Good evening, I'm Dr Emmett Brown, I'm standing on the parking lot of Twin Pines Mall. It's Saturday morning, October 23th, 2010." He looked down at his watch and studied the time. "1:18 a.m" This made me check my watch...I shook my wrist, maybe it was slow.
"And this is temporal experiment number 1." He stated, he then looked to Einstein and bent down leading him to the open door of the DeLorean. "Temporal experiment 1?" I mumbled to myself, not really sure what it meant. Probably some science shit that I couldn't and would never understand.
"Come on Einie. In you go, good boy. Sit, good boy. Put your seat belt on." He coakced Einstein strapping his seat belt on securely, I finally realized I had to move in order to get a better shot. When Doc realized I was in a better position he cleared his throat and continued. "Please note, that Einstein's clock is in complete synchronisation with my control watch. Got it?" It took me a few seconds to realize that question was directed to me.
"Yeah yeah, check Doc." I told him, looking at Doc's clock connected to his clipboard and Einsteins watch which was strapped around his neck, they were both blinking and showed 1:19. What was going on? Was Doc gonna teach Einstein how to drive or something?
"Good. Have a good trip Einstein." And with that Doc closed the door and stood back, taking out a remote control of some sort, but you could see it had Doc's touch because of the digital speedometer built with it. I looked at the remote then back at the car, finally ending with my gaze with the remote.
"You got that thing hooked up to the..." Between me saying that he lifted the antenna from it, it extended pretty long too. "...car..." I finished, my question already answered.
"Watch this." He told me looking between the car and the remote, I nodded at this, still trying to soak in all that was happening. "Okay." Was all I replied with, when the Doc spoke it could really cloud up your brain sometimes. I started filming again just as Doc pushed the control on the remote forward slightly. And before I knew what the hell was going on, the car started to move. I was amazed if not stunned by this, but I had a feeling it was gonna get even more shocking than it already was. I turned to Doc, now filming his movements with the remote.
"Not me, the car, the car!" He ordered, bad filming. I immediately turned my focus back to the car. It drove forward then turned right and skid aiming straight for a second before backing up while it turned, and with the last movement it skidded in front of where Doc and I were standing.
"If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88 miles per hour. You're gonna see some serious shit." He told me and what I believed the camera. Doc had given up trying to watch his language around me quite some time ago. He had seen me use the same language he used and realized I was old enough to know what I was saying. Anyways, back to the important things. As Doc said that, he pushed forward slightly on the remote and I could see and hear the car revving up. I filmed still not knowing what was going on and what this was all about. I felt Doc's gaze on me for a brief second and it felt a bit uncomfortable. To stop I looked to him, keeping the video camera still on the car. He looked up and down at my clothing, I did the same and realized I was wearing all black. He probably thought I was going goth, normally I wore brighter colors but the pants were all I could find. We both left that topic as quickly as it came and focused back on the car, I glanced over at the remote to see the speed climbing rapidly. Once it hit 64, Doc released the lever and the car sped forward. It increased in speed and my eyes widened as I realized it was heading straight towards us. I started to move out of the way but only got about a foot there before Doc gabbed onto my arm and pulled me back in my spot.
"Watch this!" He told me as the car advanced on us more. Was this it, had Doc really gone insane? Just before I could think anymore on the subject the car started to glow blue and spark. Right before it crashed into us it disappeared from sight, a pair of fire trail zipped between our legs on the ground. My mouth fell agape as I stared at the spinning license plate, which was all that was left of the car. It finished spinning and fell to the ground with a clank. I couldn't believe what I just saw, I glanced over to Doc who looked just as stunned as I was. Except this expression quickly faded and was replaced with a wide smile.
"Ha! What did I tell you? 88 miles per hour!" He shouted to the world, literally jumping in his spot with over enjoyment. How could he be happy? He took out his small notepad and started rapidly jotting down things on his note pad. "The temporal displacement occurred at exactly 1:20am and zero seconds!" He shouted happily continuing to jot things down, was I paying attention to him? No. I was more concerned on the fact that a car with Doc's dog inside disappeared right before my eyes! I looked over to the license plate and picked it up, but immediately dropped it, for it was as hot as hell.
"Hot, Jesus Christ!" I winced in brief pain, then I finally decided to say something to Doc. "Jesus Christ Doc you disintegrated Einstein! How could you do that?" I nearly shouted at him, my head spinning. He chuckled slightly and walked over to me in a hurry.
"Calm down Marlie I didn't disintegrate anything. The molecular structure of Einstein and the car are completely intact." He told me, it took me a couple of seconds to piece together exactly what he was saying. I shook my head, still in my state of disbelief.
"Then...then where the hell are they?" I asked in pure shock and perhaps a bit of horror. He seemed to chuckle at this again, griping my shoulders. "The appropriate question is, 'when' the hell are they. You see, Einstein has just become the worlds first time traveler!" He explained to me, my eyes widened and my mouth fell open more, if that was possible.
"I sent him, into the future! One minute into the future to be exact. And at exactly 1:21am we should catch up with him and the time machine." He exclaimed in pure happiness, I on the other hand felt like I wanted to faint right then and there. Instead, I made my way over to Doc and stopped him with his writing.
"Hold on a second Doc. Are you telling me that you made a time machine...out of a DeLorean?" I asked him, seeming out of the breath because the events that had happened took it away. He nodded rapidly and looked to me.
"The way I see it, if you're gonna build a time machine into a car why not do it with some style?" He told me...perhaps 'later' I'll tell him that DeLoreans were old and actually 'out of' style. But, I had to admit, it was an interesting car to build it out of. Especially with the doors opening the way they did, awesome. "Besides, the stainless, steel construction made the flux dispersal..." However the beeping of Doc's watch cut him off, he looked to it then back at me.
"Look out!" He shouted jumping out of the way, grabbing my shoulder and pulling me with him. As soon as we left our spots the DeLorean re-appeared and cruised right where we would of been standing. It skid to a stop as Doc and I stood close to each other now, away from the car. Me still filming, slightly; and Doc shielding himself with the remote. We looked at eachother as if with the same question weather or not it was safe to approach the vehicle. We both slowly walked towards it, Doc a step or two ahead of me. However, steam releasing from the back of the car stopped us in our tracks. He looked to me, I shrugged not sure what he wanted me to do about it. He looked back to the car and approached it, I followed him, slowly and staying my distance. He touched the door to open it but jumped back waving his hand frantically.
"Wha- what is it hot?" I asked, kinda afraid if he was hurt or not. He winced a bit, placing his hand behind his back. "It's cold, damn cold." He told me, thinking of another way to open it, he used his foot and pushed the door open. And there sitting in the driver's seat, happily wagging his tail, was Einstein. I went into my shocked state once more, just when I thought I had gotten out of it, it re-appeared, twice as strong. Doc couldn't help but laugh at this in success.
"Haha! Einstein you little devil!" He exclaimed, ruffling his fur, then he grabbed the dog's watch and compared it with his own. "Einstein's clock is exactly one minute behind mine, and still ticking!" He exclaimed happily. By this time I had made my way over next to Doc, observing the watches closely. Doc's watch said 1:22, but Einstein's was flashing 1:21.
"What the hell?" I almost whispered, Doc unbuckled Einie's seat belt and he jumped out of the car, heading into the truck. I watched him leave in amazement, I could feel Doc's gaze on me again, as if he wanted me to say something. After finally finding my words, I did.
"He's alright..." I asked, completely amazed. Despite the fire trails and the freezing cold, Einstein was perfectly okay.
"He's fine, and he's completely unaware that anything happened. As far as he's concerned the trip was instantaneous." Doc told me, all that was floating through my head was one word, damn. I had strayed away from Doc and the car, looking at the ground trying to get my thoughts straight as Doc continued talking.
"You see, that's why Einsteins watch is exactly one minute behind mine, he skipped over that minute to instantly arrive at this point in time." He told me, or at least that's what I heard when I focused back into reality.
"Come on." He said gesturing me to walk towards him I raised an eyebrow and turned my gaze to him. "Come on I'll show you how it works." He said, this I knew was directed to me, I nodded and walked over to him. He took his seat in the driver's spot as I bent down on one knee to film him. He looked to me and spoke.
"First, you turn the time circuits on." He instructed, he flipped a switch and three panels inside the car lit up. Each seeming to have different dates and times on it.
"This readout one tells you where you're going, this one tells you where you are, and this one tells you where you were." He said, pointing to the top panel, then the middle and ending with the bottom one. I took careful notes of this mentally, though I wasn't sure why.
"How do you set 'em?" I asked, he looked to me then back at the car. "You input your destination on this keypad." He answered, showing me a keypad with keys that looked like they were from a payphone.
"Say you wanna see the declaration of independence." He said hitting 7/4/76 and as soon as he pressed in that, the date appeared on the top panel. July 4th, 1776.
"Or witness the birth of Christ!" He told me, and what was in his voice it was obvious he was getting excited. He typed in another date and the 4th of July date was replaced with December 25th, 0000.
"Here's the red letter date, in the history of Science. November 5th, 19...80." He finished trailing a bit in surprise, I raised an eyebrow as he paused a moment to think what he had typed.
"Yes of course, November 5th, 1980." He said laughing a bit as if he realized something. I raised an eyebrow, NOW was he going insane?
"What? I don't understand what happened then." I asked him more than told me, he turned to me still smiling and chuckling slightly, resting a hand on his forehead briefly.
"That was the day I invented time travel." He told me simply. "I remember it vividly, I was standing on my toilet hanging a clock the porcelain was wet. I slipped and hit my head on the edge of the sink." He told me, I raised an eyebrow at this and just had to asked.
"How did you invent time travel from 'that'?" I asked, he raised an eyebrow slightly, perhaps it was the reason I asked.
"Well when I came to from the hit I had a revelation." He told me, I raised an eyebrow at this. "Revelation?" I asked, not understanding what that meant...at all.
"A vision, a picture in my head. A picture of 'this'." On the word 'this' he showed me something in the back of the car. It had three steams and it was contained in a glass box, glowing a slight pink.
"'This' is what makes time travel possible. The Flux Capacitor." He introduced, I stared at it first in aw, then looked to him confused and just had to comment with.
"It took you thirty years to come up with 'that'?" I asked, kinda surprised how one little thing could take so long to build. He looked at me with a serious yet annoyed face.
"Time travel aint easy." He told me, I shrugged, guessing that was probably true. He sighed and stepped out of the car finally, standing up straight.
"It's taken me almost 30 years and my entire family fortune to realize the vision of that day...my god has it been that long?" He asked himself more than me, but I simply had to answer.
"Time flies while stuck in a garage." I replied, but he didn't care. His back was turned to me as he stared out in front of him amazed on how long it had been. Almost wishing he could go back in time to all of it...wait...that was the wrong thing to say.
"Ya know things have certainly changed around here." He told me, quickly looking back at me, then back out in front of him. "I remember when this was all farmland as far as the eye could see." He said spreading out his arm, indicating the parking lot and mall itself.
"Old Man Peabody, owned all of this. He had this crazy idea about, breeding pine trees..." He said, finally he shook his head back into focus and turned back to me. I was still filming the car, finally taking a good long look a it.
"Uh, this is heavy Doc. Uh, does it run on ordinary unleaded gasoline?" I asked him, looking towards him, he was now heading over to his truck, more specifically near a trunk. However at my question he turned back to me and shook his head.
"No, unfortunantly it requires something with a little more kick, plutonium." He told me, I froze, even I knew what that was.
"P-plutonium." I studdered that word as if a way to repeat it, telling myself that's what he just said.
"Hold on a minute, are you telling me that this sucker is nuclear?" I asked in a shout, gesturing to the car I had now set the camera down slightly. Doc noticed this and gave me a sign to go on.
"Hey hey, keep rolling." He told me, I rolled my eyes and did so as he explained.
"No, no, no, no this sucker's electrical. But I need a nuclear reaction, to generate the 1.21 gigawatts of electricity that I need." He told me, like that really helped with calming me down.
"Doc you don't just walk into a store, and buy plutonium!" I told him, concerned, I mean where would the Doc get plutonium from? "...did you rip this off?" I finally asked him, he waved his arms in an 'ixnay' way, in other words he was telling me to shut up.
"Course." He hissed finally walking over to me, his voice now in a whisper. "From a group of Libyan Nationalists. They wanted me to build them a bomb, so I took their plutonium and in turn gave them a shiny bomb case full of used pinball machine parts!" He told me happily, as if he was a genius. Was Doc crazy...er? Libyans were terrorists! Didn't he know how much trouble he get into?
"Jesus..." Was all I whispered, I snapped back into focus to realize Doc was heading back to his truck and talking to me.
"Come on, lets get you into a radiation suit, we must prepare to reload!" He told me, I rolled my eyes and set down the video camera, following him into the truck.
"Doc, you sure you should be messing with Libyans?" I asked, finding him in the back of the truck, he didn't turn to me as he was looking through a cardboard box.
"Oh don't worry Marlie everything will be fine. They won't find me anyways." He told me reassuringly, pulling out random objects from the box. I sighed and looked to the ground, I just wasn't sure.
"...I just...don't want you getting hurt Doc." I told him, almost not knowing I did. This made him turn to me, with a grateful yet questioning look on his face.
"Oh come now, you know me. I can get myself out of anything I get into, you know that." He said walking towards me and putting his hands on each of my shoulders as in a way to comfort me. I smiled, he was right, Doc was quite good at that.
"Yeah...I guess so." I replied, trying to make it sound like I was alright with this. He seemed to believe my act and beamed, then walked back over to the box and pulled out a yellow suit similar to his own.
"Here." He said tossing me the clothing, I reluctantly caught it and observed it, almost disgusted. He noticed this and chuckled a bit. "I know it's not your favorite color in the world but it will have to do for now." He told me, I looked up at him, he could read me like a book. Doc walked past me as I slipped on the suit, it actually fit okay, obviously Doc knew he would need a suit for me that was small. I put on the gloves and looked to the last part of the suit.
"Helmet too Doc?" I called out through the open door of the truck, referring to the...helmet/hat thing that went along with the suit.
"Yes, it shields the eyes from the projecting rays of te-" I cut him off. "Yes or no would of been fine." I replied, not wanting him to go into this whole speech, I sighed and slipped on the head protection then went outside where Doc was there, with his goofy looking helmet thing on too, he gestured over to the video camera and I scooped it up, ready to record again. I nodded and he opened up the container, he was now wearing white gloves with an orange chemical symbol or something like that. He gingerly picked up a small glass bottle with a red stick in the middle, this was plutonium. He carefully walked over to the DeLoreon and placed it on a spot designated for it. Once it was in the right place the car sucked up the red stick leaving only the case filled with water, ya know at least I think it was water.
"Safe now." Doc said removing his head gear, I flipped mine off too, good thing I put my hair up or we would have had one serious bad hair day. "Every thing's let lined." He said then turned to me as he walked over back to the trunk that held the rest of the plutonium.
"Don't you loose those tapes now." He told me, lifting up the trunk's cover with is foot. "We'll need a record." He told me, placing it back into it's spot and shutting the trunk close. He then spotted his suitcase lying on the ground near a wheel of the truck.
"Oh, I almost forgot my luggage, who knows if they got cotton underwear in the future." He told me, lifting up his suitcase and walking towards the car.
"I'm allergic to all synthetics." He added, I crossed my arms over my chest.
"Good to know, I'll add that to my, '100 facts about Doc' paper." I replied jokingly, he chuckled at this and opened up the front of the trunk to put his stuff in. I frowned a bit at this, looking slightly worried if you looked deeply into my eyes. Which Doc did that a lot so I looked away.
"The future...that's where your going?" I asked, keeping my gaze off of him, he turned to me, trying to get locked eyes with me so he could read what I was feeling. It's funny, but he was good at it.
"That's right, 25 years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next 25 World Series." He told me, I looked over to him, now we wasn't looking at me, he was adjusting one of his pens into his pocket protector.
"Uh...Doc." I said to get his attention, he looked up at me and raised an eyebrow. "Huh?" He asked, telling me he was listening, I gulped down the small lump in my throat and let out a deep breath.
"Uh, look me up, when you get there." I asked him, or maybe sorta told him, managing to crack a smile. He smiled at this and nodded. "Indeed I will, roll 'em." He ordered gently, I nodded and held the video camera up. He cleared his throat and leaned on the open door of the DeLorean, a real smile now plastered on my face.
"I, Dr. Emmett Brown, am about to embark on an historic journey." He told the camera, but then he laughed stupidly to himself a 'how could I of forgotten' laugh.
"What am I thinking?" He said with another chuckle. "I almost forgot to bring some extra plutonium, one pellet in one trip I must be out of my mind." He said one last chuckle escaping him. I heard Einstein barking behind me in the truck but I didn't turn around I kept filming Doc.
"What is it Einie?" He asked looking over to his dog, then he looked straight behind me, his face immediately changed to a look of panic and complete horror.
"Oh my god, they found me, I don't know how but they found me." He said, his tone flat and shaking slightly. I could hear the skidding of tires on the ground, it was a car.
"Run for it Marlie!" He shouted at me, pushing me close to the truck for safety. I raised an eyebrow, reacting but getting nervous.
"What? Who?" I asked, he backed up against the truck and pointed to the blue and white van that was pulling in.
"Who do you think! ? The Libyans!"
Well, that's it for this chapter...longest one I've done in any of my stories. So I hoped you all enjoyed it. Sorry about the spelling and grammar mistakes. But, yeah, read and review cause that makes me smile =D. Til then PEACE XD