11: Chapter Ten
November 12, 1955
09:45 AM PST
Marty Sr and Jennifer arrived at Biff's house, after a long search for his address. Marty then pulled out his walkie-talkie. "Doc, Doc, this is Marty" he muttered. "Doc, come in." The inventor then replied: "Roger Marty this is Doc. Are you there?"
The teenager stared at the house in front of him, feeling really surprised by it. "Yeah Doc, I'm at the address" he muttered. "It's the only Tannen in the book… but I don't think it's Biff's house. It looks like some old lady lives here."
Then, the door was opened and Biff stepped out. Marty's jaw was about to drop, but then he heard a voice call: "Biff!", on whom Biff responded with a "Yeah!", "Where're you going Biff!" After a few moments of thinking, Marty realised it. Biff lived with some old relative of his. Then, he was proven right when Biff responded: "I'm going to get my car Grandma!" The woman was Biff's grandmother!
"When are you coming back?" Grandma Tannen asked. "My feet hurt, and I want you to rub my toes some more."
"Shut up, you old bag" Biff muttered, as he started to walk down the street. Apparently, he really hated doing this for his grandmother… and to be honest, neither Marty or Jennifer could blame him for that.
A red ball then landed at Biff's feet. He picked it up, and five kids began to approach him. "Give us our ball back!" the kids all demanded, simultaneously. Both Marty and Jennifer had to chuckle at the coincidence of the five kids saying the same thing at the same time.
"What ball?" Biff asked, with a little smirk. He really was annoying them. "That ball!" The kids replied, pointing to the ball that Biff was holding. They didn't understand that Biff was annoying them.
"What ball are you talking about?" Biff asked, smirking. Marty Sr growled, as Biff really was one mean person. He remembered how Biff's future son, Cliff, who was born in 1963, had once done the same with his little red ball… back in the old 1974. This was before Doc and Marty had met, and Cliff had been encouraged by his father to 'get that McFly for once and for all', ignoring the fact that the poor kid had barely been six years old back then, and not very more than three feet tall.
"Give us our ball back!" the kids repeated, snapping the 1985-teenager back to reality. He stared at Jennifer, and saw that she was getting to hate Biff too – not to mention that she already did from their experience in Hell Valley just barely four hours ago. Right then, Biff finally acted like he got the point. "Oh, is this your ball?" Biff asked, as he continued to smirk. "Yeah!" the kids replied annoyed, but with a small spark of hope. Would they now get the ball back from Biff?
Marty Sr and Jennifer then hid, so that Biff wouldn't notice any of them – if he saw Jennifer he could start taking advances to her, but if he saw Marty he could remember 'Calvin Klein' and beat him up for the crash into the manure that happened last Tuesday. The teenager grinned as he thought of it, but stayed at his view to watch Biff and the poor, poor kids.
"Is this your ball," Biff asked, finally getting the point, "you want it back?" The kids immediately replied. "Yeah!" They really wanted the ball back. Only then, Biff threw the ball away into a gutter that was on a house, and called: "Well, go get it!" He then laughed. "Ha ha ha ha ha!" The teen then walked off.
Marty watched him walk off, then made a move to grab the walkie-talkie but Jennifer was faster. "Doc, Biff just threw a ball into a gutter that was from a few kids" she said softly. "I never realised that he was this mean. What should we do now?"
"Continue your journey" Doc said. "You can't change history by taking that ball. I know this is farfetched, but it could be possible. Continue to follow Biff into town. Remember, he will get the book at the car's shop… and don't let him see you while getting the book back! That might influence how he treats your older selves at the dance!"
"Check, Doc," both Marty Sr and Jennifer replied, as they began to follow Biff.
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As Marty Jr walked through one of the streets of Hill Valley, he spotted Old Biff hiding behind a tree. The teenager first didn't understand what the old man was doing there, but then he spotted a '46 Ford – and 1955 Biff heading towards it! The seventeen-year-old quickly ducked behind a bush, as he watched Young Biff reach the auto technician, who Marty recognised as being the fellow who wanted you to thumb 100 dollars for the clock tower. "Boy, that guy has changed!"
"Looking good Terry" 1955 Biff complimented, looking at the car. The worker smiled. "Hey Biff, she's all fixed up just like you wanted, but I couldn't get her started!" He paused. ""You got some kind of a kill switch on this thing?"
Young Biff grinned as he opened the door and got in. "Nah, you just gotta have the right touch. Nobody can start this car but me."
Terry now picked up the note. "The bill comes to 302 and 57 cents…"
"Three hundred bucks!" Young Biff shouted angrily. He got out of the car and continued: "Three hundred bucks for a couple of dents? No, hey, that's bullshit Terry."
"No Biff, it was horseshit, the whole car was filled with it" Terry answered. "I had to pay Old Man Jones eighty bucks to haul it away!"
"Old Man Jones?" Young Biff asked, sarcastically. "He probably resold it too! Now I ought to get something for that." He turned angry to Terry.
"You wanna get something for it?" Terry asked sarcastically. "Well, go inside, you can call Old Man Jones and if you want to get a refund…" He paused for a moment, not knowing the words to continue.
Then, Marty Jr looked over the street – and saw Marty Sr arrive, together with Jennifer! The two of them crawled into the back of the car, then Marty Sr spotted his son and gave him a thumbs-up. The teenager did the same back to his father and then Biff returned.
"It's three hundred bucks Terry!" Biff shouted angry. Terry looked up afraid, and continued then: "Look, I'm only charging you for…"
"If I catch the guy who caused this I'll break his neck!" Young Biff shouted. Marty felt really nervous with those thoughts, because he knew Biff almost did it that night. He still remembered good how he was locked up in the back of the Star lighters' car. However, that was done by Biff's gang. He stared at Jennifer, who was also scared.
As 1955 Biff and Terry walked off, 2015 Biff muttered in astonishment: "The manure! I remember that!" Today was really a day for déjà vu's.
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As 1955 Biff and Terry left the shop again, Biff pushed a kid on a scooter. Terry was telling Biff that '4 cans of Valvoline was more than enough'.
"Four cans for a 300 job?" Biff demanded of the machanic.
"I can't even have lunch in there," Terry added, grimacing. "It makes me nauseous."
"I should be getting a case or more out of you for a 300 buck job," Biff commented, as he seemed to be getting angrier by the second.
"It smells worse than the bathroom!" Terry replied, as he raised his voice a bit.
Biff then threw the cans inside – where they landed right in Marty's private area. "Oomph!" Marty called out softly, as Biff continued: "Yeah, yeah, yeah…"
"The stench is never going to go away, Biff," Terry continued, without any trace of sympathy for Biff. "Never going to go away."
Young Biff opened the door, and he sarcastically remarked, "Yeah, thanks a lot."
"That's the last time I ever do you a favour!" Terry shouted, angrily. "Last time!"
Biff then saw Lorraine and Babs walking down the street. He smiled, made himself clean and ran over to the two of them. "Well lookee what we have here" Biff smirked as he reached the girl of his dreams. "Pretty nice dress Lorraine." He then took his hands under her shirt and reached it up.
"Although," Biff continued, "I think you'd look better wearing nothing at all."
"Biff?" Lorraine now asked firmly. "Why don't you take a long walk off a short pier?" Biff ignored her and continued: "Hey listen, Lorraine. There's that dance at school tonight. Right now, my car's all fixed. I'd figure that I'd cut you a break and give you the honour of going with the best-looking guy in school." He looked like he expected Lorraine would answer him yes.
"Well, I'm busy tonight Biff" Lorraine answered and tried to walk through. But Biff hold her. "Doing what?"
"Washing my hair" Lorraine shouted to Biff, who chuckled. "That's as funny as a screen door on a battleship" he said laughing.
"It's screen door on a submarine you dork" Marty whispered out of the back of Biff's car. Biff could be such an idiot sometimes.
"Look Biff, somebody already asked me to the dance" Lorraine said Biff to get off the harassing.
"Who, that bug George McFly?" Young Biff asked wondering.
"I'm going with Calvin Klein okay!" Lorraine shouted in Biff's side. But if she had thought everything was over now she thought wrong.
"Calvin Klein?" Biff asked baffled. His Lorraine was going with the guy who made him crash in manure? He grabbed Lorraine by her shoulders, and turned her to face him. "No, that's not okay. You're going with me, understand?"
"Get your cooties off of me!" Lorraine demanded, as she tried to force Biff off her.
"When are you going to get it through that thick skull of yours, Lorraine?" Biff asked. "You're my girl!"
"Biff Tannen, I wouldn't be your girl even if..." Lorraine paused a little, before finally adding, "... even if you had a million dollars!" Both Marty's and Jennifer gasped at the coincidence of this, seeing as the almanac could bring him this easy enough.
"Hey Lorraine, yes you will be my wife! It's you and me, Lorraine! It's you and me Lorraine! Biff ran into the middle of the road.
A car had narrowly missed Biff, while the driver called out, "Watch your back!"
"It's meant to be!" Biff added, as he called after Lorraine. "Someday, you'll marry me! Someday, you'll be my wife!" The Marty's and Jennifer then felt sick in their stomachs and they felt bad for poor Lorraine. This really wasn't fun. "Well, at least he'll stop doing this after tonight... if we succeed getting that book away from him" Marty Sr thought.