A/N Be sure to let me know how you like my story. I do not own Back to the Future of Johnny Test.

Chapter 12: Einy in the Sky

Johnny leaves the alley, and heads to the court yard to see what Edna and Emmett were up to. He walks toward the table Edna was at, and says,

Johnny: "Hey there, Edna."

Edna: "Mr. Corleone. What can I do for you?"

Johnny: "Well, for starters, what're you up to here in the middle of the night?"

Edna: "Saving people from alcohol, vice, and disorder. And also keeping a lookout for hot stories. You'd be surprised how much news breaks on this corner."

Johnny: "Really? So, have you got any news yet?"

Edna: "Only the usual. Mayor Thomas trying to slink out of the speakeasy. Frankie Needles crashing his car into a fire hydrant. Nothing that'll get me on the front page though."

Johnny: "Huh. well, are you having any luck "saving people" with this stuff?"

Edna: "Not really. On nights like this, I fear that nothing will save Porkbelly from descending into to the fires of chaos and corruption."

Johnny: "Oh. Hey, whatever happened with that whole speakeasy arsonist thing anyway?"

Edna: "I was about to ask you the same question."

Johnny: "Huh? Uhh, what are you-"

Edna: "Don't play coy with me. I may not have any journalistic-acceptable proof, but I know that you and your sisters had a hand in Carl Sagan's daring escape from the authorities."

Johnny: "Uh, what gave you that idea, Edna? Because I have no idea what you're talking about. (Sheepish chuckle)"

Edna: "Really? So then you don't think that it's too much of a coincidence that as soon as I told you and your sisters that the authorities were moving Mr. Sagan to another facility, and as soon as I had gotten a quote from the police chief, my bicycle had suddenly disappeared, along with the three of you?"

Johnny: "Uhh, nope. But didn't you think that Doc- uh, I mean, Carl was innocent?"

Edna: "I used to. But after he escaped, two more speakeasies were torched in Colfax and Georgetown."

Johnny: "Okay, now that was just a coincidence."

Edna: "Coincidence? Or is our friend Carl a serial arsonist?"

Johnny: "Hey, I'm pretty sure that Carl didn't burn down any of those speakeasies."

Edna: "We'll see. One of the reasons I'm camped out so close to Tannen's new speakeasy is it gives me the chance to catch the arsonist in the act. It'd make a great story for my column."

Johnny: "Uh-huh, yeah. So, what's Kid Tannen been up to lately?"

Edna: "Didn't you hear? It was in all the papers."

Johnny: "Uh, I have been busy traveling with my sisters."

Edna: "Well, the feds were all set to arrest Tannen on tax evasion charges. Seems they'd gotten Tannen's books from his accountant."

Johnny: "Uh, oh yeah, we heard something like that happened."

Edna: "Well, the accountant disappeared, unsurprisingly, but the feds still thought they had a case. After all, they still had the books, right?"

Johnny: "Uh, right."

Edna: "Wrong!"

Johnny: "Say wha?"

Edna: "The day before the trial, the books just up and vanished, right out of the court's evidence locker."

Johnny: "Aw man, tough luck."

Edna: "Lots of fingers were pointed, but honestly, the whole town's so corrupt that it could have been anyone. Court clerks, cops, janitors…"

Johnny (Talking to self): "Maybe that's the dirt Trixie's holding out about Tannen."

Edna: "What's that?"

Johnny: "D'uh, I mean, Kid Tannen is walking around Porkbelly free?"

Edna: "Free, clear, and laughing it up in his new speakeasy. The feds want to bring a case up against him, but without those books, they've got nothing."

Johnny: "But couldn't Tannen be arrested for other things like, oh, I don't know, maybe, running a speakeasy?"

Edna: "In a perfect world, yes. But no one in town seems to care about Prohibition anymore. The feds are only interested because of the lost tax revenue."

Then Johnny remembers the song Edna tried to sing to Johnny moments ago, and figured that it could be the solution to snap Danny out of his depression.

Johnny: "Hey, what was the name of that song you were singing before?"

Edna: "Do you like it? I wrote it myself. It really gets toes tapping at the Stay Sober Society meetings. Although, I suppose that could be the shakes. Would you like to hear it again?"

Johnny: "NO! Uh, I mean, uh, maybe another time."

Edna: "I'll be here all night."

Johnny: "Of course you will. Anyway, can I have a copy of the lyrics to your song? I, uh, know a certain club that could really use some inspiring."

Edna: "Sure! Let me just get a page out of the hymnal." (Tears out copy, gives copy to Johnny) "There you are."

Johnny: "Thanks. 'You Should Care'. That was convenient." (Puts copy in pocket) "You know, Trixie Trotter sings a song that sounds like your song."

Edna: "She does?"

Johnny: "Yeah, but it's a little more, uh, carefree."

Edna: "That's what you get when you sing for boozehounds and gangsters."

Johnny: "Uh-huh. Speaking of hounds, what's your problem with dogs anyway?"

Edna: "They're smelly, rude, completely unable to take care of themselves, and frankly, they're not very bright. If I had my druthers, dogs would be banned from public places."

Johnny: "That is cold."

Edna: "I don't see what the temperature has to do with this."

Johnny: "Ah, never mind. By the way, how are things going with you and Emmett? I mean, the last time I saw you two, you looked like you were, uh, flirting at him."

Edna: "That was before I belatedly realized that his agreement to host my Stay Sober Society was a clever ruse to ferry barrels of booze to his so called "laboratory"."

Johnny: "Uh, yeah, sorry about that, but he really does have a-"

Edna: "Now his very presence fills me with an irresistible urge to pick at his philosophical and intellectual foundations with every tool in my vocabulary!"

Johnny: "…Uh, yyyeah, so, I'm guessing that means you guys aren't dating?"

Edna: "Dating? Why, the mere thought of a romantic involvement with that undisciplined techno-anarchist is preposterous!"

Johnny: "I'll take that as a no then. Well, see ya, Edna."

Edna: "Keep fighting the good fight."

Then Johnny walks toward the gazebo as Emmett was making some adjustments to his control console, and Einstein was still inside the vehicle that nearly crashed into Edna.

Johnny: "Hey, Emmett."

Emmett: "Oh, hello again, Mike. Glad you could make it. Say, where are your twin sisters? I was hoping that they would be here along with you to witness this."

Johnny: "Oh, they're, uh, busy with an experiment of their own, and well…"

Emmett: "I understand…"

Johnny: "So, how are you doing, Emmett? I know we haven't seen for a while, but-"

Emmett: "I'm great! And I owe it all to you guys!"

Johnny: "You do?"

Emmett: "Yes! That argument I had with my father during our rocket-powered drill experiment gave me the incentive to finally quit that query court job. I've committed myself full-time to a life of science!"

Johnny: "Oh, well, that's good to know. By the way, thanks for watching over Einstein for us while we've, uh, been away."

Emmett: "It's been a pleasure. He's proven to be a surprisingly willing test subject. Almost as if he's been working with me for years."

Johnny: "More like decades. So, what's all this equipment and the car all about anyways?"

Emmett: "Einstein and I have been conducting a few experiments with this one-quarter scale model to work out a few hitches in my planned demonstration at the Porkbelly Expo in a couple of months."

Johnny: "You mean, this thing is supposed to be some kind of a radio-controlled car?"

Emmett: "No! Well, yes, but it'll be so much more than that. It will amaze the world! Aha, got it!"

Johnny: "Got what?"

Emmett: "I'll show you." (Walks toward Einstein in car) "Ready to go, Einstein?"

Einstein replies with a bark, Emmett closes the harness of the car above Einstein, walks back to the control console, and says,

Emmett: "Watch this." (Pulls switch) "When this baby hits 23 miles per hour, you're gonna see some serious cowflop!"

Johnny: "Don't you mean some serious s-"

Emmett: "Watch this! Watch this!"

The car started going in circles around the gazebo, Emmett pulls another switch, and the wheels were replaced with rockets as the car started flying around the gazebo, but then it's flying started to get out of control.

Johnny: "Einstein!"

Emmett: "No!"

Johnny: "Get him outta that thing, Emmett!"

Emmett: "Not to worry, I've got a fail-safe eject mechanism around here some place!"

A few seconds later, Emmett presses the fail-safe eject button, and says,

Emmett: "See? Nothing to worry about…"

Johnny: "Nothing to worry about? That car is gonna crash!"

The car continues to fly around in the air, and when it was above the court house, Einstein fell right on top of it, and was now stuck on the roof. Emmett steps out of the court yard, trying to think how to get Einstein down while Johnny talks to himself saying,

Johnny (Talking to self): "Whoa, didn't see that coming. How are we gonna get Einy down from there?"

Then Johnny walks toward Emmett, and says,

Johnny: "No worries, Emmett. You'll get that rocket car working soon."

Emmett: "Oh, I'm not worried about that. Right now, I'm more concerned with Einstein."

Johnny: "Right, but what do you think went wrong with the rocket car?"

Emmett: "I'm not entirely sure. As soon as we get Einstein down, I'm gonna go look for it."

Johnny: "Okay, so, why don't you just go into the court house, and get Einy down?"

Emmett: "If I still had my job as a clerk, I would, but lately a lot of evidence has gone missing, so they've installed new locks. Now the place is sealed up tighter than pop's wallet."

Johnny: "Just like a certain lab I know. Anyway, doesn't the court house have a ladder or something we can use to get up there?"

Emmett: "Ah, they tore down the ladders after a rash of jumping incidents in '29. Bad for the civic morale, they said."

Johnny: "Darn it. Uh, just outta curiosity, do you know anything about a guy named Officer Danny Blakely?"

Emmett: "My pop says he's a good cop when he's not drinking."

Johnny: "Good."

Emmett: "Of course, now I hear he drinks all the time."

Johnny: "Bad. Uh, how about Trixie Trotter? You know anything about her?"

Emmett: "The Songbird of the Sierras? The Nightingale of the North? The Floozy of the Foothills?"

Johnny: "Uhh… I'll take that as a-"

Emmett: "Never heard of her. And I've definitely never snuck into Tannen's speakeasy to listen to her."

Johnny: "Okaaay…"

Johnny knew that he had already asked the same question to Edna, but he wanted to make sure Emmett also didn't have any feelings for her as he asks,

Johnny: "What's up with you and Edna? When I saw the two of you together two months ago, I'm pretty sure that she was making goo-goo eyes at you, Emmett."

Emmett: "That was before my father had her Stay Sober Society meeting thrown out of our house. Now she takes every opportunity she can get to snipe at me and my work. It's very distracting."

Johnny: "So, does that mean you two have been talking a lot lately?"

Emmett: "More like debating. Endlessly debating."

Johnny: "Ouch."

Emmett: "You know what's strange? Edna and I have lived in Porkbelly all our lives, but until we ran into you and one of your sisters, I don't think we've ever said two words to each other. Funny, isn't it?"

Johnny: "Uh, (Sheepish chuckle) yeah, real funny, heh, aw man… Uh, so, just to be sure, you and Edna are not dating, right?"

Emmett: "Oh, good lord, no! I mean, don't get me wrong, Ms. Strickland's an attractive woman with many fine qualities, but she's far too stubborn and controlling for a dreamer like me."

Johnny: "Whew."

Emmett: "And on top of everything else, she keeps distracting me from my work! Who could put with a woman like that?"

Johnny: "Hey, you're asking me."

Then Johnny looked behind himself, and sees Doc standing by the window of the second floor of the motel, and figured that it was time to go get some help from his twin sisters and Doc as he says,

Johnny: "Well, I'm gonna go see if I can find something that'll help. Or someone."

Emmett: "You do that. I'll stay here and see if I can think of a way to get Einy off that ledge."

Johnny heads over to the motel, and before he went inside it, he reads the sign that says,

Johnny: "'Majestic arms. Transients welcome'. I wonder if transients mean time travelers."

Johnny goes inside the motel, finds the room the room that his sisters and Doc were in, and finds Mary leaning against a wall with her hands behind her back, Susan was sitting on the bed, and Doc was standing by the window.

Johnny: "Hey, guys. How's the room?"

Doc: "It's a little cleaner than we would've imagined for a Depression-era flophouse."

Susan: "How're your investigations over at Tannen's speakeasy going, Johnny?"

Johnny: "Well, I saw him!"

Mary: "Who?"

Johnny: "Our Grandpa, but only for a second in a streetcar. We've gotta go look for him!"

Doc: "Why?"

Johnny: "Well, I talked to Trixie, and she says she's got some dirt on Kid Tannen that could get him arrested, But Artie's the only one that she'll tell what it is. She also said something about him being her tutor, or something."

Mary and Susan: "So that's the connection!"

Doc: "Yes! When your grandfather disappeared from Porkbelly for two months, the bond between him and Ms. Trotter were severed, eventually leading to a timeline in which Trixie lost the nerve to betray Tannen!"

Mary: "So now, we've got to find our Grandpa so that he can get Trixie to present the evidence about Tannen to Officer Blakely."

Susan: "Right. You did manage to track him down, right, Johnny?"

Johnny: "Yeah, he's hanging out in the speakeasy, and he's actually Sissy's Grandpa. But bad news, guys, that guy's having a serious meltdown! We screwed up his life so much, he got dumped by Sissy's Grandma!"

Doc, Mary and Susan: "D'aah!"

Johnny: "I know!"

Mary: "Johnny, it's more important than ever that you make sure Danny Blakely gets back on his destined path, and arrests Kid Tannen!"

Susan: "If he doesn't, then he won't get back together with Sissy's Grandma, and Sissy will never be born!"

Doc: "And if Sissy never exists, then I'll never to take you all to 2015 to save your kids, then old Biff'll never-"

Johnny: "Yeah, yeah, I get it, we'll all have a major paradox, and it'll be the end of the universe. Don't worry, I'll take care of Danny."

Susan: "We sure hope so."

Johnny: "Hey, where did you put the Delorean, Doc?"

Doc: "I hid it in the DeSoto lot. Nobody's buying cars these days, so it should be safe in there."

Johnny: "Oh. By the way, did you guys ever find out who burned down Tannen's other speakeasy?"

Doc: "No, we still don't know yet. I'd really like to find out before we go home."

Johnny: "Darn it. You know, you never did give us a straight answer why you came here in 1931 in the first place, Doc."

Doc: "It's, uh, personal. When this is over, I'll tell you kids all about it."

Susan: "We're gonna hold you to that, you know."

Johnny: "Yeah, and how come you didn't tell me that I'd be seeing young you out here tonight, Doc?"

Doc: "Because I don't remember being out here tonight."

Mary: "I guess that means our interactions with your younger self two months ago must've slightly altered your personal timeline."

Doc: "Exactly. I never had the nerve to perform public experiments like the way he's doing out there."

Johnny: "Well, he did say that quit his job at the court house."

Doc: "He did? I wasn't supposed to do that until sometime in the following month. Well, no matter, those experiments will be forgotten once I've seen 'Frankenstein'!"

Johnny, Mary and Susan: "'Frankenstein'?"

Doc: "Yes! Right now, my younger self is fiddling around down there with rocket-propulsion systems for his demonstration at the Expo."

Susan: "The event that'll kick off your scientific career."

Doc: "Exactly! Now, the rockets are a horrible idea, and I'll soon realize that they'll never work. But eventually, I'll wander into that movie theater, see 'Frankenstein', and clear my mind. I've kept the ticket stub from that movie in my wallet ever since." (Takes out ticket stub) "See?"

Johnny: "Yeah, we believe ya. But why?"

Doc: (Puts ticket stub in wallet) "Because it's during this movie that I'll have the inspiration for my breakthrough at the Expo!"

Johnny: "Wait, it doesn't have anything to do with bringing any monsters to life, does it?"

Doc: "Not the way you're thinking, no. But during that famous scene when Colin Clive turned the wheel that raised that shrouded figure, and that bolt of lightning struck… well, let's just say that more than one brain was reanimated that night."

Johnny: "Awesome. Uh, but, your younger self isn't really having any luck getting Einstein down from the court house."

Doc: "I'm not surprised. Einy's a smart dog, but heights give him the willies."

Johnny: "What're we gonna do? I think I know of a way we can find Artie, but I'll need Einy's sense of smell to do it."

Doc: "Hmm… I got it!"

Johnny: "What?"

Doc: "Just get my younger self distracted, Johnny, and we'll handle the rest."

Johnny: "Hmm, distracted huh? I know a certain somebody that's really good at doing that. I'll see you guys later."

Then Johnny walks out of the room, and Doc says,

Doc: "All right, girls, listen. Here's the plan…"

Johnny had walked out of the motel, sees Emmett still trying to think of a way to get Einstein down, and walks over to the table in the court yard Edna was still at, and says,

Johnny: "Hey, Edna!"

Edna: "What?"

Johnny: "Have I got a story that'll get you on the front page."

Edna: "Oh? What is it?"

Johnny: "'Amateur Garage Scientist Strands Dog on Roof of Court House'."

Edna: "What?"

Johnny: (Points at Emmett) "Check it out."

Edna: "Oh, for goodness sake!" (Walks toward Emmett) "Mr. Brown!"

Emmett: "Please, Ms. Strickland, not now! Can you see I've got a rather delicate situation on my hands at the moment? My trial run-"

Edna: "'Trial run?' Public hazard, I call it!" (Takes out notepad) "And I'm sure my editor will agree."

Johnny walked near the corner of the court yard fence near the motel, waved at Doc, signaling that his younger self was as good as distracted by Edna, and walked away from the window.

Edna: "This "scientific enterprise" of yours represents a clear and present danger to public safety."

Doc, Mary and Susan had snuck their way out the town square while Emmett says,

Emmett: "You know what represents a clear and present danger to public safety? Your singing voice!"

Johnny (Talking to self): "Ooh! Burn!"

Edna: "There's no need to get personal, Mr. Brown!"

Emmett: "Believe me, I have no intention of "getting personal" with you!"

Edna: "I'm relieved to hear it!"

Johnny then sees the Delorean flying over the roof of the court house, the passenger door opens, and the twins try to coax Einstein into getting in with them, and Doc.

Edna: "Flying cars! Of all the ridiculous juvenile notions-"

Emmett: "You mock me, but just imagine a world in which traffic jams and car crashes are a thing of the past!"

Then Einstein gets in the Delorean, Doc flies the Delorean away from the court house, and Johnny says,

Johnny (Talking to self): "Awesome thinking, Doc."

Edna: "I might be more inclined to listen to you if your maiden voyage hadn't ended in a crash on one roof and a stranded dog on another!"

Emmett: "I'm working on getting him down!"

Then Einstein came running straight towards Emmett, Johnny sees his sisters and Doc sneaking back inside the motel while giving Johnny a thumbs-up, he does the same to them, and Emmett says,

Emmett: "Einy! How'd you get down?" (Pets Einstein) "Clever dog."

Edna: "Hmph! Well, fortune favors you tonight. But I warn you to be more careful in the future!" (Walks away)

Then Emmett notices that the rocket car stuck inside a billboard on the Soup Kitchen roof, and says,

Emmett: "Now… how to get that rocket car back down?"

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