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Lone Pine Universe
"Well, Doc," Marty asked, as soon as the DeLorean broke the barrier, "should we go check the mall, to see whether it's Twin Pines Mall, or not?"
"Naa, it's too far out of the way," Doc replied. "Have you noticed anything about the clock tower, as we were heading back to Hill Valley Park. Now that I think of it, I did notice that there was something off about the clock tower, but I really couldn't think of what it was before. Do you know what I'm referring to, Marty?"
"Uh, no, not really," Marty said, quietly. "I guess I was just so relieved that it wasn't Biff's Pleasure Paradise - but something about it did strike me as a little different."
"I noticed that the ledge was still intact," Doc explained. "It may have been nearly forty years ago, from my standpoint, but I still remember this day so well. When I was trying to hook the cable up to the clock, I accidentally broke the ledge."
"The ledge?" Marty asked, with confusion. Suddenly, he gasped, "Oh, yeah, I know what you are talking about! Jesus, Doc, I didn't even think of that. I guess I should have noticed that right away. I really hadn't thought much about that ledge."
"I will never forget how scared I felt," Doc said, quietly. "I was so afraid that I might fall to my death, but I knew how important it was to get you back to 1985."
"It's so funny how that event was nearly forty years ago to you," Marty commented, "but this only happened a little over a year ago, to me. It's so funny how time travel works, you know. Well, I guess the clock tower over there looks normal."
"Yeap, yeap," Doc said, as he took a really close look at the clock tower, "and I also see that the ledge is there, so this must be a reality where I saw you back in 1955."
"So we're going to see if your garage is still next to the Burger King?" Marty asked.
"Yeah, we might as well," Doc replied. "If it is not there, then I probably live in that house on Lyon Estates. It is very amazing how my other self lived there in that last reality, even though he never met Clara. I guess I was destined to live there."
"So, I guess if you never met Clara," Marty said, smiling, "you would have ended up with Jessica. I wonder who Jessica from our reality may end up marrying, then."
"It's amazing how this one single event can start a chain reaction," Doc commented.
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"Man, I am so tired, now," Marty commented. "Why don't we take a little rest, now?"
"All right, then," Doc said, breathing heavily, "I suppose we have been working hard all day. You know, in a way, I sure will miss this garage. On the other hand, though, it is nice that Jessica and I will be moving in together. It's great to have met her."
"Well, I'm happy for you, too, Doc," Marty said. "It's so nice that you and I both have some romance in our lives. I bet you can hardly wait for to get married to her, eh?"
"I am so happy that Sabrina introduced me to Emmett," Jessica said, dreamily. "It is so nice that we both have a big passion for Jules Verne. The first time I read Around the World in Eighty Days, I became immediately hooked. I still remember how I had found it so amazing how precise Phileas Fogg was about everything."
"Actually, my favourite is 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea," Doc replied. "Just think, if I had never read Jules Verne, I maybe never would've been interested in science."
"It's nice that I met a man as smart as you," Jessica commented. "So you said the teachers in school were thinking of skipping you ahead a few grades?"
"That's correct," Doc said, nodding. "My parents were against the idea, though. They were worried about how it may have an impact on my social life. When I was in high school, I didn't have too many friends - and, in fact, my two closest friends were my cousins. Of course, there were also those few kids why try to be nice to everyone."
"Yeah, my teachers decided to skip me ahead one grade," Jessica explained, "when I was in junior high - but my social life started to suffer greatly, so my parents decided to appeal on my behalf, and then I was brought back down."
"I do appreciate that my parents thought of what they figured was best for me," Doc continued, "but I never really was a sociable type. I was never the type of person to like huge crowds - then again, I guess they were worried that I might be bullied."
"Well, you said that Howard Needles used to bully you," Marty commented. "I guess the Needles area lot like the Tannens, and they live to bully other people."
Suddenly, there was a knock on the door. Doc walked over to the door to answer.
"Great Scott!" gasped Doc. "Why is there another Marty here? Are you Marty Jr?"
"Uh, no," the other Marty said, quietly. "I'm here from an alternate reality. Doc came here with us, too. We've been hopping through alternate realities over a day, now."
"I'm right over here," the visiting Doc said, as he walked up. "I'm not sure if you'll be able to help us to return home, but I thought we might spend some time with you."
"Oh, yeah, I know about alternate realities," the local Marty exclaimed. "One time, I actually switched places with Michael J Fox - and it turned out that Michael J Fox had played me in a movie called Back to the Future, in an alternate reality."
"Whoa, this is heavy," exclaimed the visiting Marty, as he stepped inside. "I entered the Family Ties Universe once, and I even met Alex P Keaton - and I also found out that Michael J Fox played me in a movie called Back to the Future."
"You're kidding!" gasped the local Marty. "It turned out I entered an alternate reality where both Alex P Keaton and I were fictional characters played by Michael J Fox. It was such a surreal experience. It was hard pretending to be Michael J Fox!"
"Whoa, that must have been a real experience!" the visiting Marty exclaimed.
"Apparently, the telepathic device I was working on caused the switch," the local Doc explained. "So Marty ended up switching bodies with Michael J Fox from the alternate reality. I guess that was a very scary experience for both of them."
"It certainly was for me!" the local Marty exclaimed. "After all, I had nowhere to turn to. As much as I do admire Michael J Fox, it was so scary to think I might have to be him for the rest of my life - especially in a universe where I was a fictional character in a movie. I might have gotten poor Michael committed, if I kept insisting that I was Marty McFly. I am glad that Doc was able to get the two of us switched back."
"Anyway," the visiting Marty said, smiling, "you did spend a week in 1955, right?"
"I certainly did," the local Marty replied. "That was like the most stressful week of my life. I wasn't sure I would be able get my parents to fall in love."
"Well, at least that part is the same," the visiting Marty commented. "Did Doc bring you and Jennifer to 2015 the next day - to keep your son from going to jail?"
"Actually, no," the local Marty replied. "What happened was that our future son came here. He told me about how, if I raced Needles, I would get into this terrible accident that would make my life go downhill. I am so thankful he came back to warn me."
"He actually stole the time machine," the local Doc explained, "as I was in 2015, and I was trying to backtrack to that one event that would land Marty's children in jail. It wasn't until Marty's son failed to show up, that I began to realize that something was wrong. The timeline around me changed, when Marty's son was in 1985."
"Whoa, this is heavy," the visiting Marty gasped. "So what did happen after Marty Jr finally returned to 2015? Did he go from being a wimp to a confident person?"
"Marty Jr?" the local Marty asked, confused. "I thought that his name was Norman."
"You do end up calling him Marty McFly Jr," the local Doc commented. "He may have just chosen the Norman alias, when your mother asked him who he was."
"So, what about the daughter?" the local Marty asked. "Do I really name her Doris?"
"Actually, her name is Marlene," the visiting Marty explained. "I was a little surprised to find out that we do end up naming our kids Marty Jr and Marlene, and that both of them looks so much like me. So did this whole experience transform Marty Jr?"
"It did," the local Doc replied. "I'm sure it took him a little while, though, to adjust to having two sets of memories. It was probably harder for him, than it was for you."
The visiting Marty figured that it was so true. At least his personality never changed - well, except for the part about how he used to react to being called "chicken".