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Two Years into the Future.
After he and Marty had said their goodbyes - although he knew they would meet again, especially if the second time loop he had experienced where a version of Marty who appeared after sending another him back to 1985 only to reveal that his own older self had become marooned in 1885 came about - Emmett could not help but feel satisfied that the first time loop which was essentially an endless time paradox had been closed for him and Marty.
His forehead creased a little bit in thought as he remembered those days in 1955 and how he'd stumbled and tripped on his toilet hanging that clock up while he was thinking about time. And then it was like his brain exploded with a resounding 'bingo' but even in his wildest moments, he had never imagined meeting some kid from the future, with a videotape describing some of the design of the time machine he was going to build.
In 1955, Emmett had had plenty of time to study the Delorean and the time travel technology. Marty had never even realised what he was doing, he was of course too busy being involved with the disaster he had gotten involved in with his own mother! Emmett wondered at the time what it was about Marty which he had found so appealing to make him hire the teenager as his assistant if he took thoughtless and reckless risks like that!
What was his thinking, entering into a relationship of some sort with Lorraine Baines McFly?
It must have occurred to the boy not to meddle in his parent's nascent relationship, but Marty's presence in 1955 had changed the timeline so George McFly would be more assertive and less of a cowardly pushover. It was something that had made Emmett terrified of the long term consequences since there was a chance Marty had created a new parallel universe with his meddling.
In any case, Emmett had taken copious notes about the flux capacitor - it might be seen as cheating, but with the notes he had taken of the capacitor and the Time Circuit computer on the dash to help him reverse engineer the finished articles and help him with his early experiments.
True, Emmett could have used the opportunity to really take the flux capacitor apart and discover more about it, and the temporal field projectors and the tachyon cannon, but he hadn't.
He had no intention of making his time machine a truly paradoxical piece of work - the Delorean time machine could not have come about if he hadn't taken the whole thing apart, so how could he possibly have not have constructed the time machine with what he had discovered?
Fortunately, his approach had worked. He had used the notes he had taken on the Delorean when he'd had the opportunity to study it to conduct a number of experiments into time travel. One of his biggest priorities back then, he remembered, was trying to find a way of making the Delorean work without the nuclear reactor.
The moment he had seen the video footage and listened to himself talk about the Delorean time machine, describing how the flux capacitor worked - he remembered his horror when he learnt he had resorted to a nuclear reactor; after everything he had seen and experienced during the Manhattan Project and the horrifying death toll as the USA bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki to force the Japanese to surrender- he hated being involved in the creation of the nuclear bombs which had destroyed those cities full of unarmed and hopeless civilians when the US navy could have found a military base which would have had the same effect and he still suffered from nightmares as a result, Emmett had sworn to never use nuclear energy for his private projects.
Emmett had gone to a lot of trouble to keep his involvement in the Manhattan Project a secret; it had been an unpleasant experience for the physicist and he was loath to even relive the moments of his time there but at the time he had needed to be involved, because according to his earliest calculations dealing with time travel although he was a long way to discovering the flux capacitor although he was advanced enough to do the basic math on the topic, he would need a colossal amount of power for time travel.
He might point and laugh at the Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea episodes dealing with that time traveller; Irving Allen might have used a known method of time travel which was within the boundaries of modern physics - acceleration many times the speed of light - but the way of using it in the form of an antique pocket watch, but the teleportation effects which physics claimed was impossible and so many other effects seen in the episode were hardly any better.
But Emmett had agreed with one truth. The time machine used in those time travel episodes and what he himself had designed and built out of a Delorean car needed a vast amount of energy. But he had not wanted nuclear power in his time machine, but after he had wasted a decade trying and failing to come up with a decent alternative, Emmett had faced facts and he reluctantly designed and built one for the car.
Pushing aside his nightmares about the Cold War to the back of his mind, Doc Brown took a few moments to think about his destination.
He might have told his friend he planned to jump forwards in time 30 years from now, but at the same time, Doc Brown just could not resist the opportunity to travel forwards a short way.
A year?
No.
That was too short.
5, or perhaps just 2 years ahead seemed to be a nice even number, really. Not only would he see the changes within a short span of time, but more importantly he would gain some experience time travelling in the Delorean even if he had built the time machine.
Emmett tapped in the destination time into the Time Circuit computer.
10 July 1987, 1.45 am.
Once the destination was programmed into the computer, Emmett glanced out of the side windows and saw the way was clear, and he put the Delorean into reverse, glancing down at the gas gauge. He had a full tank. Good. Oh yes, now he remembered. He knew from his own memories his 1955 counterpart had given the Delorean a top-up after finding the car's gas tank was completely intact in preparation for Marty's return to 1985.
After making sure the roads were clear, Emmett pushed the Delorean into first gear, moving up the gears as he accelerated to 88 mph. As he reached 88, the Delorean's tachyon cannon bombarded the local space with tachyons which formed the wormhole….
…and the car emerged in 1987. Emmett quickly slowed down and changed to a lower gear before he parked along the side of the road. Once he'd stopped the car, Emmett got out and walked down the street one way and then walked back down the other way. Nothing seemed to have changed; although he had not really expected much down these streets in Hill Valley, Emmett was slightly disappointed at how little had changed.
Jumping into the Delorean, Emmett restarted the car, going through his shaky memory of the buildings under construction from 1985. He knew that a hotel was being constructed on the outskirts of the town, so that was the best place to look. As he drove through the roads and streets, Emmett kept his eyes open for any sign of anything else which had changed over the last two years. But there weren't that many things aesthetically speaking that showed many changes.
He couldn't resist travelling through the town square. Again, there weren't that many things that had changed. Many of the shops and restaurants were still there, although one or two of them were brand new. Emmett pulled into the kerb, and he got out and checked the menus displayed outside. It wasn't anything spectacular; a few burgers, , just what the town needed.
Aside from the restaurant and a couple of movies advertised at the Hill Valley cinema, there weren't many things that were different (he smiled affectionately when he saw the clock tower, remembering the trouble it had caused fitting on the metallic cable for the lightning rod to send Marty back), so he decided to get the Delorean ready to travel further into the future.
There was nothing here at this time.
Maybe if he travelled ahead, he would see something better?
With that in mind, Emmett walked back to the Delorean and he donned the special radiation protections before he picked up the plutonium case. Slowly and carefully, Emmett placed one of the pellets into the reactor. As soon as the pellet was accepted into the reactor, Emmett took off the hood and he was about to get back into the time machine when he spotted a newspaper. Bending down, wincing at the pain in his back, Emmett picked it up and put it in the car.
As he drove around Hill Valley, just to take one last look, Emmett pulled into the kerb and inputted the data. He felt this was the best place to switch on the Time Circuits and set up the next destination time.
January 2nd.
2015.
He drove to the outskirts of the town to see if there would be any future development there, but most of all he wanted to see what Hill Valley looked like from the outside going in in the future.
Doc Emmett Brown accelerated the time machine. He saw the speedometer rise to 60 mph, so he put more pressure on the gas accelerator before the time machine exploded into the future.