Running Out Of Time
Chapter 8
Meet The Gang

As they flew out the door, the two paranormal investigators ran into the old man. Eduardo kept running, but Dan had tripped over his cane. Biff looked down - cane in one hand, and a can of Turtle Wax in the other - at him, with an unusual look in his eyes. Dan got back up, as the old man said to him...

Biff: Watch where you're goin', butthead!

Dan: Screw you, old fart!

Dan took off after Eduardo. He had finally caught up with him, as they both turned the corner past the, "Blast from the Past," store. Biff look after them...

Biff: Why is it I've seen those two before? God, that guy must be right. I must be an old fart.

Dan and Eduardo were running like hell to get to the other side of the alley. When they both flashed by a pile of CDs and other garbage, Eduardo saw something laying on top of the compressed cubes. He stopped, and turned around to check to see if he wasn't just seeing things. Eduardo yelled out...

Eduardo: Hey! Dan! Get over here, quick!

Dan stopped dead in his tracks, and turned around. After a minuet, he thought to himself...

Dan: ::thinking:: Why the hell were we running? Never mind. ::Yelling out:: Why?!

Eduardo: Just get over here, man!

Dan ran back down the alley, and stopped next to him...

Dan: What's the matter?

Eduardo looked over to the pile. Dan turned his head, to find a girl on the cubes of shredded paper and smashed discs. Dan walked up to her, and checked her pulse. She was alive, but it was somewhat weak. He looked at her clothes... They were not the attire of this time...

Dan: Eddy... something very odd is going on here.

Eduardo: Gee... what made you think 'dat?

Dan turned around...

Dan: You give me a response like that again, I'm gonna...

He was then cut off by two female voices... police.

Cop 1: Hold it!

Cop 2: You're under arrest!

Dan and Eduardo: Aw, crap!

Cop 2: Hey, I said you were under arrest, maxole!

Dan and Eduardo made like a shot out of a gun, and took off to the other end of the alley... the way they just came. The first cop was about to follow, when they noticed the girl on the pile of trash. They went to aid her.

As the two Ghostbusters ran around the corner, they ran into the store for refuge. As they walked in, they ran into someone that was coming out of the store... it was that McFly person...

McFly: Ow!

Dan: Oop... sorry!

McFly: No, my fault! I should have been paying attention!

Dan: No, look... it's alright... I'm sorry. Take care, bud!

McFly walked out of the store, as he took a book out of the bag he was holding, and looked at it. Dan shook his head and started to look around the store. Eduardo stayed in the front of the store, and looked at all the stuff in the window. Dan, wondering in the back, picked up a DVD case, and he started to laugh to himself as he read the title...

Dan: "Ghostbusters 3: Hell on Earth"? Huh. Venkman, you little SOB. You actually drove Sony insane with it!

He put the case back on the shelf. Eduardo was looking at the old Apple computer in the front window, when he saw a sliver car land in the front of the store. It looked particularly familiar to Eduardo. When the doors of the car opened, a small alarm went off in his head...

Eduardo: Oh, shi...

He ran to the back of the store, and grabbed Dan by the arm getting his attention...

Dan: ::Turning around:: What?!

Eduardo did nothing but point franticly to the window. Dan didn't know what to make of it...

Dan: When the hell did you turn into Silent Bob all of sudden?!

Eduardo grabbed Dan by the arm, and dragged him to the window. Dan pulled from Eduardo's grip when he finally got to the window. He didn't look at the window, but at Eddy instead...

Dan: What the hell is your goddamn problem, Eddy?! Did you blow a gasket, or something?!

Eduardo, finally fed up, grabbed Dan's head, and turned it towards the car that landed outside of the store... It was the DeLorean.

Dan: What the flying fuck is going on around here?!

He then saw the McFly person walk up to the stainless steel vehicle, and tossed the bag with the book in it on the hood. They saw the driver - A white-haired man in an over-shirt - walk out to the middle of the street and looked at the building across the pond. Dan didn't notice it before, but it looked as if someone ran into the large window in the front of the building.

The man slumped back into the driver seat of the car, as McFly went to talk to him. Dan and Eduardo pulled away from the window, and slumped onto the floor, as they had just found out who the man was...

Dan: That's the guy we need to talk to. He's Dr. Emmett Brown.

Eduardo: Now, how do you know what his name is? And how do you know he didn't steal the time machine, man?!

Dan pulled a small piece of paper out of his pocket...

Dan: This is the ID tag that fell out of its plastic holder when I dropped the keys. He has the exact same set of keys! Look into the car, for Christ's sake!

Eduardo stood up, and peered into the car from the window. He saw the keys still in the ignition. He looked back down to Dan, with an expression of shock riddling his face. Dan held up the keys, and jingled them...

Dan: It looks as if we found the, "Time Bandit."

Eduardo: Hold on, are you saying that the other guy... That McFly person... is the father of that dude in the Café?

Dan: What did the old man say his name was? Marty?

Eduardo: Yeah... Marty McFly.

Dan: Then it's simple... we go back to 1985, and we find them... either of them. They'll fix the damn thing, and help us get back to the future.

Eduardo gave a small laugh...

Eduardo: "Back to the Future"? Sounds like a movie title.

Dan: Maybe not in our reality. Are they gone?

Eduardo turned back to the window, and saw that the two men were gone, but the DeLorean remained with its doors wide open. He then saw a police cruiser fly by out of the alley they were in. The two men then came back into view, hopped into the vehicle, and took off into the sky, chasing after the police.

Eduardo: Yeah, they just left.

Dan: Alright, lets get into our DeLorean, and get the hell out of here.

Dan got up. They both walked out of the store, and headed behind the movie theater...