A Time Machine out of a Delorean.

- A Back to the Future one-shot -

By TimeTraveller-1900.

In his lab, Doc Brown took a deep breath as he looked upon the culmination of thirty years of hard work, years of toil and experimentation where he had endured countless failures and successes which had helped him shape the course of his work. All of it packed into his custom modified time travelling Delorean.

Time travel.

Ever since Doctor 'Doc' Emmett L. Brown read the story written by HG Wells, his mind had continually gone over the conundrum of time travel, and it wasn't until he had begun working on the question of time travel since the Manhattan project. To this day, Emmett tried hard to forget he had ever had any contributions going into the Project which had created the first nuclear bombs. While the work had been fascinating, their long-reaching consequences would haunt him to his dying days.

But the project helped Emmett with his experiments, and increased his own considerable knowledge in nuclear physics, particle physics and astrophysics and ever since Emmett had begun working on his experiments. But as he had begun working on the time machine for himself, he had come to realise the best way - in his mind - for his form of time travel to work would be if it could move and actually accelerate quickly to 88mph for the temporal displacement field to work properly, would be if he used an ordinary everyday car. In the years of the 20th century, such a vehicle would be basically ignored as a car was just seen as a car, and he had come to suspect that time travellers were actually all around, but their style of dress, their attitudes and the manner in which they spoke were just ignored and considered foreign, or something like that. So why would a car from the 1980s be any different?

Plus, the way he saw it, if you were going to be building a time machine, why not do it with a bit of style? And if you had to choose a car, why not make it a good model?

But of course, it would need to be made from metal to help with the flux dispersal, and Emmett had spent so many years toiling to make time travel and the flux dispersal work with the metallic models he had available. Sadly, none of them worked. Oh, it wasn't all bad news; there were more than a few successes which proved that he was on the right track, and metal was needed for the flux dispersal, but the paintwork of the vehicles didn't create the field perfectly, and because he wasn't able to find any unpainted vehicles, rusted metal just sent the field everywhere, making it impossible to create the displacement bubble.

1981, before he met Marty, he thought his dreams were coming true with the launch of the Delorean, a stainless steel car which could help.

To make sure, Emmett went out and bought a few sheets of the precious metal, and he used it for the time travel experiments. It worked. Beautifully.

All he had to do was just wait.

After perfecting his time travel technology for the next three years, Emmett went out and purchased his own Delorean. Sadly the car didn't meet the expectations because the foolish engineers hadn't considered how heavy the all-stainless steel body was going to be, and so Emmett had needed to completely overhaul the engine.

Thank god he had learnt all about automotive engineering to effect the custom work he had needed to perform on the vehicle, replacing the stock V6 engine with a Porsche 928 V8 engine, but he had also replaced the braking mechanism with a regenerative braking mechanism to provide some extra electricity to the systems and he'd upgraded the alternator/generator. Once those modifications were complete, he turned his attention around to the rest of the vehicle's time travel systems.

Emmett sighed as his eyes drifted over to the newspaper. The story of the missing plutonium was beyond worrying and a weight on his mind and on his conscience. Working with nuclear power was bad enough, but since his prior experiments into different but potent energy sources to give him the power for the flux capacitor had ended in an absolute failure, he had no alternative but to build a nuclear reactor into a car. He had spent so long working on that part of the project, developing the technology and miniaturising it until it was portable enough for a car while making it as secure and as safe as possible that he had felt he had spent more time developing the reactor more than he had with the flux capacitor and everything else, but thank god he had balanced out his work and research.

As he ran his hands over the stainless steel body before he came to load it into the van which would take it to Twin-Pines mall's car park for the temporal displacement test which would be 'manned' by Einstein, the first dog to travel through time, Emmett made a few last minute checks which took about an hour.

Ever since he had burnt down his family home for the insurance money, Emmett had spent years building the time machine. The last thing he wanted was for it to fail; this was not like one of his half-hearted attempts to create something big, like that mind-reader machine he had made in the 50s. This was his life's work, and he would be damned if it failed on his watch when he was so close.

When he was finished he slowly hooked the time machine car to the van's winch, and slowly pulled it inside. He would fit in the plutonium pellet when he got it inside; when he made his own test and went to the future, he just hoped to find a world where more powerful and cleaner power sources had been invented.