Chapter 2 - Lost
The DeLorean continued going fast, and I saw things just blow by. I couldn't get a could look at anything with the speed we were going at. I noticed ahead of us that we were about to crash into a large Oak tree, and I closed my eyes, preparing for it. Doc Brown then slammed on the brake yet, it wasn't fast enough and the DeLorean slammed into the tree. Lucky for us, the DeLorean was installed with airbags, which softened the crash a little bit. I tried opening the door but it was a little stuck, so I kicked it with all my strength and stepped out. I looked back at the DeLorean, as Doc Brown stepped out, noticing that it was totaled, there was no way it would ever drive again. I felt it was slightly my fault, since I asked if Doc Brown could show me how it worked, and now we were stuck in whatever time we were in. Doc Brown kicked the ruined DeLorean in frustration.
"I'm sorry Doc Brown, this probably wouldn't have happened if I hadn't asked you to show me how it works," I said, feeling extremely guilty.
"It isn't your fault," a voice coming from behind me said.
"Huh?" I asked, spinning around quickly to see who was there.
I found myself face to face with a girl, but she wasn't any ordinary girl, was part cat clearly, ears, legs, tail, face, fur, everything. She was pretty much just a big cat standing on her back two legs, with hands. I was surprised such a creature existed at all. My face showed extreme surprise and slight fear since I wasn't sure if this girl was at all harmful. Doc Brown seemed to be to preoccupied in the wrecked DeLorean to even notice.
"Oops, sorry, I still look like a cat to you," the girl said.
The girl's outer appearance began transforming. When she was done, she was a human girl, about five inches shorter than me. The only thing was, she was naked, and she didn't seem to care one bit.
"Umm..." I said, pointing to her naked body.
"Huh?" the girl said, looking down at herself.
I blushed for some reason, possibly cause a girl now stood naked before me. Then something clicked, I recognized her, or at least her face. She seemed so familiar as if I knew her from somewhere, but where was the question. The girl covered herself up with her hands and blushed a little herself.
"I'm sorry, I know human girls don't walk around naked," the girl said, then running behind some nearby bushes.
"My, um name is...Nathan, what's yours?" I asked the girl, turning my back so I couldn't see anything.
"It's Jilly, and it's a pleasure to meet you, Nathan," the girl said.
"I'm sorry that I...saw you...you know...naked," I said, blushing at the memory.
"Please don't mention that," Jilly said.
"Okay, sorry," I said.
Behind me, I could hear the bushes rustling and wanted to turn my head to see what was going on, but didn't, considering the naked girl, Jilly, was back there. Then I felt a tap on my shoulder and I turned quickly in surprise. I remembered that Jilly was behind me and quickly closed my eyes.
"It's alright, you can look now, I had some clothes over in those bushes and I put them on," Jilly said.
I slowly opened my eyes and saw that she was dressed in a lilac summer dress.
"Wow," I said, noticing now how gorgeous she was.
"Is something wrong," Jilly asked, tilting her head to the side.
"No, nothing is wrong, you're just very pretty, that's all," I said, blushing.
"Oh," Jilly said, giggling.
"I'll be right back," I said, going off to check how Doc Brown was doing. "Is everything okay Doc Brown?"
"I honestly have no idea what time we are in," Doc Brown said, then turning his gaze to look behind me. "Who's that girl?"
I turned around and saw Jilly standing there, she apparently followed me.
"She says her name is Jilly," I said.
"Hello Jilly," Doc Brown said.
"Hello," Jilly said back.
"Is the DeLorean able to be fixed?" I asked.
"It will take some time, but I believe I can fix it," Doc Brown said.
"Do you have an estimate of how long it will be?" I asked.
"Well, I'll need the materials to fix it up," Doc Brown said. "So depending on the available materials, I can't give an estimate right now."
I looked back to Jilly, who stood there staring back at me.
"Do you know where can we find some materials?" I asked Jilly.
"Um, I'm not sure what materials you would be needing," Jilly said. "If I took you to my village someone there might be able to help you out."
"Really? That would be great," I said, looking to Doc Brown.
"Go on ahead, I'll stay behind with the DeLorean," Doc Brown said.
Jilly then turned and began to walk off, and I followed her. After several seemingly long minutes, we arrived at Jilly's village, which was bustling with people of all sorts.
"Do you mind my asking what year this is?" I asked Jilly.
"Year? What's that?" Jilly asked.
"Oh...right, you probably don't use the term 'year'. It's the time in which a planet completes a revolution about the sun," I said, hoping she knew what I meant by 'planet' and 'sun'.
Jilly stared back at me with a funny look on her face. Whatever time this was, it seemed that people didn't use such terms that I just had, and I knew of no better way to explain it.
"Nevermind, just forget what I said," I said to her.
Jilly continued leading me through her village, which happened to be larger than any village I'd ever seen, almost like a town. I spotted what could very well be technology that was only theorized in my time, yet I saw lots of it all around town. I assumed I was in a futuristic time, yet why was there a lot of greenery? I always thought that the future wouldn't have much plant life, if at all.
"This is amazing!" I said, eyes wide with all the futuristic technology before my eyes.
I walked up to a robot that was rolling on tank-like treads. It was so impressive, it seemed to move completely on its own as if it had a personality all of its own. I reached out to touch the robot, yet it stopped and turned it's head to me, which caused me to stop reaching out and put my hand to my side.
"What are you doing?" the robot asked, in a hoarse voice.
"It talks?! This is so cool! Robots couldn't move and talk in my time, not at all," I said, just a little too loudly, causing many people in the streets to look at me.
I quickly became quiet and rushed to Jilly's side, completely embarrassed now. I then continued to follow Jilly until she stopped in front of what appeared to me as a street vendor.
"Ah, this will do perfectly," a manly voice from behind me said.
I turned around and saw Doc Brown standing there.
"Doc, you surprised me," I said.
"Thank you, Jilly, this stuff will do perfectly," Doc Brown said, looking to what I assumed to be a street vendor.
Jilly handed the man that appeared to be a street vendor some sort of currency I didn't recognize. Then Doc Brown picked up some of the stuff off the table, or whatever. Doc Brown began walking back to the DeLorean and I started following him.
"You dare bring humans here?" an angry sounding voice said.
I couldn't help turning around and seeing a lizard creature confronting Jilly. The lizard creature waved its arms around frantically, appearing to be furious about something.
"And why do you take the appearance of a human?" the lizard creature said, in the same angry sounding voice I heard earlier.
I felt a hand clamp onto my shoulder. I turned around to see who it was, it was Doc Brown.
"We should get out of here, this isn't looking good," Doc Brown said.
Jilly looked back at me and winked. I wasn't sure what that was supposed to mean. I turned around and began following Doc Brown.
"Oof!" I heard the lizard creature say from behind me.
I turned my head slightly and saw the lizard creature fall to the ground hard, and Jilly hovering over it. Then Jilly looked up at me, staring me in the eyes for a brief moment, then rushed over to me.
"Come on, we have to go!" Jilly said, nearly dragging me after Doc Brown.
Before long we arrived at the DeLorean, and Doc Brown quickly began work on fixing it up. I looked at my watch and watched the minute hand spin around quickly, yet in the backward direction. Around me, I saw Doc Brown walk backward with the stuff that we got back in the village. I wondered what was going on, and looked around for Jilly, she stood there close to me, with slight fear in her eyes.
"What is going on? Why is everything moving backward?" Jilly asked me.
Jilly was apparently caught in whatever time distortion that I was in as well. I watched time move backward, which then began to move even faster. Jilly grabbed onto me, hunched over a little bit, and looked up to see my face. I saw her look at me in the corner of my eye while keeping my eye mainly on our surroundings as everything moved in reverse. I saw the large Oak tree, that Doc Brown and I crashed the DeLorean into, shrink and become a sapling. I knew it took several hundred years for it to get as big as it had, which by that I knew we had already gone back in time several hundred years. Time then took a giant leap backward, showing that there once was a large metropolis-like city where we were standing. People walked around us as if we weren't even their, moving backward. People in futuristic outfits then, to business suits, like that of my time. A large flash of light suddenly blinded me, and I couldn't see anything else that was happening. When my sight restored, I was standing in the street near Doc Brown's house, with Jilly wrapped around me still.
"Where are we?" Jilly said with a shaky voice.
"I think we're back in my time, there's no telling how far we just traveled," I said.
Then I remembered my watch, it should show the time on it currently. I looked at it and saw that it was the same date that I met Doc Brown. From a distance, I saw myself walk up the street in my direction, and then turn into Doc Brown's house.
"What is going on Nathan? Wasn't that you I just saw?" Jilly asked, having seen the other me as well.
"We're back when I first met Doc Brown, shortly before I met you," I said, with a dazed look on my face.
My head then began hurting severely, just out of the blue. I grabbed my head with both hands and feel to my knees on the asphalt road. I was having a very severe migraine.
"Nathan? Nathe, are you alright?" Jilly asked, with a worried tone in her voice, kneeling down to me.
"My head, it hurts so badly," I said in pain.