Anguirus111 Note: Don't worry I don't know what to make of this story either. This story is essentially a combination of various stories I'd considered writing BTTF fanfiction on but never got around to it so now I'm writing it in one lump sum and it's not working half as well as The Dreamers: The Conquest of Dinosaur Planet, which was the same thing. Oh well. This story is also a way for me to branch off into a Fictionpress story just featuring Jake and what happens to him after this story is done and how he becomes the Jake Whitacre in The Generation Gap(guess that spoils everything but really, who cares at this point?). One more note, Jake Whitacre is going to confront Jake Whitacre of The Generation Gap and the conversation might get a little bit confusing.
San Francisco, November 6 1955: Sarah woke up and sat up on the bed. She stretched tiredly before noticing that Jake was still fast asleep. Sarah wondered how long it had been since he had ever gotten any decent sleep after what she had seen in the 29th Century. Sarah groaned and walked away from the bed and over to the bathroom she washed her face she sighed as she looked in the mirror and realized that she looked as exhausted as Marty was when she'd met him when this journey had begun. She laughed and it helped relieve some of the stress that been building up during this routine trip into the past. Sarah exited the bathroom and wiped her face with a towel, somewhat upset that she didn't have anything to change into, and sat down on a chair while Jake was still snoring away. Sarah briefly considering taking the Lamborghini and stranding Jake for a few days, but this Jake was so much different than the one she knew. Sarah wondered how he became the passive scientist in 2015, how he was her 'uncle', how old he really was in her time, or whether or not the Jake Whitacre she knew was just this Jake faking who he really was for whatever reasons. Sarah wondered how she was ever going to find out the answer to any of these questions when her eyes drifted over to Jake's scanner laying on the nightstand next to the bed. Her interest piqued, Sarah picked it up and switched it on. The device immediately began blaring and the next thing new, she was on the ground with Jake above her gun raised at the ready after tackling her and essentially going from zero to sixty in three seconds.
"Get down!" Jake shouted. "It's the big one! Goodbye world!"
Sarah shoved him off of her. "Get off of me you nut. It's November 6 1955, remember?"
Jake looked insightful. "Oh yeah. Sorry about that."
He got up and put his gun inside of its holster and helped her up.
"What was that all about?" Sarah demanded while she brushed dust off of her clothes.
"I figured it was the air raid siren signaling the end of the world. We've been having drills for it in the 29th Century and when I heard it now I figured that was it even though I knew we weren't in that time period anymore," said Jake. "It's just something that gets engrained with your conscience over time."
Sarah nodded understanding while also sad that Jake was already ready for the inevitable end of his world that he genuinely believed was going to happen in his lifetime. "So why'd it go off?"
Jake consulted the scanner. "I'll be damned."
"What?"
"Our targets, they're next door," said Jake incredulously.
"Yeah right, that thing must be broken," Sarah snorted. Jake didn't answer but went over to the window. He looked down at the parking lot and came back grinning as he grabbed his coat and put a fresh clip into his gun.
"Time to earn our pay or in this case my job," said Jake walking towards the door.
"You're just going to barge into their room?" asked Sarah. Jake looked back at her.
"That's what I usually do," he said. Jake opened the door only to see Kara, Tom, and Sera right outside discussing where they were going to drive to, only for him to panic and slam the door shut.
"What was that about?" Sarah demanded. Jake raised his gun to the door and began pumping round after round through the door. When he finally opened it, Kara and Tom were nowhere to be seen. Jake looked back and forth down the hallway when he noticed the lift descending. Jake ran to the closed doors and growled in anger.
"I bet they saw us," said Sarah.
"We'll find out," said Jake pressing a button on his scanner. Instantly a holographic image shot out revealing Kara, Tom, and Sera in the elevator with their luggage.
"What do you suppose those shots were all about?" asked Kara noticeably calm.
"Could've been for anything, violence is commonplace in this era remember," said Tom nonchalantly. Sera began crying and Kara patted her back.
"Calm down Sera, it's just an ordinary outbreak of violence," said Kara. Jake then shut off the holoprojector.
"Unbelievable," he said before shutting the whole unit down and putting it away.
"Almost as if they were discussing the weather," said Sarah shaking her head. "So what now?"
"We trail them while they're still unaware of us and then we catch them with their guard down," said Jake.
"That's going to be kind of hard isn't it?" Sarah asked walking to the window.
"I don't follow," said Jake advancing to the window as well.
"Somehow I don't think Kara and Tom could miss a time traveling Lamborghini in the middle of the parking lot," said Sarah pointing to the car.
"Well if that is my car sometime further along in its temporal frame of time, then it should be equipped with a holographic generator," said Jake. He pulled out his keys and pressed a button on the car remote. The car blurred briefly before the image resolved to reveal a 1950s Studebaker.
"Wow, can I have one of those too?" Sarah asked.
"You do, that's your car not mine," said Jake walking off. Sarah looked down at the parking lot again as Kara and Tom passed the car unawares before she looked at her key chain with remote.
"Huh," she said before chasing after Jake who was leaving the room.
"How do you think Marty's doing?" Jake asked.
"He's a time traveler, he should be able to combat anything that comes his way," said Sarah.
Los Angeles, 2080: Air raid sirens went off as dozens of enemy fighters soared over Los Angeles.
"Is this it?" Marty asked, trying not to sound worried.
"I doubt it," said Danni. "It's just a standard show of aggression from Japan, it's happened before."
"I must've been out of town when it did," said Marty trying to sound at ease but found his hands shaking.
Jennifer tossed him a laser gun.
"Watch each other's backs and we'll make it through this," she said hefting her shoulder mounted RPG. Marty looked at the gun in shock as he realized he might very well die and he would never see his Jennifer ever again. Marty's expression instantly became one of conviction as he vowed that he would see his girlfriend again and that there relationship would be the best it could possibly from here on out. Marty then took off following the group as air raid sirens continued blaring warning sounds.
San Francisco: Sarah and Jake ran out to the now restored image of the Lamborghini as the Trailblazer roared off down the road. As they got inside, Sarah's hand began tingling.
"Dammit," she said waving her hand. To her surprise, the sensation went away, but she could still feel the psychosis building in her.
"What?" Jake asked as the Lamborghini roared out of the lot and down the road following the SUV. Sarah shifted her position to face him.
"Jake, I need you to listen to me very carefully," Sarah said. Jake turned to try and look at her as he drove down the road.
"What?" he asked concerned.
"I am entrusting this to you," said Sarah pulling out a pen shaped device. "It is a sleep inducer, just press the button and the person you use it on will fall asleep. Sometime soon I may ask you to use it on me. You have to do it okay? Otherwise there might be dire consequences that not even you could solve," said Sarah.
"What're you…" Jake began.
"Don't ask any questions!" Sarah said. "Just please promise you'll do it."
Jake took the device nervously. "Okay."
Sarah sighed. "I wish I could tell you more, but it might change history, even if the change might be for the better. Like you, I also have the cross to bear of being a time traveler but also unable to bring myself to change it."
Jake just focused his attention on the road.
"You're a strange individual," said Jake finally. "But I can see why your uncle Jake Whitacre decided to incorporate you into his time travel ventures, you're a very responsible, even it if does drive you insane."
"Hey maybe our interactions right now are what will convince you to let me be your research assistant in your future," said Sarah laughing. Jake just groaned but didn't dignify that statement with a response as he gunned the engine and the car roared forward down the road. Sarah's hand began tingling again, but again she did her best to suppress her inner demons.
"The question is whom will I be hunting?" she thought nervously. "Biff back in Hill Valley or Jake and his quarry?"
Los Angeles: Explosions tore up the city as dozens of enemy soldiers walked down the city streets blasting apart whatever caught their eyes. Surprisingly, Marty noticed, there was no resistance from the US or LA government.
"It's not surprising," said Jennifer commenting on it when Marty asked her what was up. By now she'd gotten used to his bizarre questions. "The Big Five could care less about what happens to the rest of the United State of the Americas except if it involves them in any way. As for the locals, death is much better than continuing to leave in this form of existence."
"Where is the Big Five anyway?" Marty asked as the top five stories of a heavily damaged building exploded flinging debris everywhere.
"No one knows," said Jennifer. "They might just be a myth invented by the people to make them believe some was leading them when in fact no one is. I don't know I could care less really if we weren't on the verge of nuclear annihilation."
"I hear that," said Scott as he hefted his laser rifle. "But for the time being let's keep as quiet as possible, I'd rather not have their voice sensors go off and have a swarm of enemies on our tail."
The others murmured their agreement as the group headed out moving from shop to shop trying to avoid observation planes flying overhead.
"Sarah is going to here about this when I see her again," thought Marty. "I just hope she survives this ordeal wherever she is."
California, 1955: The Trailblazer was moving along a dirt road in a massive wooded forest.
"The cleanliness and quality of it all," said Tom marveling. "And to think we have it all to ourselves for the rest of our lives."
"It feels strange having finally lost that pesky temporal agent, he was fun to outwit. But with Sera around, the fun times are over and it's time to focus on the rest of our lives," said Kara. They kissed when suddenly their car's proximity detector went off.
"That's odd, there shouldn't be anything capable of accelerating like that in this time period," said Tom. Kara and Tom looked behind them as out of nowhere the black Lamborghini appeared from around the bend and came at their car accelerating to nearly 88 miles an hour.
"Damnit!" shouted Kara.
"It's never easy with him," said Tom shaking his head. "We'll have to escape this time frame and find out how he tracked us here. There goes our perfect plan."
The Trailblazer accelerated down the dirt road as the Lamborghini continued to gain ground until the Trailblazer roared to a halt as the dirt road ended at a picnic area on the edge of a cliff overlooking a massive wooded valley.
"Guess we'll have to fly then. Sorry Jake, you've failed again," said Tom. But as he reached for the toggle to switch the car over to its flying mode, another engine roar was heard.
"What the hell?" Kara said looking for the source of this noise. Then both Kara and Tom watched in horror as a second black Lamborghini rose up in front of them from beyond the edge of the cliff.
"I must be seeing things," said Tom rubbing his eyes. The second car remained where it was before it started accelerating towards the Trailblazer.
"That can't be the same car!" shouted Kara. Tom used his stolen temporal scanner to ID the car.
"It is! I guess Jake must've really gotten fed up with us to risk possibly fainting when he sees a future version of himself," said Tom.
Kara pulled a box out from underneath her seat. She pressed a button and the top retracted revealing two laser pistols.
"This is it, we fight it out once and for all, no more running," she said angrily. Tom nodded and took his gun from the box. The Trailblazer moved backwards as both Lamborghinis took up positions on both sides of the vehicle. Kara and Tom stepped outside of their vehicles with their guns raised, Tom at the Lamborghini behind them and Kara at the one in front that had flown up over the cliff.
"C'mon Temporal Investigator, out of that vehicle of yours, let's see the two of you," said Tom. The drivers side door opened on both of the vehicles as Sarah stepped out of the one in front of the vehicle with a gun and Jake stepped out of the back with his gun as well.
"Oh cute, everyone's favorite little couple," said Kara, her voice dripping with sarcasm.
"We're not a couple, she's my niece," said Jake hoping he was lying. Sarah just shuddered at the thought before regaining her composure.
"Are you going to kill us?" demanded Tom.
"No," said Jake. "At first I did, but then you'd never feel the punishment that I've felt having to track you two for six months. Also, if I killed you it'd just be a waste of my investigative skills. No, you're coming with me to face your punishment."
"You're working a corrupt government," Kara said. "And by bringing us in you're only perpetuating it."
Jake shrugged. "That may be, but it's all I know."
Laser blasts erupted from all sides and tore up the ground everywhere
The future: Laser blasts tore up the ground everywhere as Jennifer and her gang ran into a group of EAAA troops.
"Fall back!" shouted Jennifer as the gang slowly retreated from the advancing forces.
"I take it you have an escape prepared for something like this?" Marty asked.
"Of course, but you might not like it," said Jennifer laughing nervously.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Marty asked. The gang retreated around a corner as laser blasts chewed up the air where they had been. Danni aimed her gun at the ground and blasted a manhole covering sky high. One by one the gang descended into it.
"Oh damn," said Marty disgusted.
"Lack of options kid, lack of options," said Jennifer as they descended into the gunk below.
The past: Laser blasts continued flying back and forth when Sarah got a shot that grazed her arm and she fell down behind the car.
"Hah, that's one down!" said Kara victoriously. Jake growled and continued firing back with greater intensity as Sarah sat behind the car shaking her head to clear the cobwebs. It was then that her hands both began tingling.
"No!" she shouted. "Not now!"
The shot had wrecked her concentration, and now it was too late. Sarah held her hand in pain and anguish before her eyes closed. When they shot open, they were glowing yellow. Sarah growled and put her sunglasses on as she bound over the car and rushed Tom and Kara. Kara fired at Sarah and this time a shot grazed her other arm, but Sarah didn't seem to notice. Sarah reared back her fist and smashed it through the window of the door Kara had been hiding behind. Her bloodied fist connected with the adult and Kara slammed to the ground in pain.
"Why you!" Tom growled at the harm done to his wife. Sarah nonchalantly whipped out her laser pistol and fired a deadly bolt that smashed through the windshield, right over Sera's head in the front seat and pierced Tom's left arm. Tom yelled in agony and dropped to the ground clutching his bleeding arm as Sarah's attention immediately shifted as she looked out in the direction of Hill Valley.
"A little harsh, but effective," said Jake walking over as he holstered his gun. He cuffed the wincing Tom and the now unconscious Kara.
"Must stop Tannen," said Sarah angrily.
"Who?" Jake asked. Sarah stormed off towards the Lamborghini before Jake caught up to her.
"Where do you think you're going?" he demanded. Sarah didn't dignify that with a response, but swung around and decked Jake with a right punch to his jaw that caused him to fall down in shock. Sarah got into her Lamborghini and it roared off into the sky in the direction of Hill Valley. As Jake sat there wondering what was going on, three sonic booms went off nearby as a police Spinner came to a halt. The door opened and Chalmers exited his car and looked at the destruction.
"Good think you caught them Whit," he said. "Otherwise the boss told me that you were going to face immediate temporal erasure for violating the Temporal Directives. I'll take it from here, no protests."
"That's fine by me, I've got some unfinished business to take care off here," said Jake stumbling over to his car.
"Suit yourself, but you're getting chewed out regardless," said Chalmers dragging the two criminals over to his Spinner. The Lamborghini roared off into the air and took off towards Hill Valley as well.
The Future: Along the top of the streets, giant explosions from invisible forces began blasting chunks of pavement into the air as well as every manhole covering in sight. Down below in the sewers, laser blasts flew back and forth as Jennifer's gang was being mowed down one by one. Soon it was only Jennifer and Marty left rushing down the sewers. Eventually it seemed they had lost their pursuers and both stood breathing heavily from the action.
"I'm sorry about your team," said Marty. Jennifer's eyes glared with anger.
"So am I," she said angrily. Jennifer yanked out a second laser gun and gripped both very tightly as her hands began trembling.
"What're you going to do?" Marty demanded.
"I'm going to die on my feet than live on my knees," Jennifer said angrily.
"You don't have to do this!" Marty protested. Jennifer laughed.
"I like you Marty, I really do. I wish I could've met your girlfriend, hell I wish I could've been your girlfriend, but life doesn't work that way, not anymore," said Jennifer. "No, my time is up. But yours isn't. Live your life Marty and be happy. And here, take this."
Jennifer took off a necklace that Marty didn't know she'd been wearing and she handed it to him. The necklace contained a locket on it.
"It's the only memento I have. I don't know how I got it or what the deal is behind it or what's in it for that matter, but I've had it since birth and now I want you to have it. You may toss it for all I know, but I'd feel better knowing that you had it than to have it die here with me," said Jennifer. "Now go!"
Marty nodded sadly before taking off as Jennifer ran around the corner firing wildly at anything that moved. After a few moments, the lasers blasts ended.
Hill Valley, November 6, 1955: Sarah's Lamborghini landed on the outskirts of the city and she advanced in towards the city intent on killing Biff Tannen. Jake landed a moment later and chased after her.
"Kid are you okay?" asked Jake worried. Sarah didn't even look at him as she continued her advance into town, passing the Welcome to Hill Valley sign.
"Doesn't Doctor Brown live here?" Jake asked. Sarah still remained silent as she continued her single minded quest to eliminate Biff Tannen.
"Hello?" asked Jake waving his hand in front of her sunglasses to get her attention. Sarah immediately spun to glare at him and before Jake knew it, he was on the ground again after Sarah decked him with her left hand. Jake rubbed his jaw again when he noticed his scanner lying on the ground next to him. Jake reached over and picked it up when it started beeping. Jake checked the scanner and it read: Time Travelers Located. Jake pressed the scan button and it indicated two pairs of at least three different time travelers and five time machines. Jake toggled it to a closer scan and it also revealed three separate time traveling Lamborghinis with the same temporal signature. Jake realized that there was distinct possibility that the other Jake Whitacre was here and that he would have the answers to this Sarah's condition. Not wanting to leave her in the condition she was in, but realizing he had no choice, Jake took off in the direction of the closest out of synch temporal signatures.
The Future: Marty hauled himself panting and groaning out of the sewer and laid down on the road in pain and exhaustion. The permanent dark clouds above him still hung in the sky as rain started to pour down. Marty was at first grateful as he hoped the rain would cleanse him of the anguish and pain of the last few hours until he realized that it was acid rain pouring down from the sky. Marty barely stood up and fought through the pain of each raindrop until he managed to collapse in the entrance to a storefront unable to go on. As he sat there in pain and exhaustion, he watched in horror as a group of EAAA troops clothed entirely in battle gear with strange red looking goggles walked down the street towards him. Marty watched helplessly as they drew nearer and nearer until a pair of soldiers peered down at him with unseeing eyes. Marty tried to aim his laser gun at them, but between his lack of strength and the acid rain eating through the gun, nothing came of it. One of the soldiers scanned Marty with a device and conversed with his partner in a series of electronic noises. The second soldier motioned their hand and the rest of the troop moved on.
"What? Is that it, you're not going to kill me?" Marty demanded angrily. The two soldiers stopped and turned back at him. They conversed again and then one pressed a button on their right shoulder.
"You are not from our time frame, you are no threat," said the solider in a mechanical voice. Marty growled angrily.
"I'll show you how much a threat I can be!" he said trying to stand up but couldn't. The two soldiers laughed.
"Besides," said the second. "You are from a critical juncture in the space time continuum and to kill you might possibly alter our forthcoming victory over the once great US of A."
"I'm one man," Marty said defeated. "I can't make a difference."
"You're right, one man can't," the first soldier agreed. "But then again you're not just one man, you're Martin J. McFly."
The two soldiers laughed before pressing a button on their shoulders and resuming their electronic talk as they continued after their departing unit. Marty looked at them baffled, what had they meant by him not being just one man, but being Marty McFly? Marty growled deciding they were just egging him on, but now he vowed with solemnity that he would do everything in his power to ensure that this future did not happen. As Marty continued lying their helplessly, he heard the city loudspeakers go off.
"The invasion forces have been repelled, resume your normal lives," it said. Marty watched incredulously as the EAAA fighters lazily turned around and slowly soared off back to the ocean while the unit passed him again strolling gingerly down the street. There was no repelling of the invasion, they invaders had simply lost interest and decided to leave. It was on the way back that the two soldiers who had egged him on earlier stopped by over him.
"You're right, you're not one man," said the first.
"You're worse because you're one man who can't do a thing to stop this," said the second. The two began laughing as they strolled off down the road. Marty growled an animalistic sound and yanked up the laser rifle on pure adrenalin and fired. Despite the damage to the gun, two laser bolts flew out and vaporized the two troops. The others in the unit looked at their vaporized comrades and then to Marty. A few moments passed before they shrugged and moved on, not caring. Marty just laid there in pain and rage that he didn't even know he had as a new pair of troops appeared. They scanned Marty, nodded to each other, and one popped off his helmet revealing Jake's boss.
"Good to see you're still alive kid. Now we won't have to worry about the timeline being altered," said the boss with a relieved sigh. Marty looked up at him angrily as the second soldier hauled him to his feet and the three advanced down the street.
1955: Marty and the Jake Whitacre of 2015 walked down the road towards Marty's high school in order to meet up with Doc Brown.
"I swear I've been to this time frame so many times I feel like I've lived here for my whole life," said Marty shaking his head.
"Ha!" said the time traveler. "You're telling me! I once spent three years stuck in Pompeii after I damaged my time machine and it took me that long to repair it. During that time I spoke the Greek, Roman, and every other language in between so that it felt I'd lived there forever."
"When?" asked Marty. "In time I mean."
"76 to 79 AD," said that Jake chuckling. "I barely made it out in time before ol' Vesuvius erupted, or should I say exploded."
"I've always been fascinated by that eruption," Marty commented. "I bet it was quite a sight."
"Sure," Jake agreed. "But not at the time. It's kind of hard to be fascinated by anything when you're seconds away from dying."
"I guess," said Marty. The two reached the high school and a shrilling sound was briefly heard emanating from inside the building.
"What was that?" Marty asked confused. Jake shrugged.
"Probably nothing," said Jake. "But I need a drink so I'll meet you on the roof in a moment."
Marty nodded. "Okay but don't be too long otherwise we'll abandon you here."
"Yeah," said Jake nervously laughing. Marty then headed towards the ladder stretching up to the roof as Jake opened the doors of the building and stepped inside.
"Out with it Temporal Investigator," said the time traveler after the doors had closed. "I don't have all day."
"No I don't suppose you do," said the Investigator stepping out of the shadows.
"What do you want?" asked the traveler.
"Answers," said the investigator.
"Do you really want to know the truth? Because giving answers is easy, knowing and accepting the truth is hard," said the traveler.
"Am I you? Are you me?" asked the investigator.
"You're the investigator. Use your scanner and find out," said the traveler.
The investigator took out his scanner and regarded it carefully before putting it away.
"I don't think I want to know," said the investigator finally.
"And as such I'm not going to tell you," said the traveler. "So what do you want?"
"I've run into your assistant, she's quite good and very responsible," said the investigator.
"Yes," agreed the traveler. "Except…"
"She's nuts," said the investigator for lack of better words.
"Yes, temporal psychosis, brought on by changes in the space time continuum. She seeks to eliminate the source of the divergence rather than change it," said the traveler.
"So how do I stop her?"
"Take this," said the traveler taking out a syringe with the needle encased in a protective plastic covering. "Jam her in any vain and it should cure her for the time being. Then leave this time frame and don't come back."
The investigator took the syringe and put it away in a pocket. The traveler turned to leave.
"Anything else?" asked the traveler. "I don't think we'll ever get the chance to talk again, might as well get everything out now."
"Why?" asked the investigator helplessly. He wanted to know the truth, all the while hating himself because of it. The traveler stood there contemplating what to say.
"Find out," said the traveler finally. "Goodbye Jake."
"Goodbye Jake," echoed the investigator. And with that the traveler left, leaving the investigator alone with his thoughts. A few moments later Jake Whitacre left the building and he watched the DeLorean fly by headed towards parts unknown.
"I am Jake Whitacre, temporal investigator," said the man with conviction. "The future is my own, no one else's."
And with that the temporal investigator left to find his quarry.