Back to the Future: Sonic Style


Chapter 3: The Time Machine


Location: Marble Gardens in Green Hill, Hedgehog Residence Date: 26th October 12:28am

It had just reached 12:28 in the morning, as Silver was currently in bed, sleeping.

Just then a phone got his attention as he woke up, groaning as he got up, he answered.

"Hmmm… hello…?" he asked in a tired tone.

It was then a familiar voice replied, "Silver, you didn't fall asleep, did you?"

It was Doc Prower.

"Uh, Doc, uh, no, no. Don't be silly." Silver said, trying to hide his tiredness.

"Listen, this is important!" Doc's voice stated as he spoke, "I forgot my video camera, could you stop by my place and pick it up on your way to the mall?"

"Um, yeah, I'm on my way." Silver yawned.


Location: Twin Pines Mall, Green Hill Date: October 26th 1:15am

Silver skateboarded to his destination, the Twin Pines Mall.

It was exactly 1:15 in the morning, right on time.

As he looked, Silver spotted a truck in the parking lot, with writing on the sides saying 'Dr. M. Prower Enterprises: 24hr Scientific Services'.

He knew that this was Doc Prower's truck.

Doc Prower had been doing a bit well on his scientific work, and what ever it was that brought Silver at the mall this early in the morning would be worth it.

As he went up to the truck, he spotted a familiar chao flying towards him, earning the hedgehog a smile on his face.

"Einstein!" he called out, as the chao, named Einstein flew to him, once they were close, Silver gave the chao a pet, "Hey, Einstein, where's the Doc, boy, huh?"

Soon a booming sound got his attention as he turned to the truck, as it's backdoor opened up, revealing, coming down a ramp, a Delorean, though it seemed to had some modifications, and it had a license plate which said in capitals, 'OUTATIME'.

Once the Delorean was on the road pavement, Silver walked up to the car, Einstein floating behind him.

Soon the side door lifted up, and out came the fox himself, Dr. Miles Prower, who was older than Silver, wearing a radiation suit and goggles on his head.

"Doc!" Silver called out, getting the fox's attention, as the scientist turned and smiled.

"Silver, you made it!" Doc Prower said with excitement, like he was a kid at Christmas.

"Welcome to my latest experiment." He said, as he gestured the car, "It's the one I've been waiting for all my life!"

"Um, well…" Silver said, as he couldn't quite put it into words, "it's a Delorean, right?"

"Bare with me, Silver," Tails said as he placed his hand on Silver's chest frantically, "All your questions will be answered. Roll tape."

"Ok," Silver said, as he placed the camera over him to record, as he then looked again, "Doc, is that…?"

"Never mind that, never mind that now, never mind…" Doc Prower said to Silver, as he rotated his hand as a sign to tell Silver to continue what he was doing.

"All right, I'm ready!" Silver said, as he began recording.

"Good evening," Doc Prower said, as he began his introduction of his latest experiement, "my name is Dr. Miles Prower, standing in the parking lot of the Twin Pines Mall."

He then looked to his watch as he continued, "It's Saturday morning, October 26th 1985, 1:18am," then he looked back at the camera, "and this is temporal experiment number one."

Doc Prower then looked to his pet Chao as he said, "C'mon, Einie. Here, here, boy!"

Einstein was then picked up by Prower, and carried to the car, the Chao wasn't sure what was happening, but went along anyway, as he was then strapped into the car.

"Get in there. That a boy, in you go." Doc Prower said as he put the seatbelt on his pet, "Sit down. Put your seat belt on!"

Silver came up to them as he continued recording what he was seeing.

Doc Prower then looked up to Silver as he continued, holding up the mini digital watch and his, "Please note that Einstein's clock is in complete synchronization with my control watch."

"Got it?" Doc asked Silver.

"Right, check, doc." Silver replied as he continued his recording.

"Good." Doc said as he turned to his pet, "Have a good trip, Einstein! Watch your head."

Once his pet Chao was comftable, Doc Prower closed the door of the car, then he and Silver took some steps back, it was then that the fox got out a remote control.

"You have this thing hooked to the car?" Silver asked.

"Watch this." Miles stated, as he began his workings on the remote.

"Yeah, ok, got it." Silver said, watching what was happening with the camera.

Miles then flicked a switch, causing the car to go backwards pretty fast, much to Silver's shock.

"Jeez!" the white hedgehog cried.

Miles continued controlling the car, as it went pretty fast around the parking, taking sharp turns as well.

As Silver pointed the camera to the doctor, Miles, who seemed to notice while focusing on the vehicle, shouted, "Not me, the car! The car!"

Once the car was positioned, Miles took Silver, still recording, to where the car was, as the vehicle was facing them far away.

"If my calculations are correct," Miles said with a smirk, "when this baby hits 88 miles per hour… you're gonna see some serious heck!"

Miles then set flicked the switch, which kept the car in place, all the while keeping the car getting sped up, while the car began to roar in action, getting ready to move.

The speed monitor showed the speed increasing a little 40 miles per hour, then to 42…

Miles then noticed that Silver had took a small step to the side, probably know that it would best safe than sorry.

When the doc saw the speed monitor was 64 miles per hour, he flicked the switch, and the car sped off towards them!

The car got faster and faster, as Einstein was a little unsure what was happening.

Silver, who was still recording what was happening, began to grow nervous as the car was coming at them, and was about to get out the way until Miles got hold of his left arm.

"Watch this, watch this!" he said, a small twitch in his eye.

The car was almost on to them.

The monitor showed the car's speed gone to 80 miles.

A strange machine inside the car began to glow to life.

The monitor then hit 88 miles.

The machine began to activate.

Silver was preparing for the worst.

Miles was preparing for the best.

As the car grew nearer, it began to spark and flash until…

KA-WOOSH!

The car instantly vanished, leaving a trail of flaming tire tracks in it's place!

Both Silver and Miles looked back as the flames kept going until they stopped.

Both were shocked as heck, until Miles looked to his remote with the monitor on it, then back to what happened, then back to the remote again, as it happened, a giant wide smile grew on his face.

"HA! WHAT DID I TELL YOU!?" He shouted excitedly as he jumped with joy, "88 MILES PER HOUR!"

Silver, meanwhile looked back at where the car was almost at them, and looked to see the license plate, have fallen off, spinning out of controllably, until it landed flat on the road service.

For Miles, meanwhile was still excited, his experiment was a success!

"THE TEMPORAL DISPLACEMENT OCCURRED AT EXACTLY 1:20AM AND ZERO SECONDS!" he cried out, happily.

Silver, meanwhile, tried picking up the license plate, only to discover it was still hot as he dropped.

"Hot, Jiminy Christmas, Doc!" he said, until it finally hit him like a tone of bricks.

"JIMINY CHRISTMAS, DOC!" Silver cried in a mixture of disbelieve, shock and alarm, "YOU'VE DISINTERGRATED EINSTEIN!"

"Calm down, Silver," Miles said as he began checking his watch and then began taking notes, "I didn't disintegrated anything. The molecular structure of Einstein and the car are completely intact."

"BUT WHERE THE HECK ARE THEY?!" Silver asked in shock.

It was then that Miles looked to Silver with excitement as he said, "The appropriate question is… WHEN the heck are they?!"

At that, Miles finally explained what the experiment was, "Einstein has become the world's first TIME TRAVELLER!" he then rushed to back and gestured to where flame tracks stopped (as the flames began to evaporate) as he continued, "I sent him into the future!"

"One minute into the future to be exact!" Miles continued, as he got back to Silver, "And at exactly 1:21am, we should catch up with him and the time machine!"

Having heard everything, it seemed like Silver had shut down then turned back on again, as he was trying to make sense of everything that Miles had said, and once he believed to got all the (way so much) info in, he dumbly walked to Miles, trying get someone to make sense.

"Wait a minute, wait a minute, Doc…" he finally said, "you're telling me that you built a time machine… out of a Delorean?!"

"The way I see it," Miles said, as he looked back to Silver, "if you're gonna build a time machine, why not do it with some style?"

As Silver stood there, still in shocked of what was said and done, Miles continued, "Besides, the stainless, steel construction made the flux dispersal-"

The fox was then interrupted as his watch gave a rapid beep, alerting him.

"Look out!" he cried, as he pushed Silver out of the way, just as another flash occurred, and the Delorean returned, screeching to a halt as it stopped.

Silver and Miles, who had cleared out of the way, looked at each for a second, until Miles headed off to check on the car.

The exhaust parts of the car shot out steam, which startled Miles, until it stopped, as the scientific fox looked back to Silver, he tilted his head to continue recording, which Silver then did.

As they approached the car, Miles took a hold of the handle, only to let go quickly, as he shook his hand in cried out in pain.

"What, what is it hot?" Silver asked, looking a little worried.

"It's cold, dang cold!" Miles stated, as he then used his foot to open the door… revealing an excited Chao who was happy to see it's owner.

"Ha, ha! Einstein! You little devil!" Miles said happily.

After giving his pet Chao a kiss on its forehead, he showed the two digital clocks to Silver (who was still recording) again, only with one little difference…

"Einstein's is exactly one minute behind mine and it's still ticking!" Miles explained, as sure enough, Einstein's clock was indeed behind, as it showed that it was still 1:20, while Miles' was 1:21.

Once Einstein was released from the seat belt, he flew back in to his bed in the van, Silver still surprised about what happened.

"He's alright!" Silver said.

"He's fine," Miles explained, "and he's completely unaware that anything happened. As far as he's concerned the trip was instantaneous."

He then looked to his watch as he continued explaining to Silver, "That's why Einstein's watch exactly one minute behind mine. He skipped over that minute to instantly arrive at this moment in time."

As he approached the vehicle, he gestured to Silver, "Come here, I'll show how it works."

"Err… okay." Silver said, as he was still in awe about what had happened.

Once Miles was inside the car (the door of it still open so Silver could see inside), he looked to the Silver and the camera as he explained.

"First, you turn the time circuits on," he said, as he pulled a some lever, which started up most of the car, and on the box in front, a number of digits popped up on screen, each row a different color: red, green and yellow.

"This readout tells you where you're going, this one tells you where you are and this tells you where you were," Miles explained, as he pointed to the red, green and yellow number digits respectfully, which numbers amazed Silver a bit.

"You input the destination time on this keypad," the fox said, as he began typing on the number buttons that was below time circuit box, "Say you wanna see the signing of the Declaration of Independence!" he said as he typed in the numbers, in which the box responded by revealing the time date: July 4th 1776.

"Or witness the birth of Christ!" Miles said as he typed in another set of numbers, and date revealed as 25th December, with the year digits all zeroes.

"Here's a red-letter date in the history of science," Miles stated, as he typed in the numbers and revealed the date that he then spoke out: "November 5th 1955."

It was then that the date he typed in stunned Miles, as he then smiled again as he repeated, "Yes… of course… November 5th 1955!"

As Miles let out a small happy chuckle, placing his hand on his head, Silver wonder what got into his scientific friend as he stopped recording for a second and asked, "What? I don't get what happened."

"That was the day I invented time travel!" Miles said, stunning Silver once more as he continued, "I remember it vividly. I was standing on the edge of the toilet hanging a clock, the porcelain was wet, I slipped, hit my head on the edge of the sink. And when I came to, I had a revelation! A vision!" he then pointed to his head, "A picture in my head!" and then pointed to the odd machine device in the back as Silver recorded what he was saying, as inside the device box, were what looked like running wires, like the electric light wires that you hang on Christmas, forming a letter 'Y', "A picture of this! This is what makes time travel possible! The Flux Compacitor!"

"The Flux Compacitor…" Silver repeated as he continued recording.

"It's taken me almost 30 years and my entire family fortune to relies the vision of that day…" Miles said as let out a sigh of remembrance, "My god, has it been that long?"

Miles then got out of the car, allowing Silver to have a little record of the inside for bit, and had a good look around the Mall's car park as he continued, "Things have certainly changed around here… I remember all this was farmland as far the eye could see, Old Man Peabody owned all of this, he had this crazy idea about breeding pine tress…"

Silver was quite amazed about everything that Miles said, as he approached him, still recording, as he said, "This is… this is heavy duty, Doc, this great! Uh… doe it run on regular unleaded gasoline?"

"Unfortunatley, no!" Miles said as he turned back to Silver, "It requires something with a little more kick! Plutonium!"

As Miles went to get some of the mentioned plutonium, Silver brought the camera down for second as he suddenly sank in what the fox just said, as he began grew nervous, "Uh… plutonium… waitaminute! Are… are you telling me this sucker is nuclear?!" he asked as he pointed to the car.

Miles stopped for a second as he huffed then approached Silver, "Hey, hey, hey!" he said to Silver why rolling his hand, "Keep rolling! Keep rolling there!"

Silver then understood what it meant as to keep recording, as he did, Miles explained, "No, no, no, no, this sucker's electrical! But I need a nuclear reaction to generate the 1.21 Gigawats of electricity I need!"

"Doc," Silver said, as he stopped recording a bit as he worriedly explained, "you don't just walk into a store and buy plutonium!"

He then asked, "Did you rip that off?"

This made Miles grumble a bit, and as Silver was still recording a bit, the fox finally confessed, "Of course, from a group of terrorist nationalists! They wanted me to build a bomb, so I took their plutonium and in return gave them a cruddy bomb case full of used pinball machine parts!" at the last part, he grinned and seemed to had his eye twitch a bit at that sentence.

Miles then left, saying to Silver, "Come on! Let's get you in a radiation suit, we must prepare to reload!"

As he heard every bit of what Doc Prower said, Silver sweat dropped as he looked to the departing fox and then to the Delorean, "Oh jeez…" he said, as he was worried about exactly what his principle said about getting into trouble if he hung with the doctor to long.

And he was starting to get worried about what trouble may happen with both of them…


Author's Note:

Here you go, folks!

Doc Miles Prower and his Delorien Time Machine!

But, since you've seen the BttF film, trouble is not far away…