Back to the Future: Sonic Style


Chapter 4: Two Steps Back…


Minutes later, Silver had his radiation suite on, while recording what was happening in front of him.

Miles, all suited up in his radiation suite of his own, was installing a rod of plutonium from a case and into the time machine.

Once it was installed, Miles prepared to make his final preparations.

"Safe now, everything's let lined." Miles said to himself, taking his mask, before telling Silver as he put away an empty containment tube that contained the rod of plutonium, "Don't you lose those tapes now we'll need a record."

Miles suddenly realized something, "Yep, yep! I almost forgot my luggage!"

He then got another case, quite possibly the one containing his suitcase full of clothes, as he put it inside the front of Delorean as he said, "Who knows if they got cotton underwear in the future, I'm allergic to all synthetics."

"The future?" Silver asked, as he too took his mask off, "That's where you're going?"

"That's right," Miles said, excited, "25 years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind."

"Yeah, why not?" Silver said, guessing something like this, as he got the camera prepared.

"I'll also be able to see who wins the next 25 World Series." Miles said, as he checked his watch.

"Uh, doc?" Silver said, getting Miles' attention, as the doctor looked up to him.

"Look me up when you get there." Said Silver, with a smile, which was returned by Miles' own.

"Indeed I will," Miles said with a warm smile, "roll 'em."

Silver understood, and started to record with the camera of what will be the biggest moment in history, and like before with the test, he would be the first to witness it.

As he stood next to the car's open door, Miles spoke up with determination, "I, Dr. Miles Prower, am about to embark on an historic journey."

Suddenly, Miles noticed something, which caused him to chuckle, catching Silver a little of guard.

"What am I thinking of," He said between the chuckles, "I almost forgot to bring some extra plutonium! How do I ever expect to get back, one pellet, one trip! I must be out of my mind!"

Before the fox could do anything, the sound of panicking squeaks from Einstein caught Silver and Doc Prower's attention.

"What is it, Einie?" Miles said, with a little confused smile, as he turned to the direction to where the entrance of the mall was… and the smile slowly begin to fade.

In the distance, reaching the mall's entrance, was a convertible van, one which, as the grey hedgehog recorded, noticed the stern, worried look on the doctor's face, almost like he recognized the vehicle he was seeing.

"Oh my god," he muttered in worry, "they found me. I don't know how, but they found me."

He then instantly panicked as he cried to the still recording Silver while starting to run, "RUN FOR IT, SILVER!"

"Wha-who?" Silver asked, growing worried and nervous, "Who?"

"WHO DO YOU THINK?" Miles cried out, as he reached his van, pointing to the direction the incoming vehicle was approaching from, "THE TERRORISTS!"

Silver turned around, still recording, as he saw the van with the people driving in it, the two terrorists almost looked-alike, both with bushy mustaches, only the one driving had a grey mustache, while the one peeping out of the roof window had a brown one… along with a machine gun!

"That's him! Kill him!" Cried out one of the terrorists in a different language.

Silver stopped recording at that as he realized he and Miles were in trouble, "HOLY SMOKE!"

The machine gun started firing rapidly with bullets, as Silver and Miles avoided getting hit, while the fired bullets struck Miles' van.

"I'll draw their fire!" Miles cried out, as he got out a gun of his, Silver seeing this in amazement a bit.

Unfortunately, during the chaos, Miles' gun didn't shoot out any bullets of it's own, as it wasn't working at the moment, much to the worried panic of the fox.

"DOC, WAIT!" Silver cried out, as the terrorists continued firing until they came face to face with Miles.

Nervous, Miles threw down his gun, as he held up his hands in surrender, all was quiet at the moment between Silver, Miles and the terrorists… until the latter opened fired on the doctor straight in the chest, until he collapsed on the paved floor!

"NOOOOOOO!" Silver cried out in horror, until he looked to the terrorists angrily, "Bozos!"

This caught the sentry's attention, as he angrily looked to the now worried (but still mad) hedgehog, before opening fire on him, only for to get away quickly, recording equipment still in his possession.

But as he escaped, the terrorists' van drove up and caught Silver on the other side of Doc Prower's van, fearing he was dead, Silver braced himself for the worst.

However it didn't happen, as the gun in the sentry's hand got jammed for some reason.

Seeing this window, Silver took off again, taking a dive into the time machine, equipment and all.

"GO!" shouted the annoyed sentry to the driver, as the earlier tried to get the gun un jammed, "Darn soviet gun!"

In the Delorean, Silver looked back to the Doc's unmoved body, before closing the door and starting up the engines of the car.

Soon the car chase was on, as Silver drove as fast as he can, avoiding getting shot by the terrorists, however, during the chase, Silver unwarily pulled the lever that activated the time circuits… still set on the date that Miles had still left set: November 5th 1955.

Silver continued to out maneuver the terrorists, doing his best to stay clear if the sentry got out another gun to mow him down, still unaware of the set destination as he was close to hitting 88…

There were close calls though, as while driving (just as the car could almost hit 88 miles) Silver would almost hit a part of the car park while he escaped.

Soon things were heating up bad, as Silver looked through one of the door mirrors, seeing in shock as the sentry got a missile! Loaded and ready to fire!

"Son of a…!" Silver could muster, before thinking a little cocky as he said, "Let's see you bozos can keep up at 90!"

Cracking up the lever to high gear, Silver speeded up the car as it left the terrorists in the dust, the sentry telling his partner in crime to speed up.

The Delorean drove faster and faster, as Silver looked back a little to see the ones after him catching up a little.

Silver pressed down on the accelerator pedal, as the car was starting to go over 70, the driver still unaware that the destination was still set by the Doc when he was showing examples on where and when to go: November 5th 1955.

Silver looked forward to see the car closing in towards a mobile stand.

The terrorists were catching up.

Silver braced himself.

And the car hit 88, starting up the flux capacitor.

The mobile stand was the last thing that Silver saw before electrical flash of light…


Location: Peabody's Pines Farm, Green Hill Date: November 5th 1955 6:15am

…and suddenly he was driving through a field of sorts.

The delorean ran over what looked like a scarecrow, startling Silver, before it rolled off to reveal that Silver was driving straight into a barn.

The hedgehog panicked as he speeded into the barn with a crash, his helmet (brought in with him along with the camera) flipped back onto his head.

Seconds later, lights from a house nearby were switched on, the residents having heard the crash from outside.

Soon, a dog family, being a father, mother, son and daughter, came out, lanterns lit, as they approached the barn.

The family was actually the Peabody family, whom the father, Otis Peabody, was running a pine tree farm.

Opening the barn door, the Peabody family looked to see the strange, metal thing that had crashed into their farm.

"Pa, what is it?" the mother asked.

"What is it, Pa?" the daughter added.

"Looks like an airplane without wings." Otis believed when he saw the car.

While stating this, his son, Sherman was looking down to his comic that he brought with him, and looked shocked as he spoke up, "That ain't no airplane."

"Look." He said to his father, handing him the comic, Otis then looked to the cover of the comic, one of the sci-fi genre, showing on the front a picture of two people seeing an unknown being appear out of a space, shooting an odd ray on one of the witnesses.

Suddenly, the car's door began to open, the kids looking scared, as just then, Silver, in his radiation suit and mask, stepped out, feeling a little groggy from the crash.

The family went into a panic, as they rushed out back to the house.

Silver, back in the barn, stumbled a little, and was little startled when seeing one or two farm animals looking at him, before getting back at his feet.

He then opened the door, lift up his mask as he called out.

"Hello," he spoke, "Sorry about your barn."

BANG!

A shot from a gun startled Silver, as Otis and Sherman were running back out towards the barn, the father carrying a shotgun.

"It's already mutated into a human-like form! Shoot it!" Sherman shouted.

Silver realized he was in trouble and had to get out of here, so he rushed back to the Delorean.

BANG!

Otis fired another shot and started to reload, "Take that, you mutated son of a-!"

Seconds later, Silver sped out the barn in the Delorean, the farmers' kids telling their dad to shoot the white hedgehog.

Silver was driving so frantic to escape, he didn't stop as he crashed into one of the two small pine trees that were lined together.

"My pine!" Otis cried, before being filled with anger, "Why you…"

The farmer fired another shot, only it hit the mailbox as Silver finally escaped.

"YOU SPACE BOZO!" Otis bellowed out, "YOU KILLED MY PINE!"

Later, as he escaped through the entrance to the pine farm, a whole lot of stuff was going through Silver's mind, trying to stay calm.

"Alright, Silver," he said to himself, "get a grip on yourself. It's all a dream. Just a very intense dream-!"

As he was talking to himself, he double-take as he spotted something, forcing him to stop the car.

He got out and looked to saw he was just outside the entrance to where he lived, Marble Gardens, there was just one minor problem… Marble Gardens has barely been started work on!

Silver looked seeing only the entrance was made, and a whole open field where all the houses, including his family home, would be made soon, an advert sign showing what the finished town will look like.

As he looked, a car was coming his way; he hurried over and waved for them to stop for a second.

"Excuse me!" he said, as he approached the couple in the car, "Can you help for a quick-!"

"Don't stop, Frank! Drive!" the woman said, as she, along with her husband, were feeling a little nervous as they saw Silver, before the husband drove onward away from the Hedgehog.

Silver looked back to the car, then to the construction of his future home, before hurrying back to the time machine.

As he got back in, he took a good look at the time circuits, revealing a bit of the date: the year being in the 1950s, seconds before it flickered and switched off.

Silver then tried to get the car back up, only to realize that not only was the car not responding, but he looked to the meter, seeing that the plutonium gauge was empty.

"Perfect…" Silver sighed.

Soon, after taking off his radiation suite, put away most of the camera equipment, his music and got back into his sleeveless coat, Silver pushed the powered down Delorean behind the advertisement sign, knowning it would be best to avoid suspicion of the car's "upgrades".

Silver took a good look both ways, before finding a sign pointing to town, as he walked he had a good look around the fields where he knew that all this would become the location of where he lived.

He couldn't believe it. He really did travel back in time, despite him still hoping that it was a dream.

Silver had a feeling that as he ventured forward, he knew that he was about to discover a whole different life his town was like and different to the one he just left behind…


Author's Note:

And thus, Silver's time travel adventures begin next chapter!

Sorry I've been away for quite sometime, everyday stuff been happening and all!