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Chapter 5
Night had fallen by the time Marty, Sora, Donald, Goofy, Mickey, Riku, and Kairi made it to the Doc's house.
"Now that's a pretty heavy adventure. So do you think someday Roxas and Naminé will have their own bodies and hearts?" asked Marty.
"Gee, I hope so. I know how much Lea misses them." replied Sora.
Marty turned to Goofy. "And it's hard to believe you nearly died! Sure it was to save Mickey from getting crushed by a boulder, but that's just scary to think about it!"
"I guess, but I do care for my friends that much. I'd do anything for them. A-hyuck!" replied Goofy.
"Yeah, the six of us are a family together." added Mickey, smiling.
"That's really sweet." smiled Marty. Then, he noticed something. "We're here!"
The team looked in awe. Right beside Doc's garage was a giant house.
"Whoa!" exclaimed Sora.
"Gosh!" exclaimed Mickey.
"Neat digs!" commented Donald.
"I thought Doc lived in his garage." said Riku.
"He does. But the house burned down in the 60's. Though, I don't remember what caused it."
The seven heroes walked to the Doc's door. Sora knocked, but nothing happened. After a few seconds, the door opened to reveal a younger Doc Brown… with a weird contraption on his head. They also noticed a bandage on his forehead, probably from hitting his head on the sink.
"Don't say a word!" he ordered, ushering them inside.
"Doc wait-" began Marty as Doc took a device off a puppy that looked similar to Einstein, even though it clearly wasn't him.
"I don't want to know who you are or where you're from!" said Doc.
"Doc I-" started Marty.
Doc then placed a suction cup on Marty's forehead. "I'm going to read your thoughts!" Marty sighed in exasperation as Sora and Co. watched on, confused. "Let's see… you all come from a great distance…" began Doc.
"Yes! And-" began Marty.
"NO! Don't tell me! Let's see… you want me to buy a subscription to the 'Saturday Evening Post'." guessed Doc.
"No, Doc-"
"Hold that thought! Um… Donations! You all want me to make a donation to the 'Coast Guard Youth Auxiliary'!" guessed Doc. Sora and Co. sighed.
"This is exasperating." muttered Donald to Riku, who could only nod.
"Uh… I GOT IT!" exclaimed Doc. Everyone thought he had finally figured it out.
"Disney characters… you want me to join The Mickey Mouse Club!" guessed Doc. Donald face-palmed.
"Doc… (takes off the suction cup) We're from the future. (points to the world-travellers) THEY'RE, from different worlds, here to protect ours from the Darkness. We need your help to get us back to the year, 1985." said Marty as calm as he could.
Doc stared speechless for a few seconds before approaching them. "My gosh… do you know what this means? (silence) It means that THIS FREAKIN' THING DOESN'T WORK AT ALL!" he shouted, taking off the helmet.
"Doc, you gotta believe us, you're the only one who knows how your time machine works." pleaded Kairi.
"Time machine! I never built any time machine…" mumbled Doc.
"How can we prove we're from the future?" asked Goofy.
Sora hand an idea. He then summoned his keyblade. Getting the idea, Riku, Kairi, Donald, Goofy, and the king summoned their weapons too.
"What do you think of our futuristic defence weapons Doc?" asked Sora.
"Can't deny this." added Donald.
Doc scoffed. "Nice cosplay." he remarked.
The heroes dismissed their weapons in frustration.
"Doc, come on!" groaned Marty. He pulled something out of his pocket. "Look at my driver's license. See? 'Expires 1987?' Look at my birthday, I haven't been born yet!" explained Marty. Nothing. He pulls something out from his wallet. "Hey, check this out, this is a picture of me, my brother, and sister." The picture showed, Marty, Dave, and Linda standing in front of a wishing well. Linda was wearing a "Class of '84" sweater. Dave was wearing a red Mickey Mouse shirt. Ironically, no one noticed. "See, class of 1984?" asked Marty, referencing his sister's sweater. "You gotta believe me." he pleaded.
Doc looked closely at the picture by picking it up with tongs. Dave looked normal, but Doc noticed the top of his hair was slightly faded.
"Mere photographic forgery, they cut of your brother's hair." scoffed Doc.
"Doc come on! We're all telling the truth!" pleaded Donald.
"Well then, tell me "Future People," who is President of the United States in 1985?" asked Doc.
"Ronald Regan." replied Marty.
"Ronald Regan?! The actor?!" asked Doc, grabbing several blueprints. "Then who's vice president?! Jerry Lewis?!" he asked, sarcastically as he ran for the door.
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"I suppose, Jane Wyman is the First Lady!" shouted Doc sarcastically as he ran for his garage.
"Whoa wait Doc!" called Marty as he, Sora, and Co. ran after him.
"And Jack Benny, is Secretary of the Treasury!" he added.
They reached the door.
"Doc please you gotta listen to us!" pleaded Sora.
"I've had enough jokes for one evening! Goodnight 'Future Boy' and friends!" he called as he shut the door.
"Doc come on… I-That bruise on your forehead! We know how you got that!" exclaimed Marty. "You were standing on your toilet, hanging a clock over it when you slipped and hit your head on the sink! And when you came to, you had the idea for the Flux Capacitor, which… is what… makes time travel… possible." he finished, tired. Sora patted his back as a sign of comfort.
Suddenly, Doc opened the door and stared at the seven, with a blank expression of surprise.
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The seven arrived back at the spot where they hid the DeLorean on Sora and Kairi's gliders. Doc examined it in surprise. Riku showed him the Flux Capacitor.
"After I hit my head, I had a picture in my mind that I quickly drew down." said Doc, pulling out a piece of paper with a picture of the Capacitor drawn in pencil. "I just can't believe something I invented actually works!" he exclaimed.
"You bet your butt it works!" replied Donald.
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Back at Doc's garage, the DeLorean had been placed inside and Marty, Mickey, and Donald were trying to get 1985 Doc's video camera up and running on an old fashioned TV. Sora, Kairi, and Riku watched them while Goofy talked to Doc.
"Fascinating how there are many worlds out there, and that you travel to everyone to protect them from the Darkness." he remarked.
"Yep, but promise you and Marty won't tell anyone? It's to protect the order." said Goofy. Sora and Mickey looked at him with familiar smirks. "…Even though no one really cares. A-hyuck!" he added.
"Lips. Sealed." promised Doc.
"Your future self-said that too!" chuckled Goofy before letting out his signature laugh.
"Ok Doc, this is it!" called Marty as Doc and Goofy strode up. The eight watched the TV as Marty's recording started to play.
"Good evening, I'm Dr. Emmett Brown…" began the Doc from the recording.
"MY gosh! That's me! I'm an old man! Thank god I still have my hair! (picks up the camera, as Marty fast-forwarded) No wonder your president has to be an actor, he' has to look good on television!" he remarked.
Sora, Donald, and Goofy chuckled at the remark while Mickey, Riku, and Kairi, rolled their eyes, still smiling.
"Alright, here it is!" said Marty as he stopped fast-forwarding.
"No, no this sucker's electrical. But I needed a nuclear reaction to generate the 1.21 jigawatts of electrify I need!" said the recorded Doc.
"What did I just say?" asked Doc.
Sora rewound the footage.
"No, no this sucker's electrical. But I needed a nuclear reaction to generate the 1.21 jigawatts of electrify I need!" repeated the recorded Doc.
"1.21 JIGAWATTS?! (picks up Donald and starts shaking him making the duck dizzy) 1.21 jigawatts! (drops Donald who grunted as he landed) Sorry Donald! (runs outside to his house) GREAT SCOTT!"
"What… What the heck is a jigawatt?!" cried Marty who ran after Doc, followed by Sora and Co.
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Doc was sitting in his chair in his house.
"How could I have been so careless?! 1.21 jigawatts?! (looks at a picture of Thomas Edison) Tom! What am I gonna do?! How am I supposed to generate that kind of power?! It can't be done! CAN'T!" yelled at the picture as the seven heroes came in.
"There he is!" pointed Sora.
"Doc, calm down and quit yelling at Thomas Edison!" said Mickey.
"Yeah, all we need it a little plutonium and we're good to go!" said Kairi.
Doc set the picture on top of his fireplace. "Oh, I'm sure that in 1985, plutonium is available in every corner drug store in the state! (Donald and Goofy look at each other with worried expressions and shook their heads) But in 1955, it's a little hard to come by! Everyone I'm sorry, but I'm afraid you're all stuck here!" he told them.
"What?! No Doc! We can't be stuck here! I've got a life in 1985! I got a girl!" exclaimed Marty.
"Is she pretty?" asked Doc.
"Doc, she's the best, heck she wrote her number for her grandma's for where she's staying over right now. She's nuts about me!" said Marty, showing the flyer.
"And besides, we can't stay here either! There are other worlds that need help! And our transportation is back in 1985!" added Sora.
"Plus, I promised Daisy and date in two days from the day we left! And I promised my sister I'd watch my nephews after she left! Sure maybe Uncle Scrooge and Uncle Ludwig could do it, but I can't put that pressure on either of them!" added Donald.
"And I have a son back at the castle! I promised I'd protect him with my life after his mom died!" added Goofy.
"I thought you said he was in college." said Marty.
"Yeah, but he lives with us whenever he isn't at the school, helping us run things." answered Goofy.
"And Sora, Riku, and I have families! They'll be worried sick! And what happens when we return to them as 40-year-olds when we finally get back?!" added Kairi.
"And then there's my Minnie! I can't put all that pressure on her by having her run the castle by herself for 30 years!" added Mickey.
"You see Doc, with all that and many, MANY, more… well, you're our only hope!" finished Marty.
"Marty, Sora, everyone, I'm sorry. But the only other power source capable of generating 1.21 jigawatts is the power of LIGHTNING!" said Doc, hopelessly.
Sora and Donald exchanged a look. "Lightning eh?" asked Donald.
"Simple, me, Donald, Riku, Kairi, and Mickey can use the Thunda Spell to generate the lighting." said Sora.
Kairi and Goofy nodded, but Mickey and Riku shook their heads. "I'm sorry Sora, but we can't. Thunda is to way powerful." said Riku.
"He's right. It's too powerful, that it could end up destroying the DeLorean." added Mickey, sadly.
"Aww phooey!" grumbled Donald.
"We could always use normal lighting, but you never know when or where one might strike." groaned Doc.
Suddenly, a lightbulb went off in Marty's head. He pulled out the "Save the Clock Tower" flyer. "We do now." he said, showing it to the others. Sora, Riku, Kairi, Mickey, Donald, and Goofy gasped as they saw that Marty was holding their answer. Doc grabbed the flyer, read it, and his eyes went wide.
"This. This is the answer! It says here that on this Saturday, November 12, 1955, lightning will strike the clock tower at 10:04 p.m.! If we could somehow harness this lightning and get it into the time machine, we could generate enough energy to make send you all back! This Saturday, we're sending you all back to the future!" exclaimed Doc.
"Only a week in 1955." murmured Riku.
"That sounds fun!" giggled Kairi.
"Yeah! It'll be like our own personal vacation!" added Sora.
"Well, it's been a while since we lived throughout the 50's. It'll be nice to relive those days. A-hyuck!" chuckled Goofy. Donald and Mickey chuckled too.
Doc turned to them all. "Until we are able to send you all back, you all will stay with me. You can't leave or talk to anybody. There could be consequences in the space time continuum if one bad thing happens to another in the future." he said seriously.
"But what about the Heartless? They're a pretty big problem too." remarked Sora.
"Yeah, they could mess up the future as well." added Goofy.
"Ok, you can go deal with them when necessary. Rules aside, have you met anyone here today besides me?" asked Doc.
"Crazy farmers who thought we were aliens and tried to shoot us in the dark." grumbled Donald.
"Well, that's Old Man Peabody for you." chuckled Doc.
"As well as this bully named Biff Tannen." added Kairi. "He tried to 'pick me up'."
"And we may have run into my parents." finished Marty.
"Your parents?! Great Scott!" exclaimed Doc.
"Something wrong Doc?" asked Riku.
"Show me that picture of your siblings again!" commanded Doc. Marty pulled out the picture, and the others noticed that the top of Dave's head was fading. "Just as I thought, your brother's being erased from existence!" Marty starred in disbelief. Sora and Co. gasped.
"Oh no…" mumbled Mickey, concerned.
"Not good…" said Riku in agreement.
"Tomorrow, while we keep an eye out for Heartless, we will go to school and Marty, you will show me what your parents look like! That way we can help them get together, ok?" asked Doc.
"Yeah, got it Doc." replied Marty.
"Gawrsh, I hope we can get them together before it's too late." said Goofy, concerned.
"Don't worry, while protecting this world, we can do it! The McFly's will be saved in no time!" motivated Sora.
"That's our Sora, always optimistic." chuckled Kairi.
"And lazy." added Riku with a smirk.
"Say that again!" challenged Sora, still smiling.
"Alright fellas, let's get some sleep. Tomorrow, we got school." declared Mickey, before chuckling at that last statement.
Everyone laughed and they got ready for bed. As they did, Sora turned down to face Mickey. "You don't think this counts as meddling do you?" he asked, nervous.
"Naw, I don't think so Sora." replied the mouse king with a reassuring smile. Sora smiled back.
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At the Castle that Never Was, Xemnas watched the heroes get ready for bed as he smiled. "We'll see about that you pathetic heroes. We'll see…"
To be continued…
