Chapter Two
At first I thought my situation was hopes when I was about to forcibly be joining the navy. So I started to follow these two to grab a nosh. Man I had so many questions to ask. I guess these two like to take the scenic route since we went out the back.
Next thing I know I was in an alley way. That Gabe guy however did hold up something up from his hand and pushed some button as a car from out of nowhere started to come up next to the three of us. From the looks of it, it was jet black.
It sort of looked like a van of some sort just sleeker. I guess Gabe was driving, while Clark rode shot gun. As for me I couldn't find the door handle." Hey how do you I get in?" "Oh don't worry about kid I'll let you in", Gabe exclaimed.
In about ten minutes we were at a local fast food joint, from the looks of the logo I just assumed it was a McDonalds with that sleek feel to it. Gabe orders some burgers to go as he pulled over to the parking lot and we ate inside his van.
Wow I never had a Big Mac before in a clear plastic container. Even the coke came in some screw top can. Nothing like that thousand island taste in my mouth as I washed it down with coca cola classic.
Gabe started up the conversation first. "So Marty where are you from?"" Right here in Hill Valley."" Really a local boy huh. "
"And by the way Gabe can you tell me what the date is today?"" What you don't know?"" Uh no."" It's the 25th of October."" Uh ok uh what year?" Gabe and Clark just started to chuckle at me. "Oh your serious huh Marty."" Well in case you forgot, it is the year 2556."
"Wait, wha , what?" "The year is 2556."
Marty was just in complete shock, "awe man this is heavy." Gabe looked thru his rear view mirror see a rather disturb look on Marty's face. "Hey kid you ok?" He and Clark use the swivel action on their respective car seats to do a 180 degree turn to face Marty.
"Hey Marty you ok?"" Awe man how could have this happen, how could I've jumped like two thousand plus years into the future?"" Shit I didn't even think about it when I was getting away from the Libyans."
Both Gabe and Clark now had confusion on their faces as Marty was babbling on about time travel. Gabe in a comedic sense decided to play with Marty." Uh so like what year are you from Marty?"
Without really thinking Marty checked his Casio wrist watch for the time and date. "Uh lets its 2:00 am October 25, 1985 why do you ask?" Even Gabe had to give a small unsure laugh at that statement, while Clark had a more concern look on his face.
"Uh sir, I mean Gabe I think this kid is for real." Gabe just continues laughing, "what do you mean Clark?"" I mean I think this kid is from the year 1985." "At first I didn't think much of it, but look at how Marty dresses."
"First dead giveaway was his pants."" The upside down triangle from his back pocket said Guess."" I looked it up Gabe and it that company went out of business in the year 2156."" His shoes have that slash mark on them."" I looked into that further it came from a company called Nike."" That company too went bankrupted in 2100."
"So what are you saying here Clark?"" That are musical genius here is way ahead of his time?" Gabe with a skeptical look on his face.
Marty wasn't really paying attention to them and of course forgot his manors about the meal he had at hand." Awe man where are my manors how much do I owe you for the burger?"" Ah never mind here would two dollars cover it?"
Marty hands Clark two one dollar bills to him.
Clark with a curious nature decided to inspect the paper money that Marty gave him. "UH huh, hey Gabe how yours history?"" It's okay I suppose why?""Who is Donald T. Reagan?" " Oh he was a semi famous Lt. col. In the marines during the second world war in the twenty century, but he was more famous as the Secretary of the Treasury during the Presidency of Ronald Wilson Reagan in the 1980's."
"Why you ask Clark?"" Because it you want more proof that this kid is from the past then here you go." Clark handed the one dollar bills to Gabe.
Even though Gabe had on some shades on, his eyes completely widen in shock of what he saw. Gabe finally recollected his composure taking off his shades and started to look a Marty with more concern on his face.
"Marty are you from the past namely the 1980's?"" Uh yeah Gabe I am and just to let you know this much of a frightening experience to me as it is to you."
"If you don't mind me asking how did you get here?"" Oh well I was escaping from some gun crazed Libyans in the Delorean and somehow turning on Doc's time machine I think."
"Uh hey you wouldn't mind showing it to me will you?"" If you guys can help me get home then yeah I don't see a problem."
Thirty minutes later on the out skirts of town.
All three guys were looking at the Delorean time machine. Of course Gabe and Clark have the stunned reaction that I guess Marty would have expected.
"Wow I never thought I would have ever seen a DMC Delorean in my life time," Clark explained." I guess I can scratch this off of my bucket list." Gabe just stood there in complete shock, but also contemplating on what his next move would be.
"Say Marty does your car start?"" Well it did stalled on me a couple of times, but I'll give it a try." I went inside put the key in the ignition. I turned it to one click to show that it still had gas in it. Clark opened the passenger door open to get inside himself.
He inspected the interior of the car with lots of wonderment. Within the next turn of the ignition it stalled again. I slammed my hand again on the stirring wheel in anger. Clark then looked over on the driver side see all the gauges especially the fuel gauge.
He then studies the gear ship diagram on the knob. "Hey Marty have you tried putting it in park, before you turned on the ignition?"
I looked at him a bit dumbfounded before I realized what he had said. I was like you big dofuss.
So I put it in park then tried to turn the ignition on and successes the car turned on. By then all the lights in the car stated to flash on including the time coordinate panel and the Flux compositor.
Clark continues to study the time coordinate panel, but also noticed some sort of energy bar on top of the panel. It indicated power bar for the time travel. It was on the red side of the gauge indicating that it was nearly drained.
Clark then orders Marty to go ahead and shut it off. "Hey Marty will you wait by here while consult with my associate for a moment." "Yeah go right ahead."
Clark then motioned to Gabe to follow him out of earshot distance to talk over with Gabe. "Listen Gabe not do I only think this kid is for real, but that thing over there is pretty dame sure it the real deal."" This getting way out of hand, we have to let section III know about this."
Gabe who is now hold both of his hands near head," wait I can fix this, I can fix this."" What are saying Gabe?"" Look Clark this kid has got some mad skills at the guitar, I mean for Christ sakes he self taught." "What more can you ask for?"
"Look Gabe were getting in way in over or heads here." Gabe all of sudden places both of his hands on Clark to get him to listen to his reasoning. "Listen Clark you have been my best friend since the third grade."" We went in the service together and now we are in section II low propaganda and recruitment together."" Yeah so what are you get at sir?"
"What I'm getting at is that this kid is our ticket out of here straight to the top."" I'm talking ONI section II Liaison missions."" Uh I'm confused sir, what do you mean?"
"All right I'll explain it again."" ONI Section II Liaison is that me and you we get to travel exclusively with the celebrities, where ever they go we get to come along for the fun."" Absolutely no front line combat and no sitting around in boring offices all day."
"Yeah sir, but this kids not a celebrity?"" Not a celebrity yet."" When this kid takes off and he will, I'm going to be there every step of the way to top, and I'm not forgetting you Clark you're coming with me as well."" Now what do you say Clark?"
"Uh I don't know sir, I mean what do we do about this and the kid's identity I mean I don't think he's even in the system."" Not to worry I got a place completely of the record books that I can stash his ride." "Second I can get him a new identity; it'll just take a little bit of time."
"Well sirs aren't you forgetting something?"" Yeah what Clark?"" How do you plan on getting him to the big time?"" Not to worry on that Clark, I've got some people lined up waiting to join this kid's band."" I've been keeping an eye on them over the years."
"Very well then sir, you can count me in."" All right then let's get better acquainted with Marty. "
They both walked back to Marty, who was now a lot more curious as to what had transpired between them. Gabe started out first, "Hey Marty don't worry kid were going to help you the best way we can in your unique situation."
"That's good to hear, does that mean I don't have to join the navy then?"" Huh, join the navy?"" Yeah Clark next you said that I had to join or otherwise I was going to prison if I didn't for some false prank or something."
Gabe started to laugh looking at Clark. "Clark are you still using that joke to get people to join up?"" Well sir, the recruitment numbers are down."" Naw Marty you don't have to join the navy ok, it actually like a year in jail for pulling something like that, but they hardly ever enforce it."
"In the meantime Clark put in a call for one of those pack truck drones to this location."" Yes sir, Gabe."
"Hey Marty, I'm going to have a truck to come up and pick up your ride and store at a facility that I only have accesses to, you as well too."
They waited on for ten minutes when an unmanned pack truck show up and started to load the Delorean up. Marty was like in complete surprised," so where's the driver?"
"Its unmanned Marty, it's all automated. ""What really that's cool."" Well Marty I guess there's going to be some things were going to have to explain to you here in the future."" Well get into that in short moment let's get back in van," Gabe explained.
All three of them got back in Gabe's ride as the rode off back to Hill Valley City. Gabe was about to start till Marty instead step in. "Since we are in the future, how come there are no flying cars?" Clark did the explaining instead of Gabe.
"Well Marty we actually at one point we did, but since people tend to get more reckless over the time of like ten years they outlawed them." Gabe then wanted to know more about Marty's Delorean asking.
"Hey Marty what kind of power source did your time machine use to get here?"" Well Doc was the one who created the time machine, but he did say that it took like 1.21 jigawatts of power to use the time machine. "
"1.21 Jigawatts huh Marty," Clark said in a skeptical way." With that amount of power you light up half the city." Clark then inquires, "how did your Doc friend did that?"" I mean he couldn't have produced that much power with a Petroleum base engine."
"Well he did mention to me that it took Grade A Plutonium to power the machine itself." Gabe nearly swerved to oncoming traffic when here the name Plutonium from Marty's mouth.
He immediately put the car on out drive and literally looked Marty square straight in the face." Plutonium Marty, are you serious?"" Yeah Grade A Plutonium, do you know where I can get some?"
Clark then interjected to Marty. "Plutonium has many grades Marty, but there is no such thing as a Grade A version."" Well he did mention that the Plutonium that he got was from a bunch of Libyan nationalist who wanted him to make a small package bomb with a nuke."
"Great just great, your Doc friend use grade 240 Plutonium Marty, how can he be that reckless?"" Uh I don't know what Plutonium 240 is?"
Gabe sighed out loud then explained to Marty." Marty Plutonium 240 is a weapons grade base type."" It is primarily used to make Nuclear weapons mainly bombs."" It's incredibly dangerous to handle as well.
That last statement really didn't faze Marty that much since he was more interested to get back home. "So do you know where I can find Plutonium 240 then?"
Gabe even let out a bigger sigh, "Look I'm going to level with you Marty."" Plutonium 240 is very rare these days, also me and Clark we don't have the security clearance to even get you a sample."" And if by chance we managed to get some over the black-market, there are no guarantees there either."
"Since most likely we will get caught by section III security and thrown in prison for the rest of our lives." "The only way possible is to know somebody in very high places to get you some."" And to tell you the truth me and Clark here where really low on the totem pole."
"But we can change that, if you're willing to play along Marty." Marty then had a look of suspicion on his face. "What do you mean Gabe?"
"Well Marty I got to give where credit is due and you my friend you some kickass guitar skills."" I willing to wager that in your time back into the 1980' to 2000' that you were destine to become a famous rock star."
"You may have to stay here awhile, but were going to have some fun making you into the next big rock sensation this universe has ever seen."" And with all that fame and fortune at your disposal you will make friends with some very powerful people and then you might be able to find a home."
In a way this seems like a bit much for Marty to take in, yet he did feel that his dream of becoming a world class rock star did sound rather enticing to him.
"Well I don't know how all this that you explain is going to work, I mean I don't even have a guitar much less a band."
"Hey ,hey, don't worry about that Marty I'll take care of your needs."" So what do you say Marty?"
Marty was thinking to himself well what's the worst that could happen, "So where do sign up then?"
Gabe had a huge smile on his face as he shook Marty's hand. "You made the right choice Marty."" Now first we are going to get you some new clothes, so you don't have walk out looking like that."" And tomorrow we'll get you a new identity, yet you can still keep your name if you like."" And finally we will put together a band of a lifetime."