August 10, 2017
07:35 PM PDT
Trilogy Universe (EmmettMcFly55)
Stephanie Stebbs sighed, as she felt the station wagon calm down from the bumpy ride through dimensions. It really was a new experience to her, and she normally would've felt quite excited about the possibility of encountering other versions of herself. But now, she wasn't, most likely because she was tied up, captured by two of the worst persons on earth, and she was squeezed between five other girls, one of which was her sister Stacy, two of which were Marlene's, one of which was a girl named Harmony which another version of her boyfriend actually dated, and one was a teenaged version of Marty Junior's mother, who was from the year 1987. This really was weird.
"Well, son, it seems like we really are in another world - again" Cliff said, with some optimism. "It really is seven-thirty-five already. I suppose that, in a few worlds from now, we should either go back to when it was still light - or travel to the next day. I'm not really looking forwards to searching girls at night."
"Searching girls is always fun" Griff said, grinning. "But you're right - in the daylight, we can see better." He looked at the display. "Where are we this time, Dad?"
"PF #50" Cliff read aloud. "Sounds unfamiliar. I remember last time, the code read EJ #58... and the one before that was EJ #57. I wonder if this world is really different from home."
"The ravine is still there, though" Griff said, looking around. "Well, we will find out what things are like here, eventually... as soon as you have kidnapped some more girls."
"I can't believe you really keep doing this!" Stephanie called out. "Can't you leave the other versions of us alone? We did nothing to you! Also, you've got five of us to do with whatever you like! Isn't that enough?"
"Nah" Cliff said. "Ten girls a person, that sounds about right. And seeing as we're with two persons, now, we'll need fifteen more. But in the meantime..." He walked over to Stephanie, and kissed her on the cheek. "...we'll amuse us. You're pretty, you know that?"
"How much longer are you going to keep us tied up, Cliff?" Jennifer asked. She'd kept silent during the previous two trips, and realized that it really had been some time. "Especially in here. This is a machine designed to seat four people, not seven."
"Which is why you are all next to each other" Cliff said. "But I'd like to take one of your places, some time. And, don't worry, Jenny. As soon as we're done catching twenty girls, we'll settle down nice and easy... maybe in the fifties? I'd love to see Lorraine Baines as a teen."
"Yeah" Griff agreed. "Gramps told me about her. She must've been really hot. I wonder why that butthead, Calvin Klein, didn't do anything to her on that night sixty years ago, before Gramps Biff showed up. He told me they were just sitting there."
"Calvin Klein was actually my Marty" Jennifer snapped. "You wouldn't have expected him to cheat on me with his own Mom, would you?"
Cliff grinned at the confirmation of what he'd thought all along. "Yeah, I would've" he said. "Lorraine was prettier than you are. I would've expected Marty McFly to rape her right on the spot."
"You - you're disgusting" Harmony muttered, horrified.
Cliff smiled, and thought about that for a moment. "No... I'd prefer to call it... brilliant?"
"If that is called brilliance, I'm glad that I'm not brilliant" Stacy muttered. "You're a jerk, Cliff."
"I don't care what you think of me, as long as I can have pleasure with you" Cliff said, landing the station wagon. "That said, it's about time to go again. Griff, you take care of the ladies."
"I will, Dad" Griff said, with a smile.
"And don't rape any of them until I get back."
"Aww, Dad..."
Cliff smiled. "No, we'll wait a while" he said. "It'll be much more worth it once they're all together." With that, he headed off, the girls and Griff looking after him.
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Cliff looked around happily. Another world to go to. Another load of girls to get. He wondered just who he could grab in here. Maybe Marlene again, and whoever dated that butthead McFly here… He grinned, as he looked around in the familiar looking Courthouse Square. Everything looked still the same here… something he'd doubted, once he thought up the random destination he had tapped in. There was something off with the courthouse's main entrance, though. It looked like the glass had been replaced just a year or two ago. Well, there had to be some reason for that. And he might find out about that soon.
As he looked around the Square, he realized that he wasn't seeing any McFly or Brown or Stebbs girl here. That wasn't nice… he wanted to get them somehow. Sighing, he looked at the theatre. Maybe he could take a look inside… a movie would make him relax and think of some ways. He then went over to see what the film was.
"Teens In Time Part I – 1985, with Michael J. Fox?" Cliff read aloud, confused. He wondered if this was right. He remembered a 1985 Michael J. Fox movie that had sequels, but that one was called Mind Warped. He wondered if this was another difference. He'd better ask the receptionist. Wondering if he would get to see a new movie, he headed over to the woman, trying to put up a smile that wasn't too evil looking and scary, like the ones he used on the girls.
"Excuse me, miss" Cliff said, trying to put up his best smile as he looked at the female. "Who made this movie? Do there happen to be any sequels?"
The female frowned. "Don't you know?" she asked. "Teens In Time is an '80s classic. Made by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, having two sequels... which were filmed in 1989 and 1990, by the way. If you don't know, you're probably not a big culture fan." She handed him a paper. "Here, read it for yourself. If you don't know what Teens In Time I is all about, you'll find out here."
Cliff looked down. "Teens In Time Part I" he read aloud to himself. "Tagline: Todd McKay is your regular 1980s teenager... except for the fact that he's stuck a hundred years before that." He smirked. "Summary: Todd McKay leads an unconfident life. He himself is wimpish, too scared to ask out the girl of his dreams, Kelly Greenwood, his father isn't much better, and the whole family has been in a terrible condition ever since the far past. Facing one more rejection, Todd finally goes with the last piece of hope to an experiment his more confident friend, Brent Ross, has set up. Imagine Todd's surprise as Brent reveals a time machine out of a refrigerator, and sends Todd back to the Old West. Trapped without electricity for power, Todd goes to his far ancestor, Sean McKay, in order to find a way to return. But that turns out to be harder than expected. Will Todd make it back, or will he forever remain trapped, as a time lost teen... in time."
The Tannen thought about the movie for a moment, then shrugged. "If it's bad, I can always turn around" he muttered. He walked over to the desk, preparing to head in.
The receptionist then walked up to him. "Hey, you can't go in there!" she called out. "Not only is the movie going to start in just a minute, you haven't paid either. Why do you think I should allow you to go?"
Cliff smiled. "Because, Miss Receptionist, I have this." With that, he got out his chloroform. The woman gasped, but before she could react, Cliff pinned her arms behind her bag, and held the chloroform in front of her. Within moments, she gave away, and passed out into Cliff's grip.
The twenty-one-year-old smiled happily, and placed the woman behind the desk. Then, he headed into the theatre, just in time to see the opening credits for the movie. Looking around, he carefully walked down the dark theatre, and settled for a free place behind some other teenagers, leaned back, and relaxed. Even if the movie wasn't all that great, he could always have some relaxing, and thinking of what all he would do with the girls.
Within moments, however, he was distracted, as the girls in front of him started talking. "Teens In Time is just an awesome movie, Marlene" one girl whispered. "You'll be surprised how much the protagonist, Michael J. Fox, looks like your brother, my boyfriend, Marty Junior. Your Dad looked a lot like him in the '80s, too. And the mother of the main character looks a lot like you will, once you're grown up... or at least, how I think you will look like around that time. No one knows the future... except for Doctor Brown, of course."
Cliff's eyes grew wide. The girls were talking about Doc Brown, and time machines... and that girl had called the other girl 'Marlene' and identified Marty Junior as her 'boyfriend'. This had to be the McFly daughter and girlfriend of this reality! He smirked. Even in a theatre by simply going to see a movie, he'd found the ones he was after.
"Silent, Suzy" Marlene said, smiling. "The movie is starting, you know." The girls looked back up, and focused their attention to the big screen, where Todd McKay was shown helping Brent Ross back up. "Oh, good" Marlene said. "At least we haven't missed the part with Todd asking Kelly out yet. That's so romantic!"
"He never actually goes through with it" Suzy reminded her.
"I know, but still."
Cliff decided to ignore the girls' talking, and focused half on the movie - which was pretty amusing, by the way - and half on how to capture his 'friends'. Let's see he thought. I can drug them with the chloroform in the break, then get them out of the theatre and back to the time machine... we should get a larger one, now. Jennifer had made a good point. He growled. But we'll find one. Oh, we will. He smiled, and concentrated on the movie.
It took just about fifty minutes for the break to come, and in the meantime, Cliff was sitting on his seat nervously. Then, finally, there was some kind of break, as that Todd guy had just found out the state of his family in 1885. The girls went to get some drinks, and Cliff, making sure they didn't see him, sneaked after them.
He caught up with the girls again as they were drinking some juice. They were standing on a remote distance from everyone else. Smiling, Cliff walked over, carefully. This was going to be fun.
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Marlene McFly felt really excited, as she headed over to the bar to get a drink. She'd been overjoyed at actually getting to watch Teens In Time in the theatre again. It was kind of a present to her, as Suzy had decided to treat her on a night out, to get some 'variation' from the usual dates Suzy had with her boyfriend, Marlene's brother, Marty. She knew that they were destined to marry, and felt excited about it, even though she was a little envious of her brother and future sister-in-law, as she was still single herself. The story Suzy had now told hundreds of times, about how Marty and she first met, was really romantic as well. She wondered how Lorraine, Marty's and her grandmother, had felt when she was rescued by George McFly in a similar fashion as Suzy had by Marty. Probably the same: happiness, and intense love.
"So, what do you think of tonight, so far?" Marlene said. "Teens In Time is the most intriguing movie I know. Todd McKay looks so much like my Dad. And Kelly Greenwood resembles Grandma Lorraine. It's weird that Todd actually has a crush on Kelly."
"I would call it more than just a crush" Suzy corrected. "If the movie is right, they've been dating for two years in the alternate world at the end, and original Todd has had a crush on her for the same two years." She chuckled. "It's so confusing, even for us… although your Dad has experienced the exact same thing! The time-changing part I mean, with original and alternate timelines."
"Ssht" Marlene said, giggling. "We don't need anyone to hear it. It could pose great risk to the space-time continuum. It sounds terrifying to me that, like Old Biff Tannen two years ago, a villain could actually steal the time machine. I wonder what would happen in such a case… to us, you know?"
"You're about to find that out, sweetie" a familiar voice said, from the back. As one, Suzy and Marlene turned around, to find Griff Tannen standing there, without bionic implants, who smiled politely. "Hi, girls. Having a nice time? I'm so sorry to interrupt." He held out the chloroform.
Suzy growled, and grabbed his arm before he could activate it. "I wouldn't be so quick, Griff Tannen" she whispered. "Where did you get that stuff, anyway? You're supposed to be in jail!"
Griff frowned. "Griff wasn't in jail in the previous worlds" he said. "What happened…" Then, his smile returned. "Aww, who cares. No, I'm not Griff… I'm Cliff Tannen. Like you said, I got the time machine in '87. And now, you are going with me." He grabbed Marlene's arm, and tried to chloroform her, but she ducked.
The teenager looked up at Cliff, then frowned. "He's right" she muttered. "He doesn't have bionic implants, like Griff did. And they're impossible to remove. He really is Cliff Tannen."
Suzy gasped. "It can't be!"
Cliff, grabbing his chance, held the chloroform in front of her. "It's true" he said. "But it's night time, now. Why don't you go to sleep?" With that, he chloroformed her before she could protest.
Marlene gasped, and wrestled herself free of Cliff's grip, and, like her father had done two years before with Cliff's son, she kicked him where it hurt the most. "Doc Brown is going to stop you" she hissed, then ran away as fast as she could, out through the door.
"You monster!" Cliff hissed, standing up, almost throwing up, then slowly but soon with normal speed chasing Marlene.
"Hear who's talking" Marlene shot back, ducking into an alley with a slight hint of relief. Sure, Cliff was pursuing her, but it seemed like she was gaining on him. As she raced into a side-way, where she knew a phone cell stood, she felt triumphant as she was leaving Cliff way behind. Then, looking forward, horror crossed her face, as she realized that in her hurry, she'd forgotten something. Something very important.
This alley had an end.
Marlene thought swiftly. What should she do? Turn around, and find another way? Or use the phone cell? It was the closest phone cell in her direction, and with any bad luck Cliff would catch up to her anyway. So if he was going to do that, it was better to warn her family first. Doc Brown had a time machine as well - he could track Cliff's down. But still, turning around would open more potential, and gave her possibly time to think, and maybe she could hide somewhere and therefore avoid being caught in the first place...
Marlene's hopes were cut sharp as she noticed that, in her thinking, Cliff had arrived at the start of the alley, exhausted, but furious. Realizing that there now was no other way out, Marlene raced over to the phone cell and dialed her father's number.
Luckily, Marty Senior soon arrived at the phone. "With Martin Seamus McFly."
"Dad, it's me, it's Marly" Marlene said, rushedly keeping an eye on Cliff advancing towards her. "Time... Cliff... capture... Suzy... chloroform..."
"Marlene, quit talking so rushed" Marty Senior interrupted. "I can't hear half of what you're saying. Was Suzy captured by time? Just 'cause you went to a time travel movie doesn't mean that time is everyth..."
"DAD, CLIFF TANNEN IS HERE!"
"So?" Marty Senior said. "He's nasty some time, but I don't think he's going to be any trouble in the cinema..."
"I don't mean Cliff from 2017, Dad, I mean Cliff from the..."
Marlene's words were cut off as Cliff finally caught up with her, grabbed her, and held her by the stomach and by her mouth. "Now, why did you run away" he said, his voice too nice to be serious. "Don't you know nice girls never run away? Nice girls obey me, McFly. You are so unlike a nice girl. But don't be afraid. I shall teach you how to be one... whether you like it or not."
Marlene pushed Cliff's arm away from her mouth with her elbow and shouted once more into the telephone, which was hanging onto the cord as it had been abruptly dropped. "DAD! HELP!!!!!!!!"
"That's enough" Cliff hissed. "Listen, McFly, we can do this the easy way or the hard way..."
Marlene had heard those words before, and knew what to expect. Before she could react, though, the smell of chloroform reached her nose as Cliff covered her mouth and nose in it. She tried to resist, but after a few seconds, she had to give up, and dropped unconscious into Cliff's arms. Cliff grinned, and smiled at her unconscious face as he grabbed the phone and roughly threw it back up again. He shook his head.
"The easy way."
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Alex breathed heavily, as the time machine shakily came to a halt, as it had arrived in the new time period. He sighed with relief, as Doc Brown One looked outside. "Looks like we made it" he said.
"Why shouldn't we have made it?" TeenMarty said, depressed. "We shouldn't deserve that much bad luck." Alex sighed, as he felt that Marty... TeenMarty was right. They didn't deserve this.
Doc Two put an arm around his shoulder. "Relax, TeenMarty" he said. "We'll get Jennifer back. And the others, too. We can't let ourselves be beaten by a Tannen like Cliff."
TeenMarty faintly smiled. "Thanks, Doc Two."
"No problem, TeenMarty. The younger version of my friend is my friend as well."
Doc '87 grinned. "For some reason, that sounds idiot."
"It does" Doc Two admitted. He then turned serious, and looked towards Doc One. "Any ideas on where we have arrived yet? I looked outside, and it doesn't look like we're in a really radical alternate world so far."
Doc One nodded. "You're right. PF 50 seems similar to our own world." He scratched the back of his head. "Strange, I seem to recall that code from somewhere..."
"Is it some code you used to program your computers in the time machines?" Marty Senior said. "Could be it."
"Combination of a safe you used to had in your old mansion?" Alex said. That could be a possibility. After all, PF 50 seemed to be too short of a code to be used in computers, especially with Doc's memory. With safes, however, the codes were mostly shorter.
"Then I would remember it, too" Doc Two argued. "Our two timelines diverged at the point Calvin was born in our world and by that point the mansion had already burned down. I doubt that even a time travel change would make my combination of a lock change." Alex had to agree with that.
"You're the Doc, Doc" Marty Junior Two said.
"Right."
Doc One shook his head. "Both of the suggestions isn't it... strange." He shook his head. "Well, it probably isn't important. Let's focus on our mission."
Alex nodded. "Yeah" he said. "Are we going to head over to your house again, and see what we can find?"
"That seems to be the most likely probability" Doc Two said. "We'll have the most luck there, I think." He sighed. "Or, more accurately, I hope."
"Let's not be pessimistic" Doc One said, taking over the controls. He steered the bus towards the house he knew his future counterpart to live. The others remained quiet during the trip, and only when the bus arrived above the house Doc was supposed to live, their mouths opened again. In shock. Doc's house looked completely different. The Lyon Estates block looked similar to the houses Doc Brown knew, but the house where he knew he lived looked similar to all other houses, and to his own house when he bought it. None of the changes made before had been done to this house. Something very strange was going on here.
"What's going on, Doc?" Alex asked. "This doesn't look like your house."
"Yeah" TeenMarty said. "Even I can see that. What do you think that happened, Doc?"
"I've got no idea" Doc One said. "Apparently, for some reason my other self chose not to live here, but I have no idea why."
"Let's check out my house, then" Marty Senior suggested. "See whether I live there or not. If I don't, then we could maybe check out exterior Hill Valley."
"Maybe we live in the house our counterpart from... another counterpart lived in" Doc One said. "We could try that one."
Doc '87 shrugged. "Perhaps. Lead the way, as I have no idea which counterpart you are referring to."
"You'll find out within a few years" Doc One told him, grinning. He took the controls, and moved past Marty Senior's house, which was empty, telling him that in here no one lived anymore. Then, he moved on towards the house he knew his other self to live, out in the fields. As he was almost there, he gasped.
"What's the matter, Doc?" Marty Junior One said.
"Something wrong with the time machine?" Marty Junior Two suggested.
Doc One shook his head. "Look at this" he whispered.
They looked, and gasped too. Where in their 2017 had been some empty fields, now was a mansion. A big one. Something big had changed here.
"Who on earth lives there?" Mike Hartford One muttered.
"Someone who is not poor, at least" Mike Hartford Two said.
"Maybe we could take a look down there" Alex suggested. "Y'know, see who lives there. Maybe they, as they are the divergence probably, can tell us something."
"Doesn't seem smart to me" TeenMarty muttered. "For all we know, Biff Tannen lives in there." He shivered.
"It doesn't look like this is a Biff-run version of Hill Valley though" Marty Senior gently reminded his younger self. "If Biff is rich enough to buy this house, he'd be rich enough to expand in the ways he did in the alternate 1985... and in that case, things would look very much different."
"That sounds like a correct conclusion" Doc One said. "I think we're going to have to... Great Scott!"
"What's it this time?" Bill Tannen One said, rolling his eyes.
Doc One pointed outside. "It's... it's us!"
True enough, outside the mansion, a large car had now appeared. It was labelled 'Emmett Brown's Hover Conversions" and next to it, two very familiar men were standing talking to each other. They were the Doctor Emmett Brown and Marty McFly Senior of this dimension.
Doc One smiled. "Looks like these guys have something to explain to us," he said. "Well, let's see what kind of world they got here this time around." He moved the bus' front down, and raced it towards the ground, where it landed next to the mansion.
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Marty McFly Junior sighed, as he thought about Marlene and Suzy. They were missing, and Marlene had called them, with her cell phone - even though she was very unclear. Marty Senior now had gotten the plan, to track down Marlene and Suzy in the Square - and if they couldn't find them, they could always use time travel.
As he was thinking that, he heard a weird noise up in the sky. As he looked up to see what it was, he gasped, as he saw a flying bus descend to the ground. Sure, he'd seen flying objects enough before, but this type of a bus that visited his house at this time? Also, it resembled the time bus Doc Brown had, but not exactly. Strange.
Things got even stranger when none else but Doc Brown himself stepped out. "Hi" Alternate Doc said. "I assume you are confused at my presence here."
"Confused is a rather small word" Doc said. "What's going on? Are you from the future or from the past?"
"Present" other Doc said. "I'm the Doctor Emmett Brown from another dimension. I hope you're familiar with the term?"
Marty Junior paled, and he saw Doc do the same. He'd heard stories about that multi-dimensional trip in 1988 and the unexpected visitors from another world in 1990. Other dimensions were serious business, and they could result in strange things to happen. He gulped.
Marty Senior groaned, too. "Now this again!" he exclaimed, frustrated. "First that stuff with Marlene, and now some other-dimensional visitors..."
Other Doc frowned. "What's that about Marlene?" he asked. "She doesn't happen to be missing, is she?"
The response he got cancelled his brief hopes out. "Yeah!" Jennifer said, astonished. "She called Marty - Senior - here just a quarter ago, and seemed very rushed. She said that Cliff Tannen was there, but not from 2017..." She frowned. "We feared Cliff might've stolen the time machine, so we were just on the verge of going along with Doc, who we'd invited here to talk this over, to use the time machine to track Cliff down earlier in the day."
Other Doc sighed. "Another lack of success" he muttered. "Why does this keep happening... well, at least this time the time of disappearance is more known to us. That probably manages to help us, at least. Maybe we can confront him again."
"Again?" Marty Junior said, speaking up. "What's going on here, uh, other Doc? If you're from a different dimension, how can you have confronted Cliff already?"
"Because the situation is much more difficult than you think" Other Doc said. "I'll explain later, but it would be for your best if you'd all just board our bus and come along with us. We can explain there. First of all, our goal is to stay as close to Cliff as possible, and maybe free all the girls he's holding hostage."
"Now wait, wait" Marty Senior said. "Can we get just a brief overview of what is happening first? This is my daughter which we're talking about, and Marty's girlfriend!"
"Which one?" Other Doc asked, curiously. "Harmony or Stephanie?"
Jennifer frowned, confused. "Neither" she said. "Marty's girlfriend is a girl named Suzy MacArthur."
Other Doc frowned, then gasped with recognition. "Suzy MacArthur? Emmett, how many kids do you have?"
"Four" Emmett said, confused. "Jules, Verne, Martin and Marie Emma. Why do you ask that?"
Other Doc slapped himself on the forehead. "I should've known" he muttered. "So that's where I saw the code of PF #50 before. It was on the computer display of my other self... you're the guy I and my whole family ended up visiting in June of 1990!"
"And you're the Doctor Brown who finished his time machine in 1893 already" Doc said. "Great Scott, I can't believe it. It's been twenty-seven years, you know. It's so good to see you again!"
"Likewise" Other Doc said. "But we really ought to get going now. We are still wishing to catch Cliff."
"Wait, wait, not without an explaination" Marty Senior insisted. "I'd still like to know what is going on here. We know you are our other selves from the alternate 1990 now, well, from alternate 2017 by now, but what is going on? Why are you chasing Cliff? How did he get to your world?"
"You want an explaination?" Other Doc said. "Fine, you'll get one - the short version. In 1987 in my world, Cliff Tannen stole my younger self's DeLorean and kidnapped Jennifer Parker. He took it to 2017, where he switched it for my station wagon, took along his future son Griff, and captured Harmony and Marlene. I soon met my younger self and we teamed up. We caught up with Cliff, and he ended up insulting me enough to get me to try to attack him. He tried to escape, something went wrong, and he ended up in another dimension. He from then on kept hopping through dimensions and kidnapping girls. Yours is just the second alternate dimension we visit, but still Cliff has already kidnapped six girls... eight, with your Suzy and Marlene added to them."
Doc gasped. "No wonder you're in a hurry to track him down!"
"You mean, there's more than one of... us... in there?" Marty Senior said, uncertain.
Other Doc nodded. "Yes. There's only one of you, Marty, but there's already two of Marty Junior, and one version of you when you were a teenager, who travelled along with my younger self. There's three of me - the me from 1987, who we've called Doc '87, and me, I'm Doc One, and then there's the Doc Brown from the universe where Marty has a twin named Calvin, who's Doc Two. I believe I told you about that universe when I visited your world?"
"Yes, that's right" Doc said, shaking his head. "I remember that. Fascinating. It's of course horrifying what happened to the girls, but it remains fascinating to think about another us here." He sighed. "Well, I guess we should go with you now then. Four me's know more than one, after all."
Other Doc - Doc One - chuckled. "That's true" he admitted. "Come aboard." He led the way, with the locals curiously following behind him, unsure what to expect.
Inside the train, Marty Junior saw the oddest bunch of people he'd ever seen. One more middle-aged version of his father, a teen version of his father, and three other people who looked just like him. Also, there were three Doc's on the bus. "Um... hi" he said. "Who are you?"
"I'm Doc One" the Doc who had previously met up with the locals said. "Marty Senior One here and Marty Junior One there are along with me."
"I'm Doc '87" another Doc, who looked to be a slight bit younger, said. "TeenMarty here comes with me. We were the ones to first discover that Cliff was time travelling."
"I'm Doc Two" the last Doc said. "I come with Marty Junior Two and Alex McFly. He's Marty Junior's look-alike cousin, the son of Calvin McFly who doesn't exist in either of your worlds."
"It's really depressing" Alex said. "Sometimes I feel like I'm just a clone of my cousin, in situations like this. Uncle Marty and cousin Marty Junior exist everywhere, and I don't. Even the Back to the Future Trilogy... you know those?" Marty Junior nodded. "They don't mention my Dad or I at all. It's like we weren't supposed to exist."
"I know, Alex" Marty Junior Two said. "But don't believe it. You do exist in my world, and even though I might've turned out fine without you, as I can now see, I can't imagine a life without my favourite cousin."
"Believe him, Alex" TeenMarty said. "Ever since I met up with your Dad and uncle, I wished to have a twin. I was envious of your uncle Marty, in fact. Growing up without a twin is nice when you don't know what you're missing. Remind one thing: you are very lucky that you do exist. And the fact that you don't exist in other worlds doesn't mean that I and the other versions of your uncle are more important than you and your Dad. Who knows, there might be a world where only Calvin McFly exists."
Alex smiled faintly. "Thanks, TeenMarty."
"You're welcome."
"Now that is settled, let's get going" Doc One said. "So, you are willing to come along?"
The locals nodded. "I guess I would be Doc Three" Doc - Doc Three, now - said. "Then Marty Junior would be Marty Junior Three, and Marty Senior would be..."
"...Marty Senior Three" Marty Senior Three said. "I'll share your number. That makes it easier to define which universe we are from."
"Which is exactly why I became Doc One and not Doc Two" Doc One said. "It would be too complicated. Anyway, now things are settled here, I think it's about time we go track down..."
Suddenly, a loud, high-pitched beep filled the bus. Most of the time travellers jumped, startled, but Doc Three gasped. "Great Scott, the train!" he exclaimed, taking out of his pocket a smallish black device. He switched it off with one simple switch, thereby eliminating the noise. But, from the increasing look of horror on his face, everyone realized that the worst had yet to come.
Doc Two rushed over, being the closest Doc to the aforementioned inventor. "What's the matter?" he asked his concerned counterpart.
"It's my train" Doc Three said, with a pale look on his face. "It's been stolen. Well, I think it's been stolen. It's just that I got a signal from the defensive wiring circuitry, and it appears to be so that the circuitry I placed outside of the house has been cut. I'm afraid that Cliff and Griff might've stolen the train." He winced nervously, not liking such a scenario.
"Is everything going to be against us today?" Marty Junior Three complained. "At least things went well on uncle Dave's birthday party earlier in the day. If that had gone wrong too, I would've really panicked."
"You mean, Dave's birthday is today?" Marty Senior One said, surprised. "In our world, Dave's birthday is much earlier in the year. Is his birth year still 1964?"
"No, it's 1962" Marty Senior Three said. "This is weird. It looks like with your universe, the difference really lies in the past, even though other things, which were in fact all seen in the Back to the Future movies, are similar."
"You don't think that might be related to each other, do you?" Alex said. "That those things are similar 'cause they were in those movies?"
Doc One shook his head. "Of course not" he said. "That sounds a bit too ridiculous. It's probably just one of those amazing coincidences."
"Like November 12th?" Marty Junior Two smirked.
"Like November 12th" Doc One confirmed. "Besides, we don't have time for this. We have to get going and track down Cliff. If he really was the one to cut that circuitry than we can either stop him there, or at least find him, and if he's already gone with the train, then we have a point where he was recently. Doc '87, is the time tracker on?"
"On and functioning" Doc '87 confirmed. "I think Cliff was indeed the one to steal the train. The tracker for the station wagon is solidly at one spot, which is in the middle of the forest... Three, is that your house?"
"Correct" Doc Three said. "So it was Cliff. Now, let's get going."
"If we're going now, I'll get out" Jennifer said. "I don't really want to see this. Besides, someone has to watch the house. I know you'll be fine, Marty. It probably won't take more than a few minutes for me anyway."
"If that's your wish, I won't forbid it" Doc One said. "Goodbye, Jennifer."
After a kiss on the mouth from Marty Senior Three, a kiss on the cheek from Marty Junior Three and a hug from Doc Three, Jennifer exited. A few moments after Jennifer had exited, Doc One blasted off from the spot they were standing. With Jennifer waving, the bus flew over to the Brown house of this reality. Almost no one spoke, and everyone just sat down, doing nothing. That, however, changed as the bus arrived at the Brown house.
The house looked pretty much okay, but wiring cut in halves could be seen lying on the ground. Also, the cellar door was opened. Also, in the distance, the train could be seen, chugging away.
"It's Cliff!" Doc One exclaimed.
"Chase him!" Doc '87 insisted.
Soon, that turned out to be a useless question. Before Doc One could start up the bus again, the train hit eighty-eight miles per hour and vanished in a flash of light and a loud sonic boom. Trails of fire could clearly be seen in the sky.
"It's them all right" Doc Three said, sighing. "Well, at least now we know where to track them down in the other dimension."
"I'd rather time travel closer to the square" Doc One argued. "That way, we'll be closer to the point where most of our subjects so far have been kidnapped. Also, we don't want to endanger the girls."
Doc Two, in the meantime, had dropped his jaw. "A time travelling train?"
"I believe you heard about it before from our visit to your world" Doc '87 said, a bit amused.
"Yeah, but that's different from seeing it for real." Doc Two shook his head. "Even from a distance, it looks impressive. Amazing. An actual flying train."
"We use it only for family trips" Doc Three said. "And even then the bus is preferable. We are able to seat even more people then. The train is mostly in use when you want to have more space for objects - there's a large amount of space in the back." He sighed nostalgic. "Anyway, it's an important thing in our family. Even if it's never used again, I could not throw it away. I spent a lot of work on that thing, along with Clara sometimes..." He sighed again. "Those times were nice."
"Earth to Doc, earth to Doc" Marty Senior Three said. "If they've got some tracking device, shouldn't we get ours too, the one you got for the train?"
"Good idea, Marty" Doc One said, moving the bus down and landing it. He turned to Doc Three. "You can now go get your device - if you have one. You do have one, don't you?"
"Oh yes, I do" Doc Three said. "I'll get it right away." He opened the cab doors, moved down the steps, jumped on the grass, and ran into the house.
Marty Junior Three sighed. "It's hitting me now" he said. "The fact that my girlfriend and sister are missing. They really are important for me, and I can't stand the thought of them being hurt by Cliff or Griff."
"Their purpose isn't hurting them" TeenMarty assured him. "That, though, is not really too great news when you know what their actual purpose is."
Marty Junior Three got the hint. "I see" he said, sighing depressed.
"Don't worry, son" Marty Senior Three said. "We'll get them out, no matter how long it costs. They won't defeat us so easy."
Marty Junior Three smiled. "Thanks, Dad."
Moments afterwards, Doc Three returned, victoriously holding the time tracker. "It looks like we're about to be able to go" he said, re-entering the train. "It recorded the departure, lucky enough. If that hadn't happened, we'd be in serious trouble." He handed the device to Doc '87.
The latter looked at the time tracker. "August 10, 2017, 9:00 PM... EJ #57? That's our dimension!"
"Let me see that" Doc One said. He stared at the device for a moment, then shook his head. "Wrong. This is EJ #57+. I added the +/- addition later. It appears to be that, according to the device, this timeline started out as very similar to our own timeline, but diverged some time later with a really minor difference, even though finally there would be more major differences."
"Seems like you've studied this subject well" Doc '87 said, smirking.
"I have a lot of free time on my hands" Doc One said, smiling. "Shall we go, now?" He looked at the locals. "Are you ready to go? This reality might be very foreign to you."
"If it's to get Suzy and Marly back, I'd do anything" Marty Junior Three said, firmly. The others nodded. Doc One smiled, then turned to his younger self, who currently was at the front. "Doc '87! Input Destination Time: August 10, 2017, 9 PM, EJ #57+!"
"Check!" his younger self replied.
Doc One grinned, as Doc '87 started to accelerate. "Brace yourself for dimensional displacement" he warned the locals.
"Is it as bumpy as time travel?" Marty Junior Three said, groaning.
Doc One smiled. "You'll find out. In the meantime, just brace yourself."
As they did, the time machine finally hit eighty-eight. With a flash of light and a sonic boom, it then departed the second Trilogy Universe.