August 10, 2017
04:10 PM PDT
I Didn't Invent Any Time Machine Universe

Lisa Jung felt horrible, as she started to wake up. The last thing she remembered, was someone who looked like Griff Tannen along with a bad Amy Tannen-impersonator taking her hostage. As she looked around, she realized that she was in a huge train, tied up with rope, and she was not alone. As she looked around, she noticed several versions of the Stebbs twins, and a few versions of girls she didn't know, and a lot of Marlenes. Also, there were two girls who looked like a teenaged version of Jennifer McFly, the wife of Mike's uncle Marty, and one who looked like teen Lorraine Baines. This sure was a strange situation.

"Where - where am I?" she managed to mutter.

"Ah, one of our captives has finally taken time to wake up" she heard Griff Tannen's voice saying. Moments later, she saw two of Griff, one with and one without bionic implants, walking towards her, with a girl who resembled the Amy-impersonator remaining on her seat, in the front. One of the Tannens, the one without the bionic implants, looked at her with an evil smirk. "So, you're Lisa Jung, huh?"

"That's correct" Lisa snapped. "And who might you be?"

"Pleased to introduce myself" No-Bionic-Griff said. "I'm Cliff Tannen. I'm from 1987. From another universe. And that is all you need to know." He leaned down, and planted a kiss on Lisa's hair. Lisa felt absolutely disgusted.

"Leave her alone, you, you... you nutcase" Stephanie Stebbs said. "Why are you doing that to her?"

"Because I like it" Cliff Tannen said. "And y'know what? You're going to cooperate with it, too. Because if you don't, you won't get any of these." He held up a box of chocolate eclairs.

Lisa could clearly see that Stephanie was looking at it with anxiety, but she shook her head. "I'm not hungry" she said.

Cliff grinned. "Oh, you'll be" he said. "You will be hungry. And up until then, I guess that Griff and I will just have to entertain ourselves with the others."

"Hey, Dad?" Griff asked. "Where are we, now?"

Cliff walked back to the panels. "PF #47" he read aloud. "I've got no idea where it is, but why should I care? As long as there are nice girls, I'm satisfied." He grinned. "And up until now, there always have been nice girls enough."

"You... you're crazy, y'know that?" Lisa said.

"I know that you're wrong and I don't care what you're saying" Cliff said. "I'm a genius. I'm a Tannen. No one can stop the Tannens."

Lisa growled in disgust. "If Calvin McFly was here, he'd teach you otherwise" she said. "He hates you."

"You know a Calvin McFly?" a Marlene said. "He's my uncle. I'd never expected to encounter another version of him in a reality. Up until now, he's kind of unique, you know. Is he Marty McFly Senior's twin?"

"Yeah" Lisa said. "Well, sort of. He actually came here from another reality." She looked at the Tannens with disgust. "Out of the world that his Dad made."

Most of the girls paled with disgust. "You don't mean..."

"Yeah, I do" Lisa said. "The world of the sports almanac."

Cliff turned around from the controls and looked at Lisa, then at the other girls. "Well, you guys haven't told me about that yet! A world that my Dad made?" He walked towards Lisa, a grin splitting his face from ear to ear. "Tell me. I'm all listening."

"No way" Lisa snapped. "You don't need to know."

Cliff nodded, semi-understanding, and then, he suddenly grabbed the hair of the Marlene of Lisa's world, and pulled her arms down. "Ain't it simple?" he said, smirking. "You tell - and I won't pull."

Lisa looked at him in disgust. "You - you wouldn't."

"Trust me" one of the Jennifer-look-alikes said, miserably. "He would."

Lisa looked at Cliff with anger. "You are so twisted."

"Insults ain't hurting me" Cliff said, with a smirk. "They could, however, hurt Marly here." He softly pulled on the hair, causing Marlene Six to let out a short scream. "If you want me to pull harder, just continue saying nothing."

"I'll tell you" Jennifer said, with a sigh.

"Mom, no!" Marlene Six exclaimed.

Lisa gasped, as she was surprised by how her friend addressed the girl who resembled a young Jennifer. Was it a sort of instinct, perhaps?

Jennifer looked at Marlene sympathetically, making Lisa ignore the fact that Marlene appeared to recognize her. "I can't stand that you'll get hurt" Jennifer said. "Even if you aren't the you that I know. Well, knowing is a big word, as I haven't given birth to you just yet" She looked at Cliff. "All right, I'll tell."

"Good" Cliff said, with a smile.

"To be short, it all started when Marty, Doc and I took a trip to 2015" Jennifer said. "Your father from that year somehow found out about us having a time machine, and he took a sports almanac with him, stole the time machine while we weren't watching it, and headed back to 1955."

"So that's the truth behind what Dad always told me" Cliff said. "That old codger was him, from the future. So, what happened, after Dad gave the almanac to himself?"

"Old Biff Tannen returned to the future" Jennifer continued. "We, in the meanwhile, travelled to 1985, and saw it had become a mess. Your Dad had built a casino into the Courthouse, called 'Biff Tannen's Pleasure Paradise' and had killed Marty's father, George, and married Mrs. McFly. Also, your Dad had Doc Brown be committed in 1983 and the whole town and especially the square was filled with sex shops."

"Lovely" Cliff said. "Seems like utopia to me."

Jennifer shot him a glare. "Seems like hell on earth to me. You guys are terrible."

"As I said before, I don't care" Cliff said, smirking.

"Me neither" Amy said, grinning. "That tale of yours sounds very interesting. Maybe we could track down an almanac like that, huh, Cliffy?"

"Surely we could, Amy darling" Cliff said, putting an arm around her. "Maybe we could try to find it somewhere and give it to me, or to my Dad, of one of these universes."

"That would be wonderful" Amy grinned.

"All very nice, but we have other things to do first" Griff interrupted. "Aren't we supposed to track down some more girls first?"

"I suppose so" Cliff said. "I'm certainly going to check if I can find that sports almanac, sooner or later." He landed the train, and stepped out, Amy following him. Lisa watched them walk away. "Well, at least they are gone" she muttered.

Griff, having overheard her, walked over to them with a none-too-pleasant smile on his face. "They are, yeah" he said. "But I'm still here. Anyone still wanting to trade some part of an eclair for a kiss?"

Lisa sighed. This certainly was going to be a long day.

oooooooo

Cliff felt excited, as he and Amy walked into the Square. He had to admit that, while being not exactly as cute as the girls, Amy was attractive in her own way. She just knew how to annoy those McFly's and Browns. He had to admit that he kind of liked her, as an ally, and perhaps, as a girlfriend.

"So, where to go to?" Amy asked.

Cliff pointed at the Courthouse Mall. "I need some chloroform" he said. "We're almost out of it. And I do not want to run out of chloroform. We can knock out the girls with our fists, too, but this is far more... pleasant. I don't like having to avoid bruises when kissing them."

"I get what you mean" Amy said, as they walked over to the Mall. "If I was in your situation, I wouldn't want that either."

Cliff nodded, and neither of them then spoke for a few moments, as they entered the Courthouse Mall. As Cliff looked around, he felt quite weird. He'd never been to this mall before this trip, as it wasn't there yet in 1987, and it looked quite impressive. He wondered if he himself visited this mall sometimes. It was a lot bigger than the Lone Pine Mall, and much more central. Suddenly, he could understand why all the shops now were in the centre of the city. As he then looked around some more, he noticed the shop that he needed. It was a shop with perfumes, and also with chloroform. As he looked inside, he noticed something else. It was none else than Marlene McFly, along with that Suzy MacArthur girl, trying to choose some kind of perfume. Cliff felt excited, as he saw some of the girls that he was going to try to capture.

He then turned to point them out to Amy, but then he saw that his ally had already seen the girls. She whistled. "Y'know, this is probably going to be an easy task."

"Who knows?" Cliff said. "Maybe they got some others along with them. We have to make sure that they don't notice us at first, though."

"You're right" Amy said. "We don't want to alert the clerk to us, and we have to purchase the chloroform, first."

Cliff nodded softly, and moved over to the inside, trying to be careful to not be noticed by the girls - but that was quite easily, as they were chatting wildly over the perfumes. "Idiots" Cliff thought. He didn't really get why women always had to discuss those silly things. Well, that was probably because most women were stupid.

As he looked around, he soon found chloroform, enough for ten victims. He smiled happily, then went over to the cashier. Luckily, the woman did not recognize him, nor alert the girls to his presence. Grinning that this had to be his lucky day, he joined up with Amy, and waited.

Within just a few minutes, the girls finished chatting, took a perfume, and paid for it at the counter. Cliff noticed it being packed, and then, the girls moved out.

"You know," Cliff heard Suzy saying, "It was a smart idea of you to get Julie on a trip with the others. Now, we can choose a present for her unharmed."

"Well, I figured that we shouldn't let her know, and this was as inconspicuous as I could think" Marlene said. "Do you think she'll like it?"

"I think she'll love it" Suzy said, grinning from ear to ear. "Thank you for helping me."

"Well, she is your cousin, after all" Marlene said. "Your only one, so I figured that I'd give you some help."

Cliff had enough of the girls talking. He walked close to them, and then, he put his arms around Marlene's back, holding her arms pinned to her sides. Amy did the same with Suzy.

"Griff Tannen?" Marlene shouted. "You're supposed to be in jail!"

Cliff rolled his eyes - he'd heard this story far too many times today. "Where's that Julie girl which you're talking about?"

"In here, along with some other girls" Marlene responded. "But why do you think that I'd tell you where exactly they went?"

In response, Cliff pointed at Amy, who chloroformed Suzy. The girl went limp in Amy's arms. Marlene gasped at the show, and Cliff grinned. "Do you want to meet the same fate?"

"I'll - I'll tell" Marlene said, shaky. "They're at the clothing shop searching a present for my uncle Dave." She looked at Cliff. "Can I go now?"

Cliff laughed. "And alert your parents? No way."

"But - you said..." Marlene stammered.

Cliff smirked. "Never trust a Tannen, baby" he said, grabbing the chloroform from Amy.

And as Marlene pondered that, she was chloroformed, and passed out.

Cliff then looked at Amy. "Do you know where the clothing shop is?"

"Up at the second floor" Amy responded.

Cliff smirked. "Good" he said. "Then it's about time that we are going to pay Marlene's female friends a little visit."

oooooooo

Julie MacArthur was feeling nervous, as she looked around in the shop. In just a few days, it would be her birthday. However, no one seemed to be paying attention to the fact. While she knew that it wasn't really nice to ask for someone which present they would get for her, she had to admit that she was kind of curious.

She especially wondered what she would get from her boyfriend, Emmett Brown. Emmett was the only son of one of the three versions of Marty McFly. Actually, it felt like the boy that Suzy was dating, Marty Junior, was a brother of Emmett, as their fathers were, essentially, the same person. There were some large differences though. Michael Brown had discovered his father, George McFly, being shot in 1973 and came from the world of Biff Tannen. Calvin McFly, officially the twin brother of Marty McFly, came from the original timeline in which George and Lorraine had not gained success, and had then ended up in the alternate world, too. There were some significant differences between all of them. Yet, it was almost like they were all part of a big family. It was such a weird situation!

"So, Julie" Maria Emma Brown said. "How do you think that this suit will look on Mr. McFly?"

"It'll look nice, I suppose" Julie said. "But I think that suit is a little more fitting to George's tastes than to Mr. McFly's."

Maria blushed. "Well, Georgie would surely like it, too" she said. "It would be too large for him, though. Mr. McFly's a lot taller than Georgie, who looks just like his father, his uncle, and his cousin." She looked at Julie. "It's kind of funny that Suzy, you and I all fell in love with the same type of persons."

"Especially with you" Julie said. "You're a Brown, and George is a McFly, meaning that you'll unify the Brown and McFly families... well, the native Browns and the original timeline McFly's."

Maria rolled her eyes at the weird situation. "I suppose" she said. "What do you think, Marlene?"

"It's nice" Marlene said. "I think that he'd appreciate it. We could just as well take that. I did see a nice one on the other side of the shop, though..."

"Well, it looks like you guys really ain't original" a familiar male voice then said. Julie's head, as well as Marlene's and Maria's, immediately turned towards the place the voice came from. "Griff Tannen!" Marlene shouted, horrified. "You're supposed to be in jail!"

Julie growled at the sight of the bastard that would've raped her cousin if not for the intervention of Marty Junior, but then, she noticed something strange. "You aren't Griff Tannen" she said. "Griff Tannen has bionic implants! You haven't got them!"

"Very smart, missy" a female voice said, which Julie immediately recognized as Amy Needles. "Oh no" she thought. Amy and Griff, even without bionics, was bad news.

Amy, in the meantime, walked over to her. "So, two of those MacArthur girls this time?" she said, grinning. "I thought we'd be done with the clones by now. Why do all the girls and guys have to look identical to each other?"

Julie growled. This was one thing she could get annoyed about - not because she hated Suzy, but because she really was her own person. "We do not look identical!" she exclaimed. "Have you got eyes? Well, use them! I'm thinner, my hair's blonde as opposed to Suzy's brownish colour, I'm slightly thinner and slightly shorter! I am not a clone of my cousin!"

"Julie, it's not worth it" Marlene said. She focused on Not-Griff. "Look, I don't know who you are, but why can't you leave us alone? We did nothing wrong!"

Not-Griff rolled his eyes in a 'I've heard this hundreds of times' fashion. "I don't care" he simply said. With a swift move, he then pulled knock-out gass out of his pocket, and sprayed it into Marlene's face. The girl passed out within seconds. Maria let out a yelp. "Run, Julie!"

Julie didn't need to be told that. Both girls soon exited the shop, Not-Griff and Amy on pursuit. Maria ran directly towards the elevator, while Julie tried to stay out of the hands of their enemies as long as possible. It didn't work, though. Not-Griff raced down the stairs and grabbed Maria after exiting the elevator, and Julie found herself to be in serious trouble.

After the fourth round running around on the second floor, she'd managed to exhaust her enemies, but felt tired herself now too. She threw a clothing rack around, onto Amy, then she ducked into the nearest shop, and tried to reach the counter. However, Not-Griff was faster. Within a few seconds, he caught up to her, sprayed chloroform into her face, and tried to grab her but Julie managed to kick him where it hurt the most. She then tried to run away.

However, even though she had managed to get away quite fast, she'd still inhaled a lot of chloroform. Within three steps, Julie felt exhausted. "No..." she thought to herself. "Have... to... resist... can't... fall... asleep..."

As Amy reached the show, however, she found Not-Griff groaning in pain on the floor, and Julie lying about five feet away from him, sleeping peacefully. She grinned. The last girl of this universe was out for the count now.

oooooooo

Mike McFly felt very nervous, as the flashes of light vanished. They were now in the new universe. Maybe, in this world, he wasn't even born. It was a strange thing to think about, but for now, he didn't really want to think about it. After all, there were more important things to attend. The girls that they missed, for example.

"Looks like we made it into one of our universes again, Five" Doc Three said, glancing at the panels. "I guess that I'd better take the wheel again, unless you want to have it."

"No, thank you" Doc Five said. "I'd rather adjust to this universe in my own speed. I still can't grasp the whole situation."

"The feeling is mutual" Doc Six said. "I can't believe the nerve of those... those Tannens. They're just absolutely disgusting."

"Tell me about it" Doc One groaned. "I suppose all of us have had their... experiences with them."

"I iin particular" Chris said. "Especially with Biff, of course, but Cliff wasn't so great either."

"I think we can agree that no Tannen could ever be defined as being 'great' Marty Senior Three said. "They're horrifying. I didn't think that Cliff would be as low to do this, though." He sighed. "I guess that I was wrong."

"Where are we headed?" Alex P McFly asked, as he was busy changing the name tags. They had to fix them up, after the last visit. Currently, they weren't wearing any.

In a response, Doc Three pointed outside. "To my house in this world" he said. "I'm kind of wondering how we're going to figure out where to go, if we want to actually stop Cliff from capturing the girls."

"Our house is a better option though" Doc Five said. "I mean - we can phone the girls from there, as they probably have cell phones on them. That's better than wasting fruitless attempts at finding them first."

Marty Senior Five sighed. "Y'know, is it just bad luck, or is there a reason that those stupid nutcases always succeed in capturing the girls?"

"I've got no idea, to be honest" Doc Three replied. "And for now, it isn't important. Let's go and see what lies waiting for us this time around." With that, he steered the train onto the skyway towards his house.

oooooooo

George Emmett McFly was feeling very nervous, as he paced up and down in the main room. It had been quite some time by now, since Maria, Julie, Marlene and Suzy left. He wondered if something could've happened to them. They shouldn't need to take so long for simple expenses.

He glanced between Emmett David Brown and Martin Seamus McFly Junior, his best friends, and, sort of, his half-brothers. After all, their fathers were the same person, essentially. They were feeling worried too, and George couldn't blame them. This wasn't an every day case - they were probably in serious trouble here.

"I can't believe that they haven't returned just yet" Emmett said, his eyes slightly trembling. "I mean - Julie is always on time." He sighed. "Maybe they have been kidnapped."

"I think that your father's tales of the life in his world affected you a little too much" said Marty Junior. "But, too be honest with you - I'm worried too. This is so unlike them."

"Have you called my grandfather yet?" Emmett said. "He'd know how to solve these things. Grandpa Brown is a smart guy."

"Technically, George McFly, Lorraine Baines, Robert Parker and his wife Marlene are your grandparents" Marty Junior corrected. "Your father was an alternate version of Martin Seamus McFly, and your mother is in fact Jennifer Jane Parker."

Emmett shot him a glare. "I know" he said. "But both Dad and Mom feel about Grandpa Emmett and Grandma Susan like they're their parents. So, I view them as my grandparents, and not Mr. and Mrs. McFly."

"You're right, Emmett" Michael Brown said, walking into the room. "To get back on the issue, though - I called Dad a few minutes ago. He should be here soon, with the bus which he invented a few years ago."

"Why does he have to try to invent as complicated time machines as possible?" Marty Junior said. "I'm only able to get in when you, your parents... the adoptive ones... and your wife clear me, and then I have to know three passwords, press five buttons within five seconds, and sing the national anthem of Malaysia, Sudan, Belgium and Paraguay in order of population of said countries from low to up before the door opens - and then I'm not talking about getting access to the time circuits, which is even harder!" He shook his head. "No offence to your Dad, Uncle Mike, he's a great guy, but when we're talking about time machines, I prefer those of Dr. Emmett Lathrop Brown - Senior - over those of Dr. Christopher Lloyd Brown. They're at least somewhat simple."

"Well, Dad - and I, for that matter - did come from the Hell Valley world, in which my biological Dad was killed and my current one committed and the world on the way to complete destruction because of one single man getting access to one single time machine and making one single time travel trip" Michael said. "With the current time travel possibilities, don't you think that he has the slightest bit of a reason to be paranoid?"

"I suppose so" Marty Junior nodded. "Well, anyway - I do hope that Doc will show up soon. I miss Marlene and Suzy - and the others, of course. I sure hope that nobody's hurting them."

"I'm sure that they'll be fine" Calvin McFly said, walking into the room. "I feel sorry for my niece, future niece-in-law, future daughter-in-law and for Maria, too, but crying doesn't help. I can understand the urge, though."

"Thanks" Marty Jr said. "I - hey!"

Everyone looked towards the window, as they heard the noise of a bus coming down. As they looked better, though, they saw two busses descending to land, instead of one. "What the hell?" George said, confused.

"Something seriously weird is going on here" Marty Junior muttered.

"You bet" his father said, running in. "Maybe a Doc from the future decided to show up."

"Why would he do that?" Emmett asked.

"I wouldn't know" Marty Senior said, shrugging. "Let's just go find out what's going on."

They exited, to see that from both busses Doc's were sticking out of the window, looking baffled at each other. "Um, anyone care to explain what's going on?" Michael said.

One of the Docs looked at the locals, and gasped. "Great Scott! There's three of you this time?"

Another Doc joined him at the window. "Somehow, I doubt that Marty was naturally born as a member of a triplet."

"Are you Doc and Dad from the future?" Michael asked.

"Dad?" one of the Docs said, astonished. "What are you talking about? Isn't George McFly your Dad?"

"... I guess you aren't, then."

"All right" the Doc from the train said. "Anyone care to explain what's going on?"

"That's right" another Doc said - probably Christopher - joining him at the window. "I'm kind of curious."

"Me too" the Doc from the bus said. "What's going on? There's two of you!"

"There's two of you too!"

"That's right," the Doc at the bus window said, "but I assume that you aren't dimension-hoppers!"

"Dimension-hop... this is going to be more complicated than I thought" Doc from the bus said.

"Well, first, I want to ask you guys a few questions" Doc at the window said. "Are you missing some girls, perhaps?"

"Yeah!" Calvin exclaimed. "Marlene McFly, Suzy MacArthur, Maria Emma Brown, and Julie MacArthur. They went missing a short time ago, and I have no idea where they went. They were supposed to be at the mall, you know."

"Oh no" the other Doc at the window said. "It looks like we're too late, Three."

"Well, there's still hope, Five" the Doc identified as 'Three' said. "Let's not get wrong assumptions right away."

"The chance that we still find them uncaptured is smaller than the chance that Biff Tannen becomes good, and you know how little that chance is."

"Uncaptured?" Marty Sr said. "Say, what's going on?"

One of the Docs - the one identified as 'Three' - grinned. "Come on in" he said. "And see for yourself."

The Marty's and others exchanged glances, but finally, they decided to take up on the offer and entered the bus. Imagine their astonishment as they saw not one, not two, but a grand total of six Docs, along with respective Marty Juniors, and sometimes with Marty Seniors. In fact, there were no less than ten Marty Junior-look-alikes. George frowned - shouldn't there be eighteen? Where were eight remaining counterparts of him and Emmett?

One of the MJ-look-alikes frowned, then smiled. "Holy shit - I think I'm dreaming!" he exclaimed. "There's three of us again? Say, would one of you happen to be another version of Alex McFly?"

George, Marty Junior and Emmett all shook their heads. "No" Emmett said. "Sorry. Never heard of the guy."

The Marty Junior-look alike walked back, disappointed. "Oh man" he said. "Is there nowhere any one of me that is really me?"

"Alex, let's save that for later, okay?" Doc Three said. "For now, we'd like to introduce ourselves."

"I'm Doc One" one of the Docs said. "I'm with Marty Senior One, Jennifer '17 and Marty Junior One. Also, we're accompanied by Melody Brown, Mike Hartford and Bill Tannen. We're missing Marlene McFly and Harmony Brown, Marty Junior's girlfriend from our reality."

"I'm Doc '87" another Doc, who was carrying a small tracking device, said. "I'm with TeenMarty here. We're from the 1980s and we're missing Jennifer from 1987."

"I'm Doc Two" a Doc in the back said. "I'm with Marty Junior Two and with Alex J McFly over here, who you've already met. Alex is Marty Junior's cousin - his father is Marty Senior's identical twin. We're missing Stephanie and Stacy Stebbs, girlfriends of MJ and Alex, and we're missing Marlene McFly."

"I'm Doc Three" Doc Three said. "I'm with Marty Senior Three and Marty Junior Three. We're missing Marlene McFly and Suzy MacArthur."

Marty Junior sighed a sigh of relief. "Finally" he said. "I was wondering if Suzy existed somewhere."

Another Doc, sitting close to Doc Two, smirked. "She does, and not just once, but I'm going to disappoint you on this issue, too" he said. "I'm Doc Four, and I'm with Marty Junior Four. Also, we're with Aaron Nelson, Mike Hartford and Bill Tannen. We're missing Harmony, Marlene and Melody. Harmony is Marty Junior's girlfriend."

"I'm Doc Five" Doc Five introduced himself. "I'm with Marty Senior Five, and Marty Junior Five. We're missing Suzy MacArthur, Marlene McFly and Maria Emma Brown. She's my daughter, you know."

"I've got her too" Local Doc said. "She's dating George McFly here."

"Really?" Doc Five said. "Interesting. But... anyway..."

"I'm Doc Six" the final Doc said, nodding. "I'm with Chris Brown, Marty Junior Six, Alex P McFly and Mike McFly, whom we call Mike M. Also, we're with Mike Hartford. We're missing Marlene McFly, Stephanie and Stacy Stebbs, and Lisa Jung - she's Mike's girlfriend."

"I guess that would make me Doc Seven then" Doc said. "With Marty Senior Seven, and Marty Junior Seven." He glanced at Calvin and Michael. "I don't know what your situation is, but do Calvin Arthur McFly and Michael Emmett Brown exist anywhere?"

"My father is Calvin William McFly" Alex J McFly said. "The father of Alex P and Mike M is called the same way. I have never heard of a Calvin Arthur McFly, though. The name would already have been taken, as Uncle Dave is called David Arthur McFly."

"It's just the opposite with us" Doc said. "David William McFly and Calvin Arthur McFly. So, Calvin doesn't exist? And neither does Michael Brown?"

"Well, actually, I was Calvin Arthur McFly, for a few years" Marty Junior Five said. "I was trapped in the 1980s, and took up the disguise of Marty McFly Sr's twin brother. When I went back, though, in early 1988, I went back to being Marty McFly Junior."

"Fascinating" Calvin said. "I'd never expect to find a counterpart in another version of my nephew! Well, it's a small... interdimensional... world, I guess."

"You can say that again" Marty Junior Five said.

"Well, anyway, there's something that puzzles me here" Doc said. "Who on earth are those Tannen-look alikes who you called Bill Tannen? How could you trust a Tannen enough to take him along on a time trip? Don't you know how disastrous the Tannens can be?"

"Trust me - they're the good guys" Marty Junior One said. "Boy, do we have to explain this every time? It seems so strange to me that good Tannens are so foreign to you. Well, I can understand that you see Biff and Cliff and Griff as bad - they are bad. But Miff and Bill aren't bad, and neither was Jill, or Tiff before she got raped."

"Tiff who?" Doc Five asked. "I've never heard of a Tiff or Jill Tannen in my entire life."

"Tiff was Biff's grandmother" Doc Two explained. "She was called Gertrude later in life, though. She was raped by Charlie Needles and the result were Jiff and Jill Tannen, and Jiff was Biff's father."

"Interesting" Doc Three said. "In our world, Gertrude Tannen - she was never Tiff - was Biff's grandmother, and she was married to Driff Tannen, the son of 'Mad Dog' Tannen, Buford, the one who almost shot me in the Old West." He shivered. "Anyway, Driff fathered Miff, not Jiff, and Miff became Biff's father. Both of them were the spitting image of Biff - and Cliff and Griff, for that matter. It seems like a Hill Valley-specific gene."

"Well, that's one consistent thing in our universes" Doc Four smirked. "Similarity in resemblance by relatives."

"So, anyway" Doc said, to cut short the conversation, "those Tannens are good?"

Marty Junior Four nodded. "They wouldn't be on board otherwise."

"I suppose so" Christopher said. "That is quite logical, when you think about it. They seem quite honest to me, too."

"Who are you, anyway?" Bill One asked. "You look a lot like Doc - just a little different."

"Actually, he looks a lot like me" Chris said. "You wouldn't happen to be my counterpart, would you? Are you Christopher Lloyd Brown, Doc Brown's cousin?"

"That's right" Christopher said. "Are you from the Hell Valley world, too?"

"That is correct" Chris nodded. "How did you get three Marty's, though? I suppose at least that these are Marty's counterparts... we only got two."

"You're right, they are the Marty's" Doc said. "And, well, it's a complicated story..."

"...which you can tell later" Doc Three said. "I believe that I hear some familiar chugging in the distance."

Everyone looked up, and noticed the train, moving faster and faster on about twenty feet from the ground."

"The train!" Doc Four exclaimed.

"Wait, what's going on here?" Doc exclaimed. "You still haven't told me! I want to know..."

"That's Cliff and Griff Tannen, and they have stolen the time machine, kidnapped all the girls which we're missing, and are out for much more bad things if we don't stop them right away!"

"...that is enough, thank you very much."

The time bus moved up, and raced through the sky to catch up with the time train. After a few moments, Cliff seemed to notice them, and slowed the train down. The bus slowed down too, and within half a moment the vehicles were hanging in the sky, roughly thirty feet away from each other. Cliff then opened the cab door, and the rescuers-to-be did the same.

"Still chasing me, Browns?" he called out, smirking. "I was kind of wondering where you went. I hadn't seen you for so long."

Doc Three glared at him. "I highly doubt you missed us" he said. "Let those hostages go, and land the train and exit, and we'll do nothing to you!"

"Oh boy, am I scared" Cliff said, sarcastically. "You want me to drag those girls out again? Haven't you got enough yet of seeing them almost drop dead?"

Doc Five stepped forwards and glared at Cliff. "If you don't leave them alone right now, then you're going to be very sorry."

"Still not getting scared, Brown" Cliff said. "Besides, with my new ally, we stand even stronger here."

"New ally?" Doc Four repeated.

Amy Needles stepped into view. "Hi, guys" she said. "Are you a little worried?"

"Amy!" Marty Junior Two exclaimed. "What are you doing with those thugs?"

"The same she would do usually" Marty Junior Three said, balling his fists. "Beating those girls up. If there's one person on free feet that I dislike, it's Amy Needles."

Marty Junior Six eyed him in a strange fashion. "Are we talking about the same Amy Needles here?"

"Yeah, I know that the other versions of me are sissy's" Amy said, shrugging. "I don't care, though. Beating these girls up more than makes up for meeting good me's."

"Let them go!" Marty Junior Four cried out. "Or else, we'll... we'll...

"We're safe here" Cliff said. "We've got all of your missing girls, and we've got some nice chloroform." He shrugged. "But, if you want me to give you those girls back, well, here you got one." He vanished from their view, and returned a few moments later, dragging a girl with him. A very familiar girl.

"JULIE!"

Emmett David Brown shot forwards, narrowly avoiding to fall out of the bus. "Julie!" he repeated. "Are you okay?"

Julie nodded. "Emmett" she whispered. "Help!"

"Emmett?" Cliff said, smirking. "Emmett McFly? Strange name for a McFly. Guess you guys ain't original with name-giving."

"Says a Tannen" Emmett snapped back. "I don't think that Biff, Cliff and Griff are really different from each other, either."

Cliff shrugged. "Anyway," he said, "if you want to get your girlfriend... well, why don't I throw her down, and you try to grab her?"

Emmett paled whiter than ever. "If you do one thing to hurt her, then I'll track you down and chase you for the rest of my life!"

Cliff smiled. "What a brave young fellow" he said. "Don't worry. I'm not planning to hurt her." He smirked evilly.

"Like the alternative is much better" Emmett said. "That's my girlfriend which you are talking about! If she would lose her virginity to you, I'd, I'd..."

"You'd rather have that I throw her down?"

Emmett backed off. Cliff smirked. "You guys wait here" he ordered. "About a quarter. When that time's up, you can follow me again if you like. However, if I get to know anyhow that you're returning before that... then Julie here won't be very happy, and I guess I'll have to rape her right away, and then throw her into the ravine."

Emmett nodded. "Got it" he said, still pale.

Cliff smirked, nodded, backed off and closed the door. Within a few moments, the train was chugging away again. The rescuers watched it as it hit eighty-eight and vanished.

"August 10th, 2017, 6:15 P.M., Hill Valley, California, PF #45" Doc '87 read aloud, miserably.

"PF again?" Doc Three asked.

"Probably an attempt to distract us" Doc Four said.

Doc One turned around. "What do you think that we should do?" he asked.

"My heart says I should not listen" Doc Two said. "My brain says that it's wiser to do so, though."

"I think that your brain is right today" Doc Three said. "We're talking about a Tannen here. I doubt that there's anybody here who does not know where they are capable of - no offence, Bill."

"None taken" both Bills replied at once, and Bill Two continued: "I knew that my family was bad, but this sheds new light to the idea of 'bad'. Since power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely, I hope that holding our girls hostage is absolute power. I don't really want to think that my uncle and cousin would be capable of this in real life."

"I guess that there are some nice Tannens in the multidimensions," Doc remarked, "but that when they are bad, they really are bad."

"You're right" Doc Five said. "And while I highly doubt that Cliff would actually go through with it and throw Julie into the ravine, or any of the girls, I'm not willing to try and experiment. I suppose that we should wait that quarter."

"Yeah" Marty Junior Two said. "Why don't you, in the meantime, tell your story, Doc Seven? Or, to be more accurately, Chris... Chris Two?"

Chris nodded. "Well, I'm from the Biff-horrific world, even though I suppose you already know that" he said. "I got trapped in the 1980s that Biff made, and I was committed to a mental asylum. On October 26th, 1985, though, things changed. At 1:24 AM, Marty McFly, my only hope for several years, showed up from 1955 at the Essex Theatre. I realized that he might've arrived somewhat later on the day, and I managed to slip out a letter and bribe a guard to get it to my garage, where I accurately guessed that Marty was. He visited me that afternoon, and we made plans to get out. On the thirty-first, he actually managed to break me out with help of a fake ID, and, apparently, his local self, Alternate Marty. What followed were two months of working on the time machine, during which we also met Susan Clayton, my future wife, and the Parker twins - Jennifer has a twin sister, Ann, in the alternate world - and we finished the time machine on December 31. I travelled twenty-five years into the future with them, had some adventures, and when we returned, we were found by Biff Tannen. Marty managed to escape, and went back in time, changing the past to how it originally was."

"That's where I come in" Doc said. "I had just returned with Marty and Jennifer from 2015, and then another Marty shows up and requests my help. I was shocked, especially after the mention of Susan dating my counterpart. Soon, however, I came to my senses, and we planned a rescue. Except for Jennifer we then all headed back to the '50s, restored Biff's world, and returned to December 31, where we tried to break out our friends but failed. Biff called my Marty a chicken, and all hell broke loose. He finally came to his senses, and managed to outsmart Biff. Biff, however, ordered his goons to shoot us, and would've gone through with it except for Lorraine showing up with a rifle. We then managed to flee to the time machine and to 1958, and after scaring Biff with a 'Darth Vadar' trick, we got back to 1985 unharmed, with three Marty's, two me's, two Jennifer's, one Ann and one Susan. My counterpart renamed himself Christopher Lloyd Brown, and he and Susan adopted Jennifer and Marty. Later on, I found love too, by Clara Clayton."

"Susan Clayton and Clara Clayton" Doc Two groaned. "I can't believe I'm the only one - well, except for Chris One - married to Jessica Hoffman in a sea of me's all married to Clara. And when there's another one, he's married to another Clayton! I can't believe this!"

"Sorry" Doc said, smiling slightly. "But it's the truth, I'm afraid. I suppose it's a confusing situation."

"Yeah" Doc Two muttered. "At least I already knew that Jessica wasn't the only option from 1986. Otherwise..."

Doc nodded. "I guess that this is a real weird situation. I don't care, though. I just want the girls back."

As all Doc's nodded, time flew by. Within a few minutes, it finally was time to go again. Doc Three took the controls, and the time bus flew up into the sky. After tapping in the Destination Time, Doc Three accelerated faster and faster, until the time train finally broke the time barrier, and the IDIATM Universe was left behind.