August 10, 2017
06:15 PM PDT
Calvin Klein Universe
Julie MacArthur felt horrible, as she sat in the back of the time train. She was currently being captured by one person which she had hoped to never see again - Griff Tannen. He'd harassed her much less than Suzy when they first arrived in Hill Valley, but still she was glad to have gotten rid of him. An alternate version of him showing up and making life hell for her was not something which she liked.
In the front, she saw Cliff smirk. "I like the originality" he said, smirking. "Julie MacArthur. Nice name. Why weren't you along earlier?" He turned to Suzy Three and Suzy Five. "Don't you have a cousin called Julie?"
"I dunno about the other me, but I do" Suzy Three said. "She doesn't know about the time machine, though. She's currently single." She looked over at Julie. "I'm sorry that you had to be involved in this mess."
"It's not your fault" Julie said. "It's theirs." With that, she shot a glare towards Cliff.
"Now, that ain't kind" Cliff said, playfully. "I guess no one has taught you to be respectful to others."
"How many girls have we got now?" Griff asked.
"Let's see" Cliff muttered. "There's Jennifer, Marlene One and Harmony One - that makes three. Adding Marlene Two, Stephanie Two and Stacy Two makes six, if I'm not mistaken."
"You're actually doubting that?" Julie said, dumb-founded. "How stupid are you?"
"For him, truancy is a way of life" Jennifer half-sarcastically remarked. "I am surprised that he managed to figure it out."
Cliff ignored them. "Then, there's Marlene Three, Suzy Q Three..."
"Quit calling me that!" Suzy Three exclaimed.
"...and Marlene Four, along with Harmony Four. That's ten. Then, we have Marlene Five, Suzy Five and Maria Brown, and Marlene Six, Lisa, Stephanie and Stacy Six Stebbs. That's seventeen. Finally, we got Suzy, Maria, Marlene and Julie. That makes twenty-one girls."
"Nice" Griff said, smirking. "Maybe we should settle down? We each got ten girls now."
"That's right" Cliff said. "We could stop, if we could somehow manage to get those stupid Browns and McFly's to leave us alone."
"I don't think we really have to worry about them" Amy said. "I know that you wouldn't throw out that girl, but they seemed frightened enough to back off. I don't think we'll be seeing them again for a while."
"Which is good, which means that we can continue our hostage-hunt undisturbed" Cliff said, with a smirk. "Oh, I just love this."
"Agree with you on that, Dad" Griff said, with a smile. "I wish that I'd met you sooner, you know. I would've liked to get on this experience earlier. All those years... those McFly's really don't seem to be afraid of us anymore..."
"Those weirded-out nutcases" Amy agreed. "The Browns are the worst of them all, though. I can't imagine how that nutcase actually managed to invent a time machine. He never struck me as being smart enough to do that."
"Well, he definitely is" Griff said. "And we're using it to our advantage." He grinned evilly.
Marlene Two shot him a glare. "They're going to come and get you, you know."
"Yeah" Harmony Four agreed. "You don't think that they are going to leave us stuck in here with you guys?"
Cliff shrugged. "Well, I doubt that they'd do that" he said. "I don't think they want us to hurt you girls." He smiled, lightly pulling on the ear of Stephanie Two, who let out a slight cry of pain. "I don't care what they want, though. We'll do whatever we like."
"That's right" Amy said. "And they can't stop us now." She grinned.
"Are we about to land just yet?" Griff asked. "I'm curious what we'll find here."
"Me too, even though it's beginning to get boring" Cliff said. "The visits, I mean. Entertaining ourselves with those girls will never get boring." He grinned.
Julie sighed in desperation. "This is heavy" she groaned.
"It's going to get much heavier" Griff said with a smirk. "You guys don't know what you're up to just yet. If you knew, then you'd enjoy this."
"Don't be so stupid, son" Cliff said, with a smirk. "They'll obviously enjoy it when we'll kiss them, and can't wait for us to settle down. They just don't want to admit it."
Marlene Four growled. "I'm not that kind of girl, you know!"
"Maybe you are, and you just don't know it yet" Cliff said, kissing her hair. "You're very sexy, miss. Why don't we just together go have a nice, quiet, undisturbed time, huh?"
"If I was, then I'd know it by now" Marlene Four snapped. "Get away from me."
"You're right" Cliff said, walking back to the controls. "I have to get away. I gotta land this thing." With that, he moved the train down, and landed it smoothly close to Courthouse Square. "I'm getting to be good at this."
"Oh, I wouldn't doubt that" Amy said, grinning. "You're very nice, Cliffy."
"Thanks, Amy" Cliff said, with a smile. He took her arm, and together, they exited the train. Julie looked after them, sighed another deep sigh, and leaned back in her seat. This was bad.
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Cliff Tannen smiled broadly, as he walked up to town. Once again, he was going through an interesting phase. He wondered who he would capture, now.
The Courthouse Square was once again very much the same. Cliff frowned slightly as he looked at it. He still wondered why they had turned the Courthouse into a Mall. Wasn't Lone Pine Mall good enough? Also, why had they still not replaced that stupid clock? Cliff guessed that people in the 2010s were just as stupid as people in the 1980s. Lucky enough, his son and Amy were exceptions to that.
As Cliff looked around, he felt himself wondering where the local versions of his soon-to-be-captives were. He figured that he probably should check the Mall out, once again.
As he was looking, he suddenly spotted someone who looked an awful lot like Marty McFly Junior. Cliff grinned excitedly, and pointed the teen out to Amy, who nodded. Cliff and Amy soon reached Marty Jr, being careful not to be seen. After all, they didn't want the teen to alert the girls.
They went on to follow Marty Jr into the Mall, and all through the building. Eventually, he arrived at a store, where Marlene and a girl who Cliff didn't instantly recognize were shopping for a present for Dave McFly once again. She did look a lot like Maria Brown. Cliff decided not to care, and Amy and he sneaked into the shop, and hid close to the girls and Marty Jr.
"Oh, hi Calvin!" the girl who looked a lot like Maria said. "How are you doing?"
"Calvin McFly?" Cliff whispered to Amy. "What's that supposed to mean? Shouldn't he be Marty?"
"I dunno" Amy whispered back. "Guess the McFly's are kind of stupid when choosing names."
"Just fine, Susie" the boy identified as Calvin said. He then looked around, and, once assuring himself that no one was looking, he briefly kissed Susie, or Susan as she was most likely called, on the lips.
"And there comes girlfriend number four" Cliff muttered, sarcastically. "He really can't choose."
"Yeah" Amy nodded. "Harmony, Stephanie, Suzy, Susan... I wonder why he looked around first, though."
Their question was soon answered as Marlene looked at Calvin, and frowned. "Cal, you gotta be more careful" she said. "I know that you aren't really second cousins, but you're supposed to be them. And you know that there's a taboo on cousin marriages, even second cousin ones."
"Second cousin?" Cliff repeated. "What's that supposed to mean?"
"Guess we'll have to ask them about it once we capture them" Amy said. "I'm kind of curious, too."
Calvin nodded. "You're right, Marly" he said. "I just wish that Gramps hadn't pretended to be Doc's nephew in the fifties. It would've caused us a lot less trouble now."
Cliff stared at Amy. "George McFly pretending to be Brown's nephew?"
"This is a really weird dimension, I suppose" Amy said, nodding. "Now I'm even more curious to find out what's going on."
Marlene sighed. "Yeah, anyway" she said. "Well, what do you think of the suit we picked for Mr. McFly? I think that it'd... suit him, if you know what I mean."
"Bad sense of humour" Amy muttered.
Calvin chuckled. "Yeah, I suppose it would" he said. "We'll purchase this item then."
"Yeah" Susan nodded. "We don't have all day. I don't get how some people can enjoy shopping for so long."
Calvin agreed. "Yeah" he said. "I always get tired in clothing shops. It's inavoidable."
The trio then walked off, leaving Cliff and Amy behind. "What are we going to do?" Amy whispered, careful not to be overheard.
"Just wait" Cliff said. "They're finishing their purchases now, and I suppose that they won't do much more here anymore afterwards. I propose that we follow them, and when they're seperated, we capture the girls. McFly - Calvin, I suppose - will not know what has happened to them."
Amy smirked. "Yeah, that's a good idea!" she exclaimed. "Let's do that."
Cliff nodded swiftly, as the McFly's returned, and exited the shop. Cliff waited for them to be a few feet away, before following them. He and Amy both sneaked out of the shop, and soon they resumed their 'chasing game' again.
The girls walked through the floor, and paused for a moment to purchase a milkshake in a smallish shop next to the escalator downwards. Cliff and Amy hid behind a nearby flower, and watched the girls and 'Calvin' from a distance.
"This is vacation" Susan smirked. "Relaxing, sitting here and leaning backwards in a nice chair in a snack shop, in the Courthouse Mall, holding a milkshake."
"That's right" Calvin nodded. "I might not like the rest of shopping, but this is certainly nice. If it wasn't so unhealthy, I'd like to do this more often."
"Well, it can't be too unhealthy" Susan pointed out. "After all, it's a milkshake... remember?"
Marlene chuckled. "Yeah, yeah" she said. "You're right."
"Well," Calvin said, putting down his milkshake, "I hope that Mr. McFly will like the suit." He frowned. "Oh."
"What's the matter?" Susan asked.
"Looks like I have to go visit the bathroom" Calvin responded. "I'll be back in a few minutes." He hurried off.
"Take your time" Susan called after him. "We can amuse ourselves here with these." With that, she pointed at the milkshakes.
Calvin smirked, and walked out of sight. Cliff and Amy exchanged glances.
"Now?" Amy said. "He could be back in just a few minutes, y'know."
"By that time, we'll probably be out of the shop" Cliff said. He moved up, and started sneaking over to the girls, Amy following. He looked at Amy once more. "Looks like it's showtime."
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Susan Brown felt completely relaxed, as she just was sitting there, slowly sipping off her milkshake. It's wasn't finished yet, not even half, but she liked to drink it calm. That way, she'd enjoy it more. She smiled at Marlene, who seemed to share her sentiments. Today certainly was going to be a very nice day.
She then wondered what life would've been like, if Marty McFly had made it back to the future, and, as a result, her father and uncle had not been born. After all, it was partly thanks to Marty McFly, that Dr. Emmett L. Brown met Julia Clayton.
Marlene's mother, Jennifer Parker, would certainly have not married Calvin Klein Jr in that case - as Calvin Jr wouldn't even exist. In fact, she might as well have married Calvin Sr - Marty McFly - who had been dating her up until the day he vanished from 1985. Susan didn't doubt that the lack of Marty McFly in 1955 would've had fargoing consequences.
"Well, lookee what we have here" a familiar voice then said. Susan turned around, and gasped at the sight of Griff Tannen. She had thought that the guy was still in jail for attempting to frame Calvin III. However, Calvin had been suspicious, and had told the police, and had thereafter managed to get Griff in jail. Now, Griff appeared to be free again. She had never felt so shocked before.
"Griff Tannen!" she shouted. "What the heck are you doing here! Did you escape from prison?"
"I wouldn't put it past him" Marlene said, growling. "Can't you ever keep us Kleins alone?"
Griff blinked. "Kleins?"
"That's my name, yeah" Marlene said. "Marlene Klein. You know that. The daughter of Calvin Klein Junior?"
"Oh, are we going senile now?" Griff said, grinning. "Amy!"
A familiar girl appeared on the scene. "Amy Needles" Susan growled. "I could've figured that you would be involved in this."
Amy shrugged. "Know what, missy, I don't care what you figured." She then grabbed Susan's arm, giving a punch to one of the milkshakes. Griff did the same with Marlene, however her milkshake remained standing. Griff stared at it, though, and threw it away, spilling milkshake-contents all over the floor.
"What are you doing!" Marlene screamed. "Let me go! And those milkshakes were half-full! You are going to pay for that, you know!"
Griff didn't seem to be impressed, though. Quite the contrary, he smirked at her, and then simply punched her unconscious.
Susan gasped, and Amy chuckled. "Now, why don't you come with us nice and easy, or we'll do the same to you" she said. Susan nodded, and Griff took Marlene on his shoulder. Amy and he then each grabbed one of Susan's arms.
They walked towards the escalator, and started heading downwards. As Susan then glanced over her shoulder, she saw Calvin arriving back at the scene. He looked at all of the mess of the milkshakes, and gasped. He swiftly looked around, and then noticed Susan, and the guy and girl who were carrying him.
"Holy shit, Griff Tannen!"
"It's McFly!" Amy exclaimed. "I told you we wouldn't have enough time for this!"
"His name is Klein" Susan protested.
Griff paused in the escalator to stare at her. "You know, I should punch you unconscious, too."
Amy glanced at him. "You know how much such a dead weight weighs?" she asked. "Besides, we don't have time for that. McFly is coming after us."
Susan glanced over her shoulder, and noticed her boyfriend storming down the elevator, looking more enraged than she'd ever seen him. As a result, Griff and Amy also sped up, racing off the escalator and through the hallway up to the second escalator. Calvin followed them closely, though.
"Stop playin' the hero, will ya?" Amy called out, grabbing a handful of apples from a nearby stand. Before the eyes of the stupidified greengrocer, she threw them onto the ground. Calvin stumbled over them, and smacked down to the ground.
He, however, wasn't beaten yet. He managed to get back to his feet within no time, and followed the bad guys onto the second escalator just a mere ten seconds behind. "You've gone too far now, Griff Tannen!" he shouted angrily, as he raced down.
"Quit calling me Griff!" Griff shouted back.
"Well, what else should I call you?" Calvin shouted.
"I ain't going to tell you!"
Susan stared at Griff. "Who are you then, anyway?"
"Cliff Tannen, pleased to make my accquintance" he said, kissing Susan on the mouth while running. Susan felt disgusted. Griff - Cliff? - then turned towards Amy.
"This is taking too long" he said. "That McFly/Klein jerk isn't giving up."
Amy looked behind her, noticed McFly coming off the escalator, and nodded. "Let's duck into a place to hide" she said.
"Perfect" Cliff said. "I'll track a place like that down."
They then exited, and Cliff ducked besides the gate leading out of the Mall, finding a place to hide just behind a bush there. A few moments later, Calvin exited, and looked around bewildered.
"He hasn't seen us" Amy whispered, as quiet as possible.
"Yeah, but he's still chasing us" Cliff whispered back. "We have to get him out of here - preferably, away from the direction in which we're headed."
"I agree, but how?"
Cliff looked down, and saw a stone next to the pond. He grabbed it, and, standing up, careful that Calvin didn't see him, he threw it to the right, towards the ally leading up to the Square, just while Calvin was looking the other way.
It had the expected effect. Calvin heard the stone land, and looked in the direction of the stone. Suspicious, he walked in the direction of the stone. Amy cheered inside, as Calvin ran past the Café 80s.
"Now!" Amy hissed.
Cliff and Amy, holding Susan, quickly headed the opposite way as where they had sent Calvin. With Amy guiding the way, Susan was carried away from the Square. After a few minutes, as Cliff was sure that they were safe, he turned towards Amy. "You think it's safe now?" he asked.
Amy nodded. "Yeah" she said. "If that guy still goes after us, he can't find us anymore. Not in time, anyway."
Cliff smirked. "That was what I wanted to hear" he said. He then turned to Susan, and slammed his fist into her face.
It went too quick for Susan, giving her no time to respond at all. She was awake for just three more seconds, and then, she fell unconscious, Cliff and Amy catching her with a grin. It had been extremely hard this time, but also this time around they had managed to reach their goal.
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Emmett David McFly was feeling extremely worried, as the bus entered the new dimension. He really wasn't used to this, after all. Even though his father could actually a little relate to these things, as he came from something that seemed to be pretty much like an alternate reality, himself. However, this certainly was a different situation.
The thing he was most worried about, though, was that the girls that he loved very much were captured by Cliff and Griff Tannen. He balled his hands into fists, as he couldn't believe that they could, once again, be so bad. He figured that this really wasn't just Biff-specific, and that all Tannens were bad - except for the exceptions that one of the Marty Junior's had named in the previous reality, of course.
"It looks like we, once again, have made it to another world" Doc '87 said. "This is getting so depressing, you know. We've been at this for... what, fourteen hours, now?" He sighed, placing his head in his hands. "I remember that I hoped that we would be able to solve this quickly, back when we first went away. Now, we're visiting the... sixth world? The seventh? I lost count by now."
"Well, I was Doc number seven, so I suppose that this is the eighth world by now" Doc Seven said. "I guess that I can see what you mean, even though this is my first dimension travel of this trip." He looked outside. "What do you think that we will encounter here? It was a PF kind of dimension again..."
"Yeah, that's correct" Doc Three said. "We're with three PF'ers, now... and this should bring in the fourth. The EJ'ers are still in the majority, though." He sighed. "Not that I care, of course. For all I care, they can be with twenty-five. I just want Marlene and Suzy back. Marty has sometimes felt like a son to me, and Marlene therefore feels like a granddaughter, and Suzy like a future granddaughter-in-law. I..." He sighed, helpless.
"I know how you feel" Doc One said. "I can't stand the thought of my granddaughter, and the other girls, being in hands of that monster." He growled, displaying his obvious rage.
"I feel the same thing, about Maria" Doc Five said. "Great Scott, if those... those bastards do anything to my daughter, they're going to pay for it!" His face went red as his temper rose.
"Relax, Doc Five" Chris One said. "I can understand how you feel, I have an intense dislike for the Tannens myself, but we can't do much right now."
His counterpart nodded. "He's right" Chris Two said. "We should just calm down and lean back... no matter how hard that might sometimes be."
"Yeah" Michael said. "We don't really want to confront him again." He growled. "I can remember how he tortured Emmett with threatening to throw Julie into the ravine. I know how much my son feels about that girl, and my heart really went out to him." He patted Emmett on the back.
"Thanks, Dad" Emmett said, smiling slightly.
"It's all right, son."
"So, where are we, now?" Marty Junior Seven asked. "Anything around that you recognize just yet?"
Doc Three shook his head. "Not one of us, or the villain train, if you mean that." He growled. "The nerve of those Tannens! To actually take my train like that..." He shook his head again in desperation. "If they somehow manage to damage it... I worked nine full years on that thing! Putting every single bolt into place, making it as clean as possible..." He sighed. "I know, I should not even care about the train as our girls are much more important, but... my poor train..."
"I know how you feel" Doc '87 said. "I felt the same way when I found out that my DeLorean was stolen."
"And me when my station wagon went missing" Doc One said. "It's only natural to feel that way about something that you made with your own hands, and then to see it in the hands of those... creeps..."
Doc Four nodded. "I might have dismantled my train, but it wasn't very easy. I had to remind myself that it would be too big to keep around, and too obvious, and in the end, I preferred the end of my train over the end of the space-time continuum."
Doc Three nodded. "I guess that I can see what you mean, but I did really want to keep it around. I did manage to hide it, in my cellar, and I bought a DeLorean soon. It came quite a lot in handy for family trips. Station wagons even can only fit four, and five if you fit them in good." He sighed. "Unfortunately, those thieves also can profit from the extra room. They would have been forced to stop a long time ago if every single one of us had chosen to dismantle the train, and then a lot of girls would've been safe."
"You're right" Doc Five said, sighing. "I guess we're partially responsible for this."
"That's not true" Doc Two said. "There's always the time bus, of course. I think that all of us have some responsibility for this - but the ones most responsible are Cliff, Griff and Amy, of course. At least, we didn't do things on purpose. Also, we didn't realize that such a thing would happen when we built the busses and the trains. I guess that we can't really blame anyone - including ourselves. The only ones to blame here, are the thieves of the time train - Cliff and Griff Tannen, and Amy Needles."
"Well-spoken" Doc One said. "I fully agree with you. You do make a good point."
"Thanks" Doc Two said, sighing. "Unfortunately, making a good point doesn't help our sake the slightest bit."
"That's what I figured" Doc Three nodded. "Well, let's head to the Square now." He steered the time machine in the direction of Courthouse Square. "I doubt we'll have much chance to find those girls, though. And I don't really want to get in another confrontation with Cliff."
Doc Four shivered. "Yeah, considering what happened last time, I don't think that anyone would want that."
TeenMarty sighed. "I just can't believe they are really being so evil now. I always knew that they were bad, but I never thought of them as being this bad." He shook his head. "Guess I was wrong."
"Yeah" Marty Senior Seven nodded. "Biff isn't the only Tannen who'd easily create a Hell Valley if he'd get the chance to do so."
"No" Calvin said. "Quite the contrary - Cliff and Griff would make it even worse. I know, I've seen what the alternate 2010 was like, under Cliff's command. It was hell, just like 1985-A. Cliff and Griff are as horrifying as their Dad and Grandpa."
"Completely agree with you on that, other-Dads" Marty Junior Five muttered. "I - I just can't believe..."
He frowned. "Wait a minute..."
"What's wrong, Junior?" Doc Five asked.
Marty Junior Five pointed out of the window. "Look over there."
Doc Five and Marty Senior Five looked out of the window to check what Marty Junior Five saw. Doc Five gasped. "Great Scott!" he exclaimed. "It's another you!"
"What's up?" Doc Three asked.
"It's another Marty Junior" Marty Senior Five said. "See for yourself."
Doc Three looked down, and all the others followed, including Emmett. Surely, a young teenager looking just like the Marty Jrs/Alexes/Mike was standing there, a short distance away from the Square, sighing desperately, and talking into a cellphone. Emmett wondered what had happened.
"What should we do?" Doc Six asked. "Introduce us to him?"
"Yes" Doc Four said. "We'll have to get into contact with him anyway."
Doc Three nodded. He landed the bus in front of the teen. Emmett couldn't hide a smile as the boy looked at the bus, astonished. His other self, or whoever he was, was certainly going to be in for a surprise.
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Calvin III Klein looked at the bus astonished. He couldn't believe what he was seeing. It looked like a flying bus, but through the windows, he could see - well, himself! He wondered if his teenaged father had come to visit, just like he had done the year before. This really made him feel disorientated.
"Calvin!" Calvin Jr then shouted through the cell phone. "I asked you where Griff and Amy went, and you didn't answer!"
"I don't know, Dad" Calvin III said. "I lost them. But..." He stared in front of himself. "This is so weird. I can't believe what I'm seeing, but there's a bus landing in front of me - and it looks like there's another version of me is inside!"
"What?" Calvin Jr exclaimed. "That's... that's almost impossible! I can't believe this! There really is another you, there?"
"Yeah" Calvin III said. "I just thought that maybe it was you as a teen - but you didn't have a bus, did you?"
"No" Calvin Jr said. "Listen, you contact the fellows in that bus, and find out if they're good or bad. If you don't call back or meet me within a quarter, I'll assume that they're bad. So, please, if you can, call me back. This appears to be really important."
"Get it, Dad" Calvin III said, hanging up. The door of the bus then opened, and Doc Brown stepped out. He looked to be quite stressed.
"Doc!" Calvin exclaimed. "What's going on! Why am, uh, I there? Is it my Dad, from the past?"
The Doc shook his head. "Marty," he said, "we're facing something more confusing than just that."
Calvin frowned. "I suppose that I can believe that" he said. "You've never called me Marty before. What's wrong, Doc? Did you forget my name?"
"Sorry" Doc said, slightly confused. "I have a good reason, which will find out soon. But if you're not a Marty, who are you then? Alex? Mike?"
"My name is Calvin" Calvin said, frowning again. "Calvin George Klein. Didn't you know that?"
"Calvin" Doc said, muttering. "Calvin George... wait a minute. Did you say Klein?"
"Yeah" Calvin said, confused. "That's my last name. Calvin George Klein, or Calvin the Third, son of Calvin Emmett Klein Junior and Jennifer Jane Parker. Why should it be different?"
The pale look on Doc's face made it clear that he thought very different about that. After a few seconds, he calmed down, and managed to produce a smug grin. "You'll find out" he said. "Come on board. Trust us, it's safe here."
Calvin frowned, again, but followed Doc. As he entered, though, his jaw dropped. The bus was filled with people, all wearing name tags. There were quite the few who looked like his Dad, Calvin Jr, quite the few Docs, some others, and even some who looked like him, but they were all named 'Marty Junior', 'Alex', 'Mike' and two were even 'George' and 'Emmett'. The only Calvin around was a man who looked like his father, who wore the name tag of 'Calvin McFly'. The last name on the cards surprised Calvin the most.
"McFly?" he read aloud.
"What did you expect, Brown?" the boy identified as Marty Junior Six said.
"Apparently, his last name is Klein" the Doc who had first met him said. "His name is Calvin Klein, and his father's name is Calvin Klein too."
The Calvin Juniors gasped. "Calvin Klein?" one of them repeated. "I can't believe this! I mean... Calvin Klein was the alias that I used in 1955!"
"The alias that you used in 1955?" Calvin III said, inspecting the name tag of the guy. "Marty McFly Senior?" he repeated, reading the text on the name card. "You look just like... my Dad! But Marty McFly was my grandpa... well, he couldn't use that name anymore when he was stuck in the 1950s, but, well, he was my grandfather."
"Stuck in the 1950s" Marty Senior Four muttered. "This is so unbelievable."
"No, it's familiar" his counterpart number three said. "I remember this, you know. I went back to the 1950s and ended up being trapped there in a world which we visited before." He turned to his Doc. "Don't you remember?"
"That's right" Doc Three. "In that world, there was a Calvin Klein Sr, Junior, and a Calvin III as well. I can remember how sad I felt, when seeing Clayton Ravine - but eventually, everything did end up working out."
"Why would anyone feel sad about seeing Clayton Ravine?" Calvin III asked, confused.
"It's because I met my wife, Clara Clayton, after rescuing her from falling into that ravine" Doc One said. "And it's the same with the others."
"Except for me" Doc Two said. "I'm married to a woman named Jessica Hoffman."
"Never heard of her."
"I kind of figured you would" Doc Two said. "You're from his kind of worlds." With that, he pointed at Doc Three.
"His kind of worlds?" Calvin III repeated.
"We're going through two kinds of worlds" Doc Four said. "The EJ ones and the PF ones. Doc '87, Doc One, Doc Two, Doc Six and I are from the EJ worlds, along with our Marty's and other allies. Doc Three, Doc Five, Doc Seven and you are from the PF worlds, along with your group. So, your group is smaller, as for now."
Calvin III could care less, as he was still trying to grasp everything. "All right" he said. "You guys are from... another world?"
"That is correct" Doc Six said. "Another dimension, so to speak."
"And, in your worlds, Grandpa never got stuck in the fifties?" Calvin III asked.
"Correct again" Doc Three said. "That seems to be one thing consistent."
"But, why are you guys here, anyway?" Calvin asked. "Shouldn't you be back in your own worlds?"
"That is a very long story" Doc Five said. "We have a question first, though... are you, by any chance, missing any girls?"
Calvin III nodded, surprised. "Yeah!" he exclaimed. "I went with them to the Courthouse Mall, had to go to the bathroom, and when I came back, Griff and Amy were kidnapping them! I chased them, but I had to give up, eventually, as I lost track of them. I was just informing my Dad, when you guys showed up."
Marty Senior Five smirked slightly. "Such a weird world, and yet, you manage to do what neither of us could - actually see the kidnapping" he said. "Neither of us managed it. However, Marty Senior Three did get his Marlene on the phone, just moments before she was taken away by Cliff."
"Cliff?" Calvin III repeated. "Now that I think about it, he did not have any bionics, that's right, but I don't think that would be enough reason to assume that it was Cliff..."
"It was Cliff, trust us" Marty Junior Four said. "He stole first the DeLorean, then a station wagon, then a time train, and started kidnapping girls. He's allied to Griff Tannen and Amy Needles, by now. It's just getting worse and worse."
Calvin shook his head, at everything that he'd just heard. "I suppose we've got to stop him, then" he said. "We can't just keep hanging around here."
"That is correct" Chris One said. "You wouldn't have an idea where they went, would you?"
Calvin III shook his head. "Sorry" he said. "I lost them. I heard something, and when I went to look, I found nothing. They must've run off the other way, but I have no idea just where that is, as they could've gone anywhere by now."
Doc Four growled. "They always seem to slip away from us" he muttered.
"I suppose they are just lucky" Doc '87 said, growling. "Knowing the Tannens and the Needles family, it can't be intelligence."
Calvin III hit the side in frustration. "I - I can't believe it!" he exclaimed. "I had a chance to stop them, and I completely blew it. If I... if I had known..."
"Calm down, Calvin" Doc Two said. "You did everything you could. It's not your fault. We all seem to have underestimated the Tannens."
"That's right" Doc '87 said. "I never figured that they would figure out the workings of the time machine either. Even though Biff did, in fact, manage that back in 2015." He sighed. "I feel incredibly responsible for this whole mess. If I had just brought back those matchbooks to Biff, the whole thing would've never happened!"
"Matchbooks?" Doc Three asked.
"If I remember correctly, back in 1987, I asked Biff to come over for a waxing job, and he lost his matchbooks at my place" Doc One said. "I forgot to bring them over, and I suppose that Cliff came to get those matchbooks, and then noticed the DeLorean."
"Why would you ask Biff Tannen for a wax job?" Chris Two said, growling as he spoke the name of his lifelong enemy. "Even with one of his grandsons being good in your reality, you must've known that such a thing would end in disaster."
"I know" Doc '87 nodded. "But there were no others that I could turn to, as they all were on vacation, and my car desperately needed to be cleaned. I kind of figured 'what the hell' and thought that letting him wax the car once, while I was typing things out on the computer nearby, wouldn't be too bad. And, indeed, things went all right there, and he even did a good job, after I had reminded him five times that I needed two coats, not one - it was when he left that the problems started, with the matchbooks."
"I'd call it more than just 'the problems'" Doc One said.
"You're right."
"So, what's next?" Calvin asked. "I don't want to just sit here while that monster is kidnapping my girlfriend and sister."
"You're absolutely right" Doc Three nodded. "I'd say that we could maybe look around. That way, we can try to spot them before we go farther."
"Shouldn't we contact my parents, Grandpa Klein and Doc, first?" Calvin asked. "I mean, it isn't entirely right to keep them out of this."
"We will, we will" Doc Three said. "I just want to try to catch those bastards before they leave."
Doc Four frowned. "You know how much trouble it caused last time" he said.
"Yeah, I know, but we have to do something!" Doc Three exclaimed, slamming his fist onto the table, causing him to temporary yelp from the pain before the frustration got more important again. "I can't just, just stand here as Suzy and Marlene are missing! These are the daughter and the daughter-in-law-to-be of my best friend which we are talking about here!" He growled. "If those Tannens hurt them, or do anything to them, then I'll, I'll..."
"Relax, Three" Doc Five said. "I know, and I agree. We're talking about my daughter too, after all."
"And mine" Doc Seven said.
"Luckily my daughter was spared" Chris Two said. "I guess she would've been too old for Cliff and Griff anyway."
"You have a daughter?" Doc Six asked.
Chris Two nodded. "Yeah - one daughter. Victoria Maria Brown. Aged 31 by now. She's the twin sister of Martin Calvin Brown. She just celebrated her thirty-first birthday a few weeks ago."
"That does bring up an interesting issue" Doc One said. "What kind of kids do we all have?"
"Yeah, I would be curious to hear that, too" Doc Seven said. "What about you?"
"I've got two sons and one daughter, Jules, Verne and Haven Brown" Doc One said. "Jules was born on August 12th, 1886 - or 1978 - and Verne on May 31st, 1888 - or 1980. Haven came on November 12th, 1986, right at 10:04 PM."
"Impressive" Doc Two said. "Jessica and I have got two sons: Jules and Verne, both born on December 12th, 1987. They're twins, you know."
"Identical?" Doc Three asked, with disbelief. "Their personalities have always been so contrasting..."
"Yeah, identical" Doc Two said. "They aren't identical in behaviour, though."
"That's what I figured" Doc Five nodded.
"Anyway," Doc Three added, "I've got four children; Jules, Verne, Martin and Maria. Jules was from September 25th, 1886 or 1977, Verne from October 29th, 1888 or 1979, Martin from November 12th, 1986, at 10:04 PM as well, and Maria from February 20th, 1991."
"I have Jules and Verne on the same dates as Doc One, and I've got Haven one year earlier" Doc Four announced. "She was still born on 10:04 PM, though."
"Clara and I had our kids on the dates that Doc Three mentioned, but not at the years" Doc Five said. "Jules came in 1986, Verne in 1987, Martin in 1996, and Maria in 1998."
"As for me, I had Jules on December 12, 1987, and Verne on August 31st, 1989" Doc Six said. "Chris here had his daughters, Emily and Martina, born on December 12th, 1987, as well."
"Really?" Marty Jr Four said, with disbelief. "Your kids were born on the same day as your counterpart's oldest son?"
Chris One nodded. "Yeah" he said. "It confused me, too."
"I have Jules in 1987, Verne in 1988, and Maria in 1999" Doc Seven said. "No Martin for me. Chris had a Martin, though - Martin Calvin Brown, born July 25th, 1986. He got Martin's twin sister on the same day, Victoria Maria Brown, and the next year, Herbert George Brown was born, on October 29th, 1987."
"Interesting" Calvin III smirked.
"Certainly" Chris Two nodded. "It quite surprises me too, what all is around in the multiverse."
"How's the search going, Three?" Doc Six asked.
"Bad" Doc Three said. "I can't find them anywhere." He growled. "It's been ten minutes, now."
"Haven't you got a more specific option on your time tracker?" Doc One said. "One that shows you where exactly they are, and what distance? You were working on that in 1990."
"Future me, please!" Doc '87 groaned.
"Sorry, I had to mention that."
Doc Three nodded, sheepishly. "It uses a lot of the energy in the batteries, though, and if we want to keep at this, we're going to need to be economic. We don't want to run out of them and have no way to track down where Cliff went at all, anymore. Granted, we could buy new batteries, and wait for them to load, but that would all cost us valuable time. And if, by that time, Cliff has left the new universe already..."
"We could just go to an earlier time, in that case" Doc Four said. "I suppose that you were just hesitant to face the Tannens, weren't you?"
Doc Three sighed, then nodded sheepishly. "Yeah" he said. "Seeing the ones you love threatened is not exactly an experience you would want to live through again."
"We understand" Doc Five said. "We feel the same way, you know. We're hesitant, too. But in order to free the girls, we have to keep chasing them and keep close to them. If you put your mind to it..."
"...you can accomplish anything" Doc Three finished. "You're right. I'll turn on the place locator."
Just as he was about to do that, though, the time tracker went off. Doc Three growled and looked at it. "August 10, 2017, 8:30 PM, EJ #48" he said. "Looks like we're in EJ territory again."
"It is quite far away from '57' though" Doc One said. "That probably means that this world must be really different from our world. Well, tap in the destination time... let's say a few minutes later. Might as well make that a quarter, we don't want them to threaten us with throwing out a girl again. August 10th, 2017, 8:45 PM, EJ #48!"
As Doc Three was doing that, Calvin spoke up. "We still need to get my folks" he said. "They deserve to know what happened. And I'm not really wanting to be here all alone."
Doc Four looked at him, then nodded. "You're right" he said. "We do want to pick them up, first."
"Yes, I kind of figured that we would still need to do that, too" Doc Five said. "We wouldn't really want to leave them behind." He sighed. "It does take a lot of time, though. Time that we should spend chasing the Tannens."
"I know, I know" Doc Three nodded. "Where do you guys live?"
"Out of town" Calvin III said. "After Lyon Estates. It's about five miles from the Square. You know, large property there?"
"Yes, I know" Doc Three nodded. "I live there, too." He started to steer the time bus towards said location as fast as possible.
Doc Five glanced over at Doc One, as the bus was started up again. "So, what's next?" he asked. "We can't just chase him forever."
"We'll have to find his weakness somewhere" Doc Four muttered.
"Money?" Doc One suggested.
"Pretty girls?" Doc Six added.
"I'm not going to allow more girls to be endangered to just set a trap for him" Doc Five said. "Also, if we can catch Cliff - well, didn't you say that Cliff and Amy were the ones that kidnapped the girls, Calvin?"
Calvin nodded. "Yeah" he said. "I'm pretty certain of that."
Doc Five sighed. "In that case, even if we manage to capture them, Griff is still out by the girls - and I doubt that he'd just go search them alone, without a hostage. The Tannen's might be dumb, but they're not that stupid."
"Anyway, if we want to capture them, we'll have to do it soon" Doc Two said. "We don't want his number of allies to increase even more."
"That's right" Doc Three nodded. He leaned back, and sighed, thinking hard of what they could do. The only noise that sounded was the nearby cars of the skyway, and the noise of the engine. After a minute or two, Calvin suddenly sighed.
"I miss them" he muttered, tears starting to form in his eyes. "I should've protected Susan and Marlene better. Now they're missing, and it's all my fault."
"Don't go on a guilt trip now" Doc Four said. "I think that every single one of us has done that by now and we were all wrong. The only ones that are guilty are Cliff and Griff Tannen... and Amy Needles, of course." He sighed. "I can't believe that a version of her from another universe would actually do this."
"Yeah, she's always been very nice" Marty Junior Two said. "It's so hard to picture this change."
Marty Junior Five, in the meantime, had frowned. "What did you say that your girlfriend's name was, again?"
"Susan" Calvin said. "Susan Brown - great-granddaughter of Dr. Emmett Brown. Isn't that your girlfriend, then?"
The Marty Junior's all shook their heads. "Harmony Brown, granddaughter, not great-granddaughter of Dr. Emmett Brown, is the girlfriend of One and Four" Marty Junior Three said. "Two and Six both have a Stephanie Stebbs, and their twin cousins are dating Stephanie's sister Stacy. Then, Five, Seven and I all have Suzy MacArthur." He smirked. "I guess that we're in the majority now. Three Suzy's, as opposed to two Stephanie's, two Harmony's, and now, one Susan." He grimaced. "I wish that I could be happy about it, which I can't. Not as long as my girlfriend and sister are missing."
"And as for me, my girlfriend is Jennifer Parker" TeenMarty said. "Once again, something else. But then again, I'm from the 1980s, and not a Marty Junior or Calvin or something like that." He pointed at a middle-aged woman, who looked just like Calvin's mother. "That's the future version of my girlfriend over there. I guess she's my wife, in this condition."
Calvin shook his head. "I can't believe that you actually got to marry my mom in your worlds" he said. "I mean, after Gramps disappeared, his son, my father, took his place."
"Freaky" Marty Junior One said. "Another version of me, in some way, marrying the girl that should be my mother. And fathering kids with her, too."
"Makes unpleasant memories rise with me" TeenMarty said. The Marty Senior's all nodded, plus Calvin - the other Calvin, the grown-up one. Only Michael smiled, with some satisfaction that he, apparently, didn't go through that event.
"You know, how come that Susan is the great-granddaughter and not the granddaughter of Doc?" Marty Junior Two said. "I mean, shouldn't Doc be too young for that?"
Calvin shook his head. "Verne Brown was born in 1961, and had his son, Albert, as early as 1979, in January, after he bluntly fell in love at first sight in '77, at college. Albert Brown then married a girl which he liked in the summer of 1997, and Susan was born shortly after. Albert's wife was somewhat older, though. She was born in 1977. Her name was Yvette Manchester."
"Yvette Manchester?" Marty Three gasped. "That's Suzy's mom! Was she born on July 1st, 1977?"
Calvin nodded. "Yeah" he said. "This is amazing. Who was Suzy's father?"
"Luke MacArthur" Marty Three muttered. "He was born in '74. They met at a party, in early '97. Love at first sight."
"It was the same for Mr. Brown, but that happened in late '96" Calvin said. "They didn't marry until June 1997, though, because of Albert's youth. The young marriage of Verne and the scandal surrounding it had antagonized Hill Valley from the Browns enough in the late '70s." He smirked. "According to Grandpa Klein, he was completely stressed in those days from the impact that Verne's wife might have on the space-time continuum, as 1985 still hadn't passed yet. At least rescuing Julia was kind of safe."
"Julia?" Chris Two repeated. "Julia Clayton?"
Calvin nodded. "Yeah" he asked. "That's the woman that Doc married. He rescued her from falling off a cliff when hosting a party while falling in for some guy that he'd accidentally injured when he was mad at Grandpa Calvin. Why?"
Chris smirked, and shook his head. "Amazing" he muttered. "But, to tell you the truth, it appears to have been not that safe as all. My wife is Susan Clayton - the daughter of Julia."
Calvin gasped. "But that's impossible!" he exclaimed. "Julia would've died if Doc hadn't saved her..."
Chris shook his head. "Tell me, what would've happened if Dr. Brown had not hurt that man who was hosting the party."
"Well, then Mr. Robinson - that was his name - would've hosted the party, of course" Calvin said, frowning.
"And who would've been the first to call upon to save Julia?" Chris Two said, smiling.
"Mr. Robinson..." Calvin muttered, seeing the picture fit together nicely and slowly. "This is heavy..."
Chris Two smirked. "Susan's parents divorced when she was four - they didn't seem to fit together as well as they initially thought" he said. "Julia kept Susan, and was mad enough to resume being a Clayton and surnaming her daughter like that, too. However, Susan's biological father always remained being Mr. Cedric Robinson." He looked with small satisfaction at Calvin's jaw dropping. "Your Mr. Robinson, if I'm not incorrect."
"You're right" Calvin said. He shook his head. "This trip really is one of a lifetime!"
Chris Two smirked. "I couldn't agree with you more" he said. "However, it won't be as much fun if we don't get the girls away from the Tannen's."
"We're there!" Doc Three then announced. Calvin turned towards the window, and watched as the bus descended down the exit towards his house. However, as they were descending down, a DeLorean came to meet them. Doc Three let out a short scream, and was able to avoid the car. Calvin realized that it had to be their DeLorean.
"It's ours!" he exclaimed.
The DeLorean then stopped, turned around, and flew back towards the bus. Doc Three slowed the bus down, and moments later, the bus and the DeLorean were hovering next to each other in mid-air.
The gull-wing door opened, revealing Doc Brown and Calvin Senior, with Calvin Jr squeezed in between them. As Doc Three opened a window, Doc Three gasped, and rapidly leant back, almost causing the car to turn over and capsize. He gasped again, and looked at Doc Three, face pale.
"Hi" Doc Three said, simply.
"Hi" Doc managed to respond. "Who - who are you? What's going on here?"
"We're from another reality" Doc Three said. "We need to leave soon, so I'll keep it short. Cliff Tannen from 1987 has stolen the time machine, travelled to 2017, started dimension-hopping and kidnapping McFly and Brown girls or girlfriends of McFly's and Browns, including yours. He's currently teamed up with Griff Tannen and Amy Needles. Calvin is already on board. Do you want to join us, or stay behind and wait?"
"McFly?" Calvin Sr said, frowning. "Is this like the situation we had back in '88?"
"If I'm correct, I should be 'that situation', along with my Marty Senior" Doc Three said. "We visited you during our dimension-hops, then. In all these worlds, you end up making it home."
Calvin Sr sighed, then managed to show a faint smile. "Other Doc, you really know how to ruin someone's day" he said. "It makes me feel unlucky." He sighed, then rose up, sitting straight in his seat. "But if what you are saying is true, and I don't think I have a reason to doubt it, then the girls are in danger. And I'm all for helping to save them. Count me in!"
"Me, too" Calvin Jr said. "This is my daughter which we're talking about."
"And mine" Doc said. "I'm on as well."
Doc Three smiled, and started landing the bus. The DeLorean did the same. Then, the locals exited, and entered the bus.
Calvin smiled as his friends gawked at the bus, and the people inside, while the Marty Senior's similarly gawked back at Calvin Sr. "Guess you really weren't kidding" Calvin Sr finally muttered.
"Yeah" Calvin Jr said. "It's like we're dreaming - but I already pinched myself before. Also, the car shaking violently when Doc saw himself proved to me that these things here are real."
"So, are we going to depart?" Doc said. "If what you say is true, then we need to catch Cliff, Griff and Amy as soon as possible."
"Well, they've already left this dimension" Doc One said. "And before we're going after them, we need to know something. How are we going to call them?"
"I suppose that our counterpart would be Doc Eight" Doc Three said. "Other than that, I wouldn't know. We now have three Calvin's."
"I think that Calvin Sr and Calvin Jr would supply for the newcomers" Doc Five said. "As for Calvin III, though..."
"Call him Calvin III" Marty Junior Five suggested. "Calvin McFly is already obviously a McFly, so if we put 'Klein' behind the names of the others, then it would fit, I suppose."
"Yeah" Marty Junior Six nodded. "I'll go write the name tags. Doc Eight, Calvin Senior Klein, Calvin Junior Klein, and Calvin III Klein, right?"
"That's correct" Doc Three confirmed.
"So, that's settled" Doc said. "Are we going, now?"
"We should" Doc One said. He took the controls, seeing as they were now going to an 'EJ' universe, and lifted up from the ground. The time bus moved faster and faster into the skies. At eighty, Doc One turned around.
"Brace yourself for dimensional displacement!" he called out.
"Oh, great" Calvin Sr groaned. "Bumpy rides are just what I needed... not."
Doc looked at him, smiling slightly. "Don't exaggerate your problems, Future Boy. I'm older than you and I'm not complaining."
As Calvin Sr glanced at him with a slight frown about the 'Future Boy' part, the time machine started accelerating again. Calvin braced himself tight, as the familiar flashes appeared. He wondered what dimensional travel would be like. What would wait for him at the other side? He shot a nervous look at his friends from his reality, who seemed to be just as nervous. He almost started to wish that he had backed off from joining. He didn't want to see a reality in which he didn't exist. This bus and it's passengers already were surreal enough.
However, he didn't have time to ponder that for long. Within moments, the familiar sonic booms hit, and the time bus broke through the temporal and dimensional barrier, and vanished from the Calvin Klein Universe, leaving behind nothing but some trails of fire in the sky, which quickly vanished into thin air.
The time bus had gone on to explore a new world once again.