The Great Chase

by EmmettMcFly55 and bttf4444

As Cliff steals Doc's time machine - with Jennifer - Doc and Marty follow him to 2017. After meeting up with Griff and picking up more girls, they hop into other universes - as Doc and allies chase him. Includes universes by EmmettMcFly55 and bttf4444.

12. Chapter 11

August 10, 2017
3:20 PM PDT
Heaven Or Hell Universe

Julia Belle Rundgren looked around, as the train entered the new world. Her heart still was beating loudly in her chest, as she looked at her kidnappers. She knew that the Tannens were bad - but she'd never thought of them as being capable of actually murdering. However, that was exactly what Griff had mentioned.

She sighed, disgusted, as she'd actually felt hope for a brief moment, as she'd heard the voice of her cousins. However, the statements of the Tannens, and of course, the Amy Needles look-alike, had really managed to push all her hopes down. She now didn't feel optimistic anymore, at all. She just hoped that she'd get out of this adventure alive.

As she then thought back of what the Tannens had all said, she realised something odd. She looked around. "Is one of your fathers... or grandfathers... really a Calvin Klein who married his own mother?" she asked, in disbelief.

A girl who looked a lot like a female version of Marty Jr and George raised her hand. "That would be me" she said. "My grandfather is Calvin Klein, born Marty McFly Sr, who married Lorraine Baines. He was forced to do so, though. He happened to end up trapped in 1955 - and then, he got amnesia, and fell in love with my grandma." She blushed slightly.

Julia Belle frowned. "But if that Calvin really was Marty Sr, how could he marry his mother?" she asked. "I mean, my aunt always told us that, in the Back to the Future movies, Marty Senior was seen fading from existence, because his father and mother didn't fall in love as they were supposed to."

"Well, I suppose that it was just my father replacing George McFly, thanks to him really being in love with Lorraine, up until getting his memories back - and even then, he still loved her" the girl said. "I mean, if I understand correctly, in those movies, the love of Lorraine and Marty Sr was entirely one-sided."

"Movies, movies" one of the Tannens said, walking over to them. "What is this with those movies?" He shook his head scoldingly. "First, the time machine, then my father's delicious world, and now some 'Back to the Future' movies featuring Lorraine Baines and Marty McFly... tell me, what are those movies?"

"None of your business" Julia snapped. "You don't need to know!"

"You really do think that I care whether I need to know or not?" the Tannen said, a slight, evil smile on his face. "Go on, tell us what those movies are like." He smiled. "They wouldn't happen to feature me too, would they? Do they feature Cliff Tannen?"

Julia sighed, and shook her head. "No" she said, figuring that the Tannen, whom she now knew as Cliff, would possibly beat her up if she didn't say anything. "They're about Marty McFly and Dr. Brown, and about their journey's through time. My aunt is from the world where those movies are from. They don't feature you, but they do include your father, and Griff here."

"Sounds good" Griff said, with a smirk. "I've always known that I fully deserved to be in a movie. What about Amy here, huh?"

Julia shook her head. "She was mentioned very briefly during one of the scenes as being the daughter of Douglas Needles, but there was no other information about her."

"Ah, that sounds too bad" Amy said, shaking her head. Then, with a slight smirk, she added: "Those movies sound interesting, though. Cliff, maybe when we pick up that almanac, we could also see whether we can find these movies anywhere."

"They're not from this world, bojo" the Stephanie Stebbs that Julia knew called out. "Are you really that stupid? They can't exist here, or everybody would find out Dr. Brown's secret!"

That got her a slap against her left ear. Stephanie let out a shriek and remained silent, trying to move a hand towards her ear which was beginning to colour red. However, she failed, thanks to being tied up.

While Stephanie didn't say anything, Stacy did. "Leave my twin alone!" she exclaimed.

Instead of slapping her, Cliff simply burst out into laughter. "And who do you think that you are to command me and tell me what to do?" he asked, with a broad smirk. "Nice to meet you, too - but I think that you should've been taught better manners than that."

"Hear who's talking" Stacy said, with a growl. She lowered her head.

"Ah, are you sad?" Amy asked. "Oh, you poor girl." She grinned evilly. "Go ahead and cry, Stebbs girl. There is no one who can hear you around here, and even if they do..." She pointed at the bottle of chloroform. "Well, then that thing will do. Or else, we could simply use our fists."

"Talking about the chloroform," Cliff said, thoughtfully, "it is becoming kind of expensive. Maybe we should use our fists instead, from now on."

"Actually, I have a better idea" Amy said, with a grin. "What if we thumb-pay for the chloroform, which would make the money go off my account if it's in an EJ world, and we'll take a Suzy or a Marlene along to pay, if we're in a PF world? Then we can rob from wuss me and from the girls - and they will pay for the chloroform with which we can kidnap even more of them!"

"Amy, that's simply brilliant!" Cliff said, as he high-fived with the girl. "You really must be brilliant! Like me, of course..."

"Exactly" Amy said, putting an arm around Cliff's shoulders. "You're the best."

One of the female Marty Jr and George look-alikes, who apparently were the Marlene mentioned in the Back to the Future movies, stared at Cliff and Amy with a growl. "You two are sick" she told them.

Cliff looked at her with a smirk. "Ah, you would rather have that I'd hug you instead?"

The Marlene rolled her eyes. "Of course not" she said. "I just don't want to watch you two! I'd never thought that any version of Amy Needles would even want to hang around Cliff Tannen - let alone get so close to him."

"Ah, you girls probably didn't even have the brains to think about that" Amy said back. "That's why you are stupid and I'm good. The Tannens and I are going to be able to realise our wildest dreams in here."

"That's right" Cliff said. "And you're going to like it." He walked over to the Marlene, and sat down next to her. "You know you want me to love you. You just know."

"We're not that kind of girls, you know!" the Marlene exclaimed, furiously.

In response, Cliff put a kiss on her mouth. "Oh no?" he said, with a laugh. "Well, just wait and see. One day you're going to like this, and then you'll be my girls... and Griff's, of course."

"Don't forget to leave them to me to beat up afterwards" Amy said, with a smirk.

Cliff patted her on the back. "I'd never forget you, honey" he promised her. "Griff, you and I will all be in on this." He stared at his son. "Even though we could switch places sometimes. I like being around the girls, and capturing girls is going to get boring, eventually. Being together with them, though..." His smirk grew even wider. "That's just perfect."

As he headed over to the front of the train, Julia Belle looked around. "Who are you girls, anyway?" she asked. "I mean, I recognize you eight as the Marlene from the BTTF movies, but other than that..."

"I'm a Marlene, too" a girl who looked a lot like Lorraine Baines, from what JB had seen in old pictures, said. "Marlene Four. I happen to resemble my grandmother Lorraine, instead of my Dad. It's really weird."

"And what makes it even weirder would be me" a girl who looked a lot like Julia's teenaged mother said. "I'm Melody McFly, and I take after my mom. I'm from the same world as Marlene here is."

"I'm Suzy MacArthur" a girl who looked a lot like Elisabeth Shue said. "I probably will have the advantage if we ever get to escape, as I'm from the same world where this train is from." She tried to point towards two other girls, who were also just sitting there. "That's Suzy Five and Suzy Seven" she said. "I'm Suzy Three. In our respective worlds, we're Marty Junior's girlfriend."

"I'm Stephanie Stebbs, which I suppose that you have already figured out" one of the other Stephanie's said. "I'm along with my sister Stacy. We're Stephanie and Stacy Two, and there's also Stephanie Six and Stacy Six, and then there's Stephanie Nine and Stacy Nine, and now, there's Stephanie Ten and Stacy Ten."

Julia thought that over, then realised that worlds number one, four and eight weren't mentioned. "What about One, Four and Eight?" she asked.

"As for eight, you should talk to me" an unfamiliar girl said. "My name is Susan Brown, and I'm the girlfriend of Calvin Klein III, who is the counterpart of the Marty Junior's, and of Marty Klein Jr in universe number nine." She looked around, and sighed. "It really makes me feel quite hurt that I don't exist in any of the other universes. I'm the great-granddaughter of Dr. Brown."

"The great-granddaughter?" Julia repeated, unsure whether she had heard it right. "Are you from the future, then?"

Susan smiled, and shook her head. "No, but we do have a rather weird situation" she said. "My grandpa, Verne, was born about two decades earlier than in most other worlds, and both he and my father fell in love at first sight while still teenagers." She blushed. "It is a rather unusual situation, to be honest, but I guess that there should be other things to worry about."

"Like getting out of here" Julia said, sighing.

Cliff then burst out of laughter, and let the train hover in mid-air to return to the girls. "You do really still think that you can get out of here?" he said, almost pathetically. "Aw, poor girls! You still don't get that we'll never let you go, do you?"

"We don't get it, no" Susan said, with a growl. "That's because it's not true. One day, we will get out of here, and Great-Grandpa and his other selves will come to rescue us along with the Marty's, and Calvin. And then, you guys really are in trouble."

Cliff shook his head. "Oh, I'm so scared" he said, sarcastically. "Even if they do manage to approach us again, they can't harm us without causing harm to you girls. Also, they probably won't want to hurt their dear train." He smirked. "We're absolutely safe here, no matter what they try. I'm beginning to like this chase."

"I guessed you would" Stephanie Six said. "You are really evil, Cliff Tannen. I just wish that the Doc's were here already."

"They'll never get you girls away from us again" Cliff said, with a smirk. "And instead of introducing yourselves over and over again, you would do better by starting to think of a wedding dress."

Marlene Three, angered, then put her leg onto the train's floor. Cliff just saw it a moment too late, and tripped. With loud noise, he fell onto the floor.

A brief moment of laughter at their nemesis falling was broken as they all noticed Cliff's less-than-pleased look. He rose again, looking at Marlene Three, who paled slightly.

"You think that you're funny?" he asked, looking at her. "You think that you could just harm me like this without repercussions?"

Before Marlene could respond, Cliff had risen fully, and suddenly grabbed Marlene Three's hair, holding it tight. The girl screamed as Cliff pulled her up, and pushed her towards the train door. As he opened it, Julia realised that Marlene Three was probably looking down at a certain death if she fell.

"It's high, huh?" Cliff taunted. He stared at her. "I don't need you, you know. I've got nine Marlene's by now. I could just give you a push and let the locals of this world take care of you."

"No" Marlene Three said, scared. "Please... please don't."

Cliff glared at her once more, then grabbed her by the shoulders and pushed her to the ground. He then kicked her leg, causing Marlene to groan, and then smirked. He looked at the girls. "I guess that I don't have to tell you any more about what happens when you anger me."

All of the girls shook their heads. Cliff smiled almost pleasantly, then resumed his position at the front.

Julia stared at Marlene, like all the other girls, but it was Suzy Three who spoke the words that were burnt into everyone's minds from the moment that Cliff tripped on. "Marlene, why on earth did you do that?"

Marlene Three stared at her and shrugged, a smug look in her face. "I don't know" she admitted. "He... he just angered me... and I missed my home, you know. I just couldn't take it anymore."

"Then still" Stephanie Two said. "You could've been killed, Marlene Three."

"She's right" Stacy Nine said. "You should've been more careful. You know what the Tannen's... and in your realities, I suppose also Amy Needles... are like."

"Quit that" Julia said. "I actually could agree a little with Marlene Three there. Cliff was angering me too." She looked around. "Have you guys really been tortured like that all the time?"

A somewhat hesitant nod came from all of them. "That's right" Marlene One said. "However, I think that it's getting worse when time passes. I suppose that Cliff is adjusting more and more to his position and to what he can do. We can't stop him. We outnumber them easily, but since we're tied up, we can't use that position."

"That's right" a girl which hadn't introduced herself said. "Marlene and I have been in on this from the very beginning, and we know by now what Cliff, Griff and this Amy-impostor are like." She stared at a girl who looked just like Melody McFly. "Well, I suppose Jennifer here was the very first to be captured, but Marly and I were really second and third."

"Jennifer?" Julia repeated. "As in Jennifer Parker?" The girl nodded, as Julia frowned. "I suppose that we'll have to finish the introductions, then."

"You're right" Jennifer said. "As you've now heard, I'm Jennifer Parker, and I'm from world number one, from the year 1987. I was actually the very first that Cliff captured, and I was the one to confirm to him that the DeLorean - which was the first time vehicle that he stole - was really a time machine."

Julia gasped as she looked at the girl. "You actually told him?" she said, not really believing it.

Jennifer sighed. "I was pretty much forced" she said. "He told me that he would either make a cut in my arm, or else he would leave me behind and hurt Marty - Marty Senior - instead." She sighed, tears welling up in her eyes. "I just couldn't stand the thought of him hurting my boyfriend, so I finally gave in to his wishes."

Julia sighed. "I suppose that I can understand that, kind of" she said. "I'd probably do the same thing if he'd hurt Mike."

"Mike?" Marlene Four said. "Mike McFly or Mike Hartford?"

"Hartford" Julia said. "My boyfriend."

"Now, wait a minute" Marlene Two said. "You have a boyfriend named Mike Hartford?"

"Had a boyfriend" Julia corrected. "With Cliff and Griff being so powerful now, I don't think that I'll ever see him again." She sighed. "We were going to be so happy together. I guess we never really considered that this could happen in the future. Poor Mike. I hope he's all right."

"He should be" Marlene Six said, shaking her head. "I just can't understand this. Mike Hartford really is your boyfriend?"

"Yeah" Julia said. "Why?"

"He's my boyfriend, too" Marlene Six said. "And he's also the boyfriend of One, Two and Four... Three, Five, Seven and Eight are single. I'm unsure about Marlene Nine."

"I'm dating a Vince McFly" Marlene Nine said. "I guess that might be due to the circumstances that made our reality. After all, Vincent McFly doesn't exist in your worlds, as in your worlds, there was no Calvin Klein to take George McFly's place."

"This is just so confusing..." Julia groaned. "I'd never expected to end up in such a situation. Granted, being confused is the least of our concerns... like Susan said."

"For me, it's confusing too" the girl who said that she was with Marlene One said. "I'm Harmony Brown, by the way, the granddaughter of Dr. Emmett Brown. I'm Harmony One, and over there is Harmony Four."

"I'm Julie MacArthur" a girl who looked a lot like the Suzy MacArthur's said. "I'm from world number seven, and I'm the cousin of Suzy Seven." She sighed. "I'm just glad that none of my other selves are involved in this mess."

"And I guess that we finish the group" a girl who looked a lot like Susan said. "I'm Maria Brown, and I'm the daughter of Emmett Brown. I'm Maria Seven, and Maria Five is over there."

"Well, actually, I conclude this group" a red-haired girl said. "I'm Lisa Jung, and I'm originally from the 1980s. Thanks to a confusing story, though, I ended up moving to the 2010s, and dating Mike McFly - who is the twin brother of Alex McFly, who is the cousin of Marty Jr of our world."

"And with that, we should ask who you are" Marlene Three said. "You don't look familiar, but if you're really dating Mike..."

"I suppose that I should tell you" Julia said. "I'm Julia Belle Rundgren. I'm the daughter of Vincent Rundgren and Jennifer Parker. My aunt, Julia Mae Rundgren, ended up travelling to the world of Back to the Future thanks to a few tickets that her uncle had given her. She actually came from 2007, by the way. Since aunt Julia was a huge fan of Back to the Future, she ended up adjusting very well - and she even fell in love with Marty McFly, and as he and Jennifer broke up, Jennifer fell in love with Julia's brother, Vincent, who had come to our world after Julia had voiced the thought of wanting to move to our world permanently. I'm the cousin of Marty McFly Jr and George Anthony McFly. They are the twin sons of Marty Sr and Julia, but they don't have a daughter. Therefore, there is no Marlene in our world."

"That feels so weird" Marlene Two said. "I mean, I understand that it is always a possibility... but still. I really am not used to this, you know."

"Feeling sad about this?" Amy asked, with a smile. "Well, I guess you're not really smart enough to grasp all this. Poor Marlenes." She smirked, and turned to Cliff. "Are we about ready to leave again?"

"We're just landing right now" Cliff said, smiling. "We lost some time by annoying Marlene Three, but we should be able to leave in a few seconds." He then landed the train onto the place where they always parked it. He then frowned, slightly.

"What's wrong?" Amy asked.

"The property here is deserted" Cliff responded. "None of the bushes that were here in all the other realities, are here!"

Julia looked out of her window, and noticed that, for once, the Tannens were right. The area was empty, and lacking of every hint of forest. From her reality, and apparently, from all the other realities, she knew this area to be in posession of the muncipality of Hill Valley - and they had ordered for this to become a bush-rich environment. However, in here, it was completely empty. Julia wondered what was going on.

"I'm not sure what happened," Amy said, "but I suppose that we can still exit. It's not like we cared before about who owned what."

Cliff looked at her, and smiled. "That's right" he said. He then turned to Griff. "Well, Griff, I guess you'll have to amuse yourself on your own again."

"Don't worry" Griff said. "I'll be fine."

Cliff nodded, and winked towards his son, as he and Amy exited the train. Julia looked after them, and felt sick in her stomach. Now two of her kidnappers were gone, but the third was still there, and they were still trapped. She really felt bad. She just hoped, that Marty Jr and George would come to rescue her soon. However, from the previous experiences of the other hostages, she realised that said chance was very small.

oooooooo

Cliff Tannen smiled, as he walked up to the town of Hill Valley. He was feeling optimistic - and had almost forgotten the thing that Marlene Three had done to him. Here he was, and he was going to capture some more girls. He smiled evilly, as he thought of the girls. Yeah, this was a good life.

"Here we are once again" Amy said, looking around in the road up to the Square, and, ultimately, up to the mall. "You know, this is almost getting boring. The mall really remains being the same, between universes."

Cliff nodded. "Yeah, that's correct" he said. "You know, I wonder who we'll encounter this time, and whether we'll see a Harmony, Stephanie, or a Suzy. Or maybe even a Susan, once again."

"Yeah, that sounds like a possibility" Amy agreed. As she then looked at Cliff, one could almost spot a concerned look in her face. "Cliff, Marlene didn't hurt you too bad, did she?"

The bully shook his head, waving away her concerns. "No" he assured her. "I'm perfectly fine. That kid does need a lesson, though... however, we can cross that matter when we'll come to it. For now, we'll simply try to capture the girls that we are looking for."

"Yeah, I suppose so" Amy said. They then reached the Square, and looked around. It certainly looked familiar, but there were clear differences. For one, the Courthouse Mall was gone. As he looked at the Courthouse itself, Cliff could read that it said 'Hill Valley Courthouse' as opposed to 'Hill Valley Courthouse Mall'. Also, the entrance to the right of the pond, which was still around in here, with even more plants than usual and even some fishes in it, seemed smaller, and as Cliff looked closer, he realised that it read 'McFly Tunnel'. The bully stepped back with a shock, and mostly with a lot of puzzled feelings, as he wondered why anyone would name a tunnel after one of the McFly buttheads.

"What's going on here, Cliff?" Amy asked, seeming to be just as confused as he himself was. "Seems like something really weird is going on in here."

Cliff nodded. "You appear to be right, yeah" he said. "However, we do have some more pressing concerns. With the Mall gone, it is highly unlikely that the girls would be around here."

"They've been there in every universe up until now, yeah" Amy said. "Well, since I came, anyway. This certainly is weird." She looked around, confused.

"Maybe they could be at the Lone Pine Mall instead?" Cliff suggested.

His ally shook her head. "It's impossible" she insisted. "Lone Pine Mall doesn't exist anymore. It might be around in your time, but it isn't in mine. It was torn down years ago, after not attracting many visitors anymore. I don't know when, I'm not a history buff."

"But maybe this could've changed, now" Cliff said, in one of his rare bright moments. "If the Courthouse Mall is not here, maybe the Lone Pine Mall could continue to function without the Courthouse Mall being there to take shoppers away from the Courthouse Mall."

Amy considered that for a moment. "It is possible..." she muttered. "I wouldn't be certain about that, though. We'll never know what this world is like until we find out for ourselves, you know."

"Yeah, that's right" Cliff said, thinking of the possibilities that were there. "Let's check out the Café 80s. Maybe they could be in there."

"That might be a possibility" Amy said. The two then walked over to the café, and got inside. As Cliff looked around, he didn't see anyone that he was looking for inside. He did, however, encounter some kind of a video waiter.

"Welcome to the Café 80s" the waiter said. "Where it's always morning in America, even in the aftern-n-noon!" Cliff then noticed that the waiter looked a lot like president Reagan. "Our special today," the waiter continued, "is a special steak with chips, and with some sausages."

"Just give me a Pepsi" Amy said, as she realised that she was feeling kind of thirsty.

"Give us ten Pepsi's" Cliff said, figuring that he could try to get some drinks for the girls, too, so they'd have another way of getting them to cooperate.

"Free or Perfect?" the waiter asked.

"What?" Cliff asked. He couldn't imagine there to be an actual perfect Pepsi.

"Perfect" Amy said. "And yeah, that'll be everything."

As Cliff looked on, astonished, a bottle of Pepsi popped out of the waiter. As he then continued to watch, more and more bottles popped out. "Whoa!" he called out, looking at Amy. "2017 seems to be a really cool year!"

"It certainly is" Amy said, smiling. "Too bad some of these McFly buttheads don't appreciate it."

"Well, I suppose that they'll have other things on their mind right now" Cliff said, with an evil smirk.

Then, the Pepsi bottles finished coming out, and the waiter hovered over to Cliff. "That'll be 611,75 dollars, sir."

"SIX HUNDRED BUCKS?"

"Six hundred and eleven dollars and seventy-five cents, sir" the waiter corrected.

Cliff looked enraged. "I don't care how much it is exact!" he exclaimed. "What kind of nonsense is this?"

"I know that it's probably hard for you to imagine, but this is a pretty reasonable price in the 2010s" Amy said. "Inflation has risen high in the past few years."

"Six hundred bucks for a couple of Pepsi's?" Cliff said. He let out a weak laugh. "That can never be a reasonable price no matter what time period you are in."

"I know it might sound that way" Amy said. "But that's the way things are now. It's not like you will be paying yourself if you pay with your thumb, after all."

Cliff looked at her, then realised that she did have a point, somehow. He pressed his thumb to the plate and watched as the machine apparently wrote 611,75 off his bank account. Finally, it stopped, and as Cliff removed his thumb from the plate, the waiter gave them a bag to put the Pepsi's in and started to move away from them and through the Café.

Still a little annoyed at the price, Cliff looked at his Pepsi. He carefully opened it up, after some initial hesitation about how he should do it, and then, he took a gulp, and realised that it wasn't that bad. He drank all the Pepsi inside, and then, he put the eight remaining Pepsi bottles in the bag after Amy had drank her bottle. They then exited, to continue their hunt for McFly or Brown or Stebbs or MacArthur girls.

As they exited, though, Amy let out a short gasp, as she saw a very familiar person - herself. Other Amy was just a few feet ahead of them, and seemed to be walking up to someone. Cliff and Amy then sneaked into some bushes nearby, and started to listen in on the conversation that was apparently coming up.

As Other Amy then approached the person, Cliff saw that the boy was none other than Marty McFly Junior. He smirked slightly, and continued to watch, as Other Amy reached Marty Jr, and slapped him on the shoulder, hard.

Marty Jr looked around, annoyed, and then noticed who it was. "Amy Needles" he said, annoyed. "Can't you ever leave me alone?"

"Why should I?" Other Amy taunted. "Beating you up is fun."

Marty Jr took a step back, angered. "If I were you, I'd get outta here before I do the same thing to you as you would want to do to me" he said. "I might be short, but that doesn't mean that I can't defend myself against your type!"

Other Amy laughed. "Oh, poor Marty" she said, with a smirk. She neared him, then got a hard slap in her face. "Don't you dare" Marty Jr hissed.

"Should we help her?" Cliff asked.

"I don't know" Amy said. "That would mean revealing my identity, probably, and I'm not quite sure about how I'd feel having another me on the train."

Other Amy and Marty Jr had in the meantime gotten into a fistfight. Amy and Cliff watched on, fascinated, as Marty Jr defended himself well against Other Amy hitting him. Finally, the girl backed off. "Stupid McFly" she told him, walking away. "Don't you think we're done with this yet."

Marty Junior shot her a look, then headed off in the direction of the place Cliff had noticed the huge McFly mansion a few realities before. Cliff and Amy looked after him for a few moments, then looked at each other. "What now?" Amy asked.

"Well, they don't appear to be here" Cliff said. "In that case, we can perhaps better head back to the train, and worry about finding the girls there." He growled. "If things go on like this, our enemies might even have a chance of getting to them first."

"Yeah" Amy said, equally disgusted. "Maybe we should check out their home, after all."

"Wait..." Cliff then muttered, as he pointed down the street, where they recognised Maria Brown. The girl was walking past, obviously in a good mood. Cliff then stepped into the street. "Hi there" he said, casually.

Maria gasped. "Griff Tannen!" she exclaimed.

Amy rolled her eyes. "He's Cliff" she said, grabbing Maria's arms. "Are you prepared to come along with us on a nice ride?"

"No way" Maria muttered, and ran away. However, Cliff was prepared for her, and stuck out his foot. He then grabbed her from the ground, and chloroformed her, causing her to pass out.

"Good work, Cliff" Amy said, with a grin. "Although you should've waited chloroforming her. We could've asked her where the other girls are." She sighed. "Well, I guess we'll better head over to the train, and stick to the plan we thought up before she came along. Well, at least we've got somebody, now."

Cliff nodded, and together, the two headed back to the train. They didn't know yet that they were in for a pleasant surprise when arriving. Pleasant from their perspective, at least.

oooooooo

Suzy MacArthur was feeling very much excited, as she exited the Lone Pine Mall, along with her friend, Marlene. They had managed to pick up a nice card for David McFly, Marty Jr's uncle. They'd originally wanted to get him a business suit, but the Mall was out of suits today. Therefore, they'd just bought a card, and some money that they originally wanted to spend on the present.

As the two girls then headed back towards the McFly house, Suzy started to think of Marty Junior. It had been just two years ago, that she'd met Marty, when he had managed to beat up Griff in the Square. Up until then, Griff had been trying to push Marty Jr around. However, his father and Doc Brown had always been very much encouraging of him to stand up to Griff. It wasn't until October 21st, 2015, that he'd finally done that - and saved Suzy in the process.

Suzy now felt depressed, as she remembered that initially, some of her friends had accused her of just dating Marty Jr, because his father was a rich ex-rock star. Marty McFly Senior was indeed very rich, and Suzy had admitted to herself that, if she wouldn't have financial security as much as she had now, then she would've hesitated to be really accepting of her romantic feelings for Marty Jr. However, she really knew herself that she was in love with Marty Jr, and eventually, most of her friends had come to realise that, too. Some of them, though, had distanced themselves from her. Suzy wondered whether she could've ever considered them friends, now that they'd done this.

The girl then thought of her future father-in-law. Marty McFly Senior was a very kind and polite man, and Suzy knew that Marty Jr really admired his father. However, she also knew the truth about Marty Sr's riches, and that he'd gained some of them by that awful Gray's Sports Almanac, which had strained the friendship of Marty Sr and Dr. Brown for about seven years. It was almost impossible for her to imagine, as Dr. Brown was so close to the McFly family now.

Ever since the day that Marty Sr had decided to give up the almanac, things had improved for both him and Hill Valley. After getting his hand fixed, he had started a career as a rock star, and had enjoyed moderate success, even though it was not as much as he would've had if he'd started a few years earlier with his career. He'd also helped Doc Brown to get a nice laboratory, which had enabled Doc to build the inventions that made up life of 2017, including hover technology and advanced voice-ID. Jules Brown, the eldest son of Doc and Susan, was working on fusion at the moment.

"Aren't you excited about tonight, Suzy?" Marlene asked. "I really do envy you now. I mean, even though I've dated quite a few boys in the past - I don't have a boyfriend as of current. I wonder who I'll marry iin the future. Doc doesn't want to tell me, though. He always says that it will alter my future." She sighed. "I think it's kind of unfair. I mean, he has told you that you will marry Marty Jr."

"Well, Marty and I have been dating for quite some time now" Suzy pointed out. "You, on the other hand, are currently single. It would be bad if you were to meet someone who you knew that you were going to marry, and then press on too much for you two to get closer - and therefore, making him hesitant to date you. Do you get what I mean?"

"Yeah, I suppose that I do" Marlene said. "That's kind of how it was for Doc and Dad, back when Doc was still waiting for Dad and him to meet. Well, it's not the same thing of course, as a romantic relationship with someone is different from the friendship between Doc and Dad. However, he also knew that he had to meet Dad somehow - but on the other hand, he also knew that he had to be careful not to rush things, as it might alter history so that he wouldn't be able to become friends with Dad at all. That really must've been a hard situation." She paused. "I suppose that I kind of get why Doc isn't telling me about my future spouse, then. Too much things to worry about."

"Exactly" Suzy agreed. "Knowledge about the future can be nice, but it can be a huge burden in times like these. In that case, I wouldn't want to know what my future is like - even if someone offered to tell me."

"Someone who knew that what he said was right, you mean" Marlene corrected. "I mean, it wouldn't matter if someone would tell you - as long as it was not the truth, and you knew that it wasn't. I mean, like horoscopes."

"Yeah, that sounds about right" Suzy said.

As they then walked on, Marlene spotted something unfamiliar. "Suzy!" she exclaimed. "Look!"

The girl looked up, and what she saw was about the right definition of 'incredible'. "Marlene, catch me or I'm going to faint" she muttered. "Am I... am I really seeing a steam train?"

"It certainly appears to be so" Marlene muttered. "This... this is amazing. This is incredible."

The train in question, which was standing right in front of Suzy, looked very familiar, yet weird. An 'Y' shaped thing was attached to the side, and it looked very much like a flux capacitor. Then, there were all kinds of gauges and dials attached to the side, and finally, the letters 'ELB' were painted proudly to the sides. Suzy and Marlene exchanged glances. "Marly, you don't think that... Doc Brown made this?"

"Actually, I do think so" the teen muttered. "This is unbelievable. I wonder why Doc never told us about this."

"Maybe it's not his?" Suzy suggested. "I mean, maybe it's his, but from the future?"

Marlene considered that for a moment. "That might be a possibility" she said. "However, I'm not really up to believing that. It would most likely mean, that something is going wrong today. That is mostly the case when Docs from the future show up."

"Maybe we should go look inside" Suzy said. "See if we can find evidence as to why they are here. See if we can help them complete their mission."

"You're just curious" Marlene said, with a smirk.

"I'm not!" Suzy exclaimed, laughing. "All right... I am. A little. But don't you think that we've got the right to be curious? After all, this is a Doc-made steam train!"

"Yeah, that's right" the other teen admitted. "Come on, let's see what is inside."

The two teens then headed in, one after the other, each curiously looking around the corner. The front seats were empty. That was something that they hadn't expected. But the thing that they hadn't expected at all, was seeing themselves... tied up, in the back, and multiplied several times, and being with several other girls, some of them familiar, some of them completely unknown.

Marlene and Suzy both looked at the other side of the train, and gasped. "Holy shit!" Marlene exclaimed. "What the heck is going on here?"

"We've been captured" one of the Marlene's said. "Haven't you?"

Marlene and Suzy exchanged glances. "Um, no" Suzy said. "We were just walking past, and then we saw the train here. What's going on?"

"We've been captured" a Suzy said. "By Cliff and Griff Tannen, and Amy Needles. Cliff is from 1987. They've been hopping through dimensions and I have no idea when they're going to stop. You've got to do something to help us get out of here."

"Maybe we could call my parents" Marlene said. "I mean, that'll be more inconspicious than freeing you all."

"I suppose that maybe I could better do that job, instead of you two" another Marlene said. "I'm Marlene Three, by the way. No offence against you - but I think that it'll be better for your father to speak with someone who can explain the situation better."

"Yeah, you're right" Marlene said, looking around. "But you said that you'd been captured by Cliff, Griff and Amy, but... where are they now?"

"Cliff and Amy are looking for you two" Marlene Three said. "Well, not you exactly, but the girls of this reality. And Griff has gone off on a walk. According to him, he wanted to have time to think about what he'll all do to us without us screaming through his thoughts."

Suzy smirked. "Well, good for us" she said. "That way, we can go on with your plan easier."

Marlene then reached out towards her counterpart, and quickly freed Marlene Three's right arm. She then took her cell phone, and tapped in the correct numbers. She then handed the phone over to Marlene Three. "Keep it short" she said.

Marlene Three looked at her with a smirk. "You don't have to remind me of that."

Moments later, the familiar voice of Marty Senior came up. "Hello, McFly residence" Suzy heard him say.

"Dad" Marlene Three said. "I - I don't know how to explain this, but I'm Marlene, but not the Marlene you know."

"Run that by me again?" Marty Sr asked.

"I'm Marlene from another reality" Marlene Three explained. "Cliff and Griff Tannen have gone off to capture girls our age from various realities. Your daughter and your daughter-in-law were the ones to find us and free us."

"Wait a moment" Marty Sr muttered. "Are you telling me that Cliff and Griff Tannen can travel through dimensions?"

"Correct" Marlene Three said, relieved. "They took Doc Brown's time machine from the year 1987 - well, Cliff did - and then Griff got picked up in 2017. There are actually multiple me's here - ten, including your daughter. Amy Needles is also in on this with Cliff and Griff."

"This... this is heavy" Marty Sr groaned. "I can't believe this." He paused. "I suppose that I'll have to come and get you. Where are you guys?"

"Near the Courthouse Square" Marlene Three said. "You know, at the road into town. It's completely empty here."

"But that's my property!" Marty Sr exclaimed. "I bought it back in 1990! December 1990, in fact!"

"You did?" Marlene said, surprised. "That explains why it looks completely different from how I know it."

"Well, I guess that we'll find out the reason for this later on" Marty Sr said. "We need to get on with this as soon as possible, now."

Just as Marlene was about to say something back, her counterpart let out a shriek. "Suzy!" she called out. "It's Griff!"

"Oh no!" Marlene Three muttered. "Other Dad, I gotta go, Griff's approaching." Without waiting for a reply, she hung up.

Suzy and Marlene looked at each other. "We gotta leave" Marlene said. "Hiding in here won't do us any good."

"That's right, I suppose" Suzy nodded. They quickly exited the train, and started running off, trying to remain in the shadows.

Unfortunately, their plan failed. Griff noticed them, gasped, and started to chase them. Suzy looked at Marlene. "You go right, I go left" she called out.

"Check" Marlene muttered. They soon split ways, one going to the left, in the direction of the Courthouse Square, and one going the other way. The latter, Suzy, soon realised that she was going the wrong way. She'd accidentally picked an alleyway that had an end. Griff managed to chase her to the end of the road. "Well, and you thought you were smart" he said, grabbing her arm.

That got a hard response into Griff's stomach. Griff's bionic implants, however, blocked it. While Suzy was still wondering how Griff managed to do this, as he'd broken his implants years ago, Suzy's arms were pushed behind her back and Griff held her in a solid grip.

"You know, you ain't going to get away with this" she said, trying to kick her attacker again.

"Oh, ain't I?" Griff asked. "We'll be outta here before you can even think up a plan to get away from here."

"Well, even then, Marlene is still around" Suzy muttered. "She'll be able to get away from here and help Dad and Doc in freeing us. You don't stand a chance."

"You know, I think that I've heard that before" Griff smirked. As he then spotted something, he added: "Marlene was going to rescue you, right?"

"Yeah" Suzy said, confused. She then looked up, and noticed a young man who looked just like Griff, but without bionics - she figured that he had to be Cliff - along with Amy Needles. Cliff carried Maria Brown, and Amy carried Marlene McFly. Both were unconscious.

"We were just about to head back, and see who we encountered!" Cliff said, with a smile. "Looks like the girls of this reality had gone exploring on their own."

"Yeah, and they almost succeeded, apparently" Amy said. "You have to watch out better, Griff."

"Will do" Griff said. He looked at Suzy. "You know, this 'you're not going to get away with this' crap is beginning to get really annoying."

"Well, then maybe you should get some fist exercise" Amy said, with a grin.

"Oh no you're not!" Suzy said. She leaned down, and tried to kick Griff again. This time, it was a direct hit onto Griff's knee. Griff's grip loosened, and Suzy yanked free of him, running away.

"Butthead!" Cliff exclaimed, starting pursuit. Griff and Amy followed him suit.

Suzy, in the meantime, was getting problems. She was rather fast, but she couldn't hold out against three villains chasing her. After almost fifteen minutes of pursuit, and three attempts to hide somewhere, she finally got tired.

"I have to go on" she told herself. "I have to go on..."

She, however, didn't succeed. Two more minutes later, and about 2 1/2 miles away from the train, Suzy fell down from sheer exhaustion. As she noticed Cliff, Griff and Amy nearing, she finally gave up, and once again, the girls of a reality were down for the count, as Suzy MacArthur slipped into unconsciousness.

oooooooo

George Anthony McFly held on tight, as the time machine travelled through dimensions and entered another world. He'd never even dreamed of visiting another universe - and, if the circumstances hadn't been so bad, it might've even been a very nice experience. However, it looked more like a nightmare today.

The teen felt disgusted, as he thought of Cliff and Griff Tannen. They'd actually kidnapped his girlfriend, Stacy Stebbs, his brother's girlfriend, and his cousin. And of course, there were also the other girls that the Tannens captured - which were also large in number. Also, he felt disgusted about what the bad version of Amy Needles had done. He still couldn't figure out how that Amy, who was always very nice, could end up being so horrifying, that she'd actually wipe clean her other self's bank account.

George then looked down, and noticed that, with the turbulence, one of his stuffed shells had nearly fallen off the plate. He just narrowly caught it, and breathed a sigh of relief. They couldn't afford to waste any food, after all.

"Well, we're there!" Doc Three then announced. "PF 47. You know, I'm really wondering what kind of world this will be - and whether it will be one that Marty Senior Three and I saw back in 1988. Up until now, we've had the world in which Marty Jr was stuck in the '80s, and the one in which his father was stuck in the '50s - both of which I knew the codes to. Then, there was the final universe, the one in which the Hell Valley citizens resided. That was the one in which we finally managed to fix the glitch in the Mr. Fusion. That means that this world will either be a world which I haven't seen at all yet, or one which I don't know the code to."

"Yeah, it is quite fascinating to meet the other us-es again, after so many years" Doc One nodded, as he continued to scoop the stuffed shells onto plates. "Granted, there are more important things to think about right now - like the girls, for instance, and how to save them. But, of course, I'm kind of curious as to what we'll find here. Who knows, we might find another version of us who has powers that can enable us to rescue the girls."

"You never know" Marty Senior One agreed. "I know, Doc. I am feeling both worried - and curious. It's kind of a mixed thing. However, I suppose that the curiosity will pass, eventually - as the hops through dimensions become natural. How long has it been, now?"

"If I remember correctly, it's been about twenty-two hours since TeenMarty and I departed 1987" Doc '87 said. "I'd never expected to get in this much of a mess. I do happen to feel rather tired - but I am trying to stay awake as much as I can. I am feeling very much worried about my granddaughter - and of course, my best friend's daughter and girlfriend."

"You're definitely not the only one" Marty Senior Five muttered. He then turned to the Doc in the front. "So, Doc Three, where are we going now?"

"I was kind of figuring that, if this is a PF world, then we could better head to your home" Doc Three said. "Just like in the other worlds, by the way. That might be the best place to go - and to figure out what to do next. I'm not giving up hope yet that it will be impossible to catch the girls."

"Right" Doc Ten said. "It's like we've always said, if we put our minds to it, we can accomplish anything." He looked out of the window. "This is very much surreal, though. I'd never expect that something like this would happen."

"I don't think that any of us would've expected this" Doc Five muttered. "I think that we were all expecting for the day to be an ordinary one - well, even if there would've been a birthday party, for one group of us-es, and an anniversary for the Marty Junior's, but still. And then, the girls went missing, and as we were still wondering about that, the bus showed up, and everything went wrong." He sighed.

"I'm sorry to have pulled you into all this" Doc '87 said, with a sigh. "It's all my fault. I should've never forgotten to bring those matchbooks back to Biff. If Cliff hadn't come to get them, he wouldn't have spotted the DeLorean, and this whole mess would've never happened in the first place!"

"Me '87, we've been over this" Doc Two said, firmly. "You know that it wasn't your fault. This could've happened to any one of us and you didn't know. The only one whose fault it is, is Cliff Tannen, along with Griff and the bad version of Amy Needles. Instead of having guilt problems, we should try to concentrate on rescuing the girls. That is our most important mission, after all."

"He's right, Doc" TeenMarty said. "You shouldn't complain about yourself. It won't help anything and you know that." He looked at his friend, firmly.

Doc '87 looked at him. "I guess that you're right" he finally settled on. "But I can't shake the idea off me that, if I hadn't been so careless, this whole thing would've never happened."

"Well, then you should stop thinking that" Marty Junior Seven said. "Focus on other things. It's okay, Doc."

Doc '87 smiled faintly. "Well, if so many of my friends say so, who am I to doubt that?" he said. "I suppose that you are right, then. All right, I'll focus on other things. That better, TeenMarty? Marty Junior Seven?"

"Much better" the former said, with a slight smile.

"I still can't believe that you actually married someone else than Jennifer" Marty Senior Three said, staring at his counterpart from world number ten. "What happened, exactly?"

"Well, Julia here is from the world in which we are characters in a movie trilogy called Back to the Future" Marty Senior Ten said. "She is from 2007, actually. Her uncle -"

"Wait a second" Marty Senior Five said. "A movie trilogy called Back to the Future? What's that supposed to mean? I mean... that can't be for real."

"You're right" Marty Senior Eight said. "I can't believe this. An actual trilogy about us?"

"Yeah, that's right" Marty Senior Ten said, as Marty Senior One, Two, Three, Four, Six and Seven nodded approvingly. "I'm not sure why you don't know - but it's actually the truth. There happens to be a movie trilogy centred around us."

"You can tell your unknowing selves the details about that later" Doc Three said. "Right now, we have to focus on our current mission, which consists of us finding our local allies-to-be in rescuing the girls."

"You're the Three, Three" Marty Senior Ten said. He then chuckled, slightly, as he realised what he'd just said. His counterparts did the same, as it really sounded unusual.

"That's right" Doc Three said, with a smirk. He then moved the train down from the skyway, as they were nearing the place that Marty McFly was supposed to live in this dimension.

George A McFly had, in the meantime, been listening to his father's conversation with the other Marty Senior's - but now, he decided to take a look at the others - more specifically, at his counterpart, George E McFly. "Who are you?" he asked, curiously.

George E McFly smiled at him. "I'm George Emmett McFly" he said. "My father is Calvin Arthur McFly - even though he really is nothing but another version of Marty McFly Senior. It's really nice to meet another version of me in you - even though, essentially, you're not me - as our mother's differ."

"Yeah, I suppose so" George A said. "Who is your mother, then?"

"Ann Parker" George E said. "I suppose that you have never heard of her, but in the Hell Valley reality, she's Jennifer Parker's twin sister. She doesn't exist in the regular world, though. I guess that makes me kind of double cousins with Emmett David Brown - one of my cousins. His father is the Marty McFly Senior from the Hell Valley Universe, and his mother is the alternate version of Jennifer Parker. We're full cousins thanks to his mother and my mother being sisters, and now that our fathers are the same person, we could also qualify as half-brothers. It really is a weird situation."

"Yeah, I would think so, too" George A nodded. "Even though I never even saw that world, besides the movie about it, I can try to understand how confusing this situation must be."

"What is your world like, then?" George E asked, curiously.

George A shrugged. "I think that the major difference was when Marty McFly Senior - my Dad - was shot by Libyan terrorists on October 26th, 1985. I heard that, in other worlds, the gun that was pointed at him did jam, causing him to be able to escape - but in our world, it worked all right, and my other self was shot in the back before having a chance to go back in time."

George E gasped. "But... how come he is here now?"

"Some friends of ours somehow managed to bring him back to life" George A explained. "It's kind of a confusing situation..."

"I agree" George E muttered, astonished. "That sounds incredible. How could that happen, though?"

"Well, apparently, Sabrina Palmer helped a lot" George A said. "Also, Celeste gave some help with the resurrection."

"Who are they?" George E asked, confused.

"Well, Sabrina is a witch" George A said, making George E gasp. "Really! Celeste, however... well, I'm not sure how I should explain her."

"This story sounds really familiar" Marty Junior Two said. "It's just like what Dad and Uncle Calvin always tell us - about how they helped out bringing back another version of Dad from the death."

"I guess that you are the guys that brought me back to life, then" Doc Ten said. "And Marty, of course. This really is astonishing. I always wondered how you guys had been doing."

"Well, I'm married to a Jessica Hoffman" Doc Two said. "We've got two kids, Jules and Verne. They're twins, and born on December 12th, 1987."

"I'm married to Jessica too" Doc Ten said. "I decided to rebuild the time machine, eventually, and I got the twins on the same date as you did. This is fascinating, you know."

"Certainly" Doc Two agreed. "We could actually have a lot of fun in this trip - if there wasn't the danger of the girls being kidnapped by Cliff and Griff Tannen."

"Right" Doc Ten said, nodding sadly.

"Great Scott!" a familiar voice then sounded from the front. Doc Three looked into the bus, pale. "It looks like the mansion discussion just got a new twist!"

"What's going on?" Marty Senior Three said, frowning. As he walked closer to Doc Three, he noticed it too, and gasped. "Holy shit" he finally hissed. "This is heavy..."

George A McFly frowned, confused. What could be going on? Curious, he leaned out of the window, and looked down below. And what he saw there, confused him enormously.

On the spot that the McFly mansion apparently was in the other worlds, the same mansion now stood. That was kind of shocking already, as George hadn't seen the building before. However, that wasn't the reason that Marty Sr Three and Doc Three had been astonished about.

Behind the mansion, two huge towers rose into the sky. They seemed attached to the mansion, and to each other. It was kind of a duplex, but then of towers. The writing on the towers, however, was the most shocking of all. The left part of the towers, which was in fact just one huge thing, read 'Emmett Brown Hover Conversions'. The right one, however, was the thing that Doc Three and Marty Sr Three had been shocked about. It read nothing else than 'Martin McFly Enterprises'. Below the writing, a large picture of Marty McFly Sr in his early twenties could be seen.

"What the heck?" Marty Senior Four exclaimed. "Did we - I - just become some kind of the leader of a huge company?"

"Somehow, I'm being reminded of Biff's Pleasure Paradise" Marty Senior Five muttered. "I think that that tower was even higher, though."

"Yeah, I suppose so" Marty Senior Six nodded. "This really is a confusing situation. What's going on here?"

"Well, there's only one way on which we can find that out" Doc Three said.

"We're not going to land here, are we?" Marty Senior Ten said. "I'm actually kind of hesitant about what I'm going to see."

"I understand, Marty Ten" Doc Three said. "However, I can't help but be curious. And, if we want to rescue the girls, we'll have to dare something."

Marty Senior Ten nodded, sighing, as Doc Three took the train down. George A figured that his Dad was thinking the exactly thing as he himself - hoping that he hadn't made the wrong decision.

oooooooo

Marty McFly Junior was feeling very much confused, as he was sitting on the bench in the living room of the McFly and Brown mansion. Just a quarter ago, Marlene had called. However, she had a terrible message. Apparently, Cliff from 1987 and Griff Tannen had gotten their hands on a time machine, and had started kidnapping girls. They had also allied with Amy Needles.

Marty Senior then walked over to his son. "I'm about ready to go" he said. "Doc has gotten his time machine ready, down in the cellar. I'm hoping that we can still catch these bastards before they leave. Or maybe we could catch up with the others."

"What others?" Marty Junior asked.

His father looked at him, his hand balling into a fist. "I can not believe that any version of me could ever leave the girls at the hands of such a madman and go on with their daily jobs. Since there are ten Marlene's, I'm assuming that there must be at least ten versions of me or Doc, unless..." His voice wavered for a moment. "Unless they're like me before '92."

"Dad, we've been over this, okay?" Marty Junior said, with a sigh. "I know what you were like before 1992. You told me. Doc admitted that he himself wasn't too well either. You were just a guy in your early twenties, easily influenced by the idea of fame and fortune. It's all right, Dad. You apologised, Doc apologised, and things are all right again."

Marty Senior looked at him for a moment, and, just as Marty Junior thought that his father was going to say something to try to prove Marty Junior wrong, the musician actually nodded. "You're right, Marty" he said, with a faint smile. "I should know that and I do know that, by now. But on times like these, it comes up and I need a firm push back to reality to let it go again." His smile faded then as his mind apparently went back to the other subject. "However, those girls are still captives. We still will have to save them, one way or another." He sighed. "Come on, let's go to the cellar and see what Doc has proposed this time around."

Marty Jr let out a faint smile. He knew that Doc could propose some mad plans sometimes. Still, the McFly's appreciated the fact that Doc could actually come up with them - and Marty knew that Doc was right in his assumptions most of the time. After all, without Doc's plans for the lightning bolt at the clock tower, Marty Sr couldn't have gotten home. The teenager wondered if one of the captives that had been caught by Cliff and Griff would be from such a reality. There had been huge chances that the plan would've gone wrong, after all.

As they then arrived in the cellar, Marty Jr immediately noticed Doc sitting next to the DeLorean which the time machine had been build into. As the inventor looked up, Marty noticed the worries apparent on his face, most likely because of the danger that his daughter, Maria, and the girls that felt like a granddaughter and a granddaughter-in-law to him, were in. He felt sorry for the inventor. Even though he himself had troubles, too, he couldn't just forget the scientist.

"Good afternoon" Doc said, as he looked at Marty Senior. "Or, actually, bad afternoon. Great Scott, if Cliff, Amy and Griff really have gone off to take a time machine... well, I wouldn't like to think about the possibilities. We know from that other reality what a Tannen with a time machine can be like. And we can't just take it away from them either, as they've got these girls." He shivered. "Were there really ten Marlene's, including ours?"

"My alternate daughter said that, yeah" Marty Sr nodded. "I still can't believe that a Tannen managed to figure out how to work with a time machine." He sighed. "Well, I guess that that is not the most important issue, right now. We have to figure out what happened to my and to your daughter, and to Suzy. They should've called again, by now." He sighed. "I'd hate to say it, but I'm afraid that they have been captured, too."

"I suppose so" Marty Jr muttered, with a sigh. "Why does this have to happen to me? And why today?"

"To be honest, I don't think that you would've liked it on any day" Marty Sr said, managing a slight smile despite the circumstances.

Marty Jr sighed. "Yeah, that's right" he admitted. "Well, shouldn't we go, now? The faster we track down those bastards, the better. We don't want to risk them having travelled to an alternate reality already."

"Well, for that, we'll have to rely on the girls" Marty Sr said. "From what alternate Marlene told me, they don't seem to be the types to just skip a universe without success in capturing the girls that they want. Granted, if they're from really different universes, they might not even know what kind of girls they are looking for, but still."

"Point made, Dad" Marty Jr said, nodding. "I just hope that we'll find them, soon."

"Correct" Doc said, speaking up. "So, why don't we just all board the DeLorean, and try to track down the area around the place that you said that the girls were. That might be the best way to track them down." He sighed. "I really hope that some of us will show up, from the previous realities where the Tannen's got the girls."

"If those other us-es are here" Marty Sr muttered. "I definitely hope so, though. They could provide valuable information."

Marty Junior nodded, and just then, they heard a loud noise. Both Marty's and Doc looked at each other, confused.

"What the heck?" Marty Sr exclaimed.

"That came from outside" his son muttered. "Think it could be... them?"

"Depends on who of 'them' you mean" Marty Sr said, hurrying after his son outside. "I think that it might be the other Doc's, yes. Cliff and Griff would be a little less likely. I can't see a reason for them to actually come over here."

"I still can't figure out how Griff managed to get out of prison right at the time that his Dad would show up" Marty Jr muttered. "Maybe he's broken out in our world, too."

"It might sound a little crazy, but maybe he never was locked up in the first place" Marty Senior replied. "After all, it could be possible that, in that world, the crime still ended up happening, and your other self was the one that ended up getting arrested."

"I doubt that he would really manage to make other me do that, though" Marty Jr said, just as a second honk sounded. "I mean, if that was a timeline in which you got your hand fixed, and had a happier life than originally, then things would've been still the same as in this world. I was actually kind of suspicious about the thing that Griff wanted me to do, and was planning to appear to give in, but in fact stay at home. It took me all my courage to come to that decision, as Griff might come after me. I suppose that I could've said that my alarm clock broke down so I slept through it, but I doubt that Griff and his gang would believe it, and even if they did, they would've 'punished' me for it, anyway - just because they liked it. They are, after all, a Tannen and his gang."

"Good point" Marty Sr said, as he and Marty Jr exited, Doc following shortly after as he had to lock the DeLorean first - with Tannen's possibly still out, you never knew how much security you would have to have. The thing they saw then, made their weird dreams turn into realistic compared to this.

Right in front of them was a large bus - and Doc Brown, or at least another version of him, was at the wheel! Marty Jr wondered what was happening here. He supposed that these were the persons that his father and Doc from this world had already expected to show up. He gulped nervously, as he wasn't so sure whether he wanted to track down Cliff, Griff and Amy, after all. If he had to do it, then he'd rather do it with persons that he knew - and not with possible other selves. He was kind of hesitant to find out what his life would've been like, in other worlds.

"Um, hi" he finally muttered, figuring that being polite would perhaps not help him very much, but it was the first thing on his mind and he didn't really know what to say when confronted with someone from another dimension. "Who are you? Are you Doc, too?"

Other Doc exchanged glances with someone else in the train, then returned to look at Marty Junior. "Yes and no" he said. "I am Doctor Emmett Brown, yes, but I'm the Doc Brown from another reality. Are you familiar with the term?"

"Yes, I am" the Doc that Marty Junior knew said. "I have been in on time travel long enough to know that there are possibilities for alternate realities, even though they can't be achieved by normal time travel like some people think. Also, I've had a visit from someone from another reality in 1988."

Other Doc's eyes went wide for a brief moment, and then he smiled - a knowing smile. "I suppose that I might know what you mean" he said. "But, before I get into that discussion, first, I need to ask you a question or two. Are you missing any girls?"

Marty Jr and Doc exchanged glances, but Marty Sr was the one to answer. "Yeah" he said. "Doc's daughter, Maria, my daughter Marlene, and my future daughter-in-law, Suzy MacArthur. They were most likely kidnapped by Cliff and Griff Tannen, and Amy Needles. They all are from another reality, like you. There are also a lot more girls captured and they're travelling in a time machine, I suppose. I guess that you guys are chasing them?"

Other Doc's eyes went wide again, but now for longer. "Great Scott!" he exclaimed, jaw dropping. "How did you know about that? You're the first group that we encounter that has knowledge about what has happened to them, and to their girls!" He paused for a moment. "Granted, that brings the advantage that we don't have to tell you anymore, but I do feel quite shocked by this."

"I can understand that" Doc said, nodding. "And for the question which you asked - that's because in this reality, the girls were actually the ones to find the train, not the other way around. Well, it's not like the train itself could actually find them, but I suppose that you get what I mean. Anyway, they - the girls, I mean - let one of the Marlene's phone Marty Senior over here and explain what is going on. However, about twenty minutes have passed already, and since then, we have not had contact with them, anymore. I'm afraid that they have suffered the same fate as the girls already there."

Other Doc hit the table closest to him. "Why do we always have to run into things like this?" he asked himself. "Why can't we just find girls that are still around?"

"Lot of bad luck, most likely" Doc said. "Maybe you - we, I guess - should try to go back in time in some world, and capture Cliff and Griff when they come in." He pondered that for a moment. "However, knowing them, they might just race through your time machine and not care about getting hurt. They are, after all, Tannen's."

"Well, even if they're Tannen's, there has to be some logistics in them" a third Doc said, appearing next to the other Doc at the window. "They're stupid, but not entirely crazy."

Marty Junior grinned as he saw Doc step back at the sight of his other self. "Great Scott!" he whispered.

"I thought that you knew what to expect" Other Doc number one said. "You're the only one who expected us to show up, after all."

"Yeah, but seeing other versions of you always remains being weird" Doc said, shaking his head. "Especially two of them at once. After all, I'm rather unfamiliar to this."

"You haven't met much other versions of yourself before?" Other Doc number two asked. "Hm, weird. My Marty - Senior - and I have always gone on frequent time trips. And Marty met a lot of his ancestors and descendants, and I've met my future self several times - not my past self, of course. I always left that to Marty."

Other Doc number one looked at his counterpart. However, Marty Junior thought that the look seemed to be more a glare. "We've been over this, you know" he said. "That sounds very irresponsable. I know that Marty isn't as inexperienced anymore as when he first went travelling through time, but still - interacting with your ancestors is one of the most dangerous things that you can experience when travelling through time. You know that, One."

Other Doc number two - One, his counterpart had called him - looked at his counterpart with a sigh. "And, like you said, Three, we've been over this" he said. "You and I happen to have different ideologies on this subjects. It is not of the matter now, anyway. The girls are."

"Exactly" Three said, nodding firmly. "You're right - we should concentrate on important things." He looked at his counterpart from the current world. "So, are you coming aboard or not? With your girls most likely captured, the bad guys could leave any minute now."

As if to illustrate his point, a loud noise shattered the silence. A long beep came from inside the bus. Doc Three let out a sigh. "See what I mean?" he said, with a slight smirk, heading inside to grab the thing.

"I suppose so" Doc said. "I'm kind of hesitant to join, though." He shook his head. "I'll have to talk to my wife about this."

"Clara Clayton, I assume?" Doc One said, with a smirk. Marty Junior wondered who he was talking about.

Doc was also confused, and shook his head. "No... Susan Clayton" he corrected. "I don't know a Clara Clayton - well, except for the tale that my wife told me about her indirect ancestor falling into Clayton Ravine."

"It's still Clayton here?" Doc One asked, surprised. "Well, I suppose so, if Clara still fell in..." He saddened. "Granted, it might be only natural, but every reminder of my wife's unfortunate death does happen to make me sad."

"I understand" Doc said. "I'd be sad, too, if I heard of my wife dying in another world." He sighed. "Granted, I don't have any experience with it - seeing as I didn't meet my wife on the same way as you obviously did."

"Where did you meet her then?" Doc One asked.

"At a New Year's Party. It was love at first sight for me and Emmett both, only he was a little more hesitant to act on it."

Marty Junior frowned as he realised that Doc had not spoken. He turned around, along with his father and Doc himself, to see Susan Mary Clayton coming out of the house. "Emmett" she said, with a slight smile. "You hadn't warned me of the fact that we had visitors."

"I'm sorry, sweetie" Doc said, smiling as best as he could despite the circumstances. "This isn't a usual case, you know, and I would've rather wanted you to stay out of this."

"It's never a usual case with you" Susan said, teasing. "However, I shouldn't have expected that when we got married." She sighed. "Like you would say - Great Scott! Has it really been almost thirty years already? It feels like just yesterday that we vowed to care for each other for our whole life."

Doc One had been silent all the time, but when he opened his mouth, he was apparently very much shocked. "Great Scott!" he exclaimed. "You look almost exactly like my wife!"

"I do?" Susan asked, frowning.

The other inventor nodded. "Clara has got brown hair, and yours is blonde, but that is about the only difference that I can find. This really is a surreal experience for me - although I doubt that it isn't for you."

"Yeah" Susan said, nodding. She then turned to her husband, confused. "Clara... you don't think that it's them, do you?"

Before Doc could answer, Doc Three re-appeared at the window. "The Destination is August 10th, 2017, 04:30 PM, EJ #52" he reported. "I guess that it's one of your worlds again, One..." He then noticed that the amount of people out had increased. "Great Scott! Susan Clayton?"

"Yeah" Susan said, confused. "You know me?"

"I most certainly do" Doc Three said. "I saw you on my trip through dimensions, back in 1988." He frowned. "The dimension with the two versions of me is already on board, so..." He gasped. "Great Scott! You must be the Doc Brown and wife plus the Marty McFly Sr from the world where Marty kept the almanac!"

"What?" Doc One exclaimed. "Is there actually such a world where Marty did that?"

"I'm afraid yes" Doc Three muttered. "Great Scott... I'd never expected to see this world again." He looked at Marty Senior, eyeing him nervously."

"Don't worry, Doc" Marty Junior said. "Doc Three, I suppose. He's all right, now. Dad and Doc finally managed to convince each other in early 1992. The almanac is currently nothing more than ashes, twenty-three-year-old ashes even." He smiled slightly.

"Trust me, he's come to his senses" Doc said. "I wouldn't be living with him in one house if he wasn't. Also, I didn't handle the whole thing as I should either. I shouldn't have let Marty go into that Rolls Royce race either. I finally realised that I wouldn't have had a future, if not for him."

"I suppose" Doc One said. "However, how interesting this might be, though, we really have to go. We should try to leave as soon as possible to catch up with the Tannens." He growled as he thought of their enemies.

"I understand" Doc said. "If they've really taken Marly and Suzy, and most likely Maria too if they've left already, then we're wasting time here. We should leave as soon as we can. The girls' future lives depends on it, after all." He tried to board the bus.

However, he was stopped by Doc Three, who eyed Susan nervously. "What about Susan?" he asked. "No offence to your wife, of course, but she wasn't along on all the other trips. I wonder whether it would be wise to have her board this time around. She might not take too well to being the sole instance of a wife of a Dr. Brown."

"Oh, I'm okay with that" Susan said. "Now that you mentioned it - I really do want to come along. Maria Brown is my daughter, after all, too. Marty Senior here sometimes feels like he's my brother-in-law or something, so the other girls would be my niece and niece-in-law. I'm not going to leave them at the hands of a madman." She wanted to step onto the train, then hesitated. "Uh, why did the other versions of your wife not board?"

"Well, I suppose that it had a good reason" Doc Three said. "I don't think that either of them, or at least, the ones that were still around, wanted to see Cliff Tannen. Also, they realised that it would probably be just a few minutes, after all. That's the same reason why most of the Jennifer's didn't board the train. Just Jennifer One did, but it was her other, younger self who was captured after all."

"Oh yeah, Cliff was from 1987" Marty Junior muttered. "That really does make it all even more confusing, you know."

"Trust me, I understand" Doc Three said, with a slight smile. "But, anyway - you can come on board, now."

In order, Doc, Susan, Marty Sr and finally Marty Junior boarded the train. As Marty Junior then looked inside the train, he felt stunned. There were just so many people around, that looked like himself. They were also all wearing name tags - however, not all of them said 'Marty Junior'. However there were nine more Marty Junior's, there was also one 'Alex J McFly', an 'Alex P McFly' and a 'Mike McFly', a 'George E McFly', a 'Emmett D Brown', a 'Calvin Klein III', an 'Alex K' and even a 'George A McFly'. Also, there was a 'TeenMarty'. That meant that, including him, there had to be eightteen Marty Junior-look-alikes on board. Also, there were a lot of versions of his father, of whom one wore the name tag of 'Calvin Klein Jr', and two others the name tags of 'Calvin Arthur McFly' and 'Michael Brown', and there were a lot of Doc's. Then, there were a few girls, a version of his mother, a Jennifer Parker, a few unfamiliar boys called Mike Hartford, and there even were two Tannens! Their name tags said 'Bill Tannen', though, so Marty Junior figured that, if they weren't any of the Tannen's he knew, they might as well be good. He'd never seen a good Tannen, though. Still, if it was something he didn't know, didn't automatically mean that it was impossible. If time travel and other dimensions were possible, then good Tannen's had to be also possible.

As he further looked around, Marty Junior realised that maybe there were even more people on board, but he couldn't see that at the moment. The teen suddenly felt very much dazed, as he wondered what exactly was going on around here.

"Hi" one of his counterparts - Marty Junior Three, he read on his name tag - said. "I suppose that you're confused at what you're seeing, right?"

"Confused is a rather small word for this" Marty Junior said, with his Doc, Susan, and Marty Senior agreeing. "What's going on here? I know that Cliff has kidnapped girls, but why are there so many other boys who look like me but are not me according to their name tags, and why are there these unfamiliar girls, and these Mike Hartfords?"

"I kind of figured that you wouldn't know us" Mike H Six said, with a sigh. "You are from a PF kind of world, after all."

"A what?" Marty Junior asked, as he felt very much confused. What was 'PF' supposed to mean?

"It's your interdimensional code" Doc Three explained, although that didn't mean much to the teen either. "You see, every dimension has it's code to fit in with their home world. Your code, apparently, is PF #47. My own dimension is PF #50, so you're moderately close. However, PF #48 and 49 would be even closer."

"Got it... I suppose" the teen replied.

The older man smiled faintly. "Good" he said. "Well, I guess that now that everyone is on board, we could get going now, but I think that you'd like an explanation, first." He glanced at his friends. "And I think that we would like one, too... like what Marty McFly here did with Gray's Sports Almanac."

"What?" Chris Six exclaimed, horrified. "This Marty actually got a hold on the sports almanac?"

"I can't believe it!" Michael Brown exclaimed. "Sure, when stealing the almanac from Biff, I was tempted to just keep it. However, I knew better than that. After all, I had seen what Biff was like when he had the almanac, and I just figured that it wasn't worth it."

"Well, actually, I didn't live through that" Marty Sr said, blushing. "I actually managed to somehow keep the almanac in 2015, and with that lack of delay, we managed to get Jennifer sooner, didn't leave the DeLorean unattended for Biff to get away with it, and headed back to the past in one piece." He smiled, but his smile faded as he thought of what happened next. "However, afterwards, I ended up breaking my hand in a Rolls Royce race that my Doc failed to warn me for."

"You didn't warn him?" Doc Five asked. "I mean, I know that you and I and the others wanted for Marty to find out what he should do on his own, but if it really got too close, I'd figured that I'd just take him aside and explain the truth..." He sighed. "Well, I think so now. Back then, I might've been naive enough to think that I had to let this happen. Sure, Marty's chicken problem was the main thing, but I could've tried to tell the truth about why he should drop his chicken problem, and then explain why he needed that information. I'm afraid that I myself did that wrong, too. If not for MJ, Marty would've never heard the truth at all."

"Junior was with you?" Marty Senior asked, surprised.

"Long story" Doc Five said. "But... go on with your tale. I'm curious to hear what happens next."

Marty Senior blushed. "I must warn you, it will not be nice" he said. "Doc and I kind of broke up our friendship. Even though we ended up patching it up again, telling the tale might affect your friendship with your Marty."

Doc Five looked at Marty Senior Five and Marty Junior Five, who were both along with him on the trip, and then, he faced Marty Senior. "We've been through enough already" he said, firmly. "I'm sure that we can take this, too. Marty has saved my life enough times and over the years I've tried to do anything I could to repay him. We're friends forever." He glanced at Doc Three, and then continued: "And also, we're partners in time." He put an arm around his Marty to demonstrate.

Marty Senior smirked slightly. "Good" he said. "So, anyway, once I woke up from the crash, Doc visited and we got into an argument over what happened. Doc blamed it on my chicken problem, and I was angry as Doc had in the meantime destroyed the time machine. We ended up breaking up our friendship as much as the time machine was broken up too. Well, the time travel parts, anyway."

"You actually ended up going through with that?" Doc Five said, surprised. "I considered it several times, but eventually didn't do it. I didn't build the second time machine for just bringing MJ home, after all... however that was an important factor."

"Bringing MJ home?" Susan repeated. "What is that supposed to be all about?"

"About the fact that, in their reality, Marty Junior ended up being trapped in the 1980s" Marty Junior Two said. "I still happen to feel kind of envious, you know. The '80s might not be everything, but they're better than the twenty-teens."

"Yeah" Marty Junior Four said, nodding. "Sometimes, I kind of wish that the '80s had never ended at all and that we were currently living in the year nineteen-eighty-thirty-five." He smirked slightly. "Granted, 19835 is still an immense amount of years into the future instead of three decades into the past, but I suppose that you get what I mean."

"You know, I wonder what the world will be like in the year 19835" Marty Junior Ten said. "I don't suppose that you know that, Doc?"

All of the Doc's shook their heads. "I never went really far" Doc '87 said. "Just off to the 2010s, and maybe sometimes the 2020s and '30s. Farther than that is not something that I've really gone."

"We have, though" Marty Junior Four said, pointing at himself and Jamie Brown. "We once went to the year 2046 with the time machine."

"That's right" his Dad confirmed. "I went, too - from the year 1986. So, we saw the future up to the twenty-forties."

"I got farther than that, though" Doc Three said. "I've once even visited 2073. That was shortly after Junior's birth, if I'm not mistaken. Marty here was curious about what his son would be like at age seventy-five, and, even though I didn't tell him everything that I saw, I did get quite some interesting information."

"Like what?" Marty Senior Three asked, curiously.

"Yeah, Doc, I'm kind of curious too" Marty Junior Seven said. "Even if it doesn't apply to our universe, then the least it can do is be better than the things that Dad, Uncle Calvin and Uncle Michael faced in the Hell Valley world."

Doc Three smiled, slightly. "Well, I did find out that Clara, Jennifer, Marty Sr, Junior and I were still alive" he said. "Didn't find out the exact conditions, but this at least counted as good in my book. Anyway, I also found out that both Marty and I still have a continuing line of descendants running into the latter half of the Twenty-First Century, so at least that is positive."

"Yeah, that certainly sounds good" Susan said. "However I wonder whether this would also count for my Emmett."

"I'm pretty much secure that it would" Doc Three assured her. "And for you, too. That is, though, if medical technology advanced as well in your universe as it did in ours. However, with a time machine and possibilities to go up to 9999 AD within your reach, nothing is impossible."

"Well said" Marty Junior said. "But now, shouldn't Dad continue to tell his story?"

Marty Senior sighed. "I guess that it's inevitable, then" he said. "All right - over the next years, I was mostly bittered as my future was ruined, except for the almanac. In 1988, Doc and I from another world came to visit, and Other Me explained to me that I'd been acting the wrong way all the time." He glanced at Marty Senior Three. "I suppose that would've been you. You were right, you know, but I didn't realise it just yet. I felt way too bitter to actually patch things up. So, Doc and I remained not being on speaking terms up until June, 1989."

"The month of your twenty-first birthday" Doc '87 said. "The time where you'd first be allowed to gamble."

"That's right" Doc confirmed. "However, in the meantime, I hadn't been doing nothing either. I'd desperately tried to make out of my life what I could, however finances always remained being a major problem. I'd spent my entire family fortune on the time machine, and now, my amount of money was almost nothing. I'd spent thirty years and my entire family fortune on something that I destroyed within days after first testing it. I was broke."

"I had that problem, too" Doc Five said. "I remember how Marty's parents were so kind to borrow me money in the first weeks after returning. Of course, there was also the matter of Clara, and later the boys. And then there was the time machine that I had to build, to get Marty Junior home."

"Oh yeah" Doc said, nodding. "Marty Junior... Two, I guess... mentioned that before, didn't he? I suppose that it isn't the most important detail, but it does remain being intruiging." He paused. "Anyway, I was very much unhappy. On December 31st, 1986, I was asked by George and Lorraine to attend a New Year's Party with them. That would cheer me up again, or so they thought." He looked at Susan and smiled. "Of course, at the time, I had no idea that I'd meet the love of my life there..."

"We soon got to be very good friends" Susan said, nodding. "Eventually, we even ended up marrying, however we purposely waited until September 4th, 1987, the day on which my great-great-grandmother's sister, Clara Clayton, died in Clayton Ravine."

"Eight months to marry the love of your life" Doc Five said, shaking his head. "Sounds long to me, you know."

"I think that most people would think otherwise, but, yeah, it's long for a Doc" Marty Senior Five said. "Doc - our Doc - married after about... what, three weeks? two-and-a-half?"

"That was rushed" Doc Five complained. "I wanted to move in with her as quick as possible. We could probably have managed to live apart in 1885, but in 1985, I wanted to seal the bond between us as soon as possible so that Clara would feel more comfortable."

"I suppose" Marty Junior Five muttered.

"Anyway," Doc continued, "I ended up getting two sons with Susan - Jules, born 1988, and Verne, born early 1990. In 1989, Marty ended up hitting it big, and after marrying Jennifer in a large wedding, I got to be more and more suspicious about him and about the origin of his fortune. However, Marty probably realised that, and to not antagonise me, he offered me a job in January 1990. Since it paid hundred thousand and eight dollars a year, I immediately accepted."

"Hundred thousand and eight?" Doc Six repeated, astonished.

Marty Senior blushed. "I really wanted to get Doc to be on my side, and I figured that this was the best way" he said. "Anyway, it did end up working out quite well, and over the next two years, Doc ended up being a really good secretary for Martin McFly Enterprises, as my company was called. However, unbeknownst to me, in January of '91, Doc had found out the truth about my 'luck' by scanning through old newspapers. He decided to confront me with it after finally finding the almanac on a Christmas meeting that year, and the results were... not so nice."

"You ended up firing me" Doc said. "However, that was after I swung a lot of nasty insults that I should've never said towards you. Especially the one about you not deserving a future."

All of the Marty Senior's, Junior's and Doc's gasped. "Did you really..." Michael Brown finally muttered, grabbing the hand of his Doc, Chris Seven. "You... you wouldn't..."

Doc sighed. "I did, I'm afraid" he said. "At that afternoon, all the anger that both Marty and I had in us for years finally went out against the opposite side. Marty fired me and sent us flying through the sky - literally."

Marty Senior kneeled down and put his hand in his face. "Every time I think of that the whole thing still gives me a nasty chilly feeling" he said, softly. "I could've killed your kids... Susan and you could've saved yourselves as you did, but Jules and Verne were just infants..."

"I don't think that I would've ever forgiven you if you would've killed them" Doc said, slightly bitter.

"To be honest, neither would I" Marty Senior said. "I might've given myself the same treatment as punishment."

"Don't speak that way" Marty Junior said, patting his father and Doc on the back. "You guys solved your issues, and that's all what matters."

"How did that end up happening, anyway?" Chris Six asked. "If you really were so angry at each other..."

"After our great fight, we eventually each got thinking" Doc said. "Marty figured that maybe what I thought was right, after all, and I thought up the same. After all, it was true that Marty saved my life from the Libyan terrorists, even though I'd always refused to listen, and also, he'd just been a young teenager around the time of the race and when he got the almanac - and Marty got to finally realise that my primary reason not to tell him about the incident with the Rolls Royce, was to let him not cause any more harm to himself. He therefore settled his chicken problem. And when I invited him to my birthday, on March 23rd, 1992, he came, with the almanac. We made up, and burned the almanac together."

"That sounds nice" Calvin McFly said. "I'm glad that your problem ended up being fixed."

"It's not entirely the end, yet" Marty Senior said, with a smirk. "A few months after that day, in early June, Doc finished rebuilding the time machine which he'd already planned to do when he found out about my big wins. On my birthday, he showed up with a sleep inducer, and the next thing I knew, I woke up in a futuristic hospital - with my hand completely fixed."

Neither of the Marty's and Doc's had to say a word for a moment. Finally, it was Alex P McFly who spoke. "Sounds like everything completely worked out between you two" he said, clearly relieved.

"Yeah" Marty Senior Three said. "That was one of the things that I got to be concerned about, once I returned back home from that trip through dimensions in '88."

Marty Senior smiled. "Well, it did go as all right as it could" he said. "I tried to sell my business and my property that I'd gained during the past few years, only I couldn't get anybody to sell it to. That probably explains why that spot in front of the Courthouse Square where you know bushes to be is now empty."

"What spot?" Doc Two asked, confused.

"It's the spot that Marlene was talking about on the phone" Marty Junior explained. "When she called us, she was talking about it. That was where Cliff and Griff were."

"Interesting" Doc Five said. "I do happen to know an area with bushes close to the Courthouse Square, yes. It looks like we finally got closer to that asshole."

"Yeah, there does seem to be a small piece of hope, now" Marty Junior Nine agreed. Alex, his cousin, nodded firmly.

"Well, speaking of Cliff Tannen, we should get going now" Doc Three said. "As interesting as your explanation was, we did waste a lot of time listening to it. We should get going again."

"Right" Doc One said. "So, all we have to do is tap in the code for the new dimension and leave."

"Now, wait a moment" Marty Senior Five complained. "We don't have name tags for nothing. We first need to get you the tags."

"You mean, the ones you're wearing on your shirt?" Marty Junior said. His alternate father nodded. "I gather that's to keep us apart from each other, because there are so many of me's, and you's, and Doc's, and others..."

"That's correct" Alex J McFly confirmed. "Let's see... you guys should be Doc Brown Eleven, Susan... just Susan, we don't have another you on board, and Marty Junior Eleven, and you would be Marty Senior Eleven... or would you prefer AlmanacMarty?"

"Very funny" Marty Senior said, sarcastically, however a slight smile did form on his face.

"All right, with that settled, I think that we could get going" Doc Three said. "What was the dimensional code of the next universe again? I do remember that it was an EJ one..."

"That's right" Doc Four confirmed, checking Doc Three's tracker. "EJ #52, at 4:30 PM."

"And it's 4:48 now" Doc Three said, with a sigh. "We really have been wasting our time here."

"Sorry" Marty Senior said, sighing. "I guess it's kind of my fault. It was my explanation, after all."

"Never mind" Doc Three said. "It's okay. We understand." He looked at the time circuits, and tapped in the correct date, with five minutes extra, making it 4:35 PM. "To make sure that we don't collide with them" he explained to a curious Marty Junior. "They could hang around for that purpose, after all. They're Tannen's. They're crazy... no insults to the Bill Tannen's on board..."

"The who?" Doc asked, slightly upset.

"They're the good Tannen's" Marty Junior Two said, firmly. "Trust me - there are good Tannen's, and they're among them."

"Yeah" Bill Tannen One said. "I do feel sorry for my relatives causing so much harm to you, Dr. Brown Eleven."

"It's okay, I suppose" Doc said, still shaky. "Great Scott, good Tannen's... well, I guess that if you say that it's all right, then it'll probably be so."

"That's correct" Doc Three said. "I had to get used to them, too, but they don't seem to be really evil just yet, so I'm convinced that they're not in cohoots with... them." His voice went lower as he said that last word, and Marty Junior could clearly notice the disgust in it.

"Okay, that's all right, then" Doc said. "Let's just depart."

"We will, we will." Doc Three turned towards Doc One. "You take the wheel" he instructed. "It's one of yours again." He moved towards Marty Senior Three and Marty Junior Three, where he sat down, clearly exhausted.

Marty Junior felt nervous, as Doc One turned a switch, and the bus lifted up. He was feeling quite anxious to rescue the girls, but he had to admit that travelling to another universe was not one of his favourite things to do. It was most likely positive that up until now, he'd always existed, in one form or another, but that might change when travelling through dimensions.

"Stuffed shells?" Doc Two then asked, holding a plate with stuffed shells in front of them. "Trust me - you're going to need them. We're not finished with this just yet."

"I suppose" Marty Junior said, grabbing a plate and a few shells. He wondered what would happen when they'd run out of shells. He hoped that in the next universe, someone would bring food. He then remembered that they could've maybe brought along some food of their own, but they weren't ready for a long trip just yet back then.

"All right, we're up in the sky" Doc One announced. "Elevens, are you guys ready?"

"Ready!" Marty Senior called back.

"Set!" Doc One then called back, as he put down the gas pedal and the bus started to accelerate. "All right, guys, brace yourselves for dimensional displacement!"

Marty Junior grabbed his father's hand and held it, as next to him, Doc and Susan embraced. They all held on tight to the sides of the bus. Within seconds, the bus hit the beloved number of 88, and Marty Junior held on as tight as he could, as the bus started to flash up with light in the front - the familiar sign that time travel was coming. . His last thoughts were hopes to rescue the girls as soon as possible.

Then, the bus broke the temporal and dimensional barrier, and left the Heaven Or Hell Universe behind to move on to once another dimension and once another adventure, leaving just fire trails behind where they'd once been as they went off to complete their mission. They weren't ready with this... not just yet.