August 10, 2017
02:55 PM PDT
Twin Pines/Eastwood Universe

Stacy Stebbs sighed, as the time train crossed the temporal and dimensional barrier - and landed in the new world. She'd been feeling uncomfortable about this quite some time, now - ever since she woke up, actually. She sighed, as she realised that something serious was going on here. She still couldn't actually stand the thought that Bill Tannen could've betrayed them. He always had been such a nice guy.

"Where am I?" she then said, uncertainly, and looking around curiously. "Who are you girls? What happened to Bill?"

"That guy wasn't Bill" a voice which sounded a lot like her own said. The girl looked in the direction where the noise came from, and opened her eyes wide as she saw several girls who looked exactly like Stephanie and herself. "I was fooled by it as well" the other girl continued. "It was Xiff Tannen, from the future - which is just as bad. Granted, it does make me feel rather happy, to know that Bill hasn't betrayed us - but I do feel rather unhappy about all this. Being captured is never fun."

"Yeah, I suppose" Stacy said, confused. "Xiff Tannen from the future? What's going on here, anyway? And why are there so many versions of Stephanie and myself?" She looked around, and spotted almost at least a dozen Marlene's, and a lot of unfamiliar girls. "And... who are all these girls?"

"I understand that you have a lot of questions" a girl who looked a lot like Elisabeth Shue said. "I'm Suzy MacArthur, by the way. It seems to be, that we're dimension-hopping - and in my world, I'm actually dating one version of Marty McFly Junior."

"What?" a look-alike girl said - probably the Stephanie that she knew. "You mean... he cheated on me? Well, I suppose that things are different in other universes, but this is a rather hard thing to take."

"You poor girl" a Tannen said. As Stacy looked to the front, she saw three Tannen's standing there - one of them was probably the mysterious Xiff. "I guess that your boyfriend really can't choose. Maybe, you'd be better of with dating me instead."

"I wouldn't even date you in a million years!" Stephanie exclaimed, angry. "Let me go immediately!"

"Why should I?" the Tannen argued. "I'm very happy with having you around. Granted, there's a lot more of you here, but the more, the better, right?"

"You are awful" Stacy said, with a growl. "I can't believe that you're actually doing this - whoever you are."

"I'm Cliff" the Tannen said. "Cliff Tannen. Pleased to meet you, even though I can't shake your hand right now."

Stacy's eyes opened wide. "Cliff Tannen?" she repeated, astonished. "But that means you're from... you're from the past!"

Cliff rolled his eyes. "Of course I'm from the past!" he exclaimed. "Where else did you think I came from? For a girl who's used to time travel, you aren't very smart in figuring that out."

Stacy glared at him. "You know, I don't know what's going on, but I've decided that I don't like you already" she said. "If you aren't going to let us go, can't you at least leave us alone?"

The Tannen shook his head. "No" he said. "That wouldn't be as much fun. You girls are so nice and sweet and sexy, I wouldn't want that to happen to you. So, if you could just adjust, then you'll know that this situation is not going away. He moved over to her, moved his hand through her hair, and kissed Stacy on the cheek.

The girl moved away disgusted. "Argh!" she exclaimed. "You... you disgusting jerk! Marty and Ryan are going to get you, you know!"

For a moment, Cliff seemed to actually be confused. "Marty and who?" he said, astonished.

"Ryan, you bojo" Stephanie said, rolling her eyes. "Ryan Nelson. Don't you know anything?"

"What else did you expect of Griff's father?" the Marlene that Stacy knew said. "Ryan Nelson - the son of Zach Nelson and Clara Parker?"

Cliff shook his head. "Never heard of him" he said. Then, his smile returned. "But, ah, I don't care who your boyfriend was. It's going to be me now, after all, so why think about the past while we should concentrate on today - more specifically, getting more girls."

"You're going to run out of room eventually, you know" Marlene pointed out. "I don't know how many girls you've got here, but it's a lot. We can barely sit here."

Cliff looked at her, surprised. "Did you honestly think we cared?" he asked, grinning evilly.

Marlene stared at him, then shook her head. "I guess I didn't" she said, sighing. "Oh man... they are going to get you, you know! You aren't going to get away with this in a million years!"

The Tannen with bionic implants smiled. "This is so hard, isn't it Dad?" he told Cliff. "We're being forced to choose between being able to kiss these lovely girls - or put a gag into their mouth, so they'll stop annoying us."

"Yeah, it's really hard" Cliff agreed. "Then still, we could always put some gags into their mouth while we're not kissing them."

"Brilliant!" the third Tannen exclaimed. "It really is awesome, travelling to the past with you, Gramps and Dad. We're certainly having one exciting adventure here."

"Oh, it isn't over yet" Cliff said, with a grin. "We're planning to capture some more girls than this. Trust us, dear grandson. We're nearing a wonderful time here."

"I guessed that" the Tannen said, grinning just as evil.

Stacy sighed. "We really aren't going to get away from them soon, aren't we?" she said, the urge to cry it out rising.

"Now, what gave it away?" the Amy Needles look-alike said, sarcastically.

"Keep yourself out of this!" Stacy shouted.

"I'll do whatever I like!" the Amy look-alike shouted back. "Just in case you forgot, Cliff here's in charge - and I'm not captured, like you! That makes me more important than you are, Miss Stacy Fourteen or Fifteen or whatever you are!"

Stacy frowned, and turned towards the others, ignoring Amy. "What number am I, anyway?" she asked. "And... what the heck is going on here?"

"Cliff Tannen took the DeLorean, kidnapped me, went to 2017, joined up with Griff, kidnapped more girls, discovered the ability to dimension-hop, started hopping through worlds, kidnapping as many girls as he can get" a girl who looked a lot like a teenaged version of Marty Junior's mother said. "He joined up with Amy Needles later - apparently, she's bad in the PF worlds - and after that, with Xiff Tannen. I'm a version of Jennifer Parker, by the way. So, that means that I'll be the mother of my world's version of your boyfriend, one day in the future."

"I suppose" Marlene said, interfering. "Boy... how long has this been going on?"

"It's been more than a day" one of the girls - an unfamiliar one - said, yawning. "I'm Harmony Brown - granddaughter of Dr. Emmett Brown, and dating my version of Marty Junior - and I've been quite tired for some time, now - and sometimes, we're getting some brief rest periods of half an hour. The bad guys, however, mostly keep us awake when we're trying to sleep. They themselves haven't slept too much just yet."

"Of course we haven't slept much yet" Griff said, with a grin. "How could we sleep, while the excitement about having so many girls around has been keeping us awake? Also, I slept in the day on which this all started. I came off bed around 1 PM, if I remember correctly."

"1 PM?" Stacy said, shocked. "Guess you guys really go and sleep so you can be awake and rob and bully people at night-time, huh?"

"Of course" Cliff said, with a grin. "Then we'll be more inconspicuous, of course."

"Yeah" Amy agreed. "I like beating up people in the daylight, when you can see their bruises and count out the money they've got, but at night does have a certain charm to it."

"Our tastes are really similar, aren't they?" Cliff said, smiling.

"Yeah, that's remarkable" Amy said. "Maybe we should start talking about our lives, to compare what we've got in common other than that - while we head uptown."

"Then I'll stay behind, this time" Xiff said. "Capturing girls is very nice - but I'd like to take a break. Even though I'd like to capture a version of Suzy MacArthur - I think that I will have that opportunity, sooner or later."

"Yeah, I have to admit that those Stebbs girls are getting unoriginal" Cliff said. "Why can't we have another Harmony, just for fun?"

"I hope you won't have another me" the girl that was apparently Harmony said. "Having two of me be caught up in this is far more than enough."

Cliff smirked. "It'll never be enough for me."

"Agreed" Amy said, putting an arm around Cliff's shoulder.

Stephanie looked away, disgusted. "Who are you girls, anyway?" she said. "I mean, I can see who the other me's and my sister are... but are there really two other girls dating a version of Marty McFly Junior?"

"That's correct, I'm afraid" Suzy Three said. "I'm Suzy MacArthur number Three, and, like Suzy Five, Seven and Eleven, I'm dating a Marty Junior. Apparently, me Thirteen is married to a Marty Junior - since she's from thirty years in the future. She wasn't captured, but if I know myself well, then she has probably joined the rescuers. I know that I couldn't let another version of myself stuck in a place like this."

"I'm Harmony Brown" the girl who had just spoken to Cliff said. "I'm Harmony Four, by the way. The other girl here that looks like me is Harmony One. We're both dating Marty Junior."

"I'm dating him as well" an unfamiliar girl said. "I'm Susan Brown, and I'm Doc Brown's great-granddaughter. I'm dating my version of Marty Junior - well, he's actually called Calvin III in my world, but never mind that - in world number eight. The other Stephanie's are dating him in the worlds where we aren't, so that should be Two, Six, Nine, Ten, Twelve, Fourteen and Fifteen. That makes you Stacy Fifteen, even though you aren't the fifteenth Stacy. In all the worlds where your sister is dating Marty Junior, you are dating a look-alike cousin or brother of his... well, except for world number Twelve, if I'm not mistaken, where there wasn't a cousin or brother... but guessing what you said about someone named Ryan Nelson, I guess that isn't the case here?"

"That's right" Stacy said. "I'm dating the son of Zach Nelson and Clara Parker - the latter of whom was brought back to 1985 from 1885 after being saved from drowning. Am I the only one who's not dating a Michael J. Fox look-alike?"

"No, you're not the only one" Stacy Fourteen said, apparently figuring that, with the Tannen's that were overhearing her already knowing the secret, she had no reason to keep this part a secret either. "My boyfriend's mother, Haven Brown, was adopted by Doctor Emmett Brown in 1987, but she really did come from the year 2007. I do happen to feel rather confused, to be honest, by the fact that she doesn't exist in your worlds... if you've never heard of Todd."

"No, I've never heard of him" Stacy Ten said. "Sorry. I'm dating a George Anthony McFly, and no Todd Brown. Never heard of the guy in my entire life." The others shook their head in approvement.

Stacy sighed. "I guess that you and I are really unique, huh?" she said.

"Most of us are" an unfamiliar red-haired girl said. "In one way or another. I'm Lisa Jung, by the way, and I'm dating a Mike McFly. In our world, he's the look-alike cousin to Marty McFly Junior, but he has a twin brother, Alex, who, in turn, is dating my world's version of you. Marty himself is dating your sister, Stephanie."

Marlene shook her head. "This is all so confusing" she groaned.

"Oh, I know" a somewhat familiar girl said. "I'm not Lorraine Baines, by the way, if you had thought that before - I'm a Marlene McFly. I happen to take after my grandma Lorraine... which is really the major difference in our world, besides the fact that I have a sister, Melody McFly, who takes after our our mother in appearance."

"Hi" a girl who looked exactly like teen Jennifer said. "I'm Melody."

"I figured that" Stacy said, with a smile. "Even though the other one could've been you too."

"Sorry" the third Jennifer look-alike said. "I'm Jennifer McFly. In our world, I'll be Suzy MacArthur and Marty McFly Junior's daughter. I guess this is a rather enjoyable experience, being able to meet so many teenaged versions of my mother - but I'm afraid that I can't really appreciate it now."

"Yeah, I suppose I understand that" Suzy Seven said. "But it's nice to meet you, anyway."

"Anyway, to go on with the introductions, I'm sure you know who I am" a Marlene said, as the other Marlene's nodded. "I'm Marlene Eight, so I'm the sister to Calvin Klein III, as opposed to Marty McFly Junior - but that doesn't mean I'm in any way different from the other me's, as far as I've observed up until now."

Stephanie smiled. "Nice to meet you, too."

"And then there's me" another unfamiliar girl said. "I'm Maria Brown - Maria Brown Five, to be correct. There's also number Seven of me. In the other worlds, I apparently wasn't born. But that's kind of logical, most of the times - seeing as my Dad's situation was different. I'm Dr. Brown's daughter, by the way."

"Really?" Stacy said, astonished. "That's... weird."

"I guess so."

"By the way, I'm Julie MacArthur" a girl who looked a lot like the Suzy's said. "I am the cousin of Suzy Seven... and I believe that's everything."

"No, there's still me" an unfamiliar girl said. "I'm Julia Belle Rundgren, by the way, and I replace Marlene in my own universe. It's kind of a complicated story."

"I suppose" Marlene said, as she felt very confused about someone replacing her.

"And then there should be me" a girl who looked a lot like Maria Brown said, as a girl next to her who resembled her a lot nodded as well. "I'm Sarah Brown. I'm from the year 2047, and there's two of us because I am from the dystopian world that Griff Tannen made."

Stacy couldn't help but gasp, as she felt horrified. "Really?" she said. "I mean... Marty's parents have told us about Biff Tannen's time travelling, but they never got to see the world because Marty's mother found out that Biff had time travelled before they actually got around to getting back to 1985."

"Wait a second" Jennifer P said, stunned. "You mean... I was along on the trip in your universe? Conscious?"

"Um, yeah" Stephanie said. "You were along on the trip to 1955, too. Is that different?"

"Yeah" a Marlene said, and the other Marlene's nodded agreeing. "In all of our worlds, that never happened." She frowned. "I wonder what could've happened if Jennifer had gone along in our world, and if she ended up being trapped along with Grandpa Calvin in 1955."

"Our even weirder, in our world" another Marlene said. "I wonder what would happen if Mom then got amnesia too, like Grandpa - and if she failed to remember that they came from the future. Grandma Lorraine could've simply fallen in love with Grandpa Calvin and right back without Mom being the slightest bit worried about their relationship."

"That is, if they happened to still fall in love with Mrs. Klein being around" a Stephanie pointed out. "Mr. Klein might've fallen for her instead, or have conflicting feelings about which one to choose. That might've happened, though, if Mrs. Klein and... her boyfriend... went their own way's, and if she still happened to bump into him during that week, while he already was in love with Lorraine. I doubt that... Marty, I guess... wouldn't actually believe her if she told him the truth - and he might accuse her of trying to get him to fall in love with her instead of Lorraine... and Lorraine might support him by saying that Jennifer was trying to take Marty away from her. That might even cause Jennifer to have a broken heart, as, from her point of view, it would be like her boyfriend dumped her - for his mother, nonetheless."

"This is enough" Stacy said, feeling slightly horrified. "If you are really from a world where Mr. McFly fell in love with his mother, thanks to having amnesia... well, it sounds very interesting, but... I don't want to talk about this, right now." She looked around. "Was that everyone?"

"Yeah, it should be" Marlene Five said, glad that this subject was at least left behind. "That's a lot, isn't it?"

"Oh, it certainly is" Cliff said, with a smile. "But, by the way, there's no time to chat more about this. As much as this really is interesting, I do have to go now. There's more girls to catch." In their talking, the girls hadn't noticed that the train had landed - and now, Cliff and Amy stepped out.

"Good luck, Dad!" Griff exclaimed. "Xiff and I will amuse ourselves here!"

Cliff smiled at him, and walked away with Amy. Griff looked after him, then turned to the girls.

"Well, son, you've got a lot to learn about how we do this" he said, with a smirk. "Where shall we start?"

As Xiff Tannen smiled back at his father, Stacy sighed, and leaned back in her uncomfortable position. This was going to be a long day. She just wished that she was home again. Unfortunately, though, that was currently impossible to achieve.

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Cliff Tannen felt happy, as he walked up to the Courthouse Square. Once again, his partner in crime had gone off to collect some girls, and today, he was feeling better about it than in the previous incarnations of this day. He then smiled, as he looked at Amy - who really was not bad-looking, after all. They could have a lot of fun, just talking - even though there was a lot of work that had to be done. Collecting more food, for example, and girls of course. They were the primary aim that they had, after all.

"So, Cliff" Amy said, with a smile. "What's your life like? I mean, I know that you're the father of Griff Tannen - but other than that, I don't know too much about you. Also, the you from our world might be different from the you from... well, from you."

"I get what you mean" Cliff said. "Anyway, I was born in 1963, as first son of Biff Tannen - my brother, Miff, was born a few years later. My father was... is... was a car waxer, and we weren't the richest family in Hill Valley. As I grew up, I started bullying around Dave McFly - but unfortunately, he managed to stand up to me, as his stupid butthead father had told him so. I felt always very humiliated when seeing my father being told to wax cars by that bug George McFly, as I knew that, in his early years, my father used to be the most feared bully of Hill Valley High School. However, that changed in 1955 - and now, I know that Calvin Klein, or in fact, Marty McFly, was behind all that. Speaking of Marty, I was bullying him around when he was still a little boy, back in 1974, but Crackpot Brown showed up, and threatened to use one of my gang for testing his inventions. I was rather nervous at the time, and I ran away - so that Brown nutcase actually managed to rescue McFly from me. That's how they became friends."

"Impressive" Amy said. "It's so sad, that you had a chance to keep Brown and McFly away from each other - but didn't get around to use it. Anyway, I suppose that I should tell you about my early life, now." She paused, then continued. "I was born on June 11th, 1994, in Hill Valley. My father, Douglas Needles, was married to my mom, Lauren Anne, and they already had a girl - Roberta, who was just twenty months old at the time. So, anyway, as I grew up, I took after my father a lot - as my mother was a lot like my older sister. I remember when I first started bullying people - that was in February, 1999. I was four-and-a-half years old, and since I had not helped Mom wax the window, I didn't get sweets, while Roberta did. I was mad at Mom, and therefore, when she was out of sight, I grabbed her sweets and ate them up myself."

"Good work!" Cliff exclaimed. If his comrade really did this at age four, then she really was an impressive help - and most certainly equal to Griff and Xiff... if not more than that.

"Thank you" Amy said, with a grin. "But the story isn't finished yet. Anyway, Roberta ran crying to Mom, and told her what happened. Mom then wanted to punish me, but Dad, proud of my behaviour, stopped her. As I was still eating the sweets, Roberta tried to take them back, but I hit her on the nose, causing it to bleed. Mom was furious with me, but Dad, protecting me, beat her in the face - causing her to pass out. Dad then sent Roberta to her room, locked the door, and Dad then told me that I really was a great girl, and not a wimp, and that I was perfectly able to stand up for myself - and that he liked me much better, than he liked Roberta. I can remember how proud I was, at the time. That was one of the happiest day's of my youth."

"I can understand that" Cliff said, with a smirk. He then stared ahead, as he noticed that they had arrived in Courthouse Square. "Well, we're there!" he annouced. "Let's see how many girls we can get in this world."

"I hope as many as possible" Amy said, smiling. "They do happen to be annoying, sometimes - but it's still very nice to have them around, to beat up a little. Maybe, I could try to beat them up sometimes?"

"Of course you can" Cliff said. "I mean, Griff and Xiff and I wouldn't have as much fun, with capturing the girls and kissing them - if you were unhappy." He wondered how Griff, and Xiff for that matter, thought about Amy. Both guys were used to associ-something the face of Amy with a... well, with a friend of the McFly's. Laura McFly, from the future, even was a McFly herself, and Griff's Amy was apparently friends with the McFly family too. He felt disgusted, and figured that this version of Amy Needles was much, much better.

"Thanks, Cliff" Amy said. "Well - where do you think that the girls would be, today?"

"It looks pretty similar out here, to what we've discovered before" Cliff commented. "So, I suppose that they'd be out in the mall." Amy nodded in agreement, and the two walked up to the building.

Inside the mall, Cliff soon discovered that it was pretty busy. Many people were around - few that Cliff recognised, of course, but even still, it was pretty busy for the time of the day. As a familiar girl then exited a shop, Cliff smiled broadly - and wanted to tap Amy on the shoulder to show the girl to her, only to discover that she was gone.

Before the Tannen had much of a chance to be confused about that, he heard a low whistle coming from the side, and discovered his friend sitting behind a large, fake palm tree. Cliff immediately rushed over to her, being careful that the girl, who was indeed Marlene McFly, didn't see him.

As Amy and Cliff were sitting there, they saw Marlene walking up to them. For a moment, Cliff thought that the girl had seen them - but it appeared to be not the case. The McFly sat down on a bench in front of the tree, took her cell-phone out of her pocket, and started to put in some numbers.

"Wonder who she's calling" Amy whispered. Cliff noticed that she'd moved closer to him, because there wasn't much room behind the palm tree. She certainly did look attractive this way. He then smiled at her, and leaned down to hold her hand. That way, if they'd have to get away, he could easily pull her along with him.

As Cliff shrugged in response to what his girl friend had said, Marlene started talking into the phone. "Hi, Suzy!" she exclaimed, obviously enthusiastic. "Yeah, I'm fine... in the Courthouse Mall... Really? Strange, I haven't seen you. Where are you then?... Oh, there, all right, I'll head over there after calling you... yeah, that's right, I did want to say something else... I wanted to ask you if you'd be interested in going to watch the first of the Teens In Time 'trilogy' with me tonight... yeah, I did! I did have a hard time getting them, though... really? That's great, this is going to be awesome! A girl's night out, so to speak ... I'll go over to your house... I don't care, you say a time... that's all right with me, 7:30 it is.... Bye!"

"Sounds familiar" Cliff smirked, as Marlene stopped calling. "She's making the appointment for the exact same night where I caught Suzy and her in the third universe."

"The wonders of time travel" Amy smirked back. "You want to catch her now?"

Cliff thought about that for a moment, then shook his head. "No" he decided. "Let's go and see where she's going first. Capturing girls one by one might be nice, but now we know that she's going to see Suzy. That should be much easier."

"You're smart, Cliff" Amy said, smiling at him. "Not that Griff isn't - but you appear to be more intelligent than he is."

Cliff blushed for what seemed to be the first time in his life. "All right" he said. "Come on." The two silently moved after Marlene, as she walked through the mall. After a visit to the bathroom, the girl moved up the escalator, and eventually, they arrived at the second floor, and Cliff could recognise Suzy MacArthur in the distance, who, once again, was checking out suits. Smiling, Cliff and Amy looked at each other, nodded, and moved over to them. Once more, the adventure to catch the girls was about to begin.

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Marlene McFly felt very optimistic, as she was walking through the mall. She was going to the movies tonight, with one of her best friends, her brother's girlfriend, Suzy MacArthur. While she certainly had other friends, Suzy and she did have a special bond - as Suzy was dating Marlene's brother - and they both knew Doc Brown's most guarded secret, the time machine, which Doc had once demonstrated out on the Twin Pines Mall, at 1:15 AM, back in 1985 - and had almost gotten himself shot by terrorists in the process.

Luckily, though, he and Marty had been able to escape, and had safely made it to the year 2010. She remembered how awkward it was, when the time machine showed up, seven years ago. Sure, she hadn't been aware of time travel at the time - but she had seen Doc Brown there, and had wondered what he was doing in the Courthouse Square with someone who looked like her brother, but older. A few years later, when Marty Junior had started dating Suzy, Doc had finally told them all the family secret - and the truth had come out. That was in December 2013, a few months after Marty Jr had met Suzy on the summer camp that he'd attended in summer 2013, after getting very good grades. Suzy had been begging her parents to move to Hill Valley ever since, and it had finally happened in March of 2015 - and ever since then, Marty Junior had been dating Suzy.

"Hi, Marlene" Suzy then said, making Marlene go away from her initial thoughts process. "How are you doing?"

"Just fine" Marlene said. "So, you're looking for a suit for my Uncle Dave, right?"

"Yeah, I figured that would be a nice present" Suzy said. "Marty always says that he doesn't see his uncle very often - unlike his grandparents. The paternal ones, that is. While Mr. and Mrs. Parker come over sometimes as well, Mr. and Mrs. McFly are around more."

"Yeah, that's right" Marlene said, nodding. "I can't believe that Dad actually once was forced to date Grandma Lorraine. I mean... it's just so weird. If I had to date Dad, I'd go nuts - especially since Dad looks a lot like my brother. Luckily, thirty years ago Mom and Dad were already dating, and knew about time travel."

"Yeah" Suzy said. "If Marty - my Marty, I mean - would go back to 1987, though, there could be the possibility that, if Mrs. McFly wouldn't know about time travel, she'd mistake Marty for his Dad. That could happen, anyway, but Marty could then easily correct it. If his mother didn't know, then that would be harder."

"Yeah, definitely" Marlene said. She took the suit that Suzy was holding, and examined it. "It looks good" she commented. "I think that Uncle Dave would like it very much. I guess that I'll go over and see if I can find him something in some other shop. After all, his birthday won't be until a few days from now."

"Yeah, that's right" Suzy said. "You go find something else, then. Have you got something in mind?"

"Not specifically" Marlene said. "However, I would like for it to be something that he likes. Since he's a business man, maybe I could give him a subscription to an economic-related paper?"

"I believe he's already got that" Suzy said, smiling. "What about some pants, to go with the suit I'm buying? I wonder what MJ's buying his uncle, by the way."

"Yeah, I wouldn't know either" Marlene said. "Well, I'll think some more about it. I should get something in mind, eventually."

"Oh, you won't need to worry about that."

Marlene and Suzy froze at the o-so-familiar voice. As they looked around, Marlene clearly identified Amy Needles - who was accompanied by none other than Griff Tannen! Marlene took a step back, as she felt horrified.

"Griff Tannen" Suzy muttered. "I can't believe you went ahead and escaped out of jail! If you don't back off right now, I'm going to call the police - and tell them that you're here! I'm going to do that, anyway - so you'd better make like a tree, and leave!"

"Get out of here" Griff corrected.

"Leave" Suzy told him.

"Get out of here" Griff repeated.

"Leave... oh why am I even having this discussion!" Suzy took a step back to stand next to Marlene. "We might not be accompanied by Marty Junior, but that doesn't mean I can't stand up to myself now!"

Marlene was not so sure of that, though. While she remembered how Suzy had been alone against Griff in 2015, she still had been taken down - and had to rely on Marty to help her. While she now was together with Marlene herself in here, Griff had the company of Amy Needles. She growled. "I bet you were the one to bust Griff out of jail!" she said, to Amy. "You guys always had the same ideas! I wonder why Griff never put you in his gang!"

"I just preferred to work alone" Amy said. "Now, however, I've come to realise how much fun it is to be accompanied by someone as awesome as Cliff here."

"Cliff?" Marlene repeated. "Are you going nuts or something?"

Griff glanced at Amy. "This is beginning to get annoying" he said, simply. "We should put an end to this." With that, he grabbed Suzy's arm, took out something that looked like chloroform, put it on some cloth, and rapidly moved it towards Suzy's face. The girl resisted heavily, but eventually, she collapsed into Griff's arms.

The villain smirked. "Nobody can beat a descendant of the fastest gun in the west - and, in this case, the fastest cloth in the west" he quipped. "Now, if miss McFly would be nice, then she wouldn't resist anymore, so that I can do the same thing to her."

"In your dreams" Marlene growled, and took off as fast as she could.

Griff and Amy immediately raced after her in pursuit. "Oh no, you don't!" Amy exclaimed. "You're not going to get away!"

"Oh, ain't I?" Marlene said, trying to keep up her speed.

"No you aren't" Griff said. Within just a minute, they ran two times throughout the entire floor, trying to keep up with each other. Eventually, Amy managed to trap Marlene between them. Finding no other way to go, Marlene dashed into the bathroom - only to find every single toilet occupied. Griff and Amy came in afterwards, Griff standing awkward on the side, kind of hesitant to go farther into what was, of course, a girl's bathroom.

Amy, however, grabbed Marlene's arms, and swiftly put them behind the girl's back. Marlene tried to struggle, but failed. "You... you low-life creatures!" she exclaimed. "Let me go!"

"Ssh" Amy told her. "This is supposed to be a quiet restroom. You're attracting the attention of people."

That, however, had just the opposite effect. Marlene started screaming. "HELP!! Anyone! HELP!"

An annoyed Amy sighed. "That's enough" she said. Smiling at Griff, she took his cloth, and stuffed it into Marlene's mouth. The girl desperately tried to breathe around it, but failed eventually. Horror and disgust at the whole situation left her head as she fell into unconsciousness. Once again, the villains were triumphant.

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Marty McFly Junior Fifteen was feeling desperate, as the time bus crossed the dimensional barrier, and landed in, once again, a new world. However the others had experienced this many times before, he hadn't, and therefore was feeling nervous. Most of all, though, he was feeling worried, as he thought of all the girls that the villains had captured - now including his sister, his girlfriend, and his girlfriend's sister. He felt really desperate, as he looked around. Today just wasn't his day.

"Well, we're there" Doc Three said, with a faint smile - even though he wasn't exactly all too happy. "PF 55. I wonder what we'll find here... and whether there will be any girls to capture for Cliff."

"Knowing our bad luck, there will be" Doc Five said, with a sigh. "I can't believe it! This really is the sixteenth universe, and... with all these girls being captured, I'm beginning to wonder when Cliff is ever going to stop. There must not be much room in that time train. And I highly doubt he'd really go ahead and throw a girl out."

"Who knows?" Chris Six said. "I never really knew Cliff all too well, but his father was horrible. He was the one who had me committed, after all. That wasn't much fun, believe me."

"Oh, I believe you on that" Chris Seven said. "I didn't exactly have the nicest time either. No, but anyway, we should try to be optimistic. We've always had an optimistic nature, haven't we?"

"Of course we have" Doc Eleven said. "If you put your mind to it, you really can accomplish anything. It was kind of hard to hold on to that, when Marty and my friendship was strained - but it was always the truth."

"Yeah" Marty Senior Eleven agreed. "Even after we... came to be not on good terms with each other, I always figured that that was the truth."

Marty Junior Fifteen wondered why the friendship between this Doc and Marty was once strained - but he figured not to think too much about that. It wasn't too important, after all. They could try to talk about this, when it was all finished.

"What's next, Doc?" he therefore asked.

"To be honest, I have no idea" Doc Fifteen said. "I'm new here, too, after all."

"Well, the normal procedure is simply heading over to our counterpart's house" Doc Three said. "To be honest, I have no idea where my counterpart - if I have one - of this universe lives. However, I have the feeling that he lives at the same place - where I always live, too. It's a house in the fields, and almost all of my PF counterparts have lived there, up until now."

"Yeah" Doc One said. "It's strange, huh? I mean, you and I are both married to Clara Clayton, were trapped in the past, built a time train to get home, and got both Jules and Verne - however, we live at different houses, I took one year less to build the time machine, and I've got Haven instead of Martin - however she's born at the same time as your Martin is."

"Yes, it's strange" his third counterpart agreed. "However, I must say - it's good to see you again. Even if I would've preferred this to be under slightly... different circumstances, I'm real happy to encounter you again, after 27 years. Great Scott, I still can't believe it's been that long. Back then, my Marty was just married - and yours was still engaged. Now, both of our Marty's have got an adult son! Granted, he's just one year above 19 - but still, the Marty Junior's are legally an adult."

"Especially me" Marty Junior Thirteen smirked. "However I did reach adulthood thirty-one years ago. From my perspective, then."

"Quit the nostalgia, guys" Marty Junior Three said. "Doc, however I understand that you want to reminisce about what happened before, we really do have to go and find the locals of this world."

"My counterpart is right" Marty Junior One said. "Even though some of us are dating a Suzy MacArthur, a Stephanie Stebbs, or a Susan Brown, and for me a Harmony Brown - does it really matter? What does really matter is getting the girls back."

"Correct" Marty Junior Five confirmed. "I might be a little freaked out at having a forty-nine-year-old version of my girlfriend on board, but I don't care that she is there as long as we get my version back - safe and sound, preferably."

"Thank you" Suzy said, half-sarcastically - even though she obviously knew that Marty Junior meant well.

"My pleasure" the teenaged version of her husband told her.

Marty Junior Fifteen shook his head with a sigh, as he figured that this really was confusing. He hoped that they would find Doc's house, soon. As much as he liked the actual experience of getting to meet another version of him, he still felt kind of anxious to get out of this world again - and make it home, safe and sound. He really did love his girlfriend, and even though some of the others weren't dating a Stephanie, he could care less. As long as she was rescued, he wouldn't complain.

"All right, it looks like we're nearly there" Doc Three said. "Luckily, we weren't too far off. You guys prepare yourselves, as I'm going to try to land."

Marty Junior Fifteen held himself, tight - and found himself sitting next to Clara N, who was still eyeing Jennifer with some insecurity. He realised that miss Nelson was still feeling kind of strange about the thought that there was a version of Jennifer who didn't have her for a twin sister. He patted her on the back, causing Clara to smile at him.

"Thanks, Marty" she whispered. "This really is a strange situation, isn't it?"

"It certainly is" her semi-nephew replied.

The time bus, which was still descending, then stopped in mid-air. As Marty Junior looked outside, he could see Doc Brown standing there, and Marty McFly Senior was with him, having just stepped out of a black limousine of some sorts. Both looked stunned at the bus. Marty Jr Fifteen tried to smile at them, but failed to be really comforting, apparently. He wondered what would happen next.

oooooooo

Marty McFly Junior felt restless, as he was sitting in his father's car. His mother, Jennifer Parker, had volunteered to stay at home, so that, if the girls did get home, they'd be greeted by a familiar person. However, Marty Junior highly doubted that. Both of them had been missing for half an hour by now - and when Marty Junior had called them on his cell phone, to ask when they were going to get home, he'd received no response. While Marlene's cell phone was in for repairs, Suzy's wasn't, so he should've been able to get some sort of reply from her.

The teenager then felt very helpless, as he knew what Marlene was planning to do tonight. Marlene and Suzy were going to go and watch the first of the Teens In Time movie trilogy. While Marty Junior himself had wanted to come, he understood that his sister, who did, unlike Suzy, not have a boyfriend, wanted to go out on a 'girl's night out'. Either way, he figured that, if Suzy had accepted, which was most likely the case, Marlene and his girlfriend were going to have a lot of fun tonight. Now, though, it was ruined.

As he then looked up, he noticed that something was going on outside. Curious, Marty exited the car, and walked over to his father and Doc. He then saw it.

What he saw, he could barely describe. It was a bus, yes - simply a flying bus - but another version of Doc Brown was standing at the front, and there were no less than two other versions of himself at the window, as well - and a third just appeared. The teen gasped, and stared at his father and friend. "Doc, what's going on here?"

"I have no idea, Marty" the inventor said. "It certainly looks like we've got some... visitors. I don't know where they are from, though. Maybe it has something to do with the girls."

The teenager thought about that for a moment. "Might be, but I wonder how they'd know it, then" he settled on. "Why would they go come here and prevent whatever happened while we can do it ourselves perfectly fine? I mean... that also doesn't explain the fact that there are three of me on there."

"Point made" Marty Senior said, with a sigh. "I wonder what's going on there, though. What might be serious enough to create the circumstances that bring four versions of you together on one place?"

They then got their answers, as Other Doc opened the doorway. "Hi" he said, politely. "I guess that you're all wondering what is going on?"

"Most definitely" Doc said. "Where do all these Marty Junior's come from?"

Other Doc winced, slightly. "That's a confusing and complicated story" he simply said. "Let me ask you a question, first - have you seen Marty Junior's sister or his girlfriend any time today?"

Marty Senior nodded. "Yeah, but we aren't able to get contact with them now" he said. "I don't get it - Marlene's cell phone broke down, but I should be able to reach Suzy."

Another Marty Senior peeked around Other Doc's shoulder. "Really?" he said. "Marlene's phone broke down in our world, too."

Marty Senior gasped. "Holy shit!" he exclaimed. "You're me! What's going on here? And what have the girls got to do with all this!"

Other Doc sighed. "As I said, it's a long story" he said. "I'll summarize it for you like this - Cliff Tannen from my home universe has decided to go off and kidnap girls related to our family. Mostly it's Marty Junior's sister, his girlfriend, a descendant of mine if there is one of the appropriate age and a girl that dates Marty Junior's twin or cousin if he has one. Cliff has gotten his hands on a version of my time train and is allied with Griff, Amy Needles and Xiff Tannen from the future. This is the sixteenth universe we've landed in."

Marty Junior's eyes opened wide. "And you still haven't been able to catch him?" he said, disbelieving.

"It's not quite as easy as it sounds" Other Marty Senior said. "He's got the girls with him, after all, and is willing to hurt them to get what he wants. It's not his main motive - which I'm sure that you can guess easily - but he's certainly threatened us with that idea before."

Marty Junior felt disgusted, as he could indeed easily guess what Cliff's main motive would be. "I wish this was all a dream" he said, feeling horrified.

Other Doc smiled faintly. "Oh, we've all wished that" he said. "Unfortunately, it's not working, though - as we're still very much here. So, if you guys would like to go ahead now, then you can come aboard."

Doc nodded, and he and his friends stepped on board of the bus. Inside, though, they got quite the surprise. Marty Junior had felt a lot of disbelief when hearing the number 'sixteen', but now he guessed that there had to be more than fifty people on board! The bus was certainly very crowded, and the teen wondered whether the vehicle would be able to hold them all.

The most surprising, though, was the identity of the inhabitants. Mostly, on the couches in the bus, there was a Doc, a Marty Senior, a Marty Junior, and sometimes there was a Clara or a Jennifer or someone who looked a lot like Marty Junior. The One's were at the front, and then, the numbers went up - and in the back, the Fifteen's were sitting. There were a lot of people who looked just like himself, and a few women, some of which he knew, some of which he didn't. There was also a version of his mother, but who had a name tag saying 'Clara N'. The teen wondered who that was.

"Welcome" Other Doc said, whose name tag said 'Doc Three'. As the teen looked closer, he could see that every single person on the bus was wearing some sort of a name tag. A look-alike then approached him, his name tag saying 'Alex J'. He was holding about a dozen name tags, and had a pencil of some sort along with him.

"Hi" Alex J said. "I'll provide your name tags. We use them to keep ourselves separate from each other - since as you can see, there are a lot of people on board."

"You could say that" Marty Junior said, impressed. "Um... who are you all? I can see who the other me's are, and who the Doc's are... but who are you? You're obviously not another version of me, as you'd be wearing a name tag saying 'Marty Junior', then."

"He's my cousin" Marty Junior heard his own voice say. As he looked in the direction of where the sound came from, he could see that it was a version of him who wore a name tag saying 'Marty Junior Two'. "My world is apparently the only world where Marty McFly Senior has a natural-born twin - even though world nine comes close. My uncle is Calvin William McFly, and Alex is his son."

"Nice to meet you" Marty Junior said, disorientated. "Boy... Dad having a twin? Weird."

"I suppose so" Alex J said. "Think about how it feels to me, though - finding out I don't exist in all of these worlds..."

"That's not entirely true" another look-alike corrected. "I'm Marty Jr's cousin, too."

"Yeah, but your surname is Klein, Alex K" Alex J pointed out. "It's a different thing."

"Klein?" Marty Junior said, confused.

Alex K smiled. "Yeah, Klein" he said. "Marty McFly - Senior in your world, I guess - is my grandpa. He ended up being stuck in 1955 and had amnesia after being hit by the car which was supposed to hit George McFly. Therefore, when he regained his memories, he was Calvin Klein and was engaged to and completely in love with his own mother."

Marty Senior went pale. "You're joking" he muttered.

"I'm not" Alex K said. "I know that it must sound very horrifying to you - but it's quite normal to us. We've come to adjust to the fact that Grandpa really once was Grandma's son."

"And it's not like I was entirely in favour of the idea either" Calvin Sr Nine said. "I did come to love Lorraine, eventually. After all, I didn't have Jennifer - and Lorraine really did care for me. So, while I didn't exactly like marrying my mother - I couldn't say that I was absolutely disgusted and horrified on my wedding day. After all, Lorraine always was a rather attractive girl - even though she was my mother."

"I suppose" Marty Senior muttered. "I can't help but feel horrified, though. I guess that this is one of the consequences of time travel - learning things you really don't want to learn."

"I guess so" Calvin Sr Nine said, smiling. "Let's stop talking about this issue now, then."

At that moment, Doc Three spoke up. "While it's very interesting to go on and talk some more, I suggest that we should get going now" he said. "After all, we have a train kidnapper to catch up with."

"All right" Marty Junior said, somewhat hesitant. "If you really think that this might be the reason why Marlene and Suzy have been missing, then I'm willing to go along with you guys."

"I'm most certain" Doc Two said. "Trust me - I've been here since the second dimension. If those girls are missing, Cliff and Griff have caught them. It's the sad truth."

"Right" Marty Senior said, groaning a bit. "Let's go then."

Doc Three smiled at him, and went to the controls. Marty Junior moved over to the back of the bus, and sat down, trying to make himself as comfortable as possible. He knew that this wasn't the worst place he could be, with the girls most likely kidnapped - he could've been kidnapped as well, after all, even though the Tannen's were out to get the girls. However, he couldn't help but feel horrified about what had happened.

"Wait!" Doc then called out, just as Doc Three was about to depart. He pointed out of the window. As Marty Junior looked, he could see the Brown family stepvan flying down, and landing close to the house. A few moments later, Clara exited, and looked at the bus, confused.

"It's my wife" Doc said, softly. "I think that we should tell her what's going on."

"That's right" another Clara said. Marty Junior noticed that she was the only Clara that he knew on the bus - however her name tag said 'Clara B' - for Brown, most likely.

"I wouldn't want another version of myself to just come home and see that you aren't there - and get no explanation" Clara B continued. "I'm sure that she's feeling quite confused right now, knowing me."

"Well, this is another version of you, from a PF world" Doc Fourteen pointed out. "But, anyway, well, we'll see." He turned to Doc. "Where did she come from?"

"Um, out shopping at Twin Pines Mall" Doc said, baffled. "What does PF mean?"

"It's just some terminology we use" Doc Three said. "We use it because there are two types of worlds that Cliff and Griff travel to, which are set up a little differently, with different persons and different life experiences..." He then stopped talking as he registered what Doc had said. "Hang on a sec, did you say Twin Pines Mall?"

"Affirmative" Doc said, confused. "What's weird with that?"

"We know the mall as Lone Pine" Doc Five said, frowning. "Marty ran over the second pine tree back in 1955."

"Marty went to 1955 in your world?" Doc said, gasping. "Alone, I assume?"

"Correct" Doc Seven said. "Even in my world, which is quite different from the others, the mall is called Lone Pine. Heck, even in Nine's and Eight's, I believe."

"That's right" Calvin Sr Nine confirmed. "In both my counterpart's and my world, everything went the same at the start, so the pine tree was still knocked down."

"In my world, it's still Twin Pines, though" Doc Ten said. "I suppose that's because I was shot at Twin Pines Mall - and Marty was, too. We were then brought back to life, though."

"You were what?" Doc Five said, astonished.

"That's impossible!" Chris Seven said. "Granted, I do believe in God - but I don't think that you could actually could come back to life like that - with just human help! There's no scientific rationale to that!"

"Well, actually, it wasn't science" Doc Ten said. "It was Sabrina Palmer, who was behind it - and she's a witch, so she was able to perform a spell on us to bring us back to life."

"A witch?" Doc Eleven gasped.

"We're rolling from one surprise into the other" his Marty Senior commented, smirking.

Marty Junior then frowned, and shook his head. "I can't believe this" he muttered. "What have we just walked into?"

"Good point" his father said, smiling faintly. "Well, as much as I'm kind of curious to hear more about those weird things in the EJ worlds - we really should go on. And Clara's still outside."

"Great Scott, Clara!" Doc exclaimed, slapping himself on the forehead. "I can't believe I actually forgot my own wife!" With the highest speed he could achieve, he dashed to the front of the bus. Marty Junior followed him curiously.

Clara, who had been inspecting the bus with wide open eyes, and had in the past few minutes neared close enough to stand in front of the doorway, took a step back as she saw said door open. However, as she recognised the person standing there, she smiled.

"Emmett!" she exclaimed. "Emmett, what's... what's going on here? Where did you get a flying bus?" She paused. "This really is similar to that situation twenty-nine years ago."

Doc frowned for a moment, then nodded. "Yeah, you're right" he said. He turned to Doc Three, who was, as always, standing at the controls. "Three, I forgot it before, but have you met us before? April 2, 1988?"

To Marty Junior's surprise, who didn't really know the tale all that well, Doc Three hesitated for a moment, then nodded. "Yeah, I think so" he said. "I remember that Marty and I came accross a world where the mall was still called Twin Pines, and George and Lorraine still in their old state - well, up until 1985, then - but everything else was different."

"That's our universe all right" Doc said. "It's nice to meet you again, after twenty-nine years - and see that you did make it home, after all."

"Emmett, what's going on?" Clara then repeated, making her husband's attention go back to the matter at hand. "Why are this other you and Marty here again? Did they come to just visit?"

Doc Three shook his head. "Unfortunately not, Mrs. Brown" he said. "Great Scott, it feels strange to call my wife that - but since you're not my Clara, it feels more proper to do it that way. Anyway, we're not alone - there's a lot more other versions of me and Marty Senior and Junior, and one other version of you as well. You see, we're chasing a version of Cliff Tannen from 1987, who has stolen a time machine - which he's managed to exchange for another one in the meantime, by the way - and gone travelling through dimensions, kidnapping girls related to Marty or me. You're from the sixteenth universe by now."

Clara gasped, and it took a few moments before she could speak again. When she did so, it was just one soft word.

"Golly."

Doc smiled at her. "I know" he said, taking her arm gently. "But... do you want to come on board? Suzy and Marlene have most likely been kidnapped by now, and we do really want to try to catch up to them."

"Which is becoming harder" Doc Three pointed out, glancing at his time tracker. "He's close to us - heading in the direction of the Square, in fact - but he's picking up speed."

"Oh great" Doc said. "Anyway - you want to come? I'm going anyway. This is my best friend's daughter and future daughter-in-law which we're talking about."

"I'll board" Clara said, stepping into the bus. She glanced into the vehicle, and gasped. "Emmett - there are indeed a lot of you here!"

"Tell me about it" her husband said. "How long have you guys been doing this?"

Doc Three shrugged. "I don't know" he admitted. "Probably a day already, maybe even two. It makes of course the difference that it's worse for the persons that came early than for the ones last. Doc '87 here came the earliest of them all, back in 1987, where Cliff took his DeLorean and started this whole mess."

"That should be me" Doc '87 said, holding up a hand. "I believe that it should be 4:30 PM on August 12th for me already. Great Scott, two full days ago for me I was still happy at Jules' birthday..."

"Jules' birthday?" Clara asked, with a frown. "It's not September 25th yet, as far as I'm concerned... or are you from a different time of year as well as from thirty years from the past?"

Doc '87 shook his head. "That appears to be one more difference" he said. "We're from a different type of universe than you are. It's hard to explain - but there's PF ones and EJ ones, and TeenMarty and I are from EJ. You guys are from PF. We got the names from the codes in the dimensional circuitry."

Clara thought about that for a moment, then nodded, a bit hesitant. "I understand" she said. "I suppose so, at least. This is just so golly."

Doc Three smiled. "I get what you mean" he said. "It was a shock for me, too - especially considering what we found out later. Apparently, you're not the only option for me."

Marty Junior looked on, as two blonde women who resembled each other and Clara a lot - even though they were clearly not identical - waved. "Hi" one of them said. "I'm Jessica Hoffman Brown - I'm related to the EJ version of you. In our world, I'm married to Emmett. He's Emmett Twelve, by the way."

"And I'm Susan Clayton Brown" the other woman said, who was clearly a slight bit younger than Jessica and Clara. "I should be related to you - that is, if you have a sister named Maria Victoria Clayton. She's my ancestor."

Clara nodded, confused. "Yeah, I did have a sister named that way, back in the Old West" she said. "Strange, isn't it?"

"Definitely" Susan confirmed. "Anyway... I think that we should get going. Cliff is close to us now, after all."

"Good point" Doc Three said. He went back to the controls, and moving as careful as he could, he lifted up the bus. The time vehicle started accelerating through the sky, and Marty Junior wished that he was back at his chair as the bus raced through the sky.

A few moments later, they neared the time train, which was still chugging through the sky. As the inhabitants noticed the time bus, it picked up more speed, and raced in the direction of the bus.

"Great Scott!" Doc exclaimed, as both vehicles moved closer, and Doc Three was too stunned to steer. At the last moment, the time train moved upwards, and raced over the time bus at just about a feet distance. As Marty Junior glanced through the windows, he saw the train do something like a looping, and shortly after that, it hit 88 and vanished.

"I thought he was going to slam right into us!" Marty Senior Five exclaimed. "That bastard!"

"We can safely say that all Tannen's are assholes" Alex P said. "Well, except for the Bill's, of course."

"The who?" Marty Senior repeated.

"Bill Tannen" a boy who looked exactly like Griff, but without bionics, said. He and another person who looked like him waved. "I know that you guys from the PF worlds aren't used to me, but I'm nothing like my Uncle Cliff and Grandpa Biff and cousin Griff. I'm Cliff's nephew, but I have to say that I'm horrified at what they're doing."

"Trust me" a girl whose name tag read 'Jamie' said. "I'm Jamie Brown - granddaughter of another version of Dr. Emmett Brown - and I'm dating Bill, while I was raped by his cousin. You wouldn't think that I'd date someone who'd be the same type as the person which I was raped by, would you?"

"Good point" Marty Junior said. "Boy, good Tannen's... this is so heavy."

"Oh, we know" Marty Junior Four said. "We've been on here for a long time.

"That's right" George A McFly said. "It's been quite some time now. Anyway," he continued, as he looked at Doc Three, "where did they go?"

"August 10th, 2017, 4:40 PM, PF #99" Doc Three reported.

"99?" Doc One repeated. "That's a lot of numbers away from '50'."

"I wonder what the next world will be like, yeah" his counterpart agreed. "Maybe there won't even be another version of us in there. Maybe this is the world where Marty was never naturally born? I did see a world like that, once."

"A world where I didn't exist?" Marty Senior Ten said, stunned. "That's weirder than what I saw of all these me's being married to Jennifer... well, except for the Calvin Klein Sr's, but they don't really count."

"Thank you for the compliment" Calvin Sr Eight remarked, sarcastically. "Anyway, I am married to Jennifer's aunt, after all. So, in a way, I guess I'm not too much of an exception either. Also, if we hadn't been trapped in '55, we would've married Jennifer Parker."

"That's right" Calvin Sr Nine said. "I did sometimes envy my son, for dating Jennifer - which I never got to do, due to you-know-who falling for me - well, I should actually be glad for that to happen, since if George was out of the picture and Lorraine didn't fall in love with me, there was no one to father me - and I couldn't adjust that, thanks to having amnesia."

"Your world is one confusing universe" Marty Senior said.

"Yeah, I suppose so" Marty Jr Nine said. "Anyway - shouldn't we be leaving now? We don't want too much to be in-between."

"The name tags go first" Alex J said. "I guess that it would be Doc Sixteen, Marty Senior Sixteen, Marty Junior Sixteen, Clara... Clara Sixteen as well, I suppose, as there are two of her now."

"Then you'd have to say Clara B Sixteen" Marty Junior Fifteen pointed out. "Aunt Clara is a Clara too."

"What?" Clara said, confused. "How can a Jennifer.. have my name?"

Clara N blushed. "I'm Clara Parker" she said. "I'm from the Old West, like you - and at age 17, I was supposed to drown in Rusty River. However, the Marty McFly Sr and Jennifer, along with Doc from my universe saved my life." She looked at Doc Fifteen and smiled. "I'm the mother to Aaron Nelson, as I'm married to Zach Nelson, who in our universe is the Pinheads' bassist."

"I've never heard of Clara Parker" Marty Senior said. "And I know my wife's history, trust me on that. I guess this is one more of those divergences between our two types of world."

"And I've never heard of Aaron Nelson" Marty Junior said. He looked at a person who looked a lot like Alexander Johnson, but wore the tag 'Aaron Fifteen'. "I guess that would be you, right?"

Aaron Fifteen nodded - and at the front, Aaron Four did the same. "Who's the Pinheads' bassist in your universe, then?" Aaron Fifteen asked.

"Henry Johnson" Marty Junior said. "His son, Alexander Johnson, is two years my senior, but I don't know him all too well. He's currently living in Sacramento, and he's going to college there... right, Dad?"

"That's correct" Marty Senior said. "I never kept up contact with my old band mates too much after the mid-'90s, but I know that, shortly after Alexander turned five, Henry moved to Sacramento for his son's education to improve. I remember that once, when Henry got us a Christmas card a few years ago, with a picture of his son, that Marlene said that Alexander was 'kind of cute'." He smiled for a moment, then it faded as he thought of where Marlene now was.

Marty Junior thought the same. "Poor Marly" he muttered. "I can't believe she's actually stuck back there at the hands of the Tannen's. I wonder if we'll ever be able to get her out of there."

"We should" Doc Three said, firmly. "If we put our minds to it, we can accomplish anything." He looked at Doc One. "One, I'll take the wheel again, if you don't mind - no matter how far away from 50, this is a PF world."

"I don't mind" Doc One said, smiling a bit.

Doc Three nodded, and then put in their destination time. Marty Junior then quickly moved back to his seat next to his Doc, and Marty Senior followed him, along with Clara. Just seconds after they all sat down, the time bus started accelerating, and moved forwards at increasing speeds.

After a few moments, the bus then finally hit 88, and broke the temporal and dimensional barrier, leaving behind just fire trails. Little did Marty Junior and his father and the Browns know, but they were really nearing something that would make all sense of logic fall right out of them.

The time bus was finally entering the SmartMarty Universe. And there, it would seem that it's adventures certainly weren't mad enough to compare with what was coming up now.

The real weirdness had only just begun.