Back to the Future 4

The Future is Unwritten

Chapter 2

November 5th 1995. The parking lot of the dilapidated Lone Pine mall is dark and quiet. With a sudden thunderous boom and a flash Doc's newly created Delorean appears, screeching to a stop. Ice crystals fall off the frozen vehicle. Two dark nuclear exhaust vents let off a burst of steam. The doors open as Doc steps out. "Okay, Marty we made it, the year 1995!" Marty steps out slightly disoriented. He looks at the mall. "Whoa Doc, what happened? This place looks like a dump!" The doc runs over grabbing Marty. "Don't worry about that right now Marty. We've got a mission to accomplish." He pulls Marty over to the trunk, pulling out a suit case.

"Okay Doc, so what's the plan here? We go and find this Joshua Barry guy?"

"Not exactly. You need to realize two things that are important here. One! There is now two of you here and two of me. The other you is the future you . The other me is my past self visiting this time with my family. Now it's very important we do not interact with our own selves in anyway!

"Okay, got it Doc we don't wanna be seen by ourselves. What's next?

"Two, we have to figure out exactly what went wrong in the first place to make sure it doesn't happen again."

"Well, what do we do then? Spy on ourselves?"

"Exactly. Some how My family visiting this time caused them to disappear all together, but first some rules. Don't interact with anything, don't touch anything and don't talk to anybody!"

"Right, right, your the doc, Doc."

"Good, now take this."

The doc hands Marty a stack of cash and a walkie talkie. "I'll be on channel four. I'm going to hide the time machine. We will meet at the clock tower in thirty minutes. Remember what I said. Don't talk to anyone" "I got it. I got it." Marty grabs his skateboard and starts riding towards town. Once he reaches the square . It's now morning and the streets are busy. He cant help but stare at all of the little changes around him. "The 90's. Far out!" "Hey you! Kid!." a older monotone voice says. Marty looks to see a middle aged man staring straight ahead depressingly holding out a can.

"Hey can you spare a dollar kid, to save the clock tower? The mayor says it's too much of an eye sore to keep around. He's thinking of turning it into a casino of all things!" Marty is shocked looking at the mans face, he realizes that its his older brother. "Dave!?" The man turns to look at Marty. "Yeah? Do I know you?" Marty quickly puts his hand by his face, trying to hide. "Uh, no, here take this. It's a five." Marty places some of Doc's money into the can. "Thanks, this helps a lot. Can you also take this flier and show your friends?" "Yeah, sure, thanks." Marty stuffs the flier into his pocket and walks away. He stops at the corner of the street and lets out a sigh of relief. "Whoa, that was a close one." He's lucky his brother didn't take a good look at him but why is Dave out here? Shouldn't he be at the office?"

Just then Marty sees out of the corner of his eye, Two kids taking photographs. They were the Doc's sons Jules and Vern. They were walking around taking pictures of the various buildings and vehicles.

"Jules, get a picture of me next to the circus clown."

"Vern! Don't be so disrespectful. That clown, Ronald, is the obvious owner of this MacDonald's place. It seems in the future clowns are no mere circus performers, but can hold highly respected positions in the food industry."

"Okay, whatever, just get my picture with him."

"Ugh, fine."

Marty tries his walkie talkie. "Doc! Doc! I found them! Over!" there's no answer. "Doc?! Can you hear me? Over!" Nothing but static. Jules turns to his brother."Alright Vern, lets get back before mom and dad worry." "Aw, man. C'mon Jules." "You now what father said about not altering the time line to much, lets go."

Marty turns away covering his face as the two boys walk by. He Whispers into the walkie talkie"Okay, Doc I don't know if you can hear me, but I'm gonna follow your kids and see what happens. Over and out!" Marty slips behind them trying to follow closely. The boys walk through the square arguing back and forth.

"C'mon Jules, All were doing is having a little bit of fun."

"No! We are supposed to just quietly document our trip. Not run around messing with everything!"

"I didn't! What are you talking about? I haven't done anything out of the ordinary.""

"You ran off to the arcade!"

"Hey, that's not my fault didn't you see that electronic video machine, The Mortal Kombat!"

"Okay I admit, I also found it slightly enjoyable when the electronic man pulled off the other man's head, but still."

Their argument came to an abrupt halt as the boys ran into a man. The man falls down onto his arm and screams. "Ugh! Ah! My arm! Ow! I think I broke it!" The boys both look at each other

"Oh boy. What should we do Vern?!"

"Oh no. Let's get out of here, quick!"

The boys start to run away. "And don't tell dad anything about this!" Jules shouts as they cross the street and run out of sight. Marty is just standing their next to the man, not quite sure what had just happened. The man shouts.

"Can you please call an ambulance?"

"Huh?" Marty says snapping out of his daze.

"I'm afraid I might have broke my leg too." Marty looks at the mans leg. "Oh, Yea, Okay let me find a pay phone."

"No, don't bother with that, I got a cordless. Here take it." Marty takes the phone and dials the paramedics. "Hi, I need an ambulance. I got a man here with a broken arm and leg. Hey mister?"

"Yeah?"

"They need your name."

"Tell them it's Joshua Barry."

"His name is," Marty looks at the man stunned "Joshua Barry?

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