Back to the Future 4
The Future is Unwritten
Chapter 4
November 13th 1995, Midnight. A persistent knocking comes from the door. "Josh? Hello? It's me. Dave. Dave Mcfly!" Marty and Doc look at each other, eyes widened. "What's my brother doing here? What's going on?" Marty asks in shock. Doc scurries over to the other side of the room pulling Marty with him. "Never mind that now! We can't let him see you here!" Once again Dave shouts out. "Josh? If you can hear me I'm gonna use that spare key you gave me, Okay?" Doc shrilled. "Great Scott! Quick Marty! Hide before he sees us!"
The two time travelers quickly hide in the corner of the room behind several boxes of parts. They listen and hear the door creak open along with the sound of nervous laughter. "See, I told ya he wouldn't be here. I knew he'd split after his accident." "Well, that's lucky for you Mcfly." An unfamiliar gravelly voice retorted. "Now where's that prototype you were telling the boss about." Dave nervously approaches the counter where Doc and Marty had been working. "Ugh, yeah, this looks like it right here. Funny though. It's a lot smaller than it was before."
The goon wastes no time. He walks up to the device. "Yeah, whatever. As long as we get what we came for." The goon begins to load the device into a large green gym bag. Once again Dave acts nervous and asks. "So, Its all set then, right? After Mr. Cohen gets the prototype, all my debts will be wiped free and get back what I was promised?" "That's what the boss said isn't it?" The goon replies while zipping up the bag.
They begin to leave not even noticing Joshua laying dead asleep on the other end of the room. Then suddenly the goon stops cold in his tracks. He turns around facing Dave. Face looking like stone. Expressionless and cold. "Oh yeah, one last thing Mcfly." "W-What's that?" Dave asks with the look of sheer terror in his eyes. The goon spits out a tooth pick from his teeth and reaches back behind him pulling nickle plated revolver. "Ya see, the boss said regardless if we find the device tonight that your a loose end that needs to be dealt with. So, sorry to say this kid, but I gotta take you out. Nothing personal though. Marty and Emmett look into each others eyes mortified.
Thinking quickly Marty jumps up to his feet. "Wait! Don't shoot!" Marty shouts. "Please don't shoot my brother." Doc slaps his palm against his forehead. The goon is caught off guard and points the gun towards Marty. "Hey! What the hell is this?" Dave looks totally stunned. "Marty? Is that you?" The goons hand gets shaky. His trigger finger itchy. He starts firing blindly towards the teenager. Marty ducks down for his life. Shots ricocheting off the walls and shattering experimental equipment. Dave ducks instinctively. He notices a discarded wrench lying on the floor. He grabs it using it to club the goon twice in the nose.
The goon falls to floor unconscious. Once the shooting stops. Doc and Marty both peer up from behind the boxes checking if the coast was clear. "Dave? You okay?" Marty asks unsure what exactly had just happened. Dave drops the wrench, hands shaking. Bloodied. He looks back towards his brother. "Marty?W- What are doing here? Why do you look so so.." "Young?" Marty says finishing his thought. "Yeah! And Is that Mr. Brown with you?" Doc walks over helping Dave to have a nearby seat. "Dave, don't worry about that. Tell us what's going on here? Who is this guy?" Marty asks crouching down to meet his eyes.
"Yeah, I for one would really like to know what the hell is going on here!" Joshua screams from under his cot hands placed firmly over his ears. "Joshua?!" Dave's eyes widened. "You were supposed to be leaving town. Ugh" He sighs. "No one was supposed to even be here. This was all supposed to be so simple." Marty places his palms on the side of his brothers face. "Dave, please. Tell us what's going on? We need answers. Tell us everything you know."
Dave's shoulders lowered as he cleared his throat to speak. "I've been in trouble for awhile Marty. I made some bad investments lost a lot of money. I needed help." "So what did you do?" Joshua asked standing up, losing his patience. Dave continued. "I-I got in contact with this business man. Mr. Cohen. He gave me a loan and.." He paused as if stuck on a thought. " When I couldn't pay him. He threatened my life and the life of my family. I told him I knew an inventor. Someone creating a device that will change how people live. He promised me if I got him the device he would wipe my debts clean." "Go on." Doc said placing his hand to his chin.
"So, I rode around with some of his guys for a few days. We watched where Joshua ran his errands. I even got a job passing out fliers by the court house. So I could watch him better. Once we knew his routine we made sure he would have an accident." "Wait a second!" Joshua interrupts. "I ran into some kids on the side walk. Are you telling me that you set that up?" Dave shakes his head. "No! We didn't plan on any kids. They came out of nowhere. The plan was that one of the guys would grease the sidewalk just before you started down it. Once you take a spill into traffic." Mr. Cohen would then signal one of his men in a nearby car to run you down, but lucky for you those kids got in the way. If it wasn't for them you may be dead right now."
"You bastard!" Joshua shouts just before punching Dave squarely in the mouth. Marty grabs him pulling him away from his brother. "I didn't want to do it Joshua! You gotta believe me. I had no choice. Listen! They took my daughter for Christ's sake!" "Whoa, wait a second. Your daughter?" Marty asks in complete shock. "Yeah." He replies. You know your niece. Sylvia Mcfly!" "Sylvia?" Marty says dismayed. With a snap, Doc brings Dave's attention back to him. "Dave look at me. Where were they taking the device?" "Ugh, Mr. Brown.." "It's Doctor." The doc corrects him." "Sorry. Doctor..Doc. Terry was supposed to meet Mr. Cohen in the River Road Tunnel later tonight and exchange the device for Sylvia." "Hmmm." Doc thinks to himself concocting a plan. "Whats it matter anyway? They were planning on killing me.
They've probably already killed her too." "Not necessarily." Doc interrupts. "Obviously Mr. Cohen has a thing for killing kids. Otherwise he would of had no problem running down Jules and Verne in order to get to Joshua. No, I think he still plans on releasing your daughter once he gets his hands on the device."
"So, what do we do now Doc?" Marty asks. Doc sits up from the bench and paces around the room. "From what your brother is saying, I don't see that we really have any other choice. We've got to go to the tunnel and get Sylvia back from Mr. Cohen." Marty rubs his forehead. His head pulsing from the mere thought of dealing with a man like this. "Uh,Okay? How exactly are we going to do that though? I mean this is a dangerous guy we're talking about here. Not exactly a school bully you know?" Doc sighs "Come on now Marty, Don't you remember 1885? No one will ever be as bad as Mad dog Tannen was." Dave and Joshua look at each other completely confused. Dave begins to ask. "Ugh.. What are you guys talkin.." Doc interrupts him with a barrage of shushes. "Shh, No no no, never mind that right now. I'm trying to think." shaking his head. He begins to pace around the room. Trying to think of something. Anything that can somehow get them out of this situation. He then stops abruptly. He looks down to the floor at the green gym bag. "I've got it!" He exclaims. "I've got a plan!"
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