"Joyride to
the Past"
"Joyride to
the Past"by Charles A. Murphy
Here it is. The follow-up to "Time Travel to a Hard Day's Night"
The plot: The story takes place after Kristen Sheley's "The Time Travellers in King Tannen's Court."
Sypnopsis: Every
since hearing about Marty's trip to 1964 Jennifer
wanted
to go back in time to see her parents attending the Beatles last
concert at San Francisco's Candlestick Park during their
honeymoon.
Then one night, while Marty and his family is away Jennifer gets a phone call from the Browns to come over and babysit Jules and Verne. Seeing this she realizes the opportunity to go back to that night.
When she gets there she asks Dr. Brown about borrowing the time machine after his two boys are asleep. She explains that she wants to see her parents on their honeymoon and the night they went to the Beatles last concert but Doc refuses.
However, there's the old saying "If there's a a will, there's a way."
After Doc and Clara leaves, Jennifer discovers that Doc had forgotten to take the keys to the DeLorean with him and sees her opportunity. Problem was that there was still Jules and Verne. So when it's their bedtime, Jennifer reads them Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days hoping that they would both fall asleep and she could sneak off with the time machine. The plan backfires, however. She doses off, and Jules and Verne sneak off to hide, stuffing extra pillows under the covers. When she awakes she sees the two beds with something inside both of them. Convinced that the two boys are asleep, she sneaks off to the DeLorean and sets the time circuits to August 29, 1966 and the place San Francisco, California, and takes off not knowing that Jules and Verne had stowed away in the vehicle. Once there, she sets the time circuits for the DeLorean to return hours later and gets out. While she's reloading Mr. Fusion, Jules and Verne sneak out and hide somewhere. Then as Jennifer is about to activate the remote that she brought with her, the boys surprise her snatching the remote and activate the DeLorean sending it ahead in time. Stranded with her unwanted companions, Jennifer goes to the nearest Western Union office knowing now that she has no choice but to inform Doc.
Meanwhile, back in the future, Doc discovers that he has forgotten the keys to the DeLorean and he and Clara immediately return home only to discover that Jennifer, the boys and the DeLorean are missing. Hoping that Marty had come home, Doc calls and gets him. He tells Marty what has happened and needs his help. Marty goes over to Doc's house
Back in 1966, Jennifer writes a note and tells the Western Union people to hold it for the next 19 years, 2 months, and 15 days and to deliver it to a man answering to the name of Doctor Emmett L. Brown and gives the address.
19 years, 2 months and 15 days later, it arrives at the Brown home via while Doc was telling Marty everything that happened. A Western Union man arrives with the letter. It's from Jennifer. The date is August 29, 1966 and it told what happened in 1966. Having been told Jennifer wanting to go back in time to see her parents on their honeymoon which included a trip to Candlestick Park in San Francisco for the Beatles last concert ever, Marty blames himself for telling her about them. Doc says "Never mind that now" and uses the limousine that Doc used when he brought the Beatles from 1967.
Together with Marty and Einstein, Doc arrives in 1966 to pick up Jennifer and the kids and take them back to the future. But Marty knew what Jennifer wanted and uses the sleep inducer on Doc and the kids and sets the circuits to 7:30 pm before the concert. Once there, Marty uses the remote for the limousine and send Doc, Einstein, and the two boys back to the future. And he and Jennifer goes to the concert. Taking anything that Doc would use to load Mr. Fusion, including poison, so he wouldn't go back to stop them.
When he comes back to the future, Doc learns that George McFly was covering the last concert and that Biff was also there.
REVISIONS: I have added three more chapters to this story making it now the third longest story behind "Renaissance of Love" (20 chapters)and "Back to the Ides of March" (17 chapters). In addition, I have made it more readable. Also, that report of a missing woman has been taken out, "Erased from existence."
BACKGROUND: The idea of
having Jennifer go back into time came as a result of my version
of "Back to the Future Pt IV". Originally, when I
concieved the idea of the Beatles being in "Back to the
Future Pt IV" it came a few years after Michael J. Fox's
announcement that he had enough of playing Marty McFly after
"Back to the Future Pt III". So I thought to myself,
"Why not have Jennifer have a turn?" What was suppose
to happen was that the Beatles make an "appearance" in
Hill Valley in 1965. (And get this: Mr. Strickland is the mayor
then.) The idea of Doc Brown misplacing the jar of poison was to
get Jennifer involved in the first place.
Unfortunatelly, to most BTTF fans, "Back to the Future" is generally known as the "Doc and Marty" show and every loyal Marty McFly fan would be looking up my address to scaffold and hang me if I wrote it the way I originally wanted it wrote.Plus the fact when I suggested to BTTF.COM that the Beatles ought to be in "Back to the Future Pt IV" the response was that Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale already did "I Wanna Hold Your Hands." in 1978 but it would be possible for the two universes of "Back to the Future" and "I Wanna Hold Your Hands" to meet, if Mssr's Zemeckis and Gale wanted it too. So when I got my own website and started writing my version, moved the time travel story to New York, and back one year to 1964. And it was Doc and Marty-not Jennifer that goes back instead.
Back to "Back to the Future Pt. V", the reason why I picked November 13th (let alone a Wednesday) of that year is mainly because Family Ties was on Wednesday night and Family Ties starred Michael J. Fox.
A tidbit of triviality here, did you ever heard of the saying "Don't ever call San Francisco 'Frisco"? Well there's Biff saying "Why don't you make like a tree and get outta here." when it should be "leave." In the story we discover that Biff isn't good at making insults as well. He calls San Francisco "Fusco" instead of "'Frisco". And please note some of my fellow chatters are there to listen in. As for Family Ties, there's that remark about Marty looking like Michael J. Fox. Speaking of actors and actresses, I had Jennifer run into an infant Claudia Wells, and since she played "Jennifer" in the the first film I thought that would be funny.
