"Future
Doc"
by Charles A. Murphy
Plot: This story takes place 3 days after
"Joyride to the Past".
Synopsis: Three
days after he and Doc went back into time to get Jennifer and the
boys, Marty started to feel sorry for himself. Jennifer, not only
did she get detention for two weeks, but was grounded causing her
and Marty to miss the Sadie Hawkins dance which was to take place
during the weekend. Doc, seeing this, calls him over to his place
to help him reconfigure the fusion generator in the DeLorean and
the limousine in hopes that Marty could forget about what might
have been. In addition, Doc hopes to get rid of all the poisons
that he used to load the fusion generators. Doc tells Marty that
it used to belong to Howard Hughes for whom his father had once
worked for and for whom Doc himself started off as an office boy.
He tells Marty the story of the famous radio broadcast of Orson
Wells in which there was a Martian invasion, causing panic around
America, including a guard who went to guard the Spruce Goose
enabling young Emmett to sneak into a lab and make off with the
poisons. He even sets the date on the time circuits in the
DeLorean to show Marty. After Doc's story, they both get to work.
Doc had obtained a fusion generator from the future that converts
poison into energy. He has Marty throw the poison into the
generator but the thing breaks down. "I hope the warrenty is
still good." said Doc. So Marty decides to throw the rest of
the poison into the fusion generator of the DeLorean and convert
it in there. Not knowing how it works without the time circuits,
Marty activates them, forgetting that the time circuits were
still set for October 30, 1938. The car lifts off and Marty kicks
it up to 88 miles per hour and goes back in time. The idea works.
The last of the poison is gone, but Marty is trapped back there.
Knowing that young Emmett Brown has snuck off with the jar of
poison, Marty makes off for him. He arrives at the Hughes factory
in the morning and encounters Billsif Tannen, Biff's father. In
Marty's time, history records him to be a Nazi colaborator, which
made the Tannen family more nastier since then. (Until George
McFly flattens Biff with a left hook in 1955) When Marty comments
about Billsif's involvement, Billsif resents it and chases after
Marty into the Spruce Goose. The Spruce Goose takes off with
Marty in it. Howard Hughes says "It works." After the
"joy flight", Marty lands the plane and gets out and
finally heads to 1640 Riverside Dr. where the old Brown Mansion
was still standing. He encounters 18-year-old Emmett Brown and
tells him about the time machine. Young Emmett doesn't believe it
at first, but then Marty tells him about the jars of poison, so
young Emmett accompanies Marty to where the DeLorean was hidden
and both sneak it back to the house. Once there, Marty shows
young Emmett the flux capacitor. Then, young Emmett's father
shows up and tells both of them that the flux capacitor was his
design. Did the Doc Brown from the future really tell Marty the
truth about how he discovered time travel, or was that story
about hanging a clock over the toilet seat and slipping off the
seat and banging his head on the floor made up? And was Billsif
really a Nazi colaborator or was he a patzi?
Background: After having the first two BTTF
stories 
"Beatle-related", I decided for a change
of pace. I wanted to write a story about a young Emmett Brown
after hearing about the "Young Indiana Jones" series.
Getting Marty back there and having young Emmett make off with
some jars of poison was the problem. I decided to use the famous
Orson Wells broadcast of 1938 as a diversion for the future Doc.
Marty, I had to think about that, and came up with an idea about
the new fusion generator breaking down and Marty resorting to
using Mr. Fusion in the DeLorean before Doc has the chance to
reset the time circuits to "One minute into the
future". As for using the name Billsif. I got that name from
some troublemaker in the BTTF.COM
chatroom. His name was Billsif
and he stirred up a lot of trouble in the chatroom using
profanity. Then, adding insult to injury, he put something very
insulting in my Guestbook.
I figuired that his name was perfect a Tannen after that incident
and so I made him Biff's father.
Disclaimer: Back to the
Future™ is a property of Universal Studios and Amblim
Entertainment. I just hope they're reading this story too and
either e-mailing or telephoning me for the story. The characters
in this story are the creation of Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale
and are purely fictitious. Any reference to any person living or
dead or any mention of any actual event is purely coincidental.
