crossover_chick | Nov. 13th, 2005

November 13th, 1955: Doc(55) and Marty(2) are passed out at the Brown Mansion, worn out from the events of November 12th. Doc awakens first when the TV set turns on and starts blaring "The Howdy Doody Show." Not noticing Marty, the letter drying over the fire, or the hoverboard he knocks away from Marty's feet, he goes straight over to his recorder and starts recording his impressions of the time travel experiment. He realizes that he can't recall what happened after the DeLorean went back to the future or even how he got home, and postulates that, "Perhaps the jigowatt discharge, coupled with the temporal displacement field generated by the time vehicle, caused a disruption of my own brainwaves, resulting in a condition of momentary amnesia! Indeed, I now recall that moments after the time vehicle disappeared into the future, I saw a vision of Marty saying he had come back from the future."
Cue Marty, who has woken up while Doc was talking. Doc screams, trips on the hoverboard, and falls back against the organ, unintentionally playing creepy music while Marty talks. Marty tries to explain that he's come back from the future and that he brought Doc home after he fainted, but Doc refuses to listen. He takes refuge in the bathroom. Marty explains that he came back with Doc85 to get a book from Biff and that Doc85 and his DeLorean got struck by lightning and was sent back to 1885. Doc challenges him, saying that if the future Doc is now in the past, how could Marty know about it? Marty shows him the letter.
Doc reads the letter aloud. Doc85 has been living happily for eight months in 1885. The lightning bolt shorted out the time circuits and destroyed the flying circuits. Doc85 tried to repair the time circuits while posing as a blacksmith, but was unable to as suitable replacement parts won't be invented until 1947. He has gotten good at shoeing horses and fixing wagons. He buried the DeLorean in the abandoned Delgado Mine with repair instructions inside so that Doc55 can fix it and get Marty back to 1985. Marty is is to destroy the time machine when he gets back and not go back to get Doc85. He is happy in the Old West, and feels unnecessary time travel would only further disrupt the space-time continuum. He asks Marty to take care of his dog Einstein, then bids him a touching farewell, causing both Doc and Marty to tear up. Marty feels guilty about Doc85 getting stranded in the Old West -- Doc reassures him that there's plenty of worst places to be. "I could have ended up in the Dark Ages, and they probably would have burned me at the stake as a heretic or something." They examine the included map to the DeLorean and notice the DeLorean is in a side tunnel. "We may have to blast."

-OD: Working on "Warsies Again?" *tentacles chitter hopefully*-
Heh, sort of. I'm still not happy with how elongated the sitters look. Stupid couch. I might have to redraw it with the seat higher or something.
-OD: As long as you're working on a drawing.-
-VD2: And I'm glad to see you made time for "Dusky Past" as well.-
Yeah, I'm luckily in a bit of a Part III/Night and Day mood. Things are coming along pretty well with "Teen Doc" and "Boy Genius" too.
-TD: Glad to hear it. Are we past my father freaking out?-
For "Teen Doc," yes. For "Boy Genius," no.
-TD: *pout* Damn.-
-D: At least one of them's behind you. Why did you make our father so crazy, anyway?-
-M: She's VICTORIA. What else is she going to do?-
-D: Point.-
Hey, not everyone else's Mr. Brown was that enthusastic about your science career either. One of them burned your Jules Verne books.
-Docs: *jawdrop*-
-VM: I think you broke them.-
-OD: If my father had ever done that. . . . *tentacles rise up, hissing*-
-TD: Can I hit him again? Please?-
Will threatening him with a lightning gun do?
-TD: PERFECT.-
-VD: That works for the rest of us too.-
-M2: You know, compared to your Dad, I have a fairly normal family life.-
I think being forced to date your own mother is still pretty far up on the weirdness scale.
-VuM: Yeah, but at least Mom and Dad are sane.-
-M2: Well, Mom is, I sometimes have my doubts about Dad.-
*loud protests from

anonymoose_au's Georges*

Working on a new

revison_doc update -- I fear Emily having twins again, she's big. Emmett is dealing as well as he can with his alien pregnancy. Also considering putting plot bunnies up for adoption here or at my webpage -- we've been having some reoccurring ones I just don't feel like doing.
-DW: The "Fantastic Four" one bothering you again?-
Don't say its name! You summon it! *hide from plotbunny*