crossover_chick | Let's Make This Quick

A) I've been watching MST3K clips all afternoon -- god, I LOVED that show. *makes note to see about getting a few more tapes* Managed to find a bunch of shorts I hadn't seen before too. :) Of course, this means my productivity was shot. . . .

B) But not totally. I had a few breakthrough moments in the plots of "Inspiration" and "Baby To The Future," and my own personal dimension-hopping theories. Too bad they happened at work -- at least I got the chance to write them down.

C)The muses can't complain too much -- I got a bunch done on "The Gift and the Curse," and I also have a new Drabbles88:

52. School
Doc started as the door to the lab was slammed open. Marty stormed through, scowling. “Marty? What’s wrong?”
“UCLA rejected me,” Marty grumbled. “Same damn reason too -- they’re worried I’m going to flatten the school. I told them my area of expertise was music, but they wouldn’t listen!” He threw himself into a chair and fumed. “Fools. I’ll show them all!”
“Planning to flatten the school does not help your case, Marty.”
Marty half-smiled at that. “Yeah, I guess so. It’s just -- Did you have these sorts of problems after your breakthrough?”
“Oh yes. It was a wonder that I got to finish college after what I did to Hill Valley University.” Doc suddenly blushed. “In fact, I believe I might be the inadvertent cause of your problems now. It’s certainly not a secret that you’re my assistant and colleague.”
“Won’t be much of a colleague without more of an education,” Marty muttered.
Doc smirked. “You seem to be doing quite well with a high school diploma,” he said, coming over to sit by his friend. “Who was it again who managed to put ‘The Power of Love’ to the tune of Mozart’s ‘The Magic Flute?’”
“Come on, Doc, that’s just something I do for fun.”
“It’s still a pretty impressive accomplishment in my book. Not to mention all the modifications you’ve made to your guitar. I never would have thought to try and include an internal amplifier.”
“It just seemed so obvious! I got so sick of having to lug all that heavy equipment around. . . .” Marty sighed deeply. “But -- I dunno. I guess I want to do something like you did with time travel. Have something big that I could show off at a symposium.” His expression turned dark. “Something finally capable of killing Helen Narbon.”
“Don’t get your hopes up, kid,” Doc warned. “Nobody who’s tried has succeeded yet.”
“I know. But I can still dream.” He sighed again, then looked over at the workbench. “So, what are you up to?”
“Actually, I was going to call you -- I’m working on adding a way to disguise the sounds of time travel to the train and DeLorean’s holographic projectors.”
Marty’s eyes lit up. “Really? Then come on, let’s get started!” Marty practically ran to Doc’s workbench. “Where are the plans?”
“Right over here,” Doc said, sharing Marty’s enthusiasm. “Now I had this idea about weather sounds, the sonic booms already sound like thunder. . . .”

Yes, it's Narbonic!Sparky!Marty, at last!
-VDM: . . . Weird.-
-M: Are you using Sparkvoice there?-
Yup -- Narbonic has a version too.
-TD: *shakehead* I still can't picture it.-
Aw come on, is it really that hard?
-All: Yes.-
*rolls eyes*
Some background: The universe is trilogy canon, with Doc and his family moving back to the future in late 1986. Narbonic!Doc is of course very mad. In 1987, Doc decides to attend one of the North American Mad Scientist Symposiums -- the relevant storyline in Narbonic is Professor Madblood and the Lovelace Affair. This year they're having a panel on time travel, and, naturally, Doc wants to gloat. Clara, Jules, Verne, and Marty insist on coming along -- Doc tries to hide the madder parts from them, but unfortunately they manage to run into a few knowledgeable henchmen and guess what's going on. Doc finally confesses he's Mad and admits to being the one who nearly leveled Hill Valley University after one of his early mechanical creations started a chain reaction of explosions.
-D: What?!-
-TD: Whoa. Building a steampunk DeLorean in my father's stables was actually rather tame.-
Meanwhile, Marty's wandered off and stumbled across a meeting of the Dave Conspiracy -- the cabal of Daves that runs the world in Narbonic. He's caught and brought to Helen Narbon, still showing off her daughter Helen Beta Narbon. Helen, being a bitch, locks Marty in this kind of room (yes, borrowing from guest strips, a new low) and leaves him in there for a few hours. Dave McFly eventually figures out the intruder's identity and rescues him, but the damage has been done -- Marty's snapped. He escapes his brother and heads down to the local drinks station, where he starts hearing some interesting music in his head. . . .
Doc and his family haven't found Marty by the time the panels start. However, Marty interrupts the time travel one with a newly made sonic gun and a mission to kill Helen Narbon. Doc, realizing the danger to everyone in the room, manages to talk him down. The rest of the trip is basically spent helping Marty deal with his new madness, and Marty returns to Hill Valley as the Narbonic equivalent of an acoustics Spark.
-M: Jesus, I can't believe you planned this out so thoroughly.-
Neither can I. I spend WAAAY too much time on this sort of thing.
-VD: No wonder you never get anything done.-
Heeeey. . . .

And now to do some story organizing to shut the muses up.
-DW: Um, Vic, this new alien-related plot bunny--
We'll see what happens.