Timeline Event Chronology

Game 1 - 1955

10/10/1945

5:00 AM - 6:00 AM

They arrive in October 10, 1945 at 5 AM, 12 days before the tunnel opened, and drive onward to the RR Tunnel. The tunnel is nearly finished, but still closed off to the general public. However, there doesn't appear to be anyone around at this time.

Marty and Doc drive past the "Do not enter" signs, and park on the side of the tunnel road. Doc gets out, asking Marty to stay with the car, and hurries to where the secret door should be in the future. It is still a big metal door and when Doc swipes the card through it still opens as before. Giving Marty a thumbs up, he hurries down the stairs. The place looks nearly the same as it will 10 years from now and is empty of all persons.

Doc goes to the computer terminal in the back and turns it on. However, only the plans.vid is on the desktop. It seems TORO will be busy gathering all the information it has accumulated by 1955 during the next 10 years.

Poor Marty was hoping to find a gaping hole with a big computer in it. But it seems as long as the tunnel is standing the door is the only access, and 12 days away from completion of the tunnel isn't far enough removed for the tunnel not to be there (that's my reasoning anyway - feel free to tell my why I'm wrong!).

Marty, while waiting for Doc, reloads the time machine. They're down to 5 pellets now and probably should have a few more time travel skill points.

He waits on the hood of the car, keeping an eye out.

Doc reloads the CD into the computer and it brings up the files he downloaded in '55:

plans.vid

locations.vid

wadotat.vid

nifadot.vid

brown.vid

mcfly.vid

alpha.vid

omega.vid

Doc first clicks on the Alpha.vid. Images relating to the following voiceover appear:

"Alpha is the name given to the timeline that first existed before any time travel occurred. This timeline was officially erased on October 26th, 1985 at 1:20 AM with the world's first temporal displacement. The first time traveler was the dog of Doctor Emmett L. Brown, inventor of the world's first time machine. This successful trip eliminated the alpha timeline forever and began the course of events that would eventually lead to the final creation of the Omega timeline, the one timeline recognized by the world leaders as the official timeline of the world.

"Little is known of this never-been timeline. Undoubtedly the major changes of the Omega timeline, centralized to Hill Valley and to the relations of Marty McFly and Doctor Brown, never occurred, leaving McFly's parent unsuccessful and Emmett Brown forever in 1985. However, any speculation on the Alpha timeline is just that, as the Alpha timeline can never be recreated. Even if the first time trip were to be prevented, the Alpha timeline would still involve a time traveler in it, and so could not be the original, time travel-free timeline known as Alpha."

The vid ends and Doc plays the Omega.vid:

"Omega is the name of the final timeline following Doctor Brown's final journey through time. On the morning of October 26, 1985, Marty McFly was sent accidently back to 1955 in Doctor Brown's DeLorean time machine. Through a set of unfortunate accidents, he prevented his parents from meeting, and with the help of Brown's 1955 counterpart was able to bring them back together and return to 1985.

"This caused the first major deviation to the timeline, known to many as the "Lone Pine" timeline, in which McFly's parents are a success and not failures as in the Alpha timeline. Doctor Brown then travels to 2015 later that morning, only to return to collect Marty and his girlfriend to return to the future to prevent McFly's future children from going to jail. This plan is a success, but ultimately leads to Biff Tannen stealing the time machine and a sports almanac and giving it to his 1955 counterpart, to create a corrupt 1985 timeline in which Biff Tannen is powerful and rich and rules all of Hill Valley and is a superior power in the world.

"By returning to 1955, Doctor Brown and Marty McFly are able to prevent Biff from becoming rich by reclaiming the almanac and burning it, restoring the "Lone Pine" timeline almost exactly. However, due to a stray lightening bolt, Doctor Brown is sent to 1885 where he is trapped with a malfunctioned time machine. He llives there for 8 months before burying the time machine and sending a letter to be deliver to McFly in 1955 with instructions on how to repair it.

"With Brown's 1955 counterpart, McFly is able to do so, and returns to 1885 to bring Brown home. But because the time machine has run out of gas and Doctor Brown meets the love of his life in Clara Clayton, they cannot return immidiately. Through a series of circumstances, Marty is able to return home in the DeLorean, but Brown is left behind in 1885. He spends the next 10 years perfecting a time machine out of a steam engine. He returns ot 1985 to say goodbye to McFly and get his dog, and then returns to 1885 to live out the rest of his life.

"It is after Doc's final trip back to 1885 that the Omega timeline is cut off. No time travel outside of or within these events is considered part of this Omega timeline that is the official timeline of the world."

Doc stares at the screen in shock. He can't believe all that stuff is supposed to happen to him and Marty. But he quickly shakes it off and plays the WADOTAT and NIFADOT videos.

The WADOTAT video starts:

"The World Association for Displacement Of Time and Ascention to Transcendence, or WADOTAT is one of the first underground Temporal Displacement Organizations to be formed. Formed by an unknown man known as the Hour Glass, their intentions are to rule the underworld with the use of time travel. By sending their men forward and backwards through time, they were able to expand their organization pass that of the mafia and take over as the one true criminal organization in the world. By this time time travel had been deemed illegal and TORO was set up to undo all the activities of WADOTAT.

"It was also around this time that WADOTAT gained a formidable enemy organization known as NIFADOT. WADOTAT and NIFADOT would continue to wage war against one another as TORO went about locating these organizations in time and eliminating them."

The WADOTAT vid end and Doc clicks on the NIFADOT vid (to be revealed in next post).

Doc clicks on the NIFADOT video.

(Okay, guys, here goes. My uber super reveal that I've been trying to hold off on for as long as possible. No guys stealing DeLoreans or guys in blue suits to prevent seeing it this time. Here goes! )

"The National Instute and Federation of Allied Doubles to Overrule Time, or NIFADOT, is a collection of beings who were brought together under a man known as The Other. Brought together shortly before time travel was declared illegal, the purpose of the organization was, at first, to protect against the persecution of people known as echoes.

"An echo is the term used for a person who was created by a timeline to, in essence, prevent a paradox from occuring. Because a paradox cannot, by definiton, occur, the timeline creates these echoes as placeholders to act and behave in ways to prevent a paradox.

"The first echo known to exist is Biff Tannen. An echo of Tannen's 2015 self was created as a placeholder for the 2015 almanac to be given to Tannen and prevent a paradox. However, because this Tannen did not exist in his time, the echo was erased shortly thereafter.

"However, many echoes were not erased. Soon doubles of people who time traveled long after Marty and Brown's final time trips left began showing up, and it is believe that it is the Tannen echo which opened the floodgates.

"For years echoes were persecuted, until laws were passed giving echoes the rights of their doubles. However, people still did not consider them human, and so NIFADOT was created under the rule of The Other. It wasn't long before NIFADOT grew into an underground organization, bent on ruling the world, and making echoes more powerful than their doubles who were born in the current timelines. It is for this reason that NIFADOT seeks to keep the Omega timeline intact, so that the first Tannen echo, and all subsequent echoes will be born and their organization can continue to exist."

The video ends.

Doc puts on the locations video.

"The following is a map of known locations of WADOTAT and NIFADOT throughout time ..."

A map marking off the high school, Mr. Foster's Travel Service, and the Drive-Thru Movie are marked in red. Another shows the flower shop, the clayton ravine and the clocktower marked off in green.

Doc then clicks on the McFly video and listens as it rattles off Marty's history (sorry, don't feel like writing it all out - let Shandy tell it ).

Doc takes in all this info and then ejects the disk and returns to the RR Tunnel to relay all he has learned to Marty.

Marty and Doc discuss all the information they have learned. They don't believe they can trust WADOTAT and NIFADOT, and feel that these 2 must be removed from power in some way. NIFADOT's original cause was admirable, but now its empire seems to have grown into something totally different. TORO seems to be, relatively speaking, on Marty and Doc's side, but want to keep them out of everything, which Marty and Doc are not willing to do. They'd rather avoid TORO whenever possible.

They then decide to try one of the locations on the map. One of WADOTAT's locations was the clock tower, and Marty suggests they hit that first.

6:00 AM - 6:10 AM

Marty and Doc drive to the clock tower and Doc decides to go in, leaving Marty to guard the DeLorean.

Doc goes to the front of the court house and looks around. It looks pretty much like it did in '55 from the outside. Steps leading forward, 4 pillars reaching up and a door leading inside before it. He examines the exterior but finds nothing suspicious outside.

Doc cautiously goes up the steps, making sure no one will jump out and attack him. Everything seems quiet. He raches the top of the steps and opens the door and steps into the court house. A door to one side can be seen, as well some pews for an audience, as well as a jury box and a judging area - a place for a judge to sit and for the defendent and prosecution. Another door up further can be seen. The room seems empty besides these things upon first glance.

Doc approaches the judging area and examines it fully. But there is nothing out of the ordinary at either the judge's seat, the defendent/persecution's seat, or the jury box.

Doc walks through the door in the back of the room. It is Jury Room. A big table with chairs can be seen and pictures on the wall. Exploring it carefully, Doc finds nothing hidden in this room.

Doc goes back to the other door and steps into it. A row of long stairs reaching up to the top of the clock can be seen. He explores this room carefully and finds a little door in the side of the stairs that is not locked.

Though tempted to check out the clock. Doc peers into the compartment under the stairs. It looks like it's intended for storing stuff, and he finds a bunch of courtroom items: gavels, briefcases, robes, etc. Doc pulls these items out to investigate the little room and finds a locked trap door in the ground that needs a key to open it.

+3 time travel skill for Doc and Marty and +2 missions accomplished to them for figuring out WADOTAT and NIFADOT.

Doc tries his darndest to break the lock with his screwdriver. No, it seems to be sealed by some sort of electronics that tightly holds the door in place and can't be activated until the key lock is turned.

Doc searches through the items he found in the compartment for anything helpful, but doesn't find anything useful.

Marty, getting bored with have DeLorean-sitting duty, throws some boxes on the car and decides to check out Mr. Foster's since it was marked on the locations.vid map. He ppers into the window and sees a big room with desks and chairs. Looks like a normal place to go to plan a trip.

Marty hurries back to the DeLorean, afraid to leave it for too long. He's gonna play with he boxes while he's waiting for Doc to get back.

After building a box fort, Marty decides to try the backdoor of Mr. Foster's, so he can explore it and keep an eye on the time machine at the same time.

There's a backdoor and he finds it unlocked.

6:10 AM - 6:20 AM

Marty peers into the door. Same stuff he saw before, and a man wandering around, trying to look busy. Suddenly the man's pager goes off and he glances at it. He picks up his phone and calls a number.

"Yeah. Yeah. No problems. No. TORO hasn't explored our organization here yet. No. 1985? Damn! All right. I'll get the records and bring them to the Clayton Ravine. HG will be there? Got it. On my way."

The man hangs up and quickly goes through a door leading to another room in the building and disappears.

Marty is quick to realize that the man is going to meet Hour Glass and quickly returns to the DeLorean, discarding the boxes and revs up to the clock tower, hoping that Doc will hear the car approach ...

Doc, hearing the DeLorean, throws all the stuff back in the compartment and closes it up and rushes downstairs to meet Marty, asking what's going on.

Marty tells Doc what he heard and Mr. Foster's and Doc hops in the DeLorean and drive back to Clayton Ravine. Doc will have DeLorean-sitting duty this time around. They park behind a big boulder, Marty gets his gun and Doc holds onto his pipe. They cover the time machine with brush and Marty begins to sneak outside of the car, using a branch as disguise.

In the distance the Nixon-masked man and Reiley Strickland stand near the edge of the ravine. Reiley paces impatiently while Nixon-mask smokes a cigarette through his mask.

Marty climbs behind some boulders, close enough to hear what the two men, but not to be seen.

Soon a car drives up to the ravine and parks. Out comes the man from the Foster store, a case of CDs in his arms.

"You have them?" asks Reiley.

"Yes," says the man. "TORO won't be getting their hands on this information in 1985 now. All the information about NIFADOT and its leader is here. Now where's my payment? I'd like to get my retirment money and sneak off to a new time to retire and a start a new life. No NIFADOTs or WADOTATs."

Reiley takes the case of CDs and hands it to Nixon-mask who examines them. He then nods his approval.

"Your payment in full," says Reiley, pulling out a gun and shooting the man through the chest.

The man collapses and then his entire body fades from existence.

"That's one less of those freak echoes to worry about," says Nixon-mask. "Let's get this information back to our base."

The two men then turn around and head for their black car, parked a few lengths behind them.

6:20 AM - 9:00 AM

Marty acts, and as the two men turn to leave he shoots Nixon-mask in the back and Reiley in the side. Both cry with pain and fall to the ground.

"Dammit, we're under attack!" cries Nixon-mask.

Doc arrives on the scene just as the men fall, gasping at what happened.

Nixon-mask quickly reaches into his belt, pulling a device from his belt. Pulling the disks close to him, he pushes some buttons and a blue orb encircles him and he disappears with a flash! Marty, too shocked at first by what he sees, isn't able to fire again (if he had wanted to) before Nixon-mask is gone.

Reiley grabs his own device and begins to push some buttons shortly after Nixon-mask has vanished.

Doc races forward and grabs the device out of Reiley's hand. He demands to know what Reiley's real name is.

"My real identity isn't important," says Reiley. "Kill me if you want. I won't say a word! You will be killed Brown, and soon WADOTAT will rule the world! Mark my words!"

Marty picks up the device and examines it, then goes and looks in the men's car. He finds a notebook inside.

"You'll know soon enough, if you haven't figured it out by now," says the man. "Soon it will be the only name that matters!"

Marty grabs the notebook and goes through it. Lots of scribbled words, documenting the history of WADOTAT from what appears to be Reiley Strickland's perspective, including past wars with NIFADOT.

Doc muses over how to prevent all this stuff from happening, then asks where the man from Foster's body is.

"He was an echo," says Reiley. "He never truly existed. Just an accident. When he ceased to live the timeline erased him once and for all. I am afraid he is nothing but a faint memory, as soon will be NIFADOT itself."

Doc asks Reiley what happened to the real Reiley Strickland.

"He's dead," says Reiley. "He was not needed and was only in the way. We needed an in to 1985 and Strickland was it. Claiming his identity helped get me into the high school without NIFADOT being aware so that I could confront McFly. Too bad he slipped through my fingers."

Marty searches through the notebook for any info on Hour Glass. He finds a nice lengthy article and begins reading: "This is an account of The Hour Glass for the records, so that the world can know its future world leader. Our leader, known as Hour Glass, was born in Hill Valley. He rose to power as a crimelord late in his life, pushed by his father to become an accomplishment in life before he died. Hour Glass's true identity is ..."

As Marty reads the pages he sees the text slowly fade from sight!

Reiley gives a cry of pain and doubles over before he can answers any of Doc's questions.

"Ack! Now my service to WADOTAT ends," he says with a gasp. "At least I shall be wiped from history and not become one of them!"

With a gasp Reiley Strickland, or whoever he truly was, fades from existence.

Marty and Doc find that they still have the device that Reiley had tried to use before he was erased. It has a destination display and time departed display, but it would seem that there is no way to find out where Hour Glass went with his device.

Both exhausted by this point, they decide to curl up inside the time machine and take a nap before they proceed onto their next mission. They fall into a restless sleep, a bit anxious about being discovered by someone, but too tired to do anything about it.

9:00 AM - 9:10 AM

Doc awakens at 9:00 that morning, beeling a bit refreshed. Deciding to let Marty sleep a bit longer, he grabs the time travel device from Reiley and examines it. It looks like a Figure-8, like the previous devices, but it is more rugged, as if not manufactured, but duplicated from the originals. It's a lot bulkier than the orginals too. Three screens for DESTINATION TIME, PRESENT TIME, and TIME DEPARTED are available, with a key pad below it, much like the DeLorean.

The DESTINATION TIME says "October 26, 1985 12:00 AM."

The PRESENT TIME says "October 10, 1945 9:04 AM."

The TIME DEPARTED says "October 25, 1985 10:00 PM."

Deciding that Hour Glass has likely fled back to 1985, the same location Reiley was headed to, Doc wakes Marty and they refuel the DeLorean. They put in the destination time: October 26, 1985 12:10 AM and accelerate to 88 mph.

1955

11/4/1955

5:45 - 6:00 AM

Doc and Marty decide they should go to the past before the headquarters was destroyed. Marty refuels and they accelerate to November 4th, 1955 5:45 AM.

Once they are one day before the headquarters is bombed, they take off for the River Road Tunnel. As they arrive they see the tunnel is surrounding by men in blue suits, barracading the tunnel, not letting anyone through.

After debating the subject, Marty and Doc decide that it's best to first try the bunker in 1955 in the gym as related to them by Lee. They hurriedly drive to the school and arrive in the parking lot.

Doc decides to stay behind and guard the DeLorean with the items available to him. Marty takes the gun and the CD and quietly sneaks into the school, being very careful not attract any unwanted attention. At one point he sees Strickland guarding the halls, but is able to slip past him and make his way to the gym.

He arrives and explores the gym carefully, eventually finding the key hole, but he has no way to unlock it and reveal the hidden chamber he was told about by Lee.

Marty wonders how he could get the door open, or if he could get there before the door existed, and then he gets an idea. He sneaks back through the school and returns to Doc, claiming to know what to do next.

Marty reveals his plan to Doc after refueling the time machine and driving forward away from the school. He wants to get to the headquarters before they are built in the RR Tunnel. (+1 Intelligince for the idea to Marty.) They drive forward to 88 MPH and disappear from '55.

11/5/1955

4:00 - 6:00 AM

When the lights stop flashing they find themselves in the same bunker, but it looks somehow newer. However, the same items are inside and no one else but them is around. Now their feet are freezing cold!

Lorraine and George make their way out of the bunker, using the keys George had to open the door and step into the gym. The gym is empty, and as they step into the school halls, they too are quiet. Peering out a window it is clear that there is no one outside. The men in blue suits are gone. It seems they really have time traveled!

Lorraine and George return to the art room and squeeze through the window (if they had leaped through they may have gotten Dexterity points for it! ) In the parking lot they gaze around. There are maybe 2 or 3 cars parked here. It's Saturday and 4:00 in the morning. The parking lot seems deserted in the darkness of the early morn.

George & Lorraine head toward Lyon Estates, using backroads and the cover of darkness to stay hidden. They want to wait unitl later that night to see how they first meet, and would like to use the construction area to hide out for the day. As they walk, Lorraine rattles on about their past, how they met and fell in love. She must have told this story a thousand nine-hundred and eighty-five times by now, but it was the most romantic event of her life. Until today.

They arrive at the construction site within an hour, darkness still over them.

Lorraine and George go behind the billboard, cover up with some branches, making themselves makeshift beds, and fall asleep behind the billboard, grateful to have some rest after their busy day.

5:45 - 6:00 AM

Doc and Marty decide that it's best to head to 1955 to try the card. Marty refuels and they get in the DeLorean and accelerate to 88 mph. They arrive on the morning of November 5, 1955 5:45 AM, before their others selves have even arrived.

Doc asks Marty to stay with the DeLorean while he tires the card. He approaches the hidden door. The slot is still there, just as before. Doc swipes the card and the door slides open. A fleight of stairs reaching down into the darkness below can be seen.

Marty doesn't want to leave the DeLorean alone and asks Doc if there isn't a way to diconnect the time travel ability from the DeLorean. Doc uses his handy screwdriver to disconnect the flux capacitor and then he and Marty head for the doors.

They climb down the stairs and find a vast room. Pillars hold the ceiling up above them. A huge computer terminal sits on the far end of the room. Many seats with smaller computers on desks are scattered throughout the giant room, as well as printers. A printer is also connected to the main terminal in the back. The room is devoid of any people.

Doc, upon Marty's suggestion, hands his gun to Marty so he can guard the door, and approaches the terminal on the far side wall and examines it. He finds a switch and turns the computer on. On the giant screen he sees a bunch of electronic video files. They are labeled as:

plans.vid

locations.vid

wadotat.vid

nifadot.vid

brown.vid

mcfly.vid

alpha.vid

omega.vid

Doc plays the brown.vid first, wondering what information they have on him.

A picture of Doc appears on the screen and a voiceover begins.

"Emmett Lathrop Brown was born in 1920 in Hill Valley, California to parents Martha and Arthur. His parents died when he was only 19 and Brown inheritted his family's fortune. He collected a doctorate in physics before he hit the age of 30. During these years he was used by noted doctors as an assistant on the Manhattan Project in which he gained much information on nuclear developments.

"After graduating college he began his endeavors to become an inventor, but most of his devices were failures. On November 5th, 1955, Brown was hit with inspiration and came up with the idea of the flux capacitor, the device which will later go on to power the world's first time machine. He spends the next 30 years developing this device and sinking nearly all of his family funds into it. His house burns down during a failed experiment using his refrigerator and Brown moves into his family mansion's garage and takes up permanent residence.

"By 1985 Brown has nearly fully fleshed out the details of the time machine and sets to work on building it out of a DeLorean model DMC-12 automobile. The creation of this time machine and the subsequent first time trip erases the Alpha timeline and begins the course of time travels that will ultimately lead to the Omega timeline."

The video ends here.

After listening to his history, Doc plays the plan.vid.

Various images relating to the following voiceover appear on the screen:

"The main goal of the Temporal Officers to Restore Omega, or TORO section of the government is to return all timelines to the orginal Omega timeline. By doing so, all time travel outside of of the event surrounding the first human time travelers, Doctor Emmett Brown and Martin McFly, will be erased from history. This will restore order to the past, present and future and assure that only the highest powers in the world have access to time travel. This will succeed in removing all illegal organizations such as WADOTAT and NIFADOT from using time travel for their own endeavors.

"The sake of the world and bringing sanity to the universe is imperative, and as issued by the world government, this is the only method to restore order to history. It is TORO's mission to succeed in this by removing these organization from all time and completely resotring the Omega timeline."

Doc scans the video files and moves to click on nifadot.vid. As he does the sound of a roaring engine comes to life outside on the River Road Tunnel. Muffled voices can also be heard.

Doc quickly cancels the NIFADOT vid and looks for a blank CD. He finds one on one of the tables.

6:00 - 6:10 AM

Marty races up the stairs to see the gullwing doors open and two men inside. The engine is started and the men are about to peel out of there!

Marty aims his gun at the men, demanding them to freeze! Instead they barrel forward, steering straight toward Marty!

Doc slides the blank CD into a slot and sets it to copy the vids. He then rushes upstairs to try to help Marty. He sees the DeLorean, driven by two unknown men, driving straight toward him!

Marty fires away at the men, striking the one in the passneger's seat, but missing the one in the driver's seat. Doc arrives just in time to pull him out of the way as the car drives away. Doc cries at Marty to shoot out the tires.

Marty quickly fires away at the tires. Yes, he gets a tire (as well as hits the bumper a couple times, though not much damage). The car swirves and comes to a stop just outside the other side of the tunnel. Suddenly a bunch of men in blue suits come as if from nowhere to surround the DeLorean. They remove both men and begin arresting them.

Doc tells Marty to keep an eye on the men and makes sure they don't take the DeLorean. Doc rushes downstairs to grab his CD, but it's still only half-downloaded.

Marty watches the men carefully as they apprehend the other two men. Suddenly a few other men leap out and attack the men in the blue suits. The two sides fight with each other, being thrown over the time machine. All hell is breaking loose!

Doc searches the room for a weapon. He finds a loose pipe on the ground and grabs it.

Marty watches on in horror, not sure what to do and hoping they take each other out. It seems the men in blue are gaining an advantage. One man breaks from the scuffel and, seeing Marty, takes off toward him.

Doc grabs the pipe and looks at the terminal. Still downloading. It's a lot of files to compress and put on one little disk, despite the advanced terminal doing it. It still has at least 1/4 ways to go.

The man has a crazy "I want to kill you" look on his face.j

6:10 - 6:20 AM

Marty tells the man to stop or he'll shoot, but the man keeps going so Marty opens fire (to wound or kill?).

Doc hurries back upstairs to see Marty firing away at the man who runs at him.

Marty fires at the mans knees and ankles, bringing the man to the ground with a screech. However, he continues to drag himself forward across the road in Marty's direction.

Meanwhile, Doc runs downstairs to check on the file. 90% done. Just a bit longer ...

Marty, smartly, saves his bullets (+1 Intelligence) and kicks him hard in the head, knocking him out.

Doc paces back and forth, waiting for the disk to download. Almost there. 10.

9. 8. 7. 6. 5.

4

3

2

1

Done!

Doc ejects the CD and hurries upstairs to join Marty.

Now the battle between the two groups has advanced upon them. All around them men throw punches and battle viciously. Doc hurries to Marty's side, trying to stay away from the battle.

Doc gives Marty the CD and has him ditch the step van key, a new one to be made later. Doc wants to rush for the time machine, Marty put it in gear while Doc hooks up the flux capactior.

They take off, Doc swinging his pipe at anyone who comes near.

As they rush toward the DeLorean, they hear a man behind them cry: "The TORA secret headquarters is unprotected! Destroy it now!"

Then another voice: "He's got a bomb! Stop him!"

"Look out!"

BOOM! Suddenly the interior of the secret headquarters explodes from within just as Marty and Doc reach the DeLorean and get to work. The men are blown away from the wall. Those who were far enough away to avoid the blast continue to struggle with one another.

Another voice: "Damn! The headquarters from this point on will now cease to exist! DAMN IT!"

Marty puts the car into gear, Doc hooks up the flux capacitor and they accelerate forward, away from the melee.

6:20 - 7:10 AM

Marty & Doc speed off away from the explosion, deciding to go to the Del Gato Mine. Marty drives forward, keeping his speed low enough so that he doesn't shred the blown-out tire. It takes a bit of time, but they finally arrive at the mine. They pull past the adjacent Boot Hill Cemetery and stop the car before the mine shaft. The sun rises above their heads giving an odd sense of peace despite the hectic circumstances.

Marty and Doc get out of the DeLorean, Marty kicking the flat tire. Doc's upset that the destruction of TORO will alter history again (reminding Marty about the Lone Pine Mall). Doc wants to return to 2015 to try to play the CD he downloaded. He searches the car for a spare tire but finds none.

After debating how best to solve the tire problem, Marty and Doc decide that Marty should run into town and pick up a tire. After a quick embrace, Marty takes off, charging like the wind and in (oh, let's say) 20 minutes he reaches the Texaco. Out of breath and panting hard, Marty asks the man for a tire and a canister of gas.

"Sure thing," says the gas attendant. He returns with a tire and a cannister of gas. "That'll be $80 total."

Marty pays the man and takes off again, dragging (and sometimes rolling) the items along, and in 30 minutes he is able to reach Doc. It's been nearly and hour since Marty left, but he's returned in one piece.

Doc and Marty quickly change the tire, using a jack they found in the trunk of the DeLorean, and Doc fills it with gas and Marty refuels it with plutonium. Doc puts the destination time as October 22nd, 2015, 6:00 A.M. and they get in and drive forward to 88 mph and arrive at said date at the older and now caved-in Del Gato mine.

· 6:00 - 6:10 AM

Marty and Doc appear in the Twin Pines Ranch on the morning of November 5, 1955, 6:00 AM (you guys didn't specify a time, so I used 6:00 - if you'd prefer a different one just let me know and I'll change it).

They barrel through the Peabody Farm, hitting a scarecrow and sending it through the air, before crashing through the big wooden doors of Peabody's barn.

Marty is too shocked to move (there's been a lot of that lately), and so Doc takes the wheel of the DeLorean and peels out of the Twin Pines Ranch. In his rush he flattens one of two pine trees, but thinks little of it.

He parks at the Lyon Estates Construction Site and sees a huge billboard with a picture of a typical Lyon Estates house on it. Across from that are the two stone lions that act as the entrance and a vast empty span of land. The road he has parked on is empty.

Marty & Doc get out of the DeLorean and consider their next move. To the River Road Tunnel? To the school to confront Lee? Get something to eat (it's lunch time, for cripes sake! Or is it breakfast? )?

The sound of a roaring engine awakens Lorraine and George from their sleep a little after 6:00 that morning. A car veers to a stop just before the Lyon Estates billboard. A DeLorean. A funky looking DeLorean. Two men get out and begin to discussing where they should head to, throwing out options like the River Road Tunnel, the high school, and to Lou's Cafe to eat.

It's Doc Brown and their son, Marty McFly!

Lorraine and George see Marty and Doc and George steps out to confront them. They are soon sharing all they know of what has happened (thought Marty and Doc's past selves likely know less than George and Lorraine at this point). After this, they George and Lorraine decide it's probably best to leave Marty and Doc to their own devices (probably best for the sanity of everyone playing along as well!) and walk off while Marty and Doc hide the DeLorean and set off to downtown Hill Valley.

6:10 - 9:00 AM

Lorraine would like to see her old house and so she and George head down that way. After reminiscing and kissing for what seems like hours, they hear someone walking towards them. When Lorraine looks up she is shocked to find George's younger self, 17 years old coming toward the bushes they are hiding in!

As young George shimmies up the tree, George comes clean about his peeping tomeries. Lorraine, however, has known all along about it, and assures him that it just makes her love him more (she's a freak, what can I say?).

Then they hear the sound of George falling out of the tree and being hit by her father's car. Lorraine cringes. It isn't right that they're to witness this and she wants to time travel somewhere else.

George and Lorraine decide they would like to go to the New Year's party in 1999 to celebrate it while they're still young enough to not break a hip! They insert the appropriate date and hit the activate button.

BOOM! They stand on Lorraine old block, 44 years in the future. December 31, 1999 ... some time during this day.

Doc thinks they should head to Lou's cafe (he should come in handy as a 1955 tour guide for Marty!), but suggests Marty take off his devo suit first.

Marty takes off the devo suit and throws it in the car (new rule - 1 very large item equals 2 medium items or 4 small items - the devo suit is small and the plutonium is medium, so both will fit, w/ room for 1 more small item)

6:10 - 7:00 AM

Doc & Marty then begin their trek to Hill Valley (hmm, they don't seem too concerned about hiding the time machine ...).

They begin walking toward the town square, discussing what they should do. Maybe search for Luke, who Doc doesn't completely trust yet?

Marty wonders if he the pager he was given would work in '55. Too bad he ditched it for the step van key (hey, don't shoot the messenger!!!).

I think Marty & Doc are starting to loose it. Last I checked that DeLorean was standing on the street in broad daylight.

And yeah, Marty put the step van key in his pocket and also grabbed the wallet, so the pager had to go. Sorry!

Marty and Doc arrive at Lou's Diner. Inside it is a regular diner, well a regular diner 30 years ago. There are some customers on stools before a count, as well as some in booths by the windows, a man sweeping, a woman by the front door (really what does that lady do?) and Lou is behind his counter, watching the odd duo enter. A jukebox is in the back and there is a room w/ a telephone in the back as well.

Doc wants to grab some coffee and a turkey club. He's in luck! Lou's Diner serves the World's Best Coffee!!!

Marty wants to order a burger and fries and a Pepsi (not a big fan of sugar, that Marty McFly).

Doc gently reminds Marty that Pepsi Free is not available in 1955.

Doc suggests Marty get a milkshake instead.

Marty's thoughts turn to time travel, and he becomes a bit nervous at the thought of running into Doc's other self.

But he'll go with burgers, fries and a chocolate shake.

Doc assures Marty that they don't have to worry about his other self this day, b/c he was spending all day knocked out on the floor of his bathroom!

They order their food. Lou looks puzzled that they're ordering lunch, but Doc makes up an excuse, introducing Marty as his nephew, Martin Newton.

The total comes to 3 bucks and Doc pays Lou.

Marty and Doc find a nice cozy booth to sit in and begin eating.

Marty wonders why any of this nuts who want to stop Doc from time traveling don't just prevent him from coming up with the idea in the first place, since they're time travelers as well.

Doc isn't so sure that is their intention. He mentions that they should pick up some 50's clothes asap and then maybe check at his mansion to make sure things take their natural course.

Marty agrees with this plan, and is also shocked to learn that Doc has a mansion in '55!

Well, I don't recall either of you actually saying you did it! Ah, but it's just a game, so I'll let it slide! Don't want to be a tight-arse or anything!

Yes, yes, the DeLorean is safe and hidden behind the billboard.

Marty & Doc just must have used the telepathic powers to do it, that's all!

7:00 - 7:50 AM

george_mcfly_au is now in the game as 1955 George McFly!

'55 George is in his room in the McFly home (this of course being different from the McFly home in '85). Here is the 1955 Map to consult. He holds a Science Fiction Magazine and wears a grey windbreaker. No money, to transportation, nothing in his pockets.

Go for it '55 George!

Doc remembers a clothes store in exterior Hill Valley and he and Marty decide to hike to it. Doc carries Marty's jean jacket, even if it is a wee bit nippy on this Saturday morning. They arrive at the clothes store. There are all sorts of 50's clothes available for sell that I won't even begin to list. You guys can pick out the attire yourselves.

A man at the register eyeballs them curiously.

George looks around his room. He sits in bed, a night table to one side, a bunch of science fiction posters on the wall. On the table is a lamp and clock and some more sci-fi magazines. A dresser in the corner and a door to a closet, as well as a bookshelf. He can see his bookbag on the floor. This is all he can see with his cursory glance.

He puts down the sci-fi mag and goes to his closet. He finds a bunch of clothes, but his briefcase is not there. He seems to remember leaving it in the room somewhere, though ...

As Marty browses for clothes, Doc tries to explain to the counter man about Marty's odd clothes, then picks out a costume of tan pants, blue & yellow checked shirt and some plain shoes.

Not under the desk, but he's getting warmer ...

Marty picks out some Converse sneekers, a blue shirt, a bone colored jacket and a tweed hat. He looks sort of like a certain detective with it on ...

"Unckie Doc, will you buy this for me?

Doc pays for the clothes. The total is $25. They look for a changing room.

(Yes, the clothes will fit in the DeLorean, I'm sure - wrapped together they can act as one small item!)

George slides open the desk drawer. He finds his wallet, his binoculars and a book "How to Be A Peeping Tom." But his briefcase isn't in there!

He could've sworn that's where he put it. Where else could it be?

7:50 - 8:30 AM

Doc & Marty change clothes and head back to the street outside the Lyon Estates construction. They dump off their clothes in the time machine.

55 George checks his wallet and finds $10! It doesn't seem like much, but that's not too shabby for 1955! He puts the wallet in his pocket and the binoculars around his neck.

George looks under his bed. Eureka! His briefcase!

He opens it up to make sure his sci-fi stories are still inside. Yes, with a pencil and small notebook and other larger notebooks as well.

The briefcase can hold up to 5 small items.

Doc and Marty take a rest (can the narrarator join you? ).

Marty thinks maybe they should check out the RR Tunnel and the High School sometime. Doc wants to check his mansion.

Doc thinks it's around 8:00 (Ah, you guys are gonna make me update that chronolgy again, aren't you! Okay, hold on. For the record, I'm really only going every 15 paragraphs or so 10 minutes pass (just counting my paragraphs, actually) so if you guys want to count 'em up, be my guest! Until then, sit tight while I update it!).

George jumps on his bike and hits the road to Lou's Cafe. He arrives, chats with a grumpy Lou, and orders some Rice Krispies. He pulls out his sci-fi story and starts reading over it. He thinks it's pretty good so far, but doubts anyone else will like it. His father always said that he was wasting his time writing about such crazy fantasies. Maybe he's right ...

Lou hands over the bowl of Rice Krispies and pays 5 cents for it.

As he he is eating from his bowl someone comes up behind me. "Hey, McFly! I thought I told you never to come in here!"

(Since we have no 55 Biff yet, I'll play his role until someone assumes it.)

George freezes in fear...part of him wants to run, but he knows there's no way to escape.

"Hey Biff..."

Match, 3-D and Skinhead are just behind him.

"Hey, McFly, you irish bug, you have my homework finished?" Biff asks, approaching George and standing over him.

George hasn't...since he has enough of his own homework to do!

"Uh...well, I figured since it wasn't due 'til Monday..."

Suddenly Biff grabs him around the shoulders and starts knocking him on the head.

"Hello?! Hello?! Anyone home?! Think, McFly! Think!" Biff snaps at him and then goes off on a rant George doesn't listen to. At least not until Biff grabs his shoulder hard.

"No, no Biff, I wouldn't want that happen." George says automatically.

Meanwhile Biff's friends have been looking at George's briefcase.

3D picks it up. "Hey what's this?"

George is horrified and almost tears the briefcase out of 3D's hands but he's too afraid.

"Got anything special in there, McFly?" Biff asks.

"N-n-no," George stutters. "Just...um....stuff for my dad."

Any hopes that that will make 3D give the briefcase back is dashed, instead he passes it to Biff.

"Is that so, well, McFly, I don't think you should be doin' stuff for your dad while my homeworks waitin'. So I'm just gonna take this. You'll get it back when I get my homework."

With that he pushes George back upsetting the bowl of Rice Krispies sending milk everywhere.

By the time George regains his balance, Biff and his boys have gone! With his stories!

George is so horrified by the loss of his briefcase he almost runs after Biff (even though Biff is in his car), but Lou puts a stop to all that.

8:30 - 9:00 AM

"What's all this! You damn kids! This ain't your house you can't just go messing up the place!"

George can't speak, however Goldie Wilson the busboy responds.

"Hey, Lou calm down! It's just some spilt milk," he grins.

"Don't sass me, Goldie, get cleanin'! And you help him," Lou orders.

"B-but," George finally gets something out.

"Get to it!"

"Hey don't worry 'bout, Lou," Goldie says as he and George get to work on the milk and Rice Krispie bits. "He's just a hardass."

George gives Goldie a weak smile, but his thoughts are on his briefcase. He's got to get it back! Of course, he supposes he could just rush home do Biff's homework and bring it to him, but for once in his life George is willing to take the easy route. Besides, what if Biff opens the briefcase and reads what's inside?!

"I've got to get it back," George mutters to himself.

"What?" Goldie asks.

"Nothing," George mumbles.

"Hey, I saw those guys pushin' you around, you shouldn't let 'em do that, you gotta stand up for yourself, boy!"

George looks at Goldie, he knows he's right...maybe it's time he took that advice.

"Hey, what are you two doin' down there? Painting a masterpiece?" Lou's voice interrupts them. "Hurry up!"

George grabs some napkins are starts mopping up the milk, the sooner he finishes the sooner he can go after Biff!

George and Goldie finally clean up everything to Lou's satisifaction and George wastes no time getting out of the cafe and onto his bike.

He wonders where Biff and his friends could have gone...to one of their homes he suspects...

Luckily Biff's car is pretty noticible and he'd probably leave the briefcase in it, so all George has to do is find Biff's car!

He hopes.

George decides he'll check out the houses of Biff's friends first, since Biff has probably just come from his house and won't be in a hurry to get back to it (everyone at Hill Valley High has heard about his grandma!).

Of course, George isn't actually sure where Biff's friends live, but he does know their real names, so all he needs to do is check out a phone book. There's one at Lou's, but George is in no hurry to go back there! He decides he might as well go home and use the phonebook there.

It takes about ten minutes for George to get back home and even though he tried to creep inside quietly his father hears him.

"There you are son," his father says as he comes down the stairs. "I figured you wouldn't have run off for the day. Grandpa and Grandma are coming over remember."

George didn't remember actually, and doesn't know what to do, he can't stay at home while Biff has his briefcase! But he can't tell his father that.

What a mess!

"Sure...I remember, Dad," George answers after a moment. "How long will they be staying?"

"They haven't even arrived yet and you all ready want them to leave?" His father looked pretty surprised.

"Umm...well, I just...I have to do something..."

"Well, you can do it some other time," his father replies with unusual sterness. "You should go change, you've spilt something all over yourself."

George wanted to look up the phonebook, but before he can, his father tells him he better hurry.

George goes back up to his room and wonders what to do now.

Upstairs in his room, George changes his clothes and hears the sound of a car pulling into driveway. He goes to the window and looks out to see his grandparents car.

"I have to get out of here," George mutters to himself, time is ticking.

He hears his grandparents and his father's voices downstairs, so it's obvious he won't be able to get out of the house the normal way. So, he goes out onto the balcony, one of his cousins used to sneak out of the house this way...But George has never tried it in life!

It wouldn't be the first time that George has climbed something, though! So, he sets his jaw and very carefully climbs over his balcony onto the wooden beams of the trellis.

He prays that his father and grandparents don't come upstairs to see where he is and also that he doesn't fall and break his neck! Carefully he makes his way over to the drainpipe. Fortunately he's grandparents have parked right next to it so he doesn't have to climb down to the ground.

George winces a bit as he lands on the car a bit heavily, but fortunately it isn't dented.

Breathing a sigh of relief that he's got out unscathed George climbs onto his bike and heads off towards the townsquare, he has to find a phonebook and get Biff's friends addresses quickly!

Feeling like he should get a dexterity point for having climbed down the trellis unscathed George pulls into the Texaco and goes inside to ask for a phonebook.

"What do you think we are son? The Information Booth? Go to Lou's if you want a phonebook," the man behind the counter says gruffily.

George can't help wondering if there's any good-tempered shop owners in Hill Valley as he returns to Lou's.

"What are you doing back here?" Lou demands as George comes in.

"I...just need to use the phone," George mumbles back.

Lou stares at him. "Well...all right then...try not to spill anything." As if to emphasise the point he takes the sugar and ketchup bottles off the counter.

George goes to the phone in back and hunts for Biff's friends last names, grateful that he's heard their actual names enough at school where they're constantly getting in trouble.

But who's house to go to first?

+1 Dexterity for George! and +1 Intrepidness for having the guts to defy his dad, too!

George decides to go to 3D's house first since it's the closest, after memorising (he hopes) the other two addresses (he hadn't thought to bring a notepad and pencil with him) and thanking Lou he rushes out of the cafe and starts riding. On the way he keeps an eye out for Biff's car, just in case he decided to stop somewhere else.

3D's house is in one of the poorer parts of town, not far from Biff's house actually, where the lawns have dead grass or none at all.

George is disappointed to discover that Biff's car is not out the front of 3D's house, he supposes it's not surprising that getting back his stories aren't that easy.

There's no point sulking over it, though, and George sets off for Match's house...

55 George arrives at Match's address and looks in the driveway for Biff's car. No car, though.

To the next location?

George is getting annoyed at not being able to track down Biff. But he hurries off to Skinhead's house and as he arrives just outside the driveway he does indeed find Biff's black car! He hears Biff and his buddies getting rowdy in the yard behind the house, as well, but he cannot see his briefcase in Biff's car upon first view.

A bit worried, but desparate to get his briefcase back, George puts his bike against a tree and examines Biff's convertible. He checks the glove box, finding some user manuals and an "Oh La La Magazine," and carefully explores under the seats and the rest of the car.

He comes up with a piece of paper. One of the pages to his stories!

But the briefcase isn't in there!

George is very worried that Biff might be destroying or maybe even reading his stories. Getting up the courage he gets out of Biff's car and peeks through the slats of the fence to the backyard.

He sees the four hooligans, a fire in the center of them. Biff holds a bunch of pages in his hands, George's briefcase on the ground by his side.

"Now get this!" cries Biff. "A subatomic humanoid who falls in love with a human girl!"

"What a joke!" cries Match. "Toss it in, toss it in!"

Biff flicks the paper into the fire! "Wanna hear more?"

George releases a great scream, drawing the attention of Biff & co.

Looking through the gate at George, Biff cries: "Hey, what are you doing here, McFly? Want your briefcase back, and these stupid stories?"

George, outraged by Biff's actions, rushes to Biff's car and pulls the parking brake, sending Biff's car crashing rolling back and crashing into a tree!

Biff is aghast. "Oh, you're gonna pay for that, McFly! Get 'im!"

And Biff and his men charge after George!

George grabs his bike and starts pedalling like no tomorrow. He zooms down the streets, Biff and his boys giving chase. He remembers a tree he usually climbs to peep on Lorraine Baines in the house across from the tree. Maybe he could loose them by climbing up it and hiding? (Feel free to not do this, gma, I just thought it would be a way to link everything together).

Practically leaping off his bike and climbing faster than he ever has before George makes his way up his favourite tree. This time though he's not up there for usual purposes.

High above the street, George tries to make himself look as inconspicious as possible as Biff's car, tires squealing swerves into view.

George prays to God they won't notice him....something has to go his way today!

55 George leaps off his bike and races for his favorite tree and scrambles up it, hoping to hide himself from Biff and his gang in the branches.

Biff's car swerves into view, and keeps going forward, past the tree, and accelerates out of sight. Finally, George can relax ... until he loses his grip on the branch and falls into the street.

Just in time to be struck by a braking car and knocked out cold!

...

8:30 - 8:40 AM

Marty and Doc, now having made sure that Doc has hit his head and will get the idea for the time machine, head toward HIll Valley High School.

They arive before 8:30 in the parking lot. It is Saturday, so the place looks pretty empty. Only a couple of scattered 50's cars in the parking lot. The school's walls are no longer covered in graffiti.

Doc flips out over this slight change to history, but Marty is able to calm him down and they head to the school.

As they arrive at the school, Doc suggest to Marty that they try the science room to see if they can find HoggLee's past self. They stroll casually through the school halls, past the reception desk. It's pretty empty. As they turn the corner to head to the science room a hand reaches out and grabs Doc on the shoulder.

"Just where do you think you're going?" The voice sounds familiar. Marty knows it instantly: Mr. Strickland!

Yes, still bald, looking like he hasn't aged at all, it's the school's ornery principal/disciplinarian.

Doc, putting on a fake smile, explains that Marty is his nephew from the East Coast and he wanted to give him a tour of the school.

"Martin Newton?" Srickland raises an eyebrow quizzically. "Actually, I've been expecting you for some time, Mr. Brown. Mr. Lee would like to see you. Come this way."

Strickland begins leading them down the school halls.

Doc decides to follow Strickland, and he and Marty exchange unsettled glances. They know how Lee's other self tried to kill them in the future, and Doc makes certain Lee's gun is still in his pocket. Yep.

Strickland opens the science room door and ushers them in. He nods once to Lee, who stands before his desk, and Lee nods once back, then Strickland leaves and closes the door behind him.

"Sit down," says Lee, motioning to the students' empty desks before them. "I've been wondering when I'd see you, Doctor Brown. You brought a friend, too, I see. Well, let's get on with it. Let's talk paradoxes, Doctor!"

Doc's feeling apprehensive, but he hides it well. Marty keeps quiet. Doc would rather stand, and he asks the man why he wants to talk about paradoxes.

"That's what this is all about, isn't it?" asks Lee. "Or haven't you figured that out yet? No, I guess you aren't experienced enough in the ways of time travel. Not yet anyway.

"I don't guess you know, then, what NIFADOT really is? Well, I won't spoil the surprise. But you see, your safety is very important to us. We refuse to allow WADOTAT destroy you! You must understand, you are not safe no matter where you go, no matter WHEN you go!"

Doc is rather upset to learn that Lee works for NIFADOT. Now he doesn't know who to trust.

8:40 - 8:50 AM

He asks Lee how long this has been going on, trying to keep his cards close to his chest.

"What's time when you have a time machine?" asks Lee. "You, Doctor Brown, are the first link. The inventor and creator of the world's first time machine! You may be very surprised to discover what you invention has wielded in the future. But I cannot release that information. The more you know, the better chance it has of affecting future history. That's the last thing we want!"

Doc thinks they need to get to the future to figure this mess out.

He asks Lee why he invited him here and why he's even telling him about the danger of WADOTAT if he's so concerned about changing the future.

"WADOTAT, Doctor Brown, intends to alter history by exterminating you," explains Lee. "We at NIFADOT are determined to make sure this does not occur. What you do in the future is very important to us. Without you, our entire organization can't exist!

"That is why you must stay here until WADOTAT is disposed of fully. It is the only way you will be safe from them."

Doc isn't so sure he's safe with NIFADOT. He thinks that he may have somehow worked with NIFADOT, perhaps against his will, but he doesn't know. He can't trust anyone!

Doc wonders what Marty's thinking (probably reviewing all that's just happened in his mind, as if only hearing it for the first time).

Marty doesn't trust Lee at all and decides to ask how he knows Reiley Strickland.

"I know him in many ways," says Lee. "In more ways than you can imagine. The question is, which Reiley Strickland are you talking about?"

Marty says the one that told him to stay in 1955.

"I was never told by anyone but our organization's leader to stay in 1955," replies Lee.

Doc remeinds Marty that Luke told Lee to stay in 55 and Marty asks how he knows John Luke.

"John Luke," replied the man, holding his anger. "That man has nothing to do with us! He works with the government in the future. When did you see him? When you were in '85?"

Marty is tired of answering questions and he and Doc get up to leave.

8:50 - 9:00 AM

Lee darts in front of the door to bar their exit.

"I can't let you go," he says. "The future depends on you and Doctor Brown's safety. I can't tell you much, understand. If you know too much, than the future will not develop in the way that we need it to. You needn't worry about any of your counterparts. NIFADOT agents are posted throughout the various decades in order to make certain that WADOTAT does not harm them.

"What I can explain is Luke. He is an officer from the future, as I said. In the future, time travel is available to the government, and certain underground organizations such as our own and WADOTAT. The government has issued that all time travel be banned, except for the purpose of repairing the timeline so it resembles what is known as 'Timeline Omega.'

"While this does not pose a direct threat to our organization, you can understand our reluctance for the 'time cops' as they are known, to discover us, since we are working with time transporters and these are banned by future law."

Doc & Marty, happy to get more information, sit down. Doc asks what they will do to keep them safe, to test the water and see where Lee is going with this.

"There is an underground bunker that we placed under the high school in the past. Only myself and our leader has the access key. We will keep you there. No one will be able to get to you. You will have plenty of food and water. If something should happen, we will supply you with time transporters to send yourselves to a safer time, but not until something goes wrong, so that we know you are safe.

"Once WADOTAT is disposed of, you will be returned to 1985 and you will continue as you were before either organizations or the time cops became involved, so that timeline Omega will remain intact."

Doc says that he finds the plan interesting, but gives Marty an obvious look.

Doc asks who their leader is, if they know where WADOTAT is located and how they would even know that Marty & he arrived in '55.

"They don't know," replies Lee. "We were lucky that you came to us, or we wouldn't know either. But that won't stop them from hunting out each time period until they discover your whereabouts and kill you. WADOTAT's primary location is not known to us, and it would not be wise in any event to invade thir headquarters directly. WADOTAT must be taken out more discretely. We do not want a war between our organizations.

"As for our leader, his identity must remain a secret. I cannot say why, but it is of grave importance."

Marty asks how they plan to destroy WADOTAT, starting to feel better about this version of Lee.

"It is difficult, you understand, to locate the various members of the organization, as they are stationed throughout time," replies Lee. "Our main goal is to dispatch of their leader. The time cops can deal with the others. Cut off the head and the body dies. So far, however, it has been difficult to locate their leader."

Doc announces that they can help and Marty agrees. He says that they could be decoys to help get WADOTAT out of hiding and asks if they can be including in NIFADOT's plans.

9:00 - 9:30 AM

"Out of the question!" cries Lee. "In fact, you must be as detached from this whole mess as possible. You must be concealed in the bunker below the High School. There is no other way. Now please follow me. The door to the bunker is located in the gymnasium, hidden under the floor."

Lee approaches Marty and Doc expecting them to stand and follow him.

Doc and Marty stand, thanking Lee for telling them what he could, and then confirms that the bunker is under the gym. He then smashes Lee over the head with the butt of his gun.

Lee falls to the ground, dazed but not totally knocked out. He tries to stand, but fails, and then cries: "Strickland! Hurry! Move! They're getting away!"

Doc quickly scans the room. Yes, they are on the first floor. He wraps Marty's jacket around his fist and smashes the glass of the nearest window and both he and Marty leap through (+1 Dexterity for each) and into the Parking Lot.

Doc & Marty hurry to the closest car. Doc tries to open it, but it's locked. He tries to get it open with his screwdriver. Grrrr! It won't work! So he smashes the glass (hope you don't mind if I ad-lib this - I figure Doc's on a glash-smashing role), pops the lock inside, gets in and works to hotwire the car.

Marty gets in the passenger's seat and the car roars to life just as Strickland lurches after them. Doc accelerates and speeds out of the parking lot and hits the road, away from the high school.

Marty & Doc speed down the road. Their thoughts turn to all the new info they have gathered: secret time traveling organizations, time cops, Timeline Omega ... They have to solve this mystery!

It seems like nearly everybody in Hill Valley is in on this, with Strickland joining the fray (hope no one wants to be him in the future!).

Doc thinks that they should head to the future exactly 30 years (minus 4 days, but who's counting?) from their present time in 1985 to see if they can get a better read on what exactly happened to create this mess and how he will be involved with it.

But first they drive to Doc's mansion, to make sure his younger self is still alive and kicking.

They arrive in the driveway, Doc's '55 Packard visible. They sneak around to the bathroom window and see Doc's younger self, knocked out on the bathroom floor still.

Seeing that Doc's younger self is okay, Doc and Marty hurry off to the DeLorean before any organization members spot them.

9:30 - 9:50 AM

As they drive, Doc reminds Marty that he'll have to refuel, since he left his radiation suit in the future. Marty likely doesn't mind. He likes playing with plutonium!

They arrive at the Lyon Construction site and find the time machine (thankfully) undisturbed. Good thing they hid it (or did they? ). Well, it's hidden and that's all that matters! Doc removes the brush, Marty climbs back into the devo suit while Doc gets a good distance away, and Marty loads another pellet. With that done, Doc joins Marty at the time machine again.

"Hold it!" a voice cries.

As Doc turns to look, he sees John Luke! He has a gun drawn on Doc.

"I'm sorry, but I can't let you go to the future. Not yet."

Doc, getting exceedingly frustrated, demands to know what Luke means.

"The less you're involved with this the better," says Luke. "When I arrived at the mall and saw you and the DeLorean were gone - and subsequently noticed the deviation to the timeline you created - I knew that you went to the past. Lucky one of my agents stationed here spotted you and Mr. McFly and sent the message to me shortly after I apprehended Hoggle.

"You need to return to 1985. I and my agents will take care of NIFADOT and WADOTAT. We have already cordoned the high school in '85. We discovered Hoggle's future self's body. Likely murdered by the WADOTAT agent posing as Reiley Strickland. We'll take care of his past self and prevent his ever coming to 1985.

"Now you both will get in the DeLorean. I will get in the driver's seat and we will drive back to 1985. If either organization should approach you there, you can page me and I will make sure they do you no harm. Understand?"

9:50 - 10:15 AM

Wow! Doc really wants to go to the future!

Doc rants on like a rabid dog, holding Luke's collar.

"Mr. Brown, I know everything about you," says Luke, rather surprised by this outburst. "I know your history front and back, when you were born, when you will die. Everything. This is not in your best interest. It is in everyone's best interest to return everything to the Omega timeline and remove all extracurricular time traveling organizations from the world. You are making a grave mistake."

Luke looks desperate. He's at Doc's mercy and has no way to stop him. Clearly he didn't want to kill Doc, or he would have shot him when he advanced.

Doc calms himself down, telling Luke that he agrees about restoring the omega timeline, but that he does not want to be treated like a prop in play anymore. He'll do what he wants and no one will stop him from getting to the bottom of the mystery.

Marty & Doc hurry into the DeLorean. They want to get out of '55 before anyone else shows up to stop them.

Doc hits the gas, accelerating up to 88 mph! The DeLorean disapears with a flash of light, twin fire trails being left behind. Goodbye to 1955 and good riddance!

6:00 - 6:10 PM

George wakes up in a bed that doesn't belong to him, later that night. A silhouetted figure sits in a chair, hovering over him ...

+1 Missions Accomplished to George for achieving his density!

George moans...his head is aching...what's happened.

"Dad? Dad are you there?" He mumbles.

"There there," a voice answers, a female voice. "Just relax...you've been asleep for almost nine hours now."

Huh? Asleep? Was it all a dream? George has trouble remembering what exaclty happened...something about Lou's Cafe...and his stories. And who was speaking to him?

"Grandma?"

The person giggles. "No, I'm not your grandmother! But don't worry your safe and sound now."

Behind his closed eyelids George registers a light been switched on and slowly opens his eyes.

He can't believe it! If his head didn't ache so much he would be running.

For who should be standing over him...but the loveliest girl at school...the girl he peeps on!

Lorraine Baines!

55 George awakens groggily. The room is dark until a light is turned on and when George turns over in bed and looks over, he discovers it's Lorraine Baines, the object of his peeping desires!

"Hello," says Lorraine. "You poor thing, are you okay?"

George is totally tongue tied! Never in his wildest dreams did he imagine that Lorraine Baines would actually talk to him! And that he would be in her room!

Lorraine looks concerned when he doesn't answer. "You're head doesn't hurt too much does it?" She asks and puts the cold compress on his head again.

"Uh.."George finally manages to get out. "Ummm...What...why..."

"My father hit you with his car," Lorraine answers, giggling a bit. "I'm so sorry!" Then she looks serious. "You're not really hurt are you? Should I call a doctor?"

George doesn't think so, but he's still very confused. Hit by a car?

"My head hurts," is all he can say rather obviously.

"Well, it would," Lorraine holds out a glass of water and some asprin. "Here take these, you should be OK."

George takes the asprin and lies back down, more memories of how he ended up in the Baines house coming to him.

"My briefcase!" He gasps

"You're ... uhm ... briefcase?" Lorraine's schoolgirl act usually makes boys putty in her hands, but George seems distracted and aloof. "Why don't you calm down, Georgie. Can I call you Georgie?"

George doesn't really notice Lorraine's question but nods anyway.

"Biff...he took my briefcase," George remembers more.

"Biff?" Lorraine gets a sour look on her pretty face. "What were doing hanging around him?"

"I wasn't, he came and stole my briefcase," George has a bad feeling he's going to remember something even worse about all that.

"He stole it?" Lorraine looks aghast. "Oh, poor Georgie! That Biff's a total creep!"

George would probably go further than that in describing Biff. "I have to get my briefcase back it's got..." he looks up at Lorraine who's gazing at him. "Um...something important in it..."

"You should have told him to get his meathooks off it!" exclaims Lorraine. "I hope you do find your briefcase, Georgie! By the way, are you hungry? Dinner will be ready soon and I was wondering if you ... wanted to stay and eat with me and my family?" She bats her eyes at George. She doesn't really like him ... yet ... but she's a flirt by design!

George mulls over Lorraine's words...she's right he should have stood up to Biff. Although, if the whole car incident is anything to go by, it might not be that easy.

He's a little non-plussed at her changing subject so quickly, but then he feels his stomach rumbling...and Lorraine is so pretty...

"Sure, that'd be nice," he says.

How can George resist Lorraine's advances? This is the woman he's been secretly spying on and has become a bit of obsession to him. How can he say no given this opportunity? He accepts.

Lorraine goes to her hope chest and grabs a pair of pants and hands them to him. "Put your pants back on and meet me downstairs," she giggles, and then pausing at the door to give him an enchanting look, she exits.

George is pretty embarrassed that he's been pantless all this time! But at least he didn't try to get out of bed while Lorraine was still in the room!

He pulls them on just in time because Lorraine's mother arrives.

"Ah, Lorraine said you were up and so you are! You're staying for dinner then?"

"Er..yes," George is even more embarrassed after all this is the mother of the girl he's been spying on! He's worried that somehow she must know. But Lorraine's mother is perfectly hospitable.

"Well, we're glad you're allright," Mrs. Baines says as they head for the stairs. "When Sam called me out of the house I thought for sure we'd need an ambulance."

6:10 - 6:20 PM

Lorraine meets them there, she gives George a sweet smile and George tries not to blush as they go down the stairs.

"Sam," Mrs. Baines says as the reach the botttom of the stairs, a man's head pops up from behind a TV set up nearby. "Sam, here's that young man you hit with your car out there. He's all right, thank God."

Mr. Baines has a screwdriver in his mouth which he takes out and waves in George's general direction.. "What were you doing in the middle of the street, a kid your age?"

Mrs. Baines shakes her head and tells George to ignore Mr. Baines and tells Mr. Baines that dinner's ready. She then introduces George to the Baines family, even little Joey!

George isn't really comfortable around people he doesn't know, so he just gives them all a little wave.

George waves at the Baines family as he is introduced to them and Lorraine invites George to sit down next to her.

Mr. Baines rolls a TV into the kitchen, happy to be able to watch the Honeymooners while they eat. George doesn't mind this. His dad would never let him watch TV while eating!

"So, George, Lorraine tells us you go to school with her," says Lorraine's mother, Stella. "Oh, should I call your mother and tell her your eating dinner with us? I wouldn't want her to worry!"

George almost drops his fork...he's just realised that when going after his briefcase he snuck out of the house...without telling anyone! His father's going to be seriously mad...well as mad as his father can get...

But his father's probably also worried, so he says. "Uh, yeah...they're probably worried," he gives Mrs. Baines the number and she goes off to make the call.

It's rather unsettling sitting so close to Lorraine! She's almost sitting on the same chair! So, he focuses on The Honeymooners, he's heard a lot about the show, but has never seen it. It's pretty funny.

Lorraine's brother Milton though has been staring at George for most of the meal, which is also awkward. He wonders if the kid knows something...

Milton stares at George curiously. "Hey, aren't you that kid that's always climbing up that tree outside our house?"

"I bet he's spying on us!" exlaims Toby.

"Don't be silly," says Stella, coming back from the phone call. "None of your rooms even face that street! Only my and your father's window faces that street!

"Oh, George, your father sounded pretty upset. He said you should get home right away."

"Oh, you don't have to go yet, do you Georgie?" asks Lorraine, squeezing George's thigh under the table.

George almost faints at Milton's question, but is relieved to be let off the hook by Mrs. Baines's reply, although there's something rather...

Before he can finish that thought, Mrs. Baines is saying his father wants him home and Lorraine is squeezing his leg!

He almost leaps to his feet and turns to stare at her.

"Well, kid?" Mr. Baines says gruffily.

"Uh um...well, if my father says so...I better...uh go. But thanks...um...for looking after me." He stands up and says very quickly. "See you at school Lorraine!"

It's more than he ever thought he'd say to her, and his heart is pounding as he hurries out of the Baines house.

6:20 - 6:40 PM

George jumps out of his seat and hurries home as briefcase-less as when his journey began!

He arrives home and his father approaches him as he enters.

6:40 PM - 7:00 AM

"Where were you all day?" his father demands. "Your grandparents were looking forward to seeing you all day and come to find that you took off without even saying hello! You'd better have a good excuse, young man! Where were you all day?"

George is not sure what to say to his father...he considers the truth, but his father doesn't take his stories seriously!

"I...uh...left my briefcase at Lou's," George began, "it had my homework in it...I had to get it."

"Well, why didn't you say so?" His father didn't seem to be buying it.

"Uh..." That was a good question. "I wasn't planning to be gone so long," he said, quickly. "But...um...I got hit by Mr. Baines's car. I just woke up an hour ago..." He hope his father would be sympathetic...after all his head hard started throbbing again.

"Well, Mrs. Baines did mention that," grumbles George's father. "Just go upstairs and think about how you let your poor grandparents down! I hope the Baines fed you, 'cause you're not getting any supper from me!"

George only had about two bites of meatloaf at the Baines's but he's not about to make things worse! So, without compliant he hurries upstairs to his room, but he can't think about his grandparent's disappointment, he can only think of his stories and briefcase!

It occurs to him that Biff has probably destroyed everything in it...especially after what George did to his car! Still, if wasn't for his aching head, George would almost be tempted to sneak out again to try and find it!

George lies down on his bed, and thinks about tomorrow...and decides he should continue his search tomorrow...Call him stupid but he wants to know what happened to it...if there's any chance at all he can get it back.

George doesn't argue with his father and hurries back up to his room. He thinks about his briefcase and hopes to get it back tomorrow, even if his stories have been destroyed by now. His head aching, George lays down in his bed and slowly falls to sleep, dreams of finding his briefcase and taking it to next week's school dance dancing in his head ...

11/6/1955

7:00 - 7:10 AM

His alarm awakens him at 7:00 the next morning.

George feels quite a bit better when he wakes up the next morning and he has a quick shower gets dressed (makes sure he has his wallet on him) and goes down to have breakfast.

His father is all ready down there, which isn't surprising since it's Sunday and he has to mow the lawn...at least George hopes his father will be mowing it...not make him do it!

"'Morning, son," his father greets him, gruffily.

"'Morning, Dad," George replies and is then struck with a great idea. "Hey, Dad, I was thinking about Grandma and Grandpa and you're right I was really unfair to them yesterday...I'm thinking I should go over their place and apologise."

Will his father agree to it? George crosses his fingers and hopes.

"I think your grandparents would appreciate that," says his father. "In fact, I'm sure they'd like to spend the whole day with you. You've got nothing better to do, right? I'll call them and tell them your on the way."

George's father gets up to go to the phone.

George isn't actually planning to spend the whole day with his grandparents (he's sure he'll be able to think of some reason for arriving late, they'll let him off, being the good grandparents they are!) and he quickly chows down his breakfast and says goodbye to his father.

However as he heads out into the backyard, he realises something, his bike! He didn't even think about it last night when he left Lorraine's, he just walked home! But he needs it if he's going to get around today.

So, without thinking too hard about it, he makes his way to the Baines house, hopefully they saw it...

7:10 - 7:30 AM

George, realizing he needs his bike and left it at his favorite tree, hurries back to the Baines' home. It's not at the tree, but he does find it sitting in the Baines' backyard, behind a locked gate ...

George decides that he's got into enough trouble without trespassing on other people's property, so he goes up to the front door at presses the doorbell.

7:30 - 7:40 AM

He checks his watch and realises it's a lot earlier than he thought...he sure hopes he won't tick Mr. or Mrs. Baines off.

After a minute the door is answered.

"Georgie!"

George blushes, he can't believe it! Lorraine has answered the door!

"Uh..." is all he can get out.

"I thought I wouldn't see you until Monday," Lorraine says coyly, batting her eyelashes at him. "But I guess you couldn't stay away."

"Umm...." George gulps...does she really like him? It seems impossible...but true, for a minute he forgets all about his bike.

"I uh...just wanted to thank you again for helping me out yesterday..."

"Oh, Georgie, that's no problem!" She takes hold of his arm. "Come on in!"

George isn't sure if he should do that...but before he can answer, Lorraine has all ready pulled him inside.

"Er...I'm...I'm..." George stutters, he isn't sure if it's a good idea to be inside without having talked to Lorraine's parents.

"Hey, what are you doin' here?" Just then Milton Baines, wearing the racoonskin cap runs into the room.

"Milton," Lorraine snaps, "don't be rude to our guest!"

"Hey, he owes us...we coulda just left 'im in the street." Milton sticks his tongue out at George, then runs off.

"Don't mind, Milton," Lorraine purrs, "he's just an annoying little pest." She leads George to the couch and sits him down, sitting next to him. "Now, you wanted to thank me?" Her face is very close to his.

7:40 - 7:50 AM

"Uh...yeah...my bike!" He practically shouts as he remembers what he was here for.

Lorraine leans back. "Sorry?"

"My bike, I left it here last night," George says in a rush, "that's why I came so early...I kind of need it."

"Oh," Lorraine looks disappointed. "It's in the backyard, Dad saw it lying in the grass after we brought you in,."

"Uh...yeah," George mumbled.

"So, where are you going, Georgie?" Lorraine asks, and smiles at him. "Maybe I can come with you."

George is rather surprised she would ask. "Um...you probably don't want to...it's my briefcase."

Lorraine looks a little annoyed. "Oh, the briefcase."

"It's very important," George says, "I...well..." he looks at Lorraine. "It's got...it's got my stories in it."

He can't believe he said that! He hasn't even told most of his relatives he writes stories! Now he's just told someone he barely knows...! A lovely someone, but still!

"Oh, you write stories?" asks Lorraine. "Do you write romance stories? Those are my favorite! I have this whole collection of romance comics! They're so dreamy!"

"Umm," George is surprised that Lorraine doesn't laugh at him! "No...I write science fiction stories...about aliens coming to earth from other planets."

He wonders what Lorraine will think of that...maybe he should mention earth females always seem to fall in love with the aliens...?

"Oh, that's kind of interesting and all," says Lorraine undecidedly. "Maybe I could read some of your stories when you find your briefcase. Or maybe you could read them to me up in my room?"

George feels way out of depth here...

"Uh...sure..." he said. "But I can't get my briefcase back without my bike...so uh...I should just go get it. Uh...do you want to come with me." He blurted out, he had no idea why...

He supposed she wouldn't agree...what was he thinking?

7:50 - 8:00 AM

"Oh, are you going to Biff's to get it back?" she asks. "I'd like to give that jerk a peace of mind!"

"Er, yeah, I am," George nodded, surprised at her vehemence. It made him feel a bit more confident. "I'm sick of Biff pushing me around."

"Oh, I know!" Lorraine wrinkled her nose. "I hate him! Nobody wants to tell him off, though...you're the first!" She fluttered her eyelashes at him. "I think that's wonderful, Georgie."

George blushes again, he hopes he can actually go through with it...otherwise he's going to look like even more of a loser...

"Let me just get my coat, Georgie, and we can go!" Lorraine says, leaping up to grab her coat. "I'm tired of that creep always asking me out, myself! I think it's time to teach him a lesson!"

With that, they leave the house. Lorraine lets George into her yard and he gets his bike.

"You can walk your bike, right, Georgie? Too bad you have that basket! I'd like to ride on the handlebars!"

George is rather glad his bicycle does have the basket since he's never ridden a bike with someone balancing on it.

"Biff left my briefcase at one of his friends' houses," he told her as they walked. "We should go there first."

Lorraine looks a little disappointed that they won't be confronting Biff right away, but doesn't say anything.

George is relieved to see that there's no signs of activity at Skinhead's place, maybe his briefcase will still be sitting in the backyard!

He leans up his bike against a nearby tree, and motioning at Lorraine not to make a sound creeps over to look into the backyard of Skinhead's house.

George peers into Skinhead's backyard, searching for his briefcase. But it's not there!

"Oh, good!" exclaims Lorraine. "Now we'll have to go tell off Biff!"

George really isn't looking forward to that...but what choice does he have. Besides it's probably for the best, if his briefcase had still been in the backyard it would have been soaked through!

Lorraine, who seems to have no fear at all, practically drags him by the hand back to his bike and they set off for Biff's house.

Lorraine practically drags George by the hand to Biff's house. They enter the gate, ignoring the "Stay off the grass" signs, and Lorraine pushes George to the front door.

"Well, go on, Georgie, knock!" she says.

George is tempted to dig his heels in, but in some ways saying no to Lorraine is in some ways even scarier than Biff!

So swallowing hard George heads down the walk abd up onto the porch to the door, which has a sign Knock at Your Own Risk.

Gathering all his courage (which he isn't sure he has much of), he knocks on the door.

If Biff answers though...

Well, he doesn't want to think about it...

George knocks. He hears someone cry from inside "Biff! Get the door, Biff!"

And then the door opens and there's Biff Tannen.

"McFly! I'm glad you showed up! You caused 300 bucks damage to my car, and now you're gonna pay!"

Lorraine sidles up behind George. "He just wants his briefcase back, Biff!"

"Well, lookee what we have here! What'd McFly hire you as his bodyguard or something, Lorraine?"

"Just give him back his briefcase!" orders Lorraine.

"What's in it for me?"

George should have known this would happen! It always does to him, doesn't it?!

But what of Lorraine? Biff looks at her in a decidedly disturbing way...

"Uh...look Biff..." George begins, stepping in front of Lorraine a bit. "You've...you've pushed me around enough..." He can't believe he's actually saying this! Does he have a death wish? "I'm...I'm not going to let you do it anymore."

George wonders how he's going to get out of this alive...

"All right, McFly," says Biff. "You want a fight, you got one! Now I'll show you what a real man is like," adds Biff, glancing back at Lorraine and raising a clenched fist.

Lorraine jumps in front of George. "No, don't hurt him, Biff!"

"Why not?"

"Because ... Because if you do I won't go to the dance with you!"

Biff slowly lowers his fist. "So if I leave this punk alone you'll go with me to the dance?"

Lorraine glares at Biff. "Sure I will, but you leave George alone! And give him back his briefcase!"

George is horrified! Lorraine...go to the dance with Biff? He shudders to think what Biff will do! And he feels...embarrassed that Lorraine is the one who's standing up to Biff for him. Why should she?

And then...George bursts out.

"No, she won't!"

"And what are you going to do about it, McFly?" demands Biff. "Tell you what McFly, give me 400 bucks for the car and I'll refrain from pounding your face in!"

George actually considers agreeing to this for a moment...but he doesn't have 400 dollars! Besides! How much suffering has Biff caused him? He deserves to have his car busted up.

"No, Biff, I won't give you money," George says after swallowing hard. "Give me back my briefcase!"

"That's it, McFly, I'm not taking anymore lip from you!" says Biff angrily, taking off his coat. "Go ahead, take the first shot!"

George takes a very weak swing at Biff...he's never punched anyone in his life! Not even his cousins!

Biff grabs his arm and the next thing he knows, pain in shotting through him and he found himself doubled over.

"Biff!" He heard Lorraine gasp. "Let him go! You'll break his arm!"

George can't say anything, he can only grunt in pain.

"Yeah I will! Then what will you do with that stupid briefcase, huh?" Biff snarls back.

The pain is terrible! George feels like he's going to die! How did he get into this...

George swings his fist at Biff. Biff catches his hand and swings his arm behind him, pulling with all his strength.

“Biff! Let him go! You’ll break his arm!” cries Lorraine.

“Yeah, I will!” returns Biff with a snort. “Then what will you do with that stupid briefcase, huh?”

George can’t bear the pain. He thinks he’s going to pass out. He closes his eyes. Why did he ever think he could stand up to Biff? He should have just paid him off. Now he’s going to end up with a broken arm for all his trouble and Lorraine will never like him! What a terrible day ...

11/12/1955

8:00 - 8:30 PM

As guns are drawn on them, the two vanish in a flash of light, reappearing in the same banker in 1955, now hastily abandoned of all persons.

Doc, Marty, and George decide to work together. First stop is back to November 12, 1955 to try to hack into WADOTAT's computer. George uses his device and Marty and Doc fuel up the time machine with garbage and race to the past.

Marty reminds Doc that Hour Glass joined TORO in 2023 and gained access to time travel that way. Maybe that can help them prevent WADOTAT's inception?

George gets in the DeLorean and they hurry to Clayton Ravine before they're discovered by Doc's younger self.

George gets an amazingly, stupendously brilliant idea. He will go to the ravine and prevent his wife from traveling to 1985. Quickly they fly into the ravine and George arrives just in time to stop his wife and give instructions to his younger self to do things exactly as he did to prevent any paradoxes or echoes, and young George is on his way.

"Can't you take me up the ravine in the DeLorean?"

"No," says older George. "If I had to do it, so do you!"

Lorraine quickly zaps back to the base five seconds earlier, just behind Hour Glass, and shoots him in the head, then quickly zaps back to the base.

Before George can cry "What did you just do??" Lorraine fades from existence!

George is devastated by Lorraine's non-existence! He looks around the bunker. It is identical to the one in 1985 in every way, except it has that new-hidden base smell.

George wants to use the computer, but is afraid to set off an alarm, so he quickly leaves the bunker. No cars are in the parking area as he passes through the tunnels and as he reaches the outside he gazes upward and thinks what a long climb it will be back to the top once he finds a safe path.

George is determined to make it up the cliff-side, and he finds a path and begins the long climb. It takes some time, but he manages to make his way up to solid ground once more. Exhausted, George pauses to catch his breath.

George thinks someone from WADOTAT must have killed Lorraine off some time in the past, so he decides to head to the school to see if she still exists in '55, since he knows she'll be at the school dance that night.

8:30 - 9:10 PM

He arrives after 8:30 PM (having appeared in the bunker at 8:00 PM). The parking lot is full of cars and he can hear music coming from the auditorium in the school.

George searches the parking lot. Some kids are "parking," but he remembers that he was too nervous that night to do so and he and Lorraine almost immediately went into the dance.

He hears Strickland not too far, chastising Biff Tannen for bringing an "Oh La La Magazine" to the dance.

George enters the school and begins to look around, being careful not to be spotted himself. He peeks into the doors of the auditorium and sees a crowd of kids dancing. He spots his younger self, bringing a cup of punch over to Lorraine, only to trip and spill it all over her blouse! Well, at least he knows she still exists in '55.

Relieved to find Lorraine still alive in '55, George heads to the cemetery to check on her grave in the future. To October 26, 2015 he goes

Lorraine and George share a passionate kiss. Now she never non-existed! And a lesson was learned by all!

Doc and Marty fly the DeLorean into the ravine and enter the bunker. The door was left open for some reason when George arrived in the past. They fly into the bunker, through the first tunnel and land in the parking area. Leaving behind the time machine there, they enter the main bunker with the main computer terminal.

Doc heads to the computer terminal while leaving Marty to guard the entrance with the stun gun. Doc turns on the computer and runs a search on Hour Glass.

"Raised by his father, Biff Tannen, after his mother died in 1977, Biff Tannen Jr. was constantly pushed to be 'better than his old man' and to never let buttheads like the McFlys push him around. Upon his father's death bed in 2019, Biff revealed that Doctor Brown invented a time machine to his son and asked that he take revenge on Brown and the McFlys for ruining his life. A few years later he volunteered for the secret TORO operation and eventually used this information to create the organization WADOTAT in 2026. The precise inception date is unknown."

Any other info that Doc happens to be looking for?

Doc looks up info on NIFADOT.

"NIFADOT came into existence in the year 2980. By this time WADOTAT had moved its main base of operations to the late 2900'. The NIFADOT organization was originally formed by its leader, who came from some time prior to this era, as a way to fight the prejudice against echoes. Within a few years NIFADOT began its slide to corruption, and began to challenge WADOTAT for sole control of the time travel underworld. In 2985, after years of battling through time and space, WADOTAT decided to prevent the inception of NIFADOT by traveling to 1985 and removing the first two human time travelers, Marty McFly and Emmett Brown from existence, and recreating the Omega timeline, ommitting the one event of this timeline, the creation of what is known as timeline "A," which caused NIFADOT to come into being."

Doc finishes watching the video and then relays to Marty all he learned. Can they just head to 2026 and prevent WADOTAT from coming into existence, or will this just cause everyone involved to become a bunch of echoes. Wouldn't that just complicated things? Poor Doc isn't sure what to do.

After thinking about it for a while, Doc decides that it might be best to involve TORO and ask for their help. Marty is incredulous, wanting to solve this problem by themselves. Doc wonders if there isn't a way to tip them off annonymously. He goes to the computer terminal and looks up info on TORO.

"TORO came into being in 2016, shortly after investigations revealed that the time barrier had been broken, and has existed for nearly 1000 years. Using the temporal residue of a time portal discovered in 2015, the government was able to begin work on a secrect organization involved with time travel. By 2017 time travel became a secret reality, and the goverment learned of the first time trip in 1985 by Emmett Brown's time machine. After gathering all this information, the organization became known as TORO and its intent was to keep what became known as the Omega timeline secure.

"Eventually it progressed to also removing all extra-curricular time travel activity, after it was officially made illegal in 2025. It was an expansive job, but eventually all time travel outside of the two main organizations NIFADOT and WADOTAT were eliminated, but these two powers proved too strong to remove as easily. WADOTAT plans on eliminating both NIFADOT and the TORO program."

After reading this info, Marty and Doc discuss their options. Maybe they should travel to the future and give TORO all the info they've learned and let them take out NIFADOT and WADOTAT. Doc wants to write a letter to John Luke and deliver all the info they have learned to him.

Doc tells Marty about this plan to send information to John Luke in the future by way of mail, and Marty expresses that hoping that a letter will be delivered 1000 years in the future might not be wise. Doc agrees, thinking they could travel to the future and deliver a letter there to go to John Luke and quickly abandon the time period.

George listens to Marty and Doc's plan and likes the idea, but is worried that WADOTAT and NIFADOT may learn of it and try to interfere by using time travel.

Lorraine wants to get their car from the High School, but I believe it's still in 1985, 30 years in the future ...

Lorraine assures her son that she and George were just talking. Marty is glad to pretend it's true.

Lorraine decides that they should head back to the high school and check the secret bunker (I'm sure if Doc was paying any attention he'd tell you to be careful not to run into your younger selves!). An empty bunker, George and Lorraine alone ... I think I see where this is going. Off she and George go to the high school.

They enter the school parking lot and see that it is full of cars. They can hear the music of Marvin Berry and the Starlighters coming from the school auditorium.

Marty and Doc want to join George and Lorraine, hoping to discover the identity of NIFADOT'S leader. Off in the DeLorean they go, to the school dance and they meet up with George and Lorraine in the parking lot.

Lorraine manages to convince Doc to let them stay and watch the dance. Doc agrees, and before he can say any more, the two sneak into the dance, on hands and knees, and crawl up under a table to watch themselves.

Doc is a little upset that they went into the dance, and he and Marty watch through the window as young George and Lorraine dance awkwardly.

George and Lorraine sneak to the stage and up a ladder and onto the structure overhanging. They look across the stage at their younger selves. Too bad they don't have popcorn.

Doc and Marty continue to watch from outside.

George and Lorraine watch Dixon approach their younger selves and attempt to cut in.

George and Lorraine kiss and Dixon gets up and sulks off. He bangs through the doors, stomping past Marty and Doc. He pulls a device from his pocket and speaks into it: "It was a failure! The McFly kid stood up to me! I couldn't break them up! No, you know what Hour Glass said! Killing those two would be too dangerous. We'll just have to kill their son in the future, that's all!"

Marty and Doc discuss how they should go about delivering the letter when they hear Dixon. Marty grabs him and Doc takes his communicator to listen to the other end.

"Hello? Agent 7? Are you there? Over?" comes a voice.

"Agent 7 here" I say speaking into the thing, "Please repeat my current instructions. Over." I try so hard to sound like a red head.

"Agent 7, did you dye your hair? You sound like a brunette! Anyway, yes, fine, report back to the Clayton Ravine bunker and proceed to return to 1985! Hour Glass is set to eliminate the Omega timeline once and for all!"

"He will hire the Libyan terrorists to work for us. They will in turn gather information so that we can locate the time machine. Once we have the time machine we will eliminate Brown and McFly and recreate the timeline as we see fit! The DeLorean is the key to making sure time travel takes place, not its creator! Hurry! Today is certain to be an eventful day!"

"Oh yes, we should buy a cake or something to celebrate."

I shrug my shoulders at Doc and my parents.

"So, once we have the DeLorean, what exactly will we do with it? Over"

"We'll be able to access the Omega timeline!" says the man. "You know that! Right now the Omega timeline is gone, due to our involvement, but the DeLorean can use the temporal residue to access the identical time portals that were opened with it in previous timelines! We'll recreate the timeline ourselves, but prevent timeline 'A' from happening! Now enough questions! Get over here, and I hope you locked that bunker door when you left!"

As Doc, Lorraine and George head to the bunker, Marty finds some letters and envelopes and writes his letter to Luke. He then puts in the destination date "August 23rd, 2985," into his time travel device and hits the activate button.

Doc enters the bunker, leaving George and Lorraine to guard the auditorium. He finds a big computer terminal in one corner, and a locked door with thumb-plate as well. The lights are out and there is a light switch on the wall.

Clearly, Doc is pissed off at Marty for taking off to the future without first having all the info on NIFADOT they can gather to give to John Luke.

Doc enters "The Other" into a search engine. As he clicks search a screen asking for a user name and password appears.

Doc isn't sure what the password could be. He turns on the lights to see if he can find anything in the bunker to help him figure out the password. Doc searches the bunker, but is having trouble finding anything that can help him. As he searches he hears the door behind him slide open and when he looks behind him sees Lee aiming a gun at him.

9:10 - 9:30 PM

"That's enough, Doctor Brown," he says. "It's time you met our leader. Come with me, please."

Doc reaches for his sleep inducer and activates it, hoping to knock him out. But it has no effect. He is wearing a pair of silver glasses that don't seem to affect him (did I forget to mention that? ).

"No more games, Brown," he fires the gun at Doc. Luckily it's just a futuristic stun gun that only paralyzes Doc for the moment. "NIFADOT is tired of being pushed around. You will now come with us to meet our leader, whether you like it or not."

Grabbing Doc's limp body by the shoulders, he drags him through the doorway and through the tunnel toward the shuttle room. Into a shuttle he drags Doc and soon he is pulling him into the main NIFADOT bunker.

The Other, with a hooded shawl over his face, stands from his chair throne and comes down the stairs. "Welcome to the NIFADOT base Doctor Brown. Have a seat."

Lee props Doc up in a chair.

"Now, let's talk Doctor Brown," says the Other. "Don't worry, you can still talk. You'll just be immobilized for the next ten minutes or so."

Lovely. . . . Well, as long as I'm here. . . . And I do hope I traumatized you, Lee.

"Let's get one thing out of the way first. Is the man who immobilized me, Lee, an echo of someone else? Because we were attacked by another man who looked exactly like him, and he appeared to be working for the other organization. I'm not asking for specifics, just yes or no. It's been bothering me."

"Gladly," says the Other. "Lee, our friend who has brought you to me, works for me. He is an echo of a man called Hoggle. Hoggle was supposed to bring Mr. McFly to WADOTAT but when he failed it was decided by them that he should be eliminated. The man you saw later that day was Mr. Hoggle's younger self, who came from the past to finsih what he would later fail to accomplish. He is now in TORO's custody, so you can rest assured that any version of Lee you see from this point forth will be an ally of NIFADOT and have no reason to harm you."

"I was wondering why there was such a confusion over his name. How many people do you have here? I imagine quite a few, what with all the time traveling."

"Yes, our organization is quite substantial," says the Other. "It seems that you're a little confused as to who to side with. Certainly you understand why you can't trust WADOTAT. They have no problem killing you. TORO only wants to force you to do what they want and to play by their rules. Really, the only person you can trust is yourself. Look inside yourself, Doctor Brown, and I'm sure you'll see that NIFADOT is the only organization you can trust. We're not what TORO would build us to be. I and my orgainization are not trying to 'take over the world.' We are merely taking back what belongs to us. Our dignity, our life. Certainly you can understand that."

"I can understand you wanting your rights and dignity," I agree. "But what happens to the people that you're echoes of? It would be very hard to share a life with someone else."

I'm starting to sweat a little. Trust them -- you want to control me as much as TORO, without the Omega timeline you don't even exist!

"When a person has twins do you have to kill off one because they'll be sharing each other's lives?" demands the Other. "We are our counterpoints, certainly, to a point. At a certain deviation in time, though, we become something different. We become our own person! Individuals! Sometimes even better than our original counterparts! My own counterpart, for instance, is a good man, but is a bit blinded to the big picture. My life that he failed to experience made me see the world in a different light, made me understand why the government had failed us as people!"

"So you're basically saying that your mission statement is to get yourselves the rights and freedoms your counterparts have," I say, starting to get a sneaking suspicion as to who this guy is. "And you went underground to get away from the government, I assume? To try and change things in a different way?"

"You understand now," says the Other. "There was no other way. They can't understand what it's like to be us! We don't intend to make our timelines official. We only ask for our rights. And my rights! I have every right to time travel, Doctor Brown! Every right that you have! So why do you get preferential treatment and I get treated like a menace! You are a God to them and I am nothing but an insect that must be dealt with! I'm not an insect! And they will soon learn this!"

I lift an eyebrow. "So what timeline are you from? What's it like there?" I ask, my suspicions getting deeper. Easy now, Emmett. . . .

"My timeline," asks the Other. "It wasn't a nice place. Many used to call it 'Hell Valley.' Now people refer to it as 'A.'"

"The world where Biff got the almanac," I say. "The world where he was rich and powerful. The world where he utterly ruined Hill Valley."

I take a breath.

"The world in which I was confined to a mental institution."

"Yes," nods the Other, removing his hood from his face. "No, living my life in a mental institution because I was supposed to become you was not a pleasant experience, Doctor Brown. But it taught me something that you never learned. Life isn't fair. You see, you found the love of your life and lived happily ever after, while I was deemed unwanted and excessive! A mistake! Amazing how the same person can become so different depending on the events of his life.

"And now you know why you must trust me," says Doc's echo, rising before Doc. "Because, whether you like it or not, I am you! I know more than you ever will about all of this! And who can you trust better than yourself?"

I sigh deeply. How did I know. . . .

"Not a pleasant fate, to be sure. Can I ask what happened to Marty? If you're here from 1985-A, surely he must be. Right?"

"Yes, an echo was created for Marty, not that I ever met him orignally in my timeline," says the Other. "What became of him after our timeline was destroyed I'm not sure. Likely he was eventually hunted down by the hate groups and killed. He was a good kid. I met him in '55, same as you. Good kid. He didn't deserve that. None of them did!"

I wonder if I should bother to correct him. He must know the Omega timeline's breaking down around us. No, I won't bother. He seems a little unstable -- only natural, though.

"I don't doubt none of them deserved what they got," I reply, looking at my other self. "Nobody deserves that kind of fate. Is there anything in particular you wanted me to do? Why did you feel you had to meet with me now?"

"You were interfering with our plans," says the Other. "We need you alive. Without you I can't exist. The Omega timeline must be restored. Once WADOTAT is destroyed TORO will assist you in this task. After that NIFADOT can proceed to take control of the government. They say that I can't time travel. But I fell off that toilet, Doctor Brown. I had the vision for the flux capacitor! I remember it as vividly as you do! I have every right to a life and time travel as you do! And I won't stop until those rights are realized!

"And now we're going to go back to the bunker and you and the McFly's are going to stay down there until WADOTAT is destroyed. It is the only way to ensure your safety. Understand?"

I nod slowly, realizing the effects of the gun have finally worn off. "Yes, I understand. I understand that I'm a dangerous lunatic. And before you get mad, I'm not talking about you. I'm talking about me. Look at all the damage I've done to the space-time continuum. Messing around with lives in 1885 for my own personal gain. Forcing other people to suffer simply because they come from extraneous timelines and now no longer have a place in the world. Hell, look what I've done to myself. You had to spend years in a sanitarium because of my time travel. Not to mention the trauma I've inflicted -- and am apparently due to inflict -- on Marty, Jennifer, George, Lorraine. . . ."

I sigh deeply. "I should have gone when I had the chance. Should have stopped myself from ever inventing time travel. Don't tell me anything about you not existing -- if you never exist, you can't care." I pull out my HoloTool. "As it is, I plan to try and change things right here." I flick the switch. "Scalpel."

The tool changes into a sharp cutting blade. "By the way, Marty's gone. I suspect he's in 2985, but I don't know the exact date, and I don't know where he is. All I know is that he's away from me, and that's a good thing."

I never thought I'd ever end up doing this. And it's probably not going to be permanent anyway. But maybe, if the time ripple moves quickly enough. . . . I'd pay anything to change this.

And it's the sweetest price I'll have to pay.

Today the whole world goes away.

Before my other self can respond, I slit my wrists and throat. No me. No Omega timeline. No more illicit time travel.

Jesus Christ! Never saw it coming, HFD! *applause*

I honestly don't know where to go from here. Feels like a "To Be continued ..." sort of ending. Until tomorrow, folks!

“As it is I plan to try and change things right here,” says Doc, turning his holo-tool into a scalpel.

“You can’t kill me, Doctor Brown,” sneers the Other.

Doc smiles sadly, knowingly. Without a word he silently slits his wrists and throat and collapses to the floor, his blood draining from his body.

“NO!” cries the Other, but he’s too late. He feels himself being erased from existence, and just like that NIFADOT is no more.

Like a great flash of light the bunker that once rested underneath the Hill Valley High School for so many years vanishes.

Lorraine and George part with shock as Doc’s dead body appears before them and the door to the underground bunker dissipates.

“What happened?” asks Lorraine.

“I - I don’t know,” replies George hesitantly.

Before either can act a group of men in blue suits trumps through the auditorium door. A familiar face glares at them, rubbing his thumbless hand.

“Arrest these two and take away their time control devices!” John Luke commands.

George and Lorraine fight valiantly, Lorraine swinging her machete and George firing off his gun, but they are soon overpowered by the men and their time devices taken away and destroyed. They are led out of the school forcibly.

“He’s dead,” says one TORO agent to Luke.

“I can see that,” says Luke.

“We have to go back. We have to go back, right? And stop him?”

Luke slowly nods. “Confiscate the DeLorean for now. Wait!”

“What is it, sir?”

Luke’s eyes bulge with terror. “We’re too late!”

With those words the TORO agents fade from existence, leaving the auditorium empty of any persons except Doc’s body.

In the school parking lot, a man pushes Lorraine and George into the back of a black car. Lorraine and George mutter viciously at the man as he gets in the driver’s seat.

“Lorraine and George McFly?” he asks.

“Yes, that’s us,” says George firmly.

The man whips off his ski mask and looks back at them. “You can trust me. I’m going to help you fix all this. You can trust me.”

Lorraine is aghast. “Marty?”

The man smiles weakly. “I was, once. But that’s a story for another time. Let’s get out of here before it’s too late.”

“Too late for what?” asks George.

“They’re coming,” says the man, and the car peels out of the parking lot.

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