𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞| 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞

𝟎𝟎𝟔-𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞'𝐬 𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐢𝐧?

"i didn't see how i could do it. until i put my mind to it."

TWIN PINES MALL was the most popular mall in Hill Valley. It was incredibly unsettling seeing it completely empty at night. The two flip their skateboards up, looking around the empty lot. The only thing sitting in it was Doc's moving truck. It's now used for his experiments. Einstein, Doc's dog come comes rushing to the pair, giving Emma's face a lick. "Einstein, hey Einstein, where's the Doc, boy, huh?" She asked in her baby talk. Marty would've found this interaction slightly adorable if it wasn't one-fifteen in the morning.
"Of course Doc would do this to us." Marty said, talking to no one. Emma wasn't listening. She had missed Einstein too much.
     A loud sound came from Doc's truck while cold air emanated from it. Emma lifted her head up along with Marty who was now on the floor with Emma. The girl had completely forgotten about Einstein licking her face while the truck still slowly began to open. Emma, Marty and Einstein's heads twisted to the right in unison. All three sat in confusion. Out of the truck a car came a very confusing looking car. Marty helped Emma up; the two watched Doc struggle to get out of the car.
     "Doc!" Marty called while walking to him.
"Marty, Emma, you made it." Doc smiled at the two tired teens. They forced their nicest smiles; just as they were forced to be together.
"Its good to see ya too, Doc." Emma said. Doc smiled at the two. The teens looked at each other. Then back to the ecstatic old man, then back at the car.
     "Welcome to my latest experiment. It's the one I've been waiting for all my life." Doc announced. There didn't seem to be anything too special about it. Right?
     "Um, well it's a DeLoreon, right?" Emma asked, checking the front of the car. Doc dragged Emma back to him.
     "Bare with me, Emma, all of your questions will be answered." Doc said, interrupting the girl. "Marty, roll tape, we'll proceed." Doc ordered to Marty as he ran to grab the camera he brought with him as requested by Doc. Marty ran back to him.
     "Doc, is that a devo suit?"
     "Never mind that now, never mind that now!" The boys yelled at each other creating chaos; leaving Emma and Einstein in the same position they usually are in when they hang with Doc and Marty. It's a very fun show watching two boys yell at each other for god knows what. The chaos stopped as Doc realized Marty was now recording.
     "Good evening, I'm Doctor Emmett Brown." Doc began, immediately changing his tone. "I'm standing on the parking lot of Twin Pines Mall. It's Saturday morning, October 26th, 1985, 1:18 a.m. and this is temporal experiment number one." Doc then took Einstein. He willingly came and hopped inside the car. Emma then came to Marty's side, trying not to get into the recording. The two teens still had a little case of bed head.
     Emma encouraged Marty to go closer. The two then saw Doc buckling Einstein up to the front seat! "Please note that Einstein's clock is in complete synchronization with my control watch." It didn't make the girl feel any better. She had no clue what he was doing anyways. "Have a good trip, Einstein." Doc said, pulling the door shut. Marty and Emma looked to each other, then to Doc who focused carefully on what seemed to be the controller of the DeLorean.
     "You have this thing hooked up to the..." Emma trailed in complete awe. Doc smiled seeing Emma's utter enthusiasm.
"Watch this." The car raced backwards by Doc's command, leaving the kids dumbfounded.
"Jesus..." Marty exclaimed, watching from his camera. Emma watched Doc's first very focused face become the face of a kid in a candy shop. Marty slowly brought the camera up to Doc and Emma.
"Not us! The car! The car!" The two yelled causing Marty to jump, directing the camera back to the DeLorean. The tires came to a sudden stop, ending with a squeak on the concrete. With the click of a button, the car sped backwards. Doc then took Emma and Marty by their clothes, dragging them right in front of the car. Doc to her left, Emma in the middle and Marty to her right.
"If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits eighty-eight miles per hour, you're gonna see some serious shit." Marty and Emma looked to each other. Then back to the DeLorean. They watched Doc crank up the sped while the engine revved up. The kids could practically feel the car going from under their feet. The two slowly tried to shuffled away from Doc. He caught on quickly. The DeLorean came racing at the three. Marty yelled, dragging Emma away. Doc caught the girl's sleeve, now dragging both of them back. "Watch this, watch this." The car came closer and closer. We're gonna die by the hands of a DeLorean. I've barely even had my first kiss! Emma thought. The car hit eighty-eight miles per hour. It lit up like a firework show. It came closer. Then, it was suddenly gone. Trails of fire came between Doc and Marty's spread out legs. Emma watched the trails of fire go past the two as well. And with that, the DeLorean was gone. Emma kept looking behind her, trying to figure out what inside thing Doc had just done. Marty on the other hand couldn't think of anything to say other than a four-letter word. "Ha! What did I tell you? Eighty-eight miles per hour!" Doc screamed, jumping up and down. Marty walked to the license plate that had been the last trace of Einstein and and the DeLoren. "The temporal displacement occurred at exactly 1:20 a.m. and zero seconds."
"Who cares? Where's Einstein!"
The heat sizzled on Marty's skin, causing him to toss the plate aside. "Hot! Jesus Christ, Doc, you disintegrated Einstein."
"Calm down. I didn't disintegrate anything. The molecular structure of Einstein and the car are completely intact." Doc yelled, still excited.
"Then where the hell are they?" Emma yelled to Doc.
"The appropriate question is, when the hell are they? Einstein has just become the world's first time traveler. I sent him into the future! One minute into the future to be exact. And at exactly 1:21 a.m. we should catch up with him and the time machine." Emma breathed heavily, trying to wrap her head around this insane, most likely impossible situation. It all had to be a dream.
"So wait a minute, wait a minute, Doc, are you telling me that you built a time machine out of..." Emma took one last heavy breath before continuing. "...a deloreon?" Doc looked down to Emma, still smiling.
"The way I see it, if you're gonna build a time machine into a car why not do it with some style? Besides, the stainless, steel construction made the flux dispersal—" The DeLorean suddenly popped right back out from thin air, almost running over the three. "look out!" Doc says, grabbing the kids as the DeLorean slides back into the parking lot like nothing had just happened.
Doc slowly made his way towards the seemingly ashy looking car. It pumped out smoke, sending it into huge clouds. Emma shuffled closer to Doc with Marty at her side. Doc tries opening the door but is met with a sting. "What, what is it hot?" Marty asks from afar.
"It's cold, damn cold." Doc kicks the door opening revealing a happy, not disintegrated Einstein. Doc laughs. "Einstein, you little devil!" Doc laughs, taking out his and Einstein's clock. "Einstein's clock is exactly one minute behind mine, it's still ticking!" The shaggy dog runs into the truck, barking and glad to be out.
"He's alright..." Marty sighs.
"He's fine, and he's completely unaware that anything happened. As far as he's concerned the trip was instantaneous. That's why Einstein's watch is exactly one minute behind mine. He skipped over that minute to instantly arrive at this moment in time." Emma follows Doc as he slips into the car. "First, you turn the time circuits on." Everything in the car lights up, indicating that it's on. "This readout tell you where you're going, this one tells you where you are, this one tells you where you were. You imput the destination time on this keypad. Say, you wanna see the signing of the declaration or independence, or witness the birth or Christ." Emma giggles, watching Doc play around with his invention. She wasn't trying to be mean, she loved seeing Doc happy. It still felt truly unreal though. "Here's a red-letter date in the history of science, November 5th, 1955." Doc stopped, turning to the kids who stared in awe. "Yes, of course, November 5th, 1955."
"What, I don't get what happened?" Marty asked lowering the camera.
"That was the day I invented time travel. I remember it vividly. I was standing on the edge of my toilet hanging a clock, the porcelain was wet, I slipped, hit my head on the edge of the sink. And when I came to I had a revelation, a picture, a picture in my head, a picture of this," Doc explains. He then points to what makes any of this nonsense real. "This is what makes time travel possible. The flux capacitor."
     So this isn't a dream...
"The flux capacitor." Marty grinned, zooming in on it with his camera.
"It's taken me almost thirty years and my entire family fortune to realize the vision of that day. My god has it been that long? Things have certainly changed around here." Doc says stepping out of the car. "I remember when this was all farmland as far as the eye could see. Old man Peabody owned all of this. He had this crazy idea about breeding pine trees." Doc stormed away, off to do something else while leaving the teens there. He knew they wouldn't move. They're still entirely still shocked.
"This is uh, this is heavy duty." Marty began.
"Doc, this is great!" Emma yelled, crossing her arms and popping her hip out like a proud mother.
"Uh, does it run on regular unleaded gasoline?" Marty asks, recording Emma posing in front of the car. He has many memories of Emma on that camera of theirs.
"Unfortunately no, it requires something with a little more kick." Doc says while turning around. "Plutonium."
"Uh, plutonium? Doc, are you telling me that this sucker's nuclear?" Emma panicked. Marty flapped his arm down, stopping the filming. They weren't scientist geniuses but there was no regular way Doc could've gotten this plutonium legally.
"Hey, hey! Keep rolling, keep rolling there. No, no, no, no, this sucker's electrical. But I need a nuclear reaction to generate the one point twenty-one gigawatts of electricity that I need."
"Doc, you don't just walk into a store and buy plutonium." Marty argued. "Did you rip that off?" Doc cringed, knowing he was caught. Of course there was no legal way Doc could've done this.
"Of course, from a group of Libyan Nationalists. They wanted me to build them a bomb, so I took their plutonium and in turn gave them a shoddy bomb case full of used pinball machine parts." And it was worse than any of them had thought.
"Oh, how wonderful." Emma remarked sarcastically.
"Now which one of you wants to get into a radiation suit? We must prepare to reload." Doc asked. Marty had completely been distracted by the fact that Doc had ripped off the Libyan Nationalists to hear his question. Emma volunteered begrudgingly. She walked away from Marty, praying to god she would make it out of this one alive.