Chapter Fourteen: I Saw It In A Rerun

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            Along one corner of the Courthouse Square, a humble farmer started a used cars business

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Along one corner of the Courthouse Square, a humble farmer started a used cars business. He figured it was in the perfect place – adjacent to the local gas station. However, there was one problem that his wife had no qualms in reminding him, late that summer evening of June 21st, 2025. He just wished she hadn't done it in front of a group of teenagers across the street, all of whom were filming their squabble on their smartphones.

"How do you plan on running a used cars lot without any used cars?!" she nagged.

Sure enough, the farmer (as always) was unprepared for the new business venture, failing to stock with the requisite merchandise. It happened many times before with the bunny farm, a van rental place, a mountain spring water bottling plant, a monkey basketball team, a Biological Oddities Museum, and a dragon-themed amusement park.

Usually, when this happened, some mysterious force would bring the required stock to the farmer's establishment; but, with the evening being so quiet and not a cloud in the sky, he doubted a bunch of used cars would just fall out of the sky. Nonetheless, his wife still berated him, "A bunch of used cars aren't just going to fall out of the sky!"

And then, suddenly...

POW! POW! POW!

They were stunned by a series of sonic booms and a flash of light at the corners of their eyes. The recording teens were taken aback as well, hit with a sharp blast of wind, just as something appeared in view of their videophones, screeching down the street and crashing into the boarded-up movie theater down the block.

            The farmer, his wife, and the teens looked down the street in wide-eyed bewilderment, seeing what appeared to have been a strangely-modified DeLorean backing out of the big hole in front of what used to be the theater

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The farmer, his wife, and the teens looked down the street in wide-eyed bewilderment, seeing what appeared to have been a strangely-modified DeLorean backing out of the big hole in front of what used to be the theater. Seeing it, the farmer meekly told his wife, "Well, it didn't fall from the sky, but it still counts."

The DeLorean pulled up near the used car lot. Its exterior was covered in ice, emitting puffs of cold fusion vapor. The driver's side, gull-wing door opened and a redheaded girl jumped out, surveying her surroundings with the utmost glee. "Yes! We did it! We're back!"

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