A.N. Hey everyone! I got this idea while watching the Back to the Future trilogy movies so I hope you enjoy! R&R!
Disclaimer: I don't own Gallagher Girls, just Danny and the time machines!
Chapter 1
3rd POV
It was their senior year at Gallagher Academy and Blackthorne Institute came back for another exchange after Cammie and Zach defeated the Circle.
Liz and Jonas had been really secretive for the past month. All they would do was talk together quietly at dinner and the rest of the time they were in the labs.
Zach and Cammie were still not sure what their relationship was. They were always comforting each other when they had bad memories and Zach wasn't afraid to show his emotions around her anymore. They got so close they were inseparable.
Bex and Grant matched each other when it came to strength. No one at the two schools could beat them when it came to P&E. They had almost a love/hate relationship because of it, though. They both knew they had feelings for each other and weren't afraid to show it. They had been dating for three months now, ever since the exchange started.
Macey and Danny. Danny wasn't able to come to the first exchange at Gallagher, but he was Zach, Grant, and Jonas's other roommate and Best Friend. When he and Macey first met, they instantly despised each other. They were constantly bickering over something saying 'Move your big butt, McHenry!' which she would reply, 'You think it's big because your supplies are so small, Johnson.' Then they would both get into a huge argument that would lead into a fight and the others would have to break it up. They would repeat this process throughout the day.
Liz and Jonas led all of their friends outside of the mansion where they noticed that storm clouds were rolling in and a light drizzle started. They came to the side of the rode where four identical cars were covered. They had silver with doors that opened vertically, black leather interior, first aid kits, emergency food supplies, and cup holders. Wires led down from each one and into some sort of power source by the wall of the mansion.
Grant whistled as they all stared in awe.
"Uh, no offense Liz, but I thought you could make cars like these since you were seven…" Cammie said.
"Yeah, it doesn't look like there's anything special about them…" Bex said and swiped her finger across the side as if doing a dust check.
Liz and Jonas burst out into fits of laughter.
"What's so funny?" Zach asked and Danny shrugged.
"Guys, these are time machines. The only ones in existence! Dr. Fibs helped a little but me and Jonas made these from scratch…well, we stole some stuff from NASA but that's besides the point," Liz said with a smug grin.
"TIME MACHINE?" all six of them screamed at the same time and Liz and Jonas laughed.
"Yeah, and we need you guys to help test them out," Jonas said and Grant was already buckling himself inside the nearest car. Bex got into the passenger side beside him as Cammie and Zach got into the car in front of them, Cammie driving and Zach in the passenger seat.
"Thanks a lot, guys, I'm stuck with Mr. Cocky-pants," Macey scoffed and the others laughed silently.
"You being stuck with me is a blessing, McHenry. Me being stuck with you is a living Hell!" Danny said as he got in the driver's seat of their car. Macey strutted to the passenger side and slammed the door shut.
"Here are some solar-powered, one-way, walkie-talkies for us to use," Jonas said and gave each pair one walkie-talkie through their open windows.
"Why not just use comms?" Cammie asked.
"Well, we're not sure that the comms units still work in the space-time continuum. We're still working on that," Jonas said and they all turned on their walkie-talkies as Liz got into the passenger side and Jonas in Driver's seat.
"Okay, everybody, turn the dial back to ten minutes ago," Liz said into her walkie-talkie.
They all obeyed and turned their dials back. Grant turned on the radio and 'Highway to Hell' blasted, as the drizzle became large raindrops and thunder sounded into the distance.
"Get into formation!" Jonas said into the walkie-talkie and they all drove their cars side-by-side onto the damp, empty rode at 4 in the morning.
"On the count of three, press down on the gas and drive straight forward!" Liz said into the walkie-talkie. Grant looked excitedly at Bex. Cammie held Zach's hand and the steering wheel with the other. Macey stared out her window, acting bored while Danny focused on the rode before them.
"One."
"Two."
Just then a stroke of lightning coursed through the mansion, streaming electrical currents down into the power source. The cars glitched at the same time that all of them pressed down onto the gas.
Before they knew it, they were nowhere in sight, traveling through space and time.
Cammie bumped onto a rode, the same rode that they were just on and let out of breath.
"That was weird," she said and Zach let out a sigh of relief.
"I guess it worked!" Zach said and opened his car door and Cammie did the same.
"Where are the others?" Cammie asked and looked around. Somehow everything about the Gallagher mansion seemed different. The walls weren't as weathered away, there was grass covering all of the sides of the mansion.
"Something is…different." Zach said and picked up a piece of paper off the floor.
"They should be back by now, too, right?" Cammie asked worriedly and glanced at Zach.
"What's wrong?" Cammie asked, noticing the way Zach froze and his eyes wandered back and forth as he skimmed the piece of paper.
"Look at this," his voice came out as a whisper.
Cammie took the paper and gasped as it dropped to the floor.
The Headline of the Roseville Newspaper read: Roseville 's 1st Annual Carnival this Friday-Sunday, September 14, 1984.
Bex looked out her window, the radio stopped blaring and Grant stared at the rode.
"That was bloody AWESOME!" Bex cried out and Grant laughed and opened his car door.
Bex got a water bottle out of the food supplies and got out of the car.
"Bex…something is seriously wrong…" Grant said quietly and Bex stared at him confused and took a sip of her water.
"What?" she asked as she took another sip.
Grant turned her around so she could face the Gallagher Mansion, or what was left of it.
Bex gasped and her water bottle dropped to the floor and spilled out over the ashes.
She stared in shock at the crumbled walls of the mansion, ashes flying everywhere as the mansion burned.
"Liz! Something didn't go right!" Jonas cried out as he stared in shock at the outside world.
"Oh my God!" Liz cried out as she stared out at the Gallagher Mansion. The stonewalls were replaced with metal. Barbed wire circled the exterior. They got out of the car and immediately ducked.
"Why are there cars flying above us!" Liz cried out, the genius she was and she asked a stupid question like that, she thought to herself.
Floating holograms floated in the air and Jonas reached out and grabbed it in his hand. He stared in awe at this new technology.
"We're twenty years into the future. The glitch turned our dials twenty years into the future!" Jonas cried frantically.
Liz started to feel the pressure. How could she do this to her friends? She felt dizzy and nauseous and suddenly her world went black.
"WHY THE HELL ARE WE IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE?" Macey yelled as she slammed the door shut.
"We're no tin the middle of NOWHERE, McHenry! We're still in Roseville!" Danny yelled and slammed the door shut.
"All I see is the mansion and a couple of buildings in the distance!" Macey cried out. "And look at the mansion! It looks practically brand new!"
"Good, it was so old and gross anyways!" Danny said and crossed his arms.
"That's not what I meant! We're not just ten minutes back in time, are we…" Macey said the last part quietly, nervousness etched into her expression.
"Let's go to the buildings over there and find out what's going on…" Danny suggested and for once Macey agreed with him.
They walked about half a mile before they reached a building.
It said 'Abrahams Pharmacy' on the top and they walked inside. There was an old man with a long white beard, wearing suspenders and a white button up shirt with ankle length brown cowboy boots.
"What can I for y'all?" the man said in a gruff voice. Macey couldn't help but stare at his balding head.
"Uh, sir, do you have the local Newspaper?" Danny asked for her and glared at Macey for her to stop staring in disgust.
"Why I do…Let me get some of 'em," the man said and went to a back room and came back with a paper a few seconds later and handed it to Danny.
"Here you are, kids. Hey, you two sweet on each other?" the man asked with a suggestive wiggle of his eyebrows.
Macey looked back at Danny in disgust.
"EW!" she cried and took the paper from Danny and stormed out of the pharmacy.
"I'm sorry for her rudeness sir, thanks again!" Danny said and opened the door to step out.
"Any time for you smitten youngins!"
Danny flipped through the paper.
"1865…" he said quietly when he reached Macey.
"What?" she asked turning to face him again.
"We're in 1865," he looked up from the paper and they shared a look of despair.
"Let me see…" Macey took the paper and saw a wanted person's poster.
"Ioseph Cavan, wanted for assisting conspirator with John Wilkes Booth on the death of President Lincoln.," Macey recited quietly.
"We're in the time of Gillian Gallagher….my Great Grreat Grandmother…"
A.N. Hey guys! This was just something that I thought of one day. Hope you liked it! Review please and tell me what you think!
~Akira