FIC: Of Terminators and Training Wheels- Chapter 2
DISCLAIMER- I don't own these characters. Professor Emmett Frink is a combination of Doc Emmett Brown from Back to the Future and Professor John Frink from the Simpsons.
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CHAPTER 2-
The Impala's mighty engine delivered the boys to Frink's Secret Laboratory in record time. After carefully checking the entrance way for any booby traps Gordon might have laid they hurried inside with guns drawn. It didn't take them long to locate the Time Machine Room and catch sight of the psychotic hunter and his captive locked behind its Plexiglas walls.
The Professor, a nebbish, hunched over little man with wild eyes and an unruly mane of shocking white hair, was working frantically over a large control panel full of dials and switches. Gordon stood nearby carefully monitoring Frink's every move an M-16 casually balanced on his hip. He seemed so absorbed in the scientist's activities that the Winchesters almost made it to the doorway undetected. Almost.
"Sam and Dean," Gordon sneered, his eyes glimmering with pure insanity, "I was wondering when the two of you might crash the party."
"Yeah, well this party blows!" Dean quipped, "Sam and I were on our way to Hooters and thought the Professor here might like to join us. But since I know hot chicks serving hot wings ain't your thing, Gordon, we'd be glad to drop you off at the State Pen!"
"Just be glad these walls are bullet proof," Gordon glared, "No. I'm afraid the Professor is staying right here until he's finished helping me with my travel arrangements."
"Where do you think you're going?" Sam asked.
"Not where, Demon Boy, when. I'm sure you read all about Frink's Time Machine in your Daddy's journal. As soon as he gets everything's up and running, I'll be transported back to the Summer of 1984. Ain't that right, Professor?"
"In theory," Frink began, "But the theory has never been put into practice and the results could be…"
Gordon grabbed the back of Frink's lab coat and whirled the scientist around to face him and his wicked weapon.
"A simple 'yes or no' will do!"
"Hoyven Glayven!" the Professor yelped, "Yes! Yes! Of course the machine will work! It's all set for July 27, 1984."
The boys watched helplessly as Gordon shoved his terrified hostage back towards the control panel forcing him to proceed.
"July 27, 1984," Sam murmured, "That date mean anything to you?"
"That's the day Ride the Lightning was released…" Dean frowned, then gasped and aimed his gun directly at Gordon's head, "Bastard better not mess with my Metal!"
"Dean, I'm sure your precious mullet rock is safe from the wrath of Gordon," Sam rolled his eyes, "Me on the other hand…"
"Hey, bastard better not mess with my little brother either," Dean assured Sam, then called out to Gordon, "So why the sudden urge to revisit the Reagan years? What's so important about July 27th that you've gotta pull a Marty McFly minus the DeLorean?"
"Oh, I have big plans for the day," Gordon stepped forward, leering menacingly through the Plexiglas, "Big, big plans!"
The Winchesters tightened their grips on their guns, waiting with clenched jaws for Gordon to reveal his diabolical scheme.
"I'm going to see the World Premiere of Purple Rain!" he announced.
"Huh?" Sam and Dean said at once.
"It's my favorite movie," Gordon sighed wistfully, "I was too young to see it on the big screen when it first came out. So now I finally get my chance."
The brothers exchanged a look then stared back at their nemesis almost pityingly. The cheese had slid completely off Gordon's cracker.
"So, you're telling us you've gone to all this trouble to break out of prison, kidnap the Professor, travel back in time and all you're going to do is take in a movie?" Dean questioned.
"Well, I'm gonna get some popcorn and Junior Mints too," Gordon shrugged, "Maybe check up on my family, you know, warn my sister about the vampire. Use my knowledge of future events to make the world a better place. And oh yeah…"
The hunter stroked his rifle lovingly as he fixed a predatory gaze on Sam.
"Me and my M-16 are gonna pay a visit to a nice little rental house just outside of Lawrence, Kansas. That's where a young demon soldier in training by the name of Sammy Winchester lives in July of 1984."
"Son of a bitch!" Dean hissed.
"Demon soldier in training?" Sam scoffed, "Dude, I was only 14 months old then! I hadn't even been through toilet training!"
"Doesn't matter," Gordon sniffed, "I take you out then you don't live to cause trouble now."
"That's pretty twisted even for you, Gordon," Dean spat, "Taking an assault rifle to kill a baby? Think you'll have enough ammo there, Psycho?"
"Don't worry. There'll be plenty of rounds left over for the demon brat's big brother," Gordon said, staring pointedly at Dean, "Can't leave any witnesses behind to grow up harboring revenge fantasies now can we?"
"Oh, hey. Thanks for taking me into consideration," Dean deadpanned, "I was starting to feel left out."
At that moment an ominous whirring sound erupted from the machinery and a beam of neon blue light shot out towards the ceiling of the laboratory bathing its occupants in an eerie glow.
"This cannot be good," Sam muttered.
"It's working, by Glayven! It's working!" Frink exclaimed.
All four men watched awe struck as the beam of light expanded and began to swirl into a luminous vortex in the center of the room. The Professor pulled at his hair and pumped his fists with Victor Frankenstien like fervor.
"The Time Portal has opened!" he shouted over the din.
"Well. That's my ride," Gordon grinned wolfishly at the Winchesters as he stepped into the vortex, "Hasta la vista… babies!"
"NO!" Sam and Dean cried out together.
They rushed forward colliding with the locked door and each other just as the vortex exploded in a burst of dazzling radiance that knocked them straight to the floor. The boys regained their bearings moments later and quickly helped one another to their feet, but it was too late.
Gordon was gone.
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Author's Note: I needed a specific date for Gordon to journey back to and at first thought he would go back to see the World Premiere of The Terminator. But then I remembered Purple Rain came out that year and damn but I loved that movie. Then I realized Ride the Lightning was released the same day which would be significant to Dean at least. I laughed and laughed and then I wrote this chapter.
P.S. OH NO! Gordon Walker just traveled back in time! Poor imperiled wee little Winchesters