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After breaking out of a moon-based maximum security prison, Boris the Animal decides to go back in time and eliminate the person who arrested him - Agent K. When he does so, Agent J realizes that the time line has been changed and he too travels back to July 15, 1969, the day before Agent K is killed. After overcoming some disbelief, J manages to convince K and others of just who he is and why he's there. With the help of a being who can see all time lines, they track Boris down. J also learns a secret, something K had never told him. Written by garykmcd

When an alien confined to a penal colony in space escapes, he goes to Earth to get the man who placed him there, MIB agent K. He confronts K, K and J corner him but he disappears. The next day J goes to pick up K but finds someone else living at his apartment. When he goes to MIB; he looks for K but everyone there tells him. K died in 1969 after tackling the alien. But J says K captured him. That's when alien vessels which are from the planet of the alien whom K and J encountered and they're about to destroy the Earth. But J says that K placed a barrier that keeps them from entering Earth. It's obvious the alien went back in time and killed K before he could deploy the barrier. So J goes to sees an alien on Earth whose father was also at the penal colony, whom J assumes told the alien that he worked on time travel and his son has the device. J goes to see him and tells him about the invasion. So he sends J back just before K's death. J arrives in 1969 and fails to stop the alien and is captured by the younger K and J was told not to tell him anything. But with time running out J tells him but K doesn't believe him at first, so they go out to stop the alien. Only problem J doesn't exactly know what he is doing in 1969. Written by rcs0411@yahoo.com

Criminal Boris the Animal escapes from the LunaMax, a moon-based maximum security prison. He comes to Earth seeking revenge from Agent K, who his arm up and arrested him forty years ago and protected Earth from a Boglodyte invasion. Boris is defeated again and he travels back in time to 1969 to kill Agent K. When Agent J notes that the time line has changed in the present days and Agent O tells him that K died in 1969, he decides to travel to 15 July 1969 to save K on the following day. Agent J has difficulties to convince the Young Agent K with lies, but when he decides to tell the truth, K believes in his words and they seek out Boris together. They are helped by the amicable alien Griiffin that has precognitive powers and gives the ArcNet to K to protect Earth from the Boglodyte invasion. Further, J learns a secret about K and himself. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Agents J and K have seen some inexplicable things in Agent J's 14 years with the Men In Black intelligence agency. When an alien assassin by the name of Boris The Animal escapes from the Lunarmax prison, all bets are off. Time travel has been discovered and Boris tracks down the people who are responsible for creating it. Boris travels back in time to 1969 - the year that Agent K had shot off his arm and deployed a shield that led to Boris' races' extinction. As Agent J delves deep into the case, he soon finds himself traveling back to the year 1969. There, he meets the young Agent K - who is every bit as awkward and demeaning as the elder Agent K is. J and K have their differences but soon discovers that Boris has a much sinister motive than originally thought. With the help of an alien super being named Griffin who can see into alternate realities, J and K begin a pursuit of Boris the Animal that takes them to Cape Canaveral, Florida just in time for the space shuttle launch. There, secrets that could change time and space forever are revealed. Written by halo1k

An alien criminal kills the young Agent K in 1969, altering the timeline, changing the Agency and placing the Earth in danger. Veteran Agent J (Will Smith) must travel back in time to 1969 to before the murder and work with the young Agent K (Josh Brolin) to save him, the Agency, the Earth and humanity itself. Written by Anonymous


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