My Little Pony Friendship is Magic: It's About Time

A/N: Hello, world, and welcome back to My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic! So, I was suppose to have my dentist appointment yesterday, but it didn't happen because the dentist had to step out, and so next week is when I'll have the root canal business dealt with.

Anyway, enough about real life, time for the start of the next installment of this series. Onward with the show!

Read, review, and enjoy!

Disclaimer: I don't own anything from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. I just own any and all characters that I just happen create.


CHAPTER ONE: VISIT FROM THE FUTURE!

It was nighttime in Ponyville and in the library, Spike was sleeping in his bed, having a dream about Rarity.

"I made it for you, Rarity," he mumbled. "Why, yes, it is an ice cream house. Chocolate fudge shingles… rocky road garage…" He was awoken when he heard hoof-steps echoing downstairs.


The baby dragon went downstairs, rubbing his eyes and found a certain purple unicorn pacing her study. "Huh? Twilight?"

Twilight Sparkle started and looked up at him. "Oh, hi, Spike!"

"It's the middle of the night!" Spike exclaimed, pointing to the nearby window and the night sky beyond. "Why are you pacing like this?"

The purple unicorn snorted and resumed pacing. "Frankly, I don't know how you can sleep at a time like this!" she grumbled.

The baby dragon looked at the clock and gave her a skeptical look. "Three A.M.?"

Twilight Sparkle ignored the question, focused on her own problem. "It's awful, it's horrible, it's tragic!" she moaned, teleporting up the stairs to keep him from escaping.

"Eh… I don't understand," Spike admitted. "What's wrong?"

The purple unicorn grabbed a calendar and shoved it into his claws. "Here. Now do you see what's wrong?" she asked desperately.

"We forgot to celebrate Arbor Day?" the baby dragon guessed.

"No, the problem is I just finished planning my schedule for the month," Twilight Sparkle explained, showing him a different calendar, "but I forgot to leave time to plan for next month!" She went to her planner and looked at it helplessly. "Don't you see? There's no time in my schedule to put together another schedule!" she complained and resumed pacing. "I could move my meeting with the Ponyville Hay Board to the following Tuesday, but then I have to reschedule my lunch with Pinkie Pie, and you know what a nightmare she is with scheduling. This is an absolute disaster. My whole year could be thrown off!"

Spike sighed and went back upstairs. "And I woke up from an ice cream dream for this…"


The baby dragon was heading up to the bedroom when he almost ran into Sarah when she came out of her room.

"What's going on, Spike?" the red unicorn asked, yawning. "What's with all the racket?"

"Sorry, Sarah," the baby dragon apologized. "It's Twilight, she having a panic attack over her schedule…again."

Sarah rolled her eyes. "Oh, so it's just the usual late night panic attack," she grumbled. "Good night, Spike." And she went back into her room, shutting the door.

Agreeing with her, Spike went back to his own bed to get some more rest before the sun rose.


The sun was rising and Twilight Sparkle was still fretting over her schedule when a rooster crowed, and she found a solution of sorts.

"Oh, my gosh, I think I did it! If I can find a way to read "The Art of Invisibility Spells" and "Thornhoof's Brief History of Canterlot" at the same time, that could leave me a half-hour scheduling window!" she exclaimed, unaware that a strange wind was starting to blow and it was when white sparks landed on her back that she turned to see that something was happening in the middle of the room. "Huh?"

In the middle of the room, magic was crackling, and a strong wind was now blowing books and papers around the room. "What's going on?" the purple unicorn wondered when there was an explosion of white light in the middle of the room and she yelped, covering her eyes with her foreleg. When the light and magic faded, she lowered her foreleg and found herself staring at a future version of herself:

The future Twilight Sparkle was wearing a tattered black outfit, her mane was a mess, a bandage was wrapped around her head, one eye was covered with a black eyepatch, and there was a scar under her other eye. Grunting, Future Twilight Sparkle got onto her hooves and she turned to her past self. "Twilight, you've got to listen to me!" she gasped.

"Who are you?" past Twilight Sparkle asked and then corrected herself. "I mean, you're me, but I'm me too. How can there be two me's? It's not scientifically possible." She poked her future self in the chest with one hoof. "You are not scientifically possible!"

"Twilight, please!" Future Twilight Sparkle snapped, brushing away the hoof. "I have a very important message for you from the future!"

"You're from the future?!" her past self shrieked excitedly.

Future Twilight Sparkle nodded. "That's right, now listen-" she began.

"What happened to you?" past Twilight Sparkle asked, circling her future self. "The future must be awful."

Future Twilight Sparkle groaned in frustration "Please! I don't have much time!"

"Is there some sort of epic pony war in the distant future or something?" past Twilight Sparkle asked eagerly.

"Actually, I'm from next Tuesday morning," Future Twilight Sparkle corrected her, "but that's not important right now!"

Past Twilight Sparkle, however, was too excited by the fact that time travel was right. "I can't believe time travel is really possible!" she squealed. "How did you, I mean, I figure it out?"

Future Twilight Sparkle rolled her eyes. "The time spells are in the Canterlot archives," she answered. "But that's not-"

"Really?" past Twilight Sparkle asked excitedly. "Where? I've never seen them."

"They're in the Star Swirl the Bearded wing," Future Twilight Sparkle responded. "Now, you have to listen to-"

"Is time travel fun, or does it hurt?" past Twilight Sparkle asked, interrupting her future self again. "I have so many questions-"

Frustrated, Future Twilight Sparkle covered her past self's mouth with her hoof. "I have something extremely important to tell you about the future," she said curtly, "and I only have a few seconds, so you've got to listen! Whatever you do, don't-" but before she could finish, the magic crackled around her and in a flash of light, she disappeared, leaving behind a black mark on the floor.

"Future Twilight?" Twilight Sparkle called out and began to panic. "Oh no! What was she trying to warn me about? Her clothes, her mane, that scar… Oh, what a mess she is! …I mean, I am… or I will be…" She gasped fearfully. "She must want me to prevent whatever horrible thing happens in the future!"


A/N: And before anyone points out that in one of the Dr. Hooves stories, Twilight Sparkle did travel in the TARDIS, and that was only to travel from one location to a second location in the present. So, Twilight is still skeptical about time travel by this point. Like I said before, I will see you all on Monday for the next chapter. Bye for now! R&R everyone!