It's About Time

It's About Time is the twentieth episode of the second season of Legends of the Multiverse: Friendship is Universe and the forty-sixth episode overall. In this episode, after receiving a warning from her future self, Kairi drives herself crazy in an attempt to avoid an unspecified upcoming catastrophic disaster.

Production
A small part with Rapunzel acting as a gypsy to tell Kairi her future reappears in Cakes for the Memories.

It's 3 in the morning
The episode begins with Olaf and Navi in a dream sequence where he is showing Nene Amano around a mysterious land of ice cream. He shows her his house, made of ice cream and "extra chocolate fudge". He then wakes up at 3 AM and sees Kairi Sparkle pacing downstairs in the Destiny Library lobby, worrying about herself running out of time in this month's schedule to make a new schedule.

Future Twilight
Kairi remains awake writing out her schedule until dawn. As she finishes, a bright light appears on the other side of the lobby. Another Kairi appears out of the bright light, with a messy mane, tattered black suit with an eyepatch and bandage, and a scar on her face. Kairi is initially shocked, since meeting another her is "not scientifically possible." The other Twilight explains that she is from the future. Present Kairi asks how she figured out how to time travel, to which she responds by stating that the spell is in the Galdalf the Bearded wing of the Canterlot Castle. Unfortunately, due to Kairi's intense curiosity about time travel, Future Kairi is unable to get a word in edgewise and doesn't have enough time to warn her of what will happen "next Tuesday", which is when she is from. She vanishes back into the future just mere seconds before she is able to convey her warning. The present Kairi assumes that because Future Kairi looked as bad as she did, she was going to warn Kairi about some kind of horrible disaster and determines that she has to find out what it is and prevent it.

"Disaster-proof" Equestria
The next scene shows Rapunzel and Spectra Vondergeist carrying party goods through Multiville. Rapunzel is floating with a bunch of balloons, whereas Spectra is carrying everything else on her back. Kairi slams into Spectra as she runs through Multiville to warn everyone of an incident she believes will happen next Tuesday. Wearing a Groucho Marx disguise she accidentally puts on after crashing into Spectra, Kairi jumps onto a platform and warns a small group of Multiville residents of the incident. They proceed to laugh at her twice - once because of her disguise, and again because of her ludicrous story that she saw herself from the future.

Kairi's friends, however, believe her story, so Kairi thinks up a plan to try prevent the disaster. She tells the animals workers to search all over Multitopia looking for potential disasters, and they do so. She instructs the remainder of Multiville's residents to "disaster-proof Multitopia". Kairi oversees the entire operation, checking off items on her list as they are completed, including maintaining the dam, filling in wall cracks inside the library, topping off a water tower, reinforcing a bridge, and giving Rapunzel a haircut.

Suddenly, Cerberus arrives from Tartarus out of nowhere and scares everyone but Olaf, Navi, and Kairi away. Kairi assumes that this was the disaster Future Kairi wanted to warn her about and prepares to stop Cerberus. Before she can do so, however, Spectra intervenes and soothes Cerberus by rubbing its belly. On being asked by Kairi for a ball, Rapunzel pulls one out of a tree knot, stating that she stocks balls all over Multiville in case of a "ball emergency". She gives it to Kairi, who then uses it to lure Cerberus back to Tartarus. When Kairi returns the next morning, she's covered in soot. Olaf and Navi suddenly belches a "lost dog" poster, noting that Princess Palutena hadn't heard about Cerberus being returned. However, the scroll hits Kairi in the face and gives her a paper cut on her cheek. When she sees this cut in the mirror, she notices that it's exactly the same cut on Future Kairi's cheek, and realizes that her efforts to "disaster-proof" everything have not worked.

The signs appear
Kairi continues to pace around the lobby, gouging a deep, circular groove in the floor in the process. She reasons that if she stays still, nothing could possibly happen to her, and thus the disaster will not happen. Olaf and Navi begins to take advantage of Kairi standing still by taking tubs of ice cream and eating them, deciding that the resultant stomach ache will be his future self's problem. Then, Sally Acorn enters, stating that a Flying Squirrel just came back from "Baltimore" with an all-clear. She asks why Kairi isn't stopping Olaf and Navi from gorging himself on ice cream, to which Olaf and Navi replies that she won't because she is standing still until next Tuesday. They both begin laughing at Kairi, Olaf, and Navi begins tickling her with a feather. This culminates in Kairi using magic to catapult Olaf and Navi away, which in turn results in Olaf and Navi being flung into a wall and belching up a fireball which hits Kairi. The flame messes up Kairi's fur, causing it to look exactly like Future Kairi's fur. Kairi concludes that not doing anything has not changed the future either and laments her inability to predict the future and stop the disaster that way.

Olaf and Navi tells Kairi he knows someone who can help. He then brings Kairi to "Madame Rapunzel's place." Rapunzel has taken up the role of a fortune teller, and begins searching in her crystal ball for Kairi's future. She prophecies that Kairi will receive "a really cool birthday present next year". Dissatisfied by this, Kairi begs Rapunzel to use her Rapunzel Sense to predict what will happen. She says she is unable to do this, stating that her Pinkie sense only predicts immediate, inconsequential events. This is proven by a sudden tail-twitch, resulting in a flowerpot landing on Kairi's head. Rapunzel finds it interesting that the pot just came out of nowhere.

In the next scene, Rapunzel arrives at the library, and inside she finds Kairi (now with a bandage on her head just like Future Kairi's bandage, due to the flowerpot incident) manning a variety of telescopes, machines and graphs, performing various calculations. Kairi has decided that since doing things, not doing things, and trying to predict the future have not done anything to prevent the disaster, her only choice left is to "monitor everything." She uses one of her telescopes to look into the sky, but accidentally aims it at the sun, hurting her eye. Rapunzel whips out an eyepatch from the fireplace, stating that she stocks eyepatches all over Multiville in case of "an eyepatch emergency" and puts it on her. With the eyepatch, Kairi looks even more like Future Kairi, and realizes that she has done nothing to stop the catastrophe. Kairi resolves that she only has one option left to stop the disaster: stop time.

The archives
Kairi, Rapunzel, Olaf, and Navi arrive at Canterlot by train to search for a spell to stop time. After avoiding a guard by pretending to be statues, Olaf and Navi asks Kairi why they need to wear the black bodysuits, and Kairi tells the other two that the time spells are kept in the Gandalf the Bearded wing of the archives, which is the most secure. They head off, but Kairi rips her suit on a bush, resulting in her looking just like Future Kairi. They enter the archives and begin to sneak around the guards in order to make their way undetected to the Gandalf the Bearded wing. They end up going around in a circle and ending up where they started. A guard catches the trio, but recognizes Kairi and opens the door to the wing for her.

Once inside the wing, the trio begin searching frantically for the right spell. Unfortunately, they don't find the spell in time, and the sun rises. Kairi ducks under a windowsill, believing that the disaster is about to occur, but nothing happens. Princess Palutena comes across Kairi, but just bids her a happy Tuesday and walks off. Kairi then realizes that there may have not been a disaster after all, and she was just making herself frantic over nothing. She doesn't know what Future Kairi was trying to tell her, but she does realize that she looks ridiculous in her current state.

Going back in time
While she could not find a spell to stop time, Rapunzel finds a spell that allows the caster to go back in time once for a short period. Kairi decides to use the spell to warn her past self not to worry about a disaster that isn't going to happen, and exactly the same sequence plays out that happened earlier when Kairi was first met by Future Kairi. After returning, having not being able to warn Past Kairi, she realizes that she was trying to warn herself to not worry, only to be foiled by her past self's fascination of time travel. Thus, she has ensured that the events she was trying to prevent will actually happen. Pinkie reassures her that it's "Past Twilight's" problem now. The episode ends as Kairi puts Olaf and Navi, now experiencing a stomach ache after his ice cream binge, on her back and returning home.

Quotes

 * (Future) Kairi Sparkle: Kairi, you've got to listen to me!
 * Kairi Sparkle: Who are you? I mean, you're me, but I'm me too. How can there be two 'me's? It's not scientifically possible. You are not scientifically possible!


 * Kairi Sparkle: What happened to you? The future must be awful.
 * (Future) Kairi Sparkle: Kairi, please! I don't have much time!
 * Kairi Sparkle: Is there some sort of epic pony war in the distant future or something?
 * (Future) Kairi Sparkle: Actually, I'm from next Tuesday morning, but that's not important right now!


 * Kairi Sparkle: My future self tried to warn me about a horrible disaster that's going to occur sometime before next Tuesday morning!
 * Sheriff Mulan: What kind of disaster?
 * Kairi Sparkle: I don't know! I got sucked back into the future before I could explain!
 * Rapunzel: Run for your liiiiiiiife!


 * Rapunzel: [screaming] Anybody else wanna panic with me? No? [resumes screaming]


 * Kairi Sparkle: Wow, I knew you were good with animals, but this is amazing.
 * Spectra Vondergeist: Aww, he's just a big furry guy who got out of his yard, that's all. Right, Cerberus? Who's a good boy? Who's a good boy?


 * Olaf: [yawns] I wish Kairi would go on epic adventures more often. Best night's sleep I've had in weeks.


 * Kairi Sparkle: [through gritted teeth] Olaf, Navi, stop! Think of the stomach ache!
 * Olaf: [chuckles] Stomach ache, huh? That's future Olaf's or future Navi's problem.
 * Navi: Yes It Is?!


 * Sally Acorn: [laughs] What's going on? Aren't you gonna stop him?
 * Olaf: She sure isn't! In fact, she's not gonna move 'til next Tuesday! She thinks it's gonna prevent the disaster from happening!
 * Sally Acorn: [laughs] Oh, this is too rich. [gasps] Hey Kairi! There's a mouse right behind you!
 * Navi: WHAT?! WHERE?!
 * Sally Acorn and Olaf: [laughing]


 * Rapunzel: [spookily] Come... enter the chamber of Madame Rapunzel... For the answers you seek, let us consult the mystical orb of fate's destiny... [normal] Do you like my mystical orb of fate's destiny? I just got it. Cool, huh?
 * Kairi Sparkle: Yeah, uh... best one I've seen.
 * Rapunzel: [spookily] Look deep into the crystal ball... for soon it will reveal all! Ah yes, I see something... It's a vision of the future... I see you, Kairi. You will get a really cool birthday present next year...
 * Kairi Sparkle: Yes, and?
 * Rapunzel: That's it.
 * Kairi Sparkle: Are you sure?
 * Rapunzel: Yep. Cool birthday present.


 * Kairi Sparkle: Ah! My eye!
 * Rapunzel: Don't worry, Kairi, I have eye patches stashed all over Multiville, in case of eye patch emergency. There! Now you look like a pirate. A sleepy pirate, with a really weird mane cut.


 * Pinkie Pie: I still don't understand how sneaking around the archives will help her find out about her birthday present.


 * Olaf: Uh, Kairi?
 * Navi: Kairi, What Is It?
 * Kairi Sparkle: [hushed] What is it, Olaf and Navi?
 * Olaf: Isn't this where we came in?
 * Navi: Me Too?
 * Rapunzel: Cool! Can we climb in the window again? That was super fun!


 * Princess Palutena: Good morning, Kairi, love the new hairstyle. Well, happy Tuesday!


 * Olaf: I don't get it. If future Kairi wasn't warning you about a disaster, then what was she trying to tell you?
 * Kairi Sparkle: [giggles] I don't know. But I do know one thing. I look ridiculous.
 * Olaf, Navi, and Kairi Sparkle: [laughing]


 * Olaf: Ohhh... my stomach... I, I think it's all that ice cream... I thought the stomach ache would be future Olaf's and future Navi's problem... but now I am future Olaf. Ohh...
 * Navi: and I am Future Navi Too.
 * Rapunzel and Kairi Sparkle: [giggling]
 * Kairi Sparkle: Come on, future Olaf and future Navi. Let's get you home.