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// Time Travel Trouble 
// Story: Unintended Consequences 
// by Daedalus 
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  It was another day in Ponyville. Twilight Sparkle had just been visited by a future version of herself who looked like Snake Plisskin, so she went to visit the resident time travel expert (who really wasn't much of an expert) Karkat. 
After hearing the situation, Karkat said, "Knowing you, she was warning you not to worry about the future or something like that, just loosen up and everything should be fine."
Then, the world twisted out of place for a second before snapping into its proper place once more. Karkat was unconcerned, telling   Twilight that this was the straining of time that he had used to travel into the past in the first place, closing the time loop that was evidently involved. Twilight resolved not to pursue temporal studies until stupid paradoxes like that no longer gave her such bad headaches. 
In other news, Aristotle had been traveling Equestria to make setting up future plot points easier by being able to refer to a period of time without much detail to it. He had signed a new singer to the record label he put together for Apple Core named Cheese Sandwich who mysteriously sounded like Weird Al Yankovic. Aristotle chalked it up to weird coincidence and headed to a town he had heard of called Dodge Junction in hopes of becoming the town's sheriff. Spike, meanwhile, was trying to prove that the Cutie Mark Crusaders had cutie marks in stealth that hadn't been noticed because they were invisible cutie marks. He was ultimately unsuccessful, as none of the CMC could be quiet for any substantial period of time. Taking a philosophical attitude, the dragon went bowling.