The Kid from the Future

## Episode guide

**"The Kid from the Future"** is the eleventh episode of the first season of *Nate Is Late*.

## Synopsis

As the kids arrive in sight of the school, Nate decides to play a small prank on Maurice. Suddenly, a boy named Ascor appears on a time-traveling skateboard.

## Plot

The duo actually looks to make it to school on time much to their joy. Nate spots Maurice sitting on a bench and figures he has enough time to play a prank by taking off his headphones and startling him with a yell. Before he’s about to do so, a portal suddenly opens in front of the two and a boy their age comes out. He introduces himself as Ascor, a time traveler from the 22nd century who has come back into the past to stop Nate from startling Maurice. When questioned why, he shows them a recording of what would’ve happened if Nate went through it: Nate startles Maurice, who throws his banana that he was eating, the banana get swatted unknowingly by Dwayne, hits a pigeon who flies into the face of a construction worker that was using a jackhammer, the jackhammer goes out of control, drills around the school and causes it to fall into a makeshift hole. After showing them Ascor reveals that the fallout from this results in the school taking much stricter disciplinary measures that, by his time, it feels more like a prison than a school.

Malika asks him how he managed to travel through time which Ascor reveals his hoverboard with a time travel device attached to it. Nate agrees not do his prank much to Ascor’s relief, he opens a portal and heads back to his time, however the portal hangs open for a bit. Nate becomes curious of the future and wishes to travel through it, convincing Malika to join him. They jump through, but the portal closing startles Maurice and results in the chain of events that destroy the school in the first place. Meanwhile the duo arrives in the 22nd century filled with flying cars, tubs over trees and the buildings looking much more advanced. Before they can marvel at the sites further, they hear Ascor cry out that’s nothing has changed. They meet up with him just as a robot, which he calls Ms. Principal and whose design looks strikingly like Principal Prudence, calls out to him for bringing a hoverboard to school. She confiscates it then notices Nate and Malika and demands to know why they’re not wearing uniforms and a punishment counter. They try to explain themselves but Ms. Principal puts punishment counter on them. Ascor tells the two to come with him, so they won’t get into any further trouble.

As they walk the halls, Ascor explains the numbers on the counter are how many hours one has to do in detention after school whenever the students do anything considered offensive, such as yelling, running in the halls, being late, etc. Nate starts to panic when he realizes this, which only furthers the number on the counter. The three end up near. Ms. Principal’s office who sends the trio into the detention hall. There, they’re forced to pedal on bikes while solving math problems shown on a screen. If they get them wrong, the bikes speed up. Also, there is a student who looks oddly like Maurice, but Ascor comments his name is Raumice who tends to get punished daily. Eventually the math problems start becoming much more complicated than Nate or Malika can answer and Malika complains the whole punishment system as crazy to the security drones. The drones try to force her back on the bikes in turn, forcing Nate and her to dodge their wires. They get the drones to hit each other and tangle themselves up before running off with Ascor. Raumice watching all of this transpire and gets a sneaky look on his face.

Naturally, the trio’s actions have put the whole school’s security on alert looking for them. After barely avoiding Ms. Principal, the three make their way to her office to get Ascor’s hoverboard and go back in time. They manage to grab the board but before they can use it, they’re discovered by Ms. Principal who was led to them by Raumice, having tattled on the three to reduce his own punishment hours. Ms. Principal surrounds the three with drones and grabs the hoverboard, intending to throw it into an incinerator/crusher machine called the “Toy Grinder”. Nate, getting fed up with the constant uptick on his counter, confronts Ms. Principal. When Ascor points out his actions could make the counter go nuts, Nate doesn’t care and continues to act out. Malika realizes that’s the solution and convinces Ascor to go wild. The three run around, yelling, singing, being intentional nuisances, etc. Even getting the other students at the school to join in.

This eventually overloads the punishment system and Ms. Principal in the process, shutting them down and saving the hoverboard. They grab it and head back to Nare and Malika’s timeline right before Nate and Malika lept into the time portal. This time, however the banana hits Nate, averting the chain of events that destroyed the school. Just to be sure, Ascor decides to head back to his time, bidding the two farewell. A moment later a recording comes though a small portal, which shows Ascor at his school, now free of the punishment drones and counters thanks to the changed timeline. Nate and Malika head to school to Prudence’s shock they managed to get there on time. The duo tell her what happened but she, of course, doesn’t believe them. Nate tries to show off the punishment counters, which are still on their person, as proof and just glad she’s nicer than the robot one they encountered. However, the idea of the counter intrigues Prudence who thinks that what the school needs. Nate thinks she’s bluffing as a worried Malika and he go about their school day, but Prudence gets an ominous thoughtful expression on her face as she watches them go.

## Characters

- ***Main***

* Nate
* Malika
* Ascor
* Maurice
* Ms. Principal
* Raumice
* Principal Prudence

- ***Cameo***

* Dwayne (Seen arguing with Cosmo on the street, accidentally whacking the banana in the chain of events that destroy the school).
* Cosmo: (Seen being reprimanded by Dwayne over something in the street)

### Allusions

* ***Back to the Future***: The board Ascor uses to time travel is similar to the one Marty McFly gains in *Back to the Future Part II*

## Errors

* When the episode begins, Maurice is already sitting on the bench in front of the school. But when Nate and Malika notice him, he is walking up to it.

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## Names in other languages

* **Basque:** Etorkizuneko mutikoa
* **Dutch:** De jongen uit de toekomst
* **French:** L'enfant du futur
* **German:** Der Junge aus der Zukunft
* **Mandarin (China):** 未来之子
* **Spanish (Spain):** El niño del futuro

 Season 2 | 1. "The Lady of the Lake" • 2. "The Thunderbird" • 3. "The Crocodile Man" • 4. "The Golem" • 5. "The Hairdresser" • 6. "The Mood Enhancer" • 7. "The Chess Game" • 8. "The Drone" • 9. "The Astronaut" • 10. "The Gorgon" • 11. "The Dimensional Rift" • 12. "The Reptilians" • 13. "The Enchanted Bracelet" • 14. "The Ink Thief" • 15. "The Tiki" • 16. "The Puppet" • 17. "The Mandrake" • 18. "The Vampires" • 19. "The Sphinx" • 20. "The Pendulum" • 21. "The Giant Fish" • 22. "The Wedding Dress" • 23. "The Home Spirit" • 24. "The Great Pili-Pala" • 25. "The Endless Recess" • 26. "The Chicken Cop" • 27. "The Kitsune" • 28. "The Collector" • 29. "The Kappa" • 30. "The Beanstalk" • 31. "The Demigod's Test" • 32. "The Glitch" • 33. "The Tiny Tops" • 34. "The Magician's Top Hat" • 35. "The Chromapix" • 36. "The Gingerbread Family" • 37. "The Alphabet Agency" • 38. "The Wild Beasts" • 39. "The Return of the Cuddly Toys" • 40. "The Race Car" • 41. "Inside Professor Toybos" • 42. "The Asteroid" • 43. "The Time Travellers" • 44. "The Nebulons" • 45. "The Witches' Convention" • 46. "The Kobolds" • 47. "The Superstars" • 48. "The Goblin's Cousin" • 49. "The Golden Crown" • 50. "The Scarecrow" • 51. "The Banana Peel Part I" • 52. "The Banana Peel Part II"