Pandora had been stranded in the year 2018 by her mother, for her desire to change the timeline regarding the Sagittarius Incident and the Battle of Zootopia. She decided not to sit on her laurels while she waited.
At the ZPD Precinct 1 Cyber-Warfare division. "Are you sure you want to do this?" Selene Samuel asked of her future protégé, as Pandora was strapped to a metal table.
"Auntie Selene, I designed this myself. You're pretty much the only mammal I would trust with this anyway." Pandora said confidently.
"Okay... and stop calling me 'auntie', it sounds weird," Selene said as she readied a dosage of Night Howler extract. "Even weirder than this experiment," she said. "Are you sure you want me to do this? I can use an actual Guinee-"
"Just. Inject. The extract," Pandora said certainly. Selene went through and injected the serum into the hybrids neck, and Pandora quickly went savage, frothing and snarling with primal rage.
"And now, to see if this stuff works!" Selene said as she readied the solution she and Pandora made, nanobots designed specifically to eliminate the presence of Night Howlers in the nervous system. Then, after wrestling with the savage Pandora, injected the cure, and as soon as she went savage, she turned back to normal.
"Oh... man... not since the Woodstock incident has my head felt like this," Pandora said, sounding woozy.
"Well then maybe we should delay the OTHER vaccine," Selene said.
"No... No, we're doing it now! Make... make me a robot Aunt Selene!" Pandora said deliriously. "Dude... I've been waiting for YEARS to say that... and mean it!"
"And you're not going to take 'no' for an answer are you?" Selene said, Pandora just shook her head with a dumb look on her face.
"I will say I told you so if this backfires," Selene said as she readied a sample of Dr. Mulersons nanobots. "The same kind that stupid mule used to enslave my sister and me." She said in disgust as, against her better judgment. She injected the nanobots into Pandora. "Your vaccine better work kid... I don't even remember if these are the reprogrammed ones."
Then Pandora screamed in pain, as her bones were changed into an extremely dense and durable endoskeleton, her organs turned into various advanced technological facilities. For example, her heart became a powerful fusion reactor, and her brain into an advanced super-computer. While her skin transformed into silver liquid metal.
"Pandora. Online." Pandora uttered in a robotic monotone her eyes glowing green and purple. "And... this is the most amazing thing that ever happened to me!" She said with childish glee. "The expanded consciousness! The freedom from need! The built-in Wi-Fi and internet connection!"
"Oh thank goodness, it was the stuff that doesn't turn you into a mindless drone to Mulerson," Selene said in relief. Pandora then she messed around with her skin, changing it into different colors, before changing into different forms. "Okay, I think that's enough. Now for the new vaccine."
"Just one more thing," Pandora said as she hacked into the internet, and using her advanced hacking software, took down several hundred-thousand different websites. "There... now I'll relinquish my robotic abilities." Pandora said.
Then Selene injected Pandora with the vaccine for Mulersons robotizing nanobots. Those were programmed to turn a robot created by Mulersons robotizing nanobots, back into a mammal. Pandora was in immense pain as she felt herself turn back to flesh and blood. "Whoa! That... that was quite a rush." She said, feeling terrible.
"Well, your vaccines work," Selene said.
"We... we need more tests!" Pandora said groggily. "We need... need to know if the cures... weren't a fluke."
"Kid, we are not going through this again!" Selene said.
"Do, it... do it again!" The next day, Pandora awoke on a couch in Nick and Judy's apartment. She then yawned and stretched. "What a weird dream. I was savage, and then a robot, then Uncle Davies got mad at me." Pandora mused.
"That wasn't a dream that was in fact what happened yesterday. You tested your vaccinations for Night Howler extract and Dr. Mullersons nanobots, thoroughly. And then when Davies got home from the hospital, he found the mess you made in his room." Clancy explained. "And then, there's the state when you did come home... you were a barely conscious mess."
"Well, that's the price of science Clancy. You gotta make sacrifices." Pandora said.
"Perhaps, but does it really require alienating your uncle?... AFTER you saved him from spending the rest of his life in a wheelchair." Clancy said.
"Oh... OH! I completely spaced- where is he?!" Pandora said in surprise.
"He is staying home for work today," Clancy said.
Pandora then rushed into Davies room and saw Davies on his computer. "Uncle Davies!" She said.
"What is it? And can it wait till I'm not busy?" Davies said irritably as he looked away from his computer.
"Look... I'm sorry for the mess I made in your room." Pandora pleaded.
Davies looked unconvinced. "Apology accepted."
"No, I'm serious! It was inconsiderate of me! Insensitive! And... well I just can't believe that you, of all mammals I could do something like that too!" Pandora pleaded. "Please... I didn't mean for it I swear."
Davies was taken aback. "Okay... so I'm the jerk here." He said.
"I think we both are frankly," Pandora said. "I just don't want to make the one relative I'm on good terms with hating me. Before I'm even born!" She said.
"Well, I-... hold it," Davies said. "I'm the only one of your relatives your on good terms with?" He asked.
"I... that's kind of a long story." Pandora said, realizing what she had just told her uncle.
Eventually over lunch. "So let me see if this is right. In the future, you'll start a robot company with a camel, who then eventually usurped that company for his own purposes." Davies surmised. "And Nick and Judy didn't help you... then shortly after that. Judy was killed, but it was actually a clone that stood in for her, and it was all supposed to be a secret. And THAT'S why you're not on good terms with them?"
"Unofficially yes," Pandora said as she ate a sandwich. "But officially, there's no such rift. Never let them see that they get to you. Like dad always said."
"Sounds like Nick and Judy turn out to be terrible parents. I mean getting caught up with work is one thing. But completely ignoring your issues? That's just... DUMB!" He said in disbelief as he ate his sandwich.
"So after that, I had a bit of a nervous meltdown in front of you, Aunt Anna and Josephus," Pandora said.
"Wait... did Anna and I ever marry?" Davies asked.
"You know, I used to wonder that... and then I learned that Anna was a Vampire. So I'm of the opinion that never happened. I can't really go back to my present and ask, now can I?" She said as she took a bite of her sandwich. "You know, it may be PB&J, but you make the best sandwiches."
"Oh... I suppose we wouldn't be ready anyway." Davies said. "I mean, COULD undeath be undone like that?"
Then an idea went through Pandora's head. "Oh, Clancy-"
"No Pandora, you may not use me to undo Anna's Vampirism... yes I can undo undeath," Clancy said. "But that does NOT mean that I will just return anyone back to life just because you ask." He said snippily.
"And why won't you?" Davies asked.
"That... is for reasons that are not relevant," Clancy said.
"CAN Anna lose her Vampirism in some other way?" Davies asked.
"Yes, eventually. Pandora WILL discover a cure for Vampirism in much the same way she has for Night Howlers and Dr. Mulersons robotizing nanobots." Clancy said.
"So... you vaccines work?" Davies asked.
"That would seem to be the case. Of course, I've only tested them on myself so far." Pandora said.
"Then stick me! I do NOT want to risk becoming the Legion of Night again!" Davies said.
Pandora just looked bewildered. "I... didn't bring any of my vaccines with me from the ZPD. But I'll get some the next time I'm there." Pandora said. "For you, and mom and dad."
A few days later, Pandora had just finished inoculating Nick and Davies. "Man... I will never love needles. But if it means I can't be turned into a robot, or turn into a savage I'm all for it. And I cannot believe I just said that." Nick said.
"As I said," Davies said. "Weird sentences are even weirder when they have relevant context."
"Okay mom, it's your turn!" Pandora said to Judy. Unaware that months ago, before Pandora arrived in this relative present. Judy had been turned into one of Dr. Mullersons robot minions and had been subverted by the AI Sierra Ultima.
"Oh... I would. But I... I feel squeamish around needles." Judy said.
"What? Carrots afraid of a little pinprick?" Nick said teasingly.
"Still? You've faced so many dangers since coming here, and you're still afraid of needles?" Davies said in disbelief.
"Mom, this is for your own good... but if you're afraid we can try this latter," Pandora said.
"Then... can I keep the needles?" Judy asked. "It might help... a little." She said holding out her paw.
"I don't see a reason not to," Pandora said as she gave the syringes to Judy.
"Thanks, Pandora," Judy said as she pocketed the syringes.
That following night, Judy, now in the form of Sierra Ultima's basic rabbit robot form, was at Draco Long-Fangs mansion. "You say... that these can protect a mammal from Night Howler infection, and Dr. Mullerson's nanobots?" Draco asked, looking over the comparatively small syringes.
"Affirmative. According to the claims of the lifeform that identifies, herself as Pandora." Sierra Ultima said in its robotic monotone voice. "This program is inclined to believe this claim, as earlier in the week. This program detected a breach in the Sierra Network, a new organism had been assimilated, and had taken down 75% of the internet before going offline."
"And this... Pandora, she's the one that Yorick referred to as Subject A113 right, the one partly responsible for thwarting the assassination attempt on Bogo?" Draco said.
"Affirmative. Be advised, Dr. Mullerson is monitoring my activity, and does not approve of being referred to by his birth name." Sierra explained.
"Can't say I blame him." Dawn Bellwether noted. "I mean who names there foals 'Yorick' anyway?"
"Regardless, if the mammal disapproves. He can tell me himself." Draco said, then as if on cue. Dr. Mullerson kicked the door to Draco's office in.
"I DO NOT APPROVE OF BEING REFERRED TO BY MY BIRTH NAME!" Dr. Mullerson yelled.
"Ah, I was actually expecting you," Draco said as he showed the syringes with Pandora's vaccines. "Take these to your lab and analyze them."
"What?!" Dr. Mullerson said in exasperation. "Could you not have just-"
"Called for you directly?" Draco said. "Maybe... but that wouldn't have made you squirm like a spoiled child, now take these and go." He said, giving the syringes to Dr. Mullerson. "I want you to figure out how these work, and anything else that Dragon Enterprises can use."
"I... I will do as you command. Come Sierra Ultima." Dr. Mullerson said as he left the office with Sierra Ultima in tow. "Oh for the day when I can be rid of that wolf, and I can take command of this operation for my own plans!" He said in frustration.
"I understand your frustrations Master Dr. Mullerson. But the time is not yet right. Subject: Draco Long-Fang almost never leaves the compound. We have to stick to my projections; the most opportune time to usurp his position is when Operation: Nemesis is activated." Sierra Ultima said.
"I know... but that date cannot come soon enough! Oh if only I could figure out why it's so important to him," Dr. Mullerson ranted. "But that wolf has the tightest muzzle of any wolf I've ever known!"
"Then perhaps you would be privy to some of Judy's memories. They hold data that might elaborate." Sierra Ultima said.
"And what could that lepus know? Aside from the entire Zootopia Penal Code, and more recipes for carrots then I would ever care to know?" Dr. Mullerson asked.
"And her anger spiked at your comment. Regardless, here is a recording of her relevant memories. Please, turn your attention to your tablet." Sierra Ultima said, then on Dr. Mullersons tablet, he saw Judy's memories. Specifically, the memories directly connected with Anna Blackpaw.
"What exactly am I looking at?" Dr. Mullerson asked, his question was quickly answered by the first memory of Anna revealing her Vampirism to Judy, followed by the incident regarding Hans Grubhund and his pack, where Anna further explained herself... and revealed that she knew Draco Long-Fang. "Oh... well I would never have called this." He said, surprised that Vampirism and a number of supernatural creatures were real. Eventually, these memories led to the incident with Loki and his mask.
"I am not certain regarding the entity known as Loki... but he could back up his claims of power at the very least. His skill with technology though..." Sierra Ultima said as the recording showed Loki struggling with typing. "That left something to be desired."
An evil smile played across his face. "Well... this might open some new possibilities." Dr. Mullerson mused. "Sierra Ultima, I want you to return to Zootopia, and gather as much data as you can on Vampires. Specifically the relationship between Draco and Anna Blackpaw... after a night in the theater!" He said.
Then, after a long and risqué version of 'Hello Dolly', Sierra Ultima now in the form of Judy returned home, just in time for Nick to wake up... though this late night excursion did not go unnoticed, as Davies and Pandora met her.
"Where were you last night, and why don't you look like a complete mess?" Pandora said, sounding like a stern parent who caught their children coming home late.
"I... I..." Judy said, trying to think of an excuse.
"I got up at six... SIX. AM. JUDY!" Davies said in irritation. "You of all people know how I hate getting up early!"
"Was it IDL work? Or was it that Zootopia Vigilante Registration Program thing that came first?" Pandora said.
"Uh... yes that's it! I got called in to help with the ZVRP, and I just lost track of time!" Judy said.
"And you're not tired because?" Pandora said as she starred her mother in the face.
"I... had a lot of coffee," Judy said.
"And it wasn't decaf?" Davies said, joining his niece. "You know that stuff can play havoc with our hearts."
"Well yes! But I lost track of time, and I'm ready to make the world a better place with Nick!" Judy said.
Pandora and Davies were unconvinced. "I see... well we won't eat up any more of your time," Pandora said. "But before you go anywhere!" She said, followed by a sharp slap to her mother's face. "That's for being such a lousy mother," Pandora said venomously.
"Pan! Was that really necessary?" Davies said, Judy now going to Nick. "I mean what she WILL do is messed up. But she hasn't actually done anything yet! You're not even born yet!"
"True... but I am a lover of catharsis," Pandora said. "And let me tell you, I've been wanting to do that for years!"
"Perhaps but... wait... WOULD the ZVRP even have a need for her?" Davies asked.
"No," Clancy pipped in. "In fact, she lied about where she was, and why she's bright and bushy despite never sleeping last night."
"And you're not going to tell us, are you?" Pandora said.
"Bingo!" Clancy said.
"But why?" Davies asked.
"Because I am against spoilers!" Clancy said as he opened a time portal.
"Well, we're off!" Nick said, completely unaware of what was going on, as he and Judy went out the door.
"Just leave it, Uncle Davies. Clancy can be like that... especially since Selene helped me with the modifications that gave him legs." Pandora said.
"Well... I have today off anyway. And I'm assuming you have nothing to do today." Davies said.
"Nothing that I can really think of, no," Pandora said.
"Then I have something special I've been wanting to try! Just go out on the balcony and wait!" Davies said as he went out the door.
Later on, Pandora was sunning herself, and onto the balcony came Davies, holding a pair of glasses. "Is this what I think it is?" Pandora said as she looked over the glass. It was filled with ice cream and had some kind of foam at the top, there were also straws in the glasses.
"If what you're thinking is that this is an ice cream soda. Then that's exactly what it is." Davies said proudly. "I tell you, I had a heck of a time getting the ingredients for this stuff. AND making this without creating a huge mess."
Pandora then lit up as she drank it. "This is terrific!" Pandora said.
"Oh thank you... so it's not bad for a first try?" Davies said. "I tried mixing peanut butter... and I didn't know what ice cream flavor you liked. So I just defaulted to chocolate."
"Oh... you spoil me," Pandora said happily.
"Do I do this sort of thing often?... I mean, in the future?" Davies asked.
"Not really, no," Pandora said. "In my timeline, you were crippled during the Sagittarius Incident. So you didn't really do much, except write and drop sage wisdom. Like when I went to a Halloween party at Blackpaw Manor and-" Then it dawned on her. "SWEET MOTHER OF FRITH ON A POGO STICK ON A ZAMBONI ON A BUS WITH A SIDE OF SWEET CHEESES AND CRACKERS!" She yelled in surprise.
"What?!" Davies said, caught off-guard by Pandora's outburst. "What is so important that you have to yell in my ear?!"
"I have to get to Aunt Anna's!" Pandora said, then she hastily wolfed down her Ice Cream Soda, and then. Using her ninja training from her childhood, ran down a nearby wire to the street.
"What the?!- AT LEAST WAIT! YOU'LL GET BRAIN FREEZE!" Davies yelled as Pandora went out of his sight. "Well... that was fun. At least I get a treat." He said as he continued drinking his Ice Cream Soda.
Eventually, Pandora arrived at Blackpaw Manor and used her key to get in. "AUNT ANNA! AUNT ANNA!" Pandora yelled as she barged into the large house.
"YOU ARE BOLD TO ENTER BLACKPAW MANOR! AND YELL!" Josephus, Anna's butler answered. "I AM NOT PERTURBED BY THE YELLING! I'M JUST CURIOUS REALLY! BUT I REALLY LOVE YELLING!"
"Josephus! Why are you yelling?" Anna said as her attention was drawn by Josephus and Pandora. "And who is our... guest? Wait..." She said, she then sniffed. "I have encountered this smell-"
"Listen, I'm your niece from the future, I know you're a Vampire and have- AH!" Pandora then fell to her knee's, clutching her head in pain.
"ARE WE YELLING AGAIN?!" Josephus yelled.
"Josephus you fool!" Anna reprimanded. "Can't you see this woman is in pain?! What is wrong?"
"GAH!... brain... freeze!" Pandora muttered as she rubbed her forehead. "I... Davies said this would happen why didn't I listen?" Eventually, Pandora recovered and explained the matter that brought to 2018.
"So... in a few months' time, Draco Long-Fang will launch an assault on Zootopia," Anna said. "But not only here. But assassins all across the world will successfully kill the rest of my family... is this correct?"
"Yeah... the only survivor of that was Bobby... and it did no favors for his disposition let me tell you," Pandora said, drinking a glass of water.
"But Bobby is the sweetest five-year-old to ever be put in charge of an international munitions company," Josephus said, followed by Pandora doing a spit take.
"WHAT?!" Pandora said in surprise.
"Look, Bobby being the CEO of Mamm Co. Industries is irrelevant to the conversation at hand. What I need to know. Is how I can protect my late brother Jonathan's line?" Anna said.
"I... I don't know. I'd ask Clancy, the AI that's integrated into the TSDD." Pandora explained. "But that little-"
"Here I am!" Clancy said, coming out of a time portal.
"IT'S GANWOLF!" Josephus shouted.
"Silence Josephus!" Anna said sternly to her demented bat manservant. "And I would know you?"
"I'm Clancy, I'm Pandora's time travel device, and I can see into every timeline and universe at any point in time," Clancy said. "This is how I can direct you to save your extended family from Draco Long-Fang."
"Intriguing..." Anna said in awe.
"And before you even think of it, yes, I can undo undeath. But I will not do anything to cure yours, or any other Vampire... at this time." Clancy said briskly.
"Oh... then your aid in this matter will suffice," Anna said as she took Clancy with her to another room.
"Did... did you call Clancy 'Gandwolf?" Pandora asked.
"Does he often come in and out of important situations, knows just about everything that can help in an immediate situation, and never provides sufficient context without sounding unnecessarily cryptic?" Josephus said.
"Well..." Pandora said, deducing his train of thought. "When you put it like that-"
"Then he's Gandwolf!" Josephus cut off. "Never liked that wizard... I don't care what Tolcat latter retconned as reasons for him ducking on Thorin's Company! I just hate that! It was better when he kept ducking out for no good reason! That was funny at least!" He ranted.
Pandora groaned and face-pawed. "The Battle of Zootopia cannot come soon enough."
"I swear, that mammal was the George Lupus of the time!" Josephus ranted.
"And if the opportunity arises, I will kill this bat, just so that I never have to... no, no I can't do that." Pandora thought to herself. "He's the one who made the Time Metal that allows the Time and Space Displacement Device to work in the first place."
"I'll bet that he and the rest of the entertainment industry, in general, are secretly allied with the insidious daisies!" Josephus ranted. "They may have everyone fooled. But for centuries I have known the truth!"
"Or I could just punch him in the jaw." Pandora thought to herself. Followed by her giving Josephus a swift punch to the jaw. "SHUT UP YOU RAMBLING CHIROPTERIAN!"
"Miss Anna! The weird fox/bunny lady is being mean!" Josephus pleaded.
"Were you rambling about daisies again?!" Anna shouted.
Josephus then said. "Well yes but-"
"Then you've more than earned her ire! Now behave!" Anna yelled back.
"I'm going to be heading out anyway!" Pandora said, she then punched Josephus again, then left the manor, eventually returning to her parent's apartment.
"So... how was your trip?" Davies asked when Pandora went through the front door.
"Well, I told Aunt Anna what I wanted to tell her," Pandora said.
"And did you get a brain freeze?" Davies asked.
"Yes, Uncle Davies... right as I got there in fact," Pandora said. "Then after that, I told Aunt Anna what I wanted to tell her. And after spending far more time with Josephus then I should have. I left her alone with Clancy." She explained.
"He ranted about daisies again?" Davies asked.
"He got to that, yes," Pandora said.
"And for the million dollar question, what was so important that you had to run off in the middle of our bonding time?" Davies asked.
Pandora just took a deep breath. "Look, Uncle Davies. In a few months' time, something VERY bad is going to happen in Zootopia." She said frankly.
"So... you came to stop it?" Davies asked cautiously.
"That was my idea... unfortunately, because of my mom, the one from MY present. Found out about my Mother's Day surprise. And decided that SHE can freely change the timeline, but I can't! Her own daughter! The one who invented the time machine that allowed her to prevent the robot apocalypse she came from in the first place!" She ranted.
"Well... that is quite a pickle," Davies said.
"And instead of going through the important events, quickly and efficiently changing key moments to minimize the whole affair, or even stop the whole shebang from happening altogether! I have to take the long way to the Battle of Zootopia!" Pandora ranted. "And the most I can really do to help is provide breadcrumbs of information, and recreating some of my future tech!" She continued. "And to add insult to injury! Clancy is keeping me in the dark with all of my important questions about how all this can be done!" She said, sounding more and more frantic. "Like what did Dr. Mullerson do to mom? Who can I save? What can I do when the moment actually happens? W-W-Will I even live to-"
"Pandora... I'm only going to say this once because we're family." Davies said calmly, interrupting his panicking niece. "Calm. Down!" He said firmly. "You've clearly got a lot on your plate. And you're angry and scared that you can't do more. Believe me when I say that I've been there before." He said, attempting to be reassuring to the hybrid.
Pandora was choking on her whirlwind of emotions. "I... I just don't know what's going to happen. A-And after a lifetime of... of feeling WORSE than dirt, just for being different..." She rambled, she then started crying.
"Easy there," Davies said as he hugged her. "It's going to be okay... whatever will happen, will happen." He said as Pandora sobbed. "Do you know why I made those ice cream sodas in the first place?" Pandora shook her head. "Well... besides the fact that I've always wanted one. I figured that with the ordeals you've had to deal with. You've more than earned a happy memory." He said softly as Pandora sniffled.
"Your... you're the best uncle a girl could ask for," Pandora said through her tears.
"No pressure though?" Davies said, Pandora just snorted.
"No pressure..." Pandora sniffled; Davies then gave Pandora a tissue. "Got anything... anything else?"
"Well... there is EweTube. That's got some old stuff there that always cheers me up." Davies offered. So the two of them watched reruns of old shows on EweTube, and then Clancy arrived.
"Okay, I have informed Anna Blackpaw of everything she needs to know in order to protect her family," Clancy said.
"Well good for you!" Davies said. "But all seriousness though. DO. NOT. LEAVE. MY NIECE. ALONE!" He said angrily.
"I am sorry, but I had spent several days linear time walking Anna through the necessary steps to protect her family from what will happen," Clancy said. "And I must speak with Davies... in private."
"Why?" Pandora asked. Clancy said nothing as he opened a time portal beneath Davies.
"WHERE AM I!?" Davies screamed when he landed on a beach.
"An important question... but the more pressing question for you, is when are you," Clancy said, and then a strange rift opened in the sky. "We... are at the end." He said as the rift widened, swallowing up everything. Then it froze.
"What... what does any of this even mean?" Davies asked.
"This... this is why I am putting Pandora through these trials I have put her through," Clancy said. "For all her past traumas... will eventually result in this happening."
"H-How?!" Davies asked in a panic.
"I cannot tell you... but in order to prevent this. To change Pandora's timeline, so that the saddest moments of her life do not happen... that she might become better for it." Clancy said.
"A-And why isn't she already doing this herself?!" Davies said.
"Because she believes that she will cause an immense paradox, and bring back the timeline her mother initially escaped from in the first place," Clancy said. "And... well I'm certain you can guess how stubborn she is. She won't even go back to undo the most seminal of these traumas." He said, showing a hologram of when Pandora was kicked out as CEO of CyberLife.
"Is... is there anything I can do to help?" Davies asked.
"No... I already know how this story ends." Clancy said as he opened another time portal beneath Davies, depositing him back at the apartment.
"Okay, what was so important that you had to take him to another time?" Pandora said.
"Just... just let it go Pandora," Davies said as he stood up. "For now... let's just get back to watching episodes of Sesame Street from my childhood." He said.
They two then went back to their viewing. "You know... by my time you actually made some contributions to this show."
"Really?" Davies asked.
"Yeah, you started up a sitcom spinoff that was really funny. And even made a few cameos on the show." Pandora said.
"That is the most awesome thing you've said... and if you ever manage to top yourself, I'll probably never see it," Davies said excitedly.