Pandora awoke with a start, as she had spent in the entire night in the weirdest dream she had ever experienced. In it, she went insane and sought to remake the universe in her image with the help of alternate universe versions of herself. It would have succeeded if her parents hadn't come and stopped the Pandora's.
"Okay... Uncle Davies was right. That much chicken can cause night terrors." She said as she got out of bed. Pandora went and got breakfast. Then a floating eye robot approached her. "What's the word?"
"Wilde-Hopps Chimera Industries stocks are continuing to sore, as are it's developments that you have inspired." The eye said. "You are among the most wealthy mammals on Earth."
"I'm very much aware of that," Pandora said in a tired tone.
"Then you might not be aware, that you are to attend breakfast with your parents." The eye robot said.
A look of surprise went across Pandora's face. She hastily ran out of her home, eventually reaching the diner in question. "Am I... am I late?" Pandora said, breathing in exhaustion when she found her parents.
"Right on time," Nick said as his hybrid daughter took a seat. Along with her Spirit Guardian brother Olaf.
"You overslept and forgot didn't you?" Olaf said sarcastically.
"I'm only going to say I overslept," Pandora said, still feeling groggy from her strange dream. "Now, who's having what, and don't worry about the check, it's on me." She said as she picked up a menu.
Unknown to them, they were being watched in the Timeless Void. By the time-displaced Nick and Judy that had effectively allowed Pandora Prime's descent into madness. "We... never did anything like this," Judy said in disbelief as the family they were watching were happy and contented.
"Yeah... I've been wanting to take you to Harry's for years. But with work and all the other chaos that's gone on with our lives, I never got the chance to stop and think about it." Nick said.
"Perhaps," Clancy Prime said as the screen showed the family on the screen happily joking and talking. "If you two invested at least as much time into your family as you did your careers. This series of events would have never happened to her."
"Believe me... we know we screwed up," Judy said.
"Yeah... we should have at least TRIED to talk to her... but she said she was fine, and we just accepted that on face value," Nick said. "Maybe... maybe if I didn't allow her to live by herself in Happy Town and pay for her place
"And Sarthoreal's influence. It was his influence more than your neglect that caused her to fall." Clancy said showing the relevant imagines. "The seeds were sown by your poor choices, and Sarthoreal reaped the harvest, not just for your Pandora. But for billions upon billions across the multi-verse." Clancy explained, showing every instance of Sarthoreal's manipulations, both direct and indirect.
"But... everything's better now. Sarthoreal is, I'm presuming dead now, and Pandora is now a well-adjusted adult, and the multi-verse isn't going down the potty." Judy said.
"This is all true... but I'm afraid to say, that you have no place in the presents you remade," Clancy said, opening a time portal. "For this timeline requires that you go to YOUR past, to make this present possible."
Nick and Judy looked at each other, and with exhausted resignation. Took each others hands, and without another word, they went through and found themselves in 2019. "Wait... Carrots it just occurred to me." Nick said. "Shouldn't we be blinking out of existence?"
"Perhaps, but let's be real Nick. Time travel has proven to be a lot more flexible then we would have thought before Pandora made the TIme and Space Displacement device." Judy said. "Now... what do we do?" She asked in uncertainty, followed by Clancy promptly coming out of the same Time Portal.
"The same thing that got you two into this mess in the first place... making the world a better place, via taking on threats to international and global peace," Judy said. "Not to mention a certain alien warlord... who owes me a second Omni-Knife."
"Can't we bother out past selves first before we put our lives on the line... pretty please?" Nick asked, Judy wasn't paying attention to what he said, and they both went out in this brand new day.
