Pandora had returned from her week-long break from hunting down her temporally displaced doppelgangers. "We are approaching the target universe," Clancy said as a time portal opened up... at least a few miles in the air.
"Clancy! Couldn't you have teleported us closer to the ground?!" Pandora shouted. Thankfully for her, she found something in the sky to grab onto. She grabbed onto the flying suit of silver-colored armor. It's head turned around.
"Uh... hello, friendly robot or person in advanced power armor. Could you please put me on the ground?" Pandora said. The robot then flew down to a skyscraper roof. Pandora jumped down and started kissing the ground. "Oh, sweet ground! Still a couple of stories higher then I'd like, but I'll take what I can get." The creature said.
"Who... are you? What... are you?" The robot asked.
"Oh... so you can talk," Pandora said as she stood up. "I'm Pandora, I'm... I'm a hybrid. You mind telling me what your name is or is that classified or something?"
"You may know me, as the Silver Automaton." The Silver Automaton said. "I am the protector of this city, and by extension the whole Earth."
"Quite a big responsibility for one person. Anyway, I'm not looking for trouble, I'm looking for someone." Pandora said frankly.
"Yes, and while I'm certain you haven't seen them. We would appreciate your help." Clancy said.
The robot looked confused. "There's an AI in this thing, long story there." Pandora clarified.
"I understand." The robot said. "I also have an AI that assists."
"Oh... you can time travel to?" Pandora asked anxiously.
"Negative... though I do know of at least one being time traveler who actively travels through time," Beatrice said earnestly.
"Really?... could you take me to this person?" Pandora asked.
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The giant silver-colored robot and Pandora arrived. It was a strange creature that Pandora hadn't seen before. It looked female with dark-colored skin, blue eyes. She was wearing a black collared T-shirt, jeans with a brown belt, and sandals. "Errant Traveler, I have someone who wishes to speak to you." The robot said.
"Well, I'm busy buying up all the swiss cake rolls I can get my hands on here seat pea." The Errant Traveler said. "So please make it quick-" She then noticed Pandora. And froze. "Uh... can I have a word with you, in private?"
"Well, I don't see a reason for that." Pandora began. "But if it reassures you then-"
"I was talking to the robot, so if you'll excuse me." The Errant Traveler said as she took Beatrice aside. "Do you have any idea what she is?"
"According to-"
"And take off that helmet," The Errant Traveler said. "When I want a private conversation, I prefer if neither side of the conversation be heard."
Pandora leaned against a street post. Where these strange hairless mammals seemed to not react to a fox/bunny hybrid in clothes. However, something caught Pandora's attention... a giant floating head appearing out of nowhere, cooing.
"Pandora." The robot asked. "Who specifically are you looking for?"
"Well... there an alternate version of me." Pandora began, followed by an explosion at a nearby bank.
"Apologies, but I must address this," Beatrice said as several criminals poured out of a bank.
Pandora climbed up a nearby lampost. "Well... this should be interesting if nothing else." The robot held her own against the bank robbers, this didn't last long as one of the robbers used some manner of EMP weapon. "Oh... that's going to sting." She said sympathetically, then the criminals started beating on the barely conscious robot. "Well, might as well start doing my civic duty... even if I'm not a citizen here." She then sharply whistled. "Hey! Jerkwads!"
This caught the attention of the bank robbers. "What do you want freak?" One of the robbers said.
"See... I don't like seeing robots be treated like scrap." Pandora then jumped down to the street. "So here's the thing. You can either walk away with your dignity intact... or you can run away with your tails between your legs... or lack thereof."
"What, you know kung-fu?" Another bank robber said.
"Yes... but see, I don't need that." Pandora said proudly as she readied to snap her fingers. "Clancy, if you would?" She then snapped her fingers, causing the robber's weapons to turn to rust. Except for the EMP weapon, which she caused to fly behind her. "And for my second trick." She then snapped her fingers again, causing the robber's clothes to disintegrate. "And for my third and final-" The robbers then ran off screaming in every direction. "Oh come on! I wasn't going to kill you!... just make you wish I did!"
"H-H-Help... m-m-m-me." The robot croaked.
"Okay big fella. I'll try to get you out of that armor." Pandora offered.
"NO!... n-not here-here-here... somewhere-where private." The robot pleaded.
"Gotcha." Pandora then snapped her fingers, causing a bubble to form around the robot. "Hopefully nobody will see us. Now let's get you out of that armor... or look at your mechanical innards. I'm up for whichever." Pandora then looked over the armor and found an emergency release lever. "Well... here goes nothing."
Pandora then pulled on the lever, causing the armor to release its occupant. Inside was a young girl that looked like a young female variant of the strange creatures. Except for bright blue hair and bright grey skin, and wearing a sleeveless turtleneck sweater with a microchip pattern, a bright blue skirt, and knee-length socks and shoes. "Thank you... it was scary how those robbers got the drop on me."
Pandora looked inquisitive at this person's mechanical appearance. "Oh... you're a robot IN a power suit. That's neat." Pandora said. "Anyway, are you damaged?"
"No... my armor took the brunt of that EMP gun. If it weren't for the armor, I would've been fried." The robot girl said as she took the helmet, which fell apart in her hands. "Okay, that was way too close. And where would they have even gotten weapons like that? Even my dad's testing couldn't cause this kind of damage!"
Pandora mused on this. "Clancy? Is there anything we can do?" She asked of her AI companion.
"For a start." Clancy then disappeared the time bubble. They were now in front of a suburban house.
"What the?!-" The robot girl said in surprise. "How did you-... that will have to wait." She said as she gathered the components for her armor, and ran inside of the house and into the basement. "Dad! We've got a situation! Some bank robbers shorted out the Silver Automaton armor!"
Then without warning, a small creature, only a little taller Pandora herself grabbed her. "HELP ME!" Pandora yelled.
"It talks!" The strange triangle headed girl said. "You'll be the best dolly I ever-" Pandora then wiggled herself dree.
Then Pandora bolted into the basement, stripped down to her underwear, and hid in a drawer. "GET THAT THING AWAY FROM ME!" Pandora shrieked as the girl followed her.
"But I haven't given you your bath yet!" The small girl said.
"Bethany... what have we told you about torturing strange animals?" The robot girl's father said firmly to his Human daughter.
"Animals?..." Pandora said to herself.
"Do you have her clothes?" The robot girl asked.
"Well yes Bea," The Human girl said as she showed the clothes. "But I-"
"Give them to me, please." The robot girl, identified as 'Bea' said firmly, reluctantly the Human girl gave the small set of clothes to Pandora. "I'm sorry about this... just be glad you didn't meet Bethany before she went to therapy."
Pandora then jumped out, now fully clothed. "Kid, you ever try that again, and I will bite your face off!" She said furiously.
Bethany just ran off. "Seriously?" Beatrice said incredulously.
"Look, it may not look like it. But I've had a pretty rough week. I spent entirely just to find my way to this universe. AFTER being in a universe that was a giant Naturalist club... so, please. Forgive me if my fuse is a little short!" Pandora said irately.
"Yeah, we don't allow Bethany any pets. They tend... become miserable and want to leave." Phineas said.
"No fooling about the pets, the last one was a cat that clawed her face off... and also turned out to be an alien that was seeking to take over Earth and turn it into a colony world," Beatrice said frankly. "But enough about us, you mind telling us a little about you?"
Pandora took a deep breath. "That... is a very long, and complicated story. Clancy, could you upload the relevant information to Bea?"
"Roger," Clancy said.
Beatrice's senses were then overwhelmed by what Clancy was showing her.
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"So let me get this straight," Beatrice said when she and Cricket finished analyzing the data from Clancy. "You created a time machine. The first time, your mother used it to undo a Robot Apocolypse. Then after that, that created a timeline where you became embittered after a business partner threw you out of your company. Then after a few more adventures, you found an in-between space where the laws of normal time didn't apply. And with the help of many other Pandora's from different universes who had undergone similar betrayals. You all set out to avenge yourselves, and remake your universes in your images."
"Yes... unfortunately, they were all blinded to the risks. Namely, that doing all of this INSIDE of the Timeless Void threatened all of creation. So the alternate Clancy's rebelled and brought in each version of my parents... at least as many as they could find. And after literal eons of fighting through our base, the Citadel Out of Time, my parents and their counterparts won." Pandora said in regret.
"And after that, some sort of... entity called Sarthoreal, who was responsible for setting all of this in motion in the first place was killed. Before he could distort those timelines." Beatrice said.
"Yes, usually by an incarnation of the Norse god, Thor," Pandora said.
"And now you and several other Pandora's are scouring the multi-verse. Looking for any Pandora's that still want to follow through on, or keep them from harming the multi-verse." Beatrice summarized.
"Yeah... and let me tell you something. Scouring the multi-verse for rogue Pandora's is exhausting!" Pandora said. "But in all seriousness though. CLANCY!" She shouted at her watch. "Where. Is. The Pandora. From this Universe?!" She said harshly.
Beatrice's father then showed a tablet. "I was wondering where I saw you before! Ferb and I made this a few months ago." He then showed a live feed of a fox/bunny hybrid in a cage.
Pandora looked dumbstruck. "Clancy... is that the Pandora we're looking for?"
"Negative," Clancy said.
"I see... Mr. Flynn, why did you and this Ferb make an obvious hybrid of a rabbit and a fox?" Pandora said as her eye twitched.
"Well, we thought that a fox/rabbit hybrid would be neat," Phineas said, oblivious at how baffled and angry Pandora was looking.
"Oh boy," Beatrice said with concern as she wrapped her arms around Pandora's waste.
"You... you played in Frith's domain... because it was 'neat'?" Pandora said. "YOU THOUGHT THIS WAS NEAT!? I WAS CREATED BY A MAD SCIENTIST IN A COMPLICATED SCHEME FOR WORLD DOMINATION!" She shouted, attempting to lunge at the triangle headed man.
"Cricket! I need a tazin'!" Beatrice said, followed by a shock to Pandora. "Pandora... my dad does this sort of thing all of the time. He, and Uncle Ferb, and to a lesser extent Great-Uncle Heinz create things... just to see if it can be done. Sometimes just the one time, other times more than once." Beatrice said, attempting to calm down the angry hybrid. "But as strange as it is for dad to take the time to crossbreed like this. It's not that big of a deal. Last week, he made a yodeling eggplant that aspired to take over the world after it gained self-awareness... so at least this one isn't doing that."
Pandora relented. "I... I am just really... really frustrated." She then looked at her watch. "Clancy, either tell me who exactly I'm looking for here. Or I'm going to risk stranding myself in this universe, and destroy you utterly."
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About an hour later. Pandora and Beatrice arrived at a Slushy Dawg. "-so there are five androids like you?"
"My cousin's share my design... same as Beauregard... who is a can of worms I don't want to open," Beatrice said. "But what I'd like to know, is why we need to come here to get information on who you're looking for. AND how it relates to that EMP weapon." She got her answer as Xileen, the giant alien hedgehog. "Oh no..." Beatrice said in disbelief. Remembering all too well the incident surrounding his short-lived career as a soda jerk.
"You... are the biggest hedgehog I've ever seen," Pandora said in surprise. "Well, the second biggest. There was that Spiny Norman guy."
"Look, Xileen. I don't want to fight, I have a few questions. Have you seen someone who looks like her? And do you know if anyone has been moving alien technology, specifically EMP based weapons?" Beatrice asked.
Xileen just blinked. "I man the register... it's the only thing these people trust me with."
"Look, buddy... if you do this. I might be able to hook you up with something that will give you an edge." Pandora offered.
"What kind of an edge?" Xileen asked cautiously.
"The kind, that will allow you to follow your dreams. Not languish in the fast-food industry." Pandora said.
"How do I know you're being serious?" Xileen asked.
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Several minutes later, the kitchen had been reformated into an advanced production facility that produced food far faster than ever. "Okay, I suppose you're telling the truth," Xileen said.
"Now talk," Beatrice said in annoyance.
"Well... there is a guy, who looks fairly close to your new friend here. 'Cept he's got four arms and spines on his back. He works as a black-market vendor. Here's the address where you can find him." Xileen then gave the girls a note. "But he's only open on weekends. So it's going to be a while before you can see him."
"Thank you, now one last thing... I'd like a fish sandwich." Pandora said, Xileen just handed her the sandwich. "I don't know why you dislike this guy so much. He's nice."
"And I drank his milk," Beatrice said bluntly.
Pandora paused. "...excuse me?"
"When he first came to Earth, he opened a milkshake bar... and SOMEONE thought that using his milk in his product was a good idea!" Beatrice said indignantly at Xileen.
Pandora looked back and forth between Xileen and her sandwich. She then took a bite of her sandwich. "Well, the sandwich is good at any rate." She then opened a time portal. "Well, I'll see you next week Bea." She said as she walked through.
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Pandora then reappeared at the alleyway that Xileen had directed. "What took you so long?" Beatrice asked, suited up in a new suit of Silver Automaton armor.
"Time Travel." Pandora then looked Beatrice up and down. "You sure you want to use that?"
"Funny thing about having a week to prepare... dad took the precaution of upgrading my equipment. This suit is now more resistant to the EMP blasts from weapons like the one that disabled the last suit." Beatrice explained, she then sighed. "I tell you, that suit helped me fight off the Sym'ian's. It saw me through adventures with Stellar Imperium and his friends. It even gave me an edge over-"
"Look, I'm not trying to be rude. But we need to focus on nailing this guy." Pandora interrupted. "You can reminisce later." The two then went into the alleyway. Finding a vendor's stall. And behind it was Pandora's male, alien doppelganger. "Wait back here Bea, I'll see how much I can get him to talk. Clancy, let Beatrice hear us." She then sashayed to the stall
"Ah! A customer! What can I interest ya' in darlin'?" The slimy sounding alien asked.
"You got any weapons? Say, of an Electric Magnetic Pulse persuasion?" Pandora asked, disguising her disgust with this obvious alien lowlife.
"You want a piece of that Silver Automaton to?" The alien doppelganger asked. "Man, that guy wasn't foolin' when he said every lowlife in this burg would want one of these."
"What guy?" Pandora asked.
"Well your not going to believe this. But it was a Yoral!" The alien doppelganger said. "This here gun is a hybrid of Yoral and Cy'tarian tech." He said as he produced a small cylinder-shaped object. "They's call it a V'haack-117 Anti Electronic Defence Device. Most of the humans they've gotten there mitt's on one just call it the EMP gun." The alien said. The gun then changed to the same weapon that she saw before.
"Oh... yeah that might a little too big for me to just carry around," Pandora noted. "Do you have anything in a smaller size?"
"Not to worry. This darlin' can change its size for convenience." The alien said as the gun changed to a smaller size for him to hold properly. "But it packs the same punch as it does for bigger species."
"I see... well let me ask you something. Why do this in the first place? Why sell advanced weapons like this on a primitive world, just to kill an innocent robot that just wants to make a better place?" Pandora asked.
"Are you a cop?" The alien asked suspiciously.
"Well, my parents are-" The alien then drew four guns on her. "-and that's a sore spot for you."
Beatrice then charged at him. "Holy!-" The alien was taken by surprise as Beatrice grabbed him by the throat and blunged him into the wall.
"Who are you? Why are you selling these weapons? Why did you accept this commission? What is your relation to the Nai'xalat named Xileen?" Beatrice barked.
"W-W-Well... ma' name's Pa'vorka Nille-Vok. I'm sellin' these guns, cause that Yoral wanted me to sell 'em here. I'm short on money, and in a LOT of debt to the Nebula Mob. And all I do with that Nai'xalat was buying his milk! The stuff smells nasty, but it's got over a thousand uses..." Pa'vorka said, panicking. "H-H-How's about we make a deal? You let me go, and I'll give you a book on how to use that milk!"
"Negative, I've only had one exposure to Nai'xalatan milk. Never. Again." Beatrice said grimly. "Do you have any devices that relate to temporal mechanics on your person?"
"What? Like an FTL engine? I only know how to patch those I swear!" Pa'vorka begged.
"Enough!" Pandora said. "Clancy, is this guy a credible threat to the multi-verse?"
"Negative," Clancy said.
"Now I know you want to kill him... but look at him," Pandora said to Beatrice. "He's just some bottom feeder trying to make ends meet. He's not even smart enough to have made these weapons himself."
"Cruel... but accurate sugar," Pa'vorka said.
"And if you flirt with me again, you're losing your face regardless." Pandora seethed. "Regardless, would it even make sense to kill someone who barely has a life as is?"
"Your... your logic, is sound." Beatrice then let go of Pa'vorka. "You're to contact your supplier, and tell him that you're going out of your deal."
"Bot... it would be kinder if ya'll just kill me right here an' now. You don't turn your back on Yoral's... not even the even-tempered ones." Pa'vorka said.
"You are working for renegade Yoral's from the future. They seek the eradication of Humanity." Beatrice said.
Pa'vorka just sighed. "Would ya'll believe me if I said that this is the third time I've stumbled into this sorta' thing?"
"Just. Do it." Beatrice commanded.
Pa'vorka relented and called his supplier. "Uh... it's going to take a while." He said as he finished typing in the number. "It's just that there quite a bit away from Earth. And this here rock has terrible reception anyway." Several minutes later, Ty'raka asked. "Uh... I-I'm backing out of the deal." Pa'vorka said.
"What?" Ty'raka said flatly.
"See... it's a bit of a story. But in a nutshell... I've been found out." Pa'vorka said meekly.
"By. Whom?" Ty'raka seethed.
"By me, old friend," Beatrice said sardonically.
Ty'raka snarled. "BLAST YOUR HIDE!" He roared. "It was so simple, I sold you the V'haack's for a Chronous-Spaa's ransom. More than enough to pay off your debts! Then you were to sell them to the criminals of Danville to give them an edge against her! Then they were to organize and... look... you have nothing to fear from me." Ty'raka said as he tried to keep regain his calm.
"Oh..." Pa'vorka said in surprise. "Well, that's ta-"
"The Eternal King, on the other hand." Ty'raka said, a Human-like being then snapped his fingers. Pa'vorka then started to convulse in pain. "He is far less forgiving to failure."
"What in tarnation!... I... I don't feel so good!" Pa'vorka said as he turned to ash. Shocking both Beatrice and Pandora.
"And for my parting gift. Vala'ara T-Shunka!" Ty'raka said, followed by every V'haack gun exploding. He then hung up his communicator.
"Okay... an alien dinosaur/dragon person ranted about destroying you, and how this little scheme backfired. Then this weird Human guy snapped his fingers and Pa'vorka turned to dust. Then he said... some kind of self-destruct command so that we couldn't get these." Pandora said as she picked up one of the burnt-out guns. "Would that explain what just happened?"
"Yes..." Beatrice then removed her helmet. "The Eternal King is even more powerful then I imagined." She then slumped down against a wall. "I just... how am I supposed to save the world? When one of my enemies can disintegrate people from across the galaxy like that." Beatrice lamented. "I mean... how are we supposed to survive that?"
"I don't know," Pandora said sympathetically. "What does your dad have to work with?"
"Orbital defense platforms scattered across the system, a space fleet. All sorts of ground defenses." Beatrice explained. "But... I don't know if it will be enough to protect my homeworld from those monsters."
"It might not," Pandora said. "Clancy would know their numbers... though you wouldn't tell a soul about it would you?" She said to Clancy.
"The plot must flow," Clancy said. "I am sorry... but things have already been set into motion that cannot be risked changing."
"Figures," Pandora said in frustration. "Look... Beatrice. If you think you've got problems. At least you only seem to have one planet to worry about." She said sympathetically the sullen gynoid. "Me... I've got to hunt down every other parallel version of myself. And keep them from makings the same mistakes I did in another timeline." She explained. "If anything, I'd say I have a worse time of it."
"What?" Beatrice said in outrage as she stood up.
Pandora could see that Beatrice was getting worked up. "Look, you've got one Earth to worry about in one timeline at the very least. I'm stuck hunting down alternate versions of myself across the multi-verse. Your parents love and support you. In my 'original timeline', mine barely even noticed what I was doing until the multi-verse was at risk, and Clancy was the one to tell mom and dad about it!" Pandora vented. "My point is that as hard as your life is right now... it's better than mine."
Beatrice just sighed in resignation. "Pandora... you do realize you're talking about things that technically never happened, right?"
"That's what I said when I learned about it," Pandora said. "But here I am... obligated to keep my alternate selves in line. Because I was the first to find the Citadel out of Time and the Timeless Void." She ranted. "Again. Despite the obvious hardships that come with being designed as a superhero robot-"
"This was all my idea," Beatrice admitted. "Shortly after I was created and started my therapy. I wanted to use my robotic abilities to help people... mostly to keep myself busy." She explained. "I'm sure your watch could tell you more... I'm just really in over my head."
"Everybody's in over there head," Pandora said. "Some just more than others." She then climbed up Beatrice's armor. "Now let's get out of here... you want to talk about anything else?"
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Three days passed, with Pandora staying with the Flynn's. Exchanging her scientific knowledge with Phineas, and in turn, managing to talk him into sharing some of his company's technology with her. "Well... it was nice meeting you guys," Pandora said as she opened a time portal to continue her journey through the multi-verse. "I'd stay... but I've still got some work to do."
"Feel free to stop by any time." Isabella offered.
"We'll see, no promises," Pandora said.
"I'm sorry that I stripped you naked." Bethany apologized.
"Hey, I've been through much worse," Pandora said.
"Thank's for all the scientific data. Ferb and I will put it to good use." Phineas said.
"Likewise," Pandora said.
"Good luck out there," Beatrice said.
"And good luck with your cousins, and the possible alien invasion," Pandora said. "And your crush's on-"
"And there's goodbye and farewell," Beatrice said as she shoved Pandora through the portal, into the space between universes.
"Well, that was just rude," Pandora said as the portal closed behind her.
"To be fair, she did request you keep her issues regarding her nascent love life a secret," Clancy said. Then a time portal opened back into Pandora's home universe.
"Well yes, but she needs to address the issue before something stupid happens," Pandora said. "Like... I don't know, someone, leaking to her crushes before she can share her feelings." Her phone then vibrated. Pandora answered and saw a text from her boyfriend. "Oh, Mr. Tadashi... what do you have in store for me tonight?"
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Pandora met up with her boyfriend, Hiro Tadashi at an upscale restaurant. "So Hiro... I found your text message a bit interesting." She said flirtatiously to her raccoon/tanooki boyfriend. "Mainly that it was just a bunch of emoji's followed by this address and to get a good dress."
"Yeah... I kind of dropped the ball didn't I?" Hiro said shamefully.
"Not really," Pandora said. "It kind of reminded me of how you asked me out for our first date." She said wistfully. "You haven't done that since... so what's the occasion?"
"It's a surprise," Hiro said. The night went on as the young couple ate their dinner. "So... now for that surprise." He then placed his paw into his pocket, only to find that it was empty. "Which is in the car," Hiro said as he left the table.
"Clancy, could you tell me what he's getting?" Pandora said to her robotic spider watch.
"Negative," Clancy said bluntly.
"Of course you won't," Pandora said in resignation. "Can you at least give me a play-by-play of what he's doing?"
"First he'll run into a much larger patron that he's never met before. Whom he'll offend with virtually no effort." Clancy started. "Then he'll run off and cause a bit of chaos trying to get away from the offended patron. Then after that he'll hide in the kitchen, he'll lose his pursuer but he'll be a mistake by the kitchen staff for a waiter. Then he'll get roped into waiting on tables until he can find an opening to get to the parking lot. Then he'll struggle to remember where the car is parked. But eventually, he'll find the car, take the quote-unquote 'present', and return looking like he'd gone a round with a burly Russian bodybuilder... again." Clancy said, each one of his predictions coming roughly three seconds before they happened to Hiro.
Eventually, Hiro did return to the table. "Sorry about that... look Pandora." Hiro began. "We've known each other since we were kids. We... we've been friends for pretty much our entire lives."
"Yeah... believe it or not. I remember when we first met." Pandora said. "Still remember the hard time Olaf gave Tadashi that night." She giggled.
"And... well I think it's time we become something more," Hiro said, he then got out of his chair and got on one knee. "Pandora Wilde-Hopps..." He said as he pulled out a small box. Hiro then opened the box. "Will you marry me?" Inside of the box was a ring, it was set with an emerald and an amethyst.
"Oh... Hiro." Pandora took the engagement ring. "It's beautiful." She then placed the ring on her finger.
"There he is!" Shouted the bear that Hiro had hidden from earlier.
"No, he isn't," Pandora said as she opened a time portal next to the table. The two of them then jumped through and found themselves next to Hiro's car.
"I will never get over how amazing you are." Hiro gushed.
"Don't sell yourself short Hiro," Pandora said as they both got into his flying car. "Although... I think planning for the wedding is going to be a little tricky.
"What?" Hiro asked. "Oh right... the whole, 'going through the multiverse to hunt down alternate versions of yourself and keep them from destroying the multi-verse'... thing."
"Yeah, and planning around all that will be tricky," Pandora said. "And I doubt that Clancy will give me that time properly."
"That is true," Clancy said.
"We'll figure something out," Hiro said to his fiance.