"-and that's why I can't just give you Tempestus Mallum," Pandora explained to her robotic friend Elizabeth.
"Ah... I see. Still, it would be nice to travel through time and space with you again." Elizabeth said.
"Well Clancy just drags me through time and space these days, so there isn't time to get you in," Pandora said, she then parked her flying car outside of a bridal shop. "So these people are good?"
"Oh yes! I heard from one of you're cousins that this place has some of the best dress designed." Elizabeth explained as they went inside the store. Then, Clancy opened a time portal in front of Pandora. And absent-mindedly fell in. "Really Clancy? That was a mean trick to pull." She admonished.
"The Plot must flow," Clancy said ominously.
Elizabeth rolled her eyes and projected a holographic timer on her arm. "Eight, nine, ten."
Pandora returned to the moment she left her present. "Sorry about that." She said to Elizabeth, her robotic rabbit friend and creation.
"You were gone briefer than usual," Elizabeth said. "Now what about this design? I think it-"
"Before we continue" Pandora interrupted. "While I was in the past... I was turned into a Vampire. I was cured but it was by a Pandora from further along in the future... an Android Pandora. One that I made specifically to be an expert in other scientific fields."
"Really? A vaccine for Vampirism?" Elizabeth said.
"Yes, I know it sounds crazy but that's what happened," Pandora said. "So... would you be okay if I made a series of advanced robots that look like me, to learn advanced sciences and other knowledge that I don't have the time or inclination to learn myself?"
"Well if it allows the timeline to stay intact. I don't have a problem with it. Though back to the subject of why we came to this store." Elizabeth then took out a piece of fabric.
Pandora fingered it. "Well... it feels right. But the pattern looks tacky to me."
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A week later, Pandora was at the Blackpaw Manor. "You wanted to see me, Aunt Anna?"
"I'm afraid so," Anna said solemnly. "As I'm certain you're aware from you're adventuring through time and space. I was once a Vampire."
"Yes, I met you a few times in the past before Clancy wrapped me into-" A time portal then opened up beneath Pandora, sucking her in. She then shortly reappeared through another portal. "Please talk faster. I was gone for three days." She said as she sat back down.
"I'll just cut to the chase. What is the progress on a vaccine for Vampirism?" Anna asked bluntly.
"Well... I only just recently heard about it." Pandora said. "See, in my travels, I was Changed by the Ancient One and-"
"And you were vaccinated, allowing you to return to our comparative present." Anna interrupted.
"Are you assuming I'm an Omni-disciplinarian scientist?" Pandora groused. "Because that's a myth. You can't know everything there is to know about science on an individual-by-individual basis. I'm not saying that I won't do it, or that my company can't do it." She explained. "All I'm saying is that as far as conventional wisdom is concerned. It's impossible to undo undead-" She was then started when a figure dropped from the ceiling.
It was a rabbit woman, she had much of the left side of her body burnt, and her left ear was ravaged. "Oh for the love of- Radost! Don't you dare do anything stupid!" Anna demanded as she donned a pair of gloves with silver plates on the palms.
Radost approached Pandora. "I, am Radost Traurnyy. Distant niece of Anna Blackpaw. Forty years ago, my family was burned by a band of villains known as the 'Four Faces of Death'. The Kitts of my family survived... but I was burnt, but Aunt Anna, who was visiting us. Turned me into a Vampire to save my life... so to speak."
"Look, I've already got a few ideas on how to work around the fact that I can't learn everything there is to know about creating a vaccine," Pandora explained. "Believe me... I only tried to be an Omni-disciplinary scientist once, and that nearly led to unparalleled catastrophe-"
"Then what are you doing here?! Get back to you're lab and work on the matter!" Radost ranted frantically. "Also, where did you go?"
"Friends wedding, long story with that," Pandora said. "See in one dimension I met this sentient robot-"
Then without warning, a pair of Anna's children ran through the living room. "Children! What have I told you about playing inside like this?!" She admonished.
"But dads working!" One of the kitt's protested.
"No buts to you're mother little ones." Radost admonished. "Why not play a nice board game?"
The two Kitts then went to Pandora. "Aunt Pandora!" They said as they snuggled with her.
"Hey Morgan, Mordred," Pandora said as she rubbed the twin siblings' heads. "I'd love to stay, but I have to get going." Pandora then gave a small device to the twins. "Here's something to keep you occupied." The device was a levitating sphere, and Pandora dashed out of the front door.
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Several days later, Pandora had finished her creation. A pair of machines were in the process of creating two robots. "I'm just glad you asked me about this before you went ahead." Hiro Hamada said to his fiance.
"And thanks for suggesting that I make an Android version of you along with me," Pandora said as the two roboticists worked on the finishing touches on their doppelgangers. "And... they're fully programmed! They both have copies of our personalities and memories, as well as implanted knowledge of biology."
"Begining initialization," Hiro said as he pressed a series of buttons on a console.
The two robot duplicates awoke for the first time. They looked over each other as they stepped off of their construction platforms.
"This... is." The Android Hiro said.
"AWESOME!" The Android Pandora said excitedly as she hugged the Android Hiro. The two Androids couldn't restrain their excitement.
"Yeah, that's probably how we'd react," Hiro said nonchalantly.
"Tell me about it! I mean... it's been since I was a kitt that I was this excited about making robots!" Pandora said giddily.
"Wait." The Android Pandora said. "I'm... getting some kind of weird signal."
"Yeah... I'm getting something too." The Android Hiro said.
Pandora then pressed a few buttons on her console. "Yep, there's a Wilde-Hopps homing signal in the sewers... don't remember putting anything down there. I'll send a team down there to recover whatever this is." Several hours later, a high-tech coffin was brought before Pandora. "Well... this certainly looks like one of mine."
She then found a screen, it then played a message. "This is PAD-0001. Within this stasis crypt, is the Ancient One. The progenitor of all Vampires on Earth. With his blood, we can use his blood to engineer a vaccine for Vampirism. Granted I've been told that this will be harder than I was told. But I am willing and able to pursue this goal. If not for the greater good of all Mammalkind. Then at least to maintain the timeline. Be advised, the Ancient One is incredibly dangerous, frankly, it was thanks to sheer dumb luck that I even managed to catch him and Delphine off guard... anyway. Just make sure that I can get to the past to put the Ancient One into this stasis crypt." PAD-0001's recording explained.
"Well... that's another thing on the to-do list," Pandora said with consternation.
"Well it would be like making the TSDD, but it doesn't have to be a watch... or even sentient." Hiro pointed out.
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It took several weeks, plus several more pairs of Pandora and Hiro Androids. But finally, it was finished.
The Vampiric vaccine.
Pandora tentatively took it from PAD-0001. "Okay... now to see if this stuff works." The hybrid then pushed a button on a nearby console. "Send in the subject." Two robots brought in their test subject. Delphine Refait, fox Vampire. Captured twenty years ago by the Cabal of the Unseen Eye. Held prisoner ever since... all for this moment.
Delphine flashed a flirtasious look at Pandora. "Bonjour madmoisele."
Pandora just rolled her eyes and injected the vaccine without another word.
Delphine then gasped in shock and surprise. "My... my heart!"
"I can confirm that her vitals have returned to normal... she's alive," PAD-0001 said. "ALIVE!" She then started cackling.
"I'm only going to give you a pass because this is technically you're first time." Pandora admonished.
Delphine was let go of her restraints. "You... YOU!" Delphine charged at Pandora, only to get a swift kick in the face from the twenty-something fox/rabbit hybrid.
"You're reign of terror is over Delphine Refait. The life that you've lived in vain as a sadistic undead fiend is at its end." Pandora said, folding her arms behind her back.
"You... you do not understand-" Delphine coughed up blood on the floor. "I... I can't believe this."
"Babemax!" Hiro said to the inflatable robot pig his late brother created. "What's wrong with her?!"
"I will scan, Ms. Refait," Babemax stated, then a few seconds later. "Oh no."
"That is never a good thing to hear from a doctor," Pandora said as Delphine lay on the floor in exhaustion. "What specifically is wrong with Delphine?"
"She has, pneumonia. At least twenty tumors across much of her organs. According to my scans. It is a miracle that she survived to adulthood." Babemax stated.
"Tell me something... I don't know, cochon de guimauve." Delphine spitefully. "My family... treated me like a burden for my illnesses. Anna... Anna was the first one to ever treat me with any... any kindness." She explained as she continued coughing up blood.
"And you returned her kindness by killing your family and slaughtering everyone who was ever mean to you." Hiro mused. "At least you knew you're parents. Babemax, get her to the infirmy. There's bound to be something in there to help."
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Several hours later, a line of Vampires formed inside of the Wilde-Hopps Chimera Technologies headquarters. At the front was Radost and her boyfriend Polnoch. "I... I cannot believe this. Forty years a Vampire... and it will finally be over." Radost said in relief.
"I am here to provide emergency medical assistance if you undergo any unexpected reactions to the vaccine." Babemax declared. He then injected Radost with the Vampire vaccine. "We also provide skin grafts and cybernetic implants."
Radost ignored Babemax's comment about her complexion as a smile of joy spread across her face. "It... it works! Polnoch my love it works!" She then reacted to her almost fifty-year-old burns.
"Oh no. Your burns are agitating you. You shall be escorted to the infirmary." Babemax said.
The rest of the day went on like this, Vampires being vaccinated of their undeath one by one. Until nobody was left. "Well, Hiro... even if this doesn't make the world a better place. It's at least a little bit better for some people." Pandora said.
"Agreed... so the Cabal's will comp the cost of those vaccines right?" Hiro asked.
Pandora laughed. "Yeah... the Cabal of the Unseen Eye is loaded. These guys were all from them, so their money is good." Pandora then remembered something. "Scat! I completely forgot to build a time portal!"
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Several days later, Pandora finished the time portal. "Okay, PAD-0001," Pandora said to her robotic counterpart. "You'll go in, tranq Delphine and the Ancient One. Put the Ancient One in the stasis crypt-"
"And get your past self vaccinated," PAD-0001 said as she held up a high-tech syringe with the vaccine in question. "We've discussed this over a hundred times since I was created... also for some reason Clancy stole two of these without any explanation."
"That would probably be for Aunt Anna," Pandora said. "Now get going, before the timeline starts unraveling."
"No pressure." PAD-0001 went into the portal. And less than a few seconds later she returned to the present. "Okay, I got everything set up in the sewers. Now, to talk to you're past self." She then went back through the portal after Pandora recalibrated the device.
"Man, as complicated as this time travel stuff can be. I can't imagine my life without it." Pandora then had a melancholy look on her face.
"Done and- hey what happened while I was gone?" PAD-0001 asked her creator.
"I made myself sad," Pandora explained to her counterpart what exactly happened.
"Oh... well if you didn't make the TSDD in the first place. Mullerson would've won, everyone you ever cared about would either be dead or a mindless robotic minion, and you'd never meet an amazing guy like Hiro." PAD-0001 said sympathetically.
"I suppose... I just wish that my life didn't revolve around time travel as much as it does. I mean every week in this timeline-" Pandora was then swallowed through a time portal. One minute later she had returned, wearing tribal-looking clothing.
PAD-0001 looked bewildered. "What... what hap-"
"I was gone... for an entire month." Pandora fumed as she got a change of clothes. "And it wasn't even a proper mission. There are more Pandora's out there doing what I'm doing... and there was a party we all held."
"Yeah, my only real question was about the outfit," PAD-0001 said.
"It got out of hand... I don't even remember what happened at the party. I've got a headache like you wouldn't believe. And I lost my clothes!" Pandora ranted as she got changed. "Which brings me to another problem I have with Clancy. Abducting me at random times for one adventure after another. I don't even get a heads up, it's just every week I get spirited away to another dimension to find a Pandora that's trying to regain access to the Timeless Void and find the Citadel Out of Time-"
"It was a celebration," Clancy said, stepping out of a time portal. "There are only a few rogue Pandora's left in the multiverse. So, we Clancy's figured that we'd announce the good news, and give the rest of you a chance to celebrate at length."
Pandora looked confused. "Then why was I?-"
"It got crazy. I'll spare you the exact details. Suffice it to say Shaman Pandora brought something... that caused the party to get out of hand for everyone involved, including the Clancy's. Not helped by Superhero Clown Pandora's laughing gas" Clancy explained.
"Yeah, that sounds right. The few times I ran into them they always had some sort of hallucinogenic substance with them." Pandora noted. "But... does this mean what I think it means?"
"Then soon you'll no longer have to travel through dimensions to hunt down rogue versions of yourself? Exactly." Clancy said.
Pandora's relatively sullen mood perked up almost immediately. "Y-You're serious?! I know you're not above lying to me-"
"I'm not. I'd take you to where they are right away. But..." Clancy then opened another time portal and went through.
"And he leaves without explaining anything," Pandora said. "Well, I need to get back to my life after a month apparently at a party somewhere in the omniverse... I don't even know if we agreed on a date for the wedding."
"Here's the data on it as of now," PAD-0001 said as she gave a tablet to Pandora. "I'm honestly surprised that Aunt Anna offered to do all of this for free... and that she hasn't had a nervous breakdown yet."
"Yeah well, during my time traveling I did help her protect the Blackpaw family from near-total destruction. Apparently, a Vampire's word is absolute... even ex-Vampires." Pandora said as she looked over the tablet. Then she left the room. "Okay, there is no way even she could afford that many gift bags!"