The Pandemic is the first Chapter of Neverending Story 3 and coincided with the real world pandemic of COVID-19 during the years it was written. The opening act saw Chris the Bad Guy hire several groups - The Otakus, Australian Clown-Robots and Pleiades' Crew of alien space pirates - to defeat the new NeS Heroes on their home island dubbed The Ditch. Chris is determined to defeat Losien Simon, the Main Character, who he sees as his arch nemesis, but she just wants him to go home so she can get on with painting the walls. She is quickly joined by new member, Aladdyn the half-genie, who proves to be almost useless as his Wish Powers only sometimes work and always go wrong. One of the robots turns on their group as they recognise Losien as their old friend. This medical robot, Char, then joins Losien's team in escaping. The Otakus try to attack Iriana Emp, while in her lighthouse, when Wai, former NeS Hero, makes a sudden and unexpected return. Finally they are joined by Newb, who spends most of her time spying on her friends from Newb's Perch on Ditch Mountain. When in-fighting breaks out between robots and pirates, one of the robots, a clown-car named Honeybee, ends up helping the heroes as she is attracted to Aladdyn. After defeating the villains and sending Chris back to his mom, a new threat emerges when Necroman lands in Australia and his necromist turns all organic life into necroids - manic, crazed, violent and self-destructive. They decide to travel to Antarctica, where they hope to find the hidden city of robots, Sanctuary, to ask them to stop Necroman, as only they can withstand the necromist. Honeybee reveals she can transform and turns into a clown-battleship to sail the ocean. A small pug arrives, whose name is CopyKAT. His memories are faded, but he knows he was once a proud Galactitron Warrior and he vaguely remembers his wife, Stargaze. He is able to alter his appearance to that of other beings he has seen. They are attacked by Greenpeace, then by Somali Pirates and then a sapient Iceberg, which sinks Honeybee so she turns into a submarine. They are captured by the shoggoth of Underwateropolis, but manage to trick the shoggoth when CopyKAT turns his appearance into one of them and they try to use Char's Voicebox to convince them to release the heroes. However, it is the sudden attack of merfolk, searching for a means to access Atlantean technology, that allows them to escape - only to discover that Honeybee had been stolen by The Beatles. The Beatles accidentally unleash the dark power of LJN, which causes the heroes to reappear aboard Honeybee and open a Plothole. The Plothole is closed because a major event occurs to cement this new reality - Adolf Hitler returns to life and take over Germany as the Vegetarian Empire. The heroes then mistakenly arrive at the Arctic instead of Antarctica. They are attacked by Santa Claus and decide they will steal Santa's Sleigh to get across the world in an instant. In Antartica, a Newb clone, Newb 2.0, finds the Crystal Heart, which merges her mind into Newb's mind, in the Arctic, but also sends the cybernetic dog, Mutt, to the party in the Arctic, and he agrees to help them find Sanctuary once they reach Antartica. After escaping Cold Castle and Santa's Little Leprechauns, the group are under joint attack from Santa Claus and a Galactitron Scout. The scout has arrived ahead of the Galactitron Fleet, which is led by the Galactitron King. The Galactitrons are searching for the powerful Medallion, which is around CopyKAT's neck, believing CopyKAT to be dead - having seen his original body deceased - and had even destroyed the Lunaz in their search. They are currently embroiled in a battle with the Crappily-Drawn-Spiders, but the scout is investigating the prowess of humanity in advance of the fleet's arrival. The heroes manage to escape on Santa's Sleigh, but not before both Santa and the scout are blown up by a stray rocket from Newb, which she tried to use on Aladdyn. In Antartica, they first visit the site Newb 2.0 had been, which they discover to be Substation Delta Kappa Phi, an old Hero Force installation, and meet with CynthAI. She explains that the Crystal Heart was meant to restore Newb 2.0's memories, but merged her mind to Newb's instead and that the KGB had scrambled her mind so badly that the water in the Crystal Heart couldn't restore them. With that, the group finally head for Sanctuary, guided by Mutt, but the three robots, Mutt, Wai and Char, are instantly quarantined for fear of a robot virus in Char, whose memory banks have been compromised. The others are met by former NeS Hero Galvatron, who introduces them to the Sanctuary Elders, but they prove to be uncooperative, forcing the heroes to seek a new solution to the necroids. Elsewhere, a young man named Arnold seeks out the scientist Orë in hopes he could reastore his dead friend to life. Orë intended to splice the dead friend's DNA to Arnold and allow the dead friend to be restored through Arnold. However, a mix up occured and Arnold was turned into a half-fox. Orë is called to Sanctuary to help them deal with the robot virus, so he takes Arnold with him. They arrive in Sanctuary, but Orë proves to be treacherous and calls security on Arnold, who isn't authorised to be there. Orë does, however, want to fix Wai and Char, so the pair decide to stay in Sanctuary. The NeS Heroes offer Arnold a place with them and they escape Sanctuary saftely, and Galvatron promises to stay and help Wai and Char with their repairs, as well as watch the rogue AI, another copy of CynthAI, who may have caused Char's malfunction. The Galactitron Fleet arrives, though comes under attack from the American Space Forces, led by the U.S. President Bill Murray. Stargaze uses her powers to locate the Medallion and CopyKAT and CopyKAT realises who he truly is and restores his robot-self. Losien sees this as an opportunity and asks that he, and the Galactitrons, fight off the necroids and they would also be unaffected by the necromist. They travel to Australia and CopyKAT attacks Necroman, along with his wife and their warriors. They are especially fearful of Taylor Swift, who they believe to be a mighty warrior, who has been turned into a necroid. She manages to even get the Medallion from CopyKAT, but just uses it to force all radios to play country music only. By turning Honeybee into a giant phone, Losien activates the 5G signal, which draws the 5G Zombies, including Bucket Head and Doctor Z, to fight the necroids too. Necroman reaches the top of the skyscraper where the last Australian survivors are, including the Australian Prime Minister. The heroes try to stop them, but Iriana, Arnold and Losien are all turned into necroids and attack Newb and Aladdyn. In an anticlimatic moment, all of Earth's heroes suddenly arrive - thanks to Losien's 5G signal - and knock out Necroman, which causes the necromist to vanish and the necroids to return to normal. CopyKAT returned to the planet Galactitron with his wife and people and the heroes return to their home island, The Ditch, though CopyKAT did help to grant Newb's wish to get a new car.