Toon Wars 2008

***[These stories contain slightly exaggerated Christian elements, weird acts of violence, and total cringe. Frozar was hardly 8 at the time so you've been warned]***

The 2008 version of Toon Wars is the earliest known draft of the series that, like its following counterparts, had its own stories and distinct continuity which lasted from 2008 to 2014. It was referred to as "Super Heroes Unleashed" while the name "Toon Wars" was used for one of its fan projects, telling the tale of how the Nicktoons went to war with an ambiguous threat. Eventually, this idea would be expanded before ultimately becoming the final version we got in 2017. Like How to train your Hero, a story originally intended to fill in a gap between this and a sequel series akin toToon Wars: Legacy, this has a lot of characters typically coming from random media (mainly due to the fact that Frozar was barely a tween at the time and didn't understand consistency). It's around the making of HTTYH that the series essentially ended as a sort of reboot/newer version of events were being made. In 2021, several of these works were archived and released on Frozar's Deviantart page, containing the original Toon Wars comics along with Super Heroes Unleashed 1, Ponies Unleashed 1, and a number of shorts. Due to the sheer amount of incomprehensible detail, surprisingly deeper than much of Toon Wars' final version, this page is writing based on how Frozar as an adult remembers them, explaining their stories to the best of his ability.

## Prequels

### Nicktoons Battle Dimension

The first chronological story in the early series is Nicktoons Battle Dimension taking place in a world very much like CN City but with Nicktoons characters (later revealed to be Volcano Island). After admiring the plants near his house, Spongebob stumbles upon a guardian angel named Johnny who warns everyone of a future invasion of Earth from the Underworld. To stop the Demons from breaking through Heaven and into the physical plane, Johnny sends the Nicktoons (Spongebob, Danny, Timmy, Jimmy, and GIR for some reason) out to Egypt to recover an ancient artifact designed to purify/purge Satan's forces (which in this case means shooting a laser in the sky). While traveling to an ancient temple, just a random temple, the storms of Hell pick up and almost destroy the Nicktoons but fails as they're protected by the pass Johnny gave them for when they enter the tombs. He also informed them about the altar containing different sections with a piece inside meant to activate the artifact. These include in no particular order:

* A battle arena at the center of Hell itself
* A mummy area
* A twister section
* And the Great Pyramid outside the temple

After successfully gathering the parts for the artifact and being rescued by Johnny via their rocket when the storms began to crack the Earth, Satan (or someone akin to him) takes their items and activates the artifact himself, causing the machine to instead allow Hell to completely consume the planet. The Nicktoons along with Johnny survive the purge and are forced to flee from the Underworld's titanic monsters while being aided by other forces like the Irkens and the rest of Volcano Island. Knowing the temple had turned into one of the creatures, each of the main characters besides their guardian angel merge into Omega Bob in a sequence very much like Transformers Energon (a show that isn't any better than this fanfiction). They use their flight power to find the right creature containing the artifact and destroy it, unlocking the parts they found and the core of the machine to activate the purification. When the forces of Hell are purged, the Earth immediately resets to a period before the story began, having successfully prevented the Demonic attack. Johnny still remains with the Nicktoons however, making sure one of the Demons doesn't return.

Despite this seeming like a pretty big deal in the grand scheme of things, none of these events are ever brought up again. However, Johnny does appear in the Toon Wars sequel still acting as a guardian angel, now with a physical presence.

### Nicktoons Combat Racing

Literally just a parody of Jak X: Combat Racing, this sequel introduces us to Spongebob's white hair and new duds. Zim has also arrived without a rhyme or reason as to why he was absent for the last story but GIR wasn't. After watching an advertisement for a race competition in some place I don't know, Spongebob (yes, him again) calls to participate. The rest of his friends tag along. They travel to their sports headquarters to meet Zake (I assume its pronounced like Zach/Zack, not Snake) and his co host, Jeff, who Zake says is a little shifty looking but you shouldn't worry about him cause he's giving you free cars. Almost immediately after getting them set up and winning their first race, Spongebob's car explodes; thankfully after he left the vehicle. Danny points out that he saw a ball attached to the car the whole time appearing as though it was part of the frame, like a sensor I guess. Zake, being surprisingly smart about this, lets everyone know that there's a man out there who's been sabotaging a lot of his races for weeks; kind of explaining why Zake was so quick to get the Nicktoons in the championship. A good mugshot only depicting the mysterious man's shadow however definitely does NOT look like Jeff, so that's a decent start. Furthermore, Spongeglob (the Spongebob-esque form of Globulous Maximus) arrives to give even more info about the car jacker, who also exploded a car lot while the race took place.

The next race goes successfully between the Nicktoons and basic drone cars. But this time, when Timmy Turner hits first place, he triggers his and everyone's vehicles to instantly come apart despite Spongebob using Krasy Glue (I'm guessing this is meant to pay homage to Kras City from Jak X and not a typo) to keep them together. Views go down, not suggesting disinterest but of more cars breaking down. Zim, being the second smartest person this whole story, put a camera in their garage to catch the car jacker shooting their tires, including someone else on the scene with him. The footage, unfortunately is too grainy to make out who it is, but Jeff, not even Zake, had anything to do with it. Again, the mystery unfolds! Next day, a new race begins. But Spongebob's car overheats at the start of it, forcing him to eject before it explodes (they really aren't that good at inspecting their equipment before each race). Patrick visits the Nicktoons later on to tell them that the Grand Prix is coming soon. While everyone else goes to prepare, Spongebob pays Jeff a visit at his mansion to ask him about the car jacker since Zake already gave as much info as he knew. What he ends up finding is his front door open and a laptop containing all the security footage on autoplay. This time in high definition detailing Jeff sabotaging the cars. ***WHAT A TWIST!!!*** Jeff confronts Spongebob and traps him in the room, explaining to him that "all everyone cares about is racing" and "he was gonna own it had Zake not proven the better host for it. Blah blah blah, "I'm jealous and I wanna kill everyone." The dialogue on display is off the chain! His end goal is to totally sabotage the Grand Prix by assassinating Zake with a gun hidden inside a camera...somehow.

Fortunately, Patrick and Danny go to investigate Jeff's place after he left when they heard Spongebob went to his mansion. They save him and the evidence, quickly hopping back in a car to get to the premier stage of the final event before Jeff kills Zake. After racing through traffic and getting to the stage, Spongebob tackles the camera gun and reveals Jeff is the killer on air (not to be confused with Jeff the Killer). Jeff lashes out at the Nicktoons, challenging them to the Grand Prix. After two races where Jeff attempts one last sabotage on the ranking system, Zake gives Spongebob his good faith to win the final event. A full combat challenge to destroy each other's vehicles. Jeff is defeated when his tire is flattened, allowing a clear victory for the Nicktoons despite their cars getting dismantled from explosives. Jeff STILL isn't done though, taking a bomb to toss at Spongebob but Zake shoots it out his hand (if he had the right angle, he'd end this right then and there but we're still not finished). Even more angry, Jeff transforms his still intact vehicle into an aircraft, flying around, bombarding areas of town and the garage until Spongebob, aboard a personal transport for Zake, ejects his car out of it to crash into Jeff, killing him. The next morning, the Nicktoons leave town, likely going back to Volcano Island. And Zake is never seen again.

## Toon Wars (The First Draft)

Before the war actually begins, Spongebob and Patrick (who has a robo-arm for some reason) pursue a supposed crab dude wreaking havoc across Volcano Island in a car (Jeff's got a kindred spirit). They shoot off one of his tires but the man keeps going until Danny, seeing the chase from afar, goes intangible to tear out the car's engine. The nameless man crashes into nearby explosives on a bridge (it says toxic waste but it combusts, possibly cause of the gas from the car). Job well done! Spongebob goes back to his normal routine of heading to the Krusty Krab for work. Not the one in Bikini Bottom. This is in Volcano Island. But then Squidward comes in with a machine gun and shoots up the place, killing Mr. Krabs with a grenade and escaping with a missing limb after Spongebob sliced it off with a sword! **NONE OF THIS IS MADE UP!** Krabs, luckily, was able to return the next day as an angel thanks to Johnny. But then an invasion fleet of UFOs, possibly stolen ships from the island since they look the same as they do, arrives and destroys the volcano, thus declaring war on the Nicktoons universe!

Some general with no name sends Sponge, Pat, Dan, Tim, and Jim on a mission to some desert to find a city for some reason. There, after getting fresh water and battling in an arena clearly ripping off Jak 3, they establish a base and get into a space battle against the evil forces. Elsewhere, Zim is disappointed that the Tallests do not appreciate his work and prepares to leave the order (which I'm sure is definitely not something Zim would do even in Enter the Florpus). Again, the same enemy fleet appears and overtakes the Irkens, forcing them to head to Earth to assist the Nicktoons. Spongebob the next night is sent by Sandy to deliver a package to a shipyard but isn't even told what's inside. Next morning, he and Zim meet Jenny in the med bay being repaired after being shot out the sky by Takship gone rogue. Zim and Spongebob shut the ship down and more chaos ensues when they head to a temple similar to the one in their first adventure, encountering the Dark Crab and Squidward. Somehow they've amassed an entire army in less than a few hours to attack Volcano Island and totally repaired themselves. However, some hints suggests these attacks were predetermined by an unknown force and they're simply taking their leadership's place. Danny also discovers the General that sent them on their first mission was, in reality, one of the enemies trying to starve them. The villain is killed, and Squidward is targeted next aboard one of the enemy flagships, being convinced by Spongebob to return to the light before being killed by the Dark Crab, who plans on using his home base's volcano to completely rewrite history using a time distortion. Spongebob and Patrick travel to the wilderness to confront the mastermind, defeating him at his volcano and putting an end to the war...I think.

## Super Heroes Unleashed Series

### Super Heroes Unleashed

Although what was the main point of the war was over, a much larger conflict was about to commence when the Justice League along with other superhero organizations from comics had mysteriously gone missing, leaving only Superman and the Dog Stars around to lead the fight against Brainiac and his forces, who've taken the appearance of Mechanikat and his Cat Bots...for some reason. Krypto and Brainy Barker are tasked with recruiting a new team of superheroes for the Hero League Initiative in hopes of gaining a large enough force to take on the Brainiacs. However, the selected heroes are only informed about this late after they were recruited, not being told that Brainiac's forces were in disguise as regular supercats like the Dog Stars are used to fighting. This at first upsets them but they quickly spring into action when their home base is attacked by an enemy fleet. All is forgiven when as a challenge, Mechanikat (who's really Brainiac taking on an anthro form and playing an act) starts a tournament depicting some of his team against the new heroes, including a laser tag challenge, a pop quiz, and a foot race.

Unfortunately, since this depiction of Brainiac is a sore loser apparently (or is still really good at playing the role of Mechanikat), he abducts Krypto and Brainy, taking them to his underwater fortress. The recruits track them down and separate to rescue them and confront the leaders of the assault, taking out Delilah and Isis but losing Snooky when Delilah tosses him out. In the end, Brainiac is defeated while the captives are saved. Brainy is sure to inform Superman that their mission was a success and soon the Hero League would become a reality.

### Super Heroes Unleashed 2 and 3

That is until Brainiac escapes his prison and tries to use his hidden superweapon, a giant space platform resembling a huge ball robot with an angry eye tower, to attack the Earth (similar to how Unicron from *Transformers* could consume planets without transforming). Fortunately, with quick thinking from the Dynamic Trio consisting of Spongebob and two OC's, the base explodes, not only almost killing Brainiac, but also leaving his fleet in the hands of Snooky Wookums (the last remaining organic since *Krypto the Superdog*).

By now, only a few years after the 2nd story, the Hero League had been established and has made itself a galactic power, much like the Republic from *Star Wars* (Right down to having space battles and ships based around it). What remains of the ruined space fortress is scattered, but the command tower contains the damaged Brainiac, still in his anthro form with his electronics exposed. Fortunately, with Wookums around, he was able to sneak past much of the Hero league's fleet on Earth and grab whatever resources he could find to repair his fallen master, giving him the power to automatically rebuild the station and its factories.

### Super Heroes Unleashed 4

At the start of the 4th comic, the Hero League has officially gone to war with the Brainiacs to the point where full on space battles are being held above Earth. the Hero League itself was also expanded to include just about anything the author had in the kitchen sink, whether it'd be cartoons he's seen or video games he's played even if they don't fit into the story. as Brainiac's plans become more and more bizarre, Wookums realizes the futility in serving his master and protests against his idea to use Venus to superheat the Earth (yes. This was something he was planning to do). Out of spite, Brainiac kills Snooky and decides to cause decent in the Hero League by manipulating leaders within their organization into allying with him. He states that in a few mere days, something terrible will happen to the Earth unless they cooperate with him and kill the Dynamic Trio, Brainy, Krypto, and Superman (the ones who've defeated him again and again). Somehow, the world's united government did not protest this or see the stupidity in the plan, but I guess Brainiac still had his persuasive techniques handy since we don't see this conversation go down.

After a summit meeting at the UN, Krypto, Brainy, and Superman are forcibly launched into deep space, though since they're super, they easily fly off course and make their escape. The Dynamic Trio also manage to locate them and bring them to safety while under the constant hunt from bounty hunters. Even their own allies, such as Danny Phantom, are actively trying to find them less they suffer the same fate (which is completely out of character for almost all of them). Despite each setback attempting to have the heroes, mainly Krypto and Brainy, captured and used as bait to kill the other escapees, they frequently manage to avoid execution and are eventually forced to sabotage their own organization in order to stop Brainiac from succeeding. As it turns out, his space station, combined with the energy from Venus, and the signal boost from the Space City (a world ship built around this time) were all meant to activate a planet sized creature within the Earth itself (visibly using the exact same mechanics as the Hellspawns from Battle Dimension). When the time is right, Brainiac tells the US President to activate the switch to turn this creature on, lying to him that its going to be a creature used to defend the world. Fortunately, the Dynamic Trio manage to hijack the Space City (now turned into a giant armada for Brainiac) and crash it into their space station, not only delaying Brainiac's plans but also causing him to lose his signal to turn on the superweapon.

Unfortunately, even with all these odds, the superweapon, a massive Unicron-shaped robot, activates anyway, albeit slowly as the ingredients to make him whole were incomplete. With no other options, Brainiac interfaces directly with the creature's brain, using it to not only destroy much of the Hero League's fleet, but also destroy nearby planets and stars. Every ship it absorbs adds to its size and makes it significantly stronger than ever. Thankfully, Krypto, along with the Dynamic Trio, confront Brainiac and finally put an end to him before he's able to completely devour the world. Superman, meanwhile, dives deep into the monster's systems with a cruiser and manages to destroy its power core, disabling the superweapon. However, as a last resort, the monster separates its parts, turning them into mobile bombs to destroy whatever is left of the Hero League. Quickly, Superman, along with GIR as his Astromech (seriously), takes flight to the planetary defense grid, shut down from damage during the space battle. With barely any time left, Clark manages to rewire the system and activate a chain reaction that causes the grid to convert itself into a super laser of its own. it automatically fires upon the last of the evil creature, causing it to explode and FINALLY save the galaxy. Superman and GIR also escape the blast just at the skin of their teeth, celebrating with the rest of the Hero League as the war was put to an end...

## Ponies Unleashed

Or so we thought... As it would eventually turn out years later, Brainiac still had one last trick up his sleeve before death.

## Trivia

* So many questions cropped up while researching these drafts that would've been obvious to anyone. the most notable being: Why did Brainiac decide to take the form of Mechanikat just to get his revenge on the Justice league, playing along in a children's cartoon for years until he no longer required the body? In addition, if everyone knew he was Brainiac by the end of the 2nd story, why did he continue to call himself Mechanikat and take the form of an anthro cat?