Crossover Forces

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Toon Wars Legacy: Crossover Forces, or simply Crossover Forces, is the first feature of the sequel series to the fan-made Toon Wars, taking place 2 years after the end of Toon Wars: The Final Days. It follows a group of new select Cartoon Network shows (Mao Mao, Infinity Train, Victor and Valentino, Villainous, and Summer Camp Island) saving the Toonverse from a threat originating from outside of CN and Nickelodeon, and their new Horde Syndicate. Early screening for its first 5 chapters had been posted on a private Discord server from late January to early March, fixing several grammatical errors and character dialogue. The full release of the crossover was originally set for early Summer 2020, with teaser covers and bios posted prior for hype. However, with the outbreak of Covid-19, the first chapter was published globally as Act 1 of 3. The story concluded on June 27, 2020, and was followed by The Watterson on September 10th of that year.

## Story

### Toon Wars: The Final Days

At the time of the final battle against the Toon God, Dr. Flug, Dementia, and 5.0.5. of the Blue Hat Organization investigate a crash site near their world with a live signal. While there, Bimm's rage causes reality to shatter around the group; the only thing keeping them safe being the Fourth Wall Controls keeping their series on hold. As they examine the small crater at the site, Flug sees that the signal came from a barely conscious humanoid who had been almost completely deformed from the reality warp. Before being taken to safety, she turns to the doctor showing the twisted right half of her face while painfully mustering the name, "Adora."

### Act 1

A decade following Book 1 of Infinity Train, Tulip Olsen revisits the site of the station where she met One-One. They reunite with the latter gleefully explaining that he's managed to create a secondary remote module of himself to greet any passengers. On Tulip's end, she's made a living working as programmer and game tester and simply wanted to explore again after so long. One-One then reveals to her that a new cart had been created with a portal to Toon City, replacing the original gate to CN City after the restoration of reality 2 years in Toonverse-time. Confused, Tulip asks what all of this is, prompting One-One to invite her to Toon City to learn for herself. They both enter the city through the warp gate with the train stopped, being greeted by a hologram of Dexter who tours them through the bustling metropolis. He teaches them about the many activities present there, and a brief history of the Toon Wars where the Syndicate had manipulated many cartoons in Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon to wage war on one another, all while fulfilling their own plans for the conquest of the multiverse. The conflict lasted for a long 5 years until the arrival and defeat of the maniacal Toon God, who threatened to destroy all of reality and attack those in the next (the real world). With the war over, any cartoon, whether canceled or concluded, were free to thrive without the limitations of the real world. The Toon Force, responsible for ending the conflict, quickly began to study the effects of the Fourth Wall and started to consider more governmental expansion to manage the new Toonverse. To avoid any mistakes, the founders and frequent members of the organization ventured into unknown space hoping to get inspiration from neighboring cartoons of other multiverses.

Tulip and One-One explore a large majority of the city's attractions and eventually stop at the square enjoying the experience. Suddenly, as Tulip begins to wonder if other recent cartoons were made aware of the war that preceded them, the Sky Pirate known to Pure Heart as Orangusnake announces he and the Horde Syndicate's takeover of the Toonverse. Before anyone could summon any available heroes, the villain warns the city that they'll respond with immediate force using their hidden superweapons. His ship, a massive cloaked Dreadnought-class cruiser, abducts Tulip and One-One. Though the citizens, including Symbiotic Titan and Ben Tennyson, attempt to rescue them, they are immediately incapacitated by a horde of Echo Drones (some worn down since Magiswords Echoes or seeing action for the first time). Some of them attack the mayor's office where Future Timmy Turner works, injuring him and exiting with the captives to their hidden fortress world. Just when he is unsure of who to turn to knowing the Horde Syndicate would respond, Future Timmy is greeted by Blue Hat, a hero from an alternate timeline of the Toon Wars, ensuring him that he has a plan to stop the new threat.

Meanwhile in the closing days of Summer Camp Island, Max goes to tell Oscar and Hedgehog about a strange new complex being built on the island's forests. Though cautious, they go to investigate when they encounter Orangusnake preparing for an invasion on Monte Macabre. As soon as he leaves through a portal, the trio start planning to tell Susie and other authorities about the impending invasion when they are suddenly ambushed by the Echo Drones. They manage to capture Max, while Hedgehog and Oscar barely manage to escape through the outpost portal set for Toon City. At Monte Macabre, Victor and Valentino head for an event at their hometown at the time of Orangusnake's invasion, quickly getting ambushed by the Formicidaes. The villain and his Sky Pirates force the boys to take them to the locked basement hidden under their neighborhood where treasures and ancient talisman are stored. Looking to cause more mayhem, Orangusnake frees HueHue, who immediately becomes attached to him. He's informed of the Toonverse and leaves Valentino and Victor to their doom as he and Orangusnake depart for the Invincible. Being familiar with their home, they easily escape execution and are rescued by 505 and Dr. Flug via a Toon City portal.

On a sunny afternoon at Pure Heart, Sheriff Mao Mao, Badgerclops, and Adorabat defeat a giant spider-like cyborg and return to the headquarters to relax since the Sky Pirates hadn't returned for months. An Echo Drone greets the trio, asking if they're in the correct location of the kingdom, which Mao Mao confirms not knowing the robot was a villain. An attack commences when the Invincible warps above the Ruby Heart, sending its forces and bombarding the city. Mao Mao and co. go to rescue the civilians, succeeding in distracting the drones and disabling the weaker turrets of the dreadnought. Mao Mao demands Orangusnake to confront him believing him to be responsible for the attack. But he's quickly shot down from the sky off his hoverbike and alerted to King Snugglemagne's cry for help. In the castle, the king is being held by a villain unlike those around Pure Heart, who orders her troops to bring the Ruby Heart into their ship's main hangar. As they leave, Mao Mao tries to engage their leader, but is stunned by her morbid appearance as she vanishes. The Invincible and it's forces jump into hyperspace, leaving Pure Heart without it's crystal. Their hopes are somewhat lifted when Blue Hat contacts the heroes with another Toon City portal, asking for their help in defeating the Horde Syndicate and hopefully saving the Toonverse. They accept and teleport to the metropolis while Tulip, aboard the Invincible, is met by the mysterious leader, Cyber Catra. She admits she isn't of Pure Heart nor the Toonverse entirely, and that One-One is in her control. If Tulip wishes to see him again, she must comply or be met with immediate death once his use is over. When Catra leaves, Tulip is then rescued by Dementia, who incapacitates the Echo Drones at the warp station when they crawl through the vent shafts. The short fight briefly disables power to the ship from a portal overload, forcing it into reserve power mode. Catra tasks one of the drones, Bob, with re-establishing power while the rest go to examine the warp gate. Using her programming skills, Tulip is able to re-energize the portal and escape with Dementia just in time to Toon City. Meanwhile, One-One, hooked into the ship's module bay, is forced to connect to the Ruby Heart's activation system to energize the hidden Syndicannons super lasers below the water underneath the ship.

With the team assembled at Toon City, Blue Hat introduces himself as the leader of his mini organization, consisting of him, Dr. Flug, Dementia, and 505. Fully aware that there's a cartoon where they're the bad guys, he explains how they originate from a much different timeline where the Toon Force were the evil Syndicate and ultimately led to the destruction of reality, leaving Blue Hat and his team as it's soul survivors. When they traveled to the Toon Wars Timeline for aid, they accidentally established a base during the Final Days, only able to leave when reality was being further distorted from Bimm's enraged attacks. As the battle continued, they discovered Catra downed in a crater and brought her to base for repairs, learning how she originated from the Netflix Omniverse at the Despondos Dimension (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power). She was duplicated when reality was being warped during Season 3's end, disfigured and knocked unconscious by Adora before the dimension could be repaired. After learning of the Toonverse's history, Cyber Catra betrayed Blue Hat and began to obtain Toon War and early era assets, eventually forming the Horde Syndicate with the acquisition of the Echo Drones and her alliance with Orangusnake. With a threat placed on the Toon Force for their return and for those in reserve, Blue Hat sought help from the heroes he summoned. Though conflicted at first, they agree to work together to defeat the new villains, but not without taking the time to get acquainted with each other. They explain their cartoons to one another, quickly beginning to bond over dinner until they're informed of a further crisis on Monte Macabre with the civilians in hiding. Blue Hat suggests visiting Lyvhseria to borrow their Magiswords to counter the Echo Drones' near indestructible armor, which Mao Mao backs up by pondering if one were to know of any other weaknesses since their years of inactivity at the scrap yards. Reluctantly, he takes the group over to Tanya Keys outside of Pure Heart, who admits to her involvement in the gathering of Toon War assets for the new Syndicate. Including schematics for the Syndicannon and the Echo Drones. While Lyvsheria is aware of the drones' hardware following the Siege of Rhybloflaven, Tanya points out an obvious flaw in their design. That being the exposed gem in their foreheads. With the damages inflicted from the battle and years of neglect, any particular Magisword the group obtain could aid them in their fight superbly. Privately, Tanya apologizes to Mao Mao, regretful for essentially giving Catra an army and the weaponry perfect for a full invasion. Before Mao Mao could comfort her, he's informed of Monte Macabre's current condition getting worse, forcing he and the group to leave immediately for Lyvsheria to meet the Warriors for Hire, who Tanya laughs over knowing they'll give the heroes a tough time.

### Act 2

Upon entering Lysheria, the group are immediately met by Professor Cyrus, who gives them a tour of the city before bringing them to Zange's manor. After briefly meeting and befriending Alex and Gracy, two apprentices to Vambre and Prohyas, they're taken to the warrior due who excitedly take them in to train them in Magisword combat. Each member besides Dr. Flug and Dementia are given a specific Magisword; usually ones to their disliking. However, some like Tulip's Programmer Magisword and Hedgehog's Rad Rocket prove highly beneficial upon training with Phibby Croax acting as an obstacle. Despite their doubts, they succeed the Warriors' tests. But before departing for Monte Macabre, Adorabat stumbles upon Bimm and Cattus' bedroom, still containing the Ball of Yarn Magisword. Prohyas confirms it was left by accident when they were in a rush for their adventure to unknown space.

At Monte Macabre, much of the townspeople are taken hostage by Orangusnake and HueHue when Xochi protests by standing up. Before she is struck down by the Echo Commandos and marching Formicidae, Valentino and Victor distract the villains from across the city square, alerting them to their presence. Though still suffering from inexperience with their Magiswords, the heroes are able to corner the Formicidae and systematically shut down the commandos using Tanya's advice. This, however, doesn't stop HueHue from entering the battle while Orangusnake exits to the Infinity Train. He and the other Sky Pirates battle with the heroes, successfully countering and transforming most of them into inanimate objects. But just when things seem lost, the two half brothers use a previous method of beating HueHue and trick he and the other villains to prank their grandmother, Chata, still playing bingo across the street. They do so and are met by Chata banishing all the trickster Gods HueHue freed to absorb, traumatizing the Sky Pirates and forcing a hasty retreat. Though HueHue confidently challenges the heroes with a statement that they'll never find their secret base. With the Formicidae subdued and the citizens freed, the team rest after a successful mission, returning the next morning when the Infinity Train is revealed to have been sabotaged by Orangusnake and his commandos. The Cat, still aboard the car for Toon City, explains that One-One's primary module was destroyed, leaving the train without a conductor. The result causes the train itself to slice through reality and randomize its various cars, as seen when they attempt to open the same door that ends up leading to different cars. While separated, Tulip and Dementia start to bond from each other's unique abilities and history, encountering Amelia at the Mall Car. She's been able to repair several other cars and even found one of her own after her resolve following Book 1 of *Infinity Train*. With her help, she along with the heroes reach the engine. Inside, however, they are met with resistance from the Steward, which had been corrupted by Cyber Catra's meddling. While Dr. Flug and Amelia go to repair the conductor module with the Programmer Magisword, Tulip conducts the rest of the team on a strategic way to defeat the Steward, utilizing both their environment and their skills to shut it down. Just when its seemingly inactive, it briefly pops back online to shout Adora's name before Hedgehog destroys it with her Magisword. Amelia agrees to keep the train running properly until the team can return One-One, finally bringing her train number to 0 as a result of her actions. For their effort, the Cat offers them a tip on the location of the Horde Syndicate's hidden base, revealing it to be centered in the abandoned CN City. Unfortunately, no other access point to it exists besides the portal placed at Summer Camp Island. Hoping to liberate it and reach the portal at the outpost at once, the heroes are brought through a passenger door opened by Amelia.

Meanwhile, aboard the Invincible, Cyber Catra offers Orangusnake a new suit of armor for his cooperation with her and converses with Max, telling him that in spite of him being prisoner, she enjoys having him around freely seeing no point in claiming his world as one of her own. Disappoingly, he mopes that he's responsible for ultimately putting Hedgehog and Oscar in danger. But surprisingly, Catra encourages him that although he made a mistake, he's actively admitting it and wishes to fix it; something she realizes she never did prior. This life lesson stuns Max before he's escorted back to his cell by her, being told of her days with Scorpia and Entrapta along the way.

As explained by Susie, one of the island's witches, all of Summer Camp Island had been converted into a prison camp by the Echo Commandos; the children and other creatures having been taken captive at their outpost. By way of disguise, having Badgerclops wear a commando suit to infiltrate the outpost, the heroes are successful in reaching the portal while Victor and Dementia stay behind to free the islanders and cause a distraction for the other goons. However, just before accessing the coordinates for CN City, they are immediately cornered by Bob, sent by Cyber Catra to assault them. Though he puts up a decent challenge, he is outsmarted by Hedgehog, transformed into a werewolf from her feral side taking warning, and Adorabat shielding his face. Bob retreats back to the Invincible, leading the group to CN City after the island had been saved.

Upon entering the abandoned metropolis, everyone is immediately flooded with nostalgia. Dr. Flug explains how immediately following the events of Crossover Nexus, the early stages of the Toon Wars had begun with the arrival of the Syndicate, manipulating much of the populace into either turning against their network and its cartoons or abandoning the war before it began. Deep within the confines of the flooded subway stations, they learn how Bimm's eventual coming of age was prophesied prior to CN City's fall. But once finished, they quickly notice that old Syndicate war vehicles, the Battloons used in Attack of the Toybots, were discarded in the flood waters. This led the team to the Invincible, which upon boarding led them to a trap separating them into 3 teams. Hedgehog, Oscar, and Adorabat are pursued by Bob in their attempt to rescue Max from the prison sector. Tulip, Dementia, and Dr. Flug sabotage the ship's Glorb Station as a diversion to free One-One, while the rest reach the main hangar to shut down the devices holding the Ruby Heart. Inside, they encounter Orangusnake Prime; the upgraded form of Orangusnake given a similar suit to Hordak. He and his Sky Pirates battle again with Mao Mao and the rest of the team. But over time, Coby, the snake half of Orangusnake, begins to grow ill as the effects of the suit attempts to transform him into a copy of Hordak himself. He relays a message from Catra, requesting Mao Mao to see her at her quarters alone.

Meanwhile, Bob is defeated when the Glorb Station's destruction causes the ceiling to collapse onto his body, leaving him as a head. Though Max and One-One are free, HueHue confronts them and chases after the group to turn them into varying objects. Catra, on the other hand, is confronted by Mao Mao, stating that the two of them can relate to one another as they both once tried to impress their superiors and had tha troubled past of abuse and neglect. She further explains that she originated from Etheria on the side of the Horde, a ruthless organization that sought to take over the planet and eventually allow Hordak to reunite with Horde Prime. Following her defeat at the hands of Adora, Catra realized that she herself was to blame for almost destroying their reality, having been driven to insanity for 2 years. Using the Battloon Fleet sporting the Syndicannons, Catra plans on invading and destroying Etheria while also subjugating much of the Toonverse, offtering Mao Mao a chance to either flee or join her cause. Mao Mao refuses, though Catra easily anticipated this and begins to attack him aboard the main deck of the dreadnought. The ensuing battle leaves his sword and Magisword shattered and even tilts the ship from damage to the rear turbine engine, inadvertenly bringing down HueHue while on his chase inside. Eventually, Catra is cornered by the rest of the heroes once she stabilized the ship's balance. Yet she still manages to defeat almost every one until Adorabat uses her Homing Beacon Magisword to fire down on her. Almost beat, Catra is forced to find a new battery for her robotic arm, locating and disabling Bob's head by stealing his generator. Fortunately, the New Toon Force are able to quickly subdue her by rerouting her portal to the entrance of CN City. The Battloon fleet nearly launches for the Toonverse as a contingency, forcing everyone to solve the shutdown codes hinted by Catra. Both Max and Mao Mao realize its "Wild Cat" and "Force Captain," having heard it from word of mouth by her and Orangusnake.

With all of Catra's plans put to rest, the New Toon Force return the Ruby Heart to Pure Heart and send Catra to Blue Hat to place her under custody. He thanks the team for their help, but is saddened when he knows the only way to restore his timeline is by accessing the Fourth Wall from within Jimmy Neutron's lab. Unfortunately, only he can unlock the base and the Fourth Wall itself as an added security measure. Considering all his help, the team decide to break him into the lab to reach the reality controls. Afterward, they celebrate on each of their worlds for a few days; though Tanya Keys and Max still possess a huge degree of uncertainty following such tramatic events. Sometime after, Dr. Flug informs Mao Mao that Catra had escaped to an unknown area of the Toonverse. However, without her robotic limb, she is unable to go very far. While Mao Mao goes after her, the remainder of the New Toon Force teleport to Retroville with One-One and Blue Hat to break in and activate the Universe Portal Machine; making sure to avoid all the base's defenses in the process. Turning on the UPM causes One-One to shut down from a power surge. However, the team continue into the Fourth Wall in spite of the extra security measures.

Before Blue Hat can administer his timeline's fix, the New Toon Force thanks him for uniting them as heroes. But in a shocking twist, he betrays them, revealing himself to be the Villainous Black Hat in disguise. He and his organization were acting as heroes to unite the new cartoons, working with Catra to create a convincing conflict to gain their trust and get to the Fourth Wall to begin their domination of the universe. Catra herself was, in reality, hiding behind the heroes on their way to the lab, mentioning that Mao Mao was sent to his doom before the New Toon Force are taken away by reserve commandos and Black Hat's men.

### Act 3

At a press conference for Toon City, Black Hat announces his universal takeover with the control of the Fourth Wall, using it to cancel Toon Force worlds, cut off access to other planets from the main city, and begin terraforming almost every cartoon into a part of his new empire. In addition, Catra starts transforming Pure Heart and other notable worlds into full recreations of the Fright Zone from Etheria to be claimed once the real planet is destroyed by her Battloon Fleet in one week. Black Hat further demoralizes people by publicly erasing characters like Dexter, lobotomizing much of Toon City's residence into obedient slaves, and forcing the New Toon Force into manual labor and other gruesome tasks. Nonetheless, Adorabat stands firm in her belief that Mao Mao is alive and will eventually return to save everyone. Elsewhere, Max, having heard of the speech, was quick to try and stop the fleet before it could be launched. But was too late to stop it from teleporting for docking in Toon City. This left him stuck in CN City, forcing him to reactivate Bob and recruit his help to escape to find help.

Mao Mao, meanwhile, traverses through the spacial anomaly leading to the Trashbin, having close encounters with the zombified remains of past manipulated cartoons in the Toon Wars, and the remnant of the Toon God himself. Before being cornered, Mao Mao is rescued by Entrapta and Emily; two characters who were copied from She-Ra during the reality crisis. They erase the last of the Toon God with a weaponized data manipulated called, the Glitch Gun. Entrapta explains that while in the trashbin, she was able to learn how to sense the code that made up the universe and could see the events of the Toon Wars and current times, telling Mao Mao how Blue Hat was actually Black Hat from the Villainous, able to have sustained full knowledge of the Toon Wars and more thanks to an anomaly during Crossover Nexus. Believing to have let the Toonverse down, Mao Mao sobs. But Entrapta and Emily motivate him explaining that everyone was fooled all the same; it wasn't his fault. And that there are many people out there who still believe he can save them as evident by Adorabat standing up to Black Hat in protest. Uplifted. Mao Mao travels with the duo through the exit of the Trashbin into the Ghost Zone, where they manage to open a door to Pure Heart while it slowly transforms into the new Fright Zone to the point where it spawns holograms of Catra's memories of people. At the Sheriff's Headquarters, Tanya reunites with Mao Mao and goes with he and Entrapta to Pure Heart Kingdom, learning from Snugglemagne that Catra deleted Mao's family when they rebelled and is planning on returning to take over. Thankfully, he already knows that the Fourth Wall can bring everyone back and begins to draft out a plan for it.

Max and Bob head to the Infinity Train and Retroville in search of One-One, who was short circuited from the UPM. They find him and warp to Lyvsheria to gather equipment for a rebellion against the Horde Empire. But Black Hat and his henchmen already destroyed the Magisword armory after gathering the most useful ones for themselves. However, as pointed out by Mao Mao, they've neglected to steal Bimm's Ball of Yarn Magisword, still sat in her bedroom at the castle. By gathering civilians from Pure Heart, Monte Macabre, Summer Camp Island, and those from different dimensions thanks to the train, Mao Mao and company formed a large enough resistance to oppose the empire. To stop them, they make an assault at the capital city staging a prison riot and disabling the hatbot factory, built to upgrade the remaining Commandos into sentinels. While the chaos erupts, members of the New Toon Force are freed systemically; Victor, Valentino, and Oscar having been found near the main district first. Flug tries to stop this by reaching the Fourth Wall himself. But Bob stuns him and frees an experimented and frightened Hedgehog by making her extremely angry. Bob then saves Adorabat, Tulip, and Badgerclops, reuniting the team as Mao Mao and Entrapta confront Black Hat and Catra.

A huge battle ensues, separating the villains from each other as they try to pick off the heroes. 505 in particular absorbs the power from a wad of glorbs from Lakewood Plaza Turbo, making him into a powerful monster against Badgerclops. Catra, damaged from Entrapta's Glitch Gun, battles against an enraged Hedgehog, while Mao Mao deals with Black Hat. Tulip, having lost her glasses to Dementia, gets them back after outsmarting and defeating the villain. Meanwhile, Catra escapes her fight with Hedgehog to manually warp reality with the Fourth Wall controls, forcibly teleporting the Horde Capital in view of Etheria to launch the Battloons early. One of the ships, however, is aimed for the dreadnought brought into battle on the side of the resistance, slicing it in half causing it to fall into the palace and skyscrapers. This accident kills 505 and leaves the fate of the other villains besides Catra and Black Hat ambiguous. When the Battloons launch, Max takes it upon himself to go to Etheria and destroy the last of the ships, crossing over with Bright Moon Kingdom. As the fighting winds down, Black Hat attempts to further demoralize Mao Mao but instead angers him enough that he is struck critically. With Tanya and Bob's assistance, the sheriff defeats Black Hat with a Double Attack.

However, after seemingly being crushed near the reality controls, Catra actually managed to install much of its assets onto herself, becoming a new Toon Goddess. She bends reality around Despondos and the Horde Capital, leaving her with just the New Toon Force. Though cosmically powered, her ultimate attack is deflected back at her, deleting much of her data as it tries to regenerate before thwarting her programming and reducing her age down to a toddler. Black Hat plans on returning to get Catra back on his side and exact revenge. Fortunately, he is immediately canceled by Future Timmy with the reality controls. Soon, people around the restored Toon City gather when the members of the old Toon Force selected for exploration return from their voyage. They last visited Bright Moon and found Max and One-One stranded, recovering the two of them with the full story explained to them. They congratulate the New Toon Force and offer them a chance to become part of the ever expanding organization, which they all gladly accept.

Black Hat's frozen body is sent away to a prison realm made by Clockwork while Flug, having barely survived the rebellion, returns to his manor to activate the clones of 505 and Dementia following their demise with Penumbra's help. However, Dementia herself continues to walk among the streets of Lyvsheria with her insanity seemingly gone. The Toon Force are given a new base of operations at Toon City for new and past generations, with Jimmy Neutron considering a diplomatic venture for a potential universe government.

### Epilogue

In a crash site found at the Whispering Woods on Etheria, Double Trouble, disguised as a Horde Trooper, observes the broken remains of a crashed Battloon destroyed by Max and One-One. Upon feeling the metal, they exit for a Ghost Portal spawned from Clockwork's Lair.

## Chapters

### Act 1

1. Chapter 1: First Contact - 3/28/20
2. Chapter 2: Children of CN - 4/3/20
3. Chapter 3: Attack on Pure Heart - 4/10/20
4. Chapter 4: Escape - 4/12/20
5. Chapter 5: Teamup - 4/17/20

### Act 2

1. Chapter 6: Training with Legends - 5/15/20
2. Chapter 7: Impetus - 5/16/20
3. Chapter 8: The Broken Cars - 5/22/20
4. Chapter 9: Liberation - 5/23/20
5. Chapter 10: The City - 5/28/20
6. Chapter 11: Ferocity - 5/29/20
7. Chapter 12: Wild Cat - 5/31/20
8. Chapter 13: Back to Normal - 6/3/20
9. Chapter 14: Infiltration - 6/8/20

### Act 3

1. Chapter 15: Takeover - 6/9/20
2. Chapter 16: Entrapta - 6/11/20
3. Chapter 17: The Fright Zones - 6/12/20
4. Chapter 18: The Rebellion - 6/24/20
5. Chapter 19: Retribution - 6/2720
6. Chapter 20: New Day - 6/28/20

## Characters

### Heroes

* Mao Mao
* Blue Hat (In Disguise)
* Adorabat
* Badgerclops
* Tulip Olsen
* Victor
* Valentino
* Hedgehog
* Oscar
* Max
* Dementia (In Disguise)
* Dr. Flug (In Disguise)
* 505 (In Disguise)
* Tanya Keys
* One-One
* Entrapta
* Emily
* Future Timmy Turner

### Villains

* Cyber Catra
* Black Hat
* Dementia
* Dr. Flug
* 505
* Sky Pirates
	+ Orangusnake
	+ Boss Hosstrich
	+ Ramarrafe
	+ Ratarang
* HueHue
* Formicidae (Formerly)
* Echo Drones
	+ Bob (Formerly)
* Penumbra (Presumably)

## Settings

* Lyvsheria (Toon God fight and Restored)
* Toon City/Horde Capital
* Pure Heart Valley/New Fright Zone
* Infinity Train Entrance
* Monte Macabre
* Summer Camp Island
	+ Island Outpost
* CN City
* The Invincible
* The Trashbin
* Etheria
	+ Bright Moon
	+ Whispering Woods

## Time Placement

This crossover occurs two whole years following the Toon Wars series, which ended with Toon Wars: The Final Days. As mentioned by Dr. Flug, the events of each cartoon featured here had likely concluded prior to the Horde Syndicate's arrival, evident by Orangusnake's absence and the gap between Infinity Train and Toon Wars: Legacy. By the time the story begins, Summer Camp Island comes to an end as the children start to pack for school. It is unknown if any episode besides the first of Victor and Valentino occurs beforehand. The She-Ra Netflix reboot's 3rd season was concluding as Toon Wars: The Final Days was winding down, however the show continued and would remain unaffected.

## Goofs

* In Chapter 15, Badgerclops' right eye is described as the one with the patch instead of the left. This was later corrected in chapter 19.
* In Chapter 11, Frozarburst forgot the snake half of Orangusnake was named Coby.
* Frozarburst mistook Max for a hedgehog like his friend. This was never acknowledged in story but brought up in conversations with fans.
* Although Mao Mao's family is present, the details on what some of his siblings look like are missing, giving us a vague description on their design.
* Midway in development, Frozarburst accidentally labeled 505 as a girl but quickly changed it for release.

## Crossover Forces Beta

Crossover Forces' development began as far back as mid-2019 during the closing writing cycle of Toon Wars: The Final Days. Though much of the core plot had been left unchanged, several detailed ideas were either left out or altered for the sake of the story's pacing, as seen on this page.

## Reception

While shorter in comparison to Toon Wars and Toon Wars: The Final Days, **Crossover Forces** was hugely well received by fans, praising its many locations, styled humor, and characters. Many of whom especially enjoyed the design and personality of Cyber Catra compared to her prime version from the reboot. MiniKoontzy, a close friend of Frozarburst, felt that Catra in this incarnation was more tragic than what the show put out, but was given a chance to start over as Kitra. Others thoroughly enjoyed the twist involving Villainous proving to be the main threat of the story. Although audiences new to the Toon Wars were unaware of stories prior and didn't always understand the references made to it, they typically found that the story was still readable and provided enough of an explanation for past lore.

## Trivia

* While writing Crossover Forces, Frozarburst was listening to different tracks from various media to get the feel of each different scene. "Mean Green Mother" from Little Shop of Horrors was one of them, used while scripting a fight with Catra and the heroes.
* After the upgrade to Eclipse, Frozarburst couldn't properly upload literature to Deviantart, forcing him to rely on Fanfiction, AO3, and Wattpad respectively. However, in late January 2021, he was able to bypass this update and finish posting Crossover Forces up to February 14. Both The Watterson and Dark Disney would be released on the same platform soon after in conjunction with each other.
* When introducing HueHue into the series, he reminded Frozar of Jetstorm from Transformers: Beast Machines (AKA Best Character) and Knockout from Transformers Prime
* Crossover Forces is named after Crossover Nexus, also featuring predominantly newer Cartoon Network characters.
* This is the first story from Frozarburst to use expressions within text, such as "O\_O", ":)", "-\_-", and "0:"
* For Easter, Chapter 4 was released a week early.
* Badgerclops makes a reference to spongebob's Krab Borg saying he's not built like a "Bee-boo-boo-boo-boo-bop"
* There are a number of moments in the crossover that allude to Nicktoons Unite and the Gumball Saga, albeit from the perspective of Cartoon Network characters
	+ Cartoon Network discovers the Netflix Omniverse through Catra just as the Nicktoons discovered Cartoon Network through Gumball
	+ The announcement of the Horde Syndicate's takeover in Toon City is beat for beat the same as Plankton's in Nicktoons Unite
	+ The use of the Echo Drones is very similar to the Toybots from Attack of the Toybots.
	+ Blue Hat's gathering of the heroes and his distress call for Mao Mao is almost exactly like Jimmy's to Spongebob when he first met him.
* This crossover marks the return of chapter names after Toon Wars: The Final Days completely abandoned them. Guess the lack of any made it more epic.
* Although it isn't explicitly said, it's possible Bob may have been the commando who spoke to Mao Mao in Chapter 3 at Pure Heart as that unit in particular had the same style of speech as him.
* Oscar, Hedgehog, Max, and Mao Mao each grow tails for one reason or another. Either due to a slight shift in art style from entering Toon City or Susie's potion accident.
* This story seems to take heavy inspiration from Star Wars: The Clone Wars, the original Expanded Universe, and Star Wars: Episode 9, such as the flooded aesthetic of CN City, the Horde Syndicate's Dreadnought, and the Battloon super lasers.
	+ Speaking of the Battloons, the lasers, while not planet-killers like the Syndicate probably would've wanted, were introduced prior to Crossover Forces in Toon Wars: Shorts, Feline Instincts. The prototype for it was destroyed at the end of the episode by Nicole Watterson and Gumball while on a mission to infiltrate the base it was stationed in. However, the schematics for it were eventually recovered 7 years later.
* Although Toon Wars and the Magiswords Trilogy occur prior to Crossover Forces, it is not required to read either of them to understand.
* Bob was based almost entirely around Wheatley from Portal 2, down to being voiced and personified by him with much of the same traits besides his often moronic decisions or power madness sustained from interfacing with GlaDOS.
	+ In spite of his actions, Adorabat is oddly humored by him.
* Cyber Catra once said "Thought you could sneak up on me and finish the story early, huh?" Almost hinting the betrayal ahead of time.
* At some point in the finale, Tanya Keys was supposed to yell "I helped you almost kill Adorabat" when fighting Viral Catra, but the line was cut out since it would've been too dramatic for her
* Catra's screech at Mao Mao in Chapter 12 is the same as Palpatine's from Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith.
* Chapter 14 makes multiple callbacks to past quotes from previous stories and writers, including:
	+ MiniKoontzy's thoughtful line used for Teen Titans GO's inclusion in Toon Wars: The Final Days.
	+ Bimm and Momo's slaying of the Toon Goddess
	+ Professor Venomous lifting Fink's spirit at her worst in Turbo your Fellow
	+ A slight alteration of Gumball lifting his mother's spirit
	+ Aku vs Jack in both the show and Samurai Jack Saga
	+ Frozarburst on the topic of Covid-19
	+ The Toon God's final words before death.
	+ Clockwork congratulating the Toon Force on their victory
* In Chapter 19, there's a multitude of references towards the 80's She-Ra cartoon
	+ When Catra starts to glitch, she transforms into the styles presented in the reboot episode, "Roll with It."
	+ Upon glitching further, her voice and speech verbatim is the same as her 80's counterpart, along with Valentino and Tulip's response.
* Chronologically, Chapter 19 occurs hours before *Roll With It* from Princesses of Power.
* Bob makes a reference to Obi-Wan Kenobi's demise in Star Wars, saying Catra's discarded clothes remind him of an old man who vanished without his robes.
* Catra's de-aging directly refers to itself as **BABALITY**, a fatality from Mortal Kombat.
* Crossover Forces' ending with the broken remains of the Battloons is reminiscent of the ending of Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Side note: This ending also made Frozarburst cry, hence why he homaged it.