This is my latest fanfic, called "PowerPaws". It was inspired by the movie "Idiocracy", and this story has a similar plot, except that the world is ruled by toons rather than morons. It's about a 20-year-old girl who gets cryogenically frozen for 1,000 years and wakes up to see that the entire world around her had changed. She eventually becomes a superhero and saves the new world from total danger.

DISCLAIMER: All the cartoon characters featured here belong to the following companies who own them—Disney, Evergreen Raccoons Marketing Inc., Hanna-Barbera, E.T.C. Other characters are of my creation.


PROLOGUE: The History of the United States of Canerica

For many centuries, thousands of civilizations have competed against one another to be the greatest nation the world has ever known. But in the first years of the 21st century, only one emerged to become top dog of them all...and its name was Canerica.

The United States of Canerica...the most beautiful and peaceful country on the face of the earth...a blessing to all the nations that honor her. For 1,000 years this empire has lived in constant peace and prosperity under the leadership of Bert Raccoon-Canadian cartoon star, actor, entrepreneur, and best of all, the president of Canerica, president for life. And like him, many Canericans believed equality was the answer to life's problems.

It all began in the year 2007, when Canerica was just plain "America". The presidential elections were running hot at the time, and for two terms, President George W. Bush was making life for Americans a living hell. The people were not the only ones to yell for George's head-cartoon and comic strip characters from across the globe were tired of being treated as mere "entertainment" and not as real people. Along with gays, lesbians, African-Americans, Hispanics, and other minorities, the toons protested for equal rights, with the support of their creators, and they vowed that they will not stop unless President Bush either gets off his seat or turns his country around. His response: "Make me!"

Bush's reluctance to leave office did not reach the toons until the results of the voting came in. The winner...Bush himself! The Americans were outraged-not only did he refuse to give up his throne, but he also tampered with the votes and became elected the third time, defying the constitution! This was the last straw, and so the Americans and the toons came up with a four-word plan: "George Bush Must Die!" On the week following the election, they declared war on the Republicans. But then they turned against the Democrats because they found out that old donkey was secretly supporting the KKK's plans to exterminate illegal immigrants. The date was November 7, 2007-Bloody Wednesday!

President Bush and his family were captured and executed, and all hell broke loose. The battle for control of the United States lasted no more than two months, and almost every human, animal, bird, and toon were against each other. Then one day in January of the following year, one of the cartoon stars, who hailed from Canada, stopped the fighting with an idea that could be civilization's only hope: if the laws are changed, peace could rule this land.

His name was Bert Raccoon, a toon from the 1980s Canadian animated series "The Raccoons", who united what would very soon become the new America. One by one, many Americans and toons (and the Canadians eventually) began to agree to Bert's plans to transform the country, renew the laws, and put the troubled past behind them. The people thanked him by electing him as president of the new United States. Then, one month later on February 15, 2008, America and Canada erased their boundary lines and merged together to become a brand-new country-the United States of Canerica was born.

Two new parties were created in place of the extinct Republicans and Democrats-Reds and Blues. Breakthroughs in archaeology of the ancient United States prompted President Raccoon to declare Canerica a neo-80s nation. The fashion, music, television, film, fads, and slang of the 1980s all became part of everyday life, as was 90s culture. The possiblities seemed endless-Superdeer became a hit in thousands of comic book stores, "The Bouncy Poodle Show" became a favorite among kids of all ages, a new kind of language, "Sherlockian", entered Canerican vocabulary, YouTube poop evolved into what we now know as "poop films", and most of the fanfiction on the Internet were turned into feature films and TV shows.

The 1,000-year Golden Age brought about many new changes in government, economy, culture, and the society of the people of Canerica. New foods were created, leading to new restaurants being opened. New inventions debuted, and they made life easier for everyone. And many recent breakthroughs in science, technology, and medicine showed the other side of the U.S. that the nations never knew.

But the greatest thing that President Raccoon had ever done was to bring peace wherever he goes. He was the one who brought all of the troops home from Iraq and declared that crazy war permanently over. And he did something that Bush and other previous presidents had never been able to do: surrender to America's enemies. After signing a treaty with Al-Qaida, its leader Osama bin Laden made a suggestion that in order for peace between the Middle East and the West to commence, Bert's people had to convert to Islam. Only Bert had a different idea: why convert to an old religion when you can create one?

For this reason he gathered together the four major religions of the East-Christianity, Judasim, Islam, and Buddism-to create a new faith, calling it the First Amalgamated Church. In so doing, Bert vowed that he and his allies will not attack Bin Laden's people for as long as his country stands, because he remembered he had also given the Muslims in his country equal rights. He told the militant group about how Canerica was created, and what was it like to be there. Bin Laden was surprised at first to know how much the nation had changed since the last attack, but surely enough he became President Raccoon's personal ally, vowing that he and his men will no longer attack the new nation, and thus once again the bond between the Middle East and the West had been established.

The death and resignation of other world leaders gave Canerica an opportunity to expand its empire without any warfare involved. Why? The nations had already heard of Bert Raccoon and the story of how he convinced Americans to change their way of living. They were very willing to let President Raccoon rule over them, and, well, he did. During that time, Bert eventually became a family man-he married Lisa Raccoon, his long-time sweetheart, and fathered no less than 30 children with her.

But shortly after the founding of the Canerican empire, there was a strange twist to natural selection. Many raccoons from Canada had already emmigrated to the country at the time of Bert's entrance into office, and for many reasons they were more and more capable of interbreeding with humans than other cartoon animals. This led to generation after generation of raccoon-human hybrids being born in Canerica, called Mixers, hybrids who can both understand the raccoon and human languages. And ever since the disbandment of the P.E.T.A., interbreeding was a breeze.

All was well in the United States of Canerica...until evil struck. Bert's wicked cousin Jezebel Raccoon opposed his plan for peace and plotted to return the world to a life of fear by using natural disasters, political upheavals, and spiritual uprisings to bring the empire to its knees. That was her ultimate dream, but it would soon be crushed by a miracle. At that time and place, a young girl woke up after 1,000 years of deep sleep and soon after discovering that the world she had known had changed, she unexpectedly changes into a superhero who would very soon change the lives of every Canerican on Earth. This is the story of...PowerPaws!


Next Chapter: The legend begins!