It all began with Professor Calamitous in his evil lair on a snowy mountain. After discovering alternate Earths, he had just started skimming through potential new allies in hopes of finally bringing down the infamous boy genius, Jimmy Neutron. However, very little progress has been made as each candidate was either a petty thief from a parallel world or someone Jimmy had already beaten. What Calamitous needed was the technology his nemesis used to contact Timmy Turner and the world of the Fairies, which he had already started hatching a plan to gain access to.

To pass the time, he started looking through his list of schemes to see if he could pull off one of them himself. Most of these documents were incomplete, as they were written before his recent ventures into shock therapy for his ADHD. Either they cut off mid-planning or disregard what to do if they succeed. His last attempt to flood the world by nuking Mount Everest wasn't exactly given much thought over the aftermath. Two that were, however, stuck out to him the most. Sure, he didn't know how he'd be able to pull them off, but at least he knew where he'd be going with them.

These two bullets went as follows:

1. Starting a universal war with an army of robots

2. Manipulating the universe into a war with each other

Both points had to do with the same thing, but Calamitous would take much time to iron out the logistics. If, for example, the resulting conflict led to his world being destroyed, where would he go? Admittedly, this was part of his upcoming scheme once he found other villains to crossover. But at least he'd have other planets to fall back on. He didn't know if either of them would be worth it besides Fairy World, though it didn't matter at this point.

Just a few years later, the Professor realized how wrong he was. His robot scheme had failed, and his earlier crossover with other villains almost succeeded had it not been thwarted by a particular yellow headache. On top of that, it made Calamitous look like more of an idiot when he forgot to hide his Doomsday Machine's backup power supply. His Syndicate failed, but it came very close to victory. So, at the very least, his assembled team would stay in contact. This included Vlad Plasmius and Mr. Crocker, but Plankton was notably absent because they forgot he existed, likely because of his size. Plus, neither wanted to deal with Spongebob right now, so they ignored any mention of him.

Together, this trio of evildoers revisited the second bullet point of manipulating worlds into going to war. The problem was that they needed to give everyone a reason to fight amongst themselves. Thanks to Vlad, they knew there was a neighboring universe out there that they could potentially visit and coax into fighting their own. But then something else came to mind. When Vlad was stranded in space after his plan for world domination failed, he stumbled upon an alien creature named Globulous Maximus, who shapeshifted into a Spongebob look-alike. Panicked, Vlad accidentally killed him by shooting his giant eye out and splattering the creature across the cosmos. But at least he'd be able to study whatever the alien was. Coincidentally, Calamitous already knew of Globulous thanks to his daughter, Beautiful Gorgeous, who reluctantly had to help Jimmy and his allies against the Morphoid. And because of that, they also knew of the existence of Volcano Island and a certain laboratory used to study an ancient evil. On top of that, the heroes had already fought this threat and sealed him in an interdimensional prison.

The Syndicate knew they had to release him. Vlad would go there to release the Mawgu from his prison while the Professor and Denzel went through a ghost portal to get to the neighboring universe. Once they made it through, the two landed in the middle of some suburban neighborhood next to an extraordinary illusion drawn in the middle of the sidewalk. The reality was that this was all a piece of the land converted into an asteroid floating in the middle of TV static. Wherever they were, they found they could still hover around and look to see if there were any inhabitants they could speak to. But all they could find were very strange beings of different art styles stuck on repeat in their homes, forgotten by reality. This would take a minute, but at the very least, Calamitous knew they were on the right track. He didn't know how he knew. He just had a feeling.

Meanwhile, Vlad made it inside the Mawgu Lair, where its portal was still maintained should Danny and his friends be needed again. All the doors leading outside were sealed and guarded by several armored crab men who were none the wiser of the threat inside. After studying the devices kept in the facility, Vlad eventually sensed the Mawgu's presence and carefully summoned a massive portal between dimensions. This process also required the warp gates surrounding him, and it took a lot of his strength to pull it off undetected. Ultimately, he succeeded, and the ancient, rock-like creature emerged from his prison.

The Mawgu was overjoyed to see that his proclamation of returning to face the chosen ones was correct. He would have his revenge in time. But he needed to know who set him free and why. Vlad told him about everything the heroes had done in his absence and that the Syndicate, now more than ever, wanted to see them fall. They knew how powerful the Mawgu was; strong enough that the heroes couldn't beat him with mere physical blows, and powerful enough to tear apart the fabric of reality. Unfortunately, after being trapped for a few years, he was left virtually famished for much of his dark energy. Luckily for him, the other two members of the Syndicate were already on it.

In the Void, Crocker, and Calamitous eventually stumbled upon another tear in the realm and left beacons for Vlad to come to meet them. Unlike the Void, this part of reality was pitch black, with only a giant, halo-like structure surrounding it. In the center, a screen of sorts showed monitors of different productions hard at work, making new cartoons and adding new episodes to existing properties. One of these was Fairly Oddparents, which recently added a dog named Sparky and the development of a new show called Adventure Time. Once Vlad returned with the Mawgu and saw the footage as well, he froze. This wasn't meant to be seen by mortal eyes. This was the Fourth Wall, bordering the fictional realm and reality.

Looking through all the data stored in this supercomputer, Calamitous learned that his own series, The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, had been on repeat since 2006, with the addition of the crossover, Globs of Doom. Other shows, such as Mighty B and Catscratch, stopped airing in an even shorter amount of time, while Cartoon Network is just beginning to discontinue their CN Real block. It seemed that whenever a show ends, they go on a perpetual loop until the end of time, while those that get canceled without much fanfare remain frozen. In either case, both would have to wait for new material to break the cycle. But shows like Spongebob continue to air just fine and seem even more popular with their audience than those it crossed over with. It's no wonder, subconsciously, the Syndicate hated Spongebob despite the three of them never meeting the guy before Nicktoons Unite.

This could be it. This could be the wedge that causes the heroes' worlds to split up. All they had to do was tell certain cartoons what looping is, why they were canceled, and who's still prevalent in the eyes of their respective network. And while those such as Jimmy and the friends he met are busy with them, the Syndicate can circle back to the Toybots and Morphoids, and use them as their army of choice. Other villains from Cartoon Network would be great fall guys for them, but once they go back in time, Aku and the Mawgu would be their true final members, and no one would oppose them. It would be perfect. The time of war is-

Suddenly, all three of the villains were smacked aside by the Mawgu! He knew exactly what all this was. As an interdimensional being, he could see into areas of the cosmos ordinarily inaccessible to most mortals, including a meta-reality. Grinning with a flare in his beading red eyes, he told the three, "Fools...! You have no idea what you have done for me."

Not wanting the real world to affect the fictional realm more than it has, he waved his clawed hand and sealed the mirror behind him. He was perfectly content with the multiverse, knowing what it actually was. But he had a different plan in mind for the coming days. It wouldn't be a spark of war, but rather an outbreak. A spread of absolute nothingness. Only this time would it be amplified now that he has access to all known reality. Rapidly, his body began to morph in and out of code, and his evil influence sprouted purple tendrils and digital blocks all over the room.

This was NOT part of the plan. Calamitous didn't know what to do. Crocker began pointing fingers at him, blaming him for suggesting the Mawgu in the first place, while Vlad blamed them both for having him release the dark creature. Since he's the one who did it, however, he hoped he would pull off another trick by opening up several ghost portals around the Mawgu. Each rift caused his rocky exterior to rattle and come apart at the seams. But underneath all that, the ooze within the Mawgu had already converted into a mass of physical data that burst into a wave of chaos. As Calamitous saw it, this darkness instantly consumed him and Crocker before they had time to finish a sentence. Vlad, attempting to save himself, opened a portal back to the Ghost Zone and closed it behind him. Unlucky for him, with how many portals he opened to stop the Mawgu from absorbing into the Fourth Wall, he accidentally spread his code across the realm he's now in, which has already begun to consume some of the doors surrounding him.

Before he knew it, a swarm of digital ooze was engulfing Plasmius, who could only sigh to himself in his final moments, "Oh cheese logs..."