All spoilers from All Worlds Alliance fanfics pre-CROSSOVERDOSE will be unmarked here. You Have Been Warned!
I think everyone in this room are already aware that we're dealing with a very serious problem right now. A scale that affected nearly the entire multiverse. And this problem is about different people disappearing without a trace from their respective worlds and finding themselves stranded in another world. Including those from New Normal Earth.
—Brannew briefing the All Worlds Alliance Academy staff about this newfound crisis.
All Worlds Alliance Missions - CROSSOVERDOSE is the 19th fanfic of the All Worlds Alliance series overall and the 16th fanfic of the Missions subseries, which was firstly released on November 10, 2022. The story can be read here.
After a mysterious bright light caused countless people from other worlds including New Normal Earth have disappeared, the entire multiverse is in chaos and they have no idea who is causing it. The All Worlds Alliance, still in their own problems over rescuing other heroes from Nemeth's slave operations, are now thrown into a new mission alongside it: to rescue the others who have been sent to completely unknown worlds.
Except their mission proves to be exponentially more difficult than what the AWA had gone through from their previous adventures in the multiverse when the Apostles of the New World have used this golden opportunity as means to wreak more chaos to complete their goals. With the All Worlds Alliance in a battle against time and against the Apostles, they are now on a rescue mission to save the displaced around the multiverse before the evil organization would catch upon them, ruining their plans.
CROSSOVERDOSE tropes
- Big Bad Ensemble: The All Worlds Alliance faces off against three villainous factions including Apostles of the New World, Silas Moron and the mysterious figure of the Void, who all have different goals on their own.
- The Apostles including Gary Smith, Jenga, Frank Tenpenny, Bartleby Farnum and Alibaba all use the wake of the mass-disappearance to their advantage to wreak havoc as a window of opportunity to cause chaos with an army of Elite Mooks on their side.
- Then Silas Moron, who not only returned after being absent for a long while but also commandeers an unnamed ship after murdering the former crew members of the ship, so he could use it as a base of operations to capture living beings and turn them into Living Batteries, including Sana Tsukumo, for his nefarious goal of conquering the multiverse.
- There's also the third player of the ensemble, the mysterious figure in the Void, who is behind the mass-disappearances of various people from around the multiverse, is the one that the AWA is after for due to being responsible for causing the said chaos in the present; however they had a more sympathetic goal compare to the Apostles and Doctor Moron.
- Big Bad Wannabe: Gary Smith, the former Big Bad of Bully and the member of Apostles, is this. In the past he orchestrated a riot in Bullworth Academy, with the intention of taking it over, but he clearly fails miserably after Jimmy defeated him. He instigates another takeover this time in Taiyou High School with his army of KongJocks and later an army of mindless thugs, where his attempts failed twice thanks to the efforts of Jimmy and the All Worlds Alliance, leading to his utterly humiliating defeat and his imprisonment to the Plumbers. This resulted in Gary to be more of a lesser threat in comparison to the much more global threats the AWA deals with, including the entire cadre of his fellow Apostle cohorts, Silas Moron and the unknown culprit from the Void who caused the mass-disappearances across the multiverse.
- Breaking Old Trends: Unlike most of the series' Mission stories whose amount of chapters reach no further than 30, CROSSOVERDOSE is the first Missions story in the All Worlds Alliance series to reach beyond 30 chapters.
- Barring the Preface and the Break Time chapters, the Final Arc started off without involving any fight scenes which has been present in every start of a new arc and it happens to be the shortest arc which ran with only four chapters.
- The Cameo: In an omake mini-arc that ran from Chapter 37 to 42, the Unfriendly Neighborhood and the Amalgapuppet made an appearance. And at the end of that mini-arc, a final line was spoken by someone which is implied to be Ricky.
- In another omake mini-arc that ran from Chapter 43 to 48, a large number of inpatients from the Mount Massive Asylum for the Criminally Insane made their presence known but which variants of inpatient is up for debate.
- Caught Up in the Rapture: The entire premise of CROSSOVERDOSE involves various people from worlds across the multiverse disappearing due to a mysterious bright light. It turns out that someone is involved.
- Cerebus Rollercoaster: The story shifts between the darker chapters with the All Worlds Alliance fighting against the Apostles and the lighter "Break Time" chapters that are Breather Episodes.
- Death of a Child: Mitch Mitchelson is eaten alive by a few zombies making Mitch the first innocent casualty to die.
- It's Personal: Besides Gary Smith being the most infamous nemesis of Jimmy Hopkins, there's also Misako and Kyouko who has a seething hatred towards Gary. It turns out that Gary is responsible for putting both their respective boyfriends Kunio and Riki out of commission, leading to the girls' antagonism against him.
- Lensman Arms Race: All over the place. With the conflict increasing between the All Worlds Alliance and the Apostles, both sides have gotten upgrades to their own arsenal. The AWA sends more heroes, now including stronger fighters like Ryu, Ken Masters, Karin Kanzuki, etc., as well as Jin Kazama and Ling Xiaoyu and countless other heroes have joined in in response to the Apostles' attempts of causing even more chaos. The Apostles have sent their Elite Mooks, including KongJocks, Karate Pigs, Choiarks, mind-controlled thugs, Guerrilla-Goblins, Ninja Chimps and Judo Bears. There's also Silas Moron sending an army of Killer Robots inside his ship.
- Opportunistic Bastard: The Apostles use the chaos from the disappearance for entirely different reasons: causing chaos for their own purposes.
- Our Goblins Are Different: The Guerrilla-Goblins, in spades. Not only they walk strangely, as they tap their legs left and right, but they're also Ax-Crazy and they're equipped with firearms.
- Put on a Bus: Derek Padilla, since he's the only AWA hero who disappeared along with others from the bright light.Derek made his return in Chapter 46 and at the same time, making his presence before the mysterious figure in the Void.
- Serial Escalation: While previous missions the AWA partook in all dealt with global-level threats, most of them are contained within one universe. Until this story, where the mass disappearances are not limited to one universe, but to the entire multiverse as a whole, hence the much more escalating stakes for the All Worlds Alliance.
- Thrown Out the Airlock: After Fry manages to unleash a kick into Silas Moron, he sadistically throws the mad scientist out of the airlock in his ship.
- Uncertain Doom: It is unknown what happened to Silas Moron after he was thrown out of airlock by Fry without a pod, but Fry himself lampshades it with a Fourth Wall-breaking line stating that knowing the author of the series, he would come back again. It is later revealed that he survived and is currently stranded in an unhabited planet, drifting across the ocean via raft and already had plans to get back home.
- Walking Spoiler: The alternates Ragyou Kiryuuin and Nui Harime. Not only they are mistaken as the real ones by Satsuki and Ryuuko, but they're also impossible to not talk about without spoiling the fact that alternate!Ragyou is the good version of the original and alternate!Nui is a flesh-and-blood human unlike her original who is an Artificial Human. And guess who catalyzes their change? None other than the original Soichirou.
- The Worf Effect: Kunio and Riki, the strongest fighters from Kunio-kun turned out to be the victims of Gary's KongJock attack where they were easily overwhelmed by them.
