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MAJOR SPOILERS FOR MY FANFIC THAT I GOT BORED OF "CUBITS CAN'T SAVE YOU NOW" AND THE EPISODE CROSSOVER NEXUS

The title is after the old Cartoon Network slogan "Are you with us?" of which hadn't been popularly used ever since Sheep in The Big City used it as a slogan ("Are ewe with us?")

A basic rewrite of the Ok, K.O.! episode "Crossover Nexus" into a less "hey guys, we're making tons of self-referential jokes with a cool but underdeveloped multiverse and crossover plotline! You like it?" Type movie and more of a dedicated love letter to the glory that is 80's-2000's shows and their superiority in quality over most kids shows. Seriously, I think Crossover Nexus was way overhyped because it had a good plot but the dialogue, pacing, villian, overly lampshade-ish jokes. and obvious nostalgia bait really made it all underwhelming for me.

The villian, Strike is more serious and thus no longer a generic villian (he wants to capture all the heroes in the CN Central Multiverse to melt them down into static to use as building material for his castle that can fly and break off part of itself to create fighting Strike drones. It also has a built-in TV that can display various CN cartoons with the exception of The Abominable Oracle and the bad reboots because even he's disgusted by the former and how it's obviously a maniacal murder demon who successfully created a cash cow cult of worshippers, and the latter is just glorified brainrot). In fact, he was a Multiversal Watcher (something like Khanselle from CCSYN but with a better present storyline) until he grew empty inside and went rogue to fill the hole in his heart Burning Spice Cookie style and went out to melt down CN people into static to built his flying castle so that he can have a battalion to conquer various universes, which is also why Artopossom's oc Judge of The Multiverse "Entity" (if Arto would let me use them) also catches him in the act and makes a whole speech about how horrible he's been and eats him up, thus erasing him from all of multiversal history. (A la my planned ending for CCSYN. Don't worry, it's a canceled fanfic anyway so spoilers don't really matter)

I guess that means the guys turned to stone (which can include Flain and Space Ghost) were likely either on hold to decide whether they should he decorative statues for his castle or to be more parts of his castle, or already decided on making them decorative statues

This is likely gonna be 22 minutes long as was originally planned for Crossover Nexus, and will involve Strike Drones that have the bodily shape of the various characters of whose static they were made out of  (and their abilities reference them too).

Garnet's glasses aren't her prescription and they aren't the one thing giving her clairvoyance, they just make her clairvoyance clearer. Also, Ben 10's omnitrix made from Strike's Pen was created from CN character DNA so it didn't have the alien DNA to have Ben turn into aliens instead of the Cartoon Cartoons characters.

Flain and Seismo tried running away from Strike. Seismo tried to dig down and keep Flain with him, but Flain was turned to static and taken away. Seismo was forced to dig deeper and hide. He may or may not join KO's gang (of which will not be named Ok Universe Let's Go 10xels or something like that)

At the end, I had this idea fhat the gang would exploit the fact that Strike's castle sacrifices its static to create more Strike drones to fight so that the castle runs out (with Ben possibly turning into various huge characters, including Maxes because his omnitrix doesn't apply to logic) but then I realized "wait, but they're fighting the unconscious remains of other cartoons, and their own friends and family..." (since they can be revived through the pen and that'd probably make them technically not actually dead) and realized this probably would've been hard on them, and THEN I realized that would make it more serious and probably more of a unique challenge which would also be really interesting!

Either way, out of the many overly shoehorned and self-referential jokes in Crossover Nexus I'd love to remove, the line "so THAT'S what happened to me!" is one of them, at least the way it's placed without context, that is. Instead, Robot Jones could attempt to thank them but his voice comes out in static sparks, which confuses everyone and shocks him until one of the characters realizes there's a switch on the back of Robot Jones' head displaying choices for his two voices: BOBBY BLOCK (which short-circuited, explaining the static, referencing it being unusable for copyright reasons in Crossover Nexus) and DEBUT APPLE 95 (his og voice that is somehow free from copyright and thus legal to use without permission). His voice is flipped to the latter voice and he exclaims in surprise and says "So THAT'S what happened to me!", this time with an actual reason other than an obvious shoehorned reference to say it. THEN he restarts thanking the gang for having saved everyone, including him.

Also Black Hat likely either didn't get captured and his clones (the ones made by 505 and his clone) from the fear remote episode did, or he got captured because somehow Strike was too fast, even for him though Strike didn't capture him without getting a few packs of pain.

Raven likely also can't levitate because her power gem pendant got Striked (which would remove her powers)

Instead of Ben transforming into Finn during the Cartoon Cartoon reference power punch scene, he could transform into Meltus

KO doesn't return to his home as a dream, he returns to it for real and fondly remembers every event (although I'd count this as its own seperate universal timeline and therefore noncanon from Ok, K.O.! and my rewrite which I nicknamed "Ok, C.L.! Let's Rewrite the Show!"

The portals also look more like tall, black holes that show the world inside them than purple swirling portals with the show logos above them.

Strike seems to have a "striking" resemblance to Professor Venomous, however... did the latter's parasite (that created Shadowy Figure) come from him?