Countdown To Chang's Guide To The Galaxy is a shorter segment of Chang's Guide To The Galaxy and a prelude to the story and what happened between it and The Prankster Point Paradox and Team Free Will: Diassembled
This is a tie in and deals with Team Free Will and Bender's dealings after their aftermath in dealing with The Pranks A Lot Mob and M.A.L.I.CE. As well as The Mar Mar Gang, Slade's Ensesmble and Deathstroke's associates. Deathstroke's associates in particular get a good deal of focus here as Deathstroke and his associates are dealing with a massive alien invasion being prolonged by Lincoln and Mulder's archenemy The Smoking Man who has decided to go with his colonization plans once more. Allied with Homelander, The Smoking Man gets Aliens to invade and finish what he started with Team Free Will and The President.
This is what Omni Man told Ford about and what he will need his help for, and Ford and Nolan ultimately join forces even managing to bring Larke Tanner back due to her avoidance with the press and gets Bruce to come back despite his wanted sign on his own account. Deathstroke also brings in Bishop, The Bad Guys, Atomtic Betty and calls in a favor from Spartian Master Chief and The Arbiter while bringing Kamela under his allies' orders.
Ford and Nolan feel that Ford must deal with this with Bruce and Larke Tanner so his team won't be in danger, Deathstroke decides though it's a good idea to get his guys on it with Agent Bishop and Mr.X.
Truman and his family find out about it with Fox and Dana and decide to fight while keeping tabs on Lincoln and Lydia who are dealing with the fallout away from everyone else and are going through their 3 month exile to keep the two company as they work to keep them safe from CSM. Truman, Scully, Mulder keep Lydia and Lincoln in the dark to prevent them from being lured out. The Two have their own plot to deal with as alternate between trying to live out their exile and figuring what's going with Truman and the agents as they sense something is up.
The Alien stuff and what goes on gets Sid Chang's attention as well as Bender, Luan, Slade, Anti Cosmo, Harry and Marcy as well. Due to M.A.L.I.C.E's being put under, Bender and Anti Cosmo were investigating M.A.L.I.C.E's actions due to their lead with The Millers and Odalia Blight as Slade assigned Bender this task while he was at it. Marcy joins with Slade's crew while Anti Cosmo, Harrison and Jessie Wells all go off on their way aligning with Anti Cosmo and Jessie joining up with Bender, Lisa, Wile E Coyote, Libby . Harrison joins Luan, her boyfriend Benny and Captain Hero to invesitgate the situation themselves.
Sid is still on in hiding due to CSM's actions and Sid has to hide away from being noticed, so she comes cross paths with Bender, Anti Cosmo, Libby, Wile E Coyote and Jessie Wells who decide to help her as Bender is disgusted with the actions, The Public did against Lydia and Team Free Will. He is also after the truth about the death of Dib's father that happened.
Bold means That Character is a main character
Opening Theme: Traces by Classic IV
Ending Themes: Hell'n Back by Bakar for the A Plotline
Famous Hero by Antonio Banderas for The B Plot Line
Superman (It's Not Easy ) by Five For Fighting for the C Plot Line.
Progress[]
The First full Chapter was completed as of December 8th 2022,
The first 3rd of Chapter 2 was completed on December 22nd 2022,, The second 3rd of Chapter 2 was complete on December 26th 2022, The final 3rds were done on December 27th 2022
The 1st half of Chapter 3 was finished on Jan 8th 2023, The 2nd half of Chapter 3 was finished on Jan 16th 2023, The Final Half of Chapter 3 was completed on Jan 18th 2023
The A Plot of Chapter 4 was Finished on Jan 30th 2023 and Feb 1st 2023, The C Plot was finished on Feb 4th 2023, The First half of the B Plot was finished on Feb 6th 2023 and the 2nd was done on Feb 8th 2023 and the last part was done on Feb 10th 2023
The first 3rd of Chapter 5 was finished on Feb 28th 2023, the 2nd 3rd was done on March 4th 2023, The final 3rd was done on March 7th 2023
The 1st half of Chapter 6 was finished on March 20th 2023, 2nd half was done on March 22nd 2023, the 3rd half was done on March 26th 2023
The Finale was completed, thus the story was done on April 5th 2023
Team Free Will Cast[]
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Bender and his Friends[]
Slade and his ensemble[]
President DeathStroke and his Party[]
Other Characters[]
Villains[]
Trivia[]
Luz, Anne, Cricket, Hilda and much of Team Free Will are absent from this story that was established in the previous stories, with some of the old team from phase 4 returning.
Betty Barnett, Master Chief, Arbiter, Jack Bauer, Stan Smith, Hunson Abadeer, Cypto, RJ, Black Star and Death The Kid Return Alongside Bender, Slade, and Anti Cosmo.
The Title is based off Countdown to Infinite Crisis
An inspiration of a storyline comes from Kevin Conroy's passing
More things that occurred with Dib, Bubbles, Milo, Lizbeth, Boomer, Nina, Edd, Darkwing, Launchpad, Starfire, Skipper, Heloise and co will be revealed such as
- Boomer and Nina managed to renew their relationship
- Boomer became aware of what happened with his brothers and learns that Bender is aware of The V Crusaders, Maka and Boomer's attempts to get to the bottom of finding her
- Dib's dad Bruce Wayne (The Animated Series one) died, as well as his deal with The Irken Empire
- Darkwing and co's investigation of Marcy Wu has bore some more fruit though Launchpad didn't reveal her allegiance to Bender or Slade
- Despite this Bender is the only member of the group who will be physically in the story like Return of The Weirdmagedon Cult and he saves his friends in the finale with Slade's Empire and his friends with Professor Membrane and Bliss.
The Main Characters of both Countdown and Chang's Guide To The Galaxy are different
- Lydia, Lincoln, Bender, Anti Cosmo and Slade are the only characters to be main characters of both stories and arguably the main protagonists of the story
- Truman X, Omni Man, Deathstroke, Mulder, Scully, Luan, Harry Wells, Spider Gwen, The Smoking Man and Homelander are main characters of Countdown
- Sid, Ford Pines, Luz Noceda, Marcy Wu, Eclpisa, Hilda, Vecna, Emperor Belos and Mina Loveberry of Chang's Guide To The Galaxy
- The Only 2 villains who returned were Customer Service and The Soviet Demogorgon.
This story has important characters that become more prevalent in Entropized that take place in Lydia and Lincoln's Storyline, Bender and Anti Cosmo's Storyline and Luan and Harry Wells's Storyline. Also certain plot points in Countdown become more of a plot point in Chang's Guide To The Galaxy with Lincoln, Lydia, Bender and Anti Cosmo in particular
The Title is called Countdown because the operation the villains are up to is called "Operation Countdown"
The Following Things happened in between this and Chang's Guide To The Galaxy
- Doc Brown and to an extent May retired from multiversal adventures and were killed by N.Tropy
- Bender found about Henry/Vecna from Lydia's friend Marcus and knew where to investigate Belos because Luz's mom gave him a map
- Omni Man passed on due to his battle with Thragg
- The Louds inadventerly got involved with Big Jack Horner sparking Bender and Luan's feud with him.
- Lincoln and Lydia find out about Henry Creel who controlled the Mind Flayer they took on earlier
- Lincoln made his mind between Lydia Lopez and Hilda, deciding on the former
- Sid meets Bender as well as Slade's Empire setting up how they save her, Marcy Wu and her team
- Lydia, Lincoln, Dawn, May and Doc's kids made contact with The Future and have Pym Particles
- Mulder and Scully adopted Lydia as their kid.
Joker's Forces make a comeback in regards to The Spear of Destiny resurrecting certain villains from his group.
The Mar Mar Gang is the only team to not be in this storyline
En.Tropized confirms that Toby and AAAARRRGGHH!! took part in this storyline and Chang's Guide to the Galaxy as well aiding Lincoln and Lydia.