Actually, Jake and Axel were holding out quite well, due to the fact that they were evenly matched.

"You know your Jo-lan power has no effect against my magnetism" Magness said, levitating several nearby pipes "so let's see how you deal with these!"

She hurled the pipes at Axel, who dodged them with his superior athletic skills.

"I don't need Jo-lan to take you down" he said, running forward, only to take a desk chair to the chest. "We'll see about that" Magness chuckled.

Meanwhile, Jake was doing slightly better in his battle against Karai, having used his fire breath to make her drop her katana.

"What you gonna do without your sword?" Jake asked.

"I do not require that weapon to dispose of you" Karai replied, "you forget, I have my father's entire arsenal at my disposal."

With that, she tried to slash him with her knuckle claw, but he kept avoiding it.

"Hah, looks like you'd better practice some more with that thing before you try to take on the Am Drag" Jake said mockingly. Suddenly, something slammed into his back and knocked him to the ground.

"Uhh, did anybody get the license number of that truck?" Jake asked, slightly dazed.

As he regained his senses, he became aware that Karai was perched over him, her claw at the ready.

"Your mocking shall not save you now!" she said, preparing to lower the blade.

Suddenly, Axel slammed into her with a karate kick, knocking her to the side.

"Thanks man" Jake said, after getting to his feet.

"No problem" Axel replied "you wanna change sparring partners?"

"Way ahead of you" Jake said, flying over to face Magness.

"Your flying won't help you against my powers" Magness said, hurling another length of pipe.

"Maybe not, but you control metal, which my fire breath can totally melt" Jake replied, demonstrating on the pipe.

Over with Karai, she had recovered and quickly resumed battling. "You cannot hope to defeat me" she said, "I was trained in martial arts by one of the best."

"Maybe so" Axel said, blocking a chop, "but you never studied Jo-Lan. Jo-Lan choubatsu!"

The blast of energy delivered to her chest sent Karai flying across the room and crashing into Magness.

"Get off me!" Magness shouted, lifting Karai by her armor, before setting her down "I knew working with you was a bad idea. I would have preferred working with Weather Vane, she's not so serious and lame."

"This assignment has been no picnic for me either" an angry Karai said "I did not wish to work with an irresponsible, selfish brat such as yourself! Only because I could return to my homeland did I agree."

"Irresponsible, selfish?" Magness asked, "you'd better be careful about what you say about somebody who can crush you like a tin can!"

"Looks like trouble in paradise" Jake commented.

"Let's help them make up" Axel suggested, and both men delivered flying kicks to the squabbling ladies.

At that moment, the sidekicks decided to show up. "What we miss, anything good?" Ron asked.

"Actually, me and Ax were about to finish the butt whooping on the evil sisters over here" Jake replied.

"Save some for me!" Lily shouted "they're going to pay for what they did to me!"

Magness and Karai slowly got to their feet and surveyed the situation. "Okay, two against roughly a dozen, not good odds" Magness said, "what do you say we cut our losses and blame the whole thing on that idiot Spicer?"

"For once, I agree with you" Karai replied, "but we should not leave them empty handed."

"Already on top of it" Magness said using her powers to grab the doomsday weapon.

"Drop the weapon Magness" Axel said, "we outnumber you, there's no way you're going to escape with it."

"Wasn't my plan Manning" Magness said, setting the timer for 1 minute "if we can't have it, at least we'll have the pleasure of using it to destroy you!"

"Farewell" Karai said, tossing the device at the heroes. Then both ladies used their transporter watches to escape.

"Oh man, I'm gonna die!" Ron exclaimed "and there was so much more I wanted to do, so many more nacos I wanted to eat!"

"I never even had a girlfriend!" Spud whined.

"What do we do, there's only 15 more seconds!" Mike exclaimed.

"Now's your last chance to kiss me" Mikey said to Lily.

"Forget it!" Lily said, "even if I'm about to die, I'd still never kiss you."

"Yo Ax man, use one of your Jo-lan bursts and bust that sucker" Jake said.

"I'm not sure if that would work" Axel said "the Jo-lan blast may cause the machine to explode prematurely."

"Dude, you gotta try or we're all done for!" Jake shouted.

Axel closed his eyes and concentrated "Jo-Lan choubatsu!" The blast of energy hit its' mark and blasted the device into many tiny pieces. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

"Glad that's over" Mikey said, "now we can get back to our normal lives."

"Uh guys" Gonard said, the fridge still stuck in his body, "a little help here?"

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Later that day, the cast filmed their episode of LilyMu, and went to say goodbye to the heroes before they departed.

"Thank you very much for saving my cast" Ozu said, "I would have lost millions if you had not. Yes Man is not a good replacement."

"You're welcome" Axel said, "but next time, try not to pick up any doomsday weapons."

"Oh, about that" Ozu said, "I had that thing deactivated a long time ago. It wouldn't have exploded."

Axel & Jake's jaws fell slack with surprise. "You mean we blew it up for nothing!" Jake exclaimed.

"I'm afraid so" Ozu said, "now I have to get new paperweight."

Elsewhere, the LilyMu cast were saying goodbye to the assorted sidekicks.

"Thanks for all the help" Mikey said "everybody was so grateful, we got you these."

"Autographed posters?" Spud asked happily "this is truly the happiest day of my life."

"I think I may cry buddy" Ron said to Rufus.

"Thanks for all the help" Guano said, "and if you're ever in Japan again, look us up."

"You can count on it, little dude" Spud replied, shaking his hand, er, paw.

After the rest of the goodbyes were exchanged, the Freedom took off into the sky, as the sun set over the land of the rising sun.

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Next Time:

The Freedom is shot down by the members of E.V.I.L, who are pursuing the Omnitrix, forcing our heroes to hide out in the town of Pleasant Hills. There they meet a rather unorthodox family, and discover the two kids have been targeted by yet another collection of villains. Can they save them and stop this new threat, while still dealing with E.V.I.L? And who exactly are the Larcenous Assembly of Minor Enemies? Find out the answer to this and more questions in the next story "This is L.A.M.E."