On a cause of centuries of peace, the Universe had forgotten the age-old arts of spiritual energy, and so weakness came. Meaning that the still existing Saiyans knew not who they were, or what they were capable of. But the reason the trio was given this knowledge was that another saiyan, Max Payne, had awoken his Super Saiyan powers, and was wreaking havoc on the near defenseless planet Earth.
The boys trained hard, until they too awakened their hidden powers, and set off to put the world at peace. They fought well, and victory was almost assured, until the soul of Max Payne literally split in two, one good, one bad. And so the evil entity retained the name of Max Payne, while the other claimed the name of Jake, or J-Dude as he is called.
Max Payne and J-Dude had both become stronger than Ed, Edd and Eddy, and it seemed that they would not be the deciding factor in the outcome of this fight. That is, until they finally mastered the Tri-Fusion technique, which if done correctly will combine the power and bodies of the three, into one amalgamated super fighter.
This turned the tide, as the fight escalated to the heights of the Earth's atmosphere. With the fused form of the three boys, known as Eddie out cold, J-Dude was left in a showdown with Max, struggling to get their waves of energy, known as the Final Flash, and Kamehameha wave, to overtake the other. Max Payne's triumph was almost solid, if the forgotten Eddie, hadn't leant a hand, and cleaved Max's right off with Ed's unique Samurai attack.
With the aid of only one able hand, Max could not overpower J-Dude's wave and was sent into the next dimension with Payne's final parting words: "Evil never Dies!"
Afterward, the citizens of the Earth forgot Payne, and the four fighters agreed to keep their powers in four magical orbs forged by the Guardian of Earth, Dende. They met once each year to spend a years worth of training in the newly constructed hyperbolic time chamber so not to be caught off guard by enemy's sure to come…