On Today's Episode: The spies continue their search of Malibu University in hopes of finding Snit and giving him a thorough thrashing, but those plans might be interrupted by the appearance of a sudden co-conspirator. It turns out that Macker the Safecracker is also in on Snit's scheme, and they both want the spies to suffer. Can the team keep this dual threat off their backs long enough to scuttle their plans?

Act 2: The Sudden Tag Team

5:38 P.M. – Malibu University

"There can't be that many places a nutball like Snit can hide," Bridget quipped as the spies continued searching Mali-U for any sign of Snit, in disguise or not.

"Yeah, especially around here," Mat stated.

"He'll show up eventually," Nick quipped as he continued to use his psychic radar to point the spies in the right direction. "After all, he knows he can't hide from me."

After about another minute, Nick glanced to the east.

"Found him, Nick?" Alex asked.

"Sure as heck did," Nick replied. "Let's head 'em off at the pass."

The spies followed Nick to the natatorium, where they noticed Snit skulking around without being seen.

Or so he thought, as Nick raised his hand to grab Snit in his psychic hold before tossing him into the pool.

"Should have done the cannonball instead of the belly flop, Snit," Nick taunted.

"Why don't you just stop running for once in your sucky villain career, jackass?!" Clover shouted.

"Oh, I'm the sucky villain, am I?!" Snit growled as he fished himself out of the pool.

"Yeah, well, you are the one who's 'all wet'," Melissa taunted.

"You won't be mocking me for long," Snit laughed. "Once we're finished with our plan, you won't have any legs to stand on."

"Hold on, what did you mean by 'we'?" Sam challenged.

"That, my dearest Sam, would be me."

The spies all turned around to see someone flying through one of the open skylights on a floating platform.

"Macker?! You're in on this, too?!" Blaine exclaimed.

"But of course," Macker laughed as he hopped off of the platform to confront the spies. "Any opportunity to put you damned meddlers in your place is welcomed, especially when it involves such a creative mind like Snit here."

"You must seriously be whacked in the head if you think he's creative for pulling the same damn thing again!" Alex shouted.

"And two villains for us to fight just means we get to dish out double the ass-kickings!" May exclaimed, summoning her anchor to her hands. "Now prepare to eat anchor, you punks!"

"I can't believe we gotta deal with 'Mr. Clone Maker' again!" Clover chastised.

"I think the bigger question is, how did he know about Snit's plan?" Mat groaned.

"You ingrates will find out that after I put you where you belong," Macker sneered.

"Look who's talking about where we belong," Haruka shot back.

Snit looked to see Macker the Safecracker and sneered that the odds were against the thirteen spies.

"The both of us are gonna do just that," Snit confidently smirked.

"How about you try us?!" Nick goaded.

Despite the odds, Macker and Eugene still went through with the attempt.

"Believe us when we say you don't know how many lines you've crossed, Snit," Bridget proclaimed.

"You guys will be dead in the water before you can even TRY anything!" May shouted as she hurled her anchor at Macker and Eugene.

Macker simply swung his metal hand to deflect the anchor back towards May, only for Nick to psychically guide it right back into him.

"Sorry, but no," Nick taunted as he jumped forward to send Snit sprawling with a right hook before he could activate another disguise.

"You little punks are certainly more aggressive than the last time we fought," Macker laughed, only to step back when Nozomi lunged towards him.

"That's because we're sick and tired of your nonsense!" Nozomi exclaimed, doing a short hop so she could send Macker tumbling with a spinning kick to the head.

"They're harder than I thought," Snit chastised.

"That's because of their teamwork, you dummy!" Macker complained.

"You got that right," Sam proclaimed. "As if making cheap clones of us weren't enough, you don't make much of a jump forward as a person either!"

"And burn this into your head, too!" Alex growled. "Our engagements ARE NONE OF YOUR DAMN BUSINESS!"

"And Alex and I are getting sick and tired of certain villains who don't approve of things like this!" Sam added.

"WE DESERVE HAPPINESS!" Alex and Sam proclaimed together as they rushed the two villains, and though they tried to dodge, Alex got a hold of Macker and Sam grabbed Snit by the collar so they could smash the two villains directly into each other.

"We don't even want to think about how we almost dropped out of high school to marry some polygamist who disguised himself as our dream dates either!" Sam growled.

"You can't deny I almost had you though," Snit taunted.

He was met with an immediate knee to the gut from Alex, and Sam shoved Snit into Macker.

"You totally don't mess with a girl's happiness and expect to still be breathing," Clover remarked.

"Got that right," Nozomi added.

May, Nozomi, Britney, and Melissa stood forward for their love interests.

Nick raised his hand to ensnare Snit and Macker in his psychic hold while May, Nozomi, Britney, and Melissa all got into position, aiming Cyclone Blast Hairdryers towards the two villains.

"NOW STAY OUT OF OUR LOVE LIFE!" the four spies shouted as they all fired at the same time, the combined blasts of wind flooring Snit and Macker instantly.

"Right on, guys!" Haruka commended.

"This is NOT over yet!" Macker shouted.

"Consider this your FINAL TIME TOGETHER!" Eugene added.

"Is that supposed to be a threat?" Bridget taunted.

"No, it's a promise," Snit cackled. "And besides, you're all hypocrites, accusing me of polygamy when you're clearly doing it yourself!"

"All right, buddy, I'm going to have you shut the hell up right there," May responded, twirling her anchor in her hands. "I knew you were going to play that card eventually, but you didn't seem to realize that you were going to activate our own trap card."

May began to slowly advance on Snit. "I lost someone I really loved in my youth, and Nick was there to help me through all of it," May proclaimed. "Our relationship is built on trust and actual freakin' love, unlike you, who just wants a harem for the sake of breaking people's hearts for the funsies."

"And I was actually Nick's first girlfriend way before he met Alex," Nozomi stated. "So what we had was still there, despite the circumstances. Also, Nick would never do anything to break our hearts, unlike you, ya scuzz ball!"

"I'm in the same boat as May, in that I had my heart toyed with, by you, no less," Britney proclaimed. "Mat was there to help me out, so is it any wonder I fell so hard for him?"

"Same here, Brit," Melissa responded. "Mat's a genuinely good person, and he let us into his heart despite everything else. If that doesn't speak for the kind of heart he has, I don't know what will!"

"And besides, none of these relationships were forced on us," Alex proclaimed. "We're perfectly okay with them."

"You're the ones jumping to conclusions when you clearly didn't do your homework," Sam stated.

Nick raised his hand, which was glowing a bright neon green. "So don't you dare accuse us of bullcrap that you know we'd never pull," Nick growled. "Because otherwise, you're gonna suffer the consequences!"

Before Snit or Macker could get a word in edgewise, Nick blasted them both backwards with a Final Shine Attack, and this was enough to get the two villains to retreat for the moment.

"That was... surprisingly cathartic, despite the fact that they booked it," Dawn quipped.

"Hey, we got to beat down their stupid accusations," Sam laughed. "I'd call that a victory, however small it was in the bigger picture."

"And now, I think we oughta beat feet after them before they can pull any other surprises out of their hats," Mat proclaimed.

"Here's my big question, though," Nozomi asked as the spies headed out to find the villains or their hideout, whichever came first. "What the heck is Macker doing in Snit's scheme?!"

"Hopefully we'll find out soon enough," Nick quipped. "Any sign of our troublesome twosome, RiCO?"

"My super drone sees all and knows all!" RiCO laughed. "The drone is following them somewhere out to sea."

"Sounds like fun," Alex chuckled. "Let's head 'em off!"

6:15 P.M. – Beverly Hills

Shoreline

"Any sign of anything unusual?" Sam asked as the spies reached the shoreline to search for Snit and Macker's latest hideout.

"Looks clean over here," Bridget quipped. "Is your radar picking up anything, Nick?"

"It's way out there," Nick answered. "It's on the razor's edge of my radar's range, so whatever I'm sensing is only coming in as garbled static, but it's definitely suspicious."

"All right-y, then, let's dive and find whatever their insidious base is!" Blaine shouted.

With that said, the spies all swam out to sea a short distance before diving underwater, equipping their UPWATIs, and swimming towards the disturbance.

"Man, it's been a while since we've done an underwater thing for a mission," Clover quipped. "When was the last time we did that?"

"I'm pretty sure our last underwater mission was just a test mission," Alex answered. "That was right before Patty and Pirate Nick stopped by to recruit us to fight the Black Hope, right?"

"And considering we barely spent any time in that alternate reality where practically everything was underwater, too," Haruka replied.

"I'm probably willing to bet that if there's a base down here under the sea, it probably belongs to Macker," Melissa stated. "Snit doesn't strike me as the type to make an underwater lair."

"Oh, and by the way, Alex?" Sam quipped. "Thanks for restraining yourself when it came to the UPWATI joke."

"Eh, I think that joke's run its course, to be fair," Alex chuckled.

"Hey, I think I see something up ahead," Nick proclaimed, pointing ahead of the group. A very obvious secret lair, resembling an underwater factory of sorts, sat a decent distance away from the spies.

"I'm gonna take a shot in the dark and say that's the place we're looking for," May chuckled. "What do you say we perform an unscheduled inspection on the joint?"

"Hey, I think I see an island just to the left," Blaine stated as he pointed to the island in question.

"...is it me, or does that island look oddly familiar?" Melissa wondered.

Suddenly, something flew out from the lair to meet them, resembling a robotic octopus that quickly shimmered and turned into a much more menacing and real-looking octopus.

"Oh, great, now Snit's using his disguise tech on Macker's robotics," Sam sighed.

"Oh, lord, did that thing just turn into Oodako?!" May shouted.

"Wait, the octopus kaiju thing from King Kong vs. Godzilla?!" Nick proclaimed. "Seriously, what is our rogues' gallery's sudden fascination with sending freakin' kaiju after us?!"

"Maybe they're fans of the old-school movies?" Dawn wondered.

Just as the robot octopus swam forward to attack them, something else swam up and whacked it in the back with her tail, drawing its attention to her.

"And if that island is the one I think it is, then I'm pretty sure I know who just gave us an assist," Nick quipped.

Sure enough, it was Siren, a once-innocuous lobster who had been mutated into a humanoid form and given intelligence by Helga von Guggen and Doctor Fox, only to escape their brainwashing and help the spies take them down twice.

Siren swam around the robot octopus faster than it could lash out to grab her; after all, this was her element. Eventually, she whacked the robot octopus in the head with her tail before swimming over to the spies.

"So, everyone, what brings you to these parts?" Siren teased. "I mean, besides the robot octopus."

"We were following some of our rogues' gallery, and I'm pretty sure they decided to set up camp in your territory," Nick stated.

"At least it's not Helga and Fox again, huh?" Siren responded.

"Yeah, those two jerks are thankfully locked up tight," Alex proclaimed.

Siren turned back towards the robot octopus as it advanced on them. "Then let's focus on making calamari out of this thing," Siren stated.

"Sounds like a plan to me!" May exclaimed as the spies all prepared for a battle.

"I feel like we're having a round two with this octopus," Alex replied, thinking back to before. (A/N: Think S5's Evil Sushi Chef.)

"Except it was a squid," Clover pointed out.

"Either way, any seafood's out of my diet," Mat commented.

"You won't have to worry about sampling any seafood," Siren replied.

"I'd ask why, Mat, but we'll save that for later," Melissa chuckled.

"That's one predicament I'll be looking for an answer from," Alex commented.

Sam wasn't too bothered, but she was slightly surprised that Mat avoids seafood.

"So, there's thirteen of us; should half of us explore the island or no?" Blaine wondered. "At least make a break for finding Macker and Eugene?"

Britney and Nozomi moved out of the way to avoid an attack from the octopus kaiju.

"We're gonna have to move this big dude out of the way first," Dawn remarked. "No two ways about it."

"If there's one thing I know, this octopus probably can't stand ultimate speed," Bridget proclaimed. "Sonic Mode, online!"

When the light cleared, Bridget's hair had come free of its braids and flowed down to about her waist, and she was wearing a synthetic emerald-green swimsuit that radiated blue light across its lines.

"I'm so glad Jerry thought of the underwater aspect when he made this," Bridget giggled as she swam off at lightning speeds around the robot octopus to keep its attention on her.

This eventually gave Nick the perfect vantage point to blast the robot octopus with a Final Shine Attack, which cleared a way for the spies to move.

"Okay, guys, now we got a chance!" Clover proclaimed.

With that, everybody powered away in their UPWATIs from the octopus kaiju.

"Thank god that's over," Haruka groaned.

"Hopefully Macker and Eugene are not far away," May replied.

"My guess is that they couldn't have gotten far, considering we're out at sea," Nick deduced.

He then did a psychic reading to see if Macker and/or Eugene were in the vicinity.

"So, how do we take them down after we find them?" Mat wondered.

Simultaneously, Bridget and May were still a bit beside themselves that Eugene Snit went the way he did with his outlandish accusations on them anyway.

"I have a lock on them," Nick told the others. "We gotta head forward!"

"Nice work, Nick," Sam commended.

"Now, it's time we show Snit at least that he should have proof before pointing fingers the way he did!" Bridget emphasized.

"Totally!" Alex proclaimed. "Those are the kinds of things that can ruin your life, for sure!"

"He doesn't even have any proof either," Mat pointed out. "I think we've got nothing to worry about, right?"

"Sounds like you're all caught up in something again, huh?" Siren chuckled as the group swam towards the base just ahead.

"Just a typical day for us, really," Alex laughed.

"You haven't had any trouble on the island lately, have you, Siren?" Nick wondered.

"Not since the last time you guys took down Helga and Fox, thankfully," Siren replied. "The most trouble we've really had was Mr. Bear chasing after another lobster and falling overboard when it tricked him."

"Thank goodness Mr. Bear can swim, huh?" Bridget quipped.

6:46 P.M. – Macker and Snit's Underwater Base

"Man, this place definitely follows rule forty-six, doesn't it?" May quipped as the spies and Siren surfaced inside of Macker and Snit's lair. The lair itself was a combination of an underwater research base and a robotics laboratory, complete with diagrams all over the place.

"That seems about right," Melissa stated.

"Let's start investigating so we can hopefully shut this place down real quick-like," Clover proclaimed.

With that, the group all set out into the base, hoping to find the villains before any trouble reared its ugly head.

"So, what have you all been up to since the last time we saw each other?" Siren asked. She still occasionally saw Nick, as he still visited Siren Island every now and then as he'd promised.

"Oh, you have no idea, Siren," Sam laughed. "You should have been there to witness all of the crazy, especially having to deal with my psycho ex-boyfriend..."

"Trouble just seems to follow you all like a magnet, huh?" Siren giggled.

"Once again, I will reiterate how cursed I am," Nick groaned.

"Basically, there's this guy, Eugene Snit, who's upset that Sammy and I got engaged to our boyfriends, now fiancées," Alex stated, her and Sam showing Siren their engagement rings. "So, he's spreading completely nonsense rumors to try and ruin our images at Mali-U, but he's thankfully not having much success with it."

"And the other guy is Macker the Safecracker, a half-cyborg scientist who likes to make clones of us to frame us for his nonsense," Sam continued.

"Basically, our baddies du jour are trying to play the blame game and mess with our lives because they're jealous of us," Nick proclaimed. "Like Alex said, just another day on the job for us."

"I'm curious as to what all of this is," Melissa wondered as she walked up to one of the data screens, one that was showing what appeared to be a robotic exoskeleton that suddenly transformed into a person.

"It kinda looks like they're combining their strengths," Dawn answered. "Because those look like Macker's robots and clone things being disguised by Snit's tech."

"That's probably why they decided to team up," Haruka stated. "Their whole modus operandis seem to fit perfectly together."

"Talk about petty, huh?" Siren quipped.

"TELL ME ABOUT IT!" all thirteen spies exclaimed.

The spies continued to explore the base while occasionally regaling Siren with tales of their recent exploits.

"That must have been interesting, having Nick pop the question inside of an alternate reality," Siren giggled.

"It just felt like the right time," Nick chuckled.

"Well, I think it's about time you got a divorce!" Snit shouted as he and Macker lunged forward from the shadows, only to crash head-long into a psychic barrier that Nick had conjured in front of them.

"Maybe don't try to get the jump on a psychic?" Nick taunted. "Seriously, how has that lesson not sunk in for you yet?"

"In the end, it won't really matter, will it?" Macker laughed. "Because when we're finished with the lot of you..."

"Oh, shut the heck up already!" Alex exclaimed, grabbing a Cyclone Blast Hairdryer and firing it into the two villains, flooring them instantly. "We're sick and tired of the same ol' harebrained speeches!"

"And if you think you're going to mess up our engagements with your baseless rumors and gossip, Snit, you're sorely mistaken!" Sam proclaimed.

"We'll see about that, Samantha," Snit chuckled, just then noticing Siren among the spies. "And who's little miss lobster?"

"Oh, you can consider me a friend of the spies," Siren quipped as she took a few steps forward. "And I'm also the guardian of the nearby island. Which means that your base in encroaching on my turf."

"And what, exactly, do you think you're going to do to stop us?" Macker cackled.

In retrospect, Macker probably should have listened, because Siren lunged forward, jumped towards Macker, and spun around, her lobster tail lashing out to whack Macker in the face and send him right back down to the ground.

Snit could only gape at what he'd just witnessed as Siren rushed him, knocking him off his feet with a leg sweep before sending him into the opposite wall with another tail strike.

"I'd advise you against underestimating me just because I look like this," Siren proclaimed. "My tail, according to something Nick said, is considered a weapon all its own."

"Now do you wanna get up and face the music?!" May shouted, summoning her anchor to her hands.

"Believe it or not, we have much better things to be doing with our time, so we'll let you play with our new toys for now," Macker chuckled as he and Snit made a hasty retreat.

Before Nick could psychically yank them back, however, the spies suddenly found themselves surrounded by dozens of humanoid robots that each suddenly transformed into copies of themselves.

"Okay, that's just not nice," Clover stated.

"When are our baddies ever 'nice', Clover?" Alex quipped.

"...okay, point," Clover admitted as the robots approached them.

"We can't let them get away!" Mat proclaimed.

The robots surrounded them immediately.

"Mat-honey has a valid point," Sam proclaimed in her leader tone.

"Maybe I can provide us an opening," Nick remarked, using his psychic powers.

"We're not going to let them get away this time," Bridget proclaimed as she knocked a few of the robots away with a few strikes from her Metal Masher Boxing Glove, their disguises fizzling out as they were smashed.

During all of this, May danced around the area smashing robot after robot with her anchor, even as more robots shuffled in to fill in the gaps. Even Siren got into it, whipping robots aside with her tail.

Eventually, Nick was able to fling a trio of robots aside to provide an avenue for the team to squeeze through.

"Thanks, Nick!" Haruka exclaimed.

As it turned out, Sam, May, Haruka, Bridget, and Nozomi made it out of the scrum to go after Macker and Eugene.

"You go, we'll keep 'em busy!" Clover told them.

"We can handle things," Melissa added as Sam, May, Haruka, Bridget, and Nozomi all went after the villains. "Now take your lumps, robot boys!"

Melissa whipped out a Helicopter Hand Fan and spun it around her to shred any robots that got close, while Dawn tossed a Boomerang Buzzsaw Barrette that flew around and sliced any robot it came in contact with.

While all of this was happening, Nick flew into the air and started blasting robots down left and right with well-placed psychic bolts. Two robots jumped after him, but he simply snatched them in his psychic hold and smashed them into the nearby wall.

"Nice try, buddy," Nick quipped.

Siren waved to Nick, who quickly got the message and flew back down to the ground as more robots surrounded them. Nick reached out to take Siren's hands and spin him around her, with Siren lashing her tail out as she was spun, which knocked away all of the robots surrounding them.

"Sonic Mode, online!" Bridget proclaimed as the spies clung to her.

With that, she shot ahead like a bullet out of a gun. In a matter of seconds, Bridget's Sonic Mode allowed them to catch up to the two villains.

Snit looked over his shoulder and was flabbergasted.

"You idiot, you said those clones would keep them back!" Snit complained.

"They were supposed to!" Macker chastised.

"You forgot about how resilient we are," Nozomi remarked.

"We got 'em right where we want 'em," Haruka quipped.

"Now, it's time you owned up to the false finger-pointing, so to speak!" May shouted as she hurled her anchor at both Macker and Eugene.

It was a direct hit to their backs and send them flat on their stomachs.

"Calling my honey-bunches a racist didn't earn you any good brownie points in my book, Snit!" Sam proclaimed once Bridget laid off the Sonic Mode.

"Especially everything you called some of us when you don't even have any visual proof," Haruka added.

"Do a little research before you point fingers, buddy boy!" Nozomi exclaimed.

"As Mat said, it's easy to voice your disapproval of a sports athlete regardless of color; as I say, that's not enough to call somebody 'racist' in any way, shape or form!" Sam replied, giving Snit a kick on his side.

"And if you're gonna accuse someone of cheating, have the proof first!" Bridget added as she grabbed Snit by the collar of his shirt. "I don't cheat! There's a thing called 'hard work'! USE IT! IT'S GOOD FOR YOU!"

She threw Snit back down flat on his back.

Macker tried to intervene, but May made him stop in his tracks via a swing from her anchor. To say that Macker was scared stiff was the understatement of the century.

"You're next..." Haruka glared.

"And if I were you, I'd take what you've done in terms of crossing lines and stop there!" May growled. "And you..." she continued, looking back at Eugene Snit. "I'm nobody's mistress, and I'll be surprised if you know what the term MEANS!"

Snit quickly activated his disguise belt, transforming into a tall man with purple eyes, light blue hair with two long horn-like locks running down his back, and a large bang of hair falling over his face, and wearing ornate dark blue and red robes with a green sash, and carrying a rather demonic-looking staff.

"Okay, so who did he turn into this time?" Nozomi wondered.

"This pompous pompadour would be Seymour, one of the baddies of Final Fantasy X," May quipped. "And don't think your disguises are going to save you from my wrath, Snit!"

"Come on, little pirate girl, just admit that all you want is to have him for yourself," Snit laughed as he raised his staff, presumably to attack the spies. "That's the only reason you're even bothering."

May's eyes widened considerably at that particular accusation, and the other four spies all agreed that they needed to step back for fear of being caught in whatever was about to happen.

"Oh, what, did I touch a nerve?" Snit cackled. "Man, it must suck being told the truth."

All Snit noticed was a slight blur of orange before May lunged towards him and smashed him in the chest with her anchor, sending him flying into the nearby wall and immediately shattering his current disguise.

"You are so incredibly lucky that your disguises protect you from a beating," May snarled. "Because you're in for a beating after that crack."

"Hey, don't get steamed just because I'm telling the truth," Snit laughed as he changed into another Final Fantasy X character, only for May to immediately jump at him and smash him into the floor with her anchor, breaking the disguise before it could fully form.

"YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ME, YOU SON OF A BITCH!" May screamed as she advanced on Snit before he could get back up. "You have absolutely no idea what I've been through if you think I'm being selfish about my feelings for Nick, you monster!"

"Back off this instant, young lady!" Macker taunted, aiming his robotic hand for May in an attempt to blast her with it, but May responded by swinging her anchor hard enough to sever his robotic arm from his body, then swing again to send Macker tumbling.

"I'm only going to say this once, so brick it into your skull and brick it in good, asshole," May proclaimed. "I lost someone else that I dearly loved, and Nick was there to help me through my own grief. Despite the fact that I fell in love, I initially didn't want to say anything because I was worried about how Alex would react. But once we got a chance to talk things out, Alex was incredibly supportive, because she actually told me that she knows I would never do anything underhanded with Nick like you're suggesting I would."

May took a few threatening steps forward, not even noticing that the rest of the spies had joined the fracas, having taken down all of the robots getting in their way.

"I have never in my life thought of doing any of the stupid shit that you're suggesting, and the fact that you've seen us together, multiple times, having seen the kind of loving relationship Nick and I have, and are still suggesting I have ulterior motives, means that you've officially lost your mind, Snit!" May growled.

"But what about that one..." Snit started.

"SHUT YOUR DAMN MOUTH!" May shouted. "I don't know what pathetic little hole you jumped down to start blurting out such baseless bullshit, especially when you have a bunch of people at Mali-U that, as we saw the last time you showed up, eat up those rumors like discount Halloween candy and tend to believe the rumor mill over the actual truth, but you've got some nerve to still be on your typical nonsense despite all of that!"

Snit immediately activated another disguise, changing him into a heavily armored knight reminiscent of Cecil from that one alternate dimension, but May quickly closed the gap between them.

"I'll reiterate this for your dumb little peanut brain, but this is the last time, so listen up," May proclaimed, punctuating her words with multiple anchor strikes. "My relationship with Nick is a perfectly normal one, and it's none of your freakin' business, so don't you DARE accuse me of being selfish when you HAVEN'T LOOKED IN THE DAMN MIRROR!"

May finished off with a loud cry of rage and a severe home-run swing that sent Snit flying down the nearby hallway, his disguise breaking as he scrambled down the hallway with Macker in pursuit.

Only then did May notice that the rest of the spies had joined them.

"...holy crap," Melissa quipped.

"Talk about reaming into the guy, huh?" Clover laughed.

May walked over to Nick and hugged him tightly. Nick didn't need to read her thoughts to understand what had just happened, simply returning her hug.

"...he deserved it for what he said," May stated.

"More proof that Snit's just throwing around baseless accusations and has no idea what a real relationship is," Nick replied.

"It's just... he said something that really set me off, so... I felt like I had to teach him a lesson," May quipped.

"And if he's got even a little sense left in his, as you so aptly put it, 'dumb little peanut brain', he'll knock off the rumor spreading before it really bites him in the ass," Nick responded.

May looked up at Nick and smiled brightly. "Hey, Nick?" May asked. "I love you. I just wanted you to know that."

"I love you, too, May," Nick answered as the two of them leaned in for a kiss. "No matter what."

Alex couldn't help but smile herself as she walked up and hugged Nick from behind.

"Did you guys take care of all of their robots?" Sam asked.

"No problem at all," Dawn laughed. "We got here just in time to witness May tearing Snit a new hole. Well, that and knocking Macker's robo-arm off again."

"Yeah, if she hadn't done it, I would've," Nick chuckled. "That aside, let's go and follow them so we can put an end to this hoedown."

The entire group set off down the nearby hallway, following the trail left by Snit and Macker until they found both villains standing in front of a large gateway.

"Last chance to surrender while you still can, suckers," Haruka proclaimed.

"Yeah, unless you want another beatdown," May stated matter-of-factly.

"As much as we'd love to hear your ramblings, we're pretty confident that we're about to proclaim our well-deserved victory here," Macker laughed.

"Um, dipheads, May just unleashed an epic smackdown on one of you, and your robotic arm is gone again," Nick shot back. "What part of 'you're most likely boned' isn't sinking in just yet?"

"How quickly you forget that all respectable villains save their trump card for the finale," Macker cackled, pressing a button on the nearby control to open the large gateway and reveal a large robotic machine with multiple legs and weapon ports, almost resembling a centipede.

"Okay, so it's just another giant robot," Bridget quipped. "What's so special about this one?"

"Observe," Snit laughed as he pressed a button on his disguise belt.

Instead of giving Snit another disguise, though, this command caused the robot to change appearance, becoming a grotesque, demonic beast.

"Say hello to the Disguise Dealer," Snit laughed. "I've been improving my disguise tech so that it can disguise other things beside myself. Like this machine, that we can disguise as anything we want."

The Disguise Dealer, instead of immediately moving to attack the spies, simply crawled out of the opposite end of the gateway and into the ocean just outside the tunnel. Macker and Snit jumped into its cockpit, located just above the machine's head, and laughed as it fled.

"...wait, it just chickened out?" Siren wondered.

"Oh, crapbaskets!" Nick shouted when he realized what Macker and Snit were up to. "They're taking that thing back to Beverly Hills!"

"Of course they would!" Bridget exclaimed.

"Let's vacate this madhouse and head back home on the actual double!" May proclaimed.

The spies all exited the base back into the ocean through the same tunnel that the Disguise Dealer had crawled out of, equipped their UPWATIs, and started swimming back towards Beverly Hills, hoping they could catch up with the Disguise Dealer before it could wreck their hometown.

To be concluded...

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On the next episode...

Melissa: Okay, where is that big ol' demon bot?

Siren: Just follow the screaming people and we should be gold.

May: All right, you knuckleheads, did you honestly think we were just gonna let you waltz around and wreck our city?!

Macker: Well, obviously, if you knew what was good for you.

Bridget: Okay, we're going there, aren't we?

Mat: Yeah, let's just trash this thing and be done with it.

Snit: Oh, we'll see about that!

Siren: I'll do the preview so you all can focus on mister roboto here. Well, everyone, we've got a crazy problem crawling around, so hopefully we can shed this phony disguise to reveal the truth, next time on the final act of Totally Spies: He's Full of Snit, "Duplicitous Disguise Demon"! ...hey, I actually like the alliteration.

May: At least it's not another dumb pun. Fingers crossed that our scriptwriter sincerely learned his lesson...