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Before long the team sets up camp in their new Barn of Justice. After the quick removal of Easmerelda, the league’s official chicken, from the meeting crate, the group commences the first conference. First business: they welcome back into their ranks Dun Like Dinner, whose janitorial ability to clean up villainy proved helpful time and time again in the DCMB. It also doesn’t hurt that he’s the only one with any real cash.
Britannica offers to help fund the JLR by getting himself a job at the library, the same job he held over at the DCMB. Before their first meeting is over, however, the rest of the JLR decides to avoid getting real jobs by selling official JLR butter and other dairy products.
Unfortunately, unbeknownst to the JRL, Chant knew of their impending removal from the DCMB ahead of time and made provisions. Before the move, he used a machine that could reach other universes and made contact with their soon-to-be new universe’s Chant (She-Chant). After the inter-dimensional jump, he joined forces with her and together they began wreaking havoc by not delivering people’s holiday greetings cards to loved ones.
The JLR’s luck rolls even further downhill when Britannica reports that the job of librarian has already been taken by this universe’s evil version of himself known, coincidentally, as Mr. Misinformation.
Defeating this new baddie will have to wait, however, since Christmas is fast approaching and the team now has two Chants to deal with. It’s decided that Ace will use his experience with card delivery to head a small group in rescuing and distributing the captured greeting cards.
Using some biased detective work, Ace, Registered Member 552, and Britannica decide that the postmaster would most likely spend his Sunday relaxing somewhere peaceful. Quickly they board the Horesandcart-mobile, and race off. On their way to the zoo, the three realize that the post office remains open on Sundays during weeks so close to Christmas and quickly turn Buttercup the Horse around. Upon their arrival, however, the heroes learn that the Chants have moved the post office to an undisclosed location. With no good leads the heroes decide to go with their original plan and visit the zoo.
After a few hours of animal watching Britannica becomes restless. Wishing he were in the center of a great battle for good, Britannica throws his Britannerang at one of the polar bears. Unfortunately, Britannica chose the wrong animal to antagonize and the infuriated animal reports the three spectators to the zookeeper who chases them down and calls the police. Now facing the very battle Britannica had been hoping for, Ace, Britannica, and Registered Member 552 bravely run away and take off in their Horseandcart-mobile.
Just as the champions of good escape with their tails between their legs, Mr. Misinformation and his crew of evil Amazonian Librarians enter the zoo, eager to start phase two of their own plan to take over the world. Lucky for the world, Mr. Misinformation is mistaken for Britannica by the zookeeper, talking polar bear, and police, and the villains barely escape.
Elsewhere, La Machine plans to lead Superfly Sr. and Dun Like Dinner into the heart of the Chants’ lair to take on the evil duo. Without a phone to call a cab, though, the three are forced to wait impatient and freezing by the side of the road for a generous person to offer a ride. One passerby speeds past, splashing mud and causing La Machine to lose the stick of gum he’d so offered the others but kept to himself. Soon after that, another passerby named Tractor-Trailer Bob offers them a ride in the cab of his semi. He also informs our small group of do-gooders, after learning from Dun Like Dinner of their plans to save the world, that he knows the location of Chant’s secret lair, a popular pit stop for tractor-trailer types.
Superfly Sr. secretly wishes, however, that they could go to Miguel's House of Strippers instead.
Jackie, the sole super heroine of the defunct JLR-MB, completes the jump to the new universe and becomes Cowgirl Jack. Without hesitation, she climbs aboard Napoleon the Donkey, and follows Buttercup’s trail from the Barn of Justice to the post office, then the zoo, and finally hurries towards the Chants’ lair.
Britannica, Ace, and Registered Member 552 are the first to reach Chant’s lair, but charge straight into a pit of envelop glue. Upon seeing this, Chant decides that he has no further use for his female counterpart, and pushes She-Chant in to join them. As bad guys do, he leaves the four in their torment to do something else. Of course, this proves to be a terrible error since She-Chant, the Post Mistress of Evil, shares the same powers as Chant, and is unaffected by the envelope glue. She agrees to help Britannica, Ace, and Registered Member 552 escape the pit, but only after she’s taken care of the two-timing Chant. She-Chant pulls a grappling envelope from her bag and uses it to pull herself out.
Though still stuck in Chant’s trap, Ace’s deck of cards give him an idea. He instructs Registered Member 552 to grab one of his explosive cards and throw it to the ceiling. When Registered Member 552 does, it ignites a ceiling fire, initiating the overhead sprinklers. The sprinklers water down the glue enough for the trio to escape and all goes smoothly until the three happy heroes congratulate each other with hugs and pats on the back, then realize they’ve become stuck.
