Il Buffone Bane travels to Italy to prove himself to Nora by fixing Ivy's broken pasta maker but learns that the model is discontinued. In desperation, he seeks out an elderly Italian woman, who teaches him how to make pasta with his own hands and helps him overcome his insecurity. In return, he gets her tickets to Clayface's show as she is a big fan. Meanwhile, Luthor plans to thicken the ozone layer, but when the laser he used on the Moon proves to be too short to reach Earth's atmosphere, he decides to avail Volcana's powers. Disgusted, Nora refuses to let this happen, so Luthor traps her, Volcana, King Shark, and Captain Cold inside the Legion of Doom's headquarters...