The Answer

John Kerry used a year old cheeseburger as a cloaking device to make the quintet invisible.

Fred Smith used his glove to pick the lock in the cell.

Larry the Cucumber used his gigantic knife as a stun gun to send  five guards to a painful dreamland.

The Great Auk used his trusty crayon to disintegrate the ship's outer wall.

And lastly, Mario took his trusty magnet and repelled the ship to take the five home.

For those of you who didn't just look at the answers in order to do the puzzle in one minute, (Hint! Hint!) congrats!  For those of you who did, (Un-Hint!) here's the Puzzle.