AN: Hey guys, sorry this took so long! I got really busy with school and stuff. Finals start tomorrow and I've been studying and doing reviews and study guides all week, but I took a break and finished this. I knew if I tried to wait til after finals you'd be waiting all weekend for an update, and I didn't want to do that to you guys.

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Have you ever had one of those days? One of those day where you just feel like the entire universe is out to get you? Well, I'm having one of those days right now, and let me tell you, the universe is really starting to get on my verves.

Triceratons on my left, Federation on my right, shooting at us, and closing in fast. We're standing on a pile of floating space rock, doing our best to stand our ground and not to panic. I'm still not even sure how we managed to land on this over grown asteroid in the first place. Honeycutt and Don are working as fast as they can to get the tellaportal up and working. Raph and I are just trying to hold them back long enough so they can do that. Leo and Mikey came of the ship, looks like the stalling plan didn't go so well after all. "Don, please tell me it's ready."

"We're ready, Leo."

"Then lets get outta here!" I shouted over the sounds of the blasts.

"But it hasn't been properly tested yet!" Professor Honeycutt informed us.

"No time like the present!" Raph chimed in.

"Everyone hurry! Get inside!" Leo commanded. I had no arguments there. Once we were all inside, the machine started to power up. The lights were glowing blue and I could feel my heart pounding with anticipation. Right as it was all about to be over and I was finally going to stay goodbye to all this craziness, The blue light dimmed and flickered off and my heart sank for the second time that day.

"Uhh… I'm guessing its not suppose to do that." Mikey spoke up.

"Gee, ya think?"

"Gee, ya think?" Raph and I said in unison.

"Everyone, back to the ship," Leo told us. But that demand was short lived. As we where getting out of the broken tellaportal, the ship he stole to escape was blown up by an enemy space fighter.

"Back inside!"

The glass dome over our heads was beginning to crack because of all the shots it was taking.

"That capsule won't hold much longer!" Don was starting to panic. When the glass came tumbling down on us, I was starting to panic too.

"We seem to have run out of options," Honeycutt said, "You fellows must destroy me and the knowledge I possess." He took out a small remote like devise and handed it to Leonardo, "This is an EMP fail-safe control. It'll fry my circuits and wipe out my entire memory core."

Leo looked the device unsurely.

"If you don't destroy me now, a weapon of mass destruction will fall into the hands of lunatics who will not hesitate to use it."

"I…I can't.."

"You swore, On you honor."

We all watched and waited anxiously, the enemy was closing in on us. Leo was summoning up all his courage to press that one little red button. Honeycutt might be in a robot body, but was still person after all. Part of me wanted to take the remote away, so I could press it for him and he wouldn't have to live with what he was about to do, but the other part of me knows that I'd never be able to press it either. Just as Leo was about to end the professors existence, a blue light beam shined down on us from no where. My first thought was the tellaportal must have worked after all, but I knew that that wasn't right. "What's going on! I thought the tellaportal didn't work!" I started to panic again.

"Well," Leo answered me, "Somebody's did!"

It felt like my whole body was being slowly broken down into pieces and the being carried off into the unknown.

I must have blacked out for a second because when I opened my eyes were surrounded by… by Utroms? Did we get sent to DeHunid?

Mikey started shouting and jumping with joy, "Yahoo! We're home! We made it!"

Okay… Defiantly not Dehunid. We must be on earth if Mikey is happy enough to smother the floor like that. I heard the familiar noise of the teleportation beam that brought us here. I spun around to see that some Federation AND Triceraton soldiers got beamed along with us. What does it take to get rid of these guys! ?

"Head up guys! Looks like we picked up some tag-alongs."

Thanks for the update Leo.

Raph twirled his sai, "Rule number one: Never pick up hitch hikers."

I stood ready for another fight as well, "I couldn't agree more."

"No!" A voice from behind us commanded, "Remain stationary."

I turned around and saw man with light blue-ish hair and glasses.

"Remain calm," he said, "We will return you to your native continuity." Then he ducked as one of the Triceratons shot at him, "What is this madness?" He said looking around very confused, "Where are the rest of our warriors?" Then he spotted the Professor. "The fugitoid! Seize it!"

The next think I know, shots where being fired in every direction. We all ran to take cover, it would seem I have a new found talent: Lazar dodging. I jumped and hid behind one of the many machines in the room. I heard that man voice again, "Deploy stasis beam!"

I waited a moment for the firing to stop, then jumped out from behind my hiding place, ready for an attack, but it never came. The Federation and Triceraton troopers where frozen in place and couldn't move. We looked over at the Utrom that had stopped the soldiers dead in their tracks. Raph was about to attack, I could tell by the look in his eyes.

"My sons, stop!"

I jumped at the sudden presents of a new voice that entered the room. I turned to the door way to see where the voice was coming from. I saw…..a rodent? One that walked on two legs and wore a robe and held a walking stick in one hand. The guys all let out a surprised gasp, "MASTER SPLINTER!" They all cheered as the ran to the four foot tall rodent. So this was the Master Splinter I'd hear so muck about…. As I watched my friends reunion with their master, I couldn't help but feel happy for them. I smiled with joy for my green, shell-backed companions as they hugged their master.

"It is… good to see you too….please! My spine!" They all let go and Splinter turned to the inhabitance of the structure we where currently standing in. "I believe you have already met the Guardians," He gestured to two men with golden pendants around their necks. "It was they who found me after our battle with the Shredder and brought me to these benevolent beings that saved my life."

Don had told me the whole story back at the gladiator arena. About how they fought this "Shredder" and almost didn't make it out alive, and how their master went missing afterwards. The four of them looked as confused as I felt.

"This is my good friend, Mr. Mortu," He gestured the one with the glasses, that I can only assume is their leader. "Mortu, these are my sons."

Leonardo stepped forward, "Umm…Thank you," he said, "For saving our sensei ." He bowed and the others followed soon after. "But…" Leo addressed his master, "Who are they? WHAT are they?"

"They're Utroms." I spoke up, "A very peaceful alien race that values all life and is known for helping other planets find peaceful solutions to their disputes." 'But what I'd like to know,' I thought to myself, 'Is what could Utroms be doing all way down here on Earth…'

"The ooze that originally mutated us was byproduct of their experiments with this trasmat device," Master Splinter explained.

"So, the chemical make up of the ooze is caused by the inter-dimensional shift of nonessential sub-atomic particles," Don stated as if he'd just confirmed a theory that he had.

"But where did we get teleported!" Mikey asked frantic and confused, "And how did we get back here! What! What! And!-and!- Oww!" Raphael shut him up with a smack on the head.

"All will be explained," Mortu said, "But first we have some business to take care of." He gestured to the still frozen soldiers on the teleportation platform, "Send these intruders back to their original coordinates." He ordered the Utrom by the control panel.

"Yes sir."

And with that, the troops where sent back to where they belong. 'Good riddance…'

"Master Splinter, This is Dr. Honeycutt," Leo introduced the robot.

"And this is Fiurri!" Mikey said as he wrapped his arm around my shoulders, "She Raphs new girlfriend! -OWW!"

Raph had hit him again, "Will you quit blabbing your yap already!"

I ignored them and bowed respectfully to Master Splinter, he returned the gesture. "It is nice to finally meet you Splinter, your students have told me much about you."

"The feeling is mutual, I hope my sons where not too much trouble to you." He then turned to Honeycutt and bowed once again, "It is an honor to meet you as well."

"The pleaser is all mine. I must apologize for my present condition," The professor said. Then he continued to fill in everything that had happened to them up to now. We all ended up sitting on the floor at some point.

"It seems my sons have gotten into they're normal amount of trouble in the 8 hours they've been gone."

"8 Hours!" Leo asked gasped.

"We were gone 3 weeks!" Raph protested.

"Perhaps I can explain," Mortu intervened, "The extinguishes of inter-dimensional travel not only effect not only the basic laws of three dimensional space, but the fluidity of temporal mechanics as well."

I suppose that made sense, after all, different galaxies and dimensions must have a different time set than others.

Don looked utterly fascinated, "That… Is so cool!"

"Yeah," Mikey agreed sarcastically, "If it made any sense at all!"

I could tell Raph was confused too, "What da heck is goin' on here!"

"My friends…" began Mortu, "Let their be no more secrets between us." He then began to undo the front of his shirt and reveled another small pink blob like alien. Looks like my guess was right after all, it's not like the Utrom to take order from someone not of their kind. The other four let out large gasps of surprise and astonishment.

"Follow me." he said, "We shall begin at the beginning."

We all stood a followed him silently.

I watched as my four friends an their master stepped into the pods to "Be told the sacred memories of the Utroms" as Mr. Mortu put it.

"No thank you," I told him, "I prefer to have stories told to me and I am sure I'll hear about this later." I don't have anything against the Utroms personally, those pods just freaked me out.

"Very well then," He didn't pry, "While we wait, maybe you'd like me to get those off your wrists?" He was referring to my inhibiter cuffs. I'd almost forgotten I had them on.

I smiled, "That would be wonderful."

He lead me to a work table and went to work, using various tools and devices I had never seen before. I couldn't wait to get these things off me, ever since I've had them on I've felt lagged down and tired. But, I suppose that's what they where created to do. In my opinion, they worked a little too good.

"I hope you don't mind me asking," Mortu dragged me out of my thoughts. Not once looking up from the devices on my arms he asked, "What is a Pironian doing so far away from home? I was under the impression that the people of the Pironian empire preferred to keep to themselves."

I sighed, "It's a long story… The short version? I got kicked off the planet by the new emperor."

"I see… I can't imagine what you could've to deserve something like that."

"I existed."

Right as I said that, the cuffs around my wrists snapped open and fell off. I could steadily feel my strength coming back. It felt good.

"Is that better?" He asked.

I smiled, "Much." I adjusted myself into a fight stance and gave the air a few jabs and kicks and did a some flips. "I feel great!" I said happily, "Like I could take on an entire army single handed!"

The professor was examining the machine that my friend where currently "sleeping" in.

"This truly is and intriguing device," he told Mortu, "We really must exchange cosmo ethereal equations some."

Okay…. Getting a little to brainy for me. I left the two scientists and walked over to the pods and stared at my four terrapin friends that appeared to be sleeping, and wondered just what is was they were seeing.

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