When you're a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, a lot of weird things happen. Some you can handle, some you can't. Like when Master Splinter went missing after our victory over the Shredder.

How can he be gone?

And things only got weirder when we found that aliens had taken Master Splinter.

Look.

And had him floating in some bizarre container. When we confronted the aliens…

Dante, don't make me hurt you!

…something strange happened to Dante. Just when we thought we got through to him…

I can't move my feet!

…everything just vanished. Or maybe we did. Whatever happened, I don't think any of us were prepared for how much weirder life was about to get.

Somewhere...in another city...on another planet...in another galaxy...a robot resembling C-3PO only silver in color and with green eyes fled for his life from a group of soldiers who looked human in appearance. The robot ran down an alley, only to find himself at a dead end. One of the soldiers spoke into his intercom, "Bravo team to base. We`ve got that Fugitoid cornered in Sector Four."

"No!" shouted the robot.

"Roger. Bag him and tag him, Bravo. General Blanque wants it in one piece."

Suddenly a whitish beam shot down from outer space and hits the alley between the Fugitoid and the troops. Then, five beings materialized: four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and a human boy.

"Uh, that was unpleasant," said Mikey.

Dante shook his head, and blinked. "Where...where am I?" He looked around frantically. "Where are we, guys?"

"Take cover," shouted the Bravo Team leader. "This Fugitoid`s got some kind of secret weapon."

"No, I don't," said the Fugitoid as he ducked behind some tarp.

"Oh, I feel like I've been turned inside out and back again," said Raph.

"What happened? That light. The strange lab. Those weird robot aliens," said Mikey. Then he remembered something else. "And Dante, why did you attack us?"

"I...what?"

"You went all crazy on us when we found Splinter in that tank," said Raph.

"I...I don't remember doing any of that," Dante insisted. "But, where did we go?"

Leo looked around at the strange alien city. "That's a good question."

"Someplace I don`t think we`re supposed to be," said Donny, pointing to the soldiers aiming their guns at them.

"The natives don`t look too friendly," said Mikey.

Dante immediately put his hands up. "Whoa, whoa, whoa! Guys," he said as he approached the soldiers. "We mean you no-"

"Stand back, alien," one of the soldiers shouted.

"Take them for interrogation," the team leader ordered.

"So much for doing things peacefully," said Leo. "Time to do the alternative."

"Some serious butt-kicking ninja action," Raph exclaimed.

The turtles grabbed their weapons and so did Dante...only to realize his tonfas were gone. "My tonfas! Where are my tonfas?!"

"You kinda lost them when you attacked us," said Raph.

"WHAT?!"

"Use your fists, Dante," Leo exclaimed.

The soldiers open fire. Raph leaped onto an overhead pipe and Mikey somersaulted out of the way. Also on an overhead pipe, Leo jumped down and slashed with his swords, destroying three blasters. He caught a soldier's arm with his ankles and flipped him over on top of two other soldiers. Raph raced past two soldiers and ran up the wall, knocking one of the soldiers down. He then threw his sai into the barrel of the other soldier's weapon and caused it to explode. The sai flipped through the air, striking the wall between a pair of soldiers. Donny used his bō like a pole vault and kicked down one of the men. He swung his staff around onto the hand of the other man and forced him to drop his weapon. Donny swept the man's feet from under him and then as a soldier raced at him, Donny braces himself on his bō and flipped up to grab the sai out of the wall with his feet.

"Coming back at you, Raph!"

He flung the sai to his brother, who caught it in the air. Raph landed behind a soldier and performed a spin kick to knock the man down.

Meanwhile, Dante dodged the lasers of two soldiers, before he slid between them and caused them to trip. A third soldier snuck up on him, but he hurled him over his body and slammed him onto the ground. A fourth fired his laser at Dante, but Dante ripped a pipe out of the alley wall and swung it like a bat, knocking the soldier onto his back.

Meanwhile, Mikey found himself cornered by three soldiers. "You`re mine, alien freak," one of them said. Oh, the irony. They're on an alien planet and they're still considered freaks.

"Not today, Chumley," said Mikey. He used his nunchaku to bat one soldier's weapon away. The soldier fell down and both Leonardo and Donatello kicked another soldier down.

"Bravo to base. We need backup!" a soldier shouted.

Meanwhile, the Fugitoid watched the battle from behind the tarp. "My word. Those fellows are making short work of these troops. But I still need a way out of here." He walked to a boarded up wall panel and looked down at his hands. "Hmm. One benefit of this robotic body is its sheer strength." He punched his way through the wall, making an opening large enough to walk through. But then, he looked back. "Oh, I can`t just run out on those little guys. They`ve been ever so helpful."

Dante headbutted the last soldier, knocking him out cold and onto his back. "That was kinda fun."

"What the shell was that all about," Leo asked.

"Whatever it was, it`s not over. Look!" Donny pointed to the alley entrance, where more soldiers were coming.

"I take back what I said," said Dante as he rubbed his forehead.

"Well, guys. Fight or flight?" asked Leo.

"I vote fight."

"You always vote fight," pointed out Mikey.

"Um, excuse me. Hello? Terrapin beings and little boy?" They turned around to look at the Fugitoid, who was waving his arms to get their attention. "Yes, you. This way, quickly!"

The soldiers halted their approach and the front row dropped to their knees. All of them took aim at the turtles and Dante. "Ready. Aim. Fire!" One by one the turtles and leaped through the opening in the wall. Mikey was the last, hopping and jumping to avoid being blasted. He leaped through the entry and landed hard on his rump. "Ow!"

The Fugitoid called out from a flight of stairs, "Hurry, hurry! Those Federation troops won`t give up the chase so easily."

The turtles ran toward him. Mikey leapfrogged over Raph. "Coming through, slowpoke!" They raced up a long set of stairs, and then a second one until they were on the roof of a building, with no other building nearby to leap across to.

"Another dead end," said Leo.

"And here comes the unwelcome wagon," said Mikey.

Dante looked down and saw salvation in the street. "Everyone! Jump into that truck!"

"No. I hate heights," said the Fugitoid before he let out a scream as Dante pushed him.

"Dude, not funny," said Raph.

"Like you wouldn't have done the same. Come on!"

The four turtles and one human jumped and they landed with the robot into the truck. Only, now they wish they hadn't as it was a garbage truck. "Well, we escaped," said Dante. "But we still stink."

"Please, do not do that again," said the Fugitoid.

"That was payback for calling me little," Dante growled.

Meanwhile, the soldiers reached the rooftop, but they could not see their target. The Alpha team leader spoke to his communicator, "Alpha to base. Um, we lost the Fugitoid."

General Blanque, a man with orange hair and a square jaw and wearing a military uniform with several badges on his breast, was livid. "You what? Search the entire sector. Find that Fugitoid!"

The truck glided along and the stowaways looked out over its side at the city. "Where are we," asked Leo.

"Something tells me this ain`t Manhattan," said Raph.

"I`m not even sure we`re on Earth," said Donny.

"Yeah, feels more like we landed in a Star Trek episode," said Dante.

The truck came to a stop in a shopping plaza and everyone hopped out. "Ah, Earth. Is that your home planet," asked the Fugitoid. "I don`t believe it`s in this galaxy. At least I've never heard of it. Are you the dominant species on your planet?"

"Eh...kinda," said Dante.

"Where are we?" Raph demanded the Fugitoid.

"Calm down, son. You`re on the planet D`Hoonnib in the Sidayom System. Federation territory."

Dante's eyes widened. "We're halfway across the universe?" He fell down onto his knees and shook as sadness overcame him. "This is my fault. I don't know what happened, either. I just blacked out and...if what you guys said is true, I attacked you. I somehow zapped us here. We're so far away from Master Splinter."

"Dude, none of us blame you for what happened," said Mikey.

"Yeah, water under the bridge," said Raph.

"But what if I attack you again and not realize it?"

"We'll find a way to help you," said Leo, helping Dante up. "I guarantee it."

Dante wiped his tears and smiled a little. "Still, how did we get here?"

"That question has been vexing me," spoke up the Fugitoid. "How did you materialize like that?"

"Guys, you can compare theories later," said Leo. "Right now, we`ve got company!" A group of soldiers were coming toward them.

"More of those bozos," said Raph as he took out his sai blades.

"Don`t look now, but those bozos brought a tank," exclaimed Donny.

"How come bad guys always have all the great toys," Mikey asked nervously.

"Because bad guys never heard of overkill," said Dante as the tank's barrel pointed right at him and his brothers.

The ninjas and Fugitoid backed up, but then saw a platoon of soldiers walking toward them from another direction. The group ran into a market stall to hide. "You`re surrounded," said the Bravo Team leader. "Come out with your appendages where we can see them." The soldiers entered the stall and began turning things over as they search. The fugitives had vanished. "Fan out! Search the streets!"

Nobody noticed the group had already disappeared into a sewer.

"Check out these fancy sewers. Clean enough to eat off of," said Mikey, impressed with the architecture, before his stomach began to growl. "If only we had something to eat." He heard a sound and turned to see an elderly turtle-like alien, wearing a robe and using a walking stick. Behind the turtle were a group of four young bipedal, masked and bandaged rodent aliens. The last in line turned to look at Mikey and said something in an unknown language. Mikey was pretty sure that alien rat said "Cowabunga!" He blinked once and said as he watched them walk into another tunnel, "Whoa. Bizarro world!"

"So, what is your story," Donny asked the Fugitoid. "Why are those soldiers after you?"

"Hmm, yes, l do owe you a full explanation. You see, I am Professor Honeycutt, or at least I used to be."

"Used to be," asked Dante.

"Well, I wasn't always like this," the Fugitoid said as he pounded his metal chest with his hand. "Once upon a time, I was human just like you. I was the most brilliant scientist on D`Hoonnib I had just completed my mental-wave helmet, a device for boosting mind powers like telepathy and telekinesis, when l was rudely interrupted by General Blanque. Just because he`s the head of the Federation military in this sector, he thinks he can call any time he wants. You see, the 'good general' wanted me to build my teleportal device, a device capable of transporting beings from planet to planet."

"Why would he care about some alternative mode of transportation," Dante asked.

"That's what I said. I invented the teleportal as a way to promote peace, but General Blanque had other ideas. He wanted to use it as a weapon for death and destruction. And that is why, even though he was funding my work, I could never build it for him. It was then that I received a distress call from my worker robot, Sal. He had become entangled in some wires. An electrical storm was brewing. And we were struck by lightning. The lightning must have triggered my mental-wave helmet. My body was destroyed. But my mind was transferred into Sal`s robotic shell.

"Apparently, the 'good general' had been constantly spying on me…and was well aware of my transference into this robot body. He was overjoyed. You see, robots have no rights. The general could do anything he liked with me now. The teleportal I wouldn`t give him when I was human he could take from me now that I became a robot. He sent his men after me. But with the help of some large hermit crab-like creatures, I was able to elude Blanque`s soldiers. At least until I came to the city. Which is where you came in."

The turtles and Dante glanced at each other. "Guys, are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Leo asked.

"That an extra-large serving of Kung Pao chicken would be really good right now?"

"Ignoring Mikey," said Dante. "You're talking about the prof's teleportal, right, Leo?"

"Right. If the professor here…"

Donny and Raph finished for Leo.

"Can build his teleportal…"

"Then we could use it to go home."

"Home," said Mikey before saying to the Fugitoid, "Don`t get me wrong, Professor Roboto. These sewers on your planet are nice. But they don`t have that same sewer-fresh stank our sewers have."

"I have to admit," said Dante as he kicked some water, making a splash. "This water's so clean, I think it's drinkable."

"How do they keep these sewers so clean?" asked Raph.

"Probably something to do with THAT!" He pointed down tunnel to a robotic machine, as wide as the tunnel, that was coming in their direction. It had pincers mounted on flexible arms, and a row of metal spikes in a mouth-like opening on the front. The pincers picked up debris and tossed them into the mouth, which ground them up.

"RUN!" Dante shouted, which the others obliged. But the sewer cleaner gave chase.

"Oh, dear," exclaimed Professor Honeycutt.

"It's gaining on us," shouted Mikey.

"I don`t think we can outrun it!" Donny exclaimed.

"Then it looks like it`s time to rage against the machine," shouted Leo as he stopped and pulled out his weapons, with the other ninjas doing the same while Honeycutt watched on.

"If you guys can slow it down, I think l can stop it," said Donny.

"I`ve got an idea," said Leo as he leaped high and sliced through some metal pipes mounted to the ceiling. Raph jumped and caught a pipe. "Mikey, think fast!" Mikey caught another pipe, Leonardo grabbed a third, and Dante grabbed a fourth. The three turtles and one human boy braced the pipes against the sides of the machine's "mouth" and the floor, holding on to keep the machine from moving forward.

"Hurry, Donny," shouted Leo.

Donatello jumped, batting aside and dodging the mechanical arms, and landed on top of the machine. Using his bō, he pried open a metal plate. A metal arm reaches for Mikey, who kicks it away. The Fugitoid ran over with another pipe to help hold the machine. "Hurry, Donny," Dante shouted. "We can't keep this up much longer!"

Donny reached a hand out. "Raph, toss me a sai!" Raphael flung one of his sai up to his brother just before the machine kicked up and knocked away the group holding it. Donny caught the sai, and then grabbed the metal plate to avoid being bucked off. As the other turtles, Dante and the Fugitoid backed away from the approaching machine, Donatello slammed the sai into the machine's electronic components. Sparks flew, the machine bucked, sending Donny flying, and then it powered down.

"Ah! See? Piece of cake," said Donny, patting his hands.

"Yeah, a piece of pound cake," said Dante.

Meanwhile, in his headquarters, General Blanque was beside himself. "I can`t believe, with all the Federation technology at our disposal, we can`t find one blasted Fugitoid."

His assistant, a purple-haired woman named Lonae, called out, "General Blanque. There`s a disturbance in the sewers. Wait. We`ve got them, sir! Sector 8.

Blanque grabbed his communicator and said, "General Blanque to all units. Cordon off Sector 8. Destroy the four terrapin creatures and send the boy to prison, but the Fugitoid must be unharmed! Repeat, the robot must be unharmed!"

Lonae asked, "If you`ll forgive my asking, sir, what is so important about this teleportal device? It`s useful transportation, but…"

"It's much more than that," Blanque said as he showed an image of the device on the giant screen. "It holds the key to the balance of power in our galaxy, if not the universe. As a weapon, the teleportal is unparalleled. It could be used to secretly transport our newest nuclear-fusion bombs into the middle of enemy spacecraft. Into the center of unsuspecting enemy cities. Even to the center of an enemy planet. I could bring our enemies to their knees and raise the Federation flag across the entire galaxy!"

"But our enemies," said Lonae. "If they knew about this technology, they`d stop at nothing to get it."

"Exactly. The teleportal must be ours. The Fugitoid must be captured!"

Blanque did not notice the smile Lonae made.

Back to the ninjas, who were exiting the sewers with the Fugitoid, an alien manning a market stall spots them and turned to speak to a pair of soldiers. When the soldiers looked down the alley, they saw nothing. That's because they hid in a garage.

"These soldiers are everywhere," said Raph.

"Indeed," said Professor Honeycutt.

"We`ve got to get out of the city fast," said Leo. "Dante, Raphael, we`re gonna need some transportation."

"Back in two," said Raph as Dante nodded.

"Um, I'll keep an eye on them," said Mikey as he followed them. But he didn't for long. "Now to find something to eat."

Raph and Dante walked out to look around, but then quickly ducked back into hiding. They watched a nearby tank and when the soldier on top looked away, Raph and Dante quickly rolled across the street.

"You're not serious about stealing a tank, are you," Dante whispered.

"Why not? We'll just pretend we're on patrol," replied Raph.

"You don't even know how to drive a human tank let alone an alien one! And before you respond, no, playing that Tank video game with me and Mikey doesn't count!"

"How hard can it be?" Raph asked as they climbed on board the tank and snuck up behind the soldier sitting on the top. "Which sewer entrance were we supposed to be watching again?" he asked before Dante grabbed him, put him in a sleeper hold and threw his body into a dumpster. He and Raph climbed in and the latter tapped the shoulder of the tank's driver.

"Yo, pal. Mind if l borrow your tank?" Raph asked before he kicked the driver, knocking him out cold. Dante took his unconscious body and threw him into the dumpster to join his partner. "Alright, let's see what this does." Raph pressed a lever, and the tank's cannon spun and smashed a nearby stand. "Oops."

Meanwhile, Mikey was still browsing through the market. Then he found what looked like a bag of potato chips. "Mmm!" He opened it and was about to eat it when he heard the sound of guns cocking. He turned around and saw soldiers pointing their guns at him. "Uh, hi, guys. Bye, guys. He threw the contents of the bag in their faces and ran. "Stupid, stupid, stupid, ninja turtle! " He came to a stop when he saw a tank pointing its cannon at him. "Sometimes I hate being me." He looked behind him and saw the soldiers coming and he pulled out his nunchucks. "Well, if I'm going down, at least I'm going down fighting!" Suddenly, to his confusion, the tank's cannon slammed into the soldiers, sending them flying into a food stand.

The tank's top hatch opened and Raph popped out. "Quit fooling around, Mikey. We gotta pick up the others."

Soon, everyone was inside the tank. "Nothing like riding in style," said Donny.

"Couldn`t you have boosted something a little less, I don't know, conspicuous," Leo asked. "Something that might blend in better?"

"Don't look at me, this was Raph's idea," said Dante.

"Are you kidding? This puppy`s almost invisible, it blends so well," said Raph with a smirk.

"And what happens when-"

They heard a solider's voice outside shout, "Hey! That`s my tank! They stole my tank!"

"-that happens," Dante asked as the troops hopped into their own tanks and chased after them.

"Yeah, real invisible," Leo snarked, making Raph sheepishly grin.

"At least he didn't blow his cover looking for alien potato chips," pointed out Dante, making Mikey frown at him.

The pursuing tanks opened fire. A shot hit the stolen tank and rocked it, shaking the occupants. "Donny, return fire," shouted Leo.

"Uh, in a minute," said Donny as he tried to figure out which button was which. "My D'Hoonnibian is a little rusty."

Raph performed evasive maneuvers, but the other tanks stick with him. "Donny, you better figure out how to fire this puppy or we`re gonna be smoked turtle meat in a can."

"WHY DIDN'T WE LET THE PROFESSOR TAKE OVER?!" Dante shouted.

Donny blinked and said, "That's a good question. Why didn't we think of that?"

"I didn't think that either," said Honeycutt. "But I am more than happy to help."

"You know how to fly a tank," Dante asked.

"No. But this robot body should enable me to access the systems, allowing me to know how to control this vehicle." The Fugitoid's hand turned into what looked like a flash drive and plugged it into a port on the control panel. "Yes! I have weapons control."

Raph spun the tank around and headed straight for the other tanks.

"Tell me you`re not playing chicken, Raph!" Leo exclaimed.

Raph chuckled. "A turtle is never a chicken." At the last second, he swung away from the approaching tank as it fired. The tank blasted the one that was following the stolen one. "Now, Doc. Fire!" Raph shouted. The stolen tank's main gun spun around and fired, blasting the tank behind them into pieces. Other tanks flew past the smoking debris to give chase.

"We have another one on our tail," Donny shouted.

"Not for long," said Raph. He maneuvered so that one of the stolen tank's wings sliced into the side of a building. A huge chunk of rock fell on top of the tank pursuing them.

"There`s one more up ahead!" exclaimed the professor.

"FIRE!" shouted Raph.

The Fugitoid blasted the remaining tank, which exploded. Then the stolen tank driftd forward out of the smoke and stopped. Ground troops stood ready nearby. "Move in!" The soldiers opened fire on the stationary tank and blew it up.

General Blanque, having watched the fight on his monitor, shouted, "Imbeciles! I thought I gave the order that the Fugitoid should not be harmed!"

"They`re not here, sir. They must have evacuated the vehicle before it exploded."

"Find them, soldier. Find them!"

Hiding in a nearby alley, the Fugitoid and ninjas watched the soldiers. Leo signaled his brothers and they sped away, unnoticed by Honeycutt. He finally turned and looked around. "Now, where did those little fellows go?" Leo tapped him on the shoulder. "Ah, how do you know all those wonderful disappearing techniques?" Leo shushed him and dragged him off just as the soldiers inspected the alley, turning up nothing.

General Blanque slammed his fists on the armrests of his chair as he shouted, "Deploy all units! Destroy anyone or anything that gets in the way! Hunt down that Fugitoid and bring it to me."

Meanwhile, Lonae, who claimed she was going on break, left Blanque's office and walked to an abandoned building. She looked around, made sure no one was looking, then walked inside. Except for a single lamp hanging from the ceiling, there was no source of light. Then she saw it: a tall, muscular figure standing in the shadows. The figure spoke in a deep, gruff voice with a snort, "Do you have the information we discussed?"

"If you have the grease," Lonae said.

"Look in the box."

Lonae looked at the box on the table and opened it. Her eyes widened with delight. "Nardian pleasure gems. Enough for a lifetime." She reached forward to feel what gave the gems their namesake when the figure grabbed her. He was a large triceratops-like alien wearing a black and white space suit and a red helmet. His left arm was completely cybernetic and he wore an eyepatch over his left eye.

"First things first, my friend," he snorted as he lifted her up in the air. "My superiors are very interested in the teleportal. Tell me everything you know about this Fugitoid. Everything!"

To be continued...