Inside the TCRI building, Mortu looks down as the Utroms press buttons. Suddenly, a beam of light lit up on the transmat as the turtles, Venus, and professor Honeycutt are reassembled again.
"They're back!" Mortu gasps.
"Not this place again!" Raph exclaims as they stand up and take their space helmets off.
"We're home!" Mikey cheers. "Yahoo! We made it!" He kneels down and starts to kiss the panel. The machine keeps running and more particles reassemble to reveal three Triceratons and three Federation soldiers.
"Guys, heads up!" Leo calls out. "Looks like we brought back some tag-alongs!" The Triceratons and Federation aimed their guns at each other. "Rule number one" Raph said as he takes out his sai. "Never pick up hitchhikers!"
"No!" A voice calls out. They look to see Mr. Mortu. "Remain stationary. Stay calm. We'll return you to your native continuity." A laser is shot a Mortu by a Triceraton soldier. He dodges out of the way. "What is this madness!? Where are the rest of our warriors?!" The soldier questions then he sees the Fugitoid and Venus "The Fugitoid! And the Prime Leader's bride! Seize them!"
"Oh dear!" The Fugitoid gasps.
"Fire!" One of the Federation cries out and they all open fire. The Triceratons fire back, they jump off of the panel and took cover behind it as they continue to fire at the Federation soldiers, as well as them. "Take cover!" Leo shouts and they try and dodge the lasers.
Mikey jumps and flips, dodging the lasers "A welcome home party, you shouldn't have." Someone shoots a laser at Mikey and it shoots off the part of tail of his suit. "No, I mean it! You shouldn't have!"
A Triceraton approaches Venus and tries to grab her but she dodges and tries to jab her finger to his arm. She jumps back to see that it did no effect. Triceratons have very thick skin. She groans in frustration as they approached her "I guess you have very thick skin, as well as your brains." She taunts.
The Triceraton growls. "Silence slave!" He roars as he aims his gun at her.
Before he could fire, Donnie jumps in front of them and knocks the dino over with his staff "She doesn't belong to anyone!" He shouts.
"Thank you." Venus said, smiling
"No problem." Donnie smiles sheepishly. A laser nearly hits them and Donnie tackles her "Watch out!" They both fell down, taking cover from the blasts.
The Utroms hover above the Triceratons and one of them shoots at the aliens hovercraft.
"Deploy stasis beam!" Mr. Mortu calls out to the aliens that were still flying. The hovercraft opens up and a small laser comes out from the bottom. It shoots at the Triceraton making them freeze in place. The alien flies around and shoots the two fighting races. The turtles stop, standing a few feet away from the transmat. They look at the alien who had frozen the soldiers and they look back. Raph glares at the Utrom, preparing to leap out and attack it.
"My sons, stop!" A familiar voice calls out.
The turtles look to see Splinter, all healed, walking into the room with two Guardians, along with Yuuki and Mona.
"Master Splinter?!" Leo exclaims in relief
"They are not our enemy." Splinter tells them and they were in slight shock. They cheer and charge to Splinter tackling him, hugging him tightly in relief.
"My children, it is good to see you too," Splinter said, he groans as the tight hugs are starting to hurt him a little "Please, my spine!" They release him.
Leo turns to Yuuki "What are you doing here? I thought I told you to wait in the Battle Shell."
Yuuki shrugs her shoulders " You guys were taking too long. And when we saw that beam of light we figured something had happened and by the looks of it we were right."
Leo hugs her "It's great to see you." He said. She returns it and hugs him back "Don't scare me like that again. " She mumbled softly in his shoulder.
Raph tousles Mona's hair "Great to see you, kid." He smirks. She takes his hand off of her head removing it but doesn't let go and holds it tightly. She was afraid that if she did, she thought that he would disappear again. Raph blushes and covers his face with his other hand "I-I,uh, missed you, too. " He murmurs. Man, this girl is really messing with his head.
Mikey chuckles "Hey Raph, are you blushing?" He teases.
" Shut up!" Raph growls.
"Here, I want you to meet some friends." Splinter motions to the two Guardians "I believe you have met the Guardians." The Guardians bow their heads. "It was they who found me after the battle with the Shredder and brought me here to these benevolent beings who saved my life. This is my good friend, Mr. Mortu." Mr. Mortu steps forward standing in front of them.
"And my godfather, apparently." Yuuki said.
"Godfather?" All four of the brothers questioned. Yuuki shakes her head "Yep." She answered.
"Mr. Mortu, these are my sons." Splinter gestures to them as he introduces them.
"Um," Leo speaks nervously then bows "Thank you, for saving our sensei." The other three brothers do it as well.
"But, who are they?" Leo whispers to Splinter "What are they?"
"They call themselves Utroms." Splinter informs "And their story is inextricably interwoven with our own. The ooze that originally mutated us all was a byproduct of their experiments, with this transmat device."
"So," Donnie speaks up "the chemical make-up of the ooze is caused by the inter-dimensional shift of nonessential subatomic particles."
"But where were we transported?" Mikey asks. "How'd we end up back here? And what-what-" Raph smacks Mikey in the head to get him to stop "OW!"
"All will be explained. First, there is some business to take care of," Mortu said as he turns to the Utrom at the control panel "Beam these intruders back to their original coordinates."
"Yes, sir!" The Utrom smiles and starts to punch in some numbers and the Triceratons and Federation are beamed out. But, none of them notice a lone Triceraton that crawls away. "Master Splinter, this is Dr. Honeycutt and Venus." Leo introduced.
"So, you're the great ninja warrior that I've been hearing so much about? I'm honored to meet you Master Splinter. " Venus said as she bows to him.
"Like wise." Splinter smiles as he answered.
"I must apologize for my present condition," The Fugitoid said. As he was talking, the Triceratons crawls into a hole, as the Fugitoid tells his story. He falls into the hole and lands in sewer water. He emerges and walks away.
"And that is how I came to be here." The Fugitoid finished.
"I see my children have gotten into their usual amount of trouble in the eight hours they've been gone." Splinter said.
"Eight hours!?" Leo exclaims.
"We were gone for three weeks!" Raph explains.
"Perhaps, I can explain," Mortu speaks out "The exigency of inter-dimensional travel affects not only the basic laws of three dimensional space, but the fluidity of temporal mechanics as well."
"That is so cool!" Donnie exclaims in excitement.
"Yeah, if it made any sense at all!" Mikey retorts.
"What the heck is going on here?" Raph questions.
"My friends, let there be no more secrets between us," Mortu said. He moves his tie out of the way and opens up his shirt to reveal an Utrom inside of him. The turtles shout out in fright and shock. Yuuki, Mona, and Venus were a little unnerved by the sight. "Follow me, we shall begin at the beginning." He said and he steps forward to a tunnel, the others following. Yuuki stumbles as she walks wobbling as she tried to walk with her leg cast. Leo supported her "You sure you don't want me to carry you?" He asked .
She lets out a groan and shakes her head "No, I can't baby it. I have to put some weight on it at least even though it is a pain in the butt." She grumbles.
Venus walks up beside her "Well I can heal it for you, if you want? " She asked.
"Okay?" Yuuki answered unsure on how she was going to do it.
Venus places her hands on Yuuki's leg and a yellow glow engulfs her leg. Venus pulls her hands back " That should do it. " She smiles.
Yuuki stands up with ease with no help. She stared down at her leg in shock. She could bend it no problem and their was no pain as well. She couldn't believe it, her leg was healed.
Armed forces gather outside of the TCRI building. Underneath of their car, a spider-like robot climbs out. While the men move out, the robot crawls to the building and scale up the windows. It stops and turns around, looking down at the swat team. The head rolls up to reveal Baxter Stockman "I'm back." He sings before crawling up the windows, laughing evilly.
Inside of the building, a door opens up. The turtles, Venus, Mona, Yuuki, Splinter, Mortu and the Fugitoid walk into the room. They see eight pods in the middle of the room. "I've seen this movie," Mikey said. "We're, uh, not gonna have anything burst out of our chest, are we?"
"This is the Oracle Pod Chamber," Mortu explains. "Where our race assumes it's highest state of communication. Where many minds enter into oneness by sharing life experience. Inside these pods, you'll be able to share the story of our lives."
"You know, I can't think of one science fiction movie where a pod has been a good thing." Mikey said.
Mortu walks up to a panel and begins to push some buttons "All will be explained. Please, enter the pods." The pod doors open up.
The turtles, Yuuki, Venus, Mona, who was hesitant, and Splinter enter the pods and are strapped in. The doors close then a helmet lowers itself and attaches to their heads. "Easy." Raph warns. "Fascinating." Donnie comments in awe. "All little off the top, please." Mikey said, chuckling.
"Prepare yourselves to become one with the sacred memories of the Utroms." Mortu said as he presses some more buttons and starts the pods up. They are soon transported to another world as yellow lights swirl around them.
"Amazing!" Donnie exclaims. "Technically, this is only happening in our minds and we're all sharing the experience simultaneously." The swirling lights stop and they are now standing on a spaceship.
"Whoa dude," Mikey gasps "We're on a Utrom starship!"
"You're blessing on it, navigators?" The Utrom in front asks, turning to the three Utroms in the chamber pod.
"Your course is straight and true." The first one said
"Through the vastness of space and time." The second one replies.
"Captain, you have the blessings of-"
"The navigators." They all said at the same time.
"They're like robots." Yuuki said.
"Miss Yuuki, don't be rude." Splinter scolds.
"Master Splinter," Leo calls out. "your friend Mortu's the captain!"
"Okay," Mikey comments as he stands in front of the three Utroms in the chamber pod. "I'm not even gonna ask about the brains in the jar, Mr. Mortu." Mortu doesn't respond to him. Mikey waves to try and get the Utrom's attention "Yo blob heads! Fine, be that way. Snooty Utroms."
"Mikey," Donnie said as he walks to stand beside him "This is all Utrom history. It's already happened. We're just experiencing it with our minds. It's like watching a movie in our heads."
"But, it all seems so...real," Mikey tells him, reaching out to the pod. His hand goes through it and they are now back to the swirling lights. "What's happening?" Raph asks.
"All I did was touch it! If it's a movie, maybe we're cutting to the next scene," Mikey suggests. The swirling stops and they are on a different part of the ship.
"These security cautions are pitiful." A voice said and they look to see a red alien with a purple scar on his left eye secured in a chamber. "You will never hold me."
Mortu flies in and passes through Mikey "We have finally captured you after a hundred year search. We're not about to loose the most ruthless criminal the universe has ever known."
The Utrom sneers and laughs mockingly "I will escape and you will all perish. That is my promise." He declares.
"Big talk, little slime ball." Raph growls.
"Big talk, little slime ball." Mortu repeats as he growls.
"Hey, I like the way this Mortu guy thinks." Raph comments.
As Mortu leaves, Mikey walks up to the chamber "Yoo-Hoo! Hey there, you ugly little Utrom." He taunts as he makes faces at the imprisoned Utrom.
"Michaelangelo," Splinter said as he places a hand on Mikey's shoulder "You should know better than to tempt fate."
"But Master Splinter, you're always saying that we should tell the truth and the truth is Mr. Creepy here is pretty ugly!" Mikey answers and turns to blow a raspberry.
"That is not the point." Splinter tells him. Mikey continues to make faces at the Utrom and Splinter sighs shaking his head. The swirling lights appear again they are right back to where they started.
"Hey look," Donnie said and points at a planet, Earth, next to them "They're passing close to Earth!"
"Mortu, the prisoner has escaped!" An Utrom informs as he floats in.
"Security, report!" Mortu calls out.
"The prisoner's attacking!" An Utrom on the other end informs "We're-AAAHHH!" Alarms starts to go off as lights flash before they all go out.
"Emergency," One of the Utroms in the chamber said "Power cut. Engines are off line."
"Our minds are going dark." The second one replies.
"Cell by cell." The third one said.
"We are undone."
"We have control of the bridge," An Utrom at the panel said. "Security detail with me. To the engine room!"
"I hope nothing bad happens to these guys." Raph said gravely "I'm kind of getting to like 'em."
"Whatever happens, it's all history now, Raph." Leo tells him. They are surround by swirling lights again and appear in the engine room.
"Careful," Mortu said as he and two Utroms searched the room "The prisoner is crafty." They hear a spark and look down to see the prisoner holding broken wires. He laughs menacingly.
"You see, I always keep my promises, " He explains. "Goodbye, captain."
The prisoner connects the two wires and the whole ship starts to shake violently. The ship's engine explodes and they fly down at a fast rate towards Earth. Mortu gets stuck under some debris "Help me!" He calls out. "Help, set course for that course for that uncharted planet!" Mortu orders. When the ship enters the atmosphere, it is engulfed in flames. "We are Utroms. We are one. We shall not fail. We shall not fail!"
"It's only a movie! It's only a movie! It's only a-we're all gonna die!" Mikey exclaims
The ship is making its way towards the ocean and crashes into it. It slides across the water towards an island. Mortu tries his best to keep the ship steady. They crash into the shoreline of the island. A large part of the ship is destroyed and up in smoke. The turtles, Yuuki, Venus, Mona, and Splinter stand up in the wreckage, completely unharmed.
"Dude," Mikey said as he looks at the damage "I can't believe we're in one piece!"
"Remember, this is only an illusion, a memory." Donnie explains.
"Tell that to my stomach," Mikey retorts before bending over and throwing up. Donnie and Venus look away as they covered their eyes.
Meanwhile, outside of the TCRI building, men were still on lookout, keeping people from getting in. April and Casey sit in the Battle Shell, waiting to hear anything from their friends as tanks and swat teams run around in front of the TCRI building.
"Looks like they're gonna try something." Casey pointed out.
"The guy's sill aren't answering they're shell cells," April explained. "They've been gone for more than eight hours already."
"Alright, time's up! I'm going in there!" Casey yells, standing up but April stops him.
"To do what, Casey? There's about a hundred national guards out between us and them. The best way to help the guys is by sitting tight and being ready when they need us."
Casey slams his fist into the control panel in frustration "I know, but I don't have to like it!"
Back inside of the TCRI building, in the chamber system, the turtles, Yuuki, Venus, Mona and Splinter are standing at the shoreline with the Utroms.
"My friends and honored navigators,"Mortu said. "we're all safe, but the ship is ruined." He uses a holographic device to show a map "We are stranded on this primitive planet, millions of light years from our home world."
"There's not enough to salvage-"
"To repair the ship. We cannot-"
"Return to our home world?"
"No." Mortu said, sadly.
"How are they gonna get home?" Mikey asked.
"Captain," A yellow Utrom calls out and makes it way to Mortu "There's a structure beyond the next rise."
The Utroms, with the turtles, Yuuki, Venus, Mona and Splinter, following walk their way over to the rise that the Utrom informed them of. When they looked, they see that they are in Feudal Japan.
"This is...Japan!" Leo gasped.
"Wow you should feel right at home Leo." Mikey jokes.
"Eleventh century Feudal Japan from the look of it." Donnie explained.
"I've got one word: wow." Raph comments.
"To actually be here, to see the birthplace of Bushido and ninjutsu." Leo said.
"I have to admit, it is beautiful." Yuuki replied.
"Hey guys!" Mikey calls out and they look to see Mikey pretending to fight against a samurai, who was training on a hill close to them "Check me out, I'm in a samurai movie." Mikey pretends to dodge the samurai, though his sword phases through him. "Your blade cannot touch the might ronin, Michaelangelo-san," Mikey said in an old person-like voice "I am the storming sea, I am the breaking wind."
"Michaelangelo, show some respect." Splinter scolded.
"Sorry sensei." Mikey murmurs and walks back to the others. He comes across a small picnic of some rice balls and tea and immediately stops in his tracks. "Well, I'm definitely gonna respect his breakfast!" Mikey exclaimed and tries to grab it but his hands phase right through it.
"There is some sort of lesson here, but I'm enjoying this too much to think what it is." Splinter said as the others stood next to him and watches in amusement as Mikey continues to grab the food and laughs.
Night time had fallen, and they are now gathered at the front of the Utrom starship.
"In brief captain," An yellow Utrom said. "We conclude that the technology on this planet is too primitive to build a flying vehicle let alone an interstellar ship or even an hyperspace transmit device. The technology simply doesn't exist."
"Not yet, but we can wait." Mortu declared.
"Okay, reality check," Mikey calls out. "How long do these guys live? They're gonna wait centuries until they can build themselves a way home?"
"I believe that is what they do." Splinter said.
Outside of the TCRI building, Stockman continues to crawl up the windows and uses a device to detect the booby trap. He crawls in "Proceeding to phase one,"
Morning comes, and the turtles, Yuuki, Venus, Mona and Splinter are with the Utroms, watching as they explore more around the area, studying the humans, until an idea comes to them.
"From our technology that we've been able to salvage from the crash, I give you," The two Utroms float beside a sheet, covering something up, and lifts it up to reveal the exo skeleton suits. "The exo-suit." The yellow Utrom floats and lands inside of the stomach of the exo-suit. "With the proper covering, this will allow us to move among these humans, undetected."
"So that's how they came to develop those robot bodies," Donnie murmured "Amazing."
The yellow Utrom tries to move the exo suit, making wobbly steps as he does "I believe a field test is in order."
The Utroms dresses up the suit putting on a hat and kimono on it, disguising it. The turtles, Yuuki, Venus, Mona, and Splinter follow him into the open as the Utrom tests out the suit and he manages to walk around the other humans, undetected. A man phases through Mikey and he shouts in surprise and the others laugh. "Satisfactory. Most satisfactory. Test run concluded. First outing a complete success." The yellow Utrom comments. As the Utrom walks away, making his way back to the others, he trips on a wire and a huge log comes swinging down towards the Utrom. " It's a trap! Lookout!" Leo shouted as the log phases through them. The Utrom was sent flying back and crashes. A shadow stands over the fallen Utrom and he looks up in shock.
"You!" The Utrom exclaims as he looks at the Utrom prisoner.
The red Utrom smirks evilly "What a wonderful toy," He said. "I want to play."
"It's that evil Utrom," Raph growls. The prisoner Utrom smacks the yellow Utrom out of the exo-suit and gets in it himself. "I was kind of hoping he didn't survive that crash." Raph finished as he pulls his sai. The red Utrom makes the suit stand up and walks towards the scurrying and helpless Utrom, picking him up as the prisoner grabs the Utrom by the tentacles.
"I know this happened a long time ago, but I'm getting mad right now!" Raph exclaims as the others draw their weapons, except Venus, Mona, Yuuki, and Splinter.
The prisoner throws the yellow Utrom into the bushes and starts to walk away. The brothers try to attack him but they go right through him.
"Well that was useless." Donnie comments. Venus walks over to him "We're just in a memory, remember? I wanna fight just as much as you do but you're forgetting one thing: We can't touch him." She reminds them.
They watch as the Utrom walks away. They are surrounded by swirling lights again "Now what?" Raph muttered.
"Time's passing." Donnie explained as they see that they are back at the starship. The Utroms appear with more and new exo-suits. "A lot of time." They see the yellow Utrom with a bandage wrapped around his head as he participates building more of the suits.
"What's happening?" Raph questions as they watch. Suddenly, ninjas jump in and explosions goes off, surrounding everyone with fire and smoke. Then someone else jumps in: The Shredder. The turtles, Yuuki, and Splinter gasp in shock, while Venus and Mona stared slightly intimidated by him.
"Um,..who the heck is that?!" Venus exclaims. No one answered her as they were still in shock.
"Are you seeing what I'm seeing?!" Mikey exclaimed.
"It kind of looks like the Shredder." Leo said.
"Kind of too much like the Shredder." Raph corrects.
"Ninjas!" The Shredder calls out "Attack! Destroy them all!" The ninjas starts to attack the Utroms, taking out most of them. The Utroms start to jump on the Shredder but he knocks them off.
"What is the meaning of this?" Mortu demands. "We mean you no harm!" The Shredder makes his way towards Mortu and punches him, knocking him back. He lands a few hits on him before Mortu is slammed into the ground. "We come in peace!" Mortu protests. The Shredder towers over him "But you will go in pieces!" The Shredder declares, raising his foot. Mortu rolls out of the way just in time before he was stomped.
"It can't be our Shredder. That was 700 years ago. It must be the Shredder's ancestor or something." Donnie said in confusion.
"I wish we could do something to help them." Yuuki replies.
"I don't like it either, but all we can do is watch." Leo said as he tries to reassure her.
Back inside the building, Stockman crawls on the ceiling and hides as two Utroms move about him. Stockman crawls into the pod room. Fugitoid and Mortu are standing around. "I must say, this is the most intriguing device, sir." Fugitoid said as neither of them notices the spider robot "We really must exchange Cosmo ethereal equations sometime." Stockman crawls over to a panel and his head comes out. He opens the panel.
Shredder begins walking towards them. "Mikey, get back." Leo warns as Mikey steps closer to the Shredder. "Don't get too close to him."
"Ah, don't sweat it, Leo." Mikey assures "Like you told me, this isn't real, remember?" He steps forward and phases through the Shredder "Hey ugly." Mikey taunts as he starts to make faces at him.
"Mikey, get away from him." Yuuki warns nervously.
In the pod room, Stockman messes with the wires. "Sweet dreams, you cursed freaks." He connects two wires.
As they watch, the turtles, Yuuki, Venus, Mona, and Splinter suddenly return to their normal colors.
"That the?!" Raph asked in surprise
"Our weapons! They've disappeared!" Leo exclaims.
"Or should I say, very unpleasant nightmares?" Stockman asked, laughing evilly.
"Mikey!" Yuuki shouts out to him. "WHAT?!" The Shredder shouts out in surprise as he sees a giant turtle appear in front of him. Mikey smiles sheepishly and the Shredder charges at Mikey, striking him down hard. Mikey is sent flying back, knocked out.
With the Fugitoid and Mortu, they hear alarms go off, they realize something is happening in one of the chamber pods. "What's happening?!" Fugitoid asked in shock.
"I don't understand!" Mortu said as he presses some buttons "Something has gone horribly wrong!"
"Oh dear! Michaelangelo's vital signs! They're going critical!" Fugitoid exclaims
"This is Stockman. All finished here. I am proceeding to phase two," Stockman reports as he crawls away.
"Mikey!" Donnie calls out as they all rush towards him.
"Oh no," Raph gasps.
"Michaelangelo!" Splinter cries out in worry. The Shredder looks at the eight.
"Curious, capture those... strange creatures and the girl. They may prove useful." Shredder orders his ninjas as he walks away.
Splinter checks Mikey, supporting him "Michaelangelo needs help, he is badly hurt."
"Can't you heal him?!" Raph asked worried as he turns to Venus.
Venus tries as she places her hands over Mikey but nothing happens. Mikey is not waking up. "It won't work!" Venus said, frustrated.
"Someone must have altered the program on us!" Donnie exclaims as he stands back to back with his brothers, the Foot ninjas surrounding them.
"Whatever," Leo said. "We're in it up to our necks! This reality isn't virtual anymore!"