[Opening sequence and theme song.]
[Episode opens on a celebration inside the turtle’s lair.]
Leonardo "Happy first anniversary, April."
Michelangelo "Hope you have another tubuloso year at Channel 6."
April "Oh, thanks guys. But I'm just not in the mood for a party."
Raphael "What's wrong, April?"
April "I'm worried about my job. Burne Thompson said I better come up with a big story or—"
Raphael "Or what?"
April "Or I won't be around to celebrate my second year."
[Donatello puts on a disguise.]
Donatello "Hey, I know what'll cheer you up. Irma, I need you."
Irma "Ooh!"
[Looks giddy.]
Donatello "Easy, Irma. It's only to help me pick up a pizza."
[Shift to the Technodrome, where Krang is working on a device.]
Shredder "Enough, Krang! It's going to explode!"
Krang "Silence! I'm the scientific genius here!"
[However, as Shredder warned, a pipe on the device overloads and explodes, leaving Shredder and Krang coughing in a cloud of smoke.]
Shredder "Now, are you satisfied? I told you the plasma heat dissipator wouldn't stand that much overload."
Krang "But no matter. If these readings are correct, we will soon have no more need of your shoddy work."
Shredder "What are you raving about?"
Krang "I have detected a new form of energy generated by the nuclear fission reactor at the university. Energy powerful enough to raise the Technodrome, and I want you to locate it."
[A while later, Shredder meets with Bebop, Rocksteady, and Foot soldiers at their newest hideout.]
Rocksteady "This glue factory sure makes a neat hideout, boss."
Shredder "Fail me, and I'll be making glue out of both of you.
This will locate the energy source. Now, go!"
[Hands a device to Rocksteady.]
This will locate the energy source. Now, go!"
Rocksteady "Right away, boss. Umm, where we going to?"
Shredder "To the fission plant! The fission plant!"
[The scene changes to a dock in New York City. A fish packing plant is visible in the background. Bebop and Rocksteady are fishing.]
Rocksteady "You know, this fishin's the easiest job we ever had."
Bebop "Yeah."
[Rocksteady’s comlink beeps and he answers.]
Rocksteady "Yeah, boss?"
Shredder "Well? Did you find it?"
Rocksteady "No, boss. We've been fishing here for three hours and we ain't had a nibble."
Shredder "Fishing? I sent you out for fission. Not fishing!"
Both "Huh?"
Shredder "Wait till I get my hands on you--you—"
[A bright beam of light shoots down from the sky, illuminating Rocksteady. He starts to rise into the sky.]
Rocksteady "Huh? What the-- hey!"
Bebop "Hey! Come back with my fishing partner!"
Shredder "And another thing. Don't walk away while I'm talking to you!"
[Bebop grabs his own comlink, hopping around in a panic.]
Bebop "I'll be good, boss. Please don't zap me like you did Rocksteady."
Shredder "What are you babbling about?"
Bebop "You mean you didn't-- you mean, he just, just—"
[Bebop returns to the Technodrome in a transport module.]
Bebop "Oh."
Shredder "I give you two imbeciles a simple assignment, and you can't even carry it out."
Bebop "But, boss, something awful happened."
Krang "What? You lost Rocksteady?"
Bebop "Well, yeah. That also."
Shredder "That also? What else went wrong?"
Bebop "We didn't catch a single fish."
Shredder "Aah!"
[Return to Donatello and Irma. They have just arrived outside a pizza parlor.]
Irma "Are you sure this will cheer April up?"
Donatello "Are you kidding? April's a sucker for Peppito's Pan-American pizzas."
[Irma gasps as a beam of light shoots down onto Donatello.]
Irma "What's that light?"
Donatello "Wow!"
Irma "Aah!"
[Irma runs away screaming as Donatello vanishes. Back at the Technodrome, Bebop is telling his story.]
Bebop "And then zip! He was gone!"
Krang "If his story is true, there's only one explanation for this strange occurrence."
Shredder "What?"
Krang "Visitors from space! Visitors who could make our wildest dreams come true!"
[Irma has returned to the lair.]
Irma "One minute he was at my side, and the next minute, he was gone."
Raphael "Donatello vanished into thin air?"
Splinter "Irma's story explains much. I have sensed an alien presence, unlike anything Earth has seen before."
April "Wow! Visitors from another planet! This could be just the story to guarantee my job at Channel 6!"
Splinter "Donatello? With aliens? This sounds serious!"
[Donatello finds himself in an odd cavernous space, which appears to be a rocky cave.]
Donatello "Whoa! The roller coaster companies would love to have that ride! I'd better call the turtles.
The turtlecom! I must have dropped it!
Something's headed this way."
[He checks his pocket, but it’s empty.]
The turtlecom! I must have dropped it!
[Looks off when he hears a noise.]
Something's headed this way."
[That ‘something’ turns out to be Rocksteady.]
Donatello "It's, it's-- Rocksteady?"
[He pulls out his Bō.]
Rocksteady "Hey, what's going on here?"
Donatello "Beats the heck out of me."
Rocksteady "Well, sounds like a good idea, pizza breath! Uhh!"
[Rocksteady charges Donatello, but Donatello blocks him and flings him over his head.]
Donatello "Oh, yeah? And you're a flapjack! You wanna play some more? Or shall we try to find a way out of here?"
Rocksteady "Um, what was that first question again?"
[Later, Donatello and Rocksteady are walking through the cave, searching for a way out.]
Rocksteady "So, where do you think we are?"
Donatello "I'm not certain. We may be in some parallel dimension."
[They hear roaring and see a huge, monstrous creature running towards them.]
Rocksteady "Huh? I'm out of here!"
Donatello "This way!"
Rocksteady "It sounds like he's right behind us."
[The creature is suddenly ahead of them.]
Donatello "You need to get your hearing checked."
[The monster grabs at them, but Donatello and Rocksteady avoid it, somehow running through the monster with a red glow. They round a corner, and Rocksteady nearly goes over a ledge, but Donatello grabs him and pulls him back. The creature is still after them.]
Rocksteady "Whoa!"
Donatello "Why do I keep saving him? Rocksteady, I've got an idea. Make this thing charge us."
Rocksteady "Nyah-nyah-nyah-nyah! Your mother wears high-heel shoes."
Donatello "Back!"
Rocksteady "Ha ha ha! We sure fooled him!"
[The falling creature suddenly vanishes.]
Rocksteady "Hey, it disappeared!"
[Cut to the Channel 6 news building. Inside April's office, Vernon is seated at April's desk, his legs up on it. Burne Thompson is there as well.]
Vernon "And, of course, I'd like a new chair."
April "Vernon! What are you doing to my desk?"
Vernon "Your desk? Ha ha ha! Tell her, Burne."
Burne Thompson "April, there'll be changes around here and real soon."
April "Changes? But I've got the biggest story of the century."
Thompson "Not bigger than Vernon's story, and I'm sending him out to cover it."
Vernon "I found out there's some strange radiation coming from the new reactor at the university."
April "But my story is much bigger, Mr. Thompson! If you'd just let me tell you about—"
Thompson "Ah, ah! April, if you want to tag along on Vernon's radiation story, you can as his camera operator."
April "Camera operator? Me? Oh, my life is over!"
[The scene changes to the streets of New York, in front of the pizza place. The turtles are topside investigating Donatello’s disappearance.]
Michelangelo "Like, what would've made these weird burn marks?"
Raphael "Only one thing. Some poor klutz must have dropped one of Peppito's hot chili pizzas."
Leonardo "Hold on. What's that?
It's Donatello's turtlecom."
[Notices the dropped turtlecom and picks it up.]
It's Donatello's turtlecom."
Raphael "Then Irma was right!"
Michelangelo "Our amigo's been grabbed by aliens from outer space!"
Leonardo "I just hope he's all right."
[The scene changes to the cave where Donatello and Rocksteady are. Donatello has ditched his disguise by this point, and they are still looking for a way out.]
Rocksteady "Oh, what are we doing now?"
Donatello "Trying to find a way out of here, as soon as I figure out where ‘here’ is."
Rocksteady "Aah!"
[The path they are on suddenly dead ends at a chasm.]
Donatello "I guess we're not supposed to go that way."
[They head off in another direction, but the area around them suddenly turns into a wall with them standing on a very narrow ledge. They quickly push back against the wall.]
Rocksteady "Yikes! We can't go that way neither! Hey! What's going on here?"
[The narrow ledge they are standing on suddenly becomes a lot smaller, leaving them nearly suspended in mid-air.]
Donatello "I've got a theory about this. Just let go of the wall."
Rocksteady "A-A-Are you out of your shell?"
Donatello "Just do it! It's our only chance! I’d better be right about this."
Both "Aah! Uhh!"
[They start falling, but only a short distance.]
Donatello "I was right."
[The ‘cave’ transforms into the interior of a spaceship.]
Nikto "Ha ha ha! Way to go, earthlings."
Klaatu "Nikto, stop playing with the earthlings."
Nikto "Oh, but it's fun! They're so weird-looking!"
Klaatu "I am Klaatu. Who are you?"
Rocksteady "I'll show you who I am."
[Rocksteady runs at Klaatu, but Klaatu holds up a cube-shaped device that sends a beam of laser chains to bind Rocksteady.]
Rocksteady "Hey! What the—"
Klaatu "My, my, such a temper.
Please forgive us. We didn't know that little Nikto beamed you here."
[To Donatello.]
Please forgive us. We didn't know that little Nikto beamed you here."
Nikto "I just wanted somebody to play with."
Klaatu "Nikto would not have hurt you. The creature and the disappearing floor were merely illusions."
Donatello "I figured that out, but where are we and who are you?"
Klaatu "I am Klaatu and this is the little woman Barada. We come from the star system Antares.
You are in our spaceship several miles above your planet."
[Uses the control cube to activate a screen.]
You are in our spaceship several miles above your planet."
Donatello "Why are you here?"
Klaatu "We vacationed on your planet some four thousand years ago. Little Nikto left one of his toys behind."
Donatello "You came all the way back for a toy?"
Klaatu "The situation is quite serious.
You earthlings constructed a nuclear reactor plant right on top of it. The radiation is causing the toy to approach meltdown. When that toy disintegrates, it will destroy all life on your planet."
[Uses the control cube on the screen again, showing the fission plant.]
You earthlings constructed a nuclear reactor plant right on top of it. The radiation is causing the toy to approach meltdown. When that toy disintegrates, it will destroy all life on your planet."
Barada "We're talking the end of the world here."
Donatello "The end of the world?"
Rocksteady "Hey! Let me out of these things! I'll be good!"
Klaatu "All right, but if you misbehave, back you go."
Rocksteady "Oh, boy. That's some neato trick!"
Donatello "My turtle friends and I can help you recover Nikto's toy."
Barada "Oh, we would be most grateful."
[The scene changes to the docks where Bebop and Rocksteady were fishing before. The Shredder is scanning the area with the energy device.]
Shredder "I'm getting a reading, Krang. Can you analyze it?"
Krang "Yes. It's almost identical to that of their fission reactor."
Shredder "Then it's true. We do have visitors from outer space! We must find their spaceship!"
Krang "Forget the spaceship! Get to the fission plant and find that energy source."
Shredder "But think of what treasures the alien ship might hold."
Krang "Do as you're told! I want that energy source now! Soon the entire world will be at my feet!"
Shredder "What feet?"
Krang "You really know how to hurt a person, don't you?"
Shredder "I'm going to prepare our particle transmitter to beam myself aboard that spaceship, and take it over!"
[The scene changes to the spaceship. The Antarians are giving Donatello and Rocksteady a tour.]
Donatello "Wow! This ship is incredible!"
Klaatu "It's nothing fancy, but it's paid for.
This is our energy conversion unit. It transmutes matter to energy."
[Shows them a device that's dripping water.]
This is our energy conversion unit. It transmutes matter to energy."
Donatello "You mean you power this entire spaceship with just this thing?"
Barada "Not only that, it makes great coffee. Have some."
Donatello "No thanks. I gave it up."
[Rocksteady slips away to contact Shredder on his comlink.]
Rocksteady "Boss, you should see all the neat stuff they got up here."
Shredder "‘Neat stuff’? What is your location?"
Rocksteady "I'm in a big room somewhere."
Shredder "I meant the coordinates of the alien ship, you dimwit!"
Rocksteady "Oh! Okay, boss.
Now how'd that bug turn this thing on?
Ooh, yeah!"
[Makes his way over to the screen.]
Now how'd that bug turn this thing on?
[Notices the control cube.]
Ooh, yeah!"
[Rocksteady picks up the control cube and waves it at the screen. Nothing happens. Rocksteady gets angry and throws the cube at the screen. It turns on. He holds the comlink up to the screen.]
Rocksteady "Can you see it, boss?"
Donatello "Boss? Uh-oh."
Rocksteady "You gonna beam up from the glue factory?"
[Donatello tackles Rocksteady, sending the comlink flying.]
Donatello "Oh, no, you don't!"
[Donatello and Rocksteady are suddenly bound together by the control cube lasers.]
Klaatu "We warned you about this behavior. We Antarians detest violence."
Barada "Mostly because we don't like to clean up afterwards."
Donatello "We're in for big trouble. This goon just broadcast our coordinates to Shredder."
Klaatu "Shredder? Another mutant? A hamster perhaps?"
Nikto "Gee, dad, can I keep him for a pet?"
[Donatello and Rocksteady are freed while Nikto is talking.]
Donatello "Believe me, kid, you wouldn't want this guy for a pet."
[Rocksteady slowly slinks backwards.]
Klaatu "Now, what can we do?"
[Donatello is holding Rocksteady’s comlink.]
Donatello "Rocksteady's comlink! If I can rewire this, I might be able to contact the turtles. Maybe they can intercept Shredder."
[Donatello reaches his family, who are all back at the lair. Splinter is holding a turtlecom.]
Splinter "Donatello, where are you?"
Donatello "I'm on board an alien spaceship."
Raphael "An alien spaceship?"
Donatello "I'm all right, but you've got to stop Shredder. He's hiding out at some glue factory."
Leonardo "Which one?"
Donatello "I don't know, but if he gets his hands on this high-tech equipment, he'll be unstoppable."
Splinter "Turtles, we have much work to do."
[The turtle van pulls up in front of Shredder’s new hideout.]
Leonardo "The Acme Glueworks."
Michelangelo "It looks like Shredder's style."
Splinter "This is it. I sense my old enemy's presence."
[Inside the Glueworks, Shredder is working on a computer.]
Shredder "There! The particle transmitter is set to beam me to that alien ship. The countdown is automatic. Soon, the alien's power will be mine!"
Michelangelo "Cowabunga!"
Shredder "The turtles! Get them!"
Bebop "Turtle targets!"
Shredder "Aah! I'm growing tired of your meddling, rodent."
Splinter "If you are tired, I suggest you lie down."
[Splinter takes down Shredder with a kick. Down below, the turtles are running for the computer.]
Shredder "Ooh!"
Raphael "We gotta shut down the countdown!"
Bebop "I'm gonna shut you down! Whoa! Oh!"
[Bebop charges, but Raphael grabs an oil drum and holds it for Bebop to crash into. He goes flying and lands in a pile of oil drums. The countdown is down to eight. Michelangelo and Leonardo are standing shell-to-shell, as the two Foot Soldiers charge them.]
Michelangelo "Hey, dude, what goes ‘quack-quack’?"
Leonardo "Duck?"
Michelangelo "Exact-a-mundo!"
[They both duck and two Foot soldiers collide with each other over their heads.]
Raphael "Master Splinter! They're gone!"
[Splinter and Shredder vanish, only to reappear in the holographic cave on the spaceship.]
Shredder "What happened?"
Splinter "It appears we are on the alien spaceship."
Shredder "Excellent! Let me see what I can find. We'll continue this later, ancient one."
Splinter "I had better find Donatello."
[He runs in the other direction. Later, Splinter finds a doorway, and can hear talking behind it.]
Barada "This is the most delicious pizza, Donatello."
Splinter "Pizza?"
[Inside is the kitchen. The Antarians, and even Rocksteady, are eating pizza that Donatello is making.]
Klaatu "It's even better than Venutian tree slugs."
Donatello "Who wants more?"
[Nikto lifts a slice of pizza with telekinesis, and floats it into his mouth so he can chomp it down. Splinter walks up to Donatello.]
Splinter "Donatello?"
Donatello "Master Splinter! How'd you get here?"
Splinter "I was beamed up via particle transmitter, just as you were. Shredder has been beamed aboard, as well."
[Rocksteady sneaks out.]
Rocksteady "I better find the boss. Boss! Yoo-hoo! Oh, boss! Yah!"
[Shredder reaches out, pulling Rocksteady into an alcove.]
Shredder "Quickly, show me where the aliens keep their weapons."
Rocksteady "Down that way or maybe it was that way. Then again, I think it was that way."
Bebop "... And then they both disappeared."
Krang "That treacherous piece of slime. Shredder wants the alien technology for himself. Pay attention now, Bebop. This is the fission plant. You are to go there, find the alien source of power, and bring it to me, and remember, this is your last chance."
Bebop "Gee, thanks."
[Cut to the Channel 6 news station, where Vernon is delivering his report with a picture of the fission plant behind him.]
Vernon "Scientists are now identifying the strange radiation as unlike anything before seen, but they assure us that no danger exists."
April "And now Vernon's doing my newscast!"
Irma "It sure looks like he's taking over your job."
April "This is the last straw! I'm gonna tell off Burne Thompson right now!"
[Inside Mr. Thompson’s office, April is pleading.]
April "Please Mr. Thompson. One more chance is all I ask."
Thompson "Your invasion from Mars fairy tale? Get real, April. This is a news show, not the movie of the week."
April "Fairy tale, huh? Just you wait and see!"
[April joins the turtles inside their van.]
April "You actually spoke to Donatello onboard the spaceship?"
Raphael "We sure did."
Michelangelo "Let's get it in gear, dudes. We gotta save the world!"
Donatello "Okay, folks. Here's the won ton and lox pizza I promised. I-- what happened to them?"
Splinter "Apparently, mozzarella has a soporific effect on Antarian physiology."
[The door behind Donatello is blown open. Shredder and Rocksteady enter with blasters.]
Shredder "I have won! The alien's power is in my hands!"
Rocksteady "In mine, too! Oops!"
Shredder "I just can't take you anywhere."
Donatello "You haven't won yet, Shredder."
[Donatello and Splinter are suddenly trapped in laser chains from the control cube in Shredder's hand.]
Splinter "What is this?"
Shredder "Get used to those chains, Splinter. You'll be wearing them for a long time, but first I have a world to conquer. And a pompous, self-important brain to make beg for mercy. Now, let's get to the fission plant before Krang does."
Donatello "Barada, Nikto! Wake up! Oh, great! They snooze and we lose!"
Splinter "Let us hope the turtles can stop Shredder."
Donatello "Let's also hope they can stand up against the alien technology."
Splinter "Somehow they will have to."
[Inside the fission plant, Bebop is directing a group of Foot soldiers.]
Bebop "Hey, hurry up, you guys!"
[The Foot soldiers blast a device, causing an explosion that leaves a hole in the floor.]
Bebop "Bring it up."
Michelangelo "Hey, dudes! Take five!"
[The turtles run in, with April following with a camera.]
Bebop "Get them!"
[The Foot Soldiers open fire, forcing April and Michelangelo to take cover. Raphael is standing behind a spherical device.]
Raphael "Maybe I can pick up a strike."
[Raphael pushes the device, bowling over two Foot Soldiers and knocking them into the hole.]
Raphael "Hey-hey! Set ‘em up in the next alley!"
[Michelangelo runs through some laser blasts, then jumps onto a girder that begins to rise.]
Michelangelo "Going up!"
Bebop "Now I got you!"
Michelangelo "Hey, don't sweat it, dudes. I got your pursuit covered. Yo, Bebop!"
[Bebop fires at Michelangelo. Michelangelo jumps to avoid it, and the laser blast releases the girder, which crashes down on the Foot Soldiers below.]
April "What a sensational story this'll make!"
Leonardo "What was that?"
[Shredder and Rocksteady appear in the force field.]
April "It's Shredder!"
Shredder "Correction. The new improved Shredder. Now I am invincible."
Raphael "Yeah, we'll see how invincible you are, metal mouth."
[Raphael charges Shredder, but bounces harmlessly off the force field.]
Leonardo "He's got some kind of force field protecting him."
Shredder "And that's not all. Watch this!"
April "So far this story doesn't look like it has a very happy ending."
Shredder "I'm so glad you're here, Miss O'Neil. You shall have an exclusive story on my conquest of the world."
April "Not in this lifetime, Shredder!"
[Shredder makes his way to the hole left by Bebop, and uses the control cube to raise up Nikto's Toy.]
Shredder "And now to retrieve the Antarian power source!"
Michelangelo "Totally awesome!"
Raphael "Didn't I see this in a movie once?"
Rocksteady "That's a kid's toy?"
Donatello "And shame on you for stealing it."
Shredder "Splinter, Donatello, how did you get free?"
Splinter "Fortunately, our Antarian friends have great powers of recuperation."
[Shredder points his blaster at them, as Rocksteady does the same.]
Shredder "You'd better hope you do, too."
[The blasters suddenly disappear from their hands.]
Rocksteady "Hey! Who snitched my blaster?"
Donatello "The aliens did."
Shredder "A mere parlor trick. I have far greater powers."
[Shredder raises the control cube, but it disappears as well.]
Donatello "You better be waving bye-bye. The Antarians just took away all your goodies."
April "Oh! Thanks a lump, Donatello."
Michelangelo "Rad happenings. We're free, dudes!"
[A laser blast from Bebop nearly misses them.]
Leonardo "Head for cover!"
Bebop "Hey, no fair running away."
[One of Bebop's blasts hits the toy, causing it to spark uncontrollably and shake the fission plant.]
Raphael "What's going on?"
Splinter "Those laser blasts have accelerated the meltdown process."
Shredder "Krang, send the module."
Donatello "This must be that end of the world Klaatu was talking about."
Raphael "Do you know how to stop it?"
Donatello "Uh, no, but I'm open to suggestions."
Shredder "Ah, the module! Save the world by yourselves! Foolish turtles!"
[Shredder, Bebop, and Rocksteady enter the module, which leaves. The toy is now sparking wildly.]
Leonardo "We can't stop this thing!"
April "I've got an idea.
Keep that camera running!"
[Hands her camera to Raphael.]
Keep that camera running!"
Leonardo "What’s she doing?"
Raphael "Ah, with women you never know."
[He is recording her. Suddenly the toy powers down, and the sparking stops.]
Donatello "It stopped!"
[April climbs out of the hole.]
April "There! So much for that."
Donatello "How'd you do that, April?"
April "Simple. Every kid's toy has batteries."
[Shredder, Bebop and Rocksteady have returned to the Technodrome.]
Krang "You thought you were going to have it all. Instead, you have zip!"
Shredder "Look who's talking. You don't even have hands to fix your equipment."
Bebop "Let me help, boss."
[Bebop slams the module door on Shredder’s hand.]
Shredder "Ow!"
[He tucks his hand under his arm and hops around in pain.]
Krang "Keep that up and you won't have hands, either!"
[The scene changes to the turtle lair. The turtles, minus Donatello, are watching Channel 6 news with April and Splinter. April is giving the newscast.]
April "And with the visiting aliens now headed home, our planet is once again safe. This is April O'Neil of Channel 6 news, signing off."
Leonardo "Great show, April."
April "Thanks, guys. And best of all, I've got my office back from Vernon and a three-year contract!"
Splinter "The road to success is often paved with adversity."
[Donatello enters the room]
Donatello "Hey, I just got off the interstellar transmitter with Klaatu. He said they'll return in the year 4989."
Michelangelo "Whoa! I better start cooking some pizzas!"
[He runs out of the room.]
Leonardo "Michelangelo, they won't be back for another three-thousand years."
Michelangelo "Why wait till the last minute?"
[Everybody laughs as the episode ends.]
[End Credits]