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A brand new mini-series from Paul Allor, Erik Burnham and some of the best IDW TMNT artists ever! The Turtles become unstuck in time and go spinning into the past! First stop: the prehistoric age, where they are far from the most dangerous reptiles around! Will the Turtles be able to find their way home without damaging history?
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The issue opens with the Turtles fleeing from a pack of dinosaurs. The Turtles have been transported back to Asia during the Cretaceous Period as the result of an accident involving Renet, an inter-dimensional time traveler that the Turtles recently met (see the TMNT Annual 2014). It turns out that the dinosaurs are fleeing from Utroms on dinosaur mounts. One of the Utroms shoots a sticky net at Raphael, capturing him. The other three Turtles accidentally fall off a small cliff and the Utroms abandon the chase. The Turtles are wondering why when they realize that it's because they've fallen into a Tyrannosaurus's territory. Michelangelo tells the others not to worry, he'll take care of it, and throws a fruit at the Tyrannosaurus's nose. It gets angry and proceeds to chase the Turtles.
One of the Utroms, Churk, watching from above, comments that for a moment he had thought the Turtles were intelligent, but it seems he was mistaken. He tells his companion Yoom that they've caught enough specimens for the time being and they take Raph back to their camp.
Leonardo, Donatello, and Michelangelo find shelter in a cave until the Tyrannosaurus wanders off. Once the coast is clear, they go over what they know. They know they're either on prehistoric Earth or an alien planet that's very similar, and there are Utrom hunters, and Raph was captured by them or eaten by a dinosaur. Leo tries to begin forming a plan when all of a sudden Renet appears, exclaiming that she's been looking everywhere for the Turtles. Unfortunately, the Turtles can't understand most of what she says, as her device that lets her travel through time is malfunctioning. She tells them she'll be back and then departs.
At the Utrom camp, Raph tries unsuccessfully to escape from captivity while his cellmate, a small Protoceratops he nicknames Pepperoni, sleeps. As he tries to escape and talks to Pepperoni, the Utroms who captured him realize he's using language and their translator device begins analyzing his speech. One of the Utroms cites that this will become a political issue rather than just a scientific one, so they had better contact Ambassador Quanin and also request a military transport team. From the undergrowth, Leo, Don, and Mikey look on and are relieved to see that Raph is unhurt. They debate simply ambushing the camp and freeing Raph but Leo decides that would be too dangerous. Mikey says if they can't run in, they have to fly in.
In his cage, Raph is outfitting Pepperoni with her own ninja mask and trying to convince her to help him escape when he sees Mikey swoop in on a Quetzalcoatlus, dropping rocks on the Utroms. He notices Donnie freeing all the other dinosaurs in their cages to create chaos and allow them to escape unnoticed. Donnie then frees Raph and Raph is ready to fight, but the battle is already over. Leo wonders why it was so easy to defeat them, and they realize that these Utroms are simply scientists, not warriors.
Just then, the Utrom military transport team arrives and begins firing. The Turtles duck for cover and try to come up with another plan. Mikey wants to ride another flying reptile but Don tells the others to follow him and force the Utroms to follow them. Don leads them to the same cliff from early and they scamper down and split up, causing the Utroms to be caught off guard by the Tarbosaurus.
Later, the Turtles sit in a cave and cook a makeshift pizza over a fire while Mikey retells their daring rescue and teases Raph for not being able to help. Don wonders how long they're going to be stuck in prehistoric times when they suddenly travel through time again, leaving Pepperoni to eat their pizza.
Back at the Utrom scientists' camp, the Utroms are exclaiming disbelief that the planet had intelligent warrior lifeforms. The Utrom in charge of the military transport says they should track them down and conscript them into their army, but one of the Utrom scientists eyes a captive Triceratops and says he has a better idea.
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