Previously in Just Another Human Ninja:

"I can't move my feet," Mikey called out, panicked.

A really bright light started to come from one side of the machine. Alex looked at it for a moment and then back to the man who had warned them. He had ran to the computer part of the machine and tried to stop it from continuing whatever it was it was doing. She really didn't know if he was trying to stop it, but she had the feeling he was.

"I can't stop it!" he called out to them. "It's too late."

Then Alex felt something strange. It almost felt like she was being taken apart molecularly and moved. She couldn't remember anything else but a bright light and then nothingness.

Chapter 1

"Turtles in Space: The Fugitoid"

Part 1

The next thing Alex O'Neil knew was she was standing in the middle of s street with Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo and Donatello. She felt sick to her stomach, like all of her molecules had been taken apart, moved and then put back together, which didn't feel very well. She wanted to barf. She restrained herself though, seeing as the others were puking their guts out. She didn't really want to embarrass herself.

"That was unpleasant," Mikey said.

"You can say that again," Alex said, leaning her head against his shoulder. "You don't happen to have a barf bag, do you?"

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

"What happened?" Mikey asked. "That light, the strange lab, those weird robot alien. Where'd they go?"

"You mean, where'd we go," Leo said.

"Someplace I don't think we're supposed to be," Donny said, turning around.

Everybody turned around and saw strange, soldier looking men in strange suits and holding guns at them. The stuff they had on didn't look like anything she saw any person wearing back home. Except people who were dressing up for comic book conventions. They almost looked like Star Troopers from Star Wars.

"Guns," Alex said, shaking her head. "Why must there be more guns? We just managed to get away from lazar guns!"

"Natives don't look to friendly," Mikey said.

"I think our best defense might be," Leo started to say, but was interrupted by Raph.

"Some serious butt kicking, ninja action," Raph said, taking out his sai.

Everyone started to take out their weapons. Mikey took out his nun chucks. Leo had twin katana, Donny had his bow staff. Alex pulled out her black katon katana. They jumped up and the "police" started to shoot their lazar guns at them. This time, Alex didn't get hit in the stomach though. She was thankful for that.

Alex ran over to two guys. One guy shot at her, but she slid between his legs, stopped right behind him and kicked his back, standing up and looking at the second guys. She jumped up, stepped on his shoulders, pushed off and then spun and kicked him in the face making him fall over.

The first guys had gotten back up and started to shoot at Alex. Alex jumped up, grabbed onto the pipe up above and swung over him with her sword out. She cut the gun in half and kicked him in the chest, sending him backwards. Alex dragged both of their unconscious bodies over to the pile the guys had and dropped them there.

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

"Whatever it was," Donny started, "It's not over. Look!"

Lights from two flashlights could be seen from the other side of the alley going towards where they were. Alex did remember that one of the guys called for backup. She had seen the guy do it out of the corner of her eye. She had heard him faintly call for it. There was nothing they could do about it now. They had to prepare to fight more.

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

"I vote fight," Raph said.

Of course he would, Alex thought.

"You always vote fight," Mikey said, saying what Alex had been thinking.

"Um," an electronic voice said from behind the ninja. "Excuse me. Hello! Terrapin beings. Yes, you. This way quickly!"

"I'm not a turtle!" Alex called out.

The police started to close in on them. There were a lot more than the first batch. They got down in a position and got ready to shoot them. "Ready! Aim! Fire!"

The turtles and Alex scattered. Alex was the second to last person to make it over to the area the robot, who had been the one calling them, was located. Mikey was the last one to make it over to where they were. He jumped in and landed on his butt, complaining that it hurt. Alex giggled.

"Hurry, hurry," the robot said. "Those federation troops won't give up the chase so easily."

Alex was right up in front with Leo and Donny. They quickly went up the stairs where the robot was. The stair led up to the top of an oddly shaped building. They looked around and ran to the edge to see if there was another way off. It was a dead end.

"Another dead end," Leo said.

Alex could feel that the soldiers were coming up behind them without looking. She was still looking down at the street below for a way out of the situation they were in. She could see some kind of a truck coming down the street. She got an idea. "Leo look!" Alex said motioning to the truck coming down the street.

"Quick, into that truck!" Leo yelled, pointing at the truck.

"No," the robot protested. "I hate heights!"

"How do you feel about lazar guns?" Leo asked.

"I've had enough of those today, if you ask me," Alex said.

The guys jumped while Alex waited to see if the robot was going to. "Come on," she said, grabbing his arm and pulled him across the building so they could catch up to the truck. She pulled him over the edge with her.

"I don't like this," he yelled as they were in the air. Alex just made it in while the robot just missed and grabbed onto the edge so he wouldn't fall into the road. Alex pulled him into the truck with the help of Raph and Mikey.

They all sat there trying to catch their breath and think about what the heck was going on. Alex was confused. That machine they had been trapped on must have sent them someplace. It couldn't have been Earth. Everything was different than Earth. The sky for example. It was red and not blue, grey, or black. It wasn't like anything they had where she was from. The technology and architecture was also different. Everything was more advance and designed differently.

Eventually, when they were all more relaxed, they looked over the edge of the truck and at the place they were in. "Where are we?" Leo asked.

"Something tells me with ain't Manhattan," Raph said.

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

"You've got that right," Alex said.

The truck came to a stop at a place that resembled an open market. Raph hopped out first, then Mikey, and Donny. The robot started to talk to them when he heard they were from Earth. He was confirming their suspicions. They weren't on Earth anymore. Leo hopped out after and helped Alex down. She silently thanked him with a smile and they turned to help the robot down as he talked.

"Ah Earth, is that your home planet?" he asked. "I don't believe it's in with galaxy. At least I've never heard of it. Are you the dominant species on your planet?"

"Where are we?" Raph snapped.

"Calm down son," he said. "You're on the planet D'Hoonnib in the Sidion system. Federation territory."

"A different galaxy?" Donny asked.

"Master Splinter is so far away," Leo said. "So helpless. We have to help Master Splinter."

"We'll find a way, Leo," Raph said reassuringly

"We don't even know how we got zapped here in the first place," Donny said.

"Does that mean I'm the first human to travel outside our galaxy?" Alex asked. "That's cool and scary all at the same time."

"That question had been vexing me," Robot said. "How did you materialize like that?"

"Guys," Leo said. "You can compare theories later. Right now," he said, pointing to something behind them, "We've got company."

"How did that find us so fast?" Alex muttered, taking out her sword.

"Uh, more of those bozos," Raph complained.

"Don't look now," Don said. "But those bozos have a tank."

"How come bad guys have all the great toys?" Mikey asked, jealously.

"Because I'm a teenage girl who got fired by her evil scientist boss and you guys are mutant turtles who live in the sewers and don't work for a living," Alex explained. "We don't have any income. How do you expect us to buy one of those or get the parts to make one?"

"She has a point," Don said. "We get everything from the junk yard."

"See," she said.

They started to back up away from the tank but then noticed a squad of armed Federation Soldier coming their way from another angle. They were sort of trapped. The guys pulled Alex, who had been staring at the tank enviously into one of the market place shops and behind one of the stands to hide. It wasn't going to last them long. What she didn't realize was there was a sewer manhole they slipped into.

The tunnel into the sewer was rather clean and shiny. It was also sort of fun. It was like a water slide. Alex hadn't been to a water park since she was ten. It reminded her of how much fun she used to have with her brothers and parents. When her parents were alive and her brothers weren't mindless minions for their arch enemy. Those had been good times…

"Check out these fancy sewers," Mikey said. "Clean enough to eat off of. If only we had something to eat."

Thank Mikey now I'm hungry, Alex thought.

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

"Hmmm, yes. I do owe you a full explanation," he said. "You see, I am Professor Honeycutt. Or at least, I used to be. 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 I was rudely interrupted by General Blanque.

"Just because he's the head of the Federation Military in this sector he thinks he can call anytime he wants. You see, the good General, wanted me to build my Teleportal Devise. A devise capable of transporting being from planet to planet. 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 would see the distress call from my worker robot Sal. He had become tangled in some wiring. An electrical storm was brewing. 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 over joyed. 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."

"Guys," Leo said. "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?"

"That an extra large serving of kung pow chicken would be really good right now?" Mikey guessed excitedly.

"That does sound good," Alex said, hungrily.

"The Professors Teleportal, right?" Raph said.

"Right," Leo confirmed. "If the Professor here," Leo started.

"Can build his Teleportal," Donny added.

"We can use it to go home," Raph finished.

"Home," Mikey said in a daze.

"To get food," Alex said. They looked at her a little funny. "What? Mikey made me hungry with all his talk of food!"

"Don't get me wrong Professor Roboto these sewers on your planet are nice, but they don't have that fresh sewer stank our sewers have," Mikey said.

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

"Probably something to do with that!" Donny yelled.

Everyone turned to see what he was talking about. It was a large machine with mechanical arms and razor sharp…teeth. It had a mouth that its arms through trash into and turned it into little tiny pieces. It stored it in the back, which looked like a stomach, sort of. It was rather hard to describe. And it was coming after them like it wanted to eat them.

"What an action packed day we're having," Alex mumbled to herself.

Everyone turned and bolted away from the machine, trying to outrun it. The thing was fast. It was rather hard to keep running at the pace they were running at, even for ninja. They were only human. Well, Alex was. The others were mutant turtles and the Professor was a robot. But it still applied to them as much as it did to Alex.

"It's gaining on us!" Mikey yelled.

"I don't think we can outrun it!" Donny added.

"Then I guess it's time to range against the machine," Leo said. He stopped running and pulled out his katana.

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

"I've got an idea," Leo said. He jumped up and cut some pipes from the ceiling and they fell to the started to fall to the ground.

"Mikey, Alex," Raph called as he jumped up to get one. "Think fast." He hit two pipes and they went flying to the two designated people.

Alex was following with the plan completely. She just didn't know how long they'd be able to hold the machine back, but they were going to have to for as long as they could. Leo and Raph were on one side of the mouth while Alex and Mikey were on the other side pushing it back with the piping. Professor joined Mikey and Alex after he found a pipe bar too.

"Donny," Mikey called. "I don't know how long we can hold this thing!"

Donny jumped up and called to Raph, "Raph, toss me a sai!"

As Raph did what he was told, the machine bucked causing everyone to topple backwards. As the machine was going towards the people in the water on the ground, Donny managed to lodge the sai into the control panel. The machine blew up on the control panel and the mouth of the machine shut, while the lights turned off.

"See," Donny said. "Piece of cake."

"Come on," Leo said. "We need to get out of here."

"Where are we going?" Alex asked. "It's not like we have many placed to go."

"We can't risk running into one of those things again," Leo said. "We have to go up."

"Okay," she said. "Up we go."

They made their way up one of the "slides" with ease. Well, for the turtles it was. Alex was stuck behind the Professor and he was having trouble. He kept slipping which meant he'd fall into her. She'd have to catching, regain her balance, get him going again and then do it over again and again. He'd apologize each time, but that didn't prevent him from doing it again.

The guys got out first when they were at the top. Professor needed help getting out. Alex had to push him up so he could grab onto the side and try to pull himself up. Leo ended up pulling him out quickly, casing Alex to lose her balance and almost slide all the way back down to the bottom. Leo grabbed her hand before she did, though.

Leo pulled her out and she tripped over the side. She tipped over into Leo. He caught her easily. "You okay?" he asked concerned.

"Yeah," she replied, looking up into his masked eyes. It was impossible to see what color they were when they wore their masks. She wondered what color they were. "Thanks."

"No problem," he said, not letting her go.

He's acting weird again, Alex thought. This isn't the time to be acting funny. We need to worry about getting off of this planet. He can act funny all he wants when we get back. Now isn't the time. Then why wasn't she pulling back?

When Leo finally snapped out of it, he let her go and said, "Come on. This way."

The walked down the alley away from the busy market place. There had been some soldiers around there corner in the market too, so they didn't want to go that way anyways. It seemed like those guys were everywhere. How were they supposed to get away if the whole place was crawling with them?

"Those soldiers are everywhere," Raph said.

"Indeed," Professor said.

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

"Back in two," Raph said, running off.

"Um," Mikey hummed. "I'll keep an eye on him." Then he was gone too.

"You know he just went off to find food, right?" Alex said.

"Yeah," Donny said. They all sat down in the alley, waiting patiently for their transportation to arrive.

"As I asked earlier," Honeycutt said. "Are you the dominant species on your planet?"

"Us?" Leo asked. "No."

"Humans are," Donny said.

"That would be me," Alex said, taking off the mask of her suit. Her long red hair fell out of the hair tie and down to her shoulders and back. "I'm Alex, by the way. It's nice to meet you Professor Honeycutt."

"What are you then?" Honeycutt asked.

"We're mutants," Donny said. "Not a lot of people know about us. There aren't a lot of mutants around Earth that people know of."

"Teenage mutant ninja turtles," Alex giggles. She liked the way it sounded and rolled off of her tongue. She turned her attention down the alley broadly. What she saw made her stand up alert. "Guy!"

One of the Federation's tanks pulled up to where they were resting. Alex pulled out her sword defensively while Leo did the same. Donny took out his staff. They eased up when they saw Raph and Mikey pop their heads out of the top of the tank. Alex laughed at it. They had stolen a tank. That was classic. Not really, but stealing from the enemy was.

She jumped up and hopped into the large piece of machinery. It was small inside, but everyone would be able to fit. There was a lot of strange looking technology inside that Alex didn't know how to work. It was all in a different, alien language so she couldn't read anything that was in there. So, she just sat back awhile everyone piled in and Raph and Donny piloted the thing.

"Nothing like riding in style," Donny said excitedly.

"The purple masked terrapin has a point," Alex said.

"Couldn't you have boosted something a little more, I don't know, conspicuous?" Leo asked a little annoyed.

"The blue masked terrapin has another good point," Alex said. She just loved to use the word terrapin. It sounded funny.

"Something that might blend in better?" Leo continued.

"Are you kidding?" Raph asked. "This puppy's almost invisible it blends so well."They passed a bunch of Federation tank drivers. One of the guys yelled and pointed at them. They all got in their tanks and started to follow them.

"Yeah, real invisible," Leo said. Raph just smiled, which made Alex laugh. She found herself laughing a lot around them.

Their tank was hit in the left wing by one of the tanks behind them. Alex toppled over and fell against the wall, hitting her head. "Ow," she groaned. "That didn't feel pleasant. The ship tilted again and she rolled backwards to the other wall, hitting her head again. "Raph!" she yelled. "Would you please get this thing under control?"

Alex stood up and grabbed the ceiling to steady herself, but when she did so, she felt pain shoot through her body. She had forgotten about the injury she had gotten from the aliens shooting at her back at the TCRI building. She was guessing it was very bruised. She hadn't stretched it far enough before so it didn't hurt before then. She let go of her hold on the ceiling and cradled her stomach.

"You okay, Alex?" Mikey asked.

"It'll pass," she told him, not moving.

"What happened?" Leo asked.

"You know those guns the aliens back at TCRI had?" she asked. "I got hit three times with those."

"Are you sure you're okay?" Leo asked.

"Just bruising," she said.

Raph steered the tank straight towards another tank. Alex was worried Raph was going to make them crash, but she trusted his driving enough to know he wouldn't. He may be reckless sometimes, but he was good when it came to driving.

"Tell me you're not playing chicken, Raph!" Leo said worried.

"A turtle is never a chicken," Raph said. He moved the just in time. The one that was in front of them shot and hit the tank behind them. It was a good strategy. "Now Doc." Honeycutt shot the tank behind them.

"We have another one on our tail," Donny told them.

"Not for long," Raph said. He ran the left wing of the tank against a concrete wall, taking to apart. The pieces fell down on the tank behind them, taking it out.

"There's one more up ahead," Honeycutt said.

"These things just keep coming," Alex said.

"Fire!" Raph yelled. The tank was taken out. "We have to get out now!"

Nobody questioned his orders, but Alex did wonder why. They all jumped out and the tank moved forward out of the smoke. Alex was having a hard time seeing and trying not to cough in the black smoke. Someone grabbed her arm and pulled her out of the smoke and into an alley. It was Mikey. They hid in the alley as Federation soldiers closed in on the tank.

So that's why we had to get out, Alex thought.

The soldiers shot at the tank, blowing it up. Alex could almost hear them being scolded for their actions by General Blanque on the other end of their headsets. She had to keep herself from laughing. Alex saw Leo motion for them to back off into the shadows. She did along with the others, except for Honeycutt.

Leo had to go out and get Honeycutt. He was talking to Leo rather loudly. He was risking them getting caught again. Leo grabbed him by the arm and they were able to get away just in time. Federation soldiers were starting to search around the area for them. Alex just hoped she could get some sleep soon.

Oh thank goodness, she thought. It's a good thing we have a week off of school. Hopefully we get out of here soon.