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 Tyrannosaurus Rex. Mikey wants to ride another flying dinosaur but Don tells the others to follow him and force the Utroms to follow them. The Turtles duck for cover and try to come up with another plan. Just then, the Utrom military transport team arrives and begins firing. Leo wonders why it was so easy to defeat them, and they realize that these Utroms are simply scientists, not warriors. Donnie then frees Raph and Raph is ready to fight, but the battle is already over. He notices Donnie freeing all the other dinosaurs in their cages to create chaos and allow them to escape unnoticed. 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 pterosaur, dropping rocks on the Utroms. Mikey says if they can't run in, they have to fly in. They debate simply ambushing the camp and freeing Raph but Leo decides that would be too dangerous. From the undergrowth, Leo, Don, and Mikey look on and are relieved to see that Raph is unhurt. 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.
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. She tells them she'll be back and then departs.Īt the Utrom camp, Raph tries unsuccessfully to escape from captivity while his cellmate, a small dinosaur he nicknames Pepperoni, sleeps. Unfortunately, the Turtles can't understand most of what she says, as her device that lets her travel through time is malfunctioning. Leo tries to begin forming a plan when all of a sudden Renet appears, exclaiming that she's been looking everywhere for the Turtles. 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. Once the coast is clear, they go over what they know. Leonardo, Donatello, and Michelangelo find shelter in a cave until the T-Rex wanders off. He tells his companion Yoom that they've caught enough specimens for the time being and they take Raph back to their camp. 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. It gets angry and proceeds to chase the Turtles. Michelangelo tells the others not to worry, he'll take care of it, and throws a fruit at the T-Rex's nose. The Turtles are wondering why when they realize that it's because they've fallen into a Tyrannosaurus Rex's territory. The other three Turtles accidentally fall off a small cliff and the Utroms abandon the chase. One of the Utroms shoots a sticky net at Raphael, capturing him.
The Turtles have been transported back to prehistoric times of 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. The issue opens with the Turtles fleeing from a pack of dinosaurs. Turtles in Time #1 Regular Cover by David Petersen