As the action begins, we find Turtle Ninja standing on a street corner, next to a pizza restaurant. The street has been barricaded off, and a lot occupied for something of a fair, with game booths and food and so forth. Turtle Ninja is signing autographs as he's swarmed by kids, while, nearby, Fireman is handing out safety "fire awareness" brochures - and then using his portable fire hose unit to create a spray to entertain the kids. Turtle Ninja vaguely starts to wonder just why he's out in the open, and why people aren't freaking out. He sees that the restaurant is a Turtle-Ninja-themed restaurant, featuring the beaming faces of four ninjas (wearing colored headbands), and a rat-guy. And then he notices a fellow Turtle Ninja handing out pizza samples ... and a rat - his mentor!

Turtle Ninja at this wonders what in the world is going on. What about secrecy? Why do they own a pizza restaurant? Why is there a TV screen broadcasting ads for the "Turtle Ninja Adventures", featuring animation that seems to be telling the story of his own life - including all the embarrassing moments (which would be most of them)? He runs up to his master, asking him what's going on, but he's told to hand out more pizza samples. He keeps asking questions, wondering what will happen if their enemies find them here, and then the rat master says, "Ah! I almost forgot!"

Just then, the music piped outside begins a dramatic sequence, and there are flashes of light and puffs of smoke as several black-clad ninjas appear, bearing the emblem of a footprint on their foreheads. (As Fireman likes to joke, that's a helpful note on where to kick.) A ninja clad in red stands atop the pizza restaurant roof and orders his ninjas to attack. They do so, and Turtle Ninja throws down some smoke bombs and proceeds to knock the enemy ninjas left and right - while his mentor and his comrade do likewise. The ninjas are amazingly easy to defeat. The thought occurs to him - is this all staged? But the weapons all look real - those used by the ninjas, and those used by his comrades.

The police present, meanwhile, do nothing more than to usher back the watching crowds. And, incidentally, the crowds happen to include several costumed superheroes wandering around the fair. Even Iron Fist is there, signing autographs, seemingly unconcerned by the altercation across the street.

Just then, Scars shows up, carrying some grocery bags. When he sees the scene - the Turtle-Ninja-themed restaurant, Iron Fist signing autographs, superheroes blatantly milling about, ninjas - he does a double-take, and drops his bags from shock. He rushes over, grabbing up a manhole cover and smacking one of the slower ninjas with it. He tries to head into the battle zone, though a police officer tries to tell him that it's all under control.

Turtle Ninja looks up, seeing the Red Ninja standing there, and calls out to him, wondering aloud why he doesn't come to join the fight. "I was just testing you," the Red Ninja says, "but as you wish...." And then he leaps down. In a flurry of violence, he knocks out the rat sensei, then sends both of the turtle warriors flying - knocking Turtle Ninja out cold.

Ominous music swells from the loudspeakers, the Red Ninja makes some sort of speech about finally getting revenge for the death of his father, or somesuch. Scars breaks through the barricade, and tries to smack the Red Ninja with a sawhorse, but the ninja easily evades the attack, as if Scars wasn't even there. Laughing menacingly, the Red Ninja disappears in a puff of smoke - and his fallen minions do likewise.

The TV screens mounted outside the restaurant show close-ups as Turtle Ninja recovers consciousness and rushes over to his fallen sensei. His sensei says something about, "This ... this may be the toughest opponent we have ever faced!" - and then he dramatically passes out. The music swells ... and then the TV screens show a teaser from the "New Turtle Ninja Adventures".

Then the rat sensei and Turtle Ninja's comrade recover consciousness, get up, and start handing out pizza samples again. "When I'm worn out after a tough battle, there's nothing quite like pizza!"

Turtle Ninja is baffled. When his two other comrades show up to join the work, things don't make any more sense.

Fireman, meanwhile, has been away from all this. When the fight broke out, he happened to notice what looked like a masked mime sitting atop a nearby building, some 8 stories or so up. Sensing that either this was a fellow involved in badness - or perhaps contemplating a jump to his doom - he rushed to the building, used his fireman's key for the elevator, and then went up to the top to confront this strange citizen. The mime wore a strange costume with smiling masks all over his body. In fact, he had three of them around his head, and it was unclear which one of the masks he was actually looking through. Fireman tried to urge the mime to come away from the edge, but the mime showed no inclination to do so. Instead, he handed Fireman some popcorn. Fireman, at a loss as to what else could be done, ate it.

So, back to the present, Turtle Ninja is in near hysterics. His "crazy antics" are just seen as more humor by everyone else. Finally, a kid with a skateboard - wasn't that the same kid he saw at the bank robbery, and then again near the park when they fought the mutants, and then again when they were rescuing kittens from burning buildings? - walks up. "Dude," he says, "This doesn't make much sense, does it?" The Turtle Ninja has to agree with him. The skateboard kid speaks with surprising articulation, compared to what Turtle Ninja had previously witnessed, though most of it now is completely over his head. He only catches bits and pieces, something vaguely philosophical. Turtle Ninja decides that the skateboarder boy is God.

A woman shows up, floating in the air, wearing an exotic outfit that clearly marks her as some sort of superheroine (or supervillain), and surrounded by glowing ethereal sigils and rings. She works through some sort of ritual gestures, eyes closed, head raised. At her arrival, some of the costumed superheroes milling about the fair groan and start to head out, and even Iron Fist takes his leave. The strange mime on the rooftop, however, seems inclined to stay and watch the show. The police, children, and other bystanders don't seem to take any notice of the new arrival, however.

The skateboarder says something about "ruby slippers" or "pinching yourself". The boy points to the mime, and says something along the lines of, "He showed up about the time that you started to doubt your sanity." Turtle Ninja decides that if this is all just a bad dream, pinching himself seems like a reasonable thing to do....

And then he wakes up, back at Scar's place, where he'd crashed in Scar's guest room.

The door-bell rings, and Scars, having dozed off in front of the holo-TV, jumps up and rushes to the door. There is Fireman, handing out safety brochures, and asking if about Scars's smoke detector, and whether his fire extinguisher is up to spec, and so forth. Scars, somewhat rattled by a strange dream, heads to the kitchen in a daze to fetch the fire extinguisher, while Fireman wanders in and looks about for the smoke detector. The holo-TV is blaring with the Turtle Ninja theme song, showing clips from an upcoming new series on the Superhero Channel detailing the "New Adventures" of the Turtle Ninjas.

Just then, the smoke alarm goes off. Scars finds, to his dismay, that the toast he had put into the toaster (before spacing out in front of the holo-TV) got caught and has started to smoke. Fireman offers to put out the "fire", but before he can douse the whole kitchen, Scars extracts the toast, opens up the windows, and then waves his hand in front of the smoke detector to try to get it to stop ... but when it doesn't, immediately, he just smacks the thing, crushing it. That works.

Turtle Ninja comes screaming and running out of the guest room ... only to run into Fireman. This makes Turtle Ninja scream again, since Fireman was in his dream. Scars and Fireman tackle Turtle Ninja and get him to calm down, until he relates to them his strange dream. Scars, oddly enough, recalls having a similar dream as well. Fireman, it turns out, recalls something of a similar dream, as for some reason he thinks he started to nod off while waiting for Scars at the front door ... or something like that. (He's not sure, and it just doesn't make sense to fall asleep while walking from door to door!)

Meanwhile, the holo-TV returns to its regularly scheduled programming, showing a new Batman cartoon. Turtle Ninja forgets his woes and plunks himself down in front of the TV, soon lost to the world. Scars finds the fire extinguisher, which turns out to be recently inspected - but Fireman insists that Scars needs to get a new smoke alarm immediately. Scars turns the conversation back to the matter of this strange dream, and the mime and why in the world there's a TV series about the adventures of Turtle Ninja and his supposedly secret buddies. (The other shows on the Superhero Network are of clearly fictitious characters, such as Batman, Spiderman, et al.) Fireman suggests that they look about on the internet to find out who is putting out this cartoon series - so Scars gets on his computer and starts web-surfing, tracking down the site about the new series. He finds nothing unusual about the production, and indeed learns that the animated series has been out, in various forms, for years. He goes to the official "Turtle Ninja" web site, and finds out about the original comic book, profiles of the writers who made up the Turtle Ninjas, and so forth.

In the process of all this, he finds that he's starting to develop a really terrible headache. Scars never gets headaches. One of the perks about being immortal and ageless is that he's got nearly perfect health. As such, he doesn't even have any aspirin in the medicine cabinet. (He rarely has guests, though recently there's been a distinct exception.) Rather than slogging on through the web site, Scars decides to head out to the corner drug store to get something for his headache. Fireman tags along, while Turtle Ninja continues his couch potato activities in front of the TV.

So, Fireman and Scars head down to the corner drug store ... just in time to see some robbers holding up the store, and even threatening a little old lady outside! Scars rushes to the rescue, bullets bouncing off his chest as the robbers try (vainly) to shoot him down. Fireman opens up the fire hose on some of the thugs. As for the thug who was threatening the little old lady ... well, Scars sends him crashing through the window!

At first, it seems a one-sided fight, until the remaining thugs concentrate their fire on Fireman. Despite his shield and heavy gear, he takes several grazing shots - but the most humiliating is when he tries to use the fire hose, and it backfires on him! He ends up knocked out, while Scars fights on. The thugs seem incapable of doing a thing to Scars - until their leader steps out from behind her cover, with a pair of uzis ... and then, when those run out, she switches to a straight-bladed oriental sword of the sort favored by the ninjas that keep attacking our heroes in the sewers. She proceeds to go toe-to-toe with Scars, and while at first he's able to withstand her attacks, he starts to wear down ... and then it just gets worse from there. Finally, he falls to the ground, and she leans over to give him a peck on the cheek, complimenting him on a "good fight" - she grabs the latest People (and the cash from the register) and flees out of the store.

After a few moments, Scars recovers, shaking himself back to consciousness. A hoverbike glides up, with a Japanese doctor riding on it. He hops off, seeing the fallen Fireman, and starts treating his wounds, restoring him to consciousness. The store's owner, despite the robbery, praises the heroics of Fireman and Scars, and gives him a bottle of aspirin, a 9-volt battery, and a smoke alarm for free. The store owner's praise comes off as nearly backhanded, and Scars is none too happy about how the day is progressing: he almost never gets a headache, he almost never gets knocked out, and he certainly can't remember glazing out in front of a holo-TV watching cartoons while breakfast is burning in the toaster!

So, while Fireman catches a ride with this roving doctor, Scars opts to head out and avoid any special attention of the police. They stop back at the house, where the doctor checks to make sure that Fireman is okay, and notices that there's a rather strange lamp stand inside Scars's house that bears a remarkable similarity to a giant turtle-man wearing a lamp shade over his head.

Meanwhile, the programming on the holo-TV is interrupted by a broadcast of a rampage downtown, as a gigantic cybernetic war machine stomps its way toward the Superior City Shopping Mall - while Ace Reporter Darla Dazzle is on the scene, riding in a news helicopter hovering over the destruction.

Scars rushes out to his garage to get to his car ... only to find that it won't start. When he checks under the hood, he finds several wires missing. The conspicuously asbent Voltage seems like a likely culprit. (His lawnmower seems to have gone missing as well.) So, they all rush (including the "Turtle Ninja Lampstand") out, determined to get to the scene and save the shopping mall. Fireman and Scars take the monorail, while Turtle Ninja Lampstand and the Doctor take the hoverbike. The doctor is a bit bewildered by riding with a mutant turtle-man, and briefly wonders whether or not it's some sort of monster, but there's little time to ponder these things when there's a giant cyborg stomping its way through downtown.

They get to the scene, by their separate ways, in time to see a police barricade get trashed by blasting rays fired by the giant cyborg. The giant cyborg is by no means alone in its rampage: following in its wake is Warlord (a cyborg that our heroes are fairly certain they saw explode back in the sewers), War Mongrel (a bizarre product of genetic engineering and cybernetics), and a big over-muscled mutant. Several superheroes show up to fight off this menace, including Mr. Coffee, Warhawk, Skyhawk, and some stealthy lady with a crossbow, but they take a considerable pounding. Skyhawk is blasted across the "battlefield" by the rampaging collosus, and he lands where Ace Reporter Darla Dazzle has touched down and set up a spot from which to watch (and record) the fight. She rushes in to see if Skyhawk is willing to give an interview. He just groans.

Fireman immediately sees that, across the way, there's a building burning ... and there's a kitten up at the top! (There's also a kid a floor down, too.) Closer by, there's an old woman trapped in the remnant of a mostly collapsed building.

The doctor hops off his hoverbike and rushes into the fray ... only to be targeted by Warlord and Smash. He doesn't last all that long before he's knocked unconscious. Scars has the best time of withstanding a barrage of attacks, as he's capable of surviving a collosal piledrive into the ground - and then simply crawling out of the crater and flinging a burning car as a projectile in response. (He's rather ticked off, however, at getting another pair of shades ruined!)

Fireman and Mr. Coffee manage to rescue the little old lady from the collapsing building, and to get her away from the scene. Fireman rushes over to the burning building, and proceeds to systematically put out the fire with his portable extinguisher pack. Mr. Coffee, meanwhile, manages to weave his way around the collosus to reach the fallen Doctor. He gives the Doctor some very potent coffee, which rouses the Doctor back to consciousness - if not complete health. Mr. Coffee rushes about, providing aid to various fallen heroes, while Turtle Ninja goes straight for the big guy, leaping on top of his back and wailing away with his nunchaku. Unfortunately, he gets the full force of the monster's attacks, and soon slumps, unconscious, from atop the monster's back. He's knocked free, however, when Scars flings a burning police car at the monster ... and he rolls to the ground next to Mr. Coffee. What luck! Mr. Coffee gives him some amazingly refreshing coffee, and Turtle Ninja is back in the fight!

The Doctor makes use of some sort of device belt to change his appearance - as suddenly he's encased in a suit of battle armor! He carries a large sword-like weapon, and occasionally swipes coded cards through a reader on the sword to activate various special powers. One of them proves especially useful: "Magnet", which lets him propel Smash away and into a burning section of the collapsing ruins. Smash pulls himself out of the fire, but the crossbow lady riddles him with bolts until he slumps, unconscious, to the ground. Unfortunately for the Doctor, he keeps taking the brunt of attacks from the remaining brutes, until he's knocked out again, reverting to his unarmored self ... until Mr. Coffee comes to the rescue again, with more potent brew. This time, the Doctor focuses on patching up his fallen comrades, as they retreat to the no-longer-burning building where Fireman is making a stand. The Doctor manages to rescue a kitten, while Fireman rescues a child; both of the rescuees manage to escape the battle, unharmed.

Turtle Ninja works his way around, harrassing the various supporting "thugs" with rains of shuriken, until he's cornered by Darla Dazzle. He manages to squeeze his way out of an interview in the middle of a battle, and then he notices this strange woman who is hovering nearby. She's got purple hair, she's surrounded by ethereal sigils and circles and signs; she's the same woman that Turtle Ninja dreamed of earlier! He rushes up to ask her what's going on. She seems greatly distracted, not even looking at Turtle Ninja, and says something about how she's "containing a breach in the space-time continuum", but she's hardly forthcoming with any details on the matter. In any case, she doesn't seem to be inclined to do much of anything obvious about the destruction caused by the giant cyborg, and Turtle Ninja briefly entertains the notion that she might be somehow responsible for all this. After all, when they got into Colonel Chaos's base before, they heard all about how Madame X was required to control the giant cyborg war machine with her "mental powers". Perhaps this strange woman is a stand-in for Madame X? But all the same, Turtle Ninja doesn't have anything to act on; he can't be so brash as to just tackle her and hope that she's really a supervillain after all ... so he returns to the battle at hand, hoping that it's not a mistake to just leave her there.

Warlord continues to soak damage without showing any sign of weakening. In fact, he just seems to get angrier and stronger as a result! However, he makes a big mistake when he picks up a flaming police car as a weapon. Fireman keeps hosing him back, so that he can't actually throw the car ... until finally the fire atop the car is too far out of control; it explodes. Warlord falls unconscious, with the car falling atop him. Crunch. Meanwhile, Turtle Ninja keeps pestering War Mongrel with shuriken, until he, too, is out of the action.

Fireman keeps training his fire hose now on the collosus. Scars, after flinging as many flaming wrecks at the monster as he could, flees to an open manhole to try to recuperate back to full strength ... but for some reason, he just cannot regenerate from his wounds! Perhaps it's the stress from going toe-to-toe with something as tall as an office building, and tossing a few too many flaming cars around. In any case, Fireman becomes the new target of choice for the monster, while the Doctor and Mr. Coffee work furiously to keep him on his feet. While Fireman keeps blasting away, the Doctor calls out advice on where to focus for the best effect, and eventually it's a stand-off - the Fireman training his hose on the titan, while the titan tries and fails to break away from the blast. Turtle Ninja takes advantage of this to make several well-aimed shots with his shuriken, severing exposed power cables ... and then the giant cyborg creaks, groans, and finally falls over with an earth-shattering thud!

Once it's clear that the fight has ended, Darla Dazzle rushes out to interview the Turtle Ninja ... but he takes off, so she instead focuses on a nearby skateboarder kid who proudly shows his Turtle Ninja skateboard, and insists that he's the Turtle Ninja's Number One Fan....

Scars pulls himself out of the sewer, finally back to full strength after the fight is over. Mr. Coffee declares that his work here is done ... so he goes about, rousing various knocked-out superheroes and offering them (of course) coffee. Our heroes manage to drag themselves away from the scene before the authorities can swarm the area (and before Darla Dazzle can put them on TV).

And then ... they head back to Scars's place. Turtle Ninja cooks supper to avoid the other option: ordering out for pizza. (He's decided that he's had quite enough of pizza for a while.) On the holo-TV, there's nothing at all about all the mayhem that just happened downtown. They at last start to get back to that odd dream they had (and Scars realizes that his headache has finally gone away), and finally they resolve to go check out the location where Turtle Ninja thinks that restaurant was.

So, they head out ... and there's a restaurant there. It features big screen images advertising the new Turtle Ninja adventures. There are banners that feature the smiling faces of the Turtle Ninjas on it.

There's also a strange mime sitting atop a nearby building, pointing and laughing.

Turtle Ninja screams and runs away. Fireman, meanwhile, decides that he's going to go have a talk with that mime about just what's going on here....

Tune in next time, for the continuing adventures of our heroes in ... Superior City!