Professor Jacob Theremin's laboratory was a frantic mess of noise and steam.  Boilers shook nearly to the point of breaking, and the hissing whistle of air through pipes and valves obscured speech.  The good professor was trying to shout instructions to his daughter Carrie, as they struggled to bring the Dynamic Rotary Excavator online.  Steam was flying, pipes were rattling, and the goggles?  They do nothing.<br/><br/>"Carrie, secondary valves!"  The young daughter of the brilliant professor, a brilliant steam engineer herself, spun the valves open, unleashing more power into the device.  Suddenly, the lab was rocked by an exploding boiler, unable to handle the pressure.  Equally suddenly, the Excavator began to move.  Rather than excavate, however, it began to collapse, and a strange portal opened.  Before Carrie could react, she was sucked into it.  She could barely hear her father screaming after her as the portal closed.<br/><br/>-----<br/><br/>"Surrender or we will open fire!"  The full force of the Imperial Navy was being brought to bear against the lone pirate vessel.  Space Pirate Amazon Ninja Catgirl Yuki-Yuki, captain of said vessel, was desperately trying to outrun or outmaneuver her pursuers.  And all because she turned ONE governor's wife to lesbianism!  Hadn't they ever heard of marriages of convenience, closet homosexuality, anything like that?<br/><br/>As the ship wove through space, trying to evade the law, alarm klaxons began to ring.  "Cap'n!  Sensors report a strange anom-"  Before the pirate crewcatgirl could finish, a portal suddenly opened up on the bridge, and the forward motion of the ship pushed Captain Yuki-Yuki through it before it closed.<br/><br/>-----<br/><br/>The sexy secret agent stood before the evil mastermind.  She had been stripped of her weapons by the mooks who captured her, but the overconfidence of her captor led to her standing unrestrained before him.  "How good of you to 'drop in'.  You've been quite a thorn in my side for too long, and your organization is doomed."  The evil mastermind, Blojob, smiled smugly.<br/><br/>The blonde agent was defiant to the end.  "Do you expect me to talk?"  "No, Miss Bondage, I expect you to die."  The trap door opened noiselessly, right underneath the college-aged secret agent.  Rather than leading to a bottomless pit or spiked floor, however, the sudden appearance of a portal in the trapdoor shaft meant that Secret Agent Jamie Bondage fell someplace quite different.<br/><br/>-----<br/><br/>The sudden appearance of a portal inside the military base went unnoticed, as it was quite abandoned.  Abandoned, at least, right up until three very odd characters dropped through the portal and into the barracks.  Good thing they all happened to speak English!