65 million years ago, four humanoid "penguin-like" beings — intergalactic detectives from a species known as the Bandarans — were in hot pursuit of the vile Slyme Lord, leader of the criminal syndicate S.L.I.M.E.

Both starships crashed into Antarctica. The detectives were critically injured. Emergency medical droids rebuilt them — 60% flesh, 40% cybernetic exoskeleton — and placed them in frozen preservation for millennia.

Now, as ice sheets melt and the ships come online, a 14-year-old genius named Jason "Topnotch" Larson and his uncle make the discovery that changes everything.