On board the spaceship prison Astratraz, a breakout is taking place. A group of intelligent puppets have broken free and are rebelling against their captors, just as Amy and Tekno the Canary beam aboard on their next mission. The puppets question the girls' allegiance and their answer seems them engaged in a fight with "woodentops". Unfortunately, there is no exit due to being in space and the girls are soon captured. They are thrown into a cell along with the owners of the ship, leading the aliens to question how they got here. One native explains that the puppets, fitted with intelligence chips in their woodgrain, were to be transported to a prison planet before they took over. During this conversation, Tekno becomes engrossed in a planetary chart and suddenly bangs on the door, voluntee