Doctor William Magnus' latest invention is a dimension monitor that allows him to look into parallel worlds. Tragically, the first time Magnus uses the dimension monitor, it explodes, killing him. Working from Magnus' blueprints, the Metal Men repair the dimension monitor, and use it to open a doorway into another world. Their desperate hope is that some method of reviving Magnus can be found. Stepping through the dimensional portal, the Metal Men find themselves immediately altered. Gold has become Copper, and also mute. Mercury is now green, and brittle. Lead is shiny, and lighter than air. Iron is soft and flexible. Tin and Nameless have become strong and durable. Platinum has become combustable. With Gold unable to speak, Mercury takes over the leadership position of the Metal Men.
A sudden meteorite shower threatens the team. Iron's attempt to shield the team fails, but Tin and Nameless are up to the task. A strong wind gust propels Lead into the air, but Gold is quick to lasso him. Platinum begins to spark as she steps into a puddle of burning rain. Iron is quick to provide her safe passage over the pools of fiery liquid. The Metal Men eventually encounter signs of civilization. Within an alien palace, Mercury explains to the king why they have come. Magnus is looked over by the royal doctor. Gold finds that he can telepathically "hear" what the doctor says to the king. They have no method of bringing the dead back to life. The King, however, lies to Mercury. He will revive Magnus, but only if the Metal Men complete three tasks. Gold attempts to get Mercury to refuse, but Mercury ignores Gold, believing that he's trying to retake command.
Their first task is to destroy the Mechan Monster, an immense machine menace, terrorizing the land. Upon engaging the metal horror, the Metal Men are immediately steamrolled underneath it. Having sustained no real damage, Mercury orders the team to alloy together, to present a unified front. This tactic fails, and the Metal Men are torn asunder from one another. Lead fashions himself into a mirror, and uses the reflected rays of the sun to melt off one of the Mechan Monster's appendages. Tin and Nameless combine themselves into a battering ram, and begin pounding the creature. Finally, Gold molds himself into a lightning rod, and draws down millions of volts of electricity from the sky. The Mechan Monster is destroyed. The Metal Men deliver it's shattered body to the alien King, then depart on their second task.
Gold tries to scrawl a message in the sand to warn the team of the King's treachery. Mercury again dismisses Gold's attempts at communication, as a bid to retake the leadership position on the team. The team follow a map, through the alien wilderness, in search of a lost treasure. Several times, along the way, the Metal Men's new properties come in handy in staying the course. Finally, at the end of a rainbow bridge, Tin begins digging for the lost treasure. After several minutes, though, he finds nothing. Gold draws an axe into the ground. Tin fashions himself into an axe, and cuts down the one tree growing near the excavation site. As Tin digs into the tree's bark, the treasure chest falls from it's limbs. The tree's roots had grown around the treasure chest, and carried it up out of the ground, as the tree grew.
The chest turns out to contain clay bricks. Worthless on Earth, but exceedingly rare on the alien world. The Metal Men depart on the final task, to cross the Maze of Madness, and recover the King's daughter. The team is completely overwhelmed by the mirrored walls of the maze. Gold, though, closes his eyes, so as not to be confused by the mirrored reflections, and gropes his way through to the exit, spinning himself out into copper wire, as he goes. The Metal Men follow the wire out of the maze. A discarded perfume bottle leads Platinum into a garden where they find the King's daughter, in the arms of a lover. It seems the daughter's disappearance was no accident. Nonetheless, the Metal Men return her to her father. With the tasks completed, the King is forced to admit to his deception. There is nothing his people can do for Magnus.
Platinum breaks down into huge, heaving sobs. Her fiery tears intermingle with the perfume in the bottle, creating a chemical chain reaction. As she plants one last kiss on the lips of her lost love, Magnus is suddenly brought back to life. The Metal Men are content with believing the fairy tale like notion that Platinum's love brought Magnus back to life. Only Gold noticed the chemical reaction taking place, and knows it was the fumes from the perfume bottle that revived Magnus. Back on Earth, the Metal Men return to their normal selves. Platinum dabs the perfume on her body, in the hopes of enticing Magnus with her scent. To her dismay, the perfume's scent on Earth is not at all desirable.
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