The next day, Donny spent the day making certain things to observe and record any information about Dragon Lord's plans. Rita helped him out with the gadgets.

Leo came by the lab and looked at some of the gadgets.

"Geez Donny, are you sure we need all of these things just for observing the dragons?" asked Leo as he perused the objects.

"Don't touch that!" said Rita as she pushed his hand away from a certain object. "Its refragmenting, you could disturb the process." she said, gently setting the object down.

Leo looked at her funny. "I'll let you two get back to your work." he then began leaving. "Remember Donny, we gotta leave when it gets dark; I hope you're done with that, stuff, by then."

"Uh huh." said Donny as he attached something to an object.

In a room designated as the dojo, Master Splinter was training Ashton.

Ashton let out a frustrated growl. "I can't do it!" she complained.

"You must concentrate harder. Push aside your anger, your fear, your very emotions. You must become focused." coached Splinter. "Remember how I taught you to push aside the anger you felt inside. Push it aside, harder. Concentrate on your goal, not the reason for your goal."

Ashton took a deep breath, and let it out. She then stood poised and ready. "Okay, let's try this again."

Splinter then charged at her with his stick spinning in various unpredictable directions.

Ashton watched it carefully. She hit it every time it changed direction, and as soon as it got too close, she leaped out of the way, and landed behind Splinter. She positioned her hands to push him down, but didn't, as this was only practice.

Splinter turned around and nodded. "Very good."

Ashton took a deep breath and let it out with a small smile on her face.

Later on that evening, Donny and Leo prepared to leave the lair to go spying on Dragon Lord.

"Are you sure this is a good idea? I mean, you can't just place some cameras in some strategic locations and that's it?" asked Rita as she watched them get themselves ready.

Leo secured his katanna in his belt. "If we left cameras all over the place they'd eventually find them and we'd be back to square one."

"Besides," said Donny as he picked up a small machine. "It gives us a chance to check out the layout of D.L.'s structure."

"I still don't like the idea." said Rita as she set a certain device. Then she sighed heavily and gave it to Donny. "But I guess its what you have to do."

Donny took the device from Rita and looked at it. "Nice communicator you rigged."

"Thanks." Rita smiled half-heartedly.

"Be careful." Venus said worriedly.

Leo looked over at her and nodded with a smile.

Venus smiled somewhat nervously.

"Look out for that snake guy." said Ashton.

"I'll be keeping in contact with you over the communicator, and watching you with the 'eye-in-the-sky'. I'll let you know if anything awry pops up that you need to know about." said Rita.

"Great." said Donny.

"Seems like we're all set. Let's go." said Leo.

Donny and Leo, with communicators and another small device, left the lair.

Rita quickly went to computer.

Ashton watched them leave, then went and joined Rita by the computer.

Raph, Mikey, Shelly, and Cori sat around, waiting to see if anything happened.

Outside of the lair, Donny and Leo soon reached the Dragon Lord's fortress and crept inside.

"Well one thing we've got going for us, it's a lot less complex than his fortress in New York." said Leo.

"True." said Donny. Then he opened a vent. "Come on."

The two then crawled into the ventilation system and made their way about the structure, listening to various conversations throughout the fortress.

Later on, Donny and Leo came back, seemingly confused.

"What did you find out?" asked Rita.

"I don't know really." said Leo as he sat down on the couch.

"Bits and pieces of a puzzle is more like it." said Donny.

"They're planning on invading some sort of building on the outskirts of L.A. When? We don't know. Why? We don't know. We just know the 'how' right now." said Leo.

"Anything about Schiam?" asked Ashton.

"Nothing more than Dragon Lord finds him annoying." said Donny.

"Hmm." Ashton then walked off.

"I saved you both some food from dinner." said Rita. "It's still on the stove if you want."

"Thanks Rita." said Donny.

"No prob."

Pidgina came out of her room, some feathers falling from her. "You're back! My goodness I thought you'd never return."

"Pidgina, you're like, losing feathers." said Shelly.

Pidgina looked down. "Good heavens! I'm molting!"

"But its not even the season for that." said Rita.

"This stress, oh! I can't take it." said Pidgina. "I need some tea. Splinter, do you want some tea?"

"Yes please." said Splinter.

"Yes, tea, tea will do it." said Pidgina as she made her way to the kitchen.

Donny and Leo went to eat dinner.

Mikey and Raph sat in the front of the television.

"I'm like, going to bed. G'night all." said Shelly.

"Night cutie." said Mikey.

Shelly smiled and winked at Mikey, then went into her room.

"You two are weird ya know that?" said Cori.

Raph and Mikey turned to her.

"You're sittin here watchin the tube when you're worst enemies are out there plannin somethin big." said Cori.

"Well its not like we can do anything. We've gotta wait and see." said Mikey.

"Or we could go out and kick their collective tushes before they get any further in their plans." said Raph.

Cori gave him a look. "I think I like Mikey's plan betta." She then got up. "I'm goin to my room. Come get ur weapon thingy before you get to bed, otherwise I might throw 'em away."

"You won't if you know what's good for ya." said Raph.

"Yeah, uh huh, whateva."

"What's your sai doing in Cori's room?" asked Mikey.

Raph mumbled something incoherently.

"What?"

"She took 'em durin sparring today, now watch TV." said Raph.

Mikey decided not to pry deeper into what happened, so he turned his attention back to the television.