Rita gathered everyone in her new laboratory where she and Donny set up a simple, but detailed presentation on what the plans would be.

"Okay everyone, here's what Donny and I came up with." said Rita as she displayed a large sheet on the board.

"Do we like, have to take notes?" asked Shelly.

"No Shel, its not school." said Rita.

"Oh ok like, cool."

"Anyway, as I was saying these are the proposed plans." said Rita. She pointed at the board with a stick. "Dragon Lord is going after this laboratory, to get the ooze. We have to stop him from doing this, and the best way is, to not have any ooze waiting there for him."

"Come again?" asked a slightly confused Mikey.

"We have to destroy the ooze." said Donny. "On the first mission, we sneak into the lab, map out the place to a certain extent, especially where ooze ingredients, and holding areas are."

"Then on our second mission, we single in on the areas with the most ooze, destroying it with explosives. Then, we blow up any ingredients and other holding areas we can find." said Rita.

"What about that scientist?" asked Cori.

"Well, since he's technically not supposed to be making this ooze, the government would love to get their hands on him." said Donny.

"And we're supposed to get the government to him by . . ."

"Good point Leo." said Rita. "We just call the police and tell them where they can find a criminal. I'll rig a cell phone we can use or something."

"Good ideas." said Ashton. "But I have a question."

"Okay." said Rita.

"What are we gonna do about Schiam?" asked Ashton.

"That's easy." said Master Splinter.

Ashton turned to him. "Train harder."

Ashton sighed deeply.

"Well, if there aren't any more questions, we've gotta get to work finishing these mapping machines." said Donny as Rita put away the presentation materials.

"So what do we do now?" asked Venus.

"Well, while Rita and I tune up the mapping machines, the rest of you can train, and prepare weapons." said Donny.

"Since when did you start calling the shots?" asked Leo.

Donny looked at him.

"Oh come off your high horse Leo. We're a team, whoever has the know-how can call the shots. And Donny's no exception." said Rita.

"Yeah, you don't always have to be the 'Fearless Leader'." said Raph.

"Raph, you know I hate that nickname." growled Leo.

"I know." grinned Raph.

Cori sighed deeply.

Everyone soon left the lab, except for Rita and Donny, who continued tuning up their mapping machines.

Later on that night, Cori and Raph were up with Ashton as they all prepared some weapons. Ashton glanced over at Cori and Raph laughing and talking together. She then looked down at her work. She could contain it no more. She slammed down her work and stormed out of the lair.

"Whoa, what's up with her?" Cori asked.

"I don't know." said Raph, then he put down his work. "But I'm about to find out."

Raph followed Ashton out of the lair, and down some corridors. "Ash, hey Ash, wait a second."

Ashton stopped walking after a while.

Raph came up to her.

Ashton turned around.

Raph looked into her angry eyes. "What's wrong kid?"

"I'm surprised you noticed something was wrong, especially with your girlfriend over there." she hissed bitterly.

"Whoa, whoa. I think I smell some jealousy here. What's all the hating about?"

Ashton sighed deeply, and looked away from Raph. "I'm not hating. I don't hate Cori, I think she's cool. I just miss . . . . you don't hang out with me anymore. Ever since you met Cori, I've been chopped liver. I probably would've never met the assassin if someone had been paying attention to me that night."

Raph looked surprised. "I've been neglectin ya?"

Ashton nodded slightly.

"Gee kid, I'm sorry. It's just that . . . "

"It's just that you met another female Turtle who's almost just like you, you really like her, and fell in love. I'm happy for you Raph, really." Ashton sighed. "I dunno, maybe I'm just takin it too seriously."

"Nah, you're right." said Raph. "I mean, Donny's got Rita, Mikey's got Shelly, Leo's got Venus, Splinter can chill with Pidgina, and I've got Cori. I guess I forgot that, all you got is a new enemy."

"Basically." said Ashton.

"I'm sorry kiddo, I didn't know this bothered ya so much. I guess I shoulda paid more attention to you."

Ashton nodded. "I don't mind you spendin time with Cori, I know you like her and all. But sometimes, I need a little attention too."

"True, true. I'll pay more attention to ya. Hey, maybe sometimes all three of us, ya know you, me, and Cori can chill together."

Ashton smiled slightly. "I think I'd like that."

Cori peeked her head around the corner of the corridor where Raph and Ashton were. "Am I intruding??"

"Nah, come on." said Ashton, gesturing for Cori to join them.

Cori walked over to them. "So what was the deal??"

"I've been neglecting Ashton a bit. We were best friends back in NY, I haven't been paying much attention to her since we got out to LA."

"Ohhh . . . I think I get it." said Cori. She turned to Ashton. "Sorry 'bout that."

"Its ok." said Ashton. "Just don't make a habit of it."

Cori chuckled. "Okay."

"We betta get back to makin those weapons; we're gonna need 'em soon." said Raph. "Why don't you join us where we were makin weapons?"

"Yeah, we were even talkin about you." said Cori as they walked back to the lair.

"Me??"

"Yeah, Raph was tellin me about some chair incident." said Cori.

Ashton covered her face and started laughing. "Oh no, not the chair incident!"

Raph put an arm around Ashton. "Oh yeah, the chair incident. I remember it like it was yesterday, Mikey was playing another one of his pranks with Donny's glue gun, and Ashton happened to sit on the wrong chair at the wrong time . . . ."

Raph relayed the humorous story to Cori, as Ashton bashfully covered her face and laughed, on their way back to the lair.