Once the Turtles and Ashton got upstairs, they split up into different corridors.

Shelly and Venus went down one hallway and into the first room they came to.

In that room, there were huge holding tanks filled with ooze.

"Like, whoa." said Shelly as he looked up at the large tanks.

"This is a very important room." said Venus as she began using the mapping device. She looked at it with a quizzical expression, then turned to Shelly. "What was this button for again?" she asked as she pointed to a red button.

Shelly looked at the machine and stared at it for a while. "Oh! That's like, the button you use when the room is like, important or whatever." she said. "Mikey showed me." she grinned.

Venus chuckled a bit at Shelly's happy grin, then used the machine.

The group was there for a while, dodging various lab technicians as they mapped out the rather complex laboratory.

At one point, Ashton came to a room filled with nothing but cages and wooden crates. She growled lowly. "I hate cages."
Just then, she heard someone coming, and hid behind a large crate.

A lab technician came in, and began wheeling out a tall, very thick-barred cage. He had goggles sitting on his forehead, as if he used them recently, and there were blood stains on his white lab coat.

Ashton watched him curiously as he left the room. She then glanced around, saw no ooze, and left the room, silently pursuing the technician down the hallway. She followed him all the way to a large metal door where the technician used a card to slip into a slot next to the door. The door slid open upwards, and the technician walked in, still wheeling the large cage.

As the door began closing, Ashton quietly slipped in behind the technician. She stood silently and hid in the shadows near the door while the technician traveled down the long hallway. She looked at the door after it closed, wondering how she'd get back out, but decided to worry about that later. She silently pursued the technician down the hallway, and down a flight of stairs.

Downstairs, the technician turned and went into a room. Ashton was about to follow, but stopped herself. The smell of blood was even stronger, she heard strange machines, and a lot of activity. She walked alongside of the room where the technician went in. There was a large window that ran alongside the entire room, which was in fact an experimenting room. There were long metal tables, some with people strapped down to them. There were lab technicians carting the seemingly tranquilized people around in cages. Ashton watched as they injected ooze into some people, and took blood samples from others. Then she noticed a table with vials of blood all over it. A man, looking older than any of the others, stood there looking at one vial.

"Dr. Rigler; the subject on table 5 is ready for the injection." Ashton overheard a lab technician say to him.

"Very good." said Dr. Rigler, the scientist. He then gave the lab technician a needle filled with ooze. "Give him the entire thing."

The lab technician nodded and walked off.

Ashton heard a man screaming. "My eyes! My eyes!" She began to feel panicked, and remembered when she was in the lab when she was younger; all the noise and anguish she heard; all the white lab coats . . .

She suddenly turned from the scene and ran up the stairs, and to the door that slid upwards. Ashton stared at the keypad next to the door. She began pressing all the buttons in a panic. A siren went off, and she held her ears tightly. Then the door opened, and Ashton ran out.

As she ran, she passed by Donny and Leo. "Run! We gotta leave now!" shouted Ashton.

Donny and Leo looked puzzled, but decided to listen to Ashton and run.

Hearing the siren, everyone else ran out of the laboratory, and into the manhole in the basement. Soon, they were all outside going back to the train station.

Raph looked around at everyone, and noticed that Ashton wasn't walking with them. He then turned around and saw her standing in the grassy field looking numb.

"Yo, wait up, Ashton's not walkin with us." said Raph.

Everyone stopped and turned around.

"What's wrong kiddo?" asked Raph as he walked over to Ashton.

Ashton could hear Raph's voice, and she wanted to respond, but she just felt numb. Flashes of the laboratory ran through her mind. Flashbacks of the time when she was living in the laboratory in Chile mixed in with the lab memories of tonight.

Just then, she felt Raph's hand on her shoulder, and snapped out of her flashback trance. She looked up to see Raph, and everyone else standing there, looking at her.

"Are you all right?" asked Rita.

Ashton sighed heavily. "You wouldn't believe what I saw tonight; it was awful."

"Was whatever you're gonna tell us the reason that siren went off?" asked Leo.

"Yeah, pretty much." Ashton sighed deeply once again. "They're doing experiments on people with the ooze. I don't know why, but they just are. I saw that T.G.R.I. scientist too; him and his lab technicians. They're testing blood and everything. I ran and to get out I had to press these buttons on this keypad near a door; I think that's what set the alarm off." she said. "People are in cages; its just like what happened back in the lab in Chile; I thought I would never have to see those people in their #@%* white lab coats again." she said angrily.

"Whoa Ashton, Master wouldn't be happy if you start using language like that." said Mikey.

"Sorry." said Ashton. Then she began walking. "You try living in a lab; all you wanna do is forget those memories, not relive them."

The others looked at each other for a moment, then began walking with Ashton.

As the Turtles and Ashton headed to the train station, a figure stepped out of the nearby bushes. All you could see at first was its glowing red eyes, then as it stepped out into the dim moonlight, the figure revealed itself to be Schiam. He stared after the Turtles and Ashton as they walked back to the train station. He thought long and hard as they walked off. Then he turned away and began walking towards another train station in the opposite direction.