Upstairs, using a smokescreen created by Venus, Ashton and Raph went to the basement of the lab.
On the first floor, Cori was startled by a sparking electrical wire and jumped backwards. Unfortunately, she bumped right into a dragon. As she turned around, the dragon turned around too.
The dragon took out his sword as it growled.
"Oooo, butt kickin time." said Cori with a smirk. "I love it." she said as she began fighting the dragon.
Downstairs, Ashton and Raph hid behind a large cart as they heard Dr. Rigler and Dr. Quease talking.
"How are we gonna get him?" asked Raph.
Ashton sighed deeply. "I'll be the live bait; u just find a way to capture him when he's not looking."
Raph looked at her. "You sure you wanna do that? Quease is out there too, and you two don't exactly have the best past together."
"I'll be fine; we all gotta face our fears someday." shrugged Ashton.
Raph watched as Ashton stepped out of hiding. "You're a brave girl Ash." he said quietly.
Ashton walked right out in front of Dr. Rigler and Dr. Quease. "Wassup." she said.
They both turned to her.
Dr. Quease gasped. "You!"
Ashton couldn't stop her eyes from narrowing angrily at him. "Yeah, me." She was able to somewhat suppress her nails from extending.
"And who is this?" asked Dr. Rigler.
"The surviving experiment of mine I told you about." said Dr. Quease.
Dr. Rigler looked at her curiously. "Fascinating. She is a rather interesting creature."
"What puzzles me right now is why you're here." said Dr. Quease, looking at Ashton quizzically.
Ashton smiled slyly.
Suddenly, Raph pounced on Dr. Rigler and knocked him down to the floor.
"Guards!" exclaimed Dr. Quease.
Ashton's nails on her hands and feet extended as a small army of dragons came at her.
They saw Ashton, and stopped advancing towards her.
"What are you waiting for? Attack her!" exclaimed Dr. Quease.
The dragons looked at each other, then reluctantly charged at Ashton.
"Haven't you idiots learned yet?" Ashton said. Then she leaped at them and began attacking them ferociously.
Raph was tying the struggling Dr. Rigler up in rope.
"Get off me! I demand to know whats going on!" complained Dr. Rigler.
Raph turned him over momentarily to continue tying him up.
Dr. Rigler saw Raph and his eyes widened in surprise. "Y, you're a mutant Turtle."
"No, really?" asked Raph sarcastically. He then turned Dr. Rigler over again, somewhat roughly, and continued tying him up.
Ashton had beaten all the dragons, and they were lying on the ground bleeding. She looked over at Raph, who had Dr. Rigler completely tied up and gagged.
"Mission accomplished." said Raph as he held up the squirming Dr. Rigler.
"Great then; time to go." said Ashton.
An explosion upstairs shook the basement.
"Okay, its definitely time to go." said Raph.
"Not so fast." said a voice behind Ashton.
Ashton turned around and came face to face with Dragon Lord. She turned to run, but Dragon Lord quickly grabbed her by the throat and pulled her back towards him.
"No!" exclaimed Raph.
Dragon Lord lifted Ashton up by her neck; choking her. "I can't seem to get rid of you with hired help, so I'll have to destroy you myself."
Raph stood there confused at what to do.
Ashton gasped for air. "GO!" she shouted to Raph.
"But . . ."
"Go (cough) now!" exclaimed Ashton.
Raph could tell that by the look on Ashton's face, she meant business. Grabbing Dr. Rigler, he reluctantly left the basement.
Wick stood by grinning. "Choke her, choke her to death majesty!"
"I must thank Quease for alerting me to the fact that you were here, cat." said Dragon Lord, squeezing Ashton's throat tighter and tighter.
Her face was turning red and no matter what movement she made, she couldn't free herself from Dragon Lord's grasp. She scraped at his hands, but left no more than minor scratches as marks.
Upstairs, Raph was carrying Dr. Rigler along on his shoulder.
"You got him? Excellent!" said Donny.
Rita just then shrieked as a dragon began charging at her. She then quickly grabbed a fallen pipe and whacked the dragon over the head with it.
Donny looked surprised as the dragon fainted. "Good going hon."
Rita smiled weakly.
"Where's Ashton?" asked Donny.
"Dragon Lord got her." said Raph. "We gotta help; he's gonna kill her." he said worriedly.
Just then, several more loud explosions sounded as the lab caught on fire once again and pieces of plaster and wall began falling.
"We gotta get outta here!" exclaimed Mikey as he, Shelly and Cori ran by.
"But Ashton!" said Raph. "She told me to go but I can't just leave her there!"
"Where?!" asked Cori over the noise of the explosions.
Technicians ran by in a panic without so much as even stopping to notice the mutants conversing in the hallway.
"This place is gonna blow!" exclaimed one of them as he ran out.
"We have to go!" said Leo and he and Venus ran by.
"I can't leave Ashton there!" said Raph.
Just then, a figure whizzed by them.
"What was that?" asked Leo.
"Something just as quick as Ashton . . ." said Donny. Then he thought for a moment. "No way." he said in disbelief.
Downstairs in the basement, Ashton was blacking out because of the lack of oxygen.
"Goodbye, cat." said Dragon Lord, smiling gleefully.
Just then, Dragon Lord was knocked in the face, stomach, and behind the knees rapidly and harshly, so that he fell down. In the process, he let go of Ashton, who collapsed on the floor; too weak to start gasping for air.
"What the . . ."
Dragon Lord looked up to see Schiam standing there. "You!"
"Yeah, me." said Schiam, with a strange, angry reddish glow in his eyes.
"What are you doing here?!" exclaimed Dragon Lord angrily as he got up.
"Revenge." said Schiam angrily. "We had a deal, you were to leave my dimension alone if I was to destroy her for you. I went back to find that a dragon sect had taken over."
"You went back on the deal; I had every right to!" said Dragon Lord.
"They were there even before I had went back on the deal." said Schiam. He arched his back in preparation to attack Dragon Lord again.
"This place is gonna blow!" screamed a technician as she ran upstairs with a few others.
"The auxiliary machine is unstable! Get out of here!" exclaimed another as he ran up the stairs to exit the lab.
Schiam looked towards the back of the basement lab and heard the machine falling apart.
Wick and Dr. Quease began running out of the building.
Dragon Lord, noticing Schiam's distraction, pushed him out of the way.
Schiam slammed into a glass window pane, breaking the glass as he fell backwards into the experiment room.
Dragon Lord then went over to Ashton who was just regaining strength, took out his sword, and was about to kill her. Schiam quickly grabbed the sword, threw it down, then grabbed Ashton, and quickly exited the building.
"NO!!" bellowed Dragon Lord angrily. Then hearing explosions from the machine, began leaving as well.
From the outside, the lab was seen burning.
Suddenly, a rumble from within shook the building and surrounding areas, and a humongous explosion caused the lab to break into millions of small pieces of flying debris.
From across the lab on the field, the Turtles watched the spectacular show of fire and flying debris.
"Like, whooaaa." said Shelly in awe.
Raph looked up at the building, scared that Ashton was still in there.
Dr. Rigler complained loudly through his gag.
"Shutup." said Cori as she kicked the scientist.
They all stood there for the longest time, staring at the burning pile of rubble that was once a laboratory.
"Ashton." Raph muttered silently.
"She's fine." said a voice.
Everyone turned to the side to see Schiam put Ashton on the ground near the Turtles.
"You!" exclaimed Raph.
"Everyone's favorite phrase when they see me I see." said Schiam. "Yeah, its me."
Ashton rolled over on the ground and began coughing and gasping for air.
Raph rushed over to her. "You're alive!" he said hugging her.
"Ye, yeah (cough), but can I please have some air?" Ashton said in a hoarse whisper.
"Oh sure, sure, sorry." said Raph as he let go of her. Then he looked over at Schiam. "You saved her. Why?"
"Don't get all mushy about it; I didn't do it for her, I did it for me. That dragon had his dragons take over my home when I wasn't there, so I wanted revenge. What better way than to stop him from his goal?" he gestured towards Ashton. "Destroying her."
"Thanks." said Ashton.
Schiam glanced at her. "Yeah, whatever."
"Wait, so that means you don't got a home anymore?" said Cori.
"Oh yes I do; I just have to get rid of the riff raff; won't be too hard. I've got allies." said Schiam. "I'm going now; I think I've made that dragon guy mad enough."
"Bye Schiam." said Ashton.
Schiam looked back at her for a moment, then turned away and sped off to his home.
"Its over now right? I mean, we destroyed it all, its in fragments now. We got the scientist dude; we can go home now right?" asked Cori.
"Yeah, we can go back now." said Donny.
The Turtles and Ashton then turned away from the scene, and began walking back towards the train station.
