Jake got overbooked with school, jump rope practice, chores, and dragon training, and therefore was hardly getting any sleep, so Lao Shi gave him a PMA: a Personal Magical Assistant. Later that night Jake's PMA woke him for emergency dragon training in Central Park, where Lao Shi taught him to release hits inner chi energy to create dopplegangers to help in battle and throw off the enemy. The next day Jake was late for school again; jumped during double-dutch virtually asleep; and was too tired to watch Haley – only for things to get worse when his father signed him up for Cougar Scout training.