Title: ATM and the ARK Angels of DX: Aftershock
Author: Kaykyaka
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the WWE and TNA characters used within this fictional story. No copyright infringement is intended and no money is being made by this work of fiction.
Ratings: K+
Characters: Shawn, Cameron, Rebecca and Cheyenne Michaels, Amy 'Lita' Dumas Michaels, Hunter Hurst Helmsley, LC Helmsley, Aurora Rose Helmsley, Chyna Helmsley, Trish, Randy and Randy Orton Jr, Melina, Johnny and Romeo Hennigan, Jeff, Stephanie and Elizabeth Hardy, Angelo and Angela Jericho, Vince McMahon, Kevin and Tristen Nash, Marion Cena, the Undertaker, Garrett Calloway, Batista, CM Punk, Kofi Kingston, Dolph Ziggler, Brie and Justin Danner, Alannah Pirelli and Charlotte, Dan and Carla McCool.
Summary: After the trial Jericho is loose and the Undertaker visits DX and tells them a dark secret about his son that puts Stephanie on edge. Meanwhile Rebecca Michelle is worried Cheyenne is going to do something stupid behind Shawn's back with Tristen Nash.
Chapter One – You are now leaving Flair Country
General Hospital, Charlotte, NC, January 2nd 2022
Dr. Daniel Johnson checked the chart of his patient and couldn't help but strut back and forth as he read it.
"Wooo!" He said reading through the Nature Boy Ric Flair's chart and the nurse rolled her eyes.
"He should be out for about an hour and a half," she said before exiting the room.
"Thanks Betty," Dr. Johnson said impersonating Ric Flair which prompted Betty to make her exit even swifter. Daniel shrugged and waited for the other attending staff to arrive.
"God willing I'm gonna make you feel a whole lot better Ric," he said. Ric Flair was having a surgical procedure done on his heart after his wife insisted his heart wasn't just burning with his love for her. She was right as he had some complications that needed to be corrected immediately. Like everyone else close to them Ric Flair was concerned about the DX trial and like everyone else he was glad it was over but the stress of maybe losing Shawn and Hunter had been in part responsible for his heart condition. DX had Ric promise them that he would go in for a checkup and let God take care of Jericho and as usual he did as he was told, it was like they were the parents and he was the child but he didn't mind, they were usually right about most things where he was concerned. It was a real drag that he had to spend his New Years in North Carolina while everyone was on their way to Jamaica, little did Flair know that not everyone was in Jamaica ringing in the New Year with DX. As he was anaesthetized he was about to be visited by an incredibly unpopular person.
"Betty what happened to the lights?" Dr. Johnson said putting down his instruments and going after the nurse. The light in Ric Flair's hospital room had suddenly gone out. The door slammed shut behind the doctor and he couldn't get back in. The air was thick with evil, Jericho was in the room and he brought his infected intentions with him looking at Ric Flair, passed out and vulnerable, just the way he liked people to be before he attacked them. The same way he had found little Jeremy Dean in New York City last year in his hospital bed, the same way he had left Hunter when he took his life outside his home in Greenwich, Connecticut while Chyna and Shawn cried for him to wake up. On both occasions he had brought chaos and disorder to loving families and he was about to do it again.
I always wanted to be a two-time Hall of Famer Jericho said to himself as he was about to possess the body of the 16-time World Champion.
You'll never be Ric Flair a familiar voice replied and Jericho retreated from Flair's body on hearing it.
Who said that? He said and Jeff Hardy crashed through the window of Ric Flair's hospital room carrying a little teenage girl on his back with long curly red hair and deep blue-grey eyes. Oh no it's you Jericho said.
"That's right now get out of here!" Rebecca Michelle said with so much power and authority that Jericho was forced to flee through the open window.
I'll be back Jeff! He shrieked and Jeff Hardy froze the air outside the window so Jericho couldn't move.
"No you're not going anywhere!" he said jumping out of the window into the sky.
Outside Flair's hospital room staff was still trying to figure out what was going on with the lights in Flair's room.
"Maybe we should move him to another room, there's obviously something wrong that we can't wait around to have fixed," Betty said to Dr. Johnson.
"Okay let's move him now so we can get him back to home to his wife for recuperation," Dr. Johnson said and he nearly bumped into two women who were suddenly standing in front of him. "Do you ladies need a doctor?" he asked them.
"No we're not here to see a doctor," Stephanie McMahon replied, the other woman was Aurora Rose.
"We're here to make sure nobody gets hurt," Aurora Rose said.
"Hurt, what are you guys talking about?" Betty asked them both.
"Ric Flair is the patient you're treating isn't he?" Stephanie asked Dr. Johnson.
"Yes he is but we have to move him there's something wrong with the lights in his room," Dr. Johnson said.
"There's nothing wrong with the lights," Aurora Rose said. "There's something in that room that your medical training does not give you the skills to deal with,"
Dr. Johnson and Betty exchanged glances and Aurora continued, "But don't worry, we're here to help," she said.
"What are you talking about?" Betty asked Aurora and Stephanie.
"In ten minutes the lights in Ric Flair's room are going to come back on. Once they do you can go back inside and perform the surgery on his heart," Stephanie said.
"What's gonna happen in ten minutes?" Dr. Johnson asked Stephanie.
"Doc, that's something you don't need to worry about. You do your job and we'll do ours, let's go Ro," Stephanie said to her daughter and they left the hospital to join Jeff and Rebecca Michelle in the air with a frozen demon.
"Okay I've got him, what did Trish and Randy say we should do with him?" Jeff asked Stephanie.
"The Ortons said we should send him to Antarctica and bury him deep beneath the ice," Stephanie replied.
"The Ortons also said you were supposed to Transcend to Jamaica with Beth, you're not supposed to be here Aunt Stephanie," Rebecca Michelle said.
"How could I not be here Remi? Jericho's about to be put out of our lives forever, I have to be here for this moment," Stephanie said.
"Aunt Steph don't be a disobedient fool," Rebecca Michelle said. "Why on Earth would you think that it would be a good idea for your deadly deranged husband to see you here with Jeff Hardy and Aurora Rose at the same-time when for the last few weeks you've been trashing them both and telling him how much you hate them?"
"Oops," Stephanie said. "I guess I better go, you guys can take care of this can't you?"
The sky turned dark as the cold air continued to freeze around them. Jeff controlled the water in the sky to lock Jericho in tight so that he didn't escape. Suddenly his spirit began to shift back and forth violently and he screamed out.
"STEPHANIE, YOU HAVE BETRAYED ME!"
"Too late he's seen you," Rebecca Michelle said. "Let's get out of here Uncle Jeff,"
"Mom you might as-well come with," Aurora said and Stephanie and her daughter flew with Jeff and Rebecca Michelle to Antarctica carrying the resisting Jericho with them locked in a box of ice.
It wasn't long before they were there as their Gift from God allowed them to fly at incredible speed. The closer to the icebergs of Antarctica they got the more Jericho resisted them. An iceberg that was five times bigger than the others caught Stephanie's eye and she smiled.
"How about that one Jeff?" she said to her husband and Jeff headed towards the massive iceberg.
"That'll do nicely," he said. "Okay I'm gonna melt this iceberg a little and throw Jericho into it and then I'm gonna freeze it around him,"
"Well do it quickly, now that he's seen you and Aunt Stephanie together he's more determined to get out of here than ever before," Rebecca Michelle said.
As the iceberg melted down Jeff cast Jericho into it and quickly froze it over. As he did so Jericho screamed and Jeff had to freeze the iceberg over and over again to keep him quiet.
"YOU BETRAYED ME STEPHANIE, I'LL GET YOU FOR THIS. I WILL MAKE YOU PAY!" Jericho shrieked.
"Oh shut up Jericho," Jeff said and he forced another iceberg over onto the one he had frozen Jericho in locking him in so much ice it was impossible to hear him.
"What do you think he meant by that?" Stephanie asked Jeff.
"Let's get out of here Steph, there's only one family I know who can help us out with this one," Jeff said and he flew with his wife and the girls to Jamaica.
"Aurora come on let's go," Stephanie called to her daughter who wasn't moving with them. Stephanie grabbed her arm, "Aurora are you okay?"
Aurora snatched her arm back, "Don't touch me!" she snapped and Stephanie looked down sadly.
"You're still mad at me for what happened in Long Island," she said and Jeff flew over to them.
"Guys we cannot do this here, let's go to Jamaica and talk about this," Jeff said but Aurora shook her head.
"I don't want to hang out with you like some big happy family, I wanna go to see Steven," she said.
"No Aurora you have to come to Jamaica with us, at least to see your father," Rebecca Michelle said. "Can we get out of here now this place is giving me the creeps,"
"Come on Ro-Ro you haven't seen Hunter since we left L.A, please come with us," Jeff said and Aurora relented.
"Okay, I'll come," she said and Jeff took her hand and they flew together while Stephanie trailed behind them with her head down. She began to cry and for a moment she thought about Jericho but Rebecca Michelle hollered at her before she turned around to look at him buried deep in the ice.
"Aunt Steph don't look back at him!" she cried and Stephanie snapped out of it and flew with them to the warm island sun-soaked island of Jamaica where her loving friends and family were waiting for her and her past was buried deep below in the icebergs of Antarctica.
Patrick's House, Kingston, Jamaica
The domino table was back up and there were more participants in the domino game this time. Vince McMahon, Batista, CM Punk, John Morrison, Edge, Big Show and Kofi Kingston decided that there were going to play using a replacement domino tile that didn't match the others.
"Why is this domino tile a different color from the other ones?" CM Punk asked holding up the black domino tile.
"Because the original one was in Trish Orton's butt," John Morrison replied and Vince spat out his beer. "It's a long story,"
"Well I've got time to hear it," Vince replied and John Morrison stopped talking.
"I guess that's all we're going to hear on the subject," Big Show said and the men laughed.
Justin Danner pulled up a chair and Kofi Kingston gave him a short embrace.
"Nice to see you Justin," he said as the other men welcomed him to the table.
"How's Brie?" Edge asked him.
"She's doing great," he replied and he looked at the black domino tile. "Why is this domino different from all the others?"
The men looked at John Morrison who rolled his eyes.
"Should we tell him or are you gonna do the honors?" CM Punk asked John Morrison and John started laughing along with everyone else.
Trish walked by the table and heard them laughing, "Oh grow up," she said and they laughed even harder while Justin wondered what was so funny.
Trish headed back inside where Brie Danner was talking with Melina and Amy about her hair products.
"The honey blond came out really good Brie," Amy said and Brie nodded.
"Well I'm glad you like it Amy I've got a whole new range planned for the summer," Brie replied. "That's what makes Jamaica such a great location because its summer all year round, I couldn't have been relocated to a better place,"
Melina needled her hair wondering how good it looked compared to Amy's. Trish noticed and started to laugh.
"Now you wanna dye your hair, well I'd be happy to do it for you," Trish said enthusiastically.
"No Mel don't let her do it," Amy replied and Trish looked at her offended.
"Look just because you want Shawn to do everything for you doesn't mean I can't do something without Johnny getting involved, right Mel?" Trish said and Melina looked down at her feet not responding.
"Trish you need to understand that dying hair is not your strength," Melina replied as sweetly as she could.
"But I dyed my hair," Trish said.
"Yeah you dyed it black from brown that's not difficult," Melina said.
"Okay well I'm up for a challenge, let me dye your hair for you," Trish asked Melina but the miraculous one shook her head.
"No way," Melina said.
"Trish quit it," Amy said.
"Why do you wanna dye your friends' hair so bad?" Brie Danner asked Trish.
"Because we've been apart for months, we haven't been ATM in years and I wanted to commemorate our reunion with a little girly stuff," Trish said.
"Well then let's go shopping," Melina said excitedly.
"What for? You've already got more shoes than you need and I don't need any more clothes," Trish said.
"If you dye Mel's hair you're going to screw it up," Amy said.
"I know but I still wanna do it," Trish said and Melina gasped.
"What do you mean you know? There's no way I'm letting you destroy my hair," Melina said and Trish pouted.
"Well I'm not gonna be happy until we do something to commemorate our reunion," Trish said.
Amy tried to think of something that would make Trish and Melina happy that didn't involve their husbands then Brie came to the rescue.
"Guys leave it to me I'll get back to you when I've made the arrangements okay?" Brie said and ATM exchanged glances.
"Trish you already know what she's gonna do don't you?" Melina said to The Truth.
"Actually I asked God not to tell me so I'll be as surprised as you guys," Trish said.
"Okay now that we've got that settled, Melina I think you should dye your hair this color," Amy said pointing to the bowl of red grapes on the side counter.
"I have that color," Brie said. "I call it Gorgeous Grape,"
Melina liked the color and Trish started to play with her hair wondering if black was really her color.
"Maybe I should change my hair color too, where's Shawn I'm sure he'd be willing to do it for me," she teased Amy.
"Oh ha-ha," she said looking at three figures descending on Patrick's front garden. "Remi's back," she said recognizing her daughter's curly red hair and ATM and Brie went outside to greet Stephanie, Jeff, Aurora and Rebecca Michelle. DX ran over to them, Vince, Punk, Batista, Kofi, Big Show, Edge, John Morrison and Justin Danner stopped their domino game and headed towards Jeff, Steph, Aurora and Rebecca Michelle.
"Well, how did it go is Ric okay?" Shawn asked them and his daughter stepped forward.
"Uncle Ric's fine dad, Jericho didn't get to him," Rebecca replied.
"Thank God," Hunter said hugging Shawn while the others thanked God behind him.
"And what about Jericho, did you dump him in the ice like I told you to?" Trish asked Jeff.
"You know I did, you're the Truth: Trish Stratus," Jeff said.
"Yeah but there was some interference due to disobedience," Rebecca Michelle said. "Aunt Steph was there when Uncle Jeff froze Jericho, he saw her and started screaming that he was gonna get her back,"
"Yes Remi I knew about that, it was because Stephanie didn't want to leave Aurora alone with Jericho," Trish replied smiling at Stephanie who was relieved to see Trish smiling instead of admonishing her for what happened in Antarctica when Jericho saw her. "You were only thinking of your daughter so I'm not mad at you but you should know that this had made things a little more complicated now that Jericho knows you were in love with Jeff and not him like you said you were,"
"How much more complicated?" Stephanie asked her.
"Just know that ice isn't going to hold Jericho for long I'm afraid," Trish said and everyone got upset.
"Trish I buried him between two icebergs, he ain't getting out of that," Jeff said emphatically.
"Whoa that's a lotta ice," Big Show said.
"Well it ain't enough," Trish said.
"Okay Trish tell us what's gonna happen now," Hunter asked.
"I can't tell you everything because the Lord hasn't revealed to me how Jericho's going to escape, what I need is for you three to listen to me. When I tell you something you obey, don't disagree just believe me," Trish said to Hunter, Stephanie and Aurora.
"Why them?" Shawn said.
"I think someone's hair needs dying," Trish replied sarcastically and Shawn rolled his eyes.
"Still with the hair dying?" Shawn said unimpressed.
"You just had to ruin my girls' reunion didn't you? You've got Amy all the time and the one thing I wanted to do for her . . ." Trish said going on a rant.
"Okay where's Randy? Trish isn't being much help right now," Amy said looking for Trish's husband.
"He went fishing with RJ, Romeo and Angelo," Trish replied. "So I'm the only Oracle you got,"
Amy and Melina sighed.
"Was she always this much of a pain in the butt?" Melina asked Amy.
"I don't remember," Amy replied.
"Yes I was," Trish replied and Hunter and Stephanie exchanged glances.
"Why don't we go interrupt Orton's fishing trip with the boys? I can't wait on Trish to put her brain back in I need answers about Jericho now," Hunter said to his ex-wife.
"But she said we have to obey everything she says, so we have to listen to her," Stephanie replied.
"That's right, well done Stephanie. Hunter you could learn a lot from your ex-wife," Trish said.
"Excuse me Aunt Trish but if Aunt Steph hadn't disobeyed in the first place we wouldn't be in this situation," Rebecca Michelle said.
"That's true, thanks for reminding me," Trish said and she slapped Stephanie on the hand like a naughty girl. "That's for being disobedient,"
"Ow, I knew I had that coming," Stephanie said shaking the pain out of her hand then she looked at Trish's hand noticing that she was wearing a giant ring in the shape of a big T. "When did you get that, it's huge!"
Amy and Melina held up their hands, they both had giant rings on too in the shape of their first initials.
"We've all got one," Melina said.
"My gift to them," Vince McMahon said, "for getting back together,"
"And yet since they've been together all they've done is fight," John Morrison said.
"Just like old times," Stephanie said. "Sometimes loved ones fight," she turned to Aurora who averted her eyes and looked to the sky. Stephanie stood in front of her and positioned herself so that she was looking right at her. "I hope we can stop fighting and go back to being friends,"
"I've still got the bruise from where you kicked me mom," Aurora said.
"I could heal that up for you Ro," Melina said but Trish shook her head telling her not to interfere.
"This isn't about healing my physical body Aunt Mel, this is about healing my heart that was broken by my own mother. Jericho was a lot of things but tell me mom, was he worth that?" Aurora said and Stephanie shook her head.
"No of course he wasn't. Aurora I made a mistake please let's move on from here, I miss you I want you to be my daughter again," Stephanie said.
"I don't think you can ever be my mom again, not after that," Aurora said.
"Aurora can we go somewhere and talk please?" Stephanie said but Aurora shook her head.
"There's no point I have nothing else to say to you," Aurora said.
"I don't believe that, what about Steven Borden you can talk to me about him, he's your first boyfriend I wanna know how things are going between you two," Stephanie said.
"Why, so you can destroy it?" Aurora said.
"Aurora it wasn't me that destroyed things it was Jericho!" Stephanie said. "All you're doing by hating me and holding onto the past is continue his tyranny against me, you are punishing me just like he wants to. Is that what you want, to be in the same league as Chris Jericho?"
Aurora snapped and she grabbed her mother by her shirt and pulled her up close, her hands like ice on Stephanie's nice clothes, "Don't you EVER compare me to that monster!" she yelled.
"Aurora look at you, you are a monster!" Stephanie replied and Aurora loosened her mother's shirt and looked at her hands, they were like ice and Jeff and Hunter got between them both. Aurora flew away before Stephanie could say anything else to her.
"Go after her Jeff," Stephanie said.
"No don't go after her," Trish said. "She's going to the Bordens, she'll be fine for now but starting next week you guys are going to have to watch Aurora like a hawk. Vince, you need to let Sting know that Aurora is going through a lot of pain right now and to be extra compassionate when she's around, even more than he is already,"
"Okay," Vince said and he looked at Stephanie who wiped tears of frustration away from her eyes. "It's gonna be okay Steph," he told his daughter.
"Daddy it's never okay when Aurora is upset. She's a powerful child of God with her father's temper, that is a bad combination," Stephanie replied.
"I don't know how good it was to compare her to Jericho, why did you say that?" Hunter asked Stephanie.
"Because it's true, I may not always make the right choices Hunter but I have a PhD in psychosis having been married to one who suffered from it and I see Jericho's influence on my daughter right now. That bastard just doesn't know when to quit," Stephanie said and Jeff hugged her.
"Stephanie you've got nothing to worry about, she's no monster," Jeff said and Stephanie cried on his shoulder.
"Then where'd my precious baby girl go?" he said and Hunter looked at ATM.
"I'm so glad you guys are back together cos I think we're gonna need ya'll on this one," Hunter said to Amy, Trish and Melina while Rebecca Michelle listened attentively.
"I wanna go fishing," she said to Melina.
"Okay sweetie, let's go join Uncle Randy and the boys," Melina said and she took Rebecca Michelle by the hand and headed towards the river where there was one boy in particular that Remi wanted to see.
"Hey where are they going?" Hunter said as Melina and Rebecca Michelle walked away.
"Nevermind, you stay put," Trish said and Hunter rolled his eyes.
"Back to the game, come on Hunter," Shawn said as the men headed back to the domino table.
"Try not to get your butt involved in our game Status," Hunter said and everyone laughed and Trish pointed to her butt and made kissing noises.
"Now is that any way for a woman of God to act?" Vince McMahon said.
"What can I say he brings out the degenerate in me," Trish replied and Melina and Amy pulled her away from the table.
"Let's go discuss a new hair color for you and Mel in time for the party," Amy said going back inside where Brie had a whole range for the Truth and Miraculous one to choose from as-well as a business proposal that could throw some much needed fun into what had become a dull and dreary start to the New Year.