This is a fun little two piece story that I came up with. I actually wrote it before Money in the Bank, but I wasn't able to get it up before the pay-per-view aired. These were realistic ways that I could have seen the pay-per-view going. This first piece, shows the thought process of the heel Seth. The second piece shows the strategy the could have been employed if Seth wanted to turn face again. I hope you enjoy the fun juxtaposition and please feel free to leave any comments, I love reading the reviews and they're the reason I even wrote this.
Enjoy :)
Bad Seth
Seth knew he was near begging, but he didn't care. If he'd ever be able to safely compete again, he'd have to keep Ambrose under his thumb at all times. Not to mention that if he'd like his plan to go off without a hitch, Ambrose had to be in The Money in the Bank match. However, if he'd thought getting Ambrose into the pay-per-view took a lot of convincing, trying to keep Triple H from sending Kane down if the match got too dicey, had been a whole other debate, one not so easily won.
Now, after all of his work, the pieces were in place. He'd finish what Hunter had started, and what Seth himself had help to escalate. He'd watch The Shield implode on itself. It hadn't been enough for Seth to merely break up the faction he'd work so hard to make successful. No. After everything he'd put up with from Reigns and Ambrose, both in the ring and on the road, he wanted to destroy the men, not just the group. If everything went according to plan, he'd accomplish just that.
It would be easy too, to destroy his former "business partners." Heck, they'd practically done all of the work for him. Reigns had taken a burden off of Seth by finding his own way into the championship ladder match. Ambrose, and his hatred, had made it all too easy for Seth to get him in the contract ladder match without Dean getting suspicious. Now, it was time to get all the other participating opponents on board—not too hard considering he had the boss in his back pocket, so to speak—to make sure that both Ambrose and Reigns won their matches. Once that happened, the Authority could simply sit back at watch the fireworks.
Ambrose would be forced to fight Roman to cash his contract in, putting stress on their already strenuous bond. Since Seth, their glue, had left, Ambrose and Reigns hadn't spoken to each other nearly as much as they used to. They knew they were drifting apart, and they knew that with the targets they each had on their backs, that they should stick together; they were each others only defenders. However, without peacekeeper Seth between them, Ambrose and Reigns could only stand to be near each other for so long before they wanted to strangle one another. Therefore, Seth figured that it wouldn't take all that much more tension on their bond for it to snap completely.
The best part of the plan, the part that would please Hunter the most once everything finally came together, was that regardless whether Reigns defeated Ambrose, or Ambrose captured the gold from Reigns, all Triple H had to do was wait for the contract to be used, then send his own muscle against whoever ended up with the belts. Once accomplished, The Authority would be back in control, and both remaining Shield members would be officially out of the title hunt. Seth could only imagine the rewards that Hunter would rain down on him once his plan fully played out. There would be no contract floating around to worry about. The Authority would be in control of the championship belts, and Reign's and Ambrose's relationship would finally be severed. Everything was in place for Seth's moment of glory.