No Mercy 2017, Third person perspective…

The choking noises caught his attention quickly, Finn turning and seeing that Bray had grabbed Amanda by her throat and was dragging her into the ring.

Without any hesitation, Finn ran at Bray and dropkicked him. Bray lost his grip on Amanda and she fell with a thud to the mat outside, Finn running out and picking her up to where she could sit up as he was checking on her as the referee kept Bray back.

Bray had no choice but to stay in character… but he had a bad feeling he was gonna be in a lot of trouble when he got to the backstage area after this.

"I'm okay…" Amanda managed to say.

"Love, you can barely talk…" Finn whispered as he helped her up.

It was scripted but Finn had gotten the feeling that Bray had incidentally put too much force into choking Amanda.

Finn and Amanda kissed and Finn got back into the ring and finished the match, executing the Coup De Grace off the top rope. When the bell rang, he jumped out of the ring and picked Amanda up into his arms, holding her close to him and resting his hands on her face as they kissed.

They reached the backstage area and took a few minutes to catch their breath as Finn helped Amanda sit down, seeing that her neck was starting to bruise as Kurt ran over to them.

"Damn it… I don't think this storyline should be dragged out anymore, not when it results in this." Kurt said, handing a bottle of water to Amanda after opening it.

Amanda slowly sipped it, setting it down after drinking half of it and closing it once Kurt handed the cap to her.

"Normally, I'd disagree and say let the storyline finish properly… but I'm about as fed up with it as you two are. So let's give it one last time tomorrow night… and then we focus on what's at hand, getting the WWE Universal Championship off of that part time son of a bitch." Amanda said.

They both knew that look in her eyes… she was sick of the Raw roster not actually having a fair chance at the championship...

Present time…

Goldust pulled himself up as Amanda and Finn turned back after Bray had tried to psych them out, Goldust smirking.

And then Goldust started mouthing off… and fury blazed in both sets of eyes.

Amanda kept Finn from going back at Goldust and looked at him… within minutes, she had slammed her right foot into Goldust's ribcage.

"Mandy taking none too kindly to what Goldust just said-wait a minute!" Michael Cole said, exclaiming the last part.

Amanda picked Goldust up to under her arms in a headlock and within seconds, hit him with Bray's finisher, the Sister Abigail… they knew it was just part of the storyline but Finn was insanely impressed with Amanda's strength.

Amanda let out an evil chuckle as she was pulled up to her feet by Finn and then handed a microphone.

"Who's got the whole world in their hands now, Bray?" Amanda responded, her voice still rough from last night. "But back to more important matters." She said before handing the microphone to Finn.

"Bray, this whole thing is over…" Finn responded, his left hand resting on Amanda's back. "Brock, I'm taking back what I never lost." He said before dropping the microphone in the ring and him and Amanda exiting it.

Taking a minute to rest in the backstage area, it wasn't long before both heard yelling outside and went to go investigate it… pushing the door open revealed something reminiscent of what had happened 19 years ago.

"Really?! DX called, they want their tank back!" Amanda said once she and Finn saw the members of the Bullet Club outside.

"And we want our damn leader and friends back! War ain't your kind of thing, Mandy, give them up!" Matt Jackson shouted through a megaphone, the echo sending a ringing sound through Amanda's ears and Finn covering them.

"War ain't my kind of thing, huh?!" Amanda growled before grabbing a paintball gun and shooting it after Finn backed up when he saw it, Marty Scurll screaming after getting hit right in the arm with it and Finn pulling Amanda back.

"Jump in that tank and get on outta here, this ain't the Attitude Era, boys!" Finn said before closing the door.

"Fucking hell! Cody, you have a vicious ex!" Marty said angrily, rubbing his bruising right arm.

"Mandy's a terror when someone screws her over." Cody said.

But he had a feeling that something wasn't right… and it was telling him to stick around.

Amanda was finally feeling the effects of the lack of restful sleep, feeling Finn's left hand rubbing up and down her back as his right hand rested on her right shoulder.

She didn't feel sick… but she felt that eerie familiar feeling and he knew it.