Tonya Sellers stepped into the meeting, head held high. She was the first of her kind. The first female Spike TV had ever allowed to compete against the guys. She held her head high because she had been the X-division champ for the past six months; last night at the show she had dropped the strap back to Kaz.
The meeting was announced last night at the show for nine, what could they have to talk about? Since moving to Tuesday after ECW shut down, things had been smooth sailing. TNA's solid 3.0 rating never faltered, making them not only compete with Smackdown, but also RAW.
When the 5'8" brunette stepped through the doors to the meeting room all heads turned and the room went silent. Tonya had gotten used to that reaction; she was without a doubt, the most starred at individual on the TNA roster.
Jay (Christian Cage) walked in behind her. "Umm…silence, you have that affect on people don't you Tony?" He asked patting her on the back. "Great match last night, by the way." He continued, leading the way to two empty chairs at the end. She nodded at Kaz as they passed, and ruffled Aj's hair. He laughed the little boys' laugh he always played around with.
Sitting between Jay and Rhyno she felt more comfortable, even though the Explosion roster starred at her. When TNA Impact moved to Tuesdays, Explosion went to the abandoned Sci-Fi network on Thursdays for an hour. Expansion had been less than a year later, when they had went to two hours. The Explosion roster didn't see much of the Impact roster, except at specific pay-per-views. The last time she had seen the Explosion cast was two months earlier at Lockdown, and she had competed against them in Lethal Lockdown. She rolled her eyes when EY stuck his tongue out at her.
Jeff Jarrett and Dixie Carter entered the room swiftly causing what little talking that was going on to stop.
"Good morning everyone. Thank you all for coming in on such short notice. We have some minor announcements, and one that will affect us all. First off, let me congratulate Tony and Kaz on one of the best fought X-division matches we've ever seen." Dixie said. There was a small amount of applause, but most were too anxious to know the news. "Next, I want to congratulate all of you on passing your drug tests, and on last weeks Explosion rating was a 3.0."
"Lastly," Jeff began, "we're going WCW." He said simply. "Next Monday we invade RAW!"
The room broke into ecstatic whispers. "But, unlike WCW, we've come to no agreements yet. We may win." He told the crowd.
The former WWE superstars nodded in approval, cracked their knuckles, or stared at Jeff awestruck. Tony was part of the third group. The former WWE champ couldn't believe what he had just said. She did not want to go anywhere near the WWE or the people who ran it. She had been the victim of their tactics before, and had lost her WWE championship because of it.
Memories flooded back to her. The day Vince had sent his cronies out there to beat her and her friends down. Then Hunter had pinned her and Vince fired her. She was forced to leave that night, without a contract, without help, without her belt, and without her goodbyes. Concussion, two broken fingers, a broken rib, and bruised from head to tow. She had been completely released from her contract, and Vince had been stupid enough to believe she was done for. Well she took it to Spike TV the second she got the call from Jeff. They gave her permission to compete in male competition. Less than three months later she debuted on TNA.
That had been two years ago. All of her WWE friends had been forbidden to speak to her, that didn't mean a couple hadn't tried. The Hardys, Ashley, Shannon, and even Dave, but no John.
"We invade Monday, be prepared, Impact wont air Tuesday, but we'll all be on Explosion Thursday." Jeff continued. "Well that's all, thank you." He finished.
Tonya glanced at Jay. He didn't look upset; he looked more amused than anything. Rhyno however, looked pissed.
"Can we see the former WWE superstars please?" Dixie asked.
Every previous star stayed behind in the office. Dixie waved goodbye and stepped out.
"Do you think we can do it?" Jeff asked.
They each looked at each other, finally Booker answered. "We know now what WCW and Ted didn't know then we can, we've all got experience, we didn't then."
Tonya stood off by herself; she really wanted absolutely nothing to do with the WWE, even in this case.
"Tony, baby, you with us?" Kurt asked behind her.
She jerked around to look at the concerned faces of her co-workers. The thought of what Vince had done to her came flashing back. It made her sick at her stomach, and pissed her off. "Yeah, I'm with you all the way. I want to make sure that bastard doesn't hurt anyone else." She said.
