Tuesday morning @ NY
"Wow, this is gonna be some flight." Chris Jericho was saying as they were cleaning out their hotel rooms.
"I hear ya man, going from NY to LA, dam." Chris Benoit replied.
"You guys ready yet?" RVD poked his head in the doorway.
"Almost." The two Chris's called.
"Hey guys chill, the plane isn't leaving until tonight." Triple H laughed. The four of them finally were cleared out and went to the elevator where they ran into The Rock and Kurt Angle. They all waited as the elevator began to lower them down. They'd look around or stare at one part of the room, but nobody would talk. They were either tired or nervous. They were going to be doing the SmackDown live on Thursday. The door soon opened and they found Vince McMahon waiting in the lobby.
"About time, let's go to the airport." He replied.
"But we still have hours!" Jericho complained.
"Don't worry, there's stuff to do still, I'm just getting everyone set up together." Vince said in a whiney voice to mock Chris. He walked off and Jericho blushed.
"Mr. Big mouth." Benoit snickered under his breath as they got on the bus. They drove to the airport where all the superstars were cramped into a private room so nobody could attack them for autographs or whatever. Vince was talking at the lobby desk to clear up some complications.
"Well what do we do now?" RVD sighed.
"Turn on the TV?" Triple H suggested.
"No Hunter don't, it's soap time!" Jericho cried and as soon as the TV turned on, nothing but soap operas and talk shows filled the air. Everyone began to moan and groan and cover their ears jokingly until Triple H finally stopped laughing and turned it off .
"Well, I guess we should just wait for Vince to return." Stone Cold sighed. Everyone agreed with Steve Austin, but in truth, there was nothing else they could do.
Tuesday morning @ LA
"Come on Kari, pick up the phone!" A girls voice was heard on the machine and another girl picked up the phone.
"Sarah?" She asked.
"Yea it's me." The girl replied.
"What's up?" Kari asked.
"Well, do you know where we pick up our cap and gowns for the graduation ceremony tonight?" Sarah asked.
"Yea, we go to our first period… I think." Kari said.
"Oh, the bus is here! I'll meet you at school!" Sarah said and hung up.
"Who was it?" A voice asked, it was a boys.
"It was just Sarah, Mike." Kari replied.
"Kari, Mikile, hurry up!" Their dad's voice called as the two kids ran downstairs. Kari was a senior in high school while her brother was a freshman. Today was the last day of school for Kari but it was a day of finals for her brother. They ran outside to get on the bus and they sat down towards the back. The bus stopped to pick up some other kids but the bus of rowdy, rambunctious kids was soon at school.
"Sarah!" Kari waved as she jumped off the bus. Sarah and her sister Rene came over.
"Hi Rene." Mikile called as he stepped off. Rene was a sophomore. They walked to the library to hang out with some friends while Sarah and Kari talked.
"Let's go, on the bus I heard that we have to go to homeroom asap." Sarah said.
"Alright, let's go then." They ran off and went to their English class where others were already getting ready for the ceremony later on.
"So, what are you gonna do during break? I'm going camping with Rene and a few friends. You wanna come if you're not busy?" Sarah asked as they looked for their cap and gown in the mess of boxes set on the floor.
"When do you leave?" Kari asked as she found Sarah's stuff.
"Tomorrow." Sarah replied as she took her cap and put it on.
"Oh I can't." Kari sighed. "No offense, but I have a more important encounter."
"What?" Sarah looked up from her gown confused. "Oh yea, that WWF thing."
"Yea, that WWF thing!" Kari laughed. "I'm wearing this Y2J shirt today but I'm gonna wear my new one tomorrow with my Jericho hat and pendant and everything."
"So, no Lakers hat?" Sarah grinned as she took it off her friend's head to place on the black cap. "Don't wanna express your loyalty to the three-peat champions?"
"Hey!" Kari smirked and she blew the tassel. "I love these things. Meow!" They laughed as they got suited up and waited for the bell to ring. It soon did and everyone was in their seats all dressed and ready.
"Alright class." Their teacher replied. "Last day, so let's go!" Everybody let out a cheer and they poured out of the classroom to join the other parading seniors in the hall.
"Where are we going again?" Kari asked.
"Follow the crowd, I think it's to the auditorium." Sarah replied. Kari nodded. The auditorium was soon full.
"Alright guys, settle down." The principle called to order and everyone silenced. "That's better, these four years of training paid off." There were a few laughs. "Well, I guess this is goodbye, but I'm never good with them, so let's just skip to the diplomas." A few others laughed as he began to call out names and about 20 at a time went up to stand in a line for pictures. Soon Sarah and Kari went up and it was soon over.
"Whew, that was fast." Kari grinned.
"Yea, I guess the line did move fast." Sarah shrugged.
"No, I meant these four years." Kari shoved her playfully.
"Now if you go out to the lawn and get a drink or snack, remember to come back in here so we can go over the final photo in the football field." The principal said. The kids began to get up, go outside and stretch.
"I bet this will be a day to remember." Kari said as she swallowed a gulp of soda.
"Yea, something that should go down in history." Sarah joked and drank hers. All the other kids were laughing too and as they finished up, the group began to head back into the auditorium.
"Hey, did you hear something?" The vice principal asked the principal.
"Maybe it was the kids. I feel the motion of their feet as they come back in." The principal replied.
"No really, I heard a rumble." The lady replied.
"And I felt the rumble." The man said. The kids stopped as about half were inside. Everyone was silent and the two adults looked down at them from the stage. Everyone began to look around, confused. But that's when the principal and vice principal looked at each other. The kids could sense it too now.
"Earthquake!" They cried and began to run around as the rumble grew louder and the floor shook violently.
"Remain calm, remain- ouch!" The principal cried as he fell over the vice principal. Kari and Sarah were one of the first to get out, they ran past the cafeteria but they all stopped as the few in front were blasted back by a blast of water. Kari screamed.
"The pipeline must have broke, ah!" Sarah cried as everyone began to run out to the field like had been planned in all the drills.
"Everyone, fall down!" Kari yelled at the top of her lungs and all them did. They dove forward and the motion caused most of their caps and gowns to fall off. Some looked up to see if the other classes were coming out, but the only other ones out there were the ones running the mile in PE. "Where's everyone?"
"I hope they're not trapped!" Sarah gasped. Somebody began to yell out for another person, but the cries were drowned out by thunderous bangs of the buildings being rattled and torn and collapsing. Kari held the ground tightly, but the motion began to make her seasick so she let go and flew onto some boy.
"Hang on!" He gasped and grabbed onto her. "I don't think they all made it!" Kari and the boy looked up and they looked in horror as they could see big office buildings in the distance crumbling. A big tree fell near the group of people and they let out a scream, and then suddenly the earthquake began to lighten until it stopped.
"That was like 5 minutes or something." Sarah estimated.
"Wow." The boy gasped as he helped Kari up.
"Oh my god." Everyone began to look around. You could smell smoke of fire and hear cries of people and of sirens. News choppers were already seen flying around.
"That was louder than a train, thunderstorm and jet plane combined. And it was worse than any earthquake I've ever been in, and I've lived here all my life." Kari said.
"Let's stop talking, we're the only ones who made it out." The two gym teachers cried and ran over. "We have to search for survivors."
"Right, let's go guys." The boy cried and everyone got up and ran to buildings to call for help and try to dig up a person.
"If it's this bad here, think of downtown with all those skyscrapers." Kari stopped in her tracks. "What about our families? My dad was at a meeting today downtown!"
"First things first, we'll cross that bridge when it comes up." Sarah replied and they began to run again. They were worried but didn't even want to think about it. Only a few survivors were found because the doors and windows had been pressed shut by the walls and the buildings collapses. The only reason they were closed was because of the noise of the rowdy seniors. One of the survivors was Rene, but Mikile wasn't found alive.
"What do we do now?" The principal asked the vice principal.
"Call 911?" She suggested.
"I did, they should be here soon, but there are many other places that need help more than we do." The principal sighed. The female PE teacher got out her radio.
"Here, this might be of help." She replied. They turned it on to find news.
"And the earthquake set a record for California by being as big as the San Francisco quake back in the early 20th century." The newsperson replied. "Nobody knows how long it will take for everyone to be found, but from studio hill, I can see the damage is pretty. We'll be updating you every half hour with any news at all, good or bad."
"Well, all we can do now is wait." The vice principal sighed as everyone began to sit down. That's when somebody called out and the first after shock hit. Everyone screamed as the quake rattled them all again, but this one only lasted about a minute.
"Everyone ok?" The principal asked after a while and everyone began to get up again. "This is obviously not safe, but it might be the safest place out here."
"Wait, I have a TV in the gym office." The male PE teacher ran off.
"I know one thing." Kari said to Rene and Sarah. "If Staples Center is destroyed, I think my life is pretty much as dead as my brothers." They all became quiet.
Tuesday afternoon @ NY
"Ok, I have it all cleared up. We'll be traveling on our own plane." Vince announced and the superstars cheered and that's when every traveler going by air's nightmare was heard on the loudspeaker.
"The flight, NY to LA will be delayed." The ladies voice said.
"Aw man!" Everyone sighed and slumped down in disappointment.
"Great, the plane must be late from LAX or something." Jericho groaned.
"Well, it's noon. I doubt it's still soap news time." Triple H grinned and turned on the TV. Vince began to flip though the channels, he could feel something was wrong.
"Hey!" RVD cried but Vince shushed him. They all watched the screen change. Finally Vince found the channel for CNN nation news. "That's it?"
"Shut up." Vince whispered and turned up the volume.
"And so, the use of transporting things from Canada to Mexico will no longer be used by the Hawaii fare service." The man on the news was saying.
"That's what you were looking for?" Benoit whispered to Vince.
"Shut up." Kurt nudged him and The Rock elbowed him to stop it too.
"And in current news, we'll be taking you live to Los Angeles where an earthquake has just hit and experts claim to say that it was just as bad if not worse on the rector scale as the San Francisco quake long ago." The newscaster said and everyone gasped. Chris Jericho stared at the screen wide eyed and jaw dropped. Everyone stared in dead silence and their faces went pale. "We now go to our eye in the sky chopper."
"Well it looks pretty bad out here, I'll show you the camera's view. I staked out the best spot, so to speak." The man in the helicopter replied, they could tell by the tone of his voice that he was trying not to cry. The camera went to a shot of downtown LA where not a single skyscraper stood more than 5 to 10 stories. Fires were noticeable by the streaming dark lines of the black smoke. A few superstars began to mutter in the back corner, Hogan, Goldust and Terri. The destruction looked like Independence Day.
"Oh my god, what the hell?" Chris Jericho choked as the camera scanned across the once mighty Los Angeles to show all the destruction of anything and everything.
"The other effected counties were the neighbors of LA which are Ventura and Orange." The man in the chopper went on. "A few after shocks have hit but the authorities say that it's not over and you should remain indoors for safety.
"Thank you, we'll be getting back." The lady said. " We now go live to the ground floor where we have a local newscaster at a high school interviewing."
"So you say you were in the graduation ceremonies?" The man was asking the principal and vice principal. No superstar took their eyes off the TV screen.
"That's right, we were in the auditorium." The principal nodded.
"Then what happened." The interviewer went on.
"Well, we could feel and hear the earthquake and we began to ran out as we sensed it coming. But even then I fear that some of them were too late." The principal was saying, noticeable that he was trying not to cry. "And the firemen say that because of the buildings poor design that all the other classrooms, who's doors were closed because of the graduation noise, the walls gave out first and locked the escape openings tightly shut and well, they fear that few other survivors will be found, or found alive."
"How many survived?" The interviewer asked the vice principal.
"Well, the two PE classes and most of the seniors and a few others they daringly went to rescue by the way. These kids are very risky but very brave." She replied.
"Here, perhaps we can get an interview with one of them?" The interview began to walk around as the camera followed. The superstars could see the kids running across the field or tending the ones laying down injured or standing being interviewed. "Oh, you over there with the two girls." He ran over and the camera guy followed. He was referring to the boy who helped Kari and he was talking to Sarah and Rene. "Can you tell me what you were thinking during this terrible turn of wonderful events?"
"Well, we were happy about graduating but then we just felt like we were running for our lives and we weren't even thinking about what we were doing." The boy said.
"We were just so scared." Sarah replied. "My sister was trapped in a building but we were able to save her with a few others who were very lucky."
"You were trapped? For how long, what was it like?" The man asked Rene.
"Well, scared and praying, we didn't think we'd make it. But I guess we were only trapped for maybe 10 minutes or so." Rene replied and that's when the familiar roar began to fill the air and screams could be heard and the kids in the background dropped.
"After shock, get down!" The newsman called and he and the camera guy went down, so did the boy and Sarah, but Rene was scared and confused. That's when the tree they were standing by began to shake and a big limb fell loose and was headed for Rene.
"Rene look out!" Kari's voice was heard and she speared her out of the way as the branch fell on her. Now, this was all in range of the camera so the superstars saw this. They all cried out and a few of the divas turned their eyes away. Jericho stood up.
"No!" He cried, he had noticed her Y2J shirt. "WWF fans are in trouble."
"No duh, the whole city is in trouble and we're headed there." RVD shivered.
"Shut up!" Vince had to silence again. They turned back to the TV.
"No, Kari!" Rene and Sarah cried.
"The shock is over." The boy said as he got up, the trio ran to pull off the branch.
"This brave girl could have just given her life, and you all saw it live!" The man said as he ran over to help pull Kari out. They did it. "Are you alright?"
"Am I dead?" Kari opened her eyes and asked dazed. "If I am, my WWF tickets are useless."
"No, you're alive and you just saved this girl." The interviewer replied and put a hand on his headset. "Oh, we've already taken too long on this segment. We'll be back later with more coverage live." The man said and the camera went back to the CNN station.
"Wow, thank you. Coming up next after the break." The lady started and that's when Jericho turned off the TV.
"Hey!" Everyone yelled and turned to him with a leer.
"Guys, don't you see, the people need us down there. Don't be so selfish, we still have to go down there." He cried as he stood at the front of the room.
"You just want to go help that girl in the Y2J shirt." Benoit sighed.
"No I don't, maybe I'll help her first but I'll help them all in the end. Now, are there any hero's here who are with me?" Jericho replied.
"I'm with you!" RVD, Triple H, The Rock and Kurt Angle stood up.
"Count us all in!" Al Snow added and everyone nodded. Chris grinned.
"Good, let's go Vince!" Jericho turned around.
"Alright hero, the plane doesn't leave for another two hours." Vince replied.
"Do'h!" Jericho growled to himself and they all settled down to think.
Will the superstars be able to get to LA safely and in time? Will Kari and the rest of the fans be able to make it to Staples Center if it's even still in existence? Find out in Ch. 2!
"Wow, this is gonna be some flight." Chris Jericho was saying as they were cleaning out their hotel rooms.
"I hear ya man, going from NY to LA, dam." Chris Benoit replied.
"You guys ready yet?" RVD poked his head in the doorway.
"Almost." The two Chris's called.
"Hey guys chill, the plane isn't leaving until tonight." Triple H laughed. The four of them finally were cleared out and went to the elevator where they ran into The Rock and Kurt Angle. They all waited as the elevator began to lower them down. They'd look around or stare at one part of the room, but nobody would talk. They were either tired or nervous. They were going to be doing the SmackDown live on Thursday. The door soon opened and they found Vince McMahon waiting in the lobby.
"About time, let's go to the airport." He replied.
"But we still have hours!" Jericho complained.
"Don't worry, there's stuff to do still, I'm just getting everyone set up together." Vince said in a whiney voice to mock Chris. He walked off and Jericho blushed.
"Mr. Big mouth." Benoit snickered under his breath as they got on the bus. They drove to the airport where all the superstars were cramped into a private room so nobody could attack them for autographs or whatever. Vince was talking at the lobby desk to clear up some complications.
"Well what do we do now?" RVD sighed.
"Turn on the TV?" Triple H suggested.
"No Hunter don't, it's soap time!" Jericho cried and as soon as the TV turned on, nothing but soap operas and talk shows filled the air. Everyone began to moan and groan and cover their ears jokingly until Triple H finally stopped laughing and turned it off .
"Well, I guess we should just wait for Vince to return." Stone Cold sighed. Everyone agreed with Steve Austin, but in truth, there was nothing else they could do.
Tuesday morning @ LA
"Come on Kari, pick up the phone!" A girls voice was heard on the machine and another girl picked up the phone.
"Sarah?" She asked.
"Yea it's me." The girl replied.
"What's up?" Kari asked.
"Well, do you know where we pick up our cap and gowns for the graduation ceremony tonight?" Sarah asked.
"Yea, we go to our first period… I think." Kari said.
"Oh, the bus is here! I'll meet you at school!" Sarah said and hung up.
"Who was it?" A voice asked, it was a boys.
"It was just Sarah, Mike." Kari replied.
"Kari, Mikile, hurry up!" Their dad's voice called as the two kids ran downstairs. Kari was a senior in high school while her brother was a freshman. Today was the last day of school for Kari but it was a day of finals for her brother. They ran outside to get on the bus and they sat down towards the back. The bus stopped to pick up some other kids but the bus of rowdy, rambunctious kids was soon at school.
"Sarah!" Kari waved as she jumped off the bus. Sarah and her sister Rene came over.
"Hi Rene." Mikile called as he stepped off. Rene was a sophomore. They walked to the library to hang out with some friends while Sarah and Kari talked.
"Let's go, on the bus I heard that we have to go to homeroom asap." Sarah said.
"Alright, let's go then." They ran off and went to their English class where others were already getting ready for the ceremony later on.
"So, what are you gonna do during break? I'm going camping with Rene and a few friends. You wanna come if you're not busy?" Sarah asked as they looked for their cap and gown in the mess of boxes set on the floor.
"When do you leave?" Kari asked as she found Sarah's stuff.
"Tomorrow." Sarah replied as she took her cap and put it on.
"Oh I can't." Kari sighed. "No offense, but I have a more important encounter."
"What?" Sarah looked up from her gown confused. "Oh yea, that WWF thing."
"Yea, that WWF thing!" Kari laughed. "I'm wearing this Y2J shirt today but I'm gonna wear my new one tomorrow with my Jericho hat and pendant and everything."
"So, no Lakers hat?" Sarah grinned as she took it off her friend's head to place on the black cap. "Don't wanna express your loyalty to the three-peat champions?"
"Hey!" Kari smirked and she blew the tassel. "I love these things. Meow!" They laughed as they got suited up and waited for the bell to ring. It soon did and everyone was in their seats all dressed and ready.
"Alright class." Their teacher replied. "Last day, so let's go!" Everybody let out a cheer and they poured out of the classroom to join the other parading seniors in the hall.
"Where are we going again?" Kari asked.
"Follow the crowd, I think it's to the auditorium." Sarah replied. Kari nodded. The auditorium was soon full.
"Alright guys, settle down." The principle called to order and everyone silenced. "That's better, these four years of training paid off." There were a few laughs. "Well, I guess this is goodbye, but I'm never good with them, so let's just skip to the diplomas." A few others laughed as he began to call out names and about 20 at a time went up to stand in a line for pictures. Soon Sarah and Kari went up and it was soon over.
"Whew, that was fast." Kari grinned.
"Yea, I guess the line did move fast." Sarah shrugged.
"No, I meant these four years." Kari shoved her playfully.
"Now if you go out to the lawn and get a drink or snack, remember to come back in here so we can go over the final photo in the football field." The principal said. The kids began to get up, go outside and stretch.
"I bet this will be a day to remember." Kari said as she swallowed a gulp of soda.
"Yea, something that should go down in history." Sarah joked and drank hers. All the other kids were laughing too and as they finished up, the group began to head back into the auditorium.
"Hey, did you hear something?" The vice principal asked the principal.
"Maybe it was the kids. I feel the motion of their feet as they come back in." The principal replied.
"No really, I heard a rumble." The lady replied.
"And I felt the rumble." The man said. The kids stopped as about half were inside. Everyone was silent and the two adults looked down at them from the stage. Everyone began to look around, confused. But that's when the principal and vice principal looked at each other. The kids could sense it too now.
"Earthquake!" They cried and began to run around as the rumble grew louder and the floor shook violently.
"Remain calm, remain- ouch!" The principal cried as he fell over the vice principal. Kari and Sarah were one of the first to get out, they ran past the cafeteria but they all stopped as the few in front were blasted back by a blast of water. Kari screamed.
"The pipeline must have broke, ah!" Sarah cried as everyone began to run out to the field like had been planned in all the drills.
"Everyone, fall down!" Kari yelled at the top of her lungs and all them did. They dove forward and the motion caused most of their caps and gowns to fall off. Some looked up to see if the other classes were coming out, but the only other ones out there were the ones running the mile in PE. "Where's everyone?"
"I hope they're not trapped!" Sarah gasped. Somebody began to yell out for another person, but the cries were drowned out by thunderous bangs of the buildings being rattled and torn and collapsing. Kari held the ground tightly, but the motion began to make her seasick so she let go and flew onto some boy.
"Hang on!" He gasped and grabbed onto her. "I don't think they all made it!" Kari and the boy looked up and they looked in horror as they could see big office buildings in the distance crumbling. A big tree fell near the group of people and they let out a scream, and then suddenly the earthquake began to lighten until it stopped.
"That was like 5 minutes or something." Sarah estimated.
"Wow." The boy gasped as he helped Kari up.
"Oh my god." Everyone began to look around. You could smell smoke of fire and hear cries of people and of sirens. News choppers were already seen flying around.
"That was louder than a train, thunderstorm and jet plane combined. And it was worse than any earthquake I've ever been in, and I've lived here all my life." Kari said.
"Let's stop talking, we're the only ones who made it out." The two gym teachers cried and ran over. "We have to search for survivors."
"Right, let's go guys." The boy cried and everyone got up and ran to buildings to call for help and try to dig up a person.
"If it's this bad here, think of downtown with all those skyscrapers." Kari stopped in her tracks. "What about our families? My dad was at a meeting today downtown!"
"First things first, we'll cross that bridge when it comes up." Sarah replied and they began to run again. They were worried but didn't even want to think about it. Only a few survivors were found because the doors and windows had been pressed shut by the walls and the buildings collapses. The only reason they were closed was because of the noise of the rowdy seniors. One of the survivors was Rene, but Mikile wasn't found alive.
"What do we do now?" The principal asked the vice principal.
"Call 911?" She suggested.
"I did, they should be here soon, but there are many other places that need help more than we do." The principal sighed. The female PE teacher got out her radio.
"Here, this might be of help." She replied. They turned it on to find news.
"And the earthquake set a record for California by being as big as the San Francisco quake back in the early 20th century." The newsperson replied. "Nobody knows how long it will take for everyone to be found, but from studio hill, I can see the damage is pretty. We'll be updating you every half hour with any news at all, good or bad."
"Well, all we can do now is wait." The vice principal sighed as everyone began to sit down. That's when somebody called out and the first after shock hit. Everyone screamed as the quake rattled them all again, but this one only lasted about a minute.
"Everyone ok?" The principal asked after a while and everyone began to get up again. "This is obviously not safe, but it might be the safest place out here."
"Wait, I have a TV in the gym office." The male PE teacher ran off.
"I know one thing." Kari said to Rene and Sarah. "If Staples Center is destroyed, I think my life is pretty much as dead as my brothers." They all became quiet.
Tuesday afternoon @ NY
"Ok, I have it all cleared up. We'll be traveling on our own plane." Vince announced and the superstars cheered and that's when every traveler going by air's nightmare was heard on the loudspeaker.
"The flight, NY to LA will be delayed." The ladies voice said.
"Aw man!" Everyone sighed and slumped down in disappointment.
"Great, the plane must be late from LAX or something." Jericho groaned.
"Well, it's noon. I doubt it's still soap news time." Triple H grinned and turned on the TV. Vince began to flip though the channels, he could feel something was wrong.
"Hey!" RVD cried but Vince shushed him. They all watched the screen change. Finally Vince found the channel for CNN nation news. "That's it?"
"Shut up." Vince whispered and turned up the volume.
"And so, the use of transporting things from Canada to Mexico will no longer be used by the Hawaii fare service." The man on the news was saying.
"That's what you were looking for?" Benoit whispered to Vince.
"Shut up." Kurt nudged him and The Rock elbowed him to stop it too.
"And in current news, we'll be taking you live to Los Angeles where an earthquake has just hit and experts claim to say that it was just as bad if not worse on the rector scale as the San Francisco quake long ago." The newscaster said and everyone gasped. Chris Jericho stared at the screen wide eyed and jaw dropped. Everyone stared in dead silence and their faces went pale. "We now go to our eye in the sky chopper."
"Well it looks pretty bad out here, I'll show you the camera's view. I staked out the best spot, so to speak." The man in the helicopter replied, they could tell by the tone of his voice that he was trying not to cry. The camera went to a shot of downtown LA where not a single skyscraper stood more than 5 to 10 stories. Fires were noticeable by the streaming dark lines of the black smoke. A few superstars began to mutter in the back corner, Hogan, Goldust and Terri. The destruction looked like Independence Day.
"Oh my god, what the hell?" Chris Jericho choked as the camera scanned across the once mighty Los Angeles to show all the destruction of anything and everything.
"The other effected counties were the neighbors of LA which are Ventura and Orange." The man in the chopper went on. "A few after shocks have hit but the authorities say that it's not over and you should remain indoors for safety.
"Thank you, we'll be getting back." The lady said. " We now go live to the ground floor where we have a local newscaster at a high school interviewing."
"So you say you were in the graduation ceremonies?" The man was asking the principal and vice principal. No superstar took their eyes off the TV screen.
"That's right, we were in the auditorium." The principal nodded.
"Then what happened." The interviewer went on.
"Well, we could feel and hear the earthquake and we began to ran out as we sensed it coming. But even then I fear that some of them were too late." The principal was saying, noticeable that he was trying not to cry. "And the firemen say that because of the buildings poor design that all the other classrooms, who's doors were closed because of the graduation noise, the walls gave out first and locked the escape openings tightly shut and well, they fear that few other survivors will be found, or found alive."
"How many survived?" The interviewer asked the vice principal.
"Well, the two PE classes and most of the seniors and a few others they daringly went to rescue by the way. These kids are very risky but very brave." She replied.
"Here, perhaps we can get an interview with one of them?" The interview began to walk around as the camera followed. The superstars could see the kids running across the field or tending the ones laying down injured or standing being interviewed. "Oh, you over there with the two girls." He ran over and the camera guy followed. He was referring to the boy who helped Kari and he was talking to Sarah and Rene. "Can you tell me what you were thinking during this terrible turn of wonderful events?"
"Well, we were happy about graduating but then we just felt like we were running for our lives and we weren't even thinking about what we were doing." The boy said.
"We were just so scared." Sarah replied. "My sister was trapped in a building but we were able to save her with a few others who were very lucky."
"You were trapped? For how long, what was it like?" The man asked Rene.
"Well, scared and praying, we didn't think we'd make it. But I guess we were only trapped for maybe 10 minutes or so." Rene replied and that's when the familiar roar began to fill the air and screams could be heard and the kids in the background dropped.
"After shock, get down!" The newsman called and he and the camera guy went down, so did the boy and Sarah, but Rene was scared and confused. That's when the tree they were standing by began to shake and a big limb fell loose and was headed for Rene.
"Rene look out!" Kari's voice was heard and she speared her out of the way as the branch fell on her. Now, this was all in range of the camera so the superstars saw this. They all cried out and a few of the divas turned their eyes away. Jericho stood up.
"No!" He cried, he had noticed her Y2J shirt. "WWF fans are in trouble."
"No duh, the whole city is in trouble and we're headed there." RVD shivered.
"Shut up!" Vince had to silence again. They turned back to the TV.
"No, Kari!" Rene and Sarah cried.
"The shock is over." The boy said as he got up, the trio ran to pull off the branch.
"This brave girl could have just given her life, and you all saw it live!" The man said as he ran over to help pull Kari out. They did it. "Are you alright?"
"Am I dead?" Kari opened her eyes and asked dazed. "If I am, my WWF tickets are useless."
"No, you're alive and you just saved this girl." The interviewer replied and put a hand on his headset. "Oh, we've already taken too long on this segment. We'll be back later with more coverage live." The man said and the camera went back to the CNN station.
"Wow, thank you. Coming up next after the break." The lady started and that's when Jericho turned off the TV.
"Hey!" Everyone yelled and turned to him with a leer.
"Guys, don't you see, the people need us down there. Don't be so selfish, we still have to go down there." He cried as he stood at the front of the room.
"You just want to go help that girl in the Y2J shirt." Benoit sighed.
"No I don't, maybe I'll help her first but I'll help them all in the end. Now, are there any hero's here who are with me?" Jericho replied.
"I'm with you!" RVD, Triple H, The Rock and Kurt Angle stood up.
"Count us all in!" Al Snow added and everyone nodded. Chris grinned.
"Good, let's go Vince!" Jericho turned around.
"Alright hero, the plane doesn't leave for another two hours." Vince replied.
"Do'h!" Jericho growled to himself and they all settled down to think.
Will the superstars be able to get to LA safely and in time? Will Kari and the rest of the fans be able to make it to Staples Center if it's even still in existence? Find out in Ch. 2!