Title: ATM and the ARK Angels of DX: The Damsels of Destruction
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, Charlene McKenzie, Cassidy and Brandon Montenegro, John and Marion Cena, Garrett Calloway and Charlotte, Dan and Carla McCool.
Summary: The Damsels of Destruction team up with the Kliq to bring calamity on DX and Stephanie's drive to get Jeff Hardy to exhibit his art work is the key to getting the ARK Angels out of trouble.
Chapter One – The Hardys Hit the Town
Morse & Jacob's Art Gallery, Manhattan, New York City
It was a warm evening in March and the Hardy family was inspired by Jeff who together with Cheyenne Michelle had restored the devastated DX Inc building in Stamford, Connecticut and made it look ten times better than it did before. The outside of the building was black like before but Jeff used his imagination on the inside and using the traditional DX colors made it look like an art exhibition using plastic, metal and glass. After the city building inspectors verified that it was up to code Stephanie announced to the roster that the work was now finished and business could resume at HQ as normal. With Edge being the locker room's right hand man the WWE roster was confident that things were looking up and to celebrate Stephanie decided to take her husband out for a night on the town to look at what he was most good at.
That town was New York City and the place was an art gallery tucked away from the shops and restaurants. The family usually hung out with the McCools when they were in New York but they were over at the Montenegros today helping Brandon prepare for his wedding which was just around the corner. Aurora fidgeted with her sleeve while Angelo and Angela looked carefully at the art that was on display; they like Jeff had an interest in art and Beth listened as they explained what they thought the deeper meaning was behind a drawing of a vase. Aurora couldn't care less and she rolled her eyes and drug her feet behind her parents preferring to be high in the air flying around than stuck in a dingy art gallery with her family.
"How much longer do we have to be here?" she complained pulling on her mom's red jacket. "You know dad also likes to shop can't we just go to Fifth Avenue instead?"
"Aurora hush, you know Jeff's work belongs in a gallery and it's about time he got inspired," Stephanie replied and Aurora skipped around to Jeff.
"Are you inspired yet?" she asked him and he smiled at her and rubbed her head fondly.
"Aurora you can't just expect him to get inspired like that, art takes time especially if it's good," Angela said coming over to them with Angelo and Beth.
"Yeah and especially if the artist is good," Stephanie said nudging Jeff on the shoulder, "You know you're good Jeff and your art belongs in a gallery like this one,"
Jeff rubbed his chin without saying anything and Beth smiled; she knew her father was way too modest to agree with his wife. Stephanie wasn't the only one to tell Jeff that his art was good; Vince McMahon and Mickie James had told him repeatedly to put his work on display.
"Some of this work is so good," Jeff said blowing past the compliments his family was shooting him and eyeing some of the portraits and landscape drawings. Beth looped her arm in his and walked with him further through the gallery while the rest of the family followed from behind.
Aurora played with a strand of her hair as the A Twins continued to talk about the vase, "I could really do with a haircut," she said to herself. "I'm starting to get split ends,"
Angela rolled her eyes, "Boy you really have no interest in art whatsoever do you?" she said.
"Or is it that you've got other things on your mind," Angelo said and Aurora furrowed her brow at him.
"Like what?" she asked him.
"Like Steven's next appearance on Impact this Thursday, I bet you're thinking what's gonna happen between him and Ravine this time," Angelo said and Aurora fell silent telling Angelo that he was right on the money, "A-ha, you are thinking about it, that's why you're so agitated right now isn't it?"
"Angelo be quiet I am interested in the art, I just haven't seen anything that holds my interest," Aurora said.
"How can that be, there's so much good stuff here?" Angela said. "Face it the only thing you care about right now is Steven Borden and if there was a portrait of him here you'd be staring at it all night long,"
"Shut up I would not," Aurora said embarrassed while the A Twins laughed at her.
"Don't tease your sister guys, you know how touchy she is when it comes to her love life," Stephanie said overhearing her children's conversation.
"Mom please you make me sound like some crazy chick, I am paying attention to this art you know," Aurora said but none of her family members believed her. She was about to make another statement in her defense when an interesting piece of art caught her eye, "Like this for example, I like this," she said and everyone stopped and turned back to see what she had found. It was a drawing of man's face but behind it was another man's face only the face was much younger than the other one and it was covered in a grey fog. The older man's face was black and white but his eyes were crystal blue.
"Wow this is really good," Stephanie said and Jeff nodded in agreement.
"Yeah it is," he said.
"It's a portrait of regret and how the past is affecting the present," Angela observed.
"See I told you I was paying attention," Aurora said with a cocky smile, "I also like this one," she said pointing to a drawing next to it. This one was in color and it was of a woman and a man sitting on the grass holding hands but there was a massive space next to the man as if someone else was supposed to be sitting there.
"This one's good too but it's a lot more optimistic than the other one. Although there's someone that's supposed to be here with the woman and the man you get the idea that that person will arrive soon," Stephanie observed.
"I take it back Ro-Ro you do know something about art," Angela said to her sister surprised.
"Thank you, can we go now?" Aurora said and Stephanie and Beth laughed at her.
"Who's the artist?" Angelo asked looking down at the name tag and Jeff read it out.
"John Felix," he said and then he scratched his chin thoughtfully. "That sounds like an alias, like a fake name,"
"Maybe this guy doesn't want anyone to know who he really is," Beth said.
"Well I wouldn't either he's obviously got a lot of problems," Aurora said and she continued to play with her hair while her family continued to look at the rest of the art on display. She was doing cartwheels by the time they left the gallery.
"Did you get inspired by any of the art?" Stephanie asked her husband lovingly.
"Actually that stuff by John Felix has got me thinking," Jeff replied and Stephanie smiled brightly.
"That's great I'm so glad we came here," she said hoping that Jeff had seen something to encourage him to put his own art work on display. Jeff wasn't thinking the same thing however, he was thinking that he had to speak to a certain TNA wrestler tomorrow and ask him if he had any secret hobbies that he didn't want the wrestling world to know about.
The next day the ARK Angels of DX were in Tampa, Florida to see Edge and find out how things were going with Stephanie and the WWE roster.
"Things are going great," Edge said pouring them each a glass of orange juice. "The Kliq have really backed off since I singed Kevin Nash's hair in Jamaica and the DX Inc building is back up and running and it looks better than ever. Nice work Cheyenne,"
Cheyenne shrugged, "I did okay," she said modestly.
"Okay? If it wasn't for your Phenomenal Strength the building wouldn't have been up so quickly." LC said taking off her green jacket.
"Stephanie is over the moon she took Jeff and the family out to celebrate last night, I wanted to take my family out too but I don't want to get ahead of myself. This could just be the quiet before the storm, know what I mean?" Edge asked the ARK Angels nodded.
"We know exactly what you mean," Cameron said taking off his wooly navy ski hat. "How's Alannah?"
Edge smiled at the mention of his god daughter, "She's alright she's calmed down a bit, at first she wasn't very happy with the idea of me being the bodyguard for the WWE but Angelina managed to convince her that I've got the Kliq in the palm of my hand, I don't know how true that is but it feels good that I don't have to worry about her worrying about me as much anymore,"
"Do you think she's going to go back to Italy once she thinks the Kliq are no longer a threat to you or the WWE?" Cheyenne asked while removing her orange coat.
"A part of me wants her to go and get on with her life but there's another part of me that thinks she'll be better off here, I think that's the selfish part of me," Edge said.
"I think that's the godfather part of you," LC said with a smile.
"Well it's about time I started being the godfather again," Edge said. "So how are your parents doing?"
Cameron, Cheyenne and LC scrunched up their noses at the mention of their parents, "Something weird happened between them but for some reason God won't fill me in on the details," Cameron said. "Remi knows what happened, so does RJ,"
"But not you guys?" Edge asked curiously and the ARK Angels shook their heads, "Hmmm, I guess God just doesn't want you to know about it,"
"Well whatever it is Remi said that they're closer than ever before and that DX are done with the Kliq for good," Cameron added and Edge gasped.
"Whoa that is huge!" Edge said in shock. "So whatever happened to them caused them to sever ties with Kevin, Scott and Sean,"
"And we don't know what that something is," LC said annoyed.
"Well whatever it was answered Amy's prayer, she's wanted Shawn and Hunter out of the Kliq for years," Edge said.
"Its one thing for our parents to say they want out of the Kliq but it's another thing for the Kliq to let them go," Cameron said.
"So you don't think this is over yet?" Edge asked soberly.
"No I don't but without the heads up from God there's not much we can do," Cameron said.
"That tells me God doesn't want you involved in this and that's probably because He wants you for something else," Edge said.
"Yeah we don't get to choose our assignments," LC said and Cheyenne nodded, "If we did I'd pick all the ones where I got to use my Ax of Judgment,"
"And I'd pick the ones where we got to go to the South Pacific," Cheyenne said and Edge smiled remembering the massive adventure he and the ARK Angels of DX had in Fiji several years back.
"Hello?" Cameron said answering his cell-phone and Cheyenne and LC noticed as his face turned serious, "Okay we'll be right there Brandon try to stay calm okay?"
"What is it, what's wrong with Brandon?" Cheyenne asked Cameron concerned about her old friend who lived in Clearwater.
"Cassidy never came home last night and Brandon doesn't know where she is," Cameron said and his cell-phone rang again, "Hello? Okay Mrs. M don't worry we'll be right there,"
"Mrs. M, you mean Charlotte? What happened to her?" LC asked her fiancé.
"Charlotte's panicking because Carla didn't come home yesterday either," Cameron said and his cell-phone rang again. The name on his mobile said Charles McKenzie, Charlene McKenzie's father. "Its Mr. McKenzie and I think he's about to tell us Charlene didn't come home too. Hello?"
As Cameron took the call LC and Cheyenne pulled back on their jackets, "Looks like we're going to have to cut our visit short godfather," LC said picking up Cameron's ski hat.
"Looks like you guys are on assignment, the one God wanted you on," Edge said. "Let me know if I can do anything to help,"
The ARK Angels of DX waved goodbye to Edge and climbed into the DX Machine, on their way to the airport they prayed and asked God to be with them as they went into their next adventure together just days before one of their oldest friend's wedding.