A few weeks earlier…
Ashley walked back into her locker room and let out a sigh.
"Something on your mind?" Seth asked.
"Fucking hell! What is this 'Give Ash a heart attack day'?!" Ashley exclaimed. "And what the fuck are you doing in here?!"
"Hiding from John because I know he'll want to kill me." Seth responded.
"Well you implied some things about his little sis that you shouldn't have." Ashley replied, Seth growling in frustration.
"Can't catch a break today!" Seth yelled.
"Let them be happy, you dick! Otherwise, they'll go off to Japan and you'll never see Mandy again!" Ashley shouted, Seth turning to her in fury. "Just because you are the Architect doesn't mean you are the boss!"
"She was happy with The Shield!" Seth growled.
"Fuck no, she wasn't. Not towards the end, not when you aimed that chair at her back and broke her shoulder blades!" Ashley hissed. "She's moving on and you need to accept that." She said, Seth grabbing her and pinning her against the wall.
Their eyes remained locked… and Ashley smirked.
"Do something! I dare you!" Ashley growled, Seth crashing his lips onto hers. Ashley managing to pull back as she surprised but then she crashed her lips back onto his.
And that's how Matt and Jeff found them, Seth still having Ashley pinned against the wall and the two kissing.
"Get your hands off her! That's our sister!" Matt yelled as Jeff ran over and pulled Seth off before the two started to punch him.
"Get off him boys!" Ashley yelled, charging over and accidentally getting shoved back by Matt.
The woman looked at them with rage before charging over again and slamming her elbow into the back of Matt's neck and pulling him back before grabbing Jeff by the hair and slamming his head into her leg and throwing him back as well.
"You leave him alone!" Ashley yelled.
"He had you pinned against the wall!" Matt yelled.
"You know what? If you two bastards are going to keep acting like this everytime I get close to a guy, then consider this. I'll will happily start a rivalry!" Ashley said, shouting the last part.
"You wouldn't dare!" Jeff growled.
"Oh yes I would and we all know who would win, me!" Ashley growled before looking at Seth. "Come on let's get out of here." She said both her and Seth leaving, Ashley slamming the door.
'And here we go again.' Matt thought.
Something told him in his heart that Seth wouldn't change how he treated Amanda and now Ashley was caught in the middle of it…
Present time...
"We'd like to call out Phoenix, we owe you an apology for what we did." Jeff Hardy said as he and his brother Matt stood in the ring waiting for a response.
"Hm… okay. Do you all want to see what's under the black curtain?" Matt questioned before he removed it to reveal a tied up and gagged Amanda.
"Demon Mistress! Anything to say to me and Brother Nero?!"
"Go fucking jump off a cliff, you fuckers!" Amanda responded, clearly having not agreed to this.
"Come on Phoenix, we know you are out there somewhere!" Jeff yelled.
"You're not gonna get Phoenix!" Amanda shouted, Matt untying the gag.
"This is the closest to God you will get." Was heard before Jeff's song, Spawn of Me, started to play and Ashley stood at the end of the ramp, in a completely different character form.
"What is this?" Matt asked, after Ashley reached the ring.
"Phoenix isn't available, she sent me instead." Ashley said in a hissing like tone.
Amanda managed to get her right foot free but Jeff turned back and slapped her as scripted to.
The lights flickered black and red before going out… Jeff was tackled during the blackout and when the lights returned, Amanda hit Matt with the Demon's Destruction before Finn and Ashley helped the 25 year old to her feet… and noticed although she was in a highly charged state, something wasn't right.
"Get her out of here." Ashley whispered, Finn doing so and him and Amanda reaching the backstage area.
"Alright, this has gone on long enough!" Amanda growled before storming off to Seth's locker room and beating her fist against the door. "Open up, you little dickwad!" She shouted, Finn catching up to her as Seth opened the door… and Amanda kicked Seth below the belt, Seth yelling in pain.
"What the hell was that for?!" Seth demanded.
"Ain't gonna be no fuckery going on between you and Ash tonight but you can still keep the house show tights! And another thing, are you just a fucking sadist?!" Amanda growled, shouting the last part and Seth realising that she thought that he had tied her to the pole.
"I didn't do that to you, I swear." Seth responded as Amanda looked into the locker room and her and Finn seeing the three Hardy siblings were fighting in the ring on the Tv.
"Aw, fuck!" Amanda hissed, heading back towards the curtain but stopping as the adrenaline wore off completely and Finn caught her from falling.
"There's no stopping them, Darlin'. Not with how you're feeling." Finn responded.
"They'll kill each other out there." Amanda responded as she started shivering, Finn pulling his jacket off and putting it on her. "One minute, I was talking to Dean and the next, I felt dizzy… I remember someone saying "I'll get her to go lie down." and then I was out." She explained as she leaned against him… before she grabbed a nearby trash can and threw up, Finn holding her hair back as Dakota and John reached them.
"May I introduce myself to you all." They all heard Ashley say in the hissing tone. "I'm the Angel of Death."
"Nice to meet ya." Amanda said in a flat tone after she had stopped throwing up, Finn taking her to the trainer's room.
"Mandy!" Ashley responded, John stopping her.
"Just give her a bit to get herself back together, kid." John replied as Dianne reach them... but Ashley could see that both were worried.
The trio had the sense that something wasn't right.