Hello, I'm frostyfreezyfreeze54. I feel like I've done this way too many times before. Anyway, for a while, I was working on a series of stories entitled WWE Ultimate. These stories involved present-day WWE Superstars and present-day attitudes and culture in situations dating back to 1996. It's a parallel universe, so things are different here. One change is that humanity is 10 years advanced. For example, Facebook and Twitter were rather commonplace in 1998, instead of them being created in the '2000s and then having a major boom before 2010 hit. Interestingly enough, despite the fact that humanity is 10 years advanced, I only use HD sets for some events. I don't use them for RAW, SmackDown!, or ECW. Believe it or not, several of my stories were inspired from what I personally believe to be the greatest show ever put on a TV screen, Arthur. In one story, Triple H is diagnosed with quadrilitis, a little-known (fictional) disease that causes lack of blood circulation in the quadriceps. This is inspired from the Arthur episode where Buster is diagnosed with asthma. However, WWE Ultimate was terminated when the dumbbots (Sonic the Hedgehog reference) that run this site deleted 12 of my stories, including one that I'd been working on at the time, SummerSlam 1999. I then decided to bring The Wrestling Game, a game me and my friend William played in junior high, to life by publishing the stories on this site. However, I lost interest by the second story. After that, I decided to fulfill one of my dreams and give a middle finger to society by creating my own cartoon show (Thank You, Heavenly). However, I realized the impossibility of coming up with new episodes each week. I couldn't handle the responsibility, so I gave up on episode three. Now, I'm back to doing what I do best and love the most: WWE Ultimate. I decided to skip a few stories and head to Royal Rumble 2000. I'm in the rebuilding process, and it won't be the same without those stories, but where would New Orleans be if Hurricane Katrina ravaged them and left them with nothing? A slew of broken people who were too self-sorry to get off their soapbox to heal the wounds and patch up the reparable holes. Well, they didn't give up, and it finally paid off in 2010 when the Saints won Super Bowl XLIV. I REALLY wanted the Colts to win. OK, enough rambling. To fix the confusion that some of you may have, I'll let you guys catch up on what has happened since SummerSlam:
Unforgiven 1999- Edge is defending his newly-won WWE Championship against the returning Randy Orton, who is now a babyface. Edge wins with a low blow and the Spear, but is given an RKO after the match.
Survivor Series 1999- Still WWE Champion, Edge is accused of a crime he know he didn't commit. Every week on RAW for the past couple weeks, "Edge Rules" has been shown in grafitti all over the backstage area. If "Edge Rules" shows up one more time, Edge will be stripped of the WWE Championship and suspended for two months, missing Survivor Series and maybe Armageddon. Orton suggests that Edge get a detective, and leads him to The Undertaker. John Cena suggests that Edge choose Cena's best buddy and DX partner (yes, in this world, Cena is the Shawn Michaels of DX, don't make jokes about it) Triple H. This leads to a standoff between Cena, Orton, Triple H, Undertaker, and other side-taking Superstars. It all leads to an eight-man elimination tag-team match at Survivor Series. Edge will serve as Special Guest Referee, while Triple H and The Undertaker captain opposing teams (Cena, Shane McMahon, and Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat on Triple H's team, while Orton, Orton's best friend and former protege "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, and Cena's fellow tag-team partner (and one half of the World Tag Team Champions) Rob Van Dam serve on Undertaker's team). The winning team will have their captain be Edge's detective. RVD is eventually replaced by Shawn Michaels because on the last RAW before Survivor Series, he was beaten by Cena. This was revenge for RVD betraying Cena and turning heel on SmackDown! three days prior. This was the first SmackDown! on its new channel, UPN. Originally, it was on The WB. This SmackDown! was also live and the new theme song was "Sad But True" by Metallica. At the event, it comes down to Cena and Undertaker. Cena superplexes Undertaker, and both men end up with their arms on each others' bodies. Edge counts both guys' shoulders to the mat, ruling it a double pin and eliminating each other in the process. It is announced that Triple H and The Undertaker will work together. They both find out it is the work of The Edge, guitarist of the Irish rock band U2. Because WWE is a huge platform, it was decided by the band that The Edge would help promote the comeback of the band through WWE. To make up for it, every WWE Superstar is invited to one of U2's concerts (because it affected him most, Edge was given front-row seats) and the band ends up performing on RAW the next week, with their hits "Elevation" and "Vertigo." This storyline received national media attention, and was used as a way to blur storyline and reality together, because in storyline, babyfaces Triple H and Undertaker would never help heel Edge. This PPV was presented by SmackDown! vs. RAW 2000, available on Xbox 360, Xbox, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, PSP, and Nintendo GameCube in stores November 9. It was the first video game under the WWE name, and was not released for the Wii as it hadn't debuted yet. It would, however, debut in March 2000 and eventually phase out the GameCube. It'd compete with the Xbox 360 and PS3 for fanbase support upon debuting. The cover art showed John Cena representing RAW, "Rowdy" Roddy Piper representing SmackDown!, and Triple H representing ECW, despite the fact he left the brand in June. This received negative responses, claiming that The Undertaker should be representing ECW. When asked about it, Undertaker (out-of-character) stated, "Man, I really don't give a (bleep). I mean it's just a damn game. I'm not that good at it anyway. I played as Cena and got my ass whooped, so (laughing) what do you wanna do?"
Armageddon 1999- RAW General Manager Jonathan Coachman, SmackDown! General Manager "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, and ECW General Manager Armando Estrada announce that at Armageddon, two world championship matches will be interpromotional matches, meaning RAW vs. SmackDown! or SmackDown! vs. ECW or ECW vs. RAW. It is decided the World Heavyweight and ECW Championships will be defended in brand vs. brand contests. SmackDown!'s Triple H will defend his World Heavyweight Championship against RAW's Big Show, while The Undertaker (who's sixteen-month contract with ECW expires a week after Armageddon) will defend against ECW's own Tommy Dreamer. Eventually, Undertaker and Estrada are unable to agree on a new deal, and it is later announced Undertaker will be leaving ECW soon and signing a new contract with RAW. The deal is reportedly two years long, officially making the title match brand vs. brand. At Armageddon, in the main event, Undertaker fought Dreamer, with the stipulation that WWE Champion Edge moves to ECW should Undertaker win. Dreamer won due to interference from Fourtune (Batista, Ted DiBiase II, Cody Rhodes, and Dolph Ziggler) which was unseen by the knocked-out referee Scott Armstrong and Dreamer himself. Undertaker's last night on ECW was against Fourtune in a 4-on-1 Handicap Match, which he won. Undertaker then sent all four men off the stage and through a platform 10 feet below. Undertaker then disappeared from WWE television and hasn't been seen since then. As for the World Heavyweight Championship, Big Show defeated Triple H. Instead of taking the title to RAW with him and moving Edge to SmackDown!, GM Austin made Big Show sign a new SmackDown! contract. Although he didn't need to, Triple H moved to RAW, marking his first appearance on the show as a member in more than a year. HHH claimed it's time to "come home."
Now that you're all caught up, it's time for Royal Rumble 2000.