A/N: Hey guys, White again. Despite his signing with UFC, I still hold out hope that CM Punk will return some day. This story is a slight AU based on Survivor Series, featuring a purely fantasy return by Punk. Hope ya enjoy it guys!
November 23rd, 2014
It was Survivor Series 2014 and the fateful match between Team Cena and Team Authority was at it's final point. Dolph Ziggler, the last member of Team Cena still in the match was facing off against Seth Rollins, the captain of Team Authority in a hotly contested match. The man who was eliminated last would be on the losing team and the fans were buzzing throughout.
Dolph Ziggler had kept things even through his one on one fight with Seth Rollins so far with near falls and roll-up pins, attacks and counterattacks until he dodged a super-Curb Stomp by Seth Rollins, followed up into a Fame Asser which lead to a near-fall as the "Future of the WWE" kicked out.
"Come on Dolph, come on Dolph! Damn it, Rollins stays in it!" Cole yelled, showing a bit of favoritism to the Show-Off. It was clear he hated The Authority as much as anyone else did.
Dolph got up to his feet steadily but barely even had the time to catch his breath before he saw Joey Mercury and Jamie Noble, The Authority's henchmen get on the apron but the Show Off disposed of them quickly before giving a Zig-Zag to Seth Rollins, going in for the pin, and HHH pulling the referee from the ring right before his hand fell for three.
"Oh come on! How much abuse of power are we gonna see here?!" Cole yelled.
"It's not abuse of power when you're trying to stay in power Michael!" JBL said in defense of the C.O.O. of WWE while Jamie and Joey rushed the ring to stomp down Dolph Ziggler.
"Come on JBL, can you be anymore biased?!" King growled.
"I'm just stating the facts! Hunter and Stephanie don't want to be filing papers for the rest of their careers. Desperate people do desperate things at desperate times and dammit this is one of those times!" JBL exclaimed.
Meanwhile Dolph was in the ring, fighting off the attack from The Authority and was making a comeback. He endured a powerbomb to the corner by Seth Rollins, dodged a Curb Stomp, and quickly hit another Zig-Zag. Then a new referee ran into the ring to make the count.
"This is it, this is it! Goodbye Authority! Count ref, count!" Cole yelled.
"ONE! TWO! OHHHHHHHHH!" The fans were awestruck by Triple H taking matters into his own hands. Stomping on the referee and soundly throwing him out of the ring hard.
Hunter made a beeline to Dolph Ziggler, throwing mounted punches on the Show-Off's head to keep him down.
"Come on! What the hell does this prove Hunter?!" Cole screamed.
Hunter stood over Dolph with channeled anger and harnessed rage, Stephanie cheering him on as he grabbed Dolph by his arm.
"Come on Dolph, hang in there kid!" Cole urged.
Hunter then pulled him up, doubled him over, and hit a hard Pedigree on Dolph Ziggler which drew immediate boos from the fans.
"Come on Hunter! What the hell is this?! This is ridiculous! This is pathetic!" Cole screamed.
Hunter then signaled The Authority's personal referee, Scott Armstrong to run down to the ring.
"Oh look who it is...Scott Armstrong..he's been in Triple H's pocket since day one.." Cole lamented.
"When The Authority need him most he's always there." JBL said as Scott scrambled into the ring but as soon as he got his two feet set in the squared circle every light in the building went off, coating the arena in pitch black.
"What the?! Whats going on?!" Cole exclaimed.
The St. Louis audience murmured among themselves as they wondered just what was happening, why did everything go dark? And then the jumbotron and ribbon began to crackle with static before the opening chords to a song that hasn't been heard in a WWE arena in 10 months was played out loud and clear. Cult of Personality and it belonged to one man...
"No way...no freakin way..." JBL started.
"This can't be...this can't be..." Cole said with his eyes glued to the live monitor as fateful seconds passed before the sight of a man with his arms, upper body, and neck tattooed, wearing star-clad boots and wrestling trunks with the hair on his face cut neat and short. Only one man in the world had that look, CM Punk!
Backstage, the now former Divas Champion AJ Lee looked on in amazement. "No way!" She squealed.
CM Punk stood on the stage for a bit, taking all of this in. The cheers, the looks of shock and awe on the crowd, and the sight of the ring before him, before he walked on down to the ring.
Hunter's expression was one of complete shock.
Punk's eyes stared down the ring once he got inside, looking at the shocked C.O.O. and the Authority's referee, and then the fallen Seth Rollins and Dolph Ziggler. Not moving but just letting the fans take this in.
Everyones eyes were glued on Punk, anxious.
Acting like the corrupt referee that he was Scott Armstrong soon walked up to Punk, flexing his official status to him. "I'm the referee of the match! Get out of here!" Scott yelled but Punk wasn't amused as he simply threw one hard punch across Scott's jaw that knocked him down and out from the impact.
The crowd erupted in cheers.
"Oh you gotta be kidding me!" JBL exclaimed in shock as Scott rolled out to the ring in pain
"Thank god for CM Punk!" King laughed.
And now CM Punk and Triple H stared at each other coldly now that "The Game" knew where Punk's allegiances lied.
After a few tense seconds, Punk threw Hunter on his shoulders.
Punk held Hunter on his shoulders for a suspenseful moment before dropping him onto his knee for a GTS.
The crowd erupted into cheers as a raucous CM Punk chant began.
Punk soon draped Dolph's arm safely over Seth's to cement his opposition to The Authority.
"Oh my god!" King exclaimed.
Punk heard the booming cheers of the crowd which brought a smile to his face before it curled into a smirk as he looked to the "bean-headed" queen of The Authority and waved at her. "Good bye!" He cheerfully mouthed before he left the ring.
"One!" The fans counter with the first slap of the referee's hand. The Authority was in danger of losing the match.
"This is it, this is it!" King cheered.
"Two!" The fans chanted. One fateful second was all it took for The Authority to be defeated and the match to be over.
"No no no!" JBL yelled.
"YES!" Cole exclaimed as the fans counted to three. The match was now over, Team Cena won!
"What has CM Punk done?!" JBL yelped.
"CM Punk, one of the biggest rebels in WWE history, has helped Dolph Ziggler seal The Authority's fate!" Cole screamed out loud.
"He's started the destruction of WWE, Michael!" JBL yelled.
"Oh give it a rest John!" King yelled in Cole's defense. "The Authority has given so many people problems before including CM Punk. It'll be a relief for the locker room to have them gone!"
"They provided order!" JBL yelled.
"They bullied people and you know it!" King countered.
"And The Authority has lost and Stephanie McMahon can't believe it!" Cole yelled out.
"But what does Punk want exactly, aside from saving WWE?" King wondered.
"Well we know Punk does not like Triple H or Stephanie McMahon. Don't forget he was feuding with The Authority before he left the WWE." Cole reminded.
"This is very true." King mused.
"Well I hope Punk's real proud of himself. He just came back to the WWE to kill it now that The Authority is out of power!" JBL yelled as Stephanie and Hunter just now came to the realization that they lost the match.
Now the hero of Team Cena, Dolph Ziggler was backstage celebrating in victory over his win with a gang of WWE Employees. Goldust & Stardust were there, Zack Ryder, The Miz and Damien Mizdow Erick Rowan, Ryback, even Daniel Bryan and CM Punk was there! And those were just the guys. Layla and Summer Rae, Emma, Paige, and both Bellas were there to celebrate with him. The only person who surprisingly wasn't there was John Cena and that's only because he had to "get something important." and that he'd be back but it was okay. Alignment didn't matter since everybody who hated the Authority and felt their wrath at one point or another was here to celebrate!
"You were so wonderful out there Dolph.." Layla and Summer seductively cooed.
"Hey I couldn't let the WWE down. Nobody here likes the Authority and if I meant I had to show-off extra hard tonight then so be it." Dolph grinned.
Summer and Layla giggled, peppering The Showoff with kisses of adoration and thanks.
"Yeah totally ignore the guy that came back after 10 months," Punk said in sarcasm.
"They may have forgotten, but I haven't..." Came a very perky, and overjoyed tone.
Punk turned around and smiled at the sight of the smiling beauty before him. It was none other than his wife, queen of the Black Widow, AJ Lee. "I wondered when you were going to see me, sweetheart." Punk smiled with with open arms.
AJ giggled, jumping in Punk's arms.
Punk smiled holding her close within the hug.
"Awwwwwww two pipebombers in love." Kofi joked with a smile.
"Oh hush Wildcat." AJ mewled, nibbling on Punk's earlobe.
"I missed you so much baby." Punk purred, his arms moving to her lower back.
"I missed you too baby.." AJ cooed, before giving him a light but gentle slap on the cheek.
"Ow, what was that for?" Punk said after feeling the slap across his cheek.
"Don't ever walk out on me again, Mistah J, or Harley won't be so nice to you at home.." AJ purred, smirking.
This made everybody within earshot smirk, laugh, and oooh in response, making Punk uncharacteristically blush. Only AJ could make him do that. "I think I know who wears the pants in this relationship." Miz playfully teased his tattooed comrade.
"See Punky? Mizzy knows." AJ laughed, smirk widening.
"Mike knows nothing." Punk said with a blush and pout as the other guys laughed.
"Looks like you have the rebel well-trained AJ." Daniel said with a bearded smirk.
"Was easy." AJ laughed.
"Yeah it's pretty-" Dolph started before suddenly being cut-off.
Then right behind the laughing Show Off came a smirking John Cena, creeping behind him and dunking a big jug of gatorade on Dolph Ziggler's head!
"OHHHH! CENA!" Dolph yelled, laughing.
"Hey that's how you're supposed to celebrate after a big win." John grinned. "Bet you were thirsty too." He teased.
Dolph shook his head, shaking a few excess drops of Gatorade out of his hair. "Yeah I was."
"Thought so." John smiled before turning to CM Punk. "Now as for you, you have a lot of explaining to do." He chuckled.
"I'm quite aware of that John-boy." Punk replied wryly.
"So are you going to explain it to us tonight or tomorrow?" John asked. Since Raw was tomorrow Punk had an open outlet to explain himself to the WWE Universe.
"I'll be on Raw tomorrow night. But rest assured, I didn't just leave to leave, I promise ya that." Punk assured.
"We'll be looking forward to it." John nodded.
"Just like we'll be looking to the first Raw without The Authority in power." Daniel grinned.
"Ya can thank me later Goatface." Punk teased, giving Daniel an affectionate hug.
Daniel laughed, returning the hug to his tattoed comrade. Ryback then spoke up with a smile on his face. "Lets get something to eat, watching The Authority get humilated made me hungry."
"Don't you worry Big Guy. You'll get fed soon enough." Punk grinned.
"Yeah we got plenty of food to eat while we gloat about our win." Dolph grinned as well.
"And there's plenty of Divas that love you more than you know right now, Show-Off.." Emma cooed, innocently draping her arms around Dolph's waist.
Dolph found it cute that one of the younger wrestlers in the WWE had taken such a liking to him. "Good to know Emma." He smiled back at her.
Emma smiled shyly at him.
"But really though, lets get some food." Dolph replied happily.
"Good call because," Emma giggled. "ITS FEEDING TIME!" Ryback exclaimed, laughing.
This earned laughter from Dolph and the other Superstars while they walked from the gorilla position hallway down to the catering area so they can eat, chat, and gloat on how The Authority was dead.
To be continued...