It was an early morning after a long week of Raw & Smackdown with Hunter and Stephanie in their hotel room asleep in their bed with the man's arm around his wife. Her head in his chest to enjoy the quiet time they got together while in the room next to theirs was their three sons. In one of the beds was Roman while in the second were the twins with Seth sleeping in a tank top and Dean in extra long sleeve shirt. The youngest did not feel like getting his twin's memories of past dreams while sleeping since it would ruin his night with the fact Seth could dream some weird stuff. At Dean's cell phone going off on the floor next to him, he reached down to see a text message that had his eyes widening. He rushed out of his bed to start snatching clothes from his suitcase and soon changed from his long sleeve shirt and pajama pants into a pair of jeans and long sleeve shirt under a T-shirt. Dean brushed his teeth in the bathroom before stumbling in the direction of the door while slipping on his sneakers.
"Where are you off to in a rush?" Roman asked his baby brother while Seth was still out cold.
"Meeting up with one of my friends. Don't worry Rome. I'll be back before breakfast." Dean assured as he opened the door to leave.
He rushed down the hallway to the elevator to take it down to the lobby where he saw a young man with black hair under a cap. At the young man noticing Dean heading his way, he could tell the boy was not happy one bit on what the text message had said.
"Sami, you told me no one would be able to figure it out." Dean said to the young man.
"I didn't think they would." Sami Calihan defended. "We were looking for something to make money and they had no issue with the fact you couldn't produce a birth certificate proving your age. Dude, someone made the connection after my appearance on NXT and it keeps on getting more clearer to some people."
"Shit. My parents are going to be so pissed when they find out." Dean put hands in his hair.
"Yeah, well their at the time twelve year old son told people he was fourteen and wrestled in deathmatches." Sami told his friend.
"I thought using Jon Moxley would cover my tracks since my uncle and I look alike."
"How are we going to deal with this?" Sami asked. "It won't be long until some of our once opponents now WWE wrestlers figure out what we did."
"Maybe not." Dean had an idea.
"What do you mean?" Sami looked confused.
"Trust me that no one will figure out that I took over as Jon Moxley in CZW for my uncle." Dean said and Sami nodded to then smile.
"Good to see you, Dean. Man, I remember when you were acting like such a brat and your age in CZW. Hitting me with towels and no one could tell since you always been taller than me."
"I was only really twelve for a couple months and both my parents are tall if you haven't noticed."
"How did you get them to not notice the injuries you had?" Sami asked as they got some drinks from a vending machine.
"Told them I fell. I still do that a lot since I happen to be very clumsy." Dean laughed as he noticed Sami glancing at how covered up he was.
"What's with the sleeves?"
"Long story. I have to wear them for medical reasons when not in the ring."
"From CZW medical reasons?" Sami asked nervously.
"No. Family medical reasons." Dean assured.
"Saw your match against Brodie Lee or I guess he goes by Luke Harper now."
"Yeah, he's really just the same. I think the shirt he wears is the same one he wore in CZW and swear some of my blood is still on it."
"That's messed up and disgusting. Scary to think that your uncle never figured out some people think he was amazing over the stuff you actually did. He never even set foot in CZW." Sami sounded amused over this.
"Yeah. I needed to stop feeling like the good baby boy my brothers saw me to our parents."
"Dean, we did some crazy stuff in that indie company and I'm happy you got out. We both knew the other wrestlers hated our guts and the whispers of what they wanted to do to you."
"I remember. FCW was a new start for me and using my actual name probably gave me an escape from others realizing who I was."
"Yeah, you cut your hair a little too to help."
"Sami, I missed having you around."
"We're best friends Mox." Sami used the boy's CZW nickname.
"Yeah, we are. When I needed an escape from family, you got me it in CZW."
"Good luck in your career. Text you later Mox." Sami got up from the chair he'd been sitting in to start walking away.
Dean knew he should get back to his room too, but stopped as a strange feeling came over him from an unfamiliar mind. He looked around the lobby for who could be the unfamiliar mind to see no one around and decided to just ignore it. When he got into the elevator, he hit the button for his floor to start moving when someone dropped down behind him that he saw in the metal reflection. Turning quick to face them, Dean got snatched by the throat and shoved into the elevator walls hard. The person hit the switch turning the elevator off and then put their masked face focus back on Dean.
"Hello Moxley. Long time since we last saw each other." a mechanical voice laughed to hide their identity.
"I don't know who you are talking about." Dean spat as he accessed his powers. "Let me go."
"Your powers don't work on me." the person said as he tapped the mask. "Now I think we have some catching up to do."
"Kiss my ass." Dean tried to claw at the person's arm.
"I know what a lot of our CZW pals wanted to do to your ass. You just ignored those rumors and one able to get out did."
"What the hell do you want with me?"
"Someone has paid me a lot of money to give you a certain memory." the masked man had his ungloved hand touch Dean's face for the boy to gasp as painful memories hit him.
Barb wire for ropes was around the ring and they brought a scraping pain as bare skin was tossed into them. The feeling of blood slipping from each cut they made stung and then glass shattering over the cuts caused impossible to deal with amounts of pain.
Tears slid down Dean's face as he couldn't take the pain from the memories as it felt like his own skin just had that done to it. He felt the masked man release him for him to slide down to the elevator floor and didn't have the strength to look up. Some blood leaked from his nose as he fought to regain control of his mind like Regal had taught him. Dean knew he had to keep control as he felt the elevator shaking a little bit. A laugh made Dean look up to the masked man who just turned the elevator back on and hit the floor below the one Dean's room was on.
"More will come. See you around Moxley."
Before he left the elevator as the doors opened, a hard stomp slammed into Dean's back forcing him to cry out due to how sensitive his back was from the memory. He watched the man leave and the doors closed again to be heading up to his floor. Once there, Dean forced himself to stand and made his way to his hotel room. Luckily his brothers were still asleep and he easily entered the bathroom without them waking up to see his condition. He closed and locked the door behind him before looking at his reflection in the mirror as he took his glasses off to wash the tear residue off them. It was when he shifted his back did he fear that the pain wouldn't go any time soon.
"Dean, get out of the bathroom. I need to pee really bad." Seth banged on the door.
"Give me a minute." Dean told his twin and quickly washed his face to get rid of any evidence to the fact he'd been crying.
The boy opened the bathroom door to be shoved out by his twin who rushed in slamming the door shut. Dean shook his head as he turned to see Roman collecting his clothes and Dean hated that his oldest brother had never known about his time in CZW. Both Roman and Seth had been doing their own things along with their parents traveling a lot so they hadn't been close. Really their family just kind of drifted apart for years when him and Seth were nine years old and it had been hard to reconnect. Now Dean though knew it hadn't been his parents fault or that the whole separation with himself in the mental hospital was the reason. Never did Dean want his family to have to worry about it happening again all because he lost control of his powers. He was just a kid then and now he felt more in control than he ever had been before of them.
"You better not get trapped in that dangerous mind of yours." Roman ordered in a joking way to his baby brother.
"Sorry. I was just thinking of before signing to WWE and FCW."
"Man those days were awesome." Seth said as he exited the bathroom. "Spending a summer at sleep away camp when I was twelve and us individualizing ourselves from being identical twins."
"Yeah." Dean wished he could tell his brothers that instead of camp, he'd been wrestling in CZW getting himself covered in his own blood.
"Boys, time to get moving." Hunter told his sons since they had to be getting to the arena soon for some traing.
"We'll be out in five minutes." Roman assured his dad.
Both Seth and Roman began getting ready while Dean just double checked that his gear was in his bag. He slung his bag over his shoulder once his brothers were ready and the three left their room to join their parents in the walk down the hallway and Dean tried to not look nervous as they stepped inside the elevator. The car ride to the arena was the normal with Seth texting his friends, Roman in the middle playing a game on his phone, and Dean listening music with his eyes out the window. Up in the front seats, Hunter smiled at his sons doing their usual car ride things and glanced to his wife who had to make sure everything for the next shows was being taken care of. The family arrived at the arena about to get out when Finn suddenly appeared inside the car and landed in Seth and Roman's laps.
"Miss me?" Finn asked with a smirk.
"Getting away from your sister again?" Roman asked.
"Yep. She thinks a hug will make us be closer." Finn rolled his eyes over that.
"So you plan on hiding with us for a bit." Seth laughed as they all got out of the car.
Hunter saw the boys start heading towards the locker rooms to stop them with confused looks sent his way. Only a motion to follow him was made and he led the boys to the ring where there was no sign of anyone around. Each boy got into the ring after his instruction to and took spots to be watching the Game curious on what he had planned.
"Each of your powers grow as you do. Now I believe instead of normal wrestling training today, we'll do a match with use of powers." Hunter explained his plan.
"Really?" the twins looked interested.
"Tag team?" Roman asked.
"Fatal four way." Hunter told them. "Now pick your corners."
Not a second later, all four boys stood in separate corners waiting for Hunter to signal for them to begin the match. First to move was Seth who went straight for Finn to have his teleport out of his path and appear crouched on a turnbuckle. He launched off to teleport and land a dropkick on Seth to send the blonde streak haired boy tumbling towards Roman. Seth though phased through his older brother to sweep his legs out from under him. Only Roman didn't just go down and he slapped his palm on the mat making a shockwave that brought Seth and Finn down too. Dean sat on the turnbuckle watching his brothers and cousin with amusement as he made some chairs float out from under the ring to pile on the three. It was able to get him to pin them down, but Seth just phased away as Finn teleported to escape and they went for Dean. He used some floating chairs to block his twin and cousin's attempts to get to him. Not having watched his back, Dean didn't see Roman get up and the oldest Helmsley boy slammed his fist on the ground making a shockwave that had the three tumbling out of the ring. Dean got himself pinned during his attempt to get back in and they heard Hunter clapping with the match now over.
"Very good." Hunter said to the four. "Your control is much better."
"Yeah." Seth sounded proud of himself. "Myself being the champ has to be on the top of my game."
"Here we go." Finn sighed as Roman rolled his eyes at his little brother.
"What problem do you two have?" Seth asked having seen them.
"Only reason you became champ is because you and your brothers wanted to stick it to Lesnar after everything he did to you." Finn explained to his cousin.
"Also I was the only one able to do it." Seth defended.
"Orton defeated you in the match at mania though. He lost at Extreme Rules, because you can't stop cheating." Finn stepped up to get in Seth's face.
"I can easily beat you demon boy."
"Not possible. You may be fast, but I know your every move and can teleport in a snap."
Dean watched his twin and cousin look close to coming to blows and quickly ordered them with his powers to calm down. Only after he was able to do that, the memory pain in his back returned for him to not be able to hold back the cry that he released. Sinking to his knees in pain, Dean saw this allowed a slip with his control and things began floating off the floor. Not caring if he got hurt, Roman crouched in front of his baby brother to touch his covered shoulders in hopes to giving him comfort. It worked as Dean pushed away the pain and regained control to put anything floating back on the floor. He saw his dad watching him with concern along with Finn and Seth avoiding eye contact.
"Ambrose. I think we need to rework on some things." Regal told the boy who gave a nod.
"Yeah." Dean stood up with a little help from Roman to then walk out with Regal's hand on his back.
"I'm going to go see how your mom is doing." Hunter told his sons before walking away.
"Man, I thought Dean would hurt us or something." Seth sighed as he sat on the apron.
"His powers can get out of control sometimes." Finn sat beside his younger cousin.
"He is still learning control. Also I remember you yesterday bolting to phase right into the bathroom while dad as in the shower." Roman reminded his little brother and then looked to his cousin. "Or Finn, you accidently teleporting yourself onto the catering table to be covered in food."
"Yeah, but no one would've gotten hurt." Finn said and Seth nodded.
"Are you saying Dean should be locked away?" Roman's anger was starting to come out.
"No." Finn shook his head shocked his cousin would accuse him of that.
"Rome, we're just saying that Dean's powers are kind of dangerous when out of his control." Seth tried to explain.
"Dean was locked in a mental asylum for over a year because of his powers. I know he most likely didn't have pleasant times there and if anyone tries to lock him back up, they'll find out how dangerous my powers are." Roman crushed a steel step easily as his eyes glowed deep blue.
Roman not caring about the fact he scared his cousin and little brother, turned from them to begin heading for the exit. He meant what he said back there on if anyone dared to try locking Dean away again because they believed his powers to be dangerous or out of control. At the time of the original try, Roman hadn't known how to fight back or that he could have stopped those men. Now though the boy had learned everything he needed to stop anyone from locking Dean up again and he'd use it with no regret.
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