Title: The ARK Angels of DX in Monster Ink
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 and Cheyenne Michaels, Amy 'Lita' Dumas Michaels, Hunter Hurst Helmsley, LC Helmsley, Aurora Rose Helmsley, Chyna, Trish and Randy Orton, Melina and Johnny Hennigan, Batista, CM Punk, The Beautiful People, Edge, Jeff Hardy, Rey Mysterio, Stephanie and Chris Jericho, The McCools
Summary: An evil spirit takes possession of Batista and CM Punk and chaos ensues for the RAW locker room. DX discover that the problem is tattooed on the two Superstars but can Shawn and Hunter help them and protect their family at the same-time?
Chapter Three - Heavy Lids
RAW house show, HSBC Arena, Buffalo, NY at 9:30pm:
Hunter came over to Shawn who was standing backstage with a thoughtful look on his face while Hunter was about to get very angry.
"He's not here," Hunter said and Shawn nodded.
"He's not showing up tonight, Kofi will have to wrestle Kane instead," Shawn said simply but his mind seemed elsewhere.
"He's not even answering his cell-phone where the Hell is he? Randy and Trish go on their honeymoon and the whole operation falls apart," Hunter complained but he really wasn't getting the impression that Shawn was as concerned that CM Punk hadn't shown up as he was.
"Yo Kofi, you're wrestling Kane tonight!" Shawn shouted out to the Jamaican Superstar.
"Okay boss!" Kofi called back and started to get ready for his match by jumping up and down and doing a few stretches.
"That should be a good match but its not like Punk to miss a house show, I sure hope this doesn't become a trend," Hunter said and he saw Batista who had just finished his match and he had a kind of sour look on his face, "Hey Dave are you okay?" Hunter asked him.
"Yeah I'm fine," Batista snapped not bothering to stop to address Hunter properly.
"Have you seen or heard from Punk?" Hunter called after him.
"No," Batista replied before going into the locker room and Hunter rubbed his chin.
"What was that all about?" he said but Shawn may as well have not been there because he was still in his own world.
"Hey Trips did you see Dave's match?" John Cena said to Triple H.
"No I missed it I was too busy looking for CM Punk, have you seen him?" Trips asked Cena.
"No I haven't but you should talk to Dave and remind him that he's supposed to be a good guy, he nearly killed his opponent out there," John Cena said and Shawn's ears finally pricked up as the jobber that Batista had faced came backstage, he could barely walk.
"You okay kid?" Shawn said coming over to him while Hunter gave him some water.
"Yeah I'm fine I just wanna get my stuff and get outta here," the young wrestler said, he obviously wasn't happy with his match against Batista at all. He quickly got his stuff from the locker room then got out of there fast because Batista was in there. "I thought the Animal was just a nickname," he said to DX before leaving the HSBC arena.
"I don't think we'll be seeing that guy again," Hunter said and Shawn nodded as Batista left pretty much after the jobber did, he wasn't in a very good mood, "I'm gonna go to Philly and check on Punk after the show, I don't like it when people just don't show up it creeps me out," Hunter told Shawn who nodded again.
"Okay," Shawn said and Hunter got irritated and slapped his best friend around the head.
"What's with you?" he said annoyed then he had to shake off his hand because Shawn's Righteous Indignation acted up a little as a result of the slap.
"I've got a really bad feeling about Vince helping out Waterside," Shawn replied, "quite frankly Hunter I don't want that man in the same state as our children let alone the same school. We kicked him out of the wrestling business and now we're running his company,"
"Successfully I might add," Hunter added thinking about the numbers the WWE had been doing since they took over in the spring and they were very impressive.
"Yeah and I can't imagine Vince being happy for our success can you?" Shawn said.
"No," Hunter replied, "but all we really know is that he gave Waterside money, we don't know if he wants to be involved in the day-to-day running of the school," Hunter argued.
"Then why would he tell Mr. Applebee to re-enroll Chey, Cam and LC?" Shawn asked and Hunter scratched his head trying to think of an answer, "I'll save you from destroying a couple of brain cells and tell you why he did, he did it so he can keep an eye on them,"
"An eye on them?" Hunter asked growing concerned.
"Well it certainly wasn't a friendly gesture, if he'd forgiven us for what we did he would have told us in person, its not like he doesn't know where we live!" Shawn said and Hunter's brow furrowed with concern.
"I don't like where you're going Shawn," Hunter said, "What do we do?"
"Well for now we'll just tell our children to be alert and if they see Vince to let us know immediately," Shawn said and Hunter nodded, "Then we'll take it from there,"
"We can trust our kids to do that," Hunter said.
"But the one person we can't trust is Vincent Kennedy McMahon," Shawn said and Hunter nodded, "So we're on the same page?"
"You may be a little further along than me but I'm catching up," Hunter said and watched the rest of the show which like all the others was turning out to be another blockbuster.
Waterside, 9am:
Mr. Applebee had told all the parents whose children were enrolled at Waterside that school would not be open for another three months due to the damage done by the freak earthquake back in July. That quickly changed when Cheyenne came to visit the wrecked school. When she saw the building material just laying there unused she dismissed the construction workers as lazy and immediately started to rebuild the school herself with Phenomenal strength, speed and accuracy. When the men turned up to work that morning they told Mr. Applebee that there was a 4 year-old girl thatching the roof and he immediately drove down to see what they were talking about. He arrived to see the very familiar forms of Cameron Michaels and LC Helmsley looking at the building plans and yelling instructions up to Cheyenne who had indeed reconstructed the whole school in just over a day and was now working on the roof which at the rate she was working would be finished by lunchtime.
"I think you boys can go home," Mr. Applebee said.
"Aren't you going to pay us for showing up?" the foreman asked the Headmaster.
"Would you like me to pay you for getting dressed too?" Mr. Applebee replied sarcastically and the constructions workers mumbled expletives to themselves before leaving the job that they didn't even start thanks to a Girl with Phenomenal Strength.
"Nice one Chey now we can go back to school!" Cameron shouted up to his sister happily.
"Yeah nice one Chey now we have to go back to school!" LC shouted up sarcastically.
"You're welcome!" Chey shouted back down and the ARK Angels and Mr. Applebee had to cover their ears because she hollered so loud.
"Hello children," Mr. Applebee said and Cameron and Cheyenne jumped in fright.
"Mr. Applebee," Cameron said surprised while LC grimaced at him.
"What the big deal with you sneaking up on us like that?" she said annoyed.
"I was hoping you would have worked on your attitude over the summer little Miss Helmsley, obviously I was wrong," Mr. Applebee said.
"This attitude has done more for people than you'll ever know sir," Cameron said sticking up for his girlfriend and LC blushed thankful for his loyalty to her.
"That's right Mr. Michaels and I don't wish to know, what I would like to know is what your 4 year-old sister is doing on the roof of my school," Mr. Applebee said and LC frowned at him.
"She's fixing it what does it look like?" LC said sarcastically.
"I admit Cheyenne always been ahead of the other students in terms of her great sporting abilities but you couldn't possibly expect me to believe she reconstructed an entire school by herself," Mr. Applebee said, "This is obviously some kind of stunt,"
"Stunt?" LC asked confused.
"Yes, a stunt perpetrated by your parents who most probably hired a bunch of their wrestler buddies hopped up on steroids to reconstruct the school and bill me later. Well when your parents emerge from wherever they are be sure to tell them that they won't be getting a penny!" Mr. Applebee stated firmly and LC laughed.
"Have you been eating candy without taking off the wrapper by any chance?" LC asked him and Mr. Applebee huffed while Cameron tried to muffle his laughter.
"Things are certainly getting off to a great start," he said sarcastically, "I'd get your sister down from there before she gets hurt,"
"That's highly unlikely sir but thanks for the concern," Cameron said.
"We'll see you next week!" LC said waving at Mr. Applebee left with a grouchy look on his face, "On second thought I think I am excited about coming back to school, I forgot how much I like to make Mr. Applebee's face look like that," LC said.
"Yup things are back to normal," Cameron said as Cheyenne jumped down to her cherubic amigos landing like a cat from the top of the school building.
"All done," she said dusting off her hands and Cameron patted her on the back.
"Good work Chey I know daddy's proud of you," Cameron said as Amy and Shawn came over to them, HBK had his cell-phone to his ear.
"You mean he still hasn't come home?" Shawn asked someone, most likely Joanie while Amy looked at the Phenomenal job Cheyenne had done rebuilding the school. It still needed to be painted and furnished but since painting wasn't Cheyenne's strength she decided to leave that job to the professionals, as slow and lazy as they were.
"Your tattoo work may have much to be desired Chey but you get an A plus in architecture," Amy said.
"Thank Uncle Jeff, he can build a house with a plastic cup," Cheyenne replied.
"Yeah but I don't think he could do it as quickly as you," Amy replied touching the school walls and seeing that the building was put together perfectly. There was no doubt in the Anointed one's mind that God was with Cheyenne and He was in these bricks too which meant that He would be watching them when their parents couldn't.
"LC your father is still missing, I'm gonna go over to CM Punk's house since that was the last place he went and see what's going on down there," Shawn said and LC nodded.
"Dad probably got Punk so upset about missing yesterday's house show he turned him into an alcoholic and he doesn't want you to find out," LC said and Shawn thought about it.
"I wouldn't put it past him," Shawn replied and he kissed his wife and children - including LC before jumping into the DX Machine and heading for Philly.
"So I guess we're walking home," LC said wiping the kiss off as the DX Machine sped away.
"I could do with the exercise," Amy said rubbing her pregnant stomach while the ARK Angels skipped ahead of her leaving behind the school that Cheyenne built behind for just one more week. As the ARK Angels went ahead Amy noticed a limo on the other side of the road a little away from the school, "I wander who that could be?" she thought but only for a second then she turned her attention back to Cheyenne, Cameron and LC while the limousine drove off in the opposite direction.
CM Punk's house, Philadelphia, 1pm:
Shawn knocked on the door but there was no answer, he walked around the back but all the windows were shut so he walked back around to the front door and wrapped his hand around the doorknob. Eventually his Righteous Indignation made the handle so hot the lock melted off and he pushed the door open. Seeing that there was no-one in the living room or kitchen Shawn headed for the bedroom where he found Hunter asleep.
"What is going on here?" Shawn said looking at his watch, it was 1 o'clock in the afternoon and Hunter wasn't one to sleep late, "Hey Hunter wake up," he said shoving Hunter roughly on the shoulder but the Cerebral Assassin wouldn't wake up, he was in a very deep sleep. Shawn went to the bathroom, cupped some water in his hands and splashed it all over Hunter's face. Seconds later he woke up.
"Hey Shawn," Hunter said brightly and Shawn frowned at him, he was so full of energy it was like he hadn't been tired at all.
"Hey Hunter, quick question: why are you asleep on CM Punk's bed?" Shawn asked his business partner who was now frowning back at him.
"I was asleep?" he asked puzzled.
"Yes, what I want to know is why you were asleep," Shawn said.
"Well I remember coming over and seeing Punk, I asked him where he was at and he said his arm was acting up and he wanted to go have it checked out which is why he's not here right now," Hunter explained.
"Oh okay, so it was a health thing," Shawn said, "still he could have come to the show and one of our doctors could have checked it out,"
"That's what I suggested he do next time, he's young he's got a lot to learn about how we work," Hunter said.
"So if you decided to just stay over why didn't you call and let everyone know?" Shawn asked and Hunter furrowed his brow like he was trying to remember something.
"I was going to call you then Punk started talking about these two girls that he and Batista met at this club in L.A. The way he told the story was so funny as I couldn't imagine Dave saying no to any woman but these two must have been the exception," Hunter said.
"When was this?" HBK said turning off the faucet in Punk's bathroom as Hunter wiped the water off his face.
"A couple nights ago," he said.
"I remember the guys saying they wanted to take Trish and Randy out before they went on their honeymoon but I didn't think Punk would wanna go with them," Shawn said, "You know how he is about partying,"
"He didn't wanna go, Batista made him saying it was a special occasion. Punk says that's the last time he listens to Batista even though they both admit that it was kinda funny," Hunter said.
"And after he told you this story you thought "Okay its late I'll just go to sleep"?" Shawn asked and Hunter looked at him strangely.
"What did you just say?" he asked and Shawn shrugged.
"What?" he asked bemused as Hunter's eyes narrowed in thought.
"Go to sleep - I remember Punk saying that last night," Hunter said.
"Why were you talking about his finisher - you don't wanna change it do you?" Shawn asked.
"No we didn't talk about wrestling all we talked about was how his arm felt funny and the two women he met with Batista in L.A," Hunter said.
"You didn't talk about anything else?" Shawn asked Hunter who shook his head adamantly.
"No," he said and Punk came through the door.
"Something weird is going on the lock on my front door is melted," he started to say then he saw Shawn, "Uh-oh, am I in trouble for missing last night's house show?" he asked nervously.
"No Hunter explained everything to me and I'm sorry about the door I'll get it fixed for you," Shawn said, "How's your arm?"
Punk touched his left arm wondering the same-thing himself, "The doctor said its fine and that there's nothing wrong with it but to me it feels kinda numb," he said.
"Give it a couple of days I'm sure its nothing," Hunter said, "Come on let's go," he said to Shawn, "We'll see you on Saturday and if you can't make it let us know,"
"You got it boss," Punk said rubbing his left arm.
"Punk did anything happen before Hunter fell asleep last night?" Shawn said and Punk thought back.
"I told him about the two girls me and Dave Batista met at this club called Venom in L.A, we laughed about it and then as I was scanning through the TV channels I said there was nothing on so he might as-well just go to sleep and he did," Punk said, "I had no idea Hunter was such a heavy sleeper,"
"He's not," Shawn said and a loud thud got his and Punk's attention, they turned around and saw that Hunter was fast asleep on Punk's bed again.
"Whoa," Punk said to Shawn, "How weird was that?"
