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Monday Night Raw, April 8, 2013: 1 day removed from WrestleMania
Part 2: Kane and Daniel Bryan (Team Hell No) vs. Aries and Roode - RAW TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP
Info: Kane and Daniel Bryan are set to defend their long-held titles against the ego-filled team of Austin Aries and Bobby Roode; John Cena announces his plans heading towards the Raw Rumble tonight.
Rated T for violence, language, occasional alcohol use and reference and suggestive themes.
I do not own about 97% of the characters used in this well-done fanfiction wrestling company, as they all belong to their rightful owners, wherever they are.
Inspired by CharlieHarperFan88 aka ForeverTheTorturedRebel.
PS: Yes, just about every TV match that has a commercial break will all be in one chapter, so there's imminent commercial breaks mid-chapter.
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The bell rang, as Monday Night Raw's long-time ring announcer Lillian Garcia stood in the middle of the red-roped squared circle.
Lillian Garcia: The following tag team contest is scheduled for one-fall, and it is for the Raw Tag Team Championships!
The title graphic for the ruby-grazed Raw Tag Team Championships appeared in an far, long shot of the Izod Center, filled to the brim with very excited fans.
(Song: "Off the Chain (Orchestral Version)" - Dale Oliver)
As the crowd rose up in boos, the arrogant team of TNA all-stars Austin Aries and Bobby Roode emerged from the back, bragging to the whole arena about their plans to claim tag team gold before the year ends.
Lillian Garcia: Introducing first, making their way to the ring, at a combined weight of 450 pounds, the team of "The IT Factor" Bobby Roode and "A-Double" Austin Aries!
Jim Ross: These two superstars had previously won a number one contender's match over the team of Kofi Kingston and R-Truth on the Raw before WrestleMania, although it took more than just pure skill and strategy...
Joey Styles: No, it didn't. In fact, they used some dirty tactics to pull off the win; hopefully that is not the case in this match.
Jerry Lawler: And even though these two men don't get along well, they still manage to pull off wins every now and then.
The egomaniacs took their time as they made their way up the steel steps and entered the ring, through the ropes, as usual. Aries and Roode stood at one of the ring corners, awaiting their championship-carrying opponents.
BOOM! Flames blasted at the stage, as the crowd quickly switched their motive, cheering for the team that was about to show up.
(Song: "Veil of Fire (version 3)" - Jim Johnston)
The lights went dim with blood red as the Big Red Monster Kane and his lightweight partner Daniel Bryan appeared at the stage, with the red and black of the Raw Tag Team Championships wrapped around their waists.
Lillian Garcia: And their opponents, at a combined weight of 533 pounds, they are the Raw Tag Team Champions... the team of Kane and Daniel Bryan, Team Hell No!
Jim Ross: Well, let me just say that this unbalanced team has been on quite a roll over the past several pay-per-views, starting off the year with a victory over the team of Wade Barrett and Mason Ryan at the Royal Rumble this January, followed by a valiant effort over the SmackDown Tag Team Champions of Titus O'Neal and Darren Young, better known as the Prime Time Players, at WrestleMania last night!
Jerry Lawler: That's true, but yet the question here tonight is will that success continue tonight, with another match that will put their championships on the line?
As the three commentators talked about them, Kane and Daniel Bryan walked down the ramp, looking towards their opponents, before making their way up the steps at one of the corners of the ring, and walking through the ropes.
As Kane began to slowly raise his hands up, Daniel covered his ears, as usual, just as Kane harshly brought his arms back down, setting off an explosion that blasted fire from all four corners. The fans in the front row, along with Lawler, JR and Styles, and even Austin and Bobby flinched a bit from the sudden blast of red/orange pyrotechnics. The referee in charge, in the form of Charles Robinson, called for the match to start, with a three-bell salute.
The two people to start off the tag team contest were Daniel Bryan and Austin Aries, who were quite evenly matched in terms of experience and weight class.
Joey Styles: D-Bry and Aries starting off for their teams...
Bryan and Aries circled the ring for a moment, before locking up almost 10 seconds in. After keeping the tie-up in, Daniel managed to take control, as he wrenched on Austin's right arm, and then struck him with a right kick to the chest of the former X-Divison Champion.
Jerry Lawler: And a kick to the abdomen from Daniel Bryan.
Daniel once again kicked Aries in the chest area, and then wrenched on his right arm once again, before flipping him over with a hip toss/arm drag variation. Bryan drove a knee into Austin Aries's back while the latter sat down and took the pain. However, Aries managed to kick Daniel on the head with his athletic skills, and quickly jumped towards his team's corner, tagging in Bobby Roode as a result.
Jim Ross: That was a quick and sudden tag right there, but I don't blame Aries for wanting to take a breather this early.
Joey Styles: He's just making a smart move is all, letting his slightly stronger partner try to take Daniel Bryan down.
After entering the ring, Roode locked up with Daniel in the center of the ring, before shoving away and bragging to the opponent like any cocky heel would. The audience didn't quite approve of this, but they continued to watch the match play through.
However, Daniel bounced off the ropes near where his partner Kane was, and nailed the "IT Factor" wrestler with a sweet dropkick, causing him to bounce off the ropes on the opposite side of where Daniel rebounded. Bryan jumped over Roode, who was quickly recovering from the dropkick to his body...
...only to catch a hard lariat from Bobby, who easily shifted momentum towards his and Austin's side.
Jerry Lawler: Ooh! That's gotta leave a mark!
Joey Styles: Oh my god, did you see the impact from that clothesline?! That could've taken his head off right on the spot!
Bobby Roode soon tried to take the earliest opportunity in the match by pinning the goatfaced former World Heavyweight Champion, prompting Charles Robinson to count the pinfall.
1! And Daniel Bryan gets the shoulder up with little difficulty.
Joey Styles: If I was Bobby Roode right about now, I would've taken some time trying to put the hurt on Bryan even further before trying for a pin.
Roode picked Bryan up by his head, and kneed him in the gut, before whipping him into the red ring ropes once again. He went for a hip toss...
...only for the former Money in the Bank winner to catch him by surprise with a swinging neckbreaker.
Jim Ross: Oof! That definitely sends a message when you pull a move like that out of nowhere!
Daniel bounced off the ropes once again to try and drop a move down on the former Fortune member, but Roode was smart, and turned over onto his stomach, forcing Daniel Bryan to rethink his plans for the moment and continue bouncing around, but Roode managed to kick the bearded submission specialist in the gut, and plopped him down with a DDT!
Jerry Lawler: And a hard DDT!
Joey Styles: This match just keeps going back and forth!
Bobby Roode soon quickly went for another pin attempt, covering Bryan.
1! 2! Daniel Bryan powered out of the pinfall.
Jim Ross: And another kick out from one half of Team Hell No!
After the kick out from the Raw Tag Team Champion, Bobby dragged him by his feet to his team's corner, and tagged Austin Aries back in. Aries jumped over the top rope, and landed on Daniel with a very athletic-looking elbow drop.
Afterwards, where he would've just pinned Daniel again on the spot, Aries instead focused on kicking him while he was down, while holding onto the top rope. Quickly enough, referee Robinson began to start a five-count, as Austin continued to pound down on Bryan.
1! 2! 3! 4!
Austin managed to stop after dropping a knee on Daniel's face, but was pulled away from the corner by Charles Robinson, who reminded him about the possibility of getting disqualified from that kind of striking in the corner.
However, with the referee's back turned, Bobby Roode took the advantage by dropping from the apron and delivering a foot choke to Daniel Bryan, using the bottom rope to his advantage, and getting back on the black ring apron just in time for the referee to not notice the unclean tactics.
Aries quickly ran back and dropped another elbow on the chest of Daniel, trying to keep him away from his big red partner for as long as possible. The big-bearded Triple Crown winner [1] was temporarily left defenseless by the duo of misfit heels, unable to pull off a counter at the point (Or was he?). Austin Aries prepared for another manuever, as he placed Daniel carefully on the top turnbuckle, trying for what could most likely be a superplex at this point. Aries kept his footing on the bottom turnbuckle, and tried to grab onto Bryan...
...who suddenly sprung down, wrapping his left arm over Austin's head, and successfully locking in what seems to be a front necklock, beginning to hop off the top rope.
Jim Ross: Oh my! Guillotine choke! What an athlete!
Joey Styles: Team Hell No might retain the titles, if Daniel Bryan can keep that locked in tight enough!
However, as he kept the guillotine choke locked in, little did D-Bry notice Aries's partner Bobby Roode tagging himself in by tapping on the region-rager's back. As Austin squeezed his way out, Roode bounced off the ropes near Kane...
...and smacked Bryan with a painful clothesline to the face, sending him flying over the top rope!
Jerry Lawler: Whoa! We may have spoken too soon!
Jim Ross: Daniel Bryan goes flying to the outside.
As he placed his feet back on the ring apron, Austin Aries had an idea brewing in his mind, and called for Bobby to tag him back in. did so, as Aries walked back into the ring, rebounding off the ropes...
...and jumped Bryan as he tried to get up with a big suicide dive to the outside, nearly flying over the Raw commentary table! It seemed as though Aries bumped his head on the edge of the table covering during the dive, though, and hurt his head badly.
Joey Styles: Dios mio, what a leap straight towards our announce table! Both men are down!
Jim Ross: Will Team Hell No successfully retain their Raw Tag Team titles or will Bobby Roode and Austin Aries come out on top? We'll find out after this commercial break, as Monday Night Raw continues!
The screen faded out while focused on Austin Aries and Daniel Bryan, who were still down on the ground, as the referee was preparing to start the 10-count.
Commercial-break
The screen faded back in on Austin Aries knocking Daniel Bryan down with a dropkick, followed by a no-handed springboard moonsault, and a lateral press for a pinfall attempt.
1! 2! Daniel Bryan kicked out once again.
Jim Ross: We welcome back to-back to Monday Night Raw, and over the whole commercial break, the team of Austin Aries and Bobby Roode has been dominant, as Daniel Bryan has yet to tag in his Team Hell No partner Kane.
Austin got a bit frustrated, and stomped down on Bryan, as a camera managed to catch a shot of a small cut on his head that was caused before the commercial break.
Joey Styles: Well, as we can see here, before our commercial break, Austin Aries managed to get busted open a bit after a suicide dive onto Daniel Bryan in which he smacked the side of his head on our announcer table-here's a replay of that hard bump he had just taken moments ago.
As Styles mentioned the replay, the screen that showed the current action squeezed out to the top left, to show the bump with Aries jumping into Bryan, afterwards holding his head in pain. The replay flew back out of screen as Austin Aries tagged Bobby Roode back in, and they both began kicking Bryan down.
Jerry Lawler: So far, Aries and Roode have been dominant for almost the entire match. It's gotta be a tough road that Team Hell No continues to ride down.
Bobby picked Daniel up and dragged him to the center of the ring, where he sucked the one-half of the Raw Tag Team Champions into a front necklock, and prepared for an old-fashioned vertical suplex. Roode lifted Bryan up...
...only for Bryan to suddenly roll Roode up into a small package outta nowhere!
Jerry Lawler: Whoa-whoawhoawhoawhoawhoa!
Joey Styles: Small package! Small package!
Jim Ross: This could be it!
1! 2! Surprisingly, Bobby Roode managed to kick out, to the dismay of the fans, who were doing the ever-popular "YES!" chants, as it's regular whenever Daniel Bryan is in action.
Roode sighed in relief that he managed to power out of the rollup, as Daniel waited for him to get up. As the "YES!" chants grew tenfold, Bobby managed to get onto his knees...
...only to taste kick after kick to the chest area, from Daniel Bryan, who let out a shouting "NO!" on each kick.
Jerry Lawler: Daniel is just striking down on Roode!
Joey Styles: Each of those shots feels like getting whipped with a belt!
After at the least six kicks to the reddening chest of the IT Factor Superstar, Daniel delivered a hard kick to the side of Roode's head, knocking him right down on his face.
Jim Ross: And a kick to the skull, straight to Roode!
After the kick combo, Daniel Bryan decided to climb up one of the corners of the ring, up to the top rope, and readied himself. He leapt for his signature top rope move, the diving headbutt...
...but yet it didn't connect, as Bobby Roode managed to roll out of the way, and at that moment, both men were now down.
Jerry Lawler: Oh no!
Jim Ross: Daniel Bryan was looking for the diving headbutt, shades of current SmackDown superstar Chris Benoit.
A/N: In this universe, because it's fiction, people like Chris Benoit, Eddie Guerrero and Bam Bam Bigelow are alive, because it's not even the real world anymore. How do you explain cartoon characters? Well, cartoon characters that haven't even shown up yet.
Daniel and Bobby began to crawl towards their respective corners, reaching for a tag-in to their partners.
Jim Ross: The first one of these men to tag in their partners will get a big advantage in this match, and may get the win!
After about 10 seconds of building up the double hot-tag moment, it went into a well-done pay-off, as Kane and Austin Aries were simultaneously tagged in, and went at each other like a dog and a cat fighting over territory. Kane first connected with a right hand thrust punch upside Austin's chin, knocking him down hard on the clean white ring mat. Aries quickly got up, only to taste another right hand to the neck from the Big Red Monster, and then a third punch.
Kane then whipped Austin over his head with a snapmare. He began to follow up with a dropkick to the face of the X-Division all-star...
...only to miss, unfortunately. Austin Aries quickly capitalized with a dropkick of his own as soon as both he and Kane got up. The monster was knocked back a notch, but managed to stay on his feet, considering his large stature.
Joey Styles: Oof! That didn't last long for Team Hell No.
Jim Ross: Will Kane be able to come back from that miss-and-hit moment?
Austin struck Kane with another dropkick at another attempt to bring the Big Red Machine down. Soon enough, Aries kicked Kane in the gut, and got him into the regular suplex position, and everybody knew what was coming up next.
Joey Styles: Uh-oh. Is he trying to set up for the Brainbuster?
Jerry Lawler: It seems so!
Austin Aries began to lift Kane up, visibly struggling due to the size of the Big Red Monster...
...but he couldn't get him raised all the way up in the vertical suplex position. However, Kane reversed the Brainbuster attempt and lifted Austin up...
...before slamming him down with a hard suplex, all the way down to the ring mat.
Jerry Lawler: Oh my! Kane reversed it!
Jim Ross: Kane reversed that Brainbuster attempt from Austin Aries into a big suplex in the middle of the ring!
Joey Styles: When you get suplexed by a man like the Devil's Favorite Demon, there's a chance it could rattle your spine like a maraca!
Jerry Lawler: *keeping in laughter* ...What?
Jim Ross: I don't feel like knowing how you made that comparison, Joey.
As soon as he got back on his feet, Kane slowly raised his right arm up, and the crowd's anticipation tip-toed to high levels, as they awaited an imminent chokeslam from the devilish masked superstar. Austin turned around, not knowing what he was expecting, and caught a handful of Kane's gloved hand to the throat. Bobby Roode went ahead to save his partner from incoming destruction, and climbed the top rope at his and Austin Aries's corner. He took a big leap...
...and ended up caught in mid-air by Kane's free hand. The crowd got even more excited as Kane's big chokeslam finish was doubled in terms of victims.
Jim Ross: Whoa! My gawd! Kane has got Bobby Roode in his clutches now!
Joey Styles: Guess now's the time for a double chokeslam from the Big Red Machine!
Kane lifted both Aries and Roode up at the same time with both his hands...
...and successfully delivered the double chokeslam to the braggy tag team. As Roode rolled out to the outside, not being the legal partner on his team's side, Austin was laid out in the middle of the ring. Normally, after a slam like that, Kane would've gone for the pin...
...but instead, he tagged Daniel Bryan back in. The goat-bearded breakout star climbed the top rope...
Jerry Lawler: Looks like we just might see a flying goat come into play!
Bryan jumped off the turnbuckle...
...and landed on Aries with a huge diving headbutt, which some people could call the "Flying Goat". Daniel went for the cover immediately afterwards...
1! 2! 3! The match ended with a ring of the bell.
(Song: "Flight of the Valkyries" - Jim Johnston)
Lillian Garcia: The winners of this match, and STILL Raw Tag Team Champions... Kane and Daniel Bryan, Team Hell No!
Jim Ross: Team Hell No still strong! We've seen these two rip through the tag team division for six months now, and they still have the gold!
Daniel Bryan and Kane stood in the center of the ring with their Raw Tag Team Championship title belts, celebrating. However, Kane soon decided to light another fire, as he raised his hands up, prompting Daniel to block out the loud, imminent explosion by covering his ears. As soon as Kane brought his arms down, the fire from the corners shot up again, and the lights in the entire arena turned red, like the whole arena was in Hell.
(Song: "Veil of Fire (version 3)" - Jim Johnston)
Joey Styles: Kane and Daniel Bryan, originally enemies and now allies, have run rampant over just about all of the other tag teams on Raw.
Jerry Lawler: And after what we've witnessed tonight, they aren't going to be taken down the mountain for a while!
The hot crowd in the Izod Center gave a standing ovation to the odd couple, who were standing tall in their victory over Austin Aries and Bobby Roode.
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Meanwhile, standing in the Raw interview area, backstage worker Josh Matthews stood by.
Josh Matthews: Ladies and gentlemen, with me at this time, a participant in tonight's Raw Rumble, John Cena!
The yellow clad West Newbury superstar walked up to Josh, looking quite ready for tonight's upcoming main event.
Josh Matthews: Cena, tonight, you will enter a match you have been familiar with for quite some time, a Royal Rumble match, and on Monday Night Raw, no less. Your thoughts?
John Cena: Josh, let me be the first to say that this type of match has happened only once before on Raw, back around close to two years ago. Unfortunately, I didn't win that match. In fact, nobody won; the match ended with a ton of interference from that odd New World Order ripoff that was dipped in mustard. This time, things will change. This time, there will be a winner... and with the number I have in my hands, it won't be a long way to go to get back the UUWF Championship. And as for Punk... let's wonder if he'll last long enough for me to beat the holy hell out of like a big old punching bag. No need to wish me luck, Josh; I already got some on my side.
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[1] A Triple Crown is an achievement in a wrestling business, where in one single company, you manage to win a world championship (the top title, like the UUWF Championship or World Heavyweight Championship), a secondary championship (Intercontinental) and a tag team championship (self-explainatory). Daniel has won the World Heavyweight Championship, United States Championship and is a current Tag Team Champion.
Well, with Team Hell No still going strong on their quite long Raw Tag Team Championship reign, and John Cena as pumped as ever for the second ever Royal Rumble to happen on Monday Night Raw, what else will happen tonight on Raw? Find out as it continues live!