Title: ATM and the ARK Angels of DX: Aftershock
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, Rebecca and Cheyenne Michaels, Amy 'Lita' Dumas Michaels, Hunter Hurst Helmsley, LC Helmsley, Aurora Rose Helmsley, Chyna Helmsley, Trish, Randy and Randy Orton Jr, Melina, Johnny and Romeo Hennigan, Jeff, Stephanie and Elizabeth Hardy, Angelo and Angela Jericho, Vince McMahon, Kevin and Tristen Nash, Marion Cena, the Undertaker, Garrett Calloway, Batista, CM Punk, Kofi Kingston, Dolph Ziggler, Brie and Justin Danner, Alannah Pirelli and Charlotte, Dan and Carla McCool.
Summary: After the trial Jericho is loose and the Undertaker visits DX and tells them a dark secret about his son that puts Stephanie on edge. Meanwhile Rebecca Michelle is worried Cheyenne is going to do something stupid behind Shawn's back with Tristen Nash.
Chapter Seven – Problem Dissolved
The McMahons home, Fort. Lauderdale, FL 6pm
Vince went home after a long day of meetings at TNA HQ in Orlando, FL; Tristen Nash said he was working on a storyline and once it was done he was going to present it to the creative team. Whatever the idea was Tristen was very excited about it and Vince found himself wondering what that idea could be as he opened his door to a very excited Linda McMahon.
"Vince come in now you gotta see who showed up for dinner," she said taking her husband's briefcase from him and pulling him towards the dining room.
"Who's gotten you so excited?" Vince McMahon said looking ahead of him to see who was in the living room. The first profile he recognized was Beth Hardy and that was no surprise as she was always over at the McMahons' house. There was a girl sitting next to her talking to Marion Cena who he didn't recognize. "Who's that?" Vince asked Linda.
"It's Aurora Vince," Linda said and Vince gasped at the pretty young lady wearing make-up, a new hairstyle and a skirt!
"Aurora?" Vince said in shock.
"Hey Grandpa Vince," Aurora said with a smile and she got up to give him a hug. Vince turned her around, she looked completely different.
"My God you're beautiful! You dumped the big sweater, the jeans and you're showing off your legs! You're always flying it's amazing how you never managed to show your legs," Vince said.
"Vince would you stop going on about her legs, what about her hair and her make-up?" Linda said.
"I'm sorry I was born a leg man and I'll die a leg man," Vince said. "Your mother was always fond of skirts I'm glad you've decided to carry on the family tradition,"
"What brought on this transformation?" Linda asked Aurora while Marion Cena tried to cover his face at the look Aurora was giving Vince McMahon after the comments he made about her legs.
"I was in my bedroom in Long Island and I found these clothes in my closet and I didn't really notice them before, so I thought I'd try them on and when I did I decided to wear them and see how I felt and I felt pretty good," Aurora said brightly and Linda pulled Vince over to her.
"It was Stephanie, she planted the clothes where Aurora could find them," Linda said.
"Good job Steph, she's gonna love Aurora's new look. All the gloom and coldness has gone and she's really letting her brightness shine through," Vince said.
Marion smiled at Aurora's affect on her grandparents, "I think Mr. and Mrs. McMahon are loving your new look,"
"What about you, do you like it Marion?" Aurora said and Marion rolled his eyes.
"Hey quit it, you don't need my approval," Marion said. "You don't get any higher than God's approval and I'm sure He's loving it,"
"Grandpa Vinny did make a good point about flying though; I've never flown in a skirt before and I wasn't really conscious of my legs until now," Aurora said.
"Girls have legs, girl should show their legs, its tradition," Vince said.
"Okay Grandpa Vinny I get it, legs are good," Aurora said.
"Yes they are. Don't be like Linda who refuses to wear skirts anymore," Vince said rolling his eyes at one of many of his wife's pant suits.
"When a woman gets a little older she tends to dress more conservatively," Linda explained.
"Oh don't give me that conservative crap. In fact, Aurora, take your grandmother shopping. Get her something similar to what you're wearing," Vince said and Marion cracked up.
"Sure Grandpa," Aurora said. "I can just see the look on daddy's face when we show up in Jamaica looking like sisters,"
Linda was horrified but when Vince set his mind to something she rarely refused him, no matter how little he had actually thought his ideas through.
"Dinner time people, get around the table," Linda said changing the subject.
"Marion your father is coming over with Mickie James I hope that's okay," Vince asked and Marion shrugged.
"I'm sure he'll ignore me like always but Ro's here so it doesn't matter," Marion said sitting down at the dinner table.
Aurora rubbed Marion's hand affectionately; she knew how rough things still were between Marion and his father. At least Mickie James was still close to him, she made an attempt to talk to him all the time but John Cena hadn't changed his attitude toward Marion in over fourteen years. They had no relationship whatsoever. Marion never spoke about it but Aurora knew it hurt like a knife through the heart.
"Where'd you come up with that hairstyle?" Vince asked Aurora.
"Well LC and Beth have hair like mine only my hair is a lot straighter and it tends to stay pretty much the same even if I'm flying through the air at 100 miles per hour. The great thing about having my hair like this is that my body temperature is so cold my hair stays piled up even when I fly," Aurora said.
"My grand-daughter has awesome hair just like I do, why don't you do your hair like that Linda?" Vince said and Linda stared at her husband like he had lost his mind.
"Vince I'm an old woman, get over it!" she said and Aurora and Marion burst out laughing while Vince shook his head at Linda's lack of enthusiasm.
"You're gorgeous, your healthy and vibrant, you are not an old woman. My God if you're old what the hell does that make me?" Vince said.
"Really old," Linda replied and Marion and Aurora almost fell off their chairs.
The front door closed and John Cena and Mickie James appeared, the laughter told them that they were not the only guests at the McMahon household today.
"Who's your friend Marion?" Mickie James asked while Cena ignored his son and went to hug Vince McMahon. Linda rolled her eyes at Cena's action.
"It's me Mickie, Aurora Rose," Aurora replied and Mickie James did a double-take.
"Ro-Ro! No way girl you look great, Hunter's baby girl finally came out to play. Come give MJ a hug!" Mickie James said going over to Aurora.
"Doesn't she look great John?" Vince said to John Cena who looked at Aurora but it was hard to when his son was sitting right there. Marion picked up on his father's discomfort and he spoke up.
"Would it be easier for you to answer the question if I wasn't here?" Marion said and Cena rolled his eyes and ignored him.
"Aurora, glad you got out of that ugly get-up and did your father and mother some justice by showing off those McMahon-Helmsley genes," Cena said.
"The last thing I need is a compliment from a guy that's been wearing the same throwback jean short combination for the last 20 years," Aurora said.
"Nice, I come over for dinner with Vince and I get an entrée of back chat from his grand-daughter," Cena said and Aurora was shocked that he still would not acknowledge that Marion was even in the room. "By the way Aurora, Mickie and I will be coming up to Jamaica to see your father this weekend,"
"Why so you can ruin their dinner too?" Aurora replied and Marion smiled loving the way Aurora always put her father down when they were together, she never quite got that she was wasting her time.
"Guys please ignore him, I know it's hard but it is possible," Mickie James said and she kissed Marion on the cheek. "I'll never ignore you gorgeous, tell me about this Jamaican chick at the photo shoot tomorrow in New York,"
"She's pretty cool her father's an investment banker who supports non-profit start ups in third world countries," Marion replied as Linda served the food.
"Is it true that Chris Jericho escaped from Antarctica?" John Cena asked Vince quietly while Mickie spoke to his son.
"No that's just a rumor, there's a problem with Undertaker's son Garrett. He got wind of Aurora's powers and he's trying to get her to go out with him so he can use them for evil," Vince McMahon said.
"Garrett Calloway? I thought he was in a mental institution," John Cena said.
"No it was a psychiatric hospital but he was let out after the doctors gave up. He hasn't been outside of Houston in five years, I guess he finally got fed up but he's in no condition to be around people. That is one seriously defective kid Taker's got there," Vince said.
"So is Aurora okay, what are you guys doing to protect her?" Cena asked.
"Well she's here with us having dinner because Trish asked us to socialize with her more and with good reason. Garrett Calloway was in New York City last night asking Charlotte and Dan McCool if they knew her. Now LC and Cameron are on their way to NYC to see what's going on," Vince said.
"Who else is looking out for her?" John asked.
"Well Sting and Steven Borden II are aware of what's going on and of course there's Remi and Romeo. That girl has got to catch up on her homework and protect Aurora at the same-time but we can't take any chances we're using every resource at our disposal to keep Aurora safe," Vince said.
Cena looked over at Aurora and even though she didn't think much of him, he liked her a lot. She was a good friend for Marion to have and his son's occupation with all things beautiful was definitely rubbing off on her even if it did turn his stomach to have to look at him.
"You know John," Vince said whispering to Cena, "It wouldn't hurt if you'd at least say hello to your son, it would mean a lot to Aurora being that he's been so good to her while all this craziness with Garrett Calloway is going on,"
"Vince we've talked about this, don't make me regret coming here," Cena said and Vince put his hands up and backed off.
"Alright John I'm sorry, I won't mention it again," Vince said and he went to greet Mickie James while John tried to control himself. John knew Vince was right and he knew he was wrong for being so hateful towards Marion but no matter how hard he tried, Cena just couldn't look at his son. The older Marion got the more he reminded John of Maria. He was so beautiful it hurt to look at him so he decided to ignore him instead, just like his mother and maybe one day, it wouldn't hurt to look at him so much.
"Who could that be?" Linda said as the doorbell rang.
"I don't know I'm not expecting anyone else," Vince said as Linda went to get the door Vince stopped her. "No you stay here beautiful and tell Mickie about that make-over you're gonna be getting with Aurora,"
Linda shook her head and Mickie looked over at her intrigued. "What make-over is this?"
"Grandpa wants me to look like Aurora and grandpa has totally lost his mind," Linda said and Mickie laughed.
"But you're going to do it aren't you?" she said and Linda nodded while Aurora and Marion burst out laughing.
"Hey what's so funny?" asked Tristen Nash and Cheyenne Michaels was with him.
"Hey Tris, pull up a chair," John Cena said to the Head of Talent Relations at TNA while Aurora eyed Cheyenne suspiciously.
"Cheyenne shouldn't you be in California?" Aurora asked her and Cheyenne hugged her with a big smile.
"I couldn't help but come over and see for myself," Cheyenne said and Aurora wondered what on Earth she was talking about.
"Hey Marion," Tristen Nash said and Marion waved looking at Cheyenne.
"So when's the wedding?" Marion asked Tristen but he shook his head for Marion not to mention it.
"Shawn still holding out on you huh?" John Cena said.
"Yeah imagine a parent not doing right by his child but you wouldn't know anything about that would you John Cena?" Cheyenne said sarcastically.
"Ha!" Marion said. "Cheyenne did I ever tell you that I love you?"
Cheyenne kissed Marion, "Hey gorgeous I came to see you and Aurora and give you my heartfelt blessing for your relationship,"
Aurora shook her head. "Cheyenne, what have you been drinking?" she said and Cheyenne frowned confused.
"Remi said you guys kissed at school yesterday," Cheyenne said.
"What?" Vince and Linda McMahon said together in shock, even John Cena rose an eyebrow at the prospect of his son dating Aurora Rose but Ro-Ro quickly threw ice water on that idea.
"We're not dating, it was a friendly kiss and nothing else," Aurora explained. "Marion was being super-nice to me and I wanted to express my appreciation so I kissed him,"
Cheyenne pouted, "So it wasn't a real kiss?" she said disappointed.
"No it wasn't," Aurora said.
"But it sure was electrifying," Marion said remembering the kiss fondly.
"That was just my weather power," Aurora said. "Sorry you guys came over for nothing,"
"I better tell Ravine and Angelica not to bother coming over then," Cheyenne said and Aurora threw her hands up bewildered.
"I thought you were with Remi yesterday, didn't she set you straight?" Aurora asked Cheyenne.
"The only thing Remi did yesterday was piss me off and yet she's still trying to call me," Cheyenne said looking at her cell-phone and seeing all the missed calls she got from her baby sister.
"What could Remi have said to piss you off, she's your baby sister," Aurora said. "Speaking of which, I gotta call my big sister,"
"Don't bother, she's not taking any calls right now," Vince said and Aurora looked at him curiously.
"How do you know?" Aurora asked him.
"Just trust me, she'll call you when she's done taking care of some business," Vince replied. "And as for you Cheyenne Michaels, I want to know when you plan to start doing music again,"
Cheyenne exchanged glances with Tristen, "That won't be for awhile Uncle Vince, Tristen and I have got plans and I really don't have any time to focus on my music right now," she replied.
"But you love music, you love music so much you made it part of your wrestling gimmick. What could be so important that you don't have time to play sweet holy music for us anymore?" Vince asked her.
"Well if I told you it would ruin the surprise, but don't worry Uncle Vince you will find out soon enough," Cheyenne said and Vince rubbed his hands together excited wondering what it could be.
Aurora was a lot more suspicious; out of everyone who had seen her over the last 24 hours Cheyenne and Tristen had been the only ones not to compliment her on her new look. There were two possible reasons for that; one being that they didn't notice any change in her appearance and the second was that their minds was somewhere else.
"What did Remi say to you yesterday?" Aurora asked Cheyenne. "Is everything alright between you two?"
"That depends on what she has to say to me today," Cheyenne replied looking at yet another missed call but this one wasn't from Remi it was from somebody else. "Hello?" Cheyenne said returning the call.
"Hey Cheyenne its Romeo, can we talk for a minute?" Romeo Perez Hennigan said from his home in Los Angeles.
"Romeo, gosh how sweet you never call me, sure what do you want to talk about?" Cheyenne asked Melina and Johnny's firstborn son.
"Well actually Chey I wanted to talk about you," Romeo said and the tone of his voice pulled at Cheyenne's heart and she left the dining room for a little more privacy.
"Chey are you alright?" Tristen said coming with her but Cheyenne waved him back.
"I'm fine I'll be back in a minute," she said and Tristen felt unsettled all of a sudden. Romeo never called Cheyenne, what on Earth could Romeo be talking to Cheyenne about? He thought to himself and he sensed that Rebecca Michelle was involved somehow. A little while later Cheyenne came back into the dining room with tears in her eyes and everyone looked up at her concerned.
"What happened?" Tristen asked her holding her hands gently.
"I gotta go see my father right away," Cheyenne said and Vince and Linda came over to her.
"Is everything alright Cheyenne?" Vince asked her and she nodded.
"I've been keeping something from daddy and he has to know about it," Cheyenne said. "Aurora could you call Beth and ask her to come over?"
"You got it," Aurora said and she text Beth and told her that Chey needed to be Transcended to Jamaica right away.
"Chey what are you going to tell him?" Tristen said.
"The truth about what happened in California, the real reason I left college," Cheyenne said.
"But aren't you afraid of what he might do if he finds out?" Tristen said, his grip on Cheyenne's hands suddenly tightening.
"I've got no reason to be afraid of my father Tristen, he loves me," Cheyenne replied and Beth Hardy appeared ready to go.
"Let's go to Jamaica," Beth said taking Cheyenne by the hand.
"Chey wait!" Tristen called out but Cheyenne and Beth Transcended and he was no longer holding onto her hands.
Aurora smiled, she didn't like the idea of Cheyenne keeping something a secret from her father, whatever Romeo had said had been the right thing.
"You okay Tris?" Marion asked Tristen who was very upset about what just happened.
"No Marion I'm not okay. I'm sick and tired of Cheyenne's family and friends interfering in our relationship. You should count yourself lucky you don't have a father interfering in your life all the time," Tristen said slumping down on a dining room chair with his hands in his hair frustrated.
"What I wouldn't give for my father to interfere in my life," Marion said to himself and Aurora nodded and rested her head on his shoulder supportively while Vince made a mental note to call HBK after dinner and Mickie James shot her boyfriend a death glare at the pain he was causing the sweet and unfairly treated Marion Cena who desperately wanted a father in his life.
