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 Eight – Sweet Chin Music to His Ears

Patrick's House, Kingston, Jamaica 9pm

Shawn was pacing back and forth in front of Pat's house while Amy continued with her hair project inside. Brie Danner had asked ATM to work with her on a new product range for My Hair and as his other half discussed potential colors with Brie, Trish and Melina Shawn waited for his daughter to arrive with Beth Hardy. She sounded so concerned on the phone still Shawn was glad she called as they had a lot to talk about.

"ARGHHH!" Shawn cried out as he got hit in the back with a bottle of red hair dye. His white linen shirt was now ruined. Amy came out and apologized.

"See I told you it was too red, look how it bleeds into Shawn's favorite linen shirt," Hunter said to Amy and she pulled him inside by his ears.

"Who asked you Hunter, I could have dabbled a little bit on some paper you didn't have to throw the whole sample at my husband!" Amy said.

"Where's the fun in that?" Hunter said.

"I'm sorry baby, for some reason Hunter wants to work on our hair project," Amy said to Shawn as he removed the now ruined white shirt.

"Get me another top before my daughter comes," Shawn said and Amy went to find one quickly, "Amy come back here, I was talking to Hunter – go get me another shirt and find out when the store down town is closed so you can buy me one to replace this one that you ruined," Shawn said throwing the shirt at Hunter.

"Yeah right, who told you to wear white? This is all on you HBK," Hunter said and Shawn sighed, he really didn't feel like kicking Hunter's butt right now but he knew he'd have to at some point today.

"When I'm done talking my daughter I'm going to hurt you," Shawn said to his best friend who stuck his tongue out at him and followed Big Red back to where Trish and Melina were waiting for her.

"Stop following me you're not part of this project!" Amy called out to Hunter and Shawn rolled his eyes as they began to argue inside the house.

Beth arrived with Cheyenne seconds later, "Daddy where's your shirt?" Cheyenne asked as she hugged her father.

"It's a long story, come on let's get out of here," Shawn said as Beth Hardy tried to keep her eyes off of Shawn's chest, it wasn't easy.

"Where are we going?" Cheyenne asked her father as he led her towards the river.

"As far away from Hunter and my wife as possible," Shawn replied and Cheyenne turned to say goodbye to Beth.

"Go inside and relax while I talk to my dad," she said and Beth tried to remember how to walk after seeing HBK without his shirt on up close.

"ARGHHH!" she cried out as she was hit in the chest with pink hair dye as she turned to go inside the house. Hunter came out not recognizing the voice that cried out, he was expecting it to be Shawn's.

"My bad Beth I thought you were somebody else," Hunter said.

"Why are you throwing hair dye?" Beth asked incredulous.

"Because it's fun, duh," Hunter replied as Beth removed her sweater.

"You owe me a new sweater," she said.

"This is Jamaica you shouldn't have been wearing a sweater in the first place," Hunter replied and Beth walked into the house ignoring him.

"You suck Uncle Hunter," she said.

"A thank you would suffice Beth," he said.

"Come here Hunter I want to give you something," Amy said and Hunter walked up to her excitedly.

"What is it?" he asked and she hit him with a Twist of Fate much to Beth's pleasure and the amusement of Trish, Melina and Brie Danner who had to suffer through Hunter's antics the whole day.

Outside by the river Cheyenne poured her heart out to her father.

"Dad I haven't been completely honest with you about the reason I left college," she said and Shawn listened attentively knowing that to be true already. "The reason I left was because Professor Jensen hit on me and I got scared and didn't know what to do. So I talked to Tristen and he told me to leave and pursue my wrestling interests instead,"

Shawn was glad he took his shirt off because his Righteous Indignation was making him so hot he would have ripped it off anyway.

"Professor Jensen made a pass at you and you didn't tell me, why not?" Shawn asked her gently.

"Daddy look at you, already you're burning with Righteous Indignation, if I told you Professor Jensen would be a pile of ashes!" Cheyenne said, even the river was starting to heat up. "Daddy the fish, calm down please!"

Shawn tried to relax so that his Righteous Indignation didn't burn up the fishes in the river, "He deserves to be ashes Cheyenne, he violated your trust and mine. He's your professor he should not be making passes at you!"

"I know but I was scared and I didn't want to tell you because I knew how you would react so I listened to Tristen and dropped out," Cheyenne said. "Tristen was so great daddy, you really don't give him enough credit for what a great guy he is," Shawn's Righteous Indignation started to bubble up again, "Daddy please calm down!"

"I'll try Cheyenne, what you're saying just confirms my feelings about you right now. As hard as this is for me to say your looks are getting in the way of your gifts, all three of them; your musical gift, your wrestling gift and your spiritual Gift from God. I need you to let me guide you in all of your relationships, not because I want to control you but only because I have to protect you. Cheyenne you are the most special person and you need special attention. Cameron, Rebecca and Amy have a built-in thickness to their skin but you are so delicate you need me in your life in a way that they don't," Shawn explained.

"But Tristen thinks that you are controlling me, he thinks that you are way too protective of me. He convinced me not to tell you the real reason I left college," Cheyenne said and it took every ounce of Shawn's strength not to let his Righteous Indignation flare up again.

"So Tristen is telling you to keep me in the dark about important stuff like you getting sexually harassed at college, what possible good can come from us keeping secrets from each other Cheyenne?" Shawn said gently.

"That's why I came here tonight daddy. Romeo called me and told me that I could trust you with everything going on in my life and by not being honest with you I was dishonoring you and the last thing I ever wanted to do was dishonor you daddy," Cheyenne said and she tied her two middle fingers around each other. "We've always been tight and I don't want that to change,"

Shawn smiled brightly at his daughter; her words were music to his ears.

"Tristen is mad at you for coming here to see me isn't he?" Shawn said and Cheyenne nodded.

"Yeah, he thinks you're too interfering, in fact he thinks all of you guys are too interfering but he's going to have to understand that I will not let anyone drive a wedge between me and my family," Cheyenne said.

"How do you think he's gonna take that?" Shawn asked Cheyenne and she shrugged.

"Romeo said that if he loved me he'd want what was best for me and I realized after I got done talking to Romeo that lying to you would be the worst thing I could ever do," Cheyenne said and Shawn was so happy with the words coming out of his daughter's mouth he almost jumped for joy.

"Is there anything else you want to tell me before I officially rejoice?" Shawn said gleefully.

"Are you going to hurt my college professor daddy?" Cheyenne asked nervously.

"No darling, you're going to hurt your college professor. You're GPS: The Girl with Phenomenal Strength! So tomorrow I want you to re-enroll for the spring semester then go visit Professor Jensen and tell him that if he shows any interest in you apart from your talent you're gonna do some serious damage. At that point you tell him you're going to report him to the Board of Education and if he harasses you again, you slap him with your finishing submission move," Shawn said.

"The Grand Finale?" Cheyenne said her eyes widening with excitement.

"Yes the Grand Finale, you show him that you don't just have skills on the piano but you got some skills in the ring too," Shawn said. "You don't let any man take advantage of you Cheyenne, you are a child of God and a Michaels too, you stand tall and you conquer everything and everyone that gets in your way!"

"Yes I will!" Cheyenne said confidently and he hugged her father so hard he fell back.

"I love you so much Cheyenne," Shawn said and he kissed the side of her head. "Just promise me you'll come to me if you have a problem okay?"

Cheyenne nodded, "I got something else to tell you daddy. I've decided to wait another six months before Tristen and I get married," she said and Shawn leapt up and rejoiced.

"Yes!" he cried and continued to celebrate like that for another ten minutes.

"It's a good thing Romeo called me huh?" Cheyenne said.

"It sure was, that kid's a miracle worker just like his mother," Shawn said and he spun Cheyenne around happily.

"Daddy your hot!" Cheyenne said as her father's hot skin burned her slightly.

"Sorry Hunter ruined my shirt," Shawn said putting Cheyenne down.

"So I assume he's got a butt-kicking scheduled at some point before ya'll go to bed," Cheyenne said as they walked back towards the house.

"That's if Amy hasn't kicked his butt already," Shawn said and they walked into an outraged Triple H.

"Shawn tell your wife to let me work on the hair project, she just hit me with a Twist of Fate and told me to go away!" he demanded and Cheyenne looked at the ruined sweater and linen shirt on the ground.

"Is that your contribution to the project?" she asked Hunter pointing to the ruined clothes.

"It's called testing Cheyenne, this is how I test the dyes to make sure they are right," Hunter replied.

"By throwing them at people's clothes," Cheyenne said bemused.

"Brie said I have to use a Petri dish, I'm a wrestler what do I know about putting little dots of hair dye into a palette to see how the colors balance? I need to see the colors stand out and what better way to see the colors than by throwing the dye at people?" Hunter said like it was the most logical thing.

Chyna came out with an apologetic look on her face. "I'm sorry about this, he's not been at work for awhile and he's driving us all crazy trying to do girly stuff," she said to Cheyenne.

"Its not just girly stuff its everything, we can't even take him fishing," Randy Orton said coming back from the store with John Morrison and Justin Danner. "Here you go guys," he said handing Shawn a brand new white linen shirt and Beth a brand new sweater. "God told me you'd need new clothes,"

"If you got a problem with the way I fish I suggest you don't come with us next time," Hunter told Randy.

"There will not be a next time," Justin Danner said to Hunter. "You tried to catch fish by floating on the water and calling the fish to you,"

"It's called mind control, the fish were drawn to the sound of my voice," Hunter said. "Jeff Hardy does it all the time,"

"That's because he's got a Gift, he can talk to sea creatures that's why they recognize his voice. What makes you think that you could do it too?" Beth Hardy asked Hunter.

"Because he's bored and when he's bored he makes a jackass out of himself," Shawn replied.

"Oh I'm a jackass, I wasn't the one jumping up and down in the air for no reason just a minute ago," Hunter said.

"I was celebrating because Cheyenne's going back to college and she's postponing her wedding for six months just like I wanted her to," Shawn said.

"That's great Chey," Beth said to her friend.

"For me yeah it's great, I think Tristen's gonna chew me out about it," Cheyenne said.

"Romeo obviously called, remember to thank him when you go back to California. He'll be most appreciative if you throw a hug in there too," Randy Orton said and John Morrison smiled knowing his son would like that a lot.

"No problem Uncle Randy, Romeo is the one guy I can hug without wondering if he wants to sleep with me," Cheyenne said and Hunter looked at her offended.

"What the Hell does that mean? So I can't hug my god-daughter anymore Shawn is that what you took her over to the river to tell her? How dare you accuse me of wanting to sleep with your daughter!" Hunter said and Cheyenne burst out laughing while Shawn looked at his watch.

"Yup, it's time for me to kick your butt," he said to Hunter and he wrestled his best friend onto the front lawn much to everyone's relief. The sooner their expatriation to Jamaica was over the sooner Hunter could go back to running the WWE and stop getting on everyone's nerves.

Meanwhile in Stamford, Connecticut Stephanie McMahon was closing a deal at DX Inc. She had taken over responsibilities of running the WWE while DX were in Jamaica and it was an extremely busy role. Shawn and Hunter had done an excellent job of creating more business since her father left the company and their sponsors wanted to know when the co-owners of the WWE were returning. Although Stephanie had the right credentials for the job she couldn't give the sponsors the assurance that they wanted; Shawn and Hunter had a special ability to do that on their own and she would have to find out what that ability was if she was to continue running things while they were out of the country.

"Come in," she said as someone knocked at her door and in strutted Ric Flair. Stephanie smiled as he came over to her and as she finished her phone call the exhaustion melted from her body.

"Hey Steph, how are things going?" Ric Flair asked her as she put her head down on the thick mahogany table. "That good huh?"

"Nice to see you up and about Ric," Stephanie said. "I bet your wife is glad you're home now,"

"I couldn't feel better. Getting up out of that hospital bed felt great and if it wasn't for Shawn and Hunter I probably wouldn't have even gone to get my heart checked out. Something told me that I had to come here to see how things were going, I guess you could call it a hunch." Ric said.

"You knew I'd struggle running the WWE by myself didn't you?" Stephanie said and Flair nodded.

"Without a doubt. You haven't been here for awhile Stephanie and Shawn and Hunter run the company completely differently from how you and your father ran it. When are they getting back from Jamaica?" Flair asked her.

"Not for another few months at least, Judge Hartmann said they had to be away for at least six months. Its barely been two weeks and I'm already struggling, I need help Ric," Stephanie said.

"Well why don't we talk to Shawn and Hunter about working together to run the company while they're away?" Flair suggested and Stephanie shook her head.

"No Ric this is a very demanding job and you just got out of the hospital there's no way I can ask you to do that," Stephanie said.

"So what are you going to do?" Ric said.

"I'll ask 'Taker to help me. He's the second most senior guy in the WWE and he knows how Shawn and Hunter run things," Stephanie said.

"But he's not a business man," Ric said.

"Neither are DX and look at the great job they've done," Stephanie said showing Flair the figures from the last year.

"Woooo!" Flair said impressed.

"Exactly I couldn't have said it better myself and I am not going to ruin this incredible success for them," Stephanie said.

"Well I hope 'Taker is the right man for the job," Flair said. "can I change the subject a little?"

"Sure," Stephanie said putting the reports away.

"I hear Aurora's had some kind of make-over. I was visiting the Copelands and Edge's daughter Angelica was going on and on about how amazing Aurora looked, said she's wearing skirts now. When did this happen?" Flair asked Stephanie who smiled at the thought of her daughter's make-over.

"My daughter has been hiding behind her clothes for awhile now. She has a brightness that needs to shine now and what better way to show that brightness than by a change of dress? I put a whole new set of clothes in her closet and I asked God to bless them, to make His light shine through them when she wore them. Now everywhere she goes people notice her for the beautiful young woman of God that she is," Stephanie said happily.

"Now all you need is for her to forgive you for kicking her and it will be all good between you too," Flair said but Stephanie disagreed with him.

"I want my daughter to forgive me but more importantly I want her to be safe. Garrett Calloway wants to keep my daughter thinking about Jericho and me kicking her so that he can turn her thoughts negative, then he can persuade her to use her powers for evil. Garrett was only attracted to Aurora because of all the bad things that were happening to her at the time. The more light shines through her and the more she hangs around with the people that truly love and care about her the harder it will be for Garrett to manipulate her," Stephanie said and Flair frowned.

"Who the Hell is Garrett Callaway?" he said and Stephanie sighed.

"He's the Undertaker's evil son," Stephanie replied forgetting that Flair had been in the hospital when Garrett Calloway came into her life.

"Oh that kid, I thought he was in a mental institution?" Flair said.

"Apparently he's beyond help and he's Hell-bent on making our lives as horrible as his but it's not gonna happen. My family has been through too much Ric and now that the trial's over and Jericho's buried in Antarctica it's time for us to start enjoying our lives again and that's exactly what we're going to do!" Stephanie said adamantly.

"Jericho's buried in Antarctica?" Flair said in shock. "I thought he was supposed to go back to Hell?"

"Ric do me a favor, don't get sick ever again," Stephanie said not wanting to have to recap the last few weeks to Flair.

"Okay tell me this at least, is everything okay with you and Jeff?" Flair asked her and Stephanie nodded.

"If it's possible we love each other even more," Stephanie said.

"So it must be hard having him in Jamaica while you're here in America," Flair said.

"It's a court order but yeah I sure do miss him. He flies in now and again but it's not really safe, I don't want anyone to recognize him and I can't really fly over to see him because I'm running the WWE," Stephanie said and Flair sighed.

"Normal seems like a fantasy right now doesn't it?" Flair said and Stephanie smiled.

"When God gave me and Beth the Gift of Flight I knew my life would never be the same. When Amy, Trish and Melina became ATM their lives were never the same and I don't think my life will ever be normal again," Stephanie said.

"Hold the phone, Stephanie McMahon Hardy you can fly? When did this happen?" Ric asked in shock and Stephanie collapsed back onto Hunter and Shawn's desk amazed at how much Flair didn't know right now.

"Go home Ric," she said.

"Only if you carry me sister, I gotta see this Gift of Flight in action! No more limousine riding or jet flying for me, from now on I'm taking a lift on the Stephanie McMahon express – woooo!" Ric said excitedly and Stephanie nodded.

"Okay let's go Nature Boy," she said and she flew Flair back to Charlotte, North Carolina and he yelled "wooo!" the whole way there.

While she was gone a black mist came through the DX office and it manifested into the form of Garrett Calloway.

"So this is where the magic happens?" he said looking through the WWE reports and business plans. He stayed there all night learning about the internal processes and forecast models of the WWE. "Yes I think I can help you out Stephanie, the three of us together could run this company into the ground,"

The third person of course would be Chris Jericho once Garrett figured out how to get him out of that iceberg in Antarctica.