Title: The ARK Angels of DX and the Paranoid Android
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 Stratus, Randy Orton, Melina and Johnny Hennigan, Stephanie and Chris Jericho, the RAW and Smackdown Superstars, Charlotte, Dan and Carla McCool, Cassidy and Brandon Montenegro and Miss Taylor, Charlene McKenzie
Summary: Chyna goes to Chris Jericho for help with her problem and his solution affects Hunter and Trish Stratus in a way that has the ARK Angels of DX, Randy Orton and the WWE locker room very concerned.
Chapter Ten – Blown Fuse
Back at the Sandbox, Shawn and Hunter came home from Michigan both eager to enjoy the company of two particular objects, one was Amy Shawn's wife the object of his affection and Rex the robotic dog the new object of Hunter's affection. When Aurora heard them come in she left the sanctity of her windmill and saw her father playing with Rex while Shawn kissed and hugged his wife hello. She didn't know how to say "that should be me and my father" yet but she certainly knew how to vent her frustrations. As Hunter went up the stairs Rex ran up behind him, Aurora shook her rattle in the robotic dog's direction and it started to rain over its head. A black umbrella came out of its chest and protected it from the rain.
"Oh look you got an umbrella inside you, how sophisticated is that?" Hunter said impressed but Shawn and Amy were more concerned with the baby sitting outside the windmill shaking her rattle at the dog wondering what she was doing.
"What's wrong with Aurora?" Amy said.
"I don't think she likes Rex very much," Shawn replied and Aurora was about to make that crystal clear when she blew Rex off the stairs and he responded by gliding in the air. That really took Aurora by surprise, it was like Rex had been built with her attacks in mind.
"Whoa you can glide?" Hunter said taking Rex in his arms, "Is there anything you can't do?" he said to the dog and Amy and Shawn looked at each other then back at Aurora who was getting ready to unleash yet another attack. Rex started to freeze and the house started to get really cold, "Man its getting chilly in here," Hunter said and he went into the coat room and pulled out one of Aurora's jackets and he wrapped Rex up in it, "there that's better,"
The pure shock of the action caused Aurora to stop the attack, she didn't know how to say "How dare you put my jacket on that mutt!" but she was certainly thinking it. She started to cry and Amy picked her up, she was freezing cold because of all her attacks.
Hunter don't you think its kind of weird that Aurora is trying to attack that dog whatever it is?" Amy said.
"Oh you know Ro-Ro always trying to get attention," Hunter said and Shawn jumped in.
"Well in this case I think it's warranted, you've barely shown Aurora the time of day since you got that robot mutt," he said and Hunter rolled his eyes.
"Seriously Shawn your jealousy of Rex is getting old, maybe if you had ideas like he did for the show you wouldn't be so bent out of shape," Hunter said and Shawn huffed.
"If I had an idea like the disaster you green-lighted last night we'd be out of a job," Shawn said.
"Amy don't listen to him, you should have seen the reaction to Edge's new good guy role," Hunter said and Amy raised her eyebrows in shock.
"You actually think turning Edge face was a good idea?" Amy asked.
"The fans will come around, they just need time to get used to him," Hunter said throwing Rex up in the air much to Aurora's annoyance.
"They're not gonna have a chance to get used to him because he's going back to being Rated R next week," Shawn said.
"If Edge goes back to being bad I duck his pay," Hunter threatened and Shawn gasped.
"I think Edge would rather play the Rated R Superstar for free than be a good guy," Amy said.
"And who gave you the right to dock anyone's pay?" Shawn said.
"It's in their contracts, failure to perform as management dictates results in fine of up to a month's pay," Hunter said.
"Since when are you reading through our Superstars' contracts?" Shawn asked.
"Since Rex thought I should familiarize myself with my legal right as co-owner of the WWE," Hunter said and Shawn snapped.
"That's it, Aurora destroy Rex!" he said.
"Ha-ha Shawn, you know Ro-Ro can't take orders from anyone but LC," Hunter said still throwing Rex up in the air but Aurora didn't need LC's permission to do what she already wanted to do. As Hunter threw Rex up in the air Aurora pointed her rattle at the robot dog and she sent it straight up to the ceiling and stuck it there with some kind of super frost. Rex struggled but he couldn't get free and Hunter started to panic.
"Aurora get Rex down from there," Hunter commanded but Aurora just laughed as Rex continued to try and pull himself down off the ceiling. Amy and Shawn thought it was pretty funny but Hunter didn't, in fact he started to get very angry, "I'm not kidding Aurora get Rex down off the ceiling,"
Shawn noticed the menacing tone in Hunter's voice and saw the hot scowl on his face and it made Amy uncomfortable too, regardless Aurora refused to stop frosting Rex to the ceiling.
"Okay Aurora," Hunter said and he went upstairs to his bedroom and when he came back downstairs he had his sledgehammer. Shawn and Amy's curiosity rose wondering what he was going to do with it then their faces fell in horror when he raised it above Aurora's windmill.
"Hunter what are you doing?!" Shawn called out horrified.
"Aurora if you don't get Rex off the ceiling I'm gonna smash this windmill to smithereens," Hunter said and Aurora couldn't believe her eyes, would her father really destroy her favorite toy in the whole world with his weapon of choice? Her indignation towards Rex remained intact as she withdrew the frost and he fell down from the ceiling. "Rex!" Hunter called out and ran and caught him before he smashed on the stairs, "That was close," he said relieved and looked over at his daughter "I'm warning you Aurora don't do that again," he said and Aurora threw her rattle at him in anger, "I'll leave you to calm down," Hunter said and took Rex outside. The temperature started to drop but Shawn and Amy warmed it back up with their Righteous Indignation.
"All this excitement is making the baby hungry, I'm gonna make a sandwich come with me to the kitchen," Amy said to her husband pulling on his arm. While Hunter accompanied Rex to the palatial garden Shawn accompanied Amy and Aurora to the kitchen where Big Red helped herself to a hefty sandwich.
"You hungry Shawn?" she asked HBK her head disappearing into the huge refrigerator.
"No I'm fine sweetie you eat away," Shawn replied looking out the window watching Hunter play catch with Rex with a frown on his face; it looked totally normal but he had a feeling something sinister was going on, "Can you believe the way Hunter just blew up at Aurora?" Shawn asked his wife who had now closed the refrigerator door and was about to make herself a beef and swiss cheese sandwich.
"The Hunter I know would never have done that, I don't know who that guy was and I think Aurora might be trying to figure that out for herself," Amy said looking over at the little girl in the baby chair next to her, "Anything unusual going on out there?" she asked Shawn as he continued to watch Hunter and Rex from the kitchen window.
"No that's just it, they seem perfectly normal," Shawn said puzzled.
"Until you try and take Rex away or threaten him, then Hunter turns into that other guy," Amy said loading up her sandwich, "so really there's nothing normal about their relationship at all,"
Shawn nodded rubbing his chin, "You're right, they'll totally obsessed with each other," Shawn realized then he drove his fist into his hand, "I've got to get that dog away from him,"
"I would advise against that lover boy," Amy said licking the butter off her fingers, "If Hunter isn't in his right mind and you take Rex away and he comes after you, my Righteous Indignation will hold no bounds. I will take him out," Amy snapped her fingers, "Just like that,"
Shawn smiled and looked at his wife amorously, "Just like that?" he said snapping his fingers.
"Just like that," Amy said snapping her fingers again before pressing down on her big sandwich, "So if you love Hunter as much as I know you do, you'll stay away from that dog,"
"You'd even take out my best friend if he tried to hurt me – I love that and I love you," Shawn said sitting down next to Amy and he gave her a big kiss getting butter on his lips and a close up of the sandwich.
"I love you too baby," Amy replied about to take a bite when Shawn stopped her, "What?" she said and Shawn tapped the sandwich with his finger: it was rock hard. They both looked at Aurora, "She must have frozen it," Amy said putting her sandwich down and she felt Aurora's head, it was freezing cold, "She must still be mad at Hunter,"
Shawn took Aurora out of her baby chair, she was very cold, "I'm gonna take her outside to Hunter, he can't ignore her forever," he said.
"I'll come with you," Amy said warming up her sandwich with her Righteous Indignation and Shawn laughed at the fact that she was using her God given power like a microwave. Seconds later her frozen cheese and beef sandwich was now a grilled cheese and beef sandwich.
"Does it taste okay?" Shawn asked with a smile as Amy bit into it and she gave him a thumbs up.
"I was going for lightly toasted but grilled is fine," Amy said.
"The next time we have a BBQ I'm just gonna put the meat on your stomach," Shawn said.
"You could try but I don't think it would be there very long," Amy replied and Shawn laughed putting his arm around her and taking her and Aurora outside to the garden to see a man about his dog.
Boca Vista, FL at 2pm:
Randy took Trish to a dog pound not far from where Trish lived while trying to keep the highly agitated robot dog Ruby under control.
"Are you sure you don't want me to hold her?" Trish asked Randy who was doing everything in his power to make sure Ruby didn't get back in Trish's arms; after all that was his spot, Ruby was honing in on his territory and had proved that it was trying to force a wedge between Randy and Trish for some unknown reason.
"No I'm fine, we're fine aren't we Ruby?" Randy said to the robotic dog and it growled in Randy's face, "See just like old pals," he said and Trish shook her head.
"Is this the place?" Trish said looking through the window at all the dogs.
"Gees Trish what gave it away, was it the dogs or the sign that said 'dog pound' right here?" Randy said pointing to the sign outside the building and Trish smirked at him.
"Don't be cute Randy or I'll leave you here for some poor little girl to take home," Trish said.
"Ouch," Randy replied as they went inside and looked around for the owner.
"Can I help you?" a man in a grey sweatshirt and jeans asked them as they stepped into the pound.
"Yeah we're looking for a dog, like a Great Dane or a Staff, the exact opposite of what I've got in my arms," Randy said and the owner peered down at the mechanical dog trying to get out of Randy's arms.
"Wow a robot dog, where'd you get that?" the owner asked impressed.
"It was on my doorstep one morning, I guess someone gave it to me as a gift," Trish said.
Yeah but who? Randy thought as the owner checked the dog out.
"It doesn't seem to like you very much but I'm good with dogs of all kinds, would you be interested in giving it away?" the owner asked Randy who looked over at Trish.
"It's my girlfriend's dog I can't make that decision, its up to you Trish what do you wanna do?" Randy asked the former Women's Champion who wasn't as attached to Ruby as she used to be and her feelings about Randy took higher priority than anything else and it was obvious that Randy and Ruby were not getting along.
"Well I don't want anything to hinder our relationship so I guess its goodbye Ruby," she said stroking Ruby's mechanical ear and Randy handed the robot dog over to its new owner and thanked God that Trish was in her right mind once again.
"You wanna take a look at the dogs and see if you find one that likes you a lot more than this one?" the owner said trying to keep Ruby still, "Easy little lady," he said to Ruby but the dog was desperate to get back to Trish.
"No actually I think we're good," Randy said putting his arm across Trish's shoulders, "I think the two of us is just enough, don't you?" he asked Trish who smiled up at him and squeezed his hand.
"Yeah, you know what they say: 'Two's company but three is a crowd'" Trish replied, "Thanks anyway,"
"You're welcome have a nice day guys and thanks for the dog," the owner said to them.
"Thank you for taking it," Randy replied and they left the dog pound with no dog and Randy felt about ten pounds lighter. "Whad'ya say we get something to eat?" Randy suggested.
"Sure," Trish said but Randy noticed a look of concern on her face.
"Something wrong?" he asked her.
"No it's nothing I just thought I heard something," Trish said, Randy heard it too but he ignored it: it was the sound of Ruby barking.
Later on that evening Trish and Randy returned to Trish's place after having dinner downtown and they crashed on the sofa laughing about something that happened at the restaurant.
"I can't believe you thought a strand of your hair was spaghetti," Randy said and Trish shook her head while touching her hair.
"It was trying to get the fork out of it afterwards that was the hard part," Trish said throwing her purse on the coffee table and Randy laughed even harder.
"Its like you weren't even paying attention to what you were eating," Randy said holding his stomach laughing.
"I wasn't I was caught up in what you were saying," Trish said.
"What was I saying?" Randy said trying to recall the conversation at the Italian restaurant.
"You were saying how good it felt for me not to be afraid of you anymore," Trish said and Randy nodded; it did feel good.
"Whatever came over you really threw me, the way you looked at me," Randy said shaking his head, "That's a look I don't ever want to see again,"
Trish squeezed Randy's leg and gave him a warm smile, "How about this look?" she said and he leaned his head on the side of her couch and stroked her face.
"I think I could live with that look," he said then he sat up and took both of Trish's hands in his, it was time to tell her what he knew he was ready to say, "Now that I've got your full attention there's something that I've got to tell you and its something that I never thought I'd say to you in a million years,"
The anticipation of this moment stirred Trish's stomach up in a flurry of wild butterflies and she couldn't stop her hands from shaking.
"Trish, I -" Randy started but a loud bang interrupted him and they both jumped. "Oh no," Randy said when the familiar sound of a robot dog barking pierced his special moment.
"That's Ruby," Trish said alarmed and stood up to go and answer the door but Randy pulled her back down.
"You can't let that dog back in this house," Randy said and Trish frowned.
"Why not?" she said and the dog pound owner pounded on the door.
"Hello?" he yelled and given the volume of his voice Randy knew that Ruby must have done something.
"That dog doesn't like me Trish, I don't know who sent it but it's trying to break us up," Randy said and Trish laughed.
"Don't be ridiculous," she said.
"I'm not being ridiculous I'm being very serious, there's something wrong with that dog," Randy replied.
"The only thing wrong with the dog is that it misses me," Trish said getting up and going over to the door.
"Trish please don't open the door!" Randy implored her grabbing her back, "Let's just stay here, eventually the man will go away,"
Trish couldn't believe what she was hearing, "The Legend Killer is afraid of a little robot dog, Randy Orton I demand that you pull yourself together," Trish said and she opened the door. On the other side of the door was a man looking very disheveled and desperate, the dog pound owner sure looked much chirpier the last time Trish and Randy saw him.
"This dog is insane!" the man said hysterically, "After you left it destroyed my whole pound, it tore up papers, threw things around and worst of all it tried to attack my dogs!"
Trish and Randy looked at each other then back at the dog pound owner, "It tried to attack your dogs?" Trish said in shock.
"Yeah, scared the living Hell out of 'em. Do you know how long it took me to get them to settle down?" the man said and Randy looked at Trish who was starting to think he had a point.
"How did you find us?" Trish asked.
"Well that's the good thing about this dog, it's very intelligent it told me exactly where you lived," the man said impressed, "now all it needs is an attitude re-adjustment and it should be okay. I suggest you send it back to wherever it came from and get it re-wired because I think its blown a fuse or two," the man said and he gave Ruby to Randy who took it reluctantly. Once again the dog struggled to get to Trish but she was far less keen to hold it after hearing about what it did to the dogs at the dog pound.
"Do you believe me now?" Randy asked her as the dog pound owner drove away.
"Maybe it's damaged," Trish said.
"No Trish its not damaged it knows what its doing," Randy said.
"If only I had my Truth-telling abilities back then I'd know what's wrong with it," Trish said, "What should we do with it?"
"Take it to the dump," Randy said and his cell-phone rang, "Trish could you get that?" he said and Trish took his cell-phone out of his pocket.
"Hello?" she said, it was Cameron.
"Trish listen up, I just got a message from God, He said do not try to destroy the dog," Cameron said.
"But its crazy, what are we supposed to do with it?" Trish said as Randy tried to keep Ruby still.
"Just lock it in a room, I repeat do not try to destroy it," Cameron said.
"Okay," Trish said and hung up and looked at Randy, "That was Cameron," she said.
"What did he say?" Randy asked.
"He said we should lock the dog in a room and not try to destroy it," Trish said.
"Well if that's what Cameron said then that's what we'll do," Randy said and they took the dog up to one of Trish's guest bedrooms and Randy tried to leave it in there but it held onto his shirt and Randy had to throw the dog onto the floor. When he turned to leave Ruby grabbed his shirt sleeve and pulled Randy down to the ground but before it could get to Trish Randy swung the door in its face knocking it against the wall.
"Are you okay?" Trish said looking at Randy's torn shirt sleeve.
"I'm fine," he replied and Ruby started barking, "I don't think it'll get out of there,"
Trish sighed, "I don't think I'm gonna get any sleep tonight," she said.
"You wanna go stay at Carlito's?" Randy suggested and Trish raised her eyebrow.
"You don't mind?" she asked.
"No Carlito's cool," Randy said.
"And he'd be the first one to tell you," Trish replied and they called Carlito and asked if they could stay the night.
"Sure the more the merrier," Carlito said looking back at Edge, Angelina Love, MVP, Gail Kim, Roxxi Laveaux, Brandon and Cassidy Montenegro and the ARK Angels of DX – all of which had decided to stay over at his place tonight.
"We'll be there soon," Randy said and hung up, "Carlito has guests, looks like we'll be having a little party tonight,"
Trish smiled, "That's just what I need to take my mind off Ruby," she said and went to her room to pack a few things. Randy smiled at the guest bedroom door behind which was a very angry dog.
"Bark all you want, you're not getting to my girl," Randy said and he rubbed his hands together excitedly. A party was the perfect venue for him to do what he had been wanting to do for awhile now and with two of his most avid supporters there in Carlito and Edge there couldn't have been a better time to do it.