Title: ATM and the ARK Angels of DX: Best in the World
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 and Linda McMahon, Kevin, Tamara and Tristen Nash, Adam "Edge", Angelina and Angelica Copeland, Phil "CM Punk", Jamie "Velvet Sky" and Ravine Brooks, Marion Cena, the Undertaker, Garrett Calloway, Sting and Steven Borden, Batista, Kofi Kingston, Dolph Ziggler, Kelly Kelly, Brie and Justin Danner, Alannah Pirelli and Charlotte, Dan and Carla McCool.
Summary: Tristen Nash buys out Ring of Honor and creates a new promotion called BTW (Best in the World).Cheyenne Michelle has to decide between Tristen and her family.
Chapter Eleven – When Mafia God Daughters Attack
San Antonio, Texas
Ravine followed Angelica into the building where the second episode of Best in the World would be showing at the sold out American Airlines Arena. Her parents were not far behind her and they were not alone; Stephanie Hardy was with them. Kelly Kelly saw Stephanie coming from inside the arena and her thoughts darkened.
"I'm so sorry you came Steph, now you're going to get your butt kicked on national television," Kelly Kelly said and see headed downstairs to greet Angelica Copeland but instead she ended up running into Cheyenne Michelle.
"Hey Chey, how was the honeymoon?" Kelly asked her.
"I've already forgotten about it. I wanna talk to you Kelly, do you have a minute?" Cheyenne asked her.
"Sure thing Chey," Kelly said sitting down next to Cheyenne on one of the arena seats. "I don't know if Tristen told you but I'm working here now,"
"No Tristen didn't tell me but if you think working here is going to help you get over Uncle Hunter it's not. Please don't take out your frustrations on BTW," Cheyenne said and Kelly's face soured at the mention of Triple H.
"He broke up with me over the phone Chey! He totally proved just how little I actually mean to him, I have every right to be mad at him," Kelly said.
"But you weren't even really dating each other, he just pretended to like you to get under Aunt Joanie's skin," Cheyenne said and Kelly Kelly sighed.
"Well it wasn't fair of him to play such a cruel DX prank on me, I have feelings I'm a human being and after everything I went through with Randy you'd think Hunter would be more sensitive," Kelly Kelly said annoyed and Cheyenne furrowed her brow.
"Wow you don't really know my Uncle Hunter at all do you?" Cheyenne said and Kelly Kelly wiped a tear away from her eye.
"No Chey I do know your Uncle Hunter; he's like every guy I've ever met. He's selfish, heartless and all he cares is about making a fool out of Kelly Kelly, Randy must have made it look so easy it's no wonder Hunter thought he could do it too," Kelly Kelly said but Cheyenne shook her head.
"I agree Uncle Hunter can be a little immature but he's a great boss and a really good friend. You don't want him on your bad side and if you go up against him, his family or the WWE you are going to end up regretting it," Cheyenne said.
"You haven't exactly been towing the family line recently Cheyenne, you got married to Tristen Nash against your father's wishes," Kelly Kelly said.
"Yes I did and it was a mistake, one that nearly cost me my life, take it from me Kelly Kelly, don't make the same mistake," Cheyenne said and Kelly Kelly grew concerned. She put her hand on Cheyenne's shoulder to ask her a question about Tristen.
"What happened on your honeymoon, just how bad was it?" Kelly Kelly asked. "Are you and Tristen still together?"
"Let's just say I saw the real side of Tristen Nash in Hawaii and believe me it wasn't pretty at all," Cheyenne said and Kelly Kelly was surprised.
"Wow I guess we do have a lot in common; we both know what it's like to be in love with a lying no good son-of-a-bitch," Kelly Kelly said and Cheyenne couldn't help but laugh at Kelly's indignation towards her past loves, then she did a double-take when she realized what she had said about Hunter.
"Wait-a-minute you were in love with Uncle Hunter?" Cheyenne said surprised and Kelly Kelly nodded. "That's so weird you barely even know him, plus he's married, this couldn't be more wrong, are you sure it's not just his hair that you loved?"
"What is it about the phrase "I loved him" that you don't understand?" Kelly Kelly said annoyed.
"All of it!" Cheyenne replied. "Think about what I said and go back to the WWE okay?" Cheyenne said.
"No way I'm not gonna work for that jerk or his ex-wife, you better get used to seeing me around Chey because I'm not going anywhere," Kelly Kelly said and Cheyenne shrugged.
"I tried to reason with you now I'm gonna have to make you see things my way," Cheyenne said and she carried Kelly Kelly over her shoulder and headed outside the arena where Stephanie Hardy and the Undertaker were standing.
"Put me down I'm not going back to the WWE!" Kelly Kelly said and Cheyenne gave her to Stephanie who didn't have enough strength to hold the Diva still.
"Give her to me, I'll put her in the truck," Undertaker said and he took an outraged Kelly Kelly and put her in his black Dodge pickup truck. "Don't move," he said to her.
"Yeah right, watch me," Kelly Kelly said and she motioned towards Garrett Calloway who was her only friend at BTW. "Garrett tell your daddy to back off!"
Garrett gulped as he saw his father with Stephanie, "What are you doing here dad?" he asked.
"I should ask you the same question; you've got a WWE contract son you shouldn't be here at BTW with Kelly Kelly. Stephanie and I are taking you home right now," Undertaker said and Garrett grew angry.
"You never really wanted me there in the first place dad you're embarrassed to even be related to me. The only reason you asked Stephanie to offer me a contract was so that I wouldn't come here and be a big star at BTW. You lied to me, your my father and you lied to me and now you have to audacity to act like you care about me?!" Garrett said.
"He's a no-good liar just like Triple H," Kelly Kelly said getting out of the Deadman's truck.
"Get back in that truck and don't move!" Undertaker said and Kelly Kelly jumped back in fear but Garrett told her to come back.
"Don't be afraid of him Kelly," he said but Kelly was trembling. "My dad's bark is worse than his bite,"
Kelly Kelly nervously walked towards Garrett and Stephanie watched in amazement; Garrett wasn't intimidated by his father anymore and he had successfully lured away the WWE's top Diva to a rival wrestling promotion.
Stephanie shook her head while dragging her hands across her face, "Is Tristen Nash inside?" she asked Garrett in agitation.
"Why do you want to concede defeat?" Garrett said.
"This isn't a fight Garrett, this little promotion of yours is gonna kill any potential you had to be a star in the wrestling business. You should thank me and your father for caring about your enough to be here right now," Stephanie said.
"That's cute Stephanie but Tristen's busy talking to his wife," Garrett said.
"You mean ex-wife, Cheyenne's getting that farce of a marriage annulled and hopefully she'll leave BTW as-well and come work for a real wrestling company," Stephanie said.
Garrett rolled his eyes, he wasn't intimidated in the slightest and the sight of him and Kelly Kelly together really got under Stephanie's skin. After a few minutes of awkwardness Tristen Nash emerged from the building and he was carrying some paperwork. He came towards Stephanie and handed her several sheets of paper.
"Nice to see you Stephanie, I hope you stay for the next episode of Best in the World it's gonna be a hit," Tristen said.
"What is this?" Stephanie asked holding up the papers Tristen had handed her.
"That is an official contract for Angelica Copeland who is of this moment working as an artist for Best in the World, I wanted you to see it so you could show it to Edge as proof that she is legally working for me now," Tristen said and Stephanie shook her head.
"You no-good-" she started to say through gritted teeth.
"-Lying son-of-a-bitch yeah I know but I'm also a whizz at contracts so if you want to go over it with Angelica's father please do your best to find anything wrong with it," Tristen Nash said and Angelica Copeland came out of the building with a furious Ravine Brooks behind her. Ravine couldn't even remember leaving Florida, the spell Garrett Calloway had put on her kept her silent while Angelica signed a contract to work for BTW. Now the spell had worn off she couldn't seem to get Angelica to change her mind.
"You must know a million artists from TNA, why have you gone after Angelica Copeland?" Stephanie asked Tristen.
"We just happen to be friends and I know how talented she is from all the time we spent together in Florida. BTW needs the best talent and I consider her to be the best artist in the world," Tristen Nash said.
"You're corrupt Tristen and your tactics are gonna come back to bite you on the butt," Stephanie said. "This is not how you do business,"
"I think you're gonna be in for a treat this year Stephanie when you see just how successful the way I do business is compared to how you do yours," Tristen said.
"Thank God Cheyenne came to her senses and now she sees you for the man you really are," Stephanie said.
"Cheyenne didn't come to her senses I came to mine when I saw who she truly is under that pretty face," Tristen said in disgust.
"Well here she comes Tristen why don't you tell her what you really think of her to her face?" Undertaker said as Cheyenne Michelle came over to her soon-to-be ex-husband.
"Tristen was just telling us what he thought of you Chey, what was it you were saying Tristen?" Stephanie said but Tristen didn't say anything. "She's too good for you and you know it,"
"No Aunt Steph he doesn't know it but he will because I am the best in the world and I will prove it to you right here at BTW. At least with me here I can make sure our family is safe, I'll be working against you on the inside and there's nothing you can do about it," Cheyenne said and she shoved the annulment papers in Tristen's chest. "Sign this or you'll be eating it for lunch,"
Stephanie suddenly realized what a good idea it was to have Cheyenne stay at BTW because she would make sure that Tristen didn't pull anymore underhand tactics at her family and the WWE's expense. That brought a smile to her face and an angry scowl to Tristen's because there was nothing he could do about it. He couldn't fire Cheyenne because he was afraid of her, after all she was the Girl with Phenomenal Strength and she would use her Gift from God against him.
He handed her back the annulment papers but unlike before he didn't look away from her in disgust. The ugly scab that had covered her entire face was now gone and now the radiant Cheyenne Michelle was saying goodbye to him looking as lovely as the first day he met her. His father's plan had failed, the Kliq had failed but Cheyenne had succeeded in humiliating him in front of his competitors and their friends and family.
"I hope we can still be friends," Tristen said and Cheyenne slapped him so hard across the face tears fell from his eyes.
"We were never friends and I'm not gonna work cordially with you. This is a war against my family and friends Tristen and you will lose just like you did when you decided to use me to humiliate DX," Cheyenne said.
"My face, my face! That slap hurt so much, I've got burns over 75% of my body can't you go easy on me?" Tristen said and Cheyenne grabbed Tristen's face and squeezed it between her hands like a vice, "Ow!" he cried out.
"Did you go easy on me on our honeymoon?" Cheyenne asked him and Tristen was in so much pain he could barely stand it.
"Cheyenne please let him go," Kelly Kelly said. "I'm on your side,"
Cheyenne turned to Kelly Kelly in shock as did Undertaker and Stephanie. "You're what?" Cheyenne said.
"I'm on your side I've been on your side this whole time, I was just pretending to side with Tristen but I could never do that after what he did to you," Kelly Kelly said and Cheyenne released Tristen.
"You mean that or did you just say that to get me to let go of Tristen's face?" Cheyenne said.
"Well I can't have you hurting my new boss now can I?" Kelly Kelly said and GPS shook her head at her in disapproval as Kelly Kelly attended to Tristen after Cheyenne released him.
"Wow she really is deceptive," Undertaker said as Kelly Kelly walked back towards the arena with Tristen and Garrett.
"She had me fooled but I'll get her back in the ring," Cheyenne said but the idea of Kelly Kelly wrestling anywhere but the WWE did not sit well with Stephanie.
"Kelly we're outta here," Stephanie said and she pulled Kelly Kelly by the arm and flew with her into the air.
"Put me down!" Kelly Kelly said her legs flailing below her as Stephanie carried her over to a tree and put her on top of it.
"Now you stay there until I'm done talking to Tristen," Stephanie said and Kelly Kelly looked down and realized just how high up she was and she dared not move.
Undertaker smiled liking that Stephanie would do whatever it took to keep the WWE roster intact while Hunter and Shawn were in Jamaica.
"You can't keep her up there forever," Tristen said.
"I'll get her down when I'm ready," Stephanie said and Tristen turned to Garrett.
"Get her down," he said and Garrett used witchcraft to bring Kelly Kelly back down to the ground but his powers weren't working.
"Ha-ha your powers are useless against my Gift from God," Stephanie said and Garrett stamped his foot angrily while his father smiled at his displeasure with Stephanie.
"Get me down from here!" Kelly Kelly cried and Edge, CM Punk, Velvet Sky and Angelina Love finally arrived at the arena and saw her in the tree.
"Here comes the Calvary," Ravine said as her parents approached them.
"Daddy are you mad at me?" Angelica asked Edge who was furious and he answered his daughter's question by Spearing Tristen into the ground.
"Yes sweetheart I am," Edge answered as Tristen held his stomach in pain.
"Ow my ribs! First Cheyenne slaps my face now this, I'm a freaking burn victim people have some mercy on me!" Tristen cried out and Garrett helped him to his feet but his ribs were so sore from the burns and the Spear he couldn't stand upright. Instead he sat on the ground in pain waiting for his father to arrive with back up from the Kliq; the WWE was too much for him right now.
Stephanie showed Edge the contract Angelica had signed to work for BTW and Edge threw it in Tristen's face. "It's not that I mind my daughter working for you Tristen, all you had to do is ask me first. You have a real problem with asking permission don't you? You didn't ask Shawn if you could marry Cheyenne and look how well that turned out for you," Edge said and he turned to his daughter, "No offense sweetie but I hope you screw up here,"
Angelica rolled her eyes, "That's not gonna happen daddy, you know how good I am and Tristen and I go way back and I'm not gonna ruin his company because Cheyenne broke up with him," she said.
"He's not the guy you think he is and I have no faith in him at all," Edge replied and Angelina Love balled Tristen's shirt up in her hands and pulled him close to her face.
"Ow my neck, easy Mrs. C!" Tristen winced still holding his Speared mid-section in pain.
"If anything bad happens to my daughter while she's working here I will hold you personally responsible do you hear me?" Angelina said and she threw Tristen back onto Garrett.
"My burns, my burns are hurting me!" Tristen cried and Cheyenne shook her head pitifully at him.
"You're such a wuss," she said and Tristen scowled at her.
"Stephanie get Kelly Kelly down from that tree we've got work to do and I've got nothing more to say to any of you, except for you Cheyenne you've got a match against Kelly Kelly tonight. I can't wait to see the look on your father's face when one of the WWE's top Divas shows up on my wrestling show, it'll be worth all this agonizing pain I'm in," Tristen said to the interim CEO of the WWE.
"No," Stephanie replied and Cheyenne laughed at Tristen's expense.
"Fine I'll get her down myself," Tristen said marching over to the tree.
"Is he gonna climb up and get her down?" Velvet asked Cheyenne.
"He has to prove that he's not a wuss," Cheyenne said, Tristen was still trying to impress her and despite what he said he still liked her a lot but he had blow any chance of ever being her husband.
Kevin Nash and the Kliq pulled up next to them.
"What are you all doing here on Kliq property?" Kevin Nash said as the other Kliq members surrounded Edge, CM Punk, Velvet, Angelina, Stephanie and Undertaker like a pack of wolves.
"Your son is stealing WWE talent, that tree is the only place I can keep Kelly Kelly away from him," Stephanie replied.
"You think a tree is gonna stop us from taking the WWE down? You've been hanging around with that crack pot Jeff Hardy for too long Stephanie, you're crazy just like he is," Sean Waltman said and Edge frowned.
"Why are you trying to take the WWE down? Shawn and Hunter are your best friends why would you do this to them?" he said and Kevin Nash pushed Edge back angrily.
"You stay out of this Copeland and you won't get hurt," Kevin Nash said and Angelina Love punched him in the stomach but Nash didn't really register the blow and he laughed at her.
What happened next wasn't so funny. A black Rolls Royce phantom appeared and it made a beeline for Kevin Nash. Tristen Nash saw it coming towards his father and he yelled out for Kevin Nash to get out of the way but it was too late. The car hit Kevin and sped off into the distance leaving Kevin Nash a broken heap on the concrete parking lot of the American Airlines Arena.
"Dad!" Tristen cried out and he ran over to his father while everyone covered their faces in shock. Sean Waltman and Scott Hall ran after the car to see if they could make out the license plate while Tristen crouched over his father.
"Don't move him I'll call an ambulance," Undertaker said.
"That car came out of nowhere," Ravine said holding onto her parents trembling.
"Did you see the license plate?" Tristen Nash asked the Kliq as they came back over to them.
"Yeah we did, it was RA8TDRGDR and it was a Florida license plate," Sean Waltman said and Angelica and Ravine exchanged glances.
"I recognize that license plate," Ravine said, so did Edge and he decided it was time for them all to leave.
"We shouldn't have come here let's take Big Kev's advice and leave the Kliq to their own business," Edge said taking Angelica by the hand and pulling her towards his car.
"Stop, she's not going anywhere with you until you tell me whose car that was!" Tristen said to Edge who was trying to avoid disclosing the culprit and it was then that Angelina Love realized who it was as-well.
"I knew that girl was gonna be trouble," she said to herself and Stephanie heard her.
"What girl?" she asked and the Kliq grabbed Angelina and shook her furiously.
"Tell us who hit Kevin or you'll be sorry!" Scott Hall demanded and Edge pulled Scott Hall off of his wife.
"If you don't want the same thing to happen to you I suggest you leave my whole family alone," Edge warned the Kliq and Cheyenne raised her eyebrow at Edge's threatening words. It sounded like he knew who was behind the hit and run.
"You know who did this which means you're responsible for what just happened, you tried to kill my father," Tristen said and he tore up Angelica's contract. "Consider my employment offer void Angelica; I'm calling the police,"
Undertaker looked at Edge sternly as he left with his family and friends. Stephanie looked up at Kelly Kelly who suddenly wasn't so eager to come back down to the ground; now she wanted to stay in the tree where it was safe.
"I'm gonna call DX and tell them what happened, then I'm gonna take Kelly Kelly to Jamaica and she'll stay there with DX until I can sort this whole thing out with her contract," she said to Undertaker who took her over to one side while Garrett rallied around Tristen.
"I think you got bigger problems now Steph, I think you're gonna need a good lawyer. Tristen is going to exploit what just happened to make it look like you set this whole thing up to get back at Tristen for stealing WWE talent," Undertaker told her.
"But I didn't have anything to do with this," Stephanie said. "Having someone run down Kevin Nash in a Rolls Royce, that ain't my style I take care of my father's business legally. However I think DX are gonna rethink hiring me to look after things when I tell them what just happened,"
Meanwhile in the car on the way out of San Antonio Angelina sat silently with tears coming down her face while everyone contemplated the question nobody wanted to ask the man in the driver's seat.
"It's gonna be okay everybody, just relax," Edge said but relaxing was not an option for his wife and daughter or their friends sitting in the back.
"It was her wasn't it daddy, it was Alannah Pirelli and her goons that tried to take out Kevin Nash," Angelica asked Edge who remained tight lipped.
"If you hadn't come down here behind my back none of this would have happened Angelica," Edge said.
"So you did know about the hit," Velvet said. "Edge you could tie with Hunter for being the biggest bonehead in WWE history, how could you ask the Mafia heiress to get involved in our business? Didn't you learn anything from what happened in Los Angeles? Because of her Justin Danner was shot and he'd be dead right now if it wasn't for Shawn Michaels, pull over so I can kick you really hard for being so stupid,"
"I'm not saying one more word about this; you guys are reading way too much into what just happened. Let's look at the bright side, at least we don't have to worry about Angelica working with that lying no good jackass Tristen Nash," Edge said and Angelica balked.
"So that's why you did this, to get me out of working for BTW? I bet this whole thing was Stephanie's idea wasn't it?" Angelica Copeland said but Edge said nothing.
CM Punk shook his head, things were getting out of control and DX weren't around to deal with it and if they had been there was no doubt that what about to happen now could have been avoided.
"Guys let's give Edge a break he needs our support, we're all gonna have to pull together if we're gonna keep him out of jail for attempting to do what we have all dreamt about doing and that's destroy the Kliq," Punk said and Velvet and Ravine frowned at him.
"A man was just run over in front of our very eyes and all you can do is make excuses for the Rated R god father and his stupid mafia god daughter?" Ravine said disgusted.
"Now you're mad at me? All I'm saying is Edge is like family, if there's one good thing I can say about the Kliq is that they look after each other, why don't we do the same and cut Edge some slack and give him the unconditional love that he deserves?" CM Punk said.
"What did you do swear an oath or something? That sounds like some kind of pledge," Velvet Sky said and she was right it was; it was part of an oath that Edge, Christian, the Hardys, Lita and Stephanie had sworn to keep. Punk didn't know about the oath until a few years ago and Velvet certainly didn't know that he had taken the oath and joined up with Edge and his friends to honor it. Now Stephanie was in way over her head she would need all of their support and once the Kliq connected the dots and linked Edge to Alannah Pirelli and the mafia things were going to get ugly in the wrestling world as new factions were born and old factions were destroyed.