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Chapter 12: The Art of War

Randy paced back and forth in his hotel room for the night. Ever since he had been slapped by Stephanie McMahon, all he saw was a constant glow of red. This red triggered pain and agony for those who stood in the way of his championship dream of having gold around his waist once again. Randy felt that everyone was against him. Correction, he felt everyone that wasn't a part of Legacy was against him; to Randy the people that wanted to destroy him as badly as he wanted to destroy them was named 'McMahon'

Randy sat down on his bed and rubbed his head in both annoyance and aggravation. The newest one to make his life a living hell was the newly revealed Vanessa McMahon. He vowed he would find out who she was and why she was defending the McMahon's; Randy made it his purpose to not only exterminate the McMahon's, but wonder why she was the prize. Randy never expected for her to have the Billion Dollar bloodline.

Randy's body was sore; the match that the new General Manager of Raw, Vanessa McMahon, placed him in was grueling. He was locked inside a steel cage with the person he has to meet at Extreme Rules for the title, Dave Batista. Randy barely made it out alive, executing a Super RKO and climbing out of the cage. After winning, Randy clutched onto his title because he knew it's only a matter of time before Vanessa would place him in a match where his title, is no longer his.

He initially wanted tonight to be a Legacy meeting to find some way to take out both Batista and Vanessa in one shot. Randy had to admit, Vanessa was good. She strategically separated the trio, placing Ted in a totally different hotel, leaving only himself and Cody together. Randy didn't like the feeling of this separation. For all he knew, she could have placed Ted into a trap; Vanessa could have purposely made sure Ted was alone to get inside his head as a sick and twisted playback for Ted trying to get into her head. Randy assumed the worst; he began to think because he was alone, Vanessa had Ted secluded where Batista, John and whomever else wanted to physically harm Ted could do so and no one would help him or hear his pleads for help.

The glow of red appeared once again in Randy's vision and with those assumptions, regardless if it were true or not, he was going to rid Monday Night Raw and the WWE of Vanessa. Small whispers in his ears planted detailed visions in his mind of ways to torture her. He could kick her in the head like Randy had done to her father, Vince and brother-in-law, Hunter. He could DDT her into the mat like he had done to her sister, Stephanie; Randy even thought of shattering her ankle like her brother, Shane, in the exact way he had done the night of her revealing herself.

"No..." Randy whispered, while his icy orbs of blue eyes stared down at the floor, cautiously listening to the whispers and analyzing the visions of pain for Vanessa. Randy shook his head and hissed slowly. "...we need a better way to hurt and break her..."

A knock occurred on Randy's hotel room door, breaking him from his sinister world. Slowly, the viper stood and sluggishly walked to the door. Thanks to his grueling match in a cage, it wasn't the best thing in the world to walk, stand or breathe due to how much metal his body had come into contact with. Twisting the knob and groaning in tremendous back pain, his eyes landed on his equally hurt Legacy stablemate, Cody Rhodes.

The evident look of pain was written on Cody's face and posture as he favored his right side of his rib cage. Blinking hard to not wince from the sharp pain that ran through his body, Cody inhaled and nodded. "How you feeling Randy?"

"Like shit, how else would I feel Cody?" Randy retorted back while narrowing his eyes at Cody. "I had a steel cage match against Batista almost two hours ago. Did you not see the way he threw me against the steel cage? I could have been seriously hurt if I didn't aim for his leg"

Cody nodded and sighed. "I'm sorry, I didn't see your match. I was too busy with the trainer after my match with Big Show" Cody explained while gripping onto his rib cage once again. It was clear, Cody seriously needed more medical attention, but to Cody his dedication and allegiance to Randy and Legacy was more important. "Where's Ted?"

"Other side of town. Our lovely new owner and General Manager separated us" Randy replied bitterly. Shaking his head once more to stop the voices and images of red, he stepped to the side, allowing Cody entrance into his hotel room. "I'm not so sure if I like this whole separation thing. Who knows what can happen to Ted-"

"Ted is fine. Everyone else is over here at this hotel. If Ted is across town at the other hotel, he's surrounded by Diva's and then Vanessa" Cody informed Randy. Randy nodded; he knew there was a reason to keep the young Rhodes around and apparently it was because he came in handy when it came to information. "So what do we do now? We know Vanessa has unlimited power and wants to see us perish-"

"I know this already Cody. I've been trying to devise a fuckin' plan" Randy snapped. Cody's eyes hardened, showing no fear. It was something he learned while around Randy. It was a defense mechanism and it worked from time to time. "We need to bring down the bitch"

"What about Batista?" Cody asked, careful to not snap a wire in Randy's mind. Randy slowly peered up and shook his head.

"Batista is just a small pawn. He will be taken care of, but the boss has to go first" Randy stated. Randy rubbed his neck and groaned in pain. "If there is no boss, rules change and I can retain my title. Apparently Ted couldn't get the information on Vanessa in a timely manner or in a great quality, so I'm leaving you to do it"

Cody stood up as straight as possible and slowly nodded. Dropping his hand to his side, Cody sighed. "What do you want me to find out?" he asked

Randy snickered and rubbed his chin. Walking toward Cody, Randy inhaled. "I want you to find out her weakness. A kid, a boyfriend...anything. I want it...now"

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Cody sat at his laptop in the hotel room he had tonight. Tapping the space bar, he grew tiresome of wrecking his brain of the smallest idea to find out how to hurt Vanessa. Cody would admit, he's very smart. He's the most underestimated one in Legacy. No one really believes he smart, strong or talented for that matter. Cody was the evident underdog, the one no one believed in and everyone felt Legacy could do without.

Right now was his time to shine. If he could find the weakness of Vanessa McMahon, he'd do something that Ted was assigned to do. At that he'd be fulfilling the mission better than Ted had. The problem was, how do you find a weakness of someone you seriously don't know? Information on someone who has been around for roughly 2 weeks is hard to find, but he was going to succeed. Typing into the search engine 'Vanessa McMahon' numerous sites popped up.

A brand new McMahon website had been built. It was dedicated to the whole McMahon family as a unit. There were pictures and information of the McMahon's, and one caught his eye. It was the photo gallery of Vanessa McMahon.

"Where there's a camera, there's a weakness..." Cody replied to himself. Clicking the link, he saw a few photo albums of her. Some of baby pictures of just her and her family. Cody smirked at how Vanessa tried to be so innocent compared to the likes of her sister, Stephanie.

However one picture caught his eye, making him worry and sick to his stomach. Vanessa was no older than ten years old, but the figure next to her was a male and wasn't her brother. The brown locks, blue eyes and signature chubby cheeks gave him away. The biggest give to who he was in the picture, was the stolen item the two were holding; the Million Dollar Belt. Only two people had access to that belt, The Million Dollar Man himself, and his son, Ted DiBiase Jr.

"No...fuckin'...way" Cody whispered to himself. Clicking another album further confirmed his fear and sickness. Vanessa stood in a royal blue satin dress, hair perfectly done in curls. The white carnation with blue dyed trimming corsage on her hand matched the one of her date. His vest and tie, matched the fabric and color of her dress. Cody closed the web browser and sighed.

"Her weakness... is Ted..." he whispered. He was faced with a choice, make his name better in Legacy and give up his partner, or hold the information and suffer later. Cody was at a crossroad.

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