Stephanie's relieved to still have this to fall back on. Her vision, something her father couldn't take from her too. HHH is still at home, stewing, trying not to get caught up in their daughter's lives and school yard drama. She sighs and pinches her nose, thinking about it all. She loves her family, but dammit, sometimes it's nice to be a few states away from her. Pulling herself back together, she focuses on the monitor and watches as the show begins.
She has no announcements to make, things are mostly just a waiting game for her. Book matches, make sure Neville nor Naomi want to cash in their attempts for another federation's championship, and then sit back and try to think of a way out of this hell she and HHH finds themselves in regarding WWE. She only half-watches as NJPW's Ishii defeats Ziggler after a few minutes of fast, hard hitting action that eventually culminates into a pin after Dolph tries, and fails, to hit Ishii with a superkick just to get suplexed into the mat for his troubles.
Baron Corbin subdues Matt Sydal's speed next with his intense offense, pinning him within a few minutes to the audience's dissatisfaction. Simon Gotch's motivation on the main roster carries over to here as he defeats James Storm next, and Stephanie finds herself sitting down to try to track the next match, with Lucha Underground's Killshot vs the Usos. It's impossible, however, the men flying here, and there, and everywhere, until Jey splashes Killshot down and Jimmy achieves the pin, the twins grinning and hitting forearms before rolling out of the ring and heading backstage.
Prince Puma faces Bray Wyatt next, looking unnerved by the cult leader even though he's curretnly without his family. For this reason, he starts off slowly, trying to feel Bray out. Punches, forearms and kicks slowly evolving to top rope moves and more brutal mat-based attacks... until his attempt at a diving kneedrop is reversed, Bray slamming him into the mat after kicking his forehead to lead into Sister Abigail. Bray's evil, warped laughter then echoes around the arena as the audience hushes to listen to him.
Afterwards, Jade defeats Emma in quick enough fashion, the women meeting each other with kicks to the face, which Jade recovers from first and struggles on to the turnbuckle, hitting a corkscrew moonsault and leaves Emma vulnerable to the three count. Stephanie grows restless after this match, wandering the halls and only catching a few minutes of the latest match- Enzo Amore vs DJ Z. Both men are slick with insults and verbal wordplay, but when they're in the ring, it's clear the edge goes towards Zema, with his twelve years of ring know-how and skills, while Enzo is still relatively new to the whole game. And without Cass, a good half of his offense is impossible so it's no huge surprise when Zema defeats him with a 450 splash that makes even Stephanie grimace.
She's found her way back to the curtain where wrestlers come and go before and after matches, watching as Cass prepares for his match, which is next, just to forget taping up his wrists and whatever else as Enzo staggers backstage, gripping his ribs and looking truly pinched and unhappy. The tag partners share a moment, Cass hugging him and ruffling his hair, before pulling away and going out to compete in a match against Kalisto and Texano. He loses too, Texano walking away with this particular victory after using his smarts to eject Cass from the ring and finish off Kalisto quickly enough, and Stephanie rolls her eyes, unsurprised.
The next few matches pass by in a blur for her as Delirious defeats Dragon Azteca Jr, Tyrus defeats Goto, and Kevin Owens succeeds in a triple threat against Kushida and Roman Reigns, clearly fueled by all of the boos and anger aimed at the current World Heavyweight Champion. Rey Mysterio defeats AJ Styles and Stephania huffs at the thought of yet another failure aimed at the WWE. Next up is a tag match and she watches with some intrigues as Jushin Thunder Liger and Cesaro sit in the corner and try to make a quick game plan before their opponents could come out. As if summoned, Devon Dudley and Bobby Roode make their way to the ring, the four men trying to feel things out, how best to make things work. It's a rough match and sometimes Stephanie is sure that the WWE guys won't succeed, and her worry is confirmed when Devon throws Liger over the ropes towards the fan before, which hads to the anger she always had to deak with. "What's one more?" she grouses, throwing it onto the pile.
The main event is a five man elimination match and Stephanie grimaces, listening to the ref's directions as Ryback, Matt Hardy, Apollo Crews, Aiden English and Bubba Dudley wander the ring, spitting anger and everything going wrong makes them all just a bit more desperate, more angry and more rough and... It all crashes together into a disturbing match, the five men pounding at each other, hitting the rare desperation, high flying move to try to speed alnog eliminations. Apollo is the first out, Bubba and Ryback working together... just for Matt to run up and tip them both over the top, only succeeding at getting rid of Ryback, who rages at ringside before finally leaving. Matt is next, caught wrong by a high knee from , cursing him own luck at being tipped over the top by a laughing smug Bubba Ray Dudley.
He, however, is next to go and almost thinks he could've had the too, if not for Aiden English sneaking up behind him and striking him with a hard forearm to the back of the head, causing him to crumple over the top rope and land with a heavy thump to the outside. Ignoring the crowd's boos and muffled cheers, Aiden holds his arm up in victory and smirks around at the arena as he realizes. He now has two options, which means out of all of them, he's one of the few who is doing better than most at this Team Work cycle.
Stephanie sighs, relieved that it's over for the week, and finally heads for the exit, to start the substantial journey back home to be with her daughters and perhaps try to comfort her husband from the usual 'post match' blah he's suffering through.