On Raw, Dean and Seth were putting on their gear when they heard Roman's music playing to see their older brother heading down to the ring alone. Inside the ring was the Wyatts and this worried the twins on what Roman could possibly be thinking with daring to face them alone. Dean glanced to Seth who knew exactly what his twin needed him to do and he bolted them out of the locker room to be right at the curtain with the youngest waiting in case he needed to head out to help the oldest.
"Let's just have a fight."
"Is he nuts?" Seth asked his twin on them knowing just what was going through Roman's head.
Roman wasn't looking for a normal fight, he was ready to use his powers to destroy the Wyatts and hurt Bray just as much the bearded man had hurt the Shield. A deep breath was taken by Dean who readied himself to go out once things turned bad the oldest. The twins stood watching on a television that Bray appeared to accept the deal of just a fight one on one between himself and Roman. Harper bad mouthed at the boy to end up receiving a strength fueled uppercut into his jaw that knocked him right off the apron.
"I'm not actually sure if Bray even has powers." Seth told his twin who agreed on not being sure of that either.
"They're in the ring." Dean sighed at Harper and Strowman getting involved.
He signaled for his music to be played and rushed out to get a piece of thought from Strowman that had him ducking the bigger boy's swing for his head. Dean slid into the ring to again use his powers to avoid being hit by Harper and then took Luke down to the mat. Punches smashed into the man and Dean caught Strowman attempting to get back in the ring. The boy quickly moved to dropkick Strowman off the apron and went to do a suicide dive only to get himself caught.
"Put me down." Dean used his powers on the bigger.
Once set on his feet, Dean continued to throw strikes at Braun who lifted the boy to toss through the ropes back into the ring. Again Dean attempted a suicide dive that seemed to have no impact on Strowman and it took one forearm from Braun to knock Dean on the floor.
'Dean!' Roman shouted mentally.
The oldest brother got out of the ring to go to Dean's aide of getting Braun away from him. Both boys strength was close to even, but a forearm from Braun took Roman down and it was Dean's turn to come to Roman's aide. Jumping onto Braun's back, Dean pushed all painfilled memories into transferring to Strowman in hopes of getting him down. Braun just tossed Dean over his head that crashed the youngest into the barricade hard and Harper was on him. Several feet away was Bray and Roman exchanging blows with each other and it is chaos all around ringside. Outnumbered though Dean and Roman were and they knew it would only end badly for them due to that disadvantage. Harper had Roman trapped on the mat as Braun kept Dean down who'd been tossed into the steel steps.
'Looks like you boys could use some help.' Randy's voice hijacked the mental bond.
Seconds later Orton's music played with the man running down the ramp towards the ring with his eyes shifting from normal to viper ones. Bray looked shocked on this happening while Dean and Roman were grateful for their dad's friend coming to help them. Viper quickness gave Randy the speed he needed to flip Bray with a powerslam and then send Harper through the ropes. Braun's strength though was a problem to Orton who received some blows from the large boy. When Braun had Randy gripped on the jaw, he didn't see Dean climbing onto the top turnbuckle until the youngest boy had launched off delivering a missile dropkick. It was able to allow Randy to give his own dropkick to Strowman that had the monster size boy stumbling a little. Last blow to Braun came from Roman connecting a full strength filled superman punch that had Strowman falling over the ropes and barely staying on his feet. A shocked look was in Bray's eyes at what the three have done to his family's black sheep. Roman met Bray's eyes with his shifting as the breaded man seemed to become amused on this change in things for him.
"Uh oh." Dean whispered gaining Roman's attention as they left the ring.
"What?"
"Mom and Dad aren't happy on what we just did without their permission."
"You two are probably grounded." Randy laughed as they got backstage.
Dean heard his twin's frantic thoughts and he headed to where Seth was waiting outside their parents' smaller office used for promos. The older twin made up his mind and opened the door to begin heading inside needing to talk with his parents on what Kane had done to him the other night.
"Dad. Mom. Look I know he's here. I can sense it, we need to come up with a plan." Seth began to stop talking as he saw Kane's back.
'This is going to be good.' Dean mentally laughed as Kane began turning around with a smile on his face.
'Shut it, runt.'
"Hello, Seth." Kane greeted to the boy.
'He seems cheery.' Dean said mentally.
"I'm sorry. I didn't hear you knock." Kane explained as he then took a sip of his coffee. "Who do you need to take care of?"
"What are you-what are you-what are you doing here?" Seth asked while his twin remained silent outside the bond.
"I work here." Kane reminded the boy.
"After what you did to me last night?"
"I have no idea what you are talking about, Seth." Kane told the boy while Dean nudged into the man's mind to see if he could out what was going on. "In case you don't remember, I've been off recuperating since somebody broke my ankle a couple of months ago."
"Yeah. Brock Lesnar." Seth knew he shouldn't admit his part in that. "Yeah, Brock Lesnar broke your ankle and I've been meaning to apologize what happened afterwards. What I did to you was in the heat of the moment, I just-"
"I don't begrudge you that, Seth. In fact, frankly I've done the same thing myself but now my leg's all healed up, I've got my contract as director of operations, I'm back at work." Kane saw the boy's confusion. "Didn't you get the email?"
"Where my parents at?" Seth asked knowing he had to keep his speed thought to talk under control.
"They've yet to arrive."
'Raw take over!' Dean made sure to send that to Roman.
"I feel like-I feel like maybe I should go wait for them. So I'm just gonna…"
"Very good, but just so you know, I've arranged for your rematch for the United States championship against John Cena to take place tonight." Kane informed the boy.
"Right." Seth said as in his head he wanted to shout on how insane the idea was of Kane to make, but instead kept himself in control.
"Right."
"See ya Kane." Dean waved as he left with Seth.
"You the man, Seth. Go get him." Kane shouted as the door closed.
The twin boys went straight to their locker room where Roman sat on the bench having taken his vest off to be in a t-shirt. When Seth set the title on the bench beside the oldest boy, he began pacing with himself phasing through anything in his path.
"Mom and Dad have arrived." Dean told his twin who snatched the title before bolting out of the locker room.
He arrived to meet up with his parents in the hallway hoping that they could help clear up what was going on with Kane. Both his parents were mentally telling Dean and Roman how the two were grounded for the rest of the night for having fought with Wyatts without their permission.
"Oh thank god. You guys are finally here." Seth said to his parents.
"What's the matter?" Stephanie asked her son confused.
"What's going on?" Hunter asked too confused.
"Look, I've been waiting for you guys." Seth began rambling to his parents and his dad tried to get him to calm down. "I can't believe you guys reinstated Kane as director of operations."
"What are you talking about?" Hunter looked confused on his son's claim.
"Kane, you know? The freak tried to end my career last night. He's in your office. He's in his cheap suit. He's saying he's the director of operations. He's even got a little mug, and he invoked-he invoked my rematch for the United States championship against John Cena tonight." Seth could tell his parents were shocked at finding this out. "You saw what I did last night, what I went through. I'm not in any condition for that rematch. There's no way. We got to talk to him. You guys- you've got to talk to Kane."
Hunter got his son to calm down assuring him that him and Stephanie would take care of what's going on with Kane. The two stopped at their off screen office to drop off some things before heading to the promo one to see Kane inside drinking coffee. Some greetings went between the three as Stephanie mentally told Dean not to do a Raw take over that Hunter added in a not without him that made his wife want to smack him.
"Are you doing good?" Hunter asked.
"Yeah."
"How's the leg? Are you feeling better?"
"Leg's all healed up." Kane assured. "It's even better to be back at work."
"Exciting." Hunter had no idea how to deal with this side of Kane.
"Yeah." Stephanie nodded too lost on what to do.
"About being back at work." Hunter began on trying to get to the point. "So…"
"Is there-is there something wrong?" Kane asked them. "Are you guys mad that I made the match for Cena and Seth tonight? I mean, I know it's a big match, but I wanted to have an impact on my first night back."
"No. No. No." Hunter said to the man. "That's great. Cena and Seth for the US Championship, the rematch, it's huge and it's-it's awesome."
"Thanks."
"It's just that-well, we haven't heard from you since you got hurt and then you just-you just showed up last night and, you know…"
"Last night?" Kane sounded lost on that part. "What are you talking about?"
"Okay. Listen, Kane." Stephanie decided to take over for her husband. "I understand, right, you want revenge on Seth Rollins after everything our son did to you from months on end."
"Understandable." Hunter added.
"We totally get it. And if you wanna play mind games with Seth, you know, we understand, okay? But, please, don't insult our intelligence and play mind games with us."
Kane immediately tried to claim he wouldn't do such a thing. "I value my job too much. That's why I signed a contract as director of operations. And I intend on fulfilling that contract because it's what's best for business and I know that you guys, believe the same thing."
"Hey, look-" Hunter began to get stopped by his wife.
"I think there's a way for the three of us to totally all get on the same page here, okay and I think that we can let the past be in the past and let's decide from this point forward, right?"
"Absolutely." Hunter agreed.
Stephanie held her hand out to Kane at one point waiting for him to return the mask that was no longer in the office case. What she hadn't expect was for Kane to give her a high five and she and Hunter were a little stunned.
"Kane, I don't need you to give me five, okay? I need you to give me your mask back."
"What mask?"
"Your mask."
"My mask?"
"Your mask, Kane. The one that was in this case. Your mask."
"My gosh. It's gone." Kane sounded to be in shock at seeing the empty case. "You know, Stephanie, the last time I saw the mask, I gave it to you. And if you lost it, I can see, you have a very big problem."
The change in Kane's tone had Hunter's eyes shifting in protectiveness towards his wife as the flames sparked on the taller man's fingertips. Him being like this was the normal Kane to both Hunter and Stephanie and the quick change in his mood was not very good in their eyes for anyone who crosses him.
"But I'll be happy to help you look for it. And it I find it, you'll be the first to know." Kane's mood went right back from the dark one to the cheerful one. "Thanks. It's good seeing you, guys. Have a great night."
Kane left the office leaving Stephanie and Hunter totally confused on what had just happened with the man. In the boys' locker room, Roman received a text from his grandfather that had him laughing out loud to gain Dean's attention.
"What did grandpa text you?"
"Kane was resigned by me, that'll teach your parents on every singing happy birthday to me without my permission." Roman read the text to his baby brother.
"Grandpa is the best." Dean smiled.
A knock on the door had the boys looking to it and saw Kane enter with his cheerful look that they were not at all used to seeing him have. He greeted them with that cheerful tone and seemed to be looking around for Seth who appeared to not be in the room.
"I'm Dean." the youngest confirmed when Kane began looking him over.
"I know that. You are such an angel and always so happy to help anyone out." Kane claimed to have Roman work hard not to snort.
"Have a great day boys."
"What the-" Dean began while his older brother broke out laughing.
"Grandpa may have done the perfect payback on mom and dad." Roman wiped at the tears that escaped from his eyes from laughing too hard.
The two boys were getting out of their wrestling gear when Seth came into the locker room looking very unpleased by the way he was pouting. Roman watched him begin to get himself ready for his match that would be coming up soon against Cena for the US title.
"What's got you pouting?" Dean asked his twin.
"Dad snapped at me." Seth informed to see his brothers laugh.
"You do act like a spoiled brat that needs to get put in his place by mom or dad most of the time." Roman said to then get tackled by his little brother.
"No, I'm not!"
Seth and Roman rolled on the floor with the older soon having pinned the younger down using his strength. From where he sat on a bench, Dean laughed at how his brothers acted and then tried to join into the wrestling with tackling Roman off his twin. A laugh left Seth at his brothers making him feel better and he realized his match was next. He bolted from the locker room leaving Dean and Roman still rolling on the floor. It was how their parents found them as they stepped into the locker room to shake their heads at the childish behavior.
"Hi mom. Hi dad." Dean greeted.
"Hello little lunatic." Stephanie smiled even though it did not mean him or Roman would get ungrounded.
"Seth's match should be over soon. I expect you two ready to go when-" Hunter stopped talking at Cena's music playing.
"Wonderful. Seth is going to be a bad mood the rest of the night." Roman sighed.
"If he has a fit on losing, we'll have him join in on being grounded." Stephanie told the two.
"Uh oh." Dean whispered and looked to his parents.
"What's wrong?" Stephanie asked.
"I think I know." Roman pointed to the television where flames had erupted off the stage and red light was on the ring.
"Kane's dragging your brother to hell." Hunter sighed at the man having come up out of the ring through a hole.
'Mom! Dad!' Seth screamed over the mental bond.
'Calm down, Seth.' Hunter instructed.
'Yeah, right. Kane's dragging him to help and you expect him to be calm, dad.' Roman replied on that instruction.
Inside the ring, Seth used his powers to phase his leg out of Kane's grip and tried to bolt out of there to end up tripping over his own feet. The boy begged his parents to make Kane go away through the bond while shouting no at Kane who came out of the hole after him. Even trying to hold onto the apron was preventing Seth from being dragged and soon his lower body was in the hole. A little use of his powers got him a little free to try again getting away from the devil's favorite demon who seemed very determined to take the boy to hell. When Kane had Seth fully through the hole, the ringposts had flames erupt off them and Stephanie and Hunter looked at their two other sons as smoke came from the hole. Before either of them could ask Dean to locate his twin, Seth came phasing through the door at full bolt to latch onto his dad like he was a little kid.
"Don't let him take me." Seth begged his dad who sighed.
"It's okay. We won't let Kane take you, little architect." Hunter rubbed the boy's back while shaking his head.
"That was so funny." Dean laughed holding his stomach which earned him a glare from his twin.
Seth tackled Dean in a bolt for them to go right through a bench and start rolling around on the floor. A cheer came from Roman on Dean to kick Seth's butt while Hunter decided enough had gone on from beginning to end of Raw. He stepped over to the twins to snatch them around their waists and separate them while also throwing them over his shoulders. Stephanie held the door for him as Roman got ordered to grab the bags as complaints came from the twins on not liking their dad carrying them the way he was for everyone to see.
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