Title: ATM and the ARK Angels of DX: The Damsels of Destruction
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, Charlene McKenzie, Cassidy and Brandon Montenegro, John and Marion Cena, Garrett Calloway and Charlotte, Dan and Carla McCool.
Summary: The Damsels of Destruction team up with the Kliq to bring calamity on DX and Stephanie's drive to get Jeff Hardy to exhibit his art work is the key to getting the ARK Angels out of trouble.
Chapter Twenty One – Thinking About Tomorrow
Glen Cove High, Long Island, NY
RJ Orton stared into space during science class with his chin resting on his crossed arms which were covering his notebook. The book should have been open and his eyes should have been on the teacher but today he found his thoughts wondering over to the right side of the class where Angelo Jericho was sitting. Angelo was so smart the teacher didn't really pay attention to what was going on if Angelo had something to say and today more than usual Angelo was full of conversation. By the time class was over RJ hadn't done or said anything to do with science and if Rebecca Michelle was with him she would have slapped him and told him to pay attention. He missed her so much and that was the problem, the reason he wasn't concentrating was because she wasn't around.
"You okay there man?" Marion Cena asked RJ in the hallway which was buzzing with conversation from the other kids.
"I will be when school's over then I can go and spend some time with Remi," RJ replied.
"So you're going over to the Sandbox too?" Marion said and RJ frowned.
Why who else is going over there?" he asked Marion.
"All the Hardy kids are going over there, I would go too but I have to get back to Florida," Marion replied and RJ sighed. He was irritated that he wouldn't be able to be alone with Remi today after all, the fact that Marion was leaving Glen Cove High should have been more of a concern but all he could think about was Remi.
As they walked into the school lounge Aurora, Beth and Angela ran up to Marion and started to tell him how much they were going to miss him.
"I can't believe this is your last day at Glen Cove, it's not going to be the same without you," Aurora said to him.
"You guys will be fine and don't worry I'm not going to slack off seeing you because I'm in Florida. I'm gonna stay in touch I promise," Marion told them.
"And we'll stay in touch too," Beth said. "This works out kinda great actually because we're going to be spending much more time in Florida from now on,"
"Of course you'll be in Orlando for the Impact, this really won't be such an adjustment then will it?" Marion said and the Hardys shook their heads then looked over at RJ who seemed to be lost in his own thoughts.
"RJ are you okay?" Aurora asked the young prophet.
"He's thinking about Remi," Marion explained.
"Well why don't you come over to the Sandbox we're gonna be there with our parents tonight," Aurora said.
"I know," RJ said, that was the problem.
"You'll have her all to yourself because Angelo's gonna be with your mom," Angela said and RJ's ears pricked up.
"He is, you mean he's not gonna be at the Sandbox with you guys?" he asked and Aurora and Angela frowned at him.
"You mean you didn't know that?" Angela asked him confused and RJ shook his head realizing that in all his anxiety about Remi he hadn't been listening to God.
"Get it together RJ, you're a junior prophet that Gift is from God and you can't mishandle it," Aurora warned him.
"I wasn't concentrating I should know better, I am suddenly feeling a lot better though," RJ said with a smile and Angela rolled her eyes knowing that her brother's absence from the Sandbox tonight was the reason for that.
"Gosh I'm never gonna see you again after today am I?" Marion said to RJ. "If Remi is all you can think about me moving to Florida might as-well be the end of our friendship,"
RJ pulled Marion into a hug taking the young Cena by surprise, "You'll always be my friend and I won't slack off on seeing you either," he said genuinely and Marion smiled touched by his words.
"Thanks RJ," he said breaking the embrace then he looked at RJ seriously, "Just promise me you won't get stressed over Rebecca Michelle. Aurora's right your Gift is important, more important than how you feel about her,"
"I'll try to remember that," RJ said to Marion, "Speaking of my Gift, God says that there's going to be some challenges ahead between you and your dad and that you're going to reach out to a man covered in tattoos for help,"
"That sounds like your dad," Marion said but RJ shook his head.
"It's not my dad, the person you're going to reach out to lives in Florida," RJ said.
"Well the only person I'm interested in reaching out to right now is my father so I can't be thinking about that, thanks for the heads up though," Marion said appreciatively.
"That's why we need you to focus RJ, we need you to tell us what God is saying," Aurora said and Beth and Angela nodded.
"Well right now He's saying your father's upset about something that happened last night in Orlando," RJ said and Aurora furrowed her brow.
"Last night?" she said and RJ nodded.
"He's talking to your mom about it right now," he added and Aurora exchanged glances with Beth who shrugged.
"You think they could be talking about our little appearance on Impact?" she asked Aurora who nodded.
"Oh no, your dad's not gonna stop you from going to TNA is he?" Marion said.
"Fat chance Mario, as far as I'm concerned it's a done deal," Aurora said firmly.
"Ro-Ro your father's one of the most powerful men in the wrestling business, I think he's the one who gets to decide when something's a done deal," Beth said and Aurora flung her arm around her and pulled her in tight resting her head on hers.
"Oh Elizabeth, I have a way of getting what I want and it usually involves the Gift that God gave me and if mom comes home and tells me that the deal with TNA is off because of my dad I won't even hesitate to use it," Aurora said and RJ gulped knowing that she was telling the truth while Marion rejoiced thankful that whatever happened he was going to have friends in Florida.
DX Inc
Shawn and Hunter had been out all morning talking to perspective city representatives who were interested in hosting the next Wrestlemania show. Stephanie hadn't seen them at all but judging from how long they were out of the office she assumed that the meeting was going very well. By lunch-time they still hadn't shown up at HQ then finally as Stephanie finished her sandwich she got a text from Hunter telling her that they were on their way back to the office.
"Finally," Stephanie said wiping her mouth when the receptionist knocked at the door and told her she had a delivery. When Stephanie went to collect it she saw that whatever it was looked like a massive picture and when she unwrapped it she saw that's exactly what it was. It was a picture of DX, ATM, Randy Orton, John Morrison, the ARK Angels of DX and Rebecca Michelle. It was for My Hair and the caption read, "Family is fabulous and so is hair," each member of the family had their hair in a different style to show off My Hair's diverse range and to Stephanie's annoyance Aurora was nowhere to be found. She found a note inside the packaging from Maria saying that this was just a mock-up and that they could arrange a time to do the family photo shoot in time for Mania. Stephanie pursed her lips tightly so that no ugly words came out of her mouth but it wasn't easy for her to keep to herself how angry she was that Aurora hadn't been included in the photo.
DX came into the office just as Stephanie was about to put the picture down and when Hunter saw it his face lit up.
"Shawn look at this!" he said excitedly taking the picture from Stephanie and holding it up high.
"Is that the mock-up? Wow it looks great," Shawn said while Stephanie stood with her hands on her hips annoyed wondering how much she should say about how she felt about the picture. "Wait-a-minute Aurora's missing," Shawn said and Stephanie cried out amazed that Shawn had brought it up.
"You're right she is missing Shawn and isn't it amazing that you would notice that before her own father did," Stephanie said sarcastically and Hunter shook his head embarrassed and he turned to Stephanie with a sad look on his face.
"You must think I'm the worst father in the world," he said and Stephanie was touched by his sincere humiliation at the oversight he had made.
"No I don't think that, its because I know you're such a good father that I couldn't believe you didn't notice it right away," Stephanie said gently and she knew that this was her opportunity to say what she'd been thinking for the past week, "You know Hunter I'd hate to think that you're excitement over having another child has overshadowed your commitment to your daughter but if its something you think we should talk about I would love to do that right now," she said subtly.
"I'll call Maria and let her know about Aurora not being in the picture," Shawn said taking out his cell-phone and leaving the room so that Stephanie and Hunter could talk alone.
Hunter took off his suit jacket and loosened his tie while Stephanie sat patiently on his desk, "I'm not neglecting Aurora, I'm there for her when she needs me, like with Steven Borden. I talk to Sting about how close his son and our daughter are getting, I'm on track with everything that's important in her life, like her interest in professional wrestling. Shawn was right, the Helmsley genes are strong," Hunter said.
"So are the McMahon genes," Stephanie countered but Hunter didn't like the comparison and he stood in front of his ex-wife so that she could meet his gaze.
"You see there are two sides to all of our children, there's the spoiled, don't have to work for nothing side represented firmly by the McMahons and then there's the exceptionally talented do whatever it takes to make it side represented by the Helmsleys. I know Aurora has the ability to achieve at the highest level at whatever she puts her mind to and when she doesn't get her way, that's when the God side of her comes out and she blows everyone and everything away. I want to combine her Gift from God with her Helmsley inheritance and make a career in professional wrestling right here in the WWE, this company is her legacy and I want to be the one to watch over her as she does it, not Jeff and not your father," Hunter said.
"Well I'm sorry Hunter but that decision isn't yours to make its Aurora's and she's already made up her mind," Stephanie said crossing her arms over her chest.
"Only because your father manipulated this whole thing by putting Steven Borden on TNA television. He wrote Sting's boy into that storyline knowing it would get a rise out of Aurora and he was right," Hunter said. "He manipulated the whole thing and now he's got what he wanted,"
Stephanie put her hand up, "I don't like how my father got Aurora into the Impact Zone, I told him specifically not to go after my children and that the Hardy Girls idea was mine but he ignored me and went after her just like you said he did," she said. "If it wasn't for what happened this week I would have ripped through TNA and shook my father until his pants fell off after what went down in the Impact Zone last night,"
Hunter frowned, "But you didn't do that did you, why not?" he asked her and he pointed to the picture Maria had designed of his family. "Is it because Aurora was left out of that photo?"
"That was partly the reason Hunter but then there was you giving Maria that job without telling me about it and then you forgetting to tell me that you and Chyna were having a baby. Don't you see all this shows that you don't consider me as part of your core group like you used to. I wanted the Hardy Girls thing to happen here, I even wanted to convince Jeff to come back to the WWE so that it could happen but why should I do that if it means that I'm going to get left out of everything?" Stephanie reasoned.
"Because she's my daughter too. You don't need Aurora to create a Hardy Girls group, you have Beth and you have Angela. Like I said to you before I want my daughter to grow into this industry with me watching over her, now I would prefer that we could nurture her together but I'd be willing to do it without you if you insist on going to work for TNA with your father," Hunter said and Stephanie shook her head.
"You're giving me an ultimatum aren't you?" she said unimpressed. "You know those don't work well with me,"
"You haven't really given me much of a choice Stephanie, my daughter was on our rival's show last night and you didn't do anything to stop it because you were mad at me. Now we can get passed that but what we can't get passed is you passing my daughter off as something she's not; she's no more a Hardy Girl than I am!" Hunter said adamantly and Stephanie laughed at his last comment, "Stephanie I'm not kidding, I want Aurora in this company under my wing or both our wings if you'll stay and groom her with me,"
"Like I said Hunter the choice is not ours it is our daughter's and she has already made up her mind, she wants to go to TNA," Stephanie said.
"Only because her boyfriend was manipulated by your father into being part of that storyline with CM Punk and his daughter. Well Vince isn't going to manipulate his way out of this next move," Hunter said and Stephanie frowned at him.
"What are you talking about?" she said furrowing her brow at him.
"As I told you I've been keeping in touch with Sting and we both agree that Steven and Aurora are getting closer and that's a good thing. It turns out that Steven is really uncomfortable with the storyline he's in and he doesn't want to do it anymore, so I told him about our idea to have Undertaker work with his son this year in the WWE and Sting said that's something he thinks Steven would enjoy very much. You see Steven and Garrett fell out a few months ago but since he's changed so much this would really be a good opportunity for them to restart their friendship, right here in the WWE," Hunter said and Stephanie fell silent. "You see if Steven comes here there'd be no threat to his relationship with Aurora from Ravine and he'd be happy working with his father and Garrett, not to mention Undertaker. Aurora would therefore have no reason to work for TNA and the Hardy Girls idea could still be your baby," Hunter explained. "What do you think about that?"
"I think my daughter is a very blessed girl that she has two parents with so much to offer her and that she would rather be with Steven more than anything else," Stephanie said knowing that Aurora would go where Steven was happiest.
"What about you, where would you rather be?" Hunter asked Stephanie and she shrugged sadly.
"I'd rather be with you, working with you and Shawn to make this the best wrestling company in the world," Stephanie said. "But I'm not a Helmsley anymore, I'm a McMahon and I'm accustomed to being a priority in the lives of the people I work with. It's clear to me that I'm no longer than person when I'm with you and Hunter that's just not good enough. After Wrestlemania I'm going to go work with my father at TNA, I won't stop Aurora from coming here if she wants to but I won't be coming back,"
The words Stephanie spoke made Hunter so sad his face crumpled up and he had to turn away for a moment to compose himself, "Stephanie thank you so much for everything you did while you were here," he said and Stephanie was shocked at the formal tone in his voice.
"You're welcome," she said not knowing what else to say and they sat in silence until Shawn came back into the room.
"Maria said she's sorry about leaving Aurora out and to make sure she comes to the photo shoot with everyone else," Shawn said.
"Okay she'll be there just tell me where and when you're doing the shoot," Stephanie said.
"Well we were thinking we'd do it this weekend right Hunter?" Shawn asked Triple H who nodded.
"Yeah if that's okay with you Stephanie," Hunter said and she shrugged.
"Why wouldn't it be? Aurora's not the one who's leaving," Stephanie said and Shawn realized that something had gone down while he was on the phone.
"You're leaving?" he asked Stephanie and she nodded.
"I'm going to work for TNA after 'Mania," she said and Shawn sat down on a chair in-between Hunter and Stephanie.
"I see," he said. "Gees I feel like you guys are getting divorced all over again,"
"It really does feel like that doesn't it?" Stephanie asked Hunter but The Game didn't say anything much to Stephanie's concern. "I'm just gonna call Aurora and tell her about the shoot I'll be right back," she said quickly leaving the office and Shawn turned to Hunter as she closed the door.
"What the Hell did you say to her to make her leave?" Shawn asked Hunter.
"Once again Stephanie has decided to choose her father over me. I could never give Stephanie everything she wanted and I can't do it now, what bothers me is the effect this might have on Aurora. I really wanted her to have both of us here to guide her through life in the WWE but now it looks like that's not going to happen," Hunter said. "Shawn I don't want to ruin my daughter's life, what am I going to do?"
Shawn went over to Hunter and embraced him compassionately, "You do what's best for her Hunter, even if that means letting her go,"
"Or letting you go," Hunter said and Shawn frowned.
"What do you mean?" he asked puzzled.
"I mean maybe Stephanie and I should run this company and you should go to Los Angeles and take care of business out there," Hunter said and Shawn looked at him stunned.
"You want me to step down as co-owner of the WWE?" he asked him unclear on what was going on.
"I'm sorry Shawn but if I don't make things right with Stephanie I'm going to lose Aurora and I can't have that happen. Will you please do this for me?" Hunter asked Shawn and HBK slapped him around the face. "Ow!"
"Knock it off man you're talking like a crazy person," Shawn said and Hunter nodded.
"Thanks man I needed that, come on let's get back to work," Hunter said forgetting about his temporary lapse into insanity although he did like the idea of a feud involving the McMahons and DX as opponents, a classic feud that it looked like would never, ever die regardless of what brand the families were on.