Brie let out a groan as she started to wake. She didn't understand why she was unconscious in the first place. The last thing she remembered was going downstairs to check on their car, and then everything went black. Brie attempted to rub her eyes with her hands, but quickly realized she couldn't do that because her hands were tied behind her back. Her eyes snapped opened and saw a rope tied around her middle. She felt another body against her back and another set of hands on hers, she assumed the other body was her sister. She looked up and gasped at the sight in front of her.
"Nikki, Nikki. Get up!" Brie yelled and leaned back onto Nikki. Nikki started to moan as she came to. She shook her head and looked up to see what Brie saw.
"Fuck…" Nikki mumbled as she looked up and saw members of the five families staring back at them. Shane McMahon was standing right in front of them with Ata, Eric, and Adam Rose behind him. Eva Marie, Dean, and Evan were standing at the warehouse entrance, holding assault rifles, standing guard, and quietly talking among themselves. Shawn, Paige, and Adam were sitting on crates on the left side of the room while Chris, Dwayne, Jimmy, Jey, and Natalya stood talking a few steps away. Seth and Roman were cuddled up in a corner while Dolph and Rey sat in another corner. Alberto, Hunter, and Stephanie sat on some more crates on the right side of the room, playing with the cards that Hunter found in the warehouse.
"Our princesses are up!" Ata called out and everyone stopped what they were doing and walked over to the twins, they circled around the twins like vultures ready to strike.
"Look, we can work this out." Brie started as she saw them staring at her with murder and hatred in their eyes. She wanted to make it out of here alive, but she wasn't so sure that they would.
"We are going to work this out." Shane spoke and Nikki let out a yelp when she felt Evan's gun pressed to her temple. "But you might not like the outcome…now, I have questions that need to be answered."
"Anything, just ask." Nikki said in a hurry and Brie nodded in agreement.
"Were you there when AJ was killed?" Shane asked and Brie nodded.
"We were…Morrison called and told us to make sure she was dead. They didn't want anymore mistakes." Brie confessed.
"So you just watched her suffer? You didn't do anything to help her!" Stephanie yelled but didn't give them time to answer as she punched Nikki hard in the face and then turned to punch Brie, but Eric grabbed her.
"Steph, my child…" Eric said in a soft voice to calm her down. "Later, I promise." Eric whispered to her and she nodded and backed away. She went to the a far corner to calm her down.
"I need you to make a call for me." Shane said and took a phone out his pocket. Brie immediately recognized it was hers. They must have taken it out of her pocket when they came to the warehouse. "Talk to Morrison and Melina and tell them to come to this warehouse." Shane explained and then gave Brie the address.
"What am I suppose to say to get them here?" Brie asked.
"Tell them that I'm ready to play their game, but they are some things I need to understand first." Shane said as he scrolled through Brie's contacts. "And if you make it sound like you're under duress, I'll kill you." Shane threatened Brie and she nodded in understanding. Shane dialed the number and put the phone up to Brie's ear. Brie spoke to Melina and John Morrison like she normally would and told them to come to the warehouse to meet up with Shane. Brie gave the address and they told her they would be there in an hour before hanging up.
"They'll be here in an hour." Nikki said and Shane took the phone back and turned it off.
"Good job, girls." Shane said as he pocketed the phone. "Now we wait." Shane said and everyone went back to their original positions, except Alberto called Alicia and got the feed from Melina's mother's computer to broadcast on his phone. Alberto looked at the feed on his phone and clearly saw into the home and saw Melina and John Morrison's son. Alberto thanked Alicia before going back to the group.
An hour passed quickly and before long, a car was pulling up outside of the warehouse.
"Car." Eva called out to everyone as she looked out of the small window in the door.
"That's them." She said as she saw a man and a woman emerge from the care. Everyone moved to their positions, Eva and Dean stood on either side of the door while the others readied their guns. Shane stood in front of the door, ready to greet Melina and John Morrison.
The door to the warehouse swung open and in walked the destructive couple. Melina was a petite woman with a beautiful face. Her five foot four stature, small waist, and beautiful smile would never send off alarm bells but that was exactly what she wanted. She wanted everyone to underestimate her. It was all the better to watch the expressions on her victims faces when she killed them. John Morrison was equally attractive and just as dangerous as his wife. He looked like a model that just stepped off stage but could shoot like one of the overweight, backwoods hunters on nature shows and even though he loved guns, he wasn't afraid to get up close and personal with his kills.
As the couple entered the warehouse, Eva and Dean up behind them and kicked them in their knees. Melina and John fell to their knees and looked up to see Shane staring down at them. They looked behind him and they saw the Bella twins tied up in the middle of the room and the other family members are scattered throughout the warehouse. Melina rolled her eyes and then looked over at John and sees John staring back at her. They communicated silently with one another as Eva search Melina and Dean search John. Eva took Melina's knife and gun and Dean took John's gun.
"They're clean now." Dean said and then yanked John back to his feet. Eva told Melina to stand and she did so.
"Shane…" Melina says with a smile on her face. "You finally grew some balls, well done." Melina said mockingly. "Just make sure those balls don't grow too big." She said and then winked at him. Shane rolled his eyes and shook his head at her comment.
"What do you want?" John asks. "Why are we here? I know we're not here to die-."
"How do you know that?" Shane questioned and Melina scoffed.
"I'm sure if you wanted us dead, we'd already be getting tortured." Melina reasoned and Shane nodded.
"You're right, I don't want you dead…yet." Shane said and again Melina rolled her eyes. "I need you to step up a meeting between the people at the top and me…well us." Shane said, referring to the other families in the room. "You'll lure them here to the warehouse and we'll take care of everything after that."
"And why would we do that?" Melina asked. "Why would we bring our bosses, our piggybanks, to their slaughter?"
"I'm so glad you asked." Alberto rang out as he walked toward them. He pulled out his phone and turned it on. He pulled up the feed before turning the phone around and showing Melina and John the live video of their son and Melina's mother playing a game on the floor of their living room. Melina and John's tough act drops when they see their son playing with his grandmother.
"You'll bring them here and you'll do what we say because if you don't we'll kill you kid, just like you killed mine." Alberto spoke in a low growl and Melina gulped. Her son was her everything and she would do anything to keep him safe.
"Okay, we'll get them here." Melina said. "What time do you want them here?"
"Eight, p.m." Shane said. The sun would be down and they would be able to do everything under the guise of the night.
"They'll be here and we'll be with them." John said and Shane nodded. Everything was going according to plan for Shane the rest of the five families and they liked it that way.
"Good, you may go." Shane said and Melina and John turned around and faced Eva and Dean.
"Can we have our weapons back?" Melina asked.
"No." Eva Marie said flatly before moving out of the way so Melina could get by, Dean did the same for John and the dangerous couple quickly left the warehouse and drove away in their car.
"What do we do with them?" Evan asked as he pointed to the Bella twins.
"I'll take care of them." Stephanie said as she walked over to the twins. "The rest of you can get out of here."
Many were about to protest but Eric quickly cut in. "Let's go." Eric said. He understood Stephanie needed to do this on her own as a therapeutic process. She needed to do this in order to move on. "We have a house not far from here. It's big enough to house all of us."
"You have houses everywhere." Ata joked and Eric nodded.
"We have at least one house in each state that's in our territory." Eric explained before rounding everyone up and escorting them out of the warehouse, leaving Stephanie to get her revenge on the Bellas.
After thirty minutes of driving, the group finally reached the beautiful beach front mansion that the McMahon's owned in New York. They parked the cars in the empty garage and quickly moved into the house with their suitcases and overnight bags. The weight of the day was finally hitting him and they all felt a little tired and hungry.
Eric, Ata, and Adam Rose made their way to the kitchen to cook for the large group while everyone else laid around in the living room, watching TV and talking among one another. Evan, Eva Marie, and Seth tried to help the trio in the kitchen but they were quickly ushered out and directed back to the living to relax with the others.
Sometime later, Stephanie walked through the blood, covered in blood and tears streaming down her face. Dean and Hunter helped her upstairs and laid out some clothes for her while she showered. Hunter took the blood clothes downstairs and burned them in the fireplace that was in the living room.
Stephanie came downstairs just in time to eat dinner. Everyone fixed a plate of meatloaf, mash potatoes, green beans, and salad and went back into the living room to each since everyone couldn't fit at the dining room table. After dinner, they all had a helping of the sweet potato pie that Adam Rose made.
They all then continued to watch TV movies in the living room, but before everyone started to file out of the living room. Seth and Roman were the first to sneak out and find a bedroom, they were quickly followed by Eva Marie and Natalya and Dwayne and Evan. One by one, and couple by couple, everyone left the living room until only Ata, Eric, and Shawn remained.
"We're going to have so many new babies next year at the family meeting." Eric joked and the three laughed as they heard the quiet squeak of a bed above them.
"Nine months for now…" Shawn trailed off as he rubbed his own bump. "We'll see." Shawn said and Eric and Ata watched as Shawn rubbed his bump. Shawn hadn't brought up the pregnancy with them, and they didn't feel it was appropriate for them to bring it up without Shawn mentioning it first, but they did wonder about how Shawn felt about everything especially since he didn't have Bret to help him take care of the child. They just hoped that Shawn would come to them if he needed any help.
"Lets get some rest." Ata said as she stood up from the couch. "We have a long day ahead of us." They all agreed and went to bed, thinking of the planned events ahead of them.
Everyone woke up about midday and started to get ready for the night. Guns, ammunition, and other equipment are gathered at the beach house. They contact Alicia and she's able to find the floor plan and other blueprints for the warehouse. They print them off and devise a plan. Shane is the only one that can be visible initially. If they see the others, then they'll know they're walking into a trap so the others will have to hide behind things.
Since Evan, Rey, Eva Marie, and Dean were good with sniper weapons, they would be perched on the balcony in the warehouse. They would each take a corner and hide out of view. Stephanie, Hunter, Jimmy, and Jey would hide on either side of the large vehicle entrance. Shane figures that these people would want to drive in and be under the protect of cover instead of walking in through the person entrance. The would have the doors already open for them so Morrison and Melina could just drive them in.
Seth, Roman, Chris, Natalya, Dwayne, Adam, Alberto, Dolph, and Paige would be stationed at various places on the warehouse floor and hide behind the crates and boxes that littered the warehouse. Adam Rose, Shawn, Ata, and Eric would all be outside. They would all be driving the cars, which would become extremely important if shit hit the fan and they had to get out of there fast. Alicia would be watching the video feed of Morrison and Melina's son, keeping tabs on the little boy just in case Melina and Morrison backed out of the plan.
After everyone received their job assignment, they all split up to get ready for the day. They dressed and cleaned the guns before loading them with ammunition. Adam Rose, Shawn, Ata, and Eric made sure the cars were filled with gas and took them to the shop to make sure the cars were running smoothly before the returned home.
An hour before the scheduled meet, everyone piled into the four cars and headed over to the warehouse. The cars pulled up to the warehouse and everyone, expect for four drivers, got out and walked into the warehouse. They all took their positions and waited while Ata, Shawn, Eric, and Adam Rose drove their cars a little ways down the road and parked in four different directions, making sure to conceal themselves inside the car. Alicia checked in one last time with Ata, saying that the video feed was up and she still had eyes on the kid, before the meet was scheduled to happen.
The large vehicle entrance doors were opened, then they settled in and waited for Melina and Morrison bring their bosses to them. Seconds felt like hours as they slowly ticked by. They all just wanted eight o'clock to come and for this to be over. They could finally see the finish line and they all just wanted to cross it together.
A few minutes before eight, Eric saw three SUVs coming down the street he was parked on. Eric picked up his phone and sent a text to everyone, saying he saw three SUVs coming toward the warehouse. After the saw the text, everyone inside the warehouse readied themselves. Shane stood in the middle of the warehouse floor while everyone else made sure they were well hidden. After a few seconds, Shane saw the three SUVs turn onto the property and saw them enter the warehouse.
Meanwhile in Florida, Alicia was watching the live feed. It showed the boy watched TV with his grandmother, but then the feed went black.
"What the fuck…" Alicia mumbled as she tried to get the feed back, but it wasn't coming up. After a few seconds, the words, NICE TRY, appeared on the screen with pink letters and a smiley face were under the words.
"Oh no." Alicia said as the feed came up again and the little boy and his grandmother were no where to be found. Alicia quickly grabbed her phone and dialed Ata's number.
"Hello." Ata answered.
"Ata, you have to get them out of there now!" Alicia yelled frantically. "It's a trap, they're going to be ambushed!" Alicia yelled.
"Fuck!" Ata swore and quickly hung up the phone and sent everyone a text. She just hoped she sent it in time.
As the three black SUVs parked, everyone felt their phones buzz in their pockets. They all saw it was a text from Ata and they opened it: GET OUT OF THERE! YOU'RE ABOUT TO BE AMBUSH!
Shane finished reading the text and looked up to see Melina, Morrison, and a host of other men and women get out of the SUVs with AK-47s and automatic weapons. This was an ambush.
"Oh shit…" Was all Shane could say as he saw them point their weapons at him. Was this the end of the road for all of them?
A/N: Sorry about the lack of updates. I have chronic joint pain due to an autoimmune disease and I've been doing physical therapy for the pain since I don't like talking pills and shot and the physical therapy has been very tiring. I'll try to update as frequently as I can.
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