Life of a Superstar
Chapter 28: One Big Happy Family
The next night, Chris sees Triple H and Ric Flair conversing as he was approaching them.
"What's up, guys? I'm hoping to get another shot at Batista."
"The Nature Boy and I have a tag match tonight and I already have you booked in a match that can raise your profile and credibility"
"Cool. What kind?"
"Look, I don't have time to talk about it because I need to talk to Randy Orton about his match tonight. I suggest you get ready."
That match is a Tag match with his partner Lance Storm taking on Kane and Chris Benoit. Chris never fought Kane before so he needed to be careful. He knows of Kane's powerful chokeslam and he did his best to avoid it at any given chance. He tossed Kane to his corner and tags in Storm, who did most of the work. Kane tags in Benoit and Jones comes back in. They exchange blows together until Chris found a opening and landed a dropkick. Benoit nails Chris with a low dropkick to the knee. After five minutes, Kane comes back in and hope to finish Chris off with a chokeslam, but Chris escaped with a knee to the stomach and a strong roundhouse. He was able to follow up with four punches and a sobat kick in one combo and a DDT to seal the deal. Meanwhile, Randy was combatting Batista until he found an opening for his patented RKO for the win. His victory earned him the Intercontinental title. Triple H and Ric Flair stepped into the ring and joined in. Chris was approaching the ring. Apparently after last week, he lost his IC title chance, only for Orton to take his place as the new champion. Is this the case? I don't know. Something unexpected happened: Ric Flair ambushed Chris with a low blow from behind. The rest of Evolution showed their true colors and assaults him mercilessly. Triple H has the mic in his hand as Chris was laid out.
"I told you from the beginning that we do things my way or the highway around here. You had a shot at the IC title later and you screwed it up! Randy Orton had deserved a shot as much as you did, and unlike you, he made the most of it. Look at you... you're a disgrace! Consider this your walking papers!"
The assault continued, leaving Chris black, red and blue. It wasn't until Eric Bischoff arrived.
"Well, well, well. What do we have here? One big happy family. Isn't that nice."
Chris was pretty much lifeless at this point...
"Seems that Chris Jones got a bit more than he bargained for as a card-carrying member of Evolution. But I suppose we should be congratulating Evolution for adding more gold to the family. For my part, I'm so happy to see a proud and loyal organization like Evolution as the custodians of so much WWE gold. So as GM of RAW, I think it's only right that I do my part to make sure that the gold stays with you as long as possible. As I recall, last week, Triple H promised Mr. Jones another IC shot. I'm sure Triple H, being a man of his word would not want to break his promise, right? So, next week at Armageddon, you, Randy Orton, will defend your new belt in that very ring. And you will do so against the official #1 contender, Chris Jones! Now, if you all don't mind, you may vacate the ring this instant or I will be forced to suspend every one of you and put your belts up for grabs."
Triple H didn't like how Bischoff made the match official at Armageddon. Chris was still out cold, but next week, after it's all said and done, Chris will have the belt, otherwise Armageddon could be the end of his world.
