Dean Ambrose was sitting on a crate bored since he was stuck with his dad watching him, but Hunter had gotten dragged a few feet away to have a private conversation with a board member. A frown was on Dean's face as he impatiently waited for his dad to just finish up the conversation so that him and his dad could go do something fun. The boy heard Brock and Heyman doing a promo in the ring that mentioned the main event of Fastlane and it sparked an idea in Dean's head. Slowly without his dad catching sight of him moving off the crate, Dean headed in the direction of the curtain to signal for his music to be played. Amusement seemed to go on Brock's face at Dean coming out that the boy just ignored the look. Dean headed down to the ring with a very relaxed look as he looked Brock in the eyes before stepping in the ring to stand face to face with the beast.
"You need to leave now. Wrong place at the wrong time." was heard coming from Paul.
Dean raised the mic in his hand closer to his mouth and turned to look at Heyman. "Who are you calling a nut job, porky?"
A step by Brock had him between Dean and Paul while he seemed very curious on what the boy was doing out in the ring during his promo. He took in everything about the boy's body language to see that not any sign of fear was coming off Dean and it sparked his interest very much.
'Dean, get back here.' Roman ordered through the mental bond.
"Wow, I've never been in the liar of a beast before. It's cozy." Dean claimed while ignoring his brother's order. "You know, before I came out here, I said to myself, "Self, this may be a really bad idea.". And despite what it may look right now, the way it may look right now, I may look crazy, but let me assure you, I ain't crazy. And I ain't stupid and I ain't scared of you."
"Is that right?" Brock asked sounding and looking amused by the boy.
'Dean, you need to get out of there. Now!' Roman ordered sounding very impatient, but Dean just cut off the bond.
"But, I do respect you, I have all the respect in the world for you, Brock." Dean caught something flash in Brock's eyes due to his words.
"That's why I wanted to come out here and tell you face to face. I wanted to tell you, I wanna look into your eyes. Stand eye to eye with the beast and tell you, I want the title. I want the title so bad. The WWE World Heavyweight Championship so bad, I'm gonna my own brother for it. And I'm gonna fight you for it. Do I wanna to fight you? No. Not really. Who would? I know the beating that you're gonna give me at Fastlane. I know the beating Roman Reigns is gonna give me at Fastlane. You all ain't gonna sell me on it. Take me to Suplex City, baby."
"Oh, I will." Brock whispered to the boy. "I will."
"You can drop me on my head a thousand times. You can throw me through the wall. You can suplex me over and over, up and down all around this ring. I hope you're prepared to give me the worst beating. A worse beating that you've ever given anybody in your life. And that's gonna be, that's gonna be pretty bad." Dean refused to break eye contact with Brock since he wanted to show he would not back down to him ever again and the man just seemed so amused by him. "But I am the Iron Man of the WWE. I've proven it every single night. And I will drag my broken body to Wrestlemania. And I will take that title away from my dad Triple H. Out of respect, I thought I'd just come out here and tell you that."
"You are interesting." Brock whispered so only Dean would hear.
"Sorry, Paul. I just kind of wanted to see what all the fuss was about." Dean said before dropping the mic and slipping out of the ring.
"He wanted to see what all the fuss was about." Paul told Brock looking just as amused at what the boy did as his client.
"Oh there's gonna be some fuss tonight, I tell ya." Brock replied as he watched the boy. "There will be a lot of fuss going on."
When Dean got backstage, he saw his dad had been waiting for him and the boy got snatched by his jacket and dragged to the actual office. He got shoved to sit on the couch and Hunter seemed very unpleased over what his youngest son had just done.
"Do you have a death wish or want to be out on injury with your twin?"
"Dad, I-"
"No! Listen to me, Dean Ambrose Helmsley-McMahon. I want you to stay away from Lesnar until your Fastlane match and after that match, you will not be going near him ever again. Am I understood?"
"Yes, sir." Dean mumbled with eyes on the floor.
"Brock is very dangerous and your powers would be a treat for someone like him to get a hold of. Losing your powers can be very dangerous Dean, especially when they come from the blood that flows through your veins." Hunter could see his son understood everything he said and he motioned the boy to follow Roman who was waiting outside the door. "I think your mom wishes to talk with you and Rome."
A nod came from Dean who got up and went to his oldest brother's side to continue down the hallway to the promo office where they saw the WWE title in a case on a table. The boys seemed to going to have to wait for their mom to arrive and Roman knew his brother got lectured by their dad really good. When they heard their mom singing, the boys were a little confused on how she could be happy while their dad is furious on what Dean had done out in the ring.
"You know I hate to give Paul Heyman credit, but that line was actually pretty good." Stephanie told her youngest before her eyes went on the title. "It's beautiful, isn't it? It's hard to believe Roman, it was just eight days ago that this championship belt was yours."
The boys zoned their mom out for speech as Dean tried to figure out if something had happened to their mom with her hitting her head or being controlled due to how she's acting. Finally they pay attention to her when she began sounding like herself with mentioning Dean not actually wanting to go to Suplex City and they figured out she was messing with them. Stephanie before going to let her sons go do what they want, gave them a match against New Day.
"Bye mom." Dean said with a wave as Roman kept him moving out the door and got a wave back from his mom.
Dean was unable to follow his brother since Hunter snatched his youngest to take him to the office where he would remain until his tag match. The dad sat next to him to make sure his son stayed in the office and they relaxed to watch Raw's matches and Hunter rolled his eyes at Flair always going to be the dirtiest player and was teaching his daughter to do the same. One thing Hunter has tried to teach his sons was that if they played dirty, don't be shocked if their opponents do the in Brock Lesnar's locker room, Paul Heyman was talking to his client who sat in a chair deep in thought.
"Expect you do things and you play into their hand." Paul was have a one sided conversation that Brock really wasn't playing attention to.
"It hurts." a young boy's voice cried. "Please make them stop."
"That's not Brock-" Paul saw his client begin to stand up and then noticed Hunter had come into the locker room.
"Give us a second Paul." Hunter instructed with not breaking eye contact with the beast.
"You know, maybe my client isn't-"
"Paul." Hunter's eyes shifted as a warning to not argue with him. "Give us a second."
"Knock yourself out." Paul said in fear of the cerebral assassin and left him alone with Brock.
"Did I see with my very own eyes , little Dean Ambrose walk up to the beast incarnate, get all up in his face and then live to tell the story?" Hunter asked Brock sounding surprised over what he had seen. "I thought I saw that. Things aren't-things aren't getting soft in Suplex City, are they?"
A laugh came from Brock at this little trick Hunter was trying to pull. "I guess we'll find out at Wrestlemania, won't we?"
"I'm looking forward to it."
"So am I. See you there."
"Yeah." Hunter said before heading out of the locker room as Heyman reentered.
"Why would Hunter be upset over you not hurting his son?" Paul asked.
"Because, that wasn't Hunter." Brock answered and pulled out his cell phone.
He opened an app on his phone to show a video of the Authority's office where Hunter sat on the couch with Dean leaning against him half asleep. This shocked Paul at a shapeshifter having tried to trick them and had made him believe was actually Hunter. Brock glanced at where Hunter tensed up and Dean became fully awake, which had to be them having seen what happened in the beast locker room.
"What are you going to do?" Paul asked.
"I'm thinking about that." Brock answered his old friend honestly.
Brock retook his seat as he watched the video and saw how Hunter comforted his son who had to be very confused on what was going on. When Hunter looked Dean in the eyes, the boy gave a nod and then was pulled close to his dad's chest with him held tight.
In the office, Hunter saw his wife enter with her clearly thinking it had been him to go see Brock. Before she could say a word, Hunter shook his head to silently tell her that it wasn't him and whoever it was had Dean spooked on why someone was doing what they are. Once Dean had calmed down, his dad taped his hands before sending him to go finish getting ready for the tag match.
When time for the tag match of Dean and Roman versing New Day, Dean listened to his dad's coaching words on not letting what happened in Brock's locker room get to him. A deep breath was taken by Dean as he heard his brother's music play and following after was his own that signaled him walking out. He got in the ring to stand with his brother while ignoring the fact Heyman was sitting at commentary.
'You good?' Roman asked over the bond.
'Yeah.' Dean assured as he got behind the ropes to let Roman start off against Kofi.
Mention of the interaction in Brock's locker came that Dean forced himself to ignore and keep focused on the match. The match went smooth in Dean's view with only a few bumps to him and his brother from New Day. Soon the Helmsley brothers received the win from Dean give Big E a Dirty Deeds. Only seconds though after Dean's played, did it get cut off by Lesnar's own and it had the two brothers knowing what was about to happen.
'We stand united and he won't stand a chance.' Roman told his brother through the bond.
Only Roman was unable to stand with his baby brother due to New Day attacking and lured him out of the ring. It left Dean alone in the ring in clear reach to Brock Lesnar that he would be unable to avoid. The boy got snatched up quick to be set up for an F-5 by Brock who actually was be careful of not transferring memories to the boy. An F-5 was delivered to Dean with him laying on the mat dazed and Brock looked down at him trying to ignore the cries of a young boy in his head. Before Roman could get to his baby brother, Dean was moving out of the ring and up the ramp looking like he was thinking hard about something. Rushing after him, Roman caught up when backstage to tell something was bothering Dean.
"Talk me, baby bro."
"He was preventing a transfer of memories. Why would he care if I saw his memories?"
"Stop. Dean, you can't let this get to you."
"You heard Braun in school after the rumble. Lesnar was acting protective of me and I want to know why." Dean snapped at Roman.
"He's trying to mess with your head. The little thing with the shapeshifter in his locker room was probably part of his plan. Make us turn against dad and he will be able to snatch us easily to go back to being his obedient lapdogs."
"No. I think there's something else going on."
Walking in the direction of their locker room, Dean ignored his brother calling his name and just kept silent. He so badly wanted to find out what Brock was doing and also why the beast was acting like he was around him. Roman may not want him to get answers, but Dean hoped a use of his powers next time he is near Lesnar would give him what he wants.