Chapter 37

Larry Zbyszko walked confidently down to the ring with a microphone in his hand. He ignored the jeers and cat calls from the crowd concerning his eventful relationship with Raven, whom he was relieved, had disappeared off the radar. Tonight he was a man with a purpose. He stepped into the six sided ring and waited for the crowd to shut their mouths.

"I am out here tonight to address a certain injustice that I believe needs to be resolved," he declared "Now I would like to ask both Jade Chung and Traci Brooks to join me in the ring right now."

"Well, here comes Traci Don, as you know ladies and gentlemen, Traci was attacked by both Roderick Strong and Jade last night at Lockdown and in my mind was robbed of the Women's championship" Mike Tenay announced as he watched Traci make her way down to the ring, still showing the effects of the previous nights attack.

"Yeah and here is Jade. You know Mike; I want to know exactly what is going on in the Generation Next locker room. I mean first we had Scott D'Amore attacking GenNext's manager Madison Mendes, then Madison seemingly helping out Petey Williams, then Roderick Strong attacking Madison, then Madison disappearing off the face of the planet, Jade showing up, and now we have Alex and Roderick turning into total assholes. What is going on?" Don replied as Jade and Roderick climbed into the ring, smirking at Traci.

"That's a good question Don, but I want to know what Zbyszko has planned here"

"Now ladies, we have all seen the footage from last nights title match. Roderick, you had no right to be involved in that match and I should strip Jade of that championship right now based solely on those grounds!" Larry stated.

"You can't do that!" Jade protested as she looked from Roderick to Larry.

"I could………… but I'm not going to. Instead, tonight you two will have a rematch and I am appointing a special guest referee for that match to retain order and control. And Jade, should any of your Generation Next running buddies become involved, you will be automatically stripped of the championship!" he declared, purposely eyeing up Roderick. Roderick just glared back at him.

Traci smiled as Jade began to panic.

"Who is the referee Zbyszko?" Roderick growled.

"That you will find out before the beginning of the match" Larry replied before leaving the ring.

Petey watched on the monitor in the Team Canada locker room as Traci walked back up the entrance ramp, a bright smile prominently featured on her face. He was happy to see her smiling again, especially after the beating she had endured the night before.

"Hey Scott, you have any idea who the special referee for the Women's championship rematch?" he questioned.

Scott looked up from the paper work he was reading through.

"Say what now?"

"Special referee, Women's title match?" Petey repeated.

"There's a special referee?"

"Yeah, Larry just announced it in the ring. You didn't know?"

"No, it was just supposed to be a regular match with all outside parties banned from ringside" Scott explained.

"Do you guys on the booking committee communicate at all?" Petey joked.

"Funny. No the whole committee agreed on this, I have no idea what Larry is doing" Scott stated.

Petey looked back at the monitor.

"I wonder who their bringing in then."

Before Scott had a chance to answer there was a knock on the door. He smiled and got up to answer.

"Long time no see honey" he greeted as he gave the small woman a hug.

"You too babe," she replied as he released her from his grip "So you have a job for me huh?"

"That I do" he grinned as he led her into the room.

Petey looked over from the monitor and his mouth dropped to the floor.

"Oh wow, what are you doing here?" he questioned in surprise.

"Well, I heard you were having a little women troubles, I thought I may be off some assistance" she smiled.

"You're here to seduce Matt? I thought you had better taste than that!"

"Honey, I dated Steve Corino for crying out loud. I see this as moving up" she laughed.

"How is Steve?" Scott asked as he pulled a chair out for her.

"Good last time I saw him. He's still teaming with Ki in Zero-One and they have a new manager now, some pretty little blonde lady, so he's happy" she sniped with a frown on her face.

Scott looked away. He knew who the pretty little blonde was, but really didn't feel like bringing her up now. Petey just shook his head. Never did he think his coach was bringing in Ronnie Stevens, better known as Simply Luscious on the Indy scene, to solve their woman troubles.

"I got to ask Ronnie, what exactly is your connection to Bentley?" he questioned.

"Oh we dated back when I was training in Shawn Michaels Wrestling School, but then I met Steve and we kinda just drifted apart from there. Boy is he going to be in for a surprise" she mused.

Larry strutted back out to the ring, a grin spread from one side of his face to the other. He knew the booking committee was going to be pissed off at him for changing the script of the show, but hell, this was an opportunity not to be ignored! This was a chance for him to once again to put the proverbial cat amongst the pigeons and let all hell break loose.

He climbed into the ring and took the microphone from the ring announcer's hands.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, it is now time for the Women's Championship rematch. As I promised there will be a special referee for this match, so without further a do, let's get the contestants out here shall we!" he announced, handing the microphone back to the ring announcer.

"Introducing first, the challenger, from Toronto Canada – Traci Brooks."

Traci made her way down to the ring, once again feeling the butterflies take flight in her stomach. She wasn't ready for this at all. Her back had been iced all day and she had heavy strapping on it just so she could walk. She definitely wasn't ready to be ambushed again, especially now that there was a guest referee. It wasn't like she had many friends backstage to help her out should she get in trouble.

"Making her way to the ring, being accompanied by Roderick Strong and Alex Shelley, she is the reigning and defending Women's Champion – Jade Chung."

Jade looked at Larry standing in the far corner of the ring, a wicked smile still plastered on his face. She could tell already that this wasn't going to be good. Although Traci was severely injured and probably easy pickings, she had a feeling it wasn't going to be as simple as last night.

Roderick climbed into the ring and snatched the microphone from the announcer.

"Alright old man, you've made us wait long enough – who is this special referee of yours? You?" he snickered.

Larry simply took the microphone out of Roderick's hands and turned to the entrance tunnel.

"Ladies and Gentleman, introducing the special referee for tonight's match, from Toronto Canada, representing Team Canada – Madison Mendes!"