"Retiring, Eh?" Punk sighed when John told him,"Geez way to make me feel old, John Boy."

"You're just lucky your knee turned out great after your injury. I always knew you'd last longer than me in the end anyway." John laughed.

"I'm gonna miss you, man. All our feuds...you chasing my championship all those times..."

"Psh, you know me, I'm just retiring. I'll be one of those legends that comes back from time to time, then the kids of today will be like 'Oh it's hall-of-famer John Cena! I remember him when I was a kid!' "

"Hall-of-famer?" Punk laughed.

"What, you don't think I'll be inducted?"

"No, no, I do it's just funny hearing that now..."

"Someday it'll be hall-of-famer CM Punk!" John said imagining the name in lights.

"Who'd you want to induct you?"

"Hm...probably Randy," John said rubbing his chin.

"Yeah I'd want Colt to induct me." Punk said.

John laid on the couch in his locker room. How was he going to do this and make it memorable? He remembered Edge's speech when he retired in 2011. The man was emotional and the whole roster came to congratulate him. John hoped his would be similar but without all the crying.

John Cena. One of the most popular wrestlers of all time, one of the most influential, was retiring after 15 long years.

'I'll probably just do it off the top of my head,' he thought to himself.

Meanwhile, back at the house, Mickie, Kelly and the boys were preparing for Christmas

"What're you gonna ask Santa?" Cody asked Ted holding his Christmas list.

"I want a monster truck, and a superman, and a big truck, whadda you want?"

"I want batman and spiderman and hotwheels!"

"Boys, do you want to help me decorate the tree?" Kelly asked holding baby Kelly in one arm.

"Yeeeeaaaahhh!" the boys cheered together.

Mickie lifted Ted up so he could put ornaments on top of the tree. Near the top of the tree were the three special ornaments for the three kids. They each had their names on them.

"Mommy, what do you want for Christmas?" Cody asked.

"Hm...not really sure, I pretty much have everything I could want," she smiled.

"You don't have everything! You don't have a race car!" Cody said.

Kelly laughed,"Well I don't need a race car, honey."

"I do." he sighed.

"Y'know, on the bright side, you get to be home with Mickie and Ted for the holidays," Randy said trying to ease John.

"We get the holidays off anyway, though. Vince never makes us work on Christmas!" John said.

"True,"

Crewmember Dirk came into the locker room and told John that he had ten minutes until he was on.

Ten minutes, John thought, ten minutes to pull this all out of my head.
John hobbled to gorilla, admiring all of the young up-and-comers along the way. He was like them once. When he debuted with that dumb hair and stupid trunks. Before he was really anything. He remembered the old days at OVW, the only time he was ever heel and the first time Randy was face. He remembered putting over three certain NXT rookies, making them memorable and big. That was mostly John's job for awhile. Making rookies look like gold.

"John, it's time."

"Right." John nodded and hobbled out on to the stage, trumpets blaring for the last time as a WWE superstar.

He got to the ring quickly on his crutches and asked a ringside person for a mic. John looked around and saw very many Cena fans and also some haters, as always. He loved them all.

"Guys, I..." he paused and thought,"I..."

"Welcome to the company Mr..."

"Cena, but call me John."

"John." Vince shook the young man's hand,"I think you'll be a great addition here. I've been watching you closely in developmental and it seems 'The Prototype' has a great persona!"

"Really?" said the young man with bleached tips,"I think I'd run better as a face,"

"Well, we'll see how your first match goes tonight. You're up against Kurt Angle."

"Thank you so much sir." he went to the locker room where legends in the making were getting prepped for their match. Then out of the corner of his eye he saw a 22-year-old guy with short hair and tribal tattoos.
"Randy?"

The other man turned to see him."Wait...John?"

"RANDY!" John ran over to him excited.

"John! Why didn't you tell me you got signed?"

"I thought you would've heard about it from someone!"

"Nah, things are different here. It's like going from middle school to a new high school."

"Yeah..." John said looking around at all the men who were much taller and heavier than John.

"Eh, don't worry, you'll catch on quick, lemme give you a tour!"

Randy showed John around the place and gave him some rookie tips.
"Over here is catering..."

"THEY GIVE US FOOD?!"

"Yeah..."

"FOR FREE?!"

"Yeah, and over here is make-up and sewing, the sewing lady is pretty nice, she can do designs on your trunks if you want, but seeing as you're a kid, you might not want to." Randy continued, "and because you're new, the guys might rib you. They got me pretty good..."

John was afraid of the ribs.

"...they usually aren't too bad so don't stress it. Just let it happen,"

"Thanks, Randy."

"No problem, man." he said and walked back to the locker room.

A few months after his debut, Vince didn't know what to do with John.

"Tonight you're gonna fight John and he's gonna put you over, okay?"

"Vince, why are you burying this guy?" said Chris Jericho.

"Huh?"

"This kid has a ton of talent just waiting to be uncovered and it's just going to waste!" Chris complained, "Just please...let me put this guy over. You won't regret it. This guy is a diamond in the rough, I just know it."

"Okay fine. But if you're wrong..."

That kickstarted his career a little more. Then at the Halloween party later that year, John got his chance to show his funny side and thus, a star was born. John enjoyed his rapper persona. Dropping rhymes on people wearing his chain and jersey of choice.

"John we're trying you with the title."

"The title?"

"Full blown WWE Champ."

"Woah..."

"Go ahead and change the belt if you'd like to."

"I CAN CHANGE IT?"

"Yeah,"

"Can I pleeeeeease make it a spinner? Pleeeease?"

"I guess so, if the people like it, we'll keep it."

"YES!"

A week later, John showed Vince his concept for the title.

"It looks pretty good, I think the people will take to it quickly!"

When John won the title and unveiled it's new form, of course there were critics.
"It's like a giant piece of bling!"
"Why does it spin?"

Then after awhile, the noise died down and it was accepted. John held his creation at least 10 times. It was like his child, he gave birth to it, pretty much.

"I...don't know what to say..." John said leaning against the ropes.

A/N: WOO! more speech next chapter! I wrote this as kind of a flashback a little on John's career. The Chris Jericho bit I got from Chris's autobiography, Around The World In Spandex. By the way, the new title belt that Rock debuted? I HATE IT SO MUCH AHHHH IT'S HIDEOUSLY UGLY! I've never missed the spinner belt more! RIP wwe spinner belt 2004-2013. :'(