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Three months later - Monday Night Raw
It was the event that had caused a split in the McMahon family. The event? Stephanie McMahon's second wedding to Hunter Hearst Helmsley. Linda, Vince and Shane had refused to show up for the event, unwilling to support to the youngest McMahon. Why? Upon completion of the ceremony, Stephanie planned on handing over her shares of the WWE to her new husband, Triple H. And in just a few moments, the preacher would mutter the one line that sealed the deal.
"I now pronounce you husband and wife..."
The following week on Raw...
Triple H, Stephanie McMahon, Chyna Lita, Brock Lesner, Ric Flair and Shawn Michaels came down to the ring. Hunter immediately took a mic and began to speak.
"In case you don't know...when Steph and I married...she signed her shares over to me...which means...I have the control! I make the decisions! I'm making changes!" Hunter said. Steph elbowed him and Hunter rolled his eyes, then corrected himself. "We are making changes."
Steph nodded and looked around at the fans. "First off, we want to switch things around a little. William Regal, Vickie Guerrero and Armando Estrada...come on out." Steph said. The three general managers came out and stood tensly by the ring. Stephanie looked down at them.
"You get to make a choice. Join DX or get the hell out." she snapped. Armando Estrada immediately joined DX while Vickie and William Regal stood outside the ring, unmoving. They each had a mic in thier hand.
"Stephanie, Triple H...I don't work for you. I don't even work for your father. I work for your mother, Linda McMahon." Vickie said, then dropped the mic and headed up the ramp, disappearing backstage.
Regal shook his head, frowning and spoke. "I would love nothing better than to stay and see your marriage fail yet again, Triple H and Stephanie, but I don't have the energy, nor the time to do so. Consider these two words my final decision. I quit."
With that William Regal waved goodbye to the fans and retreated backstage, leaving a stunned Stephanie in the ring. Hunter shook her arm, snapping her out of the surprise.
"Forget about him. Okay, now...we need Undertaker, Kane, Matt Hardy and all the members of The Crew to come join us out at the ring." Stephanie said.
The Crew, Matt Hardy, Undertaker and Kane all walked out together and climbed into the ring, looking on suspisciously. Hunter smirked and took up the mic, gesturing to The Crew members.
"If you haven't noticed...one of the Crew members isn't here. Kendall Cena is scheduled to return in two months, but...she won't be. I am hereby suspending Kendall Cena indefinitely." he said.
John Cena laughed at that, grabbing a mic. "Triple H...Kendall don't answer to you. And she don't answer to that slut you call wife. She's coming back in two months and just like at Absolution, she's gonna lay your ass out.
Triple H glared at John. "She won't if she knows what's good for her."
Undertaker, shook his head and grabbed the mic from John. "Enough! Kendall aint' here right now. We are. What the hell do you want Hunter?"
"Well, Taker, we said we wanted to switch things up. Mr. Kennedy, Carlito and Santino Marella have all been traded to Smackdown. You, Kane and Matt Hardy have all been traded to Raw." Hunter said with a glare.
Undertaker and Kane looked at eachother and shrugged. They didn't care which show they were on. Matt and Jeff looked at eachother and clasped hands, happy that the brothers would be back in action again. Stephanie saw and smiled evilly.
"Yeah..be excited that you have your brother, Jeff...because what you won't have is the rest of The Crew. Randy and Trish will be joining Smackdown. Which means, Trish, since you're leaving Raw...you'll need to relinquish the Women's Championship, which will revert back to the former champion, Lita."
Trish's mouth dropped open and she narrowed her eyes at the youngest McMahon. Trish had just won the women's title from Lita last week, before the Helmsley-McMahon wedding. She'd only had it a week, and now she had to give it up because she was being traded by some two-bit ho and her husband?! Trish opened her mouth to speak, but was stopped as Triple H began to speak.
"Trish won't be the only one going to Smackdown. Batista...you'll be staying on Raw with Maria." he said with a smile. Batista glared at Triple H, but didn't move or say a word. Stephanie turned to John.
"That leaves you, John. You will be going to ECW. Because of this...John you will be relinquishing your WWE Championship." she said with a smirk.
John leaned back against the ropes, with a smirk of his own. His arms opened wide, inviting the group to come and take it from him if they though they could. The crowd cheered and Stephanie and Triple H glared at him.
Undertaker, sensing a brawl ready to break out, cleared his throat, glaring at Triple H. "You called us out here to tell us we're coming to Raw? I don't buy it. So why don't you stop your little tirade and get to the point. What the hell do you want with me and Kane?"
Triple H turned his attention to Batista, Maria, Matt, Jeff, Undertaker and Kane. "You want to know what I want? Fine...you four will be staying on Raw. I'm asking you the same question I asked them." he said pointing to J.R., Vickie and King.
"Will you submit to our rule and become members of DX?" Hunter asked. The six superstars looked at eachother, then looked at Triple H, and answered unanimously.
"Hell no!"
Triple H spit out curses towards the six and Stephanie's mouth dropped open.
"Let me introduce you to a couple of friends, the new general managers of ECW, Smackdown and Raw...Road Dogg Jesse James, X-Pac and Badd Ass Billy Gunn!"
Music hit and the three friends mentioned came out on stage and got into the ring, with part of the crowd cheering for the DX alumni. The crowd hissed and let The Game know they did not agree with that decision. Undertaker and Kane shook thier heads at the decision, and Jeff Hardy and Matt Hardy tensed beside the Brothers of Destruction. Triple H turned to them.
"And you six...you guys are competing tonight! It will be Batista vs Maria in a hardcore match! Undertaker vs. Kane and Jeff Hardy vs. Matt Hardy in a You're Fired match!" Hunter snarled.
The two sets of brothers looked at eachother, then turned a hardened glare on Triple H. Batista and Maria look at eachother, then glared at Triple H. They all took a step forward intending on beating his ass when Vince McMahon's music came on. Everyone looked up seeing Vince, Linda and Shane come out on stage.
"Before you go asserting your newfound power with the WWE superstars, Triple H...I have something I need to address. A few weeks ago...a video addressed to Shane, Linda and myself, showed up at the office. I'd like to show it now." Vince said as the video began.
A video clip started with Hunter and Shawn talking backstage. Hunter was telling Shawn that the only reason he was marrying Stephanie was to get his hands on her shares of the WWE. When the clip stopped, Hunter and Stephanie smirked at Kendall.
"Guys...I already know about that..." Stephanie interupted.
Shane held up a hand to quiet his sister. "Just wait Steph...it gets better."
Clip restarts
"So...that's our plan then."
The voice of Stephanie McMahon came on the screen, and the camera moved to a better angle to capture both Stephanie and Triple H in the shot.
Triple H nodded. "That's the plan. We marry, I get your shares, you run to Shane...Shane comes after me...I'll challenge him to a match...winner takes shares. I'll win, get control of his shares, you both run to Daddy ...Vince will challenge me for the shares, I'll win the match and then, you and I, Steph, will have control over the WWE."
The camera slowly zoomed out to show that the footage of Hunter and Steph was playing on a small television inside an office. Shane, Vince, Linda and another gentleman, no one had seen before were in the room watching it. After it ended, Shane reached over, turning the tape off and back in his chair, completely dumbstruck.
"I can't beleive she plans on taking over the company...especially with him." Shane said. "I don't know what to do..."
"Well...we can't let it happen, Shane." Vince said. Shane nodded in agreement.
"Well...we do have one option...it's just...it's a hard decision to make." Linda said, with an apologetic smile at the lawyer.
The lawyer nodded. "I understand that this is going to be a tough decision. You know why my client sent this and you know what my client proposes. I can give you a couple days to think it over, if you need it."
Shane thought for a moment, then shook his head and looked at his parents. "We need to do this, Dad. It's a good plan and I trust his client. Well, I trust his client more than Triple H, anyways." Shane sighed. "I'm in if you two are in."
Linda and Vince looked at eachother and then slowly both nodded. "Alright...if this is the only way to protect ourselves from them, then...we're in." Vince said.
All three signed the papers in front of them, then Vince slid them over to the lawyer.
"Tell your client...it's a deal."
Clip Ends
As the clip ended, Triple H and Stephanie, looked at eachother in confusdion then stared at Vince. So did everyone else. This wasn't part of the storyline that everyone in the ring knew. It wasn't uncommon for that to happen, and for now, the only thing they could do was roll with it and see where it lands.
"After seeing that video...we knew that we had to stop you. We knew that we had to do anything we could to protect the company from your clutches." Shane said.
Linda nodded. "In order to do that...we did the only thing we could think of. We sold our shares of the company."
"What?! You sold your shares? To who?" Stephanie demanded, in shock.
Vince gave his daughter a sinister smile. "To the one person that would never let you have them!"
