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RAW is WAR: 20/8/2001

RAW is WAR was live at the Arco Arena in Sacramento, California. The last segment of RAW saw the collective members of the Alliance come to the ring for what they dubbed Austin Appreciation Night. Paul Heyman got on the mic and said that there has never been a man that has led any alliance as well as Stone Cold Steve Austin. He then called for Austin to come to the ring.

The Federation Champion came out to a chorus of boos from the crowd. Heyman told Stone Cold that he personally wanted to thank Austin for what he had done for the sports entertainment industry, and he said others wanted to express their thanks as well. Hurricane Helms presented the Rattlesnake with his own, personal Green Latern t-shirt. Next, Kanyon entered the ring and said that for years everyone had asked, "Who betta than Kanyon?" At SummerSlam, however, Kanyon said that Austin had proved that he was the best, and he presented Austin with a "Who betta than Austin?" t-shirt.

Heyman then introduced Mrs. Rattlesnake, Debra. Debra said that she knew that Austin was tired from his match with Bladewolf, so she had stayed up all night baking her famous cookies for the Rattlesnake. Heyman then said that the Alliance wanted to present a video tribute to the Rattlesnake, which they began to play in the Arco Arena.

The video highlighted every offensive maneuver that the Stone Cold had inflicted on Federation Superstars since joining Team WCW/ECW. Heyman then introduced the woman that had paid for the tribute, Mrs. Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley. Steph told all the Alliance members to come into the ring to pay their respects to Stone Cold. The Billion Dollar Princess told Lilian Garcia to enter the ring and since their version of "Wind Beneath My Wings," which was appropriately titled "Wind Beneath Our Ring."

Garcia began to sing, but Steph cut her off, asking her where her heart was? Steph said that she would take over and lead the crowd in song. Stephanie then proceeded to screech out the lyrics to the song, before Chavo, Terri and the rest of the Alliance chimed in to help. After the conclusion of the song, Austin said that that moment was one of the greatest and proudest moments of his life.

He said that he beat the Bladewolf's ass for each and every member of Team WCW/ECW. He then saw that Tazz was not wearing a WCW, ECW or Stone Cold t-shirt - he was wearing an orange Tazz t-shirt. He was telling the man from Red Hook to take off the shirt, when...

OOOOOOWHOOOOOO!

'Oh, ah, ah, ah, ah! Get up, come on get down with the sickness!'

Down with the Sickness plays to a huge pop from the crowd as the Bladewolf walks out onto the stage with his baseball bat in his right hand, and smirks a little as he slowly paces, a microphone in his left hand as his theme dies down. His face was clean from the blood that fell down his face last night with a bandage across his forehead where he was cut open.

His theme dies down and he goes to speak but the cheering makes him pause and he waits for it to die down before finally he speaks.

"Well happy Austin appreciation night everybody! This night is all about you, Austin. The alliance appreciating you on defending your WWF title last night at SummerSlam by disqualification. Congratulations are in order and I wanna show you just how much I appreciate you, Austin, by giving you and the Alliance a very special surprise in just a moment. After the hellish beatdown we gave to one another last night and the fact that you deliberately got yourself disqualified to keep your title, I had to visit an old entity that I kept locked away for some time now. It's been trapped inside my head, clawing and scratching to get out and be as one again. If I'm gonna get my rematch for the WWF title, I'm gonna have to tap into my demonic side a little bit and play a few mind games with you just for the hell of it. Now for the surprise I've promised for Austin appreciation night, here's my appreciation from me to you, Austin. All you have to do..." He points the bat to the ceiling. "...is look up."

Austin and the WCW/ECW superstars do so but when they do...BLOOD FALLS DOWN ON THEM! IT'S RAINING BLOOD!

"What the hell?!" JR shouted in surprise.

"My appreciation for you Austin is the fact that you and the Alliance can all go...BURN..IN..HELL!" His theme hits as Bladewolf stands there with a cold stare to Austin before RAW went off the air.


Sorry for the short chapter.