Enter Fear
[ Vince's office ]
Vince sat behind his desk, his eyes
staring at the screen of the big television screen, for about the 10th
time today they were showing recaps of the ending of Smackdown, and each
time Vince saw it, it was another blow, another devastating blow.
Stephanie had actually bought ECW?
And The Rock was with them? This couldn't be happening, The Rock was his
wrestler, or had been before his greedy son, evil daughter and devious
wife, or ex-wife, decided to steal him away. And Stephanie also took one
of the most popular tag teams, The Dudley Boys, and Rhyno! Rhyno was a
crowd favorite in the WWF and now he was in the ECW! And to make things
worse, he had to look for a new announcer because 10 minutes ago Paul Heyman
had quit to go join Stephanie and Shane, particularly Paul had left to
join the ECW.
ECW this, ECW that... who gave the
shit about ECW? Well obviously half the people in the crowd tonight, and
considering The Rock was with ECW along with Mick Foley, a lot of people
were going to be watching ECW more; Another blow from Stephanie and Shane
that endangered the WWF, endangered his company.
"Damn little shits." Vince said turning
off the television. "I gave them everything, the only damn reason those
two are where they are today, is because of me, and this is how they repay
me? By ... by destroying me?"
Vince knew that there wasn't anyone
in the room reply to question, he had just needed to get the words out,
the words that were spinning around in his head ever since Shane and Stephanie
had declared that Stephanie was the new ECW owner. The look in Stephanie's
eyes as she walked down the titantron had been cold, and evil, and for
a moment all he could hear was Shane's music playing in the background
and all he could see was the hatred his little girl had for him. Despite
everything that he had ordered, everything he had watched happen, Vince
McMahon still loved his daughter, and god it had hurt when he realized,
when he found out that Stephanie had bought ECW underneath his nose, it
was like the blow Shane had given him all over again, except this time
he didn't have either child by his side, because they were both going against
him.
This shouldn't have ended this way.
At one time they had all been a family, and now what were they? Shane and
Stephanie were dominating him, his wrestlers and his company, Linda was
no longer his wife and he had become a man that he could no longer recogonize.
He had told Hunter to throw Stephanie
through glass, how in the world could he bestow that sort of pain on his
daughter? The moment she had entered his life he had known that she was
his little treasure, that whenever things got too bad, that just a glance
of her beautiful blue eyes and he knew that he would be okay, but somehow
he had lost track of that gift Stephanie's smile always used to give him.
Somehow the lust to make sure his company came out on top had taken control
of his need to be a good dad.
"Shit." Vince hissed out, looking
down at his watch, 8:00... DDP and Hunter were supposed to put the stalking
plan in action at 8:00. Vince grabbed the phone and dialed Hunter's cellphone.
"Hello?" Hunter's voice came over
the cellphone.
"Hunter, thank god I got you before
you and DDP did anything, I changed my mind, don't go ahead with this plan,
leave Stephanie alone." Vince replied, his voice coming out in quick sentences.
"What?" Hunter barked into the cellphone,
his voice laced with confusion.
"I said the plan is off, I changed
my mind, I don't want this to happen. Leave my daughter alone, don't go
near her." Vince replied.
There was a long silence before Hunter
replied. "Sorry Vince, but DDP is already putting the plan into action.
Shane is asleep and Andrew is taking a shower and Stephanie went outside
for a walk, and DDP is currently following her."
Vince's eyes dropped. "I have to
go Hunter."
Vince slammed down the phone, his
eyes dropped to the floor, he could try to stop DDP but he knew he wouldn't
get to Stephanie in time before DDP put the plan into action; He could
try to call Shane, but Shane probably wouldn't believe him; He could try
to talk to Andrew, but Andrew would probably hang up before Vince got the
chance to warn him of what was about to happen to Stephanie.
Vince picked up the phone once again,
there was a chance that he would get hung up on, but he had to at least
try to reach Shane or Andrew, make them understand that in a matter of
minutes Stephanie would re-live an old fear.
[ Stephanie's locker-room ]
Shane fluttered his eyes open once
heard the phone ringing, groaning Shane looked towards the bathroom listening
to the shower, shaking his head Shane swung his legs over the couch and
grabbed the phone. After Stephanie and him had declared the reunion of
ECW they had come back to Stephanie's locker-room and Shane had instantly
fallen asleep.
"Yeah?" Shane spoke into the phone,
still attempting to wake up.
"Shane, don't hang up..." Vince's
voice came over the phone, in a rushed tone.
Shane stared at the phone, his whole
body completely awake, he had every nerve to hang up on the man he called
his father but the tone in Vince's body made Shane reconsider. "You got
1 minute." Shane said, running a hand through his hair.
"Listen I can't tell you who is involved
but your sister is in trouble --- " Vince started but was cut off quickly
by Shane.
"Threatening us now are you? What
dad can't take the heat? Well there is going to be a lot of heat in a very
short time; Since I own WCW and Stephanie owns ECW you are going to feel
a lot of heat, considering the fact that me and Stephanie are uniting both
our companies to make one company WECW, that is World Extreme Championship
Wrestling, and once we bring that team into the light you are going to
wish you never messed with me and Stephanie." Shane said, with a smirk
on his face.
"Listen Shane, right now this isn't
about business --- " Vince started again but was cut off by Shane once
more.
"You're right, this is about me hanging
up on you." Shane said, getting ready to slam the phone down.
"No wait! Shane listen to me, where's
your sister?" Vince asked quickly and loudly.
Shane sighed. "She's sitting right
next to --- " Shane stopped as he realized he was alone in the locker-room
and Stephanie's jacket was gone from the chair. "Where is she?" Shane asked,
bringing his attention back to the telephone.
"Shane now calm down I need you to
--- " Vince was cut off again by Shane.
"Screw you." Shane said slamming
the phone down.
Shane jumped up from the couch and
ran up to the bathroom door, he raised his fist to pound on the door, taking
in a deep breath he let his fist pound on the bathroom door. "Andrew, open
up!" Shane screamed, fear entering his body fast and quick. Shane didn't
know what was going on, but his heart was beating fast, and his cheek muscle
was pounding.
"Damn Shane, what's your problem?"
Andrew asked, opening the bathroom door all the way.
"Is my sister in there with you?"
Shane asked, he pushed Andrew to the side and walked into the bathroom.
"No, she's not. What the hell is
going on Shane?" Andrew walked over to Shane who was looking in the shower.
"Shane?" Andrew asked, starting to worry about Shane's behavior.
"She's gone." Shane muttered, walking
out of the bathroom.
"What?" Andrew asked, still in the
bathroom. He pulled on a shirt and some pants; After getting dressed Andrew
walked out of the bathroom and into the main part of the locker-room. "Where's
Steph?" Andrew asked, looking around the room.
"I don't know!" Shane screamed, facing
Andrew. "She's gone. My dad called me and said Stephanie was in trouble
and then he asked me where Stephanie was, and then I looked and she wasn't
in the room!"
"Calm down." Andrew ran his fingers
through his wet hair. "Did she tell you she was going anywhere before I
went into the shower and you went to sleep?"
Shane shook his head. "No, she just
told me to get some sleep and then I got the call from my dad."
Andrew looked at Shane. "Did he make
it sound like a threat or a warning?"
Shane sat down on the couch, covering
his face with his hands. "Half and half. I mean he sounded worried but
the way the words came out it sounded like a threat. I would never think
that my dad would do this, but I can't put anything past him anymore. He
told Hunter to throw Stephanie through glass, when Jeff told us that he
had heard my dad ordering DDP to attack me and Hunter to throw Stephanie
through glass all I could see was that the man I used to call my father
isn't the same man he used to be."
Andrew pulled his jacket on. "Yeah
well greed does that to you, come on we're going to find Stephanie."
Shane nodded, following Andrew out
the door.
[ Outside the building ]
Stephanie pulled her hair into a
ponytail as she stared out at the stars, she let her eyes close; It had
only been a few hours since she and Shane had announced that she was the
new ECW owner, at the time it had seemed to be the perfect plan of revenge,
she had loved the look on her father's face when The Rock had came out,
but now Stephanie could feel the pain, the pain in knowing that she had
crossed the final line, now her and Vince were on different sides, but
when were they not? He had ordered Hunter to throw her through glass, he
didn't care about anything besides his business, Shane had warned her so
many times that Vince's first priority was the WWF, but until recently
she didn't want to believe it.
Vince was her father, she used to
be his little girl, but somehow things changed; When Hunter slapped her
after the divorce her father hadn't been there, when Stephanie was pulled
off the titantron by Hunter, it hadn't been Vince that had asked if she
was okay; All the times she had been in turmoil Vince hadn't been there
to comfort her, so crossing that final line to become her father's enemy
was just so damn fitting.
DDP looked through the lens of the
video camera as he recorded Stephanie; Stephanie was wearing a tanktop
with a small sweater over it, she was wearing long pants and her long hair
was up, exposing the back of her neck. DDP grinned as he walked closer
to Stephanie, lowering the video camera.
The plan was to stalk Stephanie,
to video tape her and play it on Smackdown and RAW like he had done with
Sara, that was the plan Vince told them to do, but hell DDP was never a
man to do what someone told him to do. DDP put the camera down to the ground
and put black gloves on as he inched closer to Stephanie.
"What?" DDP growled into the phone,
picking it up on the first ring.
"What the hell are you doing?" Hunter's
voice came over the phone.
"Mixing pleasure with business."
DDP answered quickly.
"What the fuck are you talking about?"
Hunter snarled into the phone.
"Trust me, look I got to go, before
she hears me." DDP replied.
"Hey! What the hell are you going
to do? Listen DDP don't do anything stupid, Vince isn't on our side with
this anymore, he doesn't want you to touch Stephanie ... are you there?"
Hunter growled the instant he heard a click on the other side of the phone,
indicating DDP had hung up on him. "Shit." Hunter hissed.
DDP put the ski mask he had bought
earlier on, he adjusted the ski mask and stared at Stephanie from the eye
holes. He smirked to himself and put his hand over her mouth. "Don't scream."
DDP hissed into Stephanie's ear.
Stephanie started to struggle when
she felt a hand go over her mouth, but she instantly froze when she heard
a muffled voice enter her ear.
"I'll remove my hand if you promise
me you won't scream." DDP said in a hushed tone.
Stephanie nodded, she let out a deep
breath once the hand was removed from her mouth, she looked to her left
as she heard faint voices, Stephanie elbowed DDP in the ribs. "Help me!"
Stephanie screamed, trying to run away from DDP.
DDP groaned and went to grab for
Stephanie but fell to the ground as Hunter speared him. "What the hell?"
DDP screamed out once he saw that it was Hunter that attacked him. "Bastard."
"Leave her alone." Hunter said, pointing
a finger at DDP. "Get out of here Steph!" Hunter screamed.
DDP grinned and gave Hunter a diamond
cutter and then grabbed Stephanie by the arm roughly.
"Did you hear that?" Jericho said,
walking out of the door of the WWF arena.
"Yeah, did you hear --- " Chyna started
but she was cut off by the sight of a man trying to pull Stephanie to him.
"Hey!" Jericho yelled getting the
attention of the man, the man pulled Hunter up and dropped Stephanie and
ran off as fast as he could. "Stephanie are you okay?" Jericho asked, running
over to Stephanie with Chyna in tow.
"I, Jericho?" Stephanie said in a
small voice, tears pricking at her eyes.
"Yeah, it's me, did he hurt you?"
Jericho asked, staring at Stephanie concerned.
"I'll go get Shane and Andrew." Chyna
said, before walking off.
"Steph?" Jericho asked again, he
touched her shoulder.
"Is he gone?" Stephanie asked, hugging
herself.
"Yeah --- " Jericho started but was
cut of by Shane's frantic voice.
"Stephanie!" Shane pushed past Jericho
and pulled Stephanie in for a hug, not even giving her a chance to say
a word. Shane held onto Stephanie, not needing to know what happened, by
the look on Chyna's face, he could tell it was bad, and right now all he
wanted was to hold Stephanie, and protect her from harm.
"What happened?" Andrew asked, Jericho.
Jericho shook his head sadly. "I
heard Stephanie scream, so me and Chyna walked out of the building and
we saw this man grabbing Stephanie, I screamed at him, and the man grabbed
Hunter and took off running. The guy was wearing a ski mask so I couldn't
tell who he was, but it looked the guy was trying to take her."
Andrew closed his eyes. "Hunter and
a man did this?"
Jericho nodded. "What it looked like."
"When will this ever stop?" Andrew
asked, not really expecting an answer.
"Stephanie?" Benoit walked towards
the group.
"Chris!" Stephanie said once Shane
let her go.
"I called the police." Benoit said.
"Don't know how that will help but I knew it needed to be done." Benoit
pulled Stephanie in for a hug as Shane walked over to Andrew.
"Stephanie said she swears it was
DDP who grabbed her." Shane said to Andrew.
Andrew nodded. "I'm going to kill
him, so hopefully it will be him so I won't be killing an innocent man,
and after I kill DDP I'm going to kill Hunter, I'm damn sick of this. I
stood back, treating Stephanie as an equal, not doing the things I knew
I should be doing to Hunter, but now my patience is over. I won't be the
patient boyfriend anymore, I want them dead, you hear me Shane?"
Shane nodded. "Kill them Andrew."