ECW Stands Tall, Part Three
by Clarice_Lecter
After the commercial break, JR had some disturbing news.
"Ladies and gentlemen, we've just received word that Triple-H, Shane McMahon, Diamond Dallas Page, Kanyon, and Billy Kidman are headed to Philadelphia Baptist Hospital, where Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley has been a patient since Monday night," he revealed. "During the break, the Cerebral Assassin was so enraged by the comments of his soon-to-be ex-wife and her running buddy, Paul Heyman, that he decided to take matters into his own hands. And when Jerry McDivette, Stephanie's attorney, entered the WCW dressing room to serve the divorce papers, watch what happened."
They then rolled the tape from during the break, where Shane, Austin and the WCW guys stood back while Triple-H went into a rampage. "That fucking BITCH!" Trips raged as he started throwing things all over the WCW dressing room. "Where does she get off askin' ME FOR A GODDAMN DIVORCE?!? And where does HEYMAN get off thinkin' he can TAKE ME IN A FUCKING CAGE?!?!?"
"Hunter, calm down!" Austin pleaded, only to end up ducking one of the vegetable-laden buffet trays when Trips threw it across the room.
"I'll be damned if Stephanie's gonna get away with this! I WON'T HAVE IT!!!"
"You let her off too easy, that's all!" Shane now said. "If it hadn't been for fuckin' Heyman, we could've taken her out FOR GOOD!!!"
"Shane's right, man!" DDP chimed in. "You've got to show that slut you mean business, even if she IS a McMahon! You're her husband, right?"
"That's right, and I'm gonna keep on BEING HER HUSBAND!!!" Trips retorted.
"Then do what any good husband would do and BRING HER TO HEEL!" Austin now said. "BEAT HER ASS AGAIN! KEEP BEATIN' HER ASS UNTIL SHE REMEMBERS WHO'S BOSS!!! Trust me, by the time you get done, she'll BEG you to take ECW offa her hands - !"
At that moment, the strategy session was interrupted. Jerry McDivette entered the locker room, and the glare in his eyes caused the WCW boys to part like the Red Sea. "Mr. Helmsley?" Jerry asked.
"Yeah?" Trips asked.
Jerry replied by serving the divorce papers Stephanie had mentioned earlier. "Ohhhhhhhh, boy," JR said as Trips read the documents, growing angrier by the second.
"Guys, I want to be alone with Mr. McDivette," Hunter now said.
"Sure thing, man," Shane replied. "C'mon, fellas, let's give 'em some privacy."
As soon as they were alone, Triple-H tore up the documents and threw them in the attorney's face. "Get this through your head, McDivette. There isn't gonna be ANY divorce!" he said in the deadliest tone he could muster. "In fact, that bitch sending you here just cost you..."
Then Trips viciously punched Jerry in the face, knocking him to the floor before crouching over him and beating him as he had beaten Stephanie on Monday night. "Good Godalmighty, now Triple-H is beating up Stephanie's lawyer!" JR exclaimed.
"He doesn't DESERVE THIS!!!" Michael screamed. "He was just following instructions! All he was doing was serving divorce papers on Triple-H!"
"The Game's an even sicker bastard than we though! He ain't gonna quit until he's taken out all of his wife's friends, and he damn sure ain't gonna quit until he's pounded her into submission!!! What's it gonna take to STOP HIM?!?!?"
Eventually, Shane, Austin and the WCW guys entered the locker room to continue the beatdown on McDivette before throwing him out bodily. "My God, Jerry McDivette's hurt!" JR now said. "What the Hell else is gonna happen?"
Finally, Trips showed his next card. "That bitch is at Baptist Hospital!" he announced. "Who wants to help me finish the job?!?"
"JR, you spoke too soon!" Michael piped up as the WCW guys all clamored to go to the hospital with Trips. In the end, Shane, DDP, Kanyon and Kidman were selected to accompany Trips to the hospital in an attempt to assault Stephanie again.
The show then cut back to the hospital, where Paul was standing outside Stephanie's door and had received a call on his cell phone. "Uh-oh, there's Paul," JR said worriedly.
"Gertner, will you calm down?!" Paul gently scolded during the conversation. "Slow down and tell me EXACTLY what happened!"
"Sounds like Joel Gertner's bringing him up to speed," Michael replied.
As the cell phone talk went on, Paul grew angrier by the minute. "Jerry SHOULDN'T have gone into the WCW locker room by himself! He shoulda had someone with him when he went to serve the papers, otherwise he wouldn't have gotten hurt! Joel - Joel, calm your ass down! Put Stevie on the phone...yo, Stevie! You know what's goin' down, don'tcha? Good. Get Raven, get Balls, get your boys and get down here before Triple-H and his buddies get here!"
"Uh-OHHHHHHH!!!!! Heyman's got a plan!" JR exclaimed.
"Take out Shane, Page, Kanyon and Kidman, but leave Trips for me...don't worry, I can take him! Okay, bye!"
Paul then clicked off his phone, then reentered Stephanie's hospital room. "Honey, what's going on?" Stephanie asked, her voice tinged with concern.
"We're fixing to get some company," Paul replied. "Your husband decided he didn't like your little gift..."
Now Steph was scared. "Paul - ?" she asked, prompting him to sit on the edge of the bed and hug her close.
"Don't worry, Stevie's on his way with some of the boys...and if that fuckin' Hunter goes through the first roadblock, I'll be ready for him. I promise you, he'll never hurt you again..."
Stephanie then broke down, clutching at Paul and hoping for the best. "Stephanie's scared to death, and I don't blame her," Michael now said.
As expected, Triple-H showed up at the hospital 30 minutes later with DDP, Kanyon, Shane and Kidman in tow. But they didn't count on Paul and Stephanie's ECW buddies taking the shortcut and getting there first.
They entered the hospital, then took the elevator to the fifth floor, where Stephanie was being kept. As the elevator doors opened, they came face to face with Kronik, Stevie, Raven, and Balls Mahoney.
"Uh-ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh," JR told the viewers at home, "this ain't gonna be pretty."
It was Brian Adams who spoke first. "Going somewhere, boys?" he asked.
"Hey, this is between ME AND MY WIFE! This doesn't concern you!" Triple-H fumed.
"Is that so?" Stevie retorted. "Is that why you brought backup?"
"You're not going anywhere near her," Raven now said. "You're gonna have to get through us first..."
Triple-H smirked, then looked at his WCW buddies. "Get real," he chirped before suckerpunching Adams. At that moment, the fight was on.
Shane launched in against Stevie while Kidman focused on Raven. DDP and Kanyon started brawling with Bryan Clarke and Balls, while Trips fought off Adams. Eventually, he was able to break free and make a dash for Stephanie's room...
"OhmyGod, SOMEBODY STOP HIM!!! HE'S HEADED STRAIGHT FOR HIS WIFE!!!" JR screamed into the headset as Triple-H ran through the corridors, looking for Stephanie's room and steeling himself to once again beat her up.
When he turned the corner, however, he found himself on the receiving end of a Rhyno-like spear from Paul Heyman. "GORE! GORE! GORE!" JR shouted as Paul speared him into the corridor wall, not caring about reinjuring himself as he launched into a full-on attack against The Game.
"Triple-H hasn't even accepted Heyman's challenge, but THEY'RE NOT GONNA WAIT UNTIL SURVIVOR SERIES!!!" Michael shouted in turn. "Heyman said he was gonna keep Triple-H from hurting Stephanie ever again, and by God he's a man of his word!"
Eventually, the rest of the ECW faction came out of the rooms surrounding Stephanie, from Gertner to Sabu to RVD. "OhmyGod, THEY'RE ALL HERE!!!" JR sputtered. "The Tribe of Extreme is ALL HERE!!!"
It wasn't long before Trips, Shane, DDP, Kidman and Kanyon were all beaten back, until the entire ECW faction had succeeded in giving them the bum's rush out of Baptist Hospital. As SMACKDOWN went off the air, with Trips and Paul staring each other down, JR couldn't contain his excitement...
"HOW YA LIKE IT NOW, MR. MACHO?!? NOW YOU'LL HAVE TO ACCEPT HEYMAN'S CHALLENGE!!!!!"
End of Part Three
by Clarice_Lecter
After the commercial break, JR had some disturbing news.
"Ladies and gentlemen, we've just received word that Triple-H, Shane McMahon, Diamond Dallas Page, Kanyon, and Billy Kidman are headed to Philadelphia Baptist Hospital, where Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley has been a patient since Monday night," he revealed. "During the break, the Cerebral Assassin was so enraged by the comments of his soon-to-be ex-wife and her running buddy, Paul Heyman, that he decided to take matters into his own hands. And when Jerry McDivette, Stephanie's attorney, entered the WCW dressing room to serve the divorce papers, watch what happened."
They then rolled the tape from during the break, where Shane, Austin and the WCW guys stood back while Triple-H went into a rampage. "That fucking BITCH!" Trips raged as he started throwing things all over the WCW dressing room. "Where does she get off askin' ME FOR A GODDAMN DIVORCE?!? And where does HEYMAN get off thinkin' he can TAKE ME IN A FUCKING CAGE?!?!?"
"Hunter, calm down!" Austin pleaded, only to end up ducking one of the vegetable-laden buffet trays when Trips threw it across the room.
"I'll be damned if Stephanie's gonna get away with this! I WON'T HAVE IT!!!"
"You let her off too easy, that's all!" Shane now said. "If it hadn't been for fuckin' Heyman, we could've taken her out FOR GOOD!!!"
"Shane's right, man!" DDP chimed in. "You've got to show that slut you mean business, even if she IS a McMahon! You're her husband, right?"
"That's right, and I'm gonna keep on BEING HER HUSBAND!!!" Trips retorted.
"Then do what any good husband would do and BRING HER TO HEEL!" Austin now said. "BEAT HER ASS AGAIN! KEEP BEATIN' HER ASS UNTIL SHE REMEMBERS WHO'S BOSS!!! Trust me, by the time you get done, she'll BEG you to take ECW offa her hands - !"
At that moment, the strategy session was interrupted. Jerry McDivette entered the locker room, and the glare in his eyes caused the WCW boys to part like the Red Sea. "Mr. Helmsley?" Jerry asked.
"Yeah?" Trips asked.
Jerry replied by serving the divorce papers Stephanie had mentioned earlier. "Ohhhhhhhh, boy," JR said as Trips read the documents, growing angrier by the second.
"Guys, I want to be alone with Mr. McDivette," Hunter now said.
"Sure thing, man," Shane replied. "C'mon, fellas, let's give 'em some privacy."
As soon as they were alone, Triple-H tore up the documents and threw them in the attorney's face. "Get this through your head, McDivette. There isn't gonna be ANY divorce!" he said in the deadliest tone he could muster. "In fact, that bitch sending you here just cost you..."
Then Trips viciously punched Jerry in the face, knocking him to the floor before crouching over him and beating him as he had beaten Stephanie on Monday night. "Good Godalmighty, now Triple-H is beating up Stephanie's lawyer!" JR exclaimed.
"He doesn't DESERVE THIS!!!" Michael screamed. "He was just following instructions! All he was doing was serving divorce papers on Triple-H!"
"The Game's an even sicker bastard than we though! He ain't gonna quit until he's taken out all of his wife's friends, and he damn sure ain't gonna quit until he's pounded her into submission!!! What's it gonna take to STOP HIM?!?!?"
Eventually, Shane, Austin and the WCW guys entered the locker room to continue the beatdown on McDivette before throwing him out bodily. "My God, Jerry McDivette's hurt!" JR now said. "What the Hell else is gonna happen?"
Finally, Trips showed his next card. "That bitch is at Baptist Hospital!" he announced. "Who wants to help me finish the job?!?"
"JR, you spoke too soon!" Michael piped up as the WCW guys all clamored to go to the hospital with Trips. In the end, Shane, DDP, Kanyon and Kidman were selected to accompany Trips to the hospital in an attempt to assault Stephanie again.
The show then cut back to the hospital, where Paul was standing outside Stephanie's door and had received a call on his cell phone. "Uh-oh, there's Paul," JR said worriedly.
"Gertner, will you calm down?!" Paul gently scolded during the conversation. "Slow down and tell me EXACTLY what happened!"
"Sounds like Joel Gertner's bringing him up to speed," Michael replied.
As the cell phone talk went on, Paul grew angrier by the minute. "Jerry SHOULDN'T have gone into the WCW locker room by himself! He shoulda had someone with him when he went to serve the papers, otherwise he wouldn't have gotten hurt! Joel - Joel, calm your ass down! Put Stevie on the phone...yo, Stevie! You know what's goin' down, don'tcha? Good. Get Raven, get Balls, get your boys and get down here before Triple-H and his buddies get here!"
"Uh-OHHHHHHH!!!!! Heyman's got a plan!" JR exclaimed.
"Take out Shane, Page, Kanyon and Kidman, but leave Trips for me...don't worry, I can take him! Okay, bye!"
Paul then clicked off his phone, then reentered Stephanie's hospital room. "Honey, what's going on?" Stephanie asked, her voice tinged with concern.
"We're fixing to get some company," Paul replied. "Your husband decided he didn't like your little gift..."
Now Steph was scared. "Paul - ?" she asked, prompting him to sit on the edge of the bed and hug her close.
"Don't worry, Stevie's on his way with some of the boys...and if that fuckin' Hunter goes through the first roadblock, I'll be ready for him. I promise you, he'll never hurt you again..."
Stephanie then broke down, clutching at Paul and hoping for the best. "Stephanie's scared to death, and I don't blame her," Michael now said.
As expected, Triple-H showed up at the hospital 30 minutes later with DDP, Kanyon, Shane and Kidman in tow. But they didn't count on Paul and Stephanie's ECW buddies taking the shortcut and getting there first.
They entered the hospital, then took the elevator to the fifth floor, where Stephanie was being kept. As the elevator doors opened, they came face to face with Kronik, Stevie, Raven, and Balls Mahoney.
"Uh-ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh," JR told the viewers at home, "this ain't gonna be pretty."
It was Brian Adams who spoke first. "Going somewhere, boys?" he asked.
"Hey, this is between ME AND MY WIFE! This doesn't concern you!" Triple-H fumed.
"Is that so?" Stevie retorted. "Is that why you brought backup?"
"You're not going anywhere near her," Raven now said. "You're gonna have to get through us first..."
Triple-H smirked, then looked at his WCW buddies. "Get real," he chirped before suckerpunching Adams. At that moment, the fight was on.
Shane launched in against Stevie while Kidman focused on Raven. DDP and Kanyon started brawling with Bryan Clarke and Balls, while Trips fought off Adams. Eventually, he was able to break free and make a dash for Stephanie's room...
"OhmyGod, SOMEBODY STOP HIM!!! HE'S HEADED STRAIGHT FOR HIS WIFE!!!" JR screamed into the headset as Triple-H ran through the corridors, looking for Stephanie's room and steeling himself to once again beat her up.
When he turned the corner, however, he found himself on the receiving end of a Rhyno-like spear from Paul Heyman. "GORE! GORE! GORE!" JR shouted as Paul speared him into the corridor wall, not caring about reinjuring himself as he launched into a full-on attack against The Game.
"Triple-H hasn't even accepted Heyman's challenge, but THEY'RE NOT GONNA WAIT UNTIL SURVIVOR SERIES!!!" Michael shouted in turn. "Heyman said he was gonna keep Triple-H from hurting Stephanie ever again, and by God he's a man of his word!"
Eventually, the rest of the ECW faction came out of the rooms surrounding Stephanie, from Gertner to Sabu to RVD. "OhmyGod, THEY'RE ALL HERE!!!" JR sputtered. "The Tribe of Extreme is ALL HERE!!!"
It wasn't long before Trips, Shane, DDP, Kidman and Kanyon were all beaten back, until the entire ECW faction had succeeded in giving them the bum's rush out of Baptist Hospital. As SMACKDOWN went off the air, with Trips and Paul staring each other down, JR couldn't contain his excitement...
"HOW YA LIKE IT NOW, MR. MACHO?!? NOW YOU'LL HAVE TO ACCEPT HEYMAN'S CHALLENGE!!!!!"
End of Part Three