All To Survive
By Kyizi

Disclaimer: All characters belong to the WWE, the story is mine.

Rating:  PG-13

Summary: When disaster strikes can the survivors live in a desolate world without the people they've lost?

Spoilers: Various. There won't be anything major, but this was started a long time ago, so the spoilers will be for around 2000/2001/2002, not really spoilers anymore. Other than that this is obviously completely AU.

Timeline: The main change to timeline is that Ivory never left and she was drafted to Smackdown! And Lita wasn't injured. The roster split did happen, hence the two different settings.

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Part Two

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She gently rubbed her eyes, the gentle light not helping her see as clearly as she would have liked. The room around her was dark and dank and she didn't like it one bit. She had grown accustomed, rather painfully so, to the world she now found herself in, but that did not make it any easier to live with. She had resisted at first, resisted so much that she had cried and screamed her throat raw. Her eyes had been puffy for weeks and she had had nothing to comfort her, nothing at all.

She glanced at the people around her, noting that Shane had yet to return. The thought filled her with fear. She hated it when any of them were up there, but more so when it was Shane or Shannon. She had let no one in, no one knew her, but somehow, those two had made a few dents in her Armour, cracks even. She trusted them more so than the others, with no explanation as to why, other than she could no longer see their youth in their eyes. They had all aged so much and the innocence, in Shannon at least, was gone. She hated that.

"Steph, you okay?"

She turned to the young man she had been thinking of and nodded. She no longer smiled, no one did. "I'm fine, Shannon. Just thinking."

Shannon nodded. "He'll come back, you know he will."

"I know."

She glanced over at Edge, who didn't seem phased by anything. Despite the fact that she had been everyone's boss before The Burning, she was more than happy ro hand responsibility of the group over to the solemn man. Solemn. She had never thought that word would ever be used to describe Edge. He had always been such a happy, determined and playful man that it didn't seem right, or fair, that he had been forced to give that up. She was still in charge to an extent, but Edge was the one they all listened to when he spoke and it really didn't bother her. She needed someone to lean on just as much as the others did.

There was a loud thump above them and they all jumped. A moment later, Ivory jumped down the large hole in the ceiling. "Shane's been caught," she said quickly, her breathing erratic. "They've trapped him in the main ruins."

Edge nodded and Steph forced herself to remain calm. Shannon looked terrified, but he kept it to himself and Steph was both happy and upset to see how quickly he was able to school his face; happy because she was scared enough on her own and upset because it was one more piece of innocence slowly being driven out of the young man.

"Okay," Edge said, motioning them all into a circle. "Shannon, you'll stay here to protect the hold. I want no one but us getting back in. You're a good shot with that thing," he said, motioning the makeshift bow leaning against Shannon's part of the wall. "Put it to good use."

"Is Matt still standing guard?"

"No, he's behind the ruins, the South end. Shane's panicking, he's trying to get some sort of message to him."

Edge swore under his breath. "Okay, Ivory, you get to Matt. Take the pass under the ruins of the post office. Steph, you and I are going to go head on at the ruins. I want you up in the old church covering my back. Everyone understand?"

There was a consensus of nods and they quickly set about preparing the rescue. Steph was terrified but she hoped that it did not show on her face. There were only six of them against all of Them. She only hoped that it would be enough.

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End of Part Two

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I will be doing a poll on KyiziFic to decide the pairings for this one. But not until after I've introduced you to everyone in Lita's group! ;)