Title: Broken Wheels Author: Dana Rating: PG Warnings: Very mild violence and some swearing Summary: The newest reformation of the Four Horsemen hit a few large snags. Totally AU! Time frame: September 14 1998 Nitro in Greensboro North Carolina. Sound familiar? That was the last reformation of the Four Horsemen. Disclaimer: WWE owns WCW. Some of the names in here are owned by the company that created them. Some are of their own creation, or their real name. Sigh I don't own any of them.

Chris Benoit sighed as he looked at himself in the mirror. He didn't have his jacket on so he could still see the arm brace. He had fractured his elbow in Japan two months previously. He knew he had to tell the others soon about the prognosis.

He turned around to face the others. Dean Malenko was standing there watching the monitors waiting. His best friend looked nervous about something. Why was he nervous? He wondered. Steve 'Mongo' McMichael was putting Pepe back in his container. Ric Flair was sitting in a corner. They had a private dressing room because Ric wasn't supposed to be there that night. They'd be going out soon. Arn Anderson and James J 'JJ' Dillon were already waiting at the entrance to the arena for their cue.

He put his jacket on and sat in a chair. This was it. This was what he, Dean, and Mongo had been trying to reform. Ric was back. Bischoff could go to hell for all he cared. He couldn't stop them this time.

*** Bischoff and Flair were still exchanging words that were making it past the censors. The NWO hit the ring when all of their backs were turned. Nash hit Benoit in the back of the head. Malenko went to Benoit's defense. So people thought.

Benoit couldn't protect his arm from the kick that hit him the arm. He looked up painfully at his best friend. He couldn't do anything as Dean pulled off his arm brace. He then put him in an arm bar.

The other Horsemen couldn't help him.

Before he blacked out from the pain, his last thought was why?

*** The trainer came to ringside to help get Benoit out of the ring. Gene Okerlund came out with a mic. He stopped to watch while Flair, Anderson, Mongo, and JJ are escorted out by security. He walked to the ring.

"Dean why?" He asked. "Chris Benoit's your best friend."

Eric Bischoff was laughing in the ring. He grabbed the mic away from Okerlund. "Don't you get it yet Gene? It was all a set up from the start. This was Dean's reward for getting them all in the ring at the same time." He handed the mic over to Malenko.

"You want to know why? I know Chris can hear me in the back. Benoit you've gone soft. You didn't get the nickname crippler for nothing. You once broke someone's neck and didn't care. Now you are just a guy with a bum elbow. You know something Eric? Chris called me when he got back from Japan and begged me to talk to Arn about reforming the horsemen. Kept telling me I'd make a great member. He never knew that he was asking the enemy."

"I knew I forgot something." He said and grabbed an NWO shirt from Curt Hennig. He tossed it to Dean Malenko who took off his jacket and put it on over his dress shirt. "Better then a Horsemen shirt."

"What are they the two Horsemen now?" Hennig asked.

"Not even that." Bischoff said with a grin. "1 horsemen, 1 retired manager, 1 broken horsemen, and 1 fired horsemen."

*** In the back Mongo, Flair, and Anderson had to be held back by security. They were beyond angry at how the NWO was talking about them.

"They are going to pay." Ric said.

Benoit looked up from the chair he was sitting in. The trainer was carefully checking his elbow. He still couldn't believe his best friend had done that to him. He knew the others couldn't believe that the NWO had tricked them again.

Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me.

*** Notes: I have no clue where Thunder was that night. I know where Nitro was though!

Revenge of the Horsemen

Two nights later the remaining Horsemen were plotting their revenge. JJ Dillon had found them an empty room. No one knew they were there.

Benoit was told he hadn't suffered too much damage to his elbow. His girlfriend, Nancy, was leaning against him. She had left wrestling last year but had driven up from her house in Atlanta.

It almost seemed like old times. There was just two women missing. Mongo's ex-wife who used to work with the horsemen was no longer in WCW and Liz who also left WCW.

"We've got to do something." Mongo said. "We can't just sit here and let them get away with that."

"Count me in. They can't get away with it." Benoit agreed. He still couldn't believe his best friend had turned on them.

"What about your elbow?" Nancy asked.

"It'll be okay." Benoit said brushing off her worry.

Ric Flair had the look on his face that said he had come up with an idea. He had been looking at the list of the matches. "Dean's wrestling Chavo tonight. I think I have an idea. Nancy this will include you."

*** Dean Malenko was about to put Chavo Guerrero in the Texas Cloverleaf when he saw someone come down to the ring. It was Nancy Sullivan. What was she doing there? He wondered. He knew she and Chris had been dating.

She strolled over to Schiavonne and sat down next to him. Tony handed her the spare headset.

Dean was distracted by her presence and was rolled up for the pin. Nancy grinned and walked to the ring.

Chavo rolled out of the ring.

Eric Bischoff came down to the ring. "You don't work here anymore!" He yelled at Nancy.

"Oh. I was invited here."

"By who?"

That was when the Horsemen came out of the crowd and into the ring. While Ric and Mongo attacked Dean, Benoit came out to the outside of the ring.

"By me." Chris said.

Eric looked like he was about to punch Benoit when someone came up behind Benoit and knocked him down.

Bret Hart stood there looking down at him. He kicked him a couple times. Nancy jumped on his back and started scratching at him. He flipped her over his head and she landed on the floor.

He and Bischoff quickly left the area. Chris checked his girlfriend.

Malenko quickly left the ring also.