Lita sat next to Chris Jericho, hey lay on one of the hotel room beds. She brushed through his hair with her hands, he snored quietly in his sleep. He really needed his rest, he was nowhere near fifty percent, nor less a hundred. She looked up as Ric Flair was addressing the situation with Edge and Jeff Hardy. She was thrilled to have her boyfriend back again, but as soon as the gang had been filled in with all that had been going on, their moods went from high back down to low.
"So, what do you propose we do now?" Flair folded his arms.
"Well." Edge though. "I hate to say it, but we have to attack, it's all we can do. Who knows what Rocky is capable of."
"The strongest of our fighters will have to make a stand." Jeff counted on his fingers. "That means myself, Edge, Eddie, Benoit, and Jericho."
"But he's in no condition." Flair spoke up.
"No, Jeff is right." Edge shook his head. "But he's wrong about one thing, everyone, not just our top five, everyone will have to attack. This power is awesome, we'll need all the help we can get."
Just then the door opened and Chyna came in with Oolong on her shoulder, "Oh, hey, sorry I didn't know there was a meeting going on." She shut it behind her and sat down on a chair by the bed. She looked over at Chris and spoke to Lita, "So, how's he doing?"
"Fine, he just needs to rest." Lita looked up. "Hey Kurt, do you have any of those beans on you? It might help him just a little bit."
"It won't help entirely, but it could." Kurt dug in his pocket and pulled out his last of the last bean crop and handed it to Lita. "Put it in his mouth and rub his neck, that'll get him to swallow it." Lita followed his instructions.
"You got anymore?" Oolong asked, hungry.
Kurt sighed and shook his head, "No. I'd better head back home soon and make a new batch, I'm all out of beans now."
"So." Dan looked over at Chyna. "How is Rob, I haven't checked up on him."
"He's, conscious now..." Chyna sighed.
Dan gave her a strange look, "Then why aren't you with him?"
"I, ah... ahem." She rubbed the back of her head nervously.
"Oh, she dumped him." Oolong turned to Chyna and she gasped. "There, was that so hard?"
"Oolong!" She hit him upside the head.
Kurt frowned in shock, "You dumped him? Oh wow."
"Yea, I thought that was gonna last forever." Edge shook his head in shock as well.
"So who did you leave him for?" Dan asked.
Chyna smirked and walked between Jeff and Eddie, hanging off Eddie's arm, "A real man."
Everyone in the room nearly fainted, Edge cried out, "You left him for Eddie!?"
"Yea." Chyna giggled, Eddie just rolled his eyes, his arms still crossed in the pout. The phone rang in the background, but everyone was still too stunned to pay any mind to it.
"Eddie." He looked over at Jeff's voice. "So, do you want to start training now?"
"Sure, why not." Eddie turned. Chyna let go and watched Jeff follow him out the door.
"Man, what's with him? Such a party pooper, always training." She sighed.
"Well, that's just Eddie for you." Edge turned back to the others. "But I think he's got the right idea. Everyone should train for this, who knows when we might run into him again, but..."
"Hello there." Everyone turned to the sound of the voice on the answering machine. They'd forgotten about the ringing phone. "If you can't tell already, this is your favorite superstar The Rock, the most electrifying man in sports entertainment baby, yea! And I just called to say, Edge, I'm issuing a challenge to you in the squared circle my brother, and I want the title, I want your title! You know very well that you won it off a technicality, I was stripped of the belt because of my movies and I want it back!"
"Revenge?" Edge thought to himself.
Rock's message continued, "So that's why next Friday, live at the house show, I want to prove to everyone that I am the true champion."
Edge pushed speaker phone, "But Rock, we can't show our powers to a live audience!"
"Oh, but that's where you're wrong. Who says we should hide our powers? And I understand if you're afraid..."
Edge clenched his teeth in a growl, "I'm not afraid of anything."
"Good then, so you accept my challenge?"
Edge hesitated, "Fine."
"Hmm, I noticed the slight pause there. Tell you what, I'll make this a fair fight. I'll let anybody interfere on your behalf, but as for myself, nobody can come to my aid."
"What?" Edge froze.
"I think that's suitable enough. Chow." Click.
Edge slowly clicked the phone off, "Wow. He must be pretty cocky in his self confidence to issue a challenge like that."
"We should take him up on it." Flair spoke up. "So here's the game plan everyone, we have about a week until the house show next week on Friday night, we have to train."
"Should we all go together?" Oolong asked.
"No, I think it might be easiest if we go our own ways because we all have our own ways." Flair replied.
"Makes sense." Chyna nodded and stood up. "Well, I'll go find my boys and tell them all what's going down." Oolong followed her out the door. "We'll be seeing you come Monday guys."
"Right." Flair nodded. "Raw." Chyna nodded back and closed the door behind her. Flair turned back to the others. "So, what about you guys?"
"I think I'll go train back at home." Rey Mysterio spoke up. "I think I'd just get in the way of you guys, you're much more advanced than I am."
"Suit yourself." Flair replied.
"Well, I think I'll go pay a visit to Mick Foley, I wanna learn that wave attack you know, Edge." Crash turned to him.
Edge nodded, "Sounds like a plan, I don't know how much more Foley can teach us, but it's worth a shot."
"Hell." Crash smirked. "You guys are so much stronger, he's bound to be able to help me get stronger."
"Very well." Edge looked over at Benoit. "So how about it, I'll need a strong partner in my training. What better than the Intercontinental Champion?"
Benoit looked at his belt and nodded. "I couldn't agree more."
Edge turned to Lita, "Lita, would you come with us, I want you to take care of Chris. As soon as he's well enough, we're going to need him too."
"Oh no." Lita stood up. "Chris is my best friend, and seeing him like this is just crushing! I don't want him to fight anymore, look at how sick he is, look at how hurt he gets."
"But Lita." Edge frowned. "Chris is strong, very strong, and with the right training, maybe even stronger than me." Lita looked up at him in shock. "He could be the key we need to bring Rocky down. He's the last one out there, after this battle is over, the war will be done. Please hon, you have to trust me."
Lita stared back at him, her arms folded, "Alright Edge, you win this time, but afterwards, after all this is done and over, can we please just go back to the way we were, how all of us were?""Hell, I'll promise that myself." Flair smiled. "I'm sure we all can't wait for that day."
"Well guys, I'm going to go back home and make some more beans, lord knows we're gonna need them." Kurt got up to go.
Dan stood up as well, "And I'll go back to the arena to check up on Rob, I bet he's a mess."
"Yea, I'll bet." Kurt laughed.
"So, until Monday you guys." Flair went over to the door.
Everyone nodded, "Until Monday."
Everyone went their own separate ways. Jeff and Eddie trained at Chyan's house, and still feeling bad for dumping him, she invited Rob over to stay with them as well. They decided it would be best to remain good friends. He trained by himself, knowing well not to get in the way off the two Super Stars. Kurt went back home and made some more beans, and Dan went to stay with him. Crash went to go visit Mick Foley, and though he didn't have much more he could teach him, there were some things he could help him on with training. And as for the main gang, Jericho eventually was well enough and recovered enough to train, despite Lita's wishes. He, Edge and Benoit trained rigorously all day. Finally Monday came and everyone attended Raw... everyone, including an unexpected surprise visit from none other than The Rock.