The fans had not yet arrived at the arena, though the whole city of Charlotte was thrilled about the match. Everyone in the Carolina areas strove to go, selling out the crowd, which put more of a stress on Edge and the gang. Everyone landed outside of the arena and made their way inside. As they walked down the halls, Ric Flair noticed the electricians setting up the equipment. He growled quietly to himself, Rocky's plan was going to go off without a hitch. Finally they made their way to Flair's office to go over things one last time.

Flair sighed, everyone turned to him, "Well everyone, looks like this is it."

"Nervous?" Lita asked Edge.

He smirked down softly at her, "Not one bit."

"It's all up to you guys now, the ball is in your court." Flair turned to Edge. "You ready to defend your title champ?"

Edge looked down at the hunk of gold strapped around his waist, "Yup. I know we'll be able to put an end to The Rock and after that we'll finally be able to get back to our normal lives."

"That'll be great." RVD smiled.

Edge continued, "I can't do it myself, I may be the champ but I'll need your help to win this." Edge turned to Eddie. "Can I count on you?"

Eddie Guerrero pouted, "I'm in this for myself, if I win this match and take out Rocky, then I'll become the champ."

Edge frowned, "This is beyond you or me, this is something larger than life we're talking about. We need to put our past rivalries behind us for now, we have to work together, and if we all survive this, I promise you you'll get your title match. Ok?"

Eddie paused, staring back at Edge, "Fine Champ, you're on. But this one time only and then that's it, when we go back to our normal lives, I go after your belt."

Edge nodded, "Agreed." He turned back to the rest. "For now I say we all get ready, shower, rest, eat, do whatever your pre-match ritual consists of, just make sure you're ready. Cause come eight tonight, it'll be our final hour." Everyone nodded and went out of the office to their locker rooms.

Flair sat down, alone, he got a knock on the door, "Come in?" He looked up to see Kurt Angle walk in, followed by Dan. Flair smiled, "Hey boys, nice to see you guys made it."

"We were in the trainers office, but we thought we'd come stay here to show our support." Kurt explained.

"That's very nice of you." Flair replied.

Dan spoke up, "We want to be out there as much as you do, but I think we all know it's best to just leave it up to the super heroes."

"That's agreeable." Flair looked up. "Lita and Chyna will be here too, they feel the exact same way as we do."

Lita and Chyna were in the women's locker room talking. Chyna was just finishing up after her shower, Lita was brushing her hair in front of the mirror. There was a knock on the door, it opened following, Oolong walked in and Chyna growled.

"You pervert, get outta here!" She was about to throw the largest thing she could find at him but he held up her cell phone.

"You got a phone call."

"Oh." She took it, then literally kicked Oolong out, then slammed the door. She looked at the phone, then spoke to her caller. "Hello? Oh, Trish, hi!" Lita looked up. "Wow, how are you? It's been so long. Oh? Really, that's good news. What's that? Oh yea, sure." Chyna covered the mouth piece as Trish put her on hold.

"What's up?" Lita asked.

"It's Trish, she said she finished her recovery training and she's going to come back this Monday."

"Oh no."

"Yea, you see my problem. She doesn't know about this whole thing with Rocky or our powers at all." Chyna sighed as Lita made a worried face. Chyna uncovered the mouth piece. "Oh, yea I'm here, hey. Well ok then, I'll see you Monday. Alright, by." She hung up.

"Well?"

Chyna sighed, shaking her head, "I just couldn't tell her."

Lita sighed and turned back to the mirror, "Well, I guess she's going to find out sooner or later."

Meanwhile in the boys locker room, RVD, Rey Mysterio and Crash were about to get a huge surprise. RVD and Rey were doing stretches while Puar watched, Crash was busy daydreaming about Nidia. RVD paused his workout for a moment to look over at him.

"Check him out." He motioned towards Crash, Rey followed his gaze. "He's in love."

"With who?"

"Nidia."

"He's trying to catch her on the rebound?"

"I think that's more of a coincidence. As soon as he saw her, bam! It's just a shame that her boyfriend was killed. That's the whole reason she and Big Show are helping us."

Rey gasped, "Wait, do you think after this is over that they'll be our enemies again? That would destroy Crash!"

"I hope not." There was a knock on the door, RVD looked up. "It's open, come in!" The door opened as RVD went back into his workout. "Just a few more Rey."

"Alright."

"Hey there!"

RVD and Rey looked up at the familiar voice and gasped, "Whoa!"

Puar flew around the corner to see who it was, "My gosh, I can't believe it's you!"

Surrounded by the WWE paparazzi of flashing cameras stood, "Hulk Hogan!" RVD and Rey were in awe. Crash even snapped out of his daze as Hogan closed the door of forceful reporters behind him.

"What are you doing here?" Crash asked.

"I heard about your scuffle with Rocky and figured I'd stop by to lend a hand."

RVD and Rey looked at each other as Crash replied, "But you don't know what you're getting yourself into."

"Don't worry." Hogan laughed. "Mick already told me about this whole super power thing. I figure that since I was the strongest wrestler in the company to begin with, maybe I could lend you guys a hand. Even if I don't have powers or can't fly, I still might be able to do something."

"But, Hulk…"

Hogan cut RVD off, "My mind is made up and Flair already okayed it."

Rey sighed, "Alright then, suit yourself."

"So how's Trish?" Crash asked.

Hogan smiled, "All better now, I helped her recover myself, I'm going to bring her with me to Raw come Monday."

RVD made a face, "Yea, if there's even a Raw come next Monday...."

In the other men's locker room, Chris Benoit, Chris Jericho and Edge were warming up for their match. Benoit was doing his meditation, Edge was doing stretches, and Jericho was coming up with a strategy battle plan in his head.

Benoit opened his eyes, "Edge, what time is it?"

"Five, we've got three hours left. We've been preparing our bodies and minds for this match, but we're going to need some energy to fuel ourselves. Maybe we should go eat?"

"Good idea." Benoit turned to Jericho. "Hey, don't overwork your brain, it's a muscle too, and you can strain it."

Jericho looked up, "Hu?"

"Let's go eat something."

"Oh, ok." Jericho got up and followed them out the door.

In the cafeteria, Nidia and The Big Show were already helping themselves. Nidia was finishing up, she got up and dumped her trash off the tray into the trashcan. But Big Show still had a full plate and then some. He was a big guy and could pack it in, he was also very powerful and with all that energy he could be very useful in the match. Edge was the first to get his food, he went over to go sit down by them, his plate nearly matching that of the astonished Big Show.

"Hey guys."

"Hey."

"Ready?"

"Yea, are you?"

"Yup."

Nidia sighed and stood up, "I've got to go."

Big Show looked up at her, "Where to?"

"Just somewhere, don't worry, I'm not leaving."

"I know that, I'm just worried, are you ok?"

"I'm fine, just something I've got to take care of." Nidia walked out of the cafeteria.

Benoit sat down, "You should let her clear her head before the match."

Jericho sat down beside him, "Yea, she's been through a lot, Rocky killed Jamie Noble right before her eyes, betraying them. We're about to fight Rock in that ring tonight, you can't help her not feeling and acting the way she does."

"And it's for that reason that I'll do everything in my power to take down The Rock, even it if kills me." Big Show growled.

Flair walked in through the door, "When you guys are done, head on over to the gorilla position ok? We're going to spend our last hour here together before our match, we've got some stuff to go over and some things I'd like to talk about."

"Ok." They all nodded and he walked off. Jericho looked down at the food on his plate, he barely touched it, other than poking at it with his fork.

Benoit turned to him, "Hey kid, you ready?"

"Yea."

"You need to eat."

"No I don't, I'm fine."

"Don't make me force that down your throat."

Jericho smirked up at him, "I can just throw it back up." He got ready to stick his finger in his mouth.

Benoit smirked back at him, "You giving me lip boy? Cause I'll take this IC belt and lay the SmackDown on ya."

Edge laughed, "Ok boys, no playing around at the dinner table."

Jericho turned to him, "I thought you said the breakfast table."

"It's the same table." Edge laughed and received a heap of mashed potatoes in the face. He looked up to see Benoit looking innocent. He smirked and threw some of his green beans and peas back at Benoit.

"Food fight!" Jericho cheered and the three Canadians started to hurl food at each other.

Big Show watched and smiled to himself, taking a bite, "What a waste of food…"

After getting cleaned up, the boys ran up with the rest of the gang at the gorilla position. Fans were already starting to file into the arena. Nidia was with them again, she'd rejoined the group after taking care of her business. Ric Flair sighed as he eyed his watch, he looked back up at the group of superstars, and they knew, their final hour had begun.