Time had passed since the tournament with The Rock. Hulk Hogan had received a concussion and at first he thought he was the one to win, so he challenged the new champion, Chris Jericho, to a match, but lost horribly. Everyone had come to cope with the shock that so many of the super stars had super powers, but after that faithful match, they were never used and therefore seen again. Edge had received a broken neck and was scheduled to be out for a year, which made Chris Jericho feel really bad. Things had gone back to normal in the WWE with chairman Ric Flair once again holding a steady command. Kurt Angle had taken away from being in the ring to staying backstage with Dan after nearly winning the Intercontinental title from Chris Benoit. Crash was still Cruiserweight champion, as Lita was with the women's title. Trish Stratus made her return, and Hulk Hogan stuck around for a while to be there just in case she or anybody else needed him for anything. Jeff Hardy was reunited with his best friend Christian, and they both set out a goal to become the new tag team champions, there was to be a battle royal for the belts at the next pay per view of Unforgiven. The most shocking of all the events, even despite the finally reunited full roster splitting, was the engagement of Chyna and Eddie Guerrero. But the surprises were just going to keep on coming….

"What is it this time?" RVD asked Rey Mysterio as they walked down the hall.

"Flair said for everyone to come to his office, he's got an announcement." Rey replied.

Puar poked out from behind Rob's shoulder, "Do you think it has anything to do with the PPV?"

He shrugged, "Probably." They both went in Flairs door.

Rey gasped, "Hey, wait a sec!" The only ones there were: Jericho, Benoit, Crash, Nidia, Eddie, Chyna (and Oolong), Lita, Kurt and Dan.

Rey and Rob looked at each other as Puar blinked, "What's going on?"

Flair stood up, "It's no doubt you're probably wondering what's going on. Well, I just got off the phone with Mick Foley." Everyone tensed, Foley was helping Edge on his recovery training. "He said that Edge will be back sooner than expected." A cheer rang up from this. "And in celebration, we'll be having a special PPV to replace Unforgiven."

"But that's this month, he's returning so soon?" Dan spoke up.

"Mick is sure of it, he checked with the doctors and everything is ok. We're going to be calling the PPV, Over The Edge, and it will feature a very special card. The tag team turmoil of course, good luck to you Jeff and Christian in that. A women's title match, a four way between Lita, Chyna, Trish and Nidia. An Intercontinental rematch between Benoit and you Angle. Hulk Hogan has asked for a title shot to exercise his rematch clause, but I'd also promised Steven Richards a title shot after he somehow managed to pin Jericho."

Jericho shook his head, "I knew I shouldn't have eaten sushi that night…"

"So there will be a three way title match for that. But here's my special match, a royal rumble battle royal to name the number one contender for Judgment Day. The contenders are: Eddie, Rey, Rob, and Edge."

Crash gasped, "Is Edge going to win?"

"Well…"

"No." Everyone turned to Eddie. "I want my match with Edge, I don't care how I get it. Here is what I want. I want both Edge and I to get eliminated at the same time, then we can have a number one contender match on Raw or SmackDown between us and only us to name the champion, and it won't be planned out, it's going to be an actual fight. Edge promised me a fight one day, and now I've come to claim it with my rain check."

Flair sighed but nodded, "Sounds fair enough."

Nidia smiled, "Yea, and besides I think it would make for good tv."

Oolong nodded, "That it would."

"Ok, that's the card so far, now get ready for your matches tonight. If you need to talk to me about anything, you can wait until the others leave." Flair watched as everyone left, everyone but one person that is. He wore a concerned frown, "Nidia."

She sighed, "Flair, I have to ask you a favor, take me out of the title match for Lita's belt. Put somebody else in for me, like Victoria or somebody."

"Oh? Alright, and why's that?"

"Well…" Nidia leaned forward after cautiously looking around, she whispered in his ear.

Flair's jaw dropped, "Oh."

In the cafeteria, everyone was a buzz after hearing that Edge was coming back early. Jericho was sitting with Steven Richards and Victoria at one table. Jericho stood up to go throw away his trash when he banged into somebody. He fell after loosing his footing and looked up to see…

"Trish!"

Trish's eyes narrowed down at him, "Well if it isn't you, Chris Jericho."

"Hi." Jericho cleared his throat and stood up. "I'm really sorry, I didn't see you there."

Trish smirked, "Well I'll let you get off it this time champ, but only cause you're so cute." She tapped his nose and sat down between Steven and Victoria.

Jericho gulped and threw out his trash, "Wow, I'm all dried out all of a sudden, I'm going to get a water you guys."

"Ok." Victoria turned back to Trish. "You've so got the hots for him."

"Who, Jericho?" Trish tried hard not to blush. "No, no I don't."

"Don't kid yourself." Victoria winked. "It's all over your face."

"No it's not...!"

"Yea, besides." Steven put his arm over her. "She's too busy undressing me with her eyes that she doesn't even get to glance at a scrawny runt like him."

Trish made a pouting face as she jerked his hand off her shoulder, "I told you Steven, it's over between us."

"Aw come on baby, it was fun."

"I know, but that ship has sailed. I was only your rebound after Victoria dumped you, now you're back together. So don't cheat on my best friend ok?"

"Yea." Victoria smirked, folding her arms. "Especially when I'm right here."

Steven sighed and smiled, "Hey if you three wanna go triple threat with me, then I got no complaints."

Victoria and Trish gasped and looked at each other, "EW!"

Jericho had grabbed a bottle of water but rather than heading back, he went to the top of the arena and stood on the balcony outside. It was a dark night, the cloudless sky was full of twinkling stars by the half full moon. Jericho took a drink and sighed, resting his arms on the railing.

"What are you thinking about?"

"Hu?" Jericho turned but was less startled as he saw Benoit coming out of the shadows. He smiled and turned back to his gazing, "Oh nothing, just old times."

Benoit joined him by his side and looked over the dark night horizon, "It's Edge, isn't it."

"Yea, I was just remembering how much fighting we used to have to do, it seemed like so long ago, but really it's been only a little over a year."

"Yes, and you've really changed quite a bit since the day before our show in Roswell, we all have. But especially you." Benoit tapped Jericho's title strapped around his waist. Jericho smirked up at him as Benoit continued, "You're the strongest in this company now, you're the champ, you've taken Edge's place as leader. He'd always wanted that for you, ever since he first asked me to start training you I knew it, he only wanted the best for you, for you to be champion, for you to be happy, he knew that you would eventually hold the title, even if it meant beating himself."

Jericho sighed, "He really did care for me…"

"And he still does, we all do."

"Do you think, I should lie down?"

Benoit stared him strait in the eye, "I know you'd like to repay Edge for all that he's done for you, and the way you can repay him isn't by returning his title, it's by giving him the best match of his life. Really fight him, and if he does win, it'll mean all that more, and if you win, so will it to you."

Jericho smiled as the slight gust brushed at his hair, "Yea, I understand, thanks Benoit."

Benoit nodded and looked back at the night sky, "Sure thing, anytime, Champ."

Unforgiven, or should I say, Over The Edge, was only just over a week away, they were counting down the days until Edge's return… but so was somebody else, somebody from his past, who had gotten away, was coming back, with a vengeance.