Shawn ran around the corner looking at the last exit door available...and that one was buried in snow as well. Once again, both he and Bret tried to push the door open...but to no luck. They now, were truly trapped inside the Titan Towers, with each other.

"Damn it!" Bret sighed. He leaned his back against the doorway as Shawn stood there, still looking at him. "What do you want? We have no way out...so what are you staring at me like some freak for?"

"Just out of curiosity...have you seen any signs of anyone else being inside this building with us?" Bret's eyes widened...finally, Shawn was actually thinking for once!

"No, have you...?" "No...I figured you would have been looking around, just like I have...what do you think I was actually looking for? I knew for a fact all those doors were blocked...but there has to be someone else in here!"

"So all that time, you were actually looking for someone? Great...what now makes you think someone else is in here?"

"Just slight clues...when i arrived in here, many people were conducting meetings with the CEO and Vince himself...I honestly dont think absolutely everyone left. Hey, I figure, if we are stuck in here, slight chances are, someone else is too..." "Well, you better hope you're right! Because if not...then you are going to be asking for a new head this Christmas!" Bret raised his fist which was shaking in anger. Shawn just glanced at it with little to no reaction...

"Hey, are you willing to work with me or not...in order to get out of this, we have to work together...that is just my theory...but if you ask me, its a pretty damn good one!" Shawn stood for a few moments as Bret considered it...then hesitantly, Bret nodded his head in agreement and followed Shawn down the hall. Bret couldn't stand Shawn with a passion, and had wanted to kill him on several occasions, but on this one occasion, maybe Shawn had a good point...but it better be a good one or he was going to make Shawn pay for it sincerely. As soon as Shawn turned the corner first, he thought he heard a sound of someone's shoes tapping upon the floor about 50 feet away. Without hesitation, he ran toward the sound, as did Bret, and what they came across was something completely unexpected.

"Maria?" Shawn asked as he came around and spotted her from behind. Maria then turned around and her face lit up by the sight of the Heart Break Kid right in front of her.

"WOW! ITS THE HEART BREAK KID, SHAWN MICHAELS! WOW, SIR I AM HONORED TO BE IN YOUR PRESENCE...AND OOO I LIKE YOUR TIE!" Maria rubbed his tie for a few awkward moments as Bret stood there, trying to make sense as to whom was standing right in front of him.

"Uh...Shawn,...mind telling me who the hell this is?" "She's Maria, our lady that conducts on the spot interviews and such...Yeah." "Well how nice...it's dumb and dumber!" Shawn glared back at the Hit Man with anger boiling in his eyes...Bret had gone just a little too far with that comment. then out of nowhere, Maria grabbed a small portable microphone to literally conduct an interview...the two men looked at her, stunned.

"So, Shawn, how does it feel to be with your friend here, Bret Hart?" Shawn stopped for a second to recollect what the woman had just asked him...friend? Bret was HIS FRIEND? He couldn't believe what he had just heard...and he thought he was ditsy at times.

"Uh...umm Maria...Bret is NOT my friend...ok? Now can you please put that mic---" "He isn't? Awww...that is so sad...why not?" "Maria, he just isn't ok? Now is not a good time to be conducting an interview...instead, now is a good time to be getting out of here..." Shawn motioned his finger toward the door hoping she would get the hint, but unfortunately, this just made the woman even more confused.

"Out of here?...but Shawn, you just got here...you have no idea how thrilled i am to be conducting this one of a kind interview...and if you don't mind, let me ask Bret a few questions..." She then put the microphone up to Bret Hart's face...how was he supposed to react? He didn't honestly have any clue. "So, Bret, how does it feel to be in the company of HBK?" She smiled as Bret just stood there, and Shawn bowed his head in shame...it was just their luck...to be stuck with someone even more clueless then what they had been!

"Maria is your name right?" she nodded her head with a smile still on her face. "Well, Shawn is right...just put that microphone down...and let's just find a way out of here, ok?" Maria's smile slowly took form of a frown as she placed the microphone upon the floor. FINALLY! She understood something for once. Bret didnt even know her, but by the first few moments of meeting her, he was thankful he didn't.

"Ok, Maria, have you been successful in finding a way out of here?" Shawn asked.

"Why no...so I have been walking around here, hoping to find someone to interview, so i found you!" the two men looked at each other once again and one thought came to mind-this girl's brainless!

"Why are you so involved in getting interviews, can you not see the snow outside?...We're trapped! And apparently, you interviewing us, ISN'T going to make things ANY better!" Bret grabbed Maria around the shoulders while trying to make his point, and as he did so, he could see tears in the woman's eyes. "Oh don't tell me you are going to cry?"

"Bret! QUIT IT ALRIGHT! She must have a reason for conducting an interview like this...here, Maria, let me ask you this: why are you still here? why didn't you go home?"

"Isn't that two questions?" Bret asked as silence took over the hallway.

"SHUT UP!" Shawn put his arm around the woman's shoulder as she began to sob...this night in fact, was just the worst night Shawn or Bret had ever had to experience thus far...and Maria crying her eyes out just made it worse.

"I am sorry for bugging you like that, really I am...but..." Maria struggled not to break down completely as she continued, "I had gone to the meeting today, and Vince had told me, that if I didn't get any better at conducting interviews...that I would be on the unemployment list...and I really don't want to lose my job...really I don't so please…don't hurt me..." She placed her head upon the Icon's shoulder as Bret's face grew stoned for a moment.

"That Damn Vince!" Bret grumbled once again. That was another individual that he couldn't seem to stand as well. And what a shame that Vince was still up to his old tricks once again; why if it wasn't for him having all these pointless meetings, he, Shawn, and now Maria, probably wouldn't be in this mess to start off with. That is when all three of them decided to go and continue searching for anyway necessary to get themselves out of the towers in one piece...

-Meanwhile-

"Ok, then where is he?" Stephanie asked as she grabbed another bite of her turkey sub. She had stopped by the local Subway station to grab something to bring home to eat, but her car ended up getting stuck in the parking lot. So there she was, inside the store, making a call to her husband.

"I don't know. I told Shawn to come by and see me after his meeting and he never showed. Don't ask me why, maybe something came up."

"But you know that's not like him, he told me he was almost completely done with that storyline idea, why would he still be busy...?" She then thought about how she even came to be here in the first place, then the worst fears began to creep into her mind. "You don't think he would have gotten into an accident, do you?"

"No, I honestly don't think so...if it was too bad out there, he wouldn't drive...trust me..."

"Then you don't actually think he is STILL within the tower-do you?" They both went silent...it was a very strong possibility. Stephanie stopped eating completely at just the thought of it-he and/or Bret could be stuck in that building and no one would be there to stop them from hurting each other if they were.

"Here Steph, let me call Vince, chances are, he'd know if he was..." Hunter hung up the phone and called Vince's office..."Hey is Vince there?" Of course it was his secretary, answering for his father-in-law...how convenient. "Yea, Vince just wanted to ask of you, do you know if Shawn made it home safely tonight?"

"Well I certainly hope so...in this weather, you never know...-hiccup-..." Hunter went silent...was Vince drunk?

"Vince, are you ok? You sound like you're intoxicated or something is something the matter?" "No, nothing is...just enjoying the night is all..." Hunter then heard goofy laughter in the background-how typical-Vince was probably at it with the hotel whores once again! "Well, on second thought, thanks anyways, for your help...I was just wondering...bye..." He took the phone and placed it back on the charger...first off why would Vince be drunk was beyond him, and second, where the hell was Shawn? Only one could wonder by that point. He opened up the window curtain closest to him and a thought came to mind-a plan if you will-he had a four wheel truck handy to him, and he knew how to use it too. He picked the phone back up and called Stephanie back, he was getting ready to make a trip.

-So what do you think? This chapter is a little out of it, but I just couldn't resist! Just do your part in this crazy world and read and review….the world will thank you for it later.-