Chapter Twenty Disclaimer: Same disclaimers from before apply. Krys is my property. Shavonda from a few chapters ago is my property as well. Matt Hardy, Adam "Edge" Copeland, and Amy "Lita" Dumas, along with any other WWE Superstar and/or WWE Diva own themselves, and are property of the World Wrestling Entertainment, and Titan Sports. Jeff Hardy, Christian Cage/Christian and any other TNA Superstar and/or TNA Knockout are property of themselves, and the NWA: Total Nonstop Action company. Bull Nakano is her own property, and owns herself. WWE Divas Hellfyre and Necromancer are exclusive property of Alexandra "Hellfyre" Calloway, and Katrynne "Kat" Jacobs, and are used with their permission. Kira Alexis Summers is the exclusive property of the multitalented Ember Evans, and is used with her permission.
EXTRA NOTE: I failed to mention in the previous chapter that the inspiration for the quoting from the Bible scene is credited to John Layfield, known to WWE and WWE SmackDown fans as John "Bradshaw" Layfield. Also, the song used as Krys's theme song, "So Tell Me Why", is property of the glam metal kings, Poison, my absolute favorite band of all time. The lyrics to the song are their property, as well, and they are property of themselves, and their families, and significant others.
As the Hardy Boyz made their way down the ramp, each dressed in that ever-so-familiar black microsuede Kikwear cargo pants. The female fans screamed their happiness at seeing Jeff Hardy in a WWE ring again, and the whole Detroit crowd stood on their feet and yelled blissfully.
Infuriated yet again, Edge tore at his hair, then slid into the ring, and snatched Lillian's house mic from her. "Cut that damn music!" he bellowed. "This match isn't starting yet, not until I've had my say! First, before we start this match, I'd like to hold a very special in-ring interview. The very first interview for the 'Cutting Edge', my new interview segment. So, if it isn't too much bother, I want Krys to get into the ring right now." For a moment, Krys hesitated. "Don't worry, Krys, the match won't start unless we're all ready, and I have something to say. I'm not gonna attack you and neither will anybody else. Just come on, and get in the ring."
After glaring at him for a moment, she finally got into the ring. She did a front flip into the ring, and glared him down. "What do you want?" she finally asked, looking him right in the eyes. "What's so important, that you had to postpone a really important match?"
"I'll tell you what's important," he replied smugly. "You remember when I said a couple of weeks back, that the only reason you stayed in this company was because you stayed flat on your back? You know, that wasn't an entire lie. I just happen to remember one time when that statement was entirely true. No, I may not have any footage to back this claim up, but I do have a good thing called memory. And I fondly remember a certain North Carolina hick telling me about one night he regretted as soon as it was over."
"What are you talking about?" Amy asked him quietly, frowning slightly in her confusion.
"Yeah, one minute, babe," Edge said to her, still speaking through the microphone. He then directed his attention to Krys, whose eyes were narrowed to slits. "Well, I guess everyone here wants to know the big secret, huh?" Krys said nothing, yet the anger and hatred in her eyes deepened. "You remember when this foxy babe was out with her neck injury, and she was sitting home with a broken neck? You remember how you teamed up with Matt and Jeff back there, to become the new Team Xtreme? You remember how you guys would pretend there was nothing going on, when in actuality, there was?" Krys now had a look on her face that told she was going to be sick. "That's right, you little whore. Matt told me the whole thing! He told me you slept with him back in 2003, right after No Way Out!"
Krys's eyes widened, and she looked like she was going to vomit. At that current moment, she wished that she had never been included into the feud. She wished that she had never come back to RAW that first night. Most of all, she wished that she had never allowed Matt to use her the way he had.
Slowly, she shook her head no. "It wasn't like that-" she tried to say, but Lita grabbed the microphone from Edge and got right in her face.
"Oh, it wasn't like that?" she damn near shouted. "You're telling me, right now and to my face, that you didn't sleep with Matt, while I was hurting? I was out with a fucking neck injury, and you slept with Matt? What the fuck is wrong with you, Krys? Did you have ANY respect for me AT ALL? I thought you were my friend!"
"Ames, I am, but-"
"Don't lie to me!" she yelled. "How could you do this to me? Even worse, how dare you even TRY to go through with this stupid ass storyline and feud, accusing me of being a slut, when you slept with Matt, behind my back!" Before Krys could answer, Amy drew her hand back, and delivered a stinging slap to her face. Krys reeled back, and Amy dropped the microphone, and speared her, punching her senseless, starting the match.
After about five minutes of Amy beating on Krys, she finally stood up to take a breath. "Get up, you whore!" she yelled. Krys stood up, and looked at her best friend, sorrow, remorse, and guilt in her eyes.
"Amy, I'm sorry," she whispered, trying hard not to break down and cry in the middle of the ring. "I really am. I never meant for it to happen, but it all happened all so quickly. We both made a promise that we'd never tell anyone, and that we'd forget about the whole thing. I tried to forget it, honestly, but I couldn't."
"So, it's been eating away at you this whole time?" she said back, hate hissing through each word. "Just... just stop, I'm tired of all this bullshit!" She got out of the ring, and walked to the back, flagging her hand at the referee, who tried to get her to come back and continue the match. Finally, the referee, Chad Patton, called for the bell, telling Lillian that Amy had left the ring, and the match, thus resulting in a countout, and an elimination for Edge's team.
"Ladies and gentlemen," Lillian announced, "the referee has just informed me that since Lita has left the ring, and refused to continue the match, the result is a disqualification. Therefore, she has been eliminated from the match!" The crowd, split now that they knew what was going on, half cheered, and half booed.
Krys, who'd been trying to get herself together, managed to move over to her corner, and tag in Jeff, who gave her a "What the hell did you get yourself into?" look, before climbing in to bump heads with Snitsky. Jeff tried to lock up with the giant Pennsylvanian, but was tossed back into the corner across from his. Looking semi-thrown off, he got himself back together, and the two locked up again. This time, Snitsky backed him into a corner turnbuckle, and Jeff lifted his hands up to break the tie. The ref broke in between the two, and Snitsky held his hands up, signalling that he had broken the collar-elbow tie-up.
Snitsky held his hands up for a second or two, then drove a knee into Jeff's gut, knocking the wind out of the younger Hardy, and dropping him to a knee. Snitsky grabbed Jeff up by his finally natural blonde hair, and drove a knee into his gut a second time, then a third, leaving the Southern wrestler choking for air. He then grabbed Jeff up by the hair once again, and Irish Whipped him to the corner. Jeff hit the ropes, and was coming back, when he was met by a foot to the face. He fell, and Snitsky picked him up, but was clotheslined by Matt, who had come in to save his baby brother.
Snitsky fell to the mat, and Matt climbed to the second rope, while Jeff grabbed a hold of Snitsky's legs, and, much to the crowd's delight, performed one of their signature Hardy Boyz legdrops. Jeff and Matt pulled the giant to his feet, then Matt performed his Twist of Fate while Jeff climbed onto the top rope. Though it had been a long time since it's happened in the WWE, Jeff jumped into the air, arched his body, and hit Snitsky dead in the stomach, marking his first Swanton Bomb back in a WWE ring. Matt climbed back onto his side next to Bull and Krys while Jeff pinned Snitsky, getting the three count, and eliminating him from the match.
"Gene Snitsky has been eliminated!" Lillian announced, and Victoria ran in and jumped on Jeff's back, trying to choke him out. Jeff flailed about for a second or two, while Victoria tried to cut off his air supply, then made his way over to his corner, and tagged in an eager Bull Nakano, who took great pleasure in pulling the raven-haired Diva off of her partner's back. She beat on Victoria for about five minutes, then, as she was about to execute her finishing maneuver, a Guillotine Legdrop, she was speared out of the air by Edge. Matt and Jeff tried to take him down, knocking him out of the ring, and Krys had tried to interfere, but Victoria had hit the Widow's Peak, and scored the pinfall.
"Bull Nakano has been eliminated!" Krys climbed into the ring, and tackled the former Women's Champion, punching her senseless. She tried to go for a top rope Shooting Star Press, but Edge came running up, and grabbed her left leg, crotching her.
Victoria climbed onto the top rope with her opponent, wrapped Krys's arm over hers, and fell back, taking Krys with her in the excruciating Superplex from the top rope. Victoria stood up, favoring her back, and tagged Edge in. Edge, an evil, triumphant grin on his face, knelt down in the corner, awaiting the moment when he could spear Krys senseless once again, not noticing when one Hardy ducked down to the bottom of the ring apron, and disappeared under it.
Krys finally got up, shakily, and turned, half expecting to have her brains speared out. Edge sprinted, hoping to spear her, but instead ran smack dab into a ladder, courtesy of Jeffrey Nero Hardy. The referee spotted it, and signalled to the timekeeper to ring the bell, calling for a disqualification. "Due to a call by referee Chad Patton," announced Lillian from her seat, "Jeff Hardy has been disqualified, and thus eliminated from the match!" Jeff got in the referee's face, arguing what had happened, but in the end, flagged the ref, and got out of the ring. He threw up the gunz and the Version One signs on both hands, and walked up the ramp, and away from the ring area.
Leaving Krys and Matt alone with Edge and Victoria.
(Time for the games to begin)
Matt climbed into the ring, and so did Edge. But before the two could get it on, Edge grabbed a microphone, and said, "Since this is Survivor Series, a night of unexpected surprises, I've got another surprise of my own. This match is now a Tornado Tag Match. The rules are, there are no rules. First person to get pinned loses the match, and you two pieces of shit are going to SmackDown. Bank on it!"
He tossed the microphone down, and charged at Matt. He tackled him, and the two started brawling like nothing ever seen before. Krys and Victoria looked at each other for a brief moment, then grappled up. Victoria gained the edge on Krys when she yanked on Krys's left arm, and wrenched it behind her. Krys flinched in pain, but continued to try and fight back. She tried to elbow Victoria, but the Diva ducked it, and kicked Krys in the gut.
She tried to go for the Widow's Peak, but before she could, Matt kicked her in the gut, grabbed her head, and jumped backwards, delivering the Side Effect to Victoria. Edge, while Matt had been occupied with stopping Victoria from gaining the upper hand on Krys, seized his chance, and, when Krys was getting up and shaking the cobwebs from her head, lunged forward and speared her. Victoria tackled Matt out of the ring, and went outside as well to take care of him, allowing Edge to sprint forward to Krys's prone body, and score the pinfall.
Matt, who had been taking care of Victoria, had just rammed her into the ring apron, when he saw the pin. The look on his face was disbelieving as the referee called for the bell, and heard Lillian announce Edge's name as the winner. "Ladies and gentlemen, here is your winner, Edge!"
Edge had a priceless smile on his face, and Krys was just sitting up, when she saw him waving goodbye at her. While Edge celebrated, and he and Victoria helped each other to the back, his music stopped, and Matt slid into the ring to meet Krys's stunned face.
Krys's face was one of shock, appall, and sadness. She had always wanted to be on RAW, and now she had to go. To SmackDown. She had to leave RAW for good, and spend the rest of her career on SmackDown from now on.
But... maybe it wasn't all bad, she thought as he helped her to her feet and hugged her. Maybe now he'll get his mind off of Amy, and start thinking towards the future. Maybe start thinking of a future... with me.
The two stood up to a standing ovation. The match may not have been all that good, but it had been one of the greatest feuds of 2005. And now, it was over.
The two slowly walked to the back, arms wrapped around one another, the crowd still cheering for them. Once they reached the top of the entryway, they each raised one arm in the air, each signalling the V1 sign, then went to the back to get cleaned up.
xXAfter the ShowXx
So maybe tonight wasn't such a bad night, she thought once more as the lights around her darkened and shut off for the night. Maybe this was all worth it. Everything happens for a reason, remember? This was your reason. You wanted Matt, no strings attached, and this may be it. Maybe now that we're going to be on SmackDown again, he'll start thinking ahead to the future.
But will it be a future with me?
The End!
...Or, is it?