The Unmasking of Rex Red and Wolf McBlue
By: PernDragonrider (with major help from Ghost Zero)
Disclaimer: See first chapter.
Note: Okay folks. The chapter starts the night's entertainment. I can't guarantee that this chapter will have the actual unmasking of Rex and Wolf; but I can promise that this chapter gets everyone under the same roof, eventually. This chapter will be jumping between what each different group sees and says. Jason and Billy are one group. Kimberly, Trini, Aisha, Zack, and Kat in the next group. The final group is Adam, Tanya, Justin, Rocky, and Tommy. I'm planning for each paragraph to deal with what the three separate groups are doing to get ready for the big event. ENJOY! Please, READ & REVIEW!
Chapter SixMorning dawned bright and clear, for once, that Friday morning. Jason and Billy were up by eleven and availing themselves of the exercise equipment and gym that the Radisson boasted before having a quick breakfast in the casual eatery the lobby boasted. After breakfast the two relaxed with long showers and finally at a late lunch or rather dinner at a nearby restaurant. After their lunch they returned to the hotel, packed up their bags, and checked out. Both Jason and Billy loaded their almost identical Diablo's and drove to the LA Coliseum, arriving by six p.m., where they parked them, side-by-side, and then entered the building where they were greeted by various welcoming calls from their fellow WWF employees.
The group of friends that were staying at Jason's house, virtually stranded for now, began their day at around eleven in the morning. Kimberly was the first one up and she started the coffee while the others trickled down the stairs and into the kitchen. Zack didn't come down to join them until almost a half an hour later; however he'd taken advantage of the fact that he could do some exploring while his female friends prepared for their excursion that evening. Zack's exploring didn't net him much in the way of anything other than finding a few empty rooms on the second floor and Jason's office with the two desks, but both desks were locked and the computers were pass coded so he couldn't even use them. By five o'clock that evening, all five of them were waiting for their ride to arrive. Unbeknownst to them, they weren't the only ones that Carlos was picking up. They were in for a huge surprise when the limo finally did arrive to take them out for the evening and their eventual meeting up with Jason.
Meanwhile, the Park household was a study in contrasts. Justin and Tanya were calm, cool, and collected while Rocky, Tommy, and Adam ran around like hyperactive two-year-olds hopped up on sugar and caffeinated drinks. Justin, Tanya, and with Tanya's help, Adam, were ready by three that afternoon while the ever absentminded Tommy and an excited hyper Rocky weren't ready until just seconds before the limousine pulled up at the curb.
Jason and Billy warmly greeted their co-workers as they entered into the locker room that they'd share with the other twelve male wrestlers that would be performing tonight. They put their costumes for the night away into a locker and just relaxed and enjoyed the company of their friends. They weren't going on until the last match of the night, so they kept their own butterflies at bay by helping the others work out some of the trickier aspects of the matches they would be doing that night. One of the stagehands poked his head into the room and called Jason's name loudly.
"What do you need, Mike?" Jason asked, as he looked around from where he was working with Mick and Test on a move they wanted to try out in the ring.
"Shane and Stephanie sent me down to get you and Bill, Jase." Mike replied with a small smile. "Shane said you two had to come up to the office and watch for your friends to enter the building. It wouldn't do for security to get the wrong two people in on this thing tonight."
"We'll be on our way in a second, Mike." Billy said with a smile. "Jase and I don't want just anyone doing the unmasking tonight either. We'll be right behind you."
"I'll be back after we point out Tommy and Adam to security." Jason said in an apologetic tone to Mick and Test. "We'll have time before your match to get it perfected."
"Don't worry, Jason." Mick said with an understanding tone of voice. "We know how important it is for you to surprise your friends tonight."
"We can wait." Drew (Test) said with a smile as he saw Jason smile in return. "We'll work this out and I hope that you and Bill don't get beat upon by audience members. That would be embarrassing for all of us."
Jason and Billy left the locker room and followed Mike up to where Shane and Stephanie were waiting for them.
Meanwhile, Carlos was just pulling up in front of Adam and Tanya's house on the other side of Los Angeles from where Jason and Billy lived. The first part of tonight's surprises was going smoothly as Adam, Tanya, Justin, Rocky, and Tommy got into the luxurious vehicle with appreciative gasps of surprise and smiles of delight.
"I have to make another stop, if you don't mind?" Carlos told them through the open window between the passenger compartment and the driver's area of the limo. "They messed up my schedule and gave me two runs to the Coliseum tonight. I hope you won't mind sharing the ride?"
"We won't mind at all, Carlos." Tanya said with a happy smile as she turned and glared at the men with her to make sure they didn't contradict her words. "There's so much room back here that having a few more people won't smash us together at all."
"Thank you." Carlos said with an exaggerated smile. "We should be at the next pick up point in about thirty minutes. If you need anything, just press the intercom button and I'll answer."
Carlos rolled up the window and once it was up, Tommy took the chance and challenged Tanya's agreement to the extra passengers.
"Why couldn't he just call and get another limo to pick up these extra people?" Tommy whined slightly. "Why should we have to share this ride?"
"We're sharing and stop whining, Tommy." Tanya said with a stern tone that she softened with a small smile on her face. "The station was kind enough to toss in the free ride to and from the event tonight. I'm not going to complain because we have to share. Meeting other people is fun and as an employee of the station, I can assure you that the people we're picking up will be just as excited to meet us as we should be to meet them."
"All right." Tommy said with a sigh. He recognized the no arguing tone had used from his time as her teammate as well as from his time when he lived with them between digs he worked on for his Master's degree. "I'll play nice, Tanya."
"You'd better." Tanya said with a smile and a teasing tone of voice. "I'll get Rex to beat on you if you don't."
"Easy there Tanya." Rocky said with his own teasing and joking tone of voice. "Tommy just might take Rex down easier than you believe. Most of those wrestlers are good at play fighting, but I'll bet none of them have the martial arts ability that Tommy, Justin, Adam, me, or even you possess."
"We'll see, Rocky." Tanya said with a small smile and a happy tone of voice. "We'll just see about that, won't we?"
"We most definitely will." Justin said with an excited tone as he almost bounced on his seat. "I can't wait to see who's actually under the masks that Rex Red and Wolf McBlue wear."
"We can't either, Justin." Adam replied as he watched his wife's smile get wider and brighter. /Tanya knows something, but it's no good for any of us to try and get it out of her until she tells us. Just have to watch for clues./ Adam's thoughts weren't far off the mark, but he had no way of knowing just how much or how little Tanya knew about what was going to happen that night.
The five in the limo lapsed into silence as they looked out the windows. Their faces where studies in varying degrees of shock, surprise, and chagrin when they noticed that the area Carlos was picking up his other passengers was becoming more and more exclusive.
/Man, I am not dressed to hobnob with ultra-rich people tonight. I knew I should have at least gotten into a pair of dress pants for this, but it's a wrestling match for god's sake./ Rocky thought as Carlos expertly turned the large limo into a very exclusive home, and they were extremely surprised when Carlos dropped the glass partition and they watched him access the gate using a code.
"Our other passengers should be waiting at the house." Carlos said with a smile. "My instructions were to get you here with enough time that you could go into the house and have a bite to eat before going on down to the Coliseum. They're expecting our arrival and should be waiting when we pull up."
"We're going into a place like that, dressed like this?" Adam squeaked in shocked surprise. "Why didn't you warn us, love?"
"I had no idea this was going to happen, Adam." Tanya replied her own shock and surprise showing clearly on her face and voice.
"Don't worry about how you're dressed, guys." Carlos said with a smile. "I'm sure that my other passengers won't mind the casual clothing you're all wearing. After all you're going to the Coliseum for a wrestling show, not the opera."
Carlos eased the car through the gates and drove slowly up the long driveway until he pulled up in front of the house and parked. The front door of the residence opened and all five in the back had their mouths drop open in shock when Kimberly, Trini, Kat, Aisha, and Zack stepped out onto the porch with smiles on their faces.
"Come on in and have some grub, guys." Zack said as he happily jogged up to the door and opened it before Carlos could. "We were told to expect some company, but we never imagined that it would be you guys. God it's great to see all of you again!"
An enthusiastic Zack pulled them out of the limo, while Trini, Kimberly, Kat, and Aisha almost bounced with happiness where they stood next to the car. All of them, even Justin, found themselves drawn into huge hugs of welcome.
"Whose house is this?" Tommy asked once he'd been hugged and kissed by all his old teammates. "Don't tell me one of you owns this place?"
"Actually we're guests of the owner too." Trini said with a smile. "Once you're sitting down we'll tell you who the owner is, because I don't want to have to pick any of you up off the ground." She added with a pointed look at Tommy, who was too busy gawking to notice.
"Come on inside." Kimberly said linking her arm with Tommy. "Our host had dinner delivered just a few minutes ago and it looks delicious."
Justin watched with a smile as Aisha grabbed Rocky's arm just as Kimberly had Tommy's. Tanya had already linked her arm with Adam's and she smiled when Trini took Justin's arm and Kat took Zack's arm. The group of ten went into the house and gave the new arrivals a short tour before coming into the kitchen and the large meal spread out on the gleaming black marble counter-tops. They sat down to eat and once all of them were seated with their food, Carlos joined them with a smile.
"All right." Carlos said as he made himself a plate. "Sorry didn't get a chance for lunch today and Andros said that you guys wouldn't mind me joining you."
"No problem, Carlos." Adam said with a smile. "There looks like there's enough food here to feed three Rocky's"
Everyone shared a laugh over Adam's comment while Rocky and Zack simply continued to eat their meal. Sometime before everyone finished Tommy again asked, "Who the heck owns this play you guys?"
"Jason." Kimberly answered with a smile. "This is his place."
"JASON!" Tommy cried with surprises as Adam, Justin, and Rocky's faces wore expressions of shock that matched Tommy's own.
"Yes, Tommy." Kimberly said with a smile. "Jason owns this place. Apparently whatever business him and his partner are into it's doing very well."
"Where is Jason?" Rocky asked as he finished up his meal.
"He had to go into Las Vegas for an important meeting, Rocky." Trini said sadly. "He did promise us that he would be joining us sometime around ten or ten-thirty tonight. Apparently he and his partner had to deal with a client in Vegas that insisted on moving the negotiations up a full week. He left not long after Kat, Zack, Aisha, and I arrived from the airport. He drove away in this absolutely stunning black Lamborghini Diablo."
"He owns this place and a Diablo too?" Justin squeaked in surprise as Rocky just gave a low whistle of appreciation.
"Remind me to ask Jase just exactly what he does for a living." Rocky said with a semi-stunned expression on his face and awe showing in his voice. "I might decide to join him if he makes dough like this all the time."
Carlos gave them an hour to eat and then gently ushered them all out into the limo for the short half an hour drive to the Los Angeles Coliseum. During the drive he left the partition cracked and listened into the teasing and friendly banter that flowed between the ten people. /These guys are going to be in for one hell of shock when Jason and Billy are the ones who's faces show up under the masks of Rex and Wolf./ Carlos thought with a small smile gracing his handsome Hispanic features. /From the talk that's flowing around back there, Tanya is in on the gag and the rest of them are clueless./
When he pulled up in front of the arena, Carlos jumped out of the car with an envelope in his hands. He opened the door and let his passengers egress from the limo. Tanya was the last one out and he handed her the envelope and whispered into her ear. "There are tickets in there for everyone that doesn't have one as well as backstage passes from Jason for all of you. Don't lose these."
"Thank you, Carlos." Tanya said with a smile as she slipped the envelope into her purse. "I'll make sure the others get their tickets."
Carlos smiled at her and then he waited until they'd entered the building without a problem. He drove the limo back to Jason's house and entered into the garage area where Jason and Billy's Hummers were parked. He unlocked the box that held the spare keys for the vehicles and then he jumped into Billy's Hummer and started the process of exchanging the Hummers for the Lamborghinis that were currently parked at the stadium.
While Carlos was exchanging the vehicles, the others were getting another surprise for the night when a WWF employee approached the group of ten people just as they gave their tickets to the waiting security guard.
"Excuse me." The man said with a deferential tone of voice. "I need to inform you that two of your party have won the raffle that was held from the all the ticket holders tonight. You sir." The man pointed at Tommy. "And you, sir." He then pointed at Adam. "You need to come up to the front office with me take care of some legalities and be let in on your roles for tonight's big event. You see the raffle was for which of tonight's fans won the privilege of being the ones to take off Rex and Wolf's masks. Would you please accompany me?"
Tommy and Adam stood there in shock and looked at the rest of their group. Tanya and the others smiled brightly and Tanya told them happily. "Go ahead and go with the man, guys. You're both such big fans of both of those wrestlers that it only seems right that you get to be the ones to take off their masks."
Tommy and Adam followed the WWF employee through the crowd that had gathered around them with huge smiles on their faces. Their smiles remained until they were let into an office and came face to face with Shane and Stephanie McMahon.
While Tommy and Adam were being led away from the group the other eight people were shown to their ringside seats. One of the ushers spoke quietly with Tanya while they others walked ahead with another usher. "Ma'am." The usher almost whispered. "I was told to tell you to make sure that the two gentlemen that won the honor of unmasking Rex and Wolf be restrained until after the match. I've been assured that both Red and Wolf will be backstage to sign autographs for all of you. Just stay in your seats until after the arena is cleared and someone will come and bring all ten of you backstage."
"Oh, thank you." Tanya said with a smile. "Please let Rex and Wolf know that we'll make sure they won't interfere after the masks are taken off. I can't promise that they won't get chewed out once we're backstage, but we'll make sure they don't make a spectacle of themselves until after the audience is gone for the night."
"Rex and Wolf both send their regards." The usher said as he motioned Tanya into a seat. "They said for me to pass on their wishes that all of you have an enjoyable time tonight and that explanations will come after the show."
"I'll let everyone know, when the time's right." Tanya told the now smiling usher. "Just tell them to be prepared. They'll know my meaning."
"We all know they'll be prepared." A deeper male voice said as Tanya took a seat. "It's nice to meet you again, Mrs. Park."
Tanya looked up into the smiling face of Mick Foley and she smiled back at him brightly. "Hello, Mick."
"Make sure that your husband and his friend can't interfere more than they're going to be allowed to." Mick chided everyone one of the eight. "I'm here to let you know that Rex and Wolf are very pleased with the results of the raffle for tonight and that they ask for you to all remain after the show. They want all of you to come backstage to meet them."
"We wouldn't miss this for the world, Mick." Tanya said with a smile and a knowing tone of voice that caused both Trini and Kat to look at her with surprise wide eyes.
"What's going on, Tanya?" Rocky questioned from where he was sat between Aisha and Kat down near the other end of the row.
"We're going to get to go backstage later on, Rocky." Tanya said with a smile.
While Tanya and the others were being seated, Adam and Tommy were escorted to an office in the arena. The WWF employee that was escorting them opened the door and both men were shocked to see Shane and Stephanie McMahon waiting for them.
"Congratulations!" Shane said with a large smile as he stood up and moved to where he could shake the hands of both men. "I'm sorry that you just missed Rex and Wolf, but they had to go back down to the locker room and get ready for tonight's bout. There are just a few legalities that we have to take care of and then Stephanie will fill you in on how you're going to unmask Rex and Wolf."
"I see that our two 'lottery' winners are slightly in shock, Shane." Stephanie said with a wry smile on her face. "Gentlemen, please come in and have a seat. There's not much legal stuff that has to be done, but perhaps you'd like a drink or water or a soda before we begin."
"I'm fine." Tommy finally managed to force his shocked brain to function enough to speak. He sat on one of the chairs that Stephanie had indicated and pulled the still stunned Adam down onto the chair next to him.
"I don't need anything." Adam stammered as his rear-end hit the seat and his surprised and shock-numbed brain finally registered that he needed to reply to a direct question.
Shane just sent his sister a knowing smile over the head of the two men and then he resumed his explanation about the legalities that needed to be taken care of before the matches began for the night. "First, you need to sign release forms so that we can show your faces on camera tonight. The next form down is a legal document that's already been signed by Rex and Wolf. This document says that they, Rex and Wolf, won't hold you legally responsible for the revelation of their true identities. The third document basically says that you understand that the masks Rex and Wolf are wearing belong to exclusively to them and that those mask will be given into Stephanie's care as soon as they're removed. Rex and Wolf have had duplicates made for both of you and will personally autograph them when you are taken backstage after the show to meet with them. Any questions so far?"
"Not really." Tommy and Adam said as they read the document before them to be sure that Shane had told them the truth. They read through them fairly quickly and signed the forms very eagerly.
Once that was completed, Stephanie started her explanation of their parts in the event that would unmask Rex and Wolf that night. "All right gentlemen. This is how it's going down tonight. Rex and Wolf will enter the ring as usual. Wolf will return to the backstage area once Hunter and Rex start the match. At some point during the first 10 minutes of the bout, Hogan will come down from out of the audience and attempt to interfere with the fight. Wolf will come out from backstage and start fighting against Hogan. Sometime during these two fights, Hunter will toss Rex out of the ring. Since the match tonight is a no DQ match then they will fight out on the apron around the ring for small amount of time. During this time, Hunter will seemingly immobilize Rex and lead him around to different people that are sitting ringside. He'll offer them the chance at ripping off the mask and then will either pull Rex away at the last second or Rex will break free and move away. Hogan will be doing the same with Wolf. When you see Rex and Wolf both knocked unconscious and Hogan and Hunter toss them into the ring. That's when you should be ready. Hunter and Hogan will seem to be arguing about whom they want to take off the masks. At that point I will walk over and seem to randomly pick the two of you out of the crowd. I'll grab your wrists and lead you over to where Rex and Wolf are pretending to be out cold. You'll take off the masks, hand them to me, and then return to your seats for the rest of the match. You'll stay in your seats until the show is done and then a WWF employee will come out, once the arena has emptied of most of tonight's audience; then you'll be escorted backstage where Rex and Wolf will present you with copies of their masks and autograph them for you. You'll also be able to get autographs from all of the WWF wrestlers that perform tonight, if you desire. Think you can handle this, gentlemen?"
"I think we can do that." Adam said with a bright smile on his face. "I only have one question. Will we get a chance to sneak a look at Wolf and Rex's face before we get hauled back to our seats?"
"You'll get the chance to see their faces before the rest of the world does. Rex and Wolf insisted on that fact." Shane answered with a bright yet secretive smile on his face. "That point both wrestlers have hammered into our entire organizations head for the last six months. The cameras aren't even allowed to show their faces before you two get to see them."
"Wow!" Tommy said in shocked awe. "I can't believe that we're this lucky, Adam. First, Tanya manages to get last minute ringside tickets from the radio station and now two of those very tickets are chosen to unmask our two most favorite wrestlers. This is really starting to smell like set-up to me."
"I can assure you that the drawing for the two people to remove the masks was held under tight security and that Rex, Wolf, Stephanie, and I were present when the numbers were drawn. I can have the Coliseum's head lawyer come in and prove to you that the drawing was done at random, sir."
"I believe you." Adam said shooting a nasty look at Tommy. "Don't mind Tommy, he's always been just a bit suspicious of almost everything good that happens, especially recently."
"I am not!" Tommy said indignantly as he glared at Adam. "It just FEELS like this is a set-up, Adam."
"You just heard the man say that the drawing was held under strict security and it couldn't have been fixed, Tommy."
"All right, but it still has the feel of set-up to me. We're just not THIS lucky, Adam." Tommy complained as Shane and Stephanie shared a knowing and sly smile behind the backs of the two men.
"Gentlemen." Stephanie said with a sultry tone of voice. "Tonight's bouts will be starting in just a short amount of time. If you'll follow Mike, one of our security guards, he'll escort you to your seat so you can enjoy your evening. Remember, don't forget the signal to be ready and watch for me."
"I won't." Adam said with a happy smile he directed at Stephanie. "I'll also make sure that Mr. Forgetful here remembers too."
Tommy went to make a comment, but was stopped by Adam pulling on his arm and almost dragging him into the hallway outside the office. "Honestly, Tommy!" Adam said with a small amount of chiding and remorse in his voice. "You're acting like Rita, Zedd, Mondo, and Divatox all ganged up and planned this." Adam's voice dropped to a whisper when he spoke the last sentence.
"It still feels like we're being set-up." Tommy said with a tone that was very reminiscent of his leadership tones when he'd led the Ninja, Zeo, and Turbo teams. "Call it a gut instinct, but I just feel like something isn't right with this. I can't even tell you why I feel like this, but it just doesn't feel right."
"I think you're just hyped up that WE get to be the ones to take off the masks, Tommy." Adam said as he shot another warning glare in Tommy's direction. "Just chill out and take in the night. Besides, if I know my wife, and I do know her; you're going to spend the night with Kimberly sitting right next to you. Enjoy it while you can mi amigo."
Tommy smiled at that and security guard led the two to their seats. Once they joined their eight other friends and former teammates Adam and Tommy shared a look and a smile that Adam's comment about where Tommy would be sitting that night was true. They settled into their seats and prepared to enjoy the show for the night.
Meanwhile Carlos had finished exchanging the Lamborghinis for the Hummers that belonged to Jason and Billy. He quickly locked up both expensive sports cars, shut and locked the garage doors, and then set the alarm for the house and garage before he again climbed back into the limo from the Ranger Space and returned to the club to help Ryan, Andros, and the others prepare for the arrival of Jason, Billy, and their guests.
Jason and Billy spent the time in the locker room chatting and joking with all of their co-workers while everything else was prepared for the wrestling bouts that would happen that night. The LA Coliseum was packed to the rafters with wrestling fans and tonight's event was being held as special WWF Pay-Per-View event as well.
Soon everything was ready and the wrestlers were prepared to give a good show for the fans even as the fans were ready for that show and to cheer for their favorites or boo for the hated ones. Tommy, Adam, Rocky, and Justin were especially psyched up for tonight's event because once back in their seats, they'd given their friends a little more information about what their roles were going to be during tonight's big event. Even Trini, Aisha, Kimberly, Kat, Zack, and Tanya were drawn into the rising anticipation as the announcer took his place in the ring to begin the night's program with the first match up.
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A/N: I have two ways that the rest of this story can go and I would appreciate input from anyone that reads it.
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I will still be posting the chapter for the matches for the night as soon as I can, but I won't post anything after that until I get at least 15 reviews with votes.
Also the next chapter might be longer in being posted because I have to wait until I get some much-needed information from Ghost Zero to get it written. If anyone out there has any information on Ghost, please PM or e-mail me. I'm worried since the last time I talked to him he was having power outage problems from fallout from the tropical storm that was hitting Florida just recently (about a week ago now).
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