Stone Cold pulled into the arena feeling much better. He had it all worked out. All he had to do was find Kane, sedate him if necessary, and lay it all on the line. Vince would learn to regret himself. Kane might be crazy but there was nothing stupid about him. He'd go along.
He walked into the service entrance and inside, suddenly trapped in a pandemonium of movement. Everywhere he looked there were people running and yelling, and medics. He stopped to let a gurney go by.
"What the hell's going on here? The show hasn't even started yet." He asked the first crew person he could grab.
"It's Kane, Mr. Austin, it looks like he was attacked."
"Ah hell." Steve grunted and stormed off into the building.
Plan B…he thought, time to find this girlfriend.
Robin and Lita ran down the corridor on some secret mission.
"Lita, what are we doing?" Robin asked grabbing her friend's arm and hauling her to a stop.
"I am going to find the roster for tonight. Then, I'm going to ruin Matt's match." Lita responded, a wild irrational look in her eyes.
"Are you sure this is a good idea?" Lita furrowed her brown and looked at Robin questioningly. "Look at it this way. Vince Mc Mahon may be a jerk but when it comes to his stars feuding, he wants it done in the ring, right?" Lita nodded. "Well, how do you think he'd react to one of his stars hitting his girlfriend, especially when she's on the payroll too?"
"No, I don't want to make this corporate, I'm going to handle this myself." Robin opened her mouth to protest when they were jerked from their conversation. Voices yelling, and people running in a panic drew their attention.
"What's going on?" Lita asked a passing medics going on?" Lita asked a passing medic.
"We've got a wrestler down." He said curtly and continued hurrying down the hall.
"I wonder what all that's about." Robin said, something in the pit of her stomach dropping violently.
"I don't like it." Lita said, her expression darkening.
"Me neither."
"Let's go." Lita decided. Robin nodded and they took off after the barrage of medics and event personnel.
The two women arrived in time to see the gurney hoisted up. Even from the other end of the hall, it was impossible not to see who it was laying there.
"Oh my God…" Robin whispered, unable to find her voice. "Kane!" Pushing through the crush of people surrounding the stretcher, Robin grabbed his hand. It was limp.
"Kane? Kane…Squeeze my hand baby. Please?" Robin begged, her voice shaking.
"Ma'am, you're going to have to step back. We've got to get him to the ambulance." A paramedic said shoving her out of the way.
"No, I'm going with him." She said backing off only slightly and following along.
Lita watched, unable to move, as they loaded Kane and Robin onto the ambulance. This was a bad dream. Sure there were lots of people that didn't like Kane but most of them just steered clear of him. Who would do this? Lita racked her brain for a name. Suddenly, it came to her.
"Damn you Matt." She whispered and stormed off toward the men's locker room.
Lita burst through the door without knocking.
"Something I can do for you?" Test leered from in front of a locker. He looked her up and down then smiled grotesquely.
"Where's Matt?" She asked stalking over to the shower room and flinging open the door.
"He's not here. So how about you let me help you. I can help you, you know." He sneered walking up behind her as she turned to leave.
"Get away from me." She pushed him back a step.
"Alright honey, we can take it slow if you want." Test chuckled and adjusted his towel.
"Shouldn't you put some clothes on?" Lita asked disgusted. Test looked down at his towel and shrugged smugly. Lita couldn't help but roll her eyes as she headed for the door.
"If you're looking for Matt, I'd check the trainer. I think he went to have that nasty cut on his face looked at." He smiled when she turned. "You uh… wouldn't have any idea how he got that would you?" Lita didn't answer; she just walked out and headed toward the trainer's room.