The Evolution of This Business (a WWE/TNA story)
by P. Dizzle tha Prime Legend Champion

Associative Disclaimer: This story is completely original and fictional.
Proprietary Disclaimer: I own absolutely nothing but the story itself.
Rating: T
Summary: The former members of Evolution are in their prime, but facing major problems. After a little thinking, Triple H decides that enough is enough, not only for their problem sources, but the entire wrestling business as well!

Chapter 1
Title: First Signs
Show: Monday Night Raw (12/26/2005)
Summary: After crushing the Big Show's hand with a sledgehammer, Triple H reviews the progress of his ex-team.

"Hey, Big Show. What the hell makes you think you can beat me? As far as I'm concerned, you're just a really… tall… guy." Triple H said, arousing a factory of jeers from the crowd. The Cerebral Assassin was about to sign a contract to face the Big Nasty Bastard Big Show in thirteen days at the first major wrestling pay-per-view event of the year 2006, New Year's Revolution 2006, and once again, the main event was a Heavyweight Championship Elimination Chamber match. The only problem is; last time, he won the whole thing, even going through Batista and Randy Orton, two young now former friends and foes, of Trips himself and of one another, who he knew all too well. This time, he got screwed out of the chance by a big 500-pound freak who has been hacking him about Ric Flair and Survivor Series 2005 for over a month. And the Game is ready for a big shot at payback. But first, to execute. He was about to sign the contract in the ring to face Big Show at Revolution 06, before he went on a rant, which he continues… now.

"Take, for example, the NBA. I mean, they've got a lot of really big and tall guys there, your height. 7'1, 7'2, you know the deal. But take each and every one of them, there still isn't any of those big floor cleaners whose ass I couldn't kick. See, Big Show. You're an oversized basketball player. The only reason… these people pay to see you… is because you're a freak."

That comment infuriated Big Show and all of his fans. The Big Show couldn't take more of this, and took his microphone to make a reply.

"Triple H, you need to be careful who you talk to and how you talk to them," Show began. "Look around you. Look at your team. There's no Kliq. There's no DX. And, as I'm sure you already know, there's not an Evolution to be mentioned around here, much less to kiss your ass. You have no backup. You're all alone. And even though I said your time will come at New Year's Revolution. If you keep talking, Trips, then this 500-pound freak will have no problem making your time come now."

Triple H seemed to be taken aback a little bit by Big Show's comments and the ecstatic populace's response, though the latter had about 1 as much to do with it as the former. But he never lost his cool, and the two elite figures stared each other down face to face. Trips held his microphone up and said he didn't need any luck against "fat boy", who he then poked in the face right above the eye with his pen. He then flipped the table and took the sledgehammer stuck under it. Big Show put up a fight, but when Triple H and Big Show were both on the outside, on opposite sides of the steel steps, Trips took his famed sledgehammer and destroyed the chokeslamming hand of the Big Show by crushing it between hammer and steps, then walked back up the ramp like the confident satanic warrior he is as the Angry Giant grimaced in pain.

After the show, Trips stayed dressed to go to the club, because he was going to catch some friends around town. It was around that time that he decided to think about his former Evolution teammates. Where Evolution left off last year, Batista was starting to come into his own, Ric Flair was getting back his stride, and Randy Orton was beating the Chris Benoits of the world to become the youngest Heavyweight Champion in wrestling history, a record that could be threatened by Chris Masters. But enough about that. Now that the group is done, Triple H is not even widely considered the best member of Evolution anymore. Randy Orton and Batista, the younger former Evolution best friends, are now on Smackdown. Randy had the temerity to RKO his own girlfriend Stacy Keibler on a Raw about nine months ago, leading up to his Wrestlemania-started year-long rivalry with the Undertaker. He had held his own for months before Hell in a Cell came around, and Undertaker still had a hell of a difficult time getting by the now liberated Legend Killer.

And ever since Batista had beaten Triple H at WrestleMania 21, Backlash, and then Vengeance - Hell in a Cell - he ended up going on to Smackdown to defend his World Title against Smackdown superstars such as JBL and Randy (whenever he wasn't dealing with the Dead Man). He is still the Heavyweight Champion to this day, even though he now has to contend with Melina, her three boys, and her new sexual assault charges. Ric Flair, thanks to Triple H's betrayal, now had a fire lit under his ass. The two had two consecutive matches at PPV events following Trips' return from Hell in a Cell. They swapped the series, but the more important match, the Last Man Standing match at Survivor Series 2005, was won by the Game. Ric Flair ended up going home to recover, and apparently to get arrested for road rage and dumped from his affiliation with the Carolina Panthers. Yet he's the one defending the Intercontinental Championship against the guy who keeps dissing him about it all in Edge, who has made all four of them (as well as mostly everyone else) sick, and Triple H is the one stuck without gold and with a giant freakazoid staring him down and standing in his way.

"I've just about had enough of this," he decided finally, upon pondering this issue. Then something hit him. What was he going to do again before Evolution disbanded? Oh, yeah. It just came to him. "I'm done letting these people run around, do whatever they want, and think they're going to be the kings of the world. I have to get back to what worked for everyone in it in the first place. It's time for a takeover. I'm gonna go talk to Ric Flair."

That statement being said, the Cerebral Assassin made his way out of the room to look for his former friend the Nature Boy.