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 9
Title: Time to Play the Game
Show: Monday Night Raw (1/9/2006)
Summary: Miss Jackie defends her belt against Trish Stratus, and Triple H finally declares he is gunning for gold.

For the most part, riding on the wings of the New Year's Revolution pay-per-view has made Triple H a little bit more confident. Ric Flair is still the Intercontinental Champion, Trips himself pinned the Big Show, and Miss Jackie just became the Women's Champion. On the other hand, Flair was bruised up pretty badly by Edge in that match, especially with two shots with that Money in the Bank briefcase. The one good thing about that is not only could he stay home to recover, but also kind of milk the injury a little bit.

But the Game still feels as though he needs his own gold in order to completely make the stake for the action. When he arrived at the arena, he immediately went to find Todd Grisham. Once he finally did, the Sledgehammer Villain called the young Raw interviewer over to him.

"What is it, Triple H?" Todd asked.

"Listen. Todd, I want you to interview me later on tonight," Trips instructed him. "I dealt with the Big Show at New Year's Revolution, and I kinda want to tell the people exactly what's next for me."

"Okay. We'll do that," Todd agreed.

"Thanks. Good to know you're at least good for that much, kid. Keep it up," Trips said, patting Todd Grisham's shoulder a bit before leaving that part of the area to go back to his room. But before he could get that done, he was met by one man. And that one man was Vince McMahon. And Vince did not look like he was in a happy mood at all.

"What the hell was the big idea bringing Miss Jackie over here?" Vince asked Trips, in a bit of a demanding tone. The Game, however, stood firm through this answer:

"She never was officially TNA Impact property yet. Why not bring her here?" Trips asked right back. Now this was beginning to turn into a debate.

"Don't you talk gip with me, you dumb son of a bitch! That's not what I was talking about! You think I don't watch and snicker at that company? Dixie Carter's got the true second rate show, not Theodore Long!" Vince screamed out. "The fact of the matter is this; I released Miss Jackie and her fiance Charlie Haas because I did not want them around here anymore! You never even really did meet her off the street, did you?"

"Listen. She's the Women's Champion now, and if you're gonna release her again or strip her of the Title, you need to have some grounds on which to do it. Besides, I got a feeling that your former little sex pot Trish Stratus is gonna want to face Jackie to take the Title back," Trips reminded the chairman of the board.

"Ooooh, don't you go there again. That was a long time ago," Vince said, in that evil fuming tone.

"Great. Now you and I are fighting. What else is next?" Trips asked, to both Vince and to himself, before walking off.

"Hey, Triple H!" Vince called after a while, causing the Cerebral Assassin to turn back. "How about that match tonight? Miss Jackie vs. Trish Stratus for the Women's Championship! That sounds good, huh?"

"Go ahead if you want. All I did was bring her here. She has nothing to do with me," he declared aloud, before continuing his leave.

At the beginning of the show, John Cena came out to cash in on his rematch clause to face Edge for the WWE Heavyweight Championship, but Lita came out to inform Cena and everyone else that Edge was not defending it tonight. Rather, Cena's rematch is held up until the Royal Rumble in three weeks. But, she said, Edge would be in action in the ring, for Edge and Lita were going to get into a live sex celebration. Cena declared he's gonna whoop Edge's ass at the Rumble.

Not too much later on, Miss Jackie had to defend her Women's Championship against Trish Stratus. In the match, Jackie and Trish did immediately get into grapple position on each other, unlike last time, when the objective was to strip your opponents. However, it quickly broke, as Jackie put Trish in a hammer lock. Trish countered out of it and hit Jackie with a head scissors takedown, then came after Jackie in the corner, but Jackie ducked it and had Trish there. For a minute, Jackie experienced control, but after a headlock, Trish started off a momentum surge with a number of clotheslines, followed by an irishwhip from corner to corner which led to the Stratusphere. Trish covered, but Jackie kicked out. Trish then tried to hit Jackie with a neckbreaker, when Jackie countered out of it and got Trish in the school kid cover for the pin! Miss Jackie successfully retained her Women's Title, much to the glee of the crowd and, unbeknownst to them, Triple H.

Speaking of the Game, he had that interview with Todd Grisham.

"Triple H, last night at New Year's Revolution, we saw you beat the Big Show with your trademark patented sledgehammer. Now, after your triumphant victory, what exactly is next for you?" Todd asked, before extending his microphone to Triple H.

"You want to know what's next for me? Fine, I'll tell you," Trips began. "Now, since it's Royal Rumble time, I could easily enter myself into the Royal Rumble match, kick 29 other men's ass, and go on to become WWE Heavyweight Champion at WrestleMania 22. Well, I have other ideas. I don't want to wait until the big daddy of them all to take my chances at the possibility of a WWE Title match. Rather, I'm going for the WWE Championship my way. Whatever Edge and John Cena are preparing to do to each other, I'm puttin' them on gridlock until I successfully get into that WWE Title match, then until the match happens at the Royal Rumble, and then during the match at the Royal Rumble. It says Edge vs. Cena on the card right now, but you're looking at the man who's gonna walk out of Miami January 29th your new WWE Champion."

With that confident statement, he walked off.

Vince McMahon had only put the warning about interrupting the live sex celebration on John Cena earlier tonight because he did not expect Triple H to inject himself into this matter.

At the end of the show, in the ring was a bed tailor made for Edge and Lita's live sex. Lilian Garcia was also there with a microphone.

"Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome, the new-"

She suddenly stopped when Triple H's music rang, and out came the Game. The surprised audience cheered at the fact, and then Triple H came out, suited well, confident and cool. He went about his trademark entrance, and when it finally died down, he took a microphone.

"Wait a minute. I'm looking around this ring, and I see something is wrong. Wait a minute, I just realized what it is. What the hell is a bed doing in here?" Trips began. Some of the people laughed at that question, though. "Hey, but seriously. I must have missed something, because a bed is not something that belongs in one of these rings. Could somebody please enlighten me on what the hell that thing is… oh, scratch that. I think I may have just remembered. See, if I've got it correct, the Toronto screwball and the Carolina slut are gonna celebrate beating the hell out of that walking stick Ric Flair and the highway robbery of John Cena for the WWE Championship by having live sex in the middle of the ring. Well, as far as I'm concerned, that's not gonna happen. (mixed reactions arise) First of all, I've heard legends from a certain Adam Copeland's former ladies that despite having the stick, he's the one that sucks. (haha) Also, Vince McMahon never warned me not to do anything, and one thing I'm not gonna let happen is see somebody whose ass I plan to kick have sex in the middle of the ring. And because it is what it is, having the squared circle around it would make it more disturbing than Boogeyman's worms. (haha) So as far as I'm concered, even though this is a good looking bed to do it on, it deserves to be hammered and kicked in."

Leaving the people to think as they wished, Triple H dropped his microphone and exited the ring, then looked underneath it to find a sledgehammer. He came into the ring and then proceeded to critically damage the bed a little bit before Edge's entrance music finally came on. Edge and Lita, extremely angry about this, came down the ramp scowling, and an angry faced Rated R Superstar slid into the ring and went into a slugfest with the Game. Eventually, Triple H got the advantage, then irishwhipped Edge, when Edge came back, sent him out of the ring. Edge got back on his feet to a flurry of fists from John Cena on the outside. Triple H looked on, then got his sledgehammer as Cena continued fisting and stomping away on Edge. Lita, who until now was carrying Edge's WWE Title, hopped on top of John Cena, only to get snapmared into legdropping her boyfriend. Cena, though, got nailed with a sledgehammer. The Game had whacked him with it. He then took Edge, picked him up, and rolled him into the ring, repeating this same deed to Cena as Edge was attended to by his girlfriend. He then picked each guy up and got him in a Pedigree, Cena first. Lita then bad-mouthed Trips about hurting her boyfriend, and she got a Pedigree herself. Triple H then raised his hands up in the air in that triumphant "I am the Game!" pose, as his music blared throughout the arena to the fans' mixed reactions. He then screamed out, "That's the way it's gonna be from now on! That's just the way it's gonna be, because I am the Game, and I am that damn good!" He then came down and took the WWE Championship, then raised it in the air, as if making the statement that he was the Champion, or at least he was going to be.