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
15
Title: You're Fired!
Show: Friday Night
Smackdown (1/27/2006)
Summary: Batista gets interviewed prior to
his World Title defense against Mark Henry, and Randy Orton suffers
dire consequences.
"Hey, Randy. I saw Vince today. He was talkin' about ya. He didn't look too happy," the Legend Killer heard on his cell phone.
"I kinda guessed as much, man," he replied. "A Smackdown Superstar taking a one week leave of absence to come to TNA and take the NWA Heavyweight Title doesn't go over popular with the boss, even if it was done for him. It kinda gives TNA ratings, and incentive to raid him and make themselves noticed. But I wonder what the hell's gonna come."
"Don't worry about it, though. If he fires you, you can still come right back. Once Evolution gets all gold and comes together, your contract to the team makes you nonexclusive. And you're still signed to TNA even after getting fired from here, right? So it counts for something," his friend said.
"Seriously, though, you're gonna be here, right?" Randy then asked his friend.
"Nope. The great Dave Batista's got more to worry about than showing up for his fir… just kidding, man. I'll be in the arena. I gotta be there about Mark Henry anyway. Catch you later, okay?"
"Alright, Dave. See ya," Randy said then closed his cell phone, ending the conversation. He was anxious to find out exactly what Mr. McMahon was going to do, despite knowing that the pending Evolution contract covered all the ends and was going to nullify pretty much any and all penalties, one way or another.
Now, first off tonight, Rey Mysterio challenged Mark Henry to a one-on-one match, which actually began this episode of Smackdown. At this point, Henry had Rey in a bear hug, and was applying it for a long time. Tazz and Michael Cole were beginning to wonder how much Mysterio could take of this, as usual, and Mysterio eventually fought out, much to fans' delight. He then ran to the ropes, came back and hit a dropkick on Henry's knees, staggering him forward a little bit. Rey repeated this process, and Henry was down to one knee. He then hit a dropkick to Mark Henry's head, and he fell down leaning back on the ropes! Rey then thought of a great idea: 619 the back of Henry's head! He signaled for the 619, then ran to the opposite side, and came back to hit Henry with the 619! Henry was able to stand up from that, so Mysterio then came up and instead of doing a seated senton, which would have gotten him caught, hit Henry with a dropkick from the top rope! Henry staggered all the way backwards to the ropes, then momentum carried him forward. Rey Mysterio got back up in time to get in a drop toe hold, taking Mark Henry down, head hung on the second rope. Mysterio signaled for and hit 619 again! Henry was then knocked down. Mysterio then dropped the dime on Mark Henry and pinned him! However, the count only resulted in two, as Henry, after all that, still shoved off Rey Mysterio like a piece of nothing! Henry and Rey eventually both did get back up, and Rey tried to jump on Mark, who simply thrust him down, showing off his power. Henry then went outside and got a steel chair. He went back in the ring, and the referee was right there. Rey Mysterio thought of it as an opportunity to attack, when Henry, trying to jerk the chair away from the referee, thrust him in Rey Mysterio's way, and the two both ended up getting knocked down!
Henry then smiled as the fans booed, all knowing what he was going to do. Henry then took the chair and beat away at Rey Mysterio's back with it! Chair shot after chair shot after chair shot, it was absolutely sickening! Finally, Matt Hardy came over to the ring and got in a few licks on Henry, including tripping him down to one knee with a lower dropkick. Hardy thought he had a Twist of Fate right there, when Henry suddenly lifted and backtossed his rival right out of the ring! But Hardy skinned the cat, and made it back up… to find his skull the victim of a thundering chair shot courtesy of the World's Strongest Man. Finally, Batista's music came on, and out came the Animal, rushing into the ring! He attacked Mark Henry with viciously strong right hands, and even gave Henry his own try at it and ducked that to give him the Leviathan Spinebuster! Batista did thumbs up, thumbs down, then looked at the now cracked steel chair Henry had assaulted his friends with. He picked up the chair and blasted the downed Henry straight in the head with the chair! Batista's music went on, and he posed his strong pose to the crowd on one of the turnbuckles, then called for WWE referees and trainers to come help Matt Hardy and Rey Mysterio.
About a few minutes later, the workers were helping Matt and Rey into the medical room, and Batista was looking on concerned behind them. Josh Matthews then found Batista and asked him what were his thoughts on what just happened out there between him and Mark Henry.
"You wanna know my thoughts on what happened with Mark Henry? It's real simple," Batista replied. "I represent this Title with class and guts that the world hasn't seen combined together in a long time. I could go on and on bragging about myself like that, because it's true. So of course I'm not scared that Mark Henry's gonna come back and beat my ass for the Title. But that's not why you're here. You want my thoughts on what just happened. What just happened is Mark Henry tried to send a message, that he intends to become the World Champion. In the process, he just bullied and injured my friends, Matt Hardy and Rey Mysterio. And unlike… Raw's Edge, I am not only not a transitional champion, I'm also not a transitional friend. Therefore, I came out and sent a message to Mark Henry: you attack my friends, you piss me off. And that's something nobody wants to do!"
Batista's face did not seem so happy. In the meantime, Theodore R. Long was making his way to the ring.
Once there a few minutes later, Teddy had important business to address.
"Now, ladies and gentlemen, as we all know, last week saw one of our own WWE Superstars make a splash over in Orlando, Florida at Total Nonstop Action, the second largest wrestling company in the world, second to our WWE. See, Smackdown's own, 'the Legend Killer' Randy Orton, decided to enter the ring as a special insert to TNA's NWA Heavyweight Championship match between then NWA Champion Jeff Jarrett and five other Superstars," the General Manager reported and reminded us. A plethora of jeers then arrived, directed at Randy Orton. "Yeah, I know. I was pretty peeved to see that one of our own would resort to this defection. Especially when I realized what eventually became a truth; that I was going to have to deal with Vince McMahon coming into the ring and basically calling for my job to be placed officially under jeopardy. From what I understand, the Legend Killer is in the arena tonight. So, Randy, come on out. I ain't got all day, so you better make this quick."
Eventually, Randy Orton's music finally came on, and out came the Legend Killer, receiving that same plethora of jeers. He was walking down that ramp with TNA's top Championship belt, calling himself a WWE Superstar. He walked up the steps through the ropes into the ring, then did his legend pose atop one of the turnbuckles, and the boos crowded him like never before. He then got a microphone, and asked Teddy what's up as his music died down.
"Don't what's up me, you troublemakin' little fool," Teddy responded hastily as the fans cheered. Orton was frozen right there. "You completely embarrassed the WWE when you jumped ship to TNA to take the NWA Heavyweight Championship. And don't tell me you did it for WWE, because even if you did, that's incentive for TNA to raid our shows and make something of themselves. And I refuse to stand for Smackdown being invaded by a non-WWE show. I've already had enough invasions from Raw, and I don't ever plan on lettin' that happen again, either. Therefore, to ensure that your irrational and reckless judgment in how to become a champion does not screw over the WWE, I have decided to suspend you indefinitely, until you lose the NWA Championship and your contract to TNA!"
The fans cheered at that decision, as Randy pleaded with the boss.
"Teddy, what the hell! I'm a Champion! What are you talking about?"
"You are suspended until you are done at TNA! Now, security! Take him away! I've got a show to run!"
As he was saying that, Vince McMahon's music then proceeded to come on, and the WWE Chairman came out in a very foul mood. His face did not remark any kind of respect towards young master Orton. Randy sensed the anger, and he sensed his own fear, as the crowd was happy as hell. Of course, that makes sense, considering the music they were hearing was "No Chance In Hell".
"Well, it seems that once again, Smackdown proves why it's the second rate show," Vince began.
"What are you talkin' about?" Teddy asked.
"What do you think I'm talking about?" Vince spat out in the face of the GM. "You can't even retain your Smackdown Superstars enough for them not to go around, invading TNA, and causing chaos for me! And as for your little punishment for Randy Orton: don't give it to him!"
"What?" Teddy exclaimed in shock.
"That's right!" Vince shot in angry confirmation. "Don't give it to him! Let me track down the laundry list on the Legend Killer first."
"Laundry list? What else have I done to offend you-"
"SHUT UP!" the angry Chairman ordered. "You ask what laundry list I've got against you? It's easy! You violated the rules of the Evolution contract back in 2004, you violated the rules and regulations as far as Superstar/Diva relations, and you violated the code of respect for Eddie Guerrero!" Vince's subjects among the crowd hailed him for this, despite being confused. He calmed down and explained.
"For those of you who are uninformed, and that's basically all of you, (groan.) Randy Orton has numerous infractions with the WWE. First of all, despite his WWE contract, and despite his Raw contract, Randy Orton's membership to Evolution in 2003 and 2004 was marked by its own contract. Despite its no longer having any validity, the contract was looked over by my son Shane McMahon, and he found something interesting. It said, quote: 'By agreeing to sign this contract, you have agreed to be in Evolution, and that Triple H is the leader of Evolution. Therefore, you have agreed that Triple H is your leader, and that the only member of Evolution who can be the World Heavyweight Champion is Triple H.' Now, of course, Randy never got this, because his Evolution membership does not mean that he is smart enough to read fine print. In fact, he is not. So by winning the World Heavyweight Championship at Summerslam 2004 and becoming the youngest Champion in WWE history, he breached the contract and basically ejected himself from Evolution, despite popular belief that Triple H betrayed Randy Orton just to be a selfish asshole. Also, there is a locker room regulation that WWE Superstars are not supposed to touch Divas in any physically harmful way whatsoever, under any circumstances other than somehow being opposition in a match. However, last year, two weeks before WrestleMania, Randy Orton had a kiss with Stacy Keibler… and followed that up with a damn RKO to the girl! (boo!) Not only that, there's a certain code of respect for the late great 'Latino Heat' Eddie Guerrero that basically is the unwritten law around here ever since he passed on. And during the week in which we paid tribute to Eddie Guerrero, what did Orton do? He and his father tried to jump John Cena and almost ruined the honor's mood on Monday Night Raw. Not to mention the fact that Randy Orton is the one who burned Eddie Guerrero's low rider in an attempt to kill the Undertaker! (boo!) All that being considered, I don't think this merits a suspension at all! I think this means… something different."
"Something different?" Teddy questioned.
"Yeah," Vince responded. "Something different. I think this means that Randy Orton's services with World Wrestling Entertainment are no longer required."
The fans immediately began cheering at the sound of that. They knew what was coming next.
"No longer required? What you talking about?" Orton asked, as if he didn't know.
"Randy Orton, (you're fired!) YOU'RE FIRED!" Vince officially declared, in his usual authoritative tone, much to the fans' delight. "Somebody come out here and take out the trash!"
Kurt Angle's music then came on, and out came Angle, who set off the fireworks at the center of the ramp before the fans' "You Suck" chants ever came up. Kurt had the chants redirected towards Randy Orton, who was basically begging off the firing. Mr. McMahon, though, pushed him and clotheslined him out of the ring, where he was met by a Kurt Angle right hand. Angle had a garbage truck backed up into the arena and opened, followed by the Wrestling Machine tossing the Legend Killer right into the truck and slamming it shut. Vince McMahon and Teddy Long walked out of the ring, celebrating taking out the trash. McMahon, however, told Angle to open the door again. Kurt and Teddy Long were both confused, but went through with it. Randy Orton thought this was his chance to escape, but a right hand from Angle told him otherwise. Rather, Vince McMahon got his microphone again and made this shocking announcement.
"We need to make a change in the General Manager's position here on Smackdown, since the current boss is apparently too soft! Theodore R. Long, YOU'RE FIRED!"
That comment was followed up by the scooping up of Teddy Long by the Chairman, who then placed him into the trash with Randy Orton, shut the trunk, and ordered the person to drive off. Kurt Angle was surprised greatly by this sudden turn of events. But what mattered more: Randy Orton was now fired.
