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
21
Title: Awesomeness vs. Evolution
Show: TNA
Saturday Night Impact (2/4/2006)
Summary: Yet another lady
attacks Maria, management shift in TNA Impact, Randy Orton and Triple
H vs. Edge and Christian Cage.
When the Impact hour comes up, Mike Tenay and Don West promote two events. One, an announcement regarding a shift in management in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. Two, the Impact main event tonight, as the NWA Heavyweight Champion Randy Orton and the WWE Heavyweight Champion Triple H take on the illustrious tag team of the reunited best friends, "the Rated R Superstar" Edge and "Captain Charisma" Christian Cage.
Standing in the middle of the ring at the moment are TNA announcer Jeremy Borash, along with Championship Committee public representative Larry Zbyszko, standing in the six sided ring.
"Ladies and gentlemen, standing with me in the ring is Championship Committee member Larry Zbyszko," JB started on his microphone. "Now, Larry, you requested this air time in the ring, but for what reason?"
"Well, it's really simple. Last night, I got a call from upper management that the Championship Committee was no longer going public, and was going to be submitting authority to a kind of higher power that would be announced tonight. Well, I'm not going to wait around and watch while TNA could be getting run by some kind of maniacal, unethical, corrupt being and not find out who it is before they can do anything. So, whoever is TNA Impact's higher power, I'd like you to come out right now," Larry said, plain and simple.
Then, a familiar music theme started up, the music that the ECW invasion team had used on Raw and Smackdown prior to their One Night Stand pay-per-view. And then, out came TNA Impact's higher power as appointed by upper management. The crowd became riotous with ECW chants as he came to the ring in his usual grin, entering through the steps and ropes and feeling pretty damn good. He also sported a TNA cap with the logo in ECW colors, along with his leather jacket and jeans outfit.
"Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the greatest manager in wrestling history, the greatest authoritative figure in wrestling history, the greatest innovator in wrestling history, and the new TNA Impact Director of Authority, ME! Paul E. Dangerously!" he announced, once again causing a great positive stir within the TNA fans. A mixed TNA/ECW chant then started up in the building as Paul looked around, still smiling. "Now, I have a couple of announcements to make. First of all, in our Impact main event, where Christian Cage (yeah!) teams once again with WWE Raw's Edge, (boo.) against your NWA and WWE Heavyweight Champions, Evolution's Randy Orton and Triple H, (mixed reactions) nobody will be allowed at ringside, with the exception of Lita and Maria, who are both in the building, and that is only if they come out with their men. (yeah!) Now, the other-"
Then, the boos were generated, at that familiar music interrupting Dangerously. He soon found himself looking out the Impact tunnel to find Jeff Jarrett, the King of the Mountain and former NWA Heavyweight Champion.
"Congratulations. TNA management has done it again. They've been screwing me around ever since I came here because they knew that I could not be stopped from winning the NWA Championship and holding it for 100 years straight if I wanted to. So now, what do they do? They bring in Randy Orton, give Evolution part of their key to this business, and now I'm not even in the Championship picture. Not to mention the fact that they couldn't keep Jackie Gayda over here instead of allowing her to be deceived onto WWE's Raw roster," Jarrett complained.
"First of all, Jeff," began Paul E, "you're not the NWA Heavyweight Champion for a reason, and it isn't Evolution. Last I recalled, you were pinned and eliminated in that match by the man that should have walked out Champion, Christian Cage! (yeah!) Also, I am well aware of Miss Jackie's Raw contract, but I know more about it than you or anyone else. Jackie came to management after the Royal Rumble, and revealed that her Raw contract was only for three weeks, completely reliant on the Evolution contract, which she did not even get to sign. Therefore, we were able to reinstate her TNA contract, and she is back with us on Impact. (yeah.) Thirdly, I know all about the corruption that you had shipped us, with Scott D'Amore and the great Larry Z over here. The same corruption that Miss Jackie was talking about that she had against you before she came to Raw! (yeah!) I know all about it! And as far as I'm concerned, that's not even why I'm going to say this to the living legend behind me. (turned around) Larry Zbyszko, you're fired! (yeah!) And Jeff, just one piece of advice: unless you want to be next, you will have to learn your place in this company. You are not the king of the world. And your Planet Jarrett team will never be free to do whatever ever again!"
"You know what? I've had it with this! This is a conspiracy to screw me!" Jarrett shot in anger, silencing the crowd before it could even go nuts.
"I've had it with your conspiracy crap! Get the hell out of my ring! The only conspiracy I know around here is you!" Paul E. shot right back, springing the fans to life. The cheers suddenly turned to boos, as a two men were rushing into the ring. Normally, a guy would be a perfect victim for this, but in this case, Paul E. knew what was going to happen, and did not let it.
"Don't even think about it! I have an entire locker room of people waiting to beat your ass!" he said, quickly snapping around to the opposite direction and catching America's Most Wanted right in the act before they could even get into the ring. "Now, if you may please step out of my way, I'm going to my office."
The ECW music then hit again, and Paul E. Dangerously stepped through the ropes and left the ring, ready to get to business on his first official day as the TNA Impact Director of Authority.
We now go to the Impact interview area, where Shane Douglas is standing by with three members of Evolution.
"I'm Shane Douglas, and I'm here with the Innocent Opportunist herself, Maria, along with the two Evolution men who will be competing tonight against Edge and Christian Cage, our NWA Champion Randy Orton, and WWE Champion Triple H. Now, what are your thoughts on your match tonight, and on Paul E. Dangerously being the Director of Authority?"
"You wanna know my thoughts? It's real simple," Trips began his answer. "Evolution is such a threat that new management had to be established immediately. Vince McMahon fired Teddy Long and Eric Bischoff as WWE Smackdown and Raw's General Managers, and did not plan to replace either of 'em. Dixie Carter and TNA upper management seemed completely satisfied with the Championship Committee running things around here through the most uptight, biased idiot they've got in Larry Zbyszko. But now that we're here, Shane McMahon is the GM of Raw, Mick Foley is the Commissioner of Smackdown, and TNA's got a new Director of Authority in none other than Paul E. Dangerously. Just goes to show ya that with this takeover inset, taking the faction lightly is a crime. I don't care who you are, we're the big thing in this business. And Christian Cage and Edge are about to find out the hard way."
"Ric Flair and Batista aren't here tonight because Ric decided to take Batista straight to the club to celebrate the successful World Title defense from last night," Orton went on. "But Maria's here with us to watch out for Lita. Meaning, we expect everyone to know better than to get in our way. And that's not a fluke. That's destiny. And this is Evolution."
"Signing out," Maria added as the three left the area.
About ten minutes later, we visit Christian Cage's locker room. Christian is with Edge and Lita inside.
"Guys, are you sure you're gonna be ready for this match?" a concerned Lita asked, facing her Rated R boyfriend
"Hey, this isn't my first time facing Evolution. I'll be alright," Edge answered. "Just as long as Christian manages to still reek of awesomeness."
"Hey, this isn't my first rodeo, you know. I still got it. Why do you think I'm Captain Charisma? All I know is your Rated R candy ass better not screw up in action," Christian countered in a warning to Edge.
"Hey, Christian. Calm down. You're showing me a ton of stinktatude right now,"
"If I'm the one with stinktatude, how come you had to pose as somebody's best friend to take a girl away from them?" Christian retorted in reference to Matt Hardy.
"You think maybe you could've picked a better night to bother someone about that?" Lita asked.
"Oh yeah, touchy subject. My bad," Christian admitted with a weak apology. "Edge, you ready to kick some Evolution ass?" he then asked. Here would be the response from the Rated R Superstar:
"I'm the fightingest bastard this industry has ever seen. Of course I'm ready to kick some Evolution ass!"
Main event time. Edge's music started up, then quickly became Christian Cage's music. They did the same entrance from last night on Smackdown, except this time, Edge and Christian are dressed in their competitive gear. Once the fans finished appreciating the Rated R Charisma team, Evolution's music came up, and Orton and Trips came out. The minute they stepped far enough out of the tunnel, both raised their Championships high in the air, most fans jeering in reaction this time as the fireworks burst off the stage. Both walked down calmly and get in the ring the same way they usually do, with the same poses intact. More people eventually cheered, and this sentiment held true when Edge tried to Spear Randy Orton as soon as he came off, only to end up getting sidestepped and his shoulder smacked one of the TNA six posts!
Right there, the bell rang for action, and Randy was turned around by Christian, who came at him with a flurry of fists. As soon as he turned around, however, he landed in a clothesline, which Triple H executed like only Triple H can: with fury.
Following this, Trips noticed Edge writhing in pain in his shoulder, and stalked towards him opportunistically. Trips set Edge up against the post, then hit him with a few cold, calculated right hands. He then irishwhipped Edge, who countered it into an irishwhip of his own, which he pulled back to hit an inverted atomic drop on Triple H. Edge then came off the ropes to hit Trips with a hammer punch to his back. This caused Trips to get up, which resulted in him taking a missile dropkick. Edge then quickly covered Trips, some fans cheering him along with Lita. 1, 2, kickout by the Cerebral Assassin. Edge then hit a snapmare, which resulted in a face lock. Christian got up, saw it, and gave a dropkick down to Trips' chest, allowing Edge to let go as Christian left the ring and Edge was able to cover, again resulting in a kickout after two. Edge then dragged Trips to his corner, tagging in Christian Cage and making many of the Peeps happy at the moment.
Christian then got into the ring, sure to keep Triple H in the corner, where he then hit a good few right hands, eventually having some lefts join in. Christian gave Trips room to leave the corner after that, only to give him a missile dropkick from the other side of the dynasty. Christian then covered. 1, 2, kickout by the Game again. This was starting to be a bit of a frustrating pattern. But Captain Charisma stuck to his game, and Christian went off the ropes as Trips was getting up. Problem with that move is, he was now victim to an Arn Anderson style rolling spine buster. At the same time as that spine buster came, Edge tagged himself in. The referee, though, didn't see the tag because he was so focused on the move itself, so he held Edge back after Edge had gotten in a right hand on the Game. Randy Orton then took that opportunity to run into the ring and take Edge down, then return to the apron. Trips then dragged Christian over to his team's corner, where he tagged in Randy and the Legend Killer got in legally this time. Of course, Tenay and West dished the dirt on this move.
Randy Orton trapped Christian in the corner, where he was able to hit forearm uppercuts and right hands. He then irishwhipped Christian, and acted like he was going to jump up to hit the returning Christian with a dropkick. Christian then staggered back in preparation for the move that did not happen. The fans started laughing for a small moment, but noticing how Orton laughed his ass off at their Peep Man really did not sound too good to them. Orton, though, kept clapping and laughing as he walked around the ring. He then crouched to pick up Christian, who got him in an inside cradle from out of nowhere, though it only resulted in a bare one count before Orton could kick out. Orton irishwhipped Christian into his own corner, then punked out Edge by telling him to come on and imitating the Rated R Superstar, invoking Edge's wrath and causing him to get into the ring. Try as he might, he could not get past the referee, as Triple H choked Christian Cage using the rope of the turnbuckle. Trips soon let go, allowing Orton to get in a clothesline after Christian took a step forward. Christian recollected himself and got up, only to take the dropkick that was heartbroken promise. From there, it was a good while of fresh tags between Orton and Triple H. The two Evolution members were experiencing complete control of the match.
Then came the moment when Lita came onto the apron and distracted the referee while Edge had seemingly left. Triple H was just walking around, continuing to stride himself coolly, waiting for Christian Cage to get up as he signaled with the DX crotch chop sign that it was Pedigree time. But that all changed when he felt a steel chair crack him straight in the skull, then looked up at the Rated R Superstar with an evil smile on his face, and the people were loving every bit of it for once! And why wasn't the referee able to hear and get disqualified? Because Lita was kissing him for those few seconds, which took up his entire attention! Before she let go, she saw Edge and the chair leave one another's company as well as the ring, and finally stopped. This time, fans were actually cheering it on instead of chanting and calling Lita a slut, for the simple reason that the two Evolution boys in this match were not the most highly favored ones among the entire team, especially compared to Edge and Christian Cage.
Christian then took the opportunity to crawl towards the cover. 1, 2, Trips kicked out. Edge and Lita were wondering how he could possibly do that. Both Trips and Christian got back up, and they then slowly but surely engaged in a slug fest. Once it sped up, Christian ended up getting the advantage, and he irishwhipped Trips, meeting his return with an inverted atomic drop, then went off the ropes himself and hit a clothesline! Once Trips got up, he took another clothesline. He got up again, clothesline again. Then, Christian tagged in Edge!
Edge came into the ring and went all the way to the other side in order to knock off Randy Orton, who got right back up and entered the ring out of complete anger. The referee held him back from attacking anyone, but when he saw Edge getting back the chair he had originally hit the Game with, then Christian getting another steel chair, he became irate and shoved the referee aside, knocking him down! Randy then went after Edge and Christian, going to the outside only to land smack in the middle of their famous simultaneous chair shot, the Con-chair-to! Edge and Christian then got up and tried to attack Triple H with it. There was a blond Ontarian with a steel chair in hand on each side of the Game. Both men smacked their chairs against the floor to signal preparedness to hit Trips with it. Fans were chanting "Con-chair-to!" at the scene, hoping to see it one more time. When Trips finally got up high enough, they swung for the fences. But the Game ducked, and both missed. Trips then set Edge down and got him with the Pedigree! Christian came from behind Triple H, however, and tried to get in the Unprettier, but his crashed hands made it take so much time Trips was able to shove Christian out of the ring. The ref finally got back up just now, though, and seeing Edge down as well as the two chairs, he made an assumption, but before disqualifying Trips, he checked with him to see what his response would be like. After determining that it was an honest "no", the ref let him off. Lita got on the apron again, but was found by Trips. She tried to reason her way out of ending up in a fight, even going to the point of flashing the Cerebral Assassin a little bit. But she found herself brought down to the floor and mounted by the Innocent Opportunist named Maria, who then went on to flurry at her. Trips covered Edge, who kicked out after the count of two.
Christian came back into the ring while Trips was complaining and went for the Unprettier again, except this time, it worked! Christian then placed Edge on top of Trips, getting the cover. 1… 2… 3!
"Here are your winners, Edge and Christian Cage!" JB announced as Edge's music came on in the arena. Christian, though, was the one mainly celebrating. Christian then forced Maria to get off of Lita by pretty much pulling her off and throwing her to the floor far away. Maria almost felt like crying, but remembered not to, and actually didn't even come close. But for a while, Christian could sense some kind of feeling stop him at that, but he didn't know what it was. He looked a little quizzical, though. The crowd soon erupted, however, and behind Maria, coming straight at her, was the reason why.
As soon as Maria got up, she found herself being turned around by Miss Jackie, who was yelling on and on about being screwed over again, except this time, it was under a completely different issue than it was last time. Jackie went on to slap Maria, who slapped her right back. Jackie then got in a boot to Maria's midsection, knocking the kid down. Randy Orton was completely down from that Con-chair-to, and Triple H was in a bad predicament because of the Unprettier, and Ric Flair and Batista were nowhere in sight. So who the heck was going to save Maria from whatever the apparently irate Miss Jackie was planning to do to her?
Easy. Nobody. Except for the fact that Jackie decided that now was not the time to continue teaching Maria a lesson in respect. But right when she was about to turn around and leave the Impact Zone, Lita confronted her, and they stared down face to face. After a good twenty seconds, they nodded to each other and shared some words. Lita went back up into the ring to check on her winner, and Jackie turned back up the ramp and left. Christian looked at the whole scene, wondering what in the living hell just transpired.
