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
24
Title: Christian's Independence
Show: TNA
Saturday Night Impact (2/11/2006)
Summary: Christian Cage has
disagreements with the Edge Army over not wanting their help to beat
Randy Orton at Against All Odds.
The Impact broadcast began with the generic version of Evanescence's "My Last Breath" which Christian Cage uses as his entrance music. The Peep Man made his trademark entrance, being seen at the center of the ramp when the lights came back off, then doing his usual pose of pointing kisses to the Peeps. This time, though, he seemed to be a little less cheery than he usually is.
"Over this past week, Captain Charisma has been disturbed to the point of feeling a little bit under the weather. No, I don't have a cold, or a fever, or anything that's gonna make me be unable to compete or hinder my performance at tomorrow night's Against All Odds. Even if it is, I'm unlike that mama's boy from Raw that couldn't even beat Ric Flair, because I wouldn't really give it worth a damn," Christian stated, earning cheers of respect from the fans. "Tomorrow night, I finally get a one-on-one shot at a Heavyweight Title. The NWA World Heavyweight Title. And all I have to do is face somebody one-on-one for the second time in our careers and successfully beat him here, and I become the NWA Heavyweight Champion right here in TNA! (yeah!) fans start a "TNA! TNA!" chant And by one-on-one, I mean one-on-one. It's supposed Randy Orton vs. Christian Cage, not Evolution vs. the Edge Army! And yet, I find that… my best friend, my 'brother' Edge, apparently doesn't think that I can get the job done by myself. (boo!) According to what I picked up from Raw and Smackdown, Edge and Lita have assembled Tyson Tomko, Gregory Helms, and surprise surprise, Matt Hardy, (boo.) to become their little Edge Army. Now, first of all, I wanna find out what's gotten Matt into joining Edge, seeing as how they had the, uh, infamous love triangle situation over Lita, to say the least, and I also would like to-"
Edge's music interrupted Christian in the middle of his talk, and the jeers immediately came towards the Rated R Superstar, the Rated X Redhead, and their Edge Army, when they arrived to the ring. None of the members took the time to do any of their poses, they just got into the ring by either slide-in or steps and ropes.
"Christian, Christian, at last, you're on your way to becoming the NWA Champion," Edge proclaimed a night early, leading to a mixed, mostly cheers reaction. A smile also crept on his face when he said that. "So why are you in such a sour mood tonight."
"Tell you the truth, it's not really a sour mood as much as a wish for you to stay out of my way. I had my tag team match with you, and I gotta say, it bore its fruit. We continued to be the awesomest tag team in history, we won the match, we swung for the fences in a Con-chair-to, and even got Randy Orton while at it. He had a concussion for about five days because of us!" Christian recalled, proud and crowd pleasing at the same time. "But at Against All Odds, it's me vs. Orton. There's nobody else on that card, and I don't want anybody else getting involved in the match."
"Well, that's just the problem. Christian, I know you wanna do this by yourself, but that's not the point. You're here to become the NWA Heavyweight Champion. If you lose, if you blow it, it's the mid card. Back of the line. You'll never get a shot again. Hell, you won't even win a Title again unless you find yourself a partner or adjust your style to the X Division so you can be a part of it," Edge pointed out, the statement being found unfavorable among the spectators. "You can beat Orton by yourself, but last I checked, your only match against him, you didn't get it done. And the Problem Solver here (points to Edge Army member Tyson Tomko) was actually helping you at the time, remember? (boo!) And I want you to get this gold."
"Let me explain something to you, Awesome Adam, so that even you and the Walking Kiss of Death over here can understand well enough not to be shheads about this," Christian retorted, much to the glee of the Peepulation. "This isn't WWE. This is TNA. Against All Odds is a TNA pay-per-view. My match against Randy Orton is for TNA's NWA Heavyweight Championship. If I were to win this match with the help of WWE Superstars, considering the fact that as you once said, I became the one man bold enough to voluntarily leave WWE for TNA, then it would be completely embarrassing to this company. And this is the only part I don't necessarily like to say, but unlike myself personally, my Peeps in TNA would be much better off if you went into another dimension and never came here again! (yeah!) fans start a "TNA!" chant again So, in case you didn't already get the-"
Randy Orton's music suddenly cut in, and out he came with Maria, both dressed richly, as is the trademark of Evolution. They stayed at the top of the ramp, however.
"Edge, Christian, I can't believe this. You guys are actually in-fighting again? Wow. When are you ever gonna try to get along without killing each other?"
"Hey, hey, hey, Randy, cut the crap!" Edge immediately burst, stopping the Legend Killer's jokes. "We're not in-fighting, you stinktatude case moron. We're trying to figure out whether Christian is gonna accept my help or not at Against All Odds 2006 tomorrow night or not."
"Are you so stupid I have to actually tell you this is a bad idea?" Randy questioned while laughing at Edge's exploits at the same time. "You may have the Edge Army, but don't you forget, I've got Evolution. And trust me when I say that Ric Flair, Triple H, and Batista are more than enough for… Matt Hardy, Gregory Helms, and Tyson Tomko. Although, I still don't understand why Matt would join your team against us. Last I recall, Matt was supposed to be Batista's friend, and you are the one who stole his girlfriend and started the scenario that got him fired from WWE for three months in the first place, not to mention the feud that ensued between you two when he got back that took up all his time on Raw and sent him to Smackdown."
"Don't ever bring that up again, you son of a bitch," Matt immediately shot after taking Edge's microphone.
"Well, explain to me why the hell you're teaming with Edge!" Randy yelled back.
"I'll explain it to you on Raw, but I'm leaving you with one clue. Edge might have taken Lita, but as far as I'm concerned, your friend Triple H is the one that screwed me out of my job," Matt surprisingly stated. Randy was taken aback by this, and so was Maria. They didn't understand what the heck Matt Hardy could be talking about.
Paul E. Dangerously's ECW music theme came on, and out came the Impact Director of Authority through the face's tunnel, leading to major cheers and TNA/ECW mixed chants in the audience. Randy and Maria were at the heel's ramp, so they were actually on opposite sides from Dangerously.
"Now, ladies and gentlemen, there's no need for bickering. And there's no need for indecision on whether the Edge Army will be helping Christian Cage at tomorrow night's Against All Odds pay-per-view. I'm going to make the decision for you," he stated. "But before we get to that, I would just like to make the announcement that another dimension has been added to WWE and TNA's recent semi-partnership, in the form of shared profits, allowing TNA to take its Impact show all over the United States and the world, starting tomorrow night's Against All Odds, which will take us back to our roots in Nashville, Tennessee! (mixed reactions) Now, back to the NWA Title match. The Edge Army and Evolution will be barred from ringside at Against All Odds, as will everybody else that is not in this match! (yeah!) Edge Army complains in the ring, Christian and Orton smile Also, this match will have a special guest referee, and just to cut the suspense, management consultant Dave Hebner suggested to me that I take in this man as the referee. It is the most controversial referee in wrestling history, none other than Dave's brother himself, Earl Hebner! (great mixed reactions arise) Edge Army still complains And as to enforce the ringside ban, I will have four special enforcers standing ringside to ensure that no chaos occurs. The enforcers will be none other than 'the Human Cancer' Raven, (yeah!) 'the Charismatic Enigma' Jeff Hardy, (yeah!) a certain vampire wrestler who used to be the gothic teacher of Edge and Christian, 'the Brood Master' Gangrel (mixed reaction), and the man who Earl Hebner screwed in 1997, Bret 'the Hitman' Hart!" (yeah!)
The ECW music came on, and once again, the only unhappy parties were Edge, Lita, Helms, Matt, and Tomko. Christian Cage, Randy Orton, Maria, and the TNA fans were very pleased at the statements given from Paul E. Dangerously.
In the Impact interview area stood Terry Taylor, trying to get some words out of Miss Jackie about her fatal four way match against Lita, Melina, and Maria for the Women's Championship tomorrow night.
"Last month, I was taken out of TNA and brought back to WWE by Triple H in hopes that I could become the First Lady of Evolution. Everything was going peachy clean and super fine when I made my re-debut at New Year's Revolution and became the Women's Champion," she said in her usual drawl. "I was no longer dealing with getting screwed over by Jeff Jarrett, and Coach Scott D'Amore, and Larry Zbyszko. Life was great for me again. Then, Lita pinned me for the Women's Championship at the Royal Rumble. My heart almost froze, because I felt like I screwed up. And yes, I will admit that I was a small bit happy for Maria after she got Lita back. But as I found out, I was apparently just a pawn for at least the latter half of the whole time. They planned for Maria to become the Women's Champion, and they planned for me to be cast aside. They planned for Randy Orton to whack me in the head with that steel chair. Right now, I just hate Evolution so bad, I could destroy all of them. And I know just how to start. In the Raw vs. Smackdown vs. Impact vs. Evolution match tomorrow night, I need to beat the snot out of Maria so that she has no chance of victory, and then, I need to win and become the Women's Champion once again."
"Congratulations, Jackie. You're finally making a stand for yourself without making yourself look and sound like a fool who's only bent on blind vengeance," a voice said, interrupting her.
"Jeff. Why are you here?" she asked, quickly turning around.
"It's easy. I was the first guy that discovered you after you left WWE the first time. I'm the reason you're even part of TNA in the first place," he replied. "And I think I'd really like it if you could join up with me and my team, so we could have the run of the floor with Evolution, Christian Cage, and every other TNA Superstar here."
"Not if you were the last man on earth, Jeff," Jackie retorted hastily.
"Congrats, Jarrett. You got dissed by a woman again," another voice responded, coming into the conversation. Turns out, it was Triple H, accompanied by Ric Flair and Batista. "Honestly, I don't know how many times this has or hasn't happened to ya, but judging from how much of a pure complete jackass you are, I'd have to judge every time you ever stepped into a club."
"Yeah, and they all got into cat fights with Gail Kim and got the hell beat out of 'em. They know better than that," Jarrett countered.
"So what?" Batista made his own cut-in. "All I know is, Planet Jarrett will not take over this business. That spot has already been claimed by Evolution. You are a sucker who will never even touch the NWA Heavyweight Championship so long as Randy Orton is holding that belt in representation of Evolution. So you might want to get out of here, before I beat the snot out of you, and out of any of your cronies that might decide to get in my way."
Miss Jackie had already left in the middle of Evolution's short banter with Jeff Jarrett, and the King of the Mountain himself now took the opportunity to do the same, being intimidated to a good degree by the threats of Evolution.
a/n: Make sure you guys tune in for the next chapter. You're gonna get a good match between Orton and Christian Cage. Keep R&Ring, and enjoy!
-P. Dizzle
