Chapter 17: A Surprising Act

A few needed to be answered tonight and those are what was HHH doing at the end of RAW last week, what happened to Trish? Does Jeff know? Who are the partners that Vince McMahon will choose for Jeff and HHH for tonight? And will we have an update on whether or not John Cena will come back for the Rumble?

Vince McMahon appeared on the tron and reminded everyone about last week when he chewed out HHH and reminded us about the match tonight but he had an update on John Cena.

"As for John Cena and whether or not he will show up at the Rumble, I'm here to tell you that I made a phone call to Mr. Cena and I got…Nothing, it says his phone has been disconnected, so I take that as a no, but being the nice guy that I am, I'm going to give him till the final minute to appear, after his number is up and if he doesn't show up I will permanently fire him for good."

Backstage Jeff was pacing the floor as Trish sat down and she seemed fine after last week.

"Now you've been avoiding this question for the last week, but now I need answers, what happened last week?" Jeff asked.

"Honestly nothing."

"No it's not nothing, HHH will not let that happen, now what happened?" Jeff asked kneeling down and looking at her.

"I don't want to tell you because you might be upset."

"Just tell me." Jeff said calmly.

"Okay, he came in here and all he did was apologize to me to my face and then he left, and that's the honest, honest truth." Trish said waiting for his reaction.

Jeff got up and walked around again, what was HHH doing? He remained calm and said, "it's okay, that's not bad, but we've got to make sure when HHH does something we're prepared, now let's relax and get ready for my match."

In the ring Randy Orton was with Stacy and addressing the crowd about the Rumble which was in 2 weeks.

"Everyone look now, you're looking at the winner of the Royal Rumble and it's the legend killer Randy Orton. I will show why I was the youngest World Heavyweight Champion in history, I will prove that I'm better than 29 other superstars that claim that they're the best, well 28 because there isn't a chance in hell that John Cena will appear at the Rumble, he's a coward, a loser, a nobody, and a worthless piece of crap that doesn't deserve to be in the Rumble much less the champion." The crowd starts chanting Cena, just to piss him off. "Oh you want Cena? I said do you want Cena? Fine I'll give you Cena, this is Cena." Randy turns his back towards the camera and turns back with a rapper-type look. "I'm John Cena, the worst WWE Champion in history, pretty soon I'll be a distant memory. I don't why I can't win a match, maybe it's because I have a bitch that's attached. She wanted to help, but couldn't do it, that's because she can't find clothes that fit. I'm nothing but a coward, a big fat wuss, that's because I don't get no p (bleep)!

Stacy took over on the mic, "now as you can see you don't need John Cena when you have the hottest young wrestler in the world today, Randy Orton, so Torrie take some notes because this is how a relationship works."

Torrie came out and walked to the ring and got right in the face of Stacy but didn't say anything.

"SO Torrie where's your boy? Oh that's right you left out in the dust and made him quit."

Torrie was getting angry, all the insults from the past 2 weeks have gotten to her and she wasn't going to take it anymore, she took Stacy down and was beating on her in the ring and they were rolling around in the ring. Randy had enough and pulled Torrie off of Stacy and he had her by the hair, and started berating her for what she was doing and taunting her about John Cena. He was about to give an RKO when Vince McMahon came out and stopped it.

"Now, now put her down or else you lose your spot in the Rumble match, now if they want to settle this, I will let them, next week, that's right it's going to be Torrie Wilson VS. Stacy Keibler in an one on one match." Stacy was upset, as Torrie looked at her from the rampway smiling, Randy had to comfort Stacy.

"So next week we'll see if Stacy can back up that big mouth of hers." Joey explained.

Jumping ahead to the main event and the McMahon partner pick tag team match, HHH came out first followed by Jeff Hardy with Trish Stratus, they had to be separated because Jeff wanted a piece of HHH, as McMahon came out.

"Alright all week you've been wondering who the partners will be, first HHH, I've decided despite your actions 2 weeks you're still the champion and you deserve a reasonable partner so here's your partner, Batista!" Batista walked out as HHH smiled knowing how great this would be with the Animal as his partner. "Now Jeff for your partner, this man is a former World Champion, he's a very successful superstar, and he is your partner, Randy Orton!" Orton came out by himself, and with a cocky smile on his face as McMahon, H and Batista smiled evilly as Jeff knew he was in trouble as Trish watched on with concern.

"It was a set up, McMahon and HHH were working together all this time, now Jeff Hardy is in trouble."

Jeff knew he was in trouble so he started attacking H and Batista, Randy ran to the ring and got in but Hardy knocked him out of the ring. Jeff tried to fight them off 2 on 1, he got Batista down, then went to work on HHH, nailing right hands and stomps on him in the corner. Randy tried to get in, but was knocked back down by Jeff, Batista came over but Hardy hit him with a twist of fate. Hardy went back to work on HHH he hit a clothesline, then a forearm, then knocked Randy down again, HHH was stumbling around the ring Hardy took this opportunity and hit a twist of fate, then went up top. He hit a swanton bomb onto HHH but didn't cover him and got up and was met with a Batista spine buster taking him down and out. Orton finally got in and hit an RKO, HHH got up and hit a pedigree on Hardy, he made the cover and got the 3 count.

"Jeff Hardy tried but with 3 former World Champions, a man can only survive for so long."

But they were not done, Randy got a chair, and brought it into the ring, HHH took over with the chair, and hit Hardy across the back with the chair, then again. Batista and Orton held him up and HHH blasted him with a chair shot right on the head denting the chair, Hardy was busted wide open, Batista picked him up and hit a Batista bomb on Jeff Hardy, who was out of it. Trish watched with horror and had to help him so she went into the ring and covered him with her body as she looked on at Evolution.

"This looks too much like 2 weeks ago, get out of there, Trish."

Batista and Orton looked on with sick smiles on their faces when they saw Trish's concerned face. They were about to grab her when HHH stopped them.

"It's over let's go."

"What? We can end it right now." Randy argued.

"I'll end it at the Rumble."

"But."

"Let's go, it's over now leave."

They all left confused leaving Trish in the ring checking on Jeff but she was confused as well, HHH looked at her and smiled, then left.

"What is in the head of HHH right now? What's his plan? Because you know he isn't doing this out of the kindness of his heart."

HHH stopped at the top of ramp and looked in the ring and smiled looking at Trish as refs attended to Jeff Hardy as the show ended.

A/N: I know it's not long again but this and the next should be short until the Rumble where it gets good as far as length goes. Anyway hope you like it and review.