You Cannot Be Serious
AJ walked around the area in the back. He really did not feel like seeing anyone today. Not after he lost his X-Division Championship to Christopher Daniels.
"AJ, come in," Larry said opening the door. "We're just waiting for a few other people."
When AJ walked into the room there were four women that he didn't know, Gail Kim and Traci.
"What is this all about?" AJ asked.
"You'll be told in a minute," Larry said. "The other five don't know anything either."
"Other five?" AJ asked.
"Just sit down," Traci said looking at her nails.
"Shut up," AJ said to Traci. Then he looked at the other girls.
"Ah, here they are," Larry said opening the door.
AJ was shocked when he saw Christopher Daniels, Petey Williams, Matt Bentley, Jeff Hardy and Ronnie Killings.
"What's going on?" Jeff asked AJ.
AJ shrugged.
"Hi baby," Traci said hugging Matt. "I missed you."
"Barf," AJ said leaning against the wall.
"What's going on Zabisko?" Christopher asked angrily. "Is this about him wanting a rematch?"
"Yes, we needed ten other people here to verify that," AJ said.
"Why do I have to here?" Gail asked.
"Would you all shut it?" Larry asked. "I have a huge announcement to make."
"Spill," Ronnie said.
"TNA has been looking over some surveys that fans have filled out and we've come to a conclusion," Larry started. "That male population says that there are not enough females on our show."
"TNA's going down the hole," AJ said to Petey.
"AJ shut it or you won't get your rematch," Larry said pointing a finger at him. AJ raised his hands motioning that he was backing off. "And the female population feels that the women on the show are not athletic enough."
"Screw them," Traci said defensively. "My job is hard."
"Because it's so hard being sexy," Petey said to her.
"Where did sexy come in?" AJ asked Petey.
"Anyways!" Larry said loudly. "TNA management has decided to start an inter-gender division."
"What?" Traci screamed. "This is not a body that should be man handled."
"Shut up," AJ said to Traci.
"Do you wanna go Styles?" Matt asked getting up in AJ's face.
"I would but it wouldn't even be a challenge," AJ said meeting Matt.
Traci ran away from the two men and let out a scream.
"She a screamer?" AJ asked and winked at Traci.
Matt handed raised and he punched AJ in the jaw. AJ held his jaw for a moment and then looked at Matt. Everyone watched the two intently. Then AJ tackled Matt and began punching his repeatedly. But soon the fight was broken up by the other male wrestlers.
"Save it for the ring!" Larry yelled at them. "Everyone happy that that got out of your systems?"
AJ and Matt didn't speak.
"I'll take that as a yes," Larry said walking around. "Now this is how it's going to work. Next week on Impact we're going to simply draw names. One male and one female. Now guys, these girls aren't just more Traci's. These girls are very athletic. Let me introduce you. First we have Kyrstan Kulez, her specialty high risk maneuvers; Rhianna Hemmington, trained in mat wrestling; Dallas Kritzik, mixed martial arts with a specialty in kickboxing; Rayne Madden, street fighting specialist. And as you all know we have Gail Kim who has a specialty in submissions. Who knows? You might actually learn something new."
"Why do I doubt that?" Chris asked.
"And what about me?" Traci asked.
"We'll I'd learn something new from you," Chris replied.
"Get bent," Traci said and then she turned back to Larry.
"Well Traci we're hoping that once you're paired up with someone they'll teach you what they know," Larry said to her.
"What if I don't want to learn?" Traci disputed.
"Good question," Larry said. "Now I hope that everyone is listening to this. So what happens if you don't want to learn or you don't want to participate? You get fired."
Everyone looked around.
"You can't do that," AJ said to Larry. "We have our own careers to think about."
"I can and I will," Larry said to him. "Would you like to be the first on the list? You'd be very easy to replace."
AJ glared at Larry.
"I'll take that as a no," Larry said. "You're all free to go now. See you on Saturday."
"This is such bullshit," AJ said to Jeff as the walked out of the room.
"You're telling me," Petey said walking up behind them. "We have to train this chicks now."
"We don't need training," Rayne said stopping the three men in their tracks.
"Go paint your nails," Jeff said to her.
"Oh yeah about that, I like the color of your nails this week," Rayne said taking Jeff's hand. "That's an awesome job. Did you get them done at that new place down the street?"
AJ and Petey both started to laugh.
"She got you good," AJ said once Rayne began to walk away.
"Up yours," Jeff said and walked away.
"Someone's mad," Petey said as they both began to laugh again.
Jeff gave them the finger and continued to walk.
"Wanna go out and find some hot strippers?" Petey asked.
"Love to but I have the ring with Ronnie in like ten minutes," AJ said. "I'll catch ya later."
"Alright," Petey said and the two men walked in opposite directions.
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"What assholes!" Rayne yelled.
"But we do have to work with them so we might as well get used to it," Kyrstan said taking a sip of her cosmopolitan.
"We better show them up badly," Rayne said obviously still furious. "I just wanna strangle them!"
"Calm down," Rhianna said holding Rayne's shoulders.
"They're probably not all that bad," Dallas said. "It's just the modern day male ego."
"What are you trying to say?" Rayne asked.
"They were angry, any one would've been," Dallas said. "So instead of just sucking it up they acted like little babies and they had their buddies there to coach them. If they were each told individually they would've thought about it before reacting."
"Yeah," Rayne said slowly and then making a face. "I'm sure that that's how it would've gone."
"You know that I'm right," Dallas said sipping her beer. "You're just as big of a baby as they're being."
"What?" Rayne asked standing up quickly.
"I'm not going to fight with you," Dallas said standing up. "I'll see you girls later. I have to go and work out."
"Chicken shit," Rayne said as Dallas was walking away.
"Think what you want," Dallas said.
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AJ threw his bag in the back of his car. He was sore and he just wanted to get home. He had worked with Ronnie for close to two hours and Ronnie's head obviously wasn't in the game. When they were working on reversals Ronnie shot AJ all the way out of the ring to the floor.
He drove home as fast as could and cracked a beer open. He watched television for a couple minutes but soon became bored. Then he saw the phone. He pondered the possibilities for a few moments and then picked it up and dialed the number that he had used to often in the past months.
"Hello?" The female voice answered.
"You busy tonight?" He asked.
"Nope," she answered.
"Good, come over here, it'll only be for a few hours," AJ said to her.
"Alright, give me twenty minutes," she said and hung up.
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Rhianna and Rayne had decided that they would take one room and Kyrstan and Dallas could have the other.
"I can't believe that she said those things to me," Rayne said. "No one speaks to me like that."
"That was nothing, just let it go," Rhianna said laying down on the bed. "Everyone's just tired and cranky."
"I'll let it go this time but if she does it one more time she's in for it," Rayne said to Rhianna.
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The next day the girls were allowed to use the ring to practice and get used to the feel.
"Show us what you can do!" Petey yelled from the seats.
Kyrstan blushed almost instantly but the rest of the girls remained focused.
"This isn't too different then what I'm used to," Rayne said feeling the ropes.
"You've never been in a ring in your worthless life," Dallas said stretching her legs.
"Come say that to my face," Rayne said.
Dallas got up, walked over to Rayne and tried to cover up her fear.
"I said-"
Before Dallas could finish Rayne's fist connected with Dallas' stomach. Dallas held her stomach for mere seconds but then she straightened her back, lifted her foot and caught Rayne across the face. When she brought her foot back down she made sure that her guards were up and she was ready. But she didn't need her protective stance, Rayne was already down and out. Dallas straighten and looked at Rayne who laid on the mat.
"Don't mess with me," she said and walked away.
Petey, AJ and Ronnie were all in shock as they sat in their seats.
"Whoa," Ronnie said laughing.
"That about sums it up," AJ said.
"Man can she ever spread her legs," Petey said enthusiastically.
AJ and Ronnie both looked at Petey and started laughing.
"C'mon," AJ said standing up. "Let's go drink."
"That sounds good," Ronnie said following.
Petey was still sitting in his seat with his mouth agape. AJ came back, grabbed Petey's wrist and pulled him along.
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"What was that about?" Kyrstan asked Dallas in the back.
"She hit me first," Dallas said.
"You knocked her out!" Kyrstan replied.
"She asked for it," Dallas said closing her gym bag. "Any more comments?"
Kyrstan didn't say a word.
"Guess not, I'm gone," Dallas said and walked out of the locker room.
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"Good evening everyone and welcome to TNA Impact!" Mike Tenay said excitedly. "We have an action packed show for you tonight but first let's send you down to the ring where Larry Zabisko is already waiting!"
Larry waved to some of the crowd. He already had the six women with him in the ring and was announcing the six men that were to join him. They came out and then the show started.
"I know what each and every one of you is thinking," Larry said. "You want to know what's going on and it's alright because I have answers. TNA now has a new division! Inter-gender!"
The crowd went wild.
"We'll be pairing them up right now!" Larry said as he turned two tumblers. "The first pair is Gail Kim and Ronnie 'The Truth' Killings."
The two looked at each other and seemed satisfied.
"The second pair is Kyrstan Kulez and, the Enigma, Jeff Hardy!"
They seemed happy when they heard the results.
"Team number three is Traci and Matt Bentley!"
Traci let out a squeal of joy and Matt look energized.
"Number four is Rayne Madden and, Mr. TNA, Christopher Daniels!"
Christ still looked upset that he was in this category and Rayne wouldn't have been happy if she was paired up Hulk Hogan.
"The fifth team is comprised of Rhianna Hemmington and, The Canadian Destroyer, Petey Williams!"
The way Petey and Rhianna reacted was as if they would have died if it hadn't had turned out that way.
"That means that the final team is Dallas Kritzik and, The Phenomenal, AJ Styles!"
AJ's and Dallas' eyes met for the first time and neither one looked too impressed. Instead of AJ walking over to Dallas and introducing himself he took one last look at her, looked around at the crowd and left the ring.
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