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Thanks for your reviews to Wolfgirl2013, cheryl24, wwemicky, and Jeri252! At popular demand, I'm adding Chapter Two today, but the rest of the chapters will be going up on a regular schedule to be determined.
CHAPTER TWO
The Extreme Rules disaster in Tampa was all that the WWE Universe could seem to think about all Sunday and into Monday night, when the attention shifted over to something else. Who were the people? How many were there really? Why would they attack Lay-Cool like that?
Would they show up on RAW?
The final question seemed to be echoing through the Divas backstage as well, but they weren't about to show it publicly. Instead, they stuck to themselves for the most part, avoiding anyone who could potentially be "one of them." The girl who was seemingly completely alone from the moment she walked into the arena was Beth Phoenix. She was clearly the strongest of all the Divas on the roster, and though she was backstage with the others to watch the match, she could have been the mastermind behind it.
This was the horrible reason that the girls had decided they were going to be avoiding her, including her tag team partners for the night. Especially seeing as it could have been men. Michelle and Layla hadn't been talking.
The match for the night was going to be Kelly Kelly, Gail Kim, and Beth Phoenix, going up against the team of Melina and The Bella Twins.
Finally, after being avoided for almost all of the night, the match came up on the card, and Beth cornered Kelly and Gail.
"Listen. I know that everyone thinks I'm the one behind the attack on Michelle and Layla, but why would I do that? I don't have any reason to have done something so juvenile. For all we know, it was Michelle and Layla hiring people so that they could both stay because they got over their problems before the match."
Kelly and Gail shared a look, before Kelly sighed. "Okay, Beth. We'll believe you. But right now, it doesn't matter if we believe you or not. It matters if they believe you. The WWE Universe is thinking the same thing. Show them that you have nothing to gain from attacking them. Win the match for us, Beth! Besides, Vince could just be bringing back old Divas. I mean, they said that we're only bad now. What if they're saying that they were better?"
"Kelly, you obviously don't know Vince. If it was old Divas, he'd be hyping up a storm, and they'd be everywhere on merchandize and stuff already." Gail shook her head. They hadn't noticed the approach of Melina and the twins, and the moment of consideration on the new 'arrivals'-possibly, as none of the execs had been talking, either-was interrupted by Melina's obvious distaste for details.
"Way to go, Manazon."
At the commentary table, Lawler and Josh shuffled through a few papers on their desks and then Josh began to talk. "Given the events of last night at the Extreme Rules pay-per-view, Michelle McCool and Layla are both extremely injured." Cole laughed from his place in the Cole Mine, but stopped before Josh continued on. "Layla has a torn ACL, and a torn MCL, whereas Michelle McCool has injured multiple places in her shoulder, but should be ready to return sometime in the next couple of months, if she decides that is what she wants."
The cameras shifted as the Bella Twins' theme song began to play, and Tony Chimmel began to speak as the bell rang to signal the start of a match.
"This is a Diva's tag team match, set for one fall! Introducing first the team of Melina, and Nikki and Brie, the Bella Twins!"
Melina was dressed all in black for the night, and the Bella's were, as always, matching in their gray and red outfits, and the capes with their name on the back. The girls flipped into the ring, landed, and Melina let out a deep sigh just as Kelly Kelly's theme music hit.
"Let's go, everyone!"
Kelly was chipper as ever as she led the girls out in her in her blue attire, Gail Kim just a step behind her and to her left in white and red, and Beth to Kelly's right as they entered, wearing her flame attire and carrying her Diva's Championship title over her shoulder. All of them were smiling as they entered, greeting the audience and walking to the ring to get in and start the match.
Kelly decided to start off the match against one of the twins, who the commentators couldn't recognize but who Kelly knew was Nikki.
Nikki and Brie teasingly laughed at Kelly starting off, and Nikki looked back at the blonde as she jumped and tackled the younger of the twins to the floor.
She repeatedly punched Nikki in the face until she was told to get up by the referee, and then slapped Nikki's butt as she stood up, leading her into a bulldog.
Proving nothing to Beth's point or to that of any of the other girls who had given their thoughts on the attack, the lights went out, and the Divas were in a frenzy trying to figure out what was going on. Kelly felt like she was going to cry in fear without a reason until she felt herself given one. A hand grabbed her by the hair and threw her to the ground. No one made a noise but the Divas who she knew already, so she couldn't say it was the people who had attacked Michelle and Layla the night before.
However, she could just tell.
All around the ring, the six girls who had been ready to fight each other were being attacked and were outnumbered as it just so happened. They kicked and screamed, tried to fight back, but were beaten down. They were limp and mostly ready to give up when the lights came back on suddenly thirty seconds after going out once again, for a moment blinding the girls who had been unlucky enough to have been looking in their direction.
Sure enough, though, they all had figured right-black ski masks, black turtlenecks, black pants, black shoes, and even black, skintight gloves stood over and around them, attacking them.
Gail, Brie, and Nikki all lay face-down on the floor, and the seven masked and disguised people around the ring-now revealed to be women, by their figures-were fighting Beth, Melina, and Kelly.
One person held Kelly, while a second person took cheap shots to them.
Beth managed to hold off the two people attacking her pretty well, and was getting in a few shots, only to be hit with a cheap shot from behind and be taken down in a double-DDT. Then, Beth was also laying across her stomach and just her front in general, unmoving except for her breathing, which was visibly unsteady.
Melina had been holding her own as well against two of the girls, and shoved one away in a sudden burst of anger. She let out a primal shriek as she grabbed the other, kicking her leg up.
Just before she could complete the Sunset Split and fall, the girl who she had pushed out of the way was not alone, and it was now three-on-one with Kelly, and four-on-one with Melina, whose leg had been taken down with a shoulder block.
Another of the girls dragged Melina across the ring and slid out to grab that same leg that Melina was favoring to slam it into the ring post.
Finally, the six girls who had been in the ring had been taken out, and had stopped fighting back, the beatings completed. The seven disguised people who had been in the ring moved out of the ring, retreating toward the backstage area.
"I'm not sure what's going on, King, but I don't think I like whatever it is…" Michael commented as the referee for the match-who had been thrown to ringside during the attack, apparently-went into the ring to begin examining the girls for medical help. "Now you see why I have the Cole Mine."
The cameras didn't focus on the men on commentary, or on the ring which was full of unconscious, writhing, or unmoving Divas. They were focused on the all-black characters who had now formed a line along the edge of the stage which connected to the ramp.
"I don't know, either, Cole, and to be honest… it's almost scary." Jerry Lawler said, ignoring Cole's comment about the Cole Mine.
"Almost?"
Josh's comment went almost unnoticed as seven black-gloved hands raised themselves into the air almost in unison, like conductors readying the orchestra, with their fists held high, in a cultlike motion. Then, seven more hands on the opposite arms of these seven figures reached up to grab the top of the ski masks they all were wearing to pull them off.
The Divas who stood at the top of the ring, who had been wearing these masks, shook out their hair, and looked directly out to the ring, moving their hair out of their faces with the free hands which had now dropped the masks, remaining indifferent. The only way to describe the look on their faces was pure evil.
"What the…"
"Is that?"
"It is, King. It is."
"Former Women's Champions Lita, Trish Stratus, Mickie James, Victoria, and Candice Michelle… joined by Ashley and Maria!" Michael was clearly astonished, as he had managed to remember who of the girls had been champions.
"What are they doing? How could they do this?!" Lawler's voice was clearly confused.
"Lita, Trish, and Victoria all retired already!" Josh added, now that Michael had gone silent.
"I just can't believe such beautiful girls could do such horrible things…" King was completely distraught now, as the girls began to move back down the ramp and toward the ring.
"Don't do it!" Cole shouted, and almost as if the girls could hear him, they started laughing, shook their heads, and moved to the barricade.
"Do you still think the Divas are boring, Cole?" Josh asked, as Lawler had now gone completely silent among them.
"Things just got very interesting very quickly in the Diva's division." Cole responded.
Road agents and medical personnel that had been called out came down the ramp and began to work on the girls in the ring as the Divas in black began to jump over the barricade and leave. Trish, the last of them, turned and blew a kiss to the men helping the Divas in the ring.
The show faded to commercial break.
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