Ready for chapter seventeen? A couple of fresh faces make their first appearances in this chapter, and a few old faces come back to continue the fight against DEAR.
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
The white limousine that had been rented for the girls of DEAR pulled, after an extensive day of them getting their hair re-done-except for Lita and Trish, who spent their time on Twitter or just the internet in general, checking up on everything. Mickie was the first out of the limo, shoving her way out and smiling as she did this.
"It's good to be home!"
DEAR's entrance garnered them what was probably the loudest reaction of the night, as all seven of them entered. This was something that hadn't been seen since the night they announced their name, and they were greeted with both open arms and a slap to the face. Which none of them minded-in fact, it was expected.
Only Mickie and Maria got into the ring in Richmond, and when Mickie held her arms up, the crowd cheered wildly. Hometown glory, she thought with a smile, as she jumped back down from the second rope and looked at the stage to wait for her opponents to enter.
Trish took a seat at commentary, the other five girls standing around the apron while Trish opted to go without a headset, and to just sit by them.
The Bella Twins entered then, and as it was always expected, from the start, the match was like a glimpse into a slaughterhouse without anyone actually being dead. For a while.
Brie managed to switch into the place of her sister, Nikki, and played dead at ringside. All of the girls were in shock, trying to warn Mickie-who was in the ring, soaking up the affection of the crowd in her hometown-and then enraged as Brie got an almost-three-count on a rollup pin.
Mickie kicked out of this and began to take out her frustrations on Brie. She picked up the slightly more talented Brie Bella and threw her into the ropes. When Brie bounced back, however, she got just enough time to hit a Bella Buster.
Mickie tagged Maria into the match after a moment of struggled, and Brie got a second to tag Nikki, but it was obvious who got the win as Maria hit Nikki with the Beautiful Bulldog. DEAR glared at Brie to keep her out of interfering with the pin, and when the three-count was acknowledged, they all got into the ring once again.
Brie got into the ring to help Nikki, but instead, the girls of DEAR grabbed both of the twins and held them up to Trish, who had gotten brass knuckles from her cleavage, and Victoria, who stood next to her. Victoria put them on, and hit Nikki in the right eye, and Brie in the left.
"How's that for Twin Magic?" Victoria asked as she blew off the outer edge of the knuckles and gave them back to Trish. The twins were quickly thrown out of the ring, and the Bella Twins exited the area around the stage.
Just as Mickie was about to begin a speech to her hometown in the glory she had been living all day long, she was interrupted.
You're not enough for me, oh, no…
The faces of DEAR were incredulous, while Michael Cole and Jerry Lawler exploded on commentary.
"That's Michelle and Layla!"
"Michelle McCool and Layla, team Lay-Cool, have been out since Extreme Rules with extreme injuries at the hands of these women!"
Michelle McCool and Layla indeed came out, both of them wearing skinny jeans and plain white t-shirts, as well as plain black boots, but wearing their matching Lay-Cool hoodies. They completed the beginning to their entrance, even with Layla in a large immobilizer knee brace and holding a crutch, before they began to speak. Michelle wore a sling on one arm, but this didn't stop them from attempting their synchronized posing.
"I just want to thank you all, so much." Michelle smiled, putting her left arm, the good arm, around Layla as she spoke into her microphone. "Thanks to the seven-or, sorry, eight-of you… Layla and I realized that we're meant to be best friends forever after all!"
"'Chelle, look. It's like a reunion. I mean, we've got Piggy James, too!" Mickie glared down at them as the Richmond crowd spared Lay-Cool a laugh.
"You made sure the snack table was hidden, right? And it's always nice to see the 'celebrity' Underfed Airhead, Maria!" Maria made a face and looked them up and down before linking arms with Mickie.
"What about Trashley Massaro and her best friend Cheat-a?" Lita and Ashley exchanged a look before Trish put her hands on the shoulders of her friends to hold them back.
"Frail Kim and Ick-toria look pretty…"
"Pretty messed up." Layla finished Michelle's sentence and they laughed in unison. Gail Kim and Victoria smirked in the ring as Gail remarked to herself, "very clever."
"There's always Eye Candy." Michelle laughed.
Layla smiled and pointed to Trish, standing front and center. "And how could you miss Trish Strap-On?" The two girls pelvic thrusted as the crowd "ooooh!"-d the comment.
"Or, as they're better known now…" Lay-Cool wrapped up with, "DEAR meat!" The crowd ate this up, beginning a "DEAR meat" chant with deer antler motions as Michelle and Layla smiled down at them, and Lita snatched the microphone Mickie was holding to speak.
Lita stepped forward and waved her hand through the air at them. "What the hell do you girls think you're doing here, it's like a freak show up there!" She tucked one arm to her side and jumped around on one leg. "Hey, it's the girls with one arm and one leg!" she mocked their voice and then returned to normal, glaring up at them. "Get out of here before we end your careers."
"Oh, well, someone is feisty! But don't you worry. That's where you're wrong, Lita." Layla laughed, Michelle pulling the sling from her arm and throwing it away with that same arm, waving both of them around and stretching with a smile. "But, you don't want to lose your present! A special delivery has come in just today, for the eight of you-isn't that just fabulous?" The girls raised their eyebrows and Layla pointed to Michelle, who finished.
"We have two new additions to the Diva's roster, both of them straight up from being the highest of the high, champions in independent wrestling divisions. Like I said, isn't that just great! Michelle won't be wrestling you alone!"
"We dealt with Nattie's day care, what's the difference?" Lita crossed her arms after this, waiting for the two new girls to appear.
Lay-Cool laughed, and then spoke in unison. "Kennedi, Veronica, come on out here!"
Two girls walked out to Michelle and Layla's theme song and came out to stand on either side of them. One girl, to the left of Layla, took Layla's microphone and smiled at her, bright white teeth showing in her mouth and contrasting to her dark black hair. "I'd like to just say hello to all of you unwelcome old women trying to come out here and relive the glory years. It takes a lot of guts to do that." The girls in the ring looked at her and started glaring when she laughed. "I just can't bring myself to be happy about seeing you old broads again, I just can't… sorry. Anyway, I'm Kennedi Korklan, and I am here specifically to kick your asses." She shrugged. "Oh, but wait, that's not all. If I have it my way, I'm going to make sure to dig in to all of you one by one."
"I'm going to get down there and kick your ass!" Trish was held into the ring as Kennedi mocked her one-finger-to-the-sky entrance move and then rolled her eyes.
"Trish, darling… please, hold in your claws for just another minute while our other new best friend gives you her introduction! Or, better yet, save it for when they come down there and kick your asses in the ring!"
"Now," Layla said with a smile. "Our second new addition."
To Michelle's right stood another girl, almost as tall as Michelle but not quite, with short, naturally red hair. She smiled out at the WWE Universe and adjusted her black vest over her white t-shirt. "Hey there, WWE Universe. I'm Veronica!" She pointed down at Victoria. "You, you used to be my inspiration… I don't know what happened to you, but you seem like you're just a whiny ass-kisser for Trish and Lita these days, isn't that right?" It was Victoria who now had to be held back, and Veronica smirked. "Seeing this up close with my own two eyes, I just want to smack you across the face. You're more worthless now than ever before."
Michelle took the microphone back and pointed down to Mickie, who stood in front of Victoria to block her from leaving. "Wait, wait, Mickie, get out of the way!" Mickie didn't move, but Michelle ignored this. "Victoria, don't look so sullen for a second! Any three members of DEAR, and that can include you, or Piggy, or Trashley and Cheat-a-whoever. Any three members of DEAR, against me, Kennedi, and Veronica, at Capitol Punishment."
Trish, without thinking about it, took the microphone and put it to her lips. "We accept. Now get out of my arena."
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