Matt and Alonso's Sort Of Excellent Adventure
Summary: A trip to find Abby Torres a birthday gift turns into a mall adventure for the Super Lopez Bros.
We see Matt Lopez pacing around the hallway hours before a WFA live event in Las Vegas. As he does so, Ben Jones, Adrian Lord, and King Caesar walk up to him.
"Something up, Matt?" Ben asks.
"Is... Abby around?" Matt asks back, leaving the three confused.
"No. She's out shopping with Emily. Why?" Adrian replies.
The Mexican Lone Wolf breathes in lots of air... then screams, "IT'S HER BIRTHDAY AND I FORGOT TO GET HER A GIFT!"
"Oh yeah. We all knew." Caesar smirks.
"What did you get her?" Matt asks. "I should go and get a gift. I've only got a few hours before the live event starts..."
"THEN GO!" all three yell at him. Matt goes on his way and sprints down the hall and to the parking lot.
"Okay, Alonzo," Matt starts. "-we only have seven hours to find a gift for Abby before the live event starts."
"Aye." Alonso salutes to his big bro.
The Lopez brothers are now walking around the Strip in search of gift ideas from all the people they meet (while keeping a low profile). They see people walking, on their phone, holding random things, etc.
"How about a teddy bear?" Alonso suggests.
"Would she like that?" Matt asks.
"Well, why not get her random stuff she'll definitely like?"
With that, the Lopez brothers dash for the car.
The brothers find themselves in the Meadows Mall, around three hours after it just opened, so there's a lot of people entering and stores opening.
"Welp, let's do this." Matt says.
"Aye, sir!" Alonso does a corny salute as they scramble and spend their money.
Meanwhile...
Alonso finds himself in a store full of teddy bears of varying sizes, shapes, and colors. He just stares at the shelves, not knowing which one to buy.
"Can I help you?" a female employee in the store asks him with a smile.
"I don't know which one to pick for my brother's girlfriend..." Alonso sighs.
"Well, feel free to look around and buy what you fancy." the employee tells him.
The younger Lopez brother swivels his head everywhere in search of a teddy bear that will make him click. He finally sees a giant teddy bear that looks really cute.
"I'll take that one." Alonso points at the giant teddy bear.
"Good." the female employee claps her hands. "Follow me and we'll help you with the purchase and the moving."
"Sure thing."
He definitely did NOT ask for what happened next.
Meanwhile...
As Matt looks around the mall while wondering what happened to his brother, he immediately sees Abby and Emily in one the shops, looking at some merchandise.
"Oh shit..." he curses and runs the other way. "Damnit, Alonso. Where are you?"
Meanwhile...
Alonso slowly walks out of the store, his clothes tattered, lipstick all over his face, and giant teddy bear being carried by a wagon he is pulling.
"That was... both fun and crazy." he murmurs.
Meanwhile...
Matt manages to hide from the girls in a nearby store as they walk through the mall. The Mexican Lone Wolf lets out a sigh of relief, then finds out which store he found himself in.
"I'm in the Disney store..." he realizes, then gets to work.
Meanwhile...
Alonso is slowly walking around the store, trying to find Matt, only to see Abby and Emily walking towards his general direction.
"Dang it..." he groans and scrambles to hide. A minute later...
"Hey, Abby! Look at that giant teddy bear!" Emily points at the giant teddy bear sitting in the corner while Alonso is hiding his face with a newspaper on a bench at the far side of the floor while being able to see the teddy bear.
"Wonder who owns that..." Abby wonders. "Wait, there's a note. This is not lost. Leave it alone. - A."
Both girls look at it, confused.
"O...kay. Their loss if it's stolen." Emily says as they leave the teddy bear alone. As they do so, Alonso smirks in triumph.
"Alright. Time to find Matt." he tells himself as he goes on his way.
Meanwhile... back in the arena...
We see some of the WFA wrestlers playing video games while waiting for the start of the live event they're about to throw.
"Okay, so it's Pack vs ERS again tonight?" Chris Wolf asks.
"Sounds like it." Brianna Kelly sighs. Both are playing Call of Duty, Zombie Survival mode. As that happens, the others are watching The Nun or working out.
"Speaking of which, where's Matt?" Brianna asks Mr. NC-17.
"Went out with Alonso, I'll assume." Chris replies.
Meanwhile... back in the mall...
The Lopez brothers meet up in one of the restaurants.
"Alonso, what happened you?" Matt asks.
"I... spent time with an employee in the teddy bear store." Alonso replies softly, his lack of confidence obvious.
"Well, congrats but now, we have to get back to the arena. I think that teddy bear and all this Disney merch will do."
"But... how do we do that without Abby and Emily spotting us?"
"I have an idea..."
"This is NOT going to work..." Alonso sighs. All he and Matt did is wear Sin Cara masks the latter somehow had in his pockets.
"It will, now move quickly." Matt tells him as they quickly take off from the mall entrance to the car with all their gifts.
Later...
Matt and Alonso make it to the arena with an hour to spare.
"Come on! We gotta move!" Matt tells his brother as they dash through the hallway.
As they do so, they see their coworkers preparing for the live event, then shit happens. Matt trips after a bad step, falls, and hurts his knee, Peter Griffin style. All the Disney merch he bought fall and scatter on the floor. Alonso sees this and he panics.
"Oh shit!" he screams. Nearby interns rush over to Matt, who's groaning in pain every five seconds.
"Matt's what now?" Trell asks the sweating Alonso.
"Uh... yeah, he hurt his knee on the way here." he explains.
"Let me guess: he forgot Abby's birthday." Trell sighs, making Alonso's eyes widen.
"What? You knew too?" he asks.
"I know my employees very well, Alonso. Alright, the card's the same, but we'll switch out ERS's opponents for tonight."
"To who?"
Later...
The current match at the live event is Seth Sullivan and Russell Black vs Jason Sabre and Rick Washington. Matt watches this from the locker room with an ice pack over his knee.
"Dang it, I won't be able to perform tonight." he sighs.
"Don't feel too bad." Chris pats him on the back. "At least you can perform in the next show."
As they watch the match go on, with Russell pummeling Rick in the corner, Abby and Emily walk in the locker room, loads of shopping bags in their hands.
"Matt, what the hell happened to you?" Abby asks.
"And is that the teddy bear I saw earlier?" Emily points at Alonso, who just raises his thumb.
"Uh... yes... Okay, look, itwasyourbirthdaytodayandIforgotI'msorry!" Matt screams quickly.
The two ladies look at him weirdly.
"So... it was you guys at the mall?" Emily asks. "Because you didn't know about Abby's birthday?"
"Just the bros." Chris tells them.
"Matt..." Abby suddenly starts giggling. "my birthday's tomorrow."
"What?!" the Lopez bros yell out.
"But Trell said-" Alonso is about to say something when the man in question walks by, saying, "I never said it was today, Mr. Lopez. In fact, no one did."
"...Well this is embarrassing." Matt groans. "I hurt my knee for nothing."
"Not really." Abby smiles. "You got all this stuff for me. That means a lot."
Matt manages a smile despite his knee aching. Abby pecks him on the lips afterwards.
"Hey look. We know who they're calling out." Alonso points at the TV screen, showing ERS in the ring, microphones out. They were calling out the "faces of ICW, the Guerrero failure, the horribly divorced lunatic, and Mr. Conservative.
"Are they calling out Escobar, Moxley, and Jones?" Asher wonders, then Blackwatch by Mandopony hits.
"Oh yeah..."
15 minutes later...
Ben and Ray are the legal men, the Destroyer setting up his opponent for a Death Valley Driver. Seth Mercer and E-Baum are outside, trying to get to the ring, but they are immediately met with Suicide Dives by Freddy Escobar and Furno Moxley, who take them down! Ben connects with the Death Valley Driver and goes for the pin!
1...2...3!
It is announced that the former and current ICW Heavyweight Champions are the winners. As that happens, Freddy grabs a microphone.
"This one's for that one scumbag over at XCW, King Randy!" he screams, cuing the boos. "You think you rule this kingdom?! You dare talk about Angelica?! Rest assured, when we meet, I will make you SCREAM FOR MERCY and BOW!"
Despite his heel status, the crowd cheers for the Prince as he, the lunatic, and the ICW Heavyweight Champion make their way backstage.
"Sweet promo, man." Furno bumps fists with Freddy.
"Still won't change the fact that you kinda caused SSW Kingdom to be a big flop." the Prince reminds him.
"It's not like I wanted it to happen mere seconds into the match." the Ohioan sighs. "I was hoping for a Ciampa post Gargano-Almas kind of thing."
"Well, it happened and we'll redeem it when we get to Ring of Valhalla."
"Even so, even big stars screw up in bigger ways." Ben claps both men in the back. "We've put on great shows before."
"I still feel guilty." Furno sighs.
Trell suddenly appears and tells them. "Gentlemen, meet us at the locker room. We're celebrating Abby's birthday early because that's why Matt hurt his knee."
"Was he moaning Peter Griffin style?" Freddy asks.
"Ask him yourselves." Trell replies before leaving the three men to their own devices.
"I had my birthday planned out, but this is better." Abby remarks. The locker room explodes into an impromptu birthday celebration the instant loads of nachos and beers are shown to them.
"Hey, Abby..." Matt limps towards her. "I'm sorry for freaking out and hurting myself. I didn't want to let you down."
"Aww... you're cute when you apologize." Abby smiles. "You didn't really let me down."
"Would you two just kiss?" Seth Sullivan calls out from the corner.
"We were getting there." Matt tells him.
The Mexican Angel giggles and pulls Matt in for a long liplock... that is interrupted.
"Hey, Matt, did you Peter Griffin moan when you hurt your knee?" Furno asks from outside the locker room, Freddy and Ben in tow.
"Yes, now shut up." Matt growls at the Ohioan, who gives a thumbs up and starts grabbing a handful of nachos and chowing down on them with the rest of the locker room.
All in all, not a bad day for the Lopez brothers.
"Wait, are we just going to ignore the fact that I got laid?" Alonso asks everyone, and cue the spit takes.
"WHAT?!"