"Please tell me, there's a Plan B." Was the first thing Seth heard after picking up his phone.

"Okay, so I didn't bank on Kane being so damn stubborn. I honestly thought sending Bryan in would do the trick." Seth admitted, sitting down on the sofa. "How's Roman? I can't believe he wouldn't accept medical attention,"

"How long have you known him? He's fine, I think the car got the worse end of it, to be honest." Dean said, Seth could hear him stretching out on his own sofa. "So, about your big idea-"

"Hey, it was a good idea! I just didn't bank on Kane having second thoughts." Seth said defensively. "He hates being a corporate puppet so much, I don't get why he's fighting a face turn."

"Maybe Hunter and Steph have something on him."

"Maybe. Not sure what. I doubt anything they could have on Kane could top that Katie thing ten years ago."

"Yeah, that was weird. So do you have a Plan B?"

"Of course I do! I'm the Architect! I always have a Plan B!" He didn't, but Dean didn't need to know that.

"Great! So what is it?"

"I need to tweak it."

"That's what I thought."

"Look, Kane almost came through for us, tonight. I just need to work on him some more."

"Maybe we should work on Noble and Mercury."

"No, Jamie and Joey are my friends, I don't want to hurt them, they don't deserve that. Plus, they aren't that important to Stephanie and Hunter. If we were to get Kane or Show to defect, that would be major."

"What if we get them both to defect? Or at least, cause lots of instability."

"What do you mean?"

"Well, they were having issues with each other before Stephanie went all 'Mommy' on them and threatened to take away the Andre the Giant match, right? Well, that's done and Show won. Maybe if you can push their buttons enough, they'll turn on each other for real and that'll take two major pillars of The Authority out."

"Have I ever told you that you're a mad genius, Dean?" Seth said with a smile.

"Yes, but don't let that stop you from saying it again." Dean replied, and Seth could almost see the smirk through the phone. "Have you decided on your stipulation?"

"No. I need something that will really piss off the fans. Randy's probably going to stipulate either a cage match or Hell in a Cell. Either way, I'm stuck with Randy with no backup."

"Ouch."

"Yeah. Any ideas?"

"Why're you asking me?"

"Uh, because this whole thing is your idea? Plus, you're the historian: What would a heel do if faced with an opponent of equal or greater skills to get an edge?"

"Well, since you put it that way." Dean seemed to think it over. "Hmm, the heel would probably make a stipulation to make the face appear to be at a major disadvantage. Like, take the face's biggest offensive move away."

"You want me to stipulate that Randy can't use the RKO?" It was sad how quickly he'd forgotten that Dean was easily one of the smartest people in WWE as far as psychology and storytelling went.

"Exactly. Everyone knows that it's Orton's go to move, so it'll really make him look like he's at a disadvantage. He's a good enough wrestler that he doesn't really need it, but it'll really make you look like a coward to the fans."

"I wish we could bring Randy into this. He knows The Authority better than anyone." His first thought when he'd rejoined his brothers was to let Randy in on their plan, but Dean and Roman both vetoed the idea.

"Orton's too treacherous. No, the only people who need to know are us and Roman."

"Is he still mad about WrestleMania?"

"Yeah, but he's not mad at you, just at how it was done. I'll tell him what we decided when he gets back from talking to Jojo. She was pretty upset that Show beat him up."

"Okay. Oops, Joey's knocking on the door. I gotta go," Seth said, hearing Joey say it was time go back to the ring.

"Okay, be careful."

Dean hung up the phone with a smile, his beautiful little garden was coming along nicely. He just needed to keep a close eye out and its fruits would be appearing before he knew it.

The End.