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Wassup everybody? It's time, once again, for everybody to come aboard the… oops wrong line. So what's been happening lately? Oh yeah, JBL's earned himself another shot at the WWE title and, thanks to Palmer Cannon, Jason goes one-on-one with his buddy Shawn Michaels. But first we have the small matter of the WWE tag team titles to deal with. So without further ado…
Here We Go!
Brotherly Hate-Chapter Sixteen"Montreal Canada, of all the places to be teamed up with Shawn it had to be here. I'm jinxed, I've gotta be jinxed. How the hell am I gonna focus on this match with twenty thousand people yelling death threats at my partner?"
Jason Cena sat alone in the locker room, John was checking the card to see who he had for the night and Mara was away with Stacy and Kristal at a photo-shoot. "A photo-shoot? During the show? I hope she finishes before the match cause me and Shawn are gonna need her to keep an eye on Melina out there…" He jumped as John entered the room.
"Whoa! I know it's your locker room but damn, could you be any quieter?"
"Sorry kid, didn't mean to interrupt your daydreaming".
"So, who you got tonight?"
"Orlando".
"Oh, Shawn arrived yet?"
"Yeah, he just got here, when I walked by he was muttering something about Canadians and their inability to let go".
"Well, I better go talk to him".
"O.K. see ya later bro'".
"Yeah, and I'll bring my gold back with me".
Jason walked in to Shawn's locker room just as the Heartbreak Kid was finishing lacing up his boots.
"It's polite to knock ya know" he said without looking up.
"Sorry, you ready for tonight?"
"Ready to become one half of the tag team champions you mean? Oh yeah, I'm ready all right".
Jason sat down in a chair opposite Shawn, his attention was drawn to some yellow stains on Shawn's bag.
"What happened there?"
"Huh? Oh that, a bunch of kids egged me as I left the hotel earlier".
Jason laughed. "Wow, pretty popular up here aren't you?"
"Yeah" was the sarcastic reply. "A real hero".
"At least you got the titles to look forward to".
"Yup, but to get 'em first I gotta wrestle in front of a bunch of 'Hitmen', damnit! When are these people gonna move on and get over it?"
"About the same time Bret shakes your hand and says you're his best friend".
"True, now another question. You up for Summerslam?"
"I've been up for it since Cannon announced it".
"Good, cause I don't want anything less than a hundred and ten percent from you".
"How come?"
"Cause I think our match could steal the show when it comes and I personally feel that we could both use a good match at the second biggest event of the WWE year".
"We could both use a win at the second biggest event too".
"Yeah, but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it". He stood up. "You ready?"
"Damn straight I'm ready".
"Let's go!"
They both headed out of the room and toward the ring, on the way they met Mara.
"Just in time" said Shawn. "Cut it close didn't ya?"
"Yeah, sorry".
"It's cool" said Jason. "Now c'mon, we got ass to kick!"
"We need ya to keep an eye on Melina so that she don't interfere".
"I know, Jason's been saying that all week".
"Right, you up for us all going out there together?"
"I got no objections to that".
"One more thing" Shawn added with a slight grin. "You are familiar with the phrase 'guilty by association' right?"
"Yeah, why?"
"You'll see".
They reached the sound area, Jason noticed some of the staff fixing Shawn with glares as he went by. "Oh man, he is gonna get it out there!" Shawn's music hit and Jason was immediately stunned by the intensity of the hatred the crowd was showing him. All credit to Shawn though, he just shrugged it off, fixed his usual grin on his face and marched out into the arena with Jason and Mara in tow. What followed was about a minute of dodging whatever it was that the Canadian fans were throwing at them, by the time they got to the ring Jason and Mara were pretty shook up and Jason was actually fearing for their safety, especially Mara's as she would be standing outside the ring. Shawn noticed the looks on their faces and simply shrugged.
"I wish I could say the worst is over but then I'd be lying to ya".
"I take it we're in for a long night?" Asked Jason.
"A VERY long night".
"Still" Jason thought. "It'll be worth it if we walk out with those titles".
MNM's music hit and they came out with the crowd cheering them as though they were war heroes or something, when they got to the ring and Melina prepared to do her usual entrance Jason turned to Mara.
"Why don't you ever try that?" He asked earning himself a playful slap around the head. Mercury and Nitro suddenly came across the ring to face their challengers.
"You think you're taking these you got another thing coming!" Said Nitro, holding his title in Shawn's face.
"Yeah, we're never gonna lose these! Especially to a punk and a has-been!" Agreed Mercury doing likewise to Jason.
Shawn pushed Nitro away and turned to his partner.
"You gonna take that kid? He called you a has-been" suddenly Nitro was right back in his face.
"Who do you think you are? Don't you ever touch me like that again!" Nitro's rant was cut off as Shawn swiped the title belt out of his hands and held it up for the crowd, admittedly it just got him more boo's, but it still pissed off MNM. Mercury was distracted so Jason swiped his belt as well and copied Shawn, he smiled as several of the fans stood up and cheered for him whilst booing Shawn at the same time. MNM had had enough and jumped their challengers from behind setting up a huge brawl to start the match.
Much like their match with The Bashams the previous week Jason and Shawn dominated the early going, much to the displeasure of the Montreal fans who were berating Shawn with their usual chant.
"YOU SCREWED BRET! YOU SREWED BRET!"That mixed with Melina's constant screaming, the term 'nails on a chalkboard' came to mind, was grating away at Jason's nerves.
"Jeez, does this woman ever shut up?"
The match reached a turning point when Shawn allowed Melina to distract him, giving Nitro and Mercury the chance to double-team him. Shawn was pounded on for a long period of time, but wouldn't stay down, even staging brief fightbacks from time to time, during one of these it looked like he was going to make the tag to Jason, he nailed Mercury with a DDT and began crawling towards the corner only for Nitro to come in and pull him back. While the referee was getting Nitro out of the ring Jason climbed to the top-rope and landed a frog-splash on the still down Mercury, Shawn slowly rolled into a pin as Jason took out Nitro, the referee counted, but only got a two-count as Melina put Mercury's foot on the bottom rope. Shawn was able to gain a small advantage and took out both members of MNM with a double-clothesline and made the tag to Jason, the younger Cena quickly went to the top-rope again and came down with a flying cross-body to Nitro for a two-count. Jason began to gain momentum as he ran through both tag team champions and dropped Nitro with a powerslam, Mercury came back to break up the count but Jason moved causing him to drop an elbow on his own partner. Jason then dropped Mercury with an impaler, spun round and almost took Nitro's head off with a shining wizard for another two-count.
Jason went to whip Nitro but it was reversed sending Jason into his own corner, Shawn was back up and tagged himself in as Nitro charged into Jason's boot, allowing Shawn to follow up with a clothesline, Mercury came back in but Jason cut him off with a slam allowing Shawn to come off the top with an elbow. Shawn tuned up the band and went for the superkick but Mercury ducked causing Shawn to almost nail Jason, fortunately the teen's quick reflexes allowed him to catch Shawn's foot before it connected, unfortunately his quick temper flared up.
"Watch what you're doing!" He yelled pushing Shawn away.
"Hey, it was an accident, calm down!"
As the two were arguing, Mercury came in and tried to nail Jason from behind but Shawn pushed him to one side and took it himself, Jason responded by knocking Mercury down with a straight right hand. Melina had seen enough and grabbed one of the belts, sliding it in to Nitro and climbing up onto the apron to distract the referee, Nitro went to pick it up but Jason came across and took the belt instead, Nitro leapt to his feet but Jason clocked him round the head with it before disposing of the evidence. Mercury was back up and tried to take out Jason with a clothesline but the teen had the same idea and both men took each other out.
All four superstars were down and Melina had the referee distracted, Mercury and Jason began staggering to their feet, Mara, sensing an opportunity to help out, climbed to the top-rope behind the referee's back. Waiting until Mercury was standing she leapt off the ropes for a missile dropkick, however Mercury was aware enough to see it coming and fell sideways causing Mara to connect with Jason. She looked around in confusion, before realising what she had done, she turned her back on Mercury to check on Jason, which turned out to be a mistake as Mercury grabbed her and threw her-head first out of the ring. The referee noticed her lying out on the floor and went to check on her turning way from the action again. Shawn came back and began brawling with Mercury, he tried a whip but it was reversed, he ducked the clothesline as he came back but as he went to hit the ropes again Melina nailed him in the back with the belt that Jason had discarded. He staggered away, right into Mercury, he lifted Shawn up as a recovered Nitro came along and the duo dropped him with the snapshot. The referee returned as Nitro covered and Mercury held Jason back. One-two-three, MNM retain!
The champions grabbed their titles and left as Jason and Shawn watched on from the ring, Jason went to help Shawn up but the Heartbreak Kid pushed him away in anger.
"Where were you?" He yelled right up in Jason's face.
"I was being held back down there" Jason replied pointing to the corner.
"What the hell were you doing…" Shawn trailed off as Jason turned his back on him to check on Mara, who had rolled back into the ring holding her head.
"You alright?"
"I think so" she replied wincing. "What happened?"
"Well long story short, we lost" Jason started but Shawn brought himself back into the conversation.
"Yeah we lost, because you got it into your head to take out your boyfriend, thanks a lot Mara, you fucked up royally!"
"HEY! Don't talk to her like that!" Jason stepped between Mara and Shawn. "It was an accident, kinda like that superkick".
"It didn't connect with you did it? Although I can try again if you want".
"What? You wanna go? Alright HBK, let's go right now!"
The two stared each other down but before anything could break out Mara stepped between them.
"C'mon you two, don't do this! This is the kind of thing Palmer Cannon wanted when he made this match, Jason, Shawn, do you really wanna do this here? If you wanna fight then wait 'til Summerslam, just not here, you're supposed to be friends".
She was looking more at Jason as she said this because he was the more likely to listen to her. He frowned and then looked at the mat for a moment then held out his hand, looking Shawn right in the eyes.
"She's right, if you wanna kick my ass you can do it at Summerslam, but let's just shake hands and forget about tonight, this is the kind of thing Cannon would want".
Shawn thought it over. "Well… whatever he wants I don't" he slowly put his hand out and shook Jason's. The Montreal fans, who had wanted to see the friendship between the two dissolve, booed rather heavily at this.
"Cut it close there didn't we?" Shawn laughed in an obvious attempt to try and rebuild the gap that was forming.
"Yeah" Jason replied. "REAL close".
Shawn's music hit and the two left, although neither said anything both were quite relieved that this match in Montreal Canada hadn't ended their friendship.
You know, I can't help but think that this was distinctly half-assed, oh well. I'm just gonna leave it here. Happy Easter everybody!
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