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Hi! How's it going everybody? As we saw last time, Undertaker defeated Jason in the final of the 'Deadly Games' tournament, with help from John, was it an accident? Was it deliberate? Where will they go from here? We're gonna find out!

Here We Go!

Brotherly Hate-Chapter Twenty Eight-The Road to the Gold

When Smackdown rolled around the next week there was one question on the mind of everyone, fan or wrestler, what was the status of the Cena brothers? No one but the brothers them selves knew. However, despite the fact that almost everyone they knew had called to see if they were cool, they had not given a straight answer to anyone, they even turned up to the arena separately causing everyone to believe it was the Summerslam situation all over again, Jason was confronted by, of all people, Carlito.

"Hey Cena, Wassup?"

"What do you want?"

"Nothing, nothing… well actually Carlito wants to know if you would be a guest on the cabana tonight".

"And why would I want to do that?"

"Kid, everyone saw what happened last week, everyone knows you haven't confirmed or denied that you and your brother are on speaking terms, in fact, he's not even here is he?"

"Nope".

"See? Anyway all Carlito is doing is trying to get answers for all the concerned people out there".

"And you hope that me and John will end up going at it".

"What? Never! Carlito would be heartbroken, HEARTBROKEN! If the Cena brothers broke up tonight, anyway, are you gonna do it or not?"

"Yeah, why not?"

"Great! Oh by the way, Teddy Long says that if you agreed to it then the cabana would be opening the show so the people would get an answer sooner".

"Good for them" muttered Jason as he and Mara walked away.

At this point John walked into the locker room, Jason went to walk over when Teddy walked in.

"Gentlemen, and lady" he added seeing Mara at the back of the room with Jason. "I have an announcement to make regarding No Mercy, due to a venue problem we will not be holding the event I New Orleans".

There was some muttering before Teddy continued. "However, we have scrambled and we have already chosen a new venue, Boston Massachusetts!"

Jason laughed and looked at Mara. "How's that for a coincidence?"

Teddy finished up. "Now, that's all I have to say so lets get the show started, Carlito, did you get your guest for the cabana?"

"Yes I did".

"Good, get out to the ring then, it's already set up".

"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Carlito's Cabana! Now you all saw what happened last week with the Cena's and you all want answers right? Well once again, the cabana provides, ladies and gentlemen, Jason Cena!"

Jason's music hit and he made his way down with Mara, as soon as got in Carlito began the questioning.

"Now, first and foremost, how do you feel about losing to the Undertaker last week?"

"How do you think I feel, I was in the final of a number one contenders tournament and, due to unforeseen circumstances, I lost, so I'm more than a little pissed off".

"Pissed off enough to slap whoever did it across the face?"

"I see what your doing Carlito, and I told you not to".

"Carlito's just saying that, if his brother cost him a title shot then he'd like nothing better than to beat the living hell out of whoever did it".

Jason raised the mic, he was slowly losing his cool. "Listen to me, you stupid little jackass, I believe the reason you called me out was to find out if me and my brother were on speaking terms right?"

"Yes".

"Well, I'll answer that, me and John are…"

Jason was cut-off by the usual cabana interruption. "What did I tell you?" he said to Mara as the paparazzi came out onto the aisle signalling the arrival of the WWE tag team champions MNM, Carlito, smile on his face, left, shaking hands with them as he did. "He set me up!" Thought Jason. "But why these guys?" Once in the ring Melina grabbed a mic.

"Allow us to introduce ourselves, Mercury, Nitro and Melina, MNM, the 'it' team on the scene. The most dominant team in WWE history and the most dominant diva in WWE history, the team that has media coverage if they so much as open their front door. However, recently, someone has been stealing our spotlight, and that someone is you, no one cares if you and your brother aren't talking, no one cares how close you came to getting a title shot, and no one cares about you!"

Jason raised his mic. "No one cares about me? I think you'll find about twelve thousand people who disagree with you" the crowd cheered and Mara asked for the mic, Jason looked surprised but handed it over.

"Melina, I'm sensing a lot of bitterness from you, but listen, it's not Jason's fault that the WWE fans like him more than they like you, it's not his fault that he's a better wrestler than both your boys put together and it's definitely not his fault that the make-up lady couldn't cover that huge zit on your cheek".

Mara was by now up in Melina's face, MNM's manager made a 'whatever' gesture and went to back off, then slapped Mara across the face, Jason took a few steps forward but Mara held up her hand to stop him, then nailed Melina with a punch, sending her to the ground, she began to pound on Melina but Mercury came across and threw her to the ground by her hair, that set Jason off and he began to brawl with Mercury, Nitro got involved but Jason managed to fight both men off and send them outside, Melina was up and she jumped on Jason's back only to be flipped to the mat, Jason picked her up and went for the F-U but Mercury came in and nailed him in the back with his championship belt, Nitro followed up with a shot to the head with his belt. Melina was back up and had Mara pinned to the ground with a boot across her throat, she looked at her team and gave the signal, Mercury and Nitro picked Jason up and sent him back down with the Snapshot, Melina laughed and then called for them to give one to Mara, before they could John's music hit and the older Cena charged the ring, MNM went to meet him but he took control and sent both of them into retreat, as they were leaving Teddy Long came out onto the aisleway.

"Well, ladies and gentlemen it seems we have our answer as to whether or not the Cena brothers are on the same page, that's good because later on tonight we are gonna have a non-title match featuring the WWE tag team champions MNM against the team of Jason and John, the Cena Brothers!"

MNM looked scared but Melina tried to psyche them up while John checked on Jason.

Backstage, Jason putting on his gear when John came up to him.

"You ready kid?"

"I was born ready bro'".

"Good, cause you know what this is? This is a non-title match against the tag team champs, if we get a win tonight then we could get a shot at some point".

"Maybe even No Mercy, it'd be nice to get a shot for the titles in our hometown".

"West Newbury is our hometown kid, regardless of where we live now, anyway you're right, winning the titles in Boston would be fitting since that's where it all started for you isn't it?"

"Uh huh…"

The two brothers were interrupted by Mara storming into the room, she seemed to be extremely pissed off.

"What's up with you?" Asked John.

"Teddy Long just refused to grant me a match with Melina" was the reply. "I want to kick that bitches ass from here to Canada!"

"Relax, you'll get her later" said Jason. "And don't worry about MNM, they're gonna pay for putting their hands on you".

Mara nodded, John smiled.

"Sounds like a plan, lets go kick ass!"

MNM were already in the ring when John's music hit, he and Jason wasted little time and charged the ring to kick it off with a brawl, Jason paired off with Nitro and John went at it with Mercury, Jason gained control of Nitro and clotheslined him to the outside then went to help John, they whipped Mercury and caught him with a double elbow followed by a double elbow drop. Nitro came back in but was taken down with a double spinebuster; Jason left the ring as John continued to punish both members of MNM.

John controlled both Mercury and Nitro but couldn't put them away, in the end Melina provided a distraction allowing Mercury to hit a neckbreaker for a two-count, MNM whipped John for a double-team straight away but Jason made a blind tag as John hit the ropes in front of him, John went down to a double clothesline but Jason came off the top with one of his own, he got up and whipped Mercury and hit a powerslam, he covered, but moved as Nitro came in causing him to nail his partner, Nitro dropped to his knees to check on his partner leaving him open to the shining wizard, Jason hit it, then dropped Mercury with an impaler for a two-count.

Jason put the boots to Mercury but then Melina started to climb up the apron, the teen spun round and took a swing at her, she ducked and dropped back down, Jason then spun round into a superkick from Nitro, Melina immediately called for the snapshot.

"Finish it! Finish it now!" She screamed, MNM picked him up and Mercury tried to lift him up, Jason however slipped out and hit a tornado DDT giving Nitro and enziguri kick as he did, sending him to the outside, he gave Mercury and went for the five-knuckle-shuffle, giving the DX sign, and hit it, he called for the F-U. Melina had seen enough and climbed up onto the apron, Mara came round and pulled her down, the two went face-to-face then Melina jabbed he finger into Mara's eye, she went for a clothesline but Mara ducked and nailed her with a superkick, in the ring Jason lifted Mercury up for the F-U, Nitro came in to break it up but John cut him off and lifted him up as well, the two brothers stared at each other then dropped their respective champion, they each made a cover and the referee made the double three-count.

Jason and John celebrated their dominant victory over the champs, they high-fived and hugged before getting out of the ring, as they left with Mara Melina grabbed a mic and unleashed her wrath on her team.

"How could you let them beat you?" She screamed. "Not only that, you let them dominate you!" She seemed to calm herself down before turning her attention to the Cena's and Mara. "Daniels! How dare you touch me! Look at me you little bitch!" Mara spun round and went to go back to the ring but Jason held her back.

"Jason let go of me".

"Not until you calm down".

"I am calm, now let go of me".

Melina continued. "You want to be a big girl Daniels? Fine, next week me and you…"

"You're on" yelled Mara, but Melina wasn't done.

"Let me finish before you accept, next week you pick one of your boys and I'll pick one of mine and we'll see who the dominant diva is".

Mara put an arm round Jason. "I got my boy right here!"

"Oh you do? Well… I pick…Nitro!"

Nitro looked worried for a moment before Mercury calmed him down.

"You're on Melina, just don't cry when me and my boyfriend humiliate you in front of the world!" Mara and Jason left leaving MNM standing in the ring; thanking God it was just a non-title match.

Backstage, Jason and Mara were packing up their stuff.

"You sure you want to do this Mara?"

"Yeah, I'm gonna kick that whore's ass!"

"Whoa! Calm down, where's the cute, quiet, voice of reason Mara Daniels I fell so hard for gone?"

"She's encouraging me to beat the hell out of Melina".

"Well, if you see her tell her I miss her".

Mara's reply was to press her lips against Jason's.

"What was that for?"

"Just thanking you for your concern".

"Really? In that case I'm REALLY concerned".

"Don't push your luck Jason" she said, zipping up her bag. "Anyway, if we win next week, I might just thank you again".

Jason shook his head and laughed as she walked off. "Bring on next week" he muttered, then. "Hey, give me back my wallet!"

End of Chapter

Looks like we have new challengers for the tag titles, or do we? Maybe this is just my way of getting Mara into the ring, then again with No Mercy being in Boston… I'll just leave it here.

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