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Hi! Welcome back, last time we were here Mara defeated Melina to earn Jason and John a shot at MNM for the WWE tag team titles, we are now two days away from No Mercy, will MNM get some revenge? will the Cena's keep the momentum? will we find out who's been calling John? Let's see.
Here We Go!
Brotherly Hate-Chapter Thirty One-No Mercy Comes Early"So, what's the excuse you want me to give Teddy?"
New York City, two days before No Mercy, the Cena brothers were leaving the hotel to go their separate ways, Jason was heading to the arena for Smackdown and John was meeting up with friends.
"Just say I'm in town but I can't make it, food poisoning or something, he's got my number if he wants to talk".
"But say he has a match for us tonight?"
"He'll have to change it then won't he?"
Jason shrugged. "All right, but I'm not taking the heat for you John".
"I wouldn't expect ya to, if Teddy wants me he can call me".
"Whatever, let's just hope MNM don't jump me tonight".
"They won't, even if they do you've had their number recently".
"Fine, go do your thing, say hi to him for me will ya?"
"Will do kid".
The two set off; little did they know what lay ahead.
Jason and Mara walked in Madison Square Garden, the most famous arena in the world, fans were already filing into the arena.
"I remember just over a year ago I was with them" said Jason.
"Really? What event?"
"Wrestlemania twenty, I sat front row while John beat Big Show for the US title".
"Using a chain if I remember".
"Hey, no need to dump on my brother just because the biggest event you ever sat in the crowd for was watching your brother and Elix lose to America's Most Wanted".
"I wasn't, I was just pointing out a fact, and on that point, was your brother involved in the best cage match ever?"
"No, but has your brother ever headlined Wrestlemania?"
"Look Jason, we went through this back when we started training together, Christopher is better than John, deal with it".
Jason paused. "But your brother's never headlined Wrestlemania".
"You are so childish".
"Yup".
Teddy came across. "Hey playas, where's John?"
"He couldn't make it, he… ate some bad seafood last night".
"Damn, I was gonna make you two go against another mystery tag team, stay hear I gotta make a phone call".
Teddy pulled out his cell-phone and began talking to some one, Mara turned to Jason.
"Bad seafood?" She whispered. "THAT'S the best you could come up with?"
"Don't knock it, that excuse got me out of going on a field trip to a museum, six times".
Teddy came back. "Right, I've had to scrap the original plan but I have a backup, you up for going it alone tonight?"
"Going it alone?"
"In a way, I've found a substitute for John".
"Who?"
"Paul Birchill, that alright?"
"Isn't Shawn available?"
"He ain't here yet so I'm scrambling a bit".
"Yeah, I think me and Paul could make a good team". Jason had been looking forward to meeting Birchill in some form or another, his move the C4 was one of the best Jason had ever seen, only the Canadian Destroyer looked better. "Hurt like hell too" he thought, he'd felt it first hand on the Indies.
"Good, by the way, Paul has… well, gone for a new look lately".
"New look?"
"You'll find out when ya find him, anyway tonight your gonna face another team that I decided to bring in, you'll be kicking the show off again and the one clue I'll give ya is that they like to make an 'impact'".
Teddy went on his way leaving Jason and Mara alone.
"What does he mean?" She asked.
"Dunno, c'mon we better find Birchill".
The two teens found Birchill alone in a spare locker room, Mara tried to keep herself from laughing, Jason was too disturbed.
"Uhhh, Paul? You do realise that Halloween is two weeks away right?"
Birchill's 'new look' was quite bizarre, he had styled himself to look like Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribbean, right down to the hat and sword.
"Not you too mate" he said. "All I'm doing is honouring my ancestors".
"Your ancestors were…pirates?"
"Yeah, I'm proud of my ancestors".
Mara managed to stop laughing for a moment. "How did Regal take this?"
"Well, he's not too happy, he says I can still tag with him but, he doesn't really like the pirate thing".
"Can't blame him" thought Jason. "Look Paul, John's not here tonight so Teddy says you gotta sub for him".
"No problem, I think we'll do quite well together".
"That's what I said, just checking if you were cool with it".
"I'll see ya out there".
"Good, cause we're up first".
John entered the bar in Times Square, sure enough the RAW guys were here, Batista, Ric, he kept walking, he was pretty sure Flair hadn't forgotten how he'd ruined his suit, Booker, RVD, Cade, Murdoch, Shelton and, in the corner, the guy who had made the call. He noticed John and waved him over.
"Johnny-boy! C'mon, pull up a chair, I got a beer right here for ya".
"Thanks" John sat down, the table his friend had chosen was right opposite the TV and Smackdown happened to be on.
"So how did ya get out of it?"
"I told Jason to tell Teddy I was sick, seems to have worked, he hasn't called me yet".
"Yeah well, you may be in a bit of trouble with the kid afterwards".
"How come?"
"One of my other buddies, Kennedy in fact, told me that you and Jason were supposed to take on another tag team tonight".
"Oh crap, so what's happening?"
"You've been replaced".
"Who by?"
"Pirate Paul".
"Who?"
"Birchill, y'know, the guy with the back-flip rock bottom?"
"He's a pirate now?"
"Yeah, look, the match is about to start".
Sure enough Jason and Mara were headed down to the ring, John sat back and got comfy, even if he and Birchill had never teamed up Jason would be able to handle whatever team was thrown at him… at least, John hoped so.
Jason and Mara stood in the ring waiting for Birchill to come out, Jason had spent the five or so minutes he had before the match talking to Regal about how Birchill liked to work his matches, now it was time to put it into practise. He found himself thinking about how the crowd would react seeing as Birch, as Jason was now calling him, was making his 'Pirate Debut'. Birchill's music hit and Jason turned to the aisleway to see him swinging down from a platform, Mara burst into laughter again, Jason just stared, their opponents were probably dieing from laughter, when Paul got in the ring Tony Chimel again introduced the other team.
"And their opponents, they are two-time ECW tag team champions, Justin Credible and Lance Storm, the Impact Players!"
"Great!" Thought Jason. "Just great, I'm wrestling former ECW tag champs and my partner thinks he's a pirate". Credible and Storm entered the ring while Jason and Birchill discussed tactics, while they were doing so the Impact Players came across and jumped both of them to kick the match off, Jason brawled with Credible while Birchill paired off with Storm, the pirate was thrown to the outside so Credible and Storm tried to double-team Jason. They whipped him but he ducked a double elbow and hit a clothesline on both men, he gave each one a right hand before clotheslining Credible to the outside, Storm came over and received a slam followed by a legdrop for a two-count.
Birchill was back on the apron so Jason tagged him in, he picked Strom up and gave him a few knees before hitting a suplex and a knee drop for a two, Credible came in again and received a powerslam, Storm got back up but received a rolling fireman's carry, then a standing moonsault, then a standing shooting star press! Birchill covered but Credible broke it up. The Impact Players went for another double-team but Birchill knocked them down and hit a pump-handle slam on Storm, he went for the same move on Credible but he slipped out and went for a superkick, Birchill caught his foot and gave him a whip into the corner, he tried to follow but Credible dodged causing him to crash into the turnbuckle, Storm was now up and when Birchill turned he and Credible hit a double superkick, Storm covered but Jason broke it up.
Storm tagged in Credible to try and keep the advantage, they picked Birchill up and hit a double suplex for a two count, Credible followed up with a DDT and a fall-forward suplex for another two, Storm came back in and hit a leg-lariat followed by a neckbreaker for yet another two. He went for a brainbuster but Birchill escaped and went for the C4, Storm elbowed out and tried a clothesline but Birchill hit a spinebuster.
Birchill crawled to tag in Jason while Storm tried to tag Credible, he got his partner in but Birchill managed to do so as well, Credible charged across the ring but Jason jumped to the top-rope and came down with a cross-body for a two-count, they both got up and Jason hit a powerslam for another two, Storm came in but was met with a superkick, Credible received a neckbreaker for another two-count. The Impact Players pulled themselves up in separate corners, Jason hit Storm with a stinger splash, then did the same to Credible, then clotheslined Storm to the outside, finally he ran forward and gave Credible a shining wizard for another two.
Jason was rolling by this point, he picked up Credible and gave him a slam before climbing the ropes, he came down looking for a frog splash but Credible moved, Jason popped a forward roll upon landing and hit an impaler on Credible, he covered but Strom broke it up. Jason threw him back out and gave Credible another slam, he hit the ropes and hit the five-knuckle-shuffle before calling for the F-U, Storm came in again but Jason lifted him up and hit the F-U! Credible took advantage and went for his modified piledriver but Jason escaped and pushed him into Birchill who dropped him with the C4! Jason covered for the three-count. As they were celebrating he pulled Birchill aside.
"Maybe I should team with you on Sunday huh?"
Birchill laughed. "Nah mate, I'll stick with Regal, that way I'm the better member of the team and I get more action".
Jason laughed as well. "Well let's get outta here and celebrate".
Once the two got backstage however, there were no celebrations as Teddy met them.
"Birchill, go get changed, I want a word with Jason".
Birchill left quickly, Teddy looked a little mad, Jason also noticed.
"Wassup Teddy? Ya look a little pissed".
"Tell me Jason" he began slowly. "Did you, or did you not, tell me that John was sick?"
"I did" Jason replied, not liking where this was headed.
"Then you'll be able to explain to me why Booker T just called me to say that John is currently in a bar down in Times Square".
"…Ah, yeah, about that…"
"What kind of a fool do you take me for Jason".
"Well, I wouldn't call you a fool…"
"I have half a mind to take you out of that tag title match on Sunday!"
"But…"
"But I won't, only because this is actually the first piece of trouble you and John have given me, not counting the time he gave me the F-U, but I'm fining you a weeks pay".
"I can accept that".
"And you better tell your brother to get his ass here now or his punishment is gonna be far worse!"
"I'll get right on it".
"Good, cause I won't let you and your brother off again, ya feel me?"
"One hundred percent".
"Now get outta my sight".
John sat in the bar, Jason's match had finished a few minutes previously, the kid had done well considering the situation he had been put in, the TV suddenly blinked off.
"Hey!" He turned to the guy next to him. "I was watching that!"
"Your brother's match is over, nothing left to see on that show that hasn't been seen before, besides, me and you gotta talk".
"What about?"
"Do you remember when we first met back in OVW? Do you remember everything we sacrificed to get to the top of this company?"
"Yeah, I remember".
"Then you'll remember how we made that deal that nothing would get in our way climbing that long and lonely stairway to the top".
"And nothing has got in our way, we've had our time at the top, mine lasted longer than yours but we'll have more shots in the future".
"You're completely missing the point here John, you'd still be at the top if it wasn't for that kid, and now look, so you're getting a title shot in two days, big deal, soon the two of you will be seen as just that, a team".
"So?"
"So your bright career will be dead before it begins, one reign at the top doesn't get you remembered John, you're throwing away everything you fought for in OVW and when we first came to this company, and I refuse to let you do that!"
John shrugged and took another sip of beer. "That's not your decision to make".
"Yo, this is John, I can't get to my phone right now, leave a message".
"John it's Jason, Teddy found out about what we pulled and he ain't happy, he wants you to get here NOW or there's gonna be hell to pay, call me back".
"He still not answering?" Asked Mara.
"Yeah, the moron turned his phone off before he left, and I forgot that he did! We're in deep shit now!"
"Calm down, he'll realise soon enough and he'll get here".
"I hope so" suddenly MNM's music hit in the arena, the tag champs didn't have a match scheduled for tonight so they probably had something to say, the two teens turned to the monitor nearby, Melina had a mic.
"Last week I had to face Mara Daniels in a bra and panties match, where, if she won, then the Cena brothers would get a shot at Mercury and Nitro at No Mercy. And what happened? She cheated! She had to get help from some Boogey…THING to beat me! However she's soon going to realise how big a mistake she made, because in two days time, my boys will defend their titles against John, and her boyfriend Jason Cena. And what Mercury and Nitro do to them, Jason especially, is going to be on her head, by beating me she has set her boyfriend up for the worst beating he has, and will ever receive!"
Jason had a small grin on his face, where did this girl get off? Had she already forgotten how he and John had dominated her boys? As if she was reading his mind Melina continued.
"Now I know what you're all thinking, the Cena brothers destroyed us in that non-title match right? That's true they did, but the key words are NON-TITLE, in a title match Mercury and Nitro raise their game, that's why they have owned the tag division for the last six months, and on that who have the Cena brothers beaten? This week one of them couldn't be bothered to show up while the other decided to play pirates!"
Jason couldn't help but laugh, Melina continued.
"Oh, and you might say that beating the Rockers is a good achievement and it is, or would be if this was nineteen eighty-seven, I mean look at the Rockers now, one of them is a has-been with a chronic back problem and the other has to call his parole officer every time he wrestles! But anyway, No Mercy may be two days away, but I want my revenge for last week NOW, so Jason Cena, if you're man enough to go it alone, come on out and bring it!"
Jason's music hit straight away and he walked out onto the aisle mic in hand and Mara in tow.
Melina, I know I didn't just hear you question my manhood, if the last three weeks are anything to go by then you'll know that I do not back down from a fight, but anyway, did I just hear you call Shawn Michaels a has-been?"
"Yeah, you did!"
"Melina, Shawn Michaels is many things, but a has-been isn't one of them, and on that subject, I'm sure he'd rather be a has-been, than a never-was like your boys up there!"
Melina started to get pissed, Jason continued.
"But you're right about one thing, in two days time, you and your boys come to Boston, my neck of the woods, however, me and John aren't going to just walk in and beat you for those belts oh no, instead we are going to make sure that when you walk out of that arena, without the belts, with tears in your eyes and despair in your souls, you realise that the Cena brothers are more than just a team, we are a unit! We are a family! And we are your NEXT tag team champions! And, in the words of a guy who now wrestles in a six-sided ring, if you ain't down with that I got two words for ya!"
Melina managed to find her voice. "Look, I'm sure that Daniels up there would do that for you except for one problem, you haven't got a set to suck!"
Jason laughed. "OUCH! You got me there, now I could retaliate by calling you a slut, I could retaliate by saying that you look fat in that outfit or I could retaliate by walking down to that ring and give you a little preview of No Mercy! And ya know what? I'm taking option number three!"
Jason dropped the mic and charged the ring, Mara followed him in and took down Melina while Jason pounded MNM down and sent Nitro to the outside, he threw Mercury to the corner and punched away while Mara continued to beat down Melina, Jason whipped Mercury and hit a clothesline, he turned to Nitro but was met with a chair to his skull, he went down in a heap while Nitro turned to Mara, he raised the chair but she stood her ground, Mercury tried to come up behind her but she gave him a kick to the groin, Nitro took advantage of this and brought the chair down across her head! Even Melina looked stunned as Mara dropped to the mat, Nitro stood over her for a moment then raised the chair again! Before he could bring it down Jason rolled across and used his body to shield Mara, Nitro hesitated before bringing the chair down on Jason again and again, after a few he stopped and ordered Mercury to pick Jason up, he did and Nitro brought the chair down over the teen's skull again! Jason went down bleeding heavily from the head.
Nitro still wasn't done, he handed his belt to Melina and ordered her to "Make her watch" as he pointed at Mara, Melina wrapped the belt around Mara's throat and leaned back, cutting off Mara's oxygen and forcing her to watch MNM continue to brutalise Jason. Nitro got Mercury to lift Jason up one more time and crashed the chair across his head, part of the chair broke off with the force of the impact, Nitro grabbed Jason's head and held his face inches away from Mara's.
"This is your fault!" He screamed at her as she gasped for air, he picked Jason back up and handed him to Mercury.
"Snapshot!"
Mercury looked at Jason, the teen was out on his feet, the only reason he was still standing was because he was holding him up, he hated to admit it but this was too much, even if they were facing each other in two days, even so, the kid came to fight, he was certainly getting one. Mercury slowly lifted Jason up, Nitro came across and the two drove his head into the mat, but Nitro still wasn't happy, he grabbed the chair and set it up in a seated position before handing Jason to Mercury again.
"One more time".
Mercury picked Jason up again and the two dropped him down across the chair, now Nitro seemed satisfied, then he noticed Mara.
"Let's give her one!"
Mercury sighed and walked forward, before he could lift Mara up Shawn came charging down to the ring, Mercury and Melina bailed but Nitro stood his ground, he brawled it out with Shawn but HBK gained the advantage, he whipped Nitro but Mercury pulled his partner out of the ring, Nitro tried to get back in and fight but was held back by his partner, Shawn watched them leave then turned to Mara.
"You alright?"
"I've felt better" she replied, gasping for air. Shawn turned to Jason, the teen was a mess, his face was covered in blood he was out. EMT's rushed the ring to check on the teen as Shawn stormed backstage in search of Nitro.
Meanwhile, back at the bar, John sat in silence, he was surprised to have received no messages from Jason about the match earlier, to check he pulled out his phone, and groaned when he saw that it was switched off, he quickly turned it on to find he had a voice message.
"John it's Jason, Teddy found out about what we pulled and he ain't happy, he wants you to get here NOW or there's gonna be hell to pay, call me back".
John let out another groan and went to call but the phone went off in his hand.
"Hello?"
"John Cena, you got some explaining to do playa".
"Uhhh, hi Teddy".
"Don't you 'hi Teddy' me, you know all the crap that's gone on while you were at that bar tonight, I had to find a substitute partner for you, then MNM called your brother out, he and Mara are currently with the trainer!"
"Whoa! What did they do to him?"
"They beat him to within an inch of his life, now I'm giving you ten minutes to get here or I swear you won't wanna show your face on this show again!"
"Right, I'm on my way".
He hung up the phone and sighed before turning to the guy next to him. "Sorry man, gotta go, the kid's in trouble again".
"Running to his aid every time he needs some backup? How far you've fallen John".
John ignored the comment and charged out of the bar to find his car, he needed to get to the arena, fast.
Meanwhile, MNM were backstage seemingly celebrating a job well done, Mercury seemed a little subdued, Nitro noticed.
"Joey, Wassup? You should be happy we did what we did".
"I dunno Johnny, don't you think we took it a bit too far?"
Nitro went silent for a moment, then he and Melina started laughing. "Yeah right, you had me goin' for a moment there Joey".
"Yeah" said Mercury, forcing himself to grin, Josh Mathews came across.
"MNM, we just saw you brutally lay out Jason Cena and Mara Daniels, may I ask, what brought that on?"
"Yeah, you may ask" answered Nitro. "And I'm gonna answer, for the past few weeks those two have got in our business and tried to humiliate us, two weeks ago, that little bitch kicked me in the crotch! Last week, I was hit with a clock by a worm-eating freak! Melina warned them that you do not try to humiliate MNM, they tried anyway and they got what they deserved, do I regret hitting Daniels with that chair? No, not one bit, she stood her ground and she got punished for it. Anyway Josh, you're quite friendly with Jason Cena right?"
"Well, kinda, yeah".
"Could you give him a message?"
"What message would that be?"
No sooner had the words left Josh's mouth when Nitro nailed him in the head and threw him against the wall, he dropped to the floor and Nitro put some boots in before asking. "Was it worth it?"
Nitro went to walk away but found Shawn standing inches away from him. "You got something to say old man?"
Shawn stayed silent, then punched Nitro right in the face! He went down, but jumped right back up to begin a brawl, referees and security rushed the room to pull the two apart, as Shawn was being dragged out he yelled back at Nitro. "You, me, in the ring, NOW!"
"You want me? You got me!" Nitro screamed back, before leading MNM out of the room after Shawn.
Jason woke up on a table in the trainers room, he had no idea how long he'd been out or how he'd got there, he remembered a chair-shot but that was all, he moved a hand to his forehead and felt a small bandage.
"Eleven stitches" came a voice to his right, he looked over and saw Mara sitting on a chair by the table.
"Eleven?"
"Eleven" she repeated. "You took some wicked shots out there".
"Really? I only remember the first one".
"You don't remember anything else? Like how you used your body to take the shots for me?"
"No… wait, they used the chair on you?"
"Yeah, Nitro nailed me in the head then he tried to hit me again when I was down but you took them for me".
"Right" he said before muttering. "Son of a bitch!" And rolling to his feet.
"Jason…"
"Where's Nitro now?"
"He's in the ring wrestling Sha… Jason don't".
"Don't what? Don't go out there and make Nitro pay for trying to bash your brains in? I suppose he had a hand in what happened to your neck as well".
Mara's hand went to her neck, the force Melina had put on choking her with that belt had left part of the skin rubbed raw, it stuck out quite clearly as she stood there.
"Jason…"
Before she could continue trying to calm him down the teen barged his way out of the ring in search of Nitro.
In the ring Shawn was about to finish Nitro off, he had just hit the top-rope elbow and was tuning up the band for Sweet Chin Music, he noticed Melina distract the referee, that could only mean one thing, sure enough Mercury came in, Shawn avoided his attack and knocked him down with one punch, what he hadn't seen was Mercury slide Nitro one of the title belts as he got in the ring, when he returned his attention to Nitro he had a close up look at the belt. Nitro quickly disposed of the evidence and picked Shawn up, Melina still had the referee distracted and Mercury was getting up, he tossed Shawn to Mercury with a look that made his intentions clear, his partner lifted Shawn up and he dropped him with the snapshot, he covered and the referee made the three count.
As soon as the three had registered Nitro called Mercury back in, if this guy liked Jason Cena so much, then he could receive the same treatment as the teen, Mercury lifted Shawn up and the two gave him another snapshot, Melina came in and presented him with a chair, he smiled and set it up, he ordered Mercury to pick Shawn up again… but Jason was now charging the ring, both members of MNM met him and quickly beat him back down, Nitro noticed the chair still set up and handed him to Mercury, they lifted him up but before they could drop him down John's music hit! The older Cena made a beeline for the ring as MNM bailed, John immediately went to his brothers side as the champions escaped,. The older Cena's thoughts were the same as Jason's.
"There's gonna be hell to pay for this!"
End of Chapter
Well there ya have it, the longest chapter I have ever done, so far, maybe this'll make up for not updating for over a week, Coming up: No Mercy, will Jason and John get the gold? Or will they fall short? Find out next time.
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