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Hiya, welcome back! As we saw last time John and Jason had a successful, albeit controversial, defence of their tag titles against Miz and Spanky, only for John to reveal on the phone that he plans to use his brother to get a WWE title shot, but Shawn heard everything that was said in the conversation. Will HBK tell Jason? Who will be the next takers of the open challenge? Let's find out!

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Brotherly Hate-Chapter Forty One-Deception

Jason couldn't help but notice a change in John's attitude over the next week, his carefree take on life had been replaced by a steely businesslike persona, he was constantly on the phone and was vague and distracted while talking with his brother. He also seemed as though he could care less about the tag titles, Jason had been like a child with a new toy since he won his belt, he took it almost everywhere and kept in clean and shiny, the only time John touched his was to put it in his bag before they left for Memphis. They strolled into the arena and went straight to the locker room, Teddy Long had agreed to let them keep this open challenge going for now, so they could be called into action at any time.

"Who's gonna step up this time bro'?" Asked Jason.

"Huh? Dunno".

"John, you alright?" you've seemed a little out of it lately".

"I'm fine, just got some stuff on my mind, that's all".

"That's fine, so long as you don't let it affect your in-ring work we're cool".

"Yeah, whatever".

John turned and headed out of the room.

"Where ya goin?"

"Gotta talk to someone, be right back".

He turned a corner and crashed right into Shawn Michaels.

"Sorry Shawn, didn't see ya there".

"Ya didn't see me last week when you where on the phone either, but I saw you, and I heard every damn word of it".

John started to deny it, then stopped himself. "So what're you gonna do?"

"Firstly I'm gonna tell Jason how little you care about him and those titles".

"Really? You think he'll believe you?"

"Why shouldn't he? I've never lied to him".

"Neither have I, and I also have the advantage of being his brother, so who do you think he'll side with?"

"To think you'd play your own brother…"

"Oh, and you haven't? Tell me Shawn, why do you care for the kid so much? Do you like him? Respect him? Or, like everyone else in your career, do you just like having someone to steal the spotlight from?"

Shawn gritted his teeth and stayed silent, John continued.

"I thought so, you've used everyone, Marty Jannety, you kept him around then threw him through a glass window! Kevin Nash, you brought him in as your bodyguard, and when he started to outshine you, you turned on him! Hell, DX was just one big ego-trip for you wasn't it? All those guys watching your back, feeding your ego, you must've been in heaven…"

"Look, I admit I've used people, but that was then, I'm a changed man, and I would NEVER use a seventeen year old kid to get the title".

John laughed. "You just keep telling yourself that" he started to walk off. "And feel free to tell the kid, we'll see who he believes".

He turned a corner and was out of sight, Shawn sighed, he just hoped Jason realised what his brother was up to before it was too late.

Later on Shawn was still hanging around in the corridors debating over what he should do, the right thing was to tell Jason what was going on, yet, John was the last family member the teen had left, plus he probably wouldn't listen anyway. Suddenly he became aware of the teen himself approaching.

"Hey kid".

"Hey Shawn, got a minute?"

"Plenty of them kid, what's up?"

"Well, I'm worried about John, he hasn't been himself lately".

"I'm sure he's fine kid, maybe he's just feeling the pressure" replied Shawn. "What am I doing? Tell the kid the truth!" He thought.

"Yeah, you're probably right but… you would tell me if you knew anything was up right?"

Shawn sighed. "Yeah, yeah I would kid, although I can't see how I'd know since your brother barely speaks to me".

"Alright, see ya later Shawn".

"Later kid" Jason headed off, Shawn looked at the ground. "Man, did I chicken out there".

Later that night the Cena's and Mara came out to the ring for another open challenge, Jason took the mic.

"Ladies and gentlemen, it's that time again! Another open challenge tonight, who's gonna step up this time? C'mon out".

There was a pause before the challengers showed themselves, The Mexicools music hit then Psychosis and Super Crazy rode out to the ring on their Juan Deere lawnmowers, Jason grinned nervously and turned to John.

"You any good a Lucha-Libre bro'?"

John shook his head. "Nope, you?"

"No, never wrestled that style before".

"Looks like another back to the wall defence then".

"Yup".

Jason locked up with Super Crazy to kick of the match and quickly took him down with an arm-drag, Crazy quickly got up and gave Jason one before rolling back to his feet. Jason tried another arm-drag but Crazy rolled out of it and tripped Jason up, he went for an arm-bar but Jason quickly grabbed the ropes. They locked up again and Jason went behind Crazy, he tried a takedown but Crazy slipped out and went behind Jason, he jumped up to the teen's shoulders for a victory roll but Jason pushed him off, the teen tried a clothesline but Crazy ducked, they each hit the ropes and hit a double shoulderblock but neither went down, Jason swung for Crazy's head but he ducked and Jason walked into a right hand from Psychosis, he spun round to get one from Crazy as well, the Mexicools played punch-tennis with Jason for a while before Crazy knocked him down with a dropkick and tagged Psychosis in.

The Mexicools got the teen up and hit a double faceplant, Psychosis covered but Jason kicked out. He backed the teen up into the corner and gave him a few chops before whipping him across to the opposite corner, he charged but Jason got his boot up and knocked him down, the teen went to the top-rope but Psychosis cut him off, the two battled it out for a moment then Psychosis brought him down with a hurricanranna! He covered, but John broke up the pin. Psychosis tagged Super Crazy back in, the two hit a double suplex then Psychosis hit a legdrop while Crazy hit a standing moonsault! He covered but the teen kicked out at two. Crazy picked Jason up and whipped the teen towards a corner, it was reversed but he jumped to the second rope and back-flipped behind Jason, he tried a back suplex but Jason elbowed out of it and knocked him down, the teen whipped Crazy but he caught him with a headscissor takedown as he came off the ropes, Crazy tagged Psychosis back in, he climbed the turnbuckle and came off with a tornado DDT to the teen for another two-count.

Psychosis quickly picked the teen up to keep the advantage he suplexed him and climbed to the top-rope, before he could come off John shook the ropes causing him to fall, this allowed Jason to tag John in, they picked Psychosis up and hit a double suplex and a double elbow drop, John then hit a hanging suplex for a two-count and tagged Jason back in, the two whipped Psychosis and hit a double spinebuster, Jason covered but only got a two-count. The teen slammed Psychosis and went to the top-rope, he waited for him to stand and came down with a cross-body but Psychosis rolled through it for a two-count, Jason quickly got up and clotheslined him before tagging John in, they picked him back up and John hit his spinout powerbomb with Jason adding a neckbreaker, John covered but Super Crazy broke up the pin. John whipped Psychosis and caught him with an elbow as he came back off the ropes, he picked him up and went for a powerbomb but Psychosis countered it into a DDT! He crawled across the ring to tag in Crazy but John made the tag to Jason, the teen ran across the ring and knocked down Crazy before dragging Psychosis back to the centre of the ring.

Jason quickly took control of Psychosis, he slammed him and hit an elbow drop for a two-count, he then hit a suplex and climbed the ropes, he came down looking for a frog-splash but Psychosis moved, Jason did a forward roll on landing and hit a powerslam as Psychosis charged out of the corner, he covered but only got two, Psychosis rolled to his knees so Jason quickly hit the shining wizard for another two before tagging in John. The older Cena came in and slammed Psychosis before locking on going for the five-knuckle-shuffle but Psychosis moved! They both got back up and Psychosis hit a neckbreaker, he crawled across the ring to tag Super Crazy while John tried to tag in Jason, he got the teen in but Crazy was tagged as well!

Jason charged Crazy as he came in and went for a clothesline but he ducked and hit a dropkick, he quickly followed up with a spin kick before climbing to the top-rope and hit a missile dropkick! He covered Jason but only got a two-count, he picked the teen up and backed him up against the ropes and whipped him, Jason reversed it but Crazy got a sunset flip as he came back for a two-count, John was getting back up so Crazy hit a springboard dropkick to knock him off the apron, he spun round and tried a clothesline on Jason but the teen ducked and hit a reverse DDT, instead of covering he hit the ropes and hit the five-knuckle-shuffle, giving the DX sign as he did, he called for the F-U and lifted Crazy up but he slipped out of it and hit a springboard bulldog, he dragged Jason to the corner and Psychosis came off the top with a diving legdrop! However he hurt himself on landing and grabbed his leg in pain, the referee came across to see if he was alright as Crazy hit a moonsault! He covered but the referee was still tending to his partner, this allowed John to come in and clock him round the back of the head with the chain! He rolled Jason on top of Crazy as the referee turned round and made the count, once again the Cena's retained their gold.

John helped Jason out of the ring, he handed the teen his belt and supported him as they walked up the aisle, on the screen they showed a replay of how the Cena's won, Jason happened to glance up and see this, he glared at his brother and pulled away in disgust, he started to stagger up the aisle alone when John grabbed his arm, he pulled it free and spun round to glare at his brother.

"I asked you not to use the chain!"

"Hey! I just saved our titles, again!"

"Some things are more important John, like doing things the right way!"

Jason spun round and walked off, John fixed his brother with a glare before following him through the curtain.

Backstage, two men watched this all develop.

"Falling apart at the seams those two" said the bigger one.

"Yeah" laughed the other. "Almost time for us to step up and take those belts".

"So we're gonna go for the open challenge next week?"

"No".

"No?" Repeated the big man, confused. "But our plan is to take the titles right?"

"It is yeah, but I don't want to just take the titles, I want them to see us coming".

"I'm confused".

"You were born confused big guy, but I'll lay it out for you, next week they're gonna have one more open challenge, once they're done we go out there, lay them out and make our challenge for Armageddon".

"Armageddon?"

"I think it's only fitting we take the titles at a PPV, besides, it's in my hometown and I want to show them that they ain't the only ones who can use hometown advantage in title matches".

"You've been planning this since No Mercy haven't you?"

"From the moment we met Jason outside the trainers room".

"Bit of a risk wasn't it? They could of lost the titles at any time".

"No, if I'd have thought there was even the slightest chance of them losing the titles I would've acted sooner".

The big man laughed. "So we time it right, hopefully they'll still be fighting amongst themselves, and you'll be a ten time tag champion while I get my first title reign".

"That's right big man, but remember the plan I want to have the pleasure of getting the pin on one of them".

"No problem, you get the pin and I watch your back…"

"…and the peeps will have new tag team champions!"

The two laughed and walked away, both planning the attack for next week.

End of Chapter
Well another chapter done, the Cena's are having problems, Shawn's having a moral dilemma, and there is a new challenge facing the Cena's at Armageddon. Who's gonna take the open challenge? Will Shawn warn Jason? Will the inside fighting continue? Will the new challenger's plan work? Find out next time.

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