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And we are… back? Anywho, last time we saw Jason take on Gillberg and win, obviously, but get attacked by Shawn, John showed a more sinister side of him by intimidating Mara then attacking Shawn at his home! What's gonna happen this time? Let's find out!

Here We Go!

Brotherly Hate-Chapter Forty Eight-Qualification

Jason couldn't help but notice that Mara didn't seem herself in the week that followed his match with Gillberg, she seemed distracted and edgy and would often break off a conversation for no reason and leave the room, whenever he confronted her she would shrug it off and say nothing was wrong, he tried talking to John about it but he too just said he was reading too much into it. However matters such as Mara's problems were put to the back of the teen's mind when Teddy Long met them at the door of the arena in Anaheim California.

"You two! My office, NOW!"

Jason was confused by this but John's reaction of shrugging and following after Teddy led him to believe that his older brother had crossed the line yet again, Teddy waited until both were in his office before closing the door and giving the two a piece of his mind.

"What the hell were you thinking last week?" He yelled at John. "Out of all the stunts you've pulled lately this last one really tears it! You're docked a months pay right now! And you" he said rounding on Jason. "I don't know if you were in on it but if I find…"

"In on what? What's he done anyway?"

"You don't know?"

"If I did would I be asking you?"

"Fair enough, I'll tell ya, last week your brother went to Shawn Michaels house after the show and attacked the man on his front lawn!"

"What?"

"You heard me Jason, now Shawn Michaels is here, but I've given him the night off to prepare for the Royal Rumble, now, I was gonna put the two of you, as well, as Shawn in the Rumble match as well, but I'm not sure if either of you deserve it".

"If you're putting Michaels in the Rumble then I'm in it" said John.

"Me too".

"That's where we hit a snag, see, Shawn Michaels in guaranteed a place in the Rumble, John, you've been campaigning to me all month so I guess I'll have to let you in but Jason, there is only one place left and I have another guy asking for it as well so you can guess what's gonna happen".

"I know, who is it?"

"You'll find out when ya face him playa, and I suggest the two get the hell out of my sight!"

"You attacked him at his home?"

"Yes I attacked him, so what?"

"So what? John, I know me and Shawn are at each others throats right now but I would never stoop that low!"

"That shows the difference between me and you then".

"Yeah, I've got morals".

Mara looked between the two brothers, Jason had been livid about his brothers actions, not least because Shawn thought he had something to do with it, John had adamantly defended his actions, despite the evidence mounting against him.

"Look bro', I appreciate that you have morals but, in case you forgot, this guy superkicked you last week, he's called me out countless times, I just answered the call".

"Fine, you want a piece of him? You'll get it in the Rumble after I'm done with him, in fact, how about YOU face him instead?"

"Oh no, you hit him with that chair, you accepted his challenge, it's all you, but I'll be more than happy to be in your corner if you want".

"Fine, but if you're gonna be in my corner then remember one thing, he's mine! You don't get involved you just sit and watch me put Shawn down for the three one more time!"

"Yeah, we don't want a repeat of Summerslam do we?"

"Things have changed since Summerslam, I proved that in the 'Deadly Games' tournament, I've beat him before, and I'll beat him again… without your help!"

"Fair enough bro', just don't expect me to let him embarrass you".

"He's not going to embarrass me, just like you're not gonna get involved".

"Fine, I'll still be at ringside though".

"Whatever, c'mon Mara, my match is next".

He headed out the door, Mara tried to follow but John blocked her path.

"Remember what I said, one word and…" he symbolised a bone breaking, she nodded and he allowed her to follow her boyfriend.

Jason's music hit and the teen and Mara headed to the ring to the now usual boo's and jeers from the crowd, Mara seemed a little shaken up as she followed him to the ring but he was too focused on the match to notice, he began pacing around the ring to warm himself up but froze in shock when Viscera's music hit and the worlds largest love machine came out to the ring, the shock quickly wore off and the teen flipped out.

"Why him? Why the hell does it have to be him? How the fuck I'm I gonna F-U… THAT?" He screamed, more to himself than Mara, as Viscera climbed over the ropes Jason couldn't help but notice that he seemed to take up half the ring, he nervously backed away as the big man came over and got in his face, the size difference between them was shocking! Vis backed him all the way into a corner before allowing him some space. Mara started to get out of the ring and Vis turned to check her out allowing Jason to cheap shot him to start the match, he threw punch after punch at the big man's face which succeeded in causing him to reel back towards the ropes, suddenly Shawn's music hit and HBK came out on stage with a steel chair, Jason called for him to come to the ring but Shawn set up the chair, sat down and made a 'carry on' gesture.

Jason turned back to Viscera and hit a few more right hands, he stepped back and allowed the big man to come away from the ropes before charging and hitting a clothesline but Viscera didn't budge, he hit the ropes and clotheslined him again but again the big man stood firm! Jason hit the ropes again and this time left his feet to hit a flying forearm, Viscera reeled but still didn't go down as Jason nipped up and hit the ropes again only to be greeted with a huge sidewalk slam! Viscera covered but the teen kicked out, he picked Jason up and backed him into a corner.

"C'mon pretty boy let's go!" He yelled as he ripped the teen's shirt off and gave him a hard chop across the chest, Jason went down but Vis picked him up and did it again, he added a third as Shawn smirked and put on a fake concerned look. Viscera finally pulled the teen out of the corner and whipped him, he went for a Samoan drop but Jason slipped out and tried a dragon suplex, no go, Vis swung an elbow over his shoulder but Jason ducked, he kicked Vis in the stomach and tried an impaler but again couldn't lift the big man to hit the move, Vis then stood up and pushed Jason away, the teens momentum when his back hit the ropes caused him to back-flip over them! He stood up slowly as Viscera posed for the crowd and climbed up to the apron, Vis came over and he quickly jumped back off grabbing the big man's head and snapped it over the ropes, he climbed to the top-rope and came down looking for a cross-body, he hit it but just bounced off! Vis was reeling again so the teen hit the ropes and tried a running cross-body but Viscera caught him and hit a fall forward powerslam for a two-count.

Viscera picked Jason up and tried to hit a choke-bomb but Jason raked his eyes, Vis staggered back and Jason hit a superkick but he still didn't go down! Jason sighed and hit another causing Vis to stagger back into a corner, he then charged and hit a stinger splash, he tried to whip him but the big man refused to budge, he tried again and failed then Vis whipped him across instead and hit a running splash in the corner almost engulfing the teen with his mass, he whipped the teen again and hit another as Shawn winced from his position on the aisleway, Jason staggered out of the corner and Viscera hit a belly-to-belly suplex for a two-count. The big man whipped Jason again and hit a Samoan drop for another two before following up with a regular powerslam for yet another two, he picked the teen up and whipped him, he went for an elbow but Jason ducked, a clothesline was also avoided but on the third try he caught the teen with a spinning heel kick! Instead of covering he called for a big splash but missed! He raised himself to his knees but Jason ran forward and hit a shining wizard to finally get the big man down! He covered but Vis kicked out at two.

Jason started to gain momentum, he gave Viscera a few right hands then hit the ropes, Vis lowered his head but Jason dropped down and punched him in the face, he then came up behind him and hit a reverse DDT for a two-count, he climbed the ropes behind Vis and waited for him to stand before coming down with a top-rope bulldog for another two then hit a neckbreaker for yet another. He climbed to the top again and came down looking for an axe-handle but Vis caught him out of the air and hit the choke-bomb! He covered but the teen kicked out at two! Viscera looked frustrated but picked Jason up and whipped him, he lifted the teen up but Jason shifted his weight in mid-air and dropped Vis with a x-factor, he then went for the Five-Knuckle-Shuffle, paused, pointed at Shawn and made the DX sign then hit it and called for the F-U! The crowd began to buzz as he prepared to hit the big man with it while Mara tried to make him come to his senses but he didn't and grabbed Vis, there was a moments pause then Jason stood up with Viscera on his shoulders! But before he could hit the move his body gave out and he dropped to the mat with all five hundred pounds of Vis landing on top of him! Vis rolled him onto his back and covered but the teen barely kicked out! Vis quickly picked him up and threw him into a corner, he tried to follow with a splash but Jason moved, he reeled backwards and Jason grabbed him, locked his arms and hit a huge dragon suplex! The ring shook as Viscera crashed to the mat and the referee counted the three.

It was a long time before Jason even tried to stand, the teen was completely spent from the effort he had put into suplexing Vis and he wasn't sure if his legs would work even if he tried to make them, eventually he tried to stand and dropped back down, he tried again but failed, he only managed it on the third try because the referee helped him up, he shrugged him off only to stagger sideways and have to grab the ropes before grudgingly accepting his help. He turned to stare at the crowd, most were standing, some were in awe, some were clapping, he turned to the aisleway, Shawn was up to his feet his eyes wide in shock, even Mara was stunned by his feat of strength, once he was sure he could stand on his own he asked Mara to hand him a mic.

"Shawn Michaels, would you please come down to the ring I have something to say and I want to say it to your face!" Shawn started to come down but hesitated. "No, Shawn get in the ring, I need to say this and I need to say this to your face, so please get in this ring, Mara give him a mic".

Shawn got in the ring and accepted the mic he was offered. "I don't know what you're trying to pull here but whatever it is you say to me ain't gonna stop me kicking your ass all over the arena at the Royal Rumble!"

"I wouldn't expect it to, but there are two reasons I brought you down here, firstly, I did not, repeat did not have anything to do with what John did to you last week, I don't care if you never believe anything else I say but this is the God honest truth, what he did, he did alone because as much of an asshole I am I would NEVER attack a man in his own home! Look me in the eye and you'll see that I'm telling the truth".

"Fine, I believe you, I don't know why, but I do. But like I said, it ain't gonna change anything, you hit me with that chair, you turned your back on me when all I'd ever done is tell the truth, then you took out one of the kids I trained, someone who I consider a friend and someone who considered you a friend, how am I supposed to react to that? Then you decide you wanna crap on everything I've ever achieved, you tell me, what did I ever do to bring out this side of you?"

Jason laughed. "You really wanna know?"

"Yeah, I do!"

"Fine, I'll tell you, but first let me take you back some twelve years, let me take you back to Wrestlemania ten when you and Scott Hall had that ladder match…"

"What does that have to do with anything?"

"It was the first ever wrestling event I ever watched, and as I watched, even though I was only six years old I decided 'this is what I wanna do' and since that day I idolised you, just like every other fan I would sit in the crowd with a sign with HBK written on it. Then you hurt your back and retired for four years before coming back as though you'd never been away, and I wanted you to stick around just long enough so I could have the chance to have that one match with HBK. Then I got my job here, you got traded to Smackdown, and for some reason you took me on as a protégé of sorts, and even though we were friends, allies, I still wanted that one match so I could say that I had the honor of wrestling one of the greatest performers alive, and at Summerslam I got what I had wanted since I was six, I got to wrestle HBK!"

"Look, I appreciate the trip down memory lane, but this ain't getting me any closer to finding out what's made you so bitter with me".

"I'm getting there Shawn, trust me I'm getting there. Anyway at Summerslam, I took you on in one hell of a match, but during that match something changed, all the adulation I had for you disappeared and it was replaced with respect. I went from a seventeen-year-old fan to a WWE superstar and you went from an idol to a respected rival, someone I could trust as a friend and a mentor. Now, fast-forward to three weeks ago, when you put me in a position that no-one should be in, that being I had to make a choice, to stay as the devoted fan, to idolise the ground you walk on, or to put myself and my family first, and…"

"WHOA! Hold on! I never put you in that position, that snake you call a brother did!"

"No Shawn! No, it was you, see before I was even made the referee of that match I came out and begged you not to challenge John, I begged you not to make me choose, but you did! And by doing so you took all the respect and all the adulation and threw it back in my face! It was you! So I did what I had to do and I smashed that chair across your damn skull! And you know what? I'd do it again if put back in that position".

"So that's why you did it?"

"Yeah".

"Bullshit! I don't know if you're trying to convince me, or convince yourself about what you just said, but it is complete BS! Why don't you tell the truth, that being that you believed every word I said that night when I told you about what your brother was up to, but like an idiot you decided you'd try to risk it all, because you didn't want to lose the one member of your family you had left, even if it meant stabbing everyone who really cared about you in the back!"

"Oh, so you cared about me did you?"

"Yeah I did, like you said I was like a mentor to you, a friend… a brother, in fact I was more of a brother to you than John ever was, who saved you ass countless times when JBL and his crew tried to take you out? Who took you in when he left you behind? When are you going to realise just who used who here? How many people have you turned your back on besides me? Brian, Miz, Birchill, hell even Viscera considered you a friend! And how long will it be before your blindness makes you turn on her".

Mara took a step back as Shawn pointed at her; Jason seemed to consider what Shawn was saying before speaking again.

"Shawn, you can try and turn this into me vs. John all you want, but deep down inside we both know the truth".

"Yeah we do, I can see it in your eyes, you believed every word I just said…"

"I don't".

… But just because you're too busy being John's puppet…"

"I'm not!"

"… You're just gonna turn your back on everyone until you've got nothing left…"

"SHUT UP!"

Shawn lowered the mic and smirked, he'd made the teen lose it, just like he wanted, Jason realised the same thing and took a moment to compose himself.

"You know what? We can talk like this all night but it ain't gonna change the fact that this Sunday me and you are gonna tear it down one more time, but this time it's personal, and because it's personal I don't have any regrets about doing this!"

With that the teen dropped the mic and slapped Shawn across the face! Shawn stood in shock then tackled Jason and began unloading with punches, the teen responded in kind and the two brawled it out in the ring, referee's and agents charged down to the ring to pull them apart, Shawn was restrained in one corner and Jason in another but Shawn broke free, referees tried to stop him but he barged them aside and began pounding away on Jason again! The teen escaped and tackled Shawn back down to the mat and opened up with punches of his own, the referees pulled him off and Shawn was dragged out of the ring still kicking out at Jason. Shawn tried to get back in but failed while Jason was being prevented from following him to the outside, suddenly the teen knocked down the officials holding him, charged and dived over the ropes! Everyone scattered but Shawn stood firm and rolled through the move and began pounding away again, eventually referees managed to pull him off as John started to come down to the ring wrapping his chain around his fist, he took position behind Shawn and charged only for HBK to spin round and nail him with Sweet Chin Music! Shawn then turned back to Jason.

"If you have any sense left you'll do the same! See ya Sunday, kid".

With that he his back on the Cena's and walked away.

End of Chapter
Well there ya go, coming up: The Royal Rumble, will Jason beat Shawn? How will HBK fair now that John is gonna be at ringside? How will the brother's do in the Rumble itself? Find out next time!

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