**Ted Cody Randy room, Randy pov

"I survived!" I exclaimed as I entered our hotel room, slamming open the door.

"Damn it Randy, you are going to give us heart attacks?" Ted questioned.

"Sorry. I'm just glad this is all over,"

"It's okay. So how did it go? How many hits? Was he lenient because of what happened last night with Steph? Was..."

"Okay okay, enough with the questions. I will tell you everything, just let me go pee first."

He ushered me towards the bathroom, "hurry up," I smacked his arm as I entered the bathroom, moving as slow as I could, just to torture him. Meanwhile Cody was just sitting on the bed, waiting patiently for story time. I finished my business and washed my hands before going to lay next to Cody, on my stomach of course.

"Okay, story time. I went in and we talked for a bit more. He told me that he was proud of what I ask Stephanie to do, therefore he removed the extra hits. Apparently he was going to give me 50 but he took it back down to 35 which is still a lot. I panicked because I was thinking more like 15 hits but he calmed me back down. He said that he knew how much I could take and if 35 hits proved to be too much then he would stop and call it at whatever number we happened to be at, however if I try to fake that it was too much then he was going to give me 70 hits today and tomorrow. That shut me up right away and I accepted the 35 hits. He made me bend over the bed where he delivered the hits, asking me questions along the way like why I did it and why it will never happen again. Finally it was over and he held me for a while before we finally talk to one last time about how it is completely done, forgiven and forgotten, in our personal lives but that we still have to deal with it at work. He said that he is going to talk to Vince about getting the storyline to be very fast so that we don't have to deal with this for much longer. There could potentially be a "punishment" in WWE but we will just have to see how it plays out." I rumbled out.

"That settles it, you are a hell of a lot braver and stronger than I am. I know that I could not handle it..." Cody admitted "Fuck Randy, I just thought of something,"

"What Cody?" I knew something was wrong because he never cursed.

"Are me and Ted going to be punished on WWE? I know all Hunter did was give us a lecture in real life but to the WWE Universe we helped with everything and it was a scripted plan and so what's going to happen to us on the show?"

"Damn, I never thought if that. Let's go talk to Hunter."

"No, he's going to be mad," Cody panicked.

"No, Cody, I promise he won't be mad. Hell, if he does get mad, you can punish me, take your belt to me or something."

"You better hope you're right Randy, because if I get in trouble you will feel my punishment. I won't hit you, that's not what I do, but you won't like it. I am very creative when it comes to my punishments."

"Yes Cody, I get it. Now let's go before he leaves for the gym or food."

*Ted, Cody, and Randy at HHH door

Knocking

Hunter opened the door with surprise on his face. "Hello boys what are you doing here?"

They turned to stare at me. "Umm, hunter, can we come in and talk?"

"Of course, come have a seat."

We entered the room and sat on the bed. Hunter just stood before us. Waiting for someone to talk first. I guess that's me. "So we were talking about everything that's happened the past few days and I told them how you were going to hopefully get everything to play out at WWE quickly but that there could be punishment and Cody brought up a very good question. He asked if, even though all you did was give him and Ted lectures since they weren't really involved, to the WWE Universe it seems like a scripted plan that they had everything to do with it. How would they be punished as their characters since in real life they didn't do anything wrong?"

"That is actually a very good question Cody. I had not even thought of that. I will talk to Vince of course about shortening this storyline but to see how we can punish you as a group but still have Randy receiving most of it. I know that sounds bad to Randy but since that's how it happened in real life, that's how we will deal with it. Either that or you all get it equal. That is up to you."

"I deserve more punishment than them since they weren't really involved."

"Randy stop trying to be the bigger person taking everything and let me and Ted take some. We deserve a little bit of punishment at least through the eyes of the WWE you so you need to stop trying to protect us and let us just have an equal punishment as far as work goes. Hell, you've taken three punishment already you so you need to just take a step back and relax."

"But none of this is your fault."

"But it really is our fault Randy. If me and Ted had not intervened you probably would have ended up losing the match and none of this would have ever happened. No we did not attack either of them but we are what caused all this to happen." Cody pleaded.

"Cody no. It was all me,"

"Damn it randy, do you even hear yourself?"

"Boys boys boys. Enough..." Hunter yelled. "I think you all deserve the equal punishment... do not interrupt me randy. I think it will do you some good to see what your actions have caused. I will be talking to Vince about your punishments today. I, however, will not tell you what we decide. You will find out Monday along with everyone else, universe included."

"Yes sir," there was nothing else I could say.

"Good. Now I want you to go back to your room and just relax. Don't worry about anything. I will take care of everything." We all looked at each other, realizing what just happened. We screwed ourselves.

"Yes sir...yes hunter" we muttered, before heading towards the door.

*back in their room

"What the hell was that? He won't tell us our punishment until we are live? What does he have in mind that we can't know before? I have a feeling that this is not going to be good." Ted ranted. "Just calm down. I'm sure he just wants us on our toes. It won't be as bad as what we can come up with. I know that for sure. No punishment I've ever gotten has ever come close to what I had imagined. Let's just forget about it until Monday." I reasoned. And it was true. I always thought of crazy punishments that sound like abuse or me being kicked out of the family or them hating me forever... the worst I had ever gotten was what has happened in the last few days. Everything else has been lectures and hand spankings for the most part.