Nitro and The Hardy's looked up at the titan tron as Edge and Randy Orton began to make Vince's big announcement.
"Because you three seem to like handicaps, ganging up on Mercury and a delicate female, Mr McMahon has suggested a handicap match right here tonight, Nitro will take on Rated RKO with The Hardy's banned from ringside." Randy Orton stated and with that Edge put in a few comments of his own,
"And just because we've had our problems, don't think that that will help you, everything's sorted out now and once again Rated RKO is on the same page and is still the most dominant tag team the WWE has ever seen." He declared.
"Nitro thought this odd, Vince had never said anything to him about this. Normally the show was sorted before it started, nervously he left the ring and walked to the back in search of Mr McMahon to find out what this was all about.
Nitro knocked on Mr McMahon's door
"Come in" came Mr McMahon's voice from inside
Nitro walked through the door
"Ah, I thought I would be getting a visit from you, sorry, I don't normally do this but I had an idea. As you can gather you have another match tonight against Edge and Orton"
"Yes sir, what's happening with that" Nitro always tried to be polite to Vince, maybe this was part of the reason he was getting a push
"Well, the match will go approximately 10 minutes with you winning via DQ, you will take a chair shot from Edge which will start a feud with Edge in singles competition."
"Will this be a Con-chair-to?" Asked Nitro nervously, he'd never taken one of those before and was slightly worried as to what the answer would be
"Do you think you can manage one" asked Vince, at which point Nitro's first reaction was to blurt out that he wasn't ready. But if he did that, would Vince think he wasn't ready to main event, something he'd been working towards
"I think I can, I'll give it a try sir" said Nitro cautiously, straight away wishing he'd never said it, but bit his tongue, he had to make a good impression for the boss.
"Excellent, so Randy will deliver an RKO and Edge will give you a Con-Chair-To causing the disqualification"
"Ok sir" said Nitro as he left Vince's office.
As Nitro was walking back along what seemed a longer corridor than usual he overheard Edge and Orton talking in their dressing room and he didn't like what he heard.
"How can Vince make him a main eventer so soon, he hasn't even been on Raw a year and he's really only just becoming a singles wrestler"
"I know, it's unbelievable, think about how long it took me to reach the top, it's just not right"
Nitro took those voices to be Orton and Edge respectively, but what he hadn't banked on was a third voice, and more to the point, what was said.
"I feel it's my fault to a point," said the unmistakable voice of Melina, "I was the one that suggested the idea to break MNM up, I was totally bored with Nitro, Mercury has so much more talent and I need to concentrate on the Women's division now. I never meant for Vince to main event him, more to get lost in the shuffle as such"
"Well what's done is done now, I guess we'll just have to rough him up tonight, maybe work a bit of a stiff match" said one of the male voices, Nitro thought it was Edge but couldn't be sure. He started to regret agreeing to the Con-Chair-To and considered going back to Vince and saying he'd changed his mind, but he couldn't, he could not let his push go to waste, he needed to be strong about this. He entered his dressing room, sat down and began to think. At that moment however there was a knock on his door
"Come in" he said, slightly surprised, who could be visiting him? The door opened and Nitro nearly fell off his seat in shock.