Lillian Garcia stood, smiling in the ring with the microphone in her hand.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this match is a handicap match and is set for one fall, introducing first, accompanied to the ring by the WWE Women's champion Melina, at a combined weight of 485 pounds, Edge and Randy Orton, Rated RKO."

The three of them strutted down to the ring to a huge chorus of boos, not that they weren't used to that, it was nothing new. They entered the ring and Edge began to taunt the crowd as Orton pulled the ropes apart for Melina to climb into the ring the usual way, not her own special way, which disappointed the crowd at ringside. Rated RKO's music stopped and Lillian spoke again . "And their opponent, accompanied to the ring by Ashley, weighing in at 219 pounds, Johnny Nitro."

For the first time in his WWE career Nitro appeared, Ashley by his side to a crowd that was going wild, Nitro was in awe, never before had he walked down to a WWE ring to cheers, it was a brand new experience. Sure, he realised some, or perhaps the majority of the cheers were for the Playboy cover girl Ashley, but he also knew that the fans were cheering for him, someone who had been a heel for his entire WWE career, what a difference one evening could make. He was also, however rather nervous, he arrived at the arena fully intending on leaving a mid-card player and as a heel with Melina by his side, and now all of a sudden everything was different. Melina seemed to be with RKO, whether that was for the one night he didn't know, it was certainly the impression he had been given in the strategy meeting earlier, to spice things up between her and Ashley for their match at Wrestlemania. However, as much as he tried to put it out of his mind, the fact Danielle was about somewhere unsettled him. He wasn't sure why she was here, where she was, whether it was Vince's idea, or had Melina really double crossed him completely? He thought back to the conversation he'd heard between Edge, Orton and Melina earlier on and wondered what was going on. Suddenly he felt very uneasy, he had found being cheered a great new experience but as he climbed into the ring, with Rated RKO staring him down, he suddenly felt very small. This was a huge match for him, but he couldn't let his worries affect the match. He had something to prove, he had to prove he could wrestle as a main eventer, even if Melina's original plan was not for him to be one.

The bell rang and the match started, first in from Rated RKO was Edge, he and Nitro locked up and Edge began to get the upper hand pushing him back into a corner. The referee called for the break, Edge backed off slightly but didn't give Nitro a clean break, instead he gave Nitro a thunderous punch to the mid-section

"What the hell?" Nitro tried to blurt out, but was in too much shock to really say anything. He remembered that Edge and Orton had said they were going to 'rough him up' but they were both much bigger than Nitro which didn't help. Edge grabbed Nitro's arm and nearly took his head off with a forceful short clothesline, one that JBL would have been proud of. As Nitro fell to the floor he rolled over to the Edge of the ring where Melina slapped him in the face. This brought Ashley round and as she ran at Melina, Melina backed off.

The match carried on with both Edge and Orton being very aggressive towards Nitro, he began to get worried for his safety, thinking of the con-chair-to he was supposed to get at the end of the match. He realised he'd have to fight harder back and as Orton, who was at that point in the ring, scouted for an RKO, Nitro low blowed him, which signalled a warning from the referee. Nitro forced him into a corner, climbed onto the second rope and began hammering down on Orton's head. From the other side of the ring Edge looked slightly surprised. After Nitro had delivered his final head shot on Orton he suddenly noticed a figure in the crowd walking towards the ring. It was Danielle, Nitro stared at her as she continued to approach the ring. He tried to block it out, he was in a wrestling match and couldn't get distracted. The thing that was bothering him most was that she wasn't supposed to interfere, Mercury was after the bell had rung, but not her. Was this one of Vince's ideas and he'd forgotten to tell Nitro, or was Danielle doing this by herself.

Nitro, determined to block it from his mind began to turn round and concentrate on the match, however the damage had been done, while all that was going on, Orton had made the tag and Edge launched in with a spear, knocking Nitro down. To finish it off, Edge kicked him out of the ring where Orton held him up in front of Melina who gave Nitro a low blow by kicking him hard. They took Nitro and put him back into the ring, and grabbed two chairs. Nitro knew it was time, he lay still, praying that the move wouldn't go wrong. They'd talked about how con-chair-to's were done earlier and how to avoid getting injured, but he was new to this and they obviously were out for blood tonight, he didn't know why, but he did know he was nervous. To make matters worse, as he lay there, waiting, Joey Mercury came to ringside to look on with Melina as Edge and Orton slowly entered the ring with chairs in hand. They set him up for the con-chair- to

"Please be careful, please be careful" Nitro whispered to himself, he was scared, and it obviously showed as Edge looked at him and whispered back,

"Nothing to worry about, I've done loads of these before, I know what I'm doing"

Nitro wasn't sure whether to trust him, but he'd wrestled a good match and, although he'd love to back out of this now, he also knew he couldn't. Edge placed a chair under Nitro's head, lifted the other one up high and drove it down onto Nitro's face.

With that the referee called for the bell, Rated RKO had been disqualified.

"How does it feel, Johnny, how does it feel to have a face like mine now" yelled Mercury, who still had his face covered with the protective mask. Nitro couldn't move, all he could think about was how much pain was going through his body right now, he didn't think anything was broken, so Edge had probably done the right thing, but then he'd never taken a chair shot like that before. A stretcher was brought to the ring and Nitro was wheeled off, with Ashley walking beside him as he was taken out to the back. Meanwhile in the ring, Rated RKO's music was playing and Edge, Orton, Mercury and Melina all stood in the ring arms raised.

Just as Nitro got backstage and got off the stretcher, Danielle appeared

"I'm sorry" she whispered, and with that turned and walked away again.

"What do you mean, you're sorry" Nitro shouted back, but Danielle ignored him, however Ashley also wanted to get to the bottom of this and set off in a sprint after her to find out exactly what was going on.