"Did you see that, DID YOU SEE THAT" yelled Nitro, pointing to where he had just seen Melina and Danielle kiss

"Yes I did, it's really nothing to do with me" Mercury sneered "I need to talk to you about this" he said, holding up the piece of paper, "I found this in my dressing room, unsigned".

Nitro looked confused, he had assumed Mercury had broken into his locker room and taken the note, however it appeared it was a different one.

"I'm not sure what it means but it basically says we need to watch our backs this Sunday"

"I had a note too, I saw Danielle post it under my locker room door, I thought it seemed weird too" Nitro said, still very confused.

"Any more ideas as to what it could mean?"

"They're up to something, those two, I don't trust them. On Monday I heard Melina tell Edge and Orton that she didn't want to align herself with me anymore and it was her idea to split us up, then Danielle turns up out of the blue as an official Diva on the roster and now she seems to have got together with Melina? I don't know"

Mercury and Nitro looked puzzled

"We'll just have to watch ourselves on Sunday" Nitro said "We also need to talk strategy, being your last match I want it to be a good one"

"Me too" Mercury said, thinking that was rather a cheeky comment to make, he knew he could have a good match with or without Nitro's help.

Sunday evening seemed to come very, very quickly, and since the Smackdown tapings Nitro had managed to put Melina and Danielle and the note out of his mind. The more he thought about it, the more he realised it was just mind games, it had to be! He arrived nice and early for the big event, Wrestlemania 23 was here at last. The only thing bothering him now was having to pin one of his closest friends and watch him leave WWE, he still didn't know exactly why he was leaving, but he knew better than to keep asking.

Aretha Franklin was singing America the Beautiful and Nitro got ready, their match was first – opening up Wrestlemania was an honour, a dream come true for Nitro. He thought of his push, maybe next year he'd be headlining it. He quickly put the thought out of his mind, he wasn't one to get ahead of himself and didn't like to look too far ahead in the world of wrestling, a week ago he hadn't been scheduled to appear at all and now he was opening the show.

He walked out of his locker room and heard Lillian Garcia start the introductions

"Our opening contest is set for one fall and the loser must leave the WWE. Introducing first, accompanied by WWE Women's Champion, Melina, weighing 224 pounds, Joey Mercury. The old MNM music hit and out came Mercury and Melina to an excited chorus of boos. Once they were in the ring, the music died down.

"And his opponent, weighing in at 219 pounds, Johnny Nitro"

Nitro's new music blasted through the arena, as did the fans who gave Nitro a huge ovation, they were going wild for him, again as he walked down towards the ring he couldn't quite believe it. Strangely enough he enjoyed playing the face and milking the crowd. He climbed into the ring and the bell rung.

The match was going well, they exchanged blows, kicks armdrags, dropkicks. All the usual moves you would see in a match with 2 guys under 225 pounds, both Nitro and Mercury were athletic and fit so the match went down very well. They'd been told to go about 10 minutes and finish it, the time went quickly but as the 10 minute mark approached and the spot to finish arrived, something happened that wasn't in the script.