Title: The ARK Angels of DX in Monster Ink
Author: Kaykyaka
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the WWE and TNA characters used within this fictional story. No copyright infringement is intended and no money is being made by this work of fiction.
Ratings: K+
Characters: Shawn, Cameron and Cheyenne Michaels, Amy 'Lita' Dumas Michaels, Hunter Hurst Helmsley, LC Helmsley, Aurora Rose Helmsley, Chyna, Trish and Randy Orton, Melina and Johnny Hennigan, Batista, CM Punk, The Beautiful People, Edge, Jeff Hardy, Rey Mysterio, Stephanie and Chris Jericho, The McCools
Summary: An evil spirit takes possession of Batista and CM Punk and chaos ensues for the RAW locker room. DX discover that the problem is tattooed on the two Superstars but can Shawn and Hunter help them and protect their family at the same-time?
Chapter Five - The TNA Knock Out
Universal Studios, Orlando, FL, 12pm:
Failing to get through to CM Punk last night Kevin Nash decided to go back down to the IMPACT Zone to see if any of the wrestlers had seen Velvet Sky and Angelina Love. There were usually some of the guys hanging around during the week and he was sure the Beautiful People must have been back by now.
He entered the IMPACT Zone and looked around but he didn't see anyone at first, then he caught sight of what appeared to be a leg at one of the entrance ways and he headed towards it. The leg belonged to AJ Styles and he was fast asleep. Big Kev checked on him to make sure he wasn't hurt but he was fine.
"AJ," he called shoving the hi flyer on the shoulder but he wouldn't wake and Nash shook his head thinking this was very strange. Then he noticed another pair of legs further up the entrance ramp and went to investigate: it was Alex Shelley and a little further up from him was his tag team partner Chris Sabin, both men were asleep next to their Knockout manager Torrie Wilson who was also asleep. As Nash walked all around backstage he found the bodies of nearly all the TNA roster laid out fast asleep on the floor. He tried to revive them with water but that didn't work.
"What the Hell is going on here?" Big Kev said furrowing his brow and pulling out his cell-phone, "Hey Jeff its me, I think we got a problem here you better get down to the IMPACT Zone right away," Kevin Nash said to Jeff Jarrett heading back outside to see if there were any other wrestlers around. After Jarrett assured Big Kev he'd be there he hung up and heard the sound of two familiar voices plus one not so familiar one. The familiar voices belonged to the Beautiful People who were heading towards the IMPACT Zone and they were arguing with the unfamiliar voice that belonged to WWE's CM Punk.
"Velvet, Angie where have you been I've been looking for you like crazy?" Kevin Nash asked them after giving them both a hug.
"We were with him," Angelina Love said pointing to CM Punk and Big Kev noticed that both Angelina Love and Velvet Sky had very concerned looks on their faces.
"You know when a cell-phone rings you're supposed to answer it, I must have called yours about a thousand times," Kevin Nash said to CM Punk.
"My bad Big Kev I had kind of a busy night," CM Punk replied with a cheeky grin and Angelina Love rolled her eyes while Velvet Sky rubbed her arm nervously.
"I don't want you girls to go to the IMPACT Zone alright? I think there's some kind of contagion in there, nearly all the wrestlers are laid out fast asleep. I called Jeff and we're going to get to the bottom of this, I think it would be best if you guys hung with me until we find out what's going on," Kevin Nash said.
"Why would they want to hang around here and do nothing all day when they could be hanging out with me?" CM Punk said cockily.
"Under the circumstances I don't think that would be a good idea, Heaven knows when I'd see them again," Kevin Nash said looking closely at CM Punk, "When was the last time you got some sleep bruh?" he asked Punk noticing the dark circles emerging around his eyes.
"Actually Big Kev you look a little tired yourself," CM Punk said and Velvet grabbed his arm.
"No Punk don't do it!" she begged him and Angelina Love covered her ears while Kevin Nash wondered what was going on.
"Maybe you should just go to sleep," Punk said covering Velvet's ears and Kevin Nash fell to the ground fast asleep.
"Stay awake!" Angelina Love yelled at Big Kev.
"Nah-uh Angie it only works when I say it," Punk said.
"Well then say it!" Angelina said angrily.
"I don't think so, with the TNA wrestlers out of commission Joe and Homicide can come and work for the WWE," Punk said.
"And what about everybody else huh? Are you just gonna let them sleep forever?" Angelina Love asked outraged by Punk's mysterious yet powerful behavior.
"Maybe I'll wake them up in a couple of years," Punk said his Pepsi tattoo spinning all by itself.
Angelina grabbed him balling his shirt up in her fists.
"Who put you up to this? What voodoo have you been doing, where did you get this power from?" Angelina demanded.
"Velvet your girlfriend is getting kind of excited don't you think?" CM Punk said giving Angelina a warning glare and Velvet tried to pry her best friend's hands off of her boyfriend.
"Come on Angie he's just fooling around, he'll wake up Big Kev he'll wake up everybody, won't you sweetie?" Velvet said to her boyfriend.
"Will you?" Angelina Love asked him and CM Punk shrugged.
"Maybe I will, maybe I won't," CM Punk said and Angelina pushed him back angrily.
"What's the matter with you?" she snapped.
"You know you're asking an awful lot of questions I think you should lay down and take a nap," CM Punk said.
"No!" Velvet cried out.
"I'm not afraid of you!" Angelina cried.
"Go to sleep!" CM Punk told her covering Velvet's ears and Angelina Love fell asleep right there in front of her.
Velvet cradled her best friend's head and although she knew she was asleep and not dead there was something morbid about what Punk had done.
"Wake her up she's my best friend!" Velvet insisted.
"Maybe in an hour or so, I'm hungry why don't we grab a bite to eat?" Punk said wrapping his arm around Velvet Sky and bringing her closer to him.
"I've lost my appetite," Velvet said removing Punk's arm from off her shoulder and Punk took a step closer to her and looked her dead in the eyes.
"No you haven't you're hungry and you're going to grab a bite with me," CM Punk said and Velvet frowned and looked down at the Pepsi tattoo on his arm that was spinning all by itself. Suddenly she found herself being drawn into it and she couldn't look away from it.
"Okay," she said and Punk smiled.
"Alright then let's go," he said and Velvet went with him but not of her own free will.
The Sandbox, 4pm:
The DX household was playing Scrabble in the living room and Hunter was winning for the first time since Cameron became the Amazing Cameron. Nobody could beat Shawn's firstborn at Scrabble anymore but suddenly Hunter was in the lead by a considerable amount of points.
"Okay that's 'xylophone' plus another triple word score giving me a total of 50 points," Hunter said marking his new score down on the pad while Shawn eyed him suspiciously from the other side of the board.
"That's twice you've gotten 'xylophone' how can you get the same letters twice?" Shawn asked.
"Maybe because I'm better than you," Hunter said.
"That maybe true but that doesn't explain why you got two 'x' tiles when there's only one in the bag," Shawn argued and Hunter coughed nervously pushing something behind him.
LC looked behind him and saw he had a little green bag there, "What's this?" she said picking it up and the other players gasped - it was another bag of letters.
"You've been playing with extra letters?" Joanie asked horrified, "Where'd you get it from?"
"From the old Scrabble box up in the attic," Hunter confessed as Shawn took all his letters off the board.
"You're disqualified," he said.
"Oh come on, lying, cheating and stealing is a family tradition!" Hunter argued.
"Yeah if your last name is Guerrero," Amy said.
"Come on DX did way more despicable things before Shawn got hot for God, didn't we Joanie?" Hunter said to his girlfriend who nodded knowing that she couldn't repeat most of those things in front of the children.
"Well thank God one of us got right with the Lord otherwise we'd all probably be in prison right now," Joanie said.
"I'd come visit you in prison mom," LC said leaning on Joanie's shoulder.
"Aw that's sweet of you honey," Joanie said stroking her daughter's hair while Hunter grimaced at his firstborn.
"I could see you in prison LC, you'd make a good rat," Hunter said annoyed that his daughter had foiled his attempt to win at Scrabble with an unbeatable score.
"I'm sorry dad but I couldn't just sit here and let you beat Cameron by cheating," LC said and Cameron leaned his head on LC's shoulder affectionately.
"Thanks sweetie," he said and gave Hunter a satisfied smile, "Still the Champ," he said proudly and Hunter grimaced and let Aurora climb all over the board messing everyone's words up.
"Ro-Ro look what you've done!" he said dishonestly, "I guess you guys will have to start all over again,"
Everyone shook their heads at Hunter, "You're such a sore loser," Shawn said as Hunter tried to get the letter tiles off Aurora, they were now sticking to her.
"Defrost Ro-Ro defrost!" Hunter commanded his daughter as she tried to put the tiles in her mouth.
"Hello?" Shawn said answering his cell-phone, "Oh hi Tammy what's going on?" he asked then he face went serious, "What?"
Everyone looked up at Shawn as he rose to his feet listening to what Tamara Nash was saying on the other end of the phone, judging by the look on his face it wasn't good news.
"Okay put him in the car and drive up here," Shawn said and hung up.
"What's going on?" Hunter asked concerned.
"Big Kev didn't pick Tristen up from school so Tammy went down to the IMPACT Zone to see if he was there," Shawn said.
"Was he there?" Hunter asked.
"Yes," Shawn answered.
"Did Tammy cuss him out?" Hunter asked.
"Will you let me finish!" Shawn said and Hunter pouted, "She found Big Kev outside the IMPACT Zone and he was asleep,"
Hunter's eyebrow raised and he stroked his chin, "Asleep?" he repeated.
"And she can't wake him up, sound familiar?" Shawn said and Hunter nodded.
"Yeah very familiar," he said.
"I told her to drive up here so I could wake Big Kev up and find out what happened, even though I already know what happened," Shawn said with a stern look on his face.
"Is Punk still coming over for dinner?" Amy asked Shawn who nodded.
"Then we got a serious problem," Hunter said, "Big Kev isn't going to be too eager to eat with the man who put him to sleep,"
"What I wanna know is why did he do it?" Shawn wondered.
"I don't know but he's messing with the Kliq and you know that ain't right," Hunter said.
"Don't worry guys I've been praying all week and my hands are ready to cast that demon out," Amy assured DX who nodded; with Amy charged and ready to go maybe tonight's dinner wouldn't turn into a all night brawl after all.
Around 7 o'clock Tamara Nash pulled up to the Sandbox and Hunter and Shawn went out to help Kevin Nash into the house while the ARK Angels greeted Tristen.
"Hey guys do you know what's going on with my dad?" he asked them.
"We've got our own problems, we're going back to school on Monday," LC complained.
"So your dream of never going back to school ever again didn't come true," Tristen said sympathetically.
"No it didn't thanks to Little Miss Fix Everything," LC said to Cheyenne who shrugged.
"I like school," she replied.
"Like brother like sister," LC said disdainfully.
"Chey put the school back together in a day," Cameron told Tristen who nodded impressed.
"How long would it take for you to tear mine down?" Tristen said and Cheyenne thought about it and Cameron told Tristen to hush.
"Come on let's go upstairs and see if Chey's got anymore messages from Vince McMahon," Cameron said.
"What?" Tristen asked as they went up the stairs wondering what was going on with the ARK Angels now.
Meanwhile in the living room Shawn splashed water on Kevin Nash's face and he woke up, "What happened?" he said sitting up and like Hunter Shawn recognized that Big Kev wasn't at all sleepy when he awoke.
Tammy hugged him glad that he was okay, "I went to the IMPACT Zone to chew you out for not picking up Tris and I found you fast asleep on the ground," she said.
"Oh, it's a good thing I was asleep then," Nash said glad that his wife hadn't chewed him out.
"That's not all I saw, poor Angelina Love was asleep right next to you. I had to pull her into the IMPACT Zone to make sure nobody saw her," Tammy said and Kevin's eyes narrowed.
"Oh man we gotta get back to Orlando," he said getting up.
"Why?" Shawn asked.
"I went back to the IMPACT Zone to see if Angelina Love and Velvet Sky had turned up and I found nearly all the wrestlers asleep inside," Kevin Nash said and Hunter and Shawn exchanged glances.
"Asleep?" they said as the same-time.
"Yeah and of all people I ran into CM Punk who was with Velvet and Angelina the whole time can you believe that? Dude never answered his cell-phone, he said he had a busy night," Kevin Nash said.
"Do you remember what happened after that?" Shawn asked Nash.
"No but I guess I must have fallen asleep too," he said and Shawn's cell-phone rang, it was Velvet Sky.
"Hey Shawn I'm just calling to let you know that Punk won't be around for dinner, he hasn't slept in days and I want him to get a good night's sleep so he'll be ready and refreshed for the house show on Saturday night," she said.
"Is he there with you? Let me talk to him," Shawn said.
"I gotta go," Velvet said and abruptly hung up the phone. Shawn looked at the receiver and shook his head at Hunter.
"Punk's not coming to dinner," he said, "He got his girlfriend to call and say that he wouldn't be coming,"
Hunter gasped in shock, "He turned us down?" he said.
"Apparently he's tired and he wants to be refreshed for the house show on Saturday night," Shawn said.
"Please, he knew we found out about what he did to Big Kev and knew we were gonna talk to him about it tonight," Hunter said.
"What did he do to me?" Kevin Nash said confused.
"You didn't fall asleep Big Kev, you were put to sleep," Shawn said.
"Put to sleep?" Tamara Nash said bemused.
"Punk's got this hypnotic power and whenever he tells somebody to "Go to sleep" that's exactly what they do," Shawn said and Big Kev's face tightened with anger.
"What am I some sort of rabid dog?" he said indignantly, "Who does he think he is?"
"We don't know but we're gonna talk to him about it tomorrow night," Shawn said.
"Talking won't do it Shawn you've got to lay hands on him," Amy said and Shawn nodded.
"Alright honey I'll do it Washington tomorrow," Shawn said.
"I know you haven't cast a demon out in a long time but you've got to or this thing with Punk is going to get a lot worse," Amy said.
"What do you mean?" Shawn asked his wife.
"I spoke to God and He said if we don't cast the demon out we'll get double for our trouble," Amy said and Shawn furrowed his brow.
"Double?" he repeated, "You mean there are two of these demons?"
"The first one already knows my name and that's why Punk's not here tonight, I want this demon to know who you are and then we might be able to stop the other one from emerging," Amy said and smiled at The Nashes who were blown away by what they were hearing, "Just another day in the life of the DX household," she said and Kevin and Tammy nodded realizing that little had changed since the last time they had dinner with their good old friends.