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 Eight - Monster Hunt
New Orleans police department, 8am:
The plan was for DX to go back home after RAW, take their children to school and confront Vince McMahon about why he was seeking out the ARK Angels. That plan failed to materialize because on Tuesday morning DX were down at the New Orleans police station answering questions about a series of attacks that had been reported in the area. Shawn thought that by taking the picture of the dragon Randy Orton had given him to the cops they wouldn't need them anymore. However after the police taped the picture up in public spaces reports flooded in about the creature being spotted all over town and the police wanted to ask DX more questions about the dragon like creature. To add to that the police in Washington contacted the police in New Orleans and told them that people were reporting attacks by a lizard looking creature that fitted the description of the creature in the picture. In short DX weren't going home anytime soon and what was worse, Dave Batista was nowhere to be seen.
"Now tell us more about this creature," the police asked Candice Michelle who looked between Shawn and Hunter not knowing what to say.
"I've told you everything I don't know what else to say, the thing that attacked me is the thing in this picture," Candice said pointing to the picture on the police table.
"Now you say you were attacked by this creature," the police officer asked Candice.
"Yes sir I was," Candice said shaking her head earnestly.
"And these two gentlemen can corroborate your story?" the officer asked Shawn and Hunter.
"Yes sir we can, when Candice came back to the New Orleans Arena last night her face was bruised, her nose was bloody and her clothes were all ripped up," Hunter said and the officer rubbed his chin mulling over this information.
"Where are these ripped up clothes of yours?" the officer asked Candice who frowned at the tone in which he asked the question.
"What you think I'm making this all up?" Candice asked him incredulously.
"Well here are a few pictures of the other people who say they were attacked by this creature," the officer said putting pictures of people with terrible scars and bites all over their bodies on the table for Candice and DX to see. Candice recoiled in horror, it certainly looked like these people had been attacked by a vicious animal, "Now you don't look a thing like any of these people Ms. Michelle so you could see where I would have trouble believing this monster attacked you,"
"But I was attacked!" Candice insisted and Shawn pulled out his cell-phone and pointed it at Candice.
"Say cheese," he said and Candice turned to him.
"What?" she asked and Shawn took a picture of her with his camera phone.
"Is Randy still outside?" Shawn asked Hunter who nodded, "Go get him,"
Hunter got Randy while the officer stood with his arms folded wondering what was going on.
"I swear young lady if I find out this is some kind of wrestling stunt you and your bosses are going to be in a lot of trouble," the officer said.
"I assure you sir we are not making this up," Shawn said.
"And even if we were it would be like the worse storyline ever - a monster attacking Divas, what is this a 1952 B movie?" Candice said and the officer frowned and Shawn quieted Candice down.
"That's enough Candice," he said as Randy Orton came into the room. Shawn approached him much to the officer's confusion.
"What is going on here?" he asked impatiently.
"Randy I need you to show what Candice looked like 12 hours ago," Shawn said handing Randy his camera phone and Randy waved his hand across it and showed the results to the officer.
"Now that looks like a woman that's been attacked by a monster," he said, "I'm gonna need a copy of this picture can you send a copy to me?"
"Yes officer," Shawn said taking the phone back and patting Randy on the back.
"Good, now Ms. Michelle you say that you were out with a wrestler called Dave Batista just before the attack," the officer asked Candice sitting down on the other side of the table.
"Yes I was," Candice said.
"I'm gonna need to speak to this man, is he still in his hotel room?" the officer asked DX who exchanged weary glances.
"There's a chance he might have gone home already," Shawn said uncomfortably.
"Where does he live?" the officer asked and Shawn didn't want to answer but he knew he had to.
"He lives in Washington," Shawn said.
"Good then I'll let Washington know and they'll contact him, he may be the only clue we have as to what went on here last night so we're really gonna need to talk to him," the officer told Shawn and Hunter who looked at each other not liking where this was going at all.
The officer reached out to Candice Michelle with a warm smile, "If it makes you feel any better no harm was done you're still a total knockout," he said and Candice smiled grateful for the compliment.
"Thank you officer," she said.
"Okay you can all go, I'll let you know if we hear anything," the officer said and DX, Randy and Candice left the room and the police station to head back to the Royal Sonesta hotel where the other wrestlers were waiting to know if they could go home. They headed for the breakfast room but they didn't want to eat, it had been a long morning and Dave Batista was still missing.
"We have to find Dave before the cops do," Randy said.
"But what are we looking for a human being or a monster?" Shawn asked and Hunter shook his head in disbelief.
"How did this happen, one minute Dave is the cuddly teddy bear all the ladies want to hang with and the next minute he's a dragon-looking monster attacking Candice Michelle? It doesn't make sense!" Hunter protested trying to keep his voice down.
"But it does make sense," said the familiar voice of Trish Stratus who came over and sat on Randy's lap planting a warm kiss on his lips, "Hey Randy," she said lovingly.
"Hey wifey," Randy replied back with a warm hug.
"Truth, thank God you're here can you shed some light on what happened to Candice last night?" Shawn asked.
"I can confirm that the thing that attacked her was definitely not Dave Batista but a manifestation of an evil spirit that's attached itself to the tattoo on Batista's back," Trish said and Shawn and Hunter took a closer look at the picture of the dragon like creature in the picture.
"It is just like Dave's tattoo," Hunter realized looking closely at the picture.
"But how did this happen?" Shawn asked Trish.
"Before me and loverboy left for our honeymoon I specifically told Batista to find us when he went back to the hotel to get Punk for our send off in L.A. He didn't find me before I could stop it from happening," Trish said and Shawn frowned.
"Stop what from happening?" he asked.
"The transfer from those two evil witches to Dave and Punk," Trish said and Shawn and Hunter gasped.
"The two girls that Punk was raving about that night I went to see him after RAW," Hunter realized.
"Yes," Trish confirmed.
"So Punk is being controlled by that tattoo on his left arm, that Pepsi tattoo," Shawn said, "those two girls put a spell on both of them,"
"It gets worse," Trish said, "Do you know who owns that club those two girls were at?"
"No who?" DX asked at the same-time.
"Chris Jericho," Trish replied and Hunter and Shawn sunk down into their chairs, "that's right Y2J is up to no good once again and I'm sorry you guys won't be able to stop him this time,"
Shawn and Hunter looked up at Trish at the same-time wondering what she meant by that while Randy shook his head wishing for once in his life Dave Batista wasn't such a chick magnet and Chris Jericho would just get a life.
Waterside, 1pm:
For the first time in a long time Cameron was nervous. Shawn said he would take the ARK Angels to school this morning and then something happened in New Orleans and he couldn't make it back in time. To Cameron that was not a good sign because his father was always there when he said he'd be more times than not, it was almost as if some-thing was preventing him from coming back to Connecticut this morning and now this second visit from Vince McMahon would have to be intercepted by his pregnant stepmother. As much as Cameron loved having Amy by his side he didn't feel it was fair considering how heavily pregnant she was. She really should have been at home resting but she had been in spiritual warfare for the past week and did very little resting. While Amy was taking care of him Cameron wanted someone to take care of her and his little sister growing inside her.
As usual the ARK Angels were eating their lunch under the juniper tree only this time Amy and Joanie were there with them waiting for Mr. McMahon to make his unwanted return to the school. LC had made her case to Joanie that she was no longer wearing the grey sweater/skirt ensemble with the Mary Jane's after she told her mom that Vince approved of her clothes. Joanie didn't put up a fight and let LC throw the clothes away, the big black boots were back much to Mr. Applebee's dislike. He would have to come around because there was no way those clothes were going back on LC's body now, her parents were certain of that.
"There's that limo again!" Cheyenne called pointing upside down at the limousine at the school entrance and Joanie helped Amy to her feet as Vince McMahon came out of his limo with his special guest by his side.
That special guest turned out to be Chris Jericho.
"Oh what is he doing here?" LC said pouting and she stormed up to her other father and Joanie reached out to her.
"LC wait!" she yelled but LC was offended that Jericho would even show his face on her family's turf after all the crap he pulled a few months ago with his deranged paranoid android stunt. She would have walked all the way up to him and socked him right in the jaw if she wasn't stunned into immobility by the appearance of the real special guest.
"Carla," she said as her sister came out of the limousine behind Jericho.
"Hey sis," Carla said giving LC a hug but LC was too surprised to hug her back.
"What are you doing here," LC asked then she looked up at Jericho disdainfully, "with him?" she added.
"We've got so much to talk about, hey Joanie," Carla said waving at Joanie and Joanie waved back in a robotic way wondering what on Earth was going on.
"Looking good Joanie," Vince McMahon said.
"Bite me Vince," Joanie replied.
"I see where LC gets it, well that will be the first thing to change," Vince said with a small smile.
"What?" Joanie asked then Vince's eyes turned to Amy, Cameron and Cheyenne who were lagging a little behind Joanie and LC.
"Are you alright mom?" Cameron said concerned about Amy who was starting to heat up but not in a Righteous Indignation kind of way, in a bad way.
"I'm fine Cameron," Amy said.
"Don't lie to me mom," Cameron said.
"Okay I'm not fine but I want to know what Jericho and Vince are doing here," Amy said.
"Then you promise me you'll go home and take it easy?" Cameron asked and Amy nodded.
"Yes," Amy replied and she came up to Vince and asked him point blank what he was doing here.
"Well let me start by saying I didn't expect to see you here but since you are I think you should take it easy and not get too excited," Vince said.
"What are you doing here Vince?" Amy asked her temperature rising and she was growing fatigued.
"Let me take you under that tree to sit down," Vince said taking Amy by the hand but she pulled her arm back defiantly.
"I said what are you doing here?" Amy asked this time her temperature rose with Righteous Indignation and Vince could tell the difference.
"I actually just came to visit Waterside and make sure all the reconstruction was up to par. You can imagine my surprise when I pulled up on Monday and saw that the building was almost completely restored," Vince said.
"So that was you in the limo last Monday," Amy said.
"Mr. Applebee said Cameron told him his little sister did it, he didn't believe you of course," Vince said to Cameron, "but if Cheyenne did rebuild Waterside I must say she did a Phenomenal job," Vince said about to stroke Cheyenne face when Amy pulled her away from him.
"Don't touch her," Amy said with a warning tone and Vince backed off and Amy's focus turned to Jericho, "What's your story?"
Jericho smiled down at Carla, "Why don't you tell her sweetie?" he said to her and Carla smiled up at Amy.
"I'm thinking of transferring to Waterside for a couple of semesters so I can spend some time with LC," Carla said and LC's face brightened.
"Really? Oh my gosh Carla that's awesome!" she said ecstatically and Carla nodded, she was equally ecstatic, "That means you can stay with us at the Sandbox!"
"Yeah as long as that's okay with your parents and Aunt Amy," Carla said.
"I couldn't imagine why it wouldn't be," Vince said looking at Joanie and Amy who both exchanged glances with Cameron.
"If Carla wanted to transfer to Waterside why didn't Charlotte and Dan call us, why did you go out of your way to come and tell us yourself?" Amy asked Jericho.
"Well to be honest Amy,"
"-stop right there Jericho because you can't be honest, you're up to something I know it and you better believe I'm gonna find out," Amy said and Jericho looked down and fell silent.
"You're right I am up to something," Jericho said, "which is kind of why I was hoping DX would be here instead of you,"
"Well they're not here so whatever crap you were gonna tell them you can save it because I'm not interested in hearing it either," Amy said.
"Aunt Amy please hear daddy out," Carla said and Cameron balked at what Carla just called Jericho.
"Daddy?" he repeated in shock.
"Its okay Carla I expected this, maybe we should go," Jericho said.
"But what about what you said about spending more time with me and LC?" Carla asked Jericho and Amy shook her head and tried not to laugh at the number Jericho had done on Carla.
"If Jericho does want to get to know LC and is even bothered to come up from New York and see you both if you transfer here I wont stand in his way," Amy told Carla.
"Actually I was hoping I could take LC back to New York with me," Jericho said, "there's a few good schools around there and if she likes it I'd like her to come and live with me and Stephanie for awhile,"
Amy couldn't even speak, LC just stared at Jericho, Joanie thought Jericho was kidding while Cameron tried to stop his heart from thumping so hard inside his chest.
"You better take Carla home now," Vince said to Jericho sensing that things were about to get entirely too hot to handle in Connecticut right now. Before he got in the limo Jericho smiled at LC.
"See you soon sweetie," he said with a warm smile but LC didn't know how to respond, she just stared at the limo as it drove off down the road.
"This is a joke right, Jericho's finally lost it hasn't he?" Chyna asked Amy who was holding her stomach looking very uncomfortable.
"If that was a joke it wasn't funny," Cameron said putting his arm around LC who still hadn't said anything while Amy tried to cool off, there was nothing funny about what just happened and it would be even less funny when she told Shawn and Hunter about it.