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 Twelve - Thin Ice
Shawn arrived back home around 2am and the house was completely silent as everyone was asleep. Not everyone was sleeping where he expected them to be though as the ARK Angels were once again spread out on his and Amy's bed and they weren't alone; Hunter, Joanie, the Hardys, Shannon Moore and Velvet Sky were in his bedroom as-well sleeping quite comfortably on the floor around the bed. The sight amused Shawn as obviously everyone wanted to keep his wife company and he was grateful to them for that, the question was where was he going to rest his tired bones?
He stepped in-between Joanie and Hunter and made his way over to his side of the bed. Cheyenne had taken up residence there and he didn't want to wake her so he crawled over her to the other side of the bed where LC and Cameron were sleeping and made a little groove where he could slide in next to his wife. This wasn't easily accomplished as LC's elbow was sticking out, when Shawn moved it out of the way LC frowned and nudged Shawn in the ribs. He held in the yelp that was threatening to come out of his mouth and finally managed to close his eyes. Cameron was now half off the bed and he rolled back onto it pushing LC against HBK which she didn't like at all and she shoved Cameron one more time knocking him right off the bed and onto Jeff Hardy's head.
"Ow!" Jeff yelped holding his head.
"Okay who's disturbing the peace?" Hunter demanded though his eyes were still closed, "Jeff Hardy is that you making all that noise over there?"
"It was Cameron he fell on me," Jeff replied.
"It wasn't my fault LC pushed me off the bed," Cameron complained.
"Well I wouldn't have if you weren't trying to squash me," LC replied.
"But you've got all that room up there," Cameron said.
"No I don't, there's me, Uncle Shawn and Aunt Amy plus Aurora how is that room?" LC said and then she realized HBK was in the bed too, "Uncle Shawn, when did you get home?"
"About two minutes ago," Shawn said cozying up next to his wife with his eyes closed.
"So that's why this bed feels so cramped all of a sudden, I'm gonna sleep on the floor next to Cameron," LC said getting off the bed.
"Oh no young lady you come over here and sleep next to me," Hunter insisted.
"Dad don't be ridiculous," LC said cuddling up next to Cameron.
"I'm not being ridiculous I'm being serious, get over here now!" Hunter demanded quietly but firmly and LC refused to pay any attention to him, "That's it," Hunter said getting up and worming his way between LC and Cameron.
"What are you doing Uncle Hunter?" Cameron asked.
"Getting some sleep what does it look like?" Hunter replied.
"So now I have to sleep alone?" Joanie said.
"I'll come over and sleep with you Aunt Joanie," Cameron said and Hunter and LC pouted jealously.
"Well you can't have it both ways," Jeff Hardy said to them and they turned their noses up at him.
"Who asked you anything Rainbow boy?" Hunter said derisively but Jeff fell asleep before he could answer. Moments later LC and Hunter were asleep and the whole room slept soundly with the woman who really appreciated their company.
Early next morning everyone awoke well rested and decided to go with DX to take the ARK Angels to school. It wasn't that Jeff, Matt, Shannon and Velvet wanted to revisit their school days it was mostly because they wanted to hear what happened with Batista in California and Shawn didn't want to talk about it at home where Amy was resting peacefully in her room. Still it didn't take Jeff Hardy long to get distracted, ten minutes after arriving at Waterside he followed Cheyenne to art class and soon became the teacher's pet.
"I think Jeff's finally found his peer group," Hunter said as the children chanted 'Hardy!" after he drew an abstract portrait of Mr. Applebee, putting the Headmaster's nose where his butt was supposed to be and visa versa, he was instantly over with the kindergarten crowd. The other wrestlers walked out to the playground to discuss a less child-friendly subject.
"So what brings you to our neck of the woods Velvet?" Shawn asked the odd one out in the group.
"In a nutshell Shawn I want my boyfriend back," Velvet said adamantly, "Punk has been acting so weird and its all because of that no good rotten twosome Brie and Brianna," Velvet said.
"And Chris Jericho," Matt added.
"I'm sure he didn't have to do much persuading to get Brie and Brianna to put a curse on my boyfriend," Velvet said, "I went all the way to L.A to get answers from those two snakes and now I have that answer I want Chris Jericho put in his place and Punk back in his right mind."
"Brianna's dead Velvet," Shawn said and everyone looked at him surprised except Velvet.
"Well you can only mess with the powers of darkness for so long, it was only a matter of time before that girl ended up six feet under," Velvet said soberly.
"I think she's down a lot lower than that," Shawn said remembering how Brianna expired.
"How did she die?" Hunter asked.
"She and the other one," Shawn started.
"Brie," Velvet said.
"Yeah Brie, they tried to run Rey and me off the San Diego Freeway and set us on fire. When that didn't work they were gonna try and put a curse on us. Brie repented when she felt Hell about to open up and swallow her but Brianna didn't, so Amy killed her with Righteous Indignation," Shawn said.
"Brie repented huh?" Velvet said, "Well she was the smarter of the two,"
"But we're still left with the bigger problem of Chris Jericho," Hunter said and Shawn pulled him to one side.
"You are not going to believe what Batista did in California," Shawn said and he told Hunter the monstrous attacks Batista carried out on John Morrison and Angie Mysterio while Velvet, Matt and Shannon swung around on the merry-go-round. After hearing everything Hunter was speechless, "You know what this means don't you?"
"Yeah but I'd rather hear it from you first," Hunter said.
"If I don't find Batista and lay hands on him we're gonna have to lock him up before he hurts somebody else," Shawn said.
"Lock him up like an animal?" Hunter said horrified.
"Hunter he is an animal, Batista has become that dragon tattoo he is a monster, he's not Big Dave anymore," Shawn explained.
"Still I don't wanna lock him up, I can't do that to Dave I just can't," Hunter said emotionally and Shawn nodded sympathetically, he knew Batista and Hunter went back a long way.
"I have an idea. Hoping Batista shows up for RAW next week, we put him to sleep with a tranquilizer gun and then I lay hands on him and cast out the demon," Shawn suggested and Hunter nodded his head enthusiastically.
"I like that idea," he said patting Shawn on the shoulder, "I bet Rey's pretty upset about Angie right?"
"Melina wiped all memory of the attack from Angie and the children, I had to convince Rey to stay home with his family so he didn't totally lose it," Shawn said.
"Good old Mel," Hunter said thinking fondly of Melina, "So what are we gonna do about Jericho?"
"The same-thing we always do, stop him," Shawn replied.
"Yeah but how?" Hunter said.
"We'll go and see Steph, get her to talk some sense into him," Shawn said.
"How do you know she hasn't tried already?" Hunter asked.
"Something tells me Jericho has done a pretty good job of keeping his nice guy image going in that house," Shawn said climbing up the slide then going down it while Hunter swung from the swing.
"Hey that looks like fun, can I play too?" came the sweet voice of Carla and Hunter and Shawn looked around expecting to see Jericho but he was long gone.
"Carla where's your father?" Hunter asked the little blond.
"He just dropped me off, I was gonna come and spend the weekend with you guys remember?" Carla said.
"Who's this cutie pie?" Velvet asked sweetly coming over to Carla who smiled up at her.
"This is Carla McCool, she's Chris Jericho's daughter," Shawn said and Velvet gasped.
"Whoa, I'm so sorry," Velvet said.
"Yeah me too," Shannon added and Matt slapped them both on the arm.
"He's not as bad as he used to be," Carla said in defense of her father.
"You're right, he's worse," Hunter replied and Shawn slapped him on the arm.
"You wanna go on the merry-go-round Carla?" Shawn asked Carla sweeping her away from Hunter and away from anymore scathing remarks about her father.
"That girl doesn't have a clue what her father's been doing behind her back does she?" Velvet said and Hunter shook his head as Sky's cell-phone rang: it was Punk.
"No she doesn't and to think Jericho actually had the nerve to want to get to know my daughter better," Hunter said shaking his head vowing to himself that would never happen.
"Punk I can't talk to you right now, why are you calling me so early anyway its like 9 o'clock in the morning?" Velvet said getting a little anxious.
"I couldn't sleep, I've been trying to call you all night where have you been?" Punk said.
"What does it matter we can't see each other for another two weeks anyway?" Velvet said.
"So does that mean we can't talk on the phone?" Punk said.
"I'd much rather see you in person, you know like when you're all normal again," Velvet argued.
"I am normal only now I have this cool power that nobody seems to understand apart from me," Punk said annoyed by his almost total ostracization by his WWE colleagues as-well as Samoa Joe and Homicide.
"There's nothing cool about it Punk, you force people to go to sleep you even used it on me and Angelina. This power of yours is evil and I want you to stop using it, or," Velvet trailed off.
"Or what?" Punk demanded.
"Look Punk, you're on thin ice with your bosses, you're on thin ice with your friends and you're on thin ice with me. Soon that ice is going to give way, then you'll slip through the cracks and you'll be drowning in the mess you've created with no-one around to help you out!" Velvet warned Punk.
"So you're giving me an ultimatum?" Punk said, "It's my new power or you right?"
"That's right the choice is yours, call me back when you've decided what's more important to you," Velvet said and she hung up on Punk who looked at the receiver as the dial tone went dead.
"Nice one Velvet I had no idea you were so articulate," Hunter said impressed.
"I've cut a promo or two in my career, I just had no idea I'd ever have to cut one on my boyfriend," Velvet said, "You know he stayed up all night, he hasn't slept in a week,"
"That's because he can't sleep, that demon is keeping him awake. Punk hasn't been in his right mind for awhile," Shawn explained.
"Still he's nowhere near as dangerous as Batista is right now," Carla said and Hunter and Shawn looked at her curiously.
"What do you know about Batista?" Hunter asked indignantly.
"It was on the radio this morning, Batista's been attacking people all across America," Carla said and Hunter and Shawn looked at each other thinking the same-thing.
"Damage control," they said and between each other they called all the WWE Superstars to find out who leaked the story to the press.
"You know I wouldn't be too quick to accuse Batista of being a monster," Velvet Sky said to Carla who frowned at her not knowing what she meant but Matt stopped Velvet before she could elucidate.
"Why don't we go inside and see what the ARK Angels are up to?" Matt suggested and Carla nodded enthusiastically and Matt, Shannon and Velvet Sky went inside to hang with the ARK Angels.
LC and Cameron were having science class and the Bunsens were a-burning when LC noticed Carla in the door window.
"Carla!" she cried taking off her goggles and waving at the door.
"Now LC be careful you know what happens when you mix acids and bases don't you?" the science teacher asked.
"There'll be an explosion that will cause the school to disintegrate?" LC asked.
"Yes," the science teacher replied and LC was about to mix the acid with the base when Cameron snatched the test tube away from her.
"Give me that," he said as the wrestlers and Carla came into the classroom.
"Whoa fire," Shannon said looking at the Bunsen burners and the children stared at all the tattoos on his arms.
"Excuse me what are you people doing in here?" the science teacher asked the wrestlers.
"We're friends of LC and Cameron," Matt Hardy said.
"And I'm LC's sister and Cameron ex-girlfriend," Carla said and LC scrunched up her nose at Carla.
"Tell everybody why don't you?" she said and Cameron laughed, "Carla might be transferring to Waterside for the semester Mrs. Alderman,"
"We're just here to observe," Velvet Sky said.
"Okay well please observe quietly," Mrs. Alderman said, "Now children as I was saying pH is a measurement of the concentration of hydrogen ions in a solution. Today we will be testing the pH of several substances including pure water, blood and healthy human saliva,"
"I'm way ahead of you Mrs. A," LC said and she spat into the Petri dish and took the pH of it, "Its 6.5," she said.
"That's very good LC, your unique approach to scientific theory is always noteworthy," Mrs. Alderman said and LC beamed proudly.
"That's just the teach's way of saying that you're a complete psycho LC," Mad Madison said leaning forward and LC turned to her about to say something when Mrs. Alderman tapped her desk with her ruler.
"LC I don't want you to lose focus you've been doing so well since we came back to Waterside," Mrs. Alderman said and LC turned back around deciding not to bother with Mad Madison of the Damsels of Destruction today.
"Well done LC," Cameron whispered to his girlfriend who was trying her best to keep her temper wanting to set a good example for Carla more than anything. If she didn't know that wouldn't be necessary she might not have been so concerned, as Carla rose to her feet and came over to Mad Madison.
"You've got a big mouth you know that?" she said getting in Madison's face and Madison stared at Carla in shock.
"Now-now-now Carla let's be quiet and let the nice teacher continue with her lesson," Shannon said but Carla wouldn't take her eyes of Madison until she looked away.
Cameron and LC looked at each other with a cheeky smile, "I think I'm gonna like having Carla at Waterside," LC said and Cameron nodded seeing a side of Carla he'd never seen before.
Meanwhile Shawn and Hunter had called everyone on the roster and everyone swore that they never said anything to the press about Batista attacking people, the source came from somewhere else and DX had an idea who the rat was.
"Jericho," Hunter said clenching his fist, "How are we gonna go down to New York without killing that guy on sight?" he asked Shawn.
"Because Stephanie is Jericho's Achilles' Heel if we get through to her we'll get through to him without the need for violence," Shawn said and Hunter shook his head in amazement.
"This man tried to kill you and yet you're still able to turn the other cheek," he said impressed by Shawn's strong character.
"If Jericho tries to take us out he's gonna lose every-time," Shawn said confidently and Hunter smiled in agreement, hoping that this time Jericho would get the message and quit while he thought he was ahead. Otherwise DX were going to have to physically put him back in his place and Hunter had absolutely no problem with that.
Back at the Sandbox Joanie handed Amy a letter that had come for her while she was sleeping. Amy lifted a heavy lid long enough to read what the letter said:
Get used to staying at home alone because you won't have Shawn by your side for much longer. The only thing you'll have to keep you warm is your Righteous Indignation.
There was no name on the letter but Amy just smiled and laughed a little bit to herself, as tempted as she was to burn the letter right then she thought it would be better if she didn't. It would make perfect ammunition in the case against Chris Jericho and the grave he had dug for himself just got even bigger.