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 Sixteen - Hi-Flying Firefighting
Manhattan Elementary School, New York City, New York at 1pm:
The McCools' Monday night was almost as combustive as the fire after Monday Night RAW, when Charlotte and Dan told Carla that she would not be enrolling in Waterside for the semester she was very upset. She went to bed early and didn't talk to them for the rest of the night or say goodbye to them on Tuesday morning. They tried to explain that Chris Jericho hadn't discussed Carla going to Waterside with them but Carla said he was only doing what he thought was best for her and LC. They said they'd talk more about it when she got home but the last thing Carla wanted to do was talk.
She sat by herself in the school playground where she usually would have been playing with the other children, the only problem was now all she could think about was LC, Cameron and Cheyenne and how cool it was to hang with them at Waterside in Connecticut. She'd give anything to go back and she was really mad at her adoptive parents for not giving her the opportunity to stay there for a few more months. Jericho came to visit Carla and she perked up slightly when she saw him but he had an apologetic look on his face which told Carla that Charlotte and Dan had chewed him out for telling her she could go to Waterside.
"I'm so sorry Carla I should have never gotten your hopes up like that," Jericho said.
"You didn't do anything wrong," Carla said defiantly, "all you wanted was for me and LC to spend some more time together and now that's not gonna happen,"
Carla drew her legs underneath her with a sullen look on her face and Jericho tried to comfort her by rubbing her back.
"I should have asked first I guess I got carried away with the idea of you and LC spending time together and with me being your father and all I guess I didn't really feel like I had to ask permission, but I guess I was wrong," Jericho said with a shrug, "You want to go and get some ice cream?"
A thoughtful look suddenly came across Carla's face, "That's right you are my father," she said, "You should have some say in what I do and where I spend my time,"
"Well in the eyes of the law Charlotte and Dan are your adoptive parents they have rights over you that I no longer have," Jericho said.
"And what about my rights, don't I have a say in where I choose to spend my time and who I choose to spend it with? I've been adopted my whole life and now my real father wants to do something really great and you can't because my adoptive parents won't let you," Carla said angrily. "Who do they think they are?"
"Calm down sweetie I'm sure Charlotte and Dan have your best interests at heart," Jericho said in a pacifying voice but the fuse had already been lit.
"If they did they wouldn't be trying to stop me from spending time with my sister," Carla said.
"Let's go get some ice cream and put this whole thing behind us," Jericho said taking Carla by the hand and walking to the entrance gates of Manhattan Elementary with her. Carla had no intention of putting anything behind her and suddenly she didn't think talking to Charlotte and Dan later was such a bad idea. In fact, she had some stuff she wanted to get off her chest right now.
Back in Connecticut Chyna divided her time between the Sandbox and Waterside where she kept her eye on Amy as-well as the ARK Angels while DX were dealing with the aftermath of the fire in Orlando yesterday. Once again DX had been prevented from taking the ARK Angels to school and once again that bothered Cameron; it was as if something was trying to keep them apart and this idea of being separated stayed with him all day. Still the idea of a burning building gave Cheyenne inspiration for a drawing and she drew a building on fire that impressed her teacher very much. Cameron tried to focus on his English lesson while LC tried to come to grips with the fact that Carla wouldn't be spending the whole semester with her anymore. Carla had only been gone for a day and she missed her already.
"Hello?" LC said answering her cell-phone and her English teacher gave her a stern look of disapproval.
"LC what have I told you about using those things in class?" Mrs. Clark said.
"I'm sorry Mrs. Clark but I have to take this," LC said excusing herself from the classroom to take the call from Charlotte in New York, "Hey Char how come you're calling me in the middle of the day?"
"I just had the most upsetting fight with Carla," Charlotte said and LC could tell she was crying.
"Shouldn't Carla be in school?" LC said.
"She came home on her lunch break, Jericho was with her. She said I had no right telling him what to do and to remember that he was her real father," Charlotte said and LC gasped.
"She said that to you?" LC said in disbelief.
"Yes she did and that's not all. She said if Dan and I really had her best interests at heart we'd let her stay with you in Connecticut," Charlotte said, "I told her we'd discuss it when Dan came home and she said she hoped we'd let her go,"
"What did Jericho say?" LC asked.
"He was super-nice as always, he told Carla to calm down and after he took her back to school he came back and said that she was just upset and that whatever decision Dan and I came to he'd persuade her to accept it," Charlotte said.
"That was cool of him," LC said glad that Jericho didn't bully her foster sister in letting Carla come to Connecticut.
"Yeah he always knows the right thing to say," Charlotte said and LC picked up a little resentment in her voice, "You know the thing is LC it doesn't matter if Dan and I change our minds about letting Carla go to Connecticut to spend some time with you, I have absolutely no problem with that,"
"Of course," LC said.
"It's the fact that Jericho told you and your sister about it before clearing it with me. And then when he was there in the kitchen holding Carla's hand while she tore me and Dan apart, I just felt so . . . disposable," Charlotte said and LC shook her head as her sister sobbed.
"Charlotte don't say that, I'll talk to Carla don't you worry," LC assured Charlotte.
"I mean Jericho is her real father and everything but I prayed for Carla, she was the answer to my prayers. I love her, we both do," Charlotte said, "I couldn't bear being separated from her for a week let alone a whole semester,"
"I know sis I know, look I'm gonna talk to Carla and get this whole thing straightened out alright?" LC said and Charlotte nodded.
"She's gonna hate me isn't she?" Charlotte said knowing how Carla was going to react if she didn't get to go to Connecticut.
"Get used to it, she's your daughter," LC said humorously and Charlotte laughed a little, "I'll talk to you later okay? Bye,"
Charlotte said goodbye and LC hung up and immediately dialed Carla's cell-phone when Mrs. Clark came out into the hallway and signaled for LC to return to English class, "I'll be right there Mrs. C," LC said punching Carla's cell phone number into the key pad of her cell phone.
"LC I've got to say your behavior has improved a lot since you came back to Waterside but this is the kind of behavior that's going to put you right back on the chopping block," Mrs. Clark said and LC laughed at the use of the phrase "chopping block" thinking fondly of her Ax of Judgment, "Did I say something funny?"
"Yeah but I doubt you'd get the joke. Give me 5 minutes Mrs. C please?" LC said and Mrs. Clark sighed guessing that this was an important phone call and gave LC the benefit of the doubt.
"You drive a hard bargain Miss. Helmsley," Mrs. Clark said and went back into the classroom while Carla answered her phone.
"Hello?" she said from Manhattan Elementary.
"You got some nerve missy!" LC said and Carla knew instantly that she had spoken to Charlotte.
"LC I can't talk right now I'm in class," Carla said trying to keep her voice down.
"You weren't so concerned about being in class when you were chewing out my foster sister," LC snapped, "How could you do that to Charlotte Carla, that woman loves you more than Chris Jericho does or ever will!"
"That's not true!" Carla said standing to her feet and getting everyone's attention. She quickly left the classroom unable to keep her emotions under control.
"Are you sure about that Carla? Think long and hard about the role that Jericho's played in your life up until now while Charlotte prayed to God every night for a little girl that would take her breath away. Well you took her breath away alright, you upset Charlotte so much all she could do was cry!" LC yelled.
"He's changed LC, admit it you know it's true you're just afraid of what that might mean but I'm not!" Carla yelled back.
"What are you talking about?" LC said.
"Oh come on you know it as much as I do, Jericho is the father you've always wanted. He loves music, you love music. He plays by his own rules just like you do, he'd never force you go to a school that you obviously hate just because it's close by!" Carla snapped.
"You know what Carla, stay in New York because I don't want to have anything to do with you and if you ever upset Charlotte again I'll come to New York and beat the living crap out of you!" LC said angrily and Carla laughed.
"If you do I'll pay for your flight," Carla said and LC couldn't help but laugh, "I know you a lot better than you think LC, you're not mad at me that's just your defense mechanism,"
"No I am mad at you, I want you to apologize to Charlotte," LC said.
"And I want you to admit that Chris Jericho isn't as bad as you thought he was," Carla said.
"Okay I admit it, he's not that bad but that doesn't mean we're going to go skipping off into the sunset together," LC said.
"Doesn't it?" Carla said and LC didn't say anything, "Talk to you later LC," she said and hung up leaving LC with a blank look on her face.
"Five minutes are up LC," Mrs. Clark said coming to get her missing pupil.
"Coming Mrs. C," LC said walking back into the classroom and she sat back next to Cameron who knew something was up.
"Something happen in New York?" he asked her and LC nodded. "Just so you know if you ever wanted to leave I'd go with you, we both would, Cheyenne and me," Cameron said taking LC completely off guard.
"Cameron what are you talking about, where would I go?" she said puzzled by Cameron's statement.
"I don't know but I just needed you to know that," Cameron replied and LC kissed him on the head and smiled at him.
"Well that's good to know," she said and Cameron squeezed her hand loving and suddenly LC forgot what she had been thinking about, Cameron was now the only thing on her mind.
At the Sandbox Jeff Hardy had come and taken Aurora, Batista was roaming the skies in hideous dragon form and Trish told Jeff to get ready to put out some fires. Aurora was more than willing to go but Amy had gotten so used to her cool temperature she was reluctant for the little Hurricane to leave. Still she had Chyna for company, at least she did for awhile, Joanie had to leave to go and pick up the ARK Angels from school so now Amy was home alone. Shawn and Hunter were still dealing with the fire in Orlando so they wouldn't be home for awhile, then to her surprise Amy heard the sound of the front door opening and closing and she sat up expecting for a member of the DX household (ideally Shawn) to knock at her bedroom door. Her hair flared up a little and she dismissed it as excitement that a certain member of her family had come home early. When her bedroom door opened and the slick and self-assured form of Shane McMahon stood in her doorway she realized it wasn't excitement at all but an alarm from God to protect her from the evil that just entered her home uninvited.
"Hello Amy, home alone I see," Shane McMahon said coming into her bedroom.
"Not completely," Amy replied with her Righteous Indignation on standby.
"Man its hot in here," Shane said pulling out his collar.
"Do you want it to get hotter?" Amy said and a lock of her hair lashed forward causing Shane to jump back a little.
"Whoa why are you so mad? I just came to pay you a friendly visit," Shane said innocently.
"You could have called first and told me you were coming, I would have baked a cake," Amy said sarcastically.
"Why would I call this is my house? I grew up here with my baby sister and our parents way before you ever knew Shawn by his first name," Shane said.
"Your sister's moved on but I guess you haven't, so what you're here to kick me out of a house that no longer belongs to you is that why you're here Shane?" Amy asked.
"Oh that's right we lost this house along with our business which is also now in the Helmsley - Michaels name right?" Shane said and Amy nodded proudly.
"That's right, maybe you should take up whatever beef you have with them I'm a little too pregnant for your nonsense," Amy said and Shane came closer to her and lowered his voice.
"That's right you are pregnant and the baby you carry will no doubt inherit part of this wonderful estate one day. You've done pretty well for yourself haven't you Ms. Dumas? It would be a shame if you had to raise your baby along with Cameron and Cheyenne by yourself in this big house wouldn't it?" Shane said and Amy scowled at him.
"What is that supposed to mean?" she said and Shane backed away as the heat coming from Anointed Amy became unbearable.
"You got my letter didn't you? I think I made myself very clear but just in case some of that pregnancy weight has seeped through to your brain I'll say it plain - we're gonna take back what is ours and DX will be eliminated once and for all!" Shane said firmly, "maybe you should start looking for a new place to live, something more in your price range,"
"GET OUT!" Amy roared flames burst from her hair and Shane ran out of the house as fast as he could. Seconds later the flames receded and Amy panted heavily trying to calm down. Baby Rebecca kicked in her stomach, she was angry too, "I know baby I know," Amy said rubbing her stomach and she chugged a whole bottle of water to cool the baby off as-well as herself. "Where's Aurora when I need her?" Amy said, "Shane should be thankful he was able to get out of the Sandbox alive." But he wasn't and he would be back.
Aurora was a little busy sailing through the air at a hundred miles an hour strapped to Jeff Hardy who was honing in on Batista who, in dragon form, had set his sights on a tall skyscraper in downtown Chicago which was filled with people who were still finishing out their working day. Things were about to get hot for the people inside if only for awhile as Batista blasted the building with fire from his mouth and he set the whole building on fire. The people inside started to scream but they wouldn't be screaming for long because Jeff had spotted a huge water bottle truck parked just outside the skyscraper. He opened the truck with his mind and forced the five liter containers of water up into the air where they exploded on Jeff's command and extinguished the flames. By the time the firemen got there the fire was almost completely out.
"Nice flying Ro-Ro," Jeff Hardy said to Aurora who laughed just happy to be part of the rescue mission.
The dragon dove down on the firemen and picked one of them up in its claws.
"Help!" the fireman yelled as the dragon lifted him up into the air going up as high as the top of the skyscraper while his friends looked up in fright at the terrible beast in the sky.
"Uh-oh," Jeff said watching the scene unfold.
"Let me go, let me go!" the fireman said.
"Don't say that!" Jeff yelled at the fireman then Batista dropped him from over twelve storeys in the air.
"ARGHHH!" the fireman screamed plunging to the ground and the people below screamed as he fell.
"Come on Ro-Ro!" Jeff said and he swooped down and caught the man before he hit the ground. The man landed safely on his two feet and he looked at Jeff in shock.
"Who are you Superman?" he asked Jeff who turned his nose up at him.
"Yeah right, like I'd be caught dead wearing a cape," he said and the dragon roared scaring everyone except the firefighters who took exception to the scaly monster.
"Turn on the hose!" one of the firefighters yelled to his colleague who did just that and the water blasted out of the hose as the firefighter aimed it at Batista, "Take that!" he said vehemently but Jeff tried to stop him.
"Don't you're gonna make it angry!" Jeff said and he was right about that because after being shot at with the hose Batista got mad and he swooped down, picked up the fire engine with his claws and threw it high in the air. Everyone screamed as it came down, "MOVE!" Jeff yelled and everyone got out of the way as the engine came crashing to the ground. Jeff flew up to Batista annoyed, "What did you do that for?" Jeff demanded and Batista blew a fireball at him but he got out of the way, "That's real mature Dave!" Jeff said admonishing Batista then the dragon started setting other buildings on fire but Jeff put out the flames by causing fire hydrants to explode and lifting the water to extinguish the flames. It didn't take Batista long to figure out that things weren't burning for as long as they were supposed to and he finally figured out that Jeff was the reason for that. He roared at Jeff and swung at him with his tail but Jeff ducked out of the way. "You're gonna have to do a lot better than that!" Jeff said then he realized something wasn't right, he was starting to fall. He looked at Aurora and saw that she was falling asleep, "No-no Ro-Ro, stay awake!" Jeff pleaded as he descended to the ground. Aurora needed something to wake her up and Jeff knew just the thing even though Hunter would kill him if he found out, "This will just be our little secret okay Ro-Ro?" he said reaching into his back pocket and he pulled out a Skittle. He popped it into her mouth and she woke up instantly, suddenly Jeff started to ascend and he caught up with Batista who was flying to somewhere else and Jeff and Aurora were right on his tail.
A few hours later Jeff took Aurora home, having flown all over the sky making sure innocent people didn't lose their lives in roaring flames it was time for the little Hurricane to take a nap. Jeff was sure they'd be more fires to fight tomorrow and she needed her strength, Skittles alone would not cut it. Jeff took Aurora upstairs to Amy whose bedroom was a lot warmer than it had been when he picked Aurora up. He placed Aurora by her side and the little Hurricane cooled her down.
"Where's Shawn?" Jeff asked her.
"He's being interrogated over some blood the police found at the scene of the fire in Orlando that belonged to Batista," Amy said soberly.
"What about the ARK Angels?" Jeff said.
"Chyna took them to get some pizza, we didn't have a chance to cook," Amy replied and Jeff noticed that her vitality was low and her smile was missing.
"What happened to make you look so blue Big Red?" Jeff asked concerned.
"Nothing, just a visit from Shane McMahon declaring war on me and my family," Amy said and Jeff gasped.
"Shane McMahon was here?" he asked in shock.
"He threatened me and my family, said he was gonna take back what was his and put me out on the street," Amy said.
"So The McMahons are back on the scene huh?" Jeff said shaking his head.
"Yes they are and they are intent on making these last few months of my pregnancy a living Hell," Amy said tersely.
"Well don't let them Amy, rise above it like you always do when adversity comes knocking at your door," Jeff said.
"Well this adversity didn't come knocking Jeff, it just walked right in believing that all this belongs to him and his family and Shawn wasn't here to tell him he was the man of the house now," Amy said and Jeff furrowed his brow.
"Huh?" he said confused.
"Jeff when the head of the household isn't home to defend his house it's a sign that there's about to be a takeover, something's about to change and I don't think I'll be able to stop it," Amy said and Jeff nodded thinking the last thing the head of the household would want would be for Amy to be upset.
"Skittle?" Jeff said offering Big Red a red skittle and the Anointed one smiled.
"You always know just what to say to make me feel better," Amy said and she took the Skittle and chewed it with a smile. The room was starting to cool down now and Amy started to relax, the depression that threatened to suffocate the comforting power of the Holy Spirit began to subside and a feeling of peace spread throughout the room, "You know Jeff the Bible says that no weapon formed against me shall be able to prosper, all this time I've been sitting here not using the weapon God gave me when He called me into ministry,"
"You mean your Righteous Indignation?" Jeff asked.
"No my faith. I let Shane upset me, he let me think I was less than a conqueror even though the Bible says that I am more, much more than that," Amy said.
"Hell yeah you're more than that! You're Anointed Amy the first member of ATM to get her Gift from God! So you're saying you need to work with the tools God gave you from the very beginning," Jeff said and Amy nodded.
"I need to go back to waiting on the Lord lest my Righteous Indignation be used unrighteously," Amy said caressing her stomach, "there's just too much at stake," she was thinking of Rebecca at this point.
Jeff rested the back of his head on her bed and closed his eyes, "Well I'll wait with you and we'll wait on the Lord together," he said and he stayed with her until the head of the household came home and wondered into his room where the Holy Spirit was renewing the strength of Amy, Jeff and Aurora in preparation for the battle ahead.