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 Twenty - The Sleepover
Matt Hardy's house, Cameron, North Carolina at 8pm:
The next day while LC and Hunter were still laughing over how they humiliated Chris Jericho Matt Hardy was welcoming people into his home for his birthday party. Although Matt loved to see his friends he loved how generous they were even more; he had received everything from a renewal for his local gym membership to Guitar Hero III from Christy Hemme.
"Christy I don't even play guitar," Matt said to his girlfriend who had obviously gotten gift advice from the Rock and Rave Infection.
"Who's to say you can't learn?" she said as Jeff came over and saw what Christy had given his brother.
Jeff busted out laughing, "You're gonna get like the lowest score ever!" he said holding his sides and Matt hit him over the head with the game, "Ow!" Jeff yelped holding his head.
"Thank you Christy," Matt said kissing his girlfriend while Jeff tried to get the feeling back into his head.
"You know LC would tear that game up she's the best guitar player ever you should hear her play," Jeff Hardy said.
"You been hanging out with the ARK Angels again?" Christy Hemme asked him and Jeff nodded his head.
"Things have been pretty crazy in the locker room," Matt said and Christy turned to him for more info.
"Oh yeah, how so?" she asked.
"Well mostly it's because Batista and CM Punk have been possessed by some kind of ink demon and their tattoos are controlling them," Matt explained and Christy furrowed her brow.
"Say that again?" she said cleaning out her ears.
"CM Punk does this thing were he can put you to sleep by saying "Go to sleep"," Matt said.
"What is this Halloween? That sounds like something out of a horror movie," she said incredulous.
"Well its real, he hasn't used it in awhile because DX chewed him out about it when he used it during a match," Matt Hardy said.
"Didn't the Beautiful People tell you what happened at the IMPACT Zone a couple of weeks ago?" Jeff asked her surprised that she didn't already know about Punk's new power.
"Yeah but nobody takes Angelina and Velvet seriously, I thought they were just fooling around," Christy said.
"Well honey why did you think I stopped coming to the IMPACT Zone to see you?" Matt Hardy asked Christy.
"Double J said he was clamping down on WWE and TNA wrestlers hanging out," Christy said.
"And CM Punk is the reason why," Jeff explained and Christy scratched her head.
"Man, I gotta take those staff meetings more seriously," she said as Angelina Love and Velvet Sky came through the door with Edge, Gail Kim and the uninvited MVP.
"Happy Birthday Matt!" they all said bringing their presents over to Matt, all except MVP of course.
"Thanks guys, hey Montell did you get lost on your way to the airport?" Matt Hardy said and everyone laughed at MVP.
"Its Saturday, this is the day that me and Gail usually hang out together and I'm not gonna let you getting another year older stop that from happening. Now where's the cake?" MVP said looking around.
"Where's my present?" Matt Hardy replied and MVP frowned.
"Your present? Dude I don't even know your email address and you want a present from me?" MVP said incredulous.
"Well it's my birthday and everyone else here as gotten me something so why should you be any different?" Matt Hardy said to his former Tag Team partner who rolled his eyes.
"You are so materialistic Matt - hey watch the shoes they cost me 1,000!" MVP said to Shannon Moore who nearly spilt drink on his expensive patent leather shoes.
"Sorry bro," Shannon said wondering how anyone could spend so much money on a pair of shoes.
Matt folded his arms, "I want my present MVP," he said.
"You want a present fine, here you go," MVP said taking the ring off his finger and handing it to Matt Hardy who took the ring with a frown on his face.
"What is this?" he asked.
"It's a ring dumbass, it has the letter 'M' engraved with diamonds in the middle. The 'M' stands for Montell but since it's your birthday you can pretend it stands for Matt," MVP said.
"Whoa you're really giving this to me?" Matt Hardy said and MVP shrugged.
"Well if I don't can I still stay at the party?" MVP asked.
"No," Matt Hardy said.
"Well then the ring is yours," MVP said and Matt Hardy hugged him disingenuously.
"Oh Montell you shouldn't have," he said.
"I didn't," MVP said and Gail Kim and the Beautiful People laughed knowing how generous MVP really was, he'd bought them loads of stuff to the point where Edge started to get jealous and started to compete with him. He even bought Angelina a diamond studied angel necklace but she insisted he take it back saying that things like that didn't matter to her, so Edge took it back and he gave her a kiss instead and she liked that very much.
"Welcome to the bling-bling club Matt," Velvet Sky said showing off a necklace that MVP had gotten her, it said "Velvet" in gold italics.
"Does Punk mind you wearing that?" Gail Kim asked and Velvet Sky dismissed the comment.
"I don't really care what Mr. Nyquil has to say right now, I just wanna have a good time with my friends," Velvet replied flicking out her hair.
"I'm down with that, turn up the music let's get loud!" Matt Hardy said dancing around with Christy Hemme while Velvet danced with Shannon Moore and Edge and Angelina talked to Jeff Hardy.
"Did you have another run-in with Batista today?" Edge asked him.
"No, not today and I'm a little relieved, I didn't wanna spend Matt's birthday chasing a monster dragon around," Jeff said.
"So maybe that water dragon scared him off after all," Angelina said but Jeff shook his head unconvinced.
"I don't think we've seen the last of that thing Angie," Jeff said and Ashley slunk her hands around Jeff's waist.
"Are you still talking about that dragon?" Ashley asked Jeff who nodded.
"If you were with us in Tampa yesterday you'd be talking about it too," Angelina said.
"Come on you guys this is a party, you should be dancing it up like Matt and MVP," Ashley said and Edge, Angelina and Jeff turned around to see Matt and MVP having some kind of a break dancing competition and they were both very good.
"Man everything's a competition with those two," Edge said while Gail and Christy cheered Matt and MVP on.
"Now this is a party," Angelina said and went over to cheer the birthday boy on with everyone else, Edge decided to stay away from the "break-dancing morons" as he called them.
"I'll get that," he said as the doorbell rang and he opened the door to see CM Punk standing there in front of them. Two things occurred to Edge as he looked eye-to-eye with the man who had caused so much trouble with his strange new power; one was that he was here because he knew Velvet was going to be at Matt's birthday party and two, he hadn't looked like he had slept in a really long time. The bags around his eyes were almost as dark as his hair and his complexion had gotten awfully pale. A sudden concern for Punk's well-being came over Edge as he looked at one of the most impressive young wrestlers to ever set foot in the WWE who was starting to bear a terribly good resemblance to a zombie.
"Punk are you okay?" he asked.
"I'm fine Edge and I'd be even better if I could see my girlfriend is she here?" Punk replied.
"Yeah she's here but she's kinda mad at you," Edge said.
"Why I didn't do anything to her!" Punk said pulling at his hair which he obviously hadn't cut in awhile, it was almost touching his elbow, he looked like the son of the Undertaker.
"She says you've changed and she doesn't feel comfortable around you, most likely because of this weird new power of yours," Edge said.
"It's not weird it's great," Punk argued.
"It's not great is dangerous and you should let Shawn lay hands on you so he can exorcise that demon that's attached itself to you," Edge said.
"I'm not letting that maniac touch me, look what he did to my arm!" Punk said showing Edge his burned arm.
"Shawn didn't make you go through that flaming door the demon inside you did," Edge said, "And if you let him he could get rid of that burn,"
"There's no demon inside me," Punk said trying to get into the house but Edge blocked his entrance, "What are you doing let me through!" Punk insisted.
"No way," Edge said shaking his head, "you need help and I'm not letting you in here until you acknowledge that you're a danger to yourself and everyone around you,"
"Go to Hell Adam," CM Punk spat.
"You'll look like you're already on your way there," Edge replied.
"Yo Edge who's at the door?" Matt Hardy called after being crowned the winner of the break-dancing contest and MVP demanded a recount.
"Its nobody," Edge replied and CM Punk scowled at him.
"How dare you!" he said angrily and he went to shove Edge but he had almost no energy due to the extreme sleep depravation over the past few weeks and Edge noticed it.
"Punk please go home and get some sleep!" Edge insisted.
"I can't sleep okay!" CM Punk yelled and now Edge understood why Punk looked the way he looked.
"I see," he said.
"No you don't see, you couldn't possibly understand what I'm going through if you did you wouldn't stop me from seeing my girlfriend!" Punk yelled and Velvet Sky came over to the door recognizing the voice of the person that was monopolizing all of Edge's time and stopping Matt's other guests from coming in.
"He's not stopping you from seeing me Punk I don't want to see you until you fix yourself up," Velvet said.
"I told you Velvet I can't sleep," Punk said.
"That's probably because that demon inside you is keeping you awake!" Velvet said, "All you have to do is let HBK lay hands on and you'll be your old self again,"
"I don't want to be my old self, I like having this power its fun!" Punk said.
"Fun?" Edge said and Velvet rolled her eyes with a deep sigh.
"Yeah fun, do you know what I did last night? I went to a burger joint and put everyone to sleep and made my own burger, it was awesome!" Punk said and Edge shook his head.
"So you're still using this power, after everything I've said you're still putting people to sleep," Velvet said and she took a deep breath to stop from crying, "I have nothing to say to you, come on Edge let's go back to the party," Velvet said pulling Edge away from the door so she could close it but Punk slid through behind some of the guests.
"Go to sleep," he said to Edge and the Rated R fell down fast asleep. Velvet covered her ears but her eyes widened with terror as Edge's body fell to the ground.
Everyone wondered what was going on but as soon as Angelina looked up and saw Punk she knew instantly what had happened. Before she could say anything Punk grabbed her and kissed her with a smile taking her by surprise.
"Go to sleep," he said and Angelina fell asleep right there in front of everybody.
"What the Hell?" Jeff Hardy said looking down at the sleeping bodies of Edge and Angelina Love.
"Go to sleep!" CM Punk yelled at the top of his voice and everyone else at the party fell asleep except for Velvet Sky who still had her hands over her ears and Jeff Hardy who for some reason wasn't affected by the spell.
Jeff tried to revive Ashley who had fallen asleep in his arms but he couldn't get her to wake up. "Come on Ashley baby wake up!" Jeff said but Ashley wouldn't wake, he looked up at Punk angrily and charged for him, "You sonofabitch!" he yelled but Punk grabbed Velvet and held her in front of him like some kind of human shield.
"You're immune just like Shawn Michaels, shame your brother's not huh? If he invited me this whole thing could have been avoided but no, he had to do things the hard way," Punk said derisively and Jeff snarled at him but he couldn't help but notice how tired and strained Punk looked, he was pretty sure that one swing would knock the man out but with Velvet in the way he wouldn't dare strike. "I got what I came for now I'm gonna go," Punk said heading for the door.
"No I'm not going with you!" Velvet protested.
"Yes you are going with me," Punk argued.
"No I'm not!" Velvet said furiously and Punk turned her to face him and he stared deeply in her eyes.
"Yes you are!" he said firmly and something happened to Velvet and suddenly she found herself agreeing with him.
"Okay," she said and Jeff Hardy couldn't believe it.
"Vel you don't have to go with him!" he protested.
"Yes I do," Velvet said and CM Punk backed her out of the door.
"Why?" Jeff asked.
"Because he said so and what Punk says goes," Velvet replied and Jeff noticed that the Pepsi tattoo on Punk's arm was spinning really fast.
"What the?" he said as Punk quickly left his brother's house taking a seemingly hypnotized Velvet Sky with him. Jeff quickly found his cell-phone and called the one person he knew could handle this situation that was fast spinning out of control.
11pm:
Shawn and Hunter arrived at Matt Hardy's house and found Jeff Hardy waiting for them patiently outside. He let them in and showed them the sleeping bodies on the floor. Shawn quickly blessed some water and sprinkled it on them and they all woke up.
"Cool," Jeff said as Matt and Ashley got to their feet.
"Hey what happened to the music?" Matt said and MVP got to his feet.
"Yeah I demand a rematch!" MVP said and Hunter shook his head.
"Why are you here?" he asked MVP.
"Velvet Sky invited Gail and I go where she goes, plus Matt borrowed my diamond ring and I want it back before I leave this party," MVP said.
"Hey you said I could have it!" Matt protested.
"Where is Velvet?" Angelina Love said looking around for her best friend.
"You don't remember what happened?" Jeff asked her.
"What are you talking about?" she asked Jeff.
"CM Punk was here, he told everyone to "Go to sleep" and then he kidnapped Velvet," Jeff said and Angelina gasped then it all came back to her like a nightmare.
"He took Velvet?" she said in shock.
"Well technically she went with him of her own free will," Jeff said.
"I don't believe that for a second, he must have hypnotized her with that Pepsi tattoo on his arm!" Angelina said furiously.
"Well she did seem kind of vacant now that you mention it and I thought something was a little off when that Pepsi tattoo started spinning," Jeff said and Matt frowned.
"His Pepsi tattoo spins? I didn't know that, how does he get it to spin?" Shannon asked.
"It's not cool Shannon its dangerous," Shawn said to the former WWE Superstar.
"Hey, how come you didn't Go to Sleep?" Matt asked Jeff and he shrugged.
"Because he has a Gift from God and the gift overcomes the curse," Shawn explained.
"Well we gotta find Velvet, I don't want her anywhere near Punk he's gone completely psycho!" Angelina said and Shawn and Hunter nodded.
"We know," they said at the same-time.
"Well why don't you exercise your authority and fire his ass? Nobody tells Montell Vontavious Porter to "Go to Sleep" and gets away with it!" MVP said angrily.
"I have to admit MVP has a point you guys," Edge said to DX, "Punk has absolutely no chance in Hell of getting the help he needs if he's still on the road thinking he can get away with this and still keep his job. At least suspend him, time away from the ring might give him time to re-consider keeping this power of his,"
DX exchanged glances, "I think you're right Edge," Hunter said.
"Hey firing Punk was my idea," MVP said.
"We're not gonna fire him we're just gonna suspend him," Hunter said and Shawn shook his head.
"I don't think he's gonna take it very well but it has to be done," Shawn said.
"What about Velvet how am I gonna keep her away from him?" Angelina asked.
"That's gonna be tricky," Shawn said thoughtfully.
"Not necessarily," Hunter said, "I bet Punk is brash enough to bring Velvet to RAW thinking we don't know he's got her with him,"
"If he does we'll take her back to the Sandbox and keep an eye on her, after what happened last time Punk was at our house he'll never set foot in the Sandbox again," Shawn said.
"Eventually he'll miss Velvet so much he'll have to give his power up if he ever wants to see her again," Hunter said.
"And what if he decides to put the WWE and TNA to sleep in protest?" MVP said.
"Then I'll bless a ton of water and Aqua Libre will dump it on everyone instantly waking them up," Shawn replied and the wrestlers nodded impressed with Shawn's solution.
"You guys gotta fix for everything," Ashley said and DX exchanged glances hoping that their "fix" worked for the sake of the WWE locker room.