With Alix's words, the arena burst into cheers and chants of 'Stinger, Stinger, Stinger, Stinger…!' Alix grinned and raised one of her hands, resting that one crutch against her side. The members of the Nexus surrounded the ring, and she gulped. She may have acted as if she was completely fine with the Nexus coming out to 'talk' to her, but already with one mostly broken ankle, she didn't want any physical trouble between her and the vicious stable.
"I-I warn you…" Alix stuttered, waving one of her crutches blindly around at the members in black and yellow. "I-I won't hesitate from beating you each with…"
"Aaaafternoon! Your time is up, my time is now (now)…"
Welcomed by more cheers from the fans, John Cena raced out from backstage and slid easily into the ring next to Alix. He nudged her with a smile, holding out his hand gently; silently asking for her microphone. She happily obliged.
"Well hello, Nexus!" John laughed, looking around at each of them. "How's it goin? I'm doin good – how bout you? And I believe my friend the X-Stinger is doing good – how are you doing, Stinger?"
"Never better." Alix happily laughed as the Nexus took a few uneasy steps back from the sides of the ring.
"See? See? Never better." John grinned, motioning at Alix while looking each one of the members of the Nexus in the eye; Wade Barrett, Justin Gabriel, David Otunga, Heath Slater, Husky Harris, and Michael McGillicutty. "Now, if dear Stinger here even with a broken ankle is feeling at her best, would you really like to try and beat us up? Besides the fact that I've already repaid every single one of you for what you did to me while I was a part of you guys. So – c'mon. Let's dance. That's if you really wanna."
Each of the Nexus took a synchronized step towards the ring, and both John and Alix were taken aback. Neither had expected the Nexus to actually want to fight with John out there.
'It's time to play the game…'
The Nexus jumped back as Triple H took slow steps from backstage. He flashed a quick grin at Alix as he quickly sped up, racing into the ring and evading, just as John had, the flying and missed punches of the members of Nexus.
"I'll say this in words Alternative Lifestyle can understand." Triple H grabbed the mic and looked Justin Gabriel straight in the eye. "Nexus no touch Alix or John. Or Nexus get spray-painted then Pedigreed. Kapeesh?"
"We aren't afraid of you, Triple H!" Justin shouted as he leaped up onto the inch or two of the ring that was outside of the ropes. Each of the other members of Nexus did as well, trying to make sure that everyone was together and they still had the number and force advantage over the babyface Superstars inside the ring.
'Now listen, this ain't no make believe. Come on, open your eyes and see…'
John Morrison climbed like a spider monkey onto the top of the entrance, and jumped onto the barricades separating the fans from the floor and ring. He landed expertly and walked like he was on a balancing beam all the way over to the ring. Evading the hands of the Nexus, he powered like a jet into the ring with one good jump and backed up against his other three Superstar friends. The count was now four to six.
"One, two, three…" Alix whispered quietly to her friends, and together they took one small step towards the Nexus. Each of the Nexus jumped back down onto the floor.
That wasn't it though.
Although the Nexus may have looked as if they were finally backing off, apparently it was all a ruse. As soon as the four babyface Superstars had separated themselves from each other a little more, each with their own wide grins, the pack of wild dogs attacked. They raced into the ring, cornering each of them into a turnbuckle. Alix had Husky Harris after her, John Morrison had Heath Slater, John Cena had Wade Barrett and Justin Gabriel and Triple H had David Otunga and Michael McGillicutty.
Alix wildly tried to swing one or both of her crutches at Husky, who managed to continually punish her. With one wildly missed swing, Husky yanked both of the crutches out of her hands, throwing them behind him. Without her crutches she had to care more about keeping her foot okay than anything, and attempted to hold herself up by getting her hands on the ropes coming off of the turnbuckle. Her attempts were fleeting however, and with one well aimed slam to Alix's stomach, she instinctively drew her arms in and crashed to the ground.
The heel of Alix's foot slid across the mat as Husky continued to punish her with slow but powerful punches and slams, and although she didn't want Husky to know how much she was hurting, she cried out in complete agony. Apparently, the leftover microphones from when the Nexus and Alix's friends were exchanging words were still in the ring, as her scream echoed throughout the entire arena. Everything was quiet from the fans from then on, and the only noises were Wade barking out quiet orders to his team, and the grunts and groans from each of Alix's friends as they were each being punished.
Only Cena was faring slightly better than everyone else.
He kept his mouth shut as he carefully tried to land punches like Husky's on his attackers. Everyone could tell it was over when even Cena fell back into the turnbuckle, slamming his head against the ring post.
'I hear voices in my head, they council me, they understand. They talk to me!'
Randy Orton and Evan Bourne raced out together and the Nexus stopped their attacks, if only for a moment. It was just long enough for Cena to start bashing the heads of Wade and Justin, Triple H to start landing pedigrees, and for Alix and Morrison to hoist themselves up onto the respective turnbuckles that they were backed into. Alix carefully balanced herself between her bad and good foot on the slim turnbuckle, and quickly jumped off, catching Husky with a shoulder to his face as she landed against him on the mat.
Alix and her friends were getting the upper-hand again.
Randy and Evan moved to help whoever needed it, Evan moving to Alix and Randy just beating up whoever he could get to. Quickly the Nexus rolled out of the ring, regrouping over by the entrance aisle. Evan had already helped Alix up, and Cena handed her her crutches. Each of her team held a grin as the arena burst out in cheers, and the Nexus walked backstage, broken.
'I came to dance, dance, dance, dance…'
Alix's theme played as the six friends went backstage, their smiles never leaving their faces as they high-fived fans and quietly went back.
As soon as the wrestlers got backstage of First Mariner Arena, Alix shrugged a winter coat on, as well as 'Taker's old ring gloves and the Edge hat available at . She had left them neatly in a pile near the wall just backstage of the arena.
"I have to go see Edge." She said abruptly to each of her friends. "I promised him as soon as I was done my part in the show I would go see him. Does anyone wanna take me there?"
John Cena opened his mouth, but before he could say anything, a loud deep-voiced groan came from the men's bathroom.
"Well that can't be good…" Hunter laughed, peering into the bathroom. Wide-eyed he looked back at his friends. "It really isn't. Cena, Randy, come with me."
John and Randy looked at each other, puzzled for a moment, but nevertheless followed Hunter into the men's bathroom. Less than a minute later they came out carrying a broken, bruised, and battered R-Truth.
"Ron!" Alix cried, running over to him in her friends' hands. "Ron – what happened?"
"Can't…say." He croaked. "He'll hurt you."
"We'll take him to the hospital when I take you to visit Adam." A deeper voice said from behind the wrestlers. Alix easily recognized the voice – it was the Deadman. "If I turn out to be a chauffer for your hurt friends, I'm gong to be a little mad. Cena, Orton, Helmsley – hand me Killings."
No matter how silly it sounded, John, Randy and Hunter literally handed the battered Superstar to the Deadman. He carefully held Truth, almost as if he was a child.
"Let's get going." Alix said, pulling at the Undertaker's elbow.
AN: Here ya' are. Poor Truth. Lol. Anyway – if you are one of the people that read my other story Fifteen Years and Blind, I'm sorry; I'm an idiot and keep leaving my notebook in my school locker. -.- Hope you liked this! REVIEW!