"Edgey…are you okay?" Alix whispered as she gently peeked behind the curtain that separated Edge's room from the hallway. Edge look at her with a small smirk.
"Just peachy." He glared with a smile.
"Are you going to tell me who did this to you?" Alix asked quietly as she sat down on one of the hard black chairs nearest the Rated R Superstar's bed. The Undertaker walked silently in as she sat down, standing in the opposite corner that Alix was sitting in, glaring at the curtains as if R-Truth's and Edge's attacker was about to waltz in.
"No." Edge said shortly, glancing at the Undertaker. "Do you see me, Alix? I look like shit."
"You could never look like shit." Alix winked at him, and the blond Superstar laughed.
"Regardless, I look like shit." Edge laughed again. "My face is battered, my chest is bruised, my elbow is broken, and so is my shinbone. I'mma be out for a while. If I tell you who did this to me, whoever it is will go after you. You're up and coming in the WWE, you don't need this done to you."
"'Whoever it is' did the same thing they did to you to Ron too." Undertaker said gruffly, crossing his arms. "You tell us who did this – I promise to you that whoever it is won't hurt Alix. I'll be sure he rests…in…"
"Rests in peace, yadda yadda yadda." Edge waved his hand at Mark. "You don't get it. Even big bad Undertaker-smash won't be able to take him down. It's too much for you. It's too much for Alix. Let me recover in the hospital…let Ron recover in the hospital, and everything will be okay from there."
"Adam, you don't get it." This was one of the few times Alix used Adam's real name, instead of Addy or Edge. This showed exactly how serious she was. "Right now I don't care that they've gone after you. Right now I don't care that they've gone after Truth. Right now, all I care is that they're going one-by-one through my friends. Two in one night. Hell – when I get back to the hotel someone else might have been taken out! I need to know who it is so no one else gets taken out on my behalf. And more importantly they don't get to me eventually!"
Edge fiddled with his fingers for a moment, looking uncomfortable. "I'm not telling you. I'm not. That's my final decision, and I'm not telling you. I'm sorry."
Undertaker walked over to Alix and turned her shoulder away from him, leading her out of his hospital room. She took one last look over her shoulder at the Superstar she cared about so much, but decided to go with Mark's decision without argument.
"Hello D.C.!" Alix shouted, bringing herself back into reality from remembering her last meeting with Edge; the day of the house show. "Your X-Stinger is back!"
The Verizon Center was larger than First Mariner Arena, and so was the reactions from the crowds. Alix nearly had to cover her ears with the cheers from the crowd.
"Ha! I may be back, but not completely better." Alix lifted her pant leg to reveal a foot brace. "The WWE medics are hating me right now. Especially because I'm fairly sure I'm having a match tonight!" Again the arena responded with cheers. "But, as of right now, we have a more pressing matter. The day of the last house show in Baltimore Maryland, on Wednesday, my friends Edge and R-Truth were beaten up by unknown assailants. Or assailant.
"Whoever it was told both Edge and R-Truth that if they told me or anyone who they were, then they would come after me next. Apparently quietly healing in a hospital is more important than me knowing who is going after my friends to Edge and R-Truth. I'm telling anyone back – "
"Get him to the hospital, get him to the hospital! Now! Go!" Alix whipped around from her position in the ring to face the TitanTron, where this racket was coming from. The scene was of Matt Hardy being lifted onto a gurney moaning to himself. Alix's face flushed red with anger as she watched the scene unroll.
As the people around Matt quieted, you could hear him mumbling to himself. "Nexus…Nexus…Nexus…Barrett…"
Alix threw her microphone to the ground and bunched her fists together in tight balls. She was beyond angry at this point and wanted nothing more than to run backstage and beat the crap out of any Nexus member or anyone associated with them. The bloodlust she had felt when she had fought with the Undertaker rose in her again. Her breathing slowed, taking slow almost labored breaths instead of quick, hyperventilating-ish ones.
The lights in the arena went out, and a buzzing among the fans started. No matter what they actually said they knew what was coming.
A gong of what resembled a church bell raced through the arena, getting through every room, getting to any corner, and anyone that heard it had a shiver run up their spine. Even Alix, but she didn't let it show that his theme song had affected her.
Once Undertaker got in the ring, he placed his large hand on her shoulder. She calmed just a little, but differently than the other time he had done this when she had held the exact same feeling, she wasn't completely calm. The list was still there. The Nexus had messed with her friends, and now that she knew who it was who had done this some ass would most definitely be whooped.
"Get off of me, 'Taker." She growled at him, looking him straight in the eye. He glared at her sharply, knowing that whatever she said at the end of the day she would still be afraid of him or at least respect him.
"Don't let it get to you, Alix." Mark said shortly. "You know it's not for the best. Let it go."
"They hurt my friends." Alix said with a gruff whisper. "They hurt my friends! I have to hurt them!"
"We walk alone, in the unknown. We live to win another victory…"
"You weren't supposed to hear about this, X-Stinger." Barrett's lips caressed over each word. Alix responded with a loud snarl, leaning towards the team. Not even one of them flinched. "Ooh, I guess we lied the other night about not hurting your friends, didn't we?"
Alix jumped up onto the top rope, and immediately propelled herself off of it. Landing expertly onto Barrett and into Heath Slater, she pummeled the Englishman's face with a whirlwind of punches, not even worrying if she missed. With thirty seconds her knuckles were bloody from missing and punching the floor, and there was a small cut slowly opening up on Barrett's cheek.
As soon as the rest of the Nexus could assess what was going on, Otunga and Gabriel peeled the little fighter off of their leader. This didn't stop her, she just landed kicks and punches onto those members instead of Barrett. It was impossible for the much larger stable to contain the whirlwind of fury and surely at some point she had them wishing they hadn't messed with her friends.
But again, with one well aimed punch from Husky Harris – a repeat of what had happened at the house show – she fell to the ground with a groan. The bloodlust washed away like it was water and she was left in a crumpled heap of pain, her foot yelling in protest and her stomach twisting and turning. Out of the corner of her eye she could see the Undertaker shaking his head slowly.
Each of the members of the Nexus landed one or two final hard punches before they walked off. All that was left was Wade Barrett. He leaned down, picking up Alix's face so that she was looking straight at him.
"Hello honey." He drawled, and Alix heard a small growl from behind her, from the Undertaker. "I suppose you're wondering if you'll be ending up in the hospital alongside your friends now. I can tell you that's a no. That just wouldn't be as fun as my game continuing as it has been." Barrett kissed her forehead gently. "I do have someone you might be interested in meeting though. A, uh, new addition to the Nexus."
"My name is Alberto Del Rio! But you, you already know that."
AN: yes, yes, I know Mattie isn't a part of the WWE anymore. Get over it, he was awesome and in my story he was friends with Alix before. Siigh. Anyway, what do you think about the Nexus and about Barrett's actions? REVIEW!