A/N: Here is the new chapter, I'm sorry that it took so long. I hope that you enjoy ^.^
I was planning on going along with the weekly TNA show, the storylines and promos, etc. But, I won't, simply for the reason that I don't watch it every Thursday. I miss episodes, sadly, and so I won't be caught up enough to flow with the story. The roster will be up to date and some situations will be the same (maybe!) however, for the most part it will be my imagination.
For the record, I will be using the wrestlers' real name when they are not doing the show or just talking amongst themselves. However, when they are doing a promo, match, etc., I will be using their stage name if they have one. If you don't understand, keep reading and it'll be made clear.
Disclaimer: I do not own WWE or TNA. Neither do I own any of the wrestlers or anything else associated with the two companies. I do, however, own my character/wrestler Emily Audrey Pierson and any other characters that I will state are mine throughout the story.
After her meeting with Kurt Angle, it was now time for Emily to meet some of the Knockouts. She, with Mark by her side, made her way to the Knockouts' locker room. Mark knocked first, his fists almost pounding on the door.
"Yes?" yelled a Knockout from the inside. The voice was muffled behind the door, Emily wasn't able to figure out who it was.
"Can I come in?" yelled Mark. There was a shuffling of feet within the room, and the silver metallic knob of the Knockouts' locker room began to open.
"Oh Mark, hey!" exclaimed Jamie Lynn, or Velvet Sky of the Beautiful People. She smiled sweetly in a pair of loose fitting blue jeans, a blue and pink striped spaghetti strapped top and pink flip tops. Jamie smiled sweetly as her eyes moved to Emily.
"Who's this?" Mark put his arm around Emily's shoulders and ruffled her hair.
"This is my little girl, Emily." Jamie's eyes brightened as she took her hand out and shook hands with Emily.
"Oh wow, it's nice to meet you! Mark talks so much about you. I almost didn't recognize you from how you look like in WWE." Emily smiled, her white teeth shining.
"It's nice to meet you too. I'm a big fan of you." Jamie touched her cheeks that felt as if they were burning.
"Psh, please! Emily is a big of mine? That's too hard to believe," she said. Mark, wanting to be part of the conversation again, cleared his throat. The two women looked at him, waiting for him to speak.
"Jamie, I heard you have a promo today." Jamie nodded, opening the door a little wider and the sight of other Knockouts came into view.
"Yes, with Lauren and I have a match with Gail later. Come in, come in, I'm sure the other Knockouts won't mind." As the two walked in, the other Knockouts began to look in their direction and smiled brightly.
"Hey, Mark," called Gail Kim as she sat on the black leather chair in the back of the locker room.
"Hey, Mark. Who's this? A new girlfriend?" said Lauren Williams, better known as Angelina Love to the TNA Universe as she stood next to her best friend, Jamie. Jamie shook her head and introduced Emily.
"No, Lauren. This is Mark's friend, -"
"Emily, Emily Pierson from the WWE," Lauren finished, smiling as she took a better look at the new girl. "I can't believe I didn't see it sooner. I never thought I'd meet you in person. Your matches were always the best, stellar really." Emily smiled and held out her hand to Lauren, they shook hands.
"Thank you, I didn't know wrestlers from TNA followed WWE. To be honest, I'm a big fan of all the Knockouts, of everyone," Emily admitted as the other Knockouts looked in her direction in awe and appreciation.
"Why are you here?" asked Ashley Cabot, or Madison Rayne. "Emily was at the top of her game in WWE."
"Probably visiting, right?" suggested Lauren. Mark shook his head and held his head up proudly.
"Nope, my baby girl is moving up in the ranks. She's coming to TNA."
"Wow, really?" exclaimed Jamie, "That's great! We need new talent!"
"Hey! Then, what am I?" sulked Satana Garrett, the newest TNA Knockout under the name Brittany. Jamie went to her and hugged her tightly.
"You know we love you, Satana."
"You'll be doin' the promo with Lauren and Emily and myself," continued Mark. The two of the Beautiful People jumped in delight.
"Oh, that's perfect!" Emily began to go over the promo, the same way that Kurt Angle did with her and Mark. She explained that the Beautiful People would find her walking in the halls and come up to her. They would begin to make fun of her and brag about themselves and Emily would stay silent and only stare at them, helpless. Mark would then come from down the hall and see this, coming up to them and intimidating the Beautiful People enough to make them leave. The two understood and were excited when the cameraman told them it was time to film the promo for tonight's show.
Emily walked down the hallway of TNA in her street clothes, looking around the small cramped hallway. On one side of the hallway, there were steel chairs lined up in stacks of two and on the other side there was the white bricked wall, today holding pictures of Knockouts as well as posters of upcoming TNA events. She looked around curiously, with wide eyes as she tried to avoid the camera that was secretly filming her for the promo, hidden in a corner. As she stopped to look at one TNA poster, she heard footsteps approach her, two sets of female feet.
"Well, well, well Velvet. Look what we have here," Emily heard Angelina Love say from behind her. She jumped in surprise, holding onto her heart that pumped harder from the scare. As she turned around, Emily saw the faces of Angelina Love and Velvet Sky smirking at her.
"Fresh meat," Velvet commented.
"You're the new girl?" Angelina complained, rolling her eyes and smugly looked at the new Knockout. "That's gonna be a problem. I mean, look at you, you're totally wrong material." Velvet nodded, reaching out and flicking Emily's red hair in disgust.
"Totally wrong. Just by looking at you, it's sad that you're even allowed in the building." Emily tossed her hair to one side of her head, looking at the two from their toes up to their head.
"What do you want?" Emily asked.
"Us?" Velvet said, gesturing at Angelina and herself, "We just wanted to meet the newbie," she continued as she poked Emily hard in the shoulder.
"To show you who's boss around here in the Knockout's Division. The Beautiful People are everything, we're the best," said the leader, Love, as she got closer to Emily, almost nose to nose.
"You're nothing, little girl. Nothing but-" Velvet's taunt was cut short.
"Hey, Hey, Hey, what's this?" The loud and New York accented voice of Bully Ray echoed in the small and cramped hallway. The Beautiful People looked at Bully, nervous and quickly took a step away from the new Knockout.
"O-Oh hey, Bully," stammered Angelina, "We're were just-"
"I know exactly what you were doin', Beautiful People. I'm not stupid. You two were bullying the new Knockout."
"I-It's not bullying, it's-"
"Shut it, gal," Bully said to the smaller Velvet Sky, then continued, "Ya know exactly what you were doin'. You think you the best, huh? Let me tell you two somethin', ya nothing, nothing if ya bully this girl. I'm Bully Ray for Chrissake, I think I know a 'lil something about bullyin'."
The girls remained silent, sneaking in glares at Emily as she stared at Bully Ray in amazement, as someone who protected her from the Beautiful People.
"Run along, shake your asses somewhere else," he said, shooing them. Angelina run a hand through her hair in frustration and stomped off with Velvet on her heels. Bully Ray chuckled at the sight, now looking at the new Knockout.
"You alright? Don't worry about them, they won't bug ya again," Bully Ray asked her. Emily nodded, smiling for the first time in the promo.
"Yeah, thanks."
"What's ya name, girl?"
"Call me Ember," she replied.
"Where ya from?"
"New York," she said with pride and earned and a wide smile from Bully Ray as he put his arm around her shoulders.
"That's what I like to hear. Us New Yorkers gotta stick together always, come on, you're with me now. We gotta toughen you up." With his arms still around her, Bully Ray walked off screen with Emily smiling.
With the TNA taping taking place now with a live audience, more wrestlers were now gathering in their respective dressing rooms. Matches were underway after a quick opening promo with Kurt Angle. The first match was a Number 1 contender's match for the X Division Title between Homicide and DJ Z. Emily watched from the safety of the Divas' Locker room. There was a knock on the door and Lauren, who was preparing for her match in 20 minutes, opened the door.
"Hey, Emily, you have a visitor," Lauren called out to her. Emily heard a familiar chuckle and turned away from the match. She turned and saw Mark smiling at her, a proud smile on his face.
"What's up, Mark?" she asked as she stood up from the couch.
"You met most of the Knockouts, I figure introduce you to some of the guys. They want to meet ya' too so come on," Mark said gesturing to the door with a flick of his head. Emily nodded and followed him out of the door, towards the mens' locker room. He knocked on the door, yelling through the door before walking in.
"Hey guys, lady coming in, tuck whatcha' got away or put some clothes on," Mark said as he walked in with Emily close by. There was a roar of laughter from the men, greeting Emily.
"Alright Em, these are the guys," Mark began, pointing to some of the men, either sweaty in their ring outfits, preparing for an upcoming match, or like her, are in their street clothes in support of their friends.
"Hey Emily, Mark told us a lot about you," an averaged sized light skinned man said and he offered his hand which Emily shook.
"He doesn't shut up some days," yelled out Kenny Layne chuckling, or Kenny King, as he wrapped tape around his knuckles and wrists to prepare for his match. The light skinned man smiled, waving him off.
"Don't listen to him. Kenny is just jealous," he said, chuckling. "We're all glad that you're the new girl at TNA."
"Em, this is Brandon," introduced Mark, "Low Ki on stage, fast kid." Brandon smiled proudly.
"I hope we can maybe have a storyline together or just hang out some time," offered Brandon as he looked at the clock hanging above the door, "I gotta go, Kurt wants to talk. It was nice meeting you Emily."
Brandon walked out of the door, turning a corner toward Kurt's office. There were familiar faces around Emily, some she remembered from her beginning and predebut days in WWE, but the majority of the wrestlers around her were new faces, which made unbearable nervous. But she contained it and continued to keep her face smiling brightly.
"Oh!" Exclaimed someone from behind Emily. "It's that who I think it is?" Emily turned around, in an attempt to find the source of the voice.
"Oh! It is, Emily Pierson," said another voice, just as familiar as the last. After staring at the new faces around her for some time, she discovered a familiar Southern smile. Two to be exact. She felt a smile crack onto her face as she waved.
"Hey Matt. Hi Jeff," she said politely. The Hardy brothers, Matt and Jeff Hardy were right in front of her, calling her by her name. Back in the WWE, it was hard not to hear about Emily, the powerful Diva which is why it wasn't that hard to believe that they knew her name. Other than that though, they never spoke to her. As she was beginning her career in the WWE, Jeff Hardy was in the process of ending his as he lost to CM Punk in the Steel Cage Match of 2009. Matt had taken a break from the business at this time, so his presence was rarely, if ever, seen. They never spoke to her, yet here they were smiling at her and surprised to see her as if she had known them for her whole career.
"It's been a while since we've seen another WWE face in TNA," said Matt as he walked close to her, smiling. Jeff stayed where he was, yet he smiled as well and chuckled as he said,
"We were starting to get sick of seeing Mark's face." Mark chuckled.
"Hey, you watch it Hardy." Mark said. Jeff continued to smile, moving his attention back to Emily.
"It's nice to see a familiar face. But why are you here?"
"Yeah," Matt agreed in question, "You were amazing!" Emily shrugged, smiling.
"To be honest, I got a bit sick of it. I wanted something new." Jeff nodded, understanding completely.
"I hear ya. You'll do great here though," he said. She hoped that she did, Emily thought. Ember is going to do great in TNA, she was going to make sure of it.
A/N: I hope you enjoyed this new chapter! I'm sorry that it's late, I've been busy with school worK. I still hope you liked this chapter. If so, please follow the story to know about new chapters and review the story, it really motivates me to continue this story! Thank you again, have a nice day!