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Allo! Welcome back peeps, as we saw last time Jason teamed with Chris Sabin to take on Maverick Matt and Kazarian and ended up walking out with a victory over the X Division champion, with the advantage squarely in Jason's hands how will Matt retaliate as we get closer to Slammiversary? Let's find out!
Here We Go!
Rebirth-Chapter Seven-The X Division
"C'mon Jerry!" Begged Jason. "No more tapes!"
Jerry Lynn ignored the teen's plea and put another X Division match on, when Jason had arrived at the arena Jerry had been quick to grab him and drag him to a locker room to study some of the great X Division matches of the past, the reason? Someone, the initials C and S came into mind, had told Jerry that Jason had felt he was struggling with the X Division style of wrestling and needed to get a better grasp of things, being the pioneer that he was Jerry had decided to cram as much knowledge of the division he could into Jason's mind despite the teen claiming he could handle it, the victories over Matt and Kazarian backed it up but once Jerry had his mind made up it was damn near impossible to change it.
"Please Jerry, I've think I've seen enough now" said Jason as AJ Styles versus Jeff Hardy began.
"Kid, you need to learn how to handle yourself in the X Division, now you may have beat Matt once but you never know how he's gonna raise his game, so I think you need to figure out ways to raise yours".
Jason sighed and flopped back in his chair. "Do you have any popcorn?"
Before Jerry could reply Chris came into the room. "Jason, Jim wants us".
"Now?"
"Now".
Jason nodded and left the room inwardly thanking God, he took his matches seriously but studying tapes of matches just wasn't his thing.
"So what does Cornette want with us?"
"Dunno" replied Chris. "Something X Divisiony probably".
"X Divisiony?" Laughed Jason.
"Yeah".
When they entered Cornette's office Jay and Sonjay were already waiting, the four all slapped hands and turned to Cornette.
"Right, now that you're all here I can explain what the plan is for tonight, Jason, Matt's been ranting and raving about you pinning him last week and wants another match with you, chances are Kazarian's gonna be involved as well, you other three have been having problems with those Papparazzi goons as well right? So I've decided to make an eight man X Division tag match with you four against Matt, Kazarian and the two talented members of the Papparazzi".
"Shelley and Nash?" Said Jay prompting a laugh from the other three, Cornette allowed himself a smirk.
"No, Shelley and Devine, I doubt Nash could keep up with you four".
"Maybe Jason" said Sonjay.
"What? I could run rings around that guy!"
"Actually, he'd blow his quad stepping forward to lock up".
"True, do they know about the match?"
"I told them before I told you guys" replied Cornette.
"Right guys" said Chris. "Let's go get ready before Jerry blows a gasket".
A short while later the quartet were getting ready in the locker room, Jerry had pulled Chris aside and was giving him advice for the match, Jason, Jay and Sonjay were sitting watching the monitor, Maverick Matt had just finished cutting a promo where he called Jason's victory over him a fluke and that he'd never be able to take the X Division title.
"Don't worry kid" said Sonjay. "You'll take that belt from him, no doubt about it".
"Thanks".
"Then you'll give the first shot to your buddy Sonjay right?"
Jason laughed and shoved him away. "Whatever".
"Right guys" said Jerry coming over to them with Chris. "These guys are no joke, despite the fact that Nash seems to be leading them, you all need to be focused on getting the pin out there".
"No problem Jerry" replied Sonjay. "We got the perfect strategy to get the job done".
"What's that?"
"Whoever gets the pin gets to go first on Mortal Kombat" laughed Jay.
Jerry frowned. "You cannot be serious".
"Yup" said Chris sitting with the rest of the team around the monitor. "Nothing like a good game of Mortal Kombat to get the team together".
Jerry just shook his head and started to leave, Chris seemed to get serious and stopped him.
"OK Jerry, I know what's bothering you... you wanna play too right?" Jerry stormed out of the room. "Jerry? Where ya going Jerry?" He turned back to the team. "Something I said?"
Chris's music hit and he led the quartet out to the ring, the Papparazzi, Kazarian and Matt were already in the ring waiting for them and Nash was at the announce table with West and Tenay, as the four got in the ring Matt jumped Jason triggering a massive brawl to kick off the match, the bodies all spilled to the outside leaving Sonjay and Devine in the ring. Sonjay tried a whip but Devine reversed it only for Sonjay to ome off the ropes with a flying headscissors, they got up and he hit a dropkick before bringing him to the corner and tagging Jay, he whipped Devine then ducked allowing Jay to hit a leg-lariat for a two-count, he picked Devine up and whipped him then caught him with a hiptoss, cartwheeled and dropkicked Devine in the face before covering for another two-count, they got back up and Jay suplexed Devine then tagged Chris, he quickly went to the top-rope and came down with a missile dropkick to Devine then covered him, Shelley broke it up and tried to get some cheap shots in causing both sides to enter the ring and trigger another brawl, everyone ended up spilling out of the ring except for Chris and Jason, Jay and Sonjay were getting pounded on the outside so the two both came flying over the top and took out everyone!
Chris rolled Devine back into the ring and suplexed him before going to the corner and tagging in Jason, the teen came in and whipped Devine before catching him with a backdrop then a dropkick for a two-count, Devine reteated to a corner and Jason hit some chops before dragging him out and hitting a neckbreaker, he covered but Matt broke it up, Jason brought Devine back to his corner and tagged Sonjay back in, he grabbed Devine and hit a brainbuster for another two-count, he pulled Devine to a corner and went for the sprinkler but Shelley shook the ropes cuasing him to fall and crotch himself, Devine used this as a chance to escape and tagged in Shelley.
Shelley immediately caught Sonjay with a superkick before he could get back up and began stomping him down, he hit a quick facebuster and covered for a two-count, he dragged Sonjay to the corner and tagged in Kazarian, he whipped Sonjay and Kazarian caught him with a spinkick then Shelley hit a neckbreaker, Kazarian followed up with an elbow drop and covered Sonjay for a two-count again, he pulled him up and hit a fisherman suplex for another near fall then tagged in Devine and the two hit a double suplex, Devine followed up with a dropkick and covered for a two-count then whipped Sonjay to a corner, he charged but Sonjay put his foot up then went to the top, Devine cut him off before he could try anything then brought him down with a hurricanrrana! He covered but Jason and Jay both broke it up, he dragged Sonjay back to the corner and tagged in Matt.
The Maverick came in and stomped down Sonjay before he could get up and dropped him with a nothern lights suplex for a two-count, he picked Sonjay up and hit an atomic drop then hit a backbreaker and covered but Jason broke it up, he stomped Sonjay back down then wasted time taunting Jason allowing Sonjay time to recover, he went to pick him up but Sonjay escaped and began punching away at him, he went for a whip but Matt reversed it, he ducked an elbow but Shelley kicked him in the back and he staggered into a reverse STO, Matt covered but Sonjay managed to kick out again, Matt dragged him back to the corner and tagged in Kazarian. They whipped Sonjay and tried a double clothesline but Sonjay popped a forward roll to duck it and used to ropes to hit a springboard clothesline! He began crawling to his corner but Devine got the tag and cut him off, he whipped Sonjay but he came out of nowhere with a hurricanranna! He crawled to the corner and tagged in Jason!
No sooner had he been tagged in the teen was on the top-rope, he waited for Devine to stand and came down with a cross-body for a two-count, he knocked them down with a couple of clotheslines then whipped him and hit a powerslam for a two-count, Devine got up and rereated to a corner but Jason hit a stinger splash! He brought Devine out of the corner and hit the impaler! He covered but at two Shelley came in and broke it up, he whipped Jason but the teen ducked an elbow, Chris blind-tagged himself in and came off the top-rope with a double missile dropkick to Shelley and Devine for a two-count, he threw Shelley to the outside then set Devine up in the corner and hit the hesitation dropkick! He followed that up with a ura-nage and covered but Matt, Shelley and Kazarian all broke it up, they got some kicks in then Sonjay, Jay and Jason came in to break it up.
All eight men brawled it out and in the chaos Jason accidentally superkicked the referee, Chris set Devine up for the Cradle Shock but Kazarian broke it up then dropped Chris with the Wave of the Future! Sonjay came back and Kazarian tried to hit him with it but Sonjay elbowed out of it and hit the Sonjay Cutter followed by a running shooting star press! He posed for the crowd as Matt snuck up behind him then turned into a superkick! Jason came in and Matt tried another but the teen ducked and set him up for the C-Bomb but Matt escaped and hit a jawbreaker, Traci took advantage of the referee being down and went for the Pie in the Sky but Jason moved and she hit Matt! She stood up and spun round to see jason laughing at her, she went to slap him but he caught her arm, Mara got in the ring behind her and Jason spun her round into an Angels Wings! The teen then threw Matt to the outside and tauted him allowing Shelley to come up behind him and hit Sliced Bread No. Two! Jay rolled in the ring and Shelley charged him but Jay dodged then hit a release dragon suplex! He turned to taunt Nash and Devine took advantage and clotheslined him out of the ring leaving just him and Chris, who was still feeling it from Kazarian's attack, Devine went to pick him up but Chris suddenly broke free and hit the Cradle Shock out of nowhere! He made the pin as the referee recovered and made the three-count.
Chris stood up after the bell rang and laughed at the carnage he saw around him, slowly the other members of his team recovered and joined him in celebrating, outside the ring Matt had grabbed his belt and was glaring at Jason, when they had all turned their back on him to pose for the crowd he snuck into the ring, he waited for them to turn around and swung for Jason's head but the teen ducked! Chris decked him with a right hand and he bounced up then walked right into a C-Bomb! The quartet then stood over him before Jay picked up the X Division title, he stared at it a moment then handed it to Jason, the teen also took a few seconds to stare at it before holding it up for the crowd, he then turned back to Matt and draped the belt over him.
"I think this is yours... for now".
End of Chapter
OK, by my count it's now Jason three, Matt zero, can the Maverick get on the scoreboard before Slammiversary? Or will Jason continue to get one over on him? Find out next time!
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