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Heya! Welcome back people! So here we are, three days short of Hard Justice, will Jason be able to make it to the PPV? Will his challengers step it up? Let's find out!
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Rebirth-Chapter Eighteen-Uneasy Alliances
Jim Cornette sighed as he walked towards his office, somtimes his job just didn't seem worth it, despite the impressive pay he was getting for it, Hard Justice was coming up and he was dealing with his monthly Jarrett-induced headache as the NWA World champion tried anything and everything to have the odds in his favour going into his next defense. Sometimes he felt like just giving Jarrett what he wanted so he would shut up, but then again his next defeat was against Sting so maybe he'd finally get the belt off him, he smiled at the thought then frowned when he realised that, that would mean Jarrett constantly bugging him for a rematch, he sighed whe he saw the line of TNA wrestlers waiting outside his office.
"Give me ten minutes" he said before adding under his breath. "That should give me enough time to sneak out the back..."
"And how would the Carter's feel about that?"
Cornette almost went through the roof and spun round to see a laughing Jason Cena standing behind the door he'd just closed.
"Ever considered drinking less cofee Jim?"
"Ever considered lining up outside like a normal person?"
"Well yeah, but that would mean that I was a normal person" smirked Jason. Cornette shook his head and sat down at his desk.
"What do you want?"
"I just saw the card for tonight" replied Jason sitting down opposite him.
"So?"
"I'm not on it... again".
"Well kid, you have a title defense in three days and we thought it best to give you..."
"The night off I know, Jim, I want to wrestle, I want to have competitive matches, I'm the X Division champion and all I've done for the past couple of weeks is commentate and wrestle jobbers".
"You can't have top quality matches every week, you'll burn yourself out".
"I can handle it".
"Look, from what I've heard you've got two weekends in Ring of Honor next month, a tour of Japan and Alex Shane's been telling me you've been asking him about working in England".
"That's not until next year though".
"Still, you're the X Division champion, you're facing three of the best wrestlers in America in three days when most people would only wrestle one and you still want to wrestle every week?"
"You got it".
Cornette shrugged. "Fine, pick a number between one and three".
"What?"
"Pick a number".
"OK, two?"
"Alright tonight it's gonna be you and Senshi against AJ Styles and Petey Williams, happy?"
"Very, thank you".
"No problem, now I'd appreciate it if you left me alone so I'd get five minutes of peace before..."
At that point there were sounds of yelling outside the office and the door burst open, Jason didn't even glance over his shoulder to see who it was.
"... he gets here?" He offered, Cornette nodded.
"You got it" he muttered as Jeff Jarrett and his ally Scott Steiner approached the desk.
"Cornette! I..." Cornette cut Jarrett off before he'd even begun.
"Do you mind? I have a meeting going on here!"
"Meeting my ass! I'm the NWA World champion! I take priority not some reject from up North!"
"A reject who's the X Division champion!" muttered Jason.
"Shut up! Anyway I represent this company so you make time for me! You got that?"
Cornette looked like he was about to blow his stack so Jason decided to make a quick exit.
"Relax, I was just leaving anyway" he stood up and locked eyes with Jarrett, the two champions stared each other down and Jason's eyes found the NWA World title belt.
"Nice belt" he said before giving both Jarrett and Steiner a grin and leaving the office.
After going back to the locker room and getting into his ring gear Jason decided to warm up away from Chris, Jay and Sonjay so he wouldn't be distracted, he was in one of the corridors with Mara when JB approached.
"Jason?"
"Go ahead JB".
"Jason Cena in three days you defend your X Division champion championship in a fatal four way, but tonight you team up with one of your three opponents Senshi to take on Petey Williams and the Phenomenal AJ Styles, can the two of you co-exist?"
"Can we co-exist? JB, can AJ and Petey co-exist? Don't think so! I'm actually kinda glad it's Senshi cause he's the one I can trust the most... or is that distrust the least? Anyway, he's the one I can get on with, Petey Williams I wouldn't trust as far as I could throw him and AJ? Well after me and him co-exist maybe I'll end world hunger and win a Nobel peace prize to top it off".
"Well Jason you claim to be able to co-exist with Senshi but do you think he'll use this to soften you up for Hard Justice?"
"That's a good question... a very good question, let's ask him shall we?"
With that Jason led JB and the cameraman through the backstage area until he found his target.
"Hey warrior, I wanna ask you something, I know you want this belt, I know you have a chance to take it on Sunday, but to night you gotta team with me, now I'll have your back out there, but will you have mine?" Senshi remained silent but nodded his head. "Thank you" Jaso turned to leave but Senshi's voice brought him to a stop.
"But as soon as the match ends, so does our partnership".
Jason turned back to Senshi and the two stared each other down, then Jason nodded and walked away.
Out in the arena Team Canada's music hit as Scott D'Amore led Petey Williams down to the ring, both looked a little unhappy at teaming with AJ but he seemed resigned to doing it, AJ followed Williams out and just ignored him altogether, Senshi walked out next staring down both of his opponents then finally Jason came out with Mara, he got in the ring and held up the X Division title causing AJ, Williams and Senshi to all stare at it, AJ and Williams then began arguing over who would start the match while Jason turned to Senshi.
"So, you wanna start or should..." Senshi silently walked passed him to the centre of the ring. "OK then".
AJ started for his team and he locked up with Senshi, he immediately took the warrior down with a couple of armdrags, Senshi jumped up but AJ hit a suplex then rolled him up for an early pin, they got up and AJ hit another armdrag, he taunted Senshi only for the warrior to kick his lights out! AJ bounced back to his feet and staggered around allowing Senshi to unload with some chops before hitting another stiff kick to knock him down, he bounced back up again and tagged in Williams, he vaulted over the top-rope but ran right into a huge kick, Senshi brought him over to his corner and Jason offered his hand, Senshi tagged him in and whipped Williams then caught him with a kick to the ribs, he staggered around the ring as Jason ran in and hit a knee to the head, he pulled Williams back up and hit a neckbreaker for a two-count, he stomped Williams down then spun round and slapped AJ in the face! He dropped off the apron as Jason stomped Williams a few more times then whipped him intoa corner, Williams came staggering out and Jason backdropped him before following up with a dropkick, stinging from the slap AJ came in and charged Jason but the teen ducked and hit another dropkick, AJ got up in the corner and Jason hit a clothesline, he pulled AJ out of the corner and hit a bulldog while clotheslining Williams at the same time, he knocked AJ to the outside then suplexed Williams and tagged in Senshi.
The warrior came in and quickly hit Williams with a double arm suplex and covered for a two-count, AJ tried to come in but Senshi backdropped him to the outside, he wet for the shining wizard on Williams, the Canadian ducked but Senshi kicked him in the back of the head and covered for another two-count, D'Amore jumped up to the apron and Senshi took a swing at him, he turned back round and went for Williams but missed his charge and ran into a Pele from AJ, he bounced back up to his feet and walked into Williams who hit a facebreaker, he covered but Senshi kicked out. Williams immediately began putting the boots to Senshi before picking him up and hitting a DDT for another two-count, he pulled Senshi to the corner and tagged in AJ, the Phenomenal One came in and hit a big brainbuster for a two-count, he picked Senshi up as though he was going for a back-suplex then dropped Senshi face-first to the mat for another two-count, he went to pick Senshi up but the warrior escaped and began opening up with chops, he went for a whip but AJ reversed it and Williams kicked him in the back causing him to walk into a gutbuster from AJ for a two-count.
AJ brought Senshi back to the corner and tagged in Williams, the Canadian came in and whipped Senshi then caught him with a leg-lariat for another two-count, Senshi retreated to a corner and Williams followed, he hung the warrior upside down and did the O Canada, when Senshi dropped back to the mat Williams hit a neckbreaker, he covered but Jason broke up the count, Williams hit Senshi with a few stomps then picked him up and whipped him, he went for an elbow but Senshi ducked, jumped onto the ropes and hit a springboard enziguri! He bounced up and staggered backwards allowing Jason to tag himself in! The teen jumped over the ropes as Williams tagged AJ, the teen ran through the Phenomenal One with a couple of clotheslines then whipped him and hit a powerslam for a two-count, they got back up and Jason brought AJ right back down with a reverse DDT for another, Williams came in but Jason ducked and hit a neckbreaker then nailed AJ with a shining wizard! He covered but AJ kicked out, AJ retreated to a corner as Williams came back, Jason tried to whip him into a corner but Williams reversed it, he charged but Jason lifted him up and hung him upside down, he then charged across the ring and hit AJ with a stinger splash! He then ran back to Williams and hit a hesitation dropkick! AJ came staggering out of the corner and Jason dropped him with the impaler! He covered but AJ kicked out at two.
Jason continued his rampage and caught Williams with a superkick, as the Canadian fell back his arm caught Senshi's face and knocked him off the apron, Jason clotheslined AJ to the outside, he was about to fly out after him but D'Amore jumped up to the apron, he swung for Jason but the teen caught his arm, he went to bring D'Amore into the ring but noticed Williams charging him, he sidestepped and Williams took out his own manager! He grabbed Williams and lifted him up in a torture rack as Senshi jumped on the apron and tagged himself in, Jason didn't notice and dropped Williams with the C-Bomb! He went to cover but the referee wouldn't count, as the teen argued Senshi came off the top with the warrior's way to his own partner! He added a kick to Jason for good measure then threw the teen out of the ring, as he was doing this AJ came up behind him and rolled him up for the three!
Senshi was stunned and immediately went after AJ, they brawled it out then Williams came in and jumped him from behind, they double-teamed the warrior then AJ hit him with the Styles Clash! He smirked and stood over Senshi before turning to Williams only to be kicked in the stomach and dropped with the Canadian Destroyer! Williams stood over his three fallen opponents as D'Amore came in and handed him the X Division title, he held it up high then dropped it on Jason, D'Amore proclaimed that Williams would be walking out with the belt as the two walked up the ramp holding the Canadian flag up for all to see.
End of Chapter
Well, there ya go, will Petey Williams live up to his promise? Will Senshi walk out with the gold? Is AJ just one Styles Clash away from the title? Or will Jason somehow escape with his belt? Find out next time!
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