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Whatup? Having fun people? That's great, anyway, LAX are on the warpath after earning a rematch for the NWA tag team titles, can Jason and AJ prepare for what's coming? Or will they end up like VKM? Let's find out!

Here We Go!

Rebirth-Chapter Forty Five-The Line is Crossed

"Got your belt?" Smirked Jason as he finished packing his stuff into his bag, Mara laughed.

"Like I was going to forget" she replied patting the belt she was holding over her shoulder. "Y'know, it feels great to finally have a title."

"I've been saying that for years."

"Yeah, but this is my first title, memories like that stay with you for a long time."

"True, I just wish I was there to see it."

"You were, kind of."

"How?"

"That locket you gave me for Christmas, the night I won the belt I forgot to take it off."

Jason grinned. "Spooky, so I was there in spirit?"

"Yeah, but you can be there in person if SHIMMER ever decides to make a title."

"What makes you think you could win?" Jason asked.

"Well, I won this didn't I? And I can only get better."

"Good point" Jason zipped up his bag. "Ready?"

"Yup, we walking?"

"Do you have a car?" Replied Jason as they walked down to the street. "Because I don't."

"I was just thinking that you might be able to put your newfound friendship with AJ to get us a ride, that's all."

"We ain't that close Mara, I'm still getting used to him."

"You seemed pretty close last week, you gonna use the same look again?"

"Why not?" He shrugged. "Looked pretty cool, fans liked, the guys thought it was fun, might as well do it again."

"OK" they walked in silence for a while. "What made you decide to get me a locket anyway?"

"Wanted to get you something nice, thought about a ring but Shawn told me that might send the wrong message."

Mara smirked. "Just a little."

"Yeah, I mean the idea that you and me... well..."

"I know, crazy huh?"

"Yeah" Jason felt a little embarrassed. "Moving swiftly on, I just figured that a locket with a picture of us in it would mean more, and since it's a locket you can keep it close to your heart."

"One, that was lame, two, you're so sweet, when you're not angry, being stupid or trying to be funny."

"So for five seconds every day I'm sweet?"

"Yeah that's about right."

Jason laughed. "I'm so happy you're back, I needed someone to put me down and it's pretty boring being home alone."

"What did you do anyway?"

"Watch every single DVD of me, rearranged them, rearranged the scrapbooks and the programmes and played video games until that got boring as well. Then I just sat around or danced to some music."

"You dance?"

"I can dance, and not just when I'm drunk either" they stopped to check in with a security guard before entering the arena.

"I don't believe you, I've been with you for over two years and I've never seen you dance."

"I can prove it" Jason snapped back before starting to dance right there in the parking lot, Mara laughed and covered her face, only Jason...

"Care to join me?" He smirked holding out his hand, she shook her head.

"Just because you've lost your mind doesn't mean I have to."

"Scared you might like it?"

"No, scared someone might see me, right Chris?"

Jason spun round in mid dance to find Chris standing right behind him looking really weirded out. "Uhhh, hey Chris."

Chris put a hand on Jason's shoulder. "Kid, you're too much" he said before walking away, Jason went red with embarrassment before turning to Mara, she was doubled up laughing and holding onto a car for support.

"You done?" He asked when she'd stopped, she nodded but still had a huge grin on her face. "Good, add another thing to the list of reasons why I'm happy to be here instead of up North."

"What's that?"

"If we were up North then that would have been Ron Simmons" Jason replied before taking off after Chris, Mara laughed and shook her head.

"Damn."

"Name your price."

"Nope."

"C'mon Chris I'm begging you! Don't tell the guys about this."

"Why? I think they'll get a laugh out of it."

"Chris please! I'll kiss your shoes! Have you ever seen anyone do that?"

"Sorry kid" smirked Chris. "When you're stupid enough to dance like a maniac in the parking lot then there's gonna be consequences, so sorry but no dice."

"Help me out Mara."

She laughed. "I'm gonna agree with Chris on this one."

"Who's girlfriend are you?"

"The one who decided to show everyone why he'll never make dancing with the stars."

Jason muttered insults under his breath but went silent when he reached the locker room, Jerry was leaning over Jay who was out cold on the floor, Jason and Chris immediately dropped next to him.

"Jay! Jay can you hear me?"

"What happened to him?" Chris yelled at Jerry.

"Dunno, when I got here he was like this, Sonjay's gone to get some help."

At that moment Sonjay burst in with some EMT's. "He's right here."

"Sonjay, what the hell happened in here?"

"I don't know!" Sonjay yelled back. "He got here about a minute before I did and when I came in he was like this."

"Fuck!" Yelled Chris. "When I find out who did this..."

"What good's that gonna do?" Said Jerry.

"What?" Said Jason. "Jerry our buddy just got laid out! I think we have a right to want to tear whoever did this to him apart!"

"And say you end up getting taken out as well? These two have a match tonight and you know you're gonna have something as well, so let's calm down, find out what happened and work from there."

"We're gonna have to take him to hospital, he's out like a light" said one of the EMT's, they all put Jay on a stretcher and wheeled him out to an ambulance, as it pulled out Jason shook his head.

"And today started so well too" he muttered, Chris and Sonjay shook their heads and started heading back to the locker room, Jason went to follow but AJ ran up too him.

"Hey kid, what happened?"

"Someone jumped Jay, he's going to the hospital."

"Oh crap, sorry kid but Jim wants to see us."

"Now?"

"Yeah c'mon."

"Hey Jim."

"C'mon in guys" said Cornette, Jason, Mara and AJ sat down. "First, kid we're gonna find out who jumped Jay, and when we do you'll be the first to know so you and your buddies can get a piece of them."

Jason nodded. "What about VKM?" Asked AJ.

"From what I've heard they're pretty beat up, especially Kip, but they're recovering and already asking me for some of LAX. And speaking of LAX, I've had Konnan to come to me with a couple of... 'requests'."

"Such as?"

"Firstly he wants a face-to-face with you guys."

"What? So his boys can try to take us out again?"

"That's what I said, so we came up with a compromise, you guys and Konnan are gonna talk through the monitors to each other, that way you're kept apart."

"Sounds alright to me" said Jason. "What else does he want?"

"He wants a match, tonight, between LAX and you guys..."

"He wants the shot tonight?" Asked AJ.

"No, the shot is at Final Resolution, tonight it's gonna be you guys and any partner you can find against Homicide, Hernandez and Konnan!"

Jason smirked. "So the top dog finally wants in the ring with us? Hope his insurance is good."

Cornette nodded. "And I would sympathize with you if you did take him out kid, right guys that's all the business I have with ya for today, go find yourselves a partner and get ready."

The trio nodded and left the room.

"What do ya think Konnan wants with us?" Asked AJ.

"Some stupid demand like we better hand his boys the belts or something."

AJ nodded. Sounds about right" Mara suddenly grabbed Jason.

"Jason!"

"What?" Jason followed her point. "What's the... Jerry!" He and AJ sprinted over to where the X Division pioneer was laid out. "Jerry? Jerry it's me!" Jerry didn't open his eyes. "Mara, go get help!"

"Hey Jerry, it's me AJ, can you hear me?"

Jerry still didn't respond, Jason jumped up and booted a chair. "What the fuck's going on around here?" Senshi walked by. "Hey, you see what happened here?" Senshi glanced over and smirked, the next thing he knew Jason had him up against the wall!

"You better let go of me right now!"

"Did you have something to do with this?"

Senshi laughed. "Why would I waste my time doing this when I can do it in the ring, now let go of me or I'll make you let go."

"C'mon kid, he ain't lying" said AJ, Jason glared at Senshi but let him go, he joined AJ with Jerry.

"Where are those damn medics?"

"This ain't right" muttered AJ as they entered the room, a camera and a monitor was set up. "First Jay, now Jerry, what's going on?"

"No clue" muttered Jason. Jerry had joined Jay at the local hospital, Sonjay and Chris where on the warpath and now he had to deal with this? Mara sat down next to him and flipped on the monitor, Mike Tenay, Konnan and themselves each took up part of the screen.

"Right, Konnan..."

"Tenay, this is between me and them! You stay out of this!" Tenay scowled but nodded for Konnan to continue. "Hey there gringo's, enjoying youselves with our belts?"

"The belts we beat you for" replied AJ. "What do you want Konnan?"

"Straight to business, you two in a bad mood or something? Maybe it has something to do with your buddies Lethal and Lynn going to the hospital?" Jason stood up.

"So it was you guys? I should've known."

"Yeah, you should've, but then again you aren't the smartest gringo out there, me and my boys just figured you hadn't gotten the message from what we did to VKM, so we decided to send another, looks like you got it loud and clear this time."

"Yeah, now you hear our message" said AJ. "At Final Resolution me and the kid are gonna pay you back tenfold for what you've done to the guys around here!"

"Really?" Smirked Konnan. "So what do you say to upping the anti a little?"

"What do you have in mind?" Asked Jason.

"I want the match at Final Resolution changed to a border brawl, no DQ, no count outs, pins can be anywhere and I can get involved as much as I damn well please! So what do you boys think? Got a set big enough to take the challenge?"

"Oh, we accept Konnan, you boys want a war, you got one!"

"I better warn you, if you go to war with LAX then you got to war with the entire Latino Nation!"

"Well then, you tell your boys that we're coming for blood!" Said Jason.

"I'd love to, but they're not here" replied Konnan. "You can tell them if you like though."

"What?" Suddenly LAX burst into the room and jumped them! Homicide beat on AJ while Hernandez grabbed Jason and threw him head-first into the camera! Homicide beat AJ to the ground then they left as quickly as they'd arrived, Mara ran over to Jason, he was looking dazed and had a cut over his eye from hitting the camera, AJ staggered to his feet as Konnan started laughing.

"Hey gringo's, good luck finding a partner for tonight, we'll see you out there."

"Just stitch it up so I can get out there!" Screamed Jason at the trainer.

"Kid, you gotta calm down..."

"Calm down? Calm down! We are way past the stage of calming down buddy" the trainer slapped a band-aid over the stitches.

"That's all I can do."

"Doesn't matter" replied Jason, AJ and Mara met him outside the door.

"Ready kid."

"I'm ready to fucking kill someone AJ."

"You do know we're a man down don't you?"

"Doesn't matter" replied the teen, he went to march off but a voice stopped him.

"You boys found a partner yet?"

"Depends who's asking" answered AJ turning round to find Lance Hoyt staring him down.

"I'm asking. Kip and BG looked out for me, and I'll be damned if I let LAX walk around after what they pulled."

"What can you bring to the table?" Said Jason.

"Six feet nine inches of ticked off Texan" replied Hoyt. "Good enough?"

"If you're good for it" answered AJ as they walked towards the tunnel, his music hit first and he walked out with Jason and Mara right behind him, they didn't waste time posing with the belts but just walked down to the ring and waited for Hoyt, he joined them and they waited as LAX's music hit. As they were walking towards the ring Jason climbed to the top-rope.

"What're you doing?"

"Watch and learn AJ" he smirked, as soon as LAX were in range he dived off! He cleared the crowd barrier and crashed down on all three members of LAX! He began beating on Konnan as Hoyt and AJ joined him, Jason brought Konnan back to the ring and threw him in, AJ went to whip Homicide into the crowd barrier but Homicide reversed it and sent him into it instead, Hoyt knocked him down but Hernandez took him out with a big clothesline.

In the ring Konnan had retreated to a corner and Jason hit the stinger splash! He grabbed Konnan but Homicide and Hernandez jumped him, they stomped him down then Hernandez slammed him across Homicide's knees, the big man turned and walked right into a huge big boot from Hoyt! Homicide went after him as Hernandez rolled out, he beat on Hoyt then dropped him with a cutter, AJ came in and he charged but the 'Phenomenal One' sidestepped and hit the Pele! Homicide rolled out and joined Hernandez on the outside, AJ waited until they were standing and dived over the ropes but Hernandez caught him! He went to slam him on the floor but Hoyt ran forward and dived over as well! He took ot everyone leaving just Jason and Konnan in the ring.

The leader of LAX quickly beat Jason down then pulled him up and whipped him for the rolling thunder lariat! He nailed it then set Jason up for the facejam but the teen countered it into a spinebuster! He waited for Konnan to get up and called for the C-Bomb! He got him up into the torture-rack but some guys wearing LAX shirts hit the ring and jumped him, he dropped Konnan and began fighting them off as more and more hit the ring, AJ dived in to help and Hoyt tried to follow but Homicide and Hernandez pulled him back out and threw him into the steel steps then Homicide hit a cutter out on the floor, they then jumped in the ring and helped the 'Latino Nation' beat down Jason and AJ.

Konnan rolled out of the ring and one of the Nation handed him a coat hanger, he bent it until it was straight then wrapped it around Jason's neck! The Nation all began booting away at Jason while Homicide and Hernandez beat AJ down across the ring, Chris and Sonjay came sprinting down to the ring but as soon as they got in the ring the Nation jumped them, they beat the two down then handed them to Homicide and Hernandez who threw them out, Konnan yelled orders while still choking out Jason as some Nation members pulled out a table and set it up on the outside. Homicide went to pull AJ up but the 'Phenomenal One' began fighting back, he knocked Homicide down then began fighting off the Nation until Konnan released Jason and nailed him from behind with the slapjack! He got the nation to pick Jason up and took some free shots to the teens head until he had reopened Jason's stitches, he slapped Jason in the face then told him to watch as Homicide picked AJ up and dropped him with da cop killa!

Jason tried to break free but was quickly beaten down then pulled back up for Konnan to hit him with the slapjack, TNA security tried to hit the ring but the Nation kept them away, Chris and Sonjay jumped back in but Homicide and Hernandez cut them off, beat them down and threw them out, Hoyt got in but Hernandez put him back down with the cracker jack! He then picked Jason up and set the teen up for the border toss! He lifted Jason up but Konnan stopped him and pointed to the table! He smirked then turned round and tossed Jason over the top-rope and through the table! Mara ran round to Jason's side while Homicide put the boots to the unconsious AJ, Konnan exchanged a look with Hernandez then the big man grabbed Mara and dragged her into the ring, the Nation and LAX surrounded her and Konnan laughed but she spat in his face! Hernandez grabbed her and threw her down by the hair then set her up for the border toss! He lifted her up but Konnan grabbed a mic.

"No! Hernandez! Don't do it! Remember what happened last time" Hernandez put her down. "Besides, she's a gringo! And you know what we do to them, Homicide!"

With that Homicide grabbed Mara by the hair and pulled her up, Konnan laughed in her face then Homicide set her up and dropped her with da cop killa! LAX and the Nation stood over everyone but Konnan noticed something.

"Hey Homicide, she's not dead, GIVE HER ANOTHER!"

Homicide pulled the limp Mara up and set up another cop killa but Cornette appeared on the ramp waving for help, the locer room emptied as The Naturals, Sharky Boy, Norman Smiley, Ron Killings, Senshi, Kevin Nash (very slowly) leading a confused looking Alex Shelley and even Eric Young of Team Canada all sprinted out! Chris and Sonjay jumped in as well while LAX and the 'Latino Nation' finally decided to leave. EMT's ran out to the ring to tend to the beaten teenagers and AJ but he just waved them over to Mara, he tried to stand but dropped down to the mat again, Jason was still out amonst the wreckage of the table with Chris and Sonjay looking on, they exchanged a worried look as Mara was put in a neckbrace then put onto a stretcher and quickly wheeled out, AJ was out of it but was able to stand as Hoyt helped him stagger to the back while Jason, like Mara was put on a stretcher. Chris and Sonjay exchanged another look then watched as LAX laughed at their work, Chris then looked down at Jason who was starting to come to as EMT's checked on him, he didn't want to be the person who told the kid what had happened.

And he definately didn't want to be LAX when the kid did find out.

Well there ya go, LAX have taken this to a new extreme to try and get their titles back, VKM, Jay, and Jerry all taken out along with Jason, AJ and Mara. How will Jason respond to LAX's actions towards Mara, just how violent will things get before Final Resolution and the border brawl even arrives? Find out next time!

See ya!

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