Chapter 3- Just as he thought.
In the week that passed, Kane found himself between a rock and a hard place among the authority. Stephanie and Hunter were on edge, both were told by Vince McMahon himself to get CM Punk back. Even if it was for only WrestleMania, he wanted him there for the biggest Pay Per View of the year.
By any means necessary.
Naturally, Kane began to assume command of Raw and Smackdown as Stephanie and Hunter tried to accomplish perhaps the impossible task.
Despite his best efforts, when things began to go wrong, Kane was turned to and blamed for it. It all started the week after the Royal Rumble. The fans were getting louder and more vocal over Daniel Bryan and his lack of push, they were also chanting CM Punk's name if the Authority or Kane himself appeared to address the WWE Universe. Worst still, Orton was turning his anger to Kane, Brock has come knocking on his door, The Shield was displeased with the fact that they were not in the elimination chamber match after the Wyatts interfered.
Everything was coming down on Kane's head.
He did everything he could to pacify the masses. Even turning and allowing The Raw GM to make his own matches to ease the burden. Yet those turned and backfired against him.
Brad Maddox's matches ended up as a brawl and a free for all ensued. The locker room clashed with each other in the ring, pent up anger and frustration boiled over. Forcing Kane out of the office and demanding calm. "ENOUGH OF THIS! ALL OF YOU, ENOUGH!" He bellowed.
They stopped fighting as many turned a bitter eye towards him. "Everyone will have their chance in the ring, right now, I want this chaos to end NOW!" A slight calm came over everyone, until the Shield took the opportunity to strike down the Wyatts, they turn bumped into the Rhodes brothers who slammed into the New Age Outlaws, they began fighting once more and then the arena broke out into the brawl. There was no choice.
Kane stormed down with officials, physically breaking up fights and forcing the locker room to retreat into the back. He broke up eight of them before setting his sights to the brawl inside of the ring. From there, Kane had to get more physical. He set his sights on the Shield and told them to stop or they would answer to him. They complied after throwing the Wyatts out of the ring.
When it came to the Outlaws, Kane had to pry Billy Gun off of Goldust. "Enough of this, get to the back now!" he ordered.
Billy wanted one more cheep shot, but Kane stood firm. "You throw that punch, and I will throw one back. Don't try me!"
Billy took the long way around the ring and was halfway up the ramp when Cody got the better of Road Dogg. Kane stopped Cody by grabbing his arm and pushing him towards Goldust. "I said enough!" snapped Kane.
He turned to Jesse James and pointed up the ramp. "Get." Was all he said. Jesse got the message and joined Billy up the ramp.
When the chaos cleared and the locker room calmed for the moment, Kane returned to the office.
He didn't like the look he got the moment he passed through the doors. Stephanie and Hunter were waiting for him. They turned off their TV and stared at Kane. "What the hell was that!" demanded Stephanie.
"I don't know, Brad was making matches…"
"And you approved of them?" said Hunter.
"He didn't confirm them with me. I was doing the other ones." Said Kane.
Stephanie was massaging her temples in frustration. "Kane, what did we talk about last week?"
"That wasn't my doing! I was cleaning up Brad's mess!"
"And yet you should have spoken to Brad before letting any of his ideas hit the ring. I am seriously doubting your abilities here Kane. First Punk, and now the locker room falling into chaos?" said Stephanie.
Kane rolled his eyes. "Don't you dare do that to my wife!" growled Hunter.
"You two are overworked. I get it, but that is no reason to lash out at me!" Kane snapped back. His voice spiked with anger as a hint of the monster managed to escaped from him. Quickly he calmed himself. "I'm sorry about that, look, we are all doing what we can to make this the best product it can be. We are doing everything possible…"
"Some of us are, not all of us. Kane, you need to understand, if we don't get Punk back, my father may start holding back on us. Do you want my dad to reclaim everything that we have done? You wouldn't be standing here in the position that you are in if my father were in charge."
"I understand. But…"
"No, that's all that I needed to hear from you. You understand, and know what is required of you, are we clear?" said Stephanie.
"Yes." Kane muttered lowly.
"Good, don't let that happen again."