It's Sunday, we took a plane out a couple days ago to head to Minneapolis for Bragging Rights. We were busy getting ready for the night. I decided to show my full dedication to Raw with my outfit tonight. I changed into a strapless, red and belted dress...followed by red strappy, platform heels. My jewelry consisted of a necklace that had a 'C' followed by a heart, then an 'A'. My earrings were red heart studs, my ring was a red heart as well, followed by a hot red crystal...floral hinged bangle bracelet. I had a red eyeshadow, along with red nail polis and red lip gloss. I was all decked out in red, my dedication to my show...the 'A' show Monday Night Raw. Aly's dressed in a red strapless, pleated cocktail dress along with silver heels, along with a clutch bag. She had red rose stud earrings, a silver bangle, a gothic pewter ring with a red heart, and a red heart pendant. For makeup she had silver eyeshadow, transparent primer and silver nail polish. We both walk out of the bathroom from getting changed into the room where Alex and Mike were waiting, wearing their Team Raw shirts. They look up and their jaws drop.
"Got to show the dedication to our show." Aly points out, they nod slowly.
"We've done it again Aly." I smile, and laugh slightly.
We do our special handshake and laugh.
"Alright, snap out of it you two. We got a 'B' rate show to beat." I say, they snap out of it and nod with determined looks.
"The night belongs to us." I say, as we head out.
"It always does. They'll be stuck as the B-rate show for a long time." Aly adds.
"Exactly." I say to her.
"You know it would be a whole lot better if you were in action tonight, in the smackdown vs raw match." I say to Alex.
"I wish, but sadly things don't work out that way." Alex shrugs.
"Well I'm coming out with you tonight, I'll sit ringside with Cole and them. I need to be out there to support you guys." I say, Aly nods firmly in agreement and they both know that
means she's going too.
"Just plain out kick Layla's ass for the both of us in your match tonight Aly." I suggest.
"Oh I will." She smirks.
"Good thing about it, Michelle can't interfere."
"I actually suggested that part to the GM, since I was sick of seeing them cheat by helping each other." She shrugs.
"Well now you can use the whole arena, even backstage to hurt her."
"You know that smirk is kind of scary." Mike comments, after looking at her face.
"Well I plan to do a lot of things to her, I mean she made fun of me, and Michelle made fun of you on Smackdown. I don't take that lightly." She explains.
"I see that." Mike states.
We get to the arena and hang around backstage and watch the show start. First match to come up was Dolph Ziggler against Daniel Bryan.
"I'm not even sure what to say about this match."
"It's pointless."
"Good point."
After many close calls, in the end Daniel Bryan won with the Lebell Lock. The after he leaves the ring, Vickie yells at the ref about the outcome of the match.
"Oh my god." I say shaking my head.
"What are we, two?" Aly raises and eyebrow.
Then as they walk backstage, we're all sitting there as we see the camera pan on us laughing at the outcome of the match and the two year old tantrum Vickie pulled. And Aly shakes her head amusedly.
"You see..you see? Daniel Bryan was my rookie on NXT, I taught him everything he knows, now Raw's off to a great start because of my leadership." Mike states.
"You're right Miz. Thanks to your leadership, Daniel Bryan is US..." Alex says, until Sheamus cut him off.
"Oh jeez. What do you want?" I ask, with an attitude.
Aly's just inspecting her nails while humming the 'nananana Mayo Man!' tune.
"Your leadership. You're one to laugh fella' aren't you? Who in their right mind would take orders from you? Incase you've forgotten, I'm the former WWE Champion on this team. And I'm certainly not going to listen to you." Sheamus explains.
"I hear a 'former' in that sentence." Aly says quietly.
Miz laughs and proceeds to talk.
"Really? I'll speak very, VERY slowly for you, so you'll understand. I...me...the Miz, is Raw team captain, not you." He finishes with a smile.
Then CM Punk walks up and I mutter 'Oh great'.
"Miz, you're barely Captain Crunch. Let alone the Raw team captain, I am captain straight edge. And I'm sure you recall, last time we saw you, you were getting chokeslammed and splashed and subsequently pinned by Rey Mysterio."
"I seem to recall you getting your ass kicked throughout the whole match on Smackdown by Smurfette." Aly says casually.
"And last time we saw you, you were getting speared by Edge." Miz points out.
"So stick that in your juicebox and suck it." I add.
"Lei รจ stato appena posseduto!" Aly yells in Italian.
"I'm not here to talk about the last time..."
Then they all started talking all together and that's when Santino broke it up.
"Gentlemen...gentlemen! Chill out. I'm here, where's the rest of the team? And I was promised some snacks and beverages." Santino says.
"What the hell?" I ask.
"I said there might be snacks and beverages." Alex retorts back to Santino.
"I'm not even sure what to say." Aly snickers.
"We don't need to be talking about snacks and beverages, we need to strategize against Smackdown." Miz adds.
"That's probably a good idea." Aly admits, nodding.
"You know that actually is a great idea. The first one you've come up with. We do need to strategize. But I just came from Smackdown, where I was there for a year and I was World Heavyweight Champion. I know them like the back of my hand, inside and out. If anyone is going to be taking orders, and giving orders...it's going to be me and you're going to be following them." Punk explains.
"Excuse me? You weren't named Captain now were you?" Aly says, folding her arms over her chest.
"Ah, since we're taking orders...I would love some sunchips, I really like sunchips. Do it." Santino then points to Sheamus.
"What?" Alex asks.
"Okay, what the hell are you high or something?" I exclaim.
"Oh my lord..." Aly sighs, covering her face with one hand.
"Or not. Okay?" Santino says walking away.
"You know what Miz? I could give a fiddler's beggar a strategy later. Because when I get out there, if anyone gets in my face...I'll kick their head off." Sheamus says, then walking away and CM Punk starts laughing.
"Anger management issues." Aly sings under her breath.
"Punk..." Miz says.
"Hahaha, he's going to kick your head off."
"Who said it isn't going to be you?" Aly questions, moving her hand.
"Punk, I know we don't like each other, I know nobody trusts each other. But for one night, we need to unite. For one night, we need to be one. For one night, we need to be fighting for the same cause. Because we are Team Raw and we are awesome!" Miz exclaims.
"That's right!" I add in.
"Well, some of us are awesome." Punk says laughing and then looking at Miz, Alex, me and Aly and walking away after.
"Probably not you." Aly mutters.
"Look, forget about him. But honestly, you need to get this together okay? Santino thinks this is a cocktail party, the Keebler Elf is going off on wild tangents talking about whatever. You got to get this thing together, I mean you're the team captain, we got to go out there soon! Come on!" Alex exclaims, while Aly is leaning against Mike laughing silently at the 'Keebler Elf' comment.
"Haha, he shall now be referred to as Mr. Keebler." I say laughing, Aly cracking up hugh fiving me.
"So epic." She snickers.
"That's a good one Alex." I say to him, slightly cracking up.
"Thank you." He smirks.
"No. Calm down. The team is exactly where they need to be. Because where there is chaos, there's opportunity. Team Raw is ready to take down the blue team." Miz says to Alex as the camera zooms in on the grin on his face before changing to the city view.
"That's the truth, Raw will totally dominate Smackdown tonight." Aly adds.
"Totally dominate." I agree.
After the small break, we see Cody Rhodes walk out with Drew McIntyre.
"Ugh." I say, and Aly pretends to gag.
"Bragging Rights. What an appropriate name for the evening because, who has more to brag about than the WWE Tag Team Champions, Drew McIntyre and myself Dashing Cody Rhodes."
"It was over a month ago we became your WWE Tag Team Champions. And we have absolutely dominated everyone from Raw and Smackdown. Actually, seems pretty appropriate tonight to mention, they're pretty much all from Raw. Now I've got a bit of a dilema. Nobody wants to face us Cody. All the boys in the back are scared to death of us and I don't blame them!" Drew explains.
"You see you don't have to be da..." Cody goes onto say before the GM dings in.
"Oooh." Aly says, sitting up straight in interest.
"Can I have your attention please, I have just receieved an email from the anonymous Raw General Manager. And I quote. Actually, there is a team on Raw worthy of facing you tonight for your tag team titles." Cole reads.
"This should be good."
Then the ninny music plays and Wade walks out.
"Can't say that was what I was expecting..." Aly trails off.
"This is going to be the greatest night in the history of the Nexus. For very soon, I will be crowned the new WWE Champion. But right now, please welcome one of the next WWE Tag Team Champions...David Otunga!" Wade says, then Aly and I exchange weird looks.
Otunga walks out and then stands next to Wade.
"And his partner. A man who I have told...ordered under no circumstances to fail in bringing home the tag titles this evening. Fellow Nexus member, John Cena!" Wade goes on.
"Oh..." Aly blinks slowly.
"Well at least he'll have a title if he wins." I say.
"Right..."
In the end of the match, John and Otunga won, they captured the titles.
"That isn't so bad a sight. Better than the previous champions that's for sure."
"Definately." I say as we go to a break.
During the break, a stagehand comes knocking on the door and tells Aly that it's time for her to get ready for her match against Layla.
"Good luck." I say to her, before she leaves to get ready.
She salutes me with two fingers, fist bumps with Alex, and then Mike kisses her before she leaves, her title over one shoulder. She goes to get ready, then walks out to the ramp and waits for her music to play. Once it does, she comes out all pumped up and ready to beat Layla to a pulp. She smiles slightly at the cheers and all the new signs supporting not only her, but me too. She's introduced and she goes down the ramp and then gets into the ring, then poses with the title a few times before her music fades. LayCool's music plays and Layla walks out. Aly leans against the corner as Layla does her little entrance thing. She smirks a little as she watches Aly nervously from the corner of her eye.
"Looks like someone's a little scared." I say, watching.
"She should be." Mike says.
"Yeah, she don't have McCool to back her up this time." Alex adds.
"And frankly, I'd be scared of that look If I were her too." Mike continues, pointing at the screen which shows Aly with a small but devilish looking smirk.
"Layla is going to be so lost in this match. She won't know what to do. I can't believe she was part of your little group back in ECW." I say to him.
"Don't remind me." Mike grimaces.
The match starts and Aly wasted no time in going after Layla. Layla got her down on the mat, but Aly kicked up and got out of the hold Layla had. Layla had a hold of her, but she did all these moves which countered the hold and she twisted Layla's arm. She lifted her up and held her there for a good amount of time before dropping her to the mat. She goes for the pin, but Layla kicks out. Aly grabs her and Layla is trying to get out of the grip, while screaming. She grabbed the ropes but Aly pulled her away and eventually threw her outside the ring. She climbed out and grabbed Layla and threw her into the barrier. She went to run at her but Layla lifted her feet and Aly countered it and threw her backwards into the crowd. She climbed over the barrier and Layla started crawling away slightly saying 'No, I'm sorry'. Aly didn't listen, because it was clear that Layla was lieing. She then grabbed Layla and brought her over to another barrier and slammed her face into it repeatedly. Layla retaliated and elbowed her in the face, making her back off. She kept going after her, going throughout the arena. Somehow they ended up backstage and Aly had the upperhand this time again. She used various items such as tables, etc. She rammed Layla into the table, back first. Then Layla rammed Aly's back into another table and everything else. Aly got some of her strength back and led Layla back out to the ring. Once she was done backstage, they went back out to the ring. Layla clearly running from her. Aly followed her down to the ring and got in just as she did. In the end, it was Aly's submission move that made Layla tap and her to win the match and retain the title.
"Here is your winner and still the Diva's champion, Sadie!"
Aly looked down at Layla in triumph as the ref raised her hand with the title. Aly smiled and then crawled out of the ring and watched Layla as she walked backwards up the ramp. We went to a break and Aly walked backstage and into the room where we all were.
"Okay, so that kind of hurt but I'm satisfied now." Aly says, setting the title down.
"You need any ice?" Mike asks.
"That actually sounds good but I do need to change."
"You go change, I'll get you ice for when you come back."
"Okay."
She goes and changes, walking out without her heels on.
"I don't feel like putting these on just yet." She says to herself.
She walks back into the room and Mike's there holding a thing of ice for her.
"Here this should help." He says handing it to her.
She sits down on the couch, laying on the arm so the bag of ice sits easily on her lower back. We sit there and watch the Undertaker and Kane match. At one point it looks like Undertaker was going to win, but while Kane was in the hole...the ninnies came out and got involved, causing Kane to crawl out of the hole.
"Damn ninnies."
Then they start dumping the dirt on Taker when he's in the hole. Kane tells them to go away and then he dumps a bulldozer full onto him, resulting in the end of the match and
Undertaker was buried alive.
"That was just a creepy match." Aly says shivering.
"Poor Taker."
"I can't wait until somebody really kicks the ninnies' asses." Aly sighs.
"Oh I know right? Well looks like we have to be ready, the big match is up next."
Sure enough a stagehand comes and knocks on the door. Aly eases herself off the arm of the couch, setting the ice aside and reaching for her shoes, trying not to grimace.
"You going to be okay?" I ask.
"Yeah, it's just pretty sore right now." She sighs, trying to buckle her heels without reaching
down too far.
"Now I know how Jeff feels haha." She laughs a little.
Once we're all ready, we leave the room and we head out first. Aly lets Alex and I go in first before she carefully gets in with Mike holding the ropes for her. She makes sure that Mike is between he and Morrison. We wait until each member of Smackdown starts coming out, when they get into the ring, Aly...me and Alex start to head out of the ring. Alex of course holding the ropes for the both of us to get out. We walk over and join Striker, Lawler and Cole for commentary while Alex stays ringside. Aly sits down by Jerry gingerly and then sets her title on the table. I sit on the otherside by Striker and we're welcomed by them.
"You two are looking awfully great tonight, and in red as we can see." Striker says about us.
"Well obvioulsy we wanted to show our support for our show. But thanks for the compliment I suppose." She says, laughing lightly.
"Even though you are rooting for your show Smackdown. Which I'm sorry to say wont be getting the win tonight." I say after, Aly nods.
"We'll see ladies." He says.
The match was going great, Raw was outnumbering Smackdown. It then came down to Miz and Punk against Edge and Mysterio. That is, because Mysterio came back after a supposed wrist injury.
"That isn't right, you shouldn't be allowed to return after you've left the match."
"Well technically he wasn't eliminated. You have to be pinned to be eliminated. Rey wasn't pinned, therefore it's legal." Striker responds.
"Still isn't right."
Then Punk was eliminated. It was Edge and Mysterio against Miz now, with Edge recovering in the corner. Aly's just ignoring Striker and the other guys at this point, her eyes never leaving Miz. Rey then gets Miz into the ropes after a distraction by Alex. Rey goes to deliver the 619, but Alex climbs up and protects Miz from it and he ends up getting it in his back.
"Oh, DC!" Aly winces.
I take off the headset and get up and go over to him and kneel down.
"Are you alright?" I ask, worried and Aly come over too.
"Yeah, but damn that hurt." He mumbles groaning.
We turn back to the ring and see Miz counters Rey's move, and when he gets back up, Edge spears him. That results in the win for Smackdown. Aly goes straight for Miz and she pulls him out of the ring, out of harms way just incase Edge plans to do something else. She guides him over to Alex and I, making sure to keep and eye on Edge. But he's too busy in the ring with Rey, holding the trophy celebrating.
"Let's get out of here." Aly says to me, as Alex gets to his feet with my help.
I nod in agreement and we walk around the ring and up the ramp and we bring both Miz and Alex to the trainer's room to be checked out.
"Second time being here." I sigh.
"Third time for me, I stopped by on my way in from my match." She says, leaning against the wall with one hand on her back.
"Though I guess it's our second time waiting for the boys." She corrects, after a short pause.
"I know Alex was protecting Mike from the 619, and Rey had no choice, but that was so not cool of him."
"I know." Aly sighs.
"It looked so freaking painful."
"Yeah it did. Poor DC." Aly agrees.
After waiting for a few more minutes the door opens and they walk out.
"We're fine." They say, hugging us.
"Careful Mike, back is still sore." Aly says.
"I'm glad you're okay." I say to Alex.
"Are you sure you're alright?" Mike asks looking at Aly in concern.
"Yes, I stopped by the trainer after my match and he said ice and heat would help it." She assures him.
"I have a heating pad in my stuff at the hotel."
Alex just holds me to him tightly.
"If it helps, when we get back to the room I'll hold ice on your back where he hit you." I suggest to Alex.
"Alright, as long as that works." He says, relieved.
"Let's head out. A heating pad is calling my name." She says.
"Let's just finish watching John in Wade's match. I want to see who wins. I heard Wade say that if he doesn't win, then he's going to personally fire John himself." I say, watching the ending of the match.
"I almost forgot about that." Aly admits, leaning on Mike.
We watch and then see John crawl into the ring and it looks like he was going to get Randy. But he goes over to Wade and give him the attitude adjustment. Randy got disqualified, but he keeps the title.
"Wait, Wade won. John's not fired! He found a loophole!" I exclaim.
"Way to go John." She smiles.
But just as he was going to hand Randy the title, he RKO'd him. Aly just sighs.
"We can go now." I say.
"Good." She says, and we slowly head to the room to let Mike change and get our things.
While we wait, I hold the ice on the spot on Alex's back where Rey hit him.
"That feel better?" I ask.
"Loads." He sighs.
Aly's leaning on the back of the couch, holding a towel wrapped bag of ice to her lower back.
"I'm the only one who's not hurt." I realize.
"Yeah, well you're the one that didn't have a match. Even though technically DC didn't but he doesn't have the same contract we do." Aly replies.
"Right." I say, then Mike comes back all changed and we head out and back to the hotel.
We get to our rooms and say goodnight to each other. Once in the room Aly immediately heads to change into her pjs. She gets the heating pad and turns it on and lays back in the bed, relaxing with it. She sighs contentedly as she lays on her stomach.
"So much better."
Once she thinks she's had enough of the heat, she turns it off and then puts it away and scooches over to Mike carefully and goes to sleep. I'm already changed and I'm laying there next to Alex, still holding the ice on his back.
"I think you can take it off now." He says after a little bit.
"The ice is melting in the bag anyway." I say, then getting up and emptying it into the bathroom sink, then coming back.
Alex has rolled over and already fallen asleep. I walk over and turn out the light, then laying down next to him, shortly falling asleep myself.
