ATM and the ARK Angels of DX: Best in the World

by kaykyaka

Tristen Nash buys out Ring of Honor and creates a new promotion called BTW Best in the World. Cheyenne Michelle has to decide between Tristen and her family.

2. No Apologies

Title: ATM and the ARK Angels of DX: Best in the World

Author: Kaykyaka

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the WWE and TNA characters used within this fictional story. No copyright infringement is intended and no money is being made by this work of fiction.

Ratings: K+

Characters: Shawn, Cameron, Rebecca and Cheyenne Michaels, Amy 'Lita' Dumas Michaels, Hunter Hurst Helmsley, LC Helmsley, Aurora Rose Helmsley, Chyna Helmsley, Trish, Randy and Randy Orton Jr, Melina, Johnny and Romeo Hennigan, Jeff, Stephanie and Elizabeth Hardy, Angelo and Angela Jericho, Vince and Linda McMahon, Kevin, Tamara and Tristen Nash, Adam "Edge", Angelina and Angelica Copeland, Phil "CM Punk", Jamie "Velvet Sky" and Ravine Brooks, Marion Cena, the Undertaker, Garrett Calloway, Sting and Steven Borden, Batista, Kofi Kingston, Dolph Ziggler, Brie and Justin Danner, Alannah Pirelli and Charlotte, Dan and Carla McCool.

Summary: Tristen Nash buys out Ring of Honor and creates a new promotion called BTW (Best in the World).Cheyenne Michelle has to decide between Tristen and her family.

Chapter Two – No Apologies

Back at The Sandbox . . .

"Why would I fire Randy for saying you suck Hunter? That's stupid, just tell me who you sold the Hair from Heaven product to and I'll contact them so we can sort this whole mess out," Stephanie said.

"I need that letter headed paper to be faxed over to Patrick's house now Stephanie, this is a matter of pride, nobody says that I suck and gets away with it," Hunter said and Stephanie shook her head at her ex-husband's stupidity.

"Hunter please stop being a bonehead okay? I need you to tell me the name of the guy you sold Hair from Heaven to now!" Stephanie insisted.

"If you send over the company letter head it will jog my memory, so send over the paper then I'll tell you who I sold the stuff too okay?" Hunter said.

"How is a sheet of blank paper with the company logo at the top going to jog your memory?" Stephanie said losing her patience with Hunter.

"Because when he sees the blank paper it's like looking at a scan of his brain," Tristen Nash said.

"Who said that? Is Tristen Nash there with you?" Hunter said to Stephanie.

"Yes he is, I'm over at the Sandbox with the ARK Angels and the Nashes, I couldn't stay at DX Inc because of all the angry stockholders so I had my office number forwarded to my cell phone and came here," Stephanie said.

"Steph it was Tristen who poisoned my Hair from Heaven," Hunter said and Stephanie gasped in shock.

"He did?" she said horrified.

"Well he got Garrett Calloway to do the actual poisoning but he told him to do it," Hunter said.

"Oh my goodness he's been sitting here this whole time, I gotta talk to him," Stephanie said.

"No give him the phone I want to talk to him," Hunter said.

"No Hunter you left me in charge let me deal with this," Stephanie said.

"Okay but just remember to fax over that letter headed paper so I can fire Randy for saying I suck," Hunter said.

"You're not firing Randy," Stephanie said and she hung up before Hunter could protest.

Stephanie turned off the television and stood in front of everyone with her hands firmly on her hips.

"Tristen Nash you are a nasty piece of work. You have the audacity to sit there knowing that all this commotion was caused by you and Garrett Calloway. You are a disgrace and I want you out of this house right now!" Stephanie said and Cheyenne looked at her fiancé horrified.

"You did this?" she said in shock while Tristen ignored the angry looks coming at him from her and the ARK Angels of DX.

"And you sat there knowing this and watched Aunt Steph get stressed like you didn't know anything about it," LC said getting to her feet. "I say that qualifies you for an ass-kicking,"

"LC sit down," Stephanie said firmly and she looked at Tristen's parents. "Did you two know about this?"

Tamara and Kevin Nash didn't reply it was obvious that they knew about what Tristen had done and Stephanie shook her head at them appalled.

"Well everybody better get real comfortable because nobody's leaving until we sort this out," Stephanie said and she called the WWE PR department to have a press conference arranged for tomorrow morning at DX Inc. Being comfortable was not an option for Tristen, judging from the looks on the faces of the people who were his closest friends this was going to be one of the most uncomfortable days of his young life.

Meanwhile back in Jamaica, Hunter went out to buy a fax machine and he never came back. Shawn finally decided to go and find him when everyone had gone to bed. When he found him outside an electronics store downtown Shawn asked him why he hadn't come back to Patrick's house. Hunter told him that the place that sold fax machines was closed so he wanted to wait outside the store overnight so he could buy one first thing in the morning and get the paperwork to have Randy Orton fired sorted out before breakfast.

"You're such a bonehead," Shawn said. "Why don't you just come back in the morning when the store's open?"

"Wow what a great idea, you just totally went up a notch on my list of guys not to fire Shawn," Hunter replied and he pulled a scrappy piece of paper from his pocket with a list of names on it and crossed off Shawn's. HBK snatched the piece of paper, scrunched it up into a ball and threw it away. "Hey that had Randy's name on it!" Hunter complained and he picked up the paper and straightened it out before putting it back in his pocket.

"You know 'Randy' spells his name 'R-A-N-D'Y' right?" Shawn said and Hunter realized that he had spelt Randy's name incorrectly.

"So it's not 'Randi Orton'? When did he change it?" Hunter asked Shawn and HBK walked away with Hunter scratching his head, "You know I'm the co-owner someone needs to tell me these things!"

They returned to Patrick's house where Shawn spent the whole night Kissing his wife. He Kissed her so many times she forgot her own name and Shawn grew concerned that if he kept doing what he was doing she was going to end up like Hunter and become a total bonehead so he stopped Kissing her and let her finish what she had to say.

"You want Chey to stay your little girl, you really don't want anyone to marry her but you gave Tristen the benefit of the doubt and now he's let you down. You've already got your mind on other guys that might be a better fit for her haven't you?" Amy said and Shawn nodded.

"I sure have, Roderick Strong comes to mind," he said.

"There's no way you can just line up a bunch of random guys and present them to your daughter as alternative options to Tristen. Shawn there's something about Tristen that she finds attractive and it's not just his looks or the fact that he's in the wrestling business," Amy said and Shawn frowned.

"It's not? Then what does she like about him?" he asked.

"Chey likes him because he's smart," Amy replied and Shawn laughed. "What's so funny?"

"I just realized you're taking sides with my daughter against me that's all," Shawn said.

"Shawn I am not taking sides don't be like that," Amy replied defiantly.

"Then why are you acting like being smart is the most important thing to Cheyenne when it comes to the guy she wants to spend the rest of her life with?" Shawn asked defensively.

Amy pulled a honey blond lock behind her ear and slowed down a little because she could tell things were getting a little heated between them, "I am not going to let you intimidate me so just keep that Kiss of Life in check," she said.

Shawn sighed because he was just about to use it on her. "Okay I'm listening," he said.

"Tristen Nash looks at you as competition and if he's going to make a big impression on Cheyenne he has to out-smart you to prove that he's worthy of her. Cheyenne and me, we're a lot alike; we can choose who we fall in love with, you can't take that choice away from her because if you do she'll run straight into Tristen's arms," Amy said.

"So what do I do?" Shawn asked.

"You support her even though it looks like she's making a mistake, she has to know that she is free to decide for herself who she wants to spend the rest of her life with," Amy said.

"Yeah right that's not going to happen Amy, have you forgotten the Kliq bylaws? No Kliq member can allow his daughter to marry unless he approves of the guy she's chosen," Shawn replied and Amy sighed.

"Those stupid bylaws," she said rolling her eyes.

"Excuse me Amy but you forget that you had to fight to get in the Kliq," Shawn said.

"That's only because Hunter was being a bonehead," Amy argued.

"Yes but that bonehead approved of you; you think you could have had my name if Hunter didn't?" Shawn said. "Don't forget that you were not very popular with the Kliq, Sean, Kevin and Scotty didn't think much of you at all, neither did Hunter in the beginning,"

"Shawn you better get your facts straight because I was extremely popular with the guys, I had a clique of my own you know. I had Team Extreme and Edge and Christian and all the Divas had my back too," Amy said and Shawn shook his head mockingly.

"Honey that's so cute, you and your little friends running around together like kids in a playground in a school that Hunter and I built. You think all those little TLC matches and Litacanranas put you and your amigos on the same level as the Kliq? Don't be a bonehead," Shawn replied.

"I'm not saying that what I'm saying is that as important as the Kliq is to you it's not that important to other people, like me and Cheyenne. I couldn't care less about your Kliq and when Tristen looks at Cheyenne he sees exactly what you saw when you looked at me and that burns you up inside Shawn I know it does," Amy said and she leaned forward into Shawn's burning eyes which were looking at the ceiling right now. "Don't pretend you weren't one of those guys Shawn. I know you loved my wrestling skills; you loved the way I banded around with Matt, Jeff, Edge, Christian and the Dudleys when we stole Wrestlemania from right under the Kliq's nose. You loved the way I won championships and cage matches and you loved the way I looked doing it. You even loved me when I was Rated R and now you love the fact that you get to sleep with me every night whether we're at home in Connecticut, in a court room in L.A or in hot and beautiful Jamaica. When Cheyenne walks around Orlando on Tristen's arm she's no longer in Los Angeles attending music classes playing her piano putting your mind at ease, she's making a future wrestling mogul feel like a million bucks instead, a feeling I know all too well and it feels good, doesn't it?"

Shawn didn't reply he just stared at his wife because Amy had torn the lid off and now his true feelings about Cheyenne and Tristen were about to explode all over their bedroom walls like angry confetti.

"Was it something I said?" Amy asked eventually.

"I think you've said it all Big Red and now you're going to hear what I have to say," Shawn replied his cheeks flushed red and his cheekbones tightened. Shawn was pissed at her. "That Kliq that you just put down so casually put the WWE on the map; we sacrificed everything we had to make the WWE what it is today and we did it using our heads as-well as our bodies. Tristen Nash has done nothing but lay claim to what he doesn't deserve which is my daughter and she is worth more to me than a million championships. He isn't worth one lace on her ROH boots and the sooner Cheyenne realizes that the better off she'll be. Now is there something else about my daughter that I need to know since I'm such a bad father?"

"Shawn I didn't say you were a bad father," Amy responded.

"Yes you did that's all you said, that's what this is about Amy you think I don't know how to look after my own kid," Shawn said.

"Well she's my kid too! I may not have given birth to her but I love her Shawn, I helped her grow into the young woman she is now. You think because I'm not her real mother I'm not entitled to give you my opinion when it comes to who she should marry? I am your wife and you will listen to what I have to say!" Amy snapped and Shawn got out of the bed to get away from her. He shook his hair loose, his hair was so hot the tips of it burned his shoulders; he had to cool off but he didn't think this was going to happen. He was so mad at his wife right now. He had tried to avoid this topic but Amy just couldn't seem to let it go and the last thing he wanted was to get mad at her but she just wouldn't let it go. "Shawn look at me," she said but Shawn wouldn't look at her. "Look at me Shawn, look at me!"

"Okay I'm looking at you, what?" Shawn said finally looking at her.

"Shawn I was worth losing Rebecca for, you got the best in the world when you married me and I want to hear you say it, I want to hear you say that you got everything you wanted when you decided to marry me and that I was worth the pain you suffered when you lost your wife," Amy said.

"I thought we were talking about Cheyenne Amy? And why do you need me to admit anything to you, you've already made up your mind, you're the best in the world right?" Shawn said.

"It's important because I married the best in the world too," Amy replied and Shawn smiled.

"We're arguing about who's the best but you think I don't know what's best for my daughter, what's wrong with this picture?" Shawn said and Amy felt like Marty Jannetty did just before Shawn put his former tag team partner's head through that barbershop window.

"Tristen Nash is smart because he didn't do what Rebecca, Stephanie, Tamara, Chyna and me had to do. We had to be checked and vetted by the Kliq before we could even go on a date with you, he just walked up to Cheyenne, asked her to marry him and she said yes and that infuriates you! He didn't have to check with his friends and he knows he will never do any better than Cheyenne Michelle Michaels; he hit the jackpot just like you did when you married me. You will never do any better than me Shawn because I'm the best in the world, do we understand each other now?" Amy said and Shawn shook his head.

"No we don't and you're so wrong it's comical, let's see how should I put this. I'm the best in the world and you're the best in my world, Tristen isn't even in my network but Cheyenne is and she can't be in both," Shawn said. "This wrestling business is my world, I run it Amy you do not. You're in my bed with me because I want you to be not because I don't have any other choice. If I wanted to I could pick up the phone and call ninety-nine out of a hundred Divas and they'd be more than willing to take your place," Shawn said.

"And the same goes for me Shawn; do you know how many guys in this business would kill to swap places with you?" Amy said. "Every man in this business would love the opportunity to take your place because when they see us and we're so great together and we have been for years, they think they could be great too someday if they had me by their side. We're the best in the world and that will never change, we're on the same level Shawn and that's a fact," Amy replied.

"No we're not we can't be that's why the Kliq bylaws were written Amy, to keep people like you in your place. No matter how you word it, I'll always be on top and you will always be below, that will never ever change and it doesn't work the other way around, so when I say Cheyenne can do better than Tristen Nash you have no right to question that, no right whatsoever, do you hear me!" Shawn snapped and Amy was knocked silent by his words. She looked down at her hands; they were shaking but she couldn't get the words out and tell Shawn that he was wrong. "Go on say something now, come on I wanna hear your counter argument, what have you got to say to me now Amy?"

"Nothing," Amy replied and she got out of the bed and walked over to their bedroom window to let some air in their now very hot bedroom. "You just put me in my place and I have nothing else to say to you, you're up here and I'm down there, I got it. All this time I thought we were on the same side, for years I thought we were a team but I had no idea you thought so little of me,"

"We are a team Amy and I think you're the best but not when it comes to Cheyenne, I am not Edge and I ain't no Hardy Boy either and we're not that kind of team. Don't you dare put me in the same league as them and don't ever cross me again when it comes to my daughter or I'll have to put you in your place again and I don't want to have to do that so please just drop this subject, I don't ever wanna have this discussion with you again," Shawn said gently. He hated having to humiliate his wife but she was wrong and he wasn't going to stand and listen to her disrespect him. He came back over to the best and reached out for her hand, "Come on I think we've said enough for one night, close that window and get in bed with me,"

Amy's head was heavy she couldn't look at her husband or resist his pull on her arm as he laid her down next to him and wrapped his muscular arm around her waist. He kissed her shoulder, his touch was like none other, there was nobody greater than HBK and she felt honored to have been married to him, she also felt sickened that she just broke her own bylaw, the oath that she had sworn to the Hardys, Edge and Christian and the Dudleys many years ago. Shawn didn't know about that oath, it was just as important to her now as it was then and she still thought about it. The more she thought about it she knew she had to do something to prove that she hadn't broken her promise to her friends.

"Shawn?" she said and he Kissed her lips but Amy pushed him away angrily. "Kiss me one more time and you're gonna be in so much trouble. I have to tell you something," Amy loosed herself from Shawn's arms and sat up next to him while he rolled his eyes and sighed wanting to pull the covers over his head. Listening to his wife talk had become increasingly unbearable and he couldn't Kiss his way out of it anymore. "Years ago I promised Matt, Jeff, Edge and Christian that if I ever got to the top of this business I would leave it but instead I married it. When I married you it was because God brought us together all this stuff you're talking about is just minor details, the bigger issue is where we stand with ourselves as individuals, outside of the wrestling business. Amy loves you so much but Lita can't stand you and I need to be with the people who love Lita and that is not you right now,"

Shawn shook his head, "Amy is not a WWE creation but Lita is, God brought both of you into my life but He didn't change the rules of the Kliq because you fell in love with me. Now, if you put Lita and HBK together you end up with exactly what we've got now which is a bad situation; when I was in DX on RAW I didn't like you and you didn't like me. But if you put Shawn and Amy together what you get is a long, loving marriage and that's exactly what we have, so what's the problem?" he asked.

"The problem is this isn't about our marriage, like I said if you were listening to me, this is about us as individuals and you couldn't care less about what I have to say as an individual," Amy said and Shawn hit the bed angrily.

"Amy can we please just drop this I really don't know what your problem is right now and I can't listen to anymore of this crap," Shawn said.

"That's it, Shawn I can't take this anymore I have to go," Amy said getting out of the bed and finding her jeans.

"Where are you going?" Shawn said confused as his wife started to pull clothes onto her body.

"Why do you care you're not even listening to me right now," Amy said.

"I've tried to Amy but I'm done with this topic," Shawn said getting out of the bed but Amy headed for the door. Shawn blocked it so she couldn't get out.

"Get away from the door," Amy said.

"No way," Shawn replied.

"Fine I'll go out the window," Amy replied and before he could stop her Amy jumped out of their bedroom window, rolled onto the grass and sprung up like it was nothing. Shawn's jaw dropped as he realized she was leaving.

"Amy don't go!" he cried out and his eyes watered as she disappeared in Randy Orton's car, "Amy come back!" He pulled at his hair as the Ortons came into his bedroom. "You guys something awful has happened Amy just walked out on me!"

"Don't worry she'll be back," Trish said.

"Really, okay then that's all I need to know. I'm going to bed," Shawn said and he crawled beneath the covers while Trish tried her best not to yell at him for being so naïve.

"Are you kidding me?" she said and she pulled the covers off of Shawn. "Your wife just ran away in the middle of the night and you're going back to sleep?"

"What, you said she's coming back," Shawn said.

"Not tonight she's not," Randy said. "I gave her my car keys Shawn, she's driving to the airport,"

"What?" Shawn said leaping out of the bed. "But we're not allowed to leave the country!"

"What does she care about that she's mad at you," Trish said.

"Do you know where she's going? What am I saying of course you do you're prophets." Shawn said pulling on his shorts and t shirt.

"Hunter's gonna wake up and that's not good for any of us," Trish said.

"What it's not like I need to tell him I had an argument with Amy I'm sure the whole house could hear us, I just don't understand why she won't let this thing with Cheyenne and Tristen go," Shawn said.

Trish resisted telling Shawn that Amy was right about Cheyenne and he was wrong but she did tell him where Amy was going. When Shawn found out he didn't go after her, instead he called an emergency Kliq meeting with Hunter because it was a breach of the Kliq bylaws for the wife of a Kliq member to see an ex-boyfriend or fiancé for advice if she was having problems with her husband and Amy was on her way to see Edge.