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, Kelly Kelly, 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 Seven – Best in the World – Episode #1
Valentine's Day, San Antonio, Texas 3pm
At the AT&T Arena the Ring of Honor roster prepared for their first show under new management, when the word got out that Tristen Nash was now running Ring of Honor more people seemed to want to watch them perform. The show had been advertised for weeks but in a few hours of the world finding out about Tristen's new acquisition tickets flew and now the show was sold out.
"This is gonna be a hot show," Tristen said but he was expecting to hear from Garrett Calloway but he hadn't shown up yet. "Have any of you guys seen Garrett?"
"We've been looking out for Samoa Joe, he's pissed at you for buying Ring of Honor and moving away from California," Jay Lethal said but Tristen couldn't care less about Samoa Joe. He had to build up the main roster and he needed Garrett's help to do it.
"Come on Calloway don't bail out on me now we're in Shawn Michaels' home town, I couldn't think of a better way to showcase his daughter and reveal our new company name to the world," Tristen thought to himself.
"Has anyone see Melody, I wanted to go over tonight's promo with her?" Roderick Strong said, Melody being Cheyenne Michelle.
"She's said she was going home, to her parents' old house. She's got a lot on her mind tonight is a big deal for her," Tristen said.
"So shouldn't you be with her, you are her fiancé and its Valentine's Day," Roderick Strong said and Tristen frowned at him.
"You keep your nose out of my business or you can go hang on the unemployment line with Samoa Joe," he said and Lethal walked Strong away from the line of fire, he didn't want him to miss out on what could be the biggest night of all their lives.
"Cool off you need to watch how you speak to Tristen, he can make a big difference in this business for all of us," Jay said.
"Don't you think it's odd that he'd bring us all the way out here to San Antonio, the home town of HBK the greatest of all time and then leave Cheyenne alone to come hang out here and wait for Garrett Calloway?" Roderick said.
"That's what you're thinking about? You should be thinking about getting payback on Jimmy Jacobs for costing you a shot at the World Heavyweight Championship, that's the reason we're here Roddy," Jay replied.
"Jay this isn't just about us having a great show, we do that anyway. I think we might be involved in something we have no business being a part of. I think Tristen's got a personal agenda for buying out Ring of Honor and if we're not careful we're gonna get caught up in something we don't know anything about," Roderick said.
"Listen to me, focus on your match tonight against Jimmy, forget about Cheyenne," Jay said firmly.
"No, let's go find her," Roderick said and Jay looked at him like he was crazy.
"Why?" he asked perplexed.
"We're her friends we've been working with her for years now, don't you wanna make sure she's okay?" Roderick said.
"Yes I do and I know that the worst thing we could possibly do is get involved in her personal life," Jay said but Roderick didn't listen.
"I'm going to find her without you," he said and Jay watched him go.
"Why are the pretty ones always so dumb?" he said to himself but he decided to follow him and keep him out of trouble.
At the Michaels old home Cheyenne stood looking at the house she had grown up in, thinking back to how many times she had run around the place with Cameron holding her father's Championships high in the air while Cameron studied in the garden. Now she was all grown up and waiting for Tristen to show up so that they could get married. Of all places it was here that Tristen wanted to get married to her; he said it would be special and she'd never forget it and he was right. Getting married in San Antonio, Texas at her old family home was a dream, only she imagined that her family would be present when that dream came true. There was no way her family would let her get married, she had tried reasoning with her father and brother, even Amy was against it, so she had no choice but to get married anyway.
"Come on Tristen you should be here by now," she said looking at the time on her cell-phone, when she looked back up she saw a very familiar face looking back at her. "Romeo, what are you doing here I told you I wasn't going to change my mind. I'm marrying Tristen today and that's it!"
Romeo Perez Hennigan was relentless he had come all the way from Los Angeles to reason with her; he had pleaded with Cheyenne to reconsider doing this. He told her about Shawn setting Patrick's house on fire when he found out about Cheyenne working with Tristen but nothing seemed to be getting through to her.
"Well you've clearly made up your mind," Romeo said to Cheyenne, "you've decided to go behind your father's back and do something there's absolutely no need for you to do. Why are you in such a hurry to marry Tristen anyway?"
"You know why Romy, I need to be free from my father's control. I can't stand it when he dictates to me, he makes me feel like a child," Cheyenne replied. "I wanna be a great wrestler and with Tristen I can be, if I marry Tristen I can be free to make a name for myself without my father's help, that's all I want is to have my own life, not some life that's been passed down to me from the Kliq,"
"What's wrong with the Kliq?" Romeo asked.
"It's not that I hate my father or anything like that but I've made up my mind and I'm not going to change it, I want to get married and create my own footprint in this business, together Tristen and I can do that and what better time to do it than right now?" Cheyenne replied.
"This is such a mistake," Romeo said and then he turned around and saw Roderick Strong and Jay Lethal looking back at him. "Hey looks like you got a couple of extra witnesses,"
Cheyenne couldn't believe her eyes and she ran up to Jay and Roderick, "I'm so glad you guys came, did Tristen tell you to come?"
Roderick and Jay looked Cheyenne up and down in disbelief and then they exchanged glances with Romeo, "Why are you wearing that wedding dress?" Roderick asked Cheyenne confused.
"Because I'm getting married, Tristen and I are finally jumping the broom, I thought that's why you guys were here," Cheyenne said and she hugged them both. "I'm so glad you could make it, Tristen should be here in a minute, did he say he was on his way when you left the American Airlines Arena?"
"Actually he didn't mention that he was getting married, the only thing he was talking about was Garrett Calloway. He's back at the arena waiting for him," Roderick said.
"Garrett's late, well that's what's holding Tristen up, he's our witness," Cheyenne said. "I wonder what could be keeping him?"
Romeo breathed a sigh of relief; it was Divine intervention that was holding Garrett up and he knew that if he called the Undertaker's house Garrett would still be there.
"Hello Beth, I'm in San Antonio with Cheyenne, she's waiting for Tristen they're planning to get married right here at her parents' old home! Tristen's just waiting for Garrett to show up before they start the ceremony," Romeo said calling Beth Hardy's cell phone.
"Well that ain't gonna happen anytime soon, we've got a plan to keep Garrett at Taker's house and its in effect right now," Beth said.
"Praise God, whatever you do don't let that punk out of your sight!" Romeo said and he hung up and saw Cheyenne scowling at him.
"I have Phenomenal hearing you know, I heard every word you just said to Beth," Cheyenne said and Romeo blanched. He totally forgot about Cheyenne's Phenomenal hearing. "I thought you were my friend, yet here you are interfering in my business just like my family,"
"It's not just me, Roderick and Jay came here because they were worried about you," Romeo said and Cheyenne looked at her locker room buddies to see if that was true.
"Is that true, did you guys come here to stop me from getting married to Tristen Nash?" Cheyenne asked them.
"No that is not true, we didn't even know you were getting married today," Jay said.
"But now that we do know it explains so much," Roderick said, "like why Tristen isn't here right now. If he can't marry you today, he's not going to marry you at all Cheyenne. This is all some trick to get back at your father, why do you think he arranged for the wedding to take place in secret at your old home in San Antonio, where your mother is buried?" Roderick said to Cheyenne. "This is about getting one up on DX and here you are caught right in the middle like some love sick puppy dog,"
"I want everyone to leave right now!" Cheyenne yelled angrily. "You don't know what you're talking about and I'm uninviting you to my wedding!"
"Well since there's not going to be a wedding we might as-well leave," Roderick said and Cheyenne looked down sadly at the idea of being left at the altar because of her family's interference.
"Houston's gonna have a problem when I get my hands on Beth Hardy, I'm going to Taker's ranch to put that Hardy Girl in her place!" Cheyenne said.
"Beth is your friend, you are not going anywhere near her," Romeo said. "Go with these guys to the American Airlines Arena so you can take out her frustration in the ring,"
"Good idea lil man, why don't you come to the show with us?" Jay Lethal asked Romeo who was getting a ride with Batista.
"Sure why not, I'm sure it will be a great show now that Cheyenne's not married," Romeo said and he text Batista to let him know where he was going so he could meet him there.
"Rub it in why don't you?" Cheyenne said to Romeo, "It just makes you so happy to know that I'm still a Michaels,"
"It certainly does mon Cherie," Romeo replied,
"And it makes me happy too," said Roderick Strong, now he still had a chance with GPS after all and a small grin appeared on his face that Jay Lethal could read like a bestseller.
"Don't even think about it Roderick, like I said back at the arena, focus on your match and not Cheyenne," Jay said and Romeo listened thinking he still had his work cut out for him with Cheyenne but with Roderick and Jay's help he could still watch over her and finish his homework at the same-time.
Undertaker's ranch, Houston, TX
Beth Hardy looked at the faces staring at her as she got off of the phone with Romeo, her parents were desperate to hear what had happened. "Relax, Romeo got Cheyenne out of the house, she's on her way back to the AT&T Arena, as long as Garrett's here the wedding will not go ahead today," she told them.
Stephanie gave a sigh of relief, "Now time for our part of the plan to go into action," she said looking outside at Undertaker and Garrett who were having a very heated conversation about Tristen Nash.
"I don't want you hanging around with that Nash kid he's got a vendetta against my boss," Taker said firmly.
"And I've got a vendetta against you, we've got a lot in common we've both got old men standing in our way, what could be better than for us to work together to eliminate our common enemy?" Garrett said to his father.
"What beef do you have with DX?" Taker asked Garrett.
"Triple H interfered when I could have had Aurora Rose, that girl was in love with me until her precious father stuck his big nose in my business," Garrett said. "And Shawn Michaels is doing the same to Tristen, those two have ruined our lives,"
"What life, you're nineteen years old!" Undertaker said. "All you need to do my son is figure out what to do with all that time you got on your hands,"
"I have plans to wrap these hands around Hunter's neck and strangle him with them," Garrett replied and Undertaker shuddered at the wicked words that his son had just spoken.
"I think you'd much rather wrap those hands around your old man and give him a hug," Taker said and Garrett balked.
"You've never asked me to hug you before, what are you up to old man?" Garrett said defensively.
"What I'm about to say may shock you but I think I was wrong about you not wrestling, so I've asked Stephanie to give you a shot in the WWE," Undertaker said and something in Garrett changed as his father spoke. He was up to no good, his father had no reason to trust him but yet he felt the sudden urge to hug him.
"I like the sound of that dad," he said and he did what he thought he'd never do, he hugged his father.
Stephanie and her family watched from the top of the Deadman's house. "This is working perfectly. Garrett is one step closer to severing his ties with Tristen," she said and she called Kelly Kelly and told her to get ready because the next phase of their plan to stop Tristen from ruining Cheyenne's life was about to go into action.
Meanwhile over in San Antonio, Tristen was forced to shelve his plans to marry Cheyenne for a little while. Since Garrett hadn't shown up he called his father and asked him to be a witness at their wedding. When his father accepted he told Cheyenne that they would get married after the show but when he told her his father would be their witness she refused to go ahead with the wedding.
"That's crossing the line Tristen and you know it; he's my dad's best friend, me fighting against my father is one thing but getting your dad involved is just straight up wrong and I won't do it," she said and she pulled on her velvet mask and headed to the ring. It was showtime for CM Melody but Tristen didn't care because obviously Cheyenne's loyalty to her father had not been completely severed as he had hoped it would be by now and accomplishing that was all he cared about. He was going to have to take drastic action before his plans to take on DX went up in smoke.
After the show Tristen took Cheyenne out for Valentine's Day.
"You were great tonight, the crowd loves you," he said to her and she nodded having gathered hundreds of red roses from the fans who bought them especially to throw at her after her match.
"Thank you, so the whole world knows who we are now, we're the Best in the World wresting promotion," Cheyenne said. Tristen had announced the new company name after the main event where Roderick Strong lost to Jimmy Jacobs for the World Heavyweight Championship.
"It would have been nice to announce us as Mr. and Mrs. Tristen Nash but that didn't happen, no doubt due to your family interfering in our business," Tristen said and Cheyenne felt bad about what Romeo had done.
"Yeah it sucks," she said.
"Well I've come up with a solution that I think will make our lives a little easier," Tristen said and Cheyenne smiled enthusiastically; Tristen always had the best ideas.
"What idea did you come up with?" she asked intrigued.
"I think we should break up," he said and Cheyenne dropped her glass and it smashed into tiny pieces by the leg of the table she was eating on.
"You want to break up?" Cheyenne said in disbelief.
"I've reached my breaking point, I can't stand your family interfering anymore and I'm getting out before I end up like that glass you just broke," Tristen said and Cheyenne's face crumbled.
"But they'll come around Tristen, all we have to do is stick together then they'll see that our love is for real," Cheyenne argued.
"They will never come around Cheyenne, I'm sorry but it's over. We can still work together of course but I want you to start seeing other people, people that your father would approve of, people that don't carry the stigma of being a Nash," Tristen said and he got up to leave Cheyenne at the table with her heart in her hands. "Happy Valentine's Day," he said and he walked off and left the restaurant.
"Happy Valentine's Day to you too," Cheyenne said before bursting into tears.
"Uh-oh that ain't good," Romeo said from behind a menu a few tables away from where Tristen and Cheyenne were sitting, Batista and Roderick Strong were with him.
"Did he just break up with Cheyenne on Valentine's Day?" Roderick said in disbelief.
"Well what are you waiting for now's your chance, go talk to her," Romeo said to Roderick.
"Now, isn't it a bit soon?" Roderick said and Batista grabbed him and flung him over to Cheyenne's table before hiding behind the menu with Romeo.
"Roddy," Cheyenne cried and she hugged him tightly. "Oh am I happy to see you, Tristen just broke up with me because of my family's constant interference in our business,"
"Cheyenne listen to me your family's right he's not the one you should be with, he just proved it by breaking up with you on Valentine's Day. You should be with someone who actually likes you for you and not because you're related to Shawn Michaels," Roderick said.
"Someone like who? Nobody's ever loved me the way Tristen does and my family drove him away," Cheyenne said wiping the tears from her eyes.
"Well maybe you've been so blinded by him that you never looked around to see if you had any other options," Roderick replied.
"What other options do I have?" Cheyenne asked him.
"You have me," Roderick replied and before Cheyenne could reply he kissed her and Tristen was recording the whole thing.
"Best in the World is gonna be number one in the world in no time, thanks Romeo and Batista," Tristen Nash said seeing the two busybodies sitting in the restaurant cheering on Roderick Strong not realizing that the whole thing was about to be broadcast live around the world in the first episode of his brand new wrestling show and Cheyenne was in on it too.
"That's a wrap!" a stagehand called out.
"What?" Romeo said looking around and Batista noticed TV camera men and women all over the restaurant.
"This is a fake restaurant, we screwed up lil' man, Tristen and Cheyenne just got us and I think Roderick has no idea," Batista said.
Cheyenne scowled at Roderick and slapped him across the face, "You pull something like that on me again and you'll be out of a job," she said and Roderick looked at her stunned while she ran over to Tristen Nash.
"Let's go my dad's waiting for us at your old house," he said.
"I can't wait we're finally gonna be husband and wife!" Cheyenne said excitedly and they left.
"What the Hell just happened?" Roderick asked Romeo and Batista.
"You got played, we all did and now Cheyenne's gonna make the biggest mistake of her life and there's nothing we can do about it," Romeo said.
Roderick's face was sore from the slap but he was energized by it too; the romantic inside him wanted to curl up into a little ball at what had just happened to him but the wrestler inside wanted payback.
"It's not over yet boys, come on we've got a wedding to crash," he said to Batista and Romeo.
"I like this guy," Batista said to Romeo, "Dude did you finish all your homework?"
"What homework, I'm getting an education right now," Romeo replied.
"Oh yeah, what have you learned?" Batista asked him as they followed Roderick out of the restaurant to his car.
"Never let the woman you love run off with another man," Romeo replied and Roderick led them in a pursuit that was gonna make him very popular with a certain Showstoppa currently hiding out in Jamaica waiting for his daughter to come to her senses. His hopes were shortly dashed after the first episode of Best in the World aired and he saw just what his daughter had planned to do which was to make her father very angry indeed.