ATM: Seth and the God Girls – The Last Capture
Sasha Banks is finally on the same page with Seth and the God Girls but is there enough time to save themselves and the DX family from Shane McMahon's last shot? Find out in the final story in the Seth and the God Girls series.
Chapter Seventeen – Two Apricots and a Plum
JFK airport, New York
Montez Ford paced back and forth while talking to his wife Bianca Belair on the phone as Rhea Ripley continued to ice her sore head. The giant Omos had put a beating on both of them before he left for Florida to join the rest of the Hurt Business but since then, they had both recovered and were about to meet the rest of the roster for the weekend shows in Florida. That was the plan until about an hour ago when Tez got a call from Bianca telling him that DX had called an emergency meeting at HQ in Stamford, Connecticut. All the Superstars were expected to attend and then travel back to Florida afterwards. It wasn't a problem for the majority of the wrestlers but it was a problem for Montez Ford who didn't want to be anywhere near his wife right now.
"I just got my head busted open Bianca and I really don't feel like sitting in some long a** meeting right now," Tez said and he hung up leaving both Bianca and Rhea stunned.
"Did you just hang up on your wife Tez?" Rhea asked Ford confused and he pressed the ice pack closer to her face so that the swelling from the Omos headbutt would go down and her family wouldn't worry when she checked in with them at some point today.
"I'm going to Florida, you can go on to Connecticut if you want to but I ain't going with you," Tez replied and Rhea gripped his arm and looked at him with steely intent.
"Why are you going to Florida? Are you going to see Sasha?" Rhea asked him but Tez didn't answer. "I know she's there Tez, what possible reason could you have to go and see her right now?"
"Someone has to look after her while Seth is off doing God Girl stuff. Obviously Seth and Bianca have got better things to do than look out for their other halves, so I'm a let the Boss know that there's at least one man in the company she can rely on," Tez replied and Rhea tightened her jaw.
"There's no way in Hell you're showing up at the McMahon family estate on your own, so I'm going with you," Rhea said and Tez raised his eyebrow at her.
"Aren't you worried that there will be even more rumours about us if you keep hanging out with me?" Tez teased her.
"At least Bianca will know that you're travelling with a woman she can trust," Rhea said and Tez shrugged and put his arm around her as fans continued to watch them as they went through airport security, with no Bianca or Judgement Day members in sight. Tweets that Tez was cheating on Bianca with Sasha were already going viral but this latest sighting with Rhea Ripley was a fuse that WWE management wasn't sure they wanted lit.
Rhea tried to ignore all the looks she and Tez were getting and focused on saving Bianca's marriage instead. She didn't know if Tez and Sasha intended to hook up or not but she sure as Hell wasn't going to just standby and let her dear friends' marriage go up in a plume of honey coloured smoke.
Both Rhea and Tez's attention suddenly shifted to the sight of Omos who had changed his flight from Orlando, Florida to Houston, Texas.
"Why is Omos going to Houston?" Rhea said and they both wondered if something had happened in Florida but there was only one way for them both to find out.
The Pentagon
Professor Kendrick Alexander clasped her hands together waiting for the Head of Special Weapons and Tactics to say something. The charges against her had been dropped since the WWE's legal team provided proof that the DX family were the rightful owners of the DX family jewels and that Shane McMahon had drawn bogus accusations against their so-called misuse of the jewels.
"What I'm trying to understand now Professor Alexander is what your connection is to this notorious wrestling family. Your ex-boyfriend is now married to another woman and there are no more DX family members currently enrolled at Harvard. I don't get why you care so much about this family that you would use all your brilliant scientific resources to protect them. You're a Harvard professor, DX is a multi-generational dynasty that have no connection with you outside of a former relationship with Hayworth Helmsley. What do you have to gain from working for them in the way that you have over the last year?" the head of SWAT asked Professor Alexander.
The beautiful Harvard professor swept her hand over her thick blond hair thoughtfully before she re-clasped her hands and answered the high ranking official's question.
"Do you know what a God Girl is?" she asked the official.
"I'm assuming that it's a word to describe a woman of God," he replied.
"I grew up in a Christian household but after two years of studying science at Harvard I decided that God was dead. I stopped reading my Bible, I quit praying and I left off going to church on Sundays for years. Earlier this year, a demon-possessed man used me to take down a family I hated. There were times when I felt that I lost my mind but I knew there was someone trying to get me back into my right mind. The God Girls were commissioned by ATM, three women that I know you are fully aware of who function at a high level of spiritual authority. Under the leadership of Seth Rollins, Bianca Belair, Becky Lynch, Alexa Bliss, Charlotte Flair and Bayley saved my soul. I was on my way to Hell and they risked their own lives to make sure that didn't happen. That's what a God Girl does and I re-dedicated my life to Jesus Christ because of them," Kendrick Alexander explained passionately and the Pentagon official nodded.
"So what you're saying is that you want to be a God Girl like these other women," he said.
"No sir, I don't want to be a God Girl, I am a God Girl. I just need Seth Rollins to make it official and when he does, you won't need anymore special weapons to fight our nation's enemies. I'll be the most dangerous weapon in your arsenal. You might wanna sign me up for a multi year deal now because when the rest of the science community gets a hold of what I got in this brain of mine, the Pentagon won't be the only government agency trying to get a-hold of me," Professor Alexander said.
"That all sounds very enticing Professor Alexander and I hope you do become an asset to this nation's interests," the Pentagon official said and he leaned forward with a stern look in his eye. "But this is not professional wrestling, this is the military and we don't make friends with our enemies, we annihilate them. If you wanna fast and pray your way out of conflict, go join a church and let us do combat with real weapons and real warfare. There's no place for God on the battlefield Professor Alexander," the official said and Professor Alexander shook her head in disagreement.
"Body counts don't make you a better soldier officer, saving lives does and that's all I wanna do from now on. I wanna save lives officer," Professor Alexander said. "Can you use me to do that?"
The officer fell silent then after a long pause he answered Professor Alexander's question, "If you're asking me if I'd rather send a family member home with a medal of honour than in a casket strewn with an American flag, then yes Professor Alexander, we can use you to do that. But there are some battles that you just can't escape and you have to be prepared to make the tough decisions some-times," the officer said. "Being friends with millionaires who pretend to fight every week is not going to prepare you for that Professor, but if you want to learn how to be a real hero, maybe we can work something out. The choice is yours and I hope you make the right decision,"
The officer stood to his feet and extended his hand to Professor Alexander who rose and shook it with respect before she turned to leave. Kenny Omega was wating for her to drive to the airport for the emergency meeting at DX Inc that was starting in a few hours.
"How did it go?" Kenny asked her as she got in the car. "Did you tell the Pentagon what we discussed?"
"Yeah," Professor Alexander nodded and she put her hand on Kenny's leg and squeezed it. "Let's go make it official,"
Kenny smiled at Kendrick and they kissed before heading off to Connecticut to find out what DX wanted to say to the roster, a roster that she would soon be a part of much to her family's displeasure. The Alexander family was so proud of their daughter, she was the only child they had and they had invested a lot of time and money into her future. But to Kendrick they were like two apricots and a plum. They had the same juicy structure on the inside but on the outside, she was a fruit from a different branch. Wrestling was now her calling and she had finally found a home among the other plums and she wasn't going back to being another apricot now.
What the professor didn't know was that it was not going to be that easy to get away from her family tree, especially when Shane McMahon was doing his best to make sure she didn't join the family he hated and had sworn to destroy at any cost.
"I gotta say Kenny I'm proud of you for sticking with the DX family through all of this warfare. Shawn and Hunter have a lot of enemies so welcome to the hit list," Omega said.
"I'd rather be on a hit list that I believe in than be trapped in a foxhole with a man who will do anything to destroy a family that he can't stand," Kendrick replied and a message flashed up from Finn Balor asking if Kendrick had officially been made a God Girl.
"Not yet Finn," Omega replied and Finn didn't respond until they had arrived at the airport.
"What does that mean?" Professor Kendrick said after Finn Balor had replied.
"Just ignore him babe, let's go make it official," Omega said. He knew exactly what Finn meant and he left the message unread on his phone, not wanting Finn's issues with Seth and the God Girls to derail what promised to be a very exciting time for his fiancé and his career in the WWE.
"I thought you were gonna talk her out of it. Isn't that what we discussed? Do you want to ruin her life? Talk her out of it Kenny, being a God Girl is the worst decision Kendrick could ever make," Finn said and it was going to be a lot harder for the Two Kenny's to ignore him face-to-face at WWE HQ. In this instance, as far as they were concerned, Seth and the God Girls were the apricots and he was the plum and he had no intention of being a part of their team and he didn't want the Two Kenny's to either.