Chapter Sixty! I hope you like it.
Monday Night Raw: April 14, 2014
Edited: 11/15/19
Chapter Sixty
Tears fought to pool in Angel's eyes as the ring bell rang loudly through the quiet arena. This was the tribute for Dingo Warrior aka The Ultimate Warrior, who suddenly passed away just a couple of days ago. And she couldn't believe it, it was only last week that he had shown up for the show, to give a big speech. And now….
Taking a deep breath, she tried to focus on something else. As disrespectful as it was, she couldn't handle the overwhelming sadness that filled the area. This was her first live tribute and she never thought that it would be this upsetting. However, something about standing on the stage with everything in the locker room, just seemed to make it all the more real. It made her realize that a great man, who did a lot of the company and pro wrestling industry as a whole had really passed…
Just as a tear slipped down her face, she felt a hand press up against her back. Looking up at the man rocking back and forth beside her, she noticed that he had an odd look to his face. One that she couldn't quite place.
The last bell tolled and then the arena was filled with silence, Angel couldn't help but play with the tassels that she was wearing for the Warrior. Waiting for the silence to end, her eyes ran across all the Superstars in front of her, when her eyes landed on Triple H and Stephanie McMahon.
She shuffled in her spot. She felt really weird standing there just feet away from the people that her and her team was feuding with. Her eyes ran back up to Dean and realized what the look on his face was, the man was not feeling really happy about being this close to The Authority. The man was on edge as he his eyes landed on; Triple H, Randy, Batista, and Kane with deep glares.
"And now join us tonight, as we celebrate the life of the Ultimate Warrior!" Jerry Lawler called over the arena speakers.
The Ultimate Warrior's music started to play as everyone clapped and chanted for the man.
When the tribute ended and the show went to commercial, everyone on the stage quickly filed through the curtains.
"Let's go." Dean tapped her on the shoulder. She looked back to see him, Seth, and Roman breaking from the pack and headed towards the side of the stage. Making sure that she wasn't left behind, she quickly followed them down around the back of the stage.
Once they made their way backstage, they made their way towards the corner of the arena where they had hidden their stuff, only to pass one of the many TVs around the place. Glancing towards it, Angel stopped as they showed a video package about what happened between the Shield and The Authority.
The boys didn't seem to be fazed by it as they just walked past without an even a glance towards the screen. She however stopped and watched what was going on, just in time for the scene to switch to a shot of The Authority's office. The camera showed Stephanie and Hunter talking to each other as Randy and Batista came into the room.
As soon as it seemed like they were going to start talk about something, Michael sent the show into a video package about the Ultimate Warrior. She felt bad about her irritation that she had as she watched the man's touching video package, but she wanted to know what the Authority were talking about.
When the show came back from the video package, it went right back to the Authority's office. "Hey!" She called after the men who were halfway down the hallway before she turned back to the TV.
"The bottom line, that's the situation." The sound cut into their conversation to hear Hunter talking. "I know both of you want to be WWE World Champion and that is your only goal, but the fact is Daniel Bryan isn't here tonight."
Of course, he's not. He's on his honeymoon.
"We got a bigger problem on our hands, that's the Shield. I know maybe you guys don't see it, but if they'll willing to attack me…" Hunter pointed at himself. "…based on principle alone they aren't going to let either one of you anywhere near the WWE World Heavyweight Championship."
"Damn right we're not." Seth laughed from beside her making her realize that the boys had joined her.
"I've been dealing with those guys for a long time." Hunter kept going as he looked at Batista who was looking like he didn't believe a word that he was saying. "They remind me a lot of us."
"Of you!" Angel couldn't stop herself from yelling at the screen. "They are nothing like you!"
"Wow," Roman put his hand on her shoulder. "They can't hear you, Babygirl."
"Yeah." Dean nodded. "If you want them to hear you, you have to yell LOUDER." She jumped at his outburst.
Hunter started again. "Here's the thing, together I don't know if there is anybody who can stop them. And that's a problem."
"I do." All three men on the screen looked at Stephanie. "And I'm looking at them."
"That's the thing, like I've said before and I'll say it again. If the three of us are on the same page, you know all well as I do that nobody, nobody, that includes the Shield, nobody can stop us."
"You know that's great and all, but right now all I want to do is be champ." Batista blew off what Hunter just said.
"I think I've proven without a doubt that I'm the greatest Superstar of this generation or of any other," Seth, Roman, and Dean all laughed at Randy's exclaim. "But Hunter, I agree with Dave on this one. You're on your own."
"That's your problem, man. Not ours." Both Batista and Randy walked away.
Angel almost felt bad that these two men that Hunter called his 'friends' the men that he once called his teammates, were turning him down like this…almost.
"Hah!" Seth clapped his hands together. "Talk about friends." He said what she was thinking.
"Shit, I can't believe they just blew him off like that." Roman laughed.
"Well, they're nothing like us, right." Dean said as he draped an arm over her shoulders and pulled her away from the TV.
"So, Miss Manager." Seth asked as they started once again down the hallway. "What are we doing today?"
Angel let out a sigh as she thought about what they were doing today. Once again, they had nothing planned, because once again The Authority refused to give them a match. In fact, they refused to acknowledge the Shield was a thing at all during the meeting. Which only made the fact that Hunter feels like they were a huge problem just that much more rewarding.
"We got nothing on the schedule, but if you can think of something let me know." She answered.
"Wait." Dean asked leaning on her more, making it pretty hard for her to walk. "Doesn't Randy and Batista have a rematch against the Usos?"
"Yeah, the Usos asked for a rematch." She said swatting at the man, trying to get him to let her sit up.
A smirk appeared on Dean face. "Well, why don't we go 'cheer' them on?"
"Sounds good to me." Seth snickered.
"Jimmy and Jey won't mind if we 'cheer them on', would they?" Angel asked.
She enjoyed the idea of getting a one up on Randy and Batista, but she liked Jimmy and Jey and didn't want them getting mad at them for interrupting their match. They had enough people mad that them right now.
"Nah." Roman shook his head. "I think the boys will up for a good beat down." He said for his cousins.
As three pair of eyes landed on her, Angel took a deep breath. "Fine, I'm in. As long as we don't DQ them if the match seems to be going in their favor."
"No DQing if the Usos look like they're going to win?" Seth nodded his head. "I think we can handle that."
"Then I'll add a beat down with Randy and Batista on our schedule for tonight."
"That's my girl." Dean laughed as he pulled her closer to him so that the side of her face smashed against his pec.
As a blush came to her face, she could hear Seth and Roman scoff at the two of them. "Get a room."
Roman shook his head. "Don't tell him that." The man chuckled. "He might just do it."
"I'm sure I could find a janitor's closet that's open." Dean said like he was really thinking about it. "How long until Randy and Batista's match? Like fifteen minutes? That's enough time for me."
"Dean!" She reached up and smacked the man which only made him laugh.
"What?" He said acting innocent. "I'm just saying some facts, I think our shower was like twenty minutes tops…when we finally got down to it."
"Dean!" She yelled even louder as the man talked about something personal like it was nothing, while Roman and Seth just laughed.
"No really, when is their match?" He changed the subject with ease.
Still frazzled, Angel fumbled to get her phone out of her pocket. "There's a RybAxel vs The Brotherhood match which I believe is going on right now, then Paige verses Alicia Fox and then it's Randy and Batista vs the Usos."
"That gives us just enough time to grab some water and head over to one of the entrances."
"But do we go in with our theme song and everything, or do we do a sneak attack." Seth asked as they quickly changed the direction that they were head.
"If we play our music they could run." Dean pointed out.
"Yeah." Roman agreed. "I think we should do what we did to Kane."
"Then, sneak attack it is." Seth clapped his hands together. "We'll enter from the bottom entrance again and get the jump on them just when they least expect it."
Angel let Dean drag her along as they grabbed their waters from catering and started towards the bottom entrance, when she once again saw a pale woman wearing all purple making her way through the gorilla.
"Hey Paige." She called as she pulled away from Dean.
Paige turned her eyes warming once she saw her. "Oh, hey!"
Stopping in front of the woman, she smiled up at her. "Now that you're not running from Tamina, I just wanted to say congratulations on your win. And welcome."
A huge smile came to the woman's face as she held the Diva's title against her chest. "Thanks. Yeah, hey, sorry about last week."
"Don't worry about it, if AJ Lee and Tamina were coming after me like that, I would have ran too."
As Paige let out a laugh, her eyes drifted over Angel's shoulders. "I think someone is waiting for you." She nodded over towards where Dean, Roman, and Seth were standing. "When you have time, we should grab Renee and go out for some drinks."
"I would love to." She said as she heard Roman call for her, saying that they needed to go. "Welp, I got to go, but it was really nice meeting you officially and while I'm not sitting on the floor."
"Yeah, totally."
Saying her 'see you laters' Angel quickly made her way back to the three men who were waiting for her. "Sorry about that."
"You good?"
"Yep. Just welcoming Paige to the main roster." She told them as they started once again towards the bottom entrance. Sneaking their way passed the two guards that were standing there to stop fan's from entering the private area of the arena, they passed through the couple of fans that were making their way around, looking at merch and getting food. Only a few people noticed them, though they seemed to not want to register that the Shield was in front of them since they never used the bottom entrances.
When they finally got to the entrance, Batista had landed a spinebuster onto Jey Uso, who she finally learned to tell apart from his brother while in the ring. Jimmy's face paint was always on his right while Jey wore his on the left.
Pressing themselves against the cement entrance walls, they tried to stay out of the way but where they could still see the titantron that sat above the ring. As everyone checked over the gear and got themselves pumped up for the attack that was about to happen, Angel watched as Randy knocked Jimmy off the apron and smashed his head against announcers' table.
Seth stepped up. "The match is over." He said. "Randy's going to get them DQed."
She looked back to see Randy hit Jimmy's head off the apron. Seth was right, this was about to end, Randy was determined to dish out punishment. "Alright, go." Without another word, all three men took off through the crowd, once again leaving her in the dust.
With her eyes locked on the huge screen, she watched as Dean and Seth both plowed right into Randy, knocking him quickly to the ground. Which only stopped when Roman reached down and grabbed Randy by the head.
When she made her way up to the timekeeper's area, Roman threw Randy into the barricade across the way. The Shield gathered around the man on the floor before turning their attention to Batista who was still in the ring.
She watched as they slowly and methodically walked around the ring, Seth going to the front, Roman to the announcers' side and Dean to the back. Surrounding 'The Animal', they climbed up on the apron.
A jolt of energy washed through the arena at the promise of a beat down. It was so enticing that it was palatable. Almost like she couldn't stop herself, Angel makes her way out of the timekeepers area and moves to stand in front of the announcers' table.
D.D.D.
Dean's blood pumped quickly through his body, as he got to his feet on the apron. They had Batista surrounded, with nowhere to go. The Shield is your problem now. He smirked.
Bouncing on his feet, he waited for someone to make the first movie. This time it was Seth. From across the ring, Seth climbed into the ring and went right after Batista. Though the man seemed ready for the attack because he met Seth with a nice right hook that sent him falling back towards the ropes.
Jumping into the action Dean went to jump over the ropes to help his friend when a hand smashes against his face. The hit wasn't that hard, but it was just enough to throw him off balance and knock him to the floor.
Quickly catching himself, he looked up to see Batista turn around into what was a beautiful Superman Punch to the side of the head. The punch sent Batista flying across the ring and almost out under the ropes.
Sliding back into the ring, he gave his best friend a pat on the chest before turning towards Batista to see Randy pulling him out of the ring and out of the reach. For now.
"Yeah run away!" Dean yelled as he glared down at the two men struggling to get to their feet.
"Not your problem, huh?' Seth added beside him. "You got just a taste of how much of a problem we can be for you two."
"Randy, next time it's your ass."
"Oh really?" Randy smirked as the Shield's music started up. "We'll see about that."
Dean smirked. "Why don't you come back, and we'll see right now."
Still taunting them, he watched as Randy and Batista looked at each other while backing their way up the ramp. He knew that both of them had just realized that Triple H was right, the Shield was very much their problem.
Which meant that they were probably going to go running back to Tripsy and form up like he wanted, but he didn't care. Right now, all he cared about was the urge he had to punch Randy in his stupid little face and send those teeth of his so far down his throat that he would be shitting them out for a week.
"Man, look at them run." Seth smirked.
"One punch and they're scared." Roman laughed.
"Hey, I'd be scared too big man." Seth gave Roman a smack on the chest.
Only after Randy and Batista made their way backstage did they finally turned around to see Angel standing there with a huge smile on her face and her arms crossed over her vest. "Well it wasn't the total beat down that you guys wanted, but it was something."
"That it was, Babygirl." Roman said as he slid out of the ring, landing on the floor next to her.
"We'll get them next time."
"I'm sure you will."
…
"Really!" Angel laughed as she looked at the video on her phone. "Really, Dean!"
"What?" He shrugged his shoulders as he leaned backwards so that he would see the video that WWE had posted on their YouTube account.
"I can't believe it; you can see it plain as day." She said pausing the video just as it came to them walking through the crowd passed a fan holding up a sign that said, 'Dean Titty Master Ambrose'. "How didn't I notice this before?" She laughed as she rolled around on top of the travel case that they had made themselves at home on.
"Because neither of you have a Twitter." Seth sighed.
"Yeah, Seth and I have been getting blasted with screenshots of that sign." Roman complained.
"Hey, I have a twitter." Dean told them.
"One you never use." Seth told him. "I mean do you even know the password to the damn account?"
"Nope." He said as he popped the piece of gum that was in his mouth. He didn't even know what the hell the accounts name was. All he did know was that WWE wouldn't shut up about him needing to make one, so that they could put it under his name when they introduced him. So, he made one, retweeted one thing and then never touched the thing again.
"What the hell does this even mean?" Angel said changing the subject back.
"Nothing, it means nothing." He groaned when Roman shook his head.
"He's wrong, there is a story behind it, but it's not the kind of story that your thinking about."
Even though he let out a sigh as Roman talked, he was thankful that the big lug had at least enough common sense to make sure to tell the Angel that it wasn't anything like what the sign implies. The last thing that he needed what the girl that he had just gotten into a serious relationship with to think that he was going around the world 'mastering' different' women's titties.
"Ok then, what's the real story?" Angel asked.
"It really is dumb." Dean told her as he leaned back resting his head on his arm.
"I don't care. "
"Roman you tell the story the best." Seth pointed out.
Nodding his head, Roman fixed the way he was sitting on his case so that he was looking right at Angel. "Well you see, on one of our European tours Dean was wrestling with Big E a lot." As he started, Angel sat up and looked at the man as if Roman was telling her, her favorite bedtime story.
"So, you know how Big E is a bigger man and he has big pecks, or…you know another name could be titties?" Roman gestured to his own chest, which made Angel laugh. "And you know how we like to shit talk? Well, the whole tour we made a running joke that Dean was mastering Big E's titties."
"And then this idiot." Seth said pointing at him. "He thought it would be smart to write, 'titty master' on his tape."
Angel gasped. "Oh, you didn't"
Not able to deny it, Dean nodded his head. "I did, with a big bold black marker." He watched as she tried to stop herself from laughing. "And as you're probably already putting together, some fans saw it and took pictures."
"And now our boy here…" Roman clapped him on the shoulder. "Is known as the 'Titty Master'."
Angel busted out in a huge laugh as she looked down at her phone. "I'm so screenshotting this."
"Shield!" A voice called for them.
Letting out a sigh, Dean turned his head to see Brad Maddox making his way through the small path between ladders, travel cases, and random junk that they had made. And suddenly the air around them turned sour.
Looking back his brothers, he raised a brow. "What the hell does he want?"
"Don't know." Seth shrugged.
"Shield!" Brad called again as if they didn't hear him the first time. "Ah, there you are." He said finally making it through the path. "I've been looking for you all over the place. You guys are very hard to find…"
"OUT with it." Dean couldn't help but feel satisfied when Brad jumped a bit.
"Oh, um." Brad cleared his throat. "I um, The Authority sent me to find you guys to tell you about your match tonight."
"Our match." He felt Angel sit up quickly from behind him. "What do you mean?"
Brad nodded his head. "The Shield is in the main event tonight."
"The main event?"
"Against who." Roman stood up.
"Um." Brad cleared his throat. "The A-Authority didn't tell me who it was against, just that you had match." His voice wavered as he spoke.
"They didn't tell you."
He shook his head. "They just told me to find you…that's all." He sounded like he was going to wet his pants.
"That's all?" Dean nodded his head as he got up from the travel case. "That's all, huh?" He got right into the man's face. He knew that Brad was lying, he could almost smell it on him. Or maybe he really had pissed his pants.
"If they were going to give us the main event, why didn't they just tell me about it at the meeting." Angel asked from behind him.
Brad took a deep breath as he tried to look around him to look at Angel. "I don't know."
"And why wait to tell us until twenty minutes before the match is supposed to start?" She questioned. "I'm sure they figured out the main event for the show more than twenty minutes before hand."
Brad looked very confused and uncomfortable by Angel's questioning. "I um…"
"Answer the girl." Dean warned him.
"I really don't know. I really don't."
Glancing over his shoulder, he saw Roman and Seth who were nodding their heads slowly. A smirk came to his face as his head snapped back to the spineless man that stood in front of him. "I hope you're not lying to us. We don't like to be jerked around."
Brad just stood there dumbfounded.
"Get out!" He barked making Brad jump before he scrambled his way back through the bath, knocking over some of the metal pipes as well.
"He's lying." Seth said stating the obvious.
Roman agreed. "I have a bad feeling for this main event."
"Bad feeling?" Dean made his way back towards the travel cases. "There's a ninety nine percent chance that this match is going to not in our favor."
Angel shook her head. "As long as we're part of this 'war,' I don't think we're going to have a match that goes into our favor."
A.A.A.
As they stood in the ring waiting for their opponents' music to play, dread filled Angel. For the first time in her life, she knew what if felt like to walk headfirst into a trap. Surely there was no way in hell, that The Authority was just going to give them the main event match. Not after attacking Triple H like they did.
"Come on." She heard Dean grit through his teeth as he started to pace around the ring. She couldn't imagine what he, Seth, and Roman were feeling right now. She might have joined them in walking into the trap, but they were the ones who were going to face whatever and whoever were about to come down that ramp.
As their music ended, Roman and Seth jumped out of the corners and met up with her and Dean in the middle of the ring. Seconds passed with no music and she began to panic. She prayed that this wasn't just an ambush.
As soon as the Spanish sounding entrance music of Alberto Del Rio hit, her nerves calmed a bit. She didn't know why but she felt better knowing that they were at least acting as if this was a normal match.
As Justin Roberts, the ring announcer, called Alberto's name the Real American's theme hit which, since Ceasro had left for Paul Heyman, meant Jack Swagger was about to come out.
"Alberto and Swagger." She heard Seth mumble to himself. "Not bad so far."
So far. Those were the key words.
"Fandango." Justin called before Jack Swagger even got off the ramp.
As the dancing man made his way out onto the stage, her nerves now shot back up. Something wasn't right here. Alberto Del Rio, Jack Swagger, and Fandango, this wasn't a normal team up.
We're a three-man band!
Her eyes shot wide as she watched Heath Slater, Drew McIntyre, and Jinder Mahal make their way out onto the stage. Though as she tried to figure out what was going on, she knew that this was going to be a triple threat match. The Authority had already used that trick. No this was a handicap match.
Six on three.
Or so she thought as Titus O' Neil's music started to play.
"Shit." Dean cursed in front of her.
When RybAxel's music hit, her heart fell into her stomach. Nine on three. And it only got worse as the new call up from NXT, Rusev's theme music hit. How many more people where they going to send out, the entire locker room? Then Bad News Barrett made his way out.
Eleven on three.
"Angel, get out of the ring." Dean ordered. "Get out of the ring, right now."
She quickly did what she was told, and the attack started behind her. Spinning around, she watched as her boys knocked down anyone who was trying to get up on the apron, that was until Roman grabbed Heath Slater and ripped him over the top rope and into the middle of the ring.
The ref however, didn't let whatever they were planning to happen. "Come on get back." He said pushing then back towards the corner.
She couldn't believe that this was truly happening; that the ref was going to start this match, just like any other. Though as all eleven men got into one corner on the far side, she came to terms with it.
"Be careful!" She called up to the boys as they picked Seth to go first.
Dean looked back at her. "WrestleMania rules." He told her. She nodded as fast as she could, she wasn't dumb. With eleven men on the other team, she wasn't about to press her luck by moving around the ring.
The match started off well, Heath Slater made his way towards Seth with a cocky look on his face, which Seth whipped off instantly with a kick to the gut before throwing him back into their corner.
As Seth beat the man down, Dean tagged himself in and started to do the same. He then used his own body to push Slater back against the turnbuckle, where Roman then tagged in.
Fighting off a panic attack, she watched as the boys tired their hardest to keep the fight in their corner, to keep Slater down as long as possible. Seth went for a pin.
Even though she knew that Slater was able to kick out of the pin, Barrett got in and broke it up. Both Dean and Roman made their way into the ring to protect Seth who was thrown in the far corner by Barrett.
"Where you going?" The ref said as he stopped Roman, which made it that Dean was the only one to be able to make the save. However, against eleven men, he didn't even make a dent as he threw fists every which way.
"Seth, get out of there!" She yelled as the ref pushed Dean back into their corner.
When Seth got up, Slater kicked him back into the corner before tagging in Drew McIntyre. It was the start to a brutal carrousel of pain for Seth.
Tears pooled in her eyes as she watched what was going on; it was like she could feel each hit and she wasn't the only who felt that way. Her eyes ran to the two men above her and her heart bleed as Roman and Dean watched their brother-in-arms, their best friend get flattened. All while being taunted by the men across the way.
When Ryback got in he grabbed Seth and tossed him into the canvas before turning toward the seething Dean Ambrose. "What are you going to do about it?" He asked over the booing crowd. "I'll beat your ass any day."
"I like to see you try!" Dean yelled back at him. "Let me tag in and I'll whip your ass."
"Dean, enough." The ref told him as he pointed back to the corner, while Seth was tossed out of the ring.
Ryback turned back around and smirked at Dean. "Next is you, then the big one, then the pretty lady."
A chill came out of Dean like a rush as he tried to get into the ring once more, only to be stopped by the ref again. "I will DQ this match if you keep this up." He warned like this was a real match.
The crowd cheered loudly, making Angel glanced away from Dean to see Roman booking his way around the ring. He built up a massive amount of speed before spearing Ryback with a spear.
She went to give a little cheer for the hit when she realized that since Roman attacked Ryback when he wasn't the legal man, he was free game. All at once, all eleven men jumped off the apron and pounced on Roman. Her heart stopped as she watched the brutal beat down.
"Ref!" She yelled loudly over the screaming crowd. "Ref you got to DQ the match, stop the match!" She pleaded even though she knew the DQ wasn't going to stop this. Deep down inside she knew this wasn't going to stop until Dean, Seth, Roman were laid out in the middle of the ring.
The ref glanced back at her for a moment before, he made the call for the match to be DQed. As the bell rang, Dean launched himself across the ring and into the pile of men. Followed by Seth who came out of nowhere and threw himself over the top tope, smashing everyone down to the floor.
Not knowing who was down and who was out, Angel broke Dean's rules and made her way slowly around to the front of the ring. Only to realize that all three men dressed in black were making their way back into the ring. Her eyes went wide, somehow the Shield were standing tall after that. How could they be up and ready to go. They were even glaring at the eleven men who were slowly making their way to their feet.
"Come on, assholes." Dean called. And the eleven men answered.
The attack started from the front, everyone meeting the Shield head on. Everyone but one.
The air in Angel's lungs froze as she watched Jack Swagger completely ignore the men in the ring and make his way towards her, with a smirk on his face that was less than pleasant.
When he was within arm's length, she snapped out of her daze and quickly pulled herself up into the ring. Scrambling to her feet, she went to run across the ring, trying to put distance between her and Swagger, but something snagged her ankle. Her body launched forward and the grayish canvas rushed closer to her face. Catching herself with her hands, Angel flipped herself over so that she could see Swagger crawling his way into the ring.
She yelled as she thrashed about trying to kick at the man. Anything to make him let her go.
As Swagger got to his feet, a blur ripped him away from her with a bellow.
Blinking, Angel tried her hardest to register what had just happened. Her eyes traveled up to see Dean wailing on Swagger in the corner with a look of pure murder on his face.
"GET OUT of the ring!" He snarled.
As the action made its way towards her, Angel did just that. Not bother to get to her feet, she rolled her way out of the ring, and onto the floor.
As she forced air into her burning lungs, she used the announcers' table to stand and turn around.
When her eyes landed back on the ring, her eyes widened in horror. Roman, Seth, and Dean were split apart, each of them smashed into different corners with three or four guys beating up on them.
Stop. She pleaded as she watched them her team being decimated. Stop. Please. Stop. She felt hopeless, helpless, and useless. There wasn't a thing that she could do.
She watched 3MB and Swagger grab ahold of Dean, forcing him to his knees with his arms out like he was a sacrifice, a sacrifice for Alberto Del Rio. "S-stop." She begged.
"You better knock me out!" Dean yelled at the man who was readying a kick. "You better fucking kill me, because I'm coming after you."
"Stop!" Her pleading turned to panic. "Please stop!"
The kick connected and Dean went down.
"NO!" She cried out as she ran towards the apron to try and pull him away, though Slater and McIntyre beat her to him.
"How did that feel?" Slater yelled at Dean, even though he knew that the man was out cold.
"Do you feel so big and bad now, tell me!" McIntyre called out.
"Leave him alone." She batted at the two men as her eyes burn from holding back tears.
"Aw look Dean, your girlfriend is trying to help you." McIntyre laughed at her. "She's like a little kitten."
"Come on, Angel. You can do better than that." Slater told her as he pulled Dean out of her reach.
A dark smirk filled McIntyre's face as he stood up and grabbed onto the ropes. "You want your boyfriend?" He lifted his leg up high. "Then come get him." He slammed his foot down on Dean's head. She gasped as Dean's body jackhammered off the mat, only to fall back down face first.
Anger ripped through her as she glared up at McIntyre. Just as she was about to jump up onto the apron, music started to play; music that she hadn't heard in a long time. Evolution's theme song.
Baffled, she started up at the titantron as three men made their way onto the stage. As Hunter, Randy Orton, Batista mad their way down the ramp, the action in the ring stopped.
When they got to ring side, Hunter made a wrap it up movement with his hands and the eleven men quickly made their way out of the ring.
Trying to catch her breath, she glanced to each of the members of the Shield. Dean was laying just out of her reach on his stomach with his eyes closed. Roman was slowly trying to make his way to the ropes and Seth was somehow using the ropes to pull himself to his feet. Though Randy put a stop to that with a swift kick.
"No!" She gasped as she went to race over to Seth's aid, only to be stopped by a hand grabbing hers. Looking down she saw Roman staring up at her through the ropes.
"Don't."
She shook her head at him. "I just can't let them…" Her eyes snapped up as Hunter put Seth in the corner and started to punch him over and over.
Just as she was about to rip out of Roman's hold, he let go. Her eyes went wide as Roman shot to his feet and tried his hardest to save Seth. Only to get RKOed.
Angel started to shake as the members of Evolution surrounded Roman. "Stop!" She yelled as she slid into the ring. "Stop it!" She ran over and got right into Randy's face as he flipped Roman around.
There was a moment when she thought that Randy was taken back by her attempt to stop him, but it was quickly forgotten as he towered over her with a smirk on his face. "Look at this." He looked back at Hunter. "Ain't it cute."
"E-enough." Her voice trembled.
"Enough?" Hunter laughed as he grabbed her by the face. "I'll tell you when it's enough." He turned her around so that her back was against his chest. Still holding her face with one hand, he forced her to watch as Batista grabbed Roman for a powerbomb.
"Enough? You're the one out here risking yourself for these three guys, three guys that if it wasn't for me you wouldn't know." Hunter taunted her as Roman came smashing into the mat.
"Let her go." Seth reached up and grabbed Hunter's pants.
"Hey Dave." Hunter called without looking up from Seth. "Hold this for me." Angel yelped as she was suddenly ripped from Hunter's grasp only to be locked in Batista's.
"You know, if you guys would have just left me and Randy alone this wouldn't be happening." Batista started in her ear as he forced her to watch Hunter and Randy beat up Seth. "Now look, you have to watch your friends get destroyed."
When she was passed back to Hunter, she didn't even fight. She knew she couldn't escape even if she tired. Batista grabbed Seth from the mat and threw him into Randy for the RKO. As Seth came down on the mat face first, she had to stop herself from crying out.
"Two down." Hunter said smugly.
"You want him?" Randy asked Batista as he picked Seth back up. Batista nodded his head as he took Seth's rag doll body from Randy. Though as he set the man up for powerbomb, Dean seemed to spring to life and attacked the man the best he could.
"I don't think so." Triple H sighed as he dragged her along with one arm as he took out Dean with the help of Randy.
"You should have stayed down." Randy laughed.
Before she could even catch her breath from watching Hunter and Randy beat down Dean, she was ripped around just in time to see Seth slam into the mat once more. "You know what's next."
Hunter called over his shoulder for Randy. Angel's heart dropped and she froze, as Randy grabbed her. This was the first time since he attacked her that he had touched her, and it wasn't a pleasant feeling.
"Up you go, Dean." She heard Hunter say as he picked Dean up. "Who wants him?"
"How about both?" Batista smirked as Hunter handed Dean to him like he weighed nothing.
"Oh, this is going to be fun." Randy said as he passed her once again over to Hunter.
Hunter grabbed her face and turned her towards the two men who were manhandling Dean. "Do you think that your boyfriend is as indestructible as he does? Cause we're about to find out."
As Dean was flipped up onto Batista's shoulders, she felt like she was going to be sick. It was like the world had suddenly went into slow motion as she watched Dean come hurling backwards, only for Randy to jump and grab him by the neck, turning the powerbomb into an RKO. Dean hit the mat and he didn't move.
The tears that she was trying her hardest to keep in threatened to work their way out as she looked around the ring. It wasn't until she noticed that All three members of Evolution were walking around the ring that she realized that she was free. Though it didn't matter, she couldn't move, couldn't think. All she could do was look at the three bodies that laid at her feet.
"Get over there." Randy gritted out as he threw Dean into the corner. "You too." Her whole body went ridged as Randy's voice whispered in her ear before she was flung forward. Not able to stop herself, she slammed right into Dean, making his head smash into the turnbuckles behind him.
"Dean." She gasped as she scrambled off the man. "I'm so sorry." Dean said nothing back, didn't move, didn't even look at her. He was out cold.
"Let him crawl." She perked up as she heard Hunter call out.
Looking over her shoulder, she saw Roman slowly crawling his way towards Hunter. What are you doing? She gapped at the man. He had been beaten up by fourteen different men, was hit with a huge powerbomb and looked at if he could barely move and yet here, he was clawing his way across the ring.
"Come on, come on. You still got some fight in you? Show me! Show me!" Hunter yelled as Roman kept inching his way closer.
Before Roman could even reach Hunter, he started to cough and grabbed at his vest like he couldn't breathe.
Roman, please just stay down. She begged as the stubborn idiot kept trying.
Fingertips away, Randy and Batista picked Roman up and forced him up on his knees as Hunter leaned down right into his face. The man slowly brought the mic to his mouth and glared right into Roman's half opened eyes. "Believe. In. Evolution."
"No!" She wrenched out as Hunter hit Roman with a Pedigree.
"A-angel…" A whisper coming from the man lying next to her made turned back to see Dean had his eyes opened just a crack.
"Dean." She gasped as she looked back at the three men who were parading around the ring. She didn't want to draw any attention to the fact that Dean was awake. "Shh… it's ok. I'm right here." She told him as she watched Hunter kneel down next to Seth.
Giving another glance around the ring, she prayed that for once the Shield would just take the hit to their egos. She knew that this was eating each of them alive, but she also knew that they couldn't take much more punishment. And she didn't want to see what else 'The Game' could come up with to punish them.
D.D.D.
Loud music brought Dean back to conscious once more. He forced his eyes to open just a crack, just enough that he could look around the ring which was now filled with refs and trainers who were trying to figure out the best way to get them out of the ring.
"Angel, we need to get them to a medical facility." He heard someone say.
"They're not going to want to go." Angel's voice sound deadpanned.
"Look at them…"
"I've been looking at them!" She yelled. "Remember I've been out here the whole damn time! And I'm telling you, you can call the ambulance and you can strap them down to a gurney but all three of them will fight you as best they can."
"I don't think they have much fight left in them…"
"Just help me get them backstage."
Moving around the best that he could, Dean turned himself until he saw the brunette who was making her way around the ring.
First, she stopped check on Seth, who seemed with it enough to raise his head. Then, she made her way over to Roman who tried to give her a smile, before she made her way over to him.
"Hey." She said as she quickly knelt beside his head. "You're awake."
"Y-yeah." He grunted out.
"Shh…Don't talk." She said as he brushed his bangs out of his face. "Just rest."
Screw that. "Are…are you ok?" He gritted as his stomach felt like it was going to implode.
A blank look came to her face before she nodded her head. "I'm fine." Lies. "The medical staff want to take you guys to the hospital."
"I heard." He told her as his body wretched.
"Dean?"
He grunted through the pain. "I'm ok."
"Maybe it would be a good idea to let them take you guys…"
Dean gave a sharp shake of head, which was probably a bad idea since he could feel his brain rattling about in his skull. "No."
"Dean…"
"No…. hospitals." He groaned
She let out a huge sigh. "Then how about we work on getting you guys out of the ring."
Nodding his head slightly, he clenched his jaw as hard as he could to stop the yell of pain that was going to try to pour out of him. Taking a deep breath, he twisted himself around. Pain ripped through every muscle, every bone felt like it was snapping and popping out of place. Though with Angel's help he was able to maneuver himself around so that he could slide under the bottom rope.
Once he was on the apron, he threw his legs over the side with a gut tearing movement that had him panting as he lowered himself towards the floor. Once his feet hit the floor, he tried to force his body to take his weight.
"Easy." Angel said leaning through the top and middle rope.
Giving the woman a groan, he leaned up against the apron and used it as a crutch as he limped around the ring towards the ramp. Cause screw leaving through the crowd, steps were not happening right now.
Casting a look back up at his brothers, who with both Angel's and the refs' help were making their way out of the ring as well, Dean felt an immense anger fill him. Hunter better watch his fucking ass. The Shield was coming after him.
BrookeWorm3: You're right Angel has been through enough in her life, but her story is far from over and a lot more is going to happen to her. I hope you liked this chapter.
Labinnacslove: He has got it bad, doesn't he. And it's going to get worse. Lol
Skovko: I think it's eh. If you hadn't seen the videos of Dean 'dancing' to the song you should go watch them. There's like four and they all make me laugh.
Katara Melody Cullen: I'm glad that you can see him slowly falling in love. I wanted to show it happening and not make it seemed forced.
Cxtscxtscxts: I know that AJ Lee is a sweetie pie in real life, but since I'm keeping Kayfabe in this story, I hate to say that I'm going to be using the same AJ Lee that we saw on the show... I hope you don't mind.
Canadice: Well I'm glad that you like the story. Right now it's all that keeps me going. So it means a lot that you enjoy it that much.