Title: The ARK Angels of DX and the Paranoid Android

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 and Cheyenne Michaels, Amy ‘Lita’ Dumas Michaels, Hunter Hurst Helmsley, LC Helmsley, Aurora Rose Helmsley, Chyna, Trish Stratus, Randy Orton, Melina and Johnny Hennigan, Stephanie and Chris Jericho, the RAW and Smackdown Superstars, Charlotte, Dan and Carla McCool, Cassidy and Brandon Montenegro and Miss Taylor, Charlene McKenzie

Summary: Chyna goes to Chris Jericho for help with her problem and his solution affects Hunter and Trish Stratus in a way that has the ARK Angels of DX, Randy Orton and the WWE locker room very concerned.

Chapter Twenty Four – Rechargeable Batteries

Monday Night RAW, Madison Square Garden, NYC at 7pm:

The show was 2 hours away and when everyone backstage saw Triple H they immediately tensed up, especially since the Smackdown Superstars were there as-well as they never gave up the chance to see RAW at Madison Square Garden.

“Why is everyone so nervous?” Triple H asked Shawn who really didn’t want to tell him.

“You kind of bullied the roster when you were being controlled by Rex,” Shawn replied and Hunter’s face fell again. Rex had not only managed to ruin his personal life but his working relationship with the boys and girls of the WWE roster too.

“Bullied? You scared us half to death and you tried to turn me into a good guy!” Edge said and Hunter turned to him with his hand on his heart.

“I’m sorry Edge I wasn’t myself, everyone please from the bottom of my heart accept my apology,” Hunter said to the entire roster who looked between each other, then one-by-one they shook Hunter’s hand with a warm smile assuring him that he was forgiven.

“What a roster,” Shawn said proudly and now all the wrestlers were smiling and they started talking about the hot topic backstage: Trish and Randy.

“I feel so much lighter,” Hunter said.

“That’s because the power of forgiveness is overwhelming,” Shawn replied, “Maybe you should try it on Joanie,”

Hunter shook his head stubbornly his heart hardening again, “Not a chance,” he said but Shawn remained hopeful, a chance was all he needed for Hunter to see the error of his ways.

In the MSG arena Jeff Hardy was looking around at the historical building remembering the night Shawn Michaels won the World Heavyweight Championship there five years ago. MSG had a very special place in the heart of the WWE for moments just like that and Jeff thought about creating his own moment in the famous sports venue. The RAW screen was being set up and Jeff was in his own world as usual with Aurora in his arms. Hunter watched them from behind the curtain with tears in the back of his eyes threatening to fall, but he wouldn’t let them as he wanted to be strong around his colleagues but it was hard not to cry knowing how much he had lost now that Aurora didn’t want him around her and now he had been replaced by the bright and caring Jeff Hardy.

“You okay Champ?” LC said to her father while Cameron and Cheyenne hung out with Charlene and Carla backstage.

“Yeah I’m fine I just have to talk to Jeff about something I came up with for Smackdown,” Hunter said pulling himself together but LC wasn’t fooled, she knew this was one of the hardest things her father had ever faced.

“Watch it kid,” one of the electricians said to LC when she slightly nudged the ladder he was standing on.

“Hey I’m talking to my dad do you mind?” LC responded.

“You got some mouth on you,” the electrician responded taking his eyes off his job while his colleague tried to hoist the huge RAW screen up by himself.

“Hey you can’t talk to my daughter like that,” Hunter said sticking up for LC and the electrician continued to mouth off while the other electrician struggled with the RAW screen.

Aurora got irritated by the electrician’s rudeness and froze his mouth shut.

“Nice one Ro-Ro,” LC said to her sister.

“What the?” the electrician said looking at his friend’s iced-up mouth and he lost his concentration and let the metal pulley holding the RAW screen up slip from his hands.

“Look out!” LC called to Jeff and Aurora who were standing in harm’s way, Hunter was way ahead of her and he jumped on Jeff and Aurora before the screen came crashing down to the ground. Everyone came out from the back to see what had happened and were shocked to see the giant RAW screen face down on the ground.

“What happened here?” Shawn said coming over to Jeff, Aurora and Hunter.

“The screen nearly fell of Jeff and Aurora!” LC told him and everyone gasped.

“Are you alright?” Shawn asked Jeff, Aurora and Hunter.

“Yeah we’re fine, Hunter saved us,” Jeff replied gratefully and nudged Hunter on the shoulder, “Thanks man I owe you one,” he said.

“You’re welcome Jeff,” Hunter said then he fixed his eyes on Aurora, “you my dear aren’t getting off that easily,” he said to her and Jeff furrowed his brow as Hunter told off his daughter, “It was your fault that the screen came down wasn’t it, because you iced the rude man’s mouth so he couldn’t mouth off anymore. You have to be more careful with your powers Aurora. You may not like me anymore but that doesn’t mean I’m going to stop being your father, ever understand?” Hunter said but Aurora just looked up at him, “Does she understand what I’m saying?” Hunter asked LC who had the biggest smile on her face, “What’s with you?” Hunter asked her then he noticed Shawn and Jeff had the same goofy smile on their faces as-well, “What is up with ya’ll?” Hunter asked them all, “Here Jeff you better take Aurora back before it starts raining and we all get electrocuted,” Hunter said but Jeff shook his head.

“But it’s not raining anymore boss,” Jeff said and Hunter frowned, then it finally clicked, he had been holding Aurora the whole time and she didn’t cry. He looked down at her and a smile appeared on her face so wide it mirrored his own, then she pulled on his nose and started to laugh.

“You’ve forgiven me,” Hunter said and got to his feet looking at Aurora as if this moment wasn’t happening and Shawn couldn’t hold his excitement and ran backstage to get Joanie who had to see this for herself but Amy had heard the noise and brought Joanie to see what had happened even though she was reluctant to do anything or go anywhere.

“Joanie look,” Shawn said taking her hand and the sad Kliq chick lifted her heavy eyes to see Aurora in Hunter’s arms with no tears and no rain. She came closer to Hunter to see if it was real and when she saw the look on Aurora’s face she realized that it was.

“She’s forgiven me Joanie!” Hunter said almost giddy with joy, “Look at her face, look at how she’s smiling at me she hasn’t looked at me like this in a long time!”

“Do you want to know why?” Trish asked Hunter and the Cerebral Assassin nodded, “Because when you saved Jeff’s life, your bravery and compassion replaced the image of the psychotic monster that destroyed her windmill in her mind,”

“To put it simply, you’re her daddy again,” Amy said and a tear of joy rolled down Hunter’s cheek.

“I’m your daddy again,” he said to Aurora and kissed her cold head lovingly.

“This is incredible,” Joanie said looking down at Aurora, but there was one thing she had to know before she could truly celebrate this awesome moment with Hunter, “She’s forgiven you but have you forgiven me?” she asked and Hunter looked at her sincerely and didn’t say anything for awhile, finally he spoke from the heart.

“A part of me is wondering if I can ever trust you again, that part of me really thinks that what you did is unforgivable, I mean I lost everything that was dear to me,” Hunter said and Joanie lowered her head prepared for the worst, but Hunter kept on talking, “But then there’s this other part of me that knows how awesome it feels to be forgiven, it releases all the hurt and all the pain and you just have a fresh feel for life and the people you share it with. So with that in mind, Joanie . . .”

Hunter took a deep pause and realized everyone was watching him with baited breath, LC soon lost patience and took her boot off threatening to throw it.

“For crying out loud dad make with the answer!” she yelled and everyone laughed at her.

“I forgive you,” Hunter told Joanie and he kissed her smiling lips before she flung her arms around him and hugged him tightly.

“Thank you,” she said with tears in her eyes and everyone applauded, now that Hunter had forgiven Chyna the atmosphere seemed lighter. Everyone was in the same place, well nearly everyone.

“LC let’s go get Cheyenne, Carla and Cassidy,” Cameron said.

“Why?” LC asked him.

“Because Randy Orton is about to make a very special announcement,” Cameron said and they ran to the back to get the girls while Randy cleared his throat and got everyone’s attention.

“Now that the albatross around Joanie’s neck has been lifted I have a very special announcement to make,” Randy said and took Trish’s hand in his own, “Trish this has been the craziest year of my life and if somebody would have told me that half way through it God would be hooking me up with a woman I despised more than anyone else I would have called them a liar. Getting with you was the hardest thing I’ve had to do and I know it hasn’t been easy for you either,”

Trish laughed because it was true, “You weren’t exactly one of my favorite people,” Trish said, her voice giving away a lot of emotion, “then you became the only person I ever thought about,”

Randy smiled, “I don’t know when it happened but I suddenly couldn’t imagine the rest of my life without you. We click in the ring, we click outside the ring so how apt would it be for me to do this right next to the ring in front of all our friends and co-workers,”

“Do what?” Mickie James asked John Cena who shrugged.

“Maybe they’re gonna kiss again and they want everyone to see it, not just those who got invited to Shannon Moore’s birthday party,” John Cena said giving Matt Hardy a dark look.

“Dude you don’t even know Shannon,” Jeff Hardy said.

“I spoke to him once when I was on Smackdown!” John Cena retaliated and Aurora iced over his mouth.

“Thank you Aurora,” Randy Orton said and Hunter smiled at LC knowing she was the one who told Aurora to do it.

Randy Orton got down on one knee and pulled a little grey box from his pocket. Everyone gasped as Orton opened the box and showed Trish the coolest ring she had ever seen, it was in the design of the Women’s Championship belt only much, much smaller.

“Trish Stratus, will you marry me?” Randy said.

Yes,” Trish replied and she kissed Randy lovingly on the lips as everyone went nuts!

“Trish and Randy are getting married!” Carla said jumping up and down with Charlene.

“And we got to see the proposal!” Charlene said and she hugged Cameron, Cheyenne and LC tightly, “You guys are the best, this has been the best day of my life!” she said and in a sudden moment of bravery Charlene went up to John Cena and tapped him on the leg.

“Ro-Ro, unfreeze Cena’s mouth this I gotta hear,” LC told her sister who complied as John Cena turned and looked down at Charlene.

“Well if it isn’t my Biggest Fan, what’s up Charlene?” John Cena said picking up Charlene and giving her a big kiss, when she didn’t reciprocate he put her down, “Something wrong?” he asked her.

“I have an announcement of my own to make John Cena: I’m over you,” she said and walked away and the ARK Angels and Carla applauded her.

“That took a lot of guts,” Cameron told her while Mickie James frowned at a confused John Cena.

“I had no idea,” she said.

“You had no idea about what?” Cena asked her.

“That you were down with the swirl,” Mickie James teased and John Cena rolled his eyes and they both went to congratulate Randy Orton and Trish but they had to wait in line as there was a bit of a queue growing.

“Congratulations Trish,” Amy said hugging Trish lovingly.

“Thanks Amy,” Trish replied and Amy took a closer look at the engagement ring, “This is the coolest ring I have ever seen,”

“Yes my man has great taste – whoa I just called Randy my man, I never thought I’d ever say that!” Trish said laughing.

“So now onto the really big question, when’s the wedding?” Shawn asked.

“Oh, we haven’t even talked about that yet,” Randy replied.

“August 31st,” Trish replied.

“There’s your answer,” Randy replied forgetting who he was getting married to for a moment.

“That’s my birthday!” Jeff Hardy said, “You’re getting married on my birthday, which means we can have 2 parties!”

Randy moaned, “Trish I don’t want to have our day overshadowed by Jeff, why don’t we bring the wedding forward to like August 24th?” Randy asked but Trish shook her head.

“Sorry babe no-can-do, we have to be in Fiji on August 31st,” Trish replied and Randy did a double-take.

“Fiji?” he said unsure of what he just heard, “We’re getting married in the South Pacific?”

“Yup, pretty sweet huh?” Trish said.

“Well yeah I’m totally cool with the location but why does it have to be August 31st?” Randy asked and Trish whispered the answer in his ear. A smile suddenly appeared on Randy’s face, “I see,” he said with an amorous glint in his eye. He popped his collar and patted Jeff Hardy on the shoulder, “I don’t mind sharing my special day with you,” he said knowing that special day was going to turn into a very special night.

Jeff clapped his hands together excitedly, “I’m gonna have my birthday in Fiji, ya’ll better not try and pull anything - I want to be celebrated too!” he told his locker room buddies who were already conspiring to forget Jeff’s birthday, “Don’t even try it Edge,” Jeff Hardy warned the Rated R Superstar knowing he had already designed a birthday boycott in his head.

“Okay fine we won’t boycott your birthday but it would have been really funny,” Edge said.

“So Randy who’s gonna be your best man?” MVP asked and Edge rubbed his hands together excitedly.

“Its gotta be me right?” he said to Randy eagerly and Carlito frowned.

“Why has it gotta be you?” he asked and Edge gave him a look like he’d just asked the dumbest question ever.

“We can talk about that later guys we got a show to do and it starts in less than an hour,” Hunter said but everyone was too excited to work including the electricians who hadn’t even put the RAW screen back up yet, “What are you guys doing, we’re going live soon?” Hunter asked them, they too had gotten caught up in all the excitement.

“You guys are lazy,” Cheyenne told them and the electricians crossed their arms and stared her down amused.

“And I suppose you could do a better job?” one of them said to GPS who then picked up the screen with no problem whatsoever and wiped the smile off the electricians’ faces.

“Where should I put it?” Cheyenne asked them as they tried to pick their jaws up off the floor.

“Isn’t she Phenomenal?” Cameron said to his friends who were equally shocked, they hadn’t seen Cheyenne in action yet and it was a sight to behold.

“Cheyenne put that screen down that’s not your job honey,” Shawn told his daughter as the electricians took the screen from her amazed by her Phenomenal strength.

“There’s only one Cheyenne Michaels,” Amy said rubbing her stomach, “Do you think Rebecca will have that kind of strength?” she asked Shawn and Trish laughed getting both Shawn and Amy’s attention, “What’s so funny?” Amy asked her.

“I would tell you but I don’t want to ruin the surprise and neither does God,” Trish said and she went backstage with Randy to prepare for their match leaving Shawn and Amy scratching their heads.

Downtown Los Angeles:

Stephanie knocked on her front door and a very concerned Jericho answered.

“I’m so glad you’re okay, I was sure Hunter was gonna do something to you,” Jericho said.

“And we both know whose fault that would have been,” Stephanie replied reaching into her bag.

“What you got there?” Jericho said as Stephanie came inside and his face dropped as she pulled out his paranoid android Rex who was cut in half.

“Now it’s just a heartless piece of crap,” Stephanie said dropping Rex in Jericho’s hands, “Just like you,” she said and touched his face where his purple eye patch was sparkling like a jewel, “but I do love you Chris and because I do I forgive you,” she said and kissed him on the lips lovingly, “I pray that one day you’ll be able to do the same for Hunter,”

Jericho scowled at the mention of that name and Stephanie could feel his heart virtually harden in his chest and she brushed past him to go to bed. As she walked by he noticed a note on her jacket and he pulled it off and read it.

“A heart that doesn’t forgive is a heart that cannot live, let this be a lesson to you because your days of messing with my family are through, signed LC,” Jericho read and he scrunched up the letter and threw it over his shoulder, “We’ll see about that baby girl,” he said with an evil smile, “We’ll see about that.”

Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. - Colossians 3:13

The ARK Angels of DX will return in The Rated R Godfather