Falling Stars - Chapter 24
"Ready?" Avalon asked her partner.
"Ready as I'll ever be," was the answer she received. Troy looked over at Avalon and smiled weakly as they began their walk out onto the WCW ramp.
The two women smiled again, this time triumphantly as they watched the smile on Suzanne's face fade when she realized that the women walking out to the ring were not Eric Bischoff.
"Who in the hell are you?" Suzanne snarled angrily into the microphone.
"Obviously, not who you expected, Suzanne, but we do represent Mr. McMahon and Mr. Bischoff. I'm surprised you don't recognize me. I'm sure Mandah there knows who my partner is," Troy said. "This needs to stop Suzanne and we are here to make sure it does."
Avalon and Troy continued to slowly walk towards the ring. Both women looked at the people gathered inside the ring. The 3 "cohorts" of Suzanne's were all pointing their guns at each of the wrestlers, not sure if they should take them off of them or not. Mandah stood at Suzanne's side; barely holding onto the gun she had been handed. Mandah was obviously scared of the situation that was beginning to unfold. Suzanne was beginning to inch towards Dwayne, the knife still in her hand.
As she pushed her fiancée to his knees she ordered the man holding the gun to him to point his gun at the women approaching the ring. Suzanne then brought her knife to the throat of The Rock and began to smile again. "Continue to come closer ladies. I dare you. A knife at the throat of the Rock and a gun pointing in your direction doesn't sound very promising to me. I want revenge and you are not going to get in my way. I have already killed one of yours and now I have made two more bleed, I will stop at nothing to make Vince and Eric regret everything they have done."
"I'm sure they do regret it. I'm sure you have opened their eyes to this situation and I am sure they feel bad for everything they have done, but do you really need to make these people suffer?" Avalon asked.
"I don't give a fuck about these people, bitch. These people are merely pawns in my game of revenge. The only people in this game that matter are myself and the two bastards that ruined my family. These wrestlers, their families all mean nothing. Even these 3 buffoons and this idiot behind me mean nothing to me."
"Well then Mandah, what are you doing this for? We haven't heard anything from you yet. Why are you in this if you mean nothing to her?" Avalon asked the girl that had annoyed her so much.
Mandah looked at Suzanne for some sort of help, but received nothing. Suzanne smacked her hand away as Mandah reached for the mic she was holding.
"Mandah's here because she's weak minded. Her sister was my sister-in-law, when I went to her with this plan she was so upset with her sisters death and so easily persuaded she would have done anything I asked her to. In fact she still will. She's stupid, but that's exactly what I need, someone who is too stupid to think about what she is really doing. That way when I order her to kill you or her beloved boyfriend, she won't think twice about it.
"In fact that is a lovely idea. Mandah, why don't you do us all a favor and shoot them?" Suzanne asked as she turned around to face her partner.
With a nod of the head, Mandah walked towards the front of the ring aiming her gun at the two women that were still inching their way towards the ring.
Closing her eyes for a brief second, Mandah took a deep breath and then turned back towards Suzanne, the gun held taunt in her hands, her finger against the trigger.
"Actually Suzanne, maybe I should finally do what I should have done before."
A shot rang out throughout the silent arena. And then another. Avalon and Troy used the distraction to their advantage and ran towards the ring. Out of the corner of her eye, Avalon could see the undercover officers carefully hurdling the fence in order to storm the ring. She saw Shane, Peter and Dwayne fall to the ground and roll out of the ring as one of Suzanne's cohorts aimed his gun at Troy. Pulling the gun out of her belt she quickly aimed and shot the man in the chest, causing him to fall to the ground, were one of the officers took over.
Absolute chaos filled the ring as the other two men were taken out, leaving Mandah and Suzanne alone, both lying face down on the mat, blood pooling around them. Climbing into the ring, Avalon and Troy both had their guns drawn as they went over to check on the women.
Tory reached Mandah first and noticed the blood that covered her back where she had been shot by one of the men. Realizing that the gun she had used had been thrown to the side when she fell, Troy figured it would be safe to check the woman's pulse. As she reached down she heard a scream ring out.
Looking up to where Avalon should have been standing over Suzanne, she saw instead Avalon doubled over as Suzanne pulled the knife out of her friends stomach. Standing up from where she was squatting, Troy raised her gun and pointed it towards the woman who was about to stab her friend again and fired, hitting Suzanne squarely in the forehead. Troy rushed to her partners side and helped her to the ground.
"Hold on Avalon, you are going to be okay," she said reassuringly. "Help me, I need some help over here please."
Avalon smiled up at her friend. "Thanks T, I knew you'd save me," she managed to whisper before everything went black.