War for the heart of wrestling: A Faction War (Rhea Ripley X Male OC)

2.

When we landed and I stepped off the plane I only had more and more excitement about me coming back building up in me all my thoughts and plans I had thought through ran in my head as I walked through the office building with steph and hunter up to their office to go over paperwork and contracts while we talked, "so kid, I was thinking of you getting something like a seventy five, twenty five creative split you bring us the ideas and if we like it we work from there and tweak til we have something for tv if not we give you something else" I nod looking at him as we stepped into the office by ourselves since stephanie had gone off in a different direction to handle other business matters so I just sat with hunter and talked a little more about what my plans were "yea seventy five twenty five is fine by me"

I looked around the office as I leaned back in the chair while hunter worked a bit more and talked "so kid, I keep thinking on this idea it sounds ambitious but how exactly is it any different from what we're doing with Roman now and his tribal chief story, I mean watson is the big monster who needs to be taken down, you come in playing the mind games" he rolls his hands in a "help me figure this out" sort of way as he sits back in his chair watching me.

I look at him "it's different from Roman's story because of the way the inciting incidents happen and plus Roman became the tribal chief from paranoia and trauma of the shield break-up where as with what im trying to do Duncan becomes what he does off of insecurity from how i was presented as the lead in our feuds with vince and that led him to mentally feeling like a second option even though that wasn't the case it was more just his greed and also some of the other things all mixing together with vince in his ear sowing deception between us which leads him to do all he did and separate from us then do the whole mania thing which leads to him forming his own new group"

I finish talking and can see i have hunter's full attention at this point so i decided to keep going for a bit longer "also because I won't be recruiting anyone at least i like to think so anyway, things are somewhat already set kinda, I mean lee has his new team around him and the title, I come in from my hiatus still hurting by how he betrayed us and it's something that eats at me, he plays on that and picks at me and just points out flaws while I go at him about how he's actually missing the past and regrets it and is just scared of being alone again and is getting paranoid that ppl will leave"

he nods listening "ok I'm starting to see it but I'll let you keep it close now let's talk how we're gonna reintroduce you to the universe" I smiled at this as I instantly thought about how my re-introduction could work "a few weeks before war games havik comes through the wwe to shake things up a little" I smirked as hunter raised his eyebrow "havoc? that a alter ego or something?"

I nod "think the fiend, finn's demon character but the biggest inspiration is crow sting from back in 1997 to be completely honest with you, he was fire" hunter smiles and chuckles "you pull a lot from the past you know that kid" I shrug "it helps me create" he nods and we keep talking about different parts of my reintroduction and also got my contract squared away which was a little bulky if i do say so as i pretty much signed a double contract both as a wwe superstar and also with a bunch more legal language about incentives and benefits all that stuff then i also negotiated for a role on creative once i retired.

once it was all taken care of, I sat back looking at hunter with a little smirk "if you really wanna be different give your wrestlers incentives and benefits" he glanced at me over his glasses as he typed "it's only thirty days merrick just testing on you because you're a special case" i laugh "a special case huh, I'll remember that" he smiled a bit as he typed "when you own your own wrestling company you can do with your people as you wish but right just please color in the lines right now alright"

i lightly shook my head putting my hands up "ok, ok" we both smiled and talked a little more while we walked around the office i met some of the more important creative writers that would be helping me with this story since hunter was apparently sending out a email about it earlier during our conversation.

I soon left the building after getting a hotel for the night, I instantly got my phone out and got a ride to the hotel then checked in and made a call to some people i consider my brothers as the group facetime connected and they all picked up one by one.

I chuckled as we all smiled at each other while I sat in my room after getting through my night routine "guess who's coming home" they all smiled and laughed with Karson speaking first "took yo ass long enough you know how much finesse we had to deal out to keep that wife of yours off our ass while you been gone hm? hmm?"

I snicker a bit as he looked at me expectantly but I only smiled "nobody asked y'all to lie this long and anyway when I do come back Imma be the one in trouble" jordan laughed "oh yea she gone be stuck all over you like a lost puppy I just hope you ready my man"

I smiled more thinking about that "leave my baby alone dawg, she just miss her man, I don't say nun when you talk about Isabela and shit" he nodded in a "good point, good point" sort of way as we all glanced in Duncan's little box and I called to him as best I knew "ay you knock off Shrek, you droolin"

he wasn't but this man couldn't get close to focus if his wife was even in his general vicinity which I understand like I really do, blonde hair blue eyes the whole nine but damn give it five minutes before you tryin to knock her damn ankles loose shit, I laughed to myself as we watched him touch at the corner of his lip before flipping me off with a smile "fuck you stark and I mean it, fuck off" I laugh at him as did our other friends

"man I'm just sayin you be staring hard that girl ain't goin nowhere" he looks over and I can only assume she's in the area "I know she isn't" I jokingly let off a groan "man get the fuck off my phone with that, ya'll nasty ass" he laughed "we're gonna have to sit through it when Demi gets you back what's the problem" I flip him off "ok ok on to something else, how's the company looking this year any new ideas cooking?

The conversation became somewhat more serious as we talked about more business oriented things and how we wanted to handle it all starting with this film season and what we wanted to produce this quarter both tv and movie wise along with our comics division and also if we were gonna push merch or not alongside the shows and movies, which we only did if it came with enough fan demand for it.

I looked at my boys as they started to float ideas for shows out with jordan going first "apocalypse harry potter" we all looked at him as he gave his idea and looked back at us as he casually let off a yawn "what you fuckers looking at" I accidentally but not really blurted "you actually gave a half decent idea, Karson dramatically covered his face "oh god, oh god, hell is frozen...God is coming" we all smiled a bit as jordan and Karson laughed at each other while I noticed a more one on one message from Duncan.

"How exactly are you returning? New gimmick?" I clicked the message and replied back "kinda, it'll be new for y'all but old for me. It's pretty cool I used it on the indies and during my little pop-up appearances" I could see him in his little box typing away then a few seconds I got a ding "a hint?" I smirked and replied "fuck no 😂 tf you want a hint for? Nosey ass"

I saw him roll his eyes and flip me off in his box and I laughed doing it back. We rejoined the conversation with Karson and jordan as they talked about what potential storyline or feuds they were hoping to get involved with or to start up with someone in the coming future.

I listened and let the conversation go until I felt like talking "when I do come back how do ya'll think I should handle the whole catchphrase thing?" the guys all shrugged while giving me a variation of "you'll figure it" i narrowed my eyes and flipped them all off "thanks guys, you're so helpful" they laughed and we carried on the conversation for a while until eventually we all said our goodbyes and hung up.

I put my phone on the charger and layed back getting comfortable in the bed and checked my phone one last time before I finally fell off to sleep seeing I had a message from hunter which read "hey kid we're flying out tomorrow morning to Savannah, just wanted to give you a heads up your return to the universe starts then, Hope you're ready"

I smiled at the message and replied to him before I decided to fall asleep "always more than ready, I appreciate the heads up.

The next morning I woke up and got through my morning routine and got dressed then met with stephanie and hunter at the airport and headed off to Savannah for what would start the return to a life that raised me I just hope I did the story I had been working and building justice but I guess tomorrow would be the first step in seeing how everything played out.