La Arquitecta

Chapter 6

Monday Night Raw – 26th February 2018 (Part two)

Renee Young had just finished a backstage interview with Sheamus and Cesaro. She was part way through handing back to the commentary team when her attention was caught by somebody else.

"Wait a second," she said as the cameraman turned to show Zelina Vega marching in Renee's direction with a venomous expression on her face. "Zelina? Zelina, can I get a word, please?"

Renee was totally ignored. Zelina charged right past her, obviously with some other objective in mind. The camera panned around as she walked by to follow her, and her destination became apparent. She slammed open a door which bore the name Kurt Angle, and banged it closed again behind her.

"I guess not," Renee said, raising her eyebrows.

After a commercial break, Kurt Angle's door was shown once more. It flew open and Zelina emerged, somehow looking even more angry than she had before.

"Zelina? Can I ask what you wanted with Kurt Angle?" Renee asked, standing in the way this time, so that Seth Rollins' manager couldn't get past so easily.

With a microphone thrust in her face, Zelina spoke in a threatening manner, "Stop me walking again, Renee, and see what happens."

"I'm just doing my job," Renee said in a placating tone. "Can you please tell me what you wanted with the General Manager?"

"What do you think I wanted?" Zelina snapped. "I wanted him to change his stupid and unfair decision to make my client Seth Rollins face Samoa Joe tonight."

"And what was the answer?"

Zelina's expression turned sour in the extreme. "Angle said the decision stands. So if Seth gets hurt tonight, we know we can blame, don't we? Now get out of my way!"

Renee grimaced at the camera while Vega stormed off along the hallway.

To begin the show's second hour, Seth and Zelina were shown walking along a hallway, neither of them looking happy in the least with how their night was going.

"There's Seth Rollins, on the way to the ring, set to take on Samoa Joe momentarily," Cole said.

Graves was about to add something, but Finn Balor ran into the shot from behind Seth and clotheslined him in the back of the head, knocking him down. "Wait! Finn Balor! Balor attacking Rollins from behind! What is this about?"

With Zelina screaming and shouting angry protests, Balor pummelled the fallen Rollins, who could only try and protect his face with his arms.

"Finn told Seth he'd better hope he can make it to Wrestlemania," Booker reminded everyone. "It looks to me like Rollins and Vega should have taken that threat seriously."

"No! No!" Zelina yelled at the top of her voice as Finn hauled Seth to his feet and ran him towards a steel roller shutter door. Launched through the air, Seth impacted the door back first with a tremendous crash.

"Someone stop this idiot!" Graves called out.

Zelina had the same thought in mind. "We need help back here!" she screamed down the hallway, before returning her vocal efforts to encouraging Seth to get up and fight.

Finn wasn't done. With Seth ending up sitting slumped against the door, dazed from the impact, Balor grabbed a large equipment case and rushed at him with it, pushing it as fast as he could.

"Seth! Move!" Zelina implored him.

It was to no avail. The equipment case appeared to slam into his lower leg or foot, crushing it against the door.