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WWE 2K Story – Chapter Five, Finale: All of the Emperor’s Men
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SummerSlam
Ring commentators Michael Cole, Corey Graves, and Byron Saxton welcome everyone to SummerSlam!
Randy Orton is in his locker room when the Fashion Police arrive. They wish Orton luck in his WWE United States Championship match, claiming it’s the biggest match in Orton’s life. Randy laughs, saying he’s headlined Wrestlemania, fought Undertaker at Hell in a Cell and battled Cactus Jack in a Street Fight. Orton says this match tonight is important, but not the biggest in his career. The Fashion Police disagree, saying they learned amazingly new secrets about the championship belts from Goldust.
Another Powerful Item Discovered
Orton asks how Goldust would know, as The Fashion Police say that the gold paint on his face is another powerful WWE item. Goldust’s gold face paint gives him immediate visions for what’s happening with each championship in WWE history. Goldust claims his face paint received the powers a long time ago during the Attitude Era. Vince wanted someone to keep track of all the WWE championships (as a watchful eye), and since Goldust was obsessed with gold he offered the power to Goldust.
Orton claims ‘that’s gnarly’. They tell Orton if what Goldust said is true, it’s imperative that they collect all the WWE championship belts before Vince & Stephanie do. Orton vows to beat Kevin Owens tonight, and leaves.
NORMAL MATCH – WWE Smackdown Women’s Championship
(C) Charlotte Flair vs. Natalya (with Jim Neidhart)
Objective: Win with Natalya
Neidhart interferes so that his daughter can win the championship. Charlotte looks heartbroken in the ring, as the Neidharts walk up the entrance ramp celebrating their new belt.
Vince arrives in a limo as Stephanie meets him. She says that Natalya won her match, and allowing Jim Neidhart to return through Undertaker’s Urn was a brilliant idea. Vince asks where Andre and Heenan are, as Stephanie reveals they are getting ready for their match. Stephanie tells Vince that the Fashion Police spoke to Goldust while Vince was away, but she doesn’t know what he told them. Vince says they need to assume Goldust told them everything but reveals to Stephanie he has a plan.
NORMAL MATCH – WWE Cruiserweight Championship
(C) Johnny Gargano vs. Tyson Kidd
Objective: Win with Johnny Gargano
Vince comes out on stage after the match. He congratulates Gargano on winning but says Kidd was never the answer he had for taking the belt off of Gargano. He only gave Kidd the opportunity because his wife, Natalya, asked. Vince admits Tyson did wonderful things while in WWE, but he is past his prime and still somewhat injured. Vince says he needs someone stronger, and more resilient to take the belt off of Gargano. Hideo Itami drills Gargano from behind and hits the GTS on him. Vince says Gargano has met the newest member of the WWE main roster and the new number one contender for the Cruiserweight Championship, Hideo Itami. Itami stands tall and proud in the ring while the crowd boos.
Randy Orton is walking backstage and passes a crying Charlotte Flair. Orton says that she shouldn’t be hard on herself and that Natalya cheated anyways. Charlotte knows but thought she was better. Orton recommends evening the playing field. Charlotte doesn’t understand, so Orton says that her father is a 16-time champion. Charlotte says her father is in critical condition now and couldn’t possibly make one of her events. Orton says, ‘If only there was something in WWE that could allow you access to your father in his prime.’ Orton walks away as Charlotte ponders Orton’s comments.
TLC MATCH – WWE Intercontinental Championship
(C) Finn Balor vs. Bobby Roode
Objective: Win with Bobby Roode
Vince is watching in his office, saying that Roode actually came through and he’s glad. Suddenly, the lights go off in Vince’s office and turn back on. One of Wyatt’s sheep masks with blood is on Vince’s desk. Stephanie screams as Vince analyses the mask. Stephanie asks what they want (referring to the Wyatt’s)? Vince says he isn’t sure, but it feels like a threat.
TORNADO TAG TEAM MATCH – WWE Smackdown Tag Team Championship
(C) AJ Styles & Samoa Joe vs. The Usos
Objective: Win with Styles & Joe
Rikishi pulls his kids out of the ring, as the Revival show up after the match. They charge the ring and begin beating down Styles & Joe. The Revival hit the Shatter Machine onto both Joe & Styles. They hold the WWE Smackdown Tag Team Championship in the air but feel the same electric zap everyone feels. They drop the belts quickly. A bit freaked out, The Revival leave the ring and admire the destruction they just handed out. The Revival claim they aren’t here to stay, just to send a message before going back to NXT.
Heenan Wants Answers
Andre and Bobby are in their locker room as Stephanie walks in. She wanted to see if they needed anything before their match. Bobby reveals he needs answers, like why they were summoned to present day and fighting a war with Vince they don’t fully understand? Stephanie admits that they are using Andre to help capture all the gold within WWE, and he is one of the only men who can stop Goldberg. Bobby wants to know exactly why they need all the championship belts, but Stephanie says they will find out themselves if they can complete the work they brought here to do.
Heenan claims Andre will squash anybody and that Vince will be proud of them. Bobby and Andre walk out. A WWE official comes in at Stephanie’s request. Stephanie tells the official to let everyone know that her father has added an eighth competitor to the WWE Hardcore Championship Ladder Match. The official runs off.
8-MAN LADDER MATCH – WWE Hardcore Championship
(C) Dean Ambrose vs. Diesel vs. Bam Bam Bigelow vs. Baron Corbin vs. Cactus Jack ’92 vs. Mankind vs. Dude Love vs. Killian Dain
Objective: Win with Killian Dain
Dain enters the match to everyone’s surprise. Even more shocking is that he wins! Vince comes out on stage after the match and says that he is welcoming in the newest faction to the main roster, Sanity! He tells everyone to get used to Killian Dain and others running roughshod through the WWE. Vince claims that his son-in-law’s army is now his, and the emperor has all of his men. Vince laughs and walks off stage as Dain celebrates his new-won gold.
EXTREME RULES TAG TEAM MATCH – WWE Raw Tag Team Championship
(C) The Bar vs. Apollo Crew & Darren Young
Objective: Win with The Bar
The Bar isn’t done after the match, as the Raw Tag Team Champions continue their beat down on Crews & Young after the match. Titus O’Neil heads to the ring and saves his former clients from their beating. The Bar leaves the ring but returns when Titus turns his back to check on Crews & Young. The Bar beat down Titus O’Neil, then leave when they’re satisfied the damage has been done.
Rematches Wanted
Dean Ambrose storms into Vince’s office, demanding his rematch on Raw. Vince tells Dean to calm down and asks where his two brothers are? Dean says Roman is getting ready for his match, then tells Vince he should know where Rollins is. Vince laughs and tells Dean he sees great potential in him, but he is clouded by empathy. Vince tells Dean that he can have a Hardcore Championship rematch on Raw, but warns him that Killian Dain isn’t the only member of Sanity here tonight.
Roderick Strong enters the office! He tells Vince that he’s glad Dain isn’t the only Sanity member there tonight, because he wants his NXT Championship rematch. Vince laughs and threatens to get security, but Strong pulls out his contract to show Vince he can choose his rematch anytime and any place. Vince with his hands tied, agrees to Strong’s rematch, revealing it will be tonight. He tells the both of them to get the hell out of his office. They leave as Vince calls Stephanie, who is somewhere in the arena. He asks his daughter to bring him Undertaker’s Urn and Bam Bam Bigelow. He has an idea.
NORMAL MATCH – WWE United States Championship
(C) Kevin Owens vs. Randy Orton
Objective: Win with Randy Orton
Owens is livid after the match and begins throwing a temper tantrum. Orton smiles with his new belt, heading up the entrance ramp. Sami Zayn attacks Orton from behind! He begins stomping him repeatedly as Owens comes out to help. Zayn hits Randy with a Helluva Boot, before Owens Popup Powerbombs Orton onto the stage. Officials come out to tend to Orton, as Zayn & Owens happily walk away from the damage they just caused Orton.
Stephanie is walking backstage. She sees a small light coming from a closet door. Stephanie quickly opens it to find Goldust, startled. She asks Goldust what he’s doing in a closet? He said he’s trying to stay low from her and her family. Stephanie asks Goldust what he told the Fashion Police? Goldust admits he told them everything, everything about the true power the WWE championship belts hold along with his face paint.
He also told them what potentially happens when someone possesses all of the championships at once. Stephanie says that he made a big mistake, but Goldust fires back saying her family made the mistake by revealing this whole new world to superstars, fans and the WWE Board of Directors. Stephanie warns Goldust that he will pay for his actions, which Goldust replies that the same can be said for Stephanie. Goldust does his weird bite towards Stephanie and scurries off, as Stephanie watches him while pondering.
NORMAL MATCH – NXT Championship
(C) Eric Young (with Alexander Wolfe, Sawyer Fulton & Nikki Cross) vs. Roderick Strong
Objective: Win with Roddy Strong
The lights go out as Eric Young is about to win. They turn back on as a bloody sheep mask is laying by Sanity’s feet outside the ring. Young, distracted, is pinned by Strong. Sanity hits the ring fuming, as Strong escapes with his new championship. Sanity circles the ring, wondering what just happened. The lights go back off, and turn back on as the word ‘RUN!’ is written in blood on the ring canvas. Sanity is freaked out.
Operating the Urn
Vince is watching in his office and becomes nervous himself. Bam Bam Bigelow walks in with Undertaker’s Urn. Vince says that Bigelow was always one of his favorite fighters in WWE, but Bigelow’s New Jersey Triad crew were one of the more underrated in history. Bigelow asks what Vince is getting at, as Vince motions for the urn. He hands Vince the urn, as Vince states that he wants to reunite Bigelow with his family. Bigelow is nervous Vince is going to use the urn on him, but Vince hands the urn back to Bigelow.
Vince asks Bam to bring his buddies from the New Jersey Triad here. Bigelow claims he doesn’t know how to do that with the urn, so Vince explains that the urn reads your thoughts. Vince isn’t sure what year Bigelow’s New Jersey Triad was around, so he asks Bigelow to do it. Bam still doesn’t know how to use the urn, so Vince explains the urn travels to the time period the person holding the urn or closest to the urn is thinking of. That’s why the arena went to ECW when Paul Heyman was in the ring as the urn opened up.
Bigelow closes his eyes, then slowly opens the urn as Vince has a sinister smile. Vince tells Bigelow to control the urn so it doesn’t consume the arena. The light from the urn is bright but settles down as the smoke clears. Diamond Dallas Page [’92’] is standing in the office. Vince welcomes Page to the future, but Bigelow says DDP was only one of three members in his Jersey Triad. Vince knows this but claims DDP is enough.
FATAL-4-WAY MATCH – WWE Raw Women’s Championship
(C) Sasha Banks vs. Asuka vs. Bayley vs. Alexa Bliss
Objective: Win with Asuka
Stephanie walks into Vince’s office and asks what he needed the urn for? DDP walks out of the bathroom as Stephanie says never mind. Vince asks Stephanie if she is worried, which she says she is not but wants to continue moving quickly since the WWE Board of Directors will be sending another representative soon. Vince reveals that Banks lost the match tonight, and Bliss didn’t win either. He concludes that Asuka is too good a warrior to keep down, so he suggests they call in the big guns. Stephanie asks what Vince suggests? Vince says he thinks it’s time they bring back some legends in the women’s division.
Jinder Mahal walks in with Sami Zayn yelling at him for his attack on Raw, along with his crazy behavior since absorbing all that electricity from the championship belt. Zayn turns his attention to Vince, and admits is disappointed Owens lost tonight. Sami tells Vince that he will make it up to him when he takes the Universal belt off of Roman Reigns. Mahal tells Sami that he will win tonight and should follow orders. Vince tells them both that they are to work together tonight. Vince tells the two he is making their match Falls Count Anywhere, so there’s no restriction what the two of them can do to Roman Reigns. Stephanie mutters that she tried this with Big Show & Dolph, and it didn’t work. Vince claims Jinder & Sami are much more reliable than the other two.
NORMAL MATCH – WWE Championship
(C) Goldberg vs. Andre the Giant (with Bobby Heenan)
Objective: Win with Andre the Giant
Vince & Stephanie celebrate backstage, happy Andre won. Vince believes no one will be able to take the belt off his giant, and says they only need a few more championships to claim the power they seek. The Miz returns! He walks in with his entourage and welcomes Vince back. Miz says that since Vince is back, he would like another opportunity to win gold for him. Vince says he doesn’t need Miz, but Miz tells Vince that a star like himself as champion would be great for business. Vince laughs, saying the success of his business won’t matter soon as he’ll have all the power he needs.
Another Belt Revealed
Stephanie tells her father it wouldn’t hurt to have Miz around, so Vince tells Miz that instead of competing for a championship belt he’ll just give the Miz one. Miz is confused as Vince pulls out the WWE Undisputed Championship from his desk. Stephanie asks where Vince got that from, which he reveals was sitting in the WWE archives in Connecticut. He admits to grabbing multiple belts they will need from the archives.
Vince officially reinstates the WWE Undisputed Championship for Miz. Miz takes the belt happily and leaves with his entourage. Stephanie asks why Vince handed The Miz a belt they need? Vince replies that it’s better to separate the belts with other people they trust, rather than hoard them all in one place. Stephanie believes that defeats the purpose of what they want to do, but Vince assures Stephanie that they will take the belt from The Miz when the time is right along with all the other championship belts. He believes spreading their ‘prizes’ amongst the WWE Universe with people he trusts is a solid defense tactic.
Go to ‘title management’ and put the WWE Undisputed Championship on The Miz.
FALLS COUNT ANYWHERE TRIPLE THREAT MATCH – WWE Universal Championship
(C) Roman Reigns vs. Sami Zayn vs. Jinder Mahal
Objective: Win with Jinder Mahal by pinning Sami Zayn
Mahal turns on Sami in the match and pins him to win the championship. Throughout the match, Jinder shows signs of seizure-like instability. Zayn is not happy at all that Mahal turned on him, but Jinder doesn’t care and ignores Sami to celebrate. Stephanie comes down to the ring as Sami Zayn passes her, not happy at all.
She walks up to Jinder to shake his hand, but Jinder continues celebrating in uncontrollable excitement without acknowledging her. Jinder continues to twitch even more but resumes trying to shake it off. Mahal leaves the ring with his new belt, as Stephanie stands in the ring both surprised and confused on Mahal’s insane actions.
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