Ask, Dare or make them Confess

Disclaimer - All talent names (Roman Reigns, Dean Ambrose and Seth Rollins etc) belong to WWE.

A/N Chapters 1-9 is co-written with a fanfic author that wishes to remain anonymous. Chapter 10 onward is co-written with wharfcoyote.

Starts Pre-Wrestlemania 2015

Requests: by PM only

(reviews are most welcome, but requests there cannot be used as per fanfic rules).

Chapter 1 Let the Madness Begin

"Hello and welcome, all you wonderful people," Aria Taylor smiled at the camera. "I'm your hostess, and welcome to Monday. Night. Ra-!"

"I thought this was a show separate from WWE..." Seth Rollins cut in.

The Architect, along with Dean Ambrose and Roman Reigns, were seated in a row on couches facing the audience.

"Hmm, maybe I should come up with my own name for this show..." Aria tapped her chin thoughtfully.

Dean rolled his eyes at Seth. "If it's separate from WWE, why would we be here, Sell Out?"

"It's Mr Money in the Bank to you," Seth replied haughtily, "You crazy-"

"That's enough!" Aria scolded.

So how does this thing work, anyway?" Roman asked Aria, after glaring at Seth.

"I'm glad you asked," Aria said. "People will send me questions using Twitter or the WWE App." She paused and looked at the camera. "On Twitter it's #WWEQA. Start sending your questions now!" she smiled. "The Shield awaits!"

She turned her attention back to the Superstars as the feed cut to an upcoming PPV. "I'll read the questions to you, and you will answer as honestly as possible." She smiled oh-so-sweetly.

Dean smirked "And what makes you think we would answer honestly, if we do answer at all?"

"The same reason you are seated here now, and behaving instead of brawling," Aria chuckled. "If you don't...we can turn you back into adorable..."

Roman's eyes widened.

"Sweet-" Aria continued.

"No way!" Dean hollered.

"Cute-"

"You can't-" Seth began.

"Little Toddlers," Aria said, with a smile brighter than the sun. "They can also dare you to do something, or ask for confessions – lucky for you I didn't state that. But if they do..."

"And people think I'm crazy," Dean muttered before turning to Roman. "Remember that prissy princess who wrote that nauseating adorable story about us being turned into toddlers?"

The Powerhouse shuddered. "You don't know her do you, Aria?"

Aria smirked. "Maybe. But it still stands – break my rules, and cute you will become!" she clapped her hands once in excitement, reminding Roman of the Disney princess Sophia, of the cartoon Sophia the First, which his daughter loved to watch.

The Shield (and Seth) barely had time to react when the door suddenly burst open and Bad News Barrett sauntered in, followed by Hunter and Stephanie Helmsley. They did not look pleased at all.

"I'm afraid I have some Bad News for you, Taylor," Wade Barette said in his British accent. "We're crashing your little party. I know you love The Shield, and love to favour them..."

The Shield brothers and Seth snorted. They felt no love here at all!

"But they aren't the only wrestlers in the WWE who matter, you know," Barette continued. "I'm the Intercontinental Champion!"

Aria sighed. Well there's no denying the Shield (including pre- sell out Seth) is awesome, but if she had to have others on the show, couldn't it be anyone else?

"And they aren't the only ones crashing this little party of yours..." Randy Orton said as he entered, followed by John Cena.

Aria face-palmed; she just had to wish... well Cena wasn't too bad, but did he have to bring the Viper along with him?

"Ladies and gentleman...my name is..." and everyone blocked their ears, hearing this way too many times before, as Paul Heyman entered, along with Brock Lesner looming beside him. "I hope you weren't planning to leave out my client; the man who beat The Streak, and the current WWE World Heavyweight Champion... Brrrrrrock Lesner!"

Dean ignored the others, and turned to Cena. "You and Orton?" he looked at Roman bemused before turning back to John. "Wazzup with that?"

"Same thing that was up with you and me a few months ago. Orton and I don't like each other, but we both like The Authority even less," Cena responded, sitting down next to Dean. "The enemy of my enemy..."

Dean shrugged. Common enemies did make for unusual alliances.

Roman didn't look too happy about Cena sitting down on the other side of Dean; it's like Dean got a new brother while the Powerhouse was away.

Dean turned to Roman and smiled at him; just silently communicating that they weren't the only ones here for this awful show now at least.

The Samoan chuckled to himself as Dean turned his head once again. Nope, it's just a new acquaintance, close to a friend, but not a brother. And unlike Seth, Dean wasn't going anywhere. Though Dean admitted he thought Roman was going to leave him too; the Powerhouse never told Dean about his insecurities. He was the big brother after all, trying to appear strong to hold the crumbling fortress together.

He along with Dean and Seth watched as Bad News Barette walked up to Aria.

"Look we're tired of these three pretty boys getting all the attention," Barette said.

Dean launched from his chair only to be automatically stopped by Roman. "Calm down, Dean."

"He didn't just call me pretty..." the Lunatic Fringe growled.

Seth sighed. "You obviously do not KNOW what this show is all about do you?" he asked the Bad News guy.

Roman smiled. "Well since you're guys are here..." He got up, still holding Dean's arm, "We'll get going,"

"Yeah, let's go!" Seth got up too, making a beeline for the door.

Aria barely looked at them. "Sit. Now."

"What?!" Dean exploded.

Aria looked at him. "Please?" she asked sweetly.

Seth sat down; the look that Aria had combined the way she spoke to them so sweetly was a dangerous indication of their cutesy little 'punishment.'

Dean sat down, muttering about homicide and a certain hostess.

Aria smiled at the rest of the group. "Well by all means," She gestured warmly at the free couches. "Take a seat."

The Authority, Barette, Hayman and Orton happily sat down, while Brock just stood by his advocate, doing his usual warm-ups. Aria looked at each one of them in turn. This show just got more interesting, she thought.

Roman and Dean felt a bit better – now all the attention and the embarrassing questions won't be solely for them!

The feed cut back to the show from the commercial break. "Welcome back, everyone! During the break we were surprisingly joined by…" Aria introduced the gatecrashers as the camera loomed over them.

The Authority was confused at the look on Seth's face; it was just like when he was partnered with J&J security against the team of Ziggler and Cena. But Hunter and Stephanie shared a smile: one way or another they would turn this show to The Authority's advantage.

Randy smirked at the Architect. He was hoping to learn something about Seth that he could use against him.

Paul Heyman looked self-satisfied; as always, he wanted what was best for his client - and for himself.

Cena smiled at the camera; he always enjoyed interacting with his fans, and wanted to be sure that everyone understood he was not going anywhere any time soon.

"Oh, look!" Aria Taylor's computer chimed and the Shield brothers' and Seth's hearts sank.

"We have our first questions." The hostess beamed. "Let's get this show on the road!"

The Shield exchanged incredulous glances, as Seth face-palmed. More like – let the madness begin!

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