One Step Closer

Chapter 8

A week after Stephanie McMahon mentioned having an idea that could help keep Becky's comeback on track, WWE was in Kansas City, Missouri for Monday Night Raw, & everyone in the crowd was expecting a great show.

What everyone was not expecting was how the show was going to start.

It started with Ronda Rousey coming out to a massive chorus of boos. She didn't care though.

"You ungrateful bastards still think Becky Lynch is the Man?" asked Ronda with a smirk. The crowd responded with "yes" chants.

"Well guess what? She's not, & she never has been the Man!" yelled Ronda as the boos just got louder.

"She needs to just go back home & be a mom to her little brat!" she said. People in the crowd began chanting "Bitch! Bitch! Bitch!"

However, as Ronda was about to say something else, Stephanie McMahon came out to cheers.

Ronda was annoyed by this.

"You know, Ronda, for someone who had left this company after WrestleMania to become a mom herself, you sure do sound jealous of Becky," said Stephanie.

"Why do you say that, Stephanie?" asked Ronda sarcastically.

"Look at yourself, Ronda. You & your husband don't have any kids," said Stephanie. "Also didn't you & he recently announce that you two have separated?"

Ronda looked at her in shock. She wasn't expecting Stephanie to mention that.

Stephanie, however, wasn't done yet.

"Now you want to challenge Shayna Baszler for the Raw women's title at Fastlane, right?" asked Stephanie. Ronda nodded.

"Well, you got it, but here's the thing. If you beat her, you don't get to face Becky at WrestleMania," said Stephanie.

Ronda was now furious. She couldn't believe that this was happening.

Stephanie wasn't done though. There was one more thing she had to tell Ronda & the WWE Universe.

"If you win, you have to defend that title at Elimination Chamber," said Stephanie. "Not only that, you have to defend it inside the Elimination Chamber!"

Ronda just stared to Stephanie in complete shock while the crowd cheered wildly.

However, Stephanie wasn't finished.

"If you do defend that title successfully, then you get to face Becky at WrestleMania," she said as the crowd went insane.

Meanwhile, a smiling Becky was backstage being held by Seth as they had watched everything unfold.

"She did it, babe," said Seth.

"Yes she did," said Becky. They then kissed before he had to go to face off against Alastair Black in a feud that was quickly gaining traction with fans.

Becky later did an interview with Kayla Braxton where she talked about how pleased she was by Stephanie's decision to have Ronda defend the Raw women's title inside the Elimination Chamber if she won it at Fastlane.

While Becky was being interviewed by Kayla, Ronda was walking back to her dressing room in complete shock over what had just happened in the ring.

She felt that she was being put in a difficult position. She had wanted to stop Becky's comeback because she felt that it was her time to shine, not the Man's.

Ronda felt that Becky's time at the top had ended the day she walked away to become a mother.

Now she was faced with the possibility of facing her WrestleMania 35 enemy again, & now she felt that there was nothing she could do now to stop it.

Or was there?