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Supercard Archives / “Young Cub vs. the Old Delusional One!”
« on: October 24, 2022, 10:41:45 AM »
It was the week of High Stakes XII and the latest match between Krystal Wolfe and Mercedes Vargas, the two women had faced each other several times since Krystal’s SCW debut at the tail end of 2020 with Krystal managing to remain unpinned or submitted by her older rival, title match or otherwise! Will the rivalry continue to go in the Australian Bombshell’s favour or will the Argentinian veteran finally get the win over the young upstart?
Krystal’s home, Las Vegas, Nevada
Saturday the 22nd of October 2022, 11:00am
Second verse, same as the first.
Aside from the one interview Mercedes cut after I challenged her to this match I’ve been doing all the hype for this match! I bet you think that’s an exaggeration but go back and watch the past few weeks of Climax Control and you’ll see what I mean, I’ve been cutting promos on the so called “Argentine Assassin” in the weeks that followed our respective failed attempts at getting in the World Bombshell Title picture (me in the Fatal Four Way that determined Diamond as Masque’s new #1 Contender and Mercedes as Masque’s first ever challenger) and you’ll see what I mean.
One interview from Mercedes on the same week that she was competing against Bea and Jessie for a shot at the Roulette Title (which she lest), several interviews from me including the promo that set up this match! And you wonder why she’s considered a spent force by her piers in the Bombshell division, me included!
And sadly? That’s only proven to be true again during the hype for the match itself, I cut my first promo earlier this week but did we get even a peep from the 2x Hall of Famer? Nope! I guess what I said about her being too focused on the past to care about the present is ringing true!
”Is this bitch really going to leave all the hype to me?” I asked myself as my wife Makayla went through the morning mail, I had been watching the SCW feeds for the past hour waiting for so much as a peep from Mercedes but nope! She’s apparently found her new passion in archaeology because she doesn’t give a crap about the current crop of Bombshells. ”This is almost enough for me to dread getting a Hall of Fame induction if I ever get in!”
”Let me guess, Mercedes is proving me right?” Makayla asked as she walked up to me and I shook my head, me and Makayla had a minor argument when I decided to challenge Mercedes to this match several weeks ago, Makayla thought I should challenge someone I’ve never wrestled one on one before like Alicia Lukas but I stuck to my guns and called out Mercedes, and right now I was thinking that Makayla was right. ”I bet you still prefer this over that Char Kwan feud from last year.”
”At least Char Kwan was willing to make things interesting, even if her idea of interesting resulted in Ari needing a trip to the hospital!” I responded as I shook my head before noticing that Makayla had mail for me. ”Bill? Letter from Rachel’s school? Complaint about the dogs?”
”None of the above, in fact I’m not sure what to make of this! It’s from that promotion Cassie joined, the one with the same initials as Sin City Wrestling?” Makayla explained as she passed it to me and I looked at it, Supreme Championship Wrestling’s logo was right there on the envelope but the person the letter was addressed to caught my attention in a hurry. ”I see you’ve noticed the most glaring thing about that letter.”
”To “The Rebel Princess” Krystal Wolfe? I didn’t join a promotion in my sleep, did I?” I asked as I brushed some hair over my shoulder and Makayla shook her head with a laugh. ”Or steal Cassie’s wrestling nickname?”
”Somehow Cassie’s bosses got you two mixed up, even though your taller, stronger, have a better technical game and got married to me back in March whilst Cassie is shorter, faster, has a terrible technical game by her own admission and is dating two other girls at the same time!” Makayla shook her head in disbelief and I grabbed my phone knowing that I should call Cass to let her know. ”I’m not even getting into the fact that you have a different nickname to Cass! Or the fact that you’re a city girl whilst Cassie is from a small town!”
”Yeah, hence why I’m calling her now.” I responded as I shook my head whilst waiting for Cassie to pick up the phone on the video chat, when she did I could’ve sworn I heard two other women moaning in a way that you’d only hear in certain corners of the internet. ”Hey Cass, did you forget to turn off your porn again?”
”That only happened once!” Cassie asserted and I shook my head with a chuckle. ”But nah, that’s just Becky and Zoey messing around, I haven’t even watched porn all day.” Cassie added as she showed her two fully clothed girlfriends who had shit eating grins on their faces as they waved to me and then her computer screen which had her Twitter feed. ”What’s up?”
”Do me a favour and check with your mom to see if you’ve got any mail from the other SCW.” I instructed the teenager and Cassie nodded before she left her room to go check that, when she returned Cassie shook her head. ”Thought so, it seems the other SCW sent a match notification to me instead of you, even addressed me as “The Rebel Princess” which, last I checked, was your wrestling persona.”
”Still is, I’ll pop over to grab that notification in a sec, but we had better sort this out before they start sending my pay checks to you!” Cassie responded with a nod as she brushed some hair over her shoulder. ”I mean, I’m pretty well off thanks to the windfalls I got from Jenny but just because you’re in control of my trust fund until I turn twenty-one doesn’t mean you should start getting my pay checks, right?”
”Right, and aside from adding some of your recent windfall to it, I haven’t touched your trust fund since the fallout from the PTA Gym fiasco.” I nodded in response and Cassie grinned. ”Besides that? You’ve been working your ass off since you graduated from Hero Academy, it’s only right that you get paid for it!”
”Good to know that we’re in agreement on that front!” Cassie responded with a grin before quickly checking her Twitter feed. ”So, has there been a peep from Mercedes? I haven’t been following Sin City Wrestling much since I got unfairly banned from their events but I remember you being frustrated at the lack of effort from her.” Cassie asked and I quickly shook my head. ”Seriously?”
”Serioously, I’m beginning to wish I had listened to Makayla and challenged Alicia instead.” I sighed in response before shaking my head. ”Anyway, I haven’t opened the letter for the letter from your SCW so if you want to pop over and grab it, feel free, I can tell you that it’s another intergender match against “Rockstar” Randy Ramon though, maybe I can do some research on my end for you? Not like I have a Mercedes promo to watch.”
”That’ll be great thanks!” Cassie responded with a grin before glancing over at her laptop and grimacing. ”Oh, right, almost forgot, my laptop needs another virus purge.”
I had to shake my head at that, me and Cassie were both good with computers, she had studied IT at a community college in exchange for her parents funding her initial training at the PTA Gym and had graduated from that class not long before she went on the Summer XXXTreme cruise, I was mostly self-taught so I could be a better streamer but the way Cassie treated her laptop you’d think she was a newbie. ”I’ll be over tomorrow evening to look at it but we’re going to have to have a serious discussion about you looking after your computer equipment!”
”Yeah, yeah I know!” Cassie sighed in her usual sassy way and I shook my head. ”See you in a bit.” Cassie responded before she ended the video call and me and Makayla went about the rest of our day.
Cassie’s room, Las Vegas, Nevada
Sunday the 23rd of October 2022, 17:00pm
Sometimes I wonder how her family puts up with her antics.
No, not Mercedes, I’m not even sure if my opponent for High Stakes has family outside of Argentina, I’m talking about my younger cousin Cassie! She’s a lovely girl with a bright future in the business, that was never in doubt, but considering that she’s often been my anchor in reality, is a wrestling prodigy and is a lot smarter than her addiction to porn and weed (which she is trying to kick because she’s realized that being able to wrestle overseas and smoke weed are not compatible) it’s easy to forget that Cassie is still a kid.
A nineteen-year-old kid sure but still a kid! Besides, she still has another year to go before she hits the big two oh so I don’t feel to bad in calling her a kid.
Why do I bring this up? Well between randomly doing Death Metal vocals in a crowded Wendy’s, being in a relationship with two other women at the same time (and both Zoey and Becky being okay with that) and the mysterious towel incident that neither of the three girls are in any hurry to elaborate on, she can be a handful to say the least, am I confident that Cassie will eventually grow up and be closer to me in attitude? Maybe, our wrestling personas couldn’t be more different, whilst I’ve done my best to present myself as a prize fighter, Cassie is a rebel through and through.
And until she matures, I’m going to have to keep doing stuff like this!
”Let me get this straight.” I sighed as I booted up Cassie’s laptop having just done a defrag and clean up of the computer’s hard drive, and yes I was going to do the same for Cassie’s Gaming PC. ”The last time you had to call me for technical support, I had to show you how to do a system reset because your laptop had more viruses in it than the centre for disease control and installed an anti-virus to prevent that from happening again! The same anti-virus I use for my gaming and streaming PCS! And what do you do?” I asked as I turned to Cassie who looked at the floor sheepishly whilst Becky and Zoey watched from the bed.
”I, err, well………” Cassie tried to skirt around the issue but I wasn’t buying it, for one thing Becky had already snitched on her. ”I uninstalled the anti-virus because it was blocking my favourite porn sites?” Cassie admitted sheepishly and I face-palmed so loud that I’m pretty sure the neighbour’s dog heard it! ”It wasn’t as bad as it was last time!”
”I’ll grant you that but if you do that again, there won’t be a next time!” I responded before I sat down in front of Cassie’s laptop and got to work, Cassie was lucky that I had self-taught myself how to be good at computers so that I could be a better Twitch Streamer. ”Becky, Zoey, I know you are smart girls, you didn’t think to stop Cassie from doing that?”
”Cassie didn’t tell us what she was doing until after she had done it.” Becky explained plainly and Cassie gave the older of her two girlfriends (Zoey was turning nineteen in the new year) a playful glare. ”And we were pre-occupied anyway.”
”Yeah, we were busy making……..I mean gaming on the bed over here until Cassie interrupted us.” Zoey chimed in at which point I turned to the two girls.
”Zoey, I already know that Becky’s a lesbian and that you’re in the closet, Cassie told me.” I explained to the biracial girl before I continued. ”And I won’t violate your trust by spreading word of it without your permission, trust me, I’m a bi woman, I get it!”
”Didn’t think you would anyway, Cassie mentioned that you proposed to your girlfriend at last year’s High Stakes event.” Zoey nodded as she got the idea and that had given me pause, god that feels like a lifetime ago considering how much had changed since then. ”But thanks, I appreciate it.”
”Yeah well, until the rest of the world gets its collective head out of its ass about there being nothing wrong with being gay, we’ll have to remain quiet about it until we’re ready I guess.” I responded before I motioned Cassie over to sign me into her laptop so I could do my work. ”And that goes double for you Cass!”
”And in my case it’s more to do with whether I’m a lesbian like Becky or bi like you Krystal.” Cassie sighed after she signed me in and I shook my head with a chuckle. ”What?”
”Nothing, just thought of something funny.” I responded with a grin before I set to work, honestly? I wasn’t even sure if Cassie knew how terrible a job she was doing at hiding the fact that she was eventually going to come out of the closet as a lesbian! Dating two other girls? Unusual but check! Been caught making out with said girls more than once in the women’s changing room? Yeah, Keira told me all about those incidents so check! Her only watched porn vids being of the lesbian porn variety? I know straight women watch that stuff too but considering she watches that stuff exclusively and all of the other evidence to go with it? Yeah, you could probably see the signs that Cassie was a lesbian from space. ”Okay, let’s start with the anti-virus and Cass? If the anti-virus is flagging your favourite websites maybe that should be a red flag!”
”Maybe that should be a red flag!” Cassie muttered in a mocking tone but a playful glare from me shut her up. ”And don’t act like you don’t watch the stuff yourself.”
”Yes but when my anti-virus flags a website, I don’t uninstall the anti-virus, I get the hell away from that website!” I pointed out and Cassie quickly shut up when she realized that I had a point, once I had reinstalled the anti-virus software (Cassie hadn’t really uninstalled it, just turned it off and removed it from the Start bar) I opened up Firefox and checked her bookmarks. ”Chelsea Skye vs. Sarah Blaze II, the 69 out of 3 falls match, nice choice.”
”Isn’t Chelsea Skye another Go Gym graduate? I know she faced Sarah in Sarah’s graduation match.”[/font] Becky asked and I nodded in response, Chelsea didn’t advertise it publicly because she wanted to forge her own wrestling career but it was true, plus the fact that she lived in Chicago meant that she was rarely at the Go Gym anyway. ”Surprised she’s doing porn.”[/font]
”From what I understand, porn is basically a side hobby of hers, same goes for her Death Metal band.” I responded as I shook my head whilst wondering how she found time for any kind of a social life, even so I cleared up the bookmarks and started the anti-virus to check for any issues. ”Okay, that should clear it right up! But Cass, I thought you did an IT course at the community college? You should know better than this!” I chastised my cousin and Cassie grinned sheepishly.
”And I do, I just forget sometimes……..” Cassie trailed off as we heard the other girls kissing in the bed and Cassie turned to Becky and Zoey. ”Can you at least wait until I’m done with Krystal? Or give me a chance to join in because I’m not making out with you two with my cousin in the same room!” Well, at least she’s exhibiting common sense in one area of her life! Was I still going to talk to Keira about having Cassie run extra hard drills because of this? Yep!
”Sorry Cass!” Zoey responded sheepishly before sharing another kiss with Becky and breaking it off for now. ”Saying that, I was wondering if Krystal could give me advice.”
”Best way to avoid being caught in the act is to do it whilst your home alone, yes I know there’s no fun in that!” I responded with a deadpan expression on my face and Zoey shook her head. ”About coming out of the closet then? I’ll tell you the same thing I told Cassie, when the time is right, you’ll know and if anyone tries to force you out of the closet? Aim for the nose!”
”Not what I meant either but I’ll keep that in mind.” Zoey responded as she shook her head with a slight laugh. ”I meant as a wrestling trainee going through training school, I know the Go Gym does things differently from Hero Academy but it’s still a training school so I figured you’d have some advice!”
”I suppose that’s fair, it’s been a few years since I graduated but it’s like riding a bike, once you learn it you can’t really unlearn it.” I responded before I stood up and walked over to the wrestling trainee. ”I could go down the cliché route by saying be yourself but that won’t apply until you’ve graduated if we’re being honest, everyone in the training school starts out on the same level playing field, some just advance more quickly than others like Cassie.” I added as I glanced over at Cassie who had taken my seat at the computer. ”There will be good days and there will be bad days with rarely any in between, but if you truly want this? You’ll power through the bad days and embrace the good before coming out the other side as a wrestler, and considering you have Team Hero as your trainers? You’re in good hands, no matter what kind of days you end up with!”
”Yeah, I guess that makes sense, thanks Krystal.” Zoey thanked me but before I could say anything else Cassie called me over.
”Err, Krystal? Your anti-virus just caught a big one, you might want to come over here.” Cassie informed me and I came over to have a look at it, yep, it was a rootkit, and yep I had to do a system reset to get rid of it! Including reinstalling Windows!
Well, hopefully it’ll be a while before I had to do this again!
UMC Children’s Hospital, Las Vegas, Nevada
Monday the 24th of October 2022, 16:45pm
This was not how I wanted to start the week before High Stakes XII, or any week for that matter.
When me and Makayla woke up this morning our daughter Rachel came to us saying that she was feeling ill and with her health problems that resulted from her mother smoking crack whilst she was pregnant (why do you think I got custody of her last year?) we took it as seriously as we should, Makayla opted to stay at home with Rachel after calling her school to inform them of the situation but since I had a match to train for I still went to the Go Gym.
I just told Gabriel and Odette that I needed to have my phone nearby in case Rachel took a turn for the worse, spoiler alert? She took a turn for the worst and I only found out after a panicked text from Makayla told me that Rachel’s fever had skyrocketed and I rushed out to the children’s hospital as soon as I could.
When I entered the children’s hospital I found Makayla waiting for me.
”I would’ve gotten here sooner but I needed to get changed out of my wrestling gear first.” I greeted Makayla as I rushed up to my wife, she greeted me with a hug but it was easy to see that she was worried sick. ”How is she?”
”The docs gave Rachel some medication to get her fever back under control, they said that we’d be able to see her in an hour.” Makayla responded after taking a deep breath and I let out a sigh of relief before sitting down on a nearby chair. ”They were asking where her dad was but when I explained that I’m married to another woman they dropped that line of questioning, the good news is our daughter should be okay by High Stakes XII.”
“Your daughter? Please!” My head snapped up when I heard that voice, it had been a year since I had heard her voice but I looked up and saw Kirsty storming up to us accompanied by a lawyer. “It’s time we put an end to this charade.”
”What the hell are you talking about Kirsty?!” Makayla demanded as she stood up to the shorter woman, the last time we had seen Kirsty she had relapsed into her cocaine addiction and gave up Rachel’s custody without much of a fight, in fact she had turned up to the custody hearing wasted and basically left Rachel with us, Kirsty’s lawyer handed Makayla a piece of paper and her jaw dropped. ”A Temporary Restraining Order barring us from seeing Rachel? On what grounds?!”
“My client was not in the right state of mind when she gave up custody of her daughter to you two.” The lawyer explained and I was about ready to punch him because I knew EXACTLY why my sister wasn’t in the right frame of mind. “It is on those grounds that we are contesting the ruling that awarded you custody of Rachel, until then you are barred from seeing Kirsty’s daughter.”
”She gave up the right to call Rachel her daughter when she showed up to her custody hearing wasted!” I snapped as I promptly stood up and went nose to nose with her lawyer, frankly I couldn’t believe that they had gotten any judge to sign off on that TRO. ”And in case you haven’t noticed, Rachel’s in intensive care because of the health issues that her drug use caused!” I added as I angrily pointed to Kirsty who rolled her eyes.
“And yet I’m still a better fit for her mother than two lesbians!” Kirsty scoffed before she stormed off with her lawyer. “I’ll see you in court Charlotte!” Kirsty added before she left the hospital leaving me, Makayla and frankly every other parent in the waiting room shocked.
”If there was ever a time to be thankful for those windfalls from Jenny, it’s now!” I responded with a grown as I got my phone out and looked for the law firm’s contact number. ”Evan will have this joke of a TRO overturned long before we even see her in court!”
”What the hell is that bitch playing at? She’s had all year to contest the custody hearing and she chooses to do it now?!” Makayla asked as she ran a hand through her hair. ”How did she even find out about this? The only person I contacted was you, u haven’t even contacted my family yet!”
”We’ll figure this out in no time.” I assured my wife whilst trying to avoid the looks we were getting from the other parents, mostly sympathetic ones but there were ones who still had their heads up their asses about gay couples having children.
It Even an hour to get the TRO overturned and we were able to see Rachel in the end but it still left the question of the custody hearing over our heads, all it would take was one homophobic judge for custody of Rachel to go back to Kirsty in spite of all the evidence that she about as unfit a mother one could get without her being a child murderer, we didn’t even have the heart to tell Rachel what had happened in the waiting room, partially out of concern that it would make her condition worse.
All this the week before High Stakes XII, if I didn’t know any better I’d say that Mercedes somehow got in contact with Kirsty and put her up to this! Speaking off…………
Krystal’s home, Las Vegas, Nevada
Monday the 24th of October 2022, 21:00pm
*promo time*
Rachel was staying overnight at the hospital and whilst I was worried sick for my daughter, I did have a promo to cut on Mercedes, even if Mercedes hadn’t given me the same courtesy.
”Nice to know that I didn’t waste the past four weeks of my wrestling career hyping up a match between me and Mercedes Vargas! Nope, that bitch isn’t more interested in American Football or as I call it “the poor man’s rugby” and is actually promoting the match! Oh wait, my mistake, I was talking about Ari’s opponent Seleana instead of Mercedes!” I commented as I shook my head. ”Admittedly the fact that she threw a match for the Bombshell Roulette Championship the same week that she accepted my challenge should’ve been a red flag the size of my home country of Australia but unlike Mercedes, I take pride in my work and I’ll be promoting this match regardless of what, if anything, Mercedes says!”
What the actual hell?!
”This woman’s a 2x Hall of Famer and this is how she treats a match against a young up and coming Bombshell who issued the challenge for this match in the first place!” I added as I shook my head. ”Say what you will about my program with Char Kwan but at least Char Kwan put in more effort than Mercedes has! I’m just going to go ahead and say it, Mercedes might be the most overrated member of the SCW Hall of Fame ever! Does anyone remember anything of the several title reigns say lays claim too? Oh, right, she rode Goth’s coattails to a Mixed Tag Team Title Win before that division was given a mercy kill!” I started giving a mock applause as the promo continued. ”Good job relying on the skills of a wrestler who had been doing this far longer than you or me Mercedes, great job!”
This is ridiculous.
”Goth may be an all-time great in both the GWA and SCW but let’s face it, his best years are far behind him!” I let out a deep breath as I shook my head. ”Yet I bet the bosses will keep finding excuses to book Mercedes in spite of the obvious lack of care she has towards a match on a Supercard, they always down don’t they? Sooner or later, everyone will realize what I already know, that Mercedes is a spent force in the ring and and it’s time she was put out to pasture because it’s clear that this idiot will only promote matches when it suits her! Her match against Alicia, the Ultimate X Match and the two matches against Masque are prime examples of this but whilst she beat Alicia and managed to get a draw against Masque everything else she’s done is inconsequential in the grand scheme of things.”
It’s that simple.
”Much as I hate to cut this so short, Mercedes is clearly more interested in American bloody Football and some show that happened on this day in 100 BC or whatever than she is about her match at High Stakes XII and me!” I added as I shook my head in disgust. ”And this bitch has the nerve to call ME timid? The one who challenged her to this match, the one who did all the hype for this match on her own? Better watch yourself Mercedes because your timid nature might cost you your Hall of Fame spots!”
And with that I decided to wrap things up.
”Because at this point the fucking Troll is more worthy of a Hall of Fame spot than you Mercedes! I can only hope that my first PPV match of 2023 is a lot more interesting than this but I’m not holding my breath!” I added as I rolled my eyes. ”There was a point where you were considered the leader of the pack Mercedes, and if this match had happened at an earlier point in your career it could’ve been seen as a young cub challenging the leader of the pack for the position of leader, instead? It’s just the Young Cub vs. The old Delusional One and it’s time that the delusional one was put to sleep! And as I turn the page on this disappointing chapter of my SCW career, no tears will be shed as Mercedes is finally put out to pasture! I’d say that I’ll see you in the ring Mercy but I doubt you care about this match enough to even show up, if you do? I’ll drive you down with the Down Under Thunderbomb!”
I left my streaming room as the scene fades.
Krystal’s home, Las Vegas, Nevada
Saturday the 22nd of October 2022, 11:00am
Second verse, same as the first.
Aside from the one interview Mercedes cut after I challenged her to this match I’ve been doing all the hype for this match! I bet you think that’s an exaggeration but go back and watch the past few weeks of Climax Control and you’ll see what I mean, I’ve been cutting promos on the so called “Argentine Assassin” in the weeks that followed our respective failed attempts at getting in the World Bombshell Title picture (me in the Fatal Four Way that determined Diamond as Masque’s new #1 Contender and Mercedes as Masque’s first ever challenger) and you’ll see what I mean.
One interview from Mercedes on the same week that she was competing against Bea and Jessie for a shot at the Roulette Title (which she lest), several interviews from me including the promo that set up this match! And you wonder why she’s considered a spent force by her piers in the Bombshell division, me included!
And sadly? That’s only proven to be true again during the hype for the match itself, I cut my first promo earlier this week but did we get even a peep from the 2x Hall of Famer? Nope! I guess what I said about her being too focused on the past to care about the present is ringing true!
”Is this bitch really going to leave all the hype to me?” I asked myself as my wife Makayla went through the morning mail, I had been watching the SCW feeds for the past hour waiting for so much as a peep from Mercedes but nope! She’s apparently found her new passion in archaeology because she doesn’t give a crap about the current crop of Bombshells. ”This is almost enough for me to dread getting a Hall of Fame induction if I ever get in!”
”Let me guess, Mercedes is proving me right?” Makayla asked as she walked up to me and I shook my head, me and Makayla had a minor argument when I decided to challenge Mercedes to this match several weeks ago, Makayla thought I should challenge someone I’ve never wrestled one on one before like Alicia Lukas but I stuck to my guns and called out Mercedes, and right now I was thinking that Makayla was right. ”I bet you still prefer this over that Char Kwan feud from last year.”
”At least Char Kwan was willing to make things interesting, even if her idea of interesting resulted in Ari needing a trip to the hospital!” I responded as I shook my head before noticing that Makayla had mail for me. ”Bill? Letter from Rachel’s school? Complaint about the dogs?”
”None of the above, in fact I’m not sure what to make of this! It’s from that promotion Cassie joined, the one with the same initials as Sin City Wrestling?” Makayla explained as she passed it to me and I looked at it, Supreme Championship Wrestling’s logo was right there on the envelope but the person the letter was addressed to caught my attention in a hurry. ”I see you’ve noticed the most glaring thing about that letter.”
”To “The Rebel Princess” Krystal Wolfe? I didn’t join a promotion in my sleep, did I?” I asked as I brushed some hair over my shoulder and Makayla shook her head with a laugh. ”Or steal Cassie’s wrestling nickname?”
”Somehow Cassie’s bosses got you two mixed up, even though your taller, stronger, have a better technical game and got married to me back in March whilst Cassie is shorter, faster, has a terrible technical game by her own admission and is dating two other girls at the same time!” Makayla shook her head in disbelief and I grabbed my phone knowing that I should call Cass to let her know. ”I’m not even getting into the fact that you have a different nickname to Cass! Or the fact that you’re a city girl whilst Cassie is from a small town!”
”Yeah, hence why I’m calling her now.” I responded as I shook my head whilst waiting for Cassie to pick up the phone on the video chat, when she did I could’ve sworn I heard two other women moaning in a way that you’d only hear in certain corners of the internet. ”Hey Cass, did you forget to turn off your porn again?”
”That only happened once!” Cassie asserted and I shook my head with a chuckle. ”But nah, that’s just Becky and Zoey messing around, I haven’t even watched porn all day.” Cassie added as she showed her two fully clothed girlfriends who had shit eating grins on their faces as they waved to me and then her computer screen which had her Twitter feed. ”What’s up?”
”Do me a favour and check with your mom to see if you’ve got any mail from the other SCW.” I instructed the teenager and Cassie nodded before she left her room to go check that, when she returned Cassie shook her head. ”Thought so, it seems the other SCW sent a match notification to me instead of you, even addressed me as “The Rebel Princess” which, last I checked, was your wrestling persona.”
”Still is, I’ll pop over to grab that notification in a sec, but we had better sort this out before they start sending my pay checks to you!” Cassie responded with a nod as she brushed some hair over her shoulder. ”I mean, I’m pretty well off thanks to the windfalls I got from Jenny but just because you’re in control of my trust fund until I turn twenty-one doesn’t mean you should start getting my pay checks, right?”
”Right, and aside from adding some of your recent windfall to it, I haven’t touched your trust fund since the fallout from the PTA Gym fiasco.” I nodded in response and Cassie grinned. ”Besides that? You’ve been working your ass off since you graduated from Hero Academy, it’s only right that you get paid for it!”
”Good to know that we’re in agreement on that front!” Cassie responded with a grin before quickly checking her Twitter feed. ”So, has there been a peep from Mercedes? I haven’t been following Sin City Wrestling much since I got unfairly banned from their events but I remember you being frustrated at the lack of effort from her.” Cassie asked and I quickly shook my head. ”Seriously?”
”Serioously, I’m beginning to wish I had listened to Makayla and challenged Alicia instead.” I sighed in response before shaking my head. ”Anyway, I haven’t opened the letter for the letter from your SCW so if you want to pop over and grab it, feel free, I can tell you that it’s another intergender match against “Rockstar” Randy Ramon though, maybe I can do some research on my end for you? Not like I have a Mercedes promo to watch.”
”That’ll be great thanks!” Cassie responded with a grin before glancing over at her laptop and grimacing. ”Oh, right, almost forgot, my laptop needs another virus purge.”
I had to shake my head at that, me and Cassie were both good with computers, she had studied IT at a community college in exchange for her parents funding her initial training at the PTA Gym and had graduated from that class not long before she went on the Summer XXXTreme cruise, I was mostly self-taught so I could be a better streamer but the way Cassie treated her laptop you’d think she was a newbie. ”I’ll be over tomorrow evening to look at it but we’re going to have to have a serious discussion about you looking after your computer equipment!”
”Yeah, yeah I know!” Cassie sighed in her usual sassy way and I shook my head. ”See you in a bit.” Cassie responded before she ended the video call and me and Makayla went about the rest of our day.
Cassie’s room, Las Vegas, Nevada
Sunday the 23rd of October 2022, 17:00pm
Sometimes I wonder how her family puts up with her antics.
No, not Mercedes, I’m not even sure if my opponent for High Stakes has family outside of Argentina, I’m talking about my younger cousin Cassie! She’s a lovely girl with a bright future in the business, that was never in doubt, but considering that she’s often been my anchor in reality, is a wrestling prodigy and is a lot smarter than her addiction to porn and weed (which she is trying to kick because she’s realized that being able to wrestle overseas and smoke weed are not compatible) it’s easy to forget that Cassie is still a kid.
A nineteen-year-old kid sure but still a kid! Besides, she still has another year to go before she hits the big two oh so I don’t feel to bad in calling her a kid.
Why do I bring this up? Well between randomly doing Death Metal vocals in a crowded Wendy’s, being in a relationship with two other women at the same time (and both Zoey and Becky being okay with that) and the mysterious towel incident that neither of the three girls are in any hurry to elaborate on, she can be a handful to say the least, am I confident that Cassie will eventually grow up and be closer to me in attitude? Maybe, our wrestling personas couldn’t be more different, whilst I’ve done my best to present myself as a prize fighter, Cassie is a rebel through and through.
And until she matures, I’m going to have to keep doing stuff like this!
”Let me get this straight.” I sighed as I booted up Cassie’s laptop having just done a defrag and clean up of the computer’s hard drive, and yes I was going to do the same for Cassie’s Gaming PC. ”The last time you had to call me for technical support, I had to show you how to do a system reset because your laptop had more viruses in it than the centre for disease control and installed an anti-virus to prevent that from happening again! The same anti-virus I use for my gaming and streaming PCS! And what do you do?” I asked as I turned to Cassie who looked at the floor sheepishly whilst Becky and Zoey watched from the bed.
”I, err, well………” Cassie tried to skirt around the issue but I wasn’t buying it, for one thing Becky had already snitched on her. ”I uninstalled the anti-virus because it was blocking my favourite porn sites?” Cassie admitted sheepishly and I face-palmed so loud that I’m pretty sure the neighbour’s dog heard it! ”It wasn’t as bad as it was last time!”
”I’ll grant you that but if you do that again, there won’t be a next time!” I responded before I sat down in front of Cassie’s laptop and got to work, Cassie was lucky that I had self-taught myself how to be good at computers so that I could be a better Twitch Streamer. ”Becky, Zoey, I know you are smart girls, you didn’t think to stop Cassie from doing that?”
”Cassie didn’t tell us what she was doing until after she had done it.” Becky explained plainly and Cassie gave the older of her two girlfriends (Zoey was turning nineteen in the new year) a playful glare. ”And we were pre-occupied anyway.”
”Yeah, we were busy making……..I mean gaming on the bed over here until Cassie interrupted us.” Zoey chimed in at which point I turned to the two girls.
”Zoey, I already know that Becky’s a lesbian and that you’re in the closet, Cassie told me.” I explained to the biracial girl before I continued. ”And I won’t violate your trust by spreading word of it without your permission, trust me, I’m a bi woman, I get it!”
”Didn’t think you would anyway, Cassie mentioned that you proposed to your girlfriend at last year’s High Stakes event.” Zoey nodded as she got the idea and that had given me pause, god that feels like a lifetime ago considering how much had changed since then. ”But thanks, I appreciate it.”
”Yeah well, until the rest of the world gets its collective head out of its ass about there being nothing wrong with being gay, we’ll have to remain quiet about it until we’re ready I guess.” I responded before I motioned Cassie over to sign me into her laptop so I could do my work. ”And that goes double for you Cass!”
”And in my case it’s more to do with whether I’m a lesbian like Becky or bi like you Krystal.” Cassie sighed after she signed me in and I shook my head with a chuckle. ”What?”
”Nothing, just thought of something funny.” I responded with a grin before I set to work, honestly? I wasn’t even sure if Cassie knew how terrible a job she was doing at hiding the fact that she was eventually going to come out of the closet as a lesbian! Dating two other girls? Unusual but check! Been caught making out with said girls more than once in the women’s changing room? Yeah, Keira told me all about those incidents so check! Her only watched porn vids being of the lesbian porn variety? I know straight women watch that stuff too but considering she watches that stuff exclusively and all of the other evidence to go with it? Yeah, you could probably see the signs that Cassie was a lesbian from space. ”Okay, let’s start with the anti-virus and Cass? If the anti-virus is flagging your favourite websites maybe that should be a red flag!”
”Maybe that should be a red flag!” Cassie muttered in a mocking tone but a playful glare from me shut her up. ”And don’t act like you don’t watch the stuff yourself.”
”Yes but when my anti-virus flags a website, I don’t uninstall the anti-virus, I get the hell away from that website!” I pointed out and Cassie quickly shut up when she realized that I had a point, once I had reinstalled the anti-virus software (Cassie hadn’t really uninstalled it, just turned it off and removed it from the Start bar) I opened up Firefox and checked her bookmarks. ”Chelsea Skye vs. Sarah Blaze II, the 69 out of 3 falls match, nice choice.”
”Isn’t Chelsea Skye another Go Gym graduate? I know she faced Sarah in Sarah’s graduation match.”[/font] Becky asked and I nodded in response, Chelsea didn’t advertise it publicly because she wanted to forge her own wrestling career but it was true, plus the fact that she lived in Chicago meant that she was rarely at the Go Gym anyway. ”Surprised she’s doing porn.”[/font]
”From what I understand, porn is basically a side hobby of hers, same goes for her Death Metal band.” I responded as I shook my head whilst wondering how she found time for any kind of a social life, even so I cleared up the bookmarks and started the anti-virus to check for any issues. ”Okay, that should clear it right up! But Cass, I thought you did an IT course at the community college? You should know better than this!” I chastised my cousin and Cassie grinned sheepishly.
”And I do, I just forget sometimes……..” Cassie trailed off as we heard the other girls kissing in the bed and Cassie turned to Becky and Zoey. ”Can you at least wait until I’m done with Krystal? Or give me a chance to join in because I’m not making out with you two with my cousin in the same room!” Well, at least she’s exhibiting common sense in one area of her life! Was I still going to talk to Keira about having Cassie run extra hard drills because of this? Yep!
”Sorry Cass!” Zoey responded sheepishly before sharing another kiss with Becky and breaking it off for now. ”Saying that, I was wondering if Krystal could give me advice.”
”Best way to avoid being caught in the act is to do it whilst your home alone, yes I know there’s no fun in that!” I responded with a deadpan expression on my face and Zoey shook her head. ”About coming out of the closet then? I’ll tell you the same thing I told Cassie, when the time is right, you’ll know and if anyone tries to force you out of the closet? Aim for the nose!”
”Not what I meant either but I’ll keep that in mind.” Zoey responded as she shook her head with a slight laugh. ”I meant as a wrestling trainee going through training school, I know the Go Gym does things differently from Hero Academy but it’s still a training school so I figured you’d have some advice!”
”I suppose that’s fair, it’s been a few years since I graduated but it’s like riding a bike, once you learn it you can’t really unlearn it.” I responded before I stood up and walked over to the wrestling trainee. ”I could go down the cliché route by saying be yourself but that won’t apply until you’ve graduated if we’re being honest, everyone in the training school starts out on the same level playing field, some just advance more quickly than others like Cassie.” I added as I glanced over at Cassie who had taken my seat at the computer. ”There will be good days and there will be bad days with rarely any in between, but if you truly want this? You’ll power through the bad days and embrace the good before coming out the other side as a wrestler, and considering you have Team Hero as your trainers? You’re in good hands, no matter what kind of days you end up with!”
”Yeah, I guess that makes sense, thanks Krystal.” Zoey thanked me but before I could say anything else Cassie called me over.
”Err, Krystal? Your anti-virus just caught a big one, you might want to come over here.” Cassie informed me and I came over to have a look at it, yep, it was a rootkit, and yep I had to do a system reset to get rid of it! Including reinstalling Windows!
Well, hopefully it’ll be a while before I had to do this again!
UMC Children’s Hospital, Las Vegas, Nevada
Monday the 24th of October 2022, 16:45pm
This was not how I wanted to start the week before High Stakes XII, or any week for that matter.
When me and Makayla woke up this morning our daughter Rachel came to us saying that she was feeling ill and with her health problems that resulted from her mother smoking crack whilst she was pregnant (why do you think I got custody of her last year?) we took it as seriously as we should, Makayla opted to stay at home with Rachel after calling her school to inform them of the situation but since I had a match to train for I still went to the Go Gym.
I just told Gabriel and Odette that I needed to have my phone nearby in case Rachel took a turn for the worse, spoiler alert? She took a turn for the worst and I only found out after a panicked text from Makayla told me that Rachel’s fever had skyrocketed and I rushed out to the children’s hospital as soon as I could.
When I entered the children’s hospital I found Makayla waiting for me.
”I would’ve gotten here sooner but I needed to get changed out of my wrestling gear first.” I greeted Makayla as I rushed up to my wife, she greeted me with a hug but it was easy to see that she was worried sick. ”How is she?”
”The docs gave Rachel some medication to get her fever back under control, they said that we’d be able to see her in an hour.” Makayla responded after taking a deep breath and I let out a sigh of relief before sitting down on a nearby chair. ”They were asking where her dad was but when I explained that I’m married to another woman they dropped that line of questioning, the good news is our daughter should be okay by High Stakes XII.”
“Your daughter? Please!” My head snapped up when I heard that voice, it had been a year since I had heard her voice but I looked up and saw Kirsty storming up to us accompanied by a lawyer. “It’s time we put an end to this charade.”
”What the hell are you talking about Kirsty?!” Makayla demanded as she stood up to the shorter woman, the last time we had seen Kirsty she had relapsed into her cocaine addiction and gave up Rachel’s custody without much of a fight, in fact she had turned up to the custody hearing wasted and basically left Rachel with us, Kirsty’s lawyer handed Makayla a piece of paper and her jaw dropped. ”A Temporary Restraining Order barring us from seeing Rachel? On what grounds?!”
“My client was not in the right state of mind when she gave up custody of her daughter to you two.” The lawyer explained and I was about ready to punch him because I knew EXACTLY why my sister wasn’t in the right frame of mind. “It is on those grounds that we are contesting the ruling that awarded you custody of Rachel, until then you are barred from seeing Kirsty’s daughter.”
”She gave up the right to call Rachel her daughter when she showed up to her custody hearing wasted!” I snapped as I promptly stood up and went nose to nose with her lawyer, frankly I couldn’t believe that they had gotten any judge to sign off on that TRO. ”And in case you haven’t noticed, Rachel’s in intensive care because of the health issues that her drug use caused!” I added as I angrily pointed to Kirsty who rolled her eyes.
“And yet I’m still a better fit for her mother than two lesbians!” Kirsty scoffed before she stormed off with her lawyer. “I’ll see you in court Charlotte!” Kirsty added before she left the hospital leaving me, Makayla and frankly every other parent in the waiting room shocked.
”If there was ever a time to be thankful for those windfalls from Jenny, it’s now!” I responded with a grown as I got my phone out and looked for the law firm’s contact number. ”Evan will have this joke of a TRO overturned long before we even see her in court!”
”What the hell is that bitch playing at? She’s had all year to contest the custody hearing and she chooses to do it now?!” Makayla asked as she ran a hand through her hair. ”How did she even find out about this? The only person I contacted was you, u haven’t even contacted my family yet!”
”We’ll figure this out in no time.” I assured my wife whilst trying to avoid the looks we were getting from the other parents, mostly sympathetic ones but there were ones who still had their heads up their asses about gay couples having children.
It Even an hour to get the TRO overturned and we were able to see Rachel in the end but it still left the question of the custody hearing over our heads, all it would take was one homophobic judge for custody of Rachel to go back to Kirsty in spite of all the evidence that she about as unfit a mother one could get without her being a child murderer, we didn’t even have the heart to tell Rachel what had happened in the waiting room, partially out of concern that it would make her condition worse.
All this the week before High Stakes XII, if I didn’t know any better I’d say that Mercedes somehow got in contact with Kirsty and put her up to this! Speaking off…………
Krystal’s home, Las Vegas, Nevada
Monday the 24th of October 2022, 21:00pm
*promo time*
Rachel was staying overnight at the hospital and whilst I was worried sick for my daughter, I did have a promo to cut on Mercedes, even if Mercedes hadn’t given me the same courtesy.
”Nice to know that I didn’t waste the past four weeks of my wrestling career hyping up a match between me and Mercedes Vargas! Nope, that bitch isn’t more interested in American Football or as I call it “the poor man’s rugby” and is actually promoting the match! Oh wait, my mistake, I was talking about Ari’s opponent Seleana instead of Mercedes!” I commented as I shook my head. ”Admittedly the fact that she threw a match for the Bombshell Roulette Championship the same week that she accepted my challenge should’ve been a red flag the size of my home country of Australia but unlike Mercedes, I take pride in my work and I’ll be promoting this match regardless of what, if anything, Mercedes says!”
What the actual hell?!
”This woman’s a 2x Hall of Famer and this is how she treats a match against a young up and coming Bombshell who issued the challenge for this match in the first place!” I added as I shook my head. ”Say what you will about my program with Char Kwan but at least Char Kwan put in more effort than Mercedes has! I’m just going to go ahead and say it, Mercedes might be the most overrated member of the SCW Hall of Fame ever! Does anyone remember anything of the several title reigns say lays claim too? Oh, right, she rode Goth’s coattails to a Mixed Tag Team Title Win before that division was given a mercy kill!” I started giving a mock applause as the promo continued. ”Good job relying on the skills of a wrestler who had been doing this far longer than you or me Mercedes, great job!”
This is ridiculous.
”Goth may be an all-time great in both the GWA and SCW but let’s face it, his best years are far behind him!” I let out a deep breath as I shook my head. ”Yet I bet the bosses will keep finding excuses to book Mercedes in spite of the obvious lack of care she has towards a match on a Supercard, they always down don’t they? Sooner or later, everyone will realize what I already know, that Mercedes is a spent force in the ring and and it’s time she was put out to pasture because it’s clear that this idiot will only promote matches when it suits her! Her match against Alicia, the Ultimate X Match and the two matches against Masque are prime examples of this but whilst she beat Alicia and managed to get a draw against Masque everything else she’s done is inconsequential in the grand scheme of things.”
It’s that simple.
”Much as I hate to cut this so short, Mercedes is clearly more interested in American bloody Football and some show that happened on this day in 100 BC or whatever than she is about her match at High Stakes XII and me!” I added as I shook my head in disgust. ”And this bitch has the nerve to call ME timid? The one who challenged her to this match, the one who did all the hype for this match on her own? Better watch yourself Mercedes because your timid nature might cost you your Hall of Fame spots!”
And with that I decided to wrap things up.
”Because at this point the fucking Troll is more worthy of a Hall of Fame spot than you Mercedes! I can only hope that my first PPV match of 2023 is a lot more interesting than this but I’m not holding my breath!” I added as I rolled my eyes. ”There was a point where you were considered the leader of the pack Mercedes, and if this match had happened at an earlier point in your career it could’ve been seen as a young cub challenging the leader of the pack for the position of leader, instead? It’s just the Young Cub vs. The old Delusional One and it’s time that the delusional one was put to sleep! And as I turn the page on this disappointing chapter of my SCW career, no tears will be shed as Mercedes is finally put out to pasture! I’d say that I’ll see you in the ring Mercy but I doubt you care about this match enough to even show up, if you do? I’ll drive you down with the Down Under Thunderbomb!”
I left my streaming room as the scene fades.