Off-Camera
Friday, November 29, 2019
Apartment of Christina and Seleana Zdunich
Las Vegas, Nevada
8:18 AM PST
Sitting on the couch in the apartment in Las Vegas that she is currently calling a second home with her wife, fellow SCW wrestler, Christina Zdunich, Seleana Zdunich stares at her cell phone almost willing it to ring. A text message had come through fifteen minutes previous warning her that “an incident” had occurred or maybe was even still in the process of occurring at the Zdunich Zoological Gardens but had given her no specifics at all. Dr. Melissa Chavez, her second-in-command, had sent the message along with a promise to call “soon”
That nebulous time frame was now starting to stretch Seleana’s slowly compromising patience, something that would usually not happen but for the circumstances meaning she cannot simply drive up the street to take care of things herself. As she closes her eyes and lowers her head in anticipation, her daughter-in-law, SCU wrestler Haylie Jo “Halo” Annis walks into the room.
Halo: What’s wrong, Mama Sel?
Opening her eyes to look up at Halo, Seleana shrugs nervously, remaining seated on the edge of the couch.
Seleana Zdunich: There has been an incident at the Zoological gardens, I am waiting for Chavy to call me with updates.
Halo nods and sits down, suddenly looking alarmed as well.
Halo: What kind of incident? Some kid fall in the gorilla pen or try and climb in to pet the big kitties or something?
Shrugging slightly and shaking her head, Seleana sighs unhappily at the very idea of an injured child on her watch.
Seleana Zdunich: I do not think so, but I do not know for certain.
She looks back to her phone and shakes her head, anguished anxiety written all over her face.
Seleana Zdunich: I admit, I’m worried.
Halo nods, patting her mother-in-law on the back.
Halo: If we can survive Sierra Williams…
Seleana manages to smile, nodding slightly at Halo’s words.
Seleana Zdunich: That will be an interesting situation…
Seleana stands up and waddles forward as if about to start pacing. Halo watches her stiff movements and can’t help but grin.
Halo: You and Mama Christina done hit it hard the last couple nights, have ya?
Seleana glances back, surprised and confused by the comment.
Seleana Zdunich: I…
Halo nods to Seleana’s legs.
Halo: Y’all walkin’ funny…
Seleana looks down and blushes.
Seleana Zdunich: Oh… that… ja…
Halo can’t help but smirk knowingly.
Halo: Helluva birthday present that way.
Seleana shrugs, momentarily grinning back.
Seleana Zdunich: She seemed to enjoy it.
Halo snickers to herself.
Halo: She walkin’ funny too?
Before she can answer, Seleana’s phone rings. She glances at the phone and nods quickly, pressing the button to answer the call.
Seleana Zdunich: Chavy?
Dr. Melissa Chavez’s voice rings out loud, clear and agitated from the phone’s speaker.
Dr. Michelle Chavez: PETA were here, they were protesting at the door. Threw blood on some poor kid that was wearing a t-shirt from the Lion King. Think he’d gotten it on a trip to Disney and he was heartbroken it was ruined by these people. Security rushed out to let the family inside, we didn’t bother charging them. BoJack made a run over to Disney and replaced the shirt. They actually sent over other stuff for the poor kid when they heard what had happened.
Halo shakes her head, almost slapping her knee in response.
Halo: Leave it to Disney, y’all…
Frowning, Seleana cocks her head inquisitively to the left.
Seleana Zdunich: Why were PETA there?
Dr. Chavez sighs heavily, knowingly full well the answer is not going to go over well.
Dr. Michelle Chavez: Sarabi and Simba.
Seleana’s mouth falls open at the mention of the names of the two young lions residing at the zoological gardens.
Seleana Zdunich: Varför?
Dr. Chavez sighs again.
Dr. Michelle Chavez: They didn’t really have one. I don’t even really know what they were hoping to accomplish with this protest. They didn’t seem to have a real goal aside from agitating us and our potential customers this morning.
Halo just shakes her head as Seleana stands there staring incredulously at her phone.
Halo: It’s PETA, do they really need a reason? They don’t like much of anything that anyone else finds fun. For God’s sake they asked Judas Priest repeatedly to change the name of their album and song to “Hell Bent For Pleather” despite the fact that pleather ain’t any better for the animals or environment and is probably actually worse because it cheap ass plastic that ain’t gonna last near as long as the real shit and will then be tossed and replaced thus poisoning the very animals they were tryin’ to save!
Dr. Chavez can’t believe her ears. To her, Halo had always been the other nice one in the house with Seleana, Brittany and Christina.
Dr. Michelle Chavez: ¡Madre de Dios! I’ve never heard her talk like that!
Seleana stares over at Halo, still in visible shock.
Seleana Zdunich: Nor have I, Chickie.
Halo shrugs almost nonchalantly.
Halo: It’s true, PETA’s a bunch of hypocritical bastards like that! They go after the stupidest shit and blow money on shit that ain’t gonna help nothin’ instead of goin’ and doing what they should be by rescuing all the animals that get caught in traps, or stomping out poachers or helping to fight the fires in the Amazon and the Australian bush, but no, they’re gonna stand there jackin’ off at Mama Sel’s zoo because it was five minutes up the road and meant they didn’t have to expend much energy at all!
Seleana just stares in shock at her daughter-in-law, stunned at how furious on her behalf the young woman seems to be.
Dr. Michelle Chavez: Bruv!
Halo shrugs.
Halo: You sure this don’t tie back to nobody? I mean, you got four women you gotta face off with on Sunday, World Bombshell Championship implications. You got another one local here, two bosses over you, two bosses over me and several others that ain’t seem to like you much.
Seleana shakes her head.
Seleana Zdunich: Christian and Mark are too busy to worry about this. Alicia Lukas would not bother, she would not think she’d need to considering she has been champion for so long now. Sierra Williams is too focused and driven to look over here. Roxi would not see this as befitting a hero…
Halo nods slowly.
Halo: What about Mama Christina or Andrea Hernandez?
Dr. Chavez cuts in quickly, shock still registering in her voice.
Dr. Michelle Chavez: Christina bought this place for you, why would she do such a thing?
Seleana shakes her head just as quickly, dismissing the idea out of hand.
Seleana Zdunich: She is trying to stay away from things Crystal Hilton would do, even with championships involved. If she were to do something like that, I think now it would be in the heat of the moment in the actual championship match and not out here now.
Dr. Chavez exhales sharply.
Dr. Michelle Chavez: I’ll have to call you back, I think we’re about to have to call the police in. Something else is going on out there.
Seleana shakes her head sadly.
Seleana Zdunich: Okej, Chavy, keep me posted.
The call ends and Seleana shakes her head again, tossing the phone onto the couch in frustration.
Seleana Zdunich: För fan i helvete!
Halo stares at the phone and looks up to her mother-in-law.
Halo: Aren’t all your animals basically rescues.
Seleana nods.
Seleana Zdunich: Ja, they are.
Halo shakes her head.
Halo: What about a Mercedes Vargas? Or Dani Weston? Or that GRIME group started runnin’ roughshod in SCU?
Seleana shakes her head.
Seleana Zdunich: Mercedes doesn’t care enough about me to do that. Dani wouldn’t need to do that to get the champion’s attention, she’s one of only two of us that can say we’ve pinned Alicia here for the championship. Besides, she has Christina working under her at the casino. If she wanted to mess with us, she would do it there and she’s only been helpful to us.
Halo crosses her arms.
Halo: You still ain’t crossed off any SCU people or the one you’re actually fighting on Sunday.
Seleana nods slowly to herself.
Seleana Zdunich: Andrea I do not know well enough despite working in two companies with her, as you do as well. I do not know that we have ever crossed paths with her before. Have any of us?
Halo ponders this for a second.
Halo: I wanna say I did once but if I did, it was like a year ago when Galactic was still under its first head bitch in charge so it would have been a while if we have.
Seleana nods.
Seleana Zdunich: And she already has her championship opportunity. She seems driven in the same manner that Sierra and Alicia are so I do not think this would be her style either.
Pausing, Seleana nods to herself almost unconsciously as he continues to go over the list of Sin City related suspects.
Seleana Zdunich: As for the SCU people, I do not think any of them look down on me as I have done nothing against them. GRIME would likely only have eyes on me if they invade SCW and even then, right now it would only be because I was associated with the championship scene, not because they actually wanted to fuck with me. I also tend to think they would be more given to marring the walls with graffiti than they would setting PETA on us. Angel of Filth does not strike me as the type who would get along with those people. They are not dirty enough for her.
Halo cocks her head inquisitively.
Halo: Does that leave anyone?
Seleana ponders for a second before nodding sharply.
Seleana Zdunich: Skit också! It just might, but I will have to look into it later after I get the details of what actually happened from Chavy.
Halo nods quickly.
Halo: Did y’all see the show last night?
Seleana nods quickly, smiling.
Seleana Zdunich: I did, you and Kelli did well working together. Merlot Ayano is a tough woman.
Halo nods, visibly proud.
Halo: We been talkin’ bout makin’ it a real team. Even got a name we’re kickin’ round. The Bad Ass Sisters In Combat, Uniquely Gifted Get Over.
Seleana smirks.
Seleana Zdunich: I do not think Veronica Taylor would enjoy that name if you use it.
Halo nods knowingly.
Halo: That was kinda the point…
Seleana chuckles, Halo joining her.
Seleana Zdunich: I like it, Chickie!
Halo: Us too, Mama Sel, us too.
Seleana picks up her phone and nods at Halo to follow her.
Seleana Zdunich: Come on, let us go get a workout in while I wait for Chavy to call back. I need to get ready for Andrea and you need to get ready for whatever else they will throw your way in SCU.
Halo nods in response.
Halo: Right behind ya, Mama Sel.
On-Camera
Friday, November 29, 2019
Apartment of Christina and Seleana Zdunich
Las Vegas, Nevada
6:39 PM PST
The camera opens on Seleana Zdunich standing in front of the couch in the apartment she is currently sharing with her wife in Las Vegas. Pulling her white top down, she glances at her tight blue jeans and then nods to herself.
Seleana Zdunich: Andrea Hernandez is a force to be reckoned with. The woman has come into SCW and set the Bombshell Division on fire like no one since our illustrious champion, Alicia Lukas herself. Alciia came in as a champion and blazed a trail until she ran into one roadblock in Dani Weston. One that she quickly dispatched at her next opportunity. You find yourself in that situation now while I find myself in a peculiar one…
Looking up, Seleana raises her right hand as if weighing something for judgement.
Seleana Zdunich: On the one hand, I have worked to reach a level where it is no longer a surprise that I can earn my spot in the six-pack challenge at December 2 Dismember. I have worked up to where I am one of the more popular bombshells with fan support I can count on.
Her right hand lowers, the left raising up in its place.
Seleana Zdunich: Yet, on the other, I constantly hear these birds chirping at me about things…
The hand lowers.
Seleana Zdunich: It’s not just the locker room, Chickie. Alicia Lukas herself has mentioned being tired of facing, not just me, but everyone from my household because we have seemingly held her hostage in terms of main event matches for the last year. Dani Weston was involved for a minute at the beginning of the year and then Kate Steele…
She trails off and nods pointedly.
Seleana Zdunich: I do not care what skitsnack name she is using now, she’s still just Kate Steele, the woman who attempted to make amends with me when she thought it benefitted her for a championship match in the UK and then perpetrated a fraud in public trying to both court sympathy and establish herself as a bigger star and only truly succeeded in proving she was a two-faced, disingenuous puta that never deserved a second chance and now deserves nothing at all…
She waves her right hand dismissively.
Seleana Zdunich: But aside from that one off, it has been a steady diet of me, my wife and my stepdaughter all year, and I am certain she is tired of it just as I am certain she, Sierra Williams, you and I are not looking forward to her standing in my corner for our match. None of them really care about who wins our match unless my wife does what she has done before and makes a liar of herself where “Crystal Hilton” is concerned.
She pauses again to tap her chin thoughtfully.
Seleana Zdunich: Roxi is probably in the same boat, though she might offer me support until the match is official and we are all adversaries for the richest prize there is!
Nodding to herself again, she shrugs and allows her hands to drift back down out of the shot.
Seleana Zdunich: Technically we will both have two of our adversaries “in our corner” but let us be real, Chickie, They are only there to watch us fight, some possibly even hoping we beat each other senseless for their amusement before we all have to sign a contract in one of these ceremonies that never end well. This should be a grand moment for all six of us, but knowing these, someone will cause anarchy to reign and the crowd will be chanting “Let them fight! Let them fight! Let them fight!”
She shakes both fists as if mimicking the fans on their feet before looking directly into the camera.
Seleana Zdunich: Alicia Lukas, Sierra Williams, Christina Zdunich, Roxi Johnson, Andrea Hernandez, Seleana Zdunich, a six-pack challenge that should guarantee the eyeballs on the product will be great in number…
She nods, raising her right index finger, wagging it slightly.
Seleana Zdunich: But I do not view this match as a nothing that we have to get through so we can get to something more!
She shakes her head enthusiastically.
Seleana Zdunich: No, Andrea, this is an opportunity for the Cat and the Phoenix to take center stage, and show the world, everyone backstage and the four women standing at ringside that there is nothing “dark horse” about either one of us! We can go down the list for why Alicia, Roxi, Sierra and Christina should be favorites, but I can look at all of them and say so should we!
She quickly waves her fingers between the camera and herself.
Seleana Zdunich: You and I are the ones with the opportunity, Andrea. We get to set the pace, we get to set the example and light the sky on fire as we prepare to go to Las Vegas and make Sin City sit up and take notice like never before! You want momentum?
She points to herself and then waves the camera to come on.
Seleana Zdunich: Here it stands in front of you, Andrea, come and get it! I am not looking past you to the challenge, I’m not looking past you to the ceremony for the contract, I am not even looking at the four standing at ringside for this. I am looking at you and saying bring it all and get ready to light it up because if you don’t burn it all, this is one Cat that can make the feathers fly!
Her hands drop to her sides again.
Seleana Zdunich: Sunday night, Primm, Nevada, just forty miles away from Las Vegas and the big one, and we can make the bad times turn good at the El Royale when we make the night burn brightly enough to get Las Vegas’s attention. You and me, Andrea, let’s do this!
