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Climax Control Archives / “The Return.”
« on: July 17, 2023, 07:21:38 PM »
Climax Control 366 started off like any other edition, albeit one hosted from the Roman Colosseum in Rome, but it ended unlike any other, to the point where the fantastic Main Event between Jessie Salco and Laura Phoenix for the Bombshell Roulette Title found itself being overshadowed by it! Why? Because in the midst of Chelsea Skye’s surprise appearance to get revenge on Krystal Wolfe for her wife, it was revealed that Krystal had been possessed by a revived Sin and no one know for how long! Even worse? Sin had completely taken over Krystal’s body leaving little of the Aussie’s true self left.

But that wasn’t the only attack Krystal committed that evening as Krystal sought revenge on Ruby Steele for costing them the match against Keira and Whisper at Summer XXXTreme only to be saved by Seleana Zdunich before Krystal could break Ruby’s arm! Well, the noses took one look at that situation and decided “let’s book a match between those two” and it was set for the second Climax Control of the Cycle, a rematch from Inception IV two years ago! Can Krystal win?

Unknown Location
Unknown Date and Time

I honestly can’t remember anything.

The last thing I remember before blacking out was getting a headache after Keira kicked me to break my submission hold on Chelsea, at first I figured that Keira had given me a concussion but the next thing I knew, I was in a jet-black cage, surrounded by flames.

Yet, somehow, I wasn’t feeling the heat from the flames and when I touched the cage, it was cool to the touch, something was definitely off.

”Where am I?!” I called out to the darkness that surrounded the cage, the only light being provided was the flight from the flames but then I heard footsteps coming from the darkness and I tried to adjust my vision to see who it was, it wasn’t until she came right up to the flames that I recognized her. ”SIN?!”

Her form was different, before her appearance looked like Keira if Keira died her hair black with dots in her eyes, this time? Her hair was read, not a natural red like my natural hair colour but blood red. Scars lined her face and she had visible burn marks on her arms. “One year.” Sin scowled as he eyes narrowed at me and I gave her a confused look. “I waited nearly a whole year for this to take place and even now I’m not at full strength.”

”What the hell are you talking about?!” I demanded as I glared at Sin. ”I thought you were dead, the whole wrestling world thought Keira killed you alongside the rest of your minions.”

“Pride, Greed, Wrath, Envy, Lust, Gluttony, Sloth? They are all gone for good, I thought I sensed the sin of lust in that girl you targeted last night, Chelsea was it? But Keira interfered before I could investigate further.” Sin added before a sadistic grin spread across her lips. “I suppose you want to know where you are, I trapped you within your own mind, you’ll watch on, helpless to do anything as I slaughter your friends and family using your own hands!” Sin added as I glared at her. “And you can thank a certain former manager of yours for it.”

”Matthew Kennedy?!” I asked as it dawned on me and Sin nodded as a screen appeared behind her. ”What’s he got to do with anything?! He was bankrupt by the time Jenny’s lawsuit was done with him, he faded into obscurity after the students’ lawsuit was settled!”

“Those are true, but you forgot one thing, if a person desired something hard enough, they’ll go to any lengths to see it through.” Sin responded as she leaned against an invisible wall. “You were desperate enough to check yourself out of hospital the week before a Roulette Title Shot, the one against Kat Jones I believe?.”

”What are you implying? That Matthew and Marty did something to me during that brief hospital stay? I’d remember my former managers going out of their way to visit me after all they’ve done!” I demanded and Sin cackled as she shook her head.

“No my child, that happened later in the year, seven days before your twenty seventh birthday.” Sin responded as she shook her head and I immediately felt a cold chill go down my back. “And what a lovely birthday present Makayla had for you, the news that she was three months pregnant and with twins no less! I remember when you snuck into her house just so you could see the twin girls, such lovely little faces.”

”YOU STAY AWAY FROM THEM YOU BITCH!!” I demanded as I grasped the bars of my cage angrily and Sin laughed in response. ”Makayla, Rachel, Cara and Zosia have done nothing to you!”

“Let me make one thing clear, you are NOT in a position to make demands of me!” Sin said angrily as she marched up to my cage. “I am in control of your body, your mind, your actions, your decisions, your consequences, and as my power grows.” Sin smirked before grabbing me by the chin and pulling my face up to the bars. “So will your suffering!”

All of a sudden, the bars turns super-hot and my flesh burned almost immediately, I was able to pull my hands away from the cage but Sin held my face to the bars and all I could do was let out a muffled scream due to her grip on my chin, this lasted about a minute before she finally let go and let the bars cool down leaving me severely burned on my hands and face, at least for five minutes before Sin healed  my wounds, which, off course, felt like an eternity. ”What the hell do you want Sin?!” I demanded as I started to regain my composure. ”What is your end game?”

“What I want is your body, and not in a sexual way either! Keira destroyed my original vessel, Matthew and Marty may have revived me but I am nowhere near close to my full power.” Sin responded as she folded her arms. “And once I am back at my full power? You’ll be erased from history, no one will remember you, your friends, family, co-workers? They will have no recollection of you, only Sin! No one will even remember that title reign you took so much pride in, that nine-month period will be a blank record in the SCW History Books for the Bombshell Roulette Division.” Sin smirked as she walked up to the screen. “All because you, in a moment of weakness, hired a former wrestler and his business partner to be your managers.”

”When?!” I asked as my eyes narrowed. ”When did this all start?!”

“November the 9th, 2022, exactly one week before your birthday.” Sin responded as the screen turned on, I remembered that week’s Climax Control well, it was the week of Ariana’s final title defence of the year against Jessie Salco, she would go on to lose the Bombshell Roulette Title in the New Year thanks to the open invitational clusterfuck that was won by the other Crystal. “Shall we see?”

”Do I have a choice?” I asked sarcastically and Sin shook her head.

Krystal’s home, Las Vegas, Nevada
Wednesday the 9th of November 2022, 11:00pm

Off course, I didn’t know that Makayla was pregnant by then, she wouldn’t reveal that fact until the following week, the week where I challenged Masque for the World Bombshell Title.

At that point, me and Makayla were fast asleep in our bed, the dogs were downstairs probably dreaming of chasing squirrels or something like that, Rachel was in her own room down the hall and, well, you get the idea.

What I don’t remember is two masked figures sneaking into our room.

“Do you have the book?” Matthew whispered to Marty as they approached our bed and Marty nodded before handing it to Matthew. “One wretched spell and our revenge will be complete.”

“Can’t we get revenge on them he old fashioned way? They are so beautiful, at least………” What Marty was implying was enough to make my skin crawl, especially in hindsight knowing that Makayla was only a few months into her pregnancy at the time, but thankfully Matthew shot his disgusting suggestion down.

“No, if we do anything to harm them the spell won’t work, not even the devil itself would be able to revive Sin if that happens!” Matthew said angrily and Marty wisely (and thankfully) backed off, the next few moments were filled with Matthew reading a spell from the book, I could neither read or understand Latin but the intent behind his words was as clear as fucking day, especially as several small ghostly figures swirled around Matthew and the spell got louder.

Yet somehow, it woke no one in the house or the neighbourhood up, and after several minutes my mouth opened on it’s own and the spirits flew in! Once the final sprit entered my mouth it closed shut for the rest of the night. “Is it done?” Marty asked and Matthew nodded before marching his former manager out of the room. “What now?”

“We sit on the sidelines and wait.” Matthew responded as he glanced over at my sleeping form. “The process should take until July to complete, until then Sin will be slowly exerting her influence over Krystal, at some point she will snap completely and go rogue, by then Sin will be using her emotions and feelings against her.” Matthew explained as the two men left the home without disturbing either of the dogs, Garrus and Tali were still fast asleep despite the former being a German Shepherd with intruders in the house. “By July Sin will take a hold of her completely.”

“But what about us?” Marty asked as they left the house and raced towards a waiting car which sped off once they were inside. “What do we get from this?”

“Sin promised us great rewards for this service.” Matthew nodded as they buckled up. “We will be on top of the mountain again.

Inside Krystal’s mind
Unknown time and place

As the screen turned off I was left with a lot to think about, and Sin was going nowhere fast so I grabbed the opportunity in front of me.

”What kind of reward did you promise them?” I asked as Sin laughed to herself. ”And why has no one heard from them since?”

“I did promise them an award, that much is true.” Sin cackled before she frowned, “They betrayed you when they tried to sabotage your career, they betrayed Cass when they tried to use her as a bargaining chip to keep you in line, and worst of all, they betrayed humanity when they even entertained the idea of reviving me.” Sin said before grinning sadistically. “So I rewarded those fools exactly as a traitor deserves.”

As soon as the words hit me, my blood ran cold, and I immediately looked at my own hands. ”You didn’t?!”

“Oh don’t worry Krystal, I didn’t use your body for that, my power wasn’t strong enough.” Sin responded as she started to walk off. “But what you do need to know is that they will never be seen again! And to think, your bosses were kind enough to spoon feed me my first victim.”

”My bosses? Mark and Christian booked me this week?” I asked and Sin cackled again. ”Against who?”

“Ruby Steele, they are feeding that little lamb to the slaughter all because you attacked her.” Sin responded as she started to walk behind the screen. “Not something I planned for but you have quite the history with Ruby, don’t you? Your first major rival in Sin City Wrestling, the woman who replaced you as Mark Storm’s partner in Blast from the Past, the woman whose minions assisted Diamond Steele in ending your Roulette Championship Reign, my, my, why on earth was she your first pick?” Sin asked rhetorically before laughing. “Oh yes, because you have no allies left, Go Gym? Burned that bridge to the ground, Saviours? You were barely in that group for a cup of coffee, any of the new girls? At this point the only one foolish enough would be that new girl, Juliana DiMaria?”

”Me and Ruby will never be friends, but if you so much as harm one hair on her head……..” The bars heated up again and Sin mockingly did a “tut, tut” motion with her hand.

“Forget your place already? Welcome to your new home Krystal, you will never see the light of day again.” Sin taunted me before she disappeared into the darkness, leaving me alone in the cage. "Once I take care of that fool known as  Ruby and before you vanish for good, Krystal. I will let you see with your own eyes one last sight, the end of Keira! For you see Krystal, once she dies, you will die!"

I had already viewed my alliance with Matthew and Marty as one of the biggest mistakes on my wrestling career to date, but now? I may as well update that to “life”.

Italian Countryside
Monday the 17th of July 2023, 17:00pm

*promo time*

So much has changed.

”Hello dear viewers, you may see Krystal Wolfe on your screens but she is not home, I am Sin, I have returned after three long years.” I stated as I folded my arms. ”Get used to this! because you will never see Krystal as you knew her again! I am in control of her body, I am in control of her will, I am in control of her actions and soon, I will be fully reborn in this body and them the world will weep as it breathes its last breath!” I said with a laugh as I turned my head to the side. ”And Krystal’s employers were kind enough to serve me my first victim in a silver platter, hello dear Ruby, do you want to play a game?”

My first victim.

”Ruby, you have wrestled my vessel before, in fact you were her first rival in Sin City Wrestling, but don’t go into this match expecting the same Krystal you wrestled all those years ago, instead, expect nothing but violence and desolation in your future!” I stated as I folded my arms. ”For you see Ruby, I will not just be out to defeat you on Sunday, I will be out to send a message! Not just to the Bombshell Locker Room, not just to Keira, Roxi or whoever else has a vested interest in what’s going on with me, but to the whole world for once I am done I will remake the world in my image.”

And you will be the first.

”An image of chaos, an image of destruction, an image or brutality, an image of Sin!” I cackled menacingly as I flipped some hair over my shoulder. ”Little girl you have no idea of the horrors that will await you once that bell rings but you will learn soon enough, and trust me Ruby, the only outrageous thing about you after this match will be if there’s anything left of you.”

If you’re lucky.

”A new age of darkness has descended upon Sin City Wrestling, and you can all thank one of the original Roulette Champions for it, you know, if you ever find Matthew Kennedy, he has been a bit hard to find since last November.” I stated with a cackle as I lowered my eyes. ”And Ruby? Make no mistake, your first mistake was screwing over my vessel, your last mistake was to antagonize her, your final mistake was too accept this match, and there will be no mistakes once that bell rings.”

Remember.

”You know what the sad irony is? Krystal did nothing wrong, all she wanted was to be respected by her peers, all she wanted was to be held in the same regard as the likes of Devona, Evie Jordan, London Underground, Fenris, Ariana Angelos, HB Carter, the list goes on! But because you chose to treat her like her accomplishments meant nothing? You drove her to desperation you drove her to seek the services of two former members of the SCW Roster to serve as her managers.” I scoffed to myself as I turned my head to the side. ”You created the monster you see before you, you created Sin reincarnated in Krystal’s body and when the dust has settled on a fallen world and Ruby is recorded as the first victim? They will all point to that one moment in time when they treated a newcomer from Australia like she was beneath them, to the point where they belittled her in her grandest moment, jealousy perhaps? Or just the simple fact that they saw a younger, hungrier Bombshell doing what they never could, you decide, before it’s too late!”

Make it fast.

”But you had better make your decision quickly because I will not be so merciful as to grant Ruby a swift end to her suffering on Sunday!” I added as I ran a hand through my hair. ”And come Sunday night, you will all know the name of Sin, you will all know the bringer of your destruction, you will all know the fate that waits those stupid enough to get in the ring with me, it’ll almost be cathartic to see someone as widely hated as Ruby left in a bloody heap wouldn’t it? Until you fools realize one thing, Ruby was just the start, what do I have in store for the rest of the Bombshell Division?”

It’s that simple.

”You will find out soon enough SIN City Wrestling, appropriate that I would manifest in such a company, and that I would make my glorious return within, I may have been late to the kill, but Ruby will be early for the slaughter.” I stated with a sadistic grin on my face. ”I have waited three long years for this moment Ruby and I will savour every last moment of your agony, I will morsel every second of your suffering, if you’re lucky? Then maybe your precious wife will save you, but that title of hers can’t save her from me!” I added as I folded my arms. ”the only thing that can save you is my mercy, and it’s laughable to think that I have any mercy to spare!”

And with that I decided to wrap things up.

”But ultimately it seems I have you, the Bombshell Roster, to thank for my resurrection, for you see, none off this would’ve been possible if you had treated my vessel with a single monochrome of respect! But fear not, for your world may suffer slowly, I will grant Ruby and any other fools that get in my path a quick end!” I added as clenched a fist and held it to my face. ”The return has been three years in the making and by the time I am done, no one will remember a time before Sin for all those who get in my path will beware the ides of march!”

I walked off as the scene fades.

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Supercard Archives / “I’ll Win The War!”
« on: June 22, 2023, 10:09:52 PM »
Climax Control 355 would end up being another eventful night for Krystal, the Aussie Bombshell not only threatened (indirectly) Carter’s mom and grams in a backstage segment that saw Carter get physical with her but Sarah Blaze would almost beat her in a public workout only to get screwed over by Jessica Stevens leading to Chelsea Skye making her SCW debut to make the save for her wife and lay down a challenge for the next Climax Control and to make matters worse Krystal would lose to Whisper in a fierce match!

But before that there was Summer XXXTreme XI and the annual summer spectacular was playing host to Whisper’s SCW PPV Debut as she and Keira were teaming up to take on Krystal and Ruby, can Krystal get the win back?

Unknown location
Unknown time and place

Where the fuck am I?!

I could’ve sworn I was going to bed a few minutes ago but now I’m finding myself in some literal hellhole, there was no other way I could describe it because I was surrounded by flames and in front of was a massive crimson castle.

Either this is a dream or the devil decided to skip several steps after the last Climax Control!

”Where the fuck am I?!” I wondered out loud as I looked around, then a figure cloaked in shadows emerged from the castle. ”Who…….”

“My name is unimportant because you are what matters Krystal.” The figure responded and I quickly recognized the voice as the one who possessed me during my last promo and caused me to attack Makayla. “And you have done well so far.”

”I never wanted ANY of this!” I snapped at the figure as I glared at it, I couldn’t really tell if the figure was a woman like me and the voice wasn’t helping either. ”I just wanted to split off from Team Go, join the Saviours and try to break out on my own, you ruined everything!”

“Did I? You were being chafed by The Saviours from day one, and I’d say that the way you broke off was perfect.” The figure responded as it shook it’s head and I frowned as I glared at it. “And breaking those weaklings in those workouts was just the icing on the cake!”

”All the bridges I had built, burned because you, whatever you are, came into my life!” I snapped at the figure as it began to step forward. ”No more! I am done with you!”

“No, you’re not.” The figure responded before it stepped out of the shadows, she was almost the splitting image of me, same blue hair and everything but the key difference was the red cat-like eyes. “We are just beginning.” She added before forcing a kiss on me, but that was where this vision left off and why?

Because it was a dream.

Krystal’s apartment, Las Vegas, Nevada
Thursday the 22nd of June 2023, 09:00am

So yeah, I’ve been keeping this under wraps but I moved back to Vegas at the beginning of the week, as I said before, without Hell’s Gate to train at I literally had nothing to do in Grand Junction and despite the incident and the ongoing divorce proceedings, Makayla had helped me get a small apartment here in Vegas.

Said apartment was filled with my surprised scream as I jolted awake, I glanced over at my phone and saw three things, the time and a pair of text messages.

”Several missed calls from Cass and a text from Jessica, is Cass still after that five grand from the public workout?” I wondered out loud as I thought back to that incident several weeks ago, we hadn’t talked since then but I was able to confirm through Cassie’s stepmom that it was true, me and Cass were actually half sisters and we were only related by marriage, aside from that? I had put it out of my mind and decided to focus on Jessica’s message by calling her and putting it on loudspeaker. ”Hey Jess, sorry if I sound tired, I literally just woke up.”

“Having a bit of a lay in?” Jessica asked and I shook my head before Jessica switched over to FaceTime to see me better. “You weren’t kidding huh? I’ll keep this short since you obviously need to get ready and shit, you remember Marty and Matthew?”

”You mean the second biggest mistake I’ve made? Right behind joining The Saviours?” I asked as I got out my bed and started brushing my hair. ”Last I heard from them, the lawsuit had driven them to bankruptcy and they had faded away into obscurity, why do you ask?”

“I’ve been getting calls from a lawyer who claims they represent those two, don’t ask how they can afford a lawyer after your lawsuit left their finances in the shitter, she said that they were moving back to England and, well, I think it’ll be better if I just show you a screenshot of what she showed me.” Jessica added before she sent me a screenshot over text and I checked it.

I wasn’t really sure what to make of it, most of the writing was in Latin and I’m fluent in English alongside knowing a little bit of Greek (thanks to my marriage to Makayla) but Latin was another question entirely. ”Jessica, you know Latin’s a dead language, right?” I asked as I switched to Jessica’s facetime. ”How can you expect anyone to understand that? I’m only fluent in English for fuck’s sake!”

“I was wondering the same thing but she included a version that they had run through Google Translate.” Jessica responded before sending me another pic and I checked it out.

This had started to put a lot of recent events into a whole new context, because the text was about demon summoning and implanting them into another person’s body, but it also raised a few more questions as well. ”Why was something like this in their possession? Matthew and Marty are carny pieces of shit but they always seemed to be grounded in some semblance in reality!” I added and Jessica could only shrug her shoulders in response.

“I’m only telling you what that lawyer told me, I can give you her contact info if you want to check her out for yourself.” Jessica responded and I quickly nodded at that idea, Jessica sent me another text and sighed. “So what’s the latest between you and Makayla? I noticed that you had moved back to Vegas.”

”Yeah, I’m back in Vegas but I’m laying low and living separately from Makayla, there isn’t exactly a shortage of people who want to kick my ass in SCW, especially after that incident with Carter, Miles and Ariana.” I responded with a nod as I ran a hand through my hair. ”Ruby seems to be the only one on my side right now and she’s only doing this tag match because she hates Keira.”

“My question is this, why did you go with a roster member? Why not someone unexpected like Masque or Amber Ryan?” Jessica asked and I frowned before shaking my head.

”Aside from the fact that neither of those women have been seen or heard from since their last reigns as World Bombshell Champion ended? Amber is too closely tied with Mac and Masque is someone who I wouldn’t want to be in a ring with again even if we were the last wrestlers on Earth.” I responded as I shook my head and Jessica nodded. ”Otherwise? I would’ve contacted them long before Ruby even volunteered herself!”

“Would’ve been less annoying at least, anyway I had better get going because I need to get some food in me, talk to you later.” Jessica responded and I nodded before she hung up, even though Jessica had seen me naked a few times (and vice-versa off course) I used my newfound privacy to get dressed for the day.

It was only after I put on my “Within Temptation” crop top that I got another text, initially I thought it was Jessica again but no, it was Cassie again and this one I couldn’t ignore. ”I’m waiting downstairs and I’m not leaving until we talk, see you soon Charlotte.” Cassie’s text message was accompanied by several missed calls, calls that I must’ve missed due to being on the phone with Jessica.

I wasn’t about to keep her waiting much longer, I grabbed my jacket and headed downstairs ready to face my cou……….I mean half-sister.

Nevada Desert
Thursday the 22nd of June 2023, 11:00am

Usually I come out here much later to cut promos, but it’s useful when two young women want a chat in piece! Especially when those women just found out that they are half-sisters.

”Okay, how about we start from the top?” I asked Cassie as I walked in front of the Quash Quai and she nodded as she leaned against the door. ”When exactly did your mom tell you the truth?”

”Mom told me at the beginning of May, I told Keira a few days later and she spread the word to Harper and Jessie.” Cassie responded with a nod as she folded her arms. ”They were going to tell me sooner but then you re-entered my life, turns out I’ve been living with my aunt and uncle all these years and I’ve got some Italian blood in me.”

”That does explain why you and your parents have a darker skin tone than the rest of the family I guess.” I responded with a frown after thinking it over. ”Dae I ask what happened to your birth mom?”

”Same fate as yours, one of ger final acts was to give me to Ruth and Erick before she was killed.” Cassie responded with a deep sigh as she glanced to the side. ”I was still a baby at the time, I never even met my birth mom! I didn’t even know what she looked like before my stepparents showed me a pic of her holding me as a baby! But I can at least say that I got my looks from her.”

”That’s all well and good Cass, but what does that mean for us?” I asked as I folded my arms and Cassie paused. ”You humiliated me when you returned to Climax Control several weeks ago, I nearly ended your career with a steel chair.”

”At least you’ve finally come around to how fucked up that was.” Cassie responded as she shook her head. ”I don’t know if we’ll ever get back to the way things were before you attacked me Charlotte, but even after everything you’ve done since then? I still believe that there’s some good left in you.” Cassie added before she motioned to the car. ”I just hope that you realize it before it’s too late.”

”Maybe, maybe not, but I’m guessing you’re ready to head home.” I responded and Cassie quickly nodded in response before we got in the car. ”For now? We’ll keep this convo between us.”

”No argument there!” Cassie responded before we drove off, about an hour into the drive I had to pull over because I was getting a searing headache which Cassie caught onto quickly. ”Charlotte?!”

“Eliminate he weakling my puppet.” The demonic voice rang out in my head and I quickly shook my head. “No one will miss her!”

”GET LOST!” I screamed and the pain and voice stopped, I took several deep breaths before I turned to Cass who had a look of obvious concern on her face. ”I’d say it’s a long story but I don’t even think that’s doing it justice.”

”We have what? A two hour drive to Vegas? Tell me on the way.” Cass instructed me and I nodded before we drove off, me telling Cass everything that had happened recently along the way.

What she was going to do with that info was anyone’s guess.

Nevada Desert
Thursday the 22nd of June 2023, 21:00pm

*promo time*

Back here again and for my promo at that!

”Year one, my first Summer XXXTreme, I became one of only two Bombshells to date to retain the Bombshell Roulette Title in the Ultimate X Match, I’m pretty sure that you guys know the rest of that story by now.” I said as I folded my arms and leaned against the car’s bumper. ”Year two, last year’s Summer XXXTreme, I had to make do with a tag team match against the Metal Maniacs, quite the fall from grace right? Well, many would argue that I had an even bigger one this year but going from wrestling two of the Bombshell Division’s biggest jokes to wrestling two legends of the sport? Tell me, who really had the fall from grace here?”

You know what I’m talking about.

”I will say this, those who had “Whisper making her SCW debut” on your bingo cards for 2023 had better try playing the state lottery because that is some prediction!” I stated with a slight laugh before shaking my head. ”All vecause I made some idiot cry over gummi bears of all things! Feel free to tell Despy this for me Whisper: THEY ARE FOOD! GUMMI BEARS ARE MEANT TO BE EATEN! Now that that’s out of the way, let’s move on to the relevant shit!”

Starting with…….

”Let’s get the obvious out of the way, Whisper won our match last Sunday because I was still tired from the Public Workout, how else do you explain me failing to beat her several times? Well I’m not making the same mistake at Summer XXXTreme, I’m pretty sure the bosses don’t want a repeat of what happened to Chelsea Payne all those years ago, and with Ruby at my side?” I asked as I flipped some hair over my shoulder. ”We can’t lose! Whisper may have win the battle but in the end? I’ll win the war!”

But she’s not my main focus.

”And to think. If Keira had stayed retired none of this would’ve happened, but no, she too exception to me wrecking a few rookies and here we are, two cycles into the Keira Johnson come back tour, hey! At least it’s going netter than London Underground’s!” I scoffed as I rolled my eyes. ”I was really looking forward to silencing you once and for all in a singles match Keira but this will have to do for now! And just to reaffirm this? it’ll be a cold day in hell before I go after anyone under the age of eighteen, your kid Nate is safe!”

Why?

”You see Keira, you may blast me for giving up motherhood for glory but here’s the fact, I’m still a mother! As of last month I am a mother of three beautiful girls, I wouldn’t want that happening to them and I wouldn’t do that to anyone else’s kid!” I added as I shook my head. ”But I guess my word isn’t worth more than the sand beneath my feet these days so I’ll have to demonstrate that fact on the cruise! And getting the win along the way will make it all the sweeter.”

It's that simple.

”Me and Ruby don’t like each other, that should be obvious, but we’re united in a common goal, beat up a pair of retirees! Only this will happen  in a wrestling ring aboard a cruise ship and we won’t get arrested for it!” I added with a slight laugh to myself. ”I swear to god this business can be seriously fucked up at times! But one thing’s certain, me and Ruby will get the win!”

And with that I decided to wrap things up.

”And it’s going to take more than two semi-retired wrestlers to stop us! I hope you realize that Keira and Whisper? You got a taste of what I can do when we faced off in Yuma on Sunday Night, at Summer XXXTReme? I’m serving up a full course meal of pain!” I added as I flipped some hair over my shoulder. ”Because the old guard won’t be around forever and eventually the new blood will have to take its place! And at Summer XXXTreme I’ll happily speed the process up as Keira and Whisper beware the ides of March!”

I got in my car and drove off as thescene fades.

23
Climax Control Archives / “They Want Hell?”
« on: June 15, 2023, 08:35:48 AM »
(Ruby was used with Todd’s permission)

Krystal had found herself in a bind, following her actions at the last Climax Control she had gotten her wish, she had awakened the darkness within Keira Fisher by attacking Fayth Kross, Skylar Parker and Carrie Rivera AKA three of Keira’s students at Hero Academy but now Keira was bringing out the big guns because Whisper was set to make her SCW debut next week as she was facing Krystal in singles action but the duo were set to face off against Krystal in a Tag Team Match IF Krystal could find a partner!

And find a partner she did, but it might be an arrangement that Krystal could come to regret as Ruby Steele had jumped at the chance after Keira insulted her wife, the current World Bombshell Champion Courtney Pierce! Ruby was Krystal’s first real rival in Sin City Wrestling, having stirred up a feud with the Aussie a week into her SCW career which lead to the two women facing off at Inception IV which Ruby won, but before Krystal could think about that, she had to get past Whisper! Can Krystal win? Or survive?

Backstage at Climax Control #354, Phoenix, Arizona
Sunday the 11th of June 2023, 18:00pm

Fuck my life!

My actions tonight had a purpose, to bring out the best in Keira as our feud together carried on, Keira had brought Harper, Cassie, Skylar, Fayth and Carrie in to show the three rookies how a wrestling show was ran from behind the scenes and Harper and Cassie in to celebrate their impending EWC debuts, I needed to make an example of them to achieve my goals and Harper and Cassie would be suspicious of me the moment I approached them, Fayth, Skylar and Carrie were too fresh to see it coming.

If only that was where the night ended for me because Keira revealed that her partner for Summer XXXTreme was Whisper! The proprietor of Hell’s Gate was a legend in her own right and having seen her spar during my brief time with The Saviours? I knew that she was no joke in the ring, I needed to find a partner fast and Jessica was already out! Even if she hadn’t been forced to retire due to injury, there was no way Jessica could be trained in time and right now the only thing Jessica could do competently was throw a Superkick.

What can I say? Her injury was a terrible one.

But that did leave me with the question of who would be my partner, Alexandra was out because she didn’t like how I ended her losing streak for her and my music had cost her and Miles a shot at the newly reactivated Mixed Tag Titles (no, I’m not confirming that I had anything to do with that), the only other Bombshell who I hadn’t burned bridges with was Eiley and she was in the aforementioned Mixed Tag Team Title match with Oliver Zahn.

”They just had to spring this on me after I had burned bridges with a majority of the Bombshell Roster!” I grunted in frustration as I went through the SCW Roster page, it was easier to list the Bombshells who I hadn’t pissed off and then I had to find Bombshells who weren’t previously preoccupied with matches on the Summer XXXTreme card. ”Do I dare go for a deal with the devil? Is Amber Ryan even active? Or Masque for that matter?!”

“Interesting choice of words.” A strange voice rang out in my head and I looked up from my phone before looking around, Jessica was waiting for me in the car leaving me alone with my thoughts, or so I thought. “All will be revealed soon child!”

”Hello?!” I called out but whatever the voice was, they didn’t answer, I shook my head before shifting my focus back to my phone. ”Gotta be the stress getting to me, but that doesn’t change the fact that I’d team up with Chloe Benton at this rate! At least I’d have that idiot as bait for Whisper and Keira………..”

“OUTRAGEOUS! You’d consider Chloe Benton before me?!” I closed my eyes with a wince as I heard the English accent approaching me, if you’ve followed my SCW career since the beginning then you know my history with Ruby Steele! I was ready to just walk away from the Brit right there and then but she spoke up. “Hold it Krystal, I want to help you!”

Good thing I wasn’t drinking anything, because my phone would be soaked. ”You? Help me? Ruby you’re another person from my past who stole my spotlight, the only reason I haven’t gone after you is because Keira has taken all my attention since Into the Void, why should I humour you?” I asked as I folded my arms and Ruby stood her ground. ”You have five minutes to give me a satisfactory answer before I head back to the hotel with Jessica!”

“Because we have a mutual enemy!” Ruby responded and I paused to consider her answer. “You know I’m married to Courtney right? Well, Keira has insulted her one time too many, I’m entering this match to defend my wife’s honour.”

”You realize that Keira isn’t fighting us in a handicap match, right? Whisper’s coming out of retirement to defend Despy, I’ve seen her spar, she’s a fucking legend for a reason!” I added as I flipped some hair over my shoulder and Ruby nodded. ”And you still want to do this?!”

“You don’t get an opportunity to wrestle a Bonafede legend every day.” Ruby responded with a nod and I frowned before realizing that Ruby was likely my best shot. “So what do you say?”

”How well do you know Grand Junction, Colorado?” I asked Ruby and when I saw the confused look on her face I shook my head. ”I’ll text you my address in the morning, in the meantime I’m going to give you the same warning I gave Alexandra, don’t fuck me over!”

“You can count on me.” Ruby assured me before we went our separate ways and left me with a lot to think about.

Especially when that voice was concerned.

Krystal’s home, Grand Junction, Colorado
Wednesday the 14th of June 2023, 17:00pm

This has been a week.

My options for training have been limited since I got kicked out of The Saviours last cycle but my home does have a home gym so I’ve been using that, it’s not as big as Jessie’s or as well equipped but it’s a work in progress, and that is where I currently am, getting some workouts in.

As for Ruby? As much as I hated the idea, my one-time rival was my best option for my partner against Whisper and Keira and we had discussed everything we could heading into this match, Keira was already suspicious of our partnership, already thinking that I was going to toss her aside once I was done with Ruby, I’ll neither confirm or deny that for now but all you need to know is that I need Ruby more than she needs me.

And for now, that would have to do.

”98………99………..” My push-ups were interrupted when there was a knock at the door, I figured it was a delivery driver dropping off an Amazon package for next door since I rarely got visitors these days, still I went to answer the door but the person I saw wasn’t an Amazon delivery driver, it was my soon to be ex-wife. ”Makayla?! What are you doing here?!”

”It’s been just under a month since I gave birth to Zosia and Cara, my body’s healed enough so I can travel by air again.” Makayla responded simply and I looked her over, there was barely any sign that the gorgeous blonde in front of me had recently given birth, much less to twin girls, I guess time does fly. ”And Cassie’s girlfriends are babysitting our daughters before you ask, now can I come in?”

I stood aside to let her in and Makayla entered the house with her arms crossed. ”You didn’t fly out here just because your body has healed from the pregnancy Makayla.” I stated  as I walked up to her and Makayla didn’t pay any attention, just wondered around the house until she reached my home gym. ”Why are you realy here?”

”I’m here to give you a second chance Krystal, don’t take this for granted.” Makayla responded with a frown as she leaned against the wall. ”Frankly? The divorce wasn’t my idea, my parents pressured me into it after word reached them of your actions on Climax Control and at Into the Void, I want you to come home with me to Vegas.”

”You really think it’s that simple?!” I asked as I folded my arms. ”My relationship with the Go Gym is dead, I’ve got no friends in SCW left, there’s nothing left for me in Vegas!”

”Nothing except me and our daughters! I don’t want to raise them on my own!” Makayla added and unbeknownst to us, a rage was building up inside me, something otherworldly. ”Don’t give up motherhood for glory Charlotte, you are better than this, I want the girl I knew back! I want the girl who I rescued from her garbage fire of a home life………”

I wasn’t even sure what happened next, one minute I was across the room from Makayla, the next? I had rushed across the room at inhuman speed, grabbed Makayla by the throat and pinned her against the wall. ”Foolish girl! The Krystal you knew is dead!” The voice wasn’t my own, there were traces or my South Australian accent in there but some other accent was, well, it was hard to explain. ”You have no idea who you are dealing with! I could snap your neck just like that!”

”Krystal, please! Your hurting me!” Makayla wheezed as she looked at me and I looked at her, something in my eyes had caused to kick and she knocked the wind out of me with a kick to the gut releasing my grip on her. ”I don’t know who you are, but you are not Krystal!”

”Enough of this! We will meet again!” The voice responded before releasing its hold on me and I collapsed to my knees. ”Makayla, please believe me, that wasn’t me!”

”I know, you’re strong but not strong enough to hold me up by my neck for that long for one thing, and I’m not even getting into your speed.” Makayla added as she walked up to me and I glanced up at her. ”And your eyes were different, instead of your usual green eyes? They were red, and cat like for that matter.”

”What the hell is happening to me?!” I gasped as I pulled myself up and turned to Makayla. ”I won’t tell anyone if you don’t.”

”That’s not all I’ll do, I’ll get Jenny to drop the lawsuit and that’s just the start, I’ll cancel the divorce proceedings too, I just have two conditions.” Makayla added and I turned to her. ”End your Friends with Benefits relationship with Jessica and come back with me to Vegas, I’ll give you until after Summer XXXTReme.”

”I’ll be in touch.” I responded before Makayla left the house.

Krystal’s home. Grand Junction, Colorado
Thursday the 15th of June 2023, 18:00pm

Moving here was a mistake.

It made sense at the time, I was on the outs with the Go Gym after the events of Blaze of Glory XI, Hell’s Gate is based here and The Saviours used that gym to train including me when I was still a member! The fact that my membership of the Saviours was short lived was hardly a secret at this point as SCW had even used it in their match preview for my match against Whisper and whilst there were some inaccuracies, one thing was clear.

I needed to beat Whisper and prove those idiots wrong.

But yeah, after I was unceremoniously ejected from the Saviours during the Unsolved Mysteries tour I had been looking to sell the house in Grand Junction and move elsewhere, I never even got a chance to return to Hell’s Gate because Whisper told me in no uncertain terms that I wasn’t allowed back after the first public workout.

As for where I was moving too? I had a few options in mind, heading back to Australia was one but the massive cost of flying back and forth between my home country and the US for Climax Control/the PPVs on a weekly basis meant that that was a low priority, there were other US cities I had considered as well such as Chicago, New York, Atlantic City, or hell, some small town no one’s heard off so no one would bother me were considered.

It wasn’t until Makayla popped round yesterday that returning to Las Vegas was even an option considering that’s where most of the SCW Roster lives and running into any of my former comrades was an inevitability!

But the incident with Makayla sped things along, frankly I should’ve moved after I got the boot from The Saviours because the whole reason I moved here, to train at Hell’s Gate, was no longer an option.

”Okay, that’s the last of the non-computer stuff packed.” I muttered to myself as I looked over the stuff I was taking back to Vegas with me, my plan was to keep my return under wraps, stay in a small apartment for a while before everything was back to relative normalcy with Makayla, finding room for my gaming pcs was going to be a challenge but I would cross that bridge when I returned to Vegas. ”Computer stuff can wait until tomorrow………”

There was a knock at the door and I frowned, I was wondering if Makayla had been talked into calling the police on me for yesterday’s incident after talking to someone about it, most likely Penelope, but when I answered the door I was relieved to see that it was Jessica instead. “Hey Krystal, do you know anything about this?” Jessica asked once I answered the door and I noticed that she was carrying something under her arm.

”About what?” I asked Jessica before she held the form that she was carrying up to my face, I blinked a couple of times as I read it over before shaking my head. ”Why would I know anything about you getting a job offer from Jenny Tuck?”

“You tell me, she’s a former Bombshell!” Jessica responded as she shook her head before I let her into the house. “Actually I think I can see the bigger question, you’re moving?”

”The move’s been in the works since I got kicked out of The Saviours, I was just unable to get the ball rolling because I spent the rest of the tour on the road with SCW.” I responded as I shook my head and Jessica frowned as she leaned against the countertop. ”What exactly is the job you’ve been offered?” I asked Jessica who quickly grabbed the contract.

“All I know is this, it pays a lot more than I ever earned as a wrestler or as your executive consultant.” Jessica responded with a frown and I nodded knowing that that made sense considering how loaded Jenny was. “Oh and it was a condition of Jenny’s lawsuit being dropped, yeah, I was just as surprised as you are.”

”I’m surprised for a completely different reason to be honest but more to the point.” I responded as I stepped forward and Jessica set the contract down. ”What exactly does Jenny want with you? And if you say “Sugar Mommy” I won’t know whether to laugh or roll my eyes!”

“If an attractive rich woman was basically paying me to fuck her, we wouldn’t have this conversation, no offence.” Jessica responded with a scoff and I just shook my head. “Look, I haven’t said yes to anything yet, but after I was forced to retire from the wrestling business I went back to college and studied finances, eventually the ring called me back and I transitioned into my current manager role but it also turned out that I have quite the mind for business and finances.”

”And you still lived in Luton/did managerial work on the indies because?” I asked with a sceptical look on my face and Jessica frowned.

“It was a number of factors really, from the skimpy outfits that I wore as a wrestler to the fact that at one point I got desperate enough to star in a couple of porn videos to help pay for college, point is? No reputable business would touch me.” Jessica responded with a bitter edge to her voice and I nodded with a frown on my face. “I had two options once I had exhausted every possibility, either a: I went into porn full time or b: I went back to managing wrestlers in the British wrestling scene, you know what option I went with.”

”Yet you still dabble in porn, you said as much when we filmed those sex tapes in London.” I responded as I folded my arms and Jessica clearly wasn’t about to deny that. ”Speaking off, was anything mentioned about us when you got that offer?”

“If you mean that Jenny practically demanded that we stop being fuck buddies? Then yeah, it was mentioned.” Jessica nodded in response and I frowned as it dawned on me. “I guess Jenny really doesn’t want you to dump your ex.”

”Except that was never discussed as an option, we were to be fuck buddies and nothing else, especially nothing about me leaving Makayla for you.” I pointed out and Jessica conceded my point. ”Look, we’ll discuss this on the way back to Vegas, but whilst you’re here, want to help me get a couple of the gaming pcs packed away? I need to get everything but the main streaming PC packed before tomorrow morning.”

“Sure, just so me what to do because you know a lot more about computers than I do.” Jessica nodded in agreement before I went ahead and did just that.

Nevada Desert
Friday the 16th of June 2023, 11:00pm

*promo time*

What a turn of events.

”Gotta say, I didn’t think some idiots would take me and Jessica eating gummi bears on camera that seriously but here we are.” I commented as I munched away at the gummi bear bag in my hands. ”I swear, it’s moments like these that the domino effect meme was made for but I guess people care more about Despy than they care about some old bitch returning to the ring in a company that she’s never competed in, isn’t that right Whisper?”

Butterfly effect.

”Tell me Whisper, have you heard of the Butterfly Effect? A butterfly flaps its wings in one part of the world and a hurricane happens on the other side of the world? That principle can apply to this whole saga, couldn’t it? I got unfairly booted from The Saviours and here we are, over a month later fighting because I ate gummi bears on Climax Control!” I stated before finishing the gummi bears bag and letting it blow away in the wind. ”And before you say it, I know Mac and co. have their own version of why I got booted from The Saviours, and it’s obvious to me which side the bosses are taking thanks to the preview for this match, but no one’s even thought about hearing my side, have they?”

Honestly!

”The preview said that I was booted for being disrespectful and going against everything the Saviours stood for, first off? When? That ONE TIME I spat in a fan’s face? Not my fault that idiot tried getting into it with me after I tore up his kid’s sign, and for that matter? No one ever stopped to go over the rules of being a Saviour after I joined, I was just expected to know how I was supposed to conduct myself but sure, act like it was my fault and not the fault of the Old Farts feeling threatened by a young wrestler going out of her way to get noticed!” I stated as I flipped some hair over my shoulder. ”As for the disrespect thing? That just means that I wasn’t afraid to speak my mind, or do I need to point out that allowing an idiot like Wank to join was a terrible idea from the start?! [I could go on but my point is, there’s a lot of misconceptions about why I was booted from The Saviours and nor I get to take out my anger from that bullshit on the woman who runs Hell’s Gate, fun!”/color]

This will be good.

”Whisper, my time in The Saviours and at Hell’s Gate may have been short but I have seen you spar with those either brave or foolish enough to get in the ring with you, I’ll give you credit for being a hell of a wrestler Whisper but as much as I hate to parrot the stuff Ariana says, can you keep up with a Bombshell in her twenties? Because let’s face facts, when was the last time you wrestled? If you answer by saying “when your age was in the single digits” then I won’t be surprised at all!” I added I added as I sat on top of the hood of my car. ”I know I’m one of the youngest Bombshells on the roster, but I didn’t think I was that young! So what are we supposed to do if you break your hip Whisper?”

Good question.

”Yes, I know Whisper’s not THAT old, that’s the joke!” I added as I shook my head and moved on. ”But my point still stands Whisper, I’m younger, hungrier and still have my best years ahead of me! You? Your best years are so far behind you that they may as well be over that horizon!” I added as I pointed to the horizon behind me, it was quite a view to be honest, but then I started feeling strange. ”What the hell?! Why am I feeling…………” I didn’t remember the rest of the promo after this point but it was caught on camera, what was it? The possession. ”That’s better, Whisper? I’ll be conducting this promo through my puppet as Krystal has checked out for now!”

Welcome to hell!

”Whisper, you promised my puppet hell when you returned to wrestling, you have no idea what hell is, I do and so does my puppet.” The voice was speaking through my mouth in a demonic tone as I watched on from inside my body. ”They want hell? I will give it to them! Ruby is just a means to an end and this Sunday I will ensure that you never return to wrestling again!”

It's that simple.

”Whisper, this isn’t about winning for me, this is about making you regret ever coming to that fool’s defence.” I added as I folded my arms. ”And at Summer XXXTReme I will make you and Keira wish that you had never returned from the retirement home and will lead that fool my puppet has chosen as a partner to victory!”

And with that I decided to wrap things up.

”That’s all for now, I will let my puppet take over.” And just like that whatever was possessing me released it’s hold, my eyes went back to their normal green colour (as opposed to the red, cat like eyes) and I continued to cut my promo. ”Underestimate me all you want Whisper, because this won’t end well for you! Because all who cross me will beware the Ides of March! I’ll see you in the ring Whisper!”

I got in the car and drove off as the scene fades.

24
Climax Control Archives / “Putting the Puppy Down!”
« on: May 29, 2023, 10:50:31 AM »
Krystal picked up the win over London Underground in controversial fashion by way of tagging herself in after Alexandra hit her finisher on Charlotte Eliot but if you can believe it, the following week was even more controversial as Krystal not only broke a rookie’s arm as a message to Keira for the fact that the rookie bore a resemblance to Keira but encountered Jenny Tuck who served her with a lawsuit and had run ins with Ariana and Keira!

But Krystal gad to set that aside for now, this week she was taking on Dawn Warren in a rematch from several months ago! This was Dawn’s first match since losing out on the Blast from the Past Finals against Devona and J2H but the question remained, can Krystal get the win with everything else going on?

Krystal’s home, Grand Junction, Colorado
Wednesday the 24th of May 2023, 16:00pm

This has definitely been a week.

I expected Alexandra to complain about how I secured the win over London Underground last week but honestly>? That bitch should count herself lucky that I even gave her the time of day, I’m not in this business to make friends and I’m through pretending otherwise.

Nor am I worried about that little idiot Despayre crying over Gummi Bears, there are much better hills to die on, that’s all I’m saying.

I’m not on the card next week but I will be there, I’ve got a few more plans in the tank and the attack on Ariana was just the start, for now though? I was checking on the status of my Twitch Channel.

”I guess there really is no such thing as bad publicity, the viewers and followers have gone up tenfold since Blaze of Glory!” I muttered to myself as I checked my stats of my Twitch Channel, but then my train of thought was interrupted when I got a call over Facebook Messenger and frowned when I saw it. ”Penelope? What the hell does she want?!”

I should explain, Penelope was Makayla’s younger sister, by the time I escaped my dumpster fire of a homelife she was around sixteen years old and she was now twenty-one, appearance wise? Imagine a shorter Makayla with dark hair instead of blonde and you’ve got Penelope, why am I saying this? because I still answered it. “G’day Krystal, been a while hasn’t it?” Penelope asked as I answered the call and I nodded. “Not since you married my sister last March?”

”Sounds about right, you know how busy I’ve been better than anyone.” I responded with a shrug and Penelope nodded. ”Let’s cut to the chase Penelope, your pretty much the only person who knows Makayla better than me and you have to know how the divorce proceedings have been going.”

“I’d be lying if I said that Maka hasn’t been confiding in me since she moved back to Vegas, I’ll give you that much.” Penelope nodded in response as she brushed some hair over her shoulder. “Makayla went into labour last night.”

I nearly fell out of my chair when Penelope said that I knew that this was her due month and that, given that she was having twins, it was possible that they’d be coming out early but it still caught me off guard. ”I’m guessing she’d tell me herself if the hospital let her?” I asked once I regained my composure and Penelope nodded. ”How is she and the girls doing?”

“Considering they are a week premature? Cara and Zosia are doing well, same goes for Makayla.” Penelope nodded with a small smile on her face before she let out a deep breath. “And Makayla isn’t letting you see them until you clean up your act in SCW.”

My jaw practically dropped to the floor when Penelope dropped that, this had to be a mistake. ”Err, excuse me?! They are my daughters, she got herself impregnated as a birthday present to me!” I demanded and Penelope sighed as she shifted her weight. ”What right does she have to do this?!”

“Look, I’m just the messenger alright? Don’t bite my head off!” Penelope insisted and I frowned in response. “And frankly? Mom and dad were against Makayla’s idea from day one, they are kinda old fashioned that may! But more to the point, Makayla doesn’t trust you around the babies in your current mental state!”

”She’s seen me interact with Rachel and she knows I can be a good mom regardless of my fucking mental state!” I added as I felt my rage building up. ”For fuck’s sake! I’ve been doing all this to build a better future for my family and this is how she repays me?! Or is this really Makayla’s decision?” I asked and Penelope’s frown deepened. ”Are you sure that your parents have zero say in this decision Penelope?”

“I have NOTHING to say to that accusation Krystal, and frankly I don’t like what your implying either!” Penelope added as she went to end the call. “I was going to talk to my sister about letting you see my two new nieces but your paranoia just threw that idea out the window! And for what it’s worth? Makayla still hasn’t moved forward with the divorce proceedings, and I know the same goes for your side.”

”Our lawyers are at an impasse, that’s all I’m saying.” I responded with a frown and Penelope nodded before ending the call leaving me to stew in my own anger.

I don’t care what that bitch says, I will see my daughters!

Makayla’s home, Las Vegas, Nevada
Monday the 29th of May 2023, 23:00pm

It’s been a while since I’ve been back to Vegas for anything other than SCW business.

A lot’s changed in the past couple of months but some things remained the same, Makayla had moved back into the old house we used to share when I was still pretending to be friends with Team Go! She hadn’t even changed the locks, probably thinking that I’d never come back.

Well, two things did bring me back, and their names were Cara and Zosia.

I had to be quiet as I crept up the stairs, I knew Makayla preferred to sleep at this time of night so it was perfect for what I had to do, once I reached the second floor I glanced around the rooms that were occupied, Rachel’s room was next to Makayla’s and that was unlikely to change, the only other room was a guest bedroom across the landing and I figured that was as good a place as any to check.

Sure enough, I saw a double crib on the other side of the dark room and knew it had to be my new-born daughters, I crept across the room and got my first look at the two baby Greek-Australian girls, they were fast asleep.

”Hey girls.” I whispered to them as a small grin appeared on my face, even just from looking at them I could tell that they bore a strong resemblance to Makayla, which made sense since she carried them to term. ”God, you girls are so beautiful……….”

Then the lights came on and I sun around, Makayla was standing in the doorway with an angry look on her face, even though she was still recovering from the pregnancy she still looked as beautiful as ever. ”Charlotte, give me one good reason why I shouldn’t call the cops and have you arrested for breaking and entering?” Makayla instructed me as she walked into the room with her arms crossed. ”I’m waiting.”

”For one thing, I didn’t break and enter, you never changed the locks.” I explained as I held up my door key and Makayla frowned before sighing in defeat. ”I’m just here to see my daughters, that’s it.”

”I’m sorry but was Penelope not clear when she told you that you were barred from seeing Cara and Zosia?!” Makayla demanded with a scowl on her face. ”I meant what I said to my sister, either you clean up your act or you won’t see them until they are old enough to make that decision on their own! I don’t want a woman who breaks the arms of rookies for fun raising my daughters!”

”Because raising them as a single mother is so much better!” I responded with a scoff as I rolled my eyes. ”And for what it’s worth? They are beautiful, aren’t they?”

That did soften Makayla’s anger a bit, she glanced over at our baby daughters and a small smile appeared on her face. ”Yeah, they are, guess I’ve got good genes.” Makayla responded with a wistful sigh as she walked over to the crib. ”Look, I understand why my decision made you so upset Charlotte but this is for your own good! Either you turn your attitude in SCW around or you’re going to be looked back at as a pariah when you hang up your wrestling boots for good!” Makayla added as she turned to me and I glanced over at her. ”The only reason I haven’t signed the divorce papers is because I you’re a good person deep down! But pull another stunt like that and I’ll go ahead with the divorce proceedings and take you for everything you’ve got! Am I clear?”

”Crystal.” I sighed as I went to leave the baby’s room before pausing. ”I’ll keep this incident off social media if you don’t tell your extended family, deal?”

”Deal.” Makayla responded as she nodded before I went to leave the room.

“Mommy?” And standing right there was Rachel, my niece and, well, at this point, my stepdaughter really, Kirsty hadn’t interfered in our lives in months, she had a teddy bear in hand and I knelt down in front of her.

”Hey Rach!” I greeted her with a warm smile as I looked her over. ”Are you doing well at school?”

“Yes mommy, but auntie Makayla says you’ve been naughty.” Rachel added and I turned to Makayla with a hurt look on my face, Makayla said nothing, she just stood in front of the crib shaking her head. “Is it true?”

”It’s complicated Rach, you’ll understand when your older.” I assured her and that seemed to be enough for Rachel for now, Makayla walked up to me as I stood up and we left the kids alone for now. ”Turning Rachel against me as well?”

”I had to explain why we suddenly moved back to Vegas and why you weren’t coming with us Charlotte, both in a way her toddler mind would understand, I’m not happy about it either but Rachel kept asking and I had to think of something fast.” Makayla responded with a sigh before she led me to the landing. ”Just remember what I said when you go to break another young woman’s arm, I know your better than everything you’ve done on SCW TV since Blaze of Glory XI, it’s not too late for you to prove it.”

With those final words I headed down the stairs and out the front door, I stuck to my word and Makayla stuck to hers, no one but us and Rachel would know about this and who’d believe a toddler anyway?

It still left me with a lot to think about.

Krystal’s hotel room. Las Vegas, Nevada
Tuesday the 30th of May 2023, 13:00pm

I’m not gonna lie, having to rent out a hotel room in the city where I first lived in the US after moving from Australia is a weird feeling.

Truth is I had hoped to visit my daughters a few more times over the next week before I left for Tucson for my match against Dawn Warren but Makayla catching me on the first attempt put the kibosh on those plans.

Besides, that trick won’t work twice, Makayla made sure to take my house key from me before I left the house last night and when I woke up this morning she texted me to let me know that she had changed the locks, I guess on the off chance that I had a spare key made whilst I was in Grand Junction.

That would have to wait for another day though because I had a lawsuit to settle.

“I have to tell you Charlotte it’s not looking good.” Evan, my lawyer, informed me over the video chat and I nodded with a frown on my face. “My firm’s civil lawyers are hard at work with the countersuit but Jenny has some of the best lawyers in the country on her payroll.”

”Jenhy never specified what that money was meant to be used for.” I asserted as I shook my head with a scowl on my face. ”If that bitch thinks she can drive me to bankruptcy on a technicality then she’s got another thing coming! Besides Evan, your law firm is one of the best in Nevada, you helped me and the former PTA Gym students, Cass included, get their money back from Matthew Kennedy after our partnership went tits up, you helped me defeat Kirsty’s TRO when Rachel was admitted to hospital last year with a high fever, I’m not asking you to be a miracle worker, I’m asking you to make this bullshit go away so I can move on with my wrestling career!”

“I understand that Charlotte and we have a forensic accountant going over the books as we speak.” Evan assured me and I nodded with a frown on my face. “Is there any truth to Jenny’s claim that you used her money to pay for dates between you and Jessica?”

”No, it’s complete horseshit! Jenny sent me that money when Makayla told me she was pregnant last November, as I said before there was no instructions for what that money was to be used for!” I responded as I shook my head and Evan nodded in response. ”The only truthful part is that I took Jessica out on a couple of dates since we started being Friends With Benefits, every time we did go on a date were split the bill between us and I made sure to pay out of my own money! Jenny wants to split hairs over me spending money on a date? Then I’ll have her pulling her hair out with this countersuit.”

“Again, we’ll do what we can on our end.” Evan nodded in response and I let out a deep breath. “The thing with lawsuits like this is the fact that plaintiffs, in this case, Jenny Tuck, always sue for far more than what they’ll get at the end of the lawsuit, Jenny can hang the threat of bankruptcy over your head all she wants but it’s unlikely to come to pass.”

”So long as you stop her from dropping the proverbial guillotine blade I won’t complain.” I responded as I brushed some hair over my shoulder, it was then that a thought occurred to me. ”Evan, Jenny made her fortune by trading on the stock market, is there anything related to that that we could get her for?”

“We can accuse her of Insider Trading, which would get the SEC Involved and have them go through all of her books and finances since she retired from wrestling.” Evan nodded as he got the idea before he rubbed his chin thoughtfully. “I’d have to get the DA Office involved for this to have any weight behind it but I have a friend who works as an ADA, Assistant District Attorney, they should get the ball rolling.”

”I know what an ADA is, Law and Order is one of my favourite TV Shows to binge watch when I have nothing better to do.” I explained with a nod before I heard a knock at my hotel room door. ”Like I said, do what you have to in order to make this go away, I’ve got company and if I’m right then it’s time we ended this vid chat, unless you want to watch me have sex with Jessica.”

“I’ll pass thank you, I am a married man and if I did want to watch that kind of content there’s certain websites that I could use without spying on my client in an intimate moment.” Evan responded as he shook his head and I nodded as I got the idea before he ended the vid chat, I answered the door and sure enough Jessica was standing there waiting for me.

“I overheard you chatting with Evan.” Jessica greeted me after I greeted her with a kiss and led the British woman into my hotel room. “Jenny Tuck lawsuit going well?”

”It’s going, Evan and his team of lawyers are on the case.” I responded with a nod before we entered the hotel room and Jessica closed the door behind her. ”Bitch is lucky we’re not pressing charges for assault.”

“I’d rather get her back for cheapshotting me but that’s bedside the point.” Jessica responded as she shook her head and I turned to her as I sat down at my computer chair. “We still have the Makayla situation to deal with! Want me to pay her brat sister a visit?”

”No, Penelope was just the messenger and the last thing I need is to give Makayla any extra incentive to sign those divorce papers.” I responded as I shook my head and Jessica nodded as she got the idea. ”I don’t even know Penelope that well to be honest, first met her when she was in her early teens, after I escaped from my home life, hardly recognized her when she showed up for me and Makayla’s wedding last year, that’s how much she’s grown since then.”

“I was going to ask about how hot she is, but she’s Makayla’s sister, she’s gotta be at least cute!” Jessica responded and I shook my head, whilst Penelope was quite hot, lusting after Makayla’s younger sister was just asking for trouble! Not to mention weird considering that I’ve known her since she was going through puberty. “We’ll get this shit sorted out long before the cruise starts, but right now you look like you’ve got some tension that needs relieving.”

”Why do I get the feeling that your idea of relieving tension involves us naked, in bed and making out?” I asked with a grin as I stood up to face Jessica, I won’t reveal everything to happened next, only that Jessica answered my question with a passionate kiss which I retuned and it wasn’t long before our clothes came flying off and we were in bed together.

I’ll let you figure out the rest for yourself.

Nevada Desert
Tuesday the 30th of May 2023, 21:00pm

*promo time*

From one joke to another.

”Been a while since I’ve been in Las Vegas for anything other than business but here I am, I won’t reveal just what that business was because I don’t need the headache but speaking of headaches, I’ve got a major one to deal with on Sunday night!” I said as I hopped off the hood of my car and walked up to the camera. ”Dawn Warren, someone who I haven’t faced since before Blaze of Glory and someone who thinks that a few fluke wins makes her an impressive competitor, well, this Sunday I’ll be putting the puppy down!”

This will be fun.

”First off Dawn, let’s look at your matches since arriving in SCW, first there was the Roulette Title clusterfuck that was won by the other Crystal, then there was your official debut against Luna Vanity, which you won but let’s face it, Luna’s been the biggest choke artist in the division since Levana Cade!” I added as I rolled my eyes. ”Then you got that fluke win over me a couple of weeks later and were suddenly thrown back into Roulette Title contention when you competed against Kim, Seleana and Mercedes for a shot at the Roulette Title, you lost both of those matches and whilst you weren’t pinned in either the tag match or the Fatal Four Way, looking at you Seleana and Mercedes that’s where the wheels started to come off.”

And then the tournament.

”Oh, what’s that? You were a finalist in the Blast from the Past Tournament? The same tournament that I got screwed over in by not only getting paired with the worst member of the Hall of Fame but Tempest turning me into a lawn dart? Again, let’s look at your matches.”  I added as I folded my arms. ”Opening round and yet another title opportunity this time at the Bombshell Internet Title, you and Calvin may have beat Chris Page and Melissa but one: you didn’t win the title and two: Chris Page got his foot on the ropes mid-count, and your second round match never happened because Goth and Kim were forced to pull out thanks to Goth’s injury, if you ask me then if it weren’t for Goth’s injury that was where your Blast from the Past journey would’ve ended because you don’t have a great track record against Kim but I’m getting off track, the truth is you didn’t have a truly impressive performance in the tournament until it was all down to the wire and whilst you did defeat Bobbie and Jack to make it to the finals, you still fell short against J2H and Devona!”

How sad.

”Dawn? As far as I’m concerned the Blast from the Past Tournament did you a lot more harm than good, because it exposed your weaknesses as a wrestler, round one? Controversial finish, round two? Never happened because Goth got hurt, round three? Just barely squeaked out a win against Bobbie, round four? You met your match! The question is how do you recover?” I asked as I started to pace around the desert. ”I’ll answer that question for you Dawnn, not well! That’s three times that you’ve cracked under the pressure of competing on a big stage and now that the Bombshell Roster sees you for what you really are, in other words Candy from Wish.Com, I don’t think you’re going to like what happens next!”

And it starts with me.

”Because we’re about to find out how a domesticated house pet fares when she’s put up against a wild wolf, and yes I was talking about you and me in that analogy.” I added with a scoff and almost on cue I heard a wolf howling in the distance. ”Okay I didn’t plan for that but you can’t get more thematically appropriate than that! Dawn, this isn’t going to be a match, this is going to be a massacre as I use you as an example to the rest of the Bombshell Roster that I’m through taking their bullshit! You may be the black sheep of the Warrens Dawn but as far as I’m concerned? You are every bit as moronic as Teddy! You just so happen to be a lot more well liked than that idiot!”

Not like that’s saying much.

”Then again, you’d be hard pressed to find a more hated wrestler on the roster, present company included!” I said as walked back towards my car. ”Yet you are given a free pass Dawn, why? Because you’re not as obnoxiously stupid as the rest of the family? I’ll grant you that much, your just plain obnoxious though and I look forward to defeating you this Sunday, but the question remains, will I break your arm as a message to the rest of the roster?”

It's that simple.

”On one hand breaking the arms of whatever idiots the bosses grab off the streets will eventually get boring but on the other hand the bosses might get a little testy if I shelve someone they actually care about.” I scoffed as I shook my head with a grin. ”I’ll leave my answer ambiguous for now because the last thing I want is to reveal all my cards to my opponent, even one as dumb as Dawn, but Dawn should know this, The Lone Wolfe is on the prowl and The Pink Puppy’s about to be her next meal!”

And with that I decided to wrap things up.

”Seriously who enters a sport like wrestling with a name like “The Pink Puppy” and expects to be respected as much as anyone else?” I asked as I went towards my car’s driver’s side door. ”Then again Dawn is a Warren so that might explain it! But on that note Dawn? Your last win over me was a fluke and this Sunday I’ll teach you to beware the Ides of March as those who have crossed me in the past have already learned! See you on Sunday!”

I got in the car and drove off after retrieving my camera as the scene fades.

25
Climax Control Archives / “The Underwhelming Return.”
« on: May 17, 2023, 03:01:37 PM »
(Alexandra was used with her handler’s permission)

Krystal would lose to Tempest at Into the Void suffering her first pinfall loss since her Roulette Title Reign ended but things seemed to only get worse for the Aussie from there! Earlier in the night following one of her “public workouts” against three local London girls London Underground returned to prevent Krystal from breaking the arm of the youngest member of the trio and after the match against Tempest Krystal would run afoul of Keira again with the Hall of Famer making it clear that she wasn’t going to tolerate her public workouts for much longer.

Krystal had four enemies heading into the next cycle as she had attacked Sam Marlowe after Sam’s match against Mercedes Vargas but she was resolving her issues with her former Go Gym teammates first as she was facing London Underground in a tag team match at the first Climax Control of the cycle, her partner? Alexandra Callaway, a newcomer to the Bombshell Division who Krystal had formed a friendship with but had seemingly snapped herself, can the unhinged duo defeat London Underground?

Krystal’s home. Grand Junction, Colorado
Friday the 12th of May 2023, 17:00pm

So, things have taken a turn since I was last in Colorado.

If you remember, I had moved here because I had made enemies with every member of the Go Gym and had joined The Saviours taking Makayla with me, that was at the beginning of the Into the Void XI cycle and by the end of it? I had pissed off The Saviours enough that they showed me the door meaning I wasn’t welcome at Hell’s Gate anymore either, and whilst I was content to spend the rest of the tour overseas since flying back and forth was impractical as all hell, Makayla caught wind of my weeding off the week in the final build up to Into the Void and filed for divorce.

I hadn’t signed those papers, I told Evan, my lawyer, to sit on this until I could talk some sense into her, especially since Makayla was bound to give birth to the twins any day now! And all that was before the Into the Void event itself because not only did I suffer my first pin-fall loss since I lost the Bombshell Roulette Title but the woman that took the title from me threatened to end my career after the match against Tempest as a message.

There was once a day where I respected Keira, those days are long gone! Besides, before I can deal with Keira, I had two more Go Gym Graduates to deal with, two of the most overrated Bombshells in the Division’s history for that matter.

London Underground was a name synonymous with the final days of the Bombshell and Superstar Tag Team Divisions, because the teams of Charlotte Eliot and Mackenzie Page and Daniel J. Morgan and Osborne ran rough shot over what was left of the divisions! When SCW rebooted in 2018 they merged the tag divisions into the Mixed Tag Division forcing London Underground to split the title duties between themselves but it was clear that they were shells of their former selves.

Then they disappeared only to return a few years later to try to recapture their past glory, so far only Mackenzie and Daniel have seen action with Mackenzie’s most significant win being over Seleana “hey remember when I was a World Champion?” Zdunich and Daniel’s luck being as big a mixed bag as possible! The point is Charlotte and Mackenzie stuck their noses in my business by interrupting my last public workout at Into the Void XI and I issued a challenge to them for this week’s Climax Control.

Only one problem, I had burned bridges with most of my former allies! If I was still in the Saviours I’d ask Kim without hesitation because I thought we’d make for a killer team if the Bombshell Tag Division was brought back but since they are bringing back the Mixed Division instead and, well I’ll refer you to what I said earlier about The Saviours, that was a no go! Luckily I had a solution that didn’t end in me fighting two Go Gym Graduates in a handicap match! I had to go with someone who was new to the promotion, someone who was still finding her feet as a Bombshell.

Just so happened that my choice looked younger than me despite being almost forty!

”Alexandra, I understand this is last minute but I don’t have a lot of other options otherwise.” I said over the video call and the Texan woman nodded in understanding. ”Either I find a partner by Sunday or I fight London Underground in a handicap match.”

“Those aren’t great options I’ll grant you that much.” Alexandra responded as she shifted her weight and I nodded in agreement. “But what’s in it for me? We haven’t interacted that much outside of Twitter Krystal.”

”Let’s see, bragging rights over getting a tag team win over former champions right before the Mixed Tag Division gets rebooted, a chance at the spotlight, a chance to end your losing streak………” I grinned when I saw Alexandra’s face when I saw the look on Alexandra’s face, the Texan had yet to score a win since arriving in SCW which was bad enough, but then Luna cost her a win over Bea Barnhart in her singles debut, not exactly a great start to a career by any means! ”I’ll give it to you straight Alexandra, when I first arrived in SCW I went six months before I scored my first win, granted my debut was literally weeks before the 2020 holiday break but it also led to me being left off what should’ve been my Blaze of Glory debut! In other words? I’ve been there.”

“Ever consider a career in advertising? Because you sure as hell know how to sell a product.” Alexandra commented with a chuckle before she nodded. “Tell Christian that I’ll be happy to team up with you to take on London Underground but no funny business, I won’t tolerate any betrayals if things go south.”

”So long as you don’t screw things up badly for our team then we won’t have a problem.” I assured Alexandra and she nodded in understanding. ”On a side note, I know Carter’s already asked you this but how the hell do you look younger than me when you’re old enough to be my teenaged cousin’s aunt?!” I asked and Alexandra let out a slight laugh at me question.

“If I had a dollar for each time I got asked that, I wouldn’t need to wrestle.” Alexandra responded and I chuckled in response. “The long and short of it is? I’ve got good genetics, who knows? Maybe you’ll have the same when you get to my age.” Alexandra added and I winced as she said that last part, “Touchy subject?”

”Remember when everyone was piling on me for bringing up the fact that I had a crappy childhood? Saying that it didn’t excuse my actions?” I asked and Alexandra nodded after thinking for a bit. ”I didn’t even scratch the service but Carter pissed me off when he trivialised it by saying that his parents split because he’s a walking gay stereotype! My broken home goes a lot deeper than simple martial problems and I’ll leave it at that for now.”

“Even from your tone of voice, it sounds nasty enough for me to get the idea.” Alexandra nodded sympathetically and I said nothing in response. “Speaking of marital problems, how goes the situation with your wife? Makayla right?”

”She moved back to Vegas a couple of days after I returned from England, right now we’re just communicating through our lawyers and neither side is budging any closer towards signing those divorce papers.” I explained and as I shook my head and Alexandra nodded as she got the idea. ”I’m hoping that cooler heads will prevail, I’m not sure what’s going through her head but what I do know is that she’s in the final month of her pregnancy and her water could break any day now and someone might be pushing her towards finalising it on her end, I don’t know who but I have a few suspects.” I added and I brushed some hair over my shoulder and Alexandra nodded with a frown on her face. ”Technically the due date is for the end of May, but she’s carrying twins so……..”

“There’s a good chance that she’ll go into labour prematurely, right?” Alexandra asked and I nodded to confirm it. “I don’t know what more I can do on my end but I wish you luck, you really care for that woman don’t you?”

”If I didn’t I would’ve sent her home with signed divorce papers, that woman has been there for me in my darkest times and I’m doing all this to secure my family’s future, she’s just not a big fan of how I’m going about it!” I added bitterly as I shook my head. ”And before you ask, yes me and Jessica are still friends with benefits, I first met her when I was originally dating Makayla and she was okay with the whole setup at the time.” I sighed as looked at the ceiling. ”Then again, Makayla, Jessica and me were eighteen, nineteen and twenty at the time, a lot can change in that time.”

“Indeed.” Alexandra nodded before she went to end the call. “I’ll call you back on Sunday when the card gets announced, see you then Krystal.” Alexandra added before the call ended and I was left alone with my dogs Garrus and Tali, who seemed to be the only ones loyal to me right now.

Fitting for the Lone Wolfe, right?

Local bar, Grand Junction, Colorado
Monday the 15th of May 2023, 21:00pm

I always heard that American bear was awful back when I still lived in my native Australia, now that I’ve lived in America for so long I can at least confirm that to be true.

But I had to make do, Jessica was in the middle of moving to the US but that was going to take a few months even with me sponsoring her VISA, until her move was approved and she was finally able to move from the shithole known as Luton (again, her words, not mine) she would have to fly out about once a week to meet up with me to map out our plans for the next Climax Control/PPV and, well, fulfil the benefits part of the whole “friends with benefits” thing.

The only thing that made it bearable financially for Jessica was the fact that I was paying her air travel and accommodation, between the money I got from the Matthew Kennedy lawsuit last year and the money I got from Jenny Tuck on top of the money I got from my SCW pay checks I wasn’t about to run out of money any time soon so it wasn’t exactly a big deal, would I rather spend that money on upgrades for my Gaming PCs, new games or hell, upgrades for my streaming setup? Yeah, but that’s a small price to pay in the grand scheme of things.

To make a long story short, I was meeting Jessica for drinks at the bar, whether the night would end with me scissoring Jessica in my bedroom remained to be seen because everything that’s happened since Into the Void XI hasn’t exactly left me in the best of moods.

Only one problem, Jessica was taking her sweet ass time to get here and I could only keep myself hydrated on soda for so long!

”I swear to god, at this rate I’m going to be the main source of income for the bar’s supply of soda!” I muttered to myself as I swirled around the half empty glass of coke in my hand, the bar was fairly busy tonight but it was hard to miss a gorgeous woman like Jessica because she usually had the male patrons checking out her ass as she walked past them (and I know for a fact that I drew a few such gazes when I entered the bar a couple of hours ago) but alas? ”I know it’s an eight-hour flight from England but she left Luton earlier in the morning.”

“Maybe your friend is let lagged and decided to have a power nap when she arrived at her hotel?” The bartender suggested after overhearing me and as tempting as it was to tell her to mind her own business? That seemed likely.

”You’re probably right.” I commented before I heard the door to the bar open but paid it no mind, it was probably a patron heading out for a smoke or something. ”Can you get me another soda?” I asked after finishing my coke in one gulp and the bartender nodded.

“Sure thing.” The bartender nodded before she started pouring me a drink. “So, your accent, it’s Australian right?”

”She’s South Australian if you want to narrow it down.” I did a double take when I heard Cassie’s voice and span around, it wasn’t the fact that Cass had gotten into the bar that caught me off guard, she may have been underaged but even with her petite frame Cass could pass for someone who was at least twenty-one, rather it was the fact that she was here in the first place. ”Long time no see Krystal.”

”What the hell are you doing here Cass?!” I demanded from my younger cousin only breaking eye contact with the teenager long enough to pay the bartender for my drink. ”All I need to do is tell security that your underaged and you’ll be thrown out on your ass faster than you can say liability!”

”Please! If I came here to drink alcohol I would’ve brought a Fake ID with me!” Cass responded as she shook her head and I paid her no mind as I started to take a sip from my drink. ”I came to Colorado wanting answers for what you did to me at Blaze of Glory! You weren’t at your new home so I figured you’d be at a bar instead.” Cass added and I gave her a side glance. ”So, what is it Krystal? Was it all a lie……..”

Yeah I’m not putting up with that shit. ”Bartender can you get security? This girl is nineteen years old and she didn’t even have the common courtesy to bring a Fake ID with her!” I asked the bartender and she quickly nodded before she walked off, minutes later Cass was being dragged out by security who were probably going to get an earful from their boss for not double checking that a teenager wasn’t about to enter their bar. ”Sorry about that, she’s my cousin and a handful at that.”

“Hey, I wouldn’t have thought twice about her being old enough to drink to be fair! She looks at least two years older.” The bartender shrugged her shoulders in response and I sighed, a few minutes later Jessica would text me to say that she had indeed had a power nap from being jet lagged as soon as she arrived at the hotel and after agreeing to rearrange our drinking plans for another night.

But for me? The night was far from over.

Outside the bar, Grand Junction, Colorado
Monday the 15th of May 2023, 21:30pm

Knowing that my planned drinking buddy wasn’t going to make it tonight forced me to call it a night early, as soon as I finished my last soda I left the var and planned to head straight back to my home.

And off course, Cass was waiting for me! This time she was sitting on the hood of my car with her arms crossed.

”Are you fucking serious Cass?!” I demanded as I marched up to her upon seeing the teenage prodigy. ”I thought I made the message clear that I have no interest in this conversation! Are you really this immature?!”

”Yeah because having me thrown out of a bar for asking you a question is clearly the peak of maturity!” Cassie responded as she rolled her eyes and I just shook my head in response.  ”I’m here in Grand Junction for two things, one: to get some reps in at the latest school you’ve burned bridges with and the other thing is to get answers! Trust me Charlotte, I’ll follow you all the way to Las Vegas for this Sunday’s Climax Control if it means getting my answers!”

I could already feel my headache coming on, I guess stubbornness was a trait that ran in my family! ”You have five minutes, tops! After that? I don’t want to see you for the rest of the week!” I added and Cassie’s eyes narrowed as she hopped off the hood of my car. ”Do I make myself clear?”

”Or what? You’ll break my arm?”[/font] Cassie demanded as she held out her arm and I said nothing in response. ”What’s the matter Charlotte? Not so brave when a nineteen-year-old wrestler can fight back and call your bluff? I saw what you did to those girls in Scotland, Romania and London, I’m not afraid of you!”[/font]

”That had nothing to do with you!” I insisted and if Cassie rolled her eyes any harder they’d probably got to the back of her head! ”They were to send a message to the rest of the Bombshell Roster, that’s it!”

”Nothing to do with me? Bullshit! You targeted Jenny and Robyn because they were the same age as me! Don’t insult my intelligence Charlotte because I’m through being the butt of your jokes!” Cassie demanded and I said nothing in response as the teenager let out several deep breaths. ”I just want to know one fucking thing! The training, the times you came to my defence, the pride you felt when I graduated from Hero Academy and won my first two titles!” Cassie added and I frowned as the teenager was clearly getting upset, to the point that she used her jacket’s sleeve to wipe some tears from her eyes. ”Was it all a lie?! I know you faked your friendship with Carter and Ariana but would you fake being there for your younger cousin as well?!”

I may be a bitch but Cassie’s emotional state cut through to me, after a few minutes to let Cassie compose herself I had my answer. ”No.” I responded simply and Cassie did a double take. ”My reactions to all of those events were genuine, I only lied about my friendship with Team Go!”

I went to enter my car thinking that Cassie would be satisfied with that answer, spoiler alert? She wasn’t. ”THEN WHY THE FUCK DID YOU ATTACK ME?!” Cassie demanded as she put herself in between me and the driver’s said door and I frowned, on paper I had this potential fight in the bag, I was taller and bigger than Cass, stronger too, but on the other hand we were both trained fighters, she could easily turn a fight around on me with the training she had received. ”Do you have any idea what that did for my mental health?! I had to constantly reassure my mom that I wasn’t suicidal! Keira went out of her way to baby me in the weeks that followed Blaze of Glory, WHY?!”

”Because you needed a god damn reality check Cass!” I snapped at her as I marched up to the shorter woman and Cass stood her ground. ”What you were planning to do in MPW would’ve made my current actions in SCW look like I was poking a poodle! I spent the rest of 2022 miserable because you went out of your way to enlist Keira’s help and only checked on me once, immediately after I lost the Roulette Title! I may have fallen out with Whisper, Kat and Kim but they were right on the money when they said that you did the bare minimum to make sure I was all right in the aftermath of my last title defence!” I pushed pass Cass and she let me go seemingly satisfied with my answers. ”At least I checked on you after you lost the MPW TV Title! At least I made sure your mental health was okay in the weeks that followed! You and Keira didn’t even have that courtesy! And you call yourself my cousin?!”

With that final point I opened the door the Quash Quai and entered the car, once the door was closed and I went to start the car Cass tapped on the driver’s side window and I rolled down the window. ”Just one last thing Charlotte, you called me your cousin?” Cassie asked and I blinked a couple of times before nodding. ”Might want to talk to my mom about that, because Keira was telling the truth!”

”What the hell are you talking about?!” I demanded but Cassie was long gone after that statement, and soon afterwards? So was I.

What the hell did the rest of the cycle have in store for me?!

Krystal’s home, Grand Junction, Colorado
Tuesday the 16th of May 2023, 11:00am

*promo time*

Here we go.

”Gotta say, I was expecting London Underground to come back sooner considering how I roasted them in Scotland but I guess it’s poetic that they returned in London!” I stated as folded my arms with a frown on my face. ”Now I wasn’t about to face an established SCW team like Charlotte and Mackenzie alone but I’ve burned bridges with so many Bombshells at this point that I needed to go with an outsider for my partner! Luckily, Alexandra Callaway was just desperate enough to break her losing streak that she jumped at the chance!”

But first?

”Now as a music fan, I do have a music analogy for London Underground’s return, a bit of a long winded one but it will get the point across.” I said as I flipped some hair over my shoulder. ”The return of London Underground is like some obscure 80s band reuniting for the anniversary of an album that no one listened to, everyone got excited at first until the time came for them to perform and everyone remembered how terrible they are! In other words, the return of London Underground won’t be looked back on fondly, it’ll be remembered as The Underwhelming Return! Something that will be reinforced when a brand-new team defeats them!”

And I’m being generous!

”I mean really, what have the individual members done since they returned? Daniel wrestles so infrequently that I sometimes forget that he has an SCW Contract, Osbourne has done fuck all and Mackenzie has been the one doing the leg work for the women because apparently Charlotte is too lazy to get back into the ring unless Mackenzie does all the leg work! Hence this tag team match!”  I commented as I shook my head. ”It’s a sad state of affairs when as far as the Go Gym Graduates go, they are only slightly more relevant than Adrienne fucking Beaufort!”

Don’t believe me?

”But I guess the proof will ultimately be in the pudding, won’t it? The bosses booked this tag team match after Charlotte and Mackenzie stuck their noses in my business at Into the Void and it comes down to me and Alexandra to put those two idiots in their place.” I added as I flipped some hair over my shoulder. ”Because ultimately? These idiots will just be two more victims on my path to eliminating the past to benefit the future because the stars of yesterday’s Bombshell Division have been hogging the spotlight from the stars of today’s Bombshell Division for too long, and it’s time I put a stop to it!”

It's that simple.

”It really is sad when Charlotte and Mackenzie are the best Go Gym Graduates available who don’t have anything better to do, isn’t it?” I asked rhetorically as I paced around the room. ”Charlotte, Mackenzie, I’m going to keep this short and sweet, when I send you back to Gabriel with your tails between your legs and kicking your overrated asses all over the very cassino that Daniel owns, tell him that I expect better than the team who only dominated the Bombshell Tag Division after all the best teams were gone!”

And with that I decided to wrap things up.

”And let’s be honest, that’s if I don’t decide to do everyone a favour and shut you morons up for good!” I stated as I leaned against the wall with my arms crossed. ”Alexandra may complain about being stuck with the Bombshell everyone hates as a partner, but frankly it’s her ticket to being remembered as mor than the Bombshell who lose her singles debut to Bea Barnhart! And as for the hate thing? I’m fine with that, because I’m no longer in SCW to make friends, I’m in SCW to make money and better my career and once Charlotte and Mackenzie learn to beware the Ides of March, they’ll wish they had stayed retired! See you on Sunday!”

I turned off the camera as the scene fades.

26
Supercard Archives / “Putting the Attack Dog Down!”
« on: May 02, 2023, 07:09:13 AM »
Krystal may have picked up the win over Seleana but the following two weeks would prove to be more eventful than Krystal could’ve anticipated! Why? Because at the next two Climax Controls two legends would return to SCW to confront Krystal over her recent actions, her trainer and former mentor Gabriel tried to bring Krystal back into the fold in Scotland whilst in Romania her old rival Keira Fisher would officially return to SCW to confront Krystal! And whilst that was going on? Krystal had “public workouts” that pit her against local teams of talent, matches that Krystal would win easily and in one case? Break the arm of one of her Scottish opponents.

But now that Intro the Void was here, Krystal had her own problems as she was back in action in a rematch with Tempest stemming from Tempest costing her team their spot in the Blast from the Past Tournament and their subsequent brawl in Scotland! Can Krystal get her win back against Tempest or would the Amazonian Bombshell pick up another win over Aussie?

Miller and Carter Muswell Hill, London, England
Thursday the 27th of April 2023, 18:00pm

Some offers are too good to pass up.

In this case? Jessica had booked us a table at a London branch of the Millar and Carter high end Steakhouse Chain whilst offering to pay for everything and, well, after a week of camping in a remote forest clearing in Romania? I was ready for some food that wasn’t cooked in a supposedly haunted forest.

Somehow I just knew Mark Ward was pissing himself laughing as the roster put up their tents! Especially J2H’s tent!

But I digress, who is Jessica exactly? Well, most Go Gym Graduates go straight to SCW upon graduation, sometimes that can work out well, other times you get cases like Adrienne Beaufort and Levana Cade but me? I wanted to hone my craft on the independent scene first rather than sign with SCW right out of the gate, the original plan was to sign with SCW in 2021 but then the pandemic happened and the independents were forced to shut down forcing me to sign with SCU a year earlier than I originally planned, jumping ship to SCW towards the end of the year.

You should know the rest of the story by now, my initial losing streak, the record breaking Roulette Title reign and earning the Future Star and Most Improved of the Year awards, and how everything started to go downhill in 2022, well, before the pandemic forced me to rush my plans I wrestled a British wrestler for a UK based company, we had a banger of a match but a couple of weeks before 2019 ended I learned that she had suffered a career ending leg injury and had opted to become a wrestler to so that she could remain in the business, you guessed it, that wrestler was Jessica.

We drifted away after that, Jessica never really travelled outside of the UK even before her injury and the pandemic meant that I couldn’t contact her physically even if I wanted to, but when she learned that SCW had come to England? Well, we reconnected, and she had a business offer for me.

And that was what brought us to this restaurant.

“Krystal, you made it!” Jessica greeted me after the waitress brought me to her table and I grinned in response before I sat down. “How are things with Makayla?”

”Not great.” I grunted as I shifted my weight and Jessica shifted her weight, even by female wrestler standards? Jessica was a stunner, long brown hair that was currently in a ponytail? Check, brown eyes? Check, an ass that was liable to have more than a few guys walk into lampposts as she walked past them and a fantastic rack to boot? Definite check. ”She’s been on edge since I went rogue, threatened me with divorce at least twice, throw in the fact that she’s pregnant with twins, she was inseminated before you ask, and things haven’t been fantastic in our new home in Grand Junction, hence why I’ve spent the rest of the tour overseas.”

“She’s not in the business like we are Charlotte, she doesn’t understand that this is a dog-eat-dog industry.” Jessica responded as she shook her head and I nodded in agreement. “Speaking off, you’re here to discuss my business proposal to you aren’t you?”

”At least it’s not a marriage proposal, that would really fuck up my marriage to Makayla.” I grumbled in response and Jessica raised an eyebrow at that. ”Yes, I know the one time we had sex was a one-night stand, it may have been the night of my twenty first birthday but I wasn’t drunk enough to mistake a onetime thing for something long term! No matter how great the sex was.”

“At least we’re on the same page there, shame, if it weren’t for my leg injury we could’ve been fuck buddies on the road.” Jessica responded as she shook her head and I merely shrugged, I’ve been out as a bi-sexual woman for two years now, Jessica? She was a full on lesbian, something that had apparently been an open secret for years before she officially came out, the tragic part was that she came out right before her leg injury. “I’m sure some of your male colleagues wouldn’t have minded! Anyway, let’s cut to the chase, your initial alliance with The Saviours didn’t exactly pan out like you hoped and you’ve done decently for yourself since then, but I reckon that under my guidance? I can take you to the next level.”

”No offence Jessica but without The Saviours stuff? I’ve heard that line before.” I responded with a frown before a waitress interrupted us with our ordered drinks, a soda for both of us because we were driving. ”From a fellow retired British Wrestler no less.”

“Kennedy? Yeah, I know him, he did train me after all.” Jessica responded with a shrug and I frowned, I knew Matthew had operated his training school for a while before moving it to the PTA Gym but I didn’t realize that it had been open that long. “Let’s face facts, Matthew was a fool, a self-important moron who thought that his meagre success in the early days of SCW was enough to make him an authority on wrestling! I have the smarts and the wrestling knowledge to do what he couldn’t, turn you into a success!”

”Ever considered taking up a job in marketing? Because that was a hell of a sales pitch.” I asked semi-jokingly and Jessica shrugged her shoulders with a cocky grin in response. ”There’s just one problem, Into the Void is the next SCW show and I’m scheduled to take on Tempest, she’s pissed off about me already thanks to my attack on Ari and cassie and my little argument with Gabriel and we’re dealing with a woman who would use half the Bombshell Roster as a lifting weight if they’d let her, you understand that she won’t take too kindly to any interference you run?”

“Two things Charlotte, one: my wrestling days may be long behind me but as you can see? I keep myself in shape, I won’t be afraid to get physical if needed, and if that involves me getting slammed through the matt by the Go Gym’s attack dog? So be it.” Jessica responded before the waitress returned  to take our appetizer orders, we opted to order our appetizer and mains together (Wild Scallops and Chorizo for my appetizer and a 50 day aged Black Angus Ribeye for my main, Salt and Pepper Calamari and a Surf and Turf Fillet Mignon for Jessica’s meals) and walked off.  “Second: make no mistake? As your manager there’s little I won’t do to help you advance your career, in fact the one thing I won’t do is seduce Mark Ward!”

”Because you’re a lesbian or just in general?” I asked Jessica who quickly nodded when she heard the second half.

“Don’t get me wrong, my sexuality certainly plays a part! But even if I was straight I wouldn’t lower myself to performing favours for your boss just so you can, for example, get the next crack at whoever walks out the World Bombshell Champion.” Jessica explained as she shook her head and I nodded in agreement. “If Mark was a woman named, I don’t know, Marcella? Maybe I’d consider it, but I never had to resort to such tactics when I was an active wrestler and I won’t resort to them as your manager.” Jessica added and I frowned before nodding. “So, what do you say?”

”Have the contract drawn up by the end of the week and I’ll sign it without question, I’ll need to submit it for approval but the bosses have always been easy going when it comes to wrestlers bringing in managers.” I responded and Jessica grinned before nodding enthusiastically. ”But make no mistake Jessica, screw me over once and I’ll rip your arm right out of your socket! I’m not taking any chances after the Matthew Kennedy fiasco.”

“Funny, I seem to remember you enjoying the last time I screwed you.” Jessica joked and I rolled my eyes in response. “Joking aside? I find your terms reasonable, and we can iron out the details over the weekend.” Jessica added before grinning broadly. “Perhaps in your hotel room?”

”No, you were a great lay and I haven’t had sex once since Makayla got pregnant, but right now? The last thing I need is to give Keira more fuel to fuck with my personal life.” I responded as I shook my head and Jessica nodded as she backed off. ”If Keira manages to convince Makayla to divorce me? Then all bets will be off, doesn’t mean I’ll jump into bed with you right away but we’ll see what happens.”

“Fair enough, we’ll keep things professional in the meantime.” Jessica nodded in understanding before the waitress brought our food over.

Fantastic food? Great company? What more could I ask for?

Krystal’s hotel room, London, England
Monday the 1st of May 2023, 23:00pm

I’ve been told by the staff here that this is a bank holiday weekend, whatever that means I couldn’t tell you!

But what I gathered, it’s supposed to be a national day off of sorts, because the banks are taking a holiday I guess! What makes it more confusing is that next Monday is also a bank holiday because of the king’s coronation.

Luckily I’ll be on a plane back to Grand Junction long before then!

Since I entered my business arrangement with Jessica on Thursday I’ve been keeping things on the downlow, still logging into my Twitter account to keep track of the goings on in Sin City Wrestling and beyond but mostly staying quiet as I planned my next moves.

It’s just fucking typical that the one day I set out to plan my promo against Tempest is also the day that Twitter shits the bed for the 50th time since it was brought by Elon Musk! All of a sudden, I couldn't log into my account on Twitter and the few times I did try to log in? I was immediately logged back out the minute I tried to do anything! Shame too, I was planning to torment Cassie over her upcoming match with a guy with apparent ties to Avalon Blackthorn.

Not that I was making assumptions about that woman, I leaned from that mistake the first time when the Go Sisters faced her and Masque at the Christmas Special and we both assumed that she was Masque’s sister! Besides, Avalon hasn’t been seen in SCW in months, even if she was still an SCW Bombshell? I had bigger fish to fry and yes, I mean that literally.

”Okay, is Twitter actually working this time?!” I asked myself as I did a few checks on Twitter to see if it was going to boot me out again, thankfully? It stuck this time and I breathed a sigh of relief. ”I swear to god, Elon could find a way to fuck up running a bakery opposite a weed dispensary.”/color] I muttered to myself as I shook my head before going to start my promo planning. At least that was the plan, before I got a call over Facebook messenger and checked it, it was Makayla and yes, the fact that it was officially the final month of her pregnancy was at the back of my mind when I answered it. ”Hey babe, you caught me at a bad time because I’ll be heading to bed in about an hour………”

”Don’t you “hey babe” me!” Makayla interrupted me and my head snapped up, she had been angry at me over the course of my SCW Career off course but this was on another level. ”Did you really think my ultrasound appointments would keep me from catching up on Climax Control forever?! I just did a marathon session of the past few Climax Controls and I can’t believe what you’re doing to those girls!”

”Oh please! That was no rougher than my experiences in the Go Gym!” I responded whilst trying to keep the volume down because, well, it was almost midnight. ”And those workouts are to prepare me for my match against Tempest!”

”You broke one girl’s arm and severely injured another! Not even the Go Gym is that rough and you know it!” Makayla snapped back at me and I went to respond before she dropped the Bombshell. ”I filed the papers with my lawyer this morning and they should be on Evan’s desk long before you return from England, I’m filing for divorce and taking custody of Rachel and the twins!”

I sat there with my jaw hung open as it clicked in my head, Makayla was willing to throw everything away just because I got rough with some rookies?! ”Just tell me one thing.” I said once the shock wore off and Makayla motioned for me to continue. ”Have you talked with Keira since her return to SCW?”

”I’m not answering that Charlotte, you can ask her yourself the next time you see her.” Makayla answered simply and my eyes narrowed. ”Look, I want this to be as pain and hassle free as possible, mostly because of how far I’m into the pregnancy.” Makayla added as she patted her heavily pregnant belly and I just shook my head at the sad irony of it all, she had gotten herself pregnant as a birthday gift to my after all. ”I’ll sign the pre-nup as soon as your back in Vegas, if negotiations go well? I’ll let you have our daughters on Saturdays.”

”It doesn’t have to be this way Makayla.” I responded as I felt my anger building up and Makayla shook her head. ”We could’ve had the best of both worlds.”

”Funny, I remember you saying the same thing to Carter when he asked about your temporary alliance with The Saviours.” Makayla stated as she went to end the call. ”You laid the blame at Cassie’s feet when the poor girl was going through a mental health crises that YOU triggered! By attacking her for the simple crime of asking you to explain why you had turned your back on Carter and Ari! Only this time? It’s no one’s fault but yours!” Makayla added before the ended the call without another word.

I sat there seething as the thoughts raced through my head, I was doing this for her! For us! And she threw it all away for some rookies?! In the next instant the empty coffee mug that I had been drinking from just before the call was flung at the wall, shattering on impact in a fit of rage.

I’d tell the staff that I had dropped the mug and hadn’t caught it in time if they asked, I needed to go to bed and sleep off the rest of my anger before I took it out on anyone else anyway!

Jessica’s home, Luton, England
Tuesday the 2nd of May 2023, 11:00am

After the argument with Makayla last night, I needed to get away from the city, unfortunately for me the only person I know here in England lives in Luton.

I bet your asking “what’s the big deal if she lives outside of London?” I’ll tell you, Luton is a large town in North Hertfordshire that has been consistently ranked as one of the worst places to live in the UK! Jessica told me as such when I first met her several years ago and had viewed wrestling as a way to escape the shithole (her words, not mine), then the leg injury happened and she had to retire from the sport.

Personally speaking? I’ve only been to Luton a handful of times since I graduated from the Go Gym including this visit and I’m not really sure what the big deal is about Luton, it looks like a nice enough place to me and I really only had Jessica’s word that this was such a terrible place but I digress! She would be moving out of Luton with my help soon enough.

Finding her home wasn’t the issue as Jessica lived in the same house she had lived in when I first met her, issue was finding a place to park my rental car because Jessica’s house was on top of a huge hill that (alongside several other homes) overlooked a huge portion of the town, quite the view if you ask me but I’d hate to imagine having to walk up this hill, still I managed to find a place to park with Jessica’s help and we were soon inside her home.

“Gotta say Charlotte, I wasn’t expecting this home visit, and so soon after we came to an agreement.” Jessica commented as she lead me into her house and I closed the door behind me, it was a decent sized one-bedroom house  but I could tell that Jessica was ready to move on. “What brought you all the way to Luton?”

”Makayla did.” I responded simply with an exasperated sigh and Jessica gave me a confused look. ”She called me last night right after Twitter got its act together, because of everything that I’ve done since Blaze of Glory XI she’s filing for divorce!” I explained and Jessica quickly took on a more sympathetic tone as it hit her. ”I need to talk to a divorce lawyer as soon as get back to the states, luckily my regular lawyer Evan hooked me up with one of the best divorce attorneys in Colorado but Makayla wants this to be as quick and painless as possible.”

“I’ll admit, I had a feeling this was coming sooner or later but I’m sorry to hear that Charlotte.” Jessica admitted and I raised an eyebrow at her first comment. “Makayla may have helped you at your darkest time but she was always too much of a goody-two-shoes to put up with your real self being unleashed on the wrestling world for long! Besides, isn’t she still pregnant with twins?”

”The due date is later this month, given that it’s twins there’s always a chance that her water will break sooner than expected but I’ll be surprised if Makayla allows me to attend their births.”  I admitted with a shrug before I sat down on a couch and Jessica joined me. ”She got pregnant as the ultimate birthday present to me and now that her birth month has come it’s all over, there’s a bitter irony in there somewhere.”

“Which makes me wonder, if you had snapped earlier, would Makayla had gone to get an abortion?” Jessica wondered and I gave her a surprised look. “She was willing to dump you so close to Zosia and Cara’s birth, I’m just saying.”

”I’m not sure to be honest, Makayla’s family is originally from Athens and she comes from a Jewish family, I have no idea how either of those cultures view something like abortion and, well, Makayla is the only Jewish person I know and I can’t really ask Ari considering how our last meeting went.” I responded as I shook my head before I leaned back on the couch. ”If she felt that strongly about it then maybe she would’ve gone as far as to go against both of her cultures by getting the abortion but I’m not a hundred percent clear on that for obvious reasons.”

“It certainly is a murky topic, especially after Roe v Wade was overturned last year.” Jessica nodded in agreement before she nudged up closer to me. “So, are you back on the dating scene or what?”

”Legally speaking? I won’t be until the divorce is finalized, and if I start dating someone so soon after getting the news from Makayla then that’s just going to add more fuel to the fire for Makayla’s case.” I responded as I shook my head before seeing the look Jessica was giving me and I grinned. ”But on the other hand?” I asked before kissing Jessica passionately which she was all to eager to return. ”What Makayla doesn’t know won’t kill her, right?”

“I was hoping you’d say that.” Jessica grinned before she kissed me again and, well, what happened next was something that I couldn’t really detail without going X-Rated.

All you need to know is two things, I woke up a few hours later naked on the couch with Jessica spooning me and she was much better than Makayla ever was.

Local wrestling gym, London, England
Tuesday the 2nd of May 2023, 18:00pm

*promo time*

As I stood there is the local wrestling gym ready to beat down about a dozen girls I had some things on my mind.

”Before we start this public workout, allow me to introduce someone.” I stated as Jessica hopped onto the ring apron and grinned. ”Meet Jessica Stevens, a former rival of mine turned manager who will be acting as my executive consultant going forward, and now for my victims, I mean opponents.” I said as I turned the camera around to show the twelve rookies on the outside of the ring. ”These twelve idiots still manage to have an IQ greater than Tempest! I realize that’s not saying much because, well, this IS the Go Gym’s attack dog we’re talking about but they should be a more than adequate warm up for my match against Tempest on Sunday!”

I gave the nod to Jessica and she leaned on the ring ropes giving the viewers a nice shot of her cleavage in the process. “Okay, same rules as the regular workouts apply, each of you get five minutes with my client, if you can’t last that long? You’re out, but if any of you survive those five minutes? You’ll get an award at the end, five grand each! Now make your choice! We don’t have all day!” Jessica commanded and the rookies conferred before a girl with short blonde hair entered the ring first.

And as soon as she was in the ring? I cut her in half with a running spear! Not literally off course but I did put all my body weight into it. ”Tempest? You should’ve stayed where you were because I’m not the same Krystal Wolfe you faced three years ago in my second ever SCW Match!” I stated as I started stomping away at the blonde rookie, it wasn’t long before she called uncle and I tossed her aside as a redhead entered the ring. ”I’m aa stronger person, I’m more confident……..” I trailed off before I nearly took the redheads’ head clean off with a Superkick as she charged at m, I didn’t even need to wait for her to give up, she was already out. ”And frankly? I’m done living a lie!”

“What you see before you Tempest is a demonstration of what my client Krystal Wolfe will do to you on Sunday.” Jessica continued before I called for two girls who’s combined weight was greater than Tempest’s weight and they entered the ring and got knocked down by a double clothesline by me almost as quickly as they entered the ring. “Krystal is through playing games, she is more ruthless, more sadistic and more focussed than ever before but tell me Krystal.” Jessica added as I dropped one of the rookies with a piledriver and then Powerbombed the other on top of her to knock them both out. “What do you mean by “Living a Lie.”?”

”I mean that I’m done pretending to be someone I’m not.” I responded as the rest of the rookies decided to cut the pleasantries and just enter the ring at the same time, only problem? They attacked me one at a time rather than at the same time allowing me to easily pick them off with strikes, kicks and wrestling moves. ”Oh look at that! The workout’s over already! And here I was hoping to drag this out, oh well, back to my point! You see Tempest? Devona was right on the money when she said that I never viewed Ari as a friend.” I said bluntly as I sat down on one of the unconscious girls. ”Same goes for Carter really, I viewed them as a means to an end, someone I could use to raise my profile at their expense! Why do you think I high tailed it out of SCU when I did? There was one part that wasn’t a lie however, the empathy I felt for Carter when he was in that abusive relationship with Laz!”

Why?

”What can I say? As an abuse survivor myself that whole saga hit close to home for me! But aside from those few months towards the end of 2022?” I asked before the girl I was sitting on started to groan, one powerful punch from me shut her up though. ”We were never friends, you were just tools for me to use to get ahead in the wrestling business, I started that D&D Group to keep the façade up but I quickly came to regret that choice as Aron’s antics as Tristan became more erratic, frankly? My actions at Blaze of Glory XI were a long time coming,, I was just waiting for the right moment to strike.” I added before folding my arms. ”But then you had to enter the picture Tempest, fulfilling your tole as the Go Gym’s attack dog once again! You attacked Char Kwan when she beat the shit out of Ari and now you’ve come after me.”

Just mind your own business.

”I have to ask Tempest, are you capable of independent thought or do you just do the bidding of the other Go Gym Graduates when they can’t be bothered to fight their own battles?” I asked bluntly as I stood up and booted the rookie who I had been using as a seat out of the ring, I then stacked two other rookies on top of each other and sat on them. ”That is much more comfortable! But back to my question, if you ask me, the answer’s no, your nothing but a mindless wrestling machine who does the bidding of others! At least Zoey Lukas has the brains to match her brawn, I seriously doubt that  you even know what two plus two is! If you did? You never would’ve stuck your nose in my business”

The harsh truth.

”In fact, let’s be real, if you are the Go Gym’s attack dog then it’s high time that you were put down! I didn’t exactly expect to be volunteered for the role at the beginning of the cycle but if that task does fall to me.” I commented before Jessica hopped off the ring apron for some reason. ”Then I will happily take up the task of putting the attack dog down! I mean, you already peaked when you and Austin were the last good Mixed Tag Team Champions but since then? You couldn’t even win a Battle Royal, something that should be easy as pie for someone your size! You’re a shell of your former self Tempest, maybe after I put you out to pasture people will remember you more as the powerhouse of the Bombshell Division! Or at least, the first one before better powerhouses like Ms. Jon and Zoey Lukas arrived on the scene!” Jessica whistled over to me and I turned to her. ”What’s up?”

“I caught this straggler trying to get away.” Jessica commented as she held up the blonde rookie who had started the action for the others and I stood up. “Might be a fun training dummy to show off your finishers.”

”Good idea! Throw her back in.” I responded with a nod before Jessie threw the rookie back into the ring I walked over to her. ”Watch closely Tempest and every other Bombshell for that matter because this……..” I stated before pulling her up and getting her between my legs. ”Is your future.” I added before driving her through the mat with The Ides of March. ”Now, I doubt I’ll be able ro hit that on you Tempest, but I have other tools at my disposal, like the Hope Destroyer!” I added before pulling the rookie up and hitting my version of the ripcord lariat. ”appropriate, because you Tempest are the last hope of the Bombshell Division! The last line of defence between me and the top of the mountain where I belong! But if that fails? Maybe I’ll send you to an Eternal Rest!” I added before locking in the body scissored Dragon Sleeper, off course the girl was already out, this was more about sending a message. ”After that? May god have mercy on the Bombshell Division, because I won’t!”

It’s that simple.

”If you had just stayed home Tempest, this could’ve been avoided! Instead you opted to attack me in your role as an attack dog! Now? You will pay.” I let go off the hold and went straight up to the camera. ”If you really are the last hope of this division then god have mercy on them because they are hopeless! Seleana was just the start, you are just the start, I will leave bodies in my wake as I carve my path to the top of the Bombshell Division and I don’t care what you’ve done or how long you’ve been in SCW, I am the future of this division.” I stated before picking up the blonde rookie and hitting the Crippler transitioning from the Hammerlock Backstabber to the Kimura Lock in no time! The intense pain quickly woe up the rookie and she was tapping like mad, not that it made a difference. ”Sorry kiddo, no one is going to save you! And no one will save the rest of the Bombshells when I get my hands on them!”

And with that I decided to wrap things up.

”You see? What I did to One Armed Jenny and would’ve done to Daciana was nothing personal, just business! Same goes for this idiot!” I stated before breaking the blonde rookie’s arm in one fluid motion and standing up, standing over her as she withered in pain before Jessica joined me and raised my hand in victory. ”Get used to this sight because you’ll be seeing a lot of it over the coming months! Tempest? Your strength and power, whilst impressive, won’t save you for those who cross me on my path to the top will beware the ides of March!”

I left the ring with Jessica as the scene fades.

27
Climax Control Archives / “The Price of Revenge.”
« on: April 04, 2023, 08:58:21 AM »
(Whisper and Renegade were used with their handler’s permission)

Krystal was all set to finally advance past the opening round of Blast from the Past but someone had other plans for her, and that someone was a fellow Go Gym Graduate, namely the returning Tempest! The Amazonian Bombshell literally threw Krystal into the crowd right as Krystal was getting ready to tag out to Casey Williams presumably as revenge for Krystal’s attack on Ariana and Cassie!

Now everyone (besides Casey) involved in the decision was in action on Climax Control! Whilst Zoey and J-Mont were taking on Krystal’s Saviours teammate “Godly” Ken Davison and Courtney Pierce in one of the two opening round matches Tempest was taking on Bea Barnhart but where did that leave Krystal? Taking on one of the last challengers from her days as Bombshell Roulette Champion Seleana Zdunich! Can Krystal get the win?

Backstage at Climax Control 557, The Isle of Barbados
Sunday the 2nd of April 2023, 21:00pm

If this is her idea of an April Fool’s Joke then not only is she a day late but it wasn’t funny to begin with!

For the third year in a row I’ve been eliminated from the opening round of the Blast from the Past Tournament but I can’t even say that it was my fault this time because not only did Casey take the pin from J-Mont but Tempest interfered before I could tag myself back in.

All behind the ref’s back off course because god fucking forbid those idiots actually do their jobs and pay attention!

And just to rub salt in the wound? Ariana’s team made it past their opening round match after Ariana pinned Sam, on one hand it was karmic to see Sam get booted out of the opening round after what happened to me in last year’s tournament but on the other hand? My former friend is in the position that should be rightfully mine!

If nothing else, next week’s Climax Control will gave me a chance to get revenge on Tempest! Even if it’s taking us from the sunny beaches of Barbados to some lighthouse in Scotland!

At the time Tempest was scheduled to make her SCW return by treating Bea Barnhart like a training weight whilst my first singles match as a member of The Saviours was a singles match against Seleana Zdunich, the last time I faced her one on one was at my title reign’s peak and I regarded her as my toughest challenger up to that point due to the fact that Seleana is a former World Bombshell Champion, granted that was a few months before Keira stepped up to be my penultimate challenger and before I realised what I now know about Seleana.

Namely? That she’s the walking definition of “peaked at high school”, the fact that she’s failed to gain any meaningful wins in years should tell you everything you need to know about how far Seleana has fallen.

”How long do I have to wait?” I asked the medics as they checked on me, I had been in the medic’s office since my Blast from the Past Match concluded and they refused to discharge me just yet, which is just perfect because I have a flight to Grand Junction to catch in the early hours of the morning and at this rate I was going to miss that flight. ”I’ve been here all night!”

“Sorry Ms. Wolfe but management insisted that we keep you here.” The medic apologised and I rolled my eyes, I could probably guess which member of management had made that call. “They don’t want you risking further injury by seeking out Tempest or Jessie Salco.”

”Just fucking great!” I grumbled in response before the doors to the medics office opened and I glanced up. ”Whisper?”

“I’ll take her from here.” Whisper told the medics and they shared a look as the retired wrestler stepped into the office. “My medical staff at Hell’s Gate can assess any damage Krystal took from Tempest’s attack and as her personal trainer? I’ll see too it that she’s healthy for the match against Seleana.”

“Err, no offense Ms. Whisper but we’re just following orders.” The medic responded and Whisper turned to her. “And these orders come from Mark and Christian.”

“I’ve already spoken to them they agree that they can’t keep Krystal here all night.” Whisper responded and that was all the medics needed to discharge me, as I followed Whisper out of the medic’s office she turned to me. “How are you feeling Charlotte?”

”Like I got run over by a bull elephant.” I grumbled in response as I picked up my pace a bit to keep up with the older woman. ”You’d think Tempest wouldn’t interfere in a Blast from the Past Match like that! I’m not saying that I wasn’t anticipating some blowback from the other Go Gym Graduates but I was under the impression that the tournament was supposed to be held sacred.”

“And yet the last two tournaments had semi-finals with tainted losses, but that’s not what I was talking about.” Whisper responded before she turned to me and I stopped in my tracks, I wasn’t exactly a short woman at 5ft 5 but Whisper was 5ft 11 and therefore still had a few inches on me in height. “”You didn’t exactly take your prior Blast from the Past defeats well, only this time you lost due to outside interference, I need to make sure your head’s un the right place before you face Seleana.”

”Well, if my comment about Tempest’s interference didn’t give it away? I’m pissed off!” I responded as I let out a deep breath and Whisper nodded as she got the idea. ”Before you ask, I’m not about to repeat what I did with Matthew and Marty last year and cut all ties with The Saviours, for one thing The Saviours didn’t promise me the world when I joined, only that I’d be treated as an equal! I can at least say that that has happened.”

“Good to know that you have your priorities straight, I see you as a future World Bombshell Champion Krystal, it’s just going to take a bit longer than you would’ve liked to get there.” Whisper responded with a nod before we continued to walk down the hall. “We just need to be wary of pulling the same stunt on Ariana, unless you want to be seen as a hypocrite.”

”Ariana’s Blast from the Past Match is a bridge I’ll burn when I come too it, I’ve already seen next week’s card and I know Ari’s second round match isn’t for another two weeks.” I responded as I shook my head and Whisper nodded as she got the idea. ”Frankly I’m surprised that she’s not more concerned with Carter’s condition, I get that she’s excited about getting past the opening round and The Troll’s impending funeral but given how close she supposedly is to Carter? You’d think she’d have more concern for him.”

“Ariana’s also someone who doesn’t like posting all her life events on her Twitter page, she made that clear last week.” Whisper nodded before we reached the parking lot and she turned to me. “Just one last thing before we go, how do you view the whole Austin/Carter situation? I’d advise that you pick your words carefully because you know how much I care for him.”

She was right off course, Kat and Whisper had been fond of Team Go long before I joined The Saviours and I had that in mind when Carter asked me if their friendship was all a lie following the events of Blaze of Glory XI. ”It’s one of those times that I wish I had a mind reader handy because I wish I knew just what Austin is thinking right now.” I admitted as I brushed some hair over my shoulder. ”It’s definitely a complicated situation, one that I’ll be watching from afar because right now? I frankly couldn’t care less about Carter.”

“Good answer, and I’ll continue to treat his injuries as long as he keeps coming to Grand Junction, no matter how awkward it gets.” Whisper nodded before she lead me into the parking lot. “I won’t let you start training for the match until my medics clear you, last thing I want is to aggravate any existing injuries and force you to pull out of the match.”

”I wasn’t expecting that you would to be honest, where’s Kat anyway?” I asked as I walked towards my rental car and Whisper towards hers. ”Could’ve sworn I saw her around backstage.”

“She’s still around but in a lousy mood, she’ll be in a better mood in no time.” Whisper responded as she shook her head and I noticed. “In fact I believe she left during the Main Event.”

”Like the result of Roxi vs. Mercedes was ever in doubt.” I responded as I shook my head before we entered our cars. ”See you tomorrow Whisper.”

“See you.” Whisper responded before we drove off, as I drove back towards the hotel I had several things on my mind and Tempest’s actions were at the forefront, even after she was pulled from the Bea Barnhart match and replaced by Alexandra Callaway.

Her attack on me tonight was a declaration of war, and I was about to commit a few war crimes in retaliation.

Hell’s Gate Training Facility, Grand Junction, Colorado
Monday the 3rd of April 2023, 16:00pm

And they wonder why I did what I did.

I’ve been training at Hell’s Gate since I joined The Saviours and turned my back on Team Go and honestly? I’m not sure if I’d ever go back to the Go Gym even if I somehow made amends with Ari and Carter and Gabriel welcomed me back into the fold.

Why? One word: stagnation.

Don’t get me wrong, the Go Gym was the gym that made me the wrestler I am today, I know there are plenty of other schools that could’ve taken me in as a student but it was my fandom of Odette Ryder/Stevens that got me to enrol at the gym in the first place and well, here I am having turned my back on that same school, because the truth was I could only train at the same school for so long before things started to stagnate, hell it was already happening thanks to my run of luck since losing the Roulette Title last year.

Hell’s Gate offered me what the Go Gym couldn’t, a chance to freshen up my skills as a wrestler, build upon what I’m already good at, well, see where it took me from there! Time will tell if it would ultimately be worth betraying my so-called friends but right now? My focus was on my future away from the Go Gym.

The Blast from the Past opening round was just a bump in the road, hell I could blame Tempest’s interference and Casey’s incompetence for it in equal measure, the match against Seleana was going to get me back on the right track.

“Harper, work on your kicks, I know you kick hard but you’ll have to keep at it if you want to graduate from Hero Academy!” Renegade shouted at me and Harper and as squared off in the MMA Cage, Renegade wasn’t as big as Casey but he was still a big dude who easily towered over me and Harper, as for the sparring match? Harper’s graduation was set for tomorrow (because Jessie couldn’t make the original date due to SCW’s date in Barbados) and these were her final preparations. “Krystal, keep up the defence.”

”Not like I have much choice.” I muttered to myself as Harper continued to kick away at my protective gear, Renegade was a protective guy and he insisted that anyone who entered the MMA Cage wear protective gear, it at least did it’s job and with a match coming up on Sunday night? I wasn’t in a position to complain. ”Besides, are you sure this is as hard as she can kick?”

”You really want me to answer that?” Harper said after she pulled her leg back and bounced around for a couple of seconds. ”Especially after what you’ve said and done on Climax Control lately?”

“Harper I know your still learning the business but in here? We leave what happens at wrestling shows behind.” Whisper chimed in as she walked up to the MMA Cage and Harper glanced over at her leaving herself open to a cheap shot from me, would I take it though? “Krystal’s actions as of late may have been questionable at best but for now she’s your sparring partner.”

”Right, got it………” I decided to take my shot by aiming a punch to Harper’s midsection, Harper looked up just in time though and took me down with a judo throw. ”And I see you forgot your manners in between leaving Team Go and joining The Saviours!”

”Funny!” I grunted as I rolled to my feet and turned to face the younger woman. ”And you still turned your back on an opponent, even if it was for a chat with Whisper.”

“You may be right Krystal but I don’t appreciate my conversations being interrupted like that, especially when I’m trying to give advice to a young lady on the cusp of becoming a wrestler.” Whisper chastised me as she shook her head and we both turned to her. “And given your boxing background? That could’ve been nasty.”

”I only boxed briefly to learn self-defence.” I clarified as I shook my head and Whisper nodded as she got the idea. ”Only reason I stopped was because I had to choose, continue the boxing lessons or save up enough money to move to the states and train to be a wrestler.”

“We’ll continue this chat after the sparring match, no more funny business because I might report it to Mac next time.” Whisper responded and that was all the motivation I needed to keep things clean for the rest of the sparring session, once me and Harper were done Renegade came up to us as we left the cage.

“Good form ladies, cheap tactics aside.” Renegade complemented us and I nodded whilst maintaining a cold demeaner as Harper grinned broadly. “Harper if you keep that form up tomorrow then you’ll graduate from Hero Academy for sure.”

”Here’s hoping.” Harper nodded in response as she went to leave the MMA cage, Renegade looked me over for a bit as I removed my protective helmet. ”Hopefully I’ll get in one last trip to the bakery before I head back to Vegas.”

“Hoping to see Tommy one last time?” Whisper teased the eighteen-year-old good naturedly and I didn’t exactly need to see Harper’s face to know that she was blushing furiously, almost reminded me of when I was figuring out my feelings for Makayla to be honest. “Krystal, I know you started using underhanded tactics as of your Blast from the Past Match but try to keep things on the up and up in my gym? This isn’t a competitive environment, your supposed to be helping the other trainees get better.”

”Yep! I got it!” I nodded in response before I left the MMA cage with Renegade right behind me. ”So what’s next on the agenda? I won’t be able to stick around long because I’ve got a flight to Scotland to catch, leave it to SCW to find a way to go from Barbados to Scotland in the same tour right?”

“Yes, if it weren’t for the Unsolved Mysteries theme I’d wonder what the bosses were smoking when they planned out the route for this tour.” Whisper nodded in agreement and I grinned in response. “Canada to Barbados to two dates in Scotland to Romania and finally London, I’d almost question if Mark and Christian have lost their minds, especially since Makayla will be in the last month of her pregnancy by the time you get to London.”

“I meant to ask actually, how is she doing?” Renegade asked as he turned to me, his previous cold, professional demeaner was long gone, replaced by a more friendly, warmer demeaner. “She’s having twins isn’t she?”

”She’s doing relatively okay she hasn’t exactly been a fan of my recent actions but she’s willing to stick through it since I assured her that it was for the greater good of my career.” I responded with a nod as I removed the rest of my protective gear and Harper did likewise. ”I think it’s finally starting to set in for us both, that we’re on the home stretch of Makayla’s pregnancy and all.”

“I don’t have any kids of my own but I get it.” Renegade nodded in understanding as I gave myself a stretch after the sparring match. “I’m sure she’ll come around to it, Harper, your siblings doing okay?”

”I’m no shrink so I can’t say this with any authority but yeah, I think so.” Harper nodded as she turned to the much bigger man. ”Obviously losing our parents have been tough on me and the kids but it should be a bit easier once the funeral is done on Wednesday.”

“It never gets easier Harp but you’ll at least have that difficult part of your life behind you, and remember that we are always available if you want a chat.” Whisper assured Harper who gave the older woman a grateful nod. “So, who wants to get in the ring with me for a sparring match?” Whisper asked as she motioned towards the ring and Harper hesitated, I wasn’t there for it but she had told me about the time she had volunteered for a sparring match with Whisper and instantly regretted it.

But me? Well, I wasn’t about to back own from this challenge. ”I’m not going to get better unless I face tougher opponents, I say bring it on.” I responded with a grin and Whisper chuckled before she lead me to the ring.

Not gonna lie, I was sore as fuck after all was said and done but I can’t deny that I learned a lot from sparring with Whisper, who knows where I’ll be after more sessions with her.

Sadly it would be my last session of the week because I had a flight to Scotland to catch in the morning because I had other stuff to do.

Eilean Mor, Flannen Island, Scotland
Tuesday the 4th of April 2023, 17:00pm

Note to self, don’t test my luck with retired wrestlers.

Why? Well let me put it this way, accepting that challenge from Whisper was bad enough but I went and made an off colour remark about The Troll (I mean come on, it’s the fucking Troll) Kat ended up challenging me to a sparring match at Hell’s Gate, and well, remember that Roulette Title Match against Kat I had last year? I thought she was tough then but she’s even tougher outside of the ring! Granted, that was the match where I infamously checked myself out of hospital to train the week before but even so!

As for whether I would pull that stunt again? Well, the fall out alone was enough to tell me that it was a bad idea even after the match but even if I was still with the Go Gym? Whisper’s a personal trainer and has helped Carter and Fenris with their respective injuries, not to mention my potential injuries from being yeeted by Tempest.

So no, I don’t feel like getting chewed out by someone with the force of personality of Whisper, thank you very much!

Anyway once I was given the all clear I headed off to Scotland at long last, technically the SCW talent were all staying at a hotel on a different island because there were no hotels on Flannigan Island but I still wanted to check out the lighthouse that surrounded this week’s mystery so here I was.

And as I stood looking at the ring, I was wondering how the bosses expected to get an outdoor wrestling show set up in an area like this.

“Excuse me miss.” An older guy with a thick Scottish accent greeted me and I looked up from my phone, there were a few other tourists around but I guess I stood out a bit. “Are you with the tour group? You seem a bit lost.”

”Err, no, I came on my own.” I responded whilst resisting the urge to joke about getting lost on the way home to Adelaide. ”The company I work for is doing a Unsolved Mysteries tour and it’s taken me here, anything you can tell me about the three lighthouse keepers that went missing?”

“Aye, it’s a good one at that.” The older guy responded as he looked up at the lighthouse. “The lighthouse keepers went missing in 1900, naturally they are believed to be all dead or at least a hundred years old by this point but the lighthouse has been dogged by the disappearances ever since.” He continued and I nodded as I looked over it. “So that accent, I’m guessing your from New Zealand?”

”No, I’m from Australia, Kiwis in general have thicker accents.” I corrected him and the older guy nodded as he got the idea. ”I take it the place has been in use since then?”

“Yes, it went automated in 1970 though, there’s crews to make sure that the equipment’s working but aside from that? It mostly attracts people like yourself, drawn in by the mystery and all.” The old guy responded as I folded my arms. “I don’t think I caught your name.”

”That’s because I never gave it.” I responded with a frown as I turned to the guy. ”The name’s Krystal Wolfe, I work for the wrestling promotion that’s hosting a show here on Sunday.”

“Can’t say I’m a fan of wrestling Ms. Wolfe but I am curious as to how your employers plan to host a show here.” The old guy responded and I nodded in agreement because I had been wondering the same thing since the new card text went out on Sunday night. “Are you competing on the show?”

”Yeah, against a Swedish wrestler called Seleana Zdunich, I’ve beaten her before, it won’t be too much trouble.” I responded dismissively as I brushed some hair over my shoulder. ”Currently in a rebuilding phase after certain setbacks, Seleana’s just the first step towards that.”

“Sounds like that’ll be good for your soul at least.” The old guy responded before he went to walk off, in a way I was relieved, he seemed like a nice enough guy and I wasn’t about to reveal why I had to rebuild to someone who wasn’t familiar with my work. “Good luck in your match Krystal.”

”Just one last thing, is there a lighthouse keeper I can talk too? I’ve got promo material to shoot and I’d rather not get arrested for breaking and entering.” I called out to the old guy who nodded before taking me to the lighthouse keeper.

Promo inside a lighthouse, I can’t say that was ever on my bucket list but I can say that it’ll be a first.

Eilean Mor Lighthouse, Flannen Island, Scotland
Tuesday the 4th of April 2023, 18:00pm

*promo time*

Light the path.

”I knew heading into Blaze of Glory XI that my actions on that night would earn me a few enemies, I just didn’t think that Tempest would resort to interfering in a Blast from the Past Match!” I stated as I folded my arms whilst pacing around the base of the lighthouse. ”Make no mistake Tempest, you just made a huge mistake! But before I can even think about getting my revenge on her, I’ve got another Bombshell who I’ve faced before to deal with, someone who I last faced one on one when I defended the SCW Bombshell Roulette Title in Disneyworld, yes Seleana, I’m talking about you!”

This will be good.

”Seleana, SCW’s Queen of Second Chances, I call you that because no matter how many matches you lose, no matter how little significance you play in the grand scheme of things, you always find yourself in a title situation! Unless we’re not counting the Blast from the Past Tournament, your last title opportunity was when you, Dawn Warren, Mercedes Vargas and my Saviours teammate Kim Pain went at it for a shot at the Bombshell Roulette Title.” I stated as I shook my head. ”You’ve fallen so far from grace that the only way you end up in title matches these days is because the bosses need a body for someone to beat up, and I’m the latest one to do it!”

Pathetic.

”Are you really content to just sit back and watch the world pass you by Seleana? Where’s your ambition? Where’s the person who once broke Christian’s nose and had to literally fight to get her job back in late 2018/early 2019? Is she truly dead and buried? Because based on your performance in this year’s Blast from the Past Tournament? I’d say yes!” I said as I shook my head. ”You want to know how far you’ve fallen Seleana? Bea fucking Barnhart has more credibility as a competitor than you! Because at least she gives a shit, you’ve been checked out for years! And to think, I used to respect you as a competitor based on your credentials alone, you’re a former champion for fuck’s sake!”

But wait a moment…….

”Actually, when was the last time anyone had a good long look at either of your title reigns? Well, let’s have a bit of a retrospective, shall we?” I asked rhetorically before I thought back to the title reigns in question. ”First up was your two-week reign with the World Bombshell Title, a match you never would’ve won if your wife, who need I remind you, beat you up to get a title shot in the first place, interfered in the match and cost Alicia the title, then came your Roulette Title reign the following year, the only reason you got that match in the first place was because your wife was Queen for a Day and was trying to make up for the aforementioned situation! You’ve never accomplished anything of note on your own Seleana! It was always because your dumb ass wife suddenly decided to get back in your good graces again! If I were you? I would’ve filed for divorce from that idiot the moment she laid a hand on me!”

But you didn’t.

”But I guess your content to just be in the shadow of a woman who’s name and personality changes at the drop of a hat.” To illustrate my point I took off the woolly hat that I had been wearing and dropped it to the lighthouse’s floor. ”And you have the gall to call yourself a former champion Seleana? I’d be tempted to argue that your reigns should be stricken from the record for those facts alone but considering that the bosses didn’t do the same for your wife when she went through her last manic phase? Well I guess they like you and Crystal a hell of a lot more than I do! It’s time you faced facts Seleana, you’re a shell of your former self, and it’s time someone put you of your misery! Now, I’m not volunteering myself for the job but hey, if the opportunity presents itself then I guess I’ll be the one to put Swedish Old Yeller down!”

Don’t like what I’m saying?

”Oh, what’s that? Seleana has seniority over me and I should respect her? If we applied that logic to every old fart in the company then who will be around to call them out on their bullshit?” I asked rhetorically as I looked up towards the lighthouse’s, well, light. ”In case you haven’t noticed? I’ve chosen to do my promo from the lighthouse that serves as the base for this week’s mystery, and as far as I’m concerned? My future’s as bright as the light that shines the path for passing boats! But if I have anything to say about it? Then the old timers coaxing on their previous success stories will disappear in much the same way as the lighthouse keepers did a hundred and twenty three years ago! Because like it or not? I’m the face of the future!”

It’s that simple.

”Seleana the respect I once had for you is as dead as the lighthouse keepers that disappeared all those years ago, because outside of a few key members of the Saviours? I’m done respecting the old farts, it’s time we started forging the future of this company and I will drag the Bombshell Division kicking and screaming into the future!” I said as I formed a fist with the hand that had my Roulette Title Ring on it. ”I’ve already proven that there’s few who can hold a candle to me as a champion, because since my Roulette Title reign ended last year not one champion has ever come close to matching my reign! And that was me playing nice! I’m done playing nice, I will forge my own path through the Bombshell Division and I don’t care how many bodies I leave in my wake! And guess what Seleana?”

And with that I decided to wrap things up.

”Once I’m done with you, you will be the first of many victims left behind on my road to the top! Tempest is a name we’re both familiar with and when we cross paths next she will know the price of revenge! But you Seleana? You’re so fucking irrelevant that it’s a wonder why Mark and Christian keep you around!” I stated as I shook my head. ”Well, I’m afraid it’s high time that the old Swedish dog was put to sleep! Because let’s face it Seleana, you lost the energy you once had long ago and at this point? It’s the kindest thing to do! This Sunday Seleana you will learn that those who cross me will beware the Ides of March as I forge my path to the top of the mountain that is the Bombshell Division!”

I picked up my hat and left the lighthouse as the scene fades.

28
Climax Control Archives / “The Ides of March.”
« on: March 27, 2023, 08:39:01 PM »
(Kat, Goth and Melissa were used with permission from their handlers)

Krystal shocked the wrestling world at Blaze of Glory XI by not only joining The Saviours but turning her back on her cousin Cassie and her friend Ariana Angelos! It would seem that resentment had been brewing in the Aussie Bombshell for a little over a year now and it finally boiled over at Blaze of Glory XI and she was willing to burn most of the bridges that she had built along the way kicking off this new era with a win over Chelsea Le Clair that same night.

One thing hadn’t changed though and that was Krystal’s third straight participation in this year’s Blast from the Past Tournament where she looked to end her rotten run of luck in the tournament! Her partner this year was the seven foot tall, near four hundred pound Hall of Famer Casey Williams who had come out of retirement for the tournament and her first round opponents were a similarly odd pairing, the Amazonian Bombshell Zoey Lukas and a newcomer to SCW in Joe Montouri! Can Krystal finally make it past round one?

Backstage at Climax Control 355, Reno, Nevada
Sunday the 26th of February 2023, 19:00pm

I didn’t know it yet, but my destiny was about to take a dramatic turn.

Up until that point I had been feuding with Chelsea Le Clair over some comments I made about a former member of the Bombshell Roster whom she happened to be friends with, I didn’t care to be honest because at this point I just wanted to get on Supercards regularly again, something that had been happening with some uncertainty since my Bombshell Roulette Title reign ended in 2022 but I had no idea just where it would take me at the time.

Chelsea was scheduled to take on Melissa of the Saviours tonight in a warm-up match for both women, Chelsea was set to take me on off course but Melissa was one of two challengers for Kayla Richards’ Bombshell Internet Title alongside Ariana! My interest in this match was purely related to the match between me and Chelsea but I still secured myself a front row seat from the entrance ramp, even applauding Chelsea’s actions when she get the win.

But as Kat and Goth were helping Melissa to the back, we talked, what about? Well, you’re about to find out.

”Saviours, Saviours, were thou art thou Saviours.” I muttered to myself as I wondered around the backstage area not really paying attention to anyone else, I did eventually locate Kat and Goth as they were chatting outside the medic’s office. ”You said we needed to talk?” I asked as I approached them and the two older wrestlers looked up before nodding.

“Mac would be here but he’s got a World Title Match to prepare for, and Kim’s got that Roulette Tag Match coming up to boot.” Kat explained as she turned to me and I frowned as I looked over the older woman. “Be honest with us Krystal. Have you truly been happy as a member of Team Go?”

That question caught me off guard for a number of reasons, Kat was good friends with Ari and Carter off course but the fact that she was asking me this peeked my interest. ”Confidentially? I feel like I’ve been shifted to the side since Ari made her SCW debut, ad her Roulette Title reign didn’t help matters.” I admitted and when Goth and Kat shared a look my curiosity went up. ”Why?”

“We have been watching you for some time Krystal, ever since you fired Matthew and Marty as your managers.” Goth elaborated and I leaned against the wall with my arms crossed as I processed his words. “Your talents are all too apparent, but we feel that your talents are being squandered.”

”Who do you mean by “we”? I asked with a confused look on my face at which point Melissa emerged from the medic’s office. ”Just the two of you, or does this come from your leader?”

“The Saviours has no official leadership in fact, we think of ourselves as more of a democracy.” Kat elaborated and I frowned as I processed the information. “Lt’s not beat around the bush much longer, The Saviours have voted in favour of welcoming you into their ranks Krystal, it’s up to you whether you accept our incitation or not.”

I blinked a few times as I processed that information and it was a tempting offer but I had my reservations. ”I’m flattered but what about Team Go? They have had my back since I arrived in SCW.” I asked at which point Melissa shook her head. ”What?”

“Just tell us one thing Krystal.” Melissa said as she turned to me and I turned to the rookie wrestler. “When was the last time that either Carter, Ariana or even Cassie checked in on you to see how you were doing after your Roulette Title reign ended last year?” Melissa asked and just like that? I started to think over the past year. “Or do I need to remind you of that one time you checked yourself out of hospital to train for a Roulette Title Match?”

”You don’t, and the last time they checked on me was immediately after my reign ended, and even then it was only Cass.” I explained and the three members of the Saviours shared a look. ”What are you getting at?”

“Only one person checked on you and it was immediately after the reign ended, when you were still recovering from the shock.” Kat responded simply and for lack of better word? It clicked in my head. “And it could be argued that her actions lead to the end of the reign, some friends you’ve got huh?”

That was the tipping point, I didn’t need any further persuasion honestly. ”Tell Mac that he has a new Saviours member, but I don’t want to make it official until Blaze of Glory and when I sort out this business with Chelsea.” I responded and the three Saviours members nodded in understanding. ”It’ll give me time to figure out how to get some stuff off my chest in the meantime.”

“We look forward to it.” Kat nodded in response before we went out separate ways, as for what happened next?

For lack of better term? I snapped at Blaze of Glory, Cassie interrupting my promo time pushed me over the edge and I gave her a dose of reality before I officially severed ties with Team Go, the next couple of weeks would set the rest of my career in motion.

Sure, it nearly cost me my marriage to Makayla who, well, let’s just say that she wasn’t too thrilled with my actions at Blaze of Glory but it will be worth it in the end.

Because certain sacrifices needed to be made for the greater good of my career!

Krystal’s new home, Grand Junction, Colorado
Monday the 27th of March 2023, 11:00am

Just over a month removed from that fateful night in Reno and I don’t regret it for a second.

There was off course some changes that needed to be made, I knew returning to the back after I betrayed Ari that I had effectively gotten myself banned from the gym that had trained me but fortunately The Saviours used the Hell’s Gate training facility, a school ran by Whisper in Grand Junction, Colorado, the other thing? Well, La Vegas had nothing left to offer me or Makayla so we moved to Grand Junction.

Oh yeah, that whole mess, I don’t think I need to point out that Makayla wasn’t exactly pleased with my actions at Blaze of Glory XI and the only reason we’re still married is because I managed to persuade her that my actions were for the greater good of my career, the topic of divorce did come up again last night after I got back to my hotel room in Canada because of my……..interaction with the fans but I was able to diffuse the situation.

How long I would be able to keep that up was anyone’s guess.

Besides that, I’ve got my Blast from the Past Match to worry about, last week The Saviours had a fairly poor showing in the opening round matches with only Goth and Kim and Ken and Courtney making it past round one, in the defence of the others though? Chris Page and Melissa faced stiff competition from Calvin Harris and Dawn Warren not to mention the fact that they got screwed over by a blind referee, and Peter?

He was unfortunate enough to face Ken’s team and have Seleana as his partner! Seleana may be a former two time champion but whatever fire she had when she first entered SCW has long since been extinguished, I’m pretty sure the bosses only keep her around for when they need a body for a random title match or contenders match but it’s quickly become apparent that she can’t keep up with the new crop of Bombshells.

That off course, left me and Mac as the only Saviours members left in round one, Mac was teaming with Bella’s mom (on account of Bella being pregnant and all) to take on two newcomers in Terryl Fexxfield and Wilma Shakesfear whilst I was teaming with the much bigger Casey Williams to take on Zoey Lukas and Joe Montouri.

Joe was a name I was vaguely familiar with, I knew the guy was active in a number of different promotions alongside competing in several different charity events organised by wrestlers outside of SCW I can’t say I’ve ever seen his work, Mac told me not to underestimate the guy but we’ll see how he handles my partner.

Zoey on the other hand? I knew her all to well and she was entering this match with her usual arrogant swagger, still thinking that the fact that she can bench press more than I weigh makes up for the fact that she’s failed to live up to her sister’s legacy in any meaningful way, I look forward to sending this Wolfslair member packing.

”Okay, internet is officially set up at our new home.” I muttered to myself as I checked the router to confirm that yes, we had an internet connection, my house back in Las Vegas was pretty big, it had one bedroom, a guest bedroom, two stories and office space alongside the standard stuff and at the time I brought it? It felt perfect for a single woman like me, even after Makayla moved to the US and moved in with me after I won the Roulette Title it still felt perfect since we were a lesbian couple and at the time kids seemed like a distant fantasy at best, then Rachel came into our lives, and after a year of that? Makayla decided to get herself pregnant via artificial insemination.

Frankly the move had become of matter of when we moved, not if, even if Makayla wasn’t carrying twins we didn’t have enough space at the old house for another kid, off course at the time I didn’t expect that we’d move out of state but here we are.

”Much as I don’t agree with your actions as of late? You know how to pick a good house Charlotte.” Makayla commented as she looked around the new house and I glanced at her pregnant belly, there was no way around it, Makayla was about to enter the penultimate month of her pregnancy and at this rate, it wouldn’t be long before she was in a labour room delivering twin baby girls, but Makayla clearing her throat brought me out of that happy moment. ”Do you still not have any regrets?”

”To put it bluntly? No, I had been drifting away from the other Go Gym Graduates for a while when I wasn’t teaming with Ari or Carter, and once Carter signed with SCW it felt like Ari had shoved me aside to be with her bestie again.” I responded as I shook my head and Makayla said nothing. ”And Cass was getting out of control, someone needed to bring her back to reality and Ruth damn sure wasn’t going to do it.”

”I don’t disagree with you on the point about Cassie, and whilst Ruth is a loving mother, if not very overbearing, I strongly doubt that kicking her daughter in the jaw was the first thing that came to her mind!” Makayla responded as she shook her head and I stood up to my full height as she continued. ”Have you seen Cassie’s tweets? The poor girl’s been devastated by everything that’s happened to her, you’ve had mental health issues in the past, you know what it’s like Charlotte!”

”And I overcame them.” I responded dismissively and Makayla shook her head with a facepalm. ”Cassie might be two years short of being able to legally drink in the US but she’s still my relative, she’ll get over this event just like I did.”

”I honestly can’t believe that this is the same woman I married a year ago.” Makayla responded with a shocked look on her face. ”Your mental health issues stemmed from a losing streak and your inability to get back in the title picture and win a title, Cassie’s issues stem from the fact that she was attacked by someone she saw as a big sister figure!” Makayla added as she marched up to me and folded her arms. ”Those are not the same and you know it Krystal!”

”Maybe not, but we both know that Cassie is a much stronger person than everything else about her would suggest.” I responded with a frown as I stepped up to her. ”It took a strong person to survive my father, it takes someone just as strong to grow up knowing that your aunt was brutally murdered and buried in her backyard by her husband, need I remind you that Cass was barely twelve years old when my mom’s body was discovered?”

”And yet you still attacked her for daring to ask questions you didn’t like.” Makayla responded with an angry sigh before she spun on her heel and headed towards the kitchen. ”Charlotte, you know damn well that the only reason we’re not in divorce court right now is because you promised that your actions would lead to a better future for us, Rachel, Zosia and Cara.” Makayla added as she motioned to her pregnant belly to illustrate her point. ”But even I have my limits as far as that’s concerned, we’ve been through hell and back together, don’t throw it all away to get noticed in SCW.”

We mutually decided to drop that conversation at that point, frankly it was giving us both a migraine and the last thing a woman as heavily pregnant as Makayla needs right now is more stress! All I could really do was focus on my BFTP Match.

Krystal’s home, Grand Junction, Colorado
Tuesday the 28th of March 2023, 11:00am

*promo time*

Everything you thought you knew is wrong.

”You know, I was thinking of doing something similar to what Jessie did last week, do the promo that site of the local mystery, you know? Then I read the sealed part and I was like: yeah I don’t think the bosses pay me enough to risk getting arrested in Barbados for breaking and entering!” I admitted with a shrug as I stepped towards my camera. ”Or whatever the equivalent in Barbados is! But that’s not what you’re here for, you’re here because I recently changed my destiny for the better! All it took was a kick and two steel chairs.”

Funny that.

”I’ve already explained in detail why I joined The Saviours and more importantly, why I attacked my now former friend Ariana and my cousin Cass! To summarise? I needed a change in scenery and friends, my membership in The Saviours offered both but there’s one thing that hasn’t changed, and that’s my participation in this year’s Blast from the Past Tournament.” I stated as I folded my arms with a cocky smirk on my face. ”Call me what you want, a backstabber, a betrayer, a bitch, that one c-word that people think Australians like me say on a regular basis, but I’d prefer it if you called me tenacious because that’s exactly what I am and something that Zoey Lukas and J-Mont will find out the hard way on Sunday!”

As for my partner?

”But I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention my partner, J-Mont’s probably never heard of him, let’s be honest, but he’s a seven-foot tall giant and an SCW Hall of Famer in Casey Williams! Unlike my previous partners he’s never held a world title, then again? Considering my luck with this tournament I probably would’ve taken Bill fucking Barnhart as my partner!” I admitted as I paced around my office space. ”Which is funny considering that my one and only male opponent in last year’s tournament was a big motherfucker in Supreme Machine but I digress! Let’s talk about my opponents, shall we?”

Starting with Zoey.

”Ahh Zoey, still stuck in your sister’s shadow huh? You’ve been in SCW for how long and you still haven’t done anything of note? Your one title match to date was that Open Invitational Clusterfuck that opened the year for the Bombshell Roulette Division and you didn’t put much effort into promoting that match, are you that afraid of success or did Alicia get you’re your ear about wasting your time on the gimmick division?” I asked as I folded my arms with a scowl. ”Honestly considering you’ve let Alicia do all the thinking for you since day one I wouldn’t be surprised if that was the case.”

And I’m being generous.

”I’ll just cut right to the chase, Zoey you’ve been coaxing on two things since you arrived in SCW, your strength and the fact that you share a daddy with a famous but washed-up Bombshell who I’m sure has already filled your mind with her opinions on me, such a pity that you can’t think for yourself, otherwise you might be a good wrestler.” I stated as I shook my head. ”But alas, the only thing people will remember you for is the fact that you are a musclehead who happens to be related to Alicia Lukas, all muscles, no brains, no skill, need I go on Zoey?”

I will anyway.

”I mean seriously, who have you beaten Zoey? Jessie? Big deal, at this point my dogs probably have wins over Jessie, Mercedes? At this point she’s basically Jessie’s non-union Argentinian equivalent, the Gemstones? A bunch of idiots who got out-rocked by a band so old that they are dad rock’s dad rock! Hardly the champions row of Bombshells who your sister’s beat, isn’t it?” I asked as I leaned back against the wall. ”So go ahead Zoey, continue to rely on your strength, because if you actually put in the effort to learn the sport maybe you’d be a threat to those who know what the fuck they are doing in the ring, but I don’t see that happening anytime soon.”

Next up is J-Mont.

”An outsider trying to get at the World Title through this tournament? Been a while since that’s happened hasn’t it? And I mean an outsider with credentials so don’t bother bringing up those idiots in Jaycee McDonald and Levana Cade from last year’s tournament, I’m pretty sure they are off flipping burgers at some McDonalds in Las Vegas right now anyway! No, instead I’m talking about Joe Montouri or J-Mont, a guy who’s been everywhere in pursuit of gold.” I stated before scoffing. ”Now, due to SCW’s strict intergender rules, I won’t be dealing with this guy directly, I’ll leave that in Casey’s capable hands, but he's such an arrogant little prick that it’d be rude not to give him some attention.”

This will be good.

”Every time SCW holds this tournament, there’s at least one guy who signs up exclusively for it and then fucks off as soon as his time in the tournament is over, I’ve already talked about last year’s example, but where do you fall J-Mont? Will you stick around after Casey’s done playing with his food or will you fuck off into the sunset?” I asked bluntly as I flipped some hair over my shoulder. ”Frankly? I couldn’t give less of a fuck, this tournament is pretty much the only time I ever pay attention to the male division to be honest! But if you do make this a one off? Don’t let the door hit you on the way out!”

Or do, either way it’ll be fun to watch.

”Maybe I’ve grown cynical over the years but maybe it’s just me tired of seeing these new faces crop up in SCW thinking this tournament will be an easy road to championship gold and then fucking off when they realize just how fierce the competition in SCW is! J-Mont, here’s a little history lesson for you, SCW’s been in business for twelve years now, they didn’t last this long by sheer luck.” I added as I folded my arms. ”They did it by having some of the best men and women in the wrestling world at their fingertips! If this becomes too much for you to hand J-Mont then please, fuck off back to PWE!”

It's that simple.

”Zoey, J-Mont, I’m done playing nice, I’m here to carve my own path back to championship gold I don’t give a shit how much blood I need to spill along the way! You two just so happen to be the poor unfortunate souls who are the first obstacle in my path.” I added as I folded my arms. ”As a wise man called Alexander Pope once said, Fools Rush in Where Angels Dare To Tread, and you two are looking mighty foolish as you step into my path, because that is a path where a certain angel dares to tread, oh and Ariana? Get involved at your own risk bitch, because I’ll just put you down again!”

And with that I decided to wrap things up.

”And trust me, I’ll be watching your match against Sam and Teddy like a hawk.” I stated before I paced around my office space. ”But as for J-Mont and Zoey Lukas? Their first mistake was signing up for this tournament, their second was not immediately pulling out when they saw who their first-round opponents were! Their third mistake? Will be thinking that they can still win after all is said and done because those who cross the “SA Slaya” Krystal Wolfe will beware the Ides of March!”

I left my office after turning off the camera as the scene fades.

29
Supercard Archives / “Winds of Change.”
« on: March 10, 2023, 09:37:08 PM »
Blaze of Glory XI was almost here as was the grudge match between Krystal Wolfe and Chelsea LeClair! What had started as some off hand comments that Krystal had made towards Andrea Hernandez a week after she unsuccessfully challenged Masque for the World Bombshell Championship had now blossomed into a full blown feud as Chelsea LeClair had joined SCW, partially to defend Andrea’s honour and prompting the Aussie to accuse Andrea of sending Chelsea to fight her battles! Can Krystal get her first win of the year?

Krystal’s home, Las Vegas, Nevada
Wednesday the 9th of March 2023, 16:00pm

It’s quiet, almost too quiet.

The talk of the town (as for as SCW went anyway) was that Harper Mason’s parents were murdered on Friday, I feel bad for her because I know what that’s like from personal experience but I had my own things to worry about as we entered the week before Blaze of Glory XI.

I had made the conscious decision to distance myself from Ari and Jessie for now, at least until I was ready to reveal the big secret that I have kept since the last episode of Climax Control, I wasn’t even going to the Go Gym to prepare for the math against Chelsea, that’s how isolated I was trying to be! Last I heard there was an Irish American girl starting there last week but that was hardly my concern.

Off course there were other factors that made my isolation from my friends a lot easier, PWS: Apex was hosting a show from England this week and Cassie and Miles were booked to compete at the show, Carter had apparently used the booking as an excuse to visit England for the first time because Ari’s tweets told me that her bestie was in England as well, it wasn’t my place to step in though, Cassie might be the youngest of the three at nineteen but they were all adults and were free to do what they wanted.

And since Cassie  was old enough to drink in England? That probably meant her waking up tomorrow with one hall of a hangover!

So, why the isolation? These past few weeks have made me re-evaluate who I considered to be friends, Ari hadn’t really comments on the Chelsea situation even though we had been friends since I made my SCU debut, the same went for Carter but considering how much me and Cass had helped him when he was in that abusive relationship with Laz a few months ago? That stung the most to me.

I thought friends were meant to have each other’s backs, but if they are willing to leave me alone and be in their own little worlds? Fine, I’ll ignore them for now, and when they’ll confront me after the secrets out I have a simple, four-word long response planned.

“Took you long enough!”

”Okay, just got get this done and I’ll be done for the today.” I muttered to myself as I typed away at my laptop, the word document in front of me was for something that I had been planning in my head since the Supercard period began, I still wasn’t ready to reveal the details just yet but all would be made clear soon. ”After this? We’ll see where the rest of the year takes me.”

”Talking to yourself again Charlotte?” Makayla asked as she walked into my office and I turned to her, anyone who wasn’t in the know and saw a blonde, heavily pregnant woman with Makayla’s looks would want to find the father and give him a firm handshake whilst calling him a lucky bastard, the fact that she was married to me, another woman, would probably cause more confusion among those same people. ”Isn’t that a definition of insanity?”

”It might be one of them, but last I checked I wasn’t trying the same thing over and over expecting a different result so I’m good on that front at least.” I responded as I shook my head and Makayla gave me a curious look before deciding to drop it, but not before I clicked away from the word doc to make Makayla didn’t catch wind of anything. ”Everything okay with you? No pregnancy cravings or anything of the sort?”

”I haven’t had any cravings in a few hours no, I would’ve thought it would be twice as much considering I’m carrying twins but I digress.” Makayla responded as she glanced down at her heavily pregnant belly and then shook her head. ”It’s still weird to me that my pregnancy’s in its last stage, feels just like yesterday that I was three months pregnant and tell you on your twenty seventh birthday.”

”And it’s like I said last week. I really should’ve picked up on the signs a lot sooner than three months in.” I responded as I shook my head before I checked Twitter briefly. ”The fact that your pregnancy started a couple of months before Bella’s notwithstanding off course!”

”I’m still waiting for the third pregnancy to pop up, just to complete the trifecta!” Makayla joked and I shook my head with a slight laugh, though if I had to guess I’d say Ari would get pregnant when she and Francisco went on honeymoon in a few months but again, that was a while off and Makayla would’ve given birth by then,  I wasn’t sure about Bella’s due date to be honest but if Ari did get pregnant  with Francisco’s kid it went without saying that Bella would’ve given birth long before Ari’s kid/s were due. ”So, I take it you heard about what happened to Harper’s parents?”

”Yeah, but as terrible as I feel for her? I can’t say that I knew her folks that well.” I responded as I shook y head and Makayla nodded as she got the idea. ”Again, that’s something no girl her age should have to go through, but I only knew Harper from my occasional guest appearance at hero Academy, let alone knew her family that well.”

”Even so, it’s still a terrible situation for her all around.” Makayla nodded in response as I turned to her, part of me expected what she was going to say next but it still caught me off guard. ”Or hell, go to see your friends in general? You haven’t spoken to them much since Ari lost the title.”

”And here we go.” I muttered to myself before I turned to Makayla. ”Ari’s been busy preparing for her Bombshell Internet Title Triple Threat Match, Cassie, Carter and Miles are in England for the PWS: Apex show and won’t be back until tomorrow night at the latest, they are off in their own little worlds and so am I.” I responded dismissively and Makayla gave me a significant look.

”This is Cassie’s first trip to England since MPW closed down, couldn’t you have at least seen her to the airport for old time’s sake?” Makayla asked with a frown as she leaned against the desk. ”Come one Charlotte, I know she can be a handful but Cassie’s still related to you and she looks up to you like you’re her older sister, never mind cousin!”

That was one thing I was worried about as it related to my plans, Cassie’s reaction, she’s always been quick to call me out on my bullshit with the incident in New Delhi being the most recent example but since I still wasn’t sure if she suspected anything from our chat at Climax Control? I had to keep her at arm’s length for now.  ”You’re right, Cassie does look up to me a lot, but she’s also turning twenty later this year.” I said dismissively and Makayla shook her head in disbelief. ”She won’t need me around her forever, sooner or later Cass will have to strike out on her own without me needing to step in if she takes it too far.”

”I’m not saying I disagree with you, but can you imagine me saying the same thing when we were Cassie’s age?” Makayla asked rhetorically and she didn’t even wait for me to give an answer. ”Oh, Charlotte’s turning twenty in November! I had better cut myself off from her and trust that she knows how to handle things on her own!”

”Okay first off, good to see that the twins will probably inherit your sense of humour.” I deadpanned in response and Makayla had a slight laugh before feeling up her pregnant belly. ”Second? You know my fucked up childhood almost as well as I do, aside from the murder of her aunt Cassie had a normal childhood with loving parent! Even if Ruth can be overbearing at times!”

”You’re right, the only thing your childhoods have in common is that you both lost the same blood relative and it was fucked up of me to make that comparison.” Makayla admitted defeat as she held her hands up as if to say, “good point” and we moved on. ”But I think a follow-up call would do her good, you advised her about taking part in that memorial battle royal for a guy she had barely just met but I bet she’ll appreciate just a chance to catch up.”

”Well it’s gonna be a bit late to call her now anyway.” I responded after checking the time on my computer clock and seeing that it had just gone five o’clock. ”England’s five hours ahead of us, Cass is either getting drunk, getting ready for bed or both.” I added as I pointed out the time on the computer and when Makayla saw the time she conceded that I had a point.

”Yeah much as I love her? I’m not ready for drunk Cass just yet.” Makayla responded with a laugh as I sent Cassie a text asking if she wanted a catch-up chat tomorrow morning (UK time off course). ”She’s a sweet girl underneath her temper and goofiness but she doesn’t come off as someone who can handle her drink to me.”

”Looks like that wasn’t much of a worry anyway, Cass just texted me back saying that she was exhausted from training for the rumble to the point that she didn’t even go out drinking.” I explained before showing Makayla the text and Makayla nodded in understanding. ”She still agreed to a chat tomorrow night though.” I added and Makayla nodded as she went to leave the room.

”That’s good to know but try not to isolate yourself from your friends too much Charlotte.” Makayla responded with a sigh as she reached the door. ”They’ve had your back so far and whatever you’ve got going on at Blaze of Glory? They’ll continue to have your back.” I said nothing as Makayla closed the door behind her and I picked up from where I left off, even if I wanted Ari and Carter’s help are this point? I knew one thing for certain.

My plans for the rest of 2023 were too far along for me to turn back now.

Krystal’s home, Las Vegas, Nevada
Thursday the 9th of March 2023, 10:00am

Even with the five hour time difference, finding time for the call was a bit of a pain because I had to take into account Makayla’s eating schedule and the fact that the UK was five hours ahead of the US, still we managed it in the end with me calling my cousin at around five o’clock their time.

”I’m telling you Charlotte, London has been so much more fun with Miles and Carter than it has been with you.” Cassie greeted me enthusiastically before pausing to consider her last sentence. ”Err, no offence.”

”So long as you’re having a good time that’s all that matters.” I assured her and Cassie grinned in response, still so naive even though she’s a full-fledged wrestler in her own right now. ”How are things with you anyway? Aside from the Rumble, that goes without saying.”

”Well, aside from my upcoming DCW debut? I lost to Deanna Frost on the last episode of SCW Breakdown by submission, don’t think I need to tell you what went wrong there.” Cassie sighed as she shook her head and I nodded, I had identified early on in Cassie’s training that her submission game was her weak point but everything that happened since then hadn’t really given her a chance to work on it. ”And as confident as I am heading into the Rumble? We both know those type of matches are pains in the ass to wins.”

”Tell me about it! There’s a damn good reason why I hate competing in those things!” I nodded in agreement as I thought about what I was going to say to her next, I wasn’t ready to reveal all just yet and I wasn’t sure if she was ready for it either. ”Look, as wrestlers we encounter our low points and our high points, it’s how we bounce back that counts in the end.”

”I know that! It’s just that I’ve been trying to bounce back since the MPW TV Title was stolen from me and the results have been mixed.”Cassie sighed in frustration and I let out a deep breath, because Cassie’s actions, whether she realized it or not, had been a catalyst for all of this. ”But it’s no big deal right? I’ll put on the best showing I can for the Rumble and if that fails? I’ve got my DCW debut coming up! What about you?”

”All I know for certain is my match against Chelsea at Blaze of Glory, beyond that and Blast from the Past? Who the fuck knows!” I responded with a shrug and Cassie nodded, I was lying through my teeth because I couldn’t risk Cassie spoiling it on Twitter, but she seemed to fall for it for now. ”Look, I’ve got a promo to script, anything else you want to bring up or are we good for now?”

”Nah, I’m good, though I don’t think we’re going to have enough time for another chat until Blaze of Glory at this rate.” Cassie responded and I frowned in response, that could mess up my plans somewhat. ”Something wrong?”

”It’s nothing, just me thinking about the whole Chelsea situation and how it all started with one off hand comment I made about her friend.” That time I wasn’t completely lying, that had been on my mind since the match was made official, but it wasn’t the only thing on my mind. ”See you at Blaze of Glory Cass?”

”See you then.” Cassie nodded in response before she ended the video call and I headed downstairs to get breakfast on.

How long would I have to keep lying to my friends and family for? Only time would tell.

Local store, Las Vegas, Nevada
Friday the 10th of March 2023, 09:00am

One thing you’ll learn quickly about pregnant women? When they are as late into the pregnancy as Makayla, they’ll go through food like nobody’s business.

That was essentially why I was at the store today, I realized as I was preparing my on breakfast that we were low on our typical breakfast items so I went down to the store to rectify that, I still had a couple of hours to kill before breakfast time would bleed into lunch time so I wasn’t worried about that.

What I was worried about was Ari bumping into me at the store because I knew she’d have a lot of questions for how out of character I’ve been since the Blaze of Glory hype train left the station.

”Bacon? Check, eggs? Check,  never knew so many Greek breakfast dishes used eggs in them.” I muttered to myself as I put the dozen box of eggs in my basked carefully followed by the other stuff I was buying, Makayla rarely ate any breakfast that wasn’t traditionally Greek for the simple reason that it was what she had grown up on, and even when pregnant she had bee watching my attempts to recreate such dishes like a hawk. ”Okay, just need some fresh herbs and spices, some additional meat items and we’ll be all set for the week ahead, I’d say if I wasn’t shopping for a pregnant woman.”

My muttering to myself got interrupted when another woman accidentally bumped into my nearly causing us to topple over, I steadied myself on the aisle and the other woman managed to keep her balance on her own. ”Sorry, I was miles away.” It was then that I recognized her as Harper, Jessie’s teenaged cousin who was going through the kind of crises that I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy, never mind an eighteen-year-old girl! ”Oh, hey Krystal!”

”Hey Harp.” I responded after I steadied myself, I quickly realized that the middle of a store was not the appropriate place to bring up everything that was going on in her life, at least not in detail. ”I heard about what happened on Friday, I’m so sorry.”

”Thanks, kinda getting used to hearing that by now but I’m trying to get back to normal.” Harper nodded with a sigh before she checked her basket to see if she had dropped anything, it was full of sweets, chocolate bars and baked goods, because even in a family crises she was a notorious sweet tooth. ”I’m on a bit of a snack run, you?”

”I was out of certain breakfast items so I’m making an emergency shop.” I responded as I showed Harper the contents of my basked and she nodded as she got the idea. ”Isn’t it a bit early for sweets?”

”Never too early for sweets!” Harper insisted and I gave her an odd look, even though she was going through a horrible event (and I could tell she was hurting from her body language), the girl sill managed to have a boundless energy to her, though I would probably end up asking Harp how she managed to stay in ring shape when she ate so much sugar. ”But seriously? I Jessie and Shane already did their main shop yesterday, but I ran out of sweets whilst comfort eating because, well, you get the idea.”

Okay, at least THAT made more sense than what I thought her reason was, but when she brought that reason up? I guess it brought out my nice side. ”Look, I know you’ve got  a big payment coming out soon, want me to pay for your stuff for you? My treat?”

Harper clearly wasn’t expecting that and she got flustered for a second as she processed it. ”Look, Krystal I appreciate it but this won’t even make a dent in those costs, besides? Those costs have already been covered by Jenny tuck.” I would’ve acted surprised if I didn’t know who Jenny Tuck was, but the memory of her trying to buy the Go Gym during the High Stakes XI hype train was still fresh in my mind all these months later, and given how close she was to Keira? It wouldn’t surprise me if she had a hand in it.

But I still persisted, albeit from a different angle. ”In that case? Let it be my treat, you’re not the only one who’s been treated by Jenny Tuck after all.” I offered and though Harper was hesitant she relented and we were out of the store in no time.

But one thing was for sure, this one good deed was unlikely to be enough to make up for my plans at Blaze of Glory.

Somewhere in the Nevada Desert, state of Nevada
Friday the 10th of March 2023, 10:00pm

*promo time*

How time flies.

”You ever achieve something so great that other wrestlers can’t look past their jealousy and try to find ways to demean you for it? That’s how I feel about my Roulette Title Reign.” I stated as leaned against my car with my arms crossed.  ”It’s been a year since that reign ended, and yet not one Bombshell who has held the title since then has  even come close to matching the records I set, never mind breaking them! I’m here to say that I’m done letting that reign define me, I’m more than the ten months I held that belt for and I’m going to prove it when I beat Chelsea LeClair at Blaze of Glory!”

Here we go.

”I certainly had my fair share of words for you and your friend Chelsea, words that I stand behind I might add, but in all that time? The one thing that has been plaguing me is why?” I asked as I walked away from the car and looked out into the desert. ”Why are you so ready to defend her just based on the flimsy excuse that she’s a changed woman? Maybe I’m cynical thanks to my upbringing, but how naive can you get Chelsea? Trust me, no one changes that easily!”

What can I even say to that?

”If you ask me? Andrea should get into acting full time because she’s definitely put on a hell of a show for you and Myra, either that or Myra has lost a few IQ points since she left SCW!” I suggested wit a shrug as I paced around. ”But I’m not here to talk about Andrea or Myra this time, I’m here to talk about you Chelsea because you came ack to SCW with your sights set firmly on me, tell me, how long will it take for you to realize this mistake?”

Good question.

”Because I’ve got stuff in the pipeline that will get me back on track, starting at Blaze of Glory, maybe then you’ll realize just how badly you fucked up?” I asked rhetorically as I folded my arms. ”Or not, we’ll see what happens on Sunday Night as far as that’s concerned, but trust me when I say this Chelsea, all the frustration that’s built up over the past year because certain idiots couldn’t come close to my records and are lashing out at me because of it? It’s coming to the forefront this Sunday and you’ll wish that you had found a different home once the dust settles!”

And why do I say that?

”The reason why I’m saying that should be clear as day Chelsea, I’m walking out of Blaze of Glory XI with a record of two wins and one loss at the event! But I will at least thank you for having the decency to actually promote this match, unlike my opponent last year who put in a shockingly poor performance for a Hall of Famer!” I added as I shook my head in disgust. ”I’m pretty sure you know who I’m talking about from that description alone Chelsea, so I will thank you for not being a colossal disappointment like she was, in fact that only disappointment here will be your expense when I beat you on Sunday Night!”

It's that simple.

”Do you hear them Chelsea? The winds of change are blowing.” I stated as I started to walk back to my car and cameraman walked backwards to keep up with me. ”I’m not talking about that song by The Scorpions either, for my money Rock You Like a Hurricane and Send me an Angel are their best songs anyway! But what do I mean by that? For now the only way you’ll find out is by tuning in to Blaze of Glory XI or in your case Chelsea? Just show up for our match, really, it is that simple.”

And with that I decided to wrap things up.

”All this because I couldn’t let one tweet by your friend slide, funny how that worked out.” I commented as I shook my head. ”Make no mistake Chelsea, I respect you as a competitor but you’re going to continue to go to bat for her? Then I don’t know what the fuck to say to you!” I added before I reached my car and leaned against the car door. ”Take this as an object lesson Chelsea, learn to pick your battles better because as I turn the page on this chapter of my SCW career? I’m ready to sit back and watch the pages burn, see you in the rung!”

I got in the car and drove off as the scene fades.

30
Supercard Archives / “Old Grudges Burn Out!”
« on: March 04, 2023, 11:05:55 AM »
Krystal’s first season hadn’t exactly gone to plan with the Aussie suffering two defeats in a row, first to Roxi Johnson and then to the newcomer Dawn Warren, but along the way Chelsea LeClair would enter Krystal’s sights over comments Krystal had made about Chelsea’s friend Andrea Hernandez several months ago, resulting in a grudge match being booked for Blaze of Glory XI! Can Krystal end the cycle with a win or will Chelsea get one over her?

Backstage at Climax Control 355, Reno, Nevada
Sunday the 26th of February 2023, 20:00pm

This cycle is one I’d rather forget!

Back-to-back losses against Roxi and Dawn? Check, entering a rivalry with a new Bombshell over comments I made about her friend months ago? Double check, seeing my friends have more success than me? Triple check!

I wish Ari luck with her Bombshell Internet Title Match off course! I know first hand how tough an opponent Kayla is and she’s wrestled Melissa before, but I’ve got to start looking out for number one! I need to start looking out for me.

It’s nothing personal really, but with the twins’ birthdate fast approaching and the need to buy a bigger house to accommodate me, Makayla, the dogs, Rachel, and the twins? Yeah, things need to change and fast! And with Blast from the Past right around the corner? Maybe I’ll get that opportunity!

Still don’t know who I’ll be teaming up with yet, but considering I’ve had rotten luck even after getting former World Champions as partners (Mark Cross in my first year, Jack Washington in my second) I’ll frankly take anyone as my partner at this point! And with any luck? My change of fortune will come sooner than you think.

As for that little interaction I had with The Saviours after Melissa’s match against Chelsea? All will be revealed in time.

”So, Krystal.” I looked up and saw Cassie walking up to me, a confused look etched upon the nineteen year old’s face, she was my guest tonight and it was fortunate that Blaze of Glory wasn’t for a couple of weeks because I knew Cassie had a busy schedule ahead of her. ”Wanting  to scout Chelsea ahead of your match against her at Blaze of Glory I can understand, but the interaction with The Saviours?”

”Had a feeling you’d bring this up.” I admitted as I turned to my younger cousin. ”Me, kat, Mel and Goth had a chat after the match, nothing more.”

”That much was obvious! You didn’t even try to hide it!” Cassie pointed out with a frown as she paced around. ”But it’s the nature of the conversation that’s concerning me! Because we both know The Saviours have been on a recruiting spree as of late! First Kim Pain, then Peter Vaughn and now they seem to have their eyes set on you.”

I knew Cass was a smart kid, and I was hoping she’d see things my way once everything was clear. ”I can’t really say one way or another right now, but once everything is clear, I hope you understand that I did it for the sake of my growing family! And as for Kim? From what I understand, she was a member of The Saviours through her affiliation with Kat before she joined SCW.”

”Okay, I’ll admit, that makes a lot of sense now that you put it that way.” Cassie nodded in response as she saw my point and once she realized that she wasn’t going to get much of an answer out of regarding the situation we moved to an area that had a TV set-up so we could watch the rest of the night’s action, including an absolutely insane Roulette Tag Match and Alexander Raven’s latest title defence! Eventually the show reached the point that most of the roster had been waiting for, the Blast from the Past drawings and there were a lot of newcomers in the tournament this year! Then my team got announced. ”You and Casey Williams huh? You’re going from wrestling a team with a big fucker in it to teaming up with a big fucker!”

”Funny how things work out, right?” I asked with a chuckle as I watched the rest of the draw, honestly? I didn’t know what to make of Casey being my partner this year, he was a former champ like Mark and Jack and a Hall of Famer at that, but unlike Mark and Jack, he had never held the World Title. ”Will be interesting to see how our team works out.”

”No argument there! Here’s hoping you take your loss better this time around!” Cassie responded before I gave her a nasty glare, I love Cass, don’t get me wrong, but that first round loss from last year’s tournament was still a sore spot, even if it worked out well in the end! ”And dropping that topic now!” Cassie added with a wince when she saw the look I was giving her.

The rest of the night went by pretty quickly, though to be fair the Blast from the Past Draw was the last segment before the Main Event aired! Once Mac retained his title in a finish that even Stevie Wonder could see coming, we headed back to the hotel with me dropping Cassie off back home as soon as we returned to Vegas the following morning.

The night left me with a lot to think about, I’ll let you figure out the rest once the time comes!

Krystal’s home, Las Vegas, Nevada
Wednesday the 1st of March 2023, 14:00pm

It’s the first of March already, at this rate we’ll be at High Stakes before we know it.

I off course had other things on my mind as we entered the third month of the year, if everything I set in place at Climax Control goes to plan then my SCW career should get the boost it needs for the remainder of the year and beyond but on a more personal level? Makayla will officially be seven months pregnant on the 16th of the month and at this point? Well, if you didn’t think she was pregnant then you either needed your eyes tested or you’re a medical professional who thinks there’s something wrong with her.

Luckily, every medical professional we’ve seen since Makayla told me that she was pregnant has told us that the pregnancy is progressing nicely and that the twin girls are coming along nicely as well! It’s gotten to the point where we’ve already picked out names for the girls, namely Cara and Zosia.

Not exactly the most traditional of names but agreed that they fit, Care is an Irish name that means “friend” and considering this whole relationship started when Makayla decided to be my only friend in high school even though she was one of the more popular girls and heavily sought after by the guys (she didn’t come out of the closet until after graduation) and Zosia (though we suspected that she might go by Zo or Zoey as she got older) is a Polish name meaning wisdom, and well, Makayla’s often been a wise calming voice during my more heated moments as a wrestler so yeah, both names fit.

”Okay, that’s Makayla’s lunch sorted.” I commented to myself as I put her small meal in the oven, I was basically following advice I had gotten from Cassie’s parents at this point because, well, Ruth was obviously pregnant with Cassie at some point and at the moment I’m the only adult woman over the age of twenty (that I knew off at least) in the family that had never been pregnant, besides Cassie’s parents were happy to help out at this point after everything I had done for Cass. ”Now to start preparing my own lunch.”

”If I didn’t know any better, I’d say you were trying to starve me Charlotte.” Makayla commented as she shook her head and I grinned in response. ”Still following Ruth’s advice I take it?”

”Yep! Six smaller meals rather than three big ones, and avoiding anything spicy, acidic, or fizzy to lower the risk of heartburn or indigestion.” I nodded before passing Makayla a water bottle to help out with her swollen hands and feet, yep, turns out there’s a lot more to pregnancy than your belly getting bigger as I was finding out the hard way. ”Which I bet you hate because those were some of your favourite textures back when you worked as a chef.”

”I’ll give you credit for trying to make the food taste good, but yeah, it hasn’t really been the same.” Makayla admitted before she took a swig of the water bottle. ”Even if I’ve been eating a lot of fish, fruit, starchy vegetables, liver, cereal and other things that are high in protein.”

”Again, just following the advice I got from Ruth, and I’m pretty sure Cassie didn’t get delivered to her parents by a stork so she’s our best source of info.” I joked in response and Makayla grinned in response. ”That said, now that we’re heading into the final months of your pregnancy, I’ve been wondering, would you do all this again?”

”To be perfectly honest? No.” Makayla admitted as she shook her head before looking down at her swollen belly. ”On one hand being pregnant has been a magical experience, on the other hand I miss cooking my own meals too much and it was awkward enough trying to figure out how I was going to get knocked up in the first place since I’m married to another woman and all.” Makayla added and I nodded as I started to understand her reasoning. ”Not saying that I regret my decision before you ask, if there’s anything I do regret it’s deciding to surprise you with the fact that I was three months pregnant by the time your birthday rolled around! I should’ve been clear with you from the start.”

”In the interest of fairness? Ever since you told me that you were pregnant, I’ve been kicking myself for not recognizing the signs a lot sooner than my twenty seventh birthday!” I admitted as I shook my head and Makayla nodded in understanding before she eased herself into a chair at the kitchen table. ”You sure you want to hang around a bit longer? Your third meal won’t be ready for another fifteen minutes at least?”

”I’m good, thanks Charlotte, besides that? I am missing being in the kitchen and right now watching you cook is the closest thing I’m going to get to being able to cook for myself again.” Makayla responded as she shook her head and I nodded in understanding. ”Besides that? Speaking from the perspective of a former chef and culinary school graduate? Those fifteen minutes are going to fly by!”

”True enough, I remember those fifteen minutes going by like nothing during my early game streams.” I admitted with a nod before I resumed cooking my lunch.

Jessie’s home gym, Las Vegas, Nevada
Friday the 3rd of March 2023, 18:00pm

This week has just flown by, then again I’ve been thinking that about most weeks since I signed with SCW three years ago!

Makayla’s pregnancy has meant that I’ve had to take a more laid-back approach to be more supportive of my wife and all but now that we’re into the final months of the pregnancy I have been able to get back to my old routine slowly but sure.

Up too and including training at Jessie’s gym for extra reps!

”Been meaning to ask you Charlotte.” Jessie commented as she lead me down the stairs to her basement gym. ”How’s Makayla doing? Last I saw her was back in November/December and she was only a few months pregnant at that point, right?”

”Right, and she’s almost seven months into her pregnancy now! In other words, we’re on the home stretch.” I nodded as I followed Jessie down the stairs and glanced around the basement gym. ”At this point I’ve been relying on Cassie’s mom for advice since it’s unlikely that I’ll ever get pregnant myself and she obviously got pregnant when she had Cassie, as overbearing as Ruth can be? She’s been a great help.”

”I doubt I’ll ever get knocked up before I hang up the wrestling boots for real but unplanned pregnancies can happen! Still, reaching out to a woman who’s been through that before was probably the best move you could’ve made.” Jessie nodded in understanding as we walked through her gym. ”And you’ll probably have to keep in touch with her post pregnancy since Makayla’s body will need time to heal, come to think of it do you have any relatives back in Australia you could’ve contacted?”

”Well, most of my family on my dad’s side are still recovering from the atrocities my dad committed, as for my mom’s side?”  I asked as I brushed some hair over my shoulder. ”I obviously still have Cassie but she’s an out lesbian and a little too young to think about that even if she was straight, that just leaves the rest of Cassie’s family who are back in Australia back I haven’t spoken to them in years, I’m not about to ask Cassie to be a go between for that kind of conversation either!”

”Heh, yeah, last thing we want is for them to think that Cassie got pregnant when she’s not even old enough to drink alcohol yet!” Jessie nodded in agreement before she stopped and sat on a workout bench. ”Then again, considering how quickly she’s growing Cassie will be in her early twenties before we know it!”

”By which point I’ll be at least thirty! Not something I want to think about right now if we’re being honest!” I responded as I shook my head. ”Shifting the topic a bit, seems both of our matches have been made because of comments that have ruffled the wrong person’s feathers!”

”I’d say you were more subtle about it but I can’t think of any other Bombshells in SCW’s history with the initials AH.” Jessie admitted as she shook her head. ”I’m sure Mercedes will pull out some obscure women’s wrestler who was in SCW for a cup of tea at most but my point still stands.”

”And you went and accused Alicia of faking a family emergency, I can’t say I’m a big fan of Alicia either but that was over the line.” I pointed out as I leaned against some exercise equipment. ”And that’s saying nothing of Harper’s reaction, from what I heard from Ari via text she called you out on it earlier this week.”

”She did, Harper’s a good kid but the keyword there is kid.” Jessie responded before she started making her way to the ring. ”She’s taken to wrestling quickly but she still has a long way to go.” Jessie added before she took a sip from a water bottle. ”She’ll learn!”

”And if we were talking about walking through an injury and Harper didn’t get attacked by Melissa, that would be one thing.” I countered as I followed Jessie to the ring with my arms crossed. ”But what are you going to do if you ever have a family emergency?”

”Aside from Harp and her parents? The rest of my family is back in Florida.” Jessie responded with a frown as she turned to me. ”And the last family emergency we had was when my stepdad passed away a few years ago, right before my first in a series of attempts to claim the grand slam to be specific, since then my step-siblings who aren’t named Jake all live in Florida though they did come down for my Hall of Fame induction and are living comfortably, same goes for my stepmom and she has no plans to remarry.”

”I get the feeling that if she wanted to get married again, she would’ve done it by now.” I commented with a frown and Jessie nodded io confirm it. ”Closest I’ve gotten recently was when I learned that my dad was dying of cancer, but given how much of a bastard he was it was less an emergency and more like closure for me and the rest of his surviving victims!”

”May the son of a bitch rot in hell.” Jessie commented as she shook her head and I quickly nodded in agreement. ”Assuming he’s kicked the bucket by now off course.”

”He died a few days into the New Year, he was at least kind enough to give a deathbed confession that led the police to closing several unsolved murder cases though.” I responded as I let out a deep breath before Jessie got a text on her phone and checked it. ”Enough of this depressing shit, we’ve both got matches to prepare for so I’m ready to head into the ring………” I trailed off when I saw the shocked look on Jessie’s face. ”Something I said?”

”Sorry Krystal but we’re going to have to postpone the sparring match until next week.” Jessie apologized before she made her way towards the stairs leading to the rest of the house. ”That text was from Harper, the police had to pick her up from Hero Academy.”

”Wait, what?!” I asked after taking a double take before following Jessie. ”Is she in trouble with the police?”

”No, but I’ll bet good money that she wishes that were the case.” Jessie responded as she shook her head and it quickly dawned on me that this was serious. ”There was a home invasion at her parents’ home, her dad tried to fight the invaders but they were both shot instead.”

”Jesus Christ, that sounds bad.” I responded as raced to catch up with Jessie. ”Send her my best regards.”

”Will do, according to Harper’s text they are in critical condition.” Jessie responded with a nod before she raced up the stairs. ”I’ll try to keep this off social media in case Alicia tries to turn this against me, eye for an eye and all that, but I’ll keep you posted.”

With that Jessie left the basement and I headed up the stairs after her, neither of us in any real mood to do any training.

But I will keep Harper in my thoughts.

Krystal’s home, Las Vegas, Nevada
Saturday the 4th of March 2023, 11:00am

*promo time*

With friends like these.

”All I did was state my honest opinion on a former Bombshell months ago, what I didn’t expect to come from that was a former SCU Bombshell coming back with a grudge against me for those opinions but here we are.” I commented as I folded my arms. ”And because of that one promo, I’m in a grudge match against someone who I’ve never had an issue with personally, it just so happens that Chelsea LeClair has terrible taste in friends!”

Who needs enemies.

”I suppose it’s a step up from only getting on a Supercard via an Open Invitational Clusterfuck of a Roulette Title Match but believe me when I say that things will be changing for the better once Blaze of Glory XI is in the history books!” I added as I leaned back in my chair. ”Chelsea, I gotta ask, what the hell do you see in Andrea?! When I think of Andrea, I think of the bitch who repeatedly kicked me when I was down for the simple fact that I didn’t give up after enduring a losing streak that lasted for months and managed to win my first title! Get excited for my first defence? She told me that I wouldn’t get past Maki off all people! Trust me, I took delight in proving that bitch wrong but the moment she leaves SCW she claims that she’s a changed person?!”

A cheetah can’t change its spots that easily.

”Sorry but I stand by what I said because guess what? When you rub in the fact that a young Bombshell has been eliminated from the Blast from the Past Tournament in the opening round for the second year in a row? Guess what? That Bombshell tends to hold a grudge, and I guess that grudge is extending towards you as well!” I added as I rolled my eyes. ”If you’re expecting me to apologize for those comments? Forget it, if anyone owes an apology, it’s your piece of shit friend Chelsea! But I doubt she’s in a hurry to admit that she was ever wrong during her SCW run either!”

Now that that’s out of the way.

”As for you Chelsea? I’ll give you credit for being impressive since joining SCW, I know from personal experience that Seleana’s a tough opponent and Melissa has been on a tear since she debuted for the company last year, yet you’re 2-0 in SCW having beaten those two women in back-to-back matches, but how long can this streak last Chelsea?” I asked as I shifted my weight. ”We saw one streak end last week when Dawn’s team lost that Three-Ring Circus Match to Kim and Mercedes so the question is, will that extend to you? If I have anything to say about it? Yes!”

Nothing lasts forever.

”I’ll be the first to admit that 2023 wasn’t off to the best of starts for me, but I’ll be damned if the new year starts with me tasting my first pin-fall or submission on PPV since my PPV debut at Inception IV!” I said defiantly as I flipped some hair over my shoulder. ”That is one thing that tends to be overlooked for some reason, my reign may have ended during the first half of 2022, which I’m sure Andrea loved because how dare anyone but her have a long reign, but I’ve only managed to lose a handful of matches on the big shows since then and the ones I did lose? I wasn’t pinned.”

You want details?

”Queen for a Day Ladder Match at last year’s Into the Void, we all know that Amber won that match and what happened after that match but since it was a Ladder Match? I wasn’t pinned!” I said as I leaned back in my chair. ”The next example is a match you took part in, the aforementioned Open Invitational Roulette Title Cluserfuck that ended with the other Crystal as champ! Personally I can’t wait for her reign to end but again, no pin-falls involved! Aside from those two matches I have won match after match on the big shows beating some of the best on the roster and Mercedes Vargas and The Metal Maniacs! But then you came along!”

A new challenger appears.

”Not a legend like Evie or Sam, not as past it as Mercedes or as insane as The Metal Maniacs! Just a new Bombshell carrying someone else’s grudge!” I said as I shook my head in disgust. ”You call it standing up for a friend? That’s cute, I call it fighting someone else’s battle when they don’t have the balls to come back and fight her battle on her own! Or was the end of the Bombshell Internet Title Reign really that damaging for you Andrea?”

It's that simple.

”That’s what separates me from Andrea, after my reign ended I persevered and faced some of the best women on the roster, Andrea quit after her reign ended citing her mental health which would be all well and good if she didn’t go after me when my mental health was at its worst, namely during my losing streak! Chelsea, you really need to re-evaluate your friends because Andrea is a hypocrite to the nth degree but please! Go on to call my reign weak because I had one defence against Char Kwan!” I added as I shook my head and folded my arms. ”Because at least I wasn’t afraid to defend my title against all comers!”

And with that I decided to wrap things up.

”Chelsea. I’m sure your mind was made up about me months ago but trust me when I say that your taste in friends fucking sucks and I can’t wait to shut you and Andrea up by kicking your ass at Blaze of Glory Chelsea!” I added as I stood up and walked to my camera. ”Because when I do and turn the page on this chapter of my SCW story? I’ll at least know that I’ve got better things waiting for me over the horizon as my old grudges burn out! See you in the ring!”

I turned off the camera as the scene fades.

31
Climax Control Archives / “The Tune Up!”
« on: February 13, 2023, 08:07:29 PM »
(Keira was used with permission from her handler)

Krystal had a great match against Roxi but even in defeat there was controversy as Chelsea LeClair made her presence known, apparently defending the former SCW Bombshell Andrea Hernandez in the process! Krystal hasn’t had much nice things to say about Andrea to say the least as the two women have never gotten along but now a match has been booked for Blaze of Glory XI between Chelsea and Krystal!

Before that though? Krystal had requested a warmup match and had gotten it in the form of Dawn Warren! A newcomer to the Bombshell Division who debuted during the Open Invitational Rumble at Inception VI alongside Chelsea, Dawn was impressive in her official debut outing against Luna Vanity! Can Krystal secure her first win of the year ahead of the grudge match against Chelsea?

Krystal’s home, Las Vegas, Nevada
Monday the 13th of February 2023, 17:00pm

Last night’s show was certainly something.

It was great to see my friends Ariana Angelos and HB Carter get the win and let’s face it, Ariana needed the pick me up after losing the Roulette Title at Inception VI and the momentum boost will undoubtedly give her a massive leg up on Kayla and Melissa! That said? I’ve had my problems with another woman who competed in the Open Invitational Match, all because I made certain comments about a former Bombshell.

Turns out the biggest egomaniac in the Bombshell Division’s History doesn’t like her ego being bruised, who’d have thought?

My problems with Chelsea LeClair will have to wait until Blaze of Glory XI though because first on my list is a warm up match that I requested during the show, and appropriately enough it’s against another woman who made her debut in the Open Invitational Match in Dawn Warren! I’ll admit, I’ve been impressed with what little I’ve seen of Dawn’s work but she’s going to find me a lot more difficult to deal with than Luna Vanity! The fact that Chelsea is taking on Melissa later in the show just makes the penultimate show of the cycle that much more interesting.

And all this is happening whilst Cassie’s wrestling career has been upended by MPW closing their doors, yeah, it hasn’t been a good year for the Wolfe Pack.

”Any word from Andrea?” Makayla’s voice rang out and I glanced up at my wife as she entered my gaming/streaming room, in case you can’t do the math, Makayla is six months pregnant right now and to say that she’s got a very noticeable bump on her belly is an understatement! I shook my head in response and Makayla frowned. ”So all she’s done is subtweet you since Climax Control #353 went off the air?”

”You know that if Andrea had any balls she would’ve returned to SCW rather than sending Chelsea is her place!” I responded before pausing to consider my choice of words. ”Metaphorical balls that is! Look I’m not doubting Chelsea’s talent as a wrestler but I am doubting her taste in friends! You remember what my relationship with Andrea was like during her time in SCW.”

”What I remember is Andrea being the main catalyst for you being so defensive about your title reign.” Makayla responded as she shook her head and as much as I hated to admit it, my wife was right on the money, I still had a lot of resentment towards Andrea over what she said about my reign as Bombshell Roulette Champion. ”Besides, you’ve got Dawn to worry about next week and she debuted in the rumble as well.”

”All I’m saying to that is if that was unintentional then I’m eating my game collection!” I responded as I shook my head before glancing at the game collection which encompassed most of gaming generations! The only years I didn’t cover were the extremely early years and that’s because it’s surprisingly difficult to find a working console from that generation today. ”Dawn seems to be the black sheep of the Warrens, namely in that she’s a good kid and a hell of a talent, but she’s facing a former champion on Sunday and with all due respect to Luna? I’ll be her first real test!”

”And if anyone can pass that test with flying colours it’s you.” Makayla responded with a grin before the Greek-Australian woman felt something in her belly and glanced down at it. ”The girls have started kicking.”

When I heard that I stood up and gent down to place my ear against Makayla’s belly, seconds later I felt the kick and took a step back. ”Are you sure the doner wasn’t a martial artist of some kind because they’ve got a hell of a kick to them.” I joked getting a laugh out of Makayla as I helped myself up.

”I hope not because I’d hate to see what my insides look like once the pregnancy’s over!” Makayla responded with a grin before our adopted daughter Rachel stepped into view and we glanced over at her. ”Do you want something sweetheart?” Makayla asked as she turned to Rachel.

“I’m getting hungry.” Rachel responded and after glancing at the time on my computer clock I realized that it was getting close to dinner time.

”I’ll see what we’ve got in the fridge and take it from there.” I responded before I followed them downstairs to sort dinner out.

Hero Academy, Las Vegas, Nevada
Tuesday the 14th of February 2023, 14:00pm

Well, at least the future looks bright for the trainees here.

Keira asked me if I wanted to sit in a session at Hero Academy alongside Cassie today and, well, with MPW closing down we’ve both found ourselves with a lot more free time on our plates and thus, here we are! Apparently there was an incident between the Polish twins Kata and Aniela and Jessie’s younger cousin Harper last week but I wasn’t exactly privy to that information so I didn’t ask either of the three trainees.

Granted said trainees were currently in sparring matches as Harper took on Kata and Aniela sparred with Cassie’s girlfriend Zoey but even if they were free I wasn’t about to ask them about what had gone down the week before.

“Kata, watch the footwork! If you don’t work on your footwork you’ll never keep up with the more experienced wrestlers.” Keira called out to the older of the twin sisters as she ran the ropes whilst me and Cassie watched on. “So, have you guys figured out what your going to do now that MPW is closed?”

”Well, for one thing Cassie’s still pissed off that she’s never going to get that rematch for the TV Title and that you essentially cracked her ribs for nothing.” I responded with a shrug and Cassie nodded to confirm what I was saying. ”Other than that we’re focussed on getting Cassie back on her feet.”

”Which at the moment translates to me waiting for my next PWS: Apex match to be announced and that Twelve Person Tag Team Match to air on the other SCW.” Cassie chimed in as Harper was whipped into the corner by Kata, the taller of the two girls ducked out of the way of the incoming charge but Kata was quick on her feet and ran up the turnbuckle rather than collide chest first with it. ”Don’t know if I’m going to join a new fed yet but…….” Now, I couldn’t speak Polish and neither could Keira or Cassie but when we heard Kata cry out in her native language after her leg buckled following a backflip off the top rope? Yeah, I’d say it was a safe bet that she was swearing in her native language as she clutched her leg in pain.

And it didn’t take me or Keira long to figure out that something was wrong because Harper looked horrified, I sent Cassie over to get Kata’s sister whilst me and Keira rolled into the ring. ”Kata, what’s wrong?” I asked the Polish girl who was literally crying in pain, her leg must’ve been hurting like a bitch.

“I’ve done that spot several times over the past few weeks, never had any problems.” Kata grunted in response as she grasped her leg in pain, we were soon joined by Kata’s younger twin sister as Aniela rushed to her sister’s side. “Only this time? My leg just buckled as I landed.”

“Kata, can you move your hands so I can get a better look?” Keira asked and Kata reluctantly moved her hands and frankly? If it wasn’t broken I’d be surprised as the leg was bent at an unnatural angle and the look on her sister’s face told me that she was thinking the same thing we were. “Jesus Christ, that looks bad.” Keira winced once she looked at Kata’s bad leg. “Aniela, get your sister to the medical bay, I’ll check on you after class!” Keira instructed the Polish girl who quickly nodded before resting Kata’s arm over her shoulder before helping her out of the ring and Harper did her part to help out by holding down the ring ropes for the sisters. “Cassie, get in here! I know this is last minute but you’re sparring with Harper for now!”

”Good thing I thought to get changed into my wrestling gear.” Cassie responded with a nod before she slid into the ring and greeted the taller girl with a nod.

”Just one problem, you’ve left Zoey without an opponent.” I commented to Keira once we left the ring and I motioned to Zoey, the biracial girl was clearly concerned for her classmate but had been left on her own in the ring. ”And unlike Cassie? I didn’t bring my gear with me.”

“I’ve already thought of that, there’s a new girl who’s been showing a lot of promise lately.” Keira responded before she glanced over to the crowd of newbies before her eyes rested on a redhead girl. “Tammy? Get in the ring with Zoey.”

“What? Now?!” Tammy asked clearly not expecting to be called on, her accent was Australian but I couldn’t put my finger on where it was from, once Keira nodded the young girl quickly made her way over to the sparring ring where Zoey was waiting for her.

”So, I’ve seen similar injuries happen at the Go Gym, both back when I was training and when I’ve been preparing for a match there.” I commented as I turned to Keira once the sparring matches were back on, even though the other students were clearly concerned for Kata. ”What’s the best- and worst-case scenarios for Kata?”

“Worst case should be self-explanatory, if it’s a break then depending on the severity then it might mean the end of Kata’s wrestling dream.” Keira responded with a sad sigh as she glanced over at Kata. “I’ve had to expel students for bad behaviour with the most notable example being Taylor Parker AKA Skylar’s older sister, but Kata would be the first one to have to drop out of training due to injury, it’s funny. I’ve come close to expelling the twins a few times because of their attitude and behaviour but at the same time, thar’s something I wouldn’t wish on any trainee.”

”Yeah, and if her career is ended before it’s started thanks to the injury then she’s going to spend the rest of her life lamenting the wrestling career she could’ve had.” I nodded as I got the idea and Keira sighed before nodding. ”Best case is that she’s given a clean bill of health to return to training once her leg’s healed?”

“Even if she’s given a clean bill of health I’ll have to put her on the injured reserve list like I did with Harper over the Christmas holidays, you saw how she came down on that leg and how it was afterwards.” Keira responded and I had to agree, Kata was an athletic girl and had clearly practiced that backflip a few times, but the way her leg buckled and looked after the fact had us both worried. “As I said, Kata can be a pain in the ass, but she’s a good kid under all that attitude and as you saw during her match with Harper, she has a lot of talent, all I can really hope is that she’s able to resume training once her leg has healed up.”

”Here’s hoping, for her sake.” I nodded in response before we resumed watching the sparring match.

Hero Academy, Las Vegas, Nevada
Tuesday the 13th of February 2023, 18:00pm

To put it simply, this wasn’t how I saw my day ending.

I figured I’d stick around for a few hours, give the trainees a motivational speech or two about following your dreams and then head home to call it a night and work on my promo for the match against Dawn, instead a freak accident in the ring left one of the trainees with a possible broken leg which could’ve meant the end of her career before it even started! For all of Kata’s attitude problems, it wasn’t something I was about to wish on any trainee, much less someone who moved to the US to train like I did a few years ago.

Officially speaking the session was over and normally at this point everyone would be heading home, me included, but Kata’s injury had had a profound impact on the morale of the rest of the trainees and most of them were sticking around to see if she was okay, especially Harper and Kata’s younger sister Aniela.

The four of us were sitting outside the medical wing whilst Keira was in there with Kata and the doctor, at the last update an ambulance had been called for Kata after it was confirmed that her leg was broken by the doctor but everyone was still waiting in silence.

That is until Harper spoke up. ”I feel fucking awful!” Harper commented with a frustrated sigh as we turned to the Floridian teen. ”Like Kata’s injury is all my fault!”

“I’m not blaming you Harper, that was a freak accident.” Aniela tried to reassure Harper and we turned to the youngest of the two Polish girls. “She’s done that backflip off the top turnbuckle several times, this just happened to be the one time it went wrong.”

”Aniela I get what your trying to say but I was the one who suggested that idea to Kata in the first place.” Harper admitted as she took a moment to fix her ponytail. ”I figured it could be a cool spot for Kata, follow it up with an arm drag or a dropkick or something similar, I never thought it would lead to this.”

”I understand why you are blaming yourself but it’s not going to help you in the long run Harper and I can assure you that Jessie will say the same thing.” I chimed in and Harper glanced over at me as did Aniela. ”The only thing we can do right now is hope for the best.”

”Trust me, I saw injuries end careers when I was doing amateur wrestling in high school, it sucked back then, especially when it’s from a match against you, and it sucks now.” Harper let out an aggravated sigh as she finished fixing her ponytail. ”And regardless of what Jessie says, I’ll be spending the rest of the day wishing I had done things differently.”

”I know it’s not even remotely the same thing but I’ve come to feel the same way about my actions after I lost the TV Title.” Cassie admitted as she let out a sigh. ”The fact that I nearly burned every bridge I had built in MPW for nothing doesn’t exactly help, I’ll admit that, but it’s still something that can happen.”

”I guess your right Cass, for now all we can do is sit and wait.” Harper sighed in response and a few minutes later paramedics rushed by with a stretcher in hand, they entered the medic’s office and whilst we couldn’t see them it was clear that they were loading Kata onto the stretcher so they could get her to hospital and Aniela rushed after them without another word, another couple of seconds passed and Keira emerged from the medic’s office. ”So, what’s the word?” Harper broke the silence and Keira turned to her.

“We won’t know anything until Kata’s leg gets x-rayed but it’s likely that she’ll be out for the rest of the year if she’s lucky.” Keira responded and Harper didn’t exactly do a good job of hiding how she felt as she glanced down at the floor with a sad look in her eyes, Keira caught onto this and walked up to Jessie’s cousin before sitting down opposite her. “Harper, you know you can talk to me about anything, if you’ve got something on your chest it’s in your best interest to get it off.”

”I feel like it’s my fault that Kata got hurt.” Harper admitted as she glanced up at Keira who motioned for her to continue. ”I suggested that backflip move to her a few weeks ago, if I hadn’t she would’ve never broke her leg!”

“I’m guessing you guys told her that it isn’t Harper’s fault?” Keira asked us and me and Cassie nodded to confirm it. “Then I’ll say the same thing, Harper that was a freak accident, you couldn’t have known that was going to happen.”

”It still happened whilst she was sparring with me though. Even after what happened between me and the twins last week I wouldn’t wish that on anyone.” Harper added as she let out a sigh and Keira gave the young trainee a sympathetic look. ”I’m not letting this one incident end my career but I still need time to clear my head.”

“Off course Harper, if you need me you can message me on Twitter.” Keira nodded in understanding before she turned to me and Cassie. “I doubt that’s how you wanted to spend Valentine's Day guys but thanks for coming in today all the same.”

”No offence but in hindsight I would’ve preferred spending the day with Makayla, and I’m sure Cassie feels the same way about Becky and Zoey.” I responded as I shook my head and once Cassie nodded to confirm that that was what she was thinking Keira did nothing whilst the look in her eyes said she understood. ”On that note, I’d better head home, got a promo to work on.”

”And whilst mom understands why I’m staying at Hero Academy a bit longer, I don’t think she can put off dinner any later than this.” Cassie responded as she checked the time on her iPhone and Keira nodded in understanding. ”Just remember Harp, you’ve got my number if you want a chat.”

”I will, thanks Cass.” Harper nodded in response before we all left Hero Academy.

Driving Cassie home, Las Vegas, Nevada
Tuesday the 14th of February 2023, 18:23pm

It wasn’t that far relatively speaking to Cassie’s home but it was far enough from Hero Academy that her walking home was out of the question even without her bad leg, still on the way home I decided to check on her.

”Look, I know you’ve had leg problems of your own Cass, which is why I want to ask you this.” I stated after turning down Jonathon Young’s cover of “Great Divide” by Linkin Park and Cassie turned to me. ”How are you feeling after what happened to Kata?”

”Honestly Charlotte? It gave me flashbacks to when I got my leg injury in high school.” Cassie admitted as she brushed some hair over her shoulder. ”It kinda happened the same way to boot, I got tackled and my leg just buckled under my body weight as I tried to get back up! It was meant to be a friendly practice and [the student got expelled for her trouble but that’s not the kind of injury that ever goes away.”/color] Cassie added as she leaned on the door to glance out the window. ”Even if Kata makes a full recovery and manages to complete her training, that leg will give her trouble throughout her career! Trust me, my leg still gives me trouble and it got broken about three, four years ago now.”

”When you were fifteen/sixteen?” I summarised and Cassie nodded to confirm that I had guessed her age right, given that her birthday’s in July her exact age would determine when that fateful soccer practice took place. ”What was that girl trying to achieve by tacking you so hard during a soccer practice?”

”I had a rivalry of sorts with her, we were both vying to be the captain of the soccer team, I was faster on the pitch, she was better at scoring goals.” Cassie admitted as she shook her head and I nodded as I got the idea. ”It started off friendly enough but it soon turned bitter, in the end neither of us got that team captain position because my broken leg ended my soccer career and she got expelled like I said.”

”Life can be cruel like that.” I responded as I gave me cousin a sympathetic look. ”Have you seen her since?”

”That’s the freaky part, that red head trainee who took Aniela’s place against Zoey? Same girl!” Cassie admitted and I have her a surprised look. ”It didn’t click with me at first until I heard her accent, but because of Kata’s injury I never got much of a chance to talk to Tammy.”

”You’ll get another chance, and I’m sure Tammy regrets that tackle considering how badly it fucked up her own life.” I responded with a nod and Cassie grinned in response. ”Who knows? Maybe you two can make amends?”

”If she hasn’t changed since high school we might need someone from the UN to come down to negotiate peace between us!” Cassie joked and I shook my head with a chuckle. ”Maybe your right though, I’m not the same girl I was back then, before I got hooked on medicinal weed I was a lot more level headed!”

”No offence but I literally can’t imagine that and before we met up again in 2021 I had known you up util you were eleven!” I responded with a chuckle and Cassie grinned in response. ”Stilll, you were able to come back from your injury and have a successful career, there might be hope for Kata yet.”

”My leg break wasn’t that bad compared to Kata’s, but I get your point.” Cassie nodded in response before I paused the Spotify playlist as we were nearing Cassie’s home. ”And for all her attitude problems? That’s still something I wouldn’t wish on anyone! Trust me, I’ve been there, having a promising sports career cut short due to injury fucking sucks!”

”All I’m going to say is that I think Kata needs all the friends she can get right now to help her get through this, she already has Aniela by her side but any further support that girl can get will be an immense boost to her mental health over the next few months.” I responded and Cassie nodded in agreement before we pulled up to Cassie’s home and I stopped outside her house. ”Tell Ruth I said hi.”

”Will do! See you tomorrow Charlotte!” Cassie responded before she got out of the car, grabbed the duffel bag containing her gear from the trunk and went into her home whilst I drove off.

Nevada Desert, Las Vegas, Nevada
Wednesday the 15th of February 2023, 15:00pm

*promo time*

How did I end of in this situation?

”I’ll admit, coming off the Open Invitational Rumble, I didn’t know what to expect heading into the first cycle of the year.” I admitted as I paced around the dessert area that I had picked for my promo location. ”Even after my rematch with Roxi got announced two weeks ago I had no idea what was ahead of me, at least until Chelsea LeClair proved that friends of Andrea Hernandez might be worse at carrying a grudge than me! But I’m not here to talk about my match against Chelsea because Blaze of Glory XI is just a few weeks away! I’m here to talk about The Tune Up!”

Here we go.

”That’s right, I got my wish for a tune up match this week on Climax Control as I take on Dawn Warren of the infamous Warren clan! Anyone who’s followed SCW over the past few years will be familiar with the Warren clan by reputation alone and let’s just say that it’s not exactly a flattering reputation.” I commented a I shook my head. ”Hell! Even THAT might be putting it mildly! But Dawn seems to be the odd one out in the Warren clan, when she did her promos for the Open Invitational Match I was surprised that there was a member of the Warren clan who was a decent person! It’s almost enough for me to ask if you’re the one they don’t bring up at parties Dawn but let’s not get that extreme about it!”

This is a wrestling match after all.

”I know from your performance in the Invitational and your debut against Luna that you’re a talented young woman Dawn, just the kind of warm up match I need heading into a match against someone like Chelsea but let’s make one thing clear, just because I’m calling this my tune up match doesn’t mean I’m taking you lightly Dawn!” I commented as I shook my head. ”Trust me, I’ve been there, I was a newcomer who others took lightly! One idiot even said that the reign that made my career wouldn’t make it past my first defence but she was soon left with egg on her face when I proved her wrong! Here’s what I expect from you Dawn, I expect you to give me one hell of a match this Sunday night because I’m not going to take it easy on you either!”

Don’t make that mistake,

”Because Dawn? I get it, you’re young, excitable and want to prove yourself to the rest of the Bombshell Roster! Your also facing a former champion and a Go Gym Graduate in your second match in the company! To say that I’m a bit of a step up from Luna is an understatement quite frankly and as Luna demonstrated in her match against Ari and Carter alongside Raven last Sunday? She’s no slouch in the ring either!” I added as I folded my arms and looked at the camera. ”But trust me Dawn if you want to even stand a chance of beating me on Sunday you’ll have to bring you’re a-game otherwise you’ll be tossed aside as I move on to my first PPV singles match of the year, do you want that to be the outcome of your second SCW Match Dawn? I didn’t think so!”

Bring your best!

”In other words? Bring your best or don’t bother showing up at all because I’m entering this match with two goals in mind! One: bounce back from my loss to Roxi two weeks ago, two: get some momentum going for my match against Chelsea at Blaze of Glory XI! I hate to treat you as an afterthought Dawn because you’ve clearly got talent but this is your chance to prove that you can hang with the established Bombshells of the division, don’t drop the ball if you want to make your mark/” I added as I shook my head. ”I made that mistake when I first joined SCW at the tail end of that dumpster fire of a year that was 2020 and it took me months to recover from it! I had a hell of a comeback story after that but trust me, that’s not something I wish on anyone, especially not someone as sweet as you Dawn so I repeat what I said, bring your best or don’t show up!”

Simple enough, right?

”Dawn I get that your still young into your career and all but make no mistake, I treat every new opponent with the same brush and once we step into the ring this Sunday Night? Your Sink or Swim moment will begin and you had better hope that you can swim with the big fishes on the Bombshell Roster!” I added as I leaned against my car. ”Otherwise? You’ll just be a tasty snack for the sharks of the division and trust me, you don’t want that, I’m sure we’ll have a great match Dawn because you were impressive last Sunday but I’m out to send a message to Chelsea with this win and no newcomer is going to get in my way of that goal!”

It's that simple!

”Just a quick little note for Chelsea, I know your facing Melissa in the same show so I should warn you, I will be watching that match to watch for any chinks in your armour and I suggest that you do the same for my match with Dawn!” I added as I sat on the bonnet. ”As for you Dawn? Welcome to your first real test as a Bombshell,, you beat Luna in your debut match, that was impressive, but this is your chance to prove that beating fellow newcomers isn’t all you can do and I suggest that you listen to the advice that I’ve been dispensing throughout this promo, otherwise?”

And with that I decided to wrap things up.

”Well, you see this bug?” I asked as I motioned to a bug that had been crawling on my bonnet, I considered crushing it but decided it wasn’t worth the headache from PETA and merely picked it up before throwing it as hard as I could. ”Otherwise you’ll be tossed aside as easily as that bug! This may be a tune up for a match against an unknown rival but I’m taking it as seriously as a heart attack and as I turn the page on this section of my SCW Story? You will be struck down by the Down Under Thunderbomb!”

I got in my car and drove off as the scene fades.

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Climax Control Archives / “Stuck In The Middle.”
« on: January 30, 2023, 08:20:28 PM »
Krystal’s 2023 didn’t get off to a great start as she was one of the many who came up short in the Open Invitational Rumble and just to rub salt in the wound the other Crystal (Caldwell) won the match rather than her friend Ariana! But things seemed to be on the up and up for Krystal’s friends as on the first Climax Control of the year Jessie earned a title shot against the other Crystal and Ariana was made the #1 Contender for the Bombshell Internet Title, who she would be challenging was going to be decided this week as Kayla Richards was defending the Bombshell Internet Title against Melissa but where did that leave the Aussie?

In a weird state of limbo it seemed because whilst Krystal had put her name forward for this year’s Blast from the Past Tournament she didn’t have much going on otherwise! This week’s Climax Control offered a chance for Krystal to change that however as she was taking on Roxi Johnson in singles competition! Roxi had been on the receiving end of one of the biggest shocks of the year so far when the British rookie Bombshell Georgie Robertson scored an upset win over the Hall of Famer at Inception VI, can Krystal follow in Georgia’s footsteps?

Cassie’s home, Las Vegas, Nevada
Saturday the 21st of January 2023, 16:00pm

This year is officially off to a worse start than last year.

In case you’ve been living under a rock for whatever reason, I didn’t kick off the year with a new Roulette Title Reign like I had hoped, in fact if you asked certain people then they’d say that the wrong Crystal won but then again a bet the majority of the women in the scramble match think that they should’ve walked out of Inception VI the champion.

Least of all was the now former Bombshell Roulette Champion Ari, she hadn’t spoken much about the end of her title reign aside from changing her Twitter profile name and pic to reflect the fact that she was no longer a champion but I knew from talking too her that she was frustrated with how the reign ended to begin with.

Speaking off frustrations stemming from title losses, that’s essentially why I’m stopping by Cassie’s home today.

If you don’t know about Cassie’s situation in MPW then I hope it’s comfy under that rock you’ve been living under! But to summarise, Cassie had encountered her first major hurdle as a wrestler, namely being screwed out of her first ever singles title by outside interference and to say that Cassie wasn’t taking it well was putting it mildly, to the point where I not only signed a guest contract with MPW to try to keep Cassie from going over to the darkside but had started to travel to England with her.

Off course, it had to come to ahead at some point, and that point happened to be when she was being disciplined by Keira for, well, everything, and Cassie got the idea to not only backtalk Keira but insult Roxi and yes, if this had happened on SCW programming then it would be a prime candidate for “WTF/Holy Shit Moment of the Year”! To make a long story short, the disciplinary fight was called off after Keira not only busted Cassie’s lip and cracked one of her ribs.

As questionable as that decision was, I did feel sorry for my younger cousin because I was in her shoes around this time last year and thus, I was stopping by Cassie’s home to check in on her, and yes, I checked her girlfriends’ places she isn’t with Becky or Zoey!

Then again, considering the first thing I heard upon approaching the front door was arguing between Cassie and her mom Ruth? I was beginning to suspect that Cassie would’ve much preferred that!

“CASSANDRA MARIE RICHARDSON, I THOUGHT I HAD RAISED YOU BETTER THAN THAT!” I winced as I approached the front door and got ready to knock, it was never a good sign when a mother was not only referring to their son/daughter by their full first name but their full name in general and based on what I heard? I had turned up just in time for it to start. “BUT TO TRY TO CLAIM THAT YOU WOULD’VE BEEN JUSTIFIED IN RUINING THAT GIRL’S TITLE OPPORTUNITY?!”

Yep, that explained it! I could hear the sounds normally associated with an excited puppy on the other side of the door so Sandie clearly knew that I was here, whether Cassie of Ruth had noticed was anyone’s guess. ”Mom, you weren’t there and you’re not a wrestler, how can you claim to know what I’m going through exactly?!”[/font] Cassie countered and I glanced towards the driveway noticing that only Ruth’s car was in the driveway, which probably meant that Cassie’s dad was at work and thus not around to play referee. ”What was I supposed to do? Just sit back and let the wrestling world run over me?”[/font]

Cassie was many things, a prodigy, a tech genius, a stoner, a porn addict, but more importantly she was a short-tempered teenager! Without hesitation I knocked on the door bringing their argument to a screeching halt. “Wonderful, that’s probably our neighbour checking up on us!” Ruth added before she answered the door but her tone did lighten up a bit when she saw me. “Oh Krystal, I thought you were training for the next cycle today.”

”That can wait, I’m here to check in on our favourite troublemaker.” I responded as I shook my head and Ruth quickly nodded as she got the idea, at this point Cassie glanced over and grinned when she saw me whilst Sandie reacted to my presence like a typical Labrador Puppy. ”I wasn’t expecting to hold peace talks however.”

”Mom started it!” Cassie quickly asserted and I shook my head because of course Cassie would say that! ”I was ranting over the phone to Becky when she overheard and snatched the phone from my hands!”

“Only to stop you from going down a dark path!” Ruth countered and I had to shake my head, Cassie’s mom could be overbearing, in fact her Australian nationality was probably the only thing keeping her from being the classic idea of a “soccer mom” which wasn’t exactly helped by the fact that Cassie played soccer in high school, but it was clear that she meant well for her daughter. “If you want to talk to her Krystal go ahead, I need a break from this.”

”Can I at least have my phone back?” Cassie piped up and once hr mom handed Cass her phone back she walked off, I glanced down at Cass with a disapproving look on my face and Cassie sighed. ”She took that conversation totally out of context! All it she heard was me telling Becky that I was frustrated that management still wasn’t doing anything and that I should’ve been allowed to go through with my plans!”

”Yeah because THAT makes it all better.” I responded as I rolled my eyes before Sandie walked up to me and started sniffing at my feet. ”We went through this the other week and Keira’s already given you a lashing for, well, everything you’ve said since losing the TV Title! Both literally and figuratively!” I added before I knelt down to stroke Sandie who wagged her tail in response. ”And those comments about Roxi that really set off Keira!”

”Ugh, don’t remind me, the stitches in my lip are coming out next week and my ribs still hurt!” Cassie grunted in annoyance as she motioned to her stitched up lip. ”For fuck’s sake! I haven’t been able to kiss Becky or Zoey since that incident happened! Besides, I know you’ve wanted a rematch with Roxi since she lost to Georgie at Inception VI!”

”As true as that might have been, don’t make this all about my relationship with Team Hero! We’re only a couple of weeks away from the one-year anniversary of Team Hero basically saving me from Matthew and Marty but that’s not what we’re here to discuss.” I added as I stood up and folded my arms. ”You’re the first graduate from Hero Academy, you work for several promotions and not just MPW, you have responsibilities these days because every time you tweet or cut a promo your representing Hero Academy and those promotions!”

”Yeah! Keira told me as much when I was getting frustrated at her for having me run laps whenever I tried to make a joke on Twitter!” Cassie responded with a sigh before she glanced over at her bad leg. ”But what about Chelsea Skye? She’s a World Heavyweight Champion, a porn star, and a Death Metal musician and no one gives her crap for it.”

”One: Chelsea has been wrestling for three years now, two: she’s a graduate of the Go Gym, that’s not exactly a school being starved of graduates to be proud off, for fuck’s sake I’m one of them!” I pointed out and Cassie let out a deep breath as she realized that I had a point. ”And third: she started those side projects well after she established herself as a wrestler, you were posting that goofy shit from day one more or less!”

”Okay, I get it!” Cassie sighed before her puppy walked up to her and she picked Sandie up, wouldn’t be that long before Sandie got too big for Cassie to do that even if she was a power-based wrestler like me. ”But what the hell am I supposed to do whilst MPW management drag their heals?”

”Be better.” I responded simply and Cassie said nothing in response, before long he topic shifted to other areas like the first Climax Control card of the year being announced tomorrow.

Off course, I had no idea at the time that the first Climax Control of the year was going to have such a huge impact on my friends, or that Cassie’s comments about me wanting a rematch with Roxi would end up being prophetic.

Driving through Irvine, California
Sunday the 29th of January 2022, 21:00pm

Well, tonight’s show was certainly something.

With the exception of Cindy Hasly (who, frankly, I would be surprised if she made it through to the end of the cycle while remaining employed with SCW) the new talent in both divisions impressed and certainly gave me hope for some fresh competition in the coming months.

After all, there’s only so many times I can kick Mercedes Vargas’s ass!

But that wasn’t all that happened tonight, Jessie won the #1 Contenders Match against Eavan meaning that the woman who won the Open Invitational New Year’s Bash was going to defend her newly won title against someone who said that she wasn’t going to take part because she already had a match booked for the show! Meanwhile Ariana was basically gift wrapped a shot at the Bombshell Internet Title after somehow getting into Christian’s office when he was getting a drink.

I’m happy for my friends, don’t get me wrong, but I am wondering where that leaves me in the equation.

As I said before, I’m signed up to compete in this year’s iteration of the Blast from the Past Tournament but aside from the bosses no one seemed sure of when the tournament was starting, especially since they broke the tradition of announcing the tournament during the lead up to Inception VI followed quickly by the announcement of the teams meant that there was just a lot of uncertainty in the air surrounding the tournament.

Who knows? Maybe this rematch with Roxi will give me the answers I need?

”Cassie, I know you won’t be able to gamble in Vegas until next July.” I commented to my cousin as we drove through Irvine on route to the hotel and Cassie glanced up at me. ”But remind me to ask you for the State Lottery Numbers when we get back to Vegas.”

”Why? Because I brought up your desire for a rematch with Roxi last week?” Cassie asked and I nodded to confirm it. ”If I were that good at predicting the future, I’d still be the MPW TV Champion! Among other things! That was just a coincidence!”

”Fair point, but it’s still one hell of a coincidence.” I responded with a nod as we came to some red traffic lights and I slowed the rental car down to a stop. ”Especially after Jessie and Ariana got their title shots next week! I know Roxi is looking to bounce back from the upset loss to Georgie, I can’t help but feel like this could be a sink or swim moment.”

”To see if you have recovered from how bad 2022 was?”[/font] Cassie asked and I nodded in response. ”Are you sure there’s no options to play music in the car?”[/font]

”I checked, this is an older model so I can’t pair my iPhone too it and the pre-sets are set to your standard pop radio stations, rental company was really strict about not changing the pre-sets!” I responded as I shook my head and Cassie rolled her eyes before the lights turned green and we were off again. ”Yeah, I know, I’m regretting not driving up in the Quash Quai as well! As for your initial question, it’s still a mystery to me! The card preview said that this was a match where two women sought to cement their place in the Bombshell Division but even after that loss to Georgie Roxi’s been a top level talent for as long as I’ve been an SCW fan, but where does that leave me? Win or lose?”

”I think we both know what the answer is.” Cassie responded as I spotted the hotel closing in. ”And that’s too see you can make it two upsets in a row, you may have the records for longest Roulette Title reign and most defences in the Bombshell Division but you’ve yet to hold a title since them.”

”And trust me, I plan on changing that in the year ahead!” I responded with a nod before sighing. ”Even if I have to go up against my friends again to do it!”

”Jessie and Ariana?” Cassie asked and I nodded to confirm that I was talking about them. ”You know that they have to win the titles first right? Jessie’s record against the other Crystal is spotty at best and Ariana faces a tough rematch no matter who wins the Bombshell Internet Title Match next week.”

”Yeah, Kayla’s been dominant since she won the title back from Keira and Melissa will be looking to capitalize on her momentum from winning the Iron Woman match against Jessie.” I nodded in response before we closed in on the hotel. ”But Ariana’s been on a tear since she won the Bombshell Roulette Title and Jessie’s been trying to get a title reign going for the past three years, I’ll be dealing with two very determined women either way.”

”Three, actually.” Cassie corrected me as I pulled into the parking lot. ”Or do I need to point out how persistent you’ve been since losing the Bombshell Roulette Title last year?” I said nothing in response but the look I gave Cassie told her that I knew she was right, off course now I just needed to win the match and get the new year off to a proper start.

Easier said than done when up against someone like Roxi!

Go Gym, Las Vegas, Nevada
Monday the 31st of January 2023,  1:00pm

I’ll admit, since the new year kicked off I haven’t visited the Go Gym as often as I used too.

Granted part of that is the fact that the Go Gym spent the first couple of weeks on the month closed for the holidays but with Makayla’s pregnancy and Cassie’s whole situation in England I simply haven’t had time, I tried to make up for that when I could at Jessie’s home gym but a private gym housed in a basement complete with a wrestling ring can’t really compete with a professional training facility like the Go Gym.

Turned out I wasn’t the only one with that idea.

”So you went from a former champion who lost her title to a game of tug of war to the #1 Contender to the Bombshell Internet title after sitting on Christian’s cheesecake?” I asked Ariana with an amused look on my face as I watched my fellow former Roulette Champion workout on a rowing machine, Ariana stopped mid workout specifically to roll her eyes and I shook my head. ”Sore subject?”

”I couldn’t get much sleep last night because Recipe 4 Disaster’s Twitter account get flooded with requests for, and I’m quoting here, Ari’s Ass Cheesecake.” Ariana responded with a frown and I had to chuckle at the way she put it. ”Yeah, I know, Francisco laughed too until I threatened to make him sleep on the couch! At least I’m not in action next week.”

”Yeah, but I am.” I pointed out and Ariana nodded before she got off the rowing machine to let someone else use it. ”Funny how I’m wrestling one of your idols the week after you got given a shot at the Bombshell Internet Title right?”

”I was thinking that when I got the new card text yesterday admittedly, but I don’t think we’ve ever been able to figure out the rhyme and reason behind some of the matches the bosses book for the regular shows.” Ariana responded as she shook her head and I could definitely see where she was coming from in that regard. ”If it weren’t for the Twitter exchange she had with Eaven I’d have even more questions as to why Jessie got a #1 Contenders Match and not me, at least before I got that Bombshell Internet Title Shot.”

”Tell me about it! Sometimes I wonder if they just pick opponents by drawing names out of hats.” I responded with a slight laugh before sighing. ”Like how they decide the Blast from the Past teams but on a wider scale.”

”If I ever open my own promotion, I’m making that its main gimmick just to see if it could work!” Ariana responded with a laugh and I just shook my head with a chuckle. ”Speaking of Blast from the Past, any partner preferences this year?”

”My first year I managed to jynx myself by celebrating my partnership with Mark Cross like it was a ticket straight to the finals and well, we both know what happened there, my second year I still managed to jynx it by just saying that I was happy to have Jack Washington as a partner.” I sighed in response as I thought back to my last two tournaments, both had me teaming with former World Heavyweight Champions, both had me eliminated in the opening round, but I wasn’t about to give it up. ”At this point I’d take Bill Barnhart as a partner so I could carry his useless ass to the finals!”

”Let’s not jynx that either, your track record isn’t that great in that regard, remember?” Ariana reminded me and I nodded with a frown on my face. ”I’m still unsure about signing myself up for that tournament, because there’s a great chance that we’ll end up facing each other again.”

”If that does come to pass then all I have to say is this.” I responded before offering her a fist-bump. ”May the best members of the Go Sisters win!”

”Oh don’t worry!” Ariana responded as she accepted my fist bump offer. ”I will!” Ariana added before she resumed her workout and I went off to work on the weight machine.

Hero Academy Parking Lot, Las Vegas, Nevada
Tuesday the 31st of January 2022, 11:00am

*promo time*

Round two, fight!

”Ever feel like you’re stuck in the middle between two success stories? Well that’s how I feel right now considering my good friend and fellow Go Gym Graduate Ariana Angelos is set to challenge for the Bombshell Internet Title whilst Jessie Salco has her sights set yet again on the Bombshell Roulette Title, funny how that works out!” I commented as I stepped into view with my arms crossed. ”But this Sunday’s Climax Control will give me a chance to turn that around, but this is one of those rare instances where it’s a tossup as to who needs the win more, the young upstart or the Hall of Famer and co-owner of the training school right behind me!” I added before smirking. ”That’s right folks, it’s Krystal Wolfe vs. Roxi Johnson part two this Sunday!”

And now to explain some things.

”In case you missed Inception VI, well I hope you enjoyed your stay at A Rock Hotel! But aside from the other Crystal literally winning a title in a game of Tug of War and the end of Masque’s title reign the biggest news to come out of that show was the upset of the century! The rookie Georgie Robertson scored a win over the Hall of Famer and multiple time champion Roxi Johnson in a match that many assumed Roxi had in the bag before the opening bell even started!” I added as I flipped some hair over my shoulder. ”And I’ll admit that I was one of those people who assumed that the bosses had just given Roxi her first win of the year on a silver platter! But that upset has had me wondering one thing, does Roxi still have it in her?”

Good question.

”Let me make one thing clear before anyone jumps down my throat, I respect the hell out of Roxi as a wrestler and a person and it was Team Hero that helped me realize that the whole partnership with Matthew Kennedy was as toxic to my career as being associated with Michael Harris!” I added before making the finger funs motion. ”Shots fired! And if he decides to really test the bosses patience by attacking a Bombshell, I’ll just point out that I am a trained boxer and all it would take from me is one solid punch to the balls to stop him in his roided up tracks! But back to Roxi and the big question, if I respect her so much then why do I think that? And for that matter, why don’t I give Mercedes the same concession? Well for starters, Mercedes is downright delusional, but aside from that, the reason I say that is that I’ve wrestled Roxi twice since her last match against Masque and I’ve been wondering over the past few months if that match has left her a shell of her former self.”

Prove me wrong.

”If these words motivate you to prove me wrong Roxi then please channel it because I want my first Climax Control match of 2023 to be one to remember and not a rehash of my match against Evie Jordan at last year’s Blaze of Glory!” I added as I started to pace around the parking lot. ”And just to make one thing clear to you Roxi, that’s a comparison that I don’t make easy! But it’s like I said, you lost a match that a younger Roxi would’ve won handily and our match this Sunday is a chance for you to get back in that winner’s circle, unfortunately for you Roxi? I’ve already got my eyes on a spot in that same circle, and there’s only one of use who’s going to claim it!”

That person will be?

”And the way I see it? Either I claim that spot in the winner’s circle or I make you fight for it, or we somehow end up drawing against each other in which case we must ask just what the hell do we do now?” I added before shaking my head. ”I want to make one thing clear Roxi, a draw of any kind is something I want to avoid because I’d rather have that one draw against Char Kwan before I turned my luck and career around be my one and only but we’ll see what happens, won’t we?”

It's that simple.

”Team Hero has done a lot for me and my cousin Cassie, that’s hardly a secret at this point, but then again the same can be said for my competitive nature!” I added as I flipped some hair over my shoulder. ”The same competitive nature that saw me requesting title defence after title defence when I was the Bombshell Roulette Champion also means that I’m not about to give up this fight easily just because my opponents’ a member of the SCW Hall of Fame and the legendary Team Hero! Roxi you got the win the last time we fought back in December but I’ve learned from the mistakes I made in that match and I’ll use those lessons to make sure that you suffer your second upset loss in a row Roxi!”

And with that I decided to wrap things up.

”I’ve said some things that I never thought I’d say about Team Hero in this promo, never mind someone as legendary as Roxi, but what else am I supposed to say when Roxi loses to a rookie like Georgie Robertson?” I asked as I leaned against my car. ”Just to be clear? I’m happy for Georgie and I hope she rides that wave of momentum towards her first title reign because I know first-hand how that feels, but whilst she deals with the washed-up Mercedes Vargas, I deal with the potentially washed up  Roxi Johnson and as I turn the page on this chapter of my SCW journey? I implore you Roxi to prove me wrong or get struck down by the Down Under Thunderbomb! I’ll see you in the ring!”

I entered the car and drove off as the scene fades.

33
Supercard Archives / “Family Problems.”
« on: January 10, 2023, 11:49:11 AM »
The first PPV of 2023 was one week away and the Open Invitational Match for the Bombshell Roulette Title was shaping up nicely as alongside Ariana, Zoey, Bella and Seleana the following women had made it clear that they were entering the match: London Underground’s Mackenzie Page, Crystal Caldwell, Dawn Warren and newly signed former SCU Bombshell Chelsea Le Clair! Krystal was in for a tough fight if she wanted to win the title but could she do it?

Krystal’s home, Las Vegas, Nevada
Wednesday the 4th of January 2023, 14:00pm

We’re barely a week into the New Year and it’s already taken a wild turn.

The past couple of days had seen an influx of new talent in both the Bombshells and Men’s divisions but obviously my main concern was the new women on the roster, namely Eaven Maloney and Cindy Hasley (no relation to Hayley thank god) and whether or not they would jump at the opportunity to try to win a title on the first night with the company! There was also the former SCU Bombshell Chelsea Le Clair making her return but I was at least familiar with her work.

As for the others in the match? So far the only one I’ve heard from is Mackenzie Page of London Underground deciding to go after Ariana’s title, she and Charlotte could be bitches at the best of times but there was no denying their talent (after all, they had both graduated from the Go Gym) which meant that Ariana’s title defence just got a lot tougher! Combine that with surprising radio silence from Bella, Seleana and Zoey and I was wondering what else was going to happen.

Oh, and I’ve got family drama on top of all that!

If you’ve been following Cassie’s career over the past few months, you’d know that she had managed to outdo my rookie year in SCW by winning two titles within days of each other and literally the only thing keeping her from having to vacate one of those titles was that she had won them in different companies, Full Force Pro and Modern Pro Wrestling to be precise! Well, that changed tonight because her first TV Title Defence of the new year had ended in her being cheated out of the gold by Rowen with help from her tag partner/manager.

Needless to say? Cassie had gone nuclear, even going as far as to promise to ruin Lola Dane’s title shot (she had earned it by winning a Battle Royal on the same night) and had shot down my attempts to reach out to her.

”Something needs to be done about Cassie’s current attitude before she burns every bridge she’s built since her graduation from Hero Academy.” I commented to myself with a sigh as I went through Cassie’s twitter feed which had basically deteriorated into her angrily snapping at anyone and everyone who dared try to reason with her, myself included. ”I get being pissed at how her reign ended but this?” Before I could lament on my cousin’s plight any further I heard my phone go off  and upon seeing that it was Cassie’s mom, I answered it. ”Hi Ruth, what’s up?”

“Krystal, this is urgent, is Cassandra at your home?” Cassie’s mom asked once I had greeted her and I nearly bolted from my seat, Cassie’s last tweet had basically said that her mom had grounded her the moment she returned home and the fact that Ruth didn’t know where her daughter was had concerned me. “I’ve looked everywhere and I can’t find her, she appears to have taken Sandie with her and has taken her dog bowls and food with her.”

”Trust me, if Cassie had snuck out to come here I would’ve brought her home after reading her the riot act for how she’s been behaving on Twitter since the last MPW show.” I commented as I shook my head at which point Makayla entered the room with a hot cup of coffee in her hand. ”The only places I can think that she has gone is her girlfriends’ places.”

“I haven’t checked with Becky or Zoey’s parents but I agree, that seems to be the most logical place to start looking.” Ruth responded in a tone of voice that made it clear that she was worried sick about her daughter. “I’ve been proud of what Cassie has achieved in such a short time as a wrestler but her behaviour since she lost the Television Title had been nothing short of unacceptable! I know I raised her better than that!”

”This is her first major setback as a wrestler, and sadly wrestlers as young as her can go off the deep end depending on how it goes.” I sighed as I ran a hand through my hair. ”I’ll go look for Cassie, she’s been my anchor in reality before and it seems that it’s my time to return the favour! Do you have Becky and Zoey’s numbers?”

“I don’t have Zoey’s number but Becky gave me hers when Cassie was signed to that promotion based in New York, Outlaw Pro Wrestling?” Ruth asked and I nodded, mostly remembering making a brief return to the states from SCW’s India tour to watch her first ever match, which aired on an extremely late tape delay and when Cassie’s second match never aired she cut her losses and moved on. “Krystal, when you find Cassie, tell her that she isn’t in trouble.”

”Even though you just said that you raised her better than that?” I asked with a confused look on my face and Ruth sighed.

“I know you’re a young mother with twin girls on the way Krystal, but I ultimately only want what’s best for my daughter! I grounded her to try to get her to see the error of her ways but now I suspect that I only drove her further off the deep end by doing so.” Ruth explained and I nodded as I got the idea before glancing over at my pregnant wife. “I’ll send you Becky’s number via text, and I will make up for this.”

”Just do what you need to do, I’ll take it from here.” I assured Ruth and once we said our goodbyes she sent me Becky’s number almost immediately. ”And the Cassie situation just went from bad to worse.”

”I gathered as much.” Makayla sighed before she handed me the cup of coffee and I gave her a nod of appreciation before talking a sip, ”If she has her Labrador Puppy with her then Cassie couldn’t have gotten far, not exactly many dog friendly places in Vegas.”

”Yeah, which is why I’m running with the theory that she’s staying with either Becky or Zoey, I doubt it’s Zoey considering that Zoey’s landlord doesn’t allow pets.” I responded as I shook my head before trying Becky’s number on Facetime, when she answered, well, it didn’t take me long to eliminate her as a suspect. ”Hey Becky, don’t ask how I got your number but have you heard from Cassie since she returned from England?”

”She called me about a half hour ago asking if she could stay the night with Sandie.” Becky, who was clearly bunged up with a cold, responded as she blew her nose. ”I didn’t want to pass on my cold to Cassie or her cute pupper so I told her to try Zoey’s number.”

”That’s fair enough but her mother’s worried sick about Cassie.” Makayla chimed in and Becky nodded as she got the idea. ”And frankly? Krystal needs to bring her back down to earth before she nukes all her good will from orbit.”

”Yeah, I thought that was why you were calling.” Becky nodded in understanding before she started working on her phone. ”Okay Krystal, I just added you as a contact and sent you Zoey’s apartment number, it’s that new apartment complex on the other side of the strip?”

”The one opposite a Wendies? No wonder Cassie likes going there so much.” I commented as I shook my head and Becky giggled before nodding. ”Send me the post code as well, I know where it is but I’m not that familiar with that part of Vegas and I don’t want to get lost.” I added and Becky nodded before sending me the post code and after assuring Makayla that I’d be back ASAP I left as soon as the conversation ended.

Not realizing that this was just the start of this crazy saga.

Krystal’s home, Las Vegas, Nevada
Sunday the 7th of January 2023, 14:00pm

I thought she could handle it.

I’ve been hands off on Cassie’s wrestling career since her graduation, both because of my commitments to SCW and because I thought that I wouldn’t have anything to worry about in regards to her, especially after she won her titles, even after she got screwed out of the TV Title on the first MPW show off the tear I thought I had sorted the situation when I found her at Zoey’s apartment.

Instead, the now current TV Champion was continuing to goad her, something that only got worse after MPW announced a match between Cassie and Vanessa Reckless (the woman who screwed Cassie over) for the second show of the year and it was at that point that I knew I had to step in, starting with getting in contact with MPW about signing a contract with them! Needless to say, Cassie wasn’t happy about me coming over to England with her in the capacity of a babysitter.

Bear in mind, aside from my annual contract renewals with Sin City Wrestling, I haven’t signed a contract with a company since I joined the promotion during the pandemic era! And speaking of Sin City Wrestling, more names had confirmed themselves for the open invitational match, Dawn Warren and Crystal Caldwell confirmed the rumours that they were entering the match but what caught me and Ari off guard was our old SCU co-workers Chelsea Le Clair, someone who we hadn’t heard much from since SCU closed it’s doors last year, had thrown her name in the hat.

Then again, with the continued radio silence from Bella and Zoey, this match was proving to be a well-spring of surprises!

”Cass, I know that saying that that you are unhappy about this situation is putting it mildly.” I commented once Cassie had closed the door behind her and sat down on the desk in my office/streaming room, The Inferno Wolves were still the women’s tag team champions over in FFP so Cassie still had her other title and was carrying her half of the tag titles in a duffle bag. ”But maybe you should’ve thought of that before you went that far off the deep end.”

”You know as well as I do that I got screwed over!” Cassie protested as the teenaged wrestler folded her arms and I shook my head. ”What I want to know is why the fuck your taking everyone’s side but mine?!”

”I’m taking no one’s side Cass! And if anything? I’d be on your side if you had managed to keep your cool in the wake of your last TV Title Match!” I responded with an exasperated sigh and Cassie said nothing in response. ”But when you refused to budge from your position on Lola’s title match I knew I had to step in! This isn’t a permanent arrangement, I made it clear to your boss in MPW that Sin City Wrestling was always going to come first in terms of priorities since for one thing, I don’t need to fly across the pond to compete for that company nine times out of ten!”

”And do I even need to bring up your Roulette Title reign again? We both know what you did after Diamond won the title from Keira at last year’s Blaze of Glory!” Cassie countered and I shook my head, I think she knew this was a losing battle but her stubbornness was on full display for better or worse! ”How is that any different from me refusing to just sit back and stay quiet about this bullshit?!”

”One, I accepted that the bosses weren’t going to make it a Triple Threat and made my way onto the card another way by way of that match against Evie Jordan, two, I didn’t announce my intention ahead of time, to be honest I had a plan for both outcomes, I was going to congratulate Keira if she retained and attack Diamond if she won.” I responded as I listed off the reasons with my left hand and Cassie rolled her eyes. ”Third and most importantly, I didn’t go out of my way to burn every bridge with the rest of the SCW Roster, if you continue to do what you’ve done since Wednesday night you’ll have no allies left and how do you know the bosses don’t have you earmarked for their junior heavyweight division?”

”So what? So I can be the first ever champion in two different divisions?! Yeah, that’s a definite improvement over holding the TV Title!” Cassie grumbled in response with so much sarcasm that you could smell it from the other side of Vegas. ”I made my name in MPW with the TV Title, I already explained why and how during our argument on Wednesday, they can’t honestly expect me to just shut up and take this bullshit when their refs are clearly crooked!”

”I’m not even going to comment on that because I don’t have first-hand experience of MPW’s refs! But I will agree that based on the actions of SCW refs in god knows how many title matches, the ref should’ve sent Vanessa to the back on sheer principle!” I responded as I ran a hand down my face and Cassie grunted in response. ”I’m not happy about this either Cass, Makayla’s five months into her pregnancy and I’m not comfortable leaving her alone!”

”But at the same time she can’t come to England with us because of the risk to the twins, right?” Cassie summarised and I nodded in response, Makayla’s pregnancy was at the point were her bump was starting to develop though it wasn’t nearly as large as it would get as we entered the final months around April/May, any casual observer could clearly see that she was pregnant by this point. ”Do you have a plan in place for that?”

”On one hand? Makayla’s a grown woman whose only slightly younger than me, she can definitely look after herself.” I sighed as I started to think about this. ”On the other hand? There’s certain things that she won’t be able to do on her own such as cleaning and making sure that Tali and Garrus’s bowls are full, I’ve talked to Ariana, Carter, Jessie,  Jake, Shane and Harper and they are happy to come over and help out when needed, even if it is just to hang out and keep her company.”

”As if she doesn’t get enough attention from the dogs.” Cassie commented as she rolled her eyes though she did have a point, the dogs had seemed to pick up on the fact that Makayla was pregnant and had been going out of their way to be gentler with her, even Cassie’s puppy had joined in on that despite being easily the youngest of the trio! Speaking of the doggos, we heard scratching at the door and Cassie motioned towards it. ”I think our doggos want to hang out.”

”Makayla has gone to her first OBGYN appointment of the year so that checks out, but this conversation isn’t over Cass.” I nodded in response and Cassie let out an exasperated sigh, sensing that she was getting tired of the talk and that continuing it would just make the situation worse I decided to drop it. ”But we’ll continue it once we’re in London tomorrow, I think you’ll agree that the past week has been hell for you.”

”Finally, something I agree with!” Cassie grunted in annoyance before she opened the door to let the three dogs in with Tali and Sandie going right up to her and Garrus going right up to me.

It was clear that I was going to need advice on how to approach this situation from someone with a lot more experience than either me or Cassie, question was, who? Gabriel had trained me and Ari and under any other circumstances he’d be my first choice but Cassie had been trained by Team Hero, two of the best women’s wrestlers in the world, hell Keira was my last Supercard challenger this time last year!

Either way, Cassie was in the same situation I was in during the Blaze of Glory cycle last year only she was taking it worse! Maybe it was the fact that she wasn’t even twenty yet and the immaturity that came with that fact, or maybe it was just the fact that she thought that she was going to have a reign like mine.

It didn’t matter in the end because whilst Cassie was a wrestling prodigy, she did need to come back down to earth eventually.

Pizza Pilgrims, Camden, London, England
Tuesday the 10th of January  2023, 16:00pm

This wasn’t exactly a situation I thought I’d find myself in when 2022 ended, but stranger things have happened I guess.

Still, I was trying to make the most out of the new arrangement with Cassie, including treating her to a different restaurant on each England trip because prior to me steeping in she had mostly stuck to Wendy’s or the World’s End where there was plenty of cool restaurants within Camden.

Then again, considering she’s a stoner she probably just went with what was familiar.

”See? This isn’t so bad, is it?” I asked Cassie as we were seated at Pizza Pilgrims, a place I had learned about through the English YouTube Channel SortedFood and had wanted to try whenever SCW went to England but my new employment with MPW had sped up that process. ”I’m honestly surprised you’re not sick of Wendy’s yet.”

”Me? Sick of Wendy’s? Never!” Cassie insisted as she rolled her eyes and I shook my head with a chuckle. ”Besides, I’m still not thrilled about this situation but since Zoey’s focussing on her training and Becky’s about to start college, I don’t have many other options for company.”

”Knew you’d see things my way.” I responded with a grin before we looked at the menu, the pizzas on offer ranged from your fairly traditional fair like Margaritas to Double Pepperoni and Spicey Honey (yes, really) and looking at the look on Cassie’s face? She was clearly spoiled for choice. ”Anything caught your eye?”

”To be honest it’s easier to list the pizzas that haven’t caught my eye.” Cassie admitted as she shifted her weight and I nodded as I glanced at the menu. ”Fuck it, I’m trying the spicey honey one.”

”If that works out well, we’ll have to pass that recipe on to Ari! I’m going for the Nduja Pizza myself.” I responded as I made my choice and Cassie glanced down at the sides. ”You ready to talk about MPW yet?”

”Nope! Because I know you’re going to shoot down all of my ideas for tomorrow’s show!” Cassie grunted in response and I shook my head, did she really know me that well? ”You haven’t even commented on the irony of spending most of the week in the home city of one of your opponents!”

”I’m saving my comments about McKenzie for my second promo, same goes for Chelsea, Crystal and Dawn.” I responded as I shook my head. ”Besides, McKenzie may have been the second one to accept the open challenge after me but I doubt either of us knew that I was going to spend most of the week in McKenzie’s home city!”

”Could always call McKenzie and see if she has any recommendations for our second trip out here.” Cassie responded with a grin finally showing the sense of humour that had been missing since she lost the title. ”You know, if you want McKenzie to be even bitchier than usual since the UK is five hours ahead of the US and all!”

”I’d say that would take some effort but interrupting her beauty sleep would do the trick.” I responded with a laugh as I shook my head. ”And honestly? I’m just glad you’ve got your sense of humour back after the events of the last MPW Show!”

”I’m still pissed over how my reign ended, but you are right I guess.” Cassie responded with a sigh before she spotted the waitress coming over to take our orders. ”Hold that thought Krystal, we might be ordering soon.”

”I hope so! I’m starving!” I responded with a grin before the waitress took our orders.

Making sure that Cassie didn’t get past the point of no return may have been my top priority heading into the first few weeks of the year (and possibly beyond) but that wasn’t distracting me from my task on Sunday, I knew I had to focus to win the Bombshell Roulette Title in such a chaotic match especially now that the field had expanded to seven women.

As for whether more Bombshells would sign up during the week before the match? Who knows? But what I do know is that this was going to be a chaotic mess off a match! One that I was sure that the bosses would be watching with bags of popcorn in their hands!

But that was the price I had to pay if I wanted to kick off the new year by becoming a two-time Bombshell Roulette Champion.

Krystal’s hotel room, London, England
Tuesday the 10th of January 2022, 18:00pm

*promo time*

My, my, how much has this match changed?

”I thought the Roulette Invitational Match was tough enough when the confirmed competitors were just me, Ari, Bella, Zoey and Seleana but now there’s four more women in the mix!” I stated as I held up four of my fingers. ”London Underground’s McKenzie Page is bringing more Go Gym representation to the match, Crystal Caldwell managed to find a way around the whole “your fired and everyone hates you” thing to sign up! Dawn Warren from PWS: Apex is jumping over to give it a shot and just to round things out, a returning face from SCU in the form of Chelsea Le Clair! I guess that’s the nature of the beast though! A wrestling promoter promotes an open invitational match and everyone and their grandma is signing up for a shot!”

Who next?

”I’ll honestly be surprised if any other names get added to this already chaotic mix because at this point? It’s practically a Battle Royal with extra steps!” I added before brushing some hair over my shoulder. ”But I knew what I was getting into when I decided to throw my name into the hat and not even my current family problems are stopping me from focussing on this match! I won’t talk about Sel, Bella and Zoey as much this time around since I’ve already talked about those three in depth last week and considering how surprisingly quiet those three have been? I don’t have much to say about them without repeating what I said! Luckily the four additional Bombshells have given me plenty to talk about!”

Starting with McKenzie!

”You know what else? I’m doing this in the order that they made their participation known, starting with McKenzie!” I stated as I glanced out towards rain outside. ”I do remember hearing that Charlotte and McKenzie had talked about this match through Daniel but I didn’t think it was only going to be one half of the women in London Underground throwing their name into the mix! I guess Charlotte felt that she still needed to shake off the old ring rust! But that still leaves us with a third Go Gym Graduate in the match meaning that we have a clash of the Go Gym generations on our hands.”

Funny how that worked out.

”You were right on one front McKenzie, we’re not friends but I can’t deny that there is a lot of respect there for what you and Charlotte have accomplished in the ring! And considering you hold a singles win over Seleana? It appears that you haven’t missed a step in your time away from the ring, either that or you trained nonstop to make sure that you were ready to return.” I said before folding my arms. ”But you shouldn’t underestimate me or Ari, because unlike you and Charlotte? We haven’t had any time away from the ring, we’ve been on the grind since we signed our SCW contracts! And if it comes down to us in this clusterfuck? I’ll bet good money that that will play a key part!”

Speaking of Seleana, next up is Crystal.

”Because clearly this match wasn’t confusing enough, now we’ve got two women with the same name in the match! Me and Crystal Caldwell, one’s a well-respected talent who no one thought twice of when she announced her participation in the match, the other’s Crystal Caldwell!” I commented as I shook my head with a disgusted look on my face. ”Do I even need to bring up all the stunts you pulled last year Crystal? Attacking Chloe Benton after she was injured in her match against Jessie Salco, donning a mask after Christian fired your overrated ass and being the most obvious masked wrestler in the history of the sport, driving Seleana further away from you, I could go on but I won’t, because you’re not worth my time!”

Hey at least I’m being honest!

”Wjat’s that? You’re a Hall of Famer and a former World Bombshell Champion? I’m sorry but who remembers your title reigns aside from Mercedes Vargas? And I distinctly remember there being talk about booting you out of the Hall of Fame after the aforementioned stunts you pulled, is it any wonder why you tied with Masque for Most Hated of 2022 in last year’s Year End Awards?” I asked rhetorically before shaking my head. ”Don’t answer that Crystal, because I know you’ve got some bullshit explanation, especially now that you’ve not only come back but are playing nice, spoiler alert Crystal? No one’s buying your shit and if you actually show up for the match, don’t be surprised if every other Bombshell in the match gangs up on you! Especially since Bella’s in the match, someone you faced just before the holidays, and we all remember how that match ended, don’t we?”

Next up is Dawn!

”I don’t even know that much about this Dawn Warren, all I know is that she wrestles for PWS Apex and even then, I only know that because my younger cousin Cassie joined that company last month!” I added with a sigh as I ran a hand through my hair. ”But here’s what I do know, Dawn’s a member of the Warren clan, a bookworm and someone who’s bubbly personality makes Candy look like Fenris! The fact that I’m making THAT comparison should tell you everything you need to know but according to her bio on SCW’s website, she idolizes Scrappy Doo!”

Seriously?!

”Feel free to make your own jokes about the Warren clan as it relates to that fact, I’ve already come up with a dozen in just the past few seconds!” I added before I shook my head. ”But I don’t know you well enough to know whether your bullshitting us with a bubbly persona or if your actually like that and you’re not trying to be a carbon fucking copy of Crystal Caldwell! Either way? I hope you know what you’re getting yourself into Dawn because this match promises to be a clusterfuck!”

Last up is Chelsea!

”And now we’ve come to the last Bombshell who confirmed her participation last week, someone who me and Ariana know all too well from our time in SCU! That’s right, Chelsea Le Clair is back!” I stated as I let out a deep breath. ”So, from what I’ve heard Chelsea, you’ve joined SCW because the last fed you were in, BWF, went under and that you went over the pros and cons of this decision with a certain former Bombshell who I’ve never gotten on with, but did she really prepare you for a match like this?”

Good question.

”But you did have plenty to say about me and Ari, about how we’ve failed in big matches because we didn’t believe in ourselves enough! I’m sorry but you try facing Masque twice in the same cycle and then get back to me!” But I digress! Mostly because Masque isn’t likely to enter the match so I refocussed as I folded my arms. ”That aside? If you’ve followed me and Ari’s SCW careers then you know that we’ve never let a defeat let us down! And this match won’t be any different as you’ll find out if it comes down to between me, you and Ari!”

And for the rest.

”I’ve already spoken at length about Bella, Sel and Zoey last week but that still leaves the current champion herself Ari! I’ll keep this brief Ari but I bet your already running out of room on that whiteboard you brought for this match now that the participant numbers have more than doubled in size!” I added as I paced around my hotel room. ”The week’s still young so who knows? Maybe we’ll get some last-minute participants? All I do know is that this is going to be a wild match and I can’t even say for sure if either me or Ari will be the champion but what I do know is that this will be a wild match!”

It's that simple!

”If this was just a ladder match that would be one thing, nut throw in the fact that whoever grabs the title then has to escape the building with it to win the match? That’s just added another layer to an already chaotic mess of a match!” I added as I flipped some hair over my shoulder. ”And they plan for this to be an annual thing to boot? Who knows how crazy next year’s match will be but right now? My focus is on winning this year’s match and becoming a two-time Bombshell Roulette Champion, even if I have to fight off at least nine other women to do it!”

And with that I decided to wrap things up.

”Ariana Angelos, Bella Madison, Zoey Lukas, Seleana Zdunich, McKenzie Page, Crystal Caldwell, Dawn Warren and Chelsea Le Clair, at the moment those are the women who stand in my way of winning the Bombshell Roulette Title for the second time in my career!” I stated as I listed off the names with both of my hands. ”And since this is Open Invitational, who knows if that will be the final line-up by the time I return to Vegas, let alone when Inception VI rolls around?! But as I turn the page on this chaotic chapter of my SCW Journey, I know that this will be the wildest match of that journey and the toughest if “Down Under Thunder” Krystal Wolfe wants to walk out as champion! See you ladies in the ring!”

I left the room to check on Cassie as the scene fades.

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Supercard Archives / “Sorry Ari!”
« on: January 02, 2023, 06:35:03 AM »
Krystal entered 2022 with a lot of high expectations, vowing to make her second full year as an SCW Bombshell “The Year of the Wolfe”, instead the Roulette Title reign that had catapulted her to prominence ended just shy of the three hundred day mark as Keira dethroned the Aussie under controversial circumstances and Krystal had struggled to get back in the title picture for the remainder of the year, challenging for the Bombshell Internet, Bombshell Roulette and World Bombshell Championships on three separate occasions and coming up short each time.

But now that the year was over, Krystal could now focus on getting back to the heights she once enjoyed and that was starting at Inception VI where her friend Ariana was defending the Bombshell Roulette Title in an Open Invitational New Year Rumble! So far three other Bombshells were confirmed to be Ari’s challengers, namely Bella Madison, Seleana Zdunich and Zoey Lukas but with the match being open invitational, anyone could show up and Krystal was taking full advantage of that! Can Krystal kick off the year with a title win?

Krystal’s home, Las Vegas, Nevada
Tuesday the 13th of December 2022, 14:00pm

Funny how much difference a year can make, right?

This time last year I was on top of the world! My Roulette Title Reign had smashed through the records previously set by Sam Marlowe, destroyed the thoughts of those who expected me to be a one and done champion, I had the mentorship of one of the first champions of the Men’s Roulette Division and my younger cousin Cassie had only been training under Matthew since July and was proving to be a wrestling prodigy.

Then you look back at that time with the benefit of hindsight, and things aren’t so peachy.

Looking back it was clear that Matthew was trying to live vicariously through me by trying to turn me into a female, Australian version of himself, probably because his one and only reign was so short, and was using Cassie to try to control me, the threat to sabotage her potential career if I stepped out of line lingering over my head! Off course, I also know that the reign was in it’s last days as the defence at Inception V would prove to be my last successful defence.

I still kept the Christmas gifts Matthew got for me though, the Roulette Title Ring is a badass ring and I still wear it just underneath my wedding ring and the robe as been a key part of my entrance long after I kicked Matthew and Marty to the curb! And as the cherry on top? Cassie has lived up to expectations and then some having won her first two titles within days of each other and turned heads in every fed she’s joined! And then there’s me who spent the past year trying to rebuild myself after I lost the title to Keira whilst Ariana has thrived as the Bombshell Roulette Champion!

Speaking of Ari, her defence at Inception VI has caught my eye, she’s set to defend the title in an Open Invitational New Year Rumble with the confirmed names so far being Seleana Zdunich, Bella Madison and Zoey Lukas, the key is in the name off course because it was open to any woman in the wrestling business, something reaffirmed when Cynthia Warren came out of retirement to announce her participation in the match!

Granted Cynthia seems less motivated in wanting to take the title from Ari and more motivated in messing with Seleana for some reason, but it had me thinking all the same!

”Haven’t gone up against a fellow Go Gym Graduate since my match against Evie Jordan, and before that my match against Tempest.” I muttered to myself as I looked at the Open Invitational New Year Rumble, Ari was sparring no expense in terms of being prepared for any potential challenger having put up a white board in her living room so that she could keep track of any potential challengers. ”Jessie has her rubber match against Melissa so I’ll be surprised if she throws her name in the hat for another shot at Ari, but still.”

”Think of it this way Charlotte.” I glanced up and saw Makayla coming out of the kitchen with a tub of Ben & Jerries Ice Cream in one hand and a spoon in the other, pregnancy cravings, what can I say? ”They’ve already got Wolfslair clashing in this match by having Bella and Zoey be two of the already confirmed participants, what’s the harm in having the Go Gym clash as well?”

”Well, for one thing the last time the Go Gym clashed was when Tempest and Ari were in that Bombshell Internet Title Battle Royal during the India Tour, which didn’t end well for Tempest or Ari if we’re being honest.” I responded as I shook my head whilst Makayla helped herself to the ice cream. ”And if we’re looking for results that involve me? It’s a mixed bag, I beat Evie Jordan at Blaze of Glory XI and lost to Tempest in my second ever match as a member of the Bombshell Roster.”

”You know as well as I do that that’s just the luck of the draw sometimes, hell as a former Roulette Champion yourself you should know all about that Charlotte.” Makayla pointed out and I had to admit that she had a point. ”We still don’t know if the bosses will put you on maternity leave when the twins are due, for all we know? This might be one of the only chances you’ll get in 2023!”

”I’ll have a chat with Mark and Christian about that when it comes time to renew my contract for another year, hopefully any maternity leave I do get will be short enough so that I can get right back into the swing of things.” I responded as I shook my head and Makayla nodded in understanding. ”Do you really think I should take the plunge and sign myself up for Ari’s title match? Because I’m probably going to have to apologize a lot when Ari finds out!”

”Ari’s a fellow competitor and held the Pride Tag Team Titles with Carter and Alex in SCU, she’ll understand that a lot of people tend to chase after you when you’re a champion.” Makayla pointed out and I had to admit that she had a point, and it was that point that helped me make my mind up. ”So, what’s it gonna be?”

”At the moment, it doesn’t seem like the bosses have any plans for me at Inception VI, obviously that can change as the weeks progress but there’s nothing wrong with taking a little initiative, is there?” I asked rhetorically before I got my phone out and posted the tweet that confirmed my participation in the New Year Rumble. ”And Daniel just hinted that Charlotte and Mackenzie are planning to put their names down, seems like it’ll be a real clash of the Go Gym Grads!”

”Considering the stranglehold London Underground had on the Tag Division? I’d be surprised if they don’t find themselves competing for gold one way or another over the next year!” Makayla nodded in agreement and I grinned in response. ”It’s going to be a tough match with or without them off course!”

”You can say that again! For now? I think it’s high time that I popped down to the Go Gym and train, I want to get as many reps in as I can before the gym closes for the holidays.” I responded before I grabbed my jacket and, after stroking Tali and Garrus on the way out, I headed off to the Go Gym.

The new year was shaping up to be a wild one already!

Local café, Las Vegas, Nevada
Friday the 16th of December 2022, 14:00pm

She’s growing up so fast.

It was a year ago that I met Cassie at the PTA Gym, back when she was a trainee under Matthew and Marty and to say that a lot has happened since then was outing it mildly! Even that early into her training, it was clear to everyone watching that Cassie was a natural in the ring having taken to the sport like a fish to water, but it’s like Ari said last week, we didn’t think she’d get so good as a wrestler that Cassie would win her first two titles within days of each other.

Off course I was proud, I was helping her with her training when she at the PTA Gym and she had often been my anchor in reality whenever my temper had gone off the deep end , seeing her success alongside Ari’s had brought more than a few tears of joy to my eyes.

Whilst also making me worried that my career already peaked with the Roulette Title reign but that’s neither here nor there!

”Remind me to check the weather the next time I pop across the pond for Modern Pro Wrestling.” Cassie groaned as we were seated opposite each other, with SCW taking the holidays off and Cassie’s first year as a wrestler winding down we were using the time to catch up. ”Because I was not expecting snow! Even if me, Becky and Zoey had a fun snowball fight before we flew black!”

”Considering you’ve been signed to Modern Pro Wrestling since before its first show aired? I’m surprised you didn’t think of that sooner!” I pointed out that fact and Cassie grinned sheepishly as the teen brushed some hair over her shoulder. ”And I’m kind of surprised that you’re not talking more about your ban from Sin City Wrestling shows being lifted!”

”Don’t get me wrong, that’s a massive weight lifted of my shoulders but the SCW ban was kinda a blessing in disguise.” Cassie admitted with a shrug before we glanced at the menus. ”Did it suck that I wasn’t able to see Keira’s final matches in person? Absolutely, am I still mad that I essentially got banned for trying to help a domestic abuse victim? Yeah, but the ban let me focus more on my wrestling career rather than attend shows with you guys!”

”I can see your point but SCW shows haven’t been as fun without you around.” I responded with a nod and Cassie grinned in response. ”Besides that? There’s still the question that prompted Christian to lift your ban in the first place, whether you’re going to throw your name in the hat for Ari’s title match! You’re not a contracted talent but Christian did say that it was open to outside talent.”

”It’s like I said Krystal, it depends on my schedule for that weekend.” Cassie admitted with a shrug before the waitress came over to take our drinks orders, once she was gone Cassie continued. ”I’d have a blast as the Roulette Champ, don’t get me wrong, but my career in the other SCW has really taken off, I’m about to debut for PWS: Apex, I’m a double champion and my rookie year is almost over! Who knows what 2023 will bring for me?”

”No one’s denying that you’ve had a hell of a rookie year Cass and I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again, I’m proud of you.” I responded and Cassie grinned broadly in response. ”But I do have a couple of things to say, you remember when we met up at the PTA Gym?”

”You mean when you showed up with Ariana and Jessie?” Cassie asked and I nodded in response. ”How could I forget? That day basically set us on our current path! Why do you ask?”

”Even though you were eighteen when we first met you’ve been my anchor in reality a few times, whenever my ego, my temper or both got the better of me.” I explained and Cassie nodded as the nineteen-year-old brushed some hair over her shoulder. ”But it’s time for me to play the Uno Reverse card, Cass you’ve had a fantastic rookie year considering you graduated from Hero Academy in July but I’ve already seen your ego grow on Twitter.”

”YOU? Lecturing me about my ego?!” Cass asked with a slight laugh before the waitress brought our drinks over and we ordered our food, once she went off to give our orders to the kitchen Cass continued. ”Hello Mrs. Pot, I’d like to introduce you to Ms. Kettle, she has a long and engaging conversation planned about how black you are!” Cass added and whilst her joke was funny I had to roll my eyes.

”Laugh it up Cass!” I responded as Cass took a sip from her drink. ”But I at least never used butter as lube!” I added and somehow, through some miracle, Cass managed to keep it contained within the glass as she spart out her drink.

”That only happened once! And it was a bitch to clean up afterwards!” Cass asserted and I just shook my head. ”Back to a topic that’s a hell of a lot less likely to get us kicked out of this café, what did you say when people started calling you out on your ego? That you have every right to be proud of what you’ve accomplished?” Cass asked and I shook my head.

”I still maintain that I had earned that pride ten times over when I reached the two-hundred-day mark of my reign, but that’s besides the point.” I responded as Cass gave me a significant look. ”But I had been wrestling for a few years before I joined SCW in 2020, you are still in your rookie year but your ego’s already through the roof thanks to your double title reign, remember what I said after your graduation match against Keira?”

”You’re going to have to narrow things down Krystal, never mind the fact that we’re talking about a conversation that happened five months ago.” Cass pointed out and she was right, a lot had happened since her graduation and that was easy to see, ”But I’m guessing your talking about when you said that you didn’t want me to repeat your mistakes? But that was about keeping things bottled up, wasn’t it?”

”It was, and that’s still a relevant topic. Keeping things bottled up is never a good idea, trust me on that.” I responded as I shook my head before letting out a deep breath. ”To summarize? I don’t want your ego to overshadow your wrestling talent like it did to me towards the end of my title reign, because if you keep that up? Friends you’ve made like Blaze Darling will start to distance themselves from you because your ego became too much for them to bare.” I added before Cass took a sip from her drink. ”And in less extreme cases? You’ll wrestle two high profile matches on the same night, like on the last Modern Pro Wrestling show!”

”Okay, first off? I wasn’t even aware that pulling out of the TV Title Defence was an option, when I saw it advertised as me working double duty I didn’t see the point in asking them to change it!” Cass defended herself and I gave her a significant look. ”And second? Wrestlers have pulled double duty on SCW shows before! Goth wrestled in the second ever Black Friday Brawl in the opener and then wrestled Drake Greene in the Main Event of December to Dismember III!”

”Good to see that you know your SCW History Cass, but there’s several things off about your analogy.” I responded as I shook my head and Cass motioned for my to elaborate. ”#1: Goth has always been a scientific/brawler style of wrestler, even during the prime of his career in the GWA he wrestled a slower style! You’re a highflyer, someone who relies on high octane offence to get the job done! There’s nothing wrong with either style strictly speaking but Goth’s slower style meant that he didn’t tire himself out against Wyatt, #2: like you said, Goth’s first match of the night was a Black Friday Brawl, Falls Count Anywhere Matches have never been about wrestling and more about brawling! Not saying there’s no place for a wrestling move in such a match as Ari proved during two of her defences but that still allowed him to pace himself during the opener, you on the other hand wrestled a fast-paced Triple Threat in the opener and tried to keep that pace going in the main event!”

”So, what? You think my bosses in MPW set me up to fail against Jessi when they scheduled the title match and my tourney match against her in the same night?” Cassie asked and I shook my head. ”No offence but that doesn’t seem that open to interpretation.”

”You’ve quickly emerged as one of the best teenaged wrestlers when you debuted Cass and your title wins just cemented that, I doubt the MPW higher ups wanted to sabotage the momentum of one of their first champions!” I responded as I shook my head. ”It’s like you explained when the MPW Twitter posted that title rules link, the TV Title is to be defended every week in an open challenge but was anything really stopping you from asking the bosses to change the card so that you weren’t defending the title and competing in a tournament match the same night?”

”Like I said, I didn’t know that was an option.” Cassie responded as she shook her head before sighing. ”And if anything? That just proves that the MPW comparison doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.”

”True enough but keep in mind what I said, if your ego gets too big it can and will come crashing down, just look at my record since my title reign ended.” I responded and Cassie nodded as she got the idea. ”For now? Just enjoy what you’ve earned, I can’t think of many nineteen-year-old wrestlers who have won their first title in the same year they graduated, let alone their second!”

”Trust me, I have and I will as long as both reigns continue.” Cass responded with a nod before the waitress came over with our food.

Krystal and Makayla’s home, Las Vegas, Nevada
Christmas Day 2022, 11:00am

If Makayla would let me sleep through Christmas Day I would,

And this year is especially bad because this year marks the tenth-year anniversary of my mom’s murder and I’ve been dreading today ever since the SCW Christmas Break started, honestly if Makayla wasn’t here today would likely be a lot less bearable!

Throw in the fact that by this time next year, she’ll have given birth to twin daughters and yeah, I’ll be making an effort to make it less awkward around Cara and Zosia even though they’ll be too young to understand it! As for this Christmas? It’s been relatively quiet considering that I have two dogs, a young stepdaughter and a pregnant wife in the house and Cassie was coming over for two reasons, to get the presents that we had brought her and to show off her present from her parents!

I know she’s been showing off her two titles a lot since she won them but for one thing I can’t really blame her for that! The other thing? She wasn’t really one to brag about crimbo presents normally, the PS5 and Nintendo Switch she got from me last year being the exception rather than the rule so whatever Cassie’s parents had gotten her, it had to be big!

”Any sign of our favourite teenaged egomaniac?” I asked Makayla as I walked up to her and Makayla shook her head. ”Cassie’s parents don’t live that far from here so it can’t have taken her this long to get here!”

”Maybe she felt like walking?” Makayla shrugged her shoulders whilst our dogs Tali and Garrus walked up to us with their tails wagging. ”Then again, with that bad leg of hers, I’m surprised she does as much walking as she does, let alone wrestle as well as she does.”

”From what Cassie and Keira have told me? Cassie’s leg is like any other lingering injury, it can have bad days and good days.” I responded with a shrug and whilst Makayla nodded in agreement our conversation was interrupted by a knock at the door and the dogs went racing to answer it. ”I’ll bet you ten bucks that’s Cassie.”

”We’re not expecting any other company today, hence why I’m not taking that bet.” Makayla responded as she shook her head but before I could respond the dogs started getting even more excited than usual, and considering that they were both young dogs and one of them was a Labrador? That was saying something! ”You’d better see what the commotion is! I’ve got Christmas Dinner to check on”

”Oh sure, leave the dogs to me!” I responded sarcastically before I walked over to the front door, Cassie was indeed there and it didn’t take me long to realize what she had brought to show off! Mostly because there was a six-week-old Labrador Puppy licking her face off on the other side of the door. ”Err, Makayla? You might want to come see this!” I called out to my wife and after she checked on the food Makayla walked up to me.

”Come see what?” Makayla asked before she let out a happy gasp upon seeing the puppy in Cassie’s arms. ”Oh my god! That’s so adorable!”

”Are you guys going to stand there all day or can I come in?” Cassie called out to us through a nearby open window and I shared a grin with my wife. ”Seriously! It’s freezing out here!”

”Says the girl who travelled to England during their recent snowfall twice!” I called back before shaking my head and opening the door, almost immediately Tali and Garrus raced out the front door to greet Cassie and her new puppy and Cassie set the puppy down so it could greet the two older dogs. ”So, either that’s your Christmas Present from your mom or you found an adorable stray on the way here and decided to adopt it?”

”Does this answer your question?” Cassie asked before she held up an extendable dog lead which was attached to the puppy’s collar. ”So can I come in?”[/font] Cassie asked and once we got the two older dogs back in the house we let Cassie into the house with her new puppy. ”So yeah, my mom got me a new puppy for Christmas.”

”I gathered as much.” I responded before I knelt down and stroked the puppy. ”So, what’s the puppy’s name? and if it a boy or a girl?” I asked as I stroked the puppy and Cassie grinned before she knelt down to unhook the lead from the puppy’s collar.

”Her name’s Sandie, mom literally woke me up by bringing her into my room.” Cassie explained as she unhooked the lead and the dog had a sniff around the house as we stood up. ”Might use her as a prop in my promo for the Open Invitational Match, err, not the one for Ari’s title that is! The other SCW is hosting a similar match to close out the year.”

”I was about to say, since when did you put your name forward outside of asking if the ban was still in effect?” I asked with a grin before I lead Cassie into the lounge where her presents were waiting. ”What’s at stake in the match you’ll be competing in? Title shot?”

”Not exactly, I’ll be competing for $250,0000 and a new car, meaning if I win I’ll need to start pushing towards getting that driver’s license, getting picked up at the airport by my mom whenever I return from a MPW show is starting to get old.” Cassie admitted with a shrug and I nodded as I got the idea. ”I’ve passed the exam portion at least, just need to focus on the actual driving for the New Year.”

”Me and Makayla will help you with anything you need for the practical portion.” I assured Cassie and she grinned in response before I lead her and the puppy into the lounge where her Christmas presents were waiting for her. ”I doubt we’ll be able to top your mom getting you a puppy for Christmas but we’ll see.” I added with a grin as I watched the pupper have a sniff around. ”I take it your mom gave you the usual “a dog’s for life, not just for Christmas” spiel?”

”She didn’t need to because we owned a dog back in Australia before we moved stateside.” Cassie explained before I pointed to her Christmas present pile and she sat down in front of it before letting Sandie onto the couch. ”Another Labrador called Shadow and yes, he was a black lab! Sadly he passed away just before we moved to America but he had a good life.”

”In that case, you should know what you’re doing as far as Sandie goes.” I responded with a nod before me and Makayla sat down in front of our presents. ”Like I said, nothing as epic as a dog or as extravagant as the game consoles I got you for Christmas last year but I hope you like them.” I added and Cassie grinned before she started opening her presents.

The stuff I got for Cassie this year can pretty much be summed up as practical, I got her God of War Ragnarök and Marvel’s Midnight Suns for her PS5 but the rest of her presents were all related to traveling because since she was making weekly trips to London for MPW these days, I figured she’d appreciate stuff like that and she did.

What would the New Year hold for the wolves? Who knows? There was no denying that Cassie had a bright future at this point and I was focussed on rebounding from a disappointing 2022 but a lot can happen in a year, I mean hell, this time last year Cassie was just another wrestling trainee, a prodigy and one of the best students I’ve seen at her age but still a trainee and now look at her!

And I was going to kick it off by challenging my friend for the same title that I had set new records with, funny how things work out!

Go Gym Parking Lot, Las Vegas, Nevada
Monday the 2nd of January 2022, 16:00pm

*promo time*

The gym wasn’t going to reopen for a couple of days but that didn’t mean I couldn’t use the parking lot for my promo.

”Remember when I said that 2022 was going to be the Year of the Wolfe? Well, you should know the story of how that turned out by now!” I stated as I leaned against the wall of the gym. ”If anything? Last year was the year that I got a taste of humble pie after I had one of the best rookie years in recent Sin City Wrestling memory but it’s a New Year and it’s time for a fresh start for me! Which is why I’m finding myself on the other side of the title match I was the defending champion in this time last year! Well, me and a potential boatload of people!”

Here we go.

”That’s right, for the second year in a row I’m competing in a Bombshell Roulette Title Match only this time? I’m one of the challengers and this match has the potential to be a chaotic mess from the word go!” I added before holding up five fingers. ”On paper this is a title match between the champion Ariana Angelos and her challengers Bella Madison, Zoey Lukas and Seleana Zdunich but the bosses weren’t just satisfied with booking a barn burner of a Fatal Four Way Match for the title, oh no, they went and made this thing Open Invitational and opened the floodgates for every other Bombshell with gold in their goals for 2023 to take part! That’s where I come in!”

As expected.

”I was debating whether I should take part as Ari’s one of my closest friends in the business but I made up my mind over the Christmas break! And since this is my only way of getting on the Inception VI card otherwise? I’ll take what I can get!” I stated honestly as I folded my arms. ”But when you look at the match on paper? You realize that this match is going to be one massive clusterfuck and there’s no guarantee that Ari will still be the Bombshell Roulette Champion heading into the first cycle of the New Year, so, shall we get started?”

Starting with……..

”I’m just going to put this message out to everyone else who has their sights set on this match, you realize that your signing up for a gigantic clusterfuck, right?” I asked bluntly before shrugging my shoulders. ”But I guess that’s the nature of the beast, everyone wants a title until they realize how hard it is to defend a title and I’m no different! To my fellow challengers using Open Invitational aspect to get a title match? I wish you luck because even if I wasn’t entering the match, you’ll fucking need it! Now, let’s move on to the women who have been confirmed for the match, shall we?”

Starting with the champ!

”First up on the chopping block is the champ herself, a fellow graduate of the Go Gym and someone who has been pretty dominant since her reign started back in September, someone who also happens to be a good friend of mine.” I started before letting out a sigh. ”Ari, at this point we’re practically like sisters but this is nothing personal, just business and you should know by now that I’ve been chomping at the bit to get back in the title picture since I lost the Bombshell Roulette Title last year! With that said?”

Here we go.

”If the match boils down between me and you? The best I can say is may the best Go Gym Graduate win!”  I stated as I brushed some hair over my shoulder. ”You’ve made great strides as the champion Ari, no one can deny that and the fact that you’ve been so dominant that the bosses felt the need to book this match for your first title defence of the year speaks volumes but your reign will have to end at some point Ari and this match may see the end of it, if I have any say in the matter? It’ll end with the start of my second reign!”

Next up is Zoey!

”And now I go from someone who I love like a sister, to someone who is a sister to an SCW Bombshell, that’s right Zoey, you’re on the chopping block next.” I commented before looking at my nails absentmindedly. ”As far as starts to your SCW career goes, you’ve certainly made an impact since you signed with the company last year Zoey to the point that you have a hitlist of notable Bombshells who you’ve beaten, but you haven’t beaten me or Ariana yet and since beating us in this match would net you your first title, this would be a perfect opportunity, wouldn’t it?”

However?

Krystal Wolfe’s SCW Color Code
”Off course, there’s other things to consider as we head into this match, it’s nature as a clusterfuck for one thing and the fact that your strength and power might not serve you all that well in this match and that’s just for starters.” I added as I folded my arms. ”But because you are, to date, the only competitor in this match to have never held a title in SCW you arguably have the most to prove out of you, me, Ari, Seleana and Bella and that’s before the rest of the field shows up! Either way, I look forward to duking it out with you in this match!”

Next up is Bella.

”Sticking with Wolfslair and someone else I know well, this is the second time that I’ve been in a Bombshell Roulette Title Match with Bella, and Seleana for that matter, but the first time we’ve been in the same title match where I’m not the defending champion, first time for everything, right Bella?” I asked before shaking my head. ”I’d rather not talk about our Roulette Title Match at 2021’s Violent Conduct event Bella because quite frankly that’s one of my biggest regrets of the title reign, but the fact remains that in title matches between us, I’ve always come out on top! But this a whole new ballgame!”

Adapt and thrive?

”Since then Bella we’ve found ourselves in the same situation, yet another Bombshell in search of a title reign but always coming up short! Personally? I’m out to break that curse in 2023 even if that means ending my friend’s title reign at the beginning of the year but what about you?” I asked as I paced around the parking lot. ”It’s easy enough to say that you want the same thing as me and the other challengers in this match Bella but in practice? With this match being part ladder match, part scramble it could go either way, couldn’t it? No matter what happens in the match? I look forward to going at it with you again Bella!”

Last but not least is Seleana.

”From one woman who challenged me for the Bombshell Roulette Title to another, but I think it’s safe to say that you’ve had the most chances at Ari out of all of us Seleana!” I stated before I leaned against my car. ”Her first challenger, her third challenger after Jessie decided to focus on the Chamber of Extreme Match and now this? Gotta give you credit for persistence at least because that’s been the story of your SCW journey since 2020, persistently chasing after titles only to come up short time and time again!”

So many chances.

”No one can say that you’re not dedicated to getting back in the history books as a champion rather than in Mercedes’s often inaccurate records, but when are you going to stop choking?” I asked bluntly as I brushed some hair over my shoulder. ”When are you finally going to break the curse and win another title? That question was asked of you throughout 2021 and 2022 but now that we’re in the New Year the question is being asked again, will 2023 be the year where you break the curse? Well, first you have to get past me, Bella, Zoey, Ari and god knows who else will turn up for the match and that’s going to be a lot easier said than done!”

Just in general.

”The bosses have certainly placed an interesting challenge in front of us, haven’t they? Four confirmed competitors and the rest being up to whoever shows up looking for a fight! The prize? The Bombshell Roulette Title and a place in the record books, something I can bet that Ari won’t give up without a fight!” I said before I flipped some hair over my shoulder. ”Which is why I’m going to go ahead and say this: sorry Ari! Sorry that I’m going to be the one who ends your title reign! Just remember one simple fact!”

It's that simple.

”It’s nothing personal, just business! We’re all vying for the same prize in this match Ariana and the same goes for Bella, Zoey, Seleana and whoever else decides to throw their name in the hat and compete for the title!” I stated bluntly before showing my Roulette Title ring to the camera. ”This might be a relic of the other biggest mistake of the title reign but it’s still a symbol of what I’ve achieved in the past as a champion, who knows? Maybe 2023 will be 2021 part two for me?”

And with that I decided to wrap things up.

”All I need to do is win this clusterfuck, right? Beat Ari, Zoey, Bella and Seleana alongside whoever else throws their name into the hat to compete in this match? If only it was as simple as that!” I said as I shook my head. ”But the truth is that it’s anyone’s ballgame when the bell rings but as I turn the page on this chaotic chapter of my SCW story? I hope to end it as a two-time Bombshell Roulette Champion! Good luck to everyone else in this match because we will definitely need it!”

I got in my car and drove off as the scene fades,

35
Climax Control Archives / “This Is Worse Than Coal!”
« on: December 06, 2022, 08:25:08 PM »
Krystal’s losing ways would continue as she would lose her one-on-one encounter with Roxi Johnson but now that the final show of the year had been announced (Winter Wonderslam) Krystal had much, much, MUCH bigger problems than that on her hands! The good news was that the Aussie Bombshell was teaming up with her friend, fellow Go Gym Graduate and current SCW Bombshell Roulette Champion Ariana Angelos in the last Main Event of 2022, the bad news?

Said match was another encounter with Masque! And this time? Masque was bringing her protégé to make it a tag team match, Amber Ryan’s sister Avalon Blackthorn! This provided a huge obstacle for the two young Bombshells to overcome but can Krystal and Ari pull off the upset of the year on the year end show?

Krystal’s home, Las Vegas, Nevada
Tuesday the 6th of December 2022, 11:00am

I would like to hereby nominate this past Supercard Cycle to go die in a fire!

From an outside the ring perspective this past cycle has been great! Makayla announced her pregnancy on my birthday (second week of the cycle), Cassie won her first two titles (the Full Force Pro Women’s Tag Titles with Blaze Darling and the Modern Pro Wrestling TV Title) within days of each other this time last week and off course, Ari retained the Bombshell Roulette Title against Jessie in her fourth defence.

Those are the positives me and my friends have experienced since High Stakes XII, but the negatives? Well, they are beginning to make my decision to sign Matthew Kennedy on as my manager at last year’s High Stakes look like a smart decision, let’s put it that way.

It started with my World Bombshell Title shot against Masque in week two, and if I did with the World Bombshell Title I would be bragging about it right now! Then Amber Ryan returned and needed an opponent, leading Ari to be volunteered for the role in a non-title match!

Ari put on a hell of a fight against Amber much like I had the previous week against Roxi, and here comes the bad news, me and Ari are teaming up one last time in 2022, against Masque and Avalon Blackthorn in the Main Event of Winter Wonderslam! Ari had a panic attack when she learned off the match and frankly? I don’t blame her!

And don’t even get me started on the things I learned about Ari’s mental health when we chatted at the Go Gym yesterday, I thought my mental health was bad but based on what Ariana told me? I was wondering if she had some kind of mental illness that had gone undiagnosed over the past three years! She’s still a sweetheart, don’t get me wrong but what else am I supposed to think when she admits to seeing visions of her asshole parents on a semi-regular basis.

If I didn’t know Ari as well as I did, I’d be regretting all those times I had her babysit Rachel for us, but me and Makayla know that she’s fantastic with kids.

”Okay, streaming schedule is set for the week.” I whispered to myself as I looked at the word doc which I used to keep track of my streaming schedule; Makayla was watching from over my shoulder as she was one of the mods for my Twitch Channel. ”You have any OBGYN appointments scheduled for this week babe?” I asked as I glanced over at Makayla who shook her head.

”My next appointment isn’t until the second week of the New Year, getting an appointment in 2022 when we’re so close to Christmas was a pain in the backside, otherwise I would’ve had my next appointment sooner.” Makayla responded with an annoyed sigh and I nodded before making a mental note of that. ”I’m sure the viewers understand a stream being slightly delayed because being pregnant comes with frequent hospital appointments Charlotte.”

”Considering you told me when I was doing that Elden Ring stream? I think the only ones not in the know will be newcomers to the stream who don’t follow me on Social Media.” I pointed out and Makayla nodded in agreement before I closed the word doc satisfied that there weren’t any changes that needed to be made to the schedule as of yet. ”You heard from Cassie since she flew back to London for her first title defence?”

”Aside from what she’s posted on her Social Media page? Not really, though considering the success she’s had in Modern Pro Wrestling I’m surprised she hasn’t considered moving to England full time.” Makayla responded with a shrug before quickly shaking her head. ”Then again, the only non-wrestling news I get out of England these days is their Cost-of-Living crises so I’d be surprised if that’s something she’s even thought about.”

”Cassie’s a goofball and a stoner but she’s also a lot smarter than she lets on, I doubt she hasn’t noticed what’s been going on during her trips to England.” I nodded  in agreement before glancing at Makayla’s belly, the baby bump wasn’t really there yet because she was still early in the pregnancy but the knowledge that she had two young daughters in there had me thinking. ”So, I’m surprised it’s taken me this long to ask you but what exactly gave you the idea to get pregnant and surprise me with the news for my twenty seventh birthday?”

”It’s a valid question, hell I was going to tell you myself at some point.” Makayla nodded in agreement before she sat down on her computer chair to face me. ”Right before we went back to India for the last show of the India tour I had a chat with some of my older relatives, the ones who never really accepted the fact that I’m a lesbian? They kept pestering me about grandkids and whilst I initially brushed them off I remembered that, well, the old-fashioned way as you she delicately put it on Climax Control isn’t the only way to get pregnant these days, the idea to surprise you with it came later.”

”Surprised that you still talk with them.” I commented dryly and Makayla shook her head as if to say, “I know, right”. ”But you realize something could’ve gone wrong with the pregnancy during those three months, right? Much as I don’t want to think about something terrible happening to you off course.”

”I knew the risks before I made my mind up Charlotte, I even talked about it with my three aunts who still live in Greece after I got the confirmation that I was pregnant, I took every precaution I could in the intervening time.” Makayla assured me and I grinned in response. ”I understand why you’re worried but I didn’t go into this idea completely blind.”

”Now we both have to extra careful until May rolls around.” I sighed in response before glancing at the time on my computer clock. ”We had better get lunch ready, time is flying by today.” I added and Makayla nodded in agreement before we left my office and headed downstairs.

Krystal’s home, Las Vegas, Nevada
Tuesday the 6th of December 2022, 16:00pm

The further along I get into Makayla’s pregnancy, the more I realize that some things are going to need to change.

The main thing is moving into a bigger house here in Las Vegas, because my current house was made for two adults, one spare room (which we’re currently using for Rachel’s bedroom) and two dogs, one of which might end up pregnant as well so yeah, that’s fun.

The move probably won’t be made official until we’re a couple of weeks into the New Year in any case, we have an idea of where we want to move, namely the suburb of Summerlin South, Nevada, it’s a smaller more affluent suburb but with the money I make from SCW and handful of donations from one Jenny Tuck it wasn’t a big deal, honestly my main concerns was how good the schools were in the area since we’re going to be raising three young girls in the area and off course, having plenty of space for the dogs.

That was a few weeks away though, I had a few things on my mind first.

”So, cam I see them?” I asked Cassie over video messenger and she grinned before holding up her two titles, what did you think I meant? We may both be LGTBQ women (Cassie officially came out as gay several weeks ago) but I remind you that Cassie is my cousin. ”I didn’t even win a title that that fast when I signed with SCW! Yet here you are holding two titles at once!”

”Is that jealousy I hear Charlotte?” Cassie asked with a grin before she put down her half of the FFP Women’s Tag Titles and rested the TV Title over her shoulder. ”I know you saw my tweet explaining the open challenge format of the TV Title but it legit seems like I won’t find out who my first challenger is until the Main Event rolls around! That said, if Keira or Roxi put out a tweet tomorrow saying that they are catching a flight to London via Kayfabe Airlines, can you give me a heads up?”

”I don’t think you need to worry about that, not even if Keira gets the urge to wrestle again.” I assured Cassie who grinned in response. ”But I will do that if any of the following put out such a tweet, Tempest, Zoey Lukas, Mackenzie or Charlotte from London Underground, Jessie Salco, Masque, Amber Ryan, you get the general idea.”

”Annnnnnnnnnnnnd if the latter two do show up, I’ll just give them the TV Title to spare myself the humiliation.” Cassie responded with a nervous laugh and I just shook my head with a chuckle. ”Speaking off Masque, do I even want to know how Ari’s doing after she found out about the tag match? She was being about as unsubtle about her panic attack as I was about being a lesbian!”

”I don’t know if I would’ve used that exact wording but yeah,, looking back on her tweets from Sunday night? I should’ve picked up on the fact that Ari was having a panic attack sooner.” I admitted with a sigh and almost on cue the door to my office opened and I glanced up seeing Ari at the door. ”You can ask her yourself Cass, Ariana just showed up!”

”Gotta love that timing!” Cassie laughed before I scooted over to let Ariana see the screen. ”Hey Ari, been a while since we’ve been able to chat hasn’t it? Since New Delhi I think?”

”That sounds about right! Pity about the circumstances surrounding that chat!” Ariana responded as she shook her head and it didn’t take us long to figure out what she meant, it was also why Cassie had been banned from Sin City Wrestling shows for the past couple of months after all. ”But enough about me, look at you! That title looks great on you Cass!”

”You know what looks even better?” Cass asked before she grabbed her half of the FFP Women’s Tag Team Titles and rested it on her other shoulder. ”Still not used to taking these things through Airport Security but it feels great to hold two belts at once!”

”I still say that Tony guy had the best suggestion, namely contacting a security offices so that they’ll escort you to the terminal.” Ariana pointed out and considering that I had been kicking myself for not thinking of that during my Roulette Title Reign? Yeah, I was in agreement with Ari. ”It’s something I’ll be doing going forward if my Roulette Title reign survives long enough into the New Year!”

”And if they think it’s a prank like you thought they would? Just call me.” I assured my cousin and the two younger women turned to me. ”I’ll be able to back up anything you say and since I’m older and work in a national company? I think it’s safe to say that they’ll take me seriously!”

”Wouldn’t that be the equivalent of calling your mom to help you get a job interview or something?” Cassie asked and me and Ari shared a nervous laugh knowing how painful our experiences with our parents were, thankfully the awkwardness was cut short by Cass letting out a yawn. ”I’d better end the call here, it’s like nine pm here in Loon and since I’ve got my first defence lined up tomorrow night? I want to get as early a night’s sleep as I can!”

”Look at you being responsible!” Ari teased Cassie who shook her head with a laugh. ”But seriously, congrats on your first title wins Cass, I’m you’re sick of hearing it from everyone else in your life but I’m so proud of you!”

”I’m not quite sick of all the ego stroking yet but thanks Ari.” Cass thanked Ari before she let out another yawn. ”Charlotte? I’ll try to speak to you tomorrow before I head out for MPW Episode 3!”

”Sounds good but if you can’t? Good luck in your first defence.” I responded and Cassie grinned before she hung up and I turned to Ari. ”It feels weird that it was only a year ago that I found her among Matthew’s students at the PTA Gym, doesn’t it?”

”Tell me about it! When we first watched Cass train I thought she was good for her experience level but I didn’t think she was going to get so good that she’d win here first title months after graduating, let alone her second title just a few days later!” Ari nodded in agreement before she let out a deep breath. ”I’ve been thinking about the things we discussed yesterday at the Go Gym, and I realized that you were right! I reached out to a family member of mine on my mom’s side, my aunt Laraine, because she always took my side whenever my parents had a go at me.”

”Good to know that there were some members of that family that saw them for the terrible parents they were.” I responded with a bitter sigh and Ari quickly nodded in agreement, how such terrible parents had managed to raise such a sweet young woman like Ari was anyone’s guess. ”What did you talk with your aunt about?”

”Well, it was the first time I spoke to her since I moved to Vegas, we kinda drifted apart following my high school graduation.” Ari explained and I nodded as I got the idea. ”So we spent the first ten minutes or so catching up! She had been following my exploits since I graduated from the Go Gym and was thrilled when I won the Bombshell Roulette Title.” Ari added as she put her title, which had been resting over her shoulder, on the desk next to her. ”Then I brought up the visions I’d been having and her tone went cold, according to her my mom’s side of the family has a long history of mental illness, usually setting in when the member reaches young adulthood.”

”That would explain why you started having those visions during your early SCU Career.” I nodded as I got the idea and Ariana let out a deep breath before she nodded. ”How serious are we talking?”

”Based on what she told me? It varies from family member to family member but never severe enough for the person to be institutionalized or anything like that! Apparently my mom got similar visions to mine but she chalked it up to a religious experience.” Ariana responded with a shrug before she let out a sigh. ”Saying that? It doesn’t take away how scary this is, especially since I’m the first family member to become famous.”

”Seems to me like that comes with one big question.” I responded as I shifted my weight and Ariana gave me a curious look. ”Will you go public you’re your mental health struggles or not?”

”Jeez, that’s a loaded question! On one hand, having some representation in wrestling from someone with mental health struggles? I can’t stress how important that would be, especially for people who struggle with their mental health.” Ariana nodded as she got the idea before she gave it some thought. ”But on the flipside? You just know that someone on the Bombshell Roster will try to use that against me, call me the crazy Bombshell or something!”

”Sadly it’s a cutthroat business, and we both know the lengths some wrestlers will go to if it means getting an edge over a champion or a rival! Just look at Melissa’s attack on Harper a couple of weeks ago!” I pointed out before my mood darkened as I remembered another example of that, something I knew Ari didn’t want to relive. ”Or Char Kwan’s attack on you when she was feuding with me over the Bombshell Roulette Title.”

”Should’ve known that was going to come up! Whilst in hindsight I should thank Char for lighting a fire under me with that attack that allowed me to get where I am today?” Ariana asked rhetorically as she glanced over at the title. ”That’s still a very painful memory for me, of all the ways I envisioned spending the morning of my 21st birthday, getting stitches removed from an attack by one of your rivals wasn’t one of them!”

”At least you got your revenge on Char, both later that night at SCU’s last ever Halloween Special and at Into the Void XI, still not convinced that your first PPV Match being against Char was a coincidence but that’s just me!” I nodded in agreement before I stood up and walked up to Ariana. ”But it’s like you said, you grew stronger through those struggles, as bad as it sounds, do you think you would’ve won that title and have as great as rein as you’ve had if not for the attack?”

”Probably not! It’s like you said, that attack lit a fire under me that propelled me from being Carter’s shadow to being a fast-rising star in the Bombshell Division.” Ariana admitted as she shook her head. ”Same time though? If there was one event I could erase from my wrestling career, it’s that!”

”And you know what Ari?” I asked with a sympathetic look on my face and she looked up to me. ”I don’t blame you one bit, for one thing you got attacked to hype up a title feud that many consider to be the low point of my Roulette Title reign, context be damned, my first title match at High Stakes was against Char fucking Kwan!” I added with a bitter sigh as I glanced to the side. ”Wish I had gone with my original idea of a Multi-Bombshell match instead, my defence against Bella, Seleana, Johanna and Bea is a lot more remembered than the defence against Char!”

”Especially since that was one of your last defences before Keira ended the reign.” Ariana nodded in agreement before we felt our stomachs rumble. ”Mind if I stick around for dinner? I can help out if you want, I know you’ve taken over the cooking since Makayla told you that she was pregnant.”

”Wasn’t going to say no anyway! More the merrier, right?” I asked Ari and she grinned before we left my office.

Nevada Desert
Tuesday the 6th of December 2022, 23:00pm

*promo time*

Welp.

”Ever feel like you just can’t catch a break? Because that’s how I’ve felt over the past several weeks!” I said as I stepped into view with my arms crossed. ”First match of the cycle: World Bombshell Title Match against Masque, second match of the cycle, singles match against Roxi Johnson, and just to bring it full circle: this week’s Main Event: The Go Sisters, myself and Ari, against Masque and Avalon Blackthorn! Neither Masque or Ari’s titles are on the line in this match and I’m sure that Ari is thanking every deity in the Greek Pantheon for that fact but that doesn’t take away just how hard this match is going to be for me and Ari! In fact, I chose the Nevada Desert for the location of this week’s promo for that reason, to represent how big a challenge this match will be for my team!”

Will a miracle happen?

”The odds are clearly in the favour and Masque and Avalon but can a miracle happen?” I asked rhetorically as I shifted my weight. ”Will the underdog team get the win over the clear favourites to win? With Christmas being right around the corner? Stranger things have happened but if there’s one thing for sure, it’s that me and Ari are going to give this match everything we have and maybe overcome our nerves along the way, whether that’ll translate out to a win is anyone’s guess!”

Even so!

”But at the same time I’ve never been one to back down from a challenge, some would say that was to the detriment of my Roulette Title Reign but that’s a rant for another day! It just so happens that the match against a World Bombshell Champion who’s only lost two matches in her entire SCW career and her protégé who happens to be Amber Ryan’s sister will be a challenge that might be too daunting even for me.” I admitted before shaking my head. ”On the other hand though? I can’t deny that a win here would do a lot to boost me and Ari’s careers, it’ll just take a miracle for that win to happen so why don’t we cut straight to the chase?”

Take a wild guess as to who I’m starting with.

”We meet again Masque and if you can believe it I’m even less enthused about wrestling you than I was the first time around three weeks ago!” I said as I started to pace around. ”I said a lot to try to disguise how nervous I was heading into that World Bombshell Title Match about how it was the biggest match of my career and how Amber might be out for revenge and such, something that ended up being a moot point after Amber didn’t show up once but what’s changed since that match?” I asked before shaking my head. ”Honestly? Not a lot!”

Aside from some obvious things.

”My main mistake in our last match was to try to use my speed against you Masque, I know my strengths lie as a power/technical wrestler but rather than try to play to those strengths I tried to outpace you and, well, the fact that you’re still the World Bombshell Champion and are set to defend the title against Amber at Inception VI says it all, doesn’t it?” I stated before sitting on the hood of my car and looking towards the sky. ”Will I repeat those mistakes the second go around? No, I’ll try to actually play to my strengths this time around and with one of the best highflyers in the Bombshell Division at my side? Maybe me and Ari can pull this off!”

That’s a big maybe though.

”What was it that I said last time? Talk is cheap, and I had my chance to back my words up against you in the ring Masque, some might say that I blew it, you know what I say to them? You try defeating Masque and get back to me after the fact!” I said defiantly as I folded my arms. ”Second chances don’t come often, especially so soon after a failed attempt at capturing the World Bombshell Championship, but I don’t intend to squander this opportunity Masque! Win or lose? I’m giving you the fight of your life!”

And now for her partner.

”I’m going to have to be honest here because I’m in the same boat as Ari, for as much as I know about Masque and her dominance of the Bombshell division, I know even less about Avalon because unlike her mentor and her sister, she’s not a part of the Bombshell Roster.” I stated as shook my head. ”Off course, having a mentor like Masque and a sister like Amber says it all doesn’t it? I don’t need to know a lot about you Avalon to know that that combo makes you a dangerous opponent!”

But can you hang?

”But unlike Masque and Amber, you’ve only been in an SCW Ring once before against Masque and that didn’t end in your favour, did it Avalon?” I asked before brushing some hair over my shoulder. ”That was a while ago granted and a lot can change in that time period but no matter what happened between your match against Masque and this tag team match, one question will on everyone’s lips: can Avalon hang with the women of SCW’s Bombshell Division?”

One way to find out!

”If you’ve been around as long as Masque and Amber then you shouldn’t have to answer that, should you Avalon?” I asked bluntly as I looked into the camera. ”Because if you can hang then you should be able to prove it in the ring, otherwise? Well, every team has a weak link and if you end up costing Masque this match then maybe you’ll be viewed as that weak link? What will your mentor say to that? What will Amber say to that? The only way we’re getting answers to either of those questions is to tune in to this Sunday’s Winter Wonderslam event!” I said before looking up at the sky again. ”How appropriate.”

It's that simple.

”Don’t mind me, I’m just thinking about how this match is happening so close to the Christmas Holidays and how in terms of gifts I could’ve gotten, this is worse than coal!” I explained before hopping off the car bonnet and walking up to the camera. ”There’s no denying that me and Ari are a bundle of nerves as we head into this match, Ari had a full-blown panic attack when she learned that she was going to face Masque in her final match of the year, but it’s like I said last time around Masque, it takes pressure to make diamonds ad whilst I’m still questioning just how much pressure is too much pressure, there is one thing that’s clear in my mind and I’m sure the same goes for Ari!”

And with that I decided to wrap things up.

”You want to know what that thing is? We’re not backing down from this tag team match! We will give it our all in the quest to overcome these nerves and if it scores me and Ari the upset win of the century? Then I guess that’s what we’ll have to do!” I said before opening the car door so I could get ready to drive off.  ”And as I get ready to close the chapter marked 2022 in my SCW journey me and Ari are in for the fight of our lives against Masque and Avalon but maybe a Christmas Miracle will happen and I’ll bring either of them down with the Down Under Thunderbomb to win? Either way? I’ll see you in the ring!”

I entered the car and drove off (after retrieving the camera from the tripod alongside the tripod) as the scene fades.

36
Climax Control Archives / “Conflicted Emotions!”
« on: November 30, 2022, 04:30:10 AM »
Krystal would become the latest Bombshell to fail to dethrone Masque even though she gave the match everything she had! But Krystal wasn’t one to let such a setback stop her and now that she knew that her wife Makayla was pregnant with twin Krystal certainly had a lot on her mind as 2022 winded down and 2023 was right around the corner! But before the year could end, Krystal had a big match ahead of her.

Her opponent? SCW Hall of Famer and Team Hero member Roxi Johnson! Krystal had tangled with Roxi’s wife Keira several times including during the final days of her Roulette Title reign from earlier this year but whilst Krystal has wrestled Team Hero twice in tag team matches (teaming with Jessie and Ariana) this was the first time Krystal was wrestling Roxi in a one-on-one match, can Krystal get out of her rut?

Krystal’s streaming room, Las Vegas, Nevada
Wednesday the 16th of November 2022, 18:00pm

Twenty-seven years young, and in a different position compared to when I turned twenty-six last year.

My birthday has been a fairly quiet affair so far, I wanted it to be since I had a World Bombshell Title Match on Sunday Night against Masque and whilst Makayla hadn’t revealed what her birthday present to me was, she did allow me to do my twenty-four-hour Elden Ring stream where I played it from the beginning and tried to get as far into the game as I could before time was up.

My original plan was to also take a shot every time I died but Makayla pointed out that I’d likely be wasted by the end of the first hour, but that didn’t stop my mods from keeping a tally of the deaths in chat.

”Okay, we’re finally past that damn field boss.” I said into the mic as I got the runes from beating the Tree Sentinel, it was bittersweet because I had lost track of my runes from a previous attempt and couldn’t find them before the Tree Sentinel killed my character but I was just glad to finally be done with that boss. ”Okay, just gotta do Baidd’s side quest and the stuff in the Weeping Peninsula and Limgrave will be wrapped up nicely!”

”Sounds like the stream’s going pretty well.” Makayla commented as my wife walked up behind me, for one reason or another Makayla was the only mod not attending this stream even though she was the head mod for the Twitch Channel. ”Hope chat’s behaving itself during my absence.” Makayla added as she hugged me from behind and kissed me on the neck.

”There’s been some troublemakers but they haven’t lasted that long.” I added before I grabbed my drink and went to take a sip. ”The other mods have really stepped up in your absence……….” I nearly spat out my drink when I saw the notification come up, some mad bastard in chat had donated a quarter of a million dollars to my PayPal with the caption “treat yourself to something nice on your birthday”. ”HOLY SHIT DUDE! Are you fucking serious?!”

”He says it’s legit and I recognize the name, he’s been a regular in your chat since you signed with SCW.” Makayla commented as her eyebrows shot up in surprise, the other mods were quick on the ball asking the guy if he had made a type literally anywhere in the donation amount but the guy was adamant that he meant it and when I checked my PayPal on another tab, I confirmed that the money was there. ”I suppose now’s as good a time as any that I reveal my present to you babe.”

”Let me just get to the Site of Lost Grace at the First Church of Merika just in case Elden Ring decides to have something ambush me.” I responded and Makayla nodded as I moved to the location, luckily the site was within walking distance of where I had fought the Tree Sentinel whilst Makayla grabbed something that she had brought into the room with her. ”Okay we should be in the clear unless FromSoft has patched in an enemy that attacks you at rest points.”

”I don’t think even they are that sadistic.” Makayla responded before she put the paper on my computer desk in front of me. ”Have a look at that please.”

Wasn’t sure what I was expecting from that paper, but I set my PS5 controller aside for a moment before picking it up, it was a picture that could literally only mean one thing, can you think of another reason why a woman’s womb would get an ultrasound? ”Wait, is this what I think it is?”

”Do you think it was my last ultrasound?” Makayla asked as she folded her arms and it hit me like a ton of bricks. ”I’ll tell you about the details after the stream, but I’m three months pregnant Krystal.”

It was thanks to that announcement that the twenty-four-hour Elden Ring stream get split into two twelve-hour streams, one today and one tomorrow, because the stream got turned into one for celebrating the news! The only thing that Makayla didn’t confirm was how she got pregnant in the first place because, well, I obviously lacked the equipment to get her pregnant myself and pregnancy wasn’t usually a typical result from a lesbian relationship like the one I had with Makayla.

If anything, this was just going to give me more motivation to make 2023 my year!

Las Vegas International Airport, Las Vegas, Nevada
Monday the 28th of November 2022, 11:00am

So I bet you’re dying to know the details of Makayla’s pregnancy, right?

Well, let’s start with the big one, she is carrying twin daughters and the due date is expected to be sometime in late May, end of the month at the latest but based on what her mom told us? Twins do tend to be born earlier than expected.

And yes, we’ve decided on their names as well, the youngest will be called Cara and the oldest will be called Zosia, whether or not they’d continue the wrestling tradition when they were old enough would be a bridge we’d cross when we came to it in about eighteen years but Rachel was excited to have younger sisters at least.

As for how I missed the signs such as missed periods or mysterious appointments? Trust me, I’m just as confused by that fact as you are! Saying that Makayla did have her first OBGYN appointment since telling me that she was pregnant on Thanksgiving night and aside from catching an older couple off guard when we confirmed that we were a lesbian couple that went well!

And as for my title match against Masque? Well……..

It might come as a surprise to you but if I had succeeded in beating Masque for the World Bombshell Championship two weeks ago, I would’ve been singing about it from the heavens.

But sadly no, I became the latest in a long line of Bombshells to fail to defeat Masque as she continued to dominate the top of the mountain meaning that, for the third title shot in a row (counting my challenges for the Bombshell Roulette and Bombshell Internet Titles in previous cycles) I was back to square one and trying to refocus my wrestling career for 2023! Including my next match which was against the only member of Team Hero who hadn’t wrestled me in singles competition yet, Roxi Johnson.

And to say that the timing of this match was apt was putting things mildly.

Let’s start with the good bit, Cassie, who if you’ll remember, graduated from Hero Academy back in July and was the first graduate from that school, had been turning a lot of heads since she started branching out being quickly recognised as a wrestling prodigy and one of the best young stars to come along in a long time, even with that in mind, you’d think it’d be a couple of years before she won her first title right? I know from personal experience how difficult it is to win a title, and I was thinking that Cassie wasn’t quite on that level yet.

I was wrong, Cassie won her first title last night in Full Force Pro, winning the Women’s Tag Team Titles with Blaze Darling in the Inferno Wolves! That was the whole reason we were at the airport, we were waiting for her plane to come in.

The bad news? Well it has to do with another wrestling prodigy who happens to be a teenaged cousin of an established wrestler, if you guessed that person was Harper then thanks for tuning into last night's Climax Control to see her head get kicked into Reno! Harper was still in hospital but from what Jessie told me? It wasn’t going to be that long before she was discharged, which sadly meant that she and Harper were still in LA.

And whilst I think of what I’d do to Melissa if she did that to Cassie, here’s my favourite teenaged rebel now!

”So, err, any tips for getting this thing past airport security?” Cassie asked with a massive grin on her face as she walked up to us proudly displaying her half of the FFP Women’s Tag Team Titles. ”You know, since you held the Bombshell Roulette Title for so long?”

”I think your forgetting one key fact Cass, the fact that my reign started during the pandemic period and SCW didn’t start going overseas again until after my reign ended.” I pointed out and Cassie grinned sheepishly in response. ”But, on the other hand? Air travel was the only practical way to get to places like New York and Florida on short notice, just put it through the x-ray machine and if they ask, just tell them that yes, you are a champion.”

”I think we’re forgetting the key part of that sentence Krystal.” Makayla responded with a grin before she turned to Cassie with a proud smile on her face. ”Congrats on winning your first title Cass!”

”Thanks! And if I have anything to say about it? First of many!” Cassie responded with a grin on her face and me and Makayla shared the same proud smiles. ”I won’t be staying in Vegas that long because I’ll need to jet off to London for Modern Pro Wrestling’s second show on Wednesday but considering the other big news I got on Krystal’s birthday?” Cassie asked as she motioned towards Makayla’s stomach and it didn’t take us long to realize what she meant. ”I had to make the trip out! So, this would make the twins my second and third cousins, right?”

”I’m not entirely sure if that is how it works, but it sounds about right.” I responded as I shook my head before we started making our way through the airport. ”Makayla still hasn’t told me how she did it, but she did affirm that she didn’t do it the old-fashioned way after I speculated as much on Climax Control.”

”As Krystal said, it’s not as if I would’ve had problems finding a willing partner with my looks, but whilst my intentions would’ve been good, it still would’ve been cheating on my wife with the intention of getting pregnant.” Makayla added and Cassie nodded as she got the idea. ”I’ll probably tell her once the pregnancy’s come to full term but in that time? I won’t be able to attend any international tours SCW has scheduled for the first half of the New Year.”

”Maybe we’ll luck out and SCW will schedule an international tour from May onwards?” Cassie shrugged her shoulders in response and Makayla grinned. ”But I have been wondering, you said you were three months pregnant, yet you went with us to the India tour which ran through July and August into early September, you didn’t know you were pregnant then?”

”I suppose that is a valid question, I didn’t get the idea to get pregnant until we were a couple of weeks into the India tour and even then? My only real window of opportunity was when Krystal returned to the states for the week before Violent Conduct VII.” Makayla explained before they wisely decided to delay the conversation until we were through airport security, and yes, Cassie’s pierced navel and title did set off the metal detectors twice, once we were past that and Cassie was waiting for her bags Makayla continued. ”And even after the fact? I didn’t find out that it had worked until the third week of the High Stakes Cycle.”

”Let me guess, missed period?” Cassie asked in a low voice and Makayla nodded to confirm that that was how she knew, well that and a positive pregnancy test but that goes without saying really! ”And then there’s the elephant in the room, I have this title, Harper’s in the hospital and you’re wrestling one of my trainers, it’s going to be a hell of a week for Hero Academy, isn’t it?”

”Sure seems that way, I’ll admit that after Jessie insisted that Melissa not be suspended for attacking Harper I thought the bosses were going to respond by booking Melissa against Roxi with Jessie as the Special Guest Ref but it seems like Masque has become the go to opponent for anyone who’s gotten on their bad side in recent months, even after they’ve tried to pretty it up by using Ari’s match against Amber as the reason for the match.” I responded as I shook my head and Cassie nodded as she got the idea before grabbing her luggage and following us out the airport. ”By the way, you got the memo that Hero Academy is closed for a couple of days because of your title win, right?”

”Err, yeah? Keira tagged me in her tweet and everything.” Cassie nodded in response as we left the airport and we started loading her bags into my Nissan Quash Quai, well, me and Cass more so due to Makayla’s pregnancy. ”Sucks because I wanted to see those loudmouth Polish girls I heard so much about in action.”

”Kata and Aniela? Oh don’t worry, you’ll meet them soon enough, problem is, for all their attitude problems? They are quickly becoming two of the best of current class.” I responded with a sigh as I helped Cass put her suitcase in the boot. ”And knowing Kata’s ego? She’ll probably insist on sparring with you as soon as she learns that your back in Vegas.”

”And from what Krystal told me? Harper is literally the only one keeping those two from becoming Taylor Parker’s non-union Polish equivalent!” Makayla chimed in before I shut the boot and got in the car. ”Hopefully she can keep their egos in check long enough for them to graduate!”

”One can only hope, for now let’s get you back home.” I responded before Cassie got in the backseat and me and Makayla got in the front and drove off.

Go Gym, Las Vegas, Nevada
Wednesday the 30th of November 2022, 11:00am

Another week, another match to train for at the Go Gym, at least I’m in good company!

We had dropped off Cassie on the way back home and well, according to a Twitter post she made shortly afterwards? She walked in on her parents having sex, in the doggy style position, facing the doorway.

I don’t think I need to explain why that is something I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy and though Cassie will freely admit to being a massive pervert, the fact that the gif she posted with that tweet was a “my eyes” gif told me that yes, Cassie was regretting every moment of her decision to not knock before entering her parents’ room! Hope they had plenty of brain bleach on hand because Cassie was going to need it!

But anyway, back to me! Since returning from LA I went back to business as usual for me which translated out to a trip to the Go Gym! But that wasn’t before we made an ill fated trip to Lazarus’s loft because Carter had left way in advance of the rest of us, as in “I doubted that he even showed up for Climax Control and he booked a plane ticket back to Vegas out of the blue” and even though Ari had insisted that she had seen Carter’s car parked out the front, Laz wasn’t letting us in, no matter how many punches he took from Miles.

Frankly? There were two things that surprised me about that night, one: that Fenris didn’t kick Laz out of the window on site and two: that I never got a shot in myself!

Speaking of Ari? Well, that combined with her loss to Amber at Climax Control and the comments made by Amber to Ari had left the current Bombshell Roulette Champ feeling down so I checked on her since, you know, that’s what friends are for.

”91………..92……….” Ari grunted as she did her sit-ups and I walked up to her, a new student at the Go Gym was being her spotter for the sit-up session though I hadn’t caught her name yet. 94………95……….oh, hey Krystal!”

”Only a hundred sit ups? I could’ve sworn your record was almost double that.” I teased Ari and she just ignored me as she did four more sit-ups. ”How are you finding the Go Gym miss?”

“Hmm? Oh, sorry, I’m Kelsey.” Kelsey, who was speaking for a fairly thick Canadian accent, introduced herself as she looked up. “Getting past Angel was a pain but this has been everything I’ve dreamed it to be! Ari asked me to be her spotter and I was happy to help.”

”Angel usually is, but it’s Despy you need to look out for.” Ariana laughed before she finished her workout and sat up with her hand on her knee. ”Just ask Carter’s boyfriend.”

“That actually happened? Oh wait, I shouldn’t be surprised since he’s the only one to ever befriend Amber Ryan.2 Kelsey responded as she shook her head and we shared a laugh, though me and Ari shared uncomfortable looks because we knew the fallout from that incident. “You guys need me for anything else? Or can I go run some drills?”

”Go run some drills, maybe I’ll have a sparring match with you when I’m done with Krystal.” Ari instructed her and Kelsey nodded before she headed to the ring to start the drills. ”I know you just got here but she’s a good kid with a lot of upside, I think she’ll do well here.”

”Kinda like us when we joined the Go Gym right?” I asked with a grin before I turned to Ari. ”I was hoping to chat about what happened at Climax Control and on Twitter between you and Amber, you feeling okay?”

”Feeling a bit better knowing that I didn’t go down without a fight, but that was a rough match.” Ari sighed as she shook her head before standing up to face me. ”But between that and the situation with Carter? I’m an emotional mess at the moment!”

”Have you talked to anyone about this? Aside from me obviously.” I asked as I brushed some hair over my shoulder. ”Francisco, Gabriel, Odette, the London Underground members, hell, even Fenris! You know you have people who will give you an ear if you need it.”

”Francisco was the first name that came to mind, but he was the same old wonderful fiancé he’s always been.” Ari responded with a sigh before pausing and shaking her head. ”That came out a lot more negatively than I wanted, look, I love Francisco but I’m not sure if any advice he could give me would be good, he’s still a wrestling trainee at Hero Academy, I’ve been a wrestler for the past three years of my life!”

”Just because he doesn’t have your experience doesn’t mean he can’t give you good advice though! Makayla literally can’t risk pursuing a wrestling career because her family has a history of heart problems but she was my closest confidant long before we became an item, let alone a married lesbian couple with twins on the way.” I pointed out that fact and Ariana nodded once she realized that I had a point. ”And if it is experienced advice you’re after, what’s stopping you from going to literally any of the people I just listed?”

”To be honest? I don’t know, for years I’ve been dealing with my problems on my own, my toxic relationship with my parents? Literally no one in my neighbourhood had my back, they were pillars of the community, I was viewed as an unruly team until we moved to Vegas!” Ariana responded with some clear pent up frustration and I shook my head, it was well known among the Go Gym grads that Ariana’s parents were emotionally abusive towards her to the point that she literally had to sneak out the house for her initial training, the fact that it took being around people like London Underground and Carter for her to realize that that wasn’t even remotely normal said a lot about how much that had messed her up. ”I dealt with that by putting on a smiley face and being the nice girl in SCU and SCW, and it’s gotten me this far!” Ari said as she picked up her Roulette Title at which point I shook my head.

”No one’s saying that you haven’t had a great run as champ, your only losses as champ were too Team Hero and Amber Ryan, ask literally anyone in this building and they’ll tell you that there’s no shame in losing to wrestlers of their calibre!” I pointed out as I motioned around the Go Gym and Ari just shook her head. ”But take it from someone with enough mental health issues to put a shrink’s grandkids through college, keeping this stuff bottled up is only asking for trouble! We both saw what it did to Adrienne during her SCW run!”

”I know, and it broke my heart to see her go through that, Adrienne’s a lovely girl and I’m glad she’s found her footing in CU:LT!” Ariana responded as she turned to me. ”And besides, who are you to lecture others on their mental health struggles after those comments you made on Climax Control?”

Oh god, I knew I should’ve seen this coming. ”Ari, all I’m going to say about that is that my ass has been chewed out thoroughly because of that one comment I made and I’ve regretted my choice of words ever since.” I sighed as I messaged my forehead with an annoyed grunt. ”For fuck’s sake, the first thing Makayla said to me when I came home from Climax Control was “what the hell were you thinking with that promo” and see normally has my back on anything I do!”

”AND YET YOU THINK THAT YOU’RE IN A POSITION TO LECTURE OTHERS ABOUT THEIR MENTAL HEALTH?!” Ari demanded and this caused everyone else in the gym to stop and turn to us, honestly? I had never seen Ari this angry and I knew Greek women could be fiery and passionate (I married one for fuck’s sake) but this argument with Ari had taken it to another level, still she let out several deep breaths as she started to calm down. ”Charlotte? I’m sorry, this whole situation with Carter and Amber has me stressed the fuck out!” Yeah, I knew things were serious when Ari, who was normally adverse to swearing, just casually dropped an f-bomb mid-sentence.

”It’s fine, the situation is having an effect on all of us, not just Carter.” I assured the younger bombshell and she let out a deep breath before folding her arms. ”I think that sparring match with Kelsey will do you some good.”

”At least that’s advice I can trust.” Ari responded with a small grin before she headed to the ring to spar with Kelsey but I just shook my head.

Was Ari speed-running through Jessie’s career on an emotional level? Going from a happy go lucky Bombshell to an angry, cynical shell of her former self? Hopefully, we could prevent that before it was too late!

Go Gym Parking Lot, Las Vegas, Nevada
Wednesday the 30th of November 2022, 16:00pm

*promo time*

Diamonds and pressure and all that.

”They say that you need pressure to turn a piece of coal into a diamond, I’ve never been too sure on the science behind that myself but when you look at the fact that I’ve gone from a failed World Bombshell Title Shot against Masque two weeks ago to a singles match against a woman who’s done it all in SCW and then some? The bosses seem intent on proving that saying to be true and are using me as a test subject for that, don’t they?” I asked hypothetically as I leaned against the bonnet of my car facing the camera. ”I’m off course talking about my singles match with Roxi Johnson this week on the penultimate episode of the year! And yes, everyone’s favourite Greek American Team Hero Fangirl is insanely jealous that I’m getting this match before her!”

But I digress.

”Funny how things come around, isn’t it Roxi? This time last year, I was at the height of my Bombshell Roulette Title reign and getting set to defend the title against Keira! As a warmup for that match you teamed up with Keira to take on me and Jessie at that year’s Christmas Special, a match I lost for my team only to subsequently bounce back with what ended up being the final defence of the title reign, how much has changed in the past year since that match?” I asked as I thought back to that tag team match. ”To put it simply? A lot! Keira’s retired, you helped train my little cousin Cassie and now she’s won her first title within months of her graduation, I’m not afraid to admit that I shed a few tears of joy when I saw Cassie’s tweet announcing that fact, and off course, the Bombshell Roulette Title is now resting on the shoulder of my friend and fellow Go Gym Graduate Ariana Angelos! But that’s just covering the basic facts that have taken place in the past twelve months, have I changed as a wrestler?”

A good question.

”Well for one thing, a trio of failed title shots since I lost the Bombshell Roulette Title to Keira have told me that I’m not the title winning machine that I may or may not have thought myself as after I won the Bombshell Roulette Title in 2021 but since losing the title? The calibre of opponents I’ve faced has gone up dramatically, gone are the days where I’m facing Char fucking Kwan on PPV, that’s for sure.” I added before I started listing off the names. ”Amber Ryan? Faced her twice, including this year’s Queen for a Day Match, Evie Jordan? I proved that I’m the new dominant Aussie in town when I sent her packing, granted it's not hard when I’m the only Australian Bombshell on the roster, Myra Rivers? Yep, I faced her as well, Alicia Lukas? Yet to shut her up in a singles encounter but that’s definitely on my to do list for 2023! Kat Jones, Zoey Lukas, Kayla Richards, really the only rematches I’ve had from my reign were against Keira, Bella and Sam Marlowe and the only outliers on that list are The Metal Maniacs!”

How?

”It’s still a mystery to me how those two got on board the Summer XXXTreme cruise ship in the first place but that’s a story for another day, at least until someone gathers up the courage to ask them!” I added as I flipped some hair over my shoulder. ”The only explanation I’ve got for the tougher matches I’ve gotten since my reign ended is that they want to see if I can handle the pressure now that I’m no longer champion and you’re the latest name on that list Roxi! Who knows what will happen in 2023 but what I do know is that I’m not about to buckle under this much pressure!” Remember what I said about diamonds and pressure? Yep, that’s what I was talking about  and I folded my arms as I got ready to move on. ”Because even if defeat I always went down fighting but with that said? I plan on making 2023 the true Year of the Wolfe after 2022 proved to be a dud for the most part, and if I have to beat someone who I respect as much as you to kickstart that process? Then that’s the way things have to be Roxi!”

However………

”It is because of this respect and other factors that I’m entering this match against you with conflicted emotions to put it mildly!” I sighed as I brushed some hair over my shoulder. ”I’ve already mentioned that this match is happening one week after Cassie won her first title and as proud as I am of Cassie? The timing does seem to be a bit off, just in my opinion, throw in the fact that another Hero Academy trainee Harper Mason was hospitalized by Melissa last week and one almost questions how we’re supposed to remain professional heading into this match? Off course, you’ve always been a consummate professional no matter what was thrown at you Roxi and I can’t say the same when you look at my body of work since signing with SCW at the tail end of 2020 but I still have the rest of my career ahead of me, if anything? This match will be a learning experience!”

Just one thing.

”After the roller coaster of a year I’ve had since I lost the Bombshell Roulette Title? It’s a learning experience that I intend to walk away from as the victor!” I said as flipped some hair over my shoulder with a confident grin on my face. ”At the end of the day Roxi? As much as I respect you as a wrestler and a person? I’m heading into this match with the goal to end 2022 on a high note because after two straight years of ending the year with a loss to my name? I’m ready to turn things around! It’s your high-flying style vs. my power and technical, not to mention everything in between, expertise and take it from me Roxi, if I am going down, I’m making you earn that win!”

It's that simple.

”Some might say that I’ve been on a downward slope since my Roulette Title reign ended in February but if you ask me? This past year has been one massive learning experience for me and I intend to take everything I’ve learned over the past ten months or so and use it to my advantage in the year to follow! Roxi? Again I respect you a lot but respect only gets you so far and you’re going to be the first name on a long list of Bombshells that I will defeat to get back in the title picture!” I said as I folded my arms. ”2021 was the year that people realized that I wasn’t just another Go Gym Graduate from Australia and that I was a hell of a talent, 2022 was the year where I struggled to regain that same magic I had in 2021 but I can at least say that I had some certified bangers along the way! What will 2023 bring me? Who knows? I thought this year was going to be the Year of the Wolfe but we all know how that turned out! But there is one thing I know for certain Roxi.”

And with that I decided to wrap things up.

”It’s that if I can end 2022 by beating a certified legend of the SCW ring then the past year of struggle will definitely be worth it!” I said as I got ready to head into my car since I had done my training for the day at the Go Gym and all. ”For me? That’s the best-case scenario and I don’t think I need to say what the worst-case scenario would be! But even if the worst-case scenario does come to pass? I will at least be able to walk away with my head held high knowing that I took one of the best Bombshells in the division to the limit! And as I close the book on the year that was 2022, I’m at least hoping that I can end it in a much better place than I ended 2020 and 2021 with a win over a legend! I’ll see you in the ring Roxi!”

I got in my car and drove off as the scene fades.

37
Character Building Roleplays / Krystal Wolfe's Match Record
« on: November 20, 2022, 04:22:30 PM »
Match #1: Singles Match vs. Veronica Taylor (Steel Cage SCU Showcase Match), Result: WIN

Match #2: Singles vs. Andrea Hernandez, Result: LOSS

Match #3: Singles vs. Tempest, Result: LOSS

Match #4: Fatal Four Way vs. Alice Knight vs. Mercedes Vargas vs. Royal Purple (#1 Contender Match for Bombshell Roulette Title), Result: LOSS (Alice Knight pinned by Royal Purple)

Match #5: Singles vs. Ruby Steele, result: LOSS

Match #6: Tag Team Match w/ Mark Cross vs. Amber Ryan and Despayre (Blast from the Past Opening Round Match) Result: LOSS (Krystal pinned by Amber)

Match #7: Singles Match vs. Char Kwan, Result: DRAW (Double DQ after repeated interference)

Match #8: Triple Threat vs. Candy vs. Bea Barnhart (Qualifier Match for Bombshell Roulette Title Match), Result: WIN (Bea Barnhart pinned by Krystal)

Match #9: Singles Match vs. Mercedes Vargas, Result: WIN

Match #10: Triple Threat vs. Royal Purple vs. Violet Amelia Holt (Briefcase Bonanza Match for Bombshell Roulette Title), Result: TITLE WIN (Krystal opened her briefcase last and revealed title)

Match #11: Non-Title Singles Match vs. Bella Madison, Result: WIN (DQ via Outside Interference from Mercedes Vargas)

Match #12: Singles Match vs. Maki (Mud-Pit Match for Bombshell Roulette Title), Result: WIN (first defense)

Match #13: Triple Threat vs. Maki vs. Bea Barnhart (Ultimate X Over the Pool Match for Bombshell Roulette Title), Result: WIN (Maki and Bea Barnhart eliminated simultaneously)

Match #14: Triple Threat vs. Bella Madison vs. Mercedes Vargas (Hardcore Rules Roulette Title Match), Result: WIN (Mercedes Vargas pinned by Krystal)

Match #15: Singles Match vs. Bella Madison (Glitter Light-sabre Duel Match for Bombshell Roulette Title), Result: WIN

Match #16: Singles Match vs. Seleana Zdunich (Disney Chamber Match for Bombshell Roulette Title), Result: WIN

Match #17: Rematch vs. Andrea Hernandez (Champion vs. Champion non-title match), Result: LOSS

Match #18: Five Pack Challenge vs/ Johanna Krieger vs. Bella Madison vs. Seleana Zdunich vs. Bea Barnhart (Graveyard Match for Bombshell Roulette Title) Result: WIN (Elimination Order: Bea Barnhart, Seleana Zdunich, Bella Madison and Johanna Krieger)

Match #19: Singles Match vs. Char Kwan (Hardcore Match for Bombshell Roulette Title), Result: WIN

Match #20: Non-Title Match vs. Diamond Steele, Result: LOSS

Match #21: Rematch vs. Mercedes Vargas (non-title Champion vs. Champion), Result: WIN

Match #22: Tag Team Match w/Jessie Salco vs. Team Hero (Glass Bulbs Match), Result: LOSS (Krystal pinned by Keira)

Match #23: Singles vs. Keira Fisher-Johnson (Hardcore Rules Bombshell Roulette Title Match), Result: WIN

Match #24: Tag Team Match w/ Jack Washington vs. Sam Marlowe and Supreme Machine (Blast from the Past Opening Round), Result: LOSS (Krystal submitted to Sam)

Match #25: Special Guest Referee: Diamond Steele, Singles Match vs. Keira Fisher-Johnson (Diamond's Rules Bombshell Roulette Title Match), Result: LOSS

Match #26: Singles vs. Amber Ryan (non-title Street Fight), Result: LOSS

Match #27: Singles vs. Evie Jordan, Result: WIN

Match #28: Fatal Four Way vs. Mercedes Vargas vs. Myra Rivers vs. Sam Marlowe (Number One Contenders Match for World Bombshell Championship), Result: LOSS (Mercedes Vargas pinned by Myra Rivers)

Match #29: Six Pack Challenge vs. Amber Ryan vs. Bella Madison vs. Sam Marlowe vs. Alicia Lukas vs. Keira Fisher-Johnson (Queen For a Day Ladder Match) Result: LOSS (Amber won the right to be Queen for a Day)

Match #30: Singles vs. Diamond Steele (upgraded Scaffold Over the Piranha Tank Match), Result: WIN (Diamond sent into tank)

Match #31: Singles Match vs. Kat Jones (Stretcher Match for Bombshell Roulette Title), Result: LOSS

Match #32: Tag Team Match w/ Ariana Angelos vs. The Metal Maniacs, Result: WIN (Iron Maiden pinned by Ariana Angelos)

Match #33: Tag Team Match w/ HB Carter vs. Zoey Lukas and Miles Kasey (Strange Bedfellows Tag Team Match), Result: WIN (Miles Kasey pinned by HB Carter)

Match #34: Singles Match vs. Kayla Richards (Bombshell Internet Title Match), Result: LOSS (Kayla's first defense)

Match #35: Singles Match vs. Sam Marlowe, result: WIN

Match #36: Fatal Four Way vs. Sam Marlowe vs. Alicia Lukas vs. Diamond Steele, (#1 Contenders Match for World Bombshell Championship) result: LOSS (Sam Marlowe pinned by Diamond Steele)

Match #37, Tag Team Match w/ Ariana Angelos, vs. Team Hero result: LOSS (Krystal pinned by Keira)

Match #38: rematch vs. Mercedes Vargas, result: WIN

Match #39: Singles vs. Masque (World Bombshell Championship Match), result: LOSS

Match #40: Singles vs. Roxi Johnson, result: LOSS

Match #41: Tag Team w/ Ariana Angelos vs. Masque and Avalon Blackthorn (Tag Team Santa's Bag Match), Result: LOSS

Match #42: Open Invitational Scramble vs. Ariana Angelos vs. Zoey Lukas vs. Seleana Zdunich vs. Crystal Caldwell vs. Mackenzie Page vs. Dawn Warren vs. Chelsea LeClair vs. Eaven Maloney, (Bombshell Roulette Title Match), result: LOSS (Crystal Caldwell escaped with title)

Match #43: Rematch vs Roxi Johnson, result: LOSS

Match #44: Singles vs. Dawn Warren, result: LOSS

Match #45: Singles vs Chelsea LeClair, result: WIN

Match #46: Mixed Tag Team Match w/ Casey Williams vs. Zoey Lukas and J-Mont (Blast from the Past Opening Round Match), result: LOSS (Casey pinned by J-Mont after outside interference from Tempest)

Match #47: Rematch vs. Seleana Zdunich, result: WIN

Match #48: Rematch vs. Tempest, result: LOSS

Match #49: Tag Team Match w/ Alexandra Callaway vs. London Underground (Charlotte Elliot and Mackenzie Page), result: WIN (Krystal pinned Charlotte)

Match #50: Rematch vs. Dawn Warren, result: LOSS

Match #51: Singles vs. Whisper, result: LOSS

Match #52: Tag Team Match w/ Ruby Steele vs Keira Fisher and Whisper, result: LOSS (Ruby pinned by Keira)

Match #53: Singles vs Ruby Steele, result: WIN (Match stopped after Krystal broke Ruby's arm)

Match #54: Singles vs Roxi Johnson (No Disqualification match) result: WIN (Match stopped after Krystal knocked out Roxi with a pair of brass knuckles and went to continue her attack with a Steel Chair)

Match #55: Singles Rematch vs. Keira Fisher (Fate of the World Match), result: LOSS

Match #56: Singles vs. Georgie Robertson, result: WIN

Match #57: Singles rematch vs. Roxi Johnson (Streetfight), result: LOSS

Match #58: Battle Royal vs Sam Marlowe vs Seleana Zdunich vs Kat Jones vs Mercedes Vargas vs Tempest vs Ariana Angelos vs Luna Vanity vs Zoey Lukas (match for the newly vacated Bombshell Internet Championship), result: LOSS (Krystal was eliminated by Ariana in an attempt to eliminate Tempest, Ariana would go on to be the runner up and challenge winner Luna Vanity for the title at High Stakes)

Match #59: Singles rematch vs. Seleana Zdunich, result: WIN

Match #60: Singles vs Luna Vanity (World Bombshell Title Qualifier), result: WIN

Match #61: Singles vs. Bella Madison, (World Bombshell Title Qualifier), result: LOSS

Match #62: Fatal Four Way Match vs. Seleana Zdunich vs. Luna Vanity vs. Georgie Robertson (Golden Briefcase Match), result: LOSS (Georgie grabbed the briefcase)

Match #63: Singles vs. Alexandra Callaway, result: LOSS

Match #64: Tag Team Match w/ Tempest vs Courtney Pierce and Luna Pasilno, result: WIN (Tempest pinned Luna after Courtney walked out on the match)

Match #65: Fatal Four Way vs. Tempest vs. Luna Pasilno vs. Courtney Pierce (Fatal Four Way for the Bombshell Internet Championship) Result: TITLE LOSS (Courtney was pinned by Tempest to end her reign)

Match #66: Singles vs. Julianna DiMaria (non-title match), result: LOSS

Match #67: Singles vs. Bea Barnhart, result: WIN

Match #68: Singles vs. Erika Moore, result: LOSS

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Climax Control Archives / “Queen of the Masquerade!”
« on: November 14, 2022, 12:22:07 PM »
(Keira was used with permission from her handler)

Krystal would emerge victorious in her grudge match against Mercedes Vargas at High Stakes XII but the Aussie Bombshell was left dissatisfied at the lack of effort Mercedes put into the match’s promotion, to the point that at Climax Control 346 she issued a challenge to any Bombshell she had yet to face or hadn’t faced in some time! She namedropped several women who fell into that category but made sure to leave the champions names out of the list because, in her own words, Krystal wanted to build herself back up.

Well, in a way, Krystal got her wish because she was facing someone who she has never faced before, the World Bombshell Champion herself Masque! And it wasn’t a non-title match, no the title was on the line and would be defended against the Go Gym Graduate! Krystal has been in contenders matches for that title before, most recently at the start of the High Stakes XII Cycle, but this was the first time that Krystal was competing for the top belt in the division and with the recent return of Amber Ryan, Krystal might just have a chance! Can Krystal pull off the upset of the century!

Backstage at Climax Control 346, Anaheim, California
Sunday the 13th of November 2022, 11:00pm

Tonight was certainly a night,

If I had to name my favourite time to be an SCW Bombshell without naming a PPV, I’d have to name the post PPV Climax Controls such as tonight’s show, why? Beyond just dealing with the fallout from the PPV, you never really know what’s going to happen most of the time.

New rivalries formed, new champions cutting their first promos as champ, all that fun stuff! Off course it was a complicated time to be two of my friends, namely Ariana and Jessie! Beyond the incident with Carter (which I’ve been fuming about for most of the past week) they were set to face off in Ari’s latest Roulette Title defence and it ended up being the annual Black Friday Brawl, the match itself was a brutal affair but in the end, Ari retained the gold, that just left me wondering what the bosses had in store for me.

That was my motivation heading into my promo tonight, whether anything comes off it in the coming weeks remains to be seen but I’ve got my New Years Resolutions set for 2023 and we’re only in the third week of November! If nothing else, I like to plan ahead! It’s whether or not those plans pan out that is the question.

”You’ll be pleased to know that Ari and Jessie are doing fine after the Black Friday Brawl.” I commented to Cassie over FaceTime as I made my way into the arena’s parking lot, I had made the decision to leave after the match between Bill and Finn had reached its (predictable) conclusion but had opted to give my cousin a call. ”Whether Ari fell faster than your chances of ever getting that ban lifted after you insulted The Troll’s mom remains to be seen!”

”Oh come on Charlotte! Really? Your still jumping to that piece of shit’s defence?!” Cassie grunted in annoyance and I shook my head, if you followed Cassie on Twitter then you know that her “tell bad jokes until more people joined Motor City Wrestling” stunt had backfired big time after she had insulted The Troll’s mom, how did The Troll get involved with that? He had apparently found one of her tweets and replied too it, simple really! ”He called me a cow! What was I supposed to do?!”

”Ignore him, come up with a more creative insult and use it on him, literally anything but insulting his sweetheart of a mom!!” I responded with an annoyed sigh as I messaged my forehead with my free hand, I love Cass, really I do! But her youth and impulsiveness did often push how far that love went. ”Just take your punishment at Hero Academy tomorrow morning and be done with it! I’ll even talk to Harper about not targeting your bad leg!”

”She’s been avoiding targeting that leg anyway, ever since that argument with Keira.” Cassie responded as she shook her head right as I got the new card text, it was that time of day again it seemed. ”Wait, isn’t your birthday on Wednesday?”

”Don’t try to change the subject! But yeah, I’m turning twenty-seven next week.” I nodded to confirm it and Cassie grinned. ”I don’t know how Makayla will top getting me a puppy for my twenty sixth birthday last year but we’ll see! Anyway I got the new card text right as you mentioned my birthday so give me a sec.”

”Sure.” Cassie nodded as I hit the home button to get out of FaceTime and checked the card, I was debating whether I should tell Cass that The Troll was getting a second match in a row but then I saw the Main Event and all colour drained from my face. ”Charlotte?”

”Remember when Ari described her title reign as being the result of a monkey’s paw? Right when she was thrust into the feud between Jessie and Melissa?” I asked my cousin and Cassie nodded to confirm that she remembered Ari’s promo for her rematch with Melissa. ”I think that monkey’s paw has turned its attention to me! The bosses have heard what I said during that promo!”
”So the bosses have booked you for next week’s show?” Cassie asked and I nodded to confirm it. ”Well, the other Crystal’s match against Bella was announced two weeks ago so that’s out, Amber Ryan just returned but it seems like no one’s sure about how ready she is to compete, what’s the worst that can happen? It’s not like they put you up against Masque or any……….” Cassie trailed off before it hit her. ”You’ve got Masque in next week’s Main Event, don’t you?”

”Yep! And the World Bombshell Title’s on the line!” I responded before taking a screenshot of the text and sending it to Cass so she could see it for herself. ”That woman’s only lost two matches, one was because Bill Barnhart was her Blast from the Past Partner, the other was to Roxi Johnson, I know World Bombshell Title Matches are never supposed to be easy but that’s taking the cake!”

”Cake? It takes the whole fucking bakery!” Cassie scoffed in response and I had to admit, that one made me chuckle. ”You’re planning to go to Hero Academy tomorrow, maybe seek out Team Hero’s advice for dealing with Masque?”

”That’s actually not a bad idea, even without their history with Masque, Roxi and Keira have been on top of the Bombshell Division mountain before and this is my first shot at the World Bombshell Title, any advice they can give will be invaluable.” I nodded in agreement before I got in my car (a Nissan Quash Quai). ”I’ll see you in the morning Cass but I’m about to head to the hotel, don’t feel like causing a car crash on my way back so I’ll be cutting  it short here!”

”Yeah, that’s probably a good idea, see you in the morning.” Cassie responded before she ended the FaceTime call on her end and I put my phone on silent as I got the car ready to head to the hotel.

I’ll admit, the World Bombshell Title is a bucket list item of mine, why wouldn’t it be? Winning that title means your at the top of the food chain in the Bombshell Division! But in this case getting that shot means a match with Masque.

The last time Masque faced a Go Gym Graduate was when she faced Adrienne Beaufort earlier this year, the French girl’s confidence in herself was already shaky heading into that match but watching her demeaner after the fact? In hindsight, it was a matter of if, not when Adrienne asked for her release for the sake of her mental health.

Last I heard from her, Adrienne had managed to land on her feet in CU:LT but I wasn’t Adrienne, when I entered SCW I was already a seasoned competitor, just so happened that SCW was my first shot at the big time, even if I got my start in SCU at first! In theory that meant I should be a lot more ready for a competitor like Masque than Adrienne could ever hope to be.

But on the other hand? How does someone prepare for a wrestler like Masque? Title shot or not?

Hero Academy, Las Vegas, Nevada
Monday the 14th of November 2022, 08:00am

Any other time I would’ve gone to Gabriel for advice ahead of a match like the one against Masque, but this was a special circumstance.

Not only was I at Hero Academy to make sure that Cassie faced her punishment and took it but the new class was being oriented today, thus several new guys and gals were joining the existing students at Hero Academy, Sarah and Cassie were required to be there anyway since they were the first two graduates from Hero Academy, but Cassie’s comments about The Troll’s mom meant that she had an extra painful morning ahead of her.

There was another reason I was coming here for advice rather than the Go Gym, unlike Gabriel, Keira had faced Masque before.

“Roxi wishes she could be here but she’s busy preparing for the match against Seleana.” Keira informed me as she lead me into my office, Cassie and Harper were having their training session/stretch out after mine and I figured that we could leave them alone for a bit. “And I know why you asked for this chat Charlotte.”

”Then I’ll cut to the chase.” I commented ass I walked around Keira’s office after closing the door behind me. ”How do you prepare for a wrestler like Masque? I don’t think there’s ever been a Bombshell like her in the past decade that SCW’s been in operation!”

“If we knew the answer to that, I think Masque would’ve lost her first match a lot sooner.” Keira pointed out as she shook her head and I had to admit that she had a point. “I think the real question you should be asking is how to survive Masque’s mind games, or do I need to remind you of how Adrienne was following her last SCW match?”

”Adrienne’s mental health had been suffering for months, the match against Masque basically pushed it to the point where it would’ve only gotten worse if Adrienne hadn’t asked for her release.” I responded as I shook my head and Keira nodded as she got the idea. ”Hell Jessie’s been in SCW since the beginning and even she couldn’t crack the riddle that is Masque! The only thing separating me from them is the fact that I’m facing her in a title match.”

“Charlotte, I think the best advice I can give you is to just do what you do best, you’re a graduate of the Go Gym, a school that has produced some of the best wrestling talent in the country, you and Ariana included.” Keira advised me and I nodded as I got the idea. “Beating Masque for the title won’t be easy but nobody said that beating any champion in SCW is easy, even one as enigmatic as Masque.”

”Yeah, it just seems like Masque is even more untouchable than Kayla or Ariana.” I responded as I folded my arms and Keira frowned as she got the idea. ”And you’ve been in the ring with both ladies, you know how good they are.”

“Ariana has a bright future ahead of her if her Bombshell Roulette Title Reign is anything to go by, and Kayla may be a bitch but she has proven that she is no fluke champion.” Keira nodded in agreement as she leaned back in her chair. “But you’re right, Masque is a completely different beast to either of those women question is, what can you do to end her reign on Sunday?”

”Fight as if my life were on the line? Basically treat Masque like she was the villain in a slasher movie?” I asked hypothetically before there was a knock at the door. ”We’ll be done in a sec.” I called out to the knocker before turning back to Keira. ”That’s basically what Masque is, she kicked out of the Black Rose Overdrive for fuck’s sake! We may make fun of Mercedes for being so past it but Masque was the first one to kick out of that move in over a decade!”

“I think we should consider the circumstances behind that kickout, Mercedes sent herself and Masque off the ring apron and through the table and Mercedes had to use Drew’s hand for him because he had been knocked out.” Keira pointed out and I had to admit that she had a point. “Setting aside the fact that the match ended in a Double DQ Draw off course.”

”Yeah, the bosses don’t like it when one of their refs gets the shit beat out of them, who knew?” I asked jokingly and Keira shook her head with a chuckle before there was another knock at the door and Keira got up to answer it. ”You sure you don’t want to make them wait longer?”

“I’ve got a training school to run anyway, as much as I appreciate the chat I have a job to do.” Keira responded before she answered the door and Zoey, Cassie’s biracial girlfriend, was waiting for us with a concerned look on her face. “Everything okay Zoey?”

”I wanted to give you a chance to finish your chat with Krystal but two of the new girls are going at it pretty hard.” Zoey responded as she shook her head and now that she mentioned it? I did hear the sounds of two women arguing now that the door was opened, it was only after I picked up a Kiwi accent that I realized that it could only be between two students. ”It’s between Fayth and Skyler!”

“Never a dull moment.” Keira shook her head with a sigh before she turned to me. “Want to help me break this up Krystal?”

”Don’t mind if I do!” I responded with a grin before I followed Keira and Zoey to the source of the argument.

Hero Academy, Las Vegas, Nevada
Monday the 14th of November 2022, 09:00am

If I ever get the idea to open my own training school years from now, feel free to shoot me in the head.

When we, Keira and Zoey had left Keira’s office the argument had gotten so bad that Fayth and Skyler were coming to blows, and not in a sparring match in the ring like you’d hope two trainees would but outside the ring and with the rest of the trainees watching on, some where even chanting “fight, fight, fight” though that quickly stopped when they saw me and Keira storming over to the two young women.

Before you ask, no Cassie wasn’t one of the ones cheering them on, she was still in her sparring match with Harper, a sparring match that had gotten interrupted by said fight distracting the two teenagers.

“You couldn’t even wait five minutes before you decided to fight?” Keira demanded of the two young women as she stepped between them and separated them, at this point Francisco stepped in to help Keira by restraining Skyler (and being careful not to accidentally grope her) leaving Keira to keep Fayth restrained. “What’s the meaning of this?!”

“That bitch dared to compare me to my sister!” Skyler spart as she pointed to Fayth and she rolled her eyes in response. “I’m here trying to make up for Taylor’s mistakes! Not emulate them!”

“Oh and I suppose sucker punching me makes that alright?!” Fayth demanded as the redhead glared at the blonde woman, I could already feel a migraine coming on as the two women argued. “What was I supposed to do? Sit there and let her get way with that bull………”

”ENOUGH!” I interrupted the two young trainees and Skyler and Fayth slowly turned their heads to me. ”Skyler, Fayth, you two are so fucking lucky that you enrolled here instead of the Go Gym because if you had tried that shit on the first day of training at the Go Gym you would’ve been thrown out on your ass faster than you can say “unprofessional conduct”! And don’t even get me started on the rest of you egging them on!”

“But your meeting with Keira was taking to long.” A male voice from the crowd spoke up and we turned to see a short, athletic guy with short black hair, based on the accent? He seemed to be English but I couldn’t tell you where in England he was from. “The fight at least entertained us!”

”What’s your name kid?” I asked the guy as I walked up to him and he gulped as I stood up to him. ”Well?”

“Aaron.” The trainee gulped in response as I looked him up and down. “I flew all the way from Manchester to train here."

”Roughly a fourteen-hour flight, must’ve cost you a fair bit of money on top of that, right?” I asked as I folded my arms and Aaron gulped before lowering his head in shame. ”And one of the first things you do at Hero Academy is to egg that on? Keira, these are ultimately your trainees.” I said as I turned to Keira and she nodded as she got the idea. ”Ball’s in your court.”

“I want every new trainee who egged on the fight to run five hundred laps, now.” Keira said in a low angry voice and whilst their was some discontent between the trainees, the rest (including Aaron) took their punishment in their stride. “Fayth, your training with Krystal, Skyler, you’re with me!”

“That’s your idea of a punishment? Train with you two?” Fayth asked with a sceptical look on her face and Keira turned to her. “Maybe we should get into fights more often.”

“Thanks for reminding me, I’ll be going extra stiff on you Skyler, Krystal? Feel free to do the same.” Keira responded and needless to say, that shut up the squabbling trainees.

And hey, at least I got a workout out of it!

Hero Academy, Las Vegas, Nevada
Monday the 14th of November 2022, 12:00pm

Today was definitely an interesting start to my birthday week.

The sparring matches between me and Fayth, Keira, and Skyler did at least prove that the girls had a lot of potential as wrestlers, whether they could get past their attitude problems and actually make amends with each other remained to be seen but I was getting ready to leave the Hero Academy for the day after I stretched out Cassie for a bit, what? Did you think I had forgotten all about those comments she made about The Troll’s mom?

Please, The Troll maybe the biggest dickbag in SCW (well, the biggest dickbag who isn’t taken seriously by his piers at least) but that didn’t mean his mom deserved to be insulted for not swallowing him on that fateful night!

”Well, that was a dun workout.” I commented as I loaded my duffel bag containing my gym clothes into the  boot of my car, I was planning to stop by the Go Gym for my promo on the way back but Cassie needed to be dropped off at her mom’s place so she was catching a ride with me. ”How goes your driving test Cass?”

”Going well, my instructor reckons that I’ll be ready to pass the test by the first week of the New Year.” Cassie responded with an optimistic grin on her face and I nodded in response. ”What do you make of the Fayth and Skyler situation?”

"Those girls are talented for their experience level but as far as their attitude goes? They need a lot of work.” I responded as I shook my head and Cassie nodded as she got the idea. ”Not unlike a certain cousin of mine when we first met, right?”

”I wasn’t seeking out fights with the other PTA Gym Trainees!” Cassie defended herself and I shook my head in response. ”Though honestly? I’ll just be glad to put that whole “The Troll’s Mom” saga behind me and just focus on my wrestling career, not to mention my relationship with Becky and Zoey and my burgeoning status as yet another lesbian in the world of professional wrestling!”

”So long as you keep doing what you do best? You’ll thrive!” I responded before I paused as I processed that last part. ”So, how long have you known that you’re a lesbian?”

The look on Cassie’s face was priceless, she had clearly forgotten that I didn’t know about that little fact until now. ”For a couple of weeks now, I came out to my mom the other week.” Cassie sighed with a sheepish grin on her face as I turned to her. ”I’m just not ready to come out publicly yet, and yes, Becky and Zoey know!”

”Trust me, you’ll know when the time comes.” I assured my cousin who grinned in response, I decided not to ask how her mom reacted because I’m pretty sure I would’ve heard by now if she had been thrown out of her parents’ house. ”But for what it’s worth? That’s the worst kept secret in Hero Academy, you haven’t exactly been subtle about the fact that you have the hots for two other women!”

”Heh, I guess your right! You’ll be there for me when I do come out though, right?” Cass asked as she looked up at me. ”Same goes for Makayla?” Cass added and I put a comforting hand on the teenager’s shoulder.

”I’ve been openly bi since my SCU days and Makayla’s been an out lesbian for even longer than that! I think that goes without saying!” I assured Cassie and she grinned in response. ”That said? We had better get going!” I added and Cassie grinned in response before she got in my car and I drove off.

Go Gym Parking Lot, Las Vegas, Nevada
Monday the 14th of November 2022, 14:00pm

*promo time*

After everything was done for the day at Hero Academy I stopped by the Go Gym to get the rest of my reps in for the day, but not before cutting this promo.

”Open mouth, insert foot, if there was one saying that can summarise my promo on last night’s Climax Control, it’s that!” I sighed as I leaned against the bonnet of my car. ”I just wanted some competition as the year winded down, I didn’t think that my first match after that promo would not only be the Main Event but for the World Bombshell Championship on top of that! But yet, here I am, the week of my twenty seventh birthday, set to take on Masque for the World Bombshell Championship in this week’s Main Event!” I ran a hand down my face as I processed the last sentence. ”That is one hell of a birthday present and I’m not even sure if that’s a good present!”

Let me explain.

”Look, I’d be lying if I said that I don’t want the World Bombshell Title, it’s practically the dream of every aspiring Bombshell whether they are training at Hero Academy or the Go Gym!” I added as I pointed to the gym with my thumb. ”It definitely was mine when I was training at the Go Gym all those years ago! But here’s the thing, back then? We didn’t have anyone like Masque at the top of the mountain in the Bombshell Roster! I could’ve at least handled any of the champions from my trainee days with my usual confidence, but Masque? You’re a different animal to any Bombshell who’s come before or after you, you’re a dangerous competitor and an unpredictable one at that! Throw in the fact that Amber Ryan is back on the scene and looking for revenge against you? The odds are definitely not in my favour heading into the match!”

However………

”But here’s the other thing Masque, I may have freaked out on Twitter when I found out about this match but I refuse to be intimidated by you!” what changed? Stick around and out as I stare into the camera. ”Why? Several reasons really, the competitor in me is relishing the opportunity to compete for the top prize in the Bombshell Division, after all I said on High Stakes XII that I wanted to get me hands on another title in 2023! And if that means me entering the new year as the new World Bombshell Champion? So be it! I just know that I have to fight like my life’s on the line if I want to be the one to dethrone you Masque!” I added as a cocky grin crept onto my face. ”But can you face me in Mortal Kombat?”

Yes, that was a video game reference.

”I’m pretty sure the bosses will be upset if I actually pull off a fatality when we meet this Sunday night in Anaheim, and I’m also sure that a very awkward conversation with the local police would ensue as well! What I mean is that I am going to have to pull out all the stops if I want to be the one to dethrone you on Sunday Masque!” I said as I brushed some hair over my shoulder. ”I’m not going to kid myself by saying that this won’t be a daunting task but it’s one that I’m more than willing to rise to the occasion for, I hope you’ve said your goodbyes to that title Masque because it’s coming home with me!”

This will be my toughest fight.

”And there’s no getting around this next part either, this will be the toughest fight of my wrestling career to date! And hell, I might be putting it a little too mildly for my tastes!”  I added as I started to pace around the parking lot. ”But these are the types of fights that the Go Gym trained me for when I enrolled there! This is what I was trained for, to fight the very best and become the very best in the industry! And when we meet on Sunday I’ll be more than happy to put my training to practical use if it means taking that title from you, with or without Amber’s help!”

The elephant in the room.

”And I’d be remiss if I left out the third returning face to SCW TV from last night’s Climax Control, Amber, it’s been a while hasn’t it?” I asked as I folded my arms. ”The last time anyone saw you on TV, Masque had beaten to a bloody pulp, I think it’s safe to say that you want your revenge on Masque, am I right? Normally I’d be inclined to tell you to stay out of it and let me try to win this match on my own, but somehow, I doubt that’s going to work on you, not after everything Masque has done since that attack! I don’t know if your plans for revenge on Masque factor in the World Bombshell Championship or not Amber but if you find yourself inclined to cost Masque the title on your little revenge arc? I won’t stop you!”

Not at all.

”I know a thing or two about revenge, ask Char Kwan if you want details, but the last thing I’m going to say on that subject Amber is that if you go out seeking revenge, dig two graves!” I said as I held up two fingers to illustrate my point. ”And Masque? You don’t just have to deal with a young, hungry up and comer who’s been chasing after titles for the better part of a year, you also have to deal with a woman who’s severely pissed off at you, that’s not a good sign for your title reign, isn’t it Masque?”

Will it be enough?

”But then again, talk is cheap, and unless I can back this up in the ring then I might already be cashing cheques that my body can’t pay!” I added as I shook my head. ”If there’s any consolation to this match, it’s the fact that you’ve been shown that you’re not an invincible as you’d want people to think you are, you’ve suffered two losses since your debut at Inception V and only one of those losses were the result of you being pinned! I mean, it's still not ideal but there are chinks in your armour, I just need to find a way to exploit those flaws and win the match and the title!”

It's that simple.

”There’s no way around it! This is the biggest match of my career, but if I want to become the World Bombshell Champion I need to dethrone the Queen of the Masquerade! And yes Masque, I’m talking about you!” I added as I leaned against the boot of my car with my arms crossed. ”You’ve built up this mystique about you since your arrival in SCW Masque but the cracks have been showing for months now! You didn’t even make it past the opening round of Blast from the Past, you lost the first World Bombshell Title Shot to Roxi Johnson, you fought Mercedes fucking Vargas to a Double DQ Draw, it’s just that only a handful of competitors have been able to exploit the cracks in your armour, I’ll be the first one to use those exploits to take the title from you!”

And with that I decided to wrap things up.

”I’d be lying if I said that this is what I had in mind when I cut that promo on Climax Control last night, but I’m not about to look a gift horse in its white porcelain mouth either!” I said as I folded my arms. ”You’ve been a dominant champion Masque, there’s no two ways around that fact, but all good things come to an end as I close the chapter on this part of my career, I’ll open a new one entitled “Krystal Wolfe: World Bombshell Champion!” I’ll see you in the ring!”

I got in the car and drove off as the scene fades.

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Character Building Roleplays / The Talk, a Cassie and Keira RP
« on: October 25, 2022, 05:49:01 PM »
It’s been a crazy couple of months since I graduated from Hero Academy.

Between joining my first fed as a wrestler and said fed never airing my second ever match forcing me to look for another home fed, I’ve had a lot on my mind since the graduation match against Keira, and that’s not even getting into my personal life.

Right now I was in a sparring match with a newbie called Harper, apparently she was related to Jessie Salco. I wasn't sure how but she was damn good at the one thing I was bad at, namely submissions.

Keira: That’s it. Don’t hold back when it comes to a submission. Think of it as MMA.

Keira was outside of it, watching the two tussle as she watches them

Harper: Like MMA? Okay.

I tried to keep up with Harper but apparently she was an ameateur wrestling standout before she met Jessie, and anyone who’s seen me wrestle knows that submissions aren’t my strongest point and before I knew it? Harper had my leg in an elevated knee bar that had her pulling down on my foot for extra pressure, throw in the fact that that was my bad leg from my days as a soccer player in High School? Yeah, I was tapping in no time.

Keira: Let her go Harper, we want that leg in one piece for her match against Randy Ramon.

Harper nodded before letting go of my leg and helped me to my feet, I was limping a bit but nothing. I couldn't sleep off later and once Harper confirmed that I was okay she went over to Keira.

Harper: Just like you said, that leg gave her trouble all match!

Cassie:: Wait, WHAT?!

I hobbled over to the pair and Harper winced when she saw the look on my face.

Keira: Like I told you. Every wrestler has a weakness. Even me. Always try to exploit it, but do NOT ever injure them. That’s a huge No-No in wrestling. Take a breather, both of you.

Keira begins to go to her office, but stops for the moment. She turns to see Cassie, asking

Keira: Actually, Cass. My office. We need to talk.

Harper gave me a sympathetic look before she held down the middle rope for me so I could get out of the ring easier, Zoey was nearby and offered to help me into Keira’s office but whether it was stubbornness or me being focussed on Keira i ignored her, good thing too because as I entered Keira’s office I heard Zoey and Mei being called by Keri for a sparring match.

Keira: Close the door Cass.

I nodded before shutting it behind me.

Cassie: What’s up? Did Jenny attempt to buy the Go Gym again?

I asked maybe a bit too harshly, it was meant as another one of my dumb jokes but my frustration made it sound a lot harsher than I wanted.

Keira: No, don’t shoot the messenger on that one. Look, I can tell by your tone that you’re frustrated with me. More so since I’ve been using you more often to train the students here. Cass, you’re the first graduate of Hero Academy. I want you to set an example to the others. Not going around getting banned from diners! You know how much I’m trying to get you to see a SCW show LIVE!?

Keira’s tone was more serious than before

Keira: You wanna know why I’m so harsh on you!? Cause you remind me of myself when I was younger, before my parents were MURDERED!

I was about to retort on that first point about the diners, all that was was me standing up to a homophobic prick who had seen me getting a little affectionate with Zoey and Becky (not kissing mind you but it was obvious that we had the hots for each other) and yet we were the ones kicked out.

Cassie: Don’t you think I’ve had it rough myself? My aunt was murdered when I was nine, I didn’t find out until two years later when Krystal escaped her homelife!

Keira: You didn’t see her get murdered in front of your eyes because of Two robbers like I did. You didn’t try to get help for what happened, only for people to do nothing. YOU, YOU DIDN’T GO TO A CHURCH, SEEKING ANSWERS. ONLY FOR SOME PRIEST TO GIVE YOU A DEMON TO POSSESS YOU!

Keira slowly sits back down, saying

Keira: S-Sorry.

I ran a hand through my hair as i just stood there speechless, I usually had a reply for this but Keira’s outburst had left me stunned.

Cassie: Forget it, I shouldn’t have said anything! It’s just been on me and Char……..Krystal’s minds a lot lately because the tenth year anniversary of Krystal’s escape is this Christmas.

I leaned against the wall with my arms crossed just under my breasts, looking down at the floor as I thought back to that terrible day.

Cassie: I don’t even have that many memories of my aunt, by the time I was old enough to form memories, her shithole of a husband had already cut her from her friends and family! I admire Krystal for the strength she showed the day she escaped but I can’t say it hasn’t been tough.

I let out a deep breath before I glanced up at Keira.

Cassie: What do you want from me Keira? I’ve been kicking ass since I graduated, so what if I make the occasional dumb joke on Twitter? I’m just trying to bring some light to that dumb platform!

Keira: I know you’ve been kicking ass. I’m proud of you for that. But the things you say and do now, will come back to haunt you in the future. I’m also proud of you for standing up for yourself and I’ll take care of the diner thing. One call and Jenny’s lawyers will have that placed sued for sexual discrimination. I just don’t want you making mistakes that will hurt you in the long run. SCW is that example. If anything, I’m trying to get you back in for at least High Stakes.

Keira sighs a bit

Keira: Cassie, when you’re older. You’ll understand. Before you say it, trust me on this. I got the same speech you did, more so from Roxi. If she was in here, she’d say the same thing I’m telling you now.

I remained silent for a minute as I looked over at my trainer, my leg was still aching from the sparring match with Harper so I started standing on one leg, leaning the bad leg across my good one for support.

Cassie: Zoey told you the context behind that diner incident, right?

Keira: She did, I don’t think I would’ve been as politte as you, but she did.

Cassie: Point still stands, right?

Keira nodded before I let out a deep breath, I blew a stray strand of hair away from my eyes before glancing over at Keira again.

Cassie: Only reason I got banned from SCW was because I argued with Carter, an argument he started.

Keira: It still wasn’t a good look, on you or my Academy.

I sighed as I brushed some hair over my shoulder.

Cassie: I’m just trying to find my voice as a wrestler, I don’t want to just be known as Krystal’s high flying cousin, I want to forge my own path!

Keira: I know you do. You will, you graduated for a reason. Give it time. Your path isn’t forged within a day.

I let out a deep breath as I thought over the past few months, from my debut against Lisa too my upcoming match against Randy, not to mention my outside the ring stuff.

Cassie: Still haven’t talked to mom about that incident in New Delhi.

I sighed to myself as I looked at the ceiling.

Cassie: So what? You want me to tone down the dumb jokes on Twitter or just watch what I say in public? Because that hipster in Starbucks was asking to be owned!

Keira: At least a little bit. Cause one day, you’ll be in the same position I’m in. Once you’re in the position I’m in, you’ll see the same thing and the words will come back.

Cassie: Feels like we’ve been in here forever.

Keira: Something like that, just one last thing Cass, you almost called Krystal Charlotte didn’t you?

Cassie: Err, yeah, that’s her birth name, she had it legally changed before she moved to the status……..

Keira: And it’s usually a sign that she feels she can trust you, right?

I blinked a couple of times as Keira walked up to me.

Cass: When?

Keira: During that week you, Krystal and Makayla spent at the Team Hero compound, after she lost the Bombshell Roulette Title to me? Rachel called her Charlotte and she told us the whole story.

Cassie: How did I miss that?

Keira: I think you were playing video games at the time, some of the more explicit ones.

Cassie: Err, yeah…….

I looked at the floor again but Keira picked up my head via my chin and lifted it.

Keira: Cass, you’re one of the best students of the game I’ve ever seen and your potential is limitless, don’t squander it for the sake of a dumb joke, promise?

Cassie: I promise.

Without another word I followed Keira out into the gym, Harper was back wrestling again, this time against Zoey but I had a lot on my mind as I watched the two trainees go at it.

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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.

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