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« Last post by Victoria Lyons on November 01, 2025, 08:13:41 PM »It was a relaxing evening in the home of Victoria Lyons, she and Darian had just finished putting up the last of their Halloween decorations out in front of their new home, which and an addition to the common jack-o'-lanterns included a dummy hanging from a tree, a scarecrow and a witch plastered on the rooftop.
They sat cuddling together on the sofa blindly scrolling through the Netflix selection looking for something to settle into for the evening. This was the two of them behind all the theatrics they created when the cameras were rolling, a normal couple like anyone else with perhaps….. a few odd kinks thrown in.
“It all went so beautifully on Climax Control.” Victoria smiled at Darian running her fingers through his beard, “Now I get my shot at the Bombshell Internet Championship, and Harper Mason is sure having a hissy fit about it.”
“Let her cry about it, I say.” Darian replied.
“Oh I intend to Dare Bear.” Victoria continued to smile “It just shows Harper really is. “Champions don't whine when the situation changes, they adapt. I doubt Mercedes likes this new setup either, but she's kept her mouth shut which means she's likely trying to figure out how to adapt herself instead of crying about it.”
She leaned back on the sofa resting her head against the cushion.
“Harper just lacks discipline.” Victoria said “The situation changes and she can't keep up. I knew what I wanted, and I took what I wanted.
“And you didn't even break a sweat doing it.” Darian chuckled
“Exactly.” Victoria said her smirk deepening “They all say I got added to the match, I say I made myself impossible to ignore. That's why I'm on such a different level than most of the Bombshells. I don't wait to be given chances, I take them.”
She stretched her arms slightly keeping the smirk on her face.
“Should anyone really be surprised?” said Victoria “Before I was placed into the High Stakes tournament, I called out Mercedes in the ring, and I told the entire locker room to keep their head on a swivel. So after my….elimination from the High Stakes tournament, I needed to restate my claim because that's who I am and it's who I've always been.”
“That's what I love about you.” Darian smiled at her, "You're ruthless, it's just in your blood.”
“Exactly, I never had to learn it because I am it.” she said “I don't pretend to be the good guy, or pretend to play fair. I do what gets results. People like Harper Mason need to realize that fairness doesn't exist in this business. I learned that before I even left my first pair of boots.”
She exhaled softly.
“Harper wants to cry about how I took her moment.” said Victoria “The same woman who couldn't even hold on to the Roulette championship long enough for me to even miss it. It's almost insulting to me that she was my successor after everything I did for that championship.”
“I doubt they even had time to change the name plate.” Darian grinned.
Victoria laughed.
“Right?” she grinned “All that talk about earning opportunities, but when she had one she couldn't handle the pressure that's why she will always be all shine and no staying power.”
“A flash in the pan.” Darian remarked.
“That's what separates people like me from people like her, Dare Bear.” Victoria said "I don't crumble and I don't panic. I adapt if one door shuts I kick open another one, losing to Bella in the tournament wasn't it a failure it was just a redirection.”
She paused shortly.
“I'm the reason this match has people talking now.” Victoria said “Mercedes has the championship, but I'm the threat. Harper's just noise in the background at this point.”
Victoria leaned back into the sofa as Darian listened.
“Of course there's Mercedes herself.” Victoria said, “She seems to think seems some sort of dominant champion, but all I've seen her do is lose the championship as fast as she wins it.”
She shrugs.
“She loses it to Bella, and she wins it back. She loses it to Lilith Locke and she wins it back again.” Victoria said “It's like she's caught in this endless game of hot potato. It might add more reigns to her resume but it shows a lack of consistency, it shows that she doesn't know how to stay on top anymore.”
“Well if you ask me.” Darian said “The games are going to stop with you.”
Victoria smiled, kissing Darian and softly on his cheek.
“Of course they will.” Victoria said “Because I know how to remain on top, champion or not. The thing about Mercedes is she needs that championship to be relevant. The championship makes Mercedes Vargas, but me? I make the championship.”
She turned her head towards Darian with a smile.
“The landscape of the Bombshell Internet Division will be changing soon.” said Victoria “There will be no more revolving door of champions who can't keep the thing for more than a few weeks. I will be the constant that the championship has needed for a long time.“
“So no mercy?” Darian grinned
“Mercy?” Victoria chuckled to herself with a smile “Mercedes deserves no mercy. She's had her spotlight. I'm not coming to add another chapter to her book, I'm coming to close it.”
“That's my queen.” Darian smiled.
“I'm not just coming to win the Internet Championship, Dare Bear.” Victoria said "I'm coming to redefine it. I'm going to remind people what dominance feels like. The Bombshell locker room won't have to think about who happens to have the Internet Championship this week, they'll know it belongs to me.”
She smiles confidently.
“So Harper can keep throwing tantrums online.” Victoria said “Mercedes can keep trying to play her game of lose one win one. So when the smoke settles, and I rise as the new Bombshell Internet Champion, they will both realize they were just keeping my seat warm.”
“You never stop do you?” Darian smirked.
“Why would I?” she replied grabbing the remote, “Winning is all about keeping your rhythm.”
She scrolled through the Netflix queue some more before finally stopping on Halloween Kills.
“This is the one.” she said.
“Works for me." Darian smiled.
As the universal logo faded in, the glow of the TV danced across their faces as the two snuggled up close together. Tonight was a romantic evening and horror movies with her Dare Bear, a true calm before the storm that she intended to bring at High Stakes.
__________
The family home hadn't changed in years her mother still had the same curtains up, and the mantlepiece was decorated with the same candles and family portraits that it had gathered over the years.
There were pictures of her parents' wedding, several of her and Vincent as children, and even a couple of Eddie.
She grabbed one of the family on a fishing trip and looked at it with a smile, Vincent was holding a large fish he had caught and of course he had his arm around their mother. She was on the opposite end, hanging off her father's arm.
“How come you never redecorated?” she said setting the picture back down, turning to her mother who had emerged from the kitchen with two cups of coffee.
“I like keeping things how they were.” her mother said “Somehow makes the house feel less empty.”
Victoria sat across from her mother and took a sip of the warm coffee. She watched her mother's gaze shift to the pictures on the mantelpiece.
“Feels like yesterday this house used to be nothing but noise.” her mother said “You and your brother fighting one minute, and then laughing the next. I miss it. It's just so quiet around here now.”
“Well, we couldn't live here forever mom.” Victoria said.
“I know…” her mother replied “You and your brother live your own lives now. It's just we don't have your father anymore either, so I just.. I get lonely.”
“You know you can come visit at anytime.” Victoria “I'm just not sure you'd like the noise of my life.”
“I can handle the noise.” her mother said “It's the distance, both of you have started to drift so far away…. especially from each other.”
“Oh is that what this is..?” Victoria's sighed.
“I'm just saying maybe you could pick up the phone.” she said “Vincent's going through a lot he could use his sister right now.”
“He's the one that pushed me away first!” said Victoria.
“Like I told you he's going through a lot.” her mother said “Maybe he said some things he didn't mean. You allowed him to push you away.”
“That's not fair!” Victoria replied. "You always do this! You always protect him!”
“That's not true.” her mother replied
“Yes it is!” Victoria insisted. "While dad was teaching me how to take on the world, you were busy pampering your baby boy.”
“Your father also let you get away with everything because you were his baby girl.” her mother said, eyes narrowing. "If your brother broke a rule, he got grounded for a week. You break the same rule and all you’d have to do is smile and he'd bend.”
“That's called charm.” Victoria said, lowering her voice looking her mother directly in the eyes. “Just one of my many talents”
Her mother sighed softly, shaking her head “But charm won't always get you through life Victoria.”
“It's got me this far.” Victoria replied “And I'm not planning on slowing down now. Not for Vincent, not for anyone.”
“Or maybe that's the problem.” her mother replied “You want to keep climbing higher, but you forget the people who helped you start to climb in the first place.”
Victoria looked at her mother with a look of defiance.
“People didn't help me get anywhere mom.” she said “No one handed me a damn thing I made my own way.“
“He's still your brother.” her mother said
“Who made the decision that he didn't want me around.” Victoria interrupted “I tried to reach out but he keeps making me feel like the villain, so I'm not going to go out there and chase him down to apologize for something I didn't do.”
“You both lost your father.” her mother replied “And that kind of pain can change people, you shut down in your own way after it too. Over the years, it's changed you both.”
“Maybe..” said Victoria “But I used it to strengthen myself, Vincent's the one that uses it as an excuse.”
“You're a lot like him, you know..” her mother said “Your father, you have the same need to prove yourself but your father also knew when to stop fighting. Need to be proud of you and all you've accomplished but he would also tell you to slow down and enjoy the view every once in a while.”
“He also taught me to never back down.” Victoria replied.
“Promise me you'll call your brother.” her mother said “And don't move too fast with that Darian just take it one step at a time.”
Victoria frowned.
“Vincent has a phone. He can call me.” Victoria said “And you don't worry about Darian he gets me. Him and I will be just fine. In fact I should probably go anyway, she's waiting for me."
Victoria drink the last sip of her coffee and set the cup down on the table.
“Thanks for the coffee mom.” she said as she stood up and walked to the door.
She got to her car started it and then headed off down the road, her irritation with her mother had only fed her fire and that fire was going to spread right across Mercedes Vargas and Harper Mason.
__________
Darkness surrounds Victoria Lyons as the cameras open, the faint outline of smoke filters behind as her voice cuts through the quiet with the precision of a blade.
“You ever notice how those who scream the loudest about fairness tend to be the ones least equipped to deal with reality?” she said with a cold tone “They always paint themselves as victims of circumstance, like they were some martyr to some grand injustice. When the truth is, they were never strong enough to take what they wanted in the first place.”
She smirks.
“That's Harper Mason in a nutshell.” she said “A little birdie chirping about how unfair it is that I found my way into this match. Because she was supposed to have her big one-on-one and she earned this moment.”
Victoria laughs and shrugs nonchalantly.
“Newsflash Harper.” Victoria said “You didn't get cheated, you got out played. The universe doesn't reward those who play fair. You have to take matters into your own hands, and take what you want if you want to be successful.”
She takes a few steps closer to the camera, keeping a steady gaze on the lens.
“See when my high stakes journey didn't go as planned.” Victoria said “I didn't make excuses or complain about it, I just found another path because that's what predators do. If one trail goes cold we find another that leads us to a feast.”
She licks her lips and in a seductive yet cruel way.
“You would have sat around and waited.” said Victoria “Hoping that someone would come along and offer you a second chance. But I'm not someone who waits. I sought out my second chance, and I took it.”
A faint smirk creeps across her face.
“You should have seen the look on your face when I dropped you with the Lions paw.” Victoria grinned “I could practically taste the fear, the moment you realized that all your pretty little dreams about being next in line just went up in smoke.”
She pauses shortly.
“You couldn't even capitalize on the biggest win of your career.” said Victoria “You ended the greatest Bombshell Roulette Championship reign of all time, my reign. But then you couldn't handle the pressure. You lost that championship before you could even make your victory matter. That makes you a placeholder, not a champion.”
That ever familiar arrogant smirk creeps across her face again.
“You had every opportunity to make something of yourself.” said Victoria “A huge win, a championship, and you failed. Should lightning strike twice, and you somehow walk away as Bombshell Internet Champion, who's to say that won't happen again?”
She looks into the camera as if waiting for a response.
“Of course there's the matter of the champion herself, Mercedes Vargas.” Victoria continued “Mercedes, you and I don't have to like each other to understand one another. You at least know how to act like a proper champion. That's why I don't hear you whining and complaining like Harper. You may not like this new development but like a champion you're ready to embrace whatever's thrown your way. The thing you lack is consistency.”
She pauses, keeping her attention on the camera.
“You are the champion, you're not the champion, you're the champion again, then you're not, then you are once more. That's been your cycle lately hasn't it Mercedes?” Victoria continued “You just can't seem to keep a hold on that championship for more than a couple of months before you need to win it back. When I was roulette champion I was the constant in that division for an entire year. I made the championship mean something and then Harper pissed it all away.”
She shakes her head, disappointed.
“But that's between Harper and myself.” said Victoria “As far as you're concerned Mercedes, I know you've built your legend on blood and persistence and that is something I can respect. Your iron will has led you to multiple championships over your career.”
She grins into the camera.
“But even iron rusts when it's out in the rain too long.” she said “And it's been raining on you for a while Mercedes. You spent so long cleaning into your past glory days, you don't even see how close to thunder is. You don't realize that I'm the storm that finally washes you away.”
She tilts her head at the camera.
"Over the years Mercedes, your hunger turned to habit." said Victoria "And now you wear the Championship like an heirloom instead of a weapon. I'm not looking to hold the Bombshell Internet Championship like some sort of prize, I'm coming to consume it and make it part of me. Just like I did with the Bombshell Roulette Championship I'm going to etch my name into the Bombshell Internet Championship so deep it will never forget the taste of my hands.”
She takes a couple precise steps closer to the camera.
“This isn't about any sort of validation for myself.” [/color]she said “It's about control of the conversation, and control of the entire division. Whether they admit it or not, every Bombshell in this company looks at me and knows what I represent, the cold-hearted truth that the world doesn't reward the kind-hearted or deserving.”
She pauses for a beat.
“The world rewards the relentless.” Victoria said “That's why I always come out ahead in the end. I'm not chasing a fairy tale ending I'm going to craft an Empire of inevitability.”
She smirks arrogantly.
“My father used to tell me that a lion doesn't need permission to hunt.” she said “And that's something that's stuck with me. I hear his voice in the back of my mind when I see Harper Mason crying about what's fair, or Mercedes Vargas leaning on her legacy. A lion doesn't wait for the jungle to approve of its actions, a lion just takes, and that's what I've done my entire life.”
She keeps her words firm and confident.
“I have no doubt that Harper Mason will come out swinging with all the heart in the world.” she said “But hearts are soft and hearts get crushed. When I crush hers maybe she'll finally understand what I've been saying all along about how this business doesn't reward those who play nice “
She pauses.
“Mercedes will come out methodical and calculated.” she said “She'll think she read me because she feels like she's seen every kind of opponent by now, and maybe she has. But she's never been ready for me in the past and she's not going to be ready for me now. I'm not some little girl chasing relevance and I'm not a veteran clinging to legacy. I'm the next inevitable thing.”
She keeps a strong confident gaze on the camera.
“You both like to talk about legacy and opportunity.” she said “But what you both want is validation, that's what drives you isn't it? Harper you want to prove you belong here, and Mercedes you want to prove you still got it. I don't need to prove anything to anybody. I'm here to take what I know I deserve.”
She takes another short moment to pause.
"Harper Mason you can keep trying to convince everyone you're more than just a moment she said but you can't even convince yourself of that can you?" she said. "Even with your big win over me, you're nothing but a footnote in my story. You're not the woman who defeated me for the Bombshell Roulette Championship, you're the one who lost it the moment you stepped out of my shadow.”
She takes another slow step toward the camera.
“And you Mercedes, your survival turned into stagnation.” she said “You used to be dangerous but now you're just familiar. You built an entire empire on being the veteran standard, or some sort of measuring stick and you don't even realize you've been measured. That's why you have to win the same title over and over again because you've got nothing left to chase, you don't rule perra, you recycle.”
She laughs softly to herself behind an arrogant smile.
“When the bell rings Harper will be the first to crumble because she's all heart and no spine.” said Victoria “Mercedes will fight harder because she has pride and her own legacy to worry about. But she will repeat the pattern and lose her Championship here to me only this time I break the cycle and she won't be getting it back.”
Her expression hardens completely.
“After High Stakes there won't be debates about who deserves what.” she said "Or the same old lines about longevity. There will only be me standing with the Bombshell Internet Championship in my hand. I don't chase moments, I make them and this one belongs to me.”
That smirk grows on her face as sharp as ever.
“Ladies..” she said “Consider this your warning that you had better…..be prepared.”
She pulls her spiked glove, The lion's paw out of a pocket and puts it on. She licks some of the barbs and winks to the camera has everything fades to black.
They sat cuddling together on the sofa blindly scrolling through the Netflix selection looking for something to settle into for the evening. This was the two of them behind all the theatrics they created when the cameras were rolling, a normal couple like anyone else with perhaps….. a few odd kinks thrown in.
“It all went so beautifully on Climax Control.” Victoria smiled at Darian running her fingers through his beard, “Now I get my shot at the Bombshell Internet Championship, and Harper Mason is sure having a hissy fit about it.”
“Let her cry about it, I say.” Darian replied.
“Oh I intend to Dare Bear.” Victoria continued to smile “It just shows Harper really is. “Champions don't whine when the situation changes, they adapt. I doubt Mercedes likes this new setup either, but she's kept her mouth shut which means she's likely trying to figure out how to adapt herself instead of crying about it.”
She leaned back on the sofa resting her head against the cushion.
“Harper just lacks discipline.” Victoria said “The situation changes and she can't keep up. I knew what I wanted, and I took what I wanted.
“And you didn't even break a sweat doing it.” Darian chuckled
“Exactly.” Victoria said her smirk deepening “They all say I got added to the match, I say I made myself impossible to ignore. That's why I'm on such a different level than most of the Bombshells. I don't wait to be given chances, I take them.”
She stretched her arms slightly keeping the smirk on her face.
“Should anyone really be surprised?” said Victoria “Before I was placed into the High Stakes tournament, I called out Mercedes in the ring, and I told the entire locker room to keep their head on a swivel. So after my….elimination from the High Stakes tournament, I needed to restate my claim because that's who I am and it's who I've always been.”
“That's what I love about you.” Darian smiled at her, "You're ruthless, it's just in your blood.”
“Exactly, I never had to learn it because I am it.” she said “I don't pretend to be the good guy, or pretend to play fair. I do what gets results. People like Harper Mason need to realize that fairness doesn't exist in this business. I learned that before I even left my first pair of boots.”
She exhaled softly.
“Harper wants to cry about how I took her moment.” said Victoria “The same woman who couldn't even hold on to the Roulette championship long enough for me to even miss it. It's almost insulting to me that she was my successor after everything I did for that championship.”
“I doubt they even had time to change the name plate.” Darian grinned.
Victoria laughed.
“Right?” she grinned “All that talk about earning opportunities, but when she had one she couldn't handle the pressure that's why she will always be all shine and no staying power.”
“A flash in the pan.” Darian remarked.
“That's what separates people like me from people like her, Dare Bear.” Victoria said "I don't crumble and I don't panic. I adapt if one door shuts I kick open another one, losing to Bella in the tournament wasn't it a failure it was just a redirection.”
She paused shortly.
“I'm the reason this match has people talking now.” Victoria said “Mercedes has the championship, but I'm the threat. Harper's just noise in the background at this point.”
Victoria leaned back into the sofa as Darian listened.
“Of course there's Mercedes herself.” Victoria said, “She seems to think seems some sort of dominant champion, but all I've seen her do is lose the championship as fast as she wins it.”
She shrugs.
“She loses it to Bella, and she wins it back. She loses it to Lilith Locke and she wins it back again.” Victoria said “It's like she's caught in this endless game of hot potato. It might add more reigns to her resume but it shows a lack of consistency, it shows that she doesn't know how to stay on top anymore.”
“Well if you ask me.” Darian said “The games are going to stop with you.”
Victoria smiled, kissing Darian and softly on his cheek.
“Of course they will.” Victoria said “Because I know how to remain on top, champion or not. The thing about Mercedes is she needs that championship to be relevant. The championship makes Mercedes Vargas, but me? I make the championship.”
She turned her head towards Darian with a smile.
“The landscape of the Bombshell Internet Division will be changing soon.” said Victoria “There will be no more revolving door of champions who can't keep the thing for more than a few weeks. I will be the constant that the championship has needed for a long time.“
“So no mercy?” Darian grinned
“Mercy?” Victoria chuckled to herself with a smile “Mercedes deserves no mercy. She's had her spotlight. I'm not coming to add another chapter to her book, I'm coming to close it.”
“That's my queen.” Darian smiled.
“I'm not just coming to win the Internet Championship, Dare Bear.” Victoria said "I'm coming to redefine it. I'm going to remind people what dominance feels like. The Bombshell locker room won't have to think about who happens to have the Internet Championship this week, they'll know it belongs to me.”
She smiles confidently.
“So Harper can keep throwing tantrums online.” Victoria said “Mercedes can keep trying to play her game of lose one win one. So when the smoke settles, and I rise as the new Bombshell Internet Champion, they will both realize they were just keeping my seat warm.”
“You never stop do you?” Darian smirked.
“Why would I?” she replied grabbing the remote, “Winning is all about keeping your rhythm.”
She scrolled through the Netflix queue some more before finally stopping on Halloween Kills.
“This is the one.” she said.
“Works for me." Darian smiled.
As the universal logo faded in, the glow of the TV danced across their faces as the two snuggled up close together. Tonight was a romantic evening and horror movies with her Dare Bear, a true calm before the storm that she intended to bring at High Stakes.
__________
The family home hadn't changed in years her mother still had the same curtains up, and the mantlepiece was decorated with the same candles and family portraits that it had gathered over the years.
There were pictures of her parents' wedding, several of her and Vincent as children, and even a couple of Eddie.
She grabbed one of the family on a fishing trip and looked at it with a smile, Vincent was holding a large fish he had caught and of course he had his arm around their mother. She was on the opposite end, hanging off her father's arm.
“How come you never redecorated?” she said setting the picture back down, turning to her mother who had emerged from the kitchen with two cups of coffee.
“I like keeping things how they were.” her mother said “Somehow makes the house feel less empty.”
Victoria sat across from her mother and took a sip of the warm coffee. She watched her mother's gaze shift to the pictures on the mantelpiece.
“Feels like yesterday this house used to be nothing but noise.” her mother said “You and your brother fighting one minute, and then laughing the next. I miss it. It's just so quiet around here now.”
“Well, we couldn't live here forever mom.” Victoria said.
“I know…” her mother replied “You and your brother live your own lives now. It's just we don't have your father anymore either, so I just.. I get lonely.”
“You know you can come visit at anytime.” Victoria “I'm just not sure you'd like the noise of my life.”
“I can handle the noise.” her mother said “It's the distance, both of you have started to drift so far away…. especially from each other.”
“Oh is that what this is..?” Victoria's sighed.
“I'm just saying maybe you could pick up the phone.” she said “Vincent's going through a lot he could use his sister right now.”
“He's the one that pushed me away first!” said Victoria.
“Like I told you he's going through a lot.” her mother said “Maybe he said some things he didn't mean. You allowed him to push you away.”
“That's not fair!” Victoria replied. "You always do this! You always protect him!”
“That's not true.” her mother replied
“Yes it is!” Victoria insisted. "While dad was teaching me how to take on the world, you were busy pampering your baby boy.”
“Your father also let you get away with everything because you were his baby girl.” her mother said, eyes narrowing. "If your brother broke a rule, he got grounded for a week. You break the same rule and all you’d have to do is smile and he'd bend.”
“That's called charm.” Victoria said, lowering her voice looking her mother directly in the eyes. “Just one of my many talents”
Her mother sighed softly, shaking her head “But charm won't always get you through life Victoria.”
“It's got me this far.” Victoria replied “And I'm not planning on slowing down now. Not for Vincent, not for anyone.”
“Or maybe that's the problem.” her mother replied “You want to keep climbing higher, but you forget the people who helped you start to climb in the first place.”
Victoria looked at her mother with a look of defiance.
“People didn't help me get anywhere mom.” she said “No one handed me a damn thing I made my own way.“
“He's still your brother.” her mother said
“Who made the decision that he didn't want me around.” Victoria interrupted “I tried to reach out but he keeps making me feel like the villain, so I'm not going to go out there and chase him down to apologize for something I didn't do.”
“You both lost your father.” her mother replied “And that kind of pain can change people, you shut down in your own way after it too. Over the years, it's changed you both.”
“Maybe..” said Victoria “But I used it to strengthen myself, Vincent's the one that uses it as an excuse.”
“You're a lot like him, you know..” her mother said “Your father, you have the same need to prove yourself but your father also knew when to stop fighting. Need to be proud of you and all you've accomplished but he would also tell you to slow down and enjoy the view every once in a while.”
“He also taught me to never back down.” Victoria replied.
“Promise me you'll call your brother.” her mother said “And don't move too fast with that Darian just take it one step at a time.”
Victoria frowned.
“Vincent has a phone. He can call me.” Victoria said “And you don't worry about Darian he gets me. Him and I will be just fine. In fact I should probably go anyway, she's waiting for me."
Victoria drink the last sip of her coffee and set the cup down on the table.
“Thanks for the coffee mom.” she said as she stood up and walked to the door.
She got to her car started it and then headed off down the road, her irritation with her mother had only fed her fire and that fire was going to spread right across Mercedes Vargas and Harper Mason.
__________
Darkness surrounds Victoria Lyons as the cameras open, the faint outline of smoke filters behind as her voice cuts through the quiet with the precision of a blade.
“You ever notice how those who scream the loudest about fairness tend to be the ones least equipped to deal with reality?” she said with a cold tone “They always paint themselves as victims of circumstance, like they were some martyr to some grand injustice. When the truth is, they were never strong enough to take what they wanted in the first place.”
She smirks.
“That's Harper Mason in a nutshell.” she said “A little birdie chirping about how unfair it is that I found my way into this match. Because she was supposed to have her big one-on-one and she earned this moment.”
Victoria laughs and shrugs nonchalantly.
“Newsflash Harper.” Victoria said “You didn't get cheated, you got out played. The universe doesn't reward those who play fair. You have to take matters into your own hands, and take what you want if you want to be successful.”
She takes a few steps closer to the camera, keeping a steady gaze on the lens.
“See when my high stakes journey didn't go as planned.” Victoria said “I didn't make excuses or complain about it, I just found another path because that's what predators do. If one trail goes cold we find another that leads us to a feast.”
She licks her lips and in a seductive yet cruel way.
“You would have sat around and waited.” said Victoria “Hoping that someone would come along and offer you a second chance. But I'm not someone who waits. I sought out my second chance, and I took it.”
A faint smirk creeps across her face.
“You should have seen the look on your face when I dropped you with the Lions paw.” Victoria grinned “I could practically taste the fear, the moment you realized that all your pretty little dreams about being next in line just went up in smoke.”
She pauses shortly.
“You couldn't even capitalize on the biggest win of your career.” said Victoria “You ended the greatest Bombshell Roulette Championship reign of all time, my reign. But then you couldn't handle the pressure. You lost that championship before you could even make your victory matter. That makes you a placeholder, not a champion.”
That ever familiar arrogant smirk creeps across her face again.
“You had every opportunity to make something of yourself.” said Victoria “A huge win, a championship, and you failed. Should lightning strike twice, and you somehow walk away as Bombshell Internet Champion, who's to say that won't happen again?”
She looks into the camera as if waiting for a response.
“Of course there's the matter of the champion herself, Mercedes Vargas.” Victoria continued “Mercedes, you and I don't have to like each other to understand one another. You at least know how to act like a proper champion. That's why I don't hear you whining and complaining like Harper. You may not like this new development but like a champion you're ready to embrace whatever's thrown your way. The thing you lack is consistency.”
She pauses, keeping her attention on the camera.
“You are the champion, you're not the champion, you're the champion again, then you're not, then you are once more. That's been your cycle lately hasn't it Mercedes?” Victoria continued “You just can't seem to keep a hold on that championship for more than a couple of months before you need to win it back. When I was roulette champion I was the constant in that division for an entire year. I made the championship mean something and then Harper pissed it all away.”
She shakes her head, disappointed.
“But that's between Harper and myself.” said Victoria “As far as you're concerned Mercedes, I know you've built your legend on blood and persistence and that is something I can respect. Your iron will has led you to multiple championships over your career.”
She grins into the camera.
“But even iron rusts when it's out in the rain too long.” she said “And it's been raining on you for a while Mercedes. You spent so long cleaning into your past glory days, you don't even see how close to thunder is. You don't realize that I'm the storm that finally washes you away.”
She tilts her head at the camera.
"Over the years Mercedes, your hunger turned to habit." said Victoria "And now you wear the Championship like an heirloom instead of a weapon. I'm not looking to hold the Bombshell Internet Championship like some sort of prize, I'm coming to consume it and make it part of me. Just like I did with the Bombshell Roulette Championship I'm going to etch my name into the Bombshell Internet Championship so deep it will never forget the taste of my hands.”
She takes a couple precise steps closer to the camera.
“This isn't about any sort of validation for myself.” [/color]she said “It's about control of the conversation, and control of the entire division. Whether they admit it or not, every Bombshell in this company looks at me and knows what I represent, the cold-hearted truth that the world doesn't reward the kind-hearted or deserving.”
She pauses for a beat.
“The world rewards the relentless.” Victoria said “That's why I always come out ahead in the end. I'm not chasing a fairy tale ending I'm going to craft an Empire of inevitability.”
She smirks arrogantly.
“My father used to tell me that a lion doesn't need permission to hunt.” she said “And that's something that's stuck with me. I hear his voice in the back of my mind when I see Harper Mason crying about what's fair, or Mercedes Vargas leaning on her legacy. A lion doesn't wait for the jungle to approve of its actions, a lion just takes, and that's what I've done my entire life.”
She keeps her words firm and confident.
“I have no doubt that Harper Mason will come out swinging with all the heart in the world.” she said “But hearts are soft and hearts get crushed. When I crush hers maybe she'll finally understand what I've been saying all along about how this business doesn't reward those who play nice “
She pauses.
“Mercedes will come out methodical and calculated.” she said “She'll think she read me because she feels like she's seen every kind of opponent by now, and maybe she has. But she's never been ready for me in the past and she's not going to be ready for me now. I'm not some little girl chasing relevance and I'm not a veteran clinging to legacy. I'm the next inevitable thing.”
She keeps a strong confident gaze on the camera.
“You both like to talk about legacy and opportunity.” she said “But what you both want is validation, that's what drives you isn't it? Harper you want to prove you belong here, and Mercedes you want to prove you still got it. I don't need to prove anything to anybody. I'm here to take what I know I deserve.”
She takes another short moment to pause.
"Harper Mason you can keep trying to convince everyone you're more than just a moment she said but you can't even convince yourself of that can you?" she said. "Even with your big win over me, you're nothing but a footnote in my story. You're not the woman who defeated me for the Bombshell Roulette Championship, you're the one who lost it the moment you stepped out of my shadow.”
She takes another slow step toward the camera.
“And you Mercedes, your survival turned into stagnation.” she said “You used to be dangerous but now you're just familiar. You built an entire empire on being the veteran standard, or some sort of measuring stick and you don't even realize you've been measured. That's why you have to win the same title over and over again because you've got nothing left to chase, you don't rule perra, you recycle.”
She laughs softly to herself behind an arrogant smile.
“When the bell rings Harper will be the first to crumble because she's all heart and no spine.” said Victoria “Mercedes will fight harder because she has pride and her own legacy to worry about. But she will repeat the pattern and lose her Championship here to me only this time I break the cycle and she won't be getting it back.”
Her expression hardens completely.
“After High Stakes there won't be debates about who deserves what.” she said "Or the same old lines about longevity. There will only be me standing with the Bombshell Internet Championship in my hand. I don't chase moments, I make them and this one belongs to me.”
That smirk grows on her face as sharp as ever.
“Ladies..” she said “Consider this your warning that you had better…..be prepared.”
She pulls her spiked glove, The lion's paw out of a pocket and puts it on. She licks some of the barbs and winks to the camera has everything fades to black.