[Jessie Salco]

 Despite everything against her team and the fact that her Roulette Title was on the line the team of Jessie Salco and Nicolas L Blair defeated Xander Bishop and Chelsea Payne to advance to the second round of the Blast from the Past Tournament with Nicolas getting the win over Xander and subsequently breaking Xander’s ankle sending him packing from SCW in the process, the first round ended that night and whilst Jessie was wondering who she would face in the next round going as far as to weigh her second round options during a seg in last week’s Climax Control she was also wondering if she would have to defend the title again.

She wouldn’t and she couldn’t be happier, this week the second half of the second round was kicking off and the first match of the night’s Blast from the Past matches saw Jessie and Nicolas taking on Brother Grimm and SCW veteran Misty, Jessie and Misty had quite the history but it was very one sided in Misty’s favor as the veteran had three wins, two in SCW and one during the NEWA Super J Cup, over Jessie whilst Jessie had none but that was a few years ago and whilst Misty has largely retired from wrestling the same couldn’t be said for Jessie who had been competing in SCW consistently for the past five years or so, that left a lot of room for improvement for the young Bombshell but was it enough to secure her spot in round three of the tournament?

Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC
Friday the 21st of April 2017, 11:00am

I often said that the only museum I’d even be remotely interested in going too was the Smithsonian in Washington DC and well, here we are!

Okay, there’s a bit more to it than that, we had been debating on what we should do whilst we were in our Nation’s Capital all week and we went through a couple of different options.

Option one: laugh at Steve for his mishap with Kaylee, we dismissed that because, as much as we hate Steve, the male pain would’ve been too much for Jake and Shane to bear, option two: go on a tour of the White House which we dismissed almost immediately because we’d be too tempted to try to take Donald Trump’s life and as Jake pointed out, we’re not Nightcrawler in the second X-Men movie and the secret service would stop us before we got anywhere near the oval office.

The third option led us here to the Smithsonian Museum which is appropriate considering that my opponents practically belong in a museum of washed up wrestlers as my next opponents in the Blast from the Past Tournament are Brother Grimm and Misty, I’ll be the first to admit that my track record against Misty back when she was an active wrestler wasn’t that great to put it lightly but you want to know the difference between then and now?

Misty retired, I kept wrestling!

I’ll go into more detail once I start my trash talk but as I just said me, Jake and Shane are at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum here in Washington DC and as I said before this was pretty much the only museum in the world that I want to visit, why? Because we make fun of it so often during games of Cards against Humanity that it only seemed right that we visit it whilst SCW’s on tour in Washington.

Yeah, I know that’s a lame excuse to go to one of the most famous museums in the world but hey, at least it’s better than the name for my short lived open challenge idea!

“Wait, they’ve got a section on dogs?” I heard Shane’s excited voice rang out from another part of the museum, yeah encase you can’t tell he’s a dog lover. “And this trip just got a lot more interesting.”

“At least we won’t be as a bored as we were during the whale watching cruise.” I responded with a grin as me and Jake, who rolled his eyes at my comment on his idea of a good time, entered that particular area, there were no real-life dogs in the area, just plastic models in display cases and it seemed to be more about the different breeds through the ages. “Then again, if I wanted to look at dogs I’d just visit that dog park near our home back in Vegas.”

“True but we’re not going back to Vegas until after Into the Void.” Shane pointed out and I nodded in response as he read the description of a dog breed on display. “Besides, despite being a dog park that place stinks because they didn’t put enough bins for dog waste.”

“He’s got you there Jessie.” Jake responded with a nod as he folded his arms. “By the way, you remember Paulie from the last season of Hell’s Kitchen?”

“I remember him starting off nice enough but ending up being a massive asshole as the season went on.” Shane responded with a nod as we looked up to him. “Why do you ask?”

“He’s been found dead.” Jake responded and we did a double take in response. “No official cause of death yet but considering that he was thirty-six I doubt it was natural causes.”

“Yeah, no shit.” Shane nodded in response as he rubbed the back of his awkwardly. “And I just spoke ill off the dead, great!”

“To be fair, you didn’t know he was dead until after you said that.” Jake pointed out and we nodded in agreement, we continued the tour of the museum for a few more minutes but once we had visited all the areas in the museum we decided that it was time to go. “So, what’s next? Are we heading out to find a place to eat?”

“Sounds like a plan to me.” Shane nodded in agreement before they turned to me, the museum wasn’t that busy at this time of day so it was a good place to do a promo. “You want to do your promo whilst we head outside?”

“Sounds good, I’ll meet you guys outside.” I nodded in agreement and they walked off towards the exit, once I found a spot in the museum where no one else was around I decided to start my promo.

“Everyone said that we couldn’t do it, that we couldn’t make it past the first round and that I couldn’t defend my title for the second time.” I said before holding up the title with a grin on my face. “I do love shutting up the haters so much! Not only am I still the champion but me and Nicolas are through to the second round of the Blast from the Past Tournament and you know, it’s kinda appropriate that I’m conducting my promo from a museum because my opponents are relics off the past!”

There, I said it.

“This week me and Nicolas are facing Brother Grimm and Misty to determine who else goes through to the third round alongside the teams that qualified last week, through in the fact that Amy is taking on Ben Jordan and Sam Marlowe in her team’s match and, well, this week’s Blast from the Past Matches are going to steal to the show much like how Donald Trump stole the election last year! And now that the obligatory political joke is out of the way, let’s get started on some trash talk!”

Starting with Brother Grimm.

“I have plenty to say about Misty but I’m saving her for last, Grimm I can only think of two people in SCW who ever took you seriously and they are Jason Adams and Tim Staggs, otherwise? You’re about as ridiculous as the #RageGotScrewed hashtag that I’ve been seeing on Twitter since last week’s Climax Control went off the air! Ohhhh, you’re a big spooky dude who uses bad special effects and creepy children to make your opponent’s shit themselves, I’m so scared, not!”

And I thought the Mean Girls where unoriginal.

“I’ve seen thousands of wrestlers do the exact same cliché bullshit as you since I started watching wrestling and it’s about as scary to me as one of those haunted house rides that you see at every other fair in some small town that no one’s heard off! Well, that or the later Saw Sequels and guess what? Once Nicolas is done with you Grimm you’ll look like one of Jigsaw’s victims!”

Next up is Misty.

“What’s the matter Misty? Was winning one Blast from the Past Tournament not good enough for you? Hell, you retired after you won your first tournament a couple of years ago but apparently, you couldn’t leave it be, could you? You had to come back and steal the spotlight from younger, more deserving talent like me and your first-round opponent Polly Playtime, I get that you’re the original bombshell and all but you need to let go off the past and accept that the current generation of Bombshells has passed you by!”

At least Vixen only came back for one match!

“I know what you’re thinking, that’s big talk coming from someone who I’ve beaten three times and that is true, you hold three victories over me but those three victories where way because in 2012 and 2013, back when I was still a rookie in the business and I took you to the limit the last time we met after the Team Erick debacle, here’s where things deviate a bit because as I said before, you retired after you won the Blast from the Past Tournament in 2015 whilst I kept wrestling and improving, I’m not the same Bombshell I was when we last fought Misty and just to clarify something, when I said that I’m glad my title’s not on the line, it wasn’t because I knew I couldn’t beat you, it was because I didn’t want to embarrass an SCW legend with my title on the line! But I’ll make do this Sunday when I beat you to advance!”

And with that I decided to wrap things up.

“It’s appropriate that I’m conducting this promo from a museum because as far as I’m concerned this is where Brother Grimm and Misty belong, not stealing the spotlight from younger, more deserving talent who have actually stuck around as opposed to disappearing and retiring respectively! You guys may be veterans and I may be teaming with a veteran but this Sunday not only will I show Misty just how much I’ve improved as a wrestler since she retired by beating her but Nicolas will kick Brother Grimm’s albino ass as well! This is the Heavy Metal Angel Jessie Salco signing off, better start searching for a retirement home Misty, that’s all I’m saying!”

I walked off as the scene fades.