"Wrestling?" Mackenzie Page's voice can be heard saying above a crowd "Of all the hair brained ideas Danny has had, this one has to be way up there."
The camera starts on a very busy Bethnal Green Road, as Mackenzie Page and Charlotte Elliot walk through the street market. Yes ladies and gentlemen, we have gone back six months ago, the ladies have been told the plan.
"Well." Charlotte says "There has been worse ideas out there. Beside, I heard this one has something to do with Henry."
An eye roll comes from the jeans claded hot headed blonde Mackenzie.
"That boy should stick to making tea and not listening in on everything." Mackenzie says firmly "But I still think Danny must have had a little meet up with Reggie King over in Brixton for a puff of the green stuff before making his mind up with this little venture."
The two walk past the busy market holders, selling everything from materials to fruit and veg.
"You know Danny doesn't touch that shit." Charlotte tells the older woman.
"You don't have to touch that shit." Mackenzie replies sarcastically "You only have to get within ten feet of one of Reggie men, and you get the urge to put your hair in dreadlocks and sing Bob Marley songs."
That comment pulls a smile on to the face of Charlotte as she moves past more of the crowd. Charlotte looks across at her slightly shorter friend.
"It's not a bad idea when you really think about it" Charlotte tells her.
A frown crosses the face of the blonde as she looks towards the woman on her right hand side, her eyes narrowed as she looks at her.
"Not a bad idea?" She says with a tone of surprise in her voice. "Have you been over near Reggie's men too or something."
A shake of Charlotte's head greets Mackenzie's surprised tone.
"Hear me out, Kenz." Charlotte says calmly "We end up in a country all legit and shit, and we can get involved in that casino business out there. Those things are gold mines, turn over millions every week. Now we get a slice of those millions. By the end of it, we have so much cash on the hip, we could buy the whole of London and still by a place in the country. All we have to do is turn up and punch people in the face once every couple of weeks, the rest of the time, it's business of usual. When have you never wanted to punch someone in the chops?"
Mackenzie stops, causing her dark haired friend to stop next to her and looks at her. The blonde taps her chin as she looks at her.
"You raise a good point." She says slowly, yet unsure of herself "But if it doesn't work out, say big mouths start talking, people do a little digging, we're proper fucked, Charley."
Charlotte puts a reassuring hand on Mackenzie's shoulder as she looks at her.
"When has Danny ever done anything without thinking it through first?" Charlotte says softly. "Everything he's ever done, he's done it with a lot of thought, looked over every little detail. Him and Os have probably been reading up on everything on the plane ride over. He probably knows the ins and outs of the whole damn business by now knowing him."
"You're right." Mackenzie concedes. "But seriously, wrestling? I've never watched that shit in my life. It's like Eastenders with chairs and face paint."
Another smile crosses the face of Charlotte as the two start to move through the crowd again.
"Well the way I see it." Charlotte starts "He's been in America for a day, he's got to find the guy who runs the place and if he can get him to agree to whatever he wants, he's gotta have a little walk around to find a trainer, and then get them to agree. If it looks like he's having no luck, then he'll be back home and thinking of another way for us to sneak in under the radar."
"Being on television is hardly sneaking in under the radar." Mackenzie points out
"But it sure as hell gives a little distraction, doesn't it?" Charlotte quickly fires back "It's America, the country that gave the world shit like The Kardashians. They're famous for the sake of being famous, no one gives a shit if they're having coke parties and other dodgy stuff. They're too busy at seeing what they're wearing to give a monkeys about what they might be doing when the cameras are not on them. They make people look at one hand while their other hand is doing something else."
"Probably tossing off some TV guy under a desk to put more shit shows on the box." Mackenzie says seriously.
"More than likely." Charlotte agrees "But still, it's a good way for people to look at what we want them to see. It's not rocket science."
"Probably a good thing. I don't think Os could understand what rocket science is." Mackenzie replies.
The two share a smile as they stop outside a bookmakers.
"But until then Charley, it's business as usual." Mackenzie says as she looks firmly at Charlotte. "Bet ya a tenner he runs."
"You're on." Charlotte replies.
Mackenzie walks towards a little alleyway, next to the bookmakers and disappears down the side turning. Charlotte walks towards the door, looking around the room where people can place bets on most sports. Charlotte's eyes dart around to see the person she's looking for, a man in his twenties, wearing a flat cap on his head. Charlotte starts to approach him, but the man catches a glimpse of the dark haired woman out of the corner of his eye.
"Oh shit!" The man says loudly.
The man forces himself through a side door as Charlotte rolls her eyes.
"Big mistake Billy." She mutters to herself.
Charlotte walks through the same door as the cameras follow Billy, charging like a bull to a red rag through the building, past an office and through an emergency exit and in to the alleyway, only to be met with a plank of wood to the face, sending him to the damp floor. The image of Mackenzie's face starts to form through his blurred vision as she leans over him.
"You've just won me a tenner." She says looking down at him with a smile. "Thank Billy."
Billy groans as she drops the plank of wood next to him and pulls him to his feet, pushing his back against the a worn brick wall and holds him there. Charlotte walks through the fire exit and looks to her left, where a detained Billy is held against the wall. Charlotte disappointingly shakes her head at him.
"Pay up Charley." Mackenzie says with a smile.
Charlotte sighs as she reaches in to her jeans pocket and pulls out a ten pound note, slipping it inside Mackenzie's pocket. She turns her head towards Billy.
"There's two things I don't like in this world Billy." She says holding up two fingers for emphasis "Running in heels and losing money to Kenz here and in the space of twenty seconds, you've made me do both and that does not make me a happy bunny. It's made me so unhappy, I'm almost half tempted to let Kenz here go to town on ya."
Mackenzie grips her hands tighter on to Billy's jacket, the fog of his earlier head meets wood moment, starting to clear.
"I I I..." He stumbles out. "It was..."
"Shut the fuck up Billy. No one said you could talk." Mackenzie barks at him. "One more word out of you without us saying you can talk and I will turn your bollocks in to a bow tie and think nothing of it!"
Mackenzie grits her teeth as she looks at Billy firmly in the eye.
"You made this very difficult for yourself Billy." Charlotte adds with a wave of her finger. "Here we are, just two women out doing girly stuff when we hear you're in the area. We hear that you're smashing the bookies for fun and then we remember just how much money you owe our boss. Now he loaned you that money to dig yourself out of a hole, to stop other people trying to break your kneecaps and you swore blind that your gambling days was done. You told our boss that you was gonna go to work, pay us off and live a normal live. Then we hear this, we hear that you're back in the bookies and for the first time in your life, you're having a little bit of luck, yet no money is coming back our way. I find that a little rude, don't you Kenz?"
Mackenzie doesn't take her eyes off of Billy, her stare still burning a hole in his very soul.
"Very rude." She agrees "So rude, I think I should break his fucking kneecaps, just like the others would have done if Danny didn't bail him out of trouble."
Charlotte rubs her hand across her chin.
"That's not the worst idea you've ever had." Charlotte says as the grip around Billy tightens from Mackenzie, causing an even more fearful look to cross his face. "But I think we should hear Billy's side of the story."
Charlotte looks at him but Billy remains silent. Mackenzie rolls her eyes.
"This is where you talk idiot!" Mackenzie orders.
"Uhhhh" Billy starts. "I umm, got this great tip, and it was too good to turn down, and it won, and I got another great tip and it won."
"Slippery slide Billy." Charlotte tells him "But you didn't think about paying back what you owed before it got you put in hospital? Didn't you learn a single thing from the last people you got in debt with? Didn't you think for a micro second that getting in debt before nearly cost you the use of your legs? It's common sense you idiot. Kenz is itching to smash someone up, she lives for the days when someone like you fails to pay up so she can punch her initials in to someone."
Charlotte looks across at Mackenzie who smiles while looking at Billy.
"I mean that literally." Charlotte says calmly "She will hold you down and punch her initials in to you, leaving a giant M in bruises on your back. I've seen it, it's not pretty, and looks pretty painful from this side of the table."
"I was just gonna bet on one more race." Billy stumbles out. "And then I would have the money to pay you back, interest an' all. No messing, I woulda had it all. If you let me go back in there and bet all I have on this dead cert, I will pay you back right away."
Charlotte looks at Mackenzie and shrugs.
"Seems reasonable" Charlotte says casually.
"Really?" Billy says with a smile forming on his face.
"No, you fucking idiot!" Mackenzie yells at him.
"I will give you a choice Billy, a chance to decide your own little future." Charlotte tells him. "You can pay up what you can right now, call it a sign of good faith and we'll give you a little time for the rest, or you can go back in there, back the horse and pay back everything you know, and you'll never have to see Mackenzie's happy face again, but if that horse loses, there won't be a happy face holding you against the wall, there will be a very angry face, and it will get more and more angrier with every punch she lays in to you. You won't have money to gamble again because your dentist will take up every penny you have to fix that grill of yours. Choice is yours."
"Money is in my back pocket." He says softly.
Charlotte reaches in to his back pocket and pulls out a wad of notes and starts to look at it, her thumb flicking through the notes as she counts. She places it in her pocket and looks across at him.
"Looks like you've been a lucky boy lately, cause that will cover the loan, but someone will be around to see you about the interest. It's a shame, because now I probably need to go cheer her up for not getting to hit you." Charlotte tells him firmly before looking at Mackenzie "Heel attack dog! heel."
Mackenzie fires a smiling Charlotte a glance.
"Still gonna hit him." Mackenzie says with a grin.
Mackenzie lifts her knee, connecting directly with Billy's crotch, sending him doubled over as she releases him and watches him crumble to his knees.
"Overkill much?" Charlotte asks as the two walk away from the alleyway and towards the main street.
"No." Mackenzie replies. "I nearly got a splinter picking up that lump of wood, that equals a knee to the bollocks in my world."
Before the two reaches the busy street, a phone in Charlotte's pocket starts to ring and she quickly reaches in to see a facetime call from Daniel Morgan. Without hesitation, Charlotte hits the accept button and the screen lights up. Daniel is seen sitting by a pool, his shirt off and just black shorts on, as Osbourne sits in a seat opposite him, a buttoned up shirt can be seen on him but no jacket, the shirt unbuttoned at the collar.
"Well, looks like you ladies don't exactly have an exotic location there." Daniel says as he observes the scene that he can see.
"We just bumped in to Billy." Charlotte tells her boss "And he made a contribution to the Christmas fund."
"He ran, didn't he?" Daniel says with a smile "How much she pay ya, Kenz?"
Mackenzie taps her pocket as she moves her head in to the camera shot.
"Easy tenner." Mackenzie says with a smile, much to Charlotte's dismay. "She'll never learn. Any progress over there? Or is this just a jolly boys outing?"
Daniel reaches over and picks up a drink from the table, a bottle of beer and raising it to his lips, taking a sip before looking back at his phone.
"Darlin' I've made a lot of progress." Daniel says with a confident look on his face. "I met with that boss fella yesterday, and he gave us a little time to get the gaff in order. This morning, Os and I went and had a little chin wag with some fella and his missus, who has for a little extra bread, agreed to train all of us."
"You did that in twenty four hours?" Charlotte asks.
"That we did." Daniel replies. "Two top trainers with a growing reputation. Got some mad Aussie on their books, as well as some bird from New Orleans, plus a couple of brothers training part time, but I think the wedge we offered in cash made a little space."
"What's their names?" Mackenzie asks "I like to know who I'm working with boss."
"Their names are Gabriel and Odette Stevens, look 'em up on ya way over here." Daniel tells them.
"Way over?" Charlotte says slowly. "You mean...?"
"My brother already has the call to sit on the big chair while I'm gone, his crew will be covering you two." Daniel tells them. "Move ya arses ladies, you're about to have a wander around the city of Sin..."
Six months goes by so fast...
We join the two ladies overlooking the river Themes, high above the bustling life below them. The overcast weather doesn't seem to put the two off as they look around, brown folders on a table in front of them, just as you saw in the earlier promo the male side of the group. Mackenzie looks down at them, running her fingers along the top of them.
"I can't believe we're about to get on a fucking plane to go to New Zealand to kick the shit out of people we've never met before." Mackenzie says, looking at the folders.
"Well thanks to Henry's work, they're not exactly random people." Charlotte says back. "Should probably look at these things. Danny and Os are on their way to pick us up for that flight."
Mackenzie opens the first folder, taking a look inside as she slides it towards Charlotte, who looks at it.
"And who do we have first?" She says to herself. "Heavy Metal Mania? These two look like they need more than a bit of slap on their faces. Full blown make over for these two. I'm not even sure what they're meant to be, but the words bat shit crazy seems to be written on this page a boat load of times."
"Behave. These two are no different from the people who like to go out and get pissed up at a weekend and start a punch up in a boozer just because they can." Mackenzie adds "Can be as nutty as squirrel shit for all I care. I don't fear anyone and I sure as shit don't fear these two. Looks like they like a weapon or two, sign of weakness. I mean if you can't use ya fists, than you have no worth to me at all. Anyone who has to use weapons this often are basically pussies who can't throw a punch properly. Anyone can go out tooled up, it's no satisfaction telling people you beat someone up with a baseball bat, telling people you smashed their faces in with just your fists, that puts a smile on the face. Knowing you're better than someone cause you've got better fists shows how good you are. These two are just weak as water. Others might fear them, I do not. Fuck 'em."
"Couldn't have put that one better myself." Charlotte says as she reaches for the next folder and flips open the top to reveal the next set of names "The Angel Clan."
"That's original." Says the sarcastic Mackenzie as she rolls her eyes.
"Mother and daughter team." Charlotte says "What kind of mother would let her daughter put herself in harms way? Seriously, that's fucked in the head. You're meant to protect your kids, not take someone who is barely able to ride the rides at Disneyland, who is still less than a hundred pounds wet and put them in a place where people like us can kick the daylights out of them. The girl is barely five Subway foot longs tall and you put her in a situation like this? This is piss poor parenting and it might take someone like us to come along and open mother dearest's eyes to show her that she should be getting calls from social services."
"She's so tiny, I could use her like a fucking lawn dart." Mackenzie comments as she looks over the file. "Her mum's a wrestler, her dad's a wrestler, can you say pushy parents much? These ain't much of a worry for me. I think I might go slap some sense in to this Melanie brass to tell her you don't put your kids in harms way like that. Those two metal freaks against a little girl barely out of school, throw us in there, she's in serious amounts of trouble. Also, what the fuck is Magi-Blood? Sounds like some Harry Potter shit, and people need to know, Harry Potter ain't real. The fuck goes through these people's minds?"
"Damned if I know." Charlotte comments with a shrug. "But these people really need to get their heads checked out."
Charlotte tosses the folder to one side as Mackenzie looks at the next one, rolling her eyes.
"Are you for real?" She says surprised "Like are you for fucking real?"
"What?" Charlotte asks curiously.
"More fucking metal people!" Mackenzie says through gritted teeth. "What the actual fuck? Does whoever does the hiring around here have a hardon for a shit music genre? The Metal and Punk Connection, Amy Marshall..."
"The gross tattooed porn star, with a snatch like raw chicken?" Charlotte says.
"How would you know that?" Mackenzie asks with a raised eyebrow and a smirk.
"I've been down Soho" Charlotte replies. "Remember that time when Danny got us to collect from dirty Barry in his little seedy shop?"
"Ah yeah." Mackenzie replies.
"Well that tarts movies was on special offer." Charlotte says firmly "Couldn't give 'em away, but the posters were there for all to see. We're facing her? Does this company just hire anyone? Seriously, I get to beat up a C list porn star. I've had worse days in the office."
"Her partner is another metal head, Jessie Salco." Mackenzie says with a sigh. "Seriously, metal is the worst kind of music in the world. I could go in the kitchen, smash a few pots, sound like I'm possessed by the devil and call it a metal album. If I wanted a headache, I would rather smash my head on a wall repeatedly rather than listen to thirty seconds of a metal song. Seems like her whole life is based around this shit. Listening to that shit is not gonna stop us from beating the hell out of her."
"Must have missed that question on the form to sign up for SCW." Charlotte says with a shrug "Do you listen to music that sounds like it's made by a screaming child throwing it's toys around. If yes, congrats, you're hired."
"Talking about these two are giving me a headache. What else we got?" Mackenzie asks.
Charlotte pushes the next folder in front of Mackenzie, who opens it up to see who's next.
"You wouldn't believe it if I told you." Mackenzie says with a shake of her head.
"Try me." Charlotte fires back.
"The lead singer of a punk band called Kate Steele." Mackenzie replies as she drops her head "Teamed with a nurse called Cindy Warren."
Charlotte raises an eyebrow.
"You're taking the piss right now, ain't ya?" Charlotte says as Mackenzie shakes her head. "So far in this match, you're saying we have three people base themselves on metal music, two who base themselves on punk, an irresponsible mother, a little girl who clearly thinks Harry Potter is real and a nurse?"
Mackenzie nods her head as her disbelieving partner.
"You couldn't get this kinda freak show at a carnival." Charlotte comments "Seriously ridiculous shit going on here. I've never heard of this Kate Steele person, so her band can't be that good, so I can only presume she's not too good at this wrestling shit either. Also why would a nurse want to hurt people. She don't get paid by the people she treats so why would she need to go against everything she trained for to actually try and hurt people? That makes no sense at all."
"Doesn't matter if they make sense. I'm still gonna hurt the pair of them." Mackenzie replies "Who helps the nurse when the nurse gets herself beaten up? This is something we're gonna find out."
"They just feel like a team thrown together cause they want the gold." Charlotte says "Pair of gold whores or something like that. It's like putting strawberry jam on a bacon sandwich. It doesn't mix, it doesn't work. It's obvious what their motivation is."
"I think you're right, these two haven't teamed here before apparently." Mackenzie says as she reads their file "If they have, it's been a while cause no one seems to remember. Fuck these two, let them get blinded by the prize and we'll catch them off guard."
Charlotte flips the last file open to read about the last team.
"Unbelievable." Charlotte says as she shakes her head. "Not only do we have three people base themselves on metal music, two who base themselves on punk, an irresponsible mother, a little girl who clearly thinks Harry Potter is real and a nurse, we also have an MMA fighter and wait for it... a vampire."
A roll of the eyes from Mackenzie shows her feelings towards the latest revelation.
"A vampire?" Mackenzie responds "Someone's got a Twilight fetish. You sure there's no women in this match that can build an ice castle or something like the bird from Frozen? Or a green ogre that lives in a swamp? Fucking vampires. I honestly don't know how I'm gonna keep a straight face in this match. I mean how do I look at these people and take them seriously."
"Apparently, little miss MMA wears an eye patch to give her opponents a chance." Charlotte informs Mackenzie.
"She might wanna take that off when she gets in the ring." Mackenzie tells Charlotte "Cause the way I see it, I can rip her other eye out of her skull and get away with it cause apparently, we can't get disqualified in this one. Wonder how she'll do stumbling around the ring with no vision. Let's see what she has to say about that?"
"Well from what Henry has written here, we'll find out what she has to say about that, about two minutes till midnight on EST time on Friday night" Charlotte replies "He says that's the average time you hear from these guys. Maybe it's a vampire getting close to midnight thing."
Charlotte shrugs her shoulders as she looks at Mackenzie.
"It doesn't matter." Mackenzie starts. "Doesn't matter if ya sit there and play with yourself over metal music, punk music, or Harry Potter. It doesn't matter if ya trained for years to help people, if you like running around a cage or if you run around the night, thinking you're a supernatural creature that don't exist, facts are facts that to me, there's just ten other women in the ring to beat up and our prize is a lot of gold."
"What woman doesn't like gold?" Charlotte rhetorically asks.
"Exactly." Mackenzie replies.
A buzzer in the apartment rings through and the two look at each other.
"That will be Danny and Os." Charlotte says as the two stand up. "Time for us to go to New Zealand and come back with some shiny shit."
Mackenzie nods as the two of them enter the apartment and the scene cuts out.
