On-Air
Friday, January 5, 2019
Las Vegas, Nevada
The Pleasure Dome
9:25 AM PST
The camera opens upon a small radio studio with a guy sitting behind the microphone in a black KKMA t-shirt and a pair of black shorts with the Pleasure Dome logo down the seams.
The Host: KKMA, Kiss My Ass Radio, coming to you live from the Pleasure Dome in Las Vegas. Hey, don’t forget to come down and see the talents that will be taking the stage here later on tonight. The ever popular Ivy Storm, Quinn Rains and Holly Dagger will be dancing at 9:15 tonight and that is always a show you don’t wanna miss! Tomorrow night it’ll be the one, the only, Misty Rains making that stage sizzle like no other and if we’re lucky there will be a bonus show this week with our resident Sirens, so stay tuned for full details from right here in the Silver Baron’s House of the Rising Sun!
He pauses to let a station ID play.
The Host: So right now, let’s bring her in. One of the hottest names on the wrestling scene today after she punched her boss in the face, “The Cat” Seleana Zdunich!
Seleana steps into view of the camera wearing a Crystal Hilton t-shirt with a pair of tight blue jeans and prototype crystal high top athletic shoes.
Seleana Zdunich: Tack…
The host takes in the sight before him and nods as if he’s died and gone to heaven with this job.
The Host: Seleana,. As you all no doubt remember, works for Sin City Wrestling and they will be having a major pay-per-view extravaganza coming to you live from the Gold Coast here in Las Vegas next weekend called Inception and Seleana here will be taking on Delia Darling and her wife will face off with Cat Riley and Seleana, I have to ask you, how do you do it?
Seleana frowns in confusion.
Seleana Zdunich: I am sorry?
The host readily, repeatedly as if the question should be obvious.
The Host: How do you do it?
Seleana’s frown deepens.
Seleana Zdunich: I do not follow?
The host simply continues nodding excitedly.
The Host: How do you manage to stay centered and humble with everything that’s being thrown at you on an hourly basis? I mean, you have Delia By God Darling coming in just to fight you for Christian Underwood. This was after you had a handicap hardcore match with the Metal maniacs where they got two have whatever help, fun and toys they wanted involved while you had your wife and stepdaughter banned from the building. You’ve had offers to wrestle for other promotions thrown at you, at least two of which I know you accepted and that doesn’t even start to talk about the opportunities that have to be coming your way in Hollywood!
Seleana shrugs.
Seleana Zdunich: There are some, ja.
The host nods enthusiastically.
The Host: So how do you do it?
Once again, Seleana shrugs, a small smile gracing her face as she does so.
Seleana Zdunich: I do not know any other way to do things. I moved halfway around the world for a job straight out of University. I worked through several positions at Orana Park in Christchurch. Saw my way through the earthquakes, fourth September, 2010, Twenty-second February, 2011 and then thirteenth June, 2011 and all the accompanying challenges because of the damage. We started saying “Kia kaha” then to each other to remind those of us that were left that we had to stay strong and keep going.
The Host: Kia Kaha?
Seleana nods again.
Seleana Zdunich: It is Maori and means “Stay strong.” It became the motto of Christchurch and it is how I live as well. I say it even when i know those who hear will not understand right away.
The host nods slowly.
The Host: So you’d already made one gigantic move and then you made another one?
Seleana smiles.
Seleana Zdunich: Ja, I had grown weary of things in Christchurch and came to the States for a birthday and never leave because I like being around family and I met someone. That did not last long but then Stacy Jones set me up with Christina.
The host nods excitedly, his eyes going wide at the mentioning of Crystal Hilton’s name.
The Host: Crystal Hilton!
Seleana smiles broadly.
The Host: Oh wow, now that is a smile! You look like a schoolgirl right now!
Seleana blushes.
Seleana Zdunich: Tack… Jag tror?
The host just stares at her for a minute.
The Host: My God, she has to love that accent…
Seleana blushes again.
Seleana Zdunich: I like to think so?
The host ad Seleana share a laugh.
The Host: So, talk about your matches at Inception next weekend. Crystal faces Cat Riley and you face Delia Darling.
Seleana nods.
Seleana Zdunich: Both are directly Christian Underwood’s fault. He enjoys poking fun at my wife and I do not know why. First he could not stop himself at any chance he got and then he seemed to enjoy stirring Cat Riley up and making her wait for a match that he knew would not happen right away. At the same time he felt the need to continue to rain on my wife in public in ways that make me question his motives sometimes.
The Host: In what way?
Seleana shrugs.
Seleana Zdunich: I wonder what he gets out of it sometimes. Maybe he gets gratification from manipulating others’ lives because he is unhappy in his own?
The host nods slightly.
The Host: So he caused both of your matches to happen?
Seleana nods in response.
Seleana Zdunich: Cat wanted to face Christina a long time ago but could not because Christina was bust facing another on the show Cat wanted. Now Christina is given the opportunity to show Cat why she must wait for Crystal F**king Hilton, not the other way around.
The Host can’t help but smile at this.
The Host: And he set yours up?
Seleana nods.
Seleana Zdunich: He was not pleased with me so he is setting obstacles to attempt to make my life difficult.
The host giggles knowingly.
The Host: Because you broke his face?
Seleana nods and the host can’t help but laugh.
The Host: Folks, I’m telling you right now! If you can see that clip, it is priceless! The guy starts talking, Seleana barges out, barks at him to stop. He smirks, asks her what she is going to do about it if he doesn’t, gets right up in her grill and Seleana belts him with a right cross that made him ruin his outfit! So he fires you…
Seleana nods.
Seleana Zdunich: Ja…
The Host: And then “Hot Stuff” Mark Ward hires you back the next week and in between, you’ve got NCW making an offer, you’ve got GWW making hay out of it, you’ve got several other companies making overtures to you…
Seleana nods again.
Seleana Zdunich: Ja.
The Host: Then you walk back in and Christian starts coming for you?
Seleana nods.
Seleana Zdunich: Ja, he put me in match where Christian and Brittany were not even allowed in the building. It was supposed to be two on one but it was also under hardcore rules.
The host grins.
The Host: No rules.
Seleana nods again, shrugging slightly.
Seleana Zdunich: So the Metal Maniacs bring weapons, they bring numbers, they bring fire and they bring all they can and they cannot break me! Now he go and get big name Bombshell. Incredible list of credentials just to come in and out me down.
The host nods slowly.
The Host: I cannot wait to see this match! Seleana Zdunich, Delia Darling, SCW Inception, January 13th, The Gold Coast here in Las Vegas! You also get Crystal Hilton versus Cat Riley, which is an incredible grudge fight that’s been waiting to happen for months and a championship unification match between Dani Weston and Alicia Lukas that is gonna be off the hook! Seleana, thank you for being here.
Seleana nods happily.
Seleana Zdunich: Of course, thank you for having me on your show.
The Host: That’s Seleana Zdunich everyone and we’ll be right back with the Bishop of Blood and Carnage himself, the Silver Baron, stop starin! Catch you on the flip side of this breaks, pimps and playas, we out!
Off-Camera
Seleana stands up, shakes the hosts hand and steps out the door into the hallway that leads back to the main area of the Pleasure Dome. As she steps out and looks at the stairs that lead up to the second level, Seleana nods, taking it all in. The Pleasure Dome had a reputation even in Las Vegas. It was run by a half-Canadian, half-Mexican wrestler/pimp named Vega Knight that everyone called the Silver Baron. His security staff was headed by fellow professional wrestlers Warrick Craven and Fraser Freeman, though the Englishman, Freeman, was on an extended leave of absence to deal with an alcohol and anger management problem that had led to several run-ins with various local entities. Somehow, Craven had always managed to soothe things over in the nick of time to keep the place running. As Seleana decides how much longer she should stay here, a dark haired woman wearing an American flag bikini comes walking up to her, a smile apparent on her face even as her pale skin seems to almost glow here.
Seleana Zdunich: Miranda?
The dark-haired woman nods. Seleana had known this woman by name only. She was Miranda Raines, an exotic dancer who happened to eb the cousin of milti-time world champion wrestler, Robbie Priest, and Robbie just happened to be married to Seleana’s cousin, Alexi Zdunich-Priest.
Miranda Raines: Nobody has called me that in years.
The two shake hands and then a quick hug.
Seleana Zdunich: No, what do they call you then, Chickie?
Miranda grins.
Miranda Raines: Misty Rains, though Robbie still calls me Mandy sometimes. Guess he just can’t break old habits sometimes.
Seleana nods knowingly.
Seleana Zdunich: So, you are attraction here?
Miranda shrugs.
Miranda Raines: One of them, I spose. I’ve worked upstairs before, not as often. Never worked the back rooms though. I’m not into cameras like that.
Seleana frowns.
Seleana Zdunich: Cameras?
Miranda nods.
Miranda Raines: Baron started making movies with the girls a couple of years ago right before that company the Knights wrestled for closed.
Seleana nods slowly. The Knights were the Sin City Knights, the tag team the Silver Baron had formed with Freeman and Craven.
Seleana Zdunich: So, you do not simply dance here? I thought this was just big bar and party place?
Miranda nods slowly.
Miranda Raines: It is but…
She cocks her head for a second.
Miranda Raines: Oh God, you don’t know, do you?
Seleana’s frown deepens still.
Seleana Zdunich: I do not know… what?
Miranda glances around the place and then moves her to here fewer people can see her.
Miranda Raines: This is bar, strip club, brothel, porn studio, radio station…
She pauses and ticks off the list in her own head.
Miranda Raines: Baron’s even put in a regular television production studio too. He’s expanded to opening one down in mexico and is gone down there a lot. I heard he was gonna have Freeman open one somewhere basically on his own too. Ricky would basically run this one. “Baron’s Plan For World Domination” he called it. I think if he could find a way to get this place licensed as a dispensary, he would jump on that in a heartbeat.
Seleana looks around and takes the place in.
Seleana Zdunich: I am in a…
Comprehension dawns and she shakes her head.
Seleana Zdunich: I heard stories but I thought they were exaggerated.
Miranda shrugs.
Miranda Raines: You hear about all the drugs too?
Seleana nods.
Seleana Zdunich: I hear stories.
Miranda nods almost apologetically.
Miranda Raines: They’re probably all true to some extent, I’m afraid. There’s a lot of us who enjoy a bit of something and this place practically pays us to party however we want to.
Seleana nods.
Seleana Zdunich: I will have to tell Christina all about this then. It is possible she will be angry with me for coming here.
Miranda frowns.
Miranda Raines: Christina… ?
Seleana nods to her shirt and Miranda’s eyes go wide.
Miranda Raines: Oh, right, your wife!
Miranda stares at the shirt for a few minutes and then smirks.
Miranda Raines: She is one hot bitch!
Seleana shrugs.
Seleana Zdunich: She is the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.
Miranda can’t help but smile.
Miranda Raines: You’re married and you still think that about her?
Seleana nods, smiling broadly.
Miranda Raines: Goddamn, give me some of whatever you’re on because that is awesome!
Seleana shrugs.
Seleana Zdunich: I know she hears others say she is aging, she is fading, she is whatever else you can say for somebody on the wrong end of their career, but they are all wrong. She is none of those things. She is a wonderful competitor, teacher, partner…
Seleana stares into the distance going starry-eyed for a second.
Seleana Zdunich: She is everything I could ever ask for!
Miranda smiles and then hugs the Swedish Bombshell.
Miranda Raines: I hope you never lose that. Tell Alexi and Robbie I said hi.
Seleana nods and the two part, Seleana heading out the door and making her way to the parking lot where she pauses to stare at the car sitting there just waiting for her to make the drive back to Los Angeles, a brand new jet black 2019 Maserati Quattroporte still wearing its showroom shine.
Seleana Zdunich: How did I get so lucky?
She stares at the car and just shakes her head.
Seleana Zdunich: And that jävla fan…
She shakes her head and quickly gets her selfie stick from the car’s backseat. Within seconds, the camera is on and ready to go.
ON-Camera
Seleana nods as she stands in front of the car.
Seleana Zdunich: I stand here and I marvel at where I am when a year ago, I was quaking in my boots worried about how I would do getting into a wrestling ring. I had seen my cousin, Alexi, do it years ago when she was a tag team wrestler and calling herself Storm. I watched her win a few tag team championships with her partner, Raevyn Lilja, and I watched her win a hardcore championship. I cringed watching her have to enter the steel cage for wargames matches alongside her husband and I watched her get hurt badly when someone wanted to send a message to her husband through her.
She pauses to watch as a happy couple walk passed her.
Seleana Zdunich: I wondered…
Shrugging, she looks back into the camera.
Seleana Zdunich: Is this for me?
She looks down and then nods to herself.
Seleana Zdunich: I watched my sister, Zenna, just a year younger than me, and I watched her climb into the ring and have to deal with a man who got nicknamed “Little Rapey” because of an incident that happened at a company function at the Hard Rock in Florida. I watched her have to deal with the fallout as that man was run out of the company and the sport on a rail. I watched her compete and get caught in a love triangle that eventually turned so violent that both she and her soon to be wife suffered ankle injuries and then ended up leaving the sport for several years because of alcohol and drug problems that crippled them both. I watched her fall into the abyss, climb out only to fall back in and have to climb out all over again and while it gave me joy to see her triumph over her demons and it gave me hope that we would one day stand in a ring together, it also made me wonder…
Seleana looks back up to the camera.
Seleana Zdunich: Is this worth it?
She nods and walks over by the driver’s side door of the car.
Seleana Zdunich: I climbed into the ring, knowing all the horrible things that could happen. I had many horrible things thrown at me by people who decided before i ever walked in the door that I was not worthy of being there either because they had decided i no pay dues enough or because they already hated me due to who my wife is. They have decided that all of the things she might have done before…
Seleana leans back against the car and nods to the camera.
Seleana Zdunich: And I admit, I am ignorant to her full history. I do not know everything she has done for every second of every day for the entirety of her life so, ja, it is possible that she has done some things to not be proud of in her life. But she also has five rings on her fingers that say she has done many others things that are things to be quite proud of. She has four Hall of Fame rings that say she is one of the best to ever lace up a pair of boots and she has a ring on her other hand that says she took my name even though hers had more cache in the entertainment business!
She pauses, and again, nods to herself.
Seleana Zdunich: But it also made me wonder, what is in this match for Delia Darling?
Her head cocks slightly to the ring.
Seleana Zdunich: What is there that Christian Underwood can give you that you cannot have gotten yourself, Delia?
She nods as if begging the question.
Seleana Zdunich: Money?
She shakes her head.
Seleana Zdunich: You are Delia Fucking Darling, you have a name that means something in this sport and you could gain a high paying position anywhere you wanted any time you wanted.
Seleana Zdunich: Championship standing then?
Again, Seleana shakes her head dismissively.
Seleana Zdunich: You have such a name that you could walk into any company, including this one and challenge for a championship with no one giving a second look. In deed, you could say you wish to face the winner of Dasni Weston and Alicia Lukas and everyone would think this was a splendid idea. So, what then?
She shrugs questioningly.
Seleana Zdunich: Power?
Once again, she shakes her head in dismissal of the idea.
Seleana Zdunich: Again, you already have such standing that you could call together the proper resources and make your own company of anything you wished and thus gain whatever power you desired all by yourself, so what can Christian promise you that you could not get yourself?
She shrugs interrogatively one more time.
Seleana Zdunich: The chance to cut something off before it starts and have yourself a little fun while you do it?
She nods.
Seleana Zdunich: That sounds about right and it also sounds like something Christian would go for. Go find himself the biggest naem he can find and offer her the chance to destroy something before it truly gets started.
She changes hands with the stick and then looks up into the camera definitely.
Seleana Zdunich: I look forward to the challenge and I will enjoy every second of this no matter what happens because I already know that you cannot accomplish what Christian wants. You cannot break me!
She glares up, her defiance increasing in intensity.
Seleana Zdunich: Christian tried to rid himself of me on his own and he failed! He tried to get the Metal maniacs to do it, even stacked the odds and let them do whatever they wished and they failed!
She pauses and chuckles slightly.
Seleana Zdunich: One even ended up burned in the process. And now it is you…
She nods in respect.
Seleana Zdunich: You will not break me, Delia, no matter what you do. You will not because you cannot! I have been through too much, seen too much, eaten too much shit from too many people to allow you to walk back into Sin City Wrestling working for that skit and go down the way he wants me to!
She nods sternly.
Seleana Zdunich: You will not break me, Delia, and when you fail at your mission, what will Christian do to you in retribution?
Sher shrugs, smirking slightly.
Seleana Zdunich: I do not know, but it will be fun to see. Enjoy the ride, it’s going to get bumpy!
