It was the second week of the High Stakes XI Supercard Period and Krystal’s seventh title defence was drawing near! The Australian Bombshell was initially just treating Char Kwan as yet another challenger for her Bombshell Roulette Title but that changed when Char not only put Azurine Vebbins out of action with Krystal’s “Long Rest” Submission Finisher, but she followed that up the following week by brutally attacking Ariana Angelos, a fellow Go Gym Graduate who Krystal viewed as the little sister she never had!
Now the two women were set to meet in a match that promised to be a brutal and personal affair! If Krystal retained the title at High Stakes XI she will have broken the previous record set by Sam Marlowe at six defences and on the same night as Sam was being inducted into the SCW Hall of Fame no less! Can Krystal do it and break the long standing record? Or will Char be the one to end Krystal’s reign at one hundred and sixty eight days?
Backstage at Underground 112, Durham, New Hampshire
Sunday the 31st of October 2021, 21:00pm
And the award for most predictable attack of the year goes to Char Kwan!
Okay, I doubt the bosses will ever add that to the Year End Awards but given all the underhanded shit Char Kwan has done since she started her pursuit of my Bombshell Roulette Championship I should’ve seen that attack come from miles away, bit it didn’t, and it took someone who was just in hospital having stitches removed to save my ass! Say what you will about Ari’s cooking show, but that little Greek American lady is fearless when her friends are in danger.
Part of me wishes that I had showed the same initiative when Ari was being attacked by Char a few weeks ago, but at least we got out payback tonight! Off course, tonight’s payback is just the prelude to next week’s title match.
“Charlotte, there you are!” Ari said as she ran up to me whilst I was still nursing the wounds from the ambush, nothing major but it still hurt, and as for Ari? Well, she was still in that Dalmatian costume albeit with the hood down so I could actually see her face, if you had told me that she had spent the morning getting sixteen stitches removed from her head, I doubt I would’ve believed you. “How are you feeling?”
”Right now I have two thoughts running through my head, one: what else will Char do to get the upper hand over me?” I responded with a grin before switching my ice pack to the other hand. ”Two, if I didn’t know that Carter was gay, your Halloween costume choices would leave me questioning the details of your relationship with him!” I responded and whilst it did take Ari a moment for it to set in, once she realized what I meant she nearly fell over laughing.
“All I’m saying is that the Cruella costume was Carter’s idea, and this was my idea!” Ari responded as she motioned to the costume before sitting down opposite me. “Seriously though, after you tried to save me at Climax Control 314 I felt I needed to return the favour, and seeing you put Kiara through the table was worth it!”
”That was just the preview of what’s in store for Char next week!” I responded with a grin before letting out a deep breath. ”Think I’ll get in trouble with the bosses for attacking a non-wrestler?”
“Doubt it, they attacked you first after all!” Ariana pointed out and I nodded in response. “Maybe they’ll view putting Kiara through the table with the Down Under Thunderbomb as excessive but it’s not like you did that to Super Nintendo Chalmers!”
”Even though that prick totally deserves it!” I responded, and Ariana quickly nodded in agreement. ”Ari, I need you to do me a favour, yes another one after you saved my ass earlier, but this is more personal, I need you to keep a secret from everyone else until High Stakes, yes, that includes Carter!”
“What kind of secret?” Ariana asked with a curious look on her face, and I showed what I meant to her, as for what that is? Well, you’ll have to wait. “No way!” Ariana beamed as her face lit up like a Christmas tree. “You’re actually going to ask her?!”
”That’s the plan and it involves a promise I made to myself after I graduated from the Go Gym.” I explained before I patted the Bombshell Roulette Title that was resting on my shoulder. ”One that involves me holding a title and High Stakes, can I trust you?”
“After everything you’ve done for me, off course!” Ariana responded with a nod before she stood up. “I’d better go find Carter, he’ll want to milk this act for all it’s worth, but good luck!”
”Thanks Ari, for everything.” I responded before pocketing the thing and Aria ran off. ”Here’s hoping everything goes to plan!” I commented to myself as I watched my friend walk off.
On a date with Makayla, New York City, New York
Monday the 1st of November, 18:00pm
At the beginning of the cycle, I said that defending a title at Disneyworld was a Bucket List Item, well this week I’m checking off another bucket list item, namely defending a title at Madison Square Garden.
Really the only reason I haven’t made as big a deal about this was because High Stakes XI was taking place in New York which meant that it was pretty much guaranteed that I was going to be defending the title, the fact that it was against Char Kwan didn’t come until later for obvious reasons!
But that’s not until Sunday Night, until then? I’m on a date with my girlfriend!
“Between everything that’s happened with Char Kwan, we haven’t really had a chance to date have we?” Makayla commented breaking my train of thought in the process. “Krystal?”
”Sorry babe, I was miles away!” I admitted as I shook my head and Makayla nodded in understanding. ”But you’re right, between Ari’s attack and my defence on the last episode of Climax Control, we haven’t had much time for us, have we?”
“You have been busy this past cycle, between the two defences you’ve already had and the Champion vs. Champion Match against Andrea, this has been your busiest cycle to date.” Makayla nodded before we heard a commotion in another part of the café between a man and a woman but just assumed that it was an argument between another couple and tuned it out. “Off course, the Blast from the Past Tournament cycle would’ve easily topped it if you had made it past round one.”
”Yeah, well, getting drawn against Amber Ryan and Despayre in Round One didn’t exactly help there!” I grumbled in response before taking a sip from my drink. ”Off course, that was the also the cycle where my first match against Char Kwan took place.”
“Oh right, that Double DQ Draw, at least that ended your losing streak.” Makayla responded with a nod, and I just frowned. “Did Gabriel ever address your comments on Dawn’s officiating? She is a fellow Go Gym Grad, isn’t she?”
”Yep, first ref to graduate from there if my memory serves me right.” I nodded after thinking for a minute. ”And yes, he did, after I angrily confronted her the week after, he said that she made a tough judgment call based purely on what she saw, I pointed out that she could’ve avoided that judgment call all together by just ejecting Char’s entourage from the start because no wrestler brings that many people to the ring with them intending to fight fairly!”
“Well, it’s not like you were wrong!” Makayla responded as she shook her head “Did he take it well?”
”He just pointed out that she was still a rookie ref, I’ll just point out the numerous times I’ve taken shots at that match.” I responded before offering Makayla a toast and she accepted, we heard the commotion coming from the other table again and I finally looked up seeing that it was because the guy had just asked his girlfriend to marry him, naturally she said yes, and I shook my head. ”Didn’t think I was going to see that on this date.” I commented to Makayla whilst motioning to the other table with my head and she glanced over.
“Maybe it’s a sign.” Makayla responded with a shrug, and I paused mid-sip, thinking back to the conversation I had with Ari at Underground. “Of our future I mean, we already have a kid in Rachel.”
”Even though I still feel weird about calling her my daughter when she’s actually my niece.” I sighed to myself as I finished my sip and shook my head. ”Maybe Team Hero can help me out there, they are a lesbian couple with a kid.”
“Maybe, do you actually know the story about how they came to be Nate’s parents?” Makayla asked and I shook my head, I had been meaning to ask Keira since we met Nate at Disneyworld but between her challenge for the Bombshell Internet Championship and my duties as Bombshell Roulette Champion we hadn’t had much of a chance to chat in or out of shows. “Because I somehow doubt they found a way for a woman to get pregnant whilst having sex with another woman.”
”Now that’s a scary thought.” I joked getting a laugh out of Makayla before the waitress came over to take our food orders, we gave them after a quick once over of the menu and she went off to hand the orders in. ”Hell, just the thought of us cutting down on sex in general is scary.”
“Off course you’d say that.” Makayla laughed in response before shaking her head. “Do you think Ari’s doing okay babysitting Rachel? You know, after the attack by Char?”
”When I spoke to her last night at Underground she seemed to be back to her old self.” I responded with a shrug and Makayla nodded. ”If you mean Char’s follow up attack on me last night, she was a bit bruised from diving off the stage but nothing even close to the damage she suffered at Char’s hands at Climax Control 314, if anything I was more impressed that she was able to do that after getting those stitches removed.”
“She probably just wanted to have your back after you helped her against Veronica Taylor last year.” Makayla shrugged her shoulders in response, and I paused for a sec, that was back when I was still starting out in SCU, back when everyone on both rosters were being cooped up in the same Las Vegas hotel due to the pandemic. “And that feels like a lifetime ago, probably won’t be long until we start going overseas again at this rate.”
“If anything, the overseas tours probably won’t start until Summer XXXTreme X, we were finally let out of the hotel after Summer XXXTreme VII, started venturing outside of Vegas after Summer XXXTreme IX, just saying, that’s probably the pattern that the bosses want to go with as far as getting back to normal is concerned.” I shrugged my shoulders in response and Makayla nodded as she got the idea. ”Though I would be lying if I said that I didn’t want to defend my title in Adelaide if SCW ever restarts the Homecoming tour.”
“You think you’ll hold that title for that long?” Makayla asked and I nodded in response. “I’m not even going to try to do the math on how long your reign will be by that point!”
”Yeah, probably best to leave that to either me or Mercedes Vargas, I’m the one who’s been keeping track via that calendar I brought after Summer XXXTreme IX and Mercedes is SCW’s Resident Historian!” I nodded in agreement before taking a sip of my drink. ”Though at that point the bosses might be tempted to try to bribe a former wrestler back to the fold to see if they can end my reign.”
“You mean like they did with the Internet Title Tournament last cycle?” Makayla asked and I nodded in response. “At least they won’t stick J2H in a wig, tape watermelons to his chest and send him out as Jenny Huntington Hawkes the II or something!”
”Now that’s a mental image that’ll haunt my nightmares.” I responded with a mock shudder before the waitress came back with our food.
Krystal’s hotel room, New York City, New York
Monday the 1st of November 2021, 20:00pm
That date was just what the doctor ordered.
Still, it was good to be back at the hotel to check on Rachel and Ari, especially since I wanted to get my promo done once Rachel was asleep.
”Hopefully Ari didn’t get up to too much trouble.” I commented as we approached the hotel room and Makayla got the key card out. ”I know she was dying of boredom during the week she spent with Carter.”
“When even her antics with her bestie can’t keep her entertained, you know there’s a problem.” Makayla nodded in agreement as she inserted the key card and unlocked the door. “Then again, having sixteen stitches in your head can’t be fun.”
”Back when I was on the indies, I had to have twenty stitches following a hardcore match in Germany.” I responded as I shook my head as Makayla opened the door. ”That wasn’t fun!”
“Doesn’t sound like my idea of fun at least.” Makayla nodded before we entered the hotel room, we glanced around before spotting Ari.
She was doing an improv sock puppet show for Rachel. “And then the evil Char Kwan was vanquished by the beautiful heroine Krystal Wolfe, and everyone lived happily ever after!” Ari exclaimed and Rachel cheered in response whilst me and Makayla shared amused looks, and it was at that point that Ari spotted us. “Had to keep her occupied somehow.” Ari commented sheepishly before removing the socks from her hands as she stood up to greet me.
”Ari, you know that if you find me beautiful, you can just go ahead and tell me right?” I teased her, and Ariana blushed furiously in response. ”She did do her homework right?”
“Wouldn’t have done the puppet show if she hadn’t.” Ariana responded as she motioned to the stack of homework on the desk next to my gaming/streaming PC. “Carter was asking if he can help look after Rachel next time you guys go on a date.”
“Tell him that we’d be happy to have Carter, and that Charlotte will discuss pricing either before the Hight Stakes XI pre-show or during it.” Makayla informed Ari and I nodded in agreement as Ariana grinned. “Speaking off, Charlotte will pay you once she’s done her promo on Char for week two.”
“Sounds good to me, but take your time, it’s not like I’m strapped for cash thanks to my SCU Contract.” Ariana assured us and we nodded in response. “Though given how long you’ve held the Bombshell Roulette Title Charlotte, you are definitely better off than me!”
”I don’t mean to brag but yeah, I am, just a little bit.” I responded with a teasing wink and Ariana grinned. ”Why do you think so many people want to dethrone me, Andrea or Amber? Beyond having their names added to the history books obviously.”
“I’m a former two time Pride Tag Team Champ, remember? Trust me I know!” Ariana responded with a grin before getting a text and checking it. “Speaking off, I need to go! Carter’s trying his hand at baking me a late birthday cake back in Vegas, he didn’t really have time yesterday between my stitches coming out and Underground, it apparently just came out the oven.”
“Let me know how it turns out, I was a culinary student back in Australia so I should be able to give him some tips for next time.” Makayla responded with a nod and Ari grinned before she left the hotel room. “She does know that it’s about a for hour plane ride back to Vegas, right?”
”She flew over with us so probably! But she likely considers it to be worth it considering how close Team Go are.” I responded with a shrug before I sat down on the ground next to Rachel. ”Did you behave yourself Rachel?”
“Yeah!” Rachel responded enthusiastically and I grinned in response. “Ariana was so funny!”
”I’m sure she was!” I responded before I made myself comfortable. ”And how was homework?”
“So boring but Ariana made sure that I got it all done!” Rachel responded and I couldn’t help but chuckle at her innocence. “How is mom?”
Yeah, it was at that point that I had to think about what I said, Kirsty had entered rehab following the incident at family court, but I hadn’t been in contact with her since then, and yes I’m standing by what I said during that press conference seg, if she wants Rachel back she’ll have to fight for it. ”She’s doing okay, she should be healthy in no time at all!” I responded after thinking for a minute and Rachel cheered in response.
“I think she’s had enough excitement for the day in any case.” Makayla chimed in as she picked up Rachel. “You’re already looking tired.”
“I’m not tired.” Rachel protested but she then let out a big yawn that confirmed what Makayla suspected. “Can’t I stay up a bit longer?”
“Sorry but we all need our beauty sleep.” Makayla responded before helping Rachel get settled into her bed, once she was asleep Makayla turned to me. “Charlotte, do you feel as weird as I do about calling Rachel our daughter, or are you used to it yet?”
”It’s even weirder for me, considering that she’s my niece.” I responded as I shook my head before standing up. ”Besides, we became her guardians during the second week of the cycle, it’ll probably be around late November at least before I’m used to the fact that we’re her parents now.”
“One things for sure, I’m not looking forward to when SCW does a southern tour!” Makayla responded as she went over to the gaming pc desk and grabbed the homework to check it. “Lesbian couple with a toddler aged daughter? They are going to love us.”
”At least I can defend myself if the time calls for it, beyond the training at the Go Gym I was trained in self-defence by a boxing coach.” I responded with a yawn before realizing something. “Actually we’re a foreign lesbian couple with a toddler aged daughter, which means that they’ll love us even more.”
“And I’m technically mixed race, my mom’s Australian and my dad’s Greek, all we need to do to really set them off is to declare our love for abortions.” Makayla grunted in response before I went to start my promo stream. “Getting ready to do your promo?”
”You know it!” I nodded before I gave myself a stretch. ”Had to wait for Rachel to get to sleep because I know I’m going to get heated whilst talking about Char!”
“I’ll get set up on my computer so I can do my mod duties!” Makayla nodded in response before we went off to get started.
Krystal’s Twitch Stream, New York City, New York
Monday the 1st of November 2021, 21:00pm
*promo time*
Really?
”You couldn’t wait until High Stakes XI could you Char? You had to ambush me at Underground 112 to try to soften me up? Well, how does it feel to have egg on your face? Because all you really achieved with that attack was making me that much angrier at you and in the process you’ve made much more difficult for me to treat this like any other title match, in other words, this is no longer just another title defence to me! And when I’m beating you to a pulp Char, who will you have to blame?”
Take a guess.
”Sure, you could blame Super Nintendo Chalmers and try to claim that he put the ideas you’ve executed over the past cycle in your head but no, I’m not buying it even if that is true, because you could’ve said no at any point! You could’ve refused to lock in the Long Rest on Azurine and just win with the Slice of Asia, you could’ve refused to attack Ari to get to me, you could’ve refused to try to interfere in my last Roulette Title Defence, the last one could’ve saved you from a beating at Tempest’s hands at the very least! It’s like I said last week Char, you could’ve avoided this!”
But you didn’t.
”Instead, you’re going to reap what you sow at High Stakes XI! I was angry at Bea Barnhart when she stole the Bombshell Roulette Title from me after my first defence but when it came to match time I kept my cool during the Ultimate X Over the Pool Match, I was angry at myself because of the pain my poor choice of words caused Bella Madison before our title match at Violent Conduct VII, but I kept my cool in that defence, but you? You went out of your way to piss me off Char and you’re about to learn the consequences of your actions!”
A hard lesson.
”Thing is Char, if you had just left it at what you did to Azurine I would’ve been okay with that, well, relatively okay because incapacitating your opponent to the point that they are taken off the active roster is not okay, but my point is that you’ll have no one to blame but yourself when the dust settles, and I retain the Bombshell Roulette Championship for a record breaking seventh time!”
As for anything I want to happen on Sunday.
”Juan289 says “Greetings from Portugal, do you have any preferences for what the wheel stops on come match time?”, nice to see a bit of Global Reach on my channel, hope I get a chance to wrestle in Portugal someday! As for your question, I’ve been champ long enough to know that the wheel can be a cruel bitch at the best of times, that said, part of me wants the Roulette Wheel at it’s worse on Sunday, when Rocky spins it, I want something that will make Char think “oh shit, I’m fucked”!
Such as?
”Scaffold Over the Piranha Tank? First Blood? Last Woman Standing? Some sadistic match type that somehow finds a way combines the rules of all the above matches into one match? I don’t care, as long as I put the fear of god into Char Kwan and make it clear to everyone that making things this personal with me just for a title match is just asking for trouble! But I guess people will really do anything for a title shot these days, right Char?”
All for nothing.
”But if you think for a second that I’m going easy on you in this match at all Char, then Tempest must’ve hit you harder than I thought! But I am saying that I’ll hit you harder than Tempest? No, I’m a strong woman, both physically and mentally, but Tempest is on another level compared to me, I’m still going to hit you as hard as I can as soon as that bell rings Char because that’s the least I can do after all the shit you’ve done!”
Eye for an eye!
”EliteAussieGamers says “aren’t you worried about what Carter said to you?” And I’m assuming you mean at Climax Control 314 when Ariana was being loaded into the ambulance, yeah I know the saying about digging two graves if you go out on a quest for revenge but here’s the thing, revenge at this point is a secondary objective, the main objective should be as clear as day but I’ll say it anyway, to retain the Bombshell Roulette Championship in my seventh defence and if I get revenge for Ari, Azurine and everyone you jumped in front of in the Roulette Title Shot que to get to this point, it’ll be worth it!”
But don’t take my word for it!
”But it’s not just me or the other female Go Gym Grads who want to see you fail Char, it’s everyone else in the Bombshell Roulette Division , whether it’s people like Johanna who see you as an unworthy challenger, people like Andrea who see you another easy defence for me or people like Bella who just want to see me get revenge for what you did to Ari you are not a popular person Char and if your trying to make a strong case for winning Most Hated, then you’ve succeeded!”
Your biggest mistake!
”But you’ve succeeded in another area, you’ve succeeded at getting me angry at you and that will be your downfall Char, you were so focussed on getting inside my head and playing mind games on me that you didn’t realize that you were only making me angry and considering that I’ve already got a chip on my shoulder from the losing streak I suffered during the latter half of 2020/early months of 2021, I don’t think you’ve realized just how much you’ve fucked up!”
What comes around
”But you will realize that soon enough, do you want a specific date? How about Sunday the seventh of November 2021 right here in New York City at High Stakes XI? At the beginning of the cycle, I talked about how defending a title at Disneyworld was a bucket list item of mine, well, defending it Madison Square Garden is yet another bucket list item, I just didn’t bring that up because I knew it was all but set in stone that I was going to defend the title on PPV anyway so in a way, this cycle has come full circle.”
It’s that simple.
”In more ways than one because not only am I checking off another bucket list item on Sunday Char, but I’m also retaining the title! This won’t be a repeat of our first encounter Char because whilst that ended in a Double DQ Draw, I have a feeling that the Roulette Wheel Gods will be on my side on Sunday by not only giving me a match type that lets me go all out on you without the risk of disqualification or a draw and from there?”
And with that I decided to wrap things up.
”The finish line will be in sight, and I will retain the title over you Char, this may not be Violent Conduct, but I can guarantee that this will be the most violent match on the card just for all the shit you’ve done to me and my friends for a shot at this title! And whilst you’re lying there bruised, battered, bloody and barely conscious you’ll have to ask yourself, was it all worth it just to be brought down by the Down Under Thunderbomb courtesy of Krystal Wolfe, your soon to be record breaking Bombshell Roulette Champion!? Long may I reign!”/color]
I ended the stream as the scene fades.
