Krystal would pick up the biggest win of her career to date at Blaze of Glory X defeating Evie Jordan after a hard fought contest before jetting off almost immediately for her honeymoon with her new wife Makayla! Krystal would travel to Greece immediately following her Caribbean Cruise for SCW’s Greece Lightning tour and enjoyed a relatively quiet two weeks of not being in action, however that would change at Climax Control 328.
Originally the World Bombshell Title Match between Roxi and Blast from the Past winner Mikah was scheduled for Into the Void X as per tradition, however Mikah announced at the Zante edition of the tour that she was going on vacation that weekend and wouldn’t be able to compete forcing the bosses to scramble to find a replacement, how did this involve Krystal? They had booked a Fatal Four Way Match to determine Roxi’s new challenger at the Crete show featuring four of the Bombshell Division’s best! It was former World Bombshell Champion and SCW Hall of Famer Sam Marlowe, two time grand slam champion and fellow Hall of Famer Mercedes Vargas, the woman with the record for the longest Bombshell Internet Title Reign Myra Rivers and Krystal herself! Whilst Krystal was a former champion in her own right the Aussie definitely stood out like a sore thumb against the three other women, for one thing Krystal was still in her twenties! Can Krystal win?
Backstage at Climax Control 327, Zante, Greece
Sunday the 10th of April 2022, 1:00am
This week has been interesting.
It started with Adrienne returning home after asking for her release from SCW due to mental health issues and now Levana Cade joins the growing pile of Go Gym disappointments after her loss to Jessie Salco in the second match of the night, still the night was young and there was a lot of stuff to come in the show, well I say that but the ring literally just imploded during the Main Event between Mac Bane and Supreme Machine.
And yet Mac and Suma still got up long enough for Mac to hit his finisher, go figure!
Right now, I was hanging out with one of SCW’s newest signees and no, I don’t mean Kayla Richards, instead I’m talking about Ari who had signed a full time contract after her win over Kaiju Rainbow last week.
Yeah, this week has been a mixed bag for the Go Gym in general!
”Good thing that was the Main Event, I wouldn’t want to compete in an imploded ring!” Ari commented and I glanced up from my phone, I was still waiting for the card for the Crete show and Ari had broken my concentration. ”So, how are you finding Greece so far?” Ari asked as she turned to me and I glanced up at the Greek-American Bombshell before shrugging my shoulders.
”You waited until now to ask me that? We’re three weeks into the tour!” I pointed out and Ari just grinned in response. ”It’s a lovely country and the food’s great, though I am waiting for them to tour Australia admittedly.”
”Hoping that they’ll stop off in Adelaide and give you a chance to compete in your home city?” Ariana asked and I nodded without hesitation. ”They’ll get to the land down under eventually, you’re hardly the only Australian on the roster, past and present.”
”Here’s hoping.” I commented with a grin before I got the card text and opened it within seconds. ”Wow, did Chloe Benton piss off Mark AND Christian?”
”Don’t tell me they booked her against Amber?” Ariana asked with a pleading expression and I shook my head before mouthing “worse”. ”Andrea?” Ariana asked and I shook my head whilst mouthing “much worse”. ”Who could be much worse than Amber and Andrea? Andrea just lost her title to………..they put her in a non-title match against Masque, didn’t they?”
[font color=#00FFFF]”Yup! And I don’t think Masque will be as nice as Sam.”[/font] I commented as I shook my head before reading the rest of the card. [font color=#00FFFF]”Annnnnnnd speaking of Sam, guess who’s getting another crack at her?”[/font]
”You’ve got her in a singles match?” Ari asked and I shook my head before showing Ari the match in question. ”You vs. Mercedes vs. Myra vs. Sam, winner gets a shot at Roxi at Into the Void X because Mikah is on vacation, are they serious about that last part?”
”If they weren’t, I don’t think the match would’ve been booked.” I commented as I ran a hand through my hair. ”On one hand, I’m excited for the opportunity, on the other hand? This is going to be the toughest match of my career to date, only topped by the match against Roxi IF I win.”
”Charlotte, just remember this, you’ve proven yourself as one of the Bombshell Division’s best! Gabriel wouldn’t have trained you if he didn’t think you could handle a match like this.” Ari assured me and I nodded in response thankful for the kind words. ”If you’re hoping for travel destination ideas when we get to Crete, you’re asking the wrong girl, next week will be my first time in Crete.”
”Luckily I’m married to a woman who has family in Crete, and Makayla frequently travelled there with her family before they moved to Australia at the age of twelve.” I explained and Ari nodded as she got the idea. ”Honestly Crete would be the destination that Makayla is looking forward to most if not for the fact that Into the Void X is being held in Athens.”
”In any case, we’d better head to the hotel and catch an early night, or at least try, we’ve got at least a three hour flight to Crete in the morning.” Ari explained and I nodded before we left the arena.
Krystal’s hotel room, Crete, Greece
Monday the 11th of April 2022, 13:00pm
So yeah, remember that part about me and Ari wanting to get back to the hotel so we could get a relatively early night due to the flight to Crete? Yeah Mac Bane and Matthew Knox decided to have a brawl in the parking lot! No, I’m not kidding.
I couldn’t tell you what time it was by the time the local police arrived and broke up the fight (and it was only Ari speaking to them in Greek that prevented either of them being arrested) but it was late by the time we got back to the hotel, translation? I spent most of the flight to Crete asleep in my chair and I’m still jet-lagged!
At least I’m getting plenty of rest today.
”If you had told me that the first words to my aunts and uncles since the wedding would be “hey do you know anyone who’s selling a six sided wrestling ring?” I think I would’ve called you crazy Charlotte!” Makayla sighed as she got off the phone and turned to me whilst I lay in bed with my hands behind my head. ”But I do have good news, my second uncle is friends with a wrestling promoter who declared bankruptcy during lockdown, he still has the six sided ring that his promotion used.”
”Pass me his contact details and I’ll put him in contact with the SCW higher ups.” I responded with a nod as I sat up in bed. ”One things for sure though, this tour is creating a lot more Year End Award moments than the bosses probably expected when it was announced.”
”The SCW roster just spent the past two years cooped up stateside due to the pandemic, you were only able to join SCU when you did because you had been living in the US for the entirety of your wrestling career by that point.” Makayla pointed out as she started to fix up her hair a bit. ”I was expecting the SCW roster to cut lose once they were finally allowed to tour internationally again! Hell, you saw the brawl that erupted between Mac and Matt after the show!”
”Yeah, after the ring imploded under the combined weight of Mac Bane and Supreme Machine!” I commented as I shook my head still unbelieving that something like that had happened. ”At least something like that couldn’t happen during my match! Unless the ring your uncle’s friend has is shoddily built.”
”He had been running the promotion almost as long as SCW with no complaints so I doubt it! As for your match? You and Mercedes weigh 125, Sam weighs 115 and Myra comes in at 130, combined that’s just under four hundred pounds and even then, the ring only imploded because Mac Superplexed Supreme Machine, I think the ring should hold even if you, Sam, Mercedes and Myra all go for a Superplex at the same time” Makayla posited and after thinking about it for a second I realized that she was right. ”And even then, I think the bosses will be looking to reinforce their new ring to make sure something like that doesn’t happen again.”
”What? Are they going to have Supreme Machine and Mac Superplex each other over and over just to test its strength?” I joked getting a laugh out of Makayla before I let out a deep breath. ”Speaking of my match, the more I’ve been thinking about it, the more I’m beginning to think that is a test to see if I can move away from the Bombshell Roulette Division and into the big leagues.”
”They did book a Roulette Contenders Match as the opener without you in it even though you said repeatedly that you wanted your rematch with Kate, hell they booked Bella in that match and as much as I like her, you’ve beaten Bella four times as Roulette Champion and only one of those times was non-title!” Makayla pointed out and I nodded in agreement. ”Not to mention that this is the first title opportunity for Ms. Jon and Kat Jones.”
”Yeah and Ms. Jon lost her last two matches, though to be fair she only lost the Triple Threat after slamming Mercedes into oblivion and forgetting about Seleana! And Kat’s only notable achievement so far is beating up Matt Knox and getting fined for it.” I pointed out before letting out an annoyed huff. ”Then again, neither Ms. Jon and Kat are doing as badly as I was when I was put into that Triple Threat Qualifier against Candy and Bea Barnhart and, well, I don’t think I need to repeat what happened as a direct result of that Triple Threat.”
”You won the Bombshell Roulette Title and defied everyone’s expectations by holding it for just under a year! Hell, in a perfect world you’d be coming up to the first year anniversary of the start of your reign but we both know what happened in the lead-up to Blaze of Glory X.” Makayla pointed out and I nodded in response. ”Who knows? Maybe this year’s Into the Void Cycle will be a repeat of last years?”
”Makayla, with all due respect to Candy and even Bea, they are not Myra and Sam! Mercedes is the only one in this match that I faced for the Bombshell Roulette Title during my reign which is making me question how she qualified for this match in the first place.” I commented as I shook my head. ”Though I guess the same can apply to me since my only claim to fame is a long ass Bombshell Roulette Title reign, then again the same can be said for Myra and the Bombshell Internet Title reign!”
”You and Myra’s reigns do have similar beggings, you both came from out of nowhere to win your respective titles and held them for about a year, off course Myra’s reign was longer and ended under less controversial circumstances.” Makayla pointed out and I nodded as I swung my legs over and got out of bed. You surprised everyone once Charlotte and you can do it again.”
”Even if I do win this match and go on to beat Roxi for the title, that won’t be the end of it! Mikah will be waiting in the wings and whilst I am eager to cross her name off my bucket list, off course she’ll have to get back from vacation first.” I commented as I shook my head. ”At least we scheduled our honeymoon for the post Supercard break so that even if I were still champion by then, there’d be no mad dash to find my next challenger by the time we returned.”
”And if you weren’t working, I’d consider the Greece tour an extension of our honeymoon.” Makayla nodded in agreement before she stood up, walked up too, and kissed me on the lips which I was happy to return. ”Shall we grab something to eat? I’m starving!”
”Never thought you’d ask.” I nodded in response with a grin before we left our hotel room.
I had a lot on my mind heading into the Fatal Four Way, if I won then it would mean that I was getting a World Bombshell Title Match, one more thing to cross off the bucket-list as we headed further into 2022 and winning that title would be another thing to cross off the bucket list as well.
But even so, the end of my Bombshell Roulette Title reign was still playing heavily in my mind, and I still wanted to get my hands on Diamond.
Knossos Palace Skip the Line Guided Walking Tour, Crete, Greece
Monday the 11th of April 2022, 18:00pm
When we got to Crete on of the first things I asked Makayla was “anything history related that you’d recommend” because I’ve always been interested in Greek history, ancient or otherwise, and this tour was the first thing she recommended.
The Knossos Palace was certainly an impressive building as it was built for a mighty king, and with Knossos being considered Europe’s oldest city there was plenty of history to go around which made it a perfect place for my promo but we’ll get to that later.
The tour said “small group” so we asked among our friends who was interested in going with us, Ari accepted almost immediately because she had her own interest in Greek history (which I guess makes sense since she is Greek-American after all) and Francisco was pretty much along for the ride as an excuse to be with his girlfriend! That just left Cassie as a hanger on and we pretty much dragged her out of her hotel room so that she didn’t spend all day watching porn.
No, I’m not kidding about that last part.
”Man, I wonder how easy it would be to get lost in this place.” Cassie wondered aloud as she looked around the admittedly huge palace. ”Wasn’t this part of the Minoan Civilization or something.”
”Yeah but I somehow doubt you’ll run into a Minotaur if you go off the beaten path, and if you do, start running the other way.” I teased my cousin and Cassie shook her head in response. ”As long as you stay with the group Cass you should be okay.”
”And if you do get separated, don’t say Krystal didn’t tell you so.” Ariana responded with a grin as she rushed up to catch up with us after getting separated. ”Besides, this place is a piece of history.”
”Yeah, history so old that even Bill Barnhart wasn’t around when this place was built.” Cassie joked getting a good chuckle out of all of us. ”Seriously, just how old are some of these buildings?”
“Well considering that Greek civilization is one of the oldest around? Really, really old.” Francisco chimed in and for a while they just chatted among themselves whilst I found myself lost in thought.
Why? Well as I stood here in this ancient palace I was thinking about my match on Sunday and that’s not to say that my three opponents are as old as this palace, do I look like Hayley Halsey?! For the love of god don’t answer that! I was thing about that because this Sunday was my chance to make some history of my own.
To put it another way? I’m twenty six years old, all three of my opponents are at least a decade older than me, they are looked at as the favourites to win the match and go on to challenge Roxi for the title at Into the Void X in May and for good reason! Sam and Mercedes, as much as I rag on Mercedes for being so past it that it’s not even funny, are former World Bombshell Champions and Hall of Famers, twice over in Mercedes’s case, and Myra broke all the records as Bombshell Internet Champion and came close to being the one to dethrone Amber twice, and then, there’s me.
Prior to the Triple Threat that started my current journey I was another Go Gym Graduate struggling to make herself heard on an increasingly competitive Bombshell roster and my losing streak didn’t help one bit, but even now that Roulette Title reign was my only claim to fame and some would say that my reign was weak because I defended the title against the likes of Char Kwan, off course ignoring the fact that I had an open door policy on new challengers because of my “competitor first, champion second” mindset and that Char attacked Ari to get to me in the weeks leading up to that rematch.
In other words? I have a lot to prove in this match.
”Err, Krystal?” I glanced up and realized that the rest of the group were looking my way and I turned to face them. ”The tour’s over, we can leave or do you want to get your promo done first?”
”I do want to get my promo done, but I can catch up with you guys.” I offered as I folded my arms and the rest of the group nodded in response. ”Either way I’m going to be here for a while.” I added and the others in our group chatted amongst themselves whilst I prepared myself for the promo, off course the promo was one thing, winning the Fatal Four Way was going to be another thing entirely.
Knossos Palace, Crete, Greece
Monday the 11th of April 2022, 18:30pm
*promo time*
No way around this.
”The palace of Knossos, to most people this place is just another ancient building and tourist trap but there is a lot of history in this building, it was home to a mighty king during its heyday after all! Now this isn’t the original palace, the first palace was brought down by a devastating earthquake in 1700 BC and subsequently rebuilt, this is why I chose this place as the location of my promo for this Fatal Four Way Match!”
This will be good.
”First off, let’s look at my opponents, Sam Marlowe, a woman I last met during the Blast from the Past Tournament where she knocked me out in the first round, former World Bombshell Champion and Hall of Famer, Mercedes Vargas, another former World Bombshell Champion and Hall of Famer, this is our fourth meeting in SCW and each time we’ve met, I’ve picked up the win, Myra Rivers, this is our first match against each other but in a way we’re birds of a feather because we both came from out of nowhere to win our respective titles and set new records during our reigns, based on credentials alone either of those three women should have a better chance of winning this match than me because unlike the others? I’ve never challenged for the World Bombshell Championship.”
That’s about to change.
”That’s why I chose this palace as my destination for this promo, this match is a chance for me to make history as being the youngest World Bombshell Championship challenger in a while, I’m twenty six years old, Myra and Mercedes are thirty seven and forty respectively, Sam? I don’t know how old she is, but given how long she’s been in the Bombshell Division? I’d be surprised if she were younger than me! I’m the odd Bombshell our in this match, there’s no getting around that fact, but unexpected results have happened before.”
Do you want an example?
”There’s probably other examples that I can think off, but back in December everyone thought that Jessie Salco was going to lose a Fatal Four Way Contenders Match for the Bombshell Internet Title against Alicia Lukas, Dani Weston and Seleana Zdunich, Jessie would ultimately fail to dethrone Andrea but she would defy the odds on that occasion and I will defy the odds in this match! I’ve built up to it enough, let’s start talking about my opponents.”
Starting with Mercedes!
”I have to admit, when this match was announced, I was confused as to why you were included Mercedes, wasn’t your last match before this one featuring you getting Powerbombed for every time that you called JC Jason Cashe since his debut? Beyond that, you simply have the worst record out of everyone in this match, especially against yours truly because in all three of our previous encounters I got the win.”
I said as I held up three fingers.
”Encounter number one: just a few weeks after I earned my shot at the Roulette Title I got a warm-up match against you which I won after you got cocky, encounter number two: I had defied everyone’s expectations by getting past defence number one and two and riding on a high after that match, I asked if I could defend the title on the first Climax Control to be held outside of Las Vegas in over a year and got you and Bella Madison as my third defence, pinned you after bringing you down with the Down Under Thunderbomb onto the tacks! Sorry if that’s a painful memory for you Mercedes! Encounter number three, now this was our last encounter during my reign as champion but it was a busy night for me considering that I was also in Jessie Salco’s Corner for the match between her and Keira but we had a clash of champions match that night because you had rode Goth’s coattails to a Mixed Tag Team Title Win! There was some shenanigans in that match, yeah but I pinned you again, with the Down Under Thunderbomb!”
History repeats.
”Do you know what they say about history Mercedes? You should because you fancy yourself as an SCW Historian, those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it and you’ve had two chances to learn from our history of matches and both times, you’ve failed to learn from the last encounter! Will the third time be the charm? I don’t think so because I’ve got another old saying for you Mercedes, you can’t teach an old dog new tricks and this old bitch keeps doing the same old tricks over and over hoping to impress her masters, sooner or later Mercedes, someone will put you to sleep.”
But who?
”If this were another one on one match between us Mercedes, I’d happily put my name forward as the one to do it but there’s two other women in this match and I’ve wasted enough time on the one woman who doesn’t belong in this match as it is! Mercy, by the end of the match you’ll be begging for Mercy from either me, Myra, or Sam but you won’t get any as I book my ticket to Into the Void X!”
Next up is Sam.
”Sam Marlowe, the last time we met I was not in a good place to say the least, I had my sights set on redeeming my performance from the previous Blast from the Past Tournament where I was eliminated in the first round and well, we both know what happened instead, don’t we Sam? You made it to the Quarter Finals this year before getting eliminated by Goth and Candy but that’s not my focus, I was the one to take the fall in that match being forced to submit to the Sammi-Wrap after a great match, a match that was the beginning of the end of my Bombshell Roulette Title Reign.”
I commented with an exasperated sigh.
”I’m not going to go into everything I said in the weeks that followed that tag team match because again, I wasn’t in a good place but a lot has changed since then, the assholes who were trying to mould me into their image have been kicked to the curb and I’m more focussed and determined to make up for past mistakes, and what do you know Sam? There’s a prime opportunity for me to make up for one such mistake sitting right in front of me!”
And her name is Sam!
”I know it won’t be that easy, you’ve done it all in SCW and are a former champion and hall of famer for a reason and unlike the old bitch that I opened this promo by talking about you at least have the record to show for it, Sam!” I said as I made my way closer to the throne. ”But just because you’ve achieved the ultimate goal of every Bombshell on the roster doesn’t mean you can do it again Sam, because like it or not the “old dogs can’t learn new tricks” saying also applies to you.”
And she won’t like it.
”You’ve beaten me once but I’m a competitor who learns from her mistakes and I won’t make the same mistakes in this match that I made against you in our Blast from the Past Match Sam, I would say that I’ve been training hard since then but I’d be lying because between that match and now I got married and went on honeymoon but at least my honeymoon allowed me to clear my head and return to SCW with a renewed focus, don’t enter this match expecting the same woman you fought in the Blast from the Past Tournament Sam, enter this match knowing that my mind is clear and my focus is on point because otherwise? You’ll fall by the wayside!”
And last up is Myra!
”The last person I need to address is the only woman in this match who I’ve never faced before and if it weren’t for the fact that Mercedes is in this match, she’d easily be the oldest person in this match, that’s right folks I saved Myra Rivers for last, why? Couple of reasons really, as I already said, out of my three opponents Myra is someone who I’ve never faced before this match but that’s about to change, and frankly? Myra vs. Krystal is something I’ve wanted for a while.”
Why?
”Why? Look at our respective reigns as Bombshell Roulette and Bombshell Internet Champion Myra, we’ve both set new records for our respective divisions, we had reigns that lasted a lot longer than anyone expected them too and we both feel that they ended a lot sooner than they should’ve! Now granted, your reign got the ending it deserved, an epic champion vs. champion match at last year’s Summer XXXTReme and mine was denied the ending it deserved by a selfish bitch who should count herself lucky that I will be busy aiming my sights at the top! Off course, another way to look at it is that your reign ended right as mine was taking off but what does that mean for our match?”
A lot.
”Everytime I did those “who’s next” promos during my reign, I had a list of people in my head who I wished would be the ones to answer the call, Sam was one of them, another was Keira and she was the one who ended my reign but to tell you the truth Myra? Your name was on that list, because as I watched you turn away challenger after challenger whilst I worked my way up the rankings I thought to myself “this old broad can still go, I want to wrestle her someday” and it took nearly three years for that encounter to finally happen.”
Will it live up to expectations?
”The real question is, will it live up to the hype? I’d like to think so but whilst I am excited to finally get this match Myra, we both know that only one woman can go on to challenge Roxi for the World Bombshell Championship at Into the Void X in May, at least in theory because a double pin in matches like this has happened before! But I hope to avoid that and whilst it may make me sound like a selfish bitch? I want that spotlight all to myself and the only way I can get that is to win this Fatal Four Way.”
Royalty huh?
”There’s another reason why I chose the Palace of Knossos as the setting for my promo, because the royal symbiology works well when you look at this match if you think about it! Myra, Sam and even Mercedes are three queens because they have been there before, they have challenged for the World Bombshell Championship and out of the three of them, only Myra has failed to capture the gold, me? The last time I faced the World Bombshell Champion was when Amber was still champ and that was non-title! That just makes me a potential queen!”!
It's that simple.
”Three Queens and one potential queen, too me that’s what this match boils down too and we’ve all got our sights set on being Roxi’s first challenger at Into the Void X, Mercedes is desperately clutching on to any kind of relevance that she can get her hands on, Sam just returned to a division that more competitive and fiercer than ever before and Myra figures that the third time will be the charm for her and the World Bombshell Championship, that leaves me as the odd one out, the only Bombshell in this match to never hold or challenge for that title, some outside observers might think that I don’t belong in this match, that it may as well be just between Myra, Sam and Mercedes, it falls to me to prove them wrong.”
And with that I decided to wrap things up.
”After all, I’ve practically built my SCW career on doing just that, proving people wrong, they said that I would never hold a title yet here I am as a onetime Bombshell Roulette Champion, they said that I wouldn’t make it past the first defence but here I am, under a year later having held that title for over two hundred days! Myra, Sam, Mercedes, don’t overlook me because I’m the only Bombshell in this match to never challenge for or hold the World Bombshell Championship because otherwise you’ll be making a huge mistake as I turn the page on this chapter of the story of my SCW career and book my slot in the World Bombshell Title Match at Into the Void X! I’ll see all three of you in the ring where a new queen will start her ascent to the throne!”
I left the palace as the scene fades.
