Krystal had managed to last a decent amount of time in the Battle Royal, outlasting favourites to win like Kat Jones and Sam Marlowe only to be eliminated whilst she was in the middle of eliminating Tempest! In the end the Battle Royal came down to Ariana and Luna with Luna managing to win her second title in SCW and, as per the rules of the match, Ariana would serve as Luna’s first challenger at High Stakes.
But where did that leave Krystal? Well, the Aussie was still on the card and taking on someone else who had come up short in the Battle Royal, namely Seleana Zdunich, Seleana and Krystal had faced each other before, most notably when Krystal was the Bombshell Roulette Champion and Krystal was in search of challengers in the lead up to her first High Stakes, can Krystal get the win and keep her High Stakes winning streak going?
Backstage at Climax Control 375, Reno, Nevada
Sunday the 8th of October 2023, 23:00pm
Always next time, right?
Since my reign with the Roulette Title ended last February that’s been the story of my SCW Career to date as far as the title scene goes, since then I’ve only had a taste of the Roulette Gold twice, first when I challenged Kat Jones for the Roulette Title in the leadup to last year’s Summer XXXTreme and again when I entered myself in the Open Invitational Match at Inception VI at the beginning of the year, outside of those two instances? I’ve been hanging around the Internet and World Title Divisions since.
Which sucks because, due to how my reign ended, I have a lot of unfinished business in that division.
Tonight’s Battle Royal was another case of me competing in the Internet Title Division, no matter who won the match one thing was certain, that would be a new Bombshell Internet Champion at the end of the next and her first challenger would be decided immediately afterwards.
Much as I’d like to say that I’m entering my third High Stakes as a Bombshell Roster Member with that title around my waist? Ariana had other plans, she caught me whilst I was trying to eliminate Tempest from the match and if she was trying to help me throw out the biggest threat in the match? She had a funny way of showing it! In other words? I’m pretty sure that was Ariana’s revenge for the attack that set in motion the events that would take up most of my 2023.
Now Ariana’s got her wish in a way, she’s challenging for a title at High Stakes, not the World Bombshell Championship as she would’ve preferred (and that’s a whole new can of worms) but the Bombshell Internet Title as she’s challenging Luna in what’s sure to be an absolute banger! But that left one question for me, what was in store for me at High Stakes? This was to be my first Supercard since the whole Sin saga ended at Violent Conduct and unlike 2021 where I defended the Roulette Title against Char Kwan and 2022 where I had that one sided rivalry with Mercedes Vargas? I had no idea what, if anything, I was doing at High Stakes!
Gotta say, I’m not a huge fan of this feeling.
”The bosses should be releasing the card for High Stakes at any minute.” I commented to myself as I waited beside my rent car in the parking lot, I was flying back to Vegas first thing in the morning and I needed to get as much sleep as possible if I was going to be alert and ready for the flight. ”The last time I had no idea what I was doing at a Supercard was last year’s Violent Conduct in India and I ended up missing that show.”
”If only that was the only bad thing about that show.” Cassie’s voice rang out and I glanced over my shoulder spotting my Italian Australian half sister approaching me from behind. ”Or do I need to remind you of everything that happened at the feast Ari threw for Carter?”
”Nope, and I’m still pissed at myself for not noticing the signs a lot sooner despite being an abuse survivor myself.” I sighed in response before I turned to face Cass. ”And on that note, what are you doing here Cass?”
”Oh come on! SCW’s hosting a Climax Control right on my doorstep and you expect me to NOT buy tickets for me and my girlfriends?” Cass asked as she motioned over her shoulder and I glanced up, seeing Zoey and Becky talking amongst themselves across the parking lot from us. ”When I saw you hanging around I told them that I wanted to chat with you and that if they start having sex behind me I’ll be pissed.”
”I’ll let you know if they start getting frisky with each other.” I commented as I shook my head and Cassie grinned in response. ”So, what’s on your mind? You’ve seen for yourself that my bitch days are behind me.”
”I don’t know, you can still come off as a bitch at times on your Twitch Streams.” Cassie teased me and I just rolled my eyes in response. ”Though seriously? We were rooting for you to win the Bombshell Internet Title after everything that’s happened this year.”
”We? As in, you, Becky, and Zoey?” I asked with a raised eyebrow and Cassie nodded. ”Funny, because when I paid you a visit the week before my match against Georgie they were so deadest against me seeing you that you basically had to browbeat them into letting us talk.”
”Everything that’s happened since Violent Conduct changed that minds about you, including everything Ari has said over the past few weeks.” Cassie explained and I frowned at my former friend’s name being mentioned, but before I could say anything else? My phone went off and I grabbed it from my jeans pocket. ”Either that’s a text from Makayla or they’ve released the full High Stakes Card.”
”It’s the High Stakes card, and much like my last singles match, it’s against someone I’ve wrestled before and just had a match against.” I responded as I looked at the third match on the card and second Bombshell Division match. ”Though this time around? The last match literally just happened; I’m facing one of the other competitors from the Battle Royal.”
”Well, that rules out Luna and Ariana for obvious reasons, Tempest?” Cassie asked and I shook my head. ”Mercedes? Sam? Kat?”
”Okay, I’ve got a flight to catch in the morning and I don’t feel like playing the guessing game with you for the rest of the night, Sam and Mercedes are facing off AGAIN, this time in a regular singles match, Kat and Whisper are serving as Team Hero’s final opponents and Tempest isn’t even on the card.” I responded after going through the rest of the card and Cass nodded as she got the idea. ”And you’ve probably figured it out by process of elimination but I’m facing Seleana.”
”At least they are keeping some continuity between the other Battle Royal participants, and hey, an easy win for you is a lot better than being left off the biggest show of the year, right?” Cassie pointed out and I had to admit, she was right. ”So, what’s your take on the whole Ariana situation? From what I’ve seen and heard, they are calling her you 2.0.”
”I don’t know what’s going on with her, I haven’t spoken to Ari or any of the other Go Gym Graduates in months.” I responded with a deep breath and Cassie nodded. ”It’s not like I haven’t tried to reach out to Gabriel since the Sin debacle ended but he’s yet to return my calls, beginning to wonder if I nuked the bridge I had built with him when he confronted me in Scotland?”
”Hey if he was willing to make amends with Jessie after the whole “Jessie Deserves Better” debacle? Than nothing’s impossible, right?” Cassie pointed out and I had to admit, she had a point, Cassie was just shy of fourteen when that happened off course but she was still an avid SCW watcher. ”And hell, you threatened to end my career at Blaze of Glory yet we’re talking in the parking lot after Climax Control.”
”Yeah, can we just never speak of that again? And skip over that segment entirely if we ever find ourselves in a Blaze of Glory marathon?” I requested and it didn’t take my half sister long to agree to that idea, then I spotted something across the parking lot and grinned. ”I need to get going Cass, and besides, remember when I promised I’d warn you if Zoey and Becky started getting frisky?”
”Oh don’t tell me…………..” Cassie trailed off before she turned around, it wasn’t as if her girlfriends were making out or stripping each other’s clothes off, but the way they were looking and holding onto each other? There was foreplay and there was “these girls are literally seconds away from choking each other with their tongues”, Becky and Zoey fell into the latter category. ”For fuck’s sake! I TOLD YOU GUYS TO NOT START WITHOUT ME!”
I had to laugh as I saw Cass run across the parking lot to stop Becky and Zoey from going any further without her but I wasn’t about to stick around to see if that progressed into a three way, both because I had a flight to catch like I said and because whilst I’m related to Cass through marriage? I wasn’t about to stick around and watch my little sister have sex in public.
My relationship with Seleana from a wrestling point of view was an odd one, I didn’t wrestle the Swede for the first time until after Violent Conduct had come and gone, by which point I was well into my Roulette Title Reign and they had decided to give me a bigger challenge than any of the other Roulette Division regulars, well, the regulars at the time, I won that match and every other encounter I’ve had with Seleana since, including the five pack challenge which served as my last defence before my first High Stakes.
Following that match, there was a gap between matches between us, just over two years at that and right after my third consecutive elimination from the opening round of the Blast from the Past Tournament, during the early days of my bitch phase and before that we met in the Open Invitational Scramble, counting the Battle Royal this marks our sixth match against each other, I’ve only technically lost two, the Battle Royal and the Scramble, but the very nature of those matches meant that a whole bunch of people were going to lose those matches anyway.
Would the fourth time in singles competition be the charm? I doubt it but after Bea got her surprise win over Harper? I’m not leaving anything to chance.
Krystal’s home, Las Vegas, Nevada
Tuesday the 10th of October 2023, 16:00pm
The further I get from my first High Stakes back in 2021, the more it seems like a distant memory.
I’m not saying that I peaked in 2021, it’s just taken me a bit longer than I would’ve liked to regain any momentum from that year and considering that was my first full year in SCW as a Bombshell? That’s saying something.
As for this year? Do I even need to go over it again?
One things for sure as we speed towards 2024, that will be the year of my redemption, it’ll be a slow progress and the Sin debacle ended too late in the year for me to make any serious headway in the remaining two months, especially with the Christmas break that will follow High Stakes, still, if I can end my last Supercard of 2023 with a win? I’ll be a step in the right direction, especially when you remember that, off the five SCs that have taken place thus far, I’ve only won a match at one of those events.
Even then, Ruby’s incompetence cost me the match at Summer XXXTreme and as I said before, the Open Invitational Scramble was going to leave a lot of Bombshells on the losing side of things by its very nature anyway.
”Almost two full years since I asked Makayla to marry me.” I muttered to myself as I looked at the date of this years High Stakes on my computer’s Callender. ”A marriage that Sin nearly made me throw away in a vain attempt to get noticed, god I wish I had never recruited Marty and Matthew.”
”Let’s be honest, you’re hardly the only one to wish that.” Makayla commented as she shook her head and I glanced over at her as she sat on the couch. ”And it’s like you said, you likely would’ve met Cass again without their help, fate has its way with things sometimes.”
”I said it once and I’ll say it again, fate has a funny sense of humour, just look at how we got together officially.” I commented as I shook my head and Makayla frowned as she realized what I was getting at. ”You helped a borderline anorexic goth girl with undiagnosed autism escape her shitbag of a dad and just a few months after his trial for the murder of her mother among others, including Cassie’s biological mom, you started dating her, need I say more?”
”No, but you did leave out the part about me nursing you back to a healthy weight for a girl of your height, just saying.” Makayla reminded me and I had to agree, normally I kept my weight around the midpoint of the ideal weight for a woman who’s 5ft 5 anyway but it was still a lot healthier than I was after I escaped. ”Almost makes me wonder why you cheated on me with Jessica.”
I sighed, I knew this was bound to come up sooner or later but it was still awkward as all hell. ”Keira told you that I wasn’t completely in control of my actions, right?” I asked and Makayla nodded without hesitation. ”Besides, you had literally just told me that you wanted a divorce whilst I was in London for Into the Void, even without Sin I wasn’t exactly thinking straight!”
”And I could never bring myself to make the divorce official because I still believed that there was good in you.” Makayla pointed out that fact and I had nothing to say about that. ”Do you have any idea how much pressure I was under from my family to divorce your ass after you made out with Jessica live on PPV? Believe it or not, barring you from seeing the twins after they were born and not even telling you that I had gone into labour until I had Penelope call you on my behalf was a compromise!”
”A compromise that led me to using my old house keys to sneak into the house just to see them, I still don’t know how I didn’t wake up the dogs.” I commented with an exasperated sigh as I ran a hand through my hair. ”Maybe that was an early effect of Sin’s magic at work?”
”If that was Sin’s magic then we should count ourselves lucky that the worst thing it did to Tali and Garrus was give the doggos a good night sleep.” Makayla nodded in agreement as she glanced out to the garden where the German Shepherd Garrus was laying around with the Golden Lab Tali. ”I should probably let them in before I get started on dinner, nights are getting shorter and all that.”
”Yeah, sure.” I responded with a nod before Makayla stood up and made her way over to the door to the back garden. ”But for what it’s worth Makayla? I’m sorry that the first thing I did after you announced the divorce was have sex with another woman, if it makes you feel any better? Jessica hasn’t even tried to contact me since that show in Rome, I think she’s ready to wash her hands off the whole saga.”
”It’s a shame really, she was a good wrestler before her injury but her stint as your manager was probably her one and only chance at getting an SCW Contract.” Makayla commented as she shook her head and I nodded in agreement. ”And your apology is accepted Krystal.”
Makayla didn’t say much to me over the next couple of hours, her first priority was bringing the dogs in and once they were inside the house she got to work on dinner for me, the girls and off course, the dogs.
What was I doing in the meantime? Well, the conversation with Makayla had left me with a lot to think about.
Walking through the streets of Las Vegas, Nevada
Tuesday the 10th of October 2023, 21:00pm
*promo time*
Well, well.
”It’s funny, I didn’t think my Path of Redemption would lead me to so many familiar faces, yet that’s exactly what happened after my win over Georgie.” I stated as I held three fingers. ”Street Fight against Roxi? Check, last week’s Battle Royal practically being made up off my Rogues Gallery from this past year? Check, and now it’s come full circle because for the third High Stakes in a row? I’m wrestling someone I’m familiar with, g’day Seleana, we really need to stop meeting like this.”
This will be good.
”I mean seriously, there’s two Bombshells the bosses just love to book me against, if it’s not Roxi, it’s you Seleana.” I commented as I shook my head. ”Only, whilst my one and only win over Roxi is not something I want to talk about again, you’ve only failed to beat me twice Seleana and those two occasions were matches where we weren’t the only participants and no matter who won, there was going to be a lot of disappointed Bombshells, aside from those two matches? I’ve beaten you time and time again.”
Funny.
”And it’s funny, because if it weren’t for the fact that our last meeting was when I was going through my bitch phase? I’d be running out of new things to say about you Seleana.” I commented with a shrug as I looked into the camera. ”Because I can only wrestle the same woman so many times before I need a change of scenery! I will grant that our singles matches have been spaced out enough so that it has yet to get too old, but how long before that changes?”
Good question.
”Who knows? Maybe with new wrestlers like Harper and Jane and incoming talent like Kandy Kline? I’ll finally start getting some new competition once the dust has settled on High Stakes?” I asked as I folded my arms. ”Because during this whole cycle my only fresh competition was Georgie and Luna, Georgie was a disappointment and is only getting that shot at Alexandra because she got a fluke win over you a couple of weeks ago, Luna? I was so focussed on trying to get Tempest out of the Battle Royal that I didn’t get a chance to test myself against her before Ari threw me out, something’s gotta change!”
It's that simple.
”And that change starts at The Path To Redemption Part IV: The Chips Are Down! I’m not a gambling person but considering this is High Stakes and it’s taking place right here in Las Vegas? The gambling reference seemed apt.” I commented as I shook my head. ”But as the late, great metal god once said, if you like to gamble, I’ll tell you I’m your gal, you win some, lose some, it’s all the same to me!”
And with that I decided to wrap things up.
”Sorry, I had “Ace of Spades” by Motorhead stuck in my head just now, but it’s fitting isn’t it? We’ve faced each other so many times, you’ve never beaten me, only ever failed to win multiperson matches that involved us where we both lost, as much as I’d like to say, “that’s the way I like it baby, I don’t wanna live forever” and continue the Ace of Spades references? I’d be lying.” I stated honestly with a shrug. ”Because these rematches are getting old fast, the winds of change are blowing and as the voice of the revolution? If I never wrestle Seleana again for the rest of the year after I beat her at High Stakes? It’ll still be too soon! See you at High Stakes Sel!”
I walked off as the scene fades.
