Harpin’ On With Harper, Backstage at Climax Control 421. Reykjavik, Iceland
Sunday the 13th of April 2025, 23:00pm
*on camera, start vlog, promo part one*
We cut to the backstage area after Climax Control has gone off the air following Bella’s win in the main event against Seleana Zdunich where we see Harper watching the closing moments of the match with an unreadable expression on her face.
”Bella’s been god damn unstoppable since she took the belt back from Aleesha at Inception VI, hasn’t she?” Harper comments as she walks away from the monitor, phone in hand, filming her vlog as she goes. ”Beat me twice in a row in her first two title defences and now has a non-title win over Seleana in a match where the hometown hero Fenris served as the special guest ref!
Almost everyone is ready to sing her praises as the bosses plan her next challenger, me? I’m left wondering what the hell I’ve been doing wrong over the past year or so!” Harper added as she brushed some of her dirty blonde hair out of her face, revealing a frustrated look on the twenty year old’s face. ”Here’s some math for you: since I signed with SCW in 2023 I’ve had a grand total of four title matches, my first one against Bobbie Dahl, my second against Victoria, both for the Bombshell Roulette Title, and my most recent matches against Bella, all pretty spread out at that! Meanwhile Cassie just seems to be handed title shots just for being a breathing body on the roster!”
Harper lets out a deep, frustrated breath as she flips some hair over her shoulder.
”I’m not trying to disparage Cassie’s efforts since she signed with SCW last summer, nor am I trying to invoke the memories of my older cousin Jessie when she was on the roster, god knows I’ve worked hard enough to shake off those comparisons, but it’s getting really hard to maintain my “nice girl of the Bombshell Division” persona when I seem to be playing second fiddle to someone who openly admits to being a former stone! And that’s all before Victoria and Vincent Lyons entered the picture earlier tonight!” Harper looks up towards the arena’s ceiling for a moment before letting out a deep breath. ”God fucking knows I’ve had more than my share of dealings with that woman since she signed with SCW last year.
Just to get one thing out of the way, I don’t care that I almost won the match, being thrown into a handicap match against two of the top Bombshells in the division because I pay tribute to my mentors in every promo I cut is still bullshit! And just to answer another question? No, I don’t know what the terrible twins were getting at when they cornered me after Eddie’s win over Artie in the opening match! Trust me, I was just as surprised by their sudden interest in me as everyone else! But the gist of it seems to be that Victoria has me marked as one of her next challengers which brings me to me next point! I don’t know if Victoria’s interest is tying into this or not, whoever wrote the match preview for this week’s Main Event seems to think so, but just under a year since the last time I faced her in a non-title match? I’m facing Kayla Richards in a non-title match in next week’s Main Event!”
Harper let out a deep breath.
”At the very least Andrea Hernandez was kind enough to ensure that it’s not the same title reign that she originally faced me in!” Harper added as she shook her head. ”Because god knows this year’s first international tour hasn’t repeated much of the same beats as last year’s! I know Kayla is a tough bitch, I also know she’s a bitch in general, and much like the aforementioned Bella, she doesn’t know who her next challenger will be yet!
Do I really need to tap into my killer instinct to score the upset win of the year and beat Kayla in her first match of her second reign as World Bombshell Champion? And if I do, what would that mean for the title picture that I just alluded too?” Harper asked hypothetically as she started making her way to the car park. ”Actually, here’s a better question, what influence, if any, will Victoria have over this match?”
*end vlog*
Harper’s Hotel Room, Reykjavik, Iceland
Monday the 14th of April 2025, 11:00am
It was the day after Climax Control 421 and Harper was at her laptop checking for notifications on Twitter/Facebook, however the events of last night’s Climax Control are very fresh in her mind as the twenty year old goes through Facebook.
”I haven’t even interacted with Victoria since I challenged her for the Roulette Title back in August.” Harper muttered to herself as she rested her chin on her hand. ”And that was right after my feud with Alicia ended at Summer XXXTreme, why the sudden interest?”
A knock at the door interrupted Harper’s train of thought and she answered, on the other side of the door was Cassie, fresh off being screwed out of her spot in the Blast from the Past Tournament the previous night. ”Hey, didn’t get to do this over breakfast but I wanted to check in on you after that whole mess with Victoria last night.” Cassie explained and Harper nodded as she got the idea. ”Can I come in?”
”Yeah, yeah, come in.” Harper nodded before stepping aside and letting Cassie in. ”Though I feel I should do the same for you after Mikah cheated her way to the next round.”
”Oh trust me Harp, I could rant throughout the whole flight to Oslo, in other words, for just under three hours, about how incompetent SCW’s refs are and I’d still have material left for the journey to the hotel!” Cassie grunted in frustration before she sat down on the bed and Harper nodded before returning to her laptop. ”Speaking of, Josh said the checkout is at one so we’ve got at least an hour to kill before we need to get packing.”
”I’ve mostly been killing it by going through Facebook and Twitter, but good to know I guess.” Harper responded as she leaned back in her chair. ”When I’m not trying to figure out just what Victoria is up too with this scheme of hers.”
”I went back and watched the footage from that seg before I came over, the way they were cornering you was definitely unsettling.” Cassie responded as she ran a hand through her hair and Harper nodded in agreement. ”Good thing I stumbled upon it when I did because who knows where they would’ve taken it if I didn’t happen to be in the area to chase them off?”
”On one hand? The Lyons Twins are unreadable at the best of times, on the other hand? That’s gonna give me nightmares for at least a week.” Harper responded with a shudder and Cassie nodded in agreement. ”At the very least Eddie seems to have a good head on his shoulders though if all the Lyons siblings are like Victoria and Vincent? Maybe he’s the black sheep!”
”Can’t really comment on that, didn’t interact with the Lyons that much when we were in PWS: Apex together.” Cassie responded with a shrug and Harper nodded. ”Also, thing I’ve been wondering: was there any truth to Victoria’s words about you and the opportunities I’ve been getting since I joined SCW in August?”
”You mean when they were trying to insinuate that you were Josh’s new favourite toy? Oh god, that sounded way worse than I meant it to!” Harper facepalmed as she realized what she had just said. ”Never mind he age gap between us and Josh! Look, I’d be lying if there wasn’t some jealously, especially after you got an Elimination Chamber Qualifier and I spent most of the cycle unsure of what I’d be doing, if anything at Blaze of Glory until I won that qualifier, but trust me, there was nothing personal behind it, Victoria was just trying to make it sound a lot worse than it actually was!”
”I figured but thanks for clarifying.” Cassie nodded in appreciation before she stood up. ”Good luck against Kayla Harp, as one of her last opponents I know exactly how tough she is, and don’t do anything crazy!”
”That coming from a woman who literally cut a wrestling promo inside a dormant volcano?!” Harper snarked and Cassie just shook her head. ”I mean yeah, I know a bit more about it than Rocky thanks to my own trip into that thing but still!”
”That only happened once! And honestly, how often are we going to visit a country with volcanos safe enough for tours like that?” Cassie asked with a smirk and Harper shook her head. ”Exactly! I’ll come get you once my packing’s done Harp, Josh will want a chat about the incident with Victoria too.”
”Honestly? I’m surprised you beat him to the punch!” Harper responded with a grin and Cassie shook her head with a chuckle before leaving.
Harpin’ On With Harper, Harper’s Hotel Room, Oslo, Norway
Tuesday the 15th of April 2025, 14:00pm
*on camera, start vlog, promo part two*
With her upcoming match fresh in her mind Harper clearly has a lot to think about over the coming week, especially with what was at stake in this non-title match against Kayla.
”Let’s go back to that first title reign, shall we Kayla? I’m not even talking about the first match we had in Turkey last May, at least not yet, but just the reign in general.” Harper stated as she leaned back in her chair. ”When we faced off at that show, you seemed unstoppable, you and Finn had an iron grip on not just the World Bombshell and World Heavyweight Titles but the Mixed Tag Team Titles as well, by the time Andrea ended the reign back in January you had the second longest World Bombshell Title Reign to date, just behind Amber Ryan, and what happened?
The Lyons broke that illusion when they took the Mixed Tag Team Titles from you, now, I’m not about to deny that they had a little help from Miles Kasey who was being about as subtle with his interference as Fenris was in his role as Special Guest Referee last Sunday but is it really that hard to not see that as the beginning of the end of that reign?” Harper asked before smirking a bit. ”If you ask me? No.”
Harper shifts her weight a bit as she continues.
”You know, it’s kinda funny because I realized when I was rewatching that episode of Climax Control to prepare that this was the same show where Victoria made her debut, and almost a year later I’m taking you on in a match that’s happening right after Victoria has decided, for lack of a better term, to make me her pet project.” Harper added before getting back on track. ”It’s also been a year since I went back and rewatched that match and two things were immediately evident in hindsight: one: whether I wanted it or not, I had a lot of help from Juliana DiMaria in that match, and I think I made my thoughts on that situation clear as day when I wiped her out with a suicide dive, the other thing?
You underestimated me Kayla.” Harper added as she folded her arms. ”Heading into that match you treated me as an afterthought, some teenage rookie being fed to the lions, and yeah, at that point in my SCW career? I was just a few months short of my 20th birthday and had only been in SCW since the previous September, why wouldn’t you, the almighty Kayla Richards underestimate the young, hungry and inexperienced Harper Mason?”
Harper smirks a bit as she flips some hair over her shoulder.
”Except that came dangerously close to biting you on the ass, didn’t it Kayla?” Harper asked rhetorically before leaning forward. ”You thought that match was going to be a walk in the park but I made you work for that win! Even had you on the verge of tapping out thanks to my submission expertise, what can I say? Being a former high school wrestling standout comes with its perks.
But that begs the question Kayla, are you going to make the same mistake in Oslo as you did in Turkey?” Harper added as she looked right at the camera. ”Because really Kayla? The only things that have changed about me in the year that’s passed since our first match is that I’m a year older and a few months closer to being able to drink legally back home in Vegas and that I’m in my second full year as an SCW Bombshell, but you? The kinks have started to show in your armour Kayla, you lost the World Bombshell Title once and while you did reclaim it in the chamber, let’s be honest with ourselves here: how much longevity is there in reign #2?”
*end vlog*
Rock In, Oslo, Norway
Tuesday the 15th of April 2025, 21:00pm
The Rock In Bar was one of several metal bars in Oslo and given that Norway was the birthplace of Black Metal? That wasn’t surprising, what was surprising was the conversation Josh was having with Harper as they were enjoying themselves in the bar.
“Harper, I have enough headaches with it is with Cassie campaigning to get Drew Patton fired over his officiating of her Blast from the Past match.” Josh sighed after he set his drink down and Harper nodded. “Now I have your whole situation with the Lyons on top of that.”
”Trust me Josh, I was just as surprised when they approached me after Eddie’s match as they were.” Harper admitted as she brushed some hair over her shoulder. ”And I’m glad Cass stepped in when she did but I can’t get what Victoria was saying to me out of my head, especially considering the opportunities Cassie has gotten in her short time in SCW.”
“Let’s just get that out of the way, I don’t have as much influence over yours and Cassie’s bookings as I’d like in SCW, much like I did when I wrestled in the men’s division I have to take whatever you and Cassie get as they come and trust me, if I could’ve campaigned for you to get a chamber qualifier, I would’ve.”
”And that, in turn, would’ve saved Christian a lot of headaches as it related to setting the match up.” Harper responded dryly and Josh nodded in agreement. ”But I guess another part of it is when that qualifier would’ve been booked and against who? Song or Seleana? Bobbie or Prudence?”
“Sounds like a no win situation either way.” Josh nodded in agreement before shifting the topic. “But what about your rematch with Kayla on Sunday? It’s non title like your first match against her but unlike last time Juliana is unlikely to make an appearance.”
”I know she’s in the Blast from the Past Tournament and, well, her match hasn’t happened yet so it’s safe to say that it’ll be one of the final four matches to take place next week.” Harper responded after thinking over the past two shows. ”Which of course means Kayla will try to say that I only did as well as I did because Julianna got involved.”
“It’s your job to prove her wrong if she does say that.” Josh responded after thinking for a moment and Harper nodded in agreement. “Maybe even score the upset of the year.”
”Easier said than done off course.” Harper responded before they returned to enjoying the music and the scene in general.
Harpin’ on with Harper, Harper’s Hotel Room. Oslo, Norway
Tuesday the 15th of April 2025, 23:00pm
*on camera, start vlog, final promo part*
As Harper gets ready for her final vlog of the week regarding her match against Kayla in this Sunday’s Main Event Harper is back in front of her laptop with her arms crossed.
”I bet you think you’ve got this all figured out, don’t you Kayla?” Harper asked as she looked at her nails playfully. ”You just took back the World Bombshell Title from Andrea in the Main Event of Blaze of Glory XII, you’re back on top of the food chain, the queen of the mountain, but then, something wicked this way comes! And by that I mean our rematch.
See, Kayla, this isn’t as black and white as you want it to be, this isn’t going to be an easy win for you so you can reestablish your dominance of the Bombshell Division all over again, this isn’t going to be a repeat of that match we had in Turkey.” Harper added as she shook her head with a look of determination on her face. ”You don’t want to admit it, I get that, your ego’s too fragile to admit it Kayla but I came THIS CLOSE to scoring the upset of the year when we wrestled in Turkey one year ago, and now, almost a year later, do you really think you’re going to repeat history against me?”
Harper shakes her head.
”Tell me, how did repeating history against Andrea work out when you faced her at Inception VI? You beat her at High Stakes sure, but you couldn’t get the job done the second time around and the only reason why you have that gold now is because the bosses added you and Andrea to the World Bombshell Title Match at Blaze of Glory! Call it what you want Kayla because I’m seeing it for what it its!” Harper added before leaning in on her desk. ”You’re not as invincible as you think!
Sure, you lost the Mixed Tag Titles to the Lyons in the lead up to High Stakes but that can at least be put on Finn’s shoulders since Eddie pinned him to win the match, but who could you blame when you lost the World Bombshell Title?” Harper asked rhetorically before smirking as she knew the answer already. ”No one but yourself and this Sunday I’m going to put some more kinks in your armour when I defeat you!”
It's that simple.
”I don’t know if this is Victoria’s influence over me coming to the service already but any way you look at it? This has the makings of the upset of the year!” Harper added as she rested her hands behind her head. ”And this Sunday I will be laser focussed on making that dream a fucking reality when I knock the biggest bitch in the Bombshell Division down a peg or ten.”
And wit that Harper decided to wrap things up.
”And I can already hear your ego going into overdrive as you try to deny everything I just said, go ahead, try.” Harper added as a wide smirk appeared on her face. ”It’ll just make my win over you that much sweeter because the world needs a new hero ad her name is “The Slaytanic Avenger” Harper Mason! See you in the ring Kayla!”
Harper turned off her webcam as the scene fades.
