{Roxi is shown packing her bags for Vegas. She neatly folds everything, including her costume inside her luggage, before zipping it up. Keira comes in the doorway.}Keira – I still don’t see why I can’t go.
Roxi – Because I have to do this alone, and two, someone has to watch over the city while I’m gone. This is my mom we’re talking about…
Keira – I just think that you should have someone to go with you, just in case this doesn’t work out.
Roxi – We’ll work it out. It’s my mother. I just…. Need to ease her in, is all.
Keira – Ease her in?
Roxi – I don’t think having you there, and having to explain to her that I married you is the best thing to hit her with right off the bat…
Keira – Point taken.
Roxi – Thank you.
Keira – What about Hamilton?
Roxi – I told them it was part of my wrestling obligations, they were pretty linnet on me.
Keira – Well… I’m still weirded out by that place.
Roxi – Keira, I told you, they’re inept. Nothing they make works, except for that jetpack, and… well… it won’t work anymore now.
Keira – You sabotaged it?
Roxi – Yup. According to the data, it will explode if it’s used for more than an hour.
Keira – But… it’s a jetpack!
Roxi – Don’t start with the jetpack thing again. We can both fly!
Keira – Still… Jetpack!
Roxi – Enough already.
Keira – But that place still weirds me out, I get some bad vibes from that place.
Roxi – It’s a weird place, I’ll grant you.
Keira – No… I mean, I just, have a bad sense of that place. And I want to at least…
Roxi – Keira, no. You are not going to go anywhere near that place while I’m gone.
Keira – But, but….
Roxi – I said no, Keira. And I mean it!
Keira – I’m telling you, I have sensed this kind of stuff before….
{Roxi places her hand over Keira’s mouth to stop her from talking.}Roxi – Enough. I mean it.
{Keira nods, and Roxi removes her hand from Keira’s mouth.}Roxi – You ready to go now?
Keira – Go where?
Roxi – To the airport, with a little stop beforehand.
{Keira frowns, and nods in acknowledgement. She turns and puts her jacket on.}Keira – I still want to go to Vegas again…
Roxi – You really just want to go for the blackjack and hookers….
Keira – … Noooo…..
{Keira and Roxi share a knowing grin, and Roxi shakes her head before grabbing the car keys.}Roxi – Come on, let’s go.
Keira – Uh… we can fly you know!
Roxi – I’m taking the plane, like a normal person.
Keira – But you’re not normal.
Roxi – Touché… Still, gotta keep up appearences.
{Roxi and Keira head out the door, and walk down to their car. They get in, and drive off. After visiting Roxi’s sister Nicole, Keira drives Roxi to the airport. Roxi gets out, and heads to get gate to catch her flight, she gets a call from Keira.}Roxi – Kiera? .... No, I didn’t forget anything. … I … Yes I promise I will call you when I get in … We just had this conversation before you drove off. … Yes, I will. … And Keira, remember what I said. Do not go near that place! … I mean it! Okay… Okay I love you too…
{Roxi hangs up her phone, and sits down, patiently waiting to board her flight.}
{Meanwhile, as soon as Keira hangs up her phone, she dials Vision on her wrist communicator.}Vision – Keira?
Keira – Vision… I need a favor.
Vision – Wha’t that?
Keira – I need to layout for Hamilton Inc.
Vision – And… why?
Keira – Because I need to get in there.
Vision – Uh, Roxi is handling that.
Keira – I know, but I sense something evil in there.
Vision – They are a big evil corporation.
{Keira rolls her eyes.}Keira – I’m aware of that. But I sense something truly evil in that place. Like, not normal run of the mill thug evil… like… a huge evil! And… if I’m being honest here, a familiar one…
Vision – So, what are you asking?
Keira – I need security, camera locations, the whole nine yards. My sense will tell me where to go, I just don’t want to be spotted doing it.
Vision – I’ll… see what I can do. What exactly do you think is in there?
Keira – I don’t know, but I don’t like it.
Vision – Didn’t you tell Roxi you had a bad feeling?
Keira – She’s caught up trying to find her mom. There’s places she can’t go yet, but if I’m in and out, I can prevent a lot of damage in a short time.
Vision – Well…
Keira – In and Out. I promise. You never have to breathe a word of this to anybody. In fact, your probably shouldn’t period.
Vision – Look… I said I’ll see what I can do. No promises Keira.
Keira – And Vision?
Vision – Let me guess, I ESPECIALLY can’t tell Roxi about this?
Keira – Yeah, that wouldn’t be good for either of us.
Vision – I’ll work on it. Good-bye Keira.
Keira – Thanks Vision!
{Keira hangs up, and heads back to the apartment.}<HR>
I know that soon enough, I’ll be in England, and I’ll be facing 7 other Bombshells, in a battle to have my name engraved on the title bar to be the first SCW Bombshell’s Internet champion. And I’m fully aware of how important that is. And I’m fully aware of how lucky I am for the opportunity to be in this match, and have this opportunity. Unlike some of the girls in this match, who have already squandered their chances at it, it seems. I’m not saying they can’t surprise me with a Herculean effort at the buzzer, but somehow, I doubt it. It’s almost like some cool new video leaks on the internet and you got to see it, and bam, your ge Rick Rolled.
Yeah, remember when that kept happening? Remember when that was a thing? That’s how I feel right now.
I know now you want to click away from this video and play “Never gonna give you up” repeatedly, but just bear with me for just a few minutes. I’ll remind you again at the end of the promo, don’t worry.
Anyway, there’s a lot of emotion going through my mind right now, sitting on a plane, wondering if I’ll get to even find my mother, let alone talk to her, or get even a little bit of closure if things don’t go well. I don’t think I’ve ever been as nervous for anything in my entire life, and I have no idea what I’m getting into. I haven’t been this scared and nervous ever. I understand how important Inception is, and how I need to make a good impression and do my best to make sure that I win, this… is kind of taking a hold over my priorities right now. I can handle 7 girls trying to take my head off, but this… this is crazy. I can even handle giant robots, and super soldiers, and monsters, and aliens, but my mother? Goodness I’m sweating bullets!
I feel like I’m in an internet prank video at this point, both with my match, and meeting my mom. In the match, I feel like everything is set up to prank me, because it’s like, my opponents are either trashing the championship, or calling me pretty much the same thing: A fake. It’s getting to the point where I’m just wondering if anybody outside of Joanne, Cynthia, or myself is even taking this match seriously. Again, I do kinda expect someone to just throw everything against the wall here in this rush of promos, but… it’s been kind people just going through the motions. Not really understanding the prestige of what we’re all in this match for. It’s just… shocking.
Here we are, SCW Inception fighting for a brand new title, and boom people have just… given up the fight already! Desiree was all jumping for joy, and she’s been as quiet as a church mouse all of a sudden. It’s kind of dampening the whole vibe here in this match. I feel bad for Mimi and Desiree who are seemingly throwing this match away for some strange reason.
I feel the same way meeting my mom, that this is too good to be true. Somewhere, someone has a hidden camera, and they’re waiting to crush my dreams to catch my reaction on camera. Like that telling your kids you ate their candy prank. That’s just cruel! And I don’t want that kind of thing happening to me when I find my mom, or come Sunday at Inception. Nobody is going to crush my dreams.
First champion of the interwebs! I mean, there is no one who can do what I do, on the interwebs!
But… first, things first.
I need my mommy.<HR>
{That evening, having received her plans, and layout, Keira arrives on the roof of the Hamilton building. Having made alterations to her suit to sneak in. She finds a vent and crawls in.}Keria – This had better lead to the laundry room.
{Making her way through the vent, and making quite a bit of noise, her movements are soon drowned out by the laundry room’s dryers making noise. Keira is able to sneak down successfully into the laundry room, and out of the vent. Having done so, Keira starts focusing, and looking at her map, trying to figure the best way to get where she needs to go.
Studying the map, Keira knows where she needs to go, and begins heading towards the basement narrowly avoiding the one patrolling guard. The guard seems to be half-assing it anyway, so Keira just casually walks down the hall that he walked by, heading towards the elevator. Walking into a lab area, Keira notices a sign that reads “hazmat area” She shrugs, walking down the hall, then ducking into an office when she seems a hazmat suit. Putting it on, she walks out, and towards a large room. There is a guard there, who looks up at her as she walks by.}Guard – Excuse me? Can I help you?
Keira – Gotta head down stairs, I missed a check on the project earlier. Don’t want the bosses up my ass about it again…
Guard – Oh…. Alright.
Keira – Thanks.
{Keira enters the elevator and it shuts behind her as she leans against the wall.}Keira – Their security is atrocious…
{Taking the elevator down to the basement, Keira gets off, and casually walks down some corridors before a large metal door blocks her path. To the right, a keypad and a video screen. Keira touches it and it activates.}Keypad Voice – Attempt 1 of 3… Please enter the 5 digit access code.
Keira – Uh-oh… Hmmmm…
{Keira pushes the buttons, 1-2-3-4-5.}Keypad Voice – Access granted.
{The metal door whooshes and slowly opens. Keira is stunned.}Keira – That is… just sad.
{Undaunted, Keira walks in, and looks around, before the lights automatically come on. Inside the room are a bunch of documents, and glass wall, leading to a room that is consumed by some kind of fog. Keira looks at the documents on the table. She walks over and picks them up}Keira – Project S.I.N. *Gasp*
{Keira is stunned, and afraid. She hangs on to the document, and then peers through the glass, and then walks through it, where a giant tube is held. Inside the tube is something even more horrifying to Keira. She steps back and shakes her head in disbelief.}Keira – It … can’t be… How? How can this be? Oh crap… I gotta… I gotta get out of here!
{Keira walks with the documents and heads back to the elevator, making sure everything is as it was, minus the documents she carries. Once inside the elevator, she quickly removes her hazmat mask and stuff the documents in her suit. Quickly putting the mask back on, she casually walks out of the elevator and by the guard.}Keira – Have a good night. Don’t’ work too hard!
Guard – Good night!
{Keira walks out of the sight of the guard, before ducking into a room and changing out of the hazmat suit, and taking the documents with her, and sneaking back into the laundry room, and out of the building again.}Keira – This is not good…
{Having seen what she needed to confirm her fears, Keira quickly makes her way back to the apartment, where she contacts Vision.}Vision – How did it go?
Keira – Their security leaves a lot to be desired, but… I’m about to send you some documents.
Vision – Okay…
{Keira pulls out her phone and takes a few pictures of the Project S.I.N. documents and sends them to Vision.}Vision – What is this? Project S.I.N.?
Keira – Remember when you guys pulled that little demon out of me…
Vision – So? What does that have to –
Keira – Inside that chamber, is Sin herself.
Vision – I thought it was killed?
Keira – It is… or was… Whatever. But I know what I saw.
Vision – Well, this has to be turned in, and Roxi needs to know about it.
Keira – No! I mean… I’ll tell her myself.
{Keira’s phone rings as she looks down as she’s Roxi calling her.}Keira – YOU TOLD HER ALREADY?!
Vision – No! I swear!
{Keira lets it ring a couple more times before answering.}Keira – Hey baby! …. No, I just came in from a patrol… I’m glad you’re safe…. No …. Nothing out of the ordinary … I will … You just find your mom … Uh-huh … talk to you soon … I love you!
{Keira hangs up, and breathe a sigh of relief.}Vision – I have to turn this in to the Guild.
Keira – Can you make sure they don’t tell Roxi!
Vision – They’re going to call her in. I can’t let this sit Keira.
Keira – Just… give me or something. At least until she comes back. Let me tell her.
Vision – I can’t. I won’t tell her, but when the guild finds out, they will speak with her, and tell her they know.
Keira – Just … don’t turn it in until tomorrow. I will call her and… I will tell her so she’s not bombarded.
Vision – You’ve already done that Keira. It’s good that you found this out, but… It’s not going to be good for Roxi.
Keira – Damn it… Not til tomorrow Vision… Please!
{Vision sighs}Vision – First thing. You’d better get a hold of her fast!
{The following day, Keira dials Roxi’s number, but it just goes straight to voicemail.}Keira – Baby… please call me… I have to talk you urgently! …
{Keira continually dials, trying to catch Roxi on the phone, but her phone is shut off, and continually goes to voicemail. Vision then calls her on the laptop.}Keira – Vision? I need more time! Her phone is off!
Vision – I can’t give any more time. I had to turn it in!
Keira – Crap! What am I gonna do?
{On the bottom screen, there is a call incoming, with Roxi’s name next to it.}Keira – She’s calling!
Vision – Well… I’ll let you take it from here.
{Keira ends the call with Vision, and accept the calls with Roxi.}Roxi – Keira!
Keira – Hey… baby…
Roxi – Keira, I’m so sorry I haven’t called in a while, I… forgot my charger…
Keira – Even though I asked you if you forgot anything?
Roxi – I know… I’m sorry. But, I have great news! I found my mom!
Keira – That’s…. that’s great!
Roxi – I know! I’m so excited!
Keira – Where is she?
Roxi – I’m letting her sleep in the room. I’m in the lobby.
Keira – That’s great! I… I can’t wait to meet her!
{Roxi can notice the synthetic enthusiasm in Keira’s voice and tone}Roxi – Keira…
Keira – What’s up?
Roxi – What is wrong with you? Did something happen?
Keira – No…. why?
Roxi – Keira… I know that tone of voice….
Keira – Can… can we talk about something?
Roxi – Oh my god you’re pregnant…
Keira – What?.... NO! I… I mean I don’t want to have kids just yet but… No, that’s not what I need to talk to you about! I… I need to have a “private” conversation with you…
Roxi – Okay…. Let me go to the bathroom. We can talk there…
{Roxi gets up and walks to the bathroom, sitting down in a stall and locking the door.}Roxi – Okay… what is it?
{Keira takes a big breath and rubs her face.}Keira – Look…. I know you’re going to be mad and yell at me but… I have to tell you something…
Roxi – Keira?
Keira – I…. I may have snuck into Hamilton last night…
Roxi – WHAT?! Keira I told you not to do that! How could you have been so…. Gah!
Keira – I’m sorry I disobeyed you. But I had to. I had to find out what it was that gave me the creeps about that place!
Roxi – Do you realize that makes me look terrible, right! I was going to get to the bottom of things!
Keira – I had Vision watching me!
Roxi – Vision? You got him in on this too?
Keira – I didn’t mean to make you mad…
Roxi – How else did you think this was going to go Keira?!
Keira – I’m sorry. I really am. I but… that’s not the worse news I’m afraid…
{Roxi arches a brow.}Roxi – Excuse me?
Keira – Roxi…. I found… I found… something in the basement….
Roxi – What did you find in the basement?
Keira – I…. I found…. Sin…
Roxi – WHAT?!
{Roxi shouts, but covers her own mouth for a second, then whispers.}Roxi – What?
Keira – I don’t know how they got a sample of her, but… I know what I saw. I saw…. Me.. in a tube.
Roxi – How do you know it’s Sin?
Keira – Because…. I felt her. That’s why I’ve had the bad vibes… She’s in that tube!
Roxi - *sigh* Okay… look… I… I will deal with this later. My mom and I have to catch up, and… I don’t even know… Wait… why is the GUILD calling me?
Keira – I…. I kinda had to tell Vision, and he… he kinda told the Guild…
Roxi – Keira! This is the worst possible timing!
Keira – I’m sorry…
Roxi – I’ll deal with you…. Later….
<HR>
{Roxi ends the call with Keira, and opens up the Guild’s access.}Roxi – Come in…
Robotic Voice – You’re presence is requested.
Roxi – Copy…
{Just that abruptly, the call ends, and Roxi has no choice but to go. She walks back upstairs and sees her mother still asleep, sleeping off her hangover. Roxi climbs out the window to the roof, and waits sending out her beacon, soon, she is transported to the Guild, where she enters a room with Captain Freedom.}Roxi – Sir…
Captain Freedom – Is there a reason that your partner is doing your job?
Roxi – Sir, I can explain…
Captain Freedom – Your partner snuck into Hamilton last night, and uncovered a possible bio-terrorism project…
Roxi – She did? … I mean, sir, I told her not to go in there. She kept having these…. Senses, bad vibes, whatever… but She snuck in without my knowledge until 10 minutes ago!
Captain Freedom – Lady Bedlam, I’m all for partners sharing the workload, no one should be alone, however, your partner is inexperienced, and could have been compromised with her reckless actions.
Roxi – Yes, sir…
Captain Freedom – If you can’t control your partner, she will be removed, or transferred away.
Roxi – She’s my wife! I can’t have that!
Captain Freedom – Then you need to keep her out of trouble. Now… granted, what she uncovered is big.
Roxi – Really?
Captain Freedom – Yes. But according to these documents she uncovered, the project is still in progress, and not ready for testing, but is in the final stages of preparation. This does not include the details of what exactly is it, which is now, you’re main goal. Find out what Project S.I.N. is…. And stop it.
Roxi – Yes, sir… I will.
Captain Freedom – Good. Not this is the last time Lady Bedlam, control your partner.
Roxi – Yes, sir…
{Roxi leaves the room, and is soon transported back to the hotel roof, where she re-enters the hotel and heads back up to meet her mother.}
Do I dare run down the list of the opponents not having been mentioned yet?
Mikah is just telling everyone she’s the greatest thing since youtube, and it’s already wearing thing, considering her biggest accomplishment is beating Cynthia Warren, which isn’t really worth bragging about. She’s been telling everyone who will listen she’s just amazing, and… really… I don’t find anything to write home about, about her. She’s done some good things, and she’s a competitor, and I’m not taking her lightly, but come on, Is there some kind of factory where these girls are coming from where all them just feel the need to put everyone they come across down? It’s getting to be pretty sad when the best she can come up with is making fun of superheroes, because a) that’s totally Mercedes Vargas’s territory, and
it was tired when she used it. At least she got creative. Mikah just ran her mouth and made people want to change the channel because they can hear better promos elsewhere.
Joanne and Zuri are in this match, trying to keep the Daughters of darkness thing going, and quite frankly, it’s been a rag tag effort at best by them. The Daughters have beat up Veronica Taylor, which… hey, I’m not exactly complaining about, but outside of that, and some sneak attacks, The Daughters of Darkness as a failed experiment. Joanne can talk as tough as she wants, and make mention of how much crime she does, because apparently she likes to incriminate herself on television, but if she really wants me to come after her and bring her down I will. Until then, I’ll settle for making sure she doesn’t steal this championship, because she doesn’t belong on the interwebs! Mob wives isn’t even a good show! No one talks about that on social media, like ever! Zuri I guess is just going through the motions and that’s sad. I was so hoping for our awesome superhero vs super villain thing that we totally had going, and she just... dropped that I guess, and shown she's not going to stand on her own. She chose to stand with the daughters of darkness, but in the end, that's proven to be an unwise choice. It would have made for a great photo set somewhere.
And Cynthia. Awesome job. I'm very proud of you. I'm glad you finally decided to wake up from... whatever it was you were doing to make you quite lazy. I'm glad you are one of the people actually taking this seriously. But, that doesn't change what I need to do. Nurses are really good internet material.... Okay, maybe not YOUR kind of nurse, since the interwebs to full of nurses doing... un-nurselike things, but still... Look, my point is that you have shown fire and some actual effort this time, and I don't want it to go to waste. I hope that you keep this up in the future. But champion of the internet? Cindy, that's not for you. You're barely on the internet! I just want the first bombshells internet champion, to be one who is tech savvy, and that is totally me!
So, girls, I wish you all luck. I hope that you all give it your best shot. But my name, being going down in history as the first Bombshell's internet champion? that sounds like it just belongs.