A rather haunting melody plays in the background along with a clip featuring a disheveled elderly man in stained clothing stands on a street corner holding up a sign that professes ‘the End is Nigh.’
We now relive images of an individual adorned in a hoodie assaulting Kelcey Wallace backstage, Kraven Wallace in the ring, and Kloe Masters every time she seemingly turns around. This footage builds into shots of Kelcey defeating Franklin Paradise in a match that would force Paradise to name the individual adorned in the hood and sweat-suit, only to see that very same mysterious individual elude the clutches of Kelcey before their identity could be revealed.
The video then transitions into Orlando Cruze, President of the IWC, making his announcement on Riot about selling his shares in the company and naming the new owner before cutting to Kloe Masters making her sales pitch to Cruze to get the shares he’s offering. Orlando looks reluctant regarding Kloe’s offer and this prompts Masters to vow to do something that evening that will show Cruze that she’s capable of running the federation.
The footage jumps to Kloe in the ring later that evening with the three man group known as the Cartel behind her, and microphone in her hand, she announces that tonight she’s going to reveal the identity of the individual in the hooded sweat-suit and force them to honor the stipulation that was placed on the match between Kelcey and Franklin on NewAge. Finally Paradise lives up to his end of the bargain, stepping forth and announcing that Silas Mason is the individual in the hood. We cut to Silas avoiding the wrath of so many who have been wronged by the agent’s attacks, with the Cartel coming after him, which is immediately proceeded by Shaun Cruze attempting to take Silas out via the superkick for assaulting his former sister in law, Kloe.
Later that evening Silas and Shaun go one on one in an eagerly anticipated impromptu match before the individual in the sweat-suit attacks Shaun from behind with a steel chair, confounding the fans who were led to believe that Silas was the one beneath the hood. This enigmatic figure bludgeons Shaun so viciously that he is forced to be taken to the hospital, aided by referees Alex Ingelson and Patrick Fitzpatrick.
Now the viewers find themselves relieving the chaotic events that unfolded throughout the main event pitting Danny Darko against World Champion, Ba’al. As we see Darko making his way to the ring we see a collection of clips showcasing everything that happened between Danny’s group, Pain and Pleasure, and Ba’al’s group, the Sinistry throughout the evening. Danny’s teammates are featured with Chris Davids being assaulted by the Sinistry’s Rachel Frost, and Mya Denton being thrown head first through a car window by Sinistry supporter Mordecai.
Darko’s anger stemming from the attacks on his associates leads to a vicious and violent encounter with Ba’al, that sees both men employing a litany of weapons to destroy each other. Eventually it comes down to one weapon to turn to the tide of this match.
That exact same hoodie clad individual who has aided the power hungry forces of the Sinistry by assaulting Kloe, and Kelcey, now leaps to the apron bashing Danny Darko over the head with a chair and potentially costing him a match against World Champion Ba’al, an act that neither Orlando Cruze or his wife, Taylor Chase, will ignore. The two surround the hoodie wearing individual and are about to make them pay for everything he’s done throughout the night. But they find their hands stayed when the hood concealing the identity of this individual pulls back and reveal the face of Kloe Masters. Orlando and Taylor are stunned by this and the ensuing scene that Kloe has played on the Cartel-tron featuring Orlando’s brother Shaun, chained between a concrete column and a car bumper. The car is about to take off and split Shaun in half before Kloe’s demands are met, Orlando selling the company to his ex-wife. Kloe then joins with Ba’al and the Sinistry at ringside with Ba’al chiming…
“The Age of SIN is truly upon us.”
Cameras immediately open on the inside of the Manhattan Center but are not fixated on the crowd, not fixated on the fans, not fixated on any rousing fireworks display from the stage. The camera is focused on a steel chair situated on the mats in front of the announce table with a hooded sweat-shirt thrown over it, the very article of clothing that Kloe Masters employed to hide her identity for several weeks.
Hunter: Welcome to NewAge Ladies and Gentleman, on what promises to be an epic night, this being the very last NewAge of 2014.
Mackie: That has to be the biggest understatement of the year after what happened last time
Hunter: In front of us is the costume that Kloe used to hide her identity for months, used it to attack many members of the roster including her former brother in law. We shall be hearing from Kloe later on tonight, and hopefully getting some kind of explanation as to why she betrayed the IWC, her ex-husband and indeed her supposed friend Taylor Chase.
Mackie: And not content with that then went on to join the Sinistry, giving them 75% ownership.
The all too familiar opening track of Ring Around the Rosies plays through the speakers and SIN Champion, Ba’al, Rachel Foxx-Frost, Jaina Frost and Decay make their way down the ramp. The group enters the ring amidst so many jeers from the crowd. Ba’al goes undaunted by their statements as he takes a microphone into hand.
Hunter: NewAge kicking off the way Riot ended, with Ba’al in the ring. At the end of Riot we saw Ba’al defeat Danny Darko in a Weapons Match thanks in part to Kloe…this in turn set up the Sinistry for their majority ownership
Ba’al smugly looks around the arena and lifts a mic to his lips…
Ba’al: In just a few sparse weeks I will stand in this very ring and defend this very championship…(Rachel hands the SIN Championship over to Ba’al)….in what has been arguably the most anticipated match in the history of this company. However, I am afraid your heightened expectations shall not be reached. There will be no SIN Title defense at the End of the Year Special…
This comment is met with a rousing wave of boos.
Ba’al: Now-now. Do not lose faith. For instead of a legendary bout between Taylor Chase and I for the title, you will receive a far more mythical moment. The Chase and Frost families will not clash we will unite. For weeks I have called upon Taylor Chase to make a choice, to decide rather she valued the pursuit of trinkets, or the longevity of her career. She cannot have both. If she pursues this match between she and I at the End of the Year Special, her career will unfortunately be cut tragically short. However, if she decides to join me, to join my family, to stand beside us, well, her career will be transcendent. I believe now Taylor sees that she has no option remaining. The events of Riot, where Kloe Masters fooled not only Chase but the world in general, have reinforced and reminded Chase of the idiocy and futility of standing against the Sinistry. If the bloodied bodies of Mya Denton, Chris Davids and Danny Darko were not enough to confirm to Chase that battling the Sinistry was an unwise decision, then Kloe’s play for power only demonstrates to Taylor that there is no way she can stand in opposition to my family’s goals. Our grip on the heart of this company will never be broken, and those who defy us will be squeezed from the arteries of this federation. Do not be the defiant Taylor, be the transcendent. I am giving you this final opportunity to join us this evening in an act that will ensure the Sinistry not only controls the IWC, but all of professional wrestling….
“Guilty All the Same” blares over the speakers and completely cuts off Ba’al, his menacing eyes twisting to the entry way. Danny Darko makes his way to the stage, but doesn’t come alone. He turns and gestures towards the back, the curtains opening to reveal Mya Denton, Chris Davids, Vanilla Skyy and Adam Chase, the entirety of Pain and Pleasure headed for the squared circle.
Danny: You know something Ba’al, I think we all knew you would come out her and drone on and on about how well you and Kloe orchestrated this whole corporate overthrow. But hearing you speak is allll sooooooo booooorrrring. The fans would much rather hear you scream, which is exactly what Pain and Pleasure are going to make you do right now.
Hunter: Mya and Chris were attacked in the parking lot ahead of their scheduled match with Ba’al last week, and it looks like they are out for some retribution tonight.
Pain and Pleasure go bolting down the ramp, going straight after the Sinistry. Ba’al and Darko find themselves exchanging punches while Chris rolls into the ring and exchanges shots with Decay, at the same time Vanilla Skyy and Rachel Foxx are going at it and Mya Denton and Jaina Frost are slugging it out. Bodies are flying everyone inside and outside of the ring. Eventually Decay and Davids are the only two left in the ring where Ba’al’s servant goes for the Brogue Kick on Davids only to have him duck, run into the ropes, bounce off and dive into a spear on Decay’s ribs when he spins around. Chris then does a head stand and kips up to his feet after the spear before instantly leaping over the ropes into a plancha onto the bodies at ringside. Jaina then climbs up onto the turnbuckle and comes flying off into a Moonsault on everyone at ringside as well.
Mya eventually enters the ring, rushes across it and steps off the back of a crawling Decay, then leaps onto the ropes before springing off into a huge shooting star press onto everyone on the mats below. Eventually Ba’al and Darko work their way into the ring, continuing to exchange blows between one another as security finally comes rushing out and tries to separate everyone, primarily forcing Ba’al and Darko apart in the centre of the ring.
Hunter: And just like that the chaos continues, kicking off NewAge
Mackie: It’s like Riot never ended
Security finally begins to separate Ba’al and Darko, who are itching to get at one another with the crowd screaming to let them fight.
There is a harrowing cacophony of boos at the sight of Kloe Masters making her way through a corridor, wearing a diabolical smirk upon her face as SIN GM Franklin Paradise and Principle Owner Desmond Drake step along beside her. All three of them enter the building, Desmond looking up at Kloe with a smirk on his face.
Desmond: This is going to be an amazing night Kloe. When you head to the ring, the IWC is going to be rocked to its very core
Kloe: I know right, if they were stunned before just wait until they see what I have in store this evening, especially for our esteemed number one contender Taylor Chase
The three cackle with diabolical laughter as the show cuts to commercial break.
If you thought things would get any less chaotic after a brief intermission, slap yourself in the fact this second. The brawl that was taking place before the commercial continues into the backstage area. Chris Davids, Mya Denton and Vanilla Skyy are still fighting with Decay, Rachel Foxx and Jaina Frost, having been cleared from the ring by security, but said security is powerless to stop them from brawling through the gorilla position.
Pain and Pleasure and the Sinistry turn the backstage area into an absolute battlefield, waging a war that only ends when when Mordecai and Rachel Frost, the very pair who assaulted Mya and Chris in the parking lot on Riot, come rushing in behind Mya and Chris, assaulting the pair with forearms and dropping the two to the concrete. Meanwhile Vanilla Skyy and her agent Adam Chase are still all consumed with the fight between themselves and Jaina, Decay and Foxx.
Once Frost and Mordecai have put Mya and Chris to the concrete, stomping away at the bodies of the Pain and Pleasure members Aiken Frost, Rachel’s husband and Sinistry figurehead, steps out from behind the camera, holding the chain that is attached to his wive’s throat. He tugs on it and pulls the NHB Champion in close before kneeling between the aching bodies of Davids and Denton.
Aiken: Tonight, the Sinistry finally takes full control of the IWC, and at last the transformation into SIN will be complete.
He leans in even closer to Chris’ ears.
Aiken: And all that defy us…will be purged from our federation. The two of you are only the beginning.
Aiken looks up from the wounded Davids and Denton to those who put them in this condition Frost and Mordecai.
Aiken: Go to the ring and deal with their associate, Darko.
Security has finally managed to clear the ringside area of several combative stars, but many guards are still in the ring trying to hold back Danny Darko and Ba’al from tearing each other’s throats out. Ba’al is finally forced out of the ring where Darko is still located and requesting a microphone. He is eventually handed one, grabbing it and lifting it to his lips
Danny: That’s it, I have had ENOUGH. If I’m coming after the Sinistry, I am going for their leader first. So Ba’al, you and I, we are going to have ourselves a little rematch, and that rematch Ba’al is going to be a fucking STREET FIGHT.
Darko doesn’t wait for Ba’al to give a response, rushing across the ring and diving over the ropes into a huge splash onto Ba’al and security at ringside, knocking them all to the mats. Darko then throws Ba’al back into the ring and security tries to catch Danny only to have Head Referee Marcus Mayfield rush out and send security to the back. He then slides into the ring and starts this impromptu Street Fight between Ba’al and Danny Darko.
Hunter: It looks like Darko is going to get his wish, this match is on
Mackie: And soon he’ll be wondering why the heck he bothered. Be careful what you wish for Daniel…
BA’AL VERSUS DANNY DARKO
STREET FIGHT
Darko and Ba’al absolutely mangle one another around the ringside area and into the crowd, even up into the balcony section. Eventually they fight down the steps, Darko being knocked down them and ending up in the crowd. Darko gets back into the match by booting Ba’al to the ribs and power bombing him into a row of empty chairs. The two reach the ringside area where Ba’al has several chairs thrown into the top of his skull as he kneels on the mats. Ba’al gets back into things by vertical suplexing Darko from the mats, spine first into the apron, then giving him a Death Valley Driver spine first across the barricade, arching his back over it. The two eventually brawl into the ring where a chair pile is formed in the middle of the ring and Darko gives Ba’al an exploder suplex off the top rope, off the turnbuckle and into the chairs.
Hunter: OH MY GOD!!!
Mackie: Darko just destroyed them both
Hunter: And now look…Rachel Frost and Mordecai coming out here
Frost and Mordecai mercilessly stomp on the broken body of Darko, as Aiken Frost steps onto the apron
Aiken: Finish him off…NOW!!
They are just about to destroy Darko as Rachel puts a chair platform in place and Mordecai prepares to Chokeslam Darko through it, when Chris Davids and Mya Denton come bolting down the ramp, overcoming the injuries inflicted backstage and sliding into the ring. They then pounce on Mordecai and Frost, the four going back and forth for several moments before Aiken grabs a microphone. He rises to the apron, pointing at Davids and Denton brawling with Aiken’s wife and the massive Mordecai.
Aiken: You want a fight, you really yearn for your destruction…well fine. That’s what you shall receive. Let us have a match this instant, Mordecai and my wife, versus Davids and Denton.
Darko and Ba’al fight towards the backstage area, Marcus Mayfield following after them. Meanwhile referee Wright comes bolting down the ramp, sliding in and calling for the bell to start the bout between the four parties still in the ring.
DAVIDS/DENTON VERSUS FROST/MORDECAI
The impromptu tag team match gets underway with Aiken Frost watching from ringside, Mordecai and Aiken’s wife, Rachel, battle two individuals out for revenge against those who laid them out in the parking lot on Riot and tried to do the same to them backstage moments ago. The fight goes back and forth for several minutes with Mordecai and Rachel working over Denton, who is still wearing scars across her scalp after being thrown into the car window on Riot by Mordecai. Eventually Mya makes the hot tag, Chris comes in and cleans house, targeting Rachel, who sandwiched his skull between a chair on concrete in the parking lot on Riot. Pain and Pleasure begin to dominate with Denton throwing herself over the ropes into a Senton plancha on Mordecai. Meanwhile in the ring Davids is setting up for the spear on Rachel only to have Aiken wrap the chain he was using to drag Rachel to the ring around Mya’s neck. Mordecai then takes hold of the chain and begins to strangle Mya at ringside, forcing Davids to roll out of the ring, and try to stop Mordecai, but he can’t break the grasp that the monster has on the chain strangling Mya.
Hunter: Someone do something, he’s choking the life out of Mya Denton
Mackie: Feel free; it’s only a few yards away
The referee throws the match out, having lost total control of what’s going on, Davids grabbing a chair and slamming it over the back of Mordecai several times. Eventually this stops him from strangling Denton and he turns his attentions to Davids instead
Hunter: Uh ho, run Chris
Mackie: Look at the look on Mordecai’s face
Mordecai then turns and begins to exchange shots with Davids as the two battle into the crowd with Davids knocking his massive adversary over the barricade into the audience. Chris then leaps off the barricade into the crowd only to be caught with a goozle, Mordecai about to Chokeslam Chris onto the concrete. That’s when Mya leaps over the barricade onto Mordecai’s chest with a Lou Thesz Press. Eventually the two members of Pain & Pleasure battle Mordecai through the crowd and into the backstage area. Meanwhile Aiken is sliding into the ring and approaching Rachel Frost, who is still smarting from the impromptu tag team match, crouching down in front of Rachel
Aiken: Oh my dear Rachel, be thankful that your night is not yet over. See, you will be instrumental in the purge, ridding SIN of all those that defy us, for a NEW AGE is truly upon us all, an age where the defiant will fall into a puddle of blood, and a pile of broken bones.
Hunter: This is awful
Aiken: Oh yes Rachel that is the state you will leave Chris Davids in at the End of Year Special. And to properly incentivize you, I will force you to watch as I decimate Ethan Von Aaron in the centre of this ring. But you know something, with Kloe’s stand against her ex-husband still resonating around the world, it has inspired me to act against those who oppose me as well. I have no thought to wait till the PPV, because I have every intention of dealing with Mr. Ethan Von Aaron right this very moment, and you Rachel, are going to witness it all. No-no, you will do better than that, you shall aid me in the destruction of Mr. Von Aaron. I will watch his blood seep from your hands.
Rachel: No.
Aiken: Do not challenge my decree.
Aiken grabs the dog collar around Rachel’s throat and yanks it with such force it threatens to behead his wife.
Aiken: There will be no happily ever after. Mr. Von Aaron will not lead you hand in hand into the sunset. There shall be no whirlwind romance between you and he, there will only be exsanguination, Mr. Von Aaron’s exsanguination, and it will come at OUR hands this very evening. You are not Mr. Von Aaron’s, much like those amongst the ranks of my beautiful New Eden, you are MINE, and you will do as I demand.
The NewAge theme music is blaring in the background as Ethan Von Aaron comes into view, strolling down a corridor with a robe hanging around his body.
Hunter: And there is the man himself, is he going to hit this ring to answer this challenge?
Mackie: He’s certainly crazy enough to.
Hunter: He’d have to be crazy, because you have to think that Aiken will have a trick up his sleeve, and that New Eden will not be too far away, ready to get the drop on Ethan.
New Eden stand in their locker-room, Silk, Mogui, Red Rayne and Mika Kozlov shown discussing what they’re about to go out to the ring and do to Ethan Von Aaron.
Mika: Oh goody, I can’t wait to hurt Ethan for trying to steal away my precious sestra. And if that big hairy mountain man tries to get involved, I’ll break his knees, hop on his back and turn him into my own personal pony…hehehehehe….Yeeeehaw!
Mogui: If Jed Wayne interferes I’ll not just to shave his face of all that excess hair, but of flesh
Rayne: You too should both calm down and focus on what must be done, the disemboweling of Von Aaron.
Mika: Hee-hee…oh sestra, why must you be such a killjoy?
Mika gets excited as the four go to exit the room only to be unable to push their door open. The camera cuts to the hallway where a pacer is parked in front of the door, keeping it shut. The camera then cuts to Jed Wayne standing a few inches away from the pacer, glaring at the big piece of machinery with his huge, wide, intimidating eyes.
Aiken Frost remains in the ring with his wife Rachel Frost now finding herself in the corner with her arms pinned behind her back by the massive Krauzer, Aiken’s monster.
Mackie: Welcome back to New Age and as you can see Aiken Frost STILL has the ring commandeered so that he can denigrate his wife.
Hunter: Yeah, and now that huge beast Krauzer, the same man who assaulted the GOOD Movement’s Hair and Make Up Department on Riot is standing out here too.
Aiken use one hand to clutch a mic and the other to point at his wife.
Aiken: You made a sacred vow to me Rachel, you pledged your life to me when you agreed to be my wife. But you are more to me than just a spouse, you’re my possession, you’re my property, and no man will violate the sacred trust that we pledged to one another on our wedding night. Ethan Von Aaron will not seduce you; he will not take what is mine. He will fall in this ring tonight, his blood will be splayed across every inch of canvas, and that is the closest any of his bodily substances will ever come to you again.
Mackie: I’d say that is pretty clear
Hunter: Just a little
Aiken: So come forth Mr. Von Aaron and I will….
But it isn’t Von Aaron who comes out, instead Jed Wayne suddenly bolts down the ramp and slides into the ring to a huge reaction from the fans. Wayne, the man who has been out to save Rachel from Aiken for several weeks, enters the ring and Aiken sends Krauzer to deal with him. Krauzer rushes at Jed only to be caught with a powerful big boot across the face, knocking him to the canvas. Wayne is then caught from behind by Aiken, who goes for the Desecration only to have Jed counter, the big man dropping to his knees and flipping Aiken over his head then taking him over the ropes with a clothesline. Both men crash to the floor and then brawl their way to the backstage area.
Hunter: What a shot from Jed…
Mackie: Aiken in trouble
They fight back and forth up the isle between the barricade and the ramp, a ramp Ethan Von Aaron is now traversing in his robe. He enters the ring where a confused Rachel Frost is standing and staring at Ethan while wearing a wide grin on her face.
Ethan: I’m sick and tired of trying to free Rachel every night just to have someone interfere. I WILL save my fuck buddy at the PPV, but tonight, I want to show Aiken what you and I are going to do with your freedom. I want to show Aiken how we are going to celebrate after I beat him at the End of the Year Special…HIT THE MUSIC
“Dirty White Boots” by Lenny Kravitz begins to play from the speakers and Ethan begins to shimmy in his robe in front of a confused and smirking Rachel. He then undoes the knot in his robe, and removes it to reveal that he is wearing nothing but a speedo that has the crowd wincing and gagging in response, but Rachel’s smirk widening.
Hunter: Oh my…people with a nervous disposition please turn away now
Von Aaron then begins to grind with Rachel, who joins in with the dance. Ethan then drops down to the canvas on his back and begin to air hump to screams from the crowd. Rachel then lies down on the canvas and gestures for Ethan to come over. He crawls over top of Rachel and the two are almost dry humping in the ring. Krauzer finally recovers at ringside from the big boot by Krauzer, slides into the squared circle and then grabs Ethan by the hair, throwing him off of Rachel. Frost then leaps onto Krauzer’ s back hitting him with clubbing blows before the big man manages to grab Rachel’s wrists and force them to her sides. He then forces Rachel over his shoulder and carries her out of the ring to the backstage area. Ethan rolls out of the ring and goes after Krauzer.
Hunter: Ethan in pursuit
Mackie: Can I look now?
Jed Wayne and Aiken Frost are still brawling through the backstage area, fighting into the catering area. Just them El Cuchillo, Hector and Solomon, the same men who have assaulted Wayne on numerous occasions, come rushing in from behind Krauzer and drop him to the ground, pummeling him with kicks and punches. Aiken backs away with a confused expression on his face before Mercedes Starr and La Tigra, the controllers of these assassins step into view, however, Aiken’s eyes are more so fixated on the person bringing up the rear, Alana Starr. She comes stepping out of an adjacent corridor with her focus primarily upon the kneeling Wayne being bludgeoned by La Tigra’s henchmen.
Alana: Mr. Frost, please do not worry, my Daddy will have Jed taken care of.
Aiken: I thank you for your assistance my dear, it is truly appreciated.
Alana: After you’ve helped me so many times over the past few weeks, I felt I owed you one.
El Cuchillo then pulls out a machete and extends it across the throat of Wayne. Solomon stares towards his benefactor, La Tigra.
Solomon: What do you want us to do with this puta?
Aiken: You
La Tigra: I think we’ll leave that up to Mr. Frost.
The camera cuts to Aiken, whose twisted black eyes possess the faintest glimmer of delight.
Prii and Tina Valentine, two members of the GOOD Movement are talking backstage, when their agent Ethan steps into view interrupting them.
Ethan: Prii, Tina…did you see where that freak took Rachel, I need to find her
Tina and Prii just stare at Ethan standing there in only his speedo.
Tina: Uhhhhh.
“ETHAN”
Von Aaron spins around and finds himself staring at Alana Starr, the X-Class Champion overlooking Von Aaron and attempting to collect her thoughts.
Ethan: Alana, did you see where they took…
Alana: You better not be worrying about Rachel Frost right now, when you should be more concerned about your clients.
Ethan: But-but-but….
Alana: I’m suuuure Rachel is fine, and Lucien is properly looking out for her
Ethan: I didn’t know you were on a first name basis with Frost?
Alana doesn’t respond, but Tina steps up to Ethan
Tina: Alana is right, you need to focus on us, and giving us the spotlight we deserve. I’m about to go out there and face Andre Jordan one on one, so do you have a plan to help me deal with this thug and the threat he poses to Alana’s title?
Ethan: Of course, I always have a plan
Alana: I wish I could trust that, but I’ve already taken matters into my own hands
Ethan: But…
Alana: Tina, go to the ring, you have nothing to worry about with regards to that THUG.
Tina smiles, her and Prii heading to the ring, whilst Ethan turns to Alana who frowns at him.
Alana: You really, REALLY, need to get your focus on watching out for your clients.
“Kordy agrees”
Von Aaron and Alana turn to face Kordy and the Stranger, the pair stepping from the shadows, the Evolution title over Kordy’s shoulder.
Kordy: Kordy says it’s time Ethan got his house in order.
Ethan: Is that so?
Kordy: Prii and Tina have been incredibly mean to Kordy these past few weeks.
Stranger: And Kordy should be shown the utmost respect and should be afforded all of your energy and effort. She is after-all, your most talented client.
Alana: I agree wi…wait….what did you say?
Alana obviously takes offence to this brash insinuation.
Kordy: If Ethan won’t do anything to stop Tina and Prii from bullying Kordy, then Kordy will have to smooth things over herself.
Kordy heads out towards the ring with the Stranger following. They leave Ethan and Alana standing there in an awkward moment of silence. Alana’s eyes are focused on Von Aaron’s lower extremities.
Ethan: Alana, you know you’re my most prized client and I’ll do anything to afford you the opportunities you so richly deserve. Please don’t be sidetracked by these issues between Rachel and I, and don’t let yourself be manipulated by Aiken.
Alana: Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh.
Alana’s eyes never rise from Ethan’s crotch.
Ethan: ALANA.
Alana: HUH?
Hunter: Ethan trying to juggle his feelings for Rachel with his clients, and it ain’t working
Mackie: He’d rather juggle Rachel’s boobies I’m sure.
Tina Valentine makes her way down the ramp with Prii Foote following her, all the while the tunes of “Talkin’ That” are playing in the background
Hunter: Tina and Prii have had their issues with Kordy over the past few weeks
Mackie: And it’s another issue she doesn’t need with Jessica Lasiewicz and Amanda Blayze both after her Queen of the Ring title.
Tina enters the ring and Prii remains at ringside while “We Own It” plays over the PA system and the Tag Team Champion Andre Jordan makes his way down the ramp with Tabitha Silverstone and Sebastian Knight following behind him. Andre looks far more intense as he makes his way down the ramp.
Hunter: Jordan sent out a major challenge on RIOT, demanding a face to face with Mercedes Starr, the Father of the very woman he’ll face at the End of Year Special with the X-Class title on the line.
Mackie: That is a match that has been a long time coming
Hunter: And they will collide in just a few weeks, but tonight, Andre takes on another member of Alana Starr’s GOOD Movement, “The Duchess” Tina Valentine.
ANDRE JORDAN VERSUS TINA VALENTINE
Dre and Tina then lock up in a big back and forth bout that wages on for several minutes, featuring a litany of counters and high impact moves. In the end Andre seemingly has the victory over Tina in hand before his focus shifts to the entry way where the very man he challenged on Riot, Mercedes Starr is standing on the stage alongside La Tigra. The two are watching the match proceed which causes a distraction that leads to Jordan being hit with the lung blower from behind, getting Tina a near fall. Mercedes stops watching and smirks in La Tigra’s direction as the two head for the backstage area. Valentine then stands up and shouts at Prii to throw her the Queen of the Ring Title. Prii goes to grab the belt and throw it into the ring only to have Tabitha Silverstone and Sebastian Knight cut her off, surrounding Prii and keeping her from interfering.
Hunter: This match has been everything we expected and much more
Mackie: These two really are two of the best in the IWC
Andre throws a right hand which Tina ducks underneath, catching Jordan under the jaw with a Chick Kick, sending him sprawling back into the ropes. Tina then catches him with a Flying Clothesline, taking him off his feet. She then nips up onto the second rope and hits a Drop Kick, landing on the canvas and immediately hooking the leg
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Jordan kicks out to the relief of the crowd.
Valentine then pulls Dre up to his feet and prepares to deliver a Code Breaker, leaping with both knees into Jordan’s chest. However, Jordan counters, catching the creases of Tina’s knees and throwing her up onto his shoulders. He then delivers a buckle bomb, throwing Valentine into the turnbuckle spine first. Valentine bounces off and staggers back into Jordan who catches her with a t-bone bridging suplex.
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Tina kicks out, rolling away from Dre who sits up wearing a shocked expression. He then gets to his feet, leaps onto the nearest turnbuckle and flips back into the moonsault, crashing directly into Valentine. He hooks the leg but the Duchess kicks out. Jordan then grabs Valentine by the hair, pulls her up and sets for the pedigree. The Opinion Changer is about to connect only to have Tina push towards Dre, driving him backwards into the corner. Jordan crashes into the corner while Tina rolls over backwards onto her feet then rushes at Jordan and leaps into a big splash. But Dre steps out of the way, Tina lands in the corner and Jordan goes to take her down off of the middle rope with the Olympic Slam. He sticks his head under Tina’s armpit, heaves her into the air and attempts to deliver the modified back drop only to have Tina slip out of his clutches, land behind the Tag Team Champion’s back and deliver the leaping reverse neckbreaker.
Just then Kordy comes rushing down the ramp with the Stranger behind her, she yells into the ring at Tina, getting Valentine’s attention. Kordy then shouts that she’s here to help her fellow GOOD Movement member and GOOD friend. She takes a slapjack out of her back pocket and throws it into the ring but the weapon flies over Tina’s head and lands in Andre’s palm. Tina spins around and Jordan cracks her upside the skull with the weapon, knocking her out. The referee spots this and calls for the bell.
Hunter: Andre getting disqualified. Man, what’s with this guy tonight?
Mackie: And Kordy’s the one who set Tina up to take the shot from that slapjack.
As the bell chimes in the background we see Kordy backing up the ramp with a pouting expression on her face, saying, ‘my bad’. Tina finally sits up holding the welt on her forehead. She then rolls out of the ring and storms up the ramp, going after Kordy. Prii follows the Queen of the Ring Champion as the two stomp to the backstage area in hot pursuit of their fellow GOOD Movement member.
Hunter: Tina is not happy with what just happened.
Mackie: And so she shouldn’t be either…wow
The ravenously intense Andre stands in the centre of the ring, collecting a microphone.
Andre: I challenged Mercedes Starr to do more than come out and stare, I want you in the ring Starr.
Mercedes remerges with El Cuchillo, Solomon and Hector flanking him on his way to the ring. Meanwhile Sebastian Knight and Tabitha Silverstone are climbing up onto the apron behind Dre, watching his back. Mercedes and Mercedes only slides into the ring, coming face to face with Dre.
Andre: Mercedes, I’ve been waiting for the opportunity to talk to you for some time now.
Mercedes: Then talk.
Andre: You know Alana and I will face off at the End of the Year Special for your daughter’s X-Class Championship, and a lot has happened between she and I over the past year or so.
Mercedes needs no reminding of the turbulent relationship between Dre and his daughter.
Andre: But you should know that at one time, I loved Alana. I cared so deeply about her that I was willing to sacrifice absolutely everything in order to make her happy, but in spite of all the affection and love I showed her, Alana just grew more and more greedy, more and more vicious, more and more conniving. And I have to believe you’re partially responsible for all of that. All of Alana’s ruthless tactics were inherited from you. You and Ethan Von Aaron have been in Alana’s ear, twisting her mind, turning her from GOOD to bad. What kind of father would….
Mercedes: I didn’t come out here for a parenting lecture, I know you want more than that.
Andre: You’re a smart guy, Mercedes. Maybe you should put that intelligence to better use. You REALLY want to see your daughter succeed, then stop interfering in her business, and stop employing your brutal tactics. Do you really want her title reign to be associated with kidnappings and attempted homicides? Way you are going, what should be her crowning glory will be damned forever with infamy.
Mercedes: Oh, one way or another, I will ensure that my daughter’s title reign WILL be remembered. I assure you Andre, I will do everything in my power to see that she beats you at the PPV, you can count on it. I will not watch her suffer any further abuse at the hands of a thug like yourself.
Andre steps up into Mercedes face
Andre: Well, in that case if you want to treat me like a thug, maybe that’s precisely what you will get…A THUG.
Alana: Well how predictable, Andre Jordan threatening abuse.
The X-Class Champion makes her way down the ramp and steps onto the apron, Alana Starr glancing between her father Mercedes and her ex-lover Andre.
Alana: You’re behaving exactly the way you were when we were together, like a child
Dre smirks, shaking his head.
Andre: You’re calling ME a child?
Alana: Yes, it’s always you-you-you, always Dre-Dre-Dre when it should be Starr-Starr-Starr. It’s so refreshing that I have finally found people that put me first instead of themselves. My Daddy is putting me on the pedestal you should have, and the GOOD Movement will always be there to support me. See unlike you, the GOOD Movement and my Daddy are there to help my career, not hinder it.
Andre: Man oh man, I-I-I can’t believe I could have fallen for someone like you. Because once you look past the beauty and the charisma, there’s nothing but a cold, callous and cruel hearted BITCH.
Mercedes doesn’t like hearing this, prompting him to shove Andre, who suddenly responds with a straight right hand across Mercedes’ face, knocking him on his back. El Cuchillo, Hector and Solomon then come sliding into the ring and Dre bails, slipping through the opposite ropes. He joins a stunned Tabitha and Sebastian at ringside, the three backing away from the ring where Mercedes is lying on his back holding his busted lip with Alana kneeling beside him, cradling his head in her arms and shouting furiously at Jordan
Alana: You’re going to pay for putting your hands on my Daddy, you hear me Dre?
Jordan doesn’t hear anything, he just makes his way up the ramp with Tabitha Silverstone and Sebastian Knight following along behind him.
Tina: Kordy…where the hell are you? Stop hiding and face what you just did
Tina Valentine storms through the backstage area, looking for the woman who led her to being smashed in the face with a slapjack earlier tonight. Prii Foote finally catches up with Tina, carrying the Duchess’ Queen of the Ring belt and passing her the title.
Prii: You got so angry; you left your belt behind
Tina: I can’t believe I did that, just goes to show how pissed off Kordy got me
Prii: This has gone too far, we have to finish Kordy, TONIGHT. Then you can put all your focus where it is required, on that title
Prii slaps the gold plate of the belt, Tina nodding her head in agreement
Tina: You’re right…it seems my hit list has just had another name added…Kordelia Price
A surprisingly intense Andre Jordan is making his way through the backstage area, completely ignoring Tabitha Silverstone who strides along beside him talking endorsement deals over her phone like nothing just happened in the ring.
Tabitha: Yeah, we play this right; we can make a lot of money Dre.
Andre: ENOUGH!!!
Andre snaps at her, taking her by surprise.
Andre: I don’t want to talk business now; I’m not in the mood
Gavin: Too right, there are so many better things to talk about
Gavin Taylor and his wife Madison step up to Andre and Tabitha
Gavin: Like the fact that watching you punch the lights out of the man who abducted my wife was probably even better than you giving me a shot at Kordy and the Evolution championship
Andre: You’re welcome, but I shouldn’t have lost control like that. I shouldn’t have gotten carried away because that’s what they want me to do, to lose my focus. I won’t let it happen again Gavin; I will keep my composure and take that title away from Alana
Gavin: Can’t wait bro
Tabitha grabs Dre by the wrist
Tabitha: Sorry to interrupt, but we have something we really need to discuss
Tabitha and Andre walk away, Madison turning to her husband
Madison: Looks like Alana has awoken an animal. Think we can get Andre a pair of stretchy purple pants in case he goes all Lou Ferrigno?
Gavin: We’ll work on it. I just wish it would have been my fist that nailed Mercedes in his mouth. But oh well, watching the GOOD Movement suffer at anyone’s hands is good enough for me.
Maddie nods, as she and Gavin turn to leave only to find themselves coming face to face with GOOD Movement member Prii Foote.
Prii: It sickens me, hearing you bad mouth the GOOD Movement and threaten us. I won’t stand for it
Gavin: After your group had my wife abducted just to cost me the X-Class Title, I’ll do whatever I wa…
Suddenly Prii spits in Gavin’s face and walks away, Taylor’s whole expression changing. He hands his Tag Team Title belt to Madison
Gavin: Hold onto this for me, I got business to attend to
Taylor follows Prii off camera, whilst Maddie stands with the Tag Title over her shoulder. She looks at it, smiling
Madison: I think I’ll name you Seymour.
Sebastian Knight is still standing in the ring with a crowbar now in his hands
Hunter: Knight has been out her since the encounter between Mercedes Starr and Andre, and it seems like he has something to attend to himself
Mackie: Unless he’s really fond of that crowbar
He looks down at the crow bar and begins to talk
Sebastian: This is what started it all. This was the catalyst that began the war between Brittany Lohan and I, a war that has been building for a year. This weapon took 365 days off my career, and it’s this very weapon that almost ended Lohan’s on the last RIOT. It’s almost laughable that Brittany is so universally hated that even her own sister, Serenity, would feel the necessity to nearly cripple her with the crowbar. Serenity assaulted Brittany so savagely with this weapon that it’s a miracle Lohan is even still standing, but Serenity doesn’t need to worry, because Knight will finish what she started. I’m making it official right now, I want Brittany Lohan in a Crowbar on a Pole match, so that this weapon can fulfil the legacy that it started by ending either my, or Brittany’s careers once and for all.
The crowbar is then dropped to the canvas at Knight’s feet and the camera slowly zooms in upon it as Sebastian makes his exit from the ring.
Kordy is shown with the Evolution Title over her shoulder and Jaina Frost standing in front of her. Harbinger is located behind Jaina and the Stranger is located behind Kordy. Kordy is taking a picture of her new best friend Sinistry member Jaina, but then looks at the photograph produced by the Polaroid camera and winces.
Kordy: Sorry, didn’t come out too well.
Jaina: That’s strange, because I’m soooo photogenic.
Frost takes the polaroid picture and overlooks it before wincing herself.
Jaina: All I’m seeing is your thumb.
Kordy: Sowwwwy.
Jaina: Relax my lipshin. You will improve with time. You knooow, maybe you should use this camera to take a photo for the side of one of those milk carton ‘missing people’ ads.
Kordy: Kordy doesn’t understand.
Jaina: Oh, I’m just thinking of a few ways we can free my precious lil Brad Pitt lookalike from Mya Denton.
Before Kordy can get any further clarification she is spun around by Tina Valentine.
Tina: What the hell were you up to earlier?
Kordy: Kordy wanted retribution, Kordy got it, and Tina got what was coming to her
Kordy laughs
Kordy: Hold that pose, your face is so angry; Kordy just has to take a picture
She takes a photo of Tina then hands her the picture. Valentine looks down at the photo and spits on it before balling it up in her hand and throwing it into Kordy’s face.
Tina: You are an absolute disgrace to the GOOD Movement, you spend all your time with the Sinistry, and undermine your manager.
Kordy: Kordy thinks it’s time to make someone tap-tap-tap
Tina: Bring it bitch
Tina backs away, as Kordy hands her Evolution Title belt to the Stranger
Kordy: Hold this; this is between Kordy and Tina.
The Stranger watches as Kordy heads off after Valentine.
The crowbar that was dropped in the ring a few moments ago remains the focal point of the camera before it finds its way into a palm. The camera pulls back to reveal Brittany Lohan now holding the crowbar and pacing the ring.
Hunter: Brittany has obviously heard what Knight had to say
Mackie: And it seems like we are going to get a response
Lohan looks down at the crowbar while stepping into the ring and speaking into the mic griped in her other palm
Brittany: Sebastian Knight, your right, this weapon right here has played a huge part in our storied rivalry. It was this very weapon that I held in my palm on my debut in the IWC, and it was this weapon that I swung into the back of Knight’s head on that very night, putting him on the shelf for an entire year. And ever since that night, the crowbar has come back to haunt both of us.
She continues to pace the ring.
Brittany: We have gone back and forth, back and forth, beating each other senseless with this weapon, so it makes sense that it should end the way it began. Knight, with regards to your challenge at the End of Year Special…I ACCEPT.
Hunter: That match is not going to be pretty
Mackie: But it’s one that has to happen
Brittany: But in regards to tonight, I’m making another challenge…I want to see my sister in this ring the minute she arrives, and I WILL make her answer for what she did last week on RIOT.
Hunter: Business picking up. But is this Crowbar on a Pole match going to take place at the End of the Year Special?
Mackie: If so, and at that very event, one of these individuals will surely be put on the shelf once again…but which one
Prii Foote is backing towards the camera with her hands raised and luring Gavin Taylor. The Team Epic member is stalking Prii through the corridor, one that runs adjacent to a corridor that Tina Valentine is back peddling through, enticing her own stalker, Kordy, to come after her.
Kordy is stomping towards Tina with eyes blazing in rage and nostrils nearly smoking. Prii and Tina finally meet back to back in the same corridor, look over one another’s shoulders and grinning. They then go rushing towards a nearby door, leaping through it with Gavin and Kordy chasing them down and finding themselves running into one another face to face.
They both stop at the door Tina and Prii are hiding behind, the Evolution Champion and the number one contender to her title standing mono a mono. It seems that the plot orchestrated by Foote and Valentine has worked out to profession, luring their enemies into an encounter. Gavin and Kordy glare piercingly into one another’s faces before they begin to brawl with one another, Gavin and Kordy exchange shots with one another throughout the backstage area.
The two fight back and forth culminating with Taylor grabbing the back of Kordy’s head and trying to throw her into a stack of crates, she bounces off of them and then collapses to her back. Gavin then approaches, ready to finish her off before he’s grabbed by the shoulder, spun around and has a handful of dust thrown in his eyes. Gavin is blinded and can’t see even as he’s turning around into a boot to the gut and the Can Opener DDT onto the concrete. Taylor rolls to his back and can’t even see the man who threw the dust in his eyes, that man being the Stranger. He steps forth and stands right beside Kordy, who suddenly grabs one of the large crates she bounced off and pushes the steel storage bin over right on top of Gavin’s arm. Taylor roars in pain and reaches for his destroyed arm while Kordy stands on top of the crate the arm is pinned beneath.
Kordy looks down at Gavin, laughing her head off.
Kordy: Kordy just guaranteed that Gavin will TAP-TAP-TAP when you face me for my Evolution title…Kordy happy now.
Kordy does a little dance on top of the crate that has squished Gavin’s arm.
EMTs are shown attending to Gavin Taylor backstage, checking on his arm, which is badly swollen and discolored. The commentators Mackie and Hunter can be heard in the background.
Mackie: Poor Gavin….
Hunter: What a traumatizing scene we witnessed before the commercial break.
MOMENTS AGO
Gavin Taylor and Kordy, the woman he’ll challenge for her Evolution Title at the End of the Year Special find themselves exchanging blows.
Gavin then approaches, ready to finish Kordy off before he’s grabbed by the shoulder, spun around and has a handful of dust thrown in his eyes. Gavin is blinded and can’t see even as he’s turning around into a boot to the gut and the Can Opener DDT onto the concrete. Taylor rolls to his back and can’t even see the man who threw the dust in his eyes, that man being the Stranger. He steps forth and stands right beside Kordy, who suddenly grabs one of the large crates she bounced off and pushes the steel storage bin over right on top of Gavin’s arm. Taylor roars in pain and reaches for his destroyed arm while Kordy stands on top of the crate the arm is pinned beneath.
The crate has finally been lifted off of Gavin’s arm and his swollen limb is being tended to by doctors.
Hunter: Gavin Taylor in a bad way after that attack.
Mackie: You have to wonder if he’s actually going to make it to his Evolution Title match with Kordy looking at that arm
Hunter: That would be a huge shame if he can’t compete based on this injury.
“Sisterhood”
Cameras cut to the rafters high above the ring where Serenity, sister of Brittany Lohan, is standing with microphone in her hand. She leans over the railing and glares down at the ring.
Serenity: Sisterhood is something that Brittany Lohan professes to know so much about, but in actuality, she knows NOTHING about it. And to be honest, I didn’t know what sisterhood was too, not until Willow Wilkes came into my life. She’s been closer to me than Brittany ever was. Willow is my confidante, my teacher, and my friend. Brittany is none of those things. Brittany is a smothering and overbearing control freak, who can’t tolerate it when things do not go her way. So why am I not surprised to hear her throwing a fit in the ring tonight just because I finally stood up to her and told her to stop butting in on my life? Well, I sent that message to Lohan on Riot, and I will send the same message to Karen McBride tonight. Karen, you said you wanted Cassidy Cage returned to you, and if I didn’t deliver my contract would be terminated. Well, you want her, you’ve got her.
The lights over the ring suddenly brighten and we find JessiKa and Willow Wilkes standing inside with someone stood between them wearing a black cloth over their head.
Willow: Here she is Karen…
Willow points to the woman adorned in a head to toe burqa, only Cassidy’s eyes peeking out of the black veil that hides her face
Willow: It IS Cassidy beneath this hood, and Karen you are going to have to trust us on that because Cassidy doesn’t want the world to see her breathtaking face just yet. But in spite of this get-up, she will wrestle her scheduled match for this evening. Then, when the time is right, Karen McBride and the rest of the world will bear witness to the distortion and mutilation of perfection we promised on RIOT
JessiKa grabs the microphone
JessiKa: Karen…send out Cassidy’s opponents
Leviticus is the first to make his entrance with Mr. Ridiculous and Stumpy Rodriquez following behind. The three reach the ring with Leviticus sliding in and getting ready for some competition.
Hunter: Leviticus looking like he has recovered from that huge Chokeslam he got from Jed Wayne on Riot.
Mackie: I hope so, and talking of Jed, we still have no idea what Aiken Frost has done with him.
“Flash” by Queen hits the PA system and Flash Silver makes his way to the stage with his agent Infinity leading the way. While Infinity holds a microphone, Flash clutches a cardboard sign that he raises above his head which reads:
“37-0”
The sign that boasts Flash’s exaggerated ‘winning streak’ remains elevated while Infinity lifts something else, her microphone.
Infinity: Although Flash would love nothing more than entering the ring and demonstrating his dominance, I am afraid he will not be competing AGAIN this evening.
Hunter: Again?
Infinity: What many are unaware of, is that Flash Silver already wrestled before the show tonight against Danny Darko and was victorious in that match. Unfortunately, due to a technical glitch cameras were unable to document this glorious moment where your savior expanded his win record to an amazing 45 and O.
Hunter: Is she actually expecting us to buy this?
Mackie: Sounds perfectly reasonable to me.
Hunter: So Flash wrestled Darko before the show and beat him, but there were no cameras to catch this? AND I’ve been here all night, I never once saw Darko and Flash go at it.
Mackie: Are you calling Infinity a liar?
Infinity: With Flash’s winning record already growing by leaps and bounds there is no longer justification for him to compete in this bout. So, I’m afraid that we must bid the two of you I the ring an adieu.
Infinity and Flash move to the backstage area, leaving Cassidy to go one on one with Leviticus.
Hunter: Whoa-whoa-whoa….Where is Flash going?
Mackie: I shudder to think.
Hunter: What does he mean he’s got another match he’s booked in tonight?
Mackie: I shudder to think.
Willow Wilkes and JessiKa watch from ringside while Serenity watches from the rafters as Cage prepares for her first singles match back since her abduction. She prepares to compete while still wearing the burqa.
CASSIDY CAGE VERSUS LEVITICUS
The match kicked off at a frantic pace and both wrestlers tried to outdo each other with counters and neither able to take control of the match. The momentum turned in Cassidy’s favour however as Leviticus went to the top turnbuckle and went for a big splash, Cassidy lifting her knees into Levi’s gut and doubling him up. Cassidy then lifted Leviticus to his feet and went for a kick to the stomach, Levi grabbing the foot but receiving a Mule Kick to the chin for his troubles which got her a two count. This frustrated Cassidy and she went for a leg drop from the second rope, missing, and Leviticus picking up a two count of his own
Hunter: This has just been one of those matches, neither managing to get any momentum going.
Levi picks Cage up and whips her into the strands, bending over just in time for Cage to stop, and kick him in the jaw sending him back towards the rope, dropping him with a huge Running Bulldog
Hunter: Cassidy with the pin
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2…
No, Levi kicks out at the last moment. An agitated Cage rises to her feet, lifts Levi and then delivers the Haze Effect. Her kick brutally drills the back of Levi’s skull and sends him twisting into the canvas. Cage then turns to Willow and JessiKa at ringside, who are imploring her to go a touch further. Levi is dragged along to his feet and now Cassidy delivers ANOTHER Haze Effect across the back of Levi’s skull, dropping him to the ring. After knocking Levi out, Cassidy goes to the turnbuckle, scaling it with her back turned to the ring. She has no idea that Flash Silver is sliding into the ring as she sets for her moonsault.
Hunter: Hey Flash is back out here, Flash is back out here!
Mackie: And he’s making good use of Cassidy’s handiwork.
With Infinity proudly watching her client, Flash picks Leviticus up and delivers the Silver Lining, his version of the fisherman suplex. He bridges back into the pin, Cassidy still unaware of what’s going on behind her.
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Mr. Ridiculous and Stumpy throw their arms up into the air at ringside, expressing outrage at the sight of Flash’s victory. Silver quickly rolls out of the ring, joining Infinity at ringside, who lifts a microphone to her lips.
Infinity: And with that victory, my client’s win streak now expands to 55-0.
Hunter: HOW!?! Wasn’t it 37-0 before the match began?
Cassidy finally drops from the turnbuckle to her feet in the ring, emoting anger through the view of her eyes. Eyes that twist and settle upon the aching Leviticus. Cassidy steps towards him, drags him up to his feet and delivers the lightning spiral. JessiKa and Willow are re-entering the ring to aid Cassidy in Leviticus’ destruction before Brittany Lohan comes rushing down the ramp. She slides into the ring with a crowbar in one palm and a microphone in the other. She points the crowbar in the direction of Cage, Wilkes and JessiKa, who stand on the opposite end of the ring.
Brittany: Sister, if you don’t want to see their skulls split, you will agree to meet me backstage at the end of the night at a place of your choosing. You and I need to settle this
Lohan looks up at the rafters where a smirking Serenity is peering down.
Serenity: I’ll meet you Brittany, but you may not like the consequences…just like Karen McBride won’t when she meets the new and improved Cassidy Cage this evening.
A disgruntled Karen McBride is making her way through the backstage area with interviewer Mark Comeau following behind her, already in the midst of an interrogation.
Mark: I got to ask, are you happy with the return of Cassidy Cage?
Karen: No Mark, no I am not happy and I’m not satisfied that Serenity has upheld her end of the agreement. And until that hood comes off her face, I will not be convinced that Cassidy has been safely returned.
Mark: But…
Karen: But nothing, right now I have other business to attend to
Karen steps away from Mark and through a door, into the dressing room of Taylor Chase.
Chase paces in front of McBride, holding a phone to her ear. Taylor ignores Karen, actually putting a finger up to McBride and insisting the Principle Owner stay quiet for a moment. Taylor then smirks and talks into her phone
Taylor: Awesome. Can’t wait for you to get here. The looks on Ba’al’s and Kloe’s faces will be priceless.
The phone is hung up, and Taylor turns to Karen
Taylor: Now, what’s up?
Karen: I know I’m the last person you want to see right now, but I’m here to save you a lot of trouble.
Taylor: What do you mean by that?
Karen: You don’t have to worry about dealing with Kloe Masters, because William Mason and I are going to go to the ring and do it, all you have to do is enjoy the show
Karen then takes off, Taylor shaking her smirking head whilst lifting her phone into view and staring at it
Taylor: Oh, I will enjoy tonight’s show…count on it.
A conflicted ‘Pure Champion’ William Mason stands in the backstage area with his head hung and his title dangling from his palm. He paces back and forth obviously with something heavily weighing on his mind, his side turned to a shadowy corridor. Karen then steps towards him with the Prestige’s hired heavy, JaMarcus Avery following behind her.
Karen: You ready William?
William: Well….
Karen: I can’t tell you how eager I am to get this Hardcore Tag Team Match with the Sinistry over with, so that we can move on and deal with Kloe.
William: We need to take a moment and think this over
Karen: No….no we don’t. Not after the way the Sinistry and Kloe played the two of us.
William: The two of US, seems to me YOU were the only one that was played by Masters.
Karen: What?
Mason shakes his head
William: Nothing, let’s just get this over with.
Karen then heads for the ring with JaMarcus following. William looks reluctant to trail the pair, before hearing a voice emanating from the shadows beside him. William never looks up into the face of his brother Victor Mason, who steps out of the darkened corridor.
Victor: What are you waiting for?
“Yes William, what are you waiting for?”
These words come from the Sinistry’s Red Rayne, who steps out of the darkness and wraps her arms around Victor’s shoulders. William finally brings himself to look at the two with a sideways glance.
Victor: This is your opportunity, William.
Red Rayne: Do make the most of it.
“American Dreamgirl” is hitting over the speakers and Karen McBride is making her way down the ramp with JaMarcus Avery right behind her and William Mason bringing up the rear. The three reach the ring and Karen grabs a microphone while glaring at the chair and sweat shirt still positioned in front of the announce table, the very items Kloe Masters employed to fool the world.
Karen: Alright-alright, I know you people are eager to see William and I decimate the Sinistry….
Mason stands out of McBride’s view while shaking his head.
Karen: But before we get to that match, I’m out here right now with a few demands. First and foremost, that Serenity return Cassidy Cage to the ring by the end of tonight, and that the burqa be removed so that I can confirm her identity. Secondly and perhaps more importantly, I want Kloe Masters to come out her right now and stop delaying her explanation. I’d say I am owed answers after she double crossed the company, and all but spat in my face by…
“Oooh Mishka, but Kloe owes you nothing.”
The Sinistry’s Mika Kozlov makes her way down the ramp with Evolution Champion Kordy right at the side of her friend. McBride’s and Mason’s opponents draw closer to the ring.
Hunter: It seems that someone has let Mika out of that locked dressing room, and that doesn’t bode well for Prestige.
Mackie: Mika is everything that worries me about a woman…playful, but oh so dangerous.
Hunter: And we certainly can’t ignore the threat that Kordy poses after she crushed Gavin Taylor’s arm with a crate a few moments ago.
The very dangerous Mika and Kordy inch towards their respective opponents in this Hardcore Match, but before they get to the action, Mika has a few ominous words to share.
Mika: The only thing that the beautiful Miss Kloe Masters deserves is to see you Karen, split in two by the Sinistry….hehehehe. I don’t know which half of you to give to Kloe though…the face or the ass…though it’s pretty hard to tell the difference, hehehehehe…ooooh how I kill myself.
The two rush the ring and slide in under the ropes, going right after McBride and Mason. Referee Stuart Wright comes sliding into the ring and calls for the bell, starting the Hardcore Tag Team match that was scheduled for tonight.
Hunter: This is on Mackie…hold on to your hat.
Mackie: I’m not wearing a hat.
MCBRIDE/MASON VERSUS KORDY/KOZLOV
HARDCORE MATCH
The tag team action gets started with Karen and Mika immediately trading blows. All the while William lingers in the background, he just stands in the corner and does nothing but watch as McBride fights so valiantly against Mika and against Kordy. JaMarcus Avery stands at ringside, slapping the apron and trying to encourage Karen. Eventually Mika and Kordy wear Karen down and keep making quick tags to keep a fresh person on McBride. They mirror one another’s moves. While Kordy works over the arm, Mika works over everything that crosses her path and laughs while doing it. It isn’t until Kordy whips McBride into the turnbuckle that the momentum shifts. Karen hits the corner and then throws a back elbow over the ropes and into Mika’s face, knocking her off the apron before diving through the legs of Kordy and then crawling across her knees towards the outstretched hand of Mason.
Hunter: Come on Karen, make the tag
She reaches out to tag in William only to suddenly have Mason pull back his hand. The crowd screams in anger as Karen looks with shocked eyes at the smirk on William’s face. He then backs down the steps to the ringside area, retrieves his Pure Championship from the time keeper and waves goodbye to McBride. Karen can’t believe what she’s seeing as William abandons her to the merciless Sinistry. JaMarcus Avery follows Mason, asking his employer where he’s going, but William will not respond.
Hunter: William what are you doing?
Mackie: Looking out for number one it seems
Karen tries to fight back, though she’s reeling from the physical blows of the Sinistry, and the psychological blows of Mason’s betrayal. Finally Karen is overcome though when Mika and Kordy hit a high low clothesline to McBride’s throat and chop block to the back of her knee
Hunter: Someone stop this, Karen is being dismantled…
Serenity: Awww, poor Karen. Looks like you can use some help.
Serenity appears from the backstage area with the burqa clad Cassidy standing behind her. Serenity pauses on the stage, a mixed reaction coming from the crowd.
Hunter: This has just gone from bad to worse for McBride.
Mackie: Yeah, Serenity no fan of McBride’s at all, especially when Karen threatened to fire her if she failed to produce Cassidy Cage tonight.
Serenity continues to grin at Karen from the stage.
Serenity: Well Karen, you need help and you also want Cassidy Cage, maybe we can kill two birds with one stone. Cassidy, why don’t you go down that ramp and help Karen out?
Cage makes her way down the ramp and steps up into the corner that William just exited. She then extends her hand looking for a tag. A confused Mika turns and overlooks Cassidy before being caught from behind with a McBride back stabber. Karen then looks equally as confused at the extended hand of Cage before slowly reaching out and tagging it. Cage enters the ring glaring through her burqa at both Kordy and Mika, before Cassidy turns back around to face Karen leaning against a turnbuckle. The burqa is suddenly yanked back and Cassidy Cage reveals her twisted, distorted eyes that are only matched in darkness by the hue of her hair. Cage then grabs Karen and pulls her into a boot to the gut followed up by a devastating Piledriver in the ring
Hunter: Nooooo.
Mackie: What the hell has happened to Cassidy Cage?
Hunter: She just destroyed McBride with that piledriver.
A surprised Kordy watches from the corner while Mika laughs in response to the disturbing image of Cassidy, who is no longer the blond bombshell, but the dark harbinger of pain. Mika nips down and capitalizes on Cage’s handiwork….the second time this has happened to Cassidy tonight. Kozlov hooks McBride’s leg, continuing to watch the snarling beast of Cassidy occupying the corner of the ring the whole time.
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The fans go mental at the sight of Mika picking up the victory for her team
Hunter: This is bullshit
Cassidy makes her way up the ramp and stands beside Serenity, who takes Cage by the hand and leads the monster through the curtains. Meanwhile inside of the ring Mika and Kordy are kneeling on opposite sides of Karen and playing with her hair. Mika lays down beside Karen and repeatedly brushes one of McBride’s bangs back and forth across her face like it were a windshield wiper. At the same time Mika is holding a microphone in her other palm
Mika: See Karen, Kloe got exactly what she deserved…the sight of the spoiled heiress paying for her incompetence.
McBride is totally out of it, as Mika and Kordy chuckle hysterically. Kordy just can’t help herself, rolling to the outside of the ring, reaching beneath the squared circle and retrieving a polaroid camera. She slides back into the ring, stoops over the unconscious Karen and snaps a photograph. She removes the picture, shakes it a few times and throws it on McBride’s chest.
Nerves are instantly unsettled at the sight of William Mason making his way through the backstage area with JaMarcus Avery following behind, insisting to know why William just abandoned Karen out there.
Avery: What’s the deal boss, why did you leave Karen?
Mason: She got what she deserved JaMarcus, simple as that.
Avery looks stunned at this response
Avery: No one deserves that
William: I’d advise you to remember what you are JaMarcus, an employee. Now, do your job and fetch the car.
Avery lowers his head, mumbling under his breath as he walks away. William then turns towards two figures standing in the distance, Victor Mason and Red Rayne
Victor: So, how did it feel, to abandon purity?
William simply smirks
William: You know something brother…it felt GOOOOOD
Cameras catch up with Serenity, who is leading Cassidy through the corridor and towards JessiKa and Willow Wilkes. They stare eagerly in the direction of Serenity, who puts Cassidy’s hand in JessiKa’s.
Serenity: Make sure HAZE is attended to, she’s already had quite the night and needs to save her energy for what happens next
Serenity then turns towards Willow
Willow: So what’s in store for the rest of the night?
Serenity: Well, Brittany demanded we meet, so that seems to be my next order of business.
Willow: Sounds like fun…need any company?
Serenity: I love having you around Willow, but right now I need to talk to Brittany alone.
Serenity then takes off, Willow watching as she goes.
Mika Kozlov is sitting Indian style in the middle of the ring with microphone in hand, amplifying her haunting laughter.
Mika: Karen McBride…I’ve had the time of my life, no I’ve never felt this way before, and I owe it alllll to you….
Mika continues with her sing-song tone that is proceed with uproarious laughter.
Mika: I almost want to feel bad for you Karen, I mean Mika understands hero worship, you idolize Kloe Masters much in the same way I idolize Rachel Frost, my favourite sestra. Rachel’s a real cowgirl, and I wish I could be a cowgirl too. I want to put on some boots, hitch up my jeans, and chew some tabaccee…..YEEEHAW! And Kloe is a real business woman, something YOU want to be Karen. You wish you could be half as cunning, ruthless and….
Suddenly “Awake and Alive” hits the PA system to a huge and sustained pop from the crowd. Mika’s black eyes seem to burst with light at the sight of Shaun Cruze making his way down the ramp, the man she almost split in half on the last Riot.
Hunter: Shaun Cruze is here, and man he looks pissed
Mackie: Wouldn’t you be? He got screwed over royally, and his demise was critical in the plot we saw orchestrated by Kloe Masters on the last Riot.
Shaun enters the ring with Mika, taking a microphone and looking down at the young woman who continues to sit Indian style on the canvas before him.
Shaun: I can tell, you really do amuse yourself don’t you? Then again, ‘you’ time is all you have nowadays since I left you.
Hunter: Oooo, harsh words from Mika’s former boyfriend
Shaun: You joke and joke and joke, but what you don’t realize is that the joke is on you, and in a moment or two I’ll be the one laughing. I’m here right now to do to you what you threatened to do me just last week. I’m going to tear you in half.
Mika then leaps to her feet and leaps into Shaun’s arms, wrapping her legs around Cruze’s waist
Mika: Wouldn’t it be much better for Shaun to split Mika in two with his big huge tallywacker?
Kozlov then licks Shaun’s face as he tries to push her off.
Hunter: Now that was a little rude
Mackie: Not kidding, Shaun shouldn’t take her up on that offer
Finally Shaun turns and pushes her away and through the ropes, Mika landing on her elbows and knees, laughing hysterically at Shaun who is stewing with rage. Mika backs up the ramp, point at Shaun and still laughing
Mika: You taste just like chicken Shaun
Serenity makes her way down a corridor with a creepy grin on her face as she nears the door leading to the area where she was supposed to be meeting her sister, Brittany Lohan. She twists the knob and steps into the room without so much as a second thought. But now she stops on the precipice of that room and just shakes her head.
Serenity: Silas, I should have known
Silas Mason is sitting inside of the room, parked right on top of a large mesh animal cage.
Silas: I’ve REALLY bin lookin’ forwards to this
Suddenly Marie Jones rushes in behind Serenity and blasts her in the upper back with a baseball bat, dropping her to the ground right at Mason’s feet. Silas stands up and takes the Stetson off his hat, fanning off his face as he watches Serenity try to get up only to have Marie throw the bat aside, grab Serenity by the back of the head and throw inside of the animal cage. She then slams the cage door shut and locks it, trapping Serenity inside. Serenity gets to her knees, grabs the cage door and begins to shake it in an attempt to break out.
Marie: How does it feel Abi, how does it feel to be imprisoned! To be trapped!?! To be treated like an animal!?!
Marie kicks Serenity’s hands away from the cage door. And now Serenity just kneels inside of her mesh surroundings and smirks.
Marie: You helped my sister trap me and treat me like a prisoner. You could have helped me, but you didn’t. You were supposed to be my friend dammit!
Marie kicks the cage once again, rattling the walls that hold Serenity captive.
Silas: Oh what wondrous things I could let by Baby Spice do to you righ’ now.
Marie: I could finish you off Serenity.
Jones crouches in front of the cage and lifts the baseball bat into view.
Marie: But I’m a patient woman…I’m going to wait…because anticipation only makes the pay off so much sweeter.
Serenity: The End of the Year Special can’t come soon enough, for both of us.
Marie and Serenity snarl at one another, only separated by the animal cage that keeps Serenity confined.
A towel scrubs at Shaun Cruze’s face as he stands in a corridor, cleansing the saliva of Mika Kozlov from his flesh. He steps through the backstage corridor and hears the agitating tone of one Marcus Van Stanton shouting orders at someone. The camera pans out to reveal Shaun staring at Head Referee Marcus Mayfield being read the riot act by Mason Van Stanton…agent for Gloria Noel.
Marcus: You had better keep all the ‘women’ in the next match from touching Gloria’s face, or else I’ll do everything I can to drag this company into poverty. Gloria has a family legacy to uphold, and she cannot do that with unsightly blemishes on her face
Shaun: I’m sorry to interrupt, but I need to talk to Mayfield
Marcus: This is an outrage
Shaun: Please
Mason steps aside shaking his head and backs out of shot
Shaun: We have a problem, or at least I have a problem with you
Mayfield: What are you going on about?
Shaun: I thought I could trust the officiating staff, but after what Ingelson and Fitzpatrick did on RIOT…
Mayfield holds up his hand
Mayfield: Hold on…what did they do?
Shaun: You don’t know what your own officiating staff is up to?
Mayfield: I haven’t a clue what you’re talking about.
Shaun: Who do you think led me to that parking lot and had me chained to that car?
Mayfield looks genuinely stunned by this and shakes his head
Shaun: I’m warning you Marcus, if I find out you had anything to do with this…
Mayfield shakes his head again
Mayfield: I have a match to officiate right now, but I promise you Shaun, I will get to the bottom of this
Marcus then steps through the curtains, heading towards the ring.
Marcus Mayfield makes his way down the ramp before the match begins to officiate this contest
Hunter: Marcus just had the law laid down to him…
Mackie: Well if he had anything to do with the activities of his fellow officials Ingelson and Fitzpatrick, then he deserved it.
The first few chords of “Killer Queen” by Queen begins to echo throughout the arena. As the song picks up in tempo Mason Van Stanton steps out onto the stage, dressed in a black and white suit with a black tie. A smug, arrogant smirk is plastered across his face as he stands there, gazing out at the audience who showers him with boos. Then Gloria Noel steps out onto the stage, joining Van Stanton. Some cheers come from the fans, mainly from those who remember her days as Glory Braddock. Van Stanton joins the fans in applauding and cheering her as she makes her way slowly, with definite stride down to the ring. Gloria steps up the steel steps and stands on the ring apron, waiting on Van Stanton. He hops up onto the ring apron, joining Gloria. He holds the ropes open for her, allowing her to enter the ring before he steps in as well.
Hunter: Gloria Noel has been red hot since her debut here in the IWC. She picked up a major win over Chris Davids two weeks ago on NewAge, let’s see if she can continue that momentum.
Mackie: She’s definitely turned a lot of heads with her win, but her manager turns heads for all the wrong reasons.
Hunter: Indeed, Mason Van Stanton has made an absolute ass of himself over the past few weeks, doing nothing short of outraging the female fan base and denigrating the female roster.
[[ The arena suddenly goes darkens which stuns all the fans in to a hushed silence as they don’t know what to expect. The crowd just continues to be silent as the stage crew in charge of the lighting starts to simulate the look of lightening flashing within the arena as the sound system starts to broadcast the sound of a rain storm as white and blue confetti start falling like rain on both sides of the entrance. The sound of the rain storm is momentarily broken up by the sound of Samantha Raine saying… “No raining on this parade…” which is followed by “Where Are the people that accused me?” as the large screen comes to life showing Samantha standing out in a pretty looking field when all of the sudden she’s caught in a down pour. ]] The ones who beat me down and bruised me They hide just out of sight Can’t face me in the light They’ll return but I’ll be stronger [[ As the video continues to play Sam to stand in the field with out running for cover. Instead, she looks up at the sky allowing the rain to pelt her face as she raises both of her arms up and for a quick moment several times the footage flips to Sam doing that same motion, but to hold up either the GDW Heavyweight title and half of the tag titles or the GDW Undisputed titles. The fans in the building some start cheering while the others start booing wildly as “Unbreakable” by FireFlight continues to blast through the speakers. ]] God, I want to dream again Take me where I’ve never been I want to go there This time I’m not scared [[ When Sam finally steps out from behind the curtain she is not alone as she is joined by her husband, Chance Fortune, as the video changes once again, but this time it starts to show clips from her greatest matches with Angela Jameson, Feature Presentation, and Jasmine. The cheering actually gets just a little bit louder as the former GDW Undisputed Champion as she stands at the top of the entrance ramp right in the center of the confetti falling around her in her “Rogue” themed attire and Chance who is seemingly dressed up as “Gambit”. Sam smiles widely as she starts to make her way down to the ring. ]] Now I am unbreakable, it’s unmistakable No one can touch me Nothing can stop me [[ Sam alternates between the left and right side of the ring as she stops to take pictures with the fans, sign a few autographs, and for the younger fans giving a kiss on the cheek. ]] Sometimes it’s hard to just keep going But faith is moving without knowing Can I trust what I can’t see To reach my destiny I want to take control but I know better [[ Once she reaches the ring she walks over to the ring stairs and then jaunts up them on to the apron. She moves over to the center of the apron where she looks at all the fans with a smile on her face before she enters the ring, but she stops when she is just half way in to the ring. During that slight pause in her entering the ring she wiggles her ass very much to the male fan’s delight. Once she is in the ring she walks around the ring a bit doing her best to blow kisses out to all of the fans with both of her hands, but the sheer number of fans makes it impossible. ]] Forget the fear it’s just a crutch That tries to hold you back And turn your dreams to dust All you need to do is just trust [[ Though the fans just continue to cheer her attention turns from them as she starts to stretch herself out a little bit more to get ready for her match, but not before taking off her jacket to hand it out to her husband. ]]
Hunter: We have a lot to thank Samantha Raine for…ridding the company of the End Effect is one
Mackie: Having fantastic breasts is another.
Hunter: She and Crissy Garner stopped Brandy Danielle and Rich Anderson from interfering in Rain’s match against Selena Frost on NewAge, resulting in Rain being fired from the company.
Mackie: And now Samantha has a chance to put a win under her own belt.
Samantha enters the ring for competition to a huge reaction, and then Angelle Larre appears, the fans giving her no reaction whatsoever. Even as she enters the ring there is nothing, Angelle looking over at the commentators with her hands outstretched.
Hunter: Sorry…we got nothing.
Mackie: Yeah, I know nor do I care to know anything about her.
Lilith Evans then makes her way down the ramp with her husband Ian Kilgore following behind and their daughter, Abby accompany them
Mackie: Is this bring your kid to work day or something? You could have brought in your football team
Hunter: I have three children, it’s hardly a team
Mackie: Three you know about
Hunter: There’s the bell, and we are underway in this one
NOEL VERSUS RAINE VERSUS LARRE VERSUS EVANS
The match goes back and forth for several minutes with all four ladies trading high impact moves and really exciting the crowd. Each of them has an opportunity to win the match, all of them managing to hit their finishers at some point, but always the pin is interrupted by someone managing to break the count. All throughout the match Mason Van Stanton has a microphone in his hand and is ripping on every woman involved in the bout that isn’t Gloria Noel. He keeps insulting their every move while shamelessly buttering up his client Gloria.
Speaking of Gloria, she’s already got Lilith set up for the Glorificaiton. But the Unprettier is prevented from connecting when Raine steps in, kicks Noel to the gut and then drops her with the Razor Blade. The twist of fate puts Gloria’s face against the canvas, and Van Stanton instantly reacts.
Mason: What was that! What are you thinking you gaudy she-he!
Mason has risen to the apron and is shouting over the ropes at Samantha.
Mason: Just because you have a butter face doesn’t mean you have to inflict the same plight upon my client.
Samantha rushes at Mason, swinging at him only to have Van Stanton dive out of the way. Just then Lilith steps in behind Raine and catches her around the waist, dropping back into a roll up. She ends up placing Samantha on her back with Lilith seated across her thighs.
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Raine kicks out and launches Lilith forward into a spear that connects with a rising Larre’s ribs. The blow not only knocks Larre back but allows Lilith to transition from the spear into a jackknife cover.
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Raine breaks up the three count by grabbing Lilith by the legs, dragging her off of the jackknife pin and then dropping back into a catapult. She sends Lilith flying right into a rising Gloria, who Evans catches around the neck then spikes on top of her head with a tornado DDT.
Hunter: That was unique.
Lilith rises to her feet and finds herself on the receiving end of an attempted roundhouse kick by Raine. But Lilith ducks it and Samantha swings around into ANOTHER roundhouse kick that Lilith ducks a second time. But then Samantha swings into a THIRD roundhouse kick that finally does nail Lilith in the side of her head, sending her spiraling back into the ropes and ricocheting off the cables. Samantha then turns towards Larre, who comes rushing in, prompting Raine to leap, catch Larre with boots to her ribs and then monkey flip right into Lilith. Evans catches Larre on top of her shoulders before flipped over into the hurricarana pin.
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The pin is broken up when Raine takes Larre around the back of the head, drags her out of the pin and to her knees before applying a front chancery and dropping back into a spike DDT. Samantha then crawls into the cover.
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Larre kicks out and Van Stanton rises back to the apron to comment.
Mason: How predictable. As if any of you, with the exception of Gloria, possess the talents to win this match. Your only skills are the ones you provide to paying gentlemen like me in inner city back alleys.
Samantha has heard enough, rushing at Mason and swinging at his face only for him to leap back from the apron. Ian Kilgore and his daughter Abby step around the ringside area while Chance Fortune moves to the opposite side of Mason, the duo arguing with Van Stanton. Meanwhile in the ring Gloria is dragging a wounded Larre to her feet and planting her with the Glorification. Samantha has no idea this is going on behind her back, too focused on the actions of her husband, Chance, as he takes a stand against Van Stanton at ringside. Gloria now covers Larre inside of the ring.
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Lilith dives in and breaks up the count just a smidge too late, Gloria picking up the win.
Hunter: And Noel takes the victory thanks to the distraction of her agent.
Hunter: What a match that was…but Van Stanton is now in a hurry to leave
Van Stanton has his hand on Gloria’s wrist, dragging her out of the ring while offering a final comment.
Mason: You ladies should not be surprised that you went down tonight, I mean, all of you should be quite accustomed to going down. That is after-all, how you gained employment, is it not?
Raine, Evans and Larre have heard enough, as have Chance and Kilgore. Everyone takes off after Van Stanton all at once, chasing the agent and his client to the backstage area.
Mackie: Run, as fast as you can
Once everyone is gone from the ring, Head Referee Mayfield grabs a microphone.
Hunter: Looks like our Head Referee has something to say.
Mayfield: Ingelson and Fitzpatrick…join me in this ring please…NOW.
The referee do as instructed, they walk through the curtain shrugging their shoulder and both slide into the ring
Ingelson: What’s this about boss?
Mayfield: You know damn well what this is about
Fitzpatrick: Nope, you got us
Mayfield: Did you both take Shaun to the parking lot? Straight to the Sinistry?
Patrick and Alex laugh
Ingelson: That is absolutely ridiculous Marcus.
Mayfield: Tell me right now…are you affiliated with SIN
Ingelson: Oh please, I don’t have to listen to this
Fitzpatrick: This is crap Marcus and deep down you know it
Just then Stuart Wright, Head SIN referee, slides into the ring behind Mayfield and delivers a low blow directly to his crotch. Marcus is doubled over, groaning in agony while Wright stands up behind Mayfield, points at the SIN patch on his jersey then points at Ingelson and Fitzpatrick. Both referees grin and then tear away the IWC emblems on their sternums, revealing the “SIN” insignias beneath.
Hunter: Oh my, it’s true…the Sinistry have gotten to the officials now
Mackie: Oh this is bad…very bad
Wright, Patrick and Alex celebrate for only a moment before Shaun Cruze comes barreling down the ramp and sliding into the ring, sending the referees scurrying from the squared circle. Shaun glares at the SIN officials who set him up to be split in half last week by Mika Kozlov, before Cruze goes to check on Mayfield.
Hunter: Shaun Cruze with the save, but if SIN have the referees on their side, AND 75%, what can the IWC now do to stop them?
Mackie: I know the answer…but I can’t bring myself to say it. I don’t think they can
Mason Van Stanton leads Gloria though the backstage area with a worried expression on his face, one that keeps adjusting to glance over his shoulder.
Mason: I can’t believe that this company allows this. I’m absolutely repulsed beyond belief by what just happened inside the ring. Something has to be done about all these women trying to upstage you…I won’t allow it
They run into newcomer Ember Young, who is bent over picking up some garbage. Mason stops, cranes his neck and admires the view, Gloria shaking her head in disgust
Mason: What was I saying?
Ember turns around and gives Mason a perplexed stare, Mason winking in her direction
Ember: Is there a problem?
Mason: Besides the fact I shouldn’t move right now due to the risk of everyone seeing the bulge in my pants, no, no problem AT ALL
Ember: That’s creepy
Gloria nods her head in agreement.
Samantha Raine is heard shouting from down the corridor.
Raine: GRAB HIM EMBER!
Mason and Gloria take off running as Samantha, Lilith Evans, Angelle Larre, Ian Kilgore, lil Abby, and Chance Fortune come barreling down the corridor in hot pursuit. Upon seeing all of this the only thing Ember can do is shrug her shoulders.
Mason Van Stanton is urgently dragging Gloria through the corridor, the pair already out breath.
Mason: This has been an absolute disaster in terms of honoring the cherished Noel name. No matter however, the End of Year special will be better, because we are going to have a very special match, the Noel Open Invitational.
Gloria: What’s that?
Mason: You’ll find out when the rest of the bottom feeding, low life wenches do. Speaking of which…
The camera pans out to reveal Selena Frost stood in their way, arms crossed and condemning expression on her face.
Mason: Well, well, if it isn’t the fake royalty herself.
Selena: Your material is just so archaic, as are your stooped posture and dragging knuckles. Perhaps you should concentrate less on dragging the names of so many talents through the muck, and instead focus on dragging yourself out of the Stone Age.
Mason: Listen here you TART. I will not stand for a woman like yourself masquerading herself as a queen.
He looks smug with himself.
Mason: The Noel heritage represents TRUE royalty, and we shall prove it in the very first Gloria Noel Open Invitational at the End of Year Special.
Selena: That actually sounds quite promising…consider me the first entrant in that match, and I’ll be glad to make Gloria submit faster than I did the entire End Effect on RIOT.
Mason laughs
Mason: Really?
“MASON!!!”
Mason turns hearing his name and Lilith, Samantha, Larre, Abi, Ian, Chance and Ember rushing up the corridor towards him. He takes off with Gloria, Selena watching this whole Benny Hill inspired chase with a smirk, a shake of her head and shrug of her shoulders.
“MASON VAN STANTON”
The crowd has a very joyous response to Marina Valdivia, one of the IWC’s newest talents standing in the middle of the ring. She has a microphone in her hand and a repulsed expression on her face as she utters the name of the man who has been pursued throughout the backstage area.
Marina: My debut on RIOT was a successful one, but one man and his client went out of their way to sabotage my success. See a lot of people may be forgetting the filth and dribble that oozed from his mouth, but not me. He was the only blight on what was a very successful debut, a debut that saw me force that stunt double loving Vero into retirement and put the death knell into the End…
Suddenly Rich Anderson and Brandy Danielle, the final remnants of the End Effect, make their way down the ramp and slide into the ring, surrounding Marina.
Rich: Listen up you Hollywood whore. You might have gotten rid of Rain and Vero, but we’re still here, and we’re going to avenge what happened to our leaders by taking them your head. We want you in a handicap match right now.
Marina: You want another beating…sure why not
Hunter: Two on one but Marina doesn’t care…
Mackie: Why should she…End Effect is shit…end of story
MARINA VALDIVIA VERSUS THE END EFFECT
Rich Anderson and Brandy Danielle start off the match beating down Marina, trying their best to wear her down with their numbers advantage. In the end however, Marina manages to overcome the odds, throw Brandy through the ropes and then catch Rich and place him in the Cali Killer, forcing him to submit. Marina then exits the ring and marches up the ramp to a loud chorus of cheers from the crowd.
Hunter: Marina wins, she does it
Mackie: I’m as amazed as anyone.
Marina stops on the stage and motions for the camera to come closer. It narrows in upon Marina’s face, Valdivia grabbing it and ensuring she gets a close up.
Marina: Now that the End Effect is through, I’m coming for YOU, Van Stanton
A disgruntled Rain and Brandy gather themselves in the ring and Brandy grabs a microphone
Brandy: This isn’t fair, this isn’t right. The way End Effect was treated, it isn’t the way a company should be run.
Suddenly Selena Frost’s music cues up and she makes her way down the ramp to a piercing ovation from the crowd. Selena climbs into the ring…
Selena: The two of you really are quite annoying, and honestly I didn’t appreciate Rich trying to blindside me after I took Rain out of the company
Rich: Well if you didn’t like it, why don’t you do something about it? Way I figure it, Brandy and I owe you a receipt for what you did to Rain, so why don’t we have ourselves a handicap match?
Selena: It would be my pleasure
Hunter: Another one?
Mackie: One defeat obviously not enough
SELENA FROST VERSUS THE END EFFECT
Rich and Brandy get the opening offense by assaulting Selena before the bell can even be rung. They push her back into the corner and put boots to her body while Selena tries to cover up. Eventually she manages to get back into the match through some submission based offense and eventually back drops Rich over the ropes and then catches Brandy springing off the top rope and drags her down into the Frost Bite.
Hunter: She’s got her, and Rich can’t help
Brandy frantically tries to reach the ropes but can’t, and eventually Brandy taps out and Selena rolls from the ring, the crowd rejoicing in response to Frost’s quick and emphatic victory.
Hunter: Another bad night for the End Effect
Mackie: Thank God for that…Virus smirus.
Selena twirls up the ramp to the stage and then stops beside the camera, giving it a come-hither stare. The camera closes in on Selena giving her a close up.
Selena: No more End Effect, and soon, no more Van Stanton.
Mason Van Stanton is still fleeing through the parking lot at this point, dragging on Gloria’s wrist and pulling her towards their car.
Mason: Move it…move it!
The two jump into Mason’s vehicle and it speeds away just as Rain, Lilith, Ember, Ian Kilgore and Chance Fortune come into view, trying to chase him down. They all stop however when the car speeds away and Mason and his client escape the building. Lilith looks towards Ian.
Lilith: This isn’t…
Her eyes scan her surroundings.
Lilith: Where is Abby?
Ian looks to his side that WAS occupied by their daughter.
Ian: She was here a moment ago, don’t worry she’s probably with Mya
They walk off quickly, passing right by a limo that has just driven into the parking lot and came to a stop. The camera remains fixated on this limo for several moments, building intrigue regarding who might be inside.
An intense Mya Denton stands in the Pain and Pleasure locker-room overlooking the scar on her forehead, one put there by the attack at the hands of Mordecai on Riot. She takes her focus off the scar when Chris Davids, Danny Darko, Vanilla Skyy and Adam Chase start talking in the background, Mya turning towards her Pain and Pleasure teammates. Chase is pacing the confines of the dressing room
Chase: We sent a big message to the Sinistry tonight, but we’re not through, not yet.
Darko: Not by a long shot. I’ve got it on good authority that Masters is about to hit the ring, and the opportunity will be right to strike once again.
Skyy: Then while you deal with the Sinistry, I’ll put the final touches on Samantha Hodgson.
Davids: Almost forgot you had her in a rematch tonight.
Skyy: With everything else going on around here that doesn’t surprise me. But the bitch is not going to get off easy after locking me in that storage container on Riot.
The door to the room opens and Lilith and Ian enter
Lilith: Is Abby with you Mya?
Mya: No, no she isn’t.
Cameras cut to the chair with the hoodie tossed over it situated in front of the announce tables once again. “King Zero” then plays over the speakers and SIN GM Franklin Paradise moseys onto the stage, microphone in hand and swagger in his step. He pauses just beneath the Cartel-tron
Franklin: The time is here Ladies and Gentlemen, the watershed moment in wrestling history, no, the biggest moment in the history of mankind since Janet Jackson’s nipple slip during the Superbowl half time show. It’s time to honor a woman who is a paragon of wisdom and shining beacon of brilliance. I’m talking about my new boss, the woman who ensured that the Sinistry would claim 75% ownership of the IWC; I’m talking about Kloe Masters.
Franklin steps back clapping as Kloe Masters’ music cues up and she comes stepping through the curtains with an absolutely disgusting smile stretched across her face. She shakes her head in reaction to the response she is getting, one of utter disdain. Kloe enters the ring allowing a single spotlight to shine down onto her body and the chair and hoodie now placed beside her in the ring.
Kloe: Thank you, for that thunderous ovation…no seriously, I thank you.
The noise gets still louder
Kloe: I’m not here to bore you with long winded explanations; I just have one thing to say…GOTCHA!!!
Kloe bursts into laughter and begins to circle the chair holding the sweater, running her finger across the fabric that hid her identity for so many months.
Kloe: For weeks I was ignored by the roster, but the whole world is hanging on my every word now, aren’t they? Everyone accused me of not being able to get anything done, but I sure did mastermind the greatest plot in wrestling history, didn’t I? A plot that allowed little old me to swoop in, take what I was owed, my ex-husband’s shares of the company, and by virtue take control of the IWC, and now, that 50% ownership I have, coupled with Desmond Drake’s 25% ownership, means that the Sinistry has controlling interest of the federation and at last it can move in the direction my FAMILY wishes. A direction where the Cruze name will be scrubbed from the IWC. A direction where defiance and unrule will no longer be tolerated. A direction where the Sinistry’s power and influence will go unchecked.
For too long I watched Orlando, ruin the IWC and transform the federation into his own personal sandpit, where only he and Taylor Chase would prosper. But under my regime, true talent will be afforded the opportunity to shine, talent such as Ba’al, talent such as Aiken Frost, Decay, Jessica Wilde and so many others. People who have been abused by Orlando, like I was abused by Orlando, people who will now rise up to the top standing upon the bodies of those foolish enough to question my control and my…
“Well, you can consider us a bunch of idiots then
Danny Darko makes this statement while stepping to the stage with Mya Denton, Chris Davids, Vanilla Skyy and Adam Chase right there beside him
Danny: It’s time to stop hitting the snooze button on this show and for everyone to wake the fuck, starting with you Kloe.
Pain and Pleasure rush down the ramp and Kloe goes sliding out. Pain and Pleasure want to go chasing after her but their focus suddenly shifts elsewhere when “Pornstar Dancing” hits the PA system and Desmond Drake makes his way to the stage with Jaina Frost following behind, clasping hold of the hand of a little girl…that little girl being Abby, Lilith’s daughter and Mya’s God daughter.
Desmond: Now hold on just a second, I think you need to stop and think this through. I’m done with seeing you corrupt this company and disrupt this special telecast. In order to keep you all under control, Jaina here brought me a little present, a bargaining chip if you will
Jaina pulls Abby forward.
Desmond: So if you want your daughter back Mya, right now you WILL free me from my servitude to you, and you will keep Pain and Pleasure under control
Mya looks conflicted and Kloe steps onto the stage
Kloe: I appreciate you coming out here to help me Desmond, but I don’t need your help. I’m not that little girl that had to back down to these people, and I can certainly deal with these idiots. Because as of this moment, Pain and Pleasure, you are BANNED from the building, and if anyone tires to get back in, they will be instantly fired on the spot.
Hunter: That is huge
Kloe: So get the hell out of my ring NOW!!! All except you Vanilla Skyy
Skyy looks up the ramp confused.
Kloe: You have a rematch with Samantha tonight, and that match is happening next. And I truly hope it is a match that finally shows the world what my NEW IWC….sorry…..my new SIN will bring.
Orlando Cruze comes into view, seated in a chair in his locker-room and watching the footage from the ring, he is shaking his head in repulsion as he glares at the monitor several feet away. The former President finally just buries his face into his palm before Taylor Chase comes into view
Taylor: Hey, hope isn’t all lost you know.
Orlando: Really? It’s hard to see any light at the end of the tunnel now that I sold the IWC to…to…to….that liar.
Taylor: I’ve got help on the way Orlando.
Orlando: What you talking about?
Taylor grins
Taylor: I’ve got a plan big man, and that’s all you need to know right now.
Suddenly the camera shifts to that limo that was seen pulling into the parking lot during Mason Van Stanton’s great escape. Hunter and Mackie can be heard commenting in the background.
Mackie: Oh great, ANOTHER limo?
Hunter: Yeah, the last time we saw one of these pull into the parking lot, it had Orlando Cruze hiding inside.
Mackie: No telling who might be in this one then.
The camera remains fixated on the limo.
The grin settled across Kloe Masters’ face continues to taunt the viewers as she sashays down a backstage corridor. She then comes right across Samantha Hodgson, the agent rushing in, wearing a zip up track suit in anticipation of her match with Vanilla Skyy.
Samantha: Thank you Kloe, for helping ensure I don’t get Pain and Pleasure ruining my match.
Kloe: Think nothing of it, I like you, you bring an awful lot to the table
Samantha: Well, I appreciate being appreciated
Hodgson heads on her way, Kloe heading down the corridor and walking straight into the three members of the Cartel, sighing and puffing out her cheeks. Zak, Nate and Alex look at the woman they protected for several weeks under orders from Orlando Cruze.
Zak: You made a huge mistakes stabbing Orlando in the back
Alex: What were you thinking Kloe?
Zak: We should end this right now
Kloe: Boys, boys…if you are trying to intimidate me, you are nowhere near the mark. You three may be loyal to Orlando, but you are employed by me, I hold your contracts. So if you want to be a part of my NEW IWC then you will do exactly as I tell you to.
Nate: And if we resist?
Kloe just smirks
Kloe: Not the brightest are you Nate? I won’t fire you, no, I’ll sue you for every penny you are worth and make sure you don’t get a job anywhere else in this industry.
Alex: This is bullshit Kloe
Kloe: No, this is Kloe’s Law, and if you want to stay here, you will follow my orders. Starting now, as I have something very important for you to do.
VANILLA SKYY VERSUS SAMANTHA HODGSON
Cameras find Vanilla Skyy pacing the ring alone, all other members of Pain and Pleasure absent from her side as she prepares to truly go one on one with Samantha Hodgson.
Hunter: Looks like Skyy is all on her own this evening.
Mackie: Not like she needs help when brutalizing an agent.
Hunter: And brutalizing an agent is precisely what she’s going to do. Vee is beyond pissed after she was thrown into the back of that storage container on Riot, which allowed Samantha to escape Skyy. But I don’t think there will be any escape for Hodgson here tonight.
Finally Samantha makes her way down the ramp, the agent moseying along with a smirk on her face and confidence in her step. She enters the ring with official Ficklebottom holding Skyy back. Behind the referee, Samantha is unzipping her track suit and grabbing a steel pipe that is strapped to her chest. She rushes right at Skyy and swings the pipe at her face but Vee manages to get a boot up and into Hodgson’s ribs. Samantha is then beat down for several minutes, Vanilla just throwing her into everything around the ring and inside of it, absolutely decimating the agent and relishing every blow that is delivered. She hits Hodgson with kicks, punches, suplexes, DDTs, everything in Skyy’s arsenal and then some. Everything culminating to Skyy setting up a battered Hodgson for the White Out, the brutal bicycle kick about to be delivered.
Hunter: Vanilla totally destroying Samantha here, and setting up the White Out
Mackie: She hits this, we are done
The Cartel comes rushing down the ramp and slide into the ring. To the shock of everyone in the bulding Nate hits a clothesline to the back of Vanilla’s head.
Hunter: WAIT! The Cartel attacking Vanilla Skyy!
A dejected Nate stands Skyy up just enough for Zak to deliver a step up Enziguri to Skyy’s skull. Alex finally places Skyy in a front chancery then hits her with an impaler DDT with the ring bell chiming in the background, the match ending in disqualification.
Hunter: What the hell, why are they doing this?
Mackie: Because Kloe told them too…surely that has to be it.
All three men leave the ring with sullen expressions on their faces, not liking what they were just forced to do to Skyy. They make their way to the backstage area leaving an unconscious Skyy in the ring with Hodgson holding her mangled ribs and battered torso, but still managing to laugh as she stands over Skyy.
The Cartel are making their way through the gorilla position, looking repulsed by their actions. They run right into a clapping Kloe Masters, who appears very pleased with them thus far.
Kloe: Well done boys, it so nice to find such loyal employees
Alex: Whatever Kloe
The three of them walk off, leaving Kloe with a grin on her face. That grin is removed however as Kloe hears her name, and turns to face Kelcey Wallace.
Kelcey: I think you and I should have a talk don’t you Kloe?
Kloe: Why yes of course…that would be perfect, pardon the pun
Decay, Jessica Wilde and Executioner step in behind Masters, the Serenity emerging from the shadows and forming a protective wall behind the President.
Kloe: I’m more than willing to have a chat with you, right in the middle of the ring later tonight
Kelcey: I’ll be there Kloe…
Kelcey walks off, Kloe smiling
Kloe: I’m counting on it Kelcey.
Once Kelcey is out of range, Jessica speaks up.
Wilde: Excuse me, my Lord….
Kloe: Yes?
Wilde: I just wanted to take a moment and express my gratitude for your suspension of the whore….
Kloe: Katelyn Buehler?
Wilde: Oh yes.
Kloe: It was my pleasure. I quite enjoyed turning the screws to her in the same fashion she has turned the screws to the Sinistry in recent months Getting rid of her was my first order of business.
Wilde: Well, my Lord, far be it from me to speak out of turn, but I believe it is safe to presume that the Whore will not stay away from our precious SIN for very long.
Kloe: Valid point.
Wilde: I would like your permission to deal with The Whore in a more permanent manner.
Kloe: You have my blessing. You deal with Katelyn, and I’ll deal with Kelcey. One way or another, the defiant will be dealt with.
Kelcey Wallace, the woman who was assaulted by Kloe several times in the past few weeks, is seen making her way through the backstage corridor when she runs into Kraven Wallace, her brother, another victim of Masters. He seemed to be waiting right outside of Taylor Chase’s dressing room, anticipating the arrival of his sister.
Kraven: Where have you been?
Kelcey: Trying to talk to Masters, but not getting very far
Kraven: You should have told me, I owe that bitch too. No matter, Taylor has a plan for tonight anyway
Kelcey: Does she now?
Kelcey suddenly finds a finger tapping her shoulder, spinning around and finding herself staring into the remorseful gaze of Scott Cannon. Wallace backs off, clenching her fists together
Kelcey: What do YOU want?
Cannon: I can’t apologize enough for what I did to you Kelcey, I am so sorry for what I did to you and Taylor. You have no idea what it’s been like living with my mistakes.
Kelcey: You expect me to have sympathy for what YOUR going through?
Cannon: No, I don’t, and I know I don’t deserve it either…I’m just….
Kelcey: You drugged me….YOU DRUGGED TAYLOR. There’s no forgiving that I don’t think either of us will ever trust you again Scott.
Cannon: I just-I just want to help. I want to help you and Tay get payback on Masters.
Kelcey: I can safely speak for Taylor here when I tell you, no…we don’t want your help. I
Cannon: Fine-fine, I can respect that. But if you won’t let me help you against Masters, let me help you two with something else. Let me help save you from Silas Mason.
Kelcey: What?
Cannon: Let me help get you out of your contracts with that cold hearted bastard. I WILL free you and Tay.
The crowd is heckling Silas Mason, who stands in the middle of the ring with microphone in hand and menacing aura about the devil in the Stetson.
Hunter: Silas has something to say it seems
Mackie: Shock
Silas: Earlier tonight, the world witnessed what happens when everyone works as a team and towards a common goal. Silas World acted as one to set that skank Serenity up. It just goes to demonstrate that I’m finally surrounding myself with those unified by a common belief, making money and winning Gold, and those who trust me. I now have two NEW crowned jewels in Silas World, jewels I wish to share with you right now.
Marie Jones and Sienna Swann then make their way down the ramp and slide into the ring. While Marie wears a grin of pride, Sienna wears a silk robe.
Silas: Every day, these two make me prouder and prouder as I ply my craft as an agent. The two of you have reinvigorated my spirits, especially after what Marie did earlier tonight to Serenity.
Marie: And it will be nothing compared to what I do to Serenity next week on Riot.
Sienna: That’s ALMOST as interesting as what I have planned right here, right now. Because what happened at SCW’s Total War…
Hunter: We apologise for the vulgar language
Mackie: Huh?
Hunter: SCW…
Mackie: Point taken
Silas:..during that bikini contest between Sienna Swann and Kennedy Street. The result was an absolute debacle. My Baby Face was mistreated by those BLIND fans. Any man can see that Sienna is the embodiment of perfection. She was robbed in that bikini contest…ROBBED.
Sienna: Well, it isn’t sitting well in the pit of my slim tummy either, sweety. I was ripped off, robbed of my victory over Kennedy. My angelic body is beyond compare, and that filthy, dirty Kennedy Street can never match up. And I’m going to prove my beauty by challenging someone else in a Bikini Contest, a match that will pit myself, the Real Perfect Ten against another filthy disgusting young woman…Amanda Blayze
Silas: And that will be the most one sided victory in Sienna’s entire…
Suddenly Amanda’s music blares over the speakers and Blayze makes her way down the ramp. The intense Blayze slides into the ring, obviously not dressed for any type of bikini contest, nor interested in participating in one. Sienna stands back fiddling with the knot of her robe and shaking her head at the sight of Amanda decked out in traditional wrestling apparel.
Amanda: The three of you are delusional if you think I am going to compete in a bikini contest. I am a wrestler, not some scantily clad model who thinks an Armbar is somewhere you can get shots of Tequila. I’m not going to accept this challenge, because my time is better spent focusing on becoming the Queen of the Ring, which I shall accomplish at the End of Year Special
Silas: Not gonna ‘appen Amanda, because if ya don’t accept my Baby Face’s challenge, then I will do everythin’ in my power to cost ya the title.
Amanda: Your delusional Silas, I will in no way lower myself to competing in this…
Suddenly a roundhouse kick smashes Amanda in the back of the head, Sienna swooping in while Blayze’s focus was elsewhere. The shot knocks Amanda to her stomach and now Sienna and Marie begin to grab Amanda’s clothing.
Silas: Tear it off….You will compete one way or another ya stupid cunt!
While Marie is trying to pull Amanda’s pants off, Sienna is tearing at her blouse.
Mackie: Oh yes…oh GOD YES!
Hunter: How can you be turned on by something like this?
Mackie: How can you not be?
That’s when Scott Cannon interrupts, making his way down the ramp to a split reaction from the crowd, sliding into the ring and sending both Sienna and Marie scurrying away from Amanda, who rolls to the fetal position desperately trying to keep her clothing intact. Scott now finds himself mono a mono with his agent, Silas, a man he has had quite a bit of trouble with over recent weeks.
Scott: You’re not going to force her into anything Silas
Silas: Really Scott? Ya were my right hand man, and ya can be again. I can help ya get back in Taylor’s good graces, as long as ya willin’ to do whatever it takes to get back in mine. All ya gotta do is knock Blayze on her flabby ass right now and strip that self righteous bitch of her clothes so that my Baby Face can….
Cannon suddenly rushes forward right at Silas, who wisely rolls under the ropes to the outside of the ring, joining Sienna and Marie at ringside. The three step around the ring where Scott is standing and fuming. He then turns around and just barely ducks an attempted superkick by a recovered Blayze. The blow grazes the hairs on top of Cannon’s head as he dives out of the way and dives out of the ring. Amanda then turns, staring down Cannon on one side of the ring and Silas World on the other.
Amanda: You want to challenge me? Then get in here and FIGHT!
The highly peeved Silas is making his way through the curtains with Sienna and Marie just as disgusted as they follow behind their agent into the backstage area, red hot after what just happened in the ring. He then finds himself running into Kloe Masters, who is standing before him with her arms crossed
Silas: I give it to ya, ya must have some brass ones standing there with that shit eatin’ grin on yer face
Kloe: Oh Silas, are you still upset at me for setting you up on RIOT?
Silas: Damn straight I am
Kloe: Come now Silas, it is only business, after all, I told you I would get payback for what you did with Weapon, who speared me at Reawakening Day. Surely you can appreciate my need for some vengeance?
Silas: Damn, if I had known ya were so vindictive, I would have offered ya a spot in Silas World
Kloe: Well, let’s not write off the possibilities of an alliance between Silas World and the Sinistry. Just give it some thought, we would be unstoppable.
Silas: I’ll think about it….
He takes off with Jones and Swann, before Kloe spins around as once again she hears her name being called from someone behind her.
Kloe: Christ, I’ve never been so popular.
Spencer Klein and Kellen Jeffries step up to her, the New Blacklist stopping in front of the new majority owner.
Spencer: Care to explain why I was made to wrestle in a strait jacket on RIOT?
Kloe: Err, nope
Spencer: I thought we had a tenuous alliance.
Kloe: I appreciate what the two of you have done, ridding the company of the Blacklist a group I always loathed. As for what happened on RIOT, that was all Orlando, the last acts of a desperate man. I will have a hand in what is coming up next however when you Kellen face Lukas Montgomery in a Flaming Tables Match, a match that will end with the elimination of the last remnant of the Blacklist.
Kellen: I get you Kloe…maybe I have to schedule two funerals for the next RIOT, one for Harrison and the other for Lukas.
Kloe: I’ll gladly attend both.
Kellen and Spencer make their way towards the ring while Kloe watches with a grin. She then removes a phone from her pocket and lifts it to her ear.
Kloe: It’s Masters, make sure you geeks in the production truck run that footage during this next match when I tell you the opportunity is right.
A table is stretched between Lukas Montgomery’s hands as she steps down the corridor and heads for the ring to compete in his match against Kellen Jeffries. Axl Evermore catches up with him and gets a word with Lukas,
Axl: Lukas, tonight you face off against Kellen Jeffries…do you have any final thoughts on what is going to be a brutal match?
Lukas: Thoughts Axl? How’s this for you? Tonight I’m going to personally barbecue Kellen’s flesh, and smell the sweet scent of smoldering skin
Axl: Err…Ok
Lukas: Or, how’s about tonight the only remnants of Kellen I leave in that ring will have be scraped up and placed in an urn. I’m charbroiling that mother fucker, and it’s happening right now.
Axl: I think that’s enough
Lukas: You think…I’m only just getting started Axl
Lukas heads off towards the ring but the camera is fixated on Mika, Silk and Mogui stepping out of an adjacent corridor, watching Lukas as he leaves
Cameras cut to the screaming fans, who froth at the notion of this pending match.
Hunter: Ladies and Gentlemen I would like to warn you…if you don’t like violence, look away now
Mackie: If they don’t like violence, why in the hell would they be watching the IWC?
Hunter: That is actually a very good point…anyway, look away now if you don’t, this is personal
KELLEN JEFFRIES VERSUS LUKAS MONTGOMERY
FLAMING TABLES MATCH
“Cocky” blares over the speakers and Kellen Jeffries makes his way through the curtains with Spencer Klein standing at his side. The two prepare to head for the ring…
Hunter: Here come the two men who set Lukas Montgomery’s tag team partner, Aaron Harrison, on fire while trapped in a crate three weeks ago on Riot.
Mackie: And…HEY!
Kellen and Spencer start down the ramp before Lukas Montgomery comes bolting through the curtain behind them, hitting both men over their backs with a table stretched across his chest. The New Blacklist go down and Lukas is all over them.
The match is brutal, with both men putting each other through several tables, but the contest will not end until one of the tables are set on fire and broken with the body of a combatant. Spencer gets involved and ends up being hit with a piledriver off the apron and through a table at ringside by Lukas. Eventually Lukas puts a table in the center of the ring and sets it on fire. He then prepares to give Kellen a super-super-lex off the top rope and through the flaming table before New Eden’s Silk, just one of the woman who have been tormenting Montgomery over recent weeks, enters the ring and puts out the fire with an extinguisher. Montgomery as a result suplexes Kellen through the table but it does not end the match as the fire was put out.
Mogui then enters the ring and begins to pummel Lukas with punches. He then grabs a bottle of lighter fluid and begins to douse Montgomery with it while Kellen gathers himself in the ring and spots Silk handing him a lighter. Jeffries grins, sparks the lighter and prepares to drop it on Lukas, setting him on fire.
Neither Silk nor Kellen are aware that Lukas is sticking something in his mouth and grabbing something out of the pockets of his blue jeans. Kellen stoops over Lukas and prepares to send him up in flames before Lukas suddenly spits out a ball of fire that hits Jeffries in the face.
Kellen collapses to his back grabbing at his eyes and now Silk charges at Lukas only to be caught by the back of the head, charged across the ring and thrown through the ropes and into the table at ringside. Silk’s body plunges right through a table to a loud ovation from the crowd, retribution for what she did to Lukas on Riot.
Mogui scrambles around the ringside area, checking on Silk’s condition.
Kellen tries to get away from Lukas by crawling up the ramp but Montgomery stops him and gives him a spinning neck breaker on the stage then goes to the back and fetches one table, then goes to the back and fetches another. He stacks them on top of one another and spots Kellen climbing up one of the support struts holding the Cartel-tron in place, desperate to get away from Lukas.
Lukas follows Kellen up the strut and the two balance themselves on the steel trimming around the jumbotron. They stand beside the screen, leaning their shoulders against it for support. Lukas prepares to throw Kellen off the tron and through the tables down below before the big screen lights up, capturing Lukas’ attention. He turns to the screen which fills with an image of a tombstone at the head of a grave with dead flowers arranged across the dirt mound’s surface. The words “Aaron Harrison: GOOD RIDDANCE” are etched into the tombstone, and these words have Lukas to fixated he doesn’t even see Mogui and Silk lighting fire to the stacked tables down below.
Lukas continues to watch this haunting footage on the Cartel-tron before the screen suddenly splits…literally, the Cartel-tron RIPS open and Mika Kozlov steps through it. She suddenly hurls a Singapore Cane right across the top of Lukas’ head.
Hunter: THE FUCK!?!
A battered Lukas has no idea what’s going on as Jeffries heaves him up onto his shoulders then gives Lukas a death valley driver off the Cartel-tron and through the flaming tables stacked beside them.
Hunter: HOLY CHRIST!
Mackie: Lukas off the Cartel-tron and through those flaming tables!!
Hunter: Absolute madness.
EMTs rush out as do stagehands, who extinguish the flames pouring off of Lukas’ spine. Meanwhile a bloodied and injured Spencer crawls up the ramp to Kellen’s side and lifts his arm in victory. Mika stands on the trimming of the Cartel tron and watches from the edge as aid is provided to the still smoldering Montgomery, her former best friend.
Taylor and Kelcey are finally together in Tay’s dressing room, neither of them having had the opportunity to speak to each other till now. Orlando is sat in the background, Kraven pacing behind the former Presidents back.
Taylor: Seeing him using his mind control on Mika, it makes me sick it really does. I wish I could do something to bring her back
Kelcey: It’s pathetic. Aiken has control over Mika, and the Sinistry now has control over the IWC. Kloe’s whole plan is….
Taylor: Yeah, well I can change that…because Kloe isn’t the only one capable of forming plans.
Kelcey: Come on then…spill
Taylor: You’ll find out hun…in a few minutes.
Taylor walks away, Kelcey and Kraven trailing behind her
Kelcey: Pleeease Taylor.
They disappear out of view whilst all the while Orlando is stooped in his chair, looking disheveled and that’s when Mark Comeau steps in.
Mark: Orlando, I was told to inform you that two special guests have arrived to speak to you.
Orlando groans
Orlando: Great, it must be the investors I was GOING to sell the company to before Kloe pulled her swerve. Where are they?
Mark: I would presume they are the ones in the limo that arrived earlier.
Orlando: This should be fun.
He then heads out the dressing room, to talk to the investors.
As the tunes of the NewAge theme song play in the background we see the entire Sinistry headed for the ring. Ba’al leads the charge, World Championship draped over his shoulder, and the commentators discussing the pending arrival of this powerful group.
Hunter: It looks like the Sinistry are headed for the ring.
Mackie: But I thought it was just supposed to be Kelcey and Kloe meeting face to face.
Hunter: Like that was ever going to happen.
Ba’al continues to lead his family along with obvious intentions in store for the Perfect 10.
Orlando Cruze makes his way through the parking lot, drawing closer to the limo we saw arrive during Mason Van Stanton’s hasty retreat. The Icon nears the limo and swallows his pride before knocking at the window. The door opens and Orlando back peddles
Orlando: Ummmm, you’re not who I was expecting to see.
Broderick Chase, Taylor’s father, then steps out of the limo with a briefcase in hand
Brod: No, I imagine you weren’t expecting to see me at all…but I’m here alright, and I’m going to handle business
Broderick walks back and into the arena, Orlando allowing himself a grin
Cameras cut away from the shocking arrival of Broderick Chase, a man with a renowned history in professional wrestling, and cut to a woman who is building an infamous track record for herself in this industry. Kloe Masters stands in the middle of the ring with the chair and hooded sweat-suit once again planted beside her.
Hunter: Kloe is out here again, and one has to think this is going to be her chat with Kelcey
Mackie: God I hope so…someone needs to have a chat with Kelcey, she wears way too many clothes these days.
Kloe: Kelcey, it’s time for our little chat, so why don’t you head out here so we can hash out our differences.
Kelcey comes out to the stage with microphone in hand, her brother Kraven towering behind her, and feet marching down the ramp. They carry her right towards the woman responsible for bludgeoning Wallace with a steel chair several months ago.
Kelcey: Damn right you owe me an explanation, but I’m not coming out here for an explanation…I’m here to put you in your place.
Kloe smiles as Kelcey and Kraven enter the ring and prepare to go after the new Majority Owner, but Kloe just smiles
Kloe: You know something; I thought you might say something like that.
Suddenly the lights go out and when they come back up Kelcey and Kraven are surrounded by Ba’al, Decay, Executioner, Jessica Wilde, Hunter Locke and Rachel Foxx. Standing at the centre of the ring where both Kelcey and Kraven are back to back fists defensively raised, stands Ba’al, the World Champion glaring hauntingly at Wallace.
Kloe hands him a mic, Ba’al giving her a smile
Ba’al: Kelcey, you are gravely mistaken if you truly believe that you can help your friend Taylor, because only the Sinistry can save her now, only we can offer her salvation. If she wishes to continue pursuing her lifelong aspirations of being counted amongst the greatest in IWC history, she will do precisely what her sister Mika did, and join with us. Unfortunately for you, to prove that point, that Taylor can only rely on us for help, we must remove you from her side once and for all.
The group begins to close in on Kelcey and only stop when a huge explosion of noise is heard, Taylor Chase-Cruze making her way onto the stage, accompanied by her Father Broderick
Hunter: Taylor said she had a plan; it seems her Father is a part of that.
Mackie: And the Brod is one heck of a plan, he knows his onions when it comes to this business
Hunter: I can’t believe we’re actually see him here live tonight, it’s been almost a year since he’s shown his face in the IWC.
The crowd is in disbelief over the sight of the Brod standing right beside his daughter as the two defiantly stare at the ring
Taylor: No Ba’al, the Sinistry will not lay a finger on Kelcey, and you will hear what we have come here to say tonight.
Ba’al steps backwards, and implores his colleagues to do the same, Kelcey and Kraven sliding out of the ring and making their way up the ramp to stand beside Tay and the Brod
Hunter: A lucky escape for Kelcey
Mackie: Perhaps so, but what does Taylor have to say, get on with it woman.
Hunter: You know the IWC; it’s all about the dramatic
Ba’al: So Taylor, regale is with your plans to stop us, this should be most amusing
Taylor: The ONLY reason you are insisting I join your family is because you know I am the only one capable of taking that World Championship off your shoulder. You’re frightened of me, and you are frightened of facing me at the End of Year Special…all for very good reason.
Ba’al: Now look…
Taylor has passed the mic to her Father who interrupts the Prince of Sin
Broderick: I was brought here tonight because I know a little bit about wheeling and dealing. I may be the world’s greatest Dad…
He pauses, enjoying the cheers from the crowd
Broderick: But first and foremost I am a business man, and believe me I know my way around a contract, and I’ve been taking a very close look at the contract my daughter gave me a few days ago. The contract that was made up for Taylor’s world title shot at the EOTYS.
Taylor is smirking from ear to ear, Ba’al still looking on intrigued.
Broderick: See, it’s there in black and white, the one thing that Karen McBride has gotten right for once. It states that Taylor has the right to name ANY stipulation for her showdown with Ba’al, and the stipulation she has chosen…well, I’ll let my daughter announce that
He hands the mic back to Taylor, who seems almost giddy with excitement.
Taylor: My little stipulation? Well Ba’al, if I win the World title match at the End of Year Special against you…then, my husband regains 50% of his ownership in the company.
Hunter: OH MY GOD…what an announcement…Orlando could be back in the game.
No sooner does Taylor Chase make her challenge for the 50% ownership of the company than Kloe Masters begins throwing a fit, tossing the hooded sweat shirt and the chair across the ring. The fans are going absolutely mental, Ba’al pointing towards the Brod and telling his family and followers to get up the ramp
Ba’al: BRING ME BRODERICK CHASE!!!
Wilde, Executioner and Decay rush up the ramp but Taylor won’t let them get to her father, she dashes forward and takes down Wilde with a superkick to the jaw, Kelcey and Kraven then dash into Hunter Locke, the two overwhelming the SIN Head of Security. Decay then grabs Chase by the throat and threatens to Chokeslam her only to have Chase leap into the air and nail him with the TKO as well, knocking him down the ramp.
Taylor: Come on Daddy; let’s get you out of here.
Chase leads her father along to the back before Red Rayne steps through the curtains and nails Tay to the ribs with a hard back heel kick, staggering her back. Rayne then turns to Broderick and pie faces him down to the stage. Mogui and Silk then follow through the curtains and grab Taylor’s arms, forcing her up to her feet and dragging her into the ring. She ends up splayed across the canvas at Ba’al’s feet, who grabs Chase by the hair and pulls back on it
Ba’al: You know something Taylor, I’ve changed my mind, I no longer see potential, and I no longer see why you would make a fitting member to my family
Ba’al stands Chase up and pins her arms behind her back, lining up her face for the chair that has found its way into Kloe’s palms. She lifts the chair into the air and goes for a blow on Taylor, only to have Kelcey remerge and grab the chair out of Kloe’s hands, ripping it from her clutches. Masters spins around looking furious. That’s when Ba’al is suddenly smacked over the back with a chair at the hands of Broderick Chase. The steel bounce off of Ba’al’s back and sends him staggering forward into the clutches of Taylor, who manages to heave the SIN Champion into the air, preparing to hit him with the True Story. However, Kloe grabs Ba’al by the ankle, drags him down off of Taylor’s shoulders and the two abandon the ring. Taylor, Broderick, Kelcey and Kraven then stand in the ring, glaring through the ropes and pointing at the World Champion and Masters. Taylor picks up a microphone staring down the ramp at the Sinistry and Kloe.
Taylor: Sinistry…Kloe, the company and the championship return to their rightful owners at the End of Year Special and that’s…
She pauses, the fans elated and joining in
Taylor and the fans: a TRUE STORY!
Hunter: What a night, Taylor standing tall once more, and with only RIOT to go, all the momentum going into the End of Year Special
Mackie: Ba’al won’t like this, and you can bet the Sinistry will have a final trick up their sleeves.
Hunter: That might be so, but tonight Taylor and the IWC stand tall…so long folks. NewAge will return in 2015 so have a good Christmas and a Happy New Year.
The camera pans back to the ring, where Taylor holds her arms aloft stood upon a turnbuckle.
Orlando Cruze is standing in Taylor’s dressing room and watching a monitor providing footage of Taylor’s actions. Orlando smiles in response to Taylor’s decree. Just then two figures enter the room behind Orlando, they are Sebastian Blake and Callista Christos, two people heavily rumoured to be interested in buying Orlando’s shares in the company. Orlando turns to face them.
Sebastian: I have to say, I am hugely disappointed that we couldn’t finish our business transaction. We had the highest hopes for this company
Callista: Yes, we could have really helped the IWC Orlando, it’s such a shame they held you to ransom like that
Orlando nods, but then a smile forms over his features.
Orlando: Well, don’t be disappointed just yet, because it looks like we might be back in business.