Author's Note: Ladies and gentlemen this is my second story! It stars AJ Lee and Awesome Kong/Amazing Kong/Kharma and it features numerous other wrestling stars and plenty of adventures to behold. I hope you all are entertained by my second story. Lets go!
Chapter 1: Humility, Hubris, Kharma
December 15, 2014. The night after WWE TLC: Tables, Ladders, and Chairs, there special event that was sold out, highly anticipated, and action packed. Out of all the action that took place that night none was more interesting then AJ Lee's battle in what seemed to be a who's who of her greatest rivals to her in her reign. By way of a fateful fatal four way match the night before
She battled Paige: Her former friend, her longtime enemy, and biggest threat to her reign. They were almost mirror images of each other as wrestlers and as women. They didn't look like most female wrestlers and acted differently as well but they were both deadly and delightfully twisted in their natures which made them perfect enemies.
AJ battled Natalya: While she was a Total Diva she was always a pain in AJ's ass given how strong and physical she was and despite never defeating the Black Widow when it mattered most Natalya was always a relevant threat to AJ so whenever the skipping diva faced her she knew she had to be at her best.
She also battled Emma: Emma, a wild card among all of the other contestants. Belying her bubbly nature lied a talented, technical wrestler that could put up a good fight and earned AJ's attention after defeating her in a non-title match weeks prior, giving AJ one of her few losses overall. The Australian-born diva was a definite dark horse.
But in the end it didn't matter…
"And Natalya's on a roll! She's got AJ in her grip, about to attempt a slam but…oh! AJ escaped! She's going for the Black Widow! Emma and Paige are still out at ringside!" Cole exclaimed in awe as Natalya built up momentum in the match.
"Emma and Paige scrapped it out from ringside and Emma's just startin to come to after that big dive she took and she's payin' for it!" JBL exclaimed, alluding to the top rope dive Emma hit on Miss Hell in Boots herself, taking them both out of the match.
With Paige and Emma out of the ring it was a one on one battle between the Queen of Hearts and Black Widow herself. Natalya tried to power her way through AJ's grip, struggling and moving to the ropes to try and grab them so she could break this accursed Black Widow hold but soon she dropped to one knee, then both knees, before tapping out to AJ before she passed out from the pain. Natalya lost the match and "Lets Light It Up" played hard and loud through the arena crowd as the crowd cheered AJ on.
"The winner of the match and STILL WWE Divas Champion, AJ LEE!" Justin Roberts declared as senior referee Chad Patton raised her arm up in victory to the sold-out TLC crowd.
Then Justin handed the ref AJ's Divas Championship title so she can give it to the successful Diva and she wasted no time bolting out of the ring and skipping up the ramp with glee. Her job was done, her match was won, and her top three contenders were bested. Now she could go backstage and properly gloat on her victory and with the sight of everyone's favorite barefoot commentator and backstage interviewer Renee Young walking towards her she didn't have to wait long to do so.
"AJ Lee you just retained your Divas championship in a big fatal four way match. How do you feel after such a big win?" Renee asked while AJ, clutching her Divas championship tightly around her shoulder smiled at the blonde interviewer and smiled.
"Not gonna lie. That was a hard match like I knew it would be…" the Divas Champion said between breaths, "but I left the ring like I entered it, with my baby, my sweet, sweet, Divas championship," she cooed, giving the butterfly-shaped championship belt a kiss.
"You're set to end 2013 as the Divas Champion. What are your thoughts about that?" Renee asked the successful champion. AJ simply smirked at her before replying.
"It's gonna happen…My Divas Championship is never gonna leave me again but if anybody wants to stop me, feel free to try," AJ finished in singsong before skipping down the hallway, the camera watching her before fading to black behind her
The following night, Monday Night Raw was in Baltimore, Maryland for the aftermath show from TLC: Tables Ladders and Chairs. Some of the events that happened last night were Luke Harper and Erick Rowan successfully winning the WWE Tag Team Championships from GoldStar (Goldust and Stardust) and The Usos in a tag team Triple Threat Match, the WWE Championship gained attention too as John Cena defeated Brock Lesnar to regain it in a TLC match, and the Divas Championship Fatal Four Way match which AJ Lee survived against three of some of her most valiant opponents to retain her Divas Championship.
Now she was going to celebrate and brag in front of the whole world.
She planned it all from the moment she arrived to the arena. She was going to greet her adoring fans in the ring, brag about her victory and her reign, and maybe surprise them somehow. All she had to do was wait.
The show was in its midpoint, within the second hour of a Three hour Raw and Damien Mizdow and The Miz just finished shooting a mock movie skit the fans popped as soon as they heard the theme song of arguably the most popular diva in WWE's theme music fill the arena…
"Let's Light it up! light it up, light it up Light it tonight, Let's light it up! Like shooting stars are burning light up the sky, let's light it up, light it up, light it up light it tonight, let's light it up L- Let the night, L- Let the diamonds, Sh-Sh Shine in your eyes."
AJ skipped down the ramp and around ringside with a pleasant smile on her face like everything was just fine in her world, her Divas Championship she's held since the summer of this year on her tiny waist as the fans cheered her on.
"AJ Lee has been as powerful as ever since coming back to the WWE in June," Michael Cole said, "she's beaten every opponent she's faced for the title as she continues her reign she's held since September."
"She won the Divas Championship on her first night back and she's been on fire since then. Heck she beat four very talented Divas last night," JBL pointed out.
"While she's more than a few fries short of a Happy Meal she is the longest reigning Divas champion in history for a reason," King pointed out, noting AJ's 295 day reign of the Divas Championship.
"That's right but AJ isn't scheduled for a match tonight so I wonder what she's doing out here," Jerry Lawler said with a thoughtful tone in his voice. He was right, AJ wasn't scheduled to compete but that didn't mean she couldn't take some time out to speak to her adoring fans and gloat on her victory and now that she bounded her way into the ring she was looking to do just that as her music faded so she could speak to her fans.
"Since I returned to the WWE six months ago it's been business as usual. No matter how many people challenge me and try to take away my baby…" she said as the camera zoomed in a little closer on her Divas Championship around her waist, "sooner or later they all failed." AJ said with her lips curling into a little smirk at the end of her sentence before regaining her composure while the crowd cheered for her.
"Just look at last night for example. I beat Emma who I hardly faced before, Natalya who I've beaten so many times I'm tired of beating her, and a Paige who was at one point my enemy, my frienemy, and my biggest rival, but now she's simply just a loser, just like the rest of these wannabes."
The people who booed AJ were few and far between the people cheering her on from that comment about her opponents last night at TLC. She bested them all and was proud of it to say the least.
"Yes, I called then wannabes because that's exactly what they are and it's not hard to see why. I mean sure I'm not on some reality show parading around my relationships and my friendships and I don't care about wearing ridiculous thousand dollar outfits but that's fine because I've made a bigger impact than any woman has ever made in here, where it matters most, in this ring," AJ said with calm but assertive pride in her voice.
"There hasn't been a Diva in history who looks like me, acts like me, and has made the impact that I have made in this company to the point where I don't need an overhyped reality show to get me over, I don't enhanced body parts and to put my body in a bikini to impress people, all I need is a microphone, an opponent, and I can show people just how great I am."
Then she looked at the camera as her lips curled into a smirk.
"In other words I'm the greatest Diva in the history of the WWE!"
The fans would usually clearly jeer a wrestler who had this much ego but AJ did have some truth to her words which lead to a split crowd. She had her own merchandise, she was the longest reigning Divas Champion of all time, and she was a good wrestler all her own. Not bad for the smallest Diva in WWE. Not a lot of Divas have done that.
However AJ wanted to put the crowd under her control and she knew just how to do it.
"From Chyna to Beth Phoenix to Trish Stratus to Lita to sooooooo many Divas in between none of them have ruled the Divas division, single-handedly, like I have. None of them are better than me!"
Now AJ was name-dropping Divas who came before her and insulting them, some of whom were legends. This was a surefire way to get the fans to boo her and that's just what happened. Virtually everybody in the sold out arena was jeering AJ and she loved it, she loved the attention they were giving her.
"And now because I'm such a nice, giving, woman I am giving a Divas title match to anybody who I haven't faced before," the Black Widow said as she turned to the stage now to give whoever thought they were good enough to face the champion her full attention. Then she sat down cross-legged and waited on her opponent.
"Don't worry, I'll wait," she grinned proudly as she watched the stage, awaiting her opponent. After seconds passed and AJ twirled and brandished her microphone in her hands before placing it by her feet.
"Awwwww sad face," AJ pouted childishly, There has to be somebody that's willing to step up and face the greatest Divas Champion in history," the petite champion smiled smugly at the end of that little comment as she steadily anticipated her new opponent.
Then after fateful seconds passed the confident, conceited, grin, melted away into a shocked and wide-eyed expression from the sound of a low and sharp piano chord, wicked and evil laughter, drums, and a guitar chord which made the Raw audience worldwide gasp in awe and surprise.
It was "Bad Karma" and only one woman in WWE history had that particular theme.
"No way…there's no way!" Michael Cole said in pure disbelief.
"Are you serious?! There's no way she's back!" JBL said in denial of who just might be returning.
"She's…oh my god she's back!" King said as the presence of a hulking, large, ebony diva with dreadlocks slowly walked on the stage with the fans cheering loud and clear.
"Oh my god It's Kharma! Kharma's back in the WWE!" King shouted out. He could hardly believe what he was witnessing right now.
"It has been two years since we've seen Kharma in the WWE and this crowd is going wild for this force of a woman! Kharma has come back to Raw!" Cole exclaimed as the crowd eagerly cheered the returning Diva and AJ's swagger, her arrogance, her confidence, had all melted away and were replaced by one emotion that people had never seen the Black Widow of the WWE have before, Fear.
AJ was on her feet, standing in attention as she watched the towering diva walk from the stage to the ring. She never felt so small until she saw Kharma before her eyes. The New Jersey native was several feet shorter than the imposing female wrestler and gave up a hundred pounds at least to her in their appearances. Also in terms of appearances Kharma had a microphone in her hand to show that she was here to speak which fans worldwide were sure to take notice of.
Now that Kharma was in the ring and her music faded away clear chants of "WELCOME BACK!" filled the air and she stood there, soaking them in for a moment which was appropriate for her, especially considering how it's been nearly two years to the day since anybody in WWE has seen hide or hair of Kharma on any WWE show so this was a treat among treats.
After letting the fans get their much-deserved cheers out Kharma spoke.
"Thank you, thank you so much. Now I'll tell you just why I'm back. I'm back here for one reason and one reason only. I want the WWE Divas Championship!"
That statement made the fans pop with cheers and AJ go from wide-eyed shock to a blend of disbelief and anger. She immediately picked up a microphone to give her reply.
"Listen I don't know what the hell kind of hidey-hole you lumbered out of after what? Two years?" AJ asked, not backing down from the larger woman, fueled by ego and pride as a champion, "but I only face actual divas who actually wrestle. Not come down to the ring and smack people around for a few weeks and then disappear…poof."
Some may see this as poking the proverbial bear…and obviously it was to the eyes of the fans but to AJ she was simply stating facts. Kharma's much hyped WWE run back in 2011 did consist of just that. She hyped fans and intimidated divas with her vignettes, debuted with a rockstar reception, and proceeded to beat down virtually every diva on the WWE Roster until she had to take a leave of absence because she was pregnant. Now she was back with a title-hungry vengeance and AJ was not amused.
However Kharma had her explanation ready.
"That's right, I did leave but because I was pregnant, that I was starting a family, not because I wanted to especially since I have a lot of unfinished business," she stated, looking down at the reigning Divas champion, "I called The Authority, I emailed them, I contacted them however I could to let them know that I was ready to come back and as soon as they had something open for me I could return and that title is open for me and you need some a new opponent and I am that opponent. I WANT that Divas Championship!" The powerhouse of a woman declared.
The crowd cheered at the end of that. They were glad Kharma was back in the WWE, ready to compete for them like she was supposed to do. AJ on the other hand gave her a nice, condescending smile.
"Awwwww…" she held her hands over her heart, "I'm so proud that you have your life taken care of now and can get back into wrestling. I mean you're as fat..I mean as heavy-set as ever," she said before pausing to let the fans give a nice round of "Oooohs" from the "fat" remark and you're ready to get back to wrestling," she finished with a cheerful smile.
"But here's the thing. I don't care if you just got back to the WWE, if The Authority welcomed you back, or if you woke up from your two year hibernation like the bear you are, you do not deserve to face me for this championship, my Divas Championship."
This was resounding proof that AJ Lee wasn't backing down from Kharma in the slightest and the fans were split on who to cheer and who to boo. On one hand there was Kharma, this mountain of a woman who wrestled in multiple promotions in multiple countries before arriving to World Wrestling Entertainment but left before her career truly started despite a bevy of hype behind her, or AJ Lee who was the most interesting and entertaining Diva the WWE has had in years. The fans were the ultimate winner since they couldn't help but be split down the middle in this confrontation.
And what Kharma said soon after didn't make things any easier…
"I'm gonna say this once. I'm not going anywhere and if you think I'm just going to step back and let you overlook me and not give me a title match…"
"You must be crazy."
Now Kharma did her homework. She knew that the ultimate way to get AJ's attention was to call her the five-lettered c-word. It made her snap every time, it never failed to get her angry and at the looks of things it was working. AJ's chest was heaving with her deep breaths; her haughty expression had faded away to one of unease while she dropped her mic in shock from the heavier woman's comment. Then she did what came naturally to anybody who happened to call her crazy, hit them.
*SLAP!*
AJ drew back her small arm and threw a stiff slap across Kharma's pudgy face which once again drew the fans attention with a chant of "Oooohs." Then Kharma dropped her own microphone and had her lips curled into a wicked smile as if that set off a trigger of its own but AJ didn't stop there. She proceeded to pound and pelt the larger diva with closed-fists and elbows to her head and back but that just got Kharma mad as she gave AJ a close-range clothesline for her trouble and AJ fell down in a heap as the fans popped, seeing a well-anticipated brawl.
Wisely AJ tried to crawl out of the ring but Kharma wasn't having any of that. She grabbed AJ by her Chuck Taylors pulling her in by her right leg. However her left leg was free and she used it to kick Kharma in the head and face to break her grip so she could scramble out of the ring and escape the wrath of Kharma.
"And AJ is hightailin' it out of there!" Jerry exclaimed as she crawled to her feet at ringside and bounded up the ramp.
"I don't think I've ever seen AJ flee the ring so fast!" JBL commented as AJ raised her Divas Championship belt high.
"I think we'd all run away if we got knocked down by a person about twice our size! What a return for Kharma!" Michael Cole commented as "Bad Kharma" played to a cheering, buzzing crowd.
"YOU'LL NEVER HAVE THIS! IT'S MINE! IT'S MINE!" AJ yelled out to the ring that Kharma now stood in alone, "Not for long! I'm gonna get that championship!"
The two divas proceeded to verbally trash talk each other from afar until AJ skipped backstage in relief that she survived her encounter with Kharma before one particular thought set in her mind…
What the hell was she going to do now?
Kharma was clearly larger and more physically daunting than she was, she could crush AJ if she got her hands on her without a doubt. However despite having her anger activated by the "crazy" comment AJ still felt that she could outsmart Kharma to the point where thoughts began to fill her head of what she could possibly do to get her off her back.
She skipped en-route to her locker room to plan just what she could do in revenge. If Kharma thought that she was just going to dominate AJ because she was bigger than her she was sadly mistaken.
To be continued…
