Chapter Eight
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Kinsey climbed out of the back seat from behind Dean. She grabbed her gym bag and waited for the others. Paige hopped out of the other side, also throwing her own bag over her shoulder. "So we ready to do this?" The British Diva looked at the other three.
Kinsey looked around. "Where's Seth?"
Dean headed around to the back and picked up his bag. He tossed Roman his bag, then locked the car up, "Said he'd catch up. He does a lot of 'cross fit' stuff."
Roman caught his bag, then turned to walk in with the others.
Kinsey nodded, "Okay... gonna make it hard to work things out with him move wise, but whatever." She shrugged.
Paige already bounded for the door and held it open for the others. She winked at Roman as he passed. "We'll try to go easy on you, luv."
Dean rolled his shoulders to loosen them up from driving, and walked in with them, "He'll catch on fast."
Roman shook his head and smiled, "We'll see about that, baby doll."
Kinsey headed into the locker room to stow her bag, and waited for Paige. Once they were changed and their stuff locked up they headed back out to the training ring the group had rented for the afternoon to start stretching out. Kinsey and Paige seemed to be chatting about something while they stretched having to do with their ring entrance.
Dean tossed his bag in a locker, then started to tape up his hands while heading towards the practice ring.
Kinsey looked up, waiting for Dean and Roman to do whatever it is they did to warm up.
Roman headed out after Dean. He took a moment to stretch out, then put his hands on the edge of the ring for just a few quick pushups to get ready and his muscles loosened up. Dean bounced on his heels a few times and shook out his arms, making sure to roll his left shoulder a couple times to stretch it out more.
Paige nodded. "Aye, that should work. You sure you want to do that though? I mean works for me but it's built more off my entrance than yours." She shrugged to Kinsey.
Kinsey shook her head. "No it's not, trust me." She gestured for Paige to go and set up to try the new ring entrance.
Dean glanced over hearing the girls talk. After a moment, he patted Roman on the shoulder to get his attention to turn and look.
Paige hopped up on the apron and dropped to one knee. She threw her head back in that full arch, stretching like she does when she screams from the side of the ring. When she sat back up, Kinsey in one fluid motion pushed up onto the apron and stepped up on Paige's knee, then flipped airborne with a summersault into the ring. She landed solid and held both her hands back and out to Paige still behind her. The other diva took Kinsey's hands and let her then flip her forward into the ring over the rope like it was nothing. Paige landed it solid and with ease. "Oi... now I get it. Yeah... that could work." Paige nodded to Kinsey grinning.
Roman looked amused and applauded slowly. Paige turned and did an exaggerated curtsey. Kinsey smirked and moved to the corner of the ring to stretch some more, using the ropes to do so, until the guys were ready. "So, we doing this?"
Dean stepped up to the ring and swung through the ropes easily, "Well yeah. All or nothing, right, doll?"
Roman stepped up and climbed over the ropes, then dropped heavily to his feet on the mat.
Kinsey smirked. "Go big... or go home." She grinned then at Paige.
Paige moved towards the middle of the ring. "Ye said ya had a couple ideas, Kins?"
Roman grabbed the ropes and leaned back, stretching his arms, then pulled himself up and leaned against them. "Let's hear 'em."
Kinsey nodded. "Yeah... one of the issues you're having is dealing with the guys being too much brute force and just slamming out of the PTO or Ram-page. So... what if they were dazed first? I mean nothing I can think of that would be worse to Batista or Orton than having to tap out to a chick." She looked to see if the others agreed.
Roman thought about it for a moment, "Might work for a minute, but we've got a bit too much upper body strength for it. I mean, you twist them around, right? Then pull them backwards by their arms. But if it's a guy, they flex and pull you forward. Plus, they're all as tall as I am, so that makes it that much harder to lock it in. Even dazed, once they come out of it, they just flex and it's over."
Kinsey grinned. "Not if they're still on the floor cause Dean just Dirty Deeds them. Then all she has to do is lock it in while their prone and alter it a bit so it stays on the ground. Instead of from a stand, do it from a squat like you used to back in NXT, Paige. Need it to be more like a Boston Crab again."
Dean smirked, "Alright, I can see that. Especially if we target their arms a lot first and know it's coming." He looks to Roman.
Kinsey replies, "Only thing to really work on with that is timing. So just really a matter of being aware. You see him put one of them down like that, get on them, Paige."
Paige nodded. "Aye. I can do that. Anyone else got any ideas?"
Dean smirked, "Yeah, you a high flier?" he looked at Kinsey.
Kinsey shrugged and nodded. "I guess. I mean I can go up comfortably, but I'm still fine in the ring on the ground. But yeah... I don't mind going airborne." Paige ducked behind Kinsey playfully and nods yes very exaggeratedly and puts her thumbs up so Dean could see her, but not Kinsey.
Dean grinned about something. "Oh yeah? Alright. So if we plant someone with a power-bomb, you're gonna come flying in to finish it, huh?" Roman laughed at Paige's antics.
Kinsey grinned and nodded. "Sure that isn't an issue. Can do that from the rope or with some speed and lift." Kinsey got a funny look. "Hey Roman... mind if I climb ya for a minute?"
Paige looked at Kinsey and then looked up at Roman. She then got a horrified look on her face. "You aren't... Oi."
Dean looked at Roman, holding up a finger to stop the incoming comment. Roman just grinned and stepped a little away from the ropes, "Hop up, darlin'."
Kinsey moved to get a bit of momentum with a run. She then leapt up and caught Roman's hands letting him boost her up higher. Instead of coming down sitting on his shoulders like Paige did last night, she landed like a cheerleader would with her feet on the man's shoulders. She then stood keeping his hands for balance for a moment. "Okay... you can move your hands to my legs now. That way you can launch me easier."
Roman moved his hands one at a time to her ankles, "You want launched?"
Kinsey looked down and grins a bit wildly, "That's the idea... up and forward."
Paige backed the hell up just watching. "You're bloody insane..."
Roman grinned, then kneeled down slowly, easily squatting even with the added weight, "Ready?"
Kinsey nods. "Let's do it..."
Paige put her hands over her eyes, peeking between her fingers. Dean watched as Roman pushes off, actually leaping a little into the air and launched Kinsey up and forward and bit. Kinsey went up, then curled and tucked. As she came down, she extended her left leg keeping the right bent. Upon impact, she hit solid foot first, then both knees down in the move that the announcers have dubbed the "Fall from Grace". There is a loud bang bang back to back as she hits double on the ring floor. The sound echoed like a thunder clap through the ring.
Seth came tearing out of the locker room and to the ring. He looked around, having arrived after them, and not knowing what was going on or made that thunderous slam. "What the hell was that?"
Dean looked over seeing Seth walk up, "That's called making a high flier take orbit, man."
"That was Kinsey and Roman losing their minds." Paige shuddered. "I wouldn't bloody want to be under that."
Roman looked pretty pleased with himself. "Yeah, just don't try it around Randy. He'll snatch you right out of the air."
Kinsey moved to stand up, dusting her hands off. She looked to Roman, grinning wildly. "Doesn't matter... that's why the knee hits follow up, not just the one slam. He goes to catch and winds up with all of my knees first into his chest. Not going to be able to just shrug that off. Hey Seth, want to play test dummy?" She grinned sweetly at Rollins.
Paige started to bounce up and down. "I think I may be on to something. Can one of you move to catch me like Orton would?"
Seth moved to back to the corner. He blatantly checked out Kinsey while moving back.
Dean shrugged and stepped over to Paige. "Yeah, sure."
Paige moved and climbed up to the top rope like normal and then jumped from it. She does so at Dean like she would typically move to jump on someone's back. Her legs immediately wrapped around his waist and arms wrapping around his shoulders. Kinsey knits her brow watching. "Rabid spider monkey much?" There was a slight hint of something under her tone, but not clear.
Dean moved to grab her waist out of reflex, not really expecting the full torso wrap around from the woman. Paige then very lightly bounces her head twice against Ambrose, making sure to keep her head directly facing his and legs locked in. "Yeah... could make that a head-butt nightmare." She nodded.
Kinsey winced. "Hey... let's not cause more brain damage than is already going on in there." She teased and pointed at Dean.
Dean smirked and moved a bit, like he's testing her grip. "Yeah, I get what you're saying." he stepped over to Roman and waited for him to take Paige off him, "Lose this?"
Paige laughed and moved to hop off Dean. "Okay, so we can put someone down permanently with some timing. Kinsey and Roman can kill someone, and I can avoid Randy's RKO. I think we bloody made some progress." The Brit grinned, seemingly really pleased.
Seth walked over. "What about a double dive?" He grinned at Kinsey. "You game?"
Roman said, "Yeah, and Dave's just a big bruiser that skipped leg day. Knock them out from under him, and he's not too bad."
Kinsey smirked. "Someone want to pretend to be Bootista a second?" She also nodded yes to Seth. "Sure... figure something out and we can go for it."
Dean chuckled and walked over, then bounced from foot to foot a moment in an obvious mockery of Bootista. Kinsey pulled Paige with her and whispered to her a minute. The Brit busted out laughing and nodded. The two women turn and break into a dead run. At the last moment though they drop and full on slide tackle Dean Soccer style. Dean dropped like a rock, catching himself with his hands at the last second before face planting. Roman and Seth both just crack up laughing.
Kinsey grins and nods. "Yeah... worked..." She sits up smiling at Dean.
"We should catch a football game when we're home." Paige reached out for Roman to help her up.
Roman reached down for Paige's hand, then pulled her up quickly and actually lifted her up and onto his shoulder. "Think so, huh?"
Paige easily and quickly gets comfy up on Roman's shoulders, seeming to be getting used to being moved around like a rag doll. "Sadly, I don't have Kins ungodly coordination to walk on or fly off anything seriously."
Seth looked to Dean again. "Mind being a soft landing at least for Kinsey, dude? I don't want her just hitting the outside of the ring with no break."
Dean raised his eyebrows, "Flying out?" Kinsey looked to Seth curiously.
Seth nodded. "Yeah... It's pretty likely we're going to wind up with a lot of shit going on outside the ring."
Dean shrugged, then walked over and slid out of the ring onto the ground. "Alright... lay it on me."
Seth walked over and talked to Kinsey a few seconds. He then told her what he wanted her to do. "Hey. Roman, might work better if you were down there too. We don't want to kill poor Ambrose."
Dean looked a little more interested now, "I doubt you'll 'kill me, but might be funny." Roman set Paige neatly on the nearest turnbuckle like she weighed nothing to him, then stepped through the ropes and down to the floor near Dean.
Seth moved to head up the top rope for a dive. Kinsey on the other hand moved to run back and get momentum off the back rope. Seth does one of his aerial vaults and goes long ways to knock both men down. He made sure to keep rolling as he hit so he's out of the way of Kinsey's incoming maneuver. Kinsey then, mere seconds after Seth leapt, used the moment paired with a solid leap to head over the top rope and summersault, landing solid on Dean with both knees forward.
Dean and Roman ended up flat on the ground after Seth knocked them down. Dean smirked, then looked up shaking his head, when he heard more running and registered what was about to happen, "Aww shi~"
Roman rolled out of the way, "Oh hell no... I don't wanna be under /that/."
Kinsey dropped like a rock on Ambrose, just how Seth told her to. Dean took the hit of Kinsey landing on him as the air quickly left his lungs.
Paige watched and winced when Seth knocked them down. She then actually cringed when Kinsey landed on Dean.
Dean groaned some, rolling to his side, "Okay. Yeah, that works."
Kinsey sat up and looked down at Dean next to her. "Uh. Thanks for breaking the fall there." She was trying really hard not to laugh.
Paige walked over, leaning on the ropes and looking down at them. "That looked really painful there, Ambrose."
Dean stayed where he was and smirked at Kinsey. "Yeah, that one hurts a bit. Just don't miss or you could really mess yourself up instead."
Kinsey looked down at Ambrose. "I'll let you hit me back if it will make it feel better." She grinned playfully at him. A wicked smile appeared on Ambrose's lips. Kinsey just rolls her eyes having a good idea of where his brain went.
Seth stood up and dusted off. He held a hand out to Kinsey to help her up. "That worked like a dream."
Dean laughed, "Nope. I don't hit my own, no matter how much I want to when /Roman spears me/."
Roman looked over, then rolls his eyes and drank some water, "Bitch, bitch, bitch..."
Paige ducked between the ropes and found a seat on the apron. "Think we've done enough for today?"
Kinsey looks up to Paige and said, "New stuff? Yeah. I think we're solid." She accepted the hand up from Seth. He pulled her awkwardly hard up and that made her bump into him. She caught herself in time to keep from pushing against him, and gave Seth an odd look. He smiled and let go of her hand once she has had footing. "Sorry about that, guess I'm used to pulling Dean up off the floor mostly." Seth told her. Kinsey ignored the comment and moved to head to Paige in the ring. "Yeah. Let's get a bit of practice in since we don't have a match scheduled tonight."
Dean pulled himself to his feet, then hopped up to sit on the apron. He grabbed for his nearby things and took out a Gatorade. "No 'scheduled' matches. Right." He took a moment and had a few good swallows.
Kinsey and Paige spent the next hour or so practicing various moves and movement in the ring. In addition, they work on the ring entrance until its smooth and second nature to them now. After that, they let the boys have the ring to work some things out while they head to do a work out at the gym. Kinsey finds her way to a large bag and does a kickboxing work out. Paige hits the treadmill and some free weight work. Once the guys are done, they all move to head to the locker room agreeing to meet out in the lobby once done to head over to the arena for the night to grab food at catering and do some promo work.
In the locker room the guys took a minute to chill out before grabbing showers. Seth glances out towards the door and then back to Dean and Roman, leaning back on the lockers and drinking down some water. "Okay, watching those two go at it definitely is an improvement to the average work out." He smiles in a way that is almost a sneer. "And that move… hell I might be willing to take a hit to have those legs wrapped around me like that. Today seemed to be your lucky day, Ambrose."
Dean looked up at Seth from where he was sitting on the bench taking the tape off his hands. His eyes narrowed up some. "Watch your mouth, Seth." Roman turned around from getting his things out of the other locker behind Dean. He just glared and gave Seth a look that said it all.
Seth looked confused. "Come on! You can't tell me that the two of you didn't enjoy watching those two sweat and work this afternoon at all."
Dean's hands tighten up some. "We're here working with them. Means you can keep your hands to yourself off Kinsey. I caught what you did helping her up, man." His voice is gravelly and clearly not happy with Rollins.
Seth holds his hands up. "Whoa, whoa, whoa…" he looks to Dean. "Dude if you are already tagging that or interested in it, just say the words and I'll back off."
Dean's eyes narrow to slits and Roman reaches out and puts a firm hand on Dean's shoulder. "Seth, that's back off. Back off hard, from both of them." Roman's voice is stern, but still oddly calm.
Seth looks at the two and nods slowly. "Yeah... Okay. Got it. I'll leave it be until you two do your thing and whatever." He grabs his things and heads to the shower. "I'll see you later at the arena or something."
Dean watches him go and shakes his head. "You watch. I'm going to wind up hitting him before this is all over." Roman just pats Dean's back. "Do what you think you gotta do, bro. I got your back."
