CCW: Character Championship Wrestling Chapter 36: CCW XX 22: Part 2 (of 3 - Showcap), a X-overs + Wrestling Crossover fanfic

Tag Premier League Group B Match – The Olympic Entourage vs. The Webber Twins

Before the entrances for this match, the official first contest in the CCW XX Tag Premier League, a video package aired showcasing the rivalry between these two teams in 5 Borough Wrestling, CCW's New York City-based developmental territory. It detailed the argument on who were the better athletes: the Backyard Kids from the Cul-de-Sac in Meadowbrook or the Olympic beach volleyball tandem? Both of them were skilled together in a way unseen in both of their sports; the Webber Twins could be regarded as the most chemistry-endowed twosome in all of Backyard Sports, while Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh-Jennings viewed themselves as the best twosome in all of sports, noting their beach volleyball dominance in the Olympics and also on world tours. The two teams had had some of 5BW's greatest tag team matches in their time, including a match at the special 5BW MetroBrawl that saw the Olympic Entourage retain their 5BW Women's Tag Team Championships. However, tonight was the Webber Twins official debut on live television on CCW XX, and they wanted to make it count against old and current rivals. To the tune of "Magic Machine" by Dale Oliver, Sidney and Ashley Webber came into the arena, high-fiving all fans in sight as they made themselves at home in the Palace of Auburn Hills, acquainting themselves with it all before "Patriot" by CFO$ played…bringing out the Olympic Entourage, accompanied by Michael Phelps, who was wearing a much wider grin than usual (one who follows Global Pride Wrestling would know precisely why)…but the three-time Olympic gold medalists were not sharing Phelps's high spirits (one who follows Global Pride Wrestling would know precisely why), and rather than enter this match with arrogance, Misty and Kerri were walking in ANGRY…and ready to take it out on familiar foes. But the Webbers were keen, ready, and able to make that a task.

Misty May and…one of the Webbers start…as Al Michaels asks the Ellises if they can tell apart the twins, asking, "Can twins tell apart other twins? Is that some sort of POWER that they can have?"

"As a matter of fact, Al, yes it is! And using that adept and handy power, I can confirm to you that that Webber Twin iiiiiis…" Jeremy strokes his chin for a moment… "…Sidney! Yep, it's Sidney!"

"You sure about that?" Cris asks.

"Are you gonna DOUBT me?" Jeremy returns with his own question. "Twins know twins, Cris."

"You hesitated," Cris notes.

"No, that was my calibration sequence," Jeremy says. "I said it was a power, but I didn't say it was a FAST power. I mean, I can't just do it all willy-nilly without inspection; first, I have to note the pair I'm dealing with, then without any form of pen or paper, use my—"

"You know what, screw the reasoning; I'll just take your word for it," Cris cuts Jeremy off.

"Attaboy," Jeremy grins.

"…I've actually seen a hefty amount of Webber Twin tapes from their prior matches, so I can confirm based on THAT that Jeremy's right; that twin is Sidney," Jonathan says.

With that confirmed, mat wrestling ensues…Misty taking the early advantage with a number of Waist Lock Takedowns, using her superior strength…

…before Sidney is able to pry away Misty's hands from her waist…and backward roll into a Double Wrist Clutch Pin for a tricky near-fall that Misty rolls over and turns into a Greco-Roman Knuckle Lock…that Sidney breaks with a Jumping Double Capo Kick directly to Misty's face! Sidney hits the ropes…and runs into a Shoulder Block by the Turtle, as she is affectionately called in the beach volleyball world. Misty then hits the ropes…Sidney ducks under…leapfrogs over…and executes a series of Arm Drags to Misty, one ending in an Armbar hold. With control, Sidney tags in Ashley…who dives off of the middle rope to hit a Double Axe-Handle to the middle of Misty's shoulder. Ashley twists the left arm and performs an Arm Stunner…before standing up and Dropkicking Misty's shoulder and sending her rolling out of the ring. Misty holds her arm and winces…but Ashley isn't willing to let her get any sense of a breather…

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…yet Kerri Walsh isn't willing to let Ashley deprive May-Treanor of such a thing, running into the ring unannounced and going for a Big Boot…but Ashley slides underneath the boot and Chop Blocks the back of Kerri's other leg. Ashley grabs the leg of Kerri and performs an Inverted Dragon Screw…turned into a Half Boston Crab submission! The crowd is impressed with this maneuver…but Misty comes in to break it up, punching Ashley off of Kerri. Kerri and Misty do exchange a tag and try to turn things around, but the Webber Twins later issue a double dose of Dropkicks, one to each Olympian! Then they hit a Double One-Handed Bulldog to Kerri, followed by a Double Backdrop to a speeding Misty to send her over the top rope and to the outside. Then the Webbers pick Kerri Walsh up…

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…and muscle her over their heads and to the floor alongside Misty with a Double Drop Suplex over the ropes and to the floor! With the Olympic Entourage groggy, the Backyard Twins ascend to adjacent turnbuckles…

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…and they deliver stereo Diving Cross Body Blocks to both May and Walsh together!

Back inside the ring, the Webber Twins take Kerri…and deliver a Double Northern Lights Suplex, Sidney letting go while Ashley maintains the bridge: 1…2…2.675 Kerri gets her shoulder up. The Webber Twins then proceed to show some excellent double-teaming…with Sidney lifting up Ashley in a Wheelbarrow position and throwing her backwards into a Back Elbow onto Misty as the latter is on the apron…followed by Ashley lifting up Sidney in her own Wheelbarrow…and flipping and dropping her sister into a Senton onto the supine Kerri! The advantage lies with the Webber Twins…

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…until a minute later, when Ashley hits the ropes and gets momentarily tripped up by Misty from the floor on the outside…

…which allows Kerri to give Ashley a Swinging Side Slam Backbreaker for her troubles! And from there, the Entourage takes over, Misty and Kerri doubling up for a Double Back Body Drop that sends the twin SKY HIGH…a double dose of Elbow Drops and a pinball-effect series of European Uppercuts back and forth…which Michael Phelps at ringside off-mic emphasizes are not "European" Uppercuts, but rather AMERICAN Uppercuts. Misty hits Ashley with a Front Slam Backbreaker…and while on her knee, Ashley eats a HARD Standing Double Foot Stomp from "Six Feet of Sunshine" Kerri Walsh! Kerri lays into the Webber Twin…going for a Tilt-a-Whirl Slam…

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…but Ashley turns it into a Tilt-a-Whirl Facebreaker…and then holds onto Kerri's head and delivers a Double Rotation Swinging Neckbreaker she calls the Gemini Twist! With Kerri down, Ashley goes for a tag to Sidney…

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…but before she can make it, Misty May pulls Sidney down from the outside off of the apron! Ashley is left aimlessly reaching for a tag that is not forthcoming…

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…and that arm is snatched…with the other arm as Kerri delivers the Ace-Plex! Kerri turns Ashley over and covers her: 1…

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…2.84 Ashley kicks out just in time!

Kerri plants Ashley with a Running Powerslam and then looks to a cheering Michael Phelps, who encourages Walsh to put an end to things once and for all. Kerri goes for the Kerri-Bomb, her Fireman's Carry Neckbreaker Slam…

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…but Ashley turns the maneuver into a Backslide Driver in mid-move! Sidney giddily jumps up and down at the apron, hoping for a tag…even with Kerri's body between her partner and the corner…

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…and…both women rise…

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…and…Kerri goes for a Clothesline, but Ashley forward rolls underneath it and tags out to Sidney! Sidney hits a flurry of Double Chops to the chest, then a Jawbreaker, followed by an Irish Whip into the ropes…received by a Calf Kick! Sidney Dropkicks Kerri into a corner and tries to capitalize with a Monkey Flip thereafter…

…but Misty May-Treanor comes in and plucks Sidney off of Kerri's chest in a Waist Lock. Misty goes for a German Suplex…but Sidney flips over onto her feet! She puts Misty in a Wrist Lock…then runs up Kerri's chest with a Tiger Mask Flip Kick before grabbing Misty's wrist as well…

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…and executes a Springboard Double Arm Drag upon running up the ropes as well! Sidney, off of that impressive maneuver, Snap Suplexes Kerri…and then kips up in fluid motion into a Hurricanrana onto Misty, sending her to the outside…where she is the recipient of a Suicide Dive by Ashley Webber! Then Sidney directs her attentions to Kerri Walsh-Jennings, DRILLING her with a Shining Wizard! Sidney covers Six Feet of Sunshine…

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…and only gets a two-count from it! Sidney, moving along with a sigh, heads to the top rope…

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…but the Senton Bomb only hits raised knees! Kerri stands back up after avoiding the maneuver…and hits a Running European Uppercut to the back of Sidney's head before heading to her corner and tagging in Misty, who is back standing after an unsuspecting Drop Toe Facecrusher to Ashley onto Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth's announce table! Misty is back inside the ring…

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…and she hits an Inverted Falcon Arrow, lifting up and planting Ashley onto her chest and face with the Sit-Out Inverted Suplex Slam! Misty turns over Ashley and covers her: 1…

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…2.89 Ashley kicks out!

Misty scowls, and Kerri scowls with her, yelling at her partner to "END IT!"…which Misty plans to do with a Topspin, her Spinning Samoan Drop…

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…but Sidney slips behind Misty and pushes her ahead…into a Rope-Aided Enzuigiri by Ashley! Kerri runs at Ashley from the apron, but the Backyard Girl dodges a right hand and Pendulum Kicks her through the ropes in the back of the head, knocking her to the floor! Then Sidney grabs a dazed Misty…

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…hits her with an STO Backbreaker, holds on…

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…and…from there, the Webber Twins DRIVE Misty down face-first with a Complete Shot (Sidney) / Springboard Dropkick (Ashley) combination! That gets followed up by Ashley picking Misty up in a Wheelbarrow…

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…and Sidney dropping Misty from there with a Smokey Eye (Sit-Out Facebuster) while Ashley delivers a Wheelbarrow Double Knee Inverted Lungblower! The Webber Twins turn Misty over, and Sidney covers her: 1…

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…2.94 Kerri Walsh, despite Ashley Webber's best efforts, breaks through her and pushes Sidney off of the pin! The CCW fans are getting a treat to one of 5BW's best rivalries live and loving it, getting behind the Webber Twins with chants of "WEBBERS! WEBBERS!"

However, when Ashley goes for the Smokey Eye on Kerri, the volleyballer trips Ashley up by the feet and Giant Swings her around, much to the delight of a previously-worried Michael Phelps. Phelps makes like a hula-hooper, swiveling his own body to mimic Kerri's Swinging…before telling her to lay it on her with a Catapult…

…and Catapult Kerri does, sending Ashley face and body-first into the turnbuckles! However, Sidney is quick to bring down Kerri afterward with an Inverted DDT…

…only to get blasted by a Misty May-Treanor Lariat—ALMOST, as she ducks…grabs Misty by the head in an Inverted Headlock, and holding both Olympic Entourage members, attempts to drive them down with an Inverted DDT/Neckbreaker duo…

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…but Misty Back Elbows out…and traps Sidney in a Cobra Clutch…

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…while Kerri frees her own self, grabs Sidney's legs…and Giant Swings HER around the ring, the Olympians combining their Giant Swing and Spinning Cobra Clutch together! Misty runs in the same circle as Kerri, making the entire situation that much more queasy for the helpless Sidney Webber…

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…until eventually Kerri lets go…and Misty levels Sidney with the Topspin! Misty covers Sidney and hooks a leg: 1…

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…Sidney gets her shoulder up! …And from there, the now-semi-SEETHING Olympic Entourage have had it. After making a tag to each other, making Kerri the legal lady, they pick Sidney up and go for the Gold Rush…

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…but Ashley helps her sister out with a Missile Dropkick from the corner to the back of Kerri's knee, forcing her to let go…and allowing Sidney to take down Misty with a Headscissors. Both of the Webbers pick up Kerri Walsh…

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…and connect with a Double Arm-Trap Neckbreaker that they call the Webb-Slinger! With Kerri supine, the Webbers know what to do next…looking at each other…looking at the top rope…

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…and they climb up there…

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…Ashley on the turnbuckle…

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…and Sidney on top of Ashley's shoulders…

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…and…Sidney is about to jump off to complete the Twin Tower maneuver onto Kerri, but Misty May grabs a hold of Sidney's ankle before she jumps! Both Sidney and Ashley try to fight this off…

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…but Kerri runs up the corner, grabs Sidney Webber, and drops her with a Super Olympic Slam from off of her own sister's shoulders! This causes a "That was awesome!" declaration to ring out in Auburn Hills, even with the Olympians not necessarily being the most well-liked…

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…and before Ashley can think to disagree, she gets pushed off of the top rope and to the floor by Misty, hitting the ground with a sickening thud! And with Sidney left alone in the ring…Kerri there…and now Misty…

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…the Olympic Entourage hoist Sidney up…

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…and drop her with the Gold Rush! Kerri covers Sidney: 1…

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…3! And despite the Webber Twins' best abilities, the Olympic Entourage take the match! Michael Phelps jumps for joy, shouting that this was a sign of things to come. And thus, the Olympic Entourage start to leave…the crowd giving audible encouragement and props to the Webber Twins with what they put up and showed in the match…a solid performance in their first match on XX broadcasting…

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…and…the Olympic Entourage walk back over to Ashley, who is aching outside of the ring…

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…and Misty and Kerri plant Ashley with a Gold Rush onto the arena floor! Commentators like Jonathan and Al wonder why on earth the Olympic all-stars would do THAT after already having won the match and gotten the three points… One could only assume it was part of a message…a message Phelps vocalized: "GPW, CCW, your Olympic heroes are taking care of BUSINESS and taking what's THEIRS! And that's GOLD, ladies and gentlemen—PURE GOLD!"

Carrie White's Meet-and-Greet

Carrie White is clutching her head and wiping some of the blood from her face backstage while sitting atop a production crate…and she is approached by Julie Makimoto, who takes that moment to introduce herself to Carrie before asking if she is okay. Carrie tells Julie she is "getting better"…still holding her head in pain from the match earlier in the night. The Baku-Babe lets out a chuckle and puts over how much of a fight Carrie put up in her first televised Fiction Wrestling match against someone like Gwen Ten…saying that it was performances like that that convinced her to re-sign with the company in the first place. Julie then tells Carrie, "Hey, listen, I have to get ready for MY match with the devil tonight, but know this: WHEN I beat her and WHEN I take her Championship…for tonight…for the condition you left Gwen in…when it comes time to defend my new Title, I'll FOR SURE be keeping you in my thoughts, at the TOP of the list. You hear me?"

Carrie nods and gives a tiny grin. "Thanks…Julie…"

"No problem," Julie smiles. "You rest up for now, okay? Hopefully it'll be as much of a pleasure watching ME out there as it was watching YOU."

Julie walks off, Carrie feeling even prouder of herself after those words…and most certainly supportive of Makimoto, wanting her to capitalize on the opportunity before her.

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But the atmosphere takes a whole new turn when, moments after Julie's departure, Carrie finds herself face-to-face with Lucy van Pelt. Holding her head, Carrie blinks and gives the sister of Linus a "What do you want?" look…

…just as another presence makes itself known: a stoic Bella Swan, standing lateral to Carrie. Carrie then looks between the vampire and the fussbudget…

…and, four seconds later…Zoe Payne approaches, standing behind Carrie and officially rendering her surrounded by the entirety of The END. Carrie looks about with a combination of confusion—why were they surrounding her?—and aversion—she wasn't the biggest fan of what The END and Zoe wrought upon Emmy at Pandemonium…

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…and Zoe is the first to strike with a heavy right hand to the back of Carrie's head, knocking her off of her crate and to the floor! Bella, almost on cue, descends upon Carrie with stomps and Knee Drops to the back while Lucy adds her own blows with stomps and Fist Drops to the back of Carrie's head! Bella and Lucy then allow Zoe to get in on the action with a flurry of Kawada Kicks to the forehead of the telekinetic one…before Zoe, holding Carrie by the hair, hurls her with one hand into a brick wall! Lucy van Pelt then seizes the crate Carrie was sitting on, making use of said crate's wheels…

…and she thrusts the mobile box forward, sending it at almost 20 miles per hour crashing into Carrie White's already-aching ribcage! Carrie wheezes on the floor, having issues breathing from that impact as she pushes herself to sit against the wall and catch her breath…

…but she doesn't have long to do so as Zoe speeds at her and gives her the Payne Train Running Knee into said wall! Zoe presses her foot against Carrie's throat to choke her against the wall and repeatedly stomps at her throat, making breathing even more difficult…while Bella and Lucy walk over to that part of backstage with lead pipes in their grasp. The SSX Demon grabs Carrie by her neck…and in one fluid motion, lifts her up against the wall, pressing her there for six seconds…and walking away from said wall still hoisting Carrie up, allowing Bella and Lucy to riddle White from behind with lead pipe shots to the spine—five, six, seven of them apiece…culminating in Zoe running across the hall, Carrie firmly held…

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…and Running Tree Chokeslamming Carrie THROUGH a locker room door, breaking the door right off of its hinges!

The locker room happens to belong to Britney Britney, who was vocalizing as the smash happened! As soon as she hears the loud break-in, she shrieks in terror…and the shrieking is hindered none by The END marching right on in. Before Britney Britney can even bring herself about to ask why The END is doing this, she is cut right off with a Birchwood Bullhammer right on the spot!

Carrie, at this point, is heavily damaged, the match with Gwen already hurting her greatly and this unmitigated assault doing her no favors. Bella Swan picks Carrie up from the floor…and puts her in a Full Nelson, allowing Lucy to pummel her guts with closed fists to the torso. After laying into Carrie with ten shots, Zoe Payne steps up to the plate…

…and gives Carrie a wicked Spinning Back Fist, further opening Carrie's reopened wounds back up and leaving Carrie practically limp in Bella's arms…allowing the vampire to drop Carrie with a Swan Song right onto the floor!

The END glare down at Carrie…and for a moment, they seem finished…

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…but instead, Zoe picks Carrie back up…

…puts her onto her shoulders…

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…and…Lucy van Pelt strikes with a Birchwood Bullhammer to the side of Carrie's skull, which leaves her wide open and defenseless for the Take a Nap by Zoe Payne! Carrie is completely laid to waste as she falls…and The END all glance down upon her, Lucy smirking, Bella giving a satisfied nod, and Zoe cricking her neck and pounding her knuckles together before walking out of Britney Britney's locker room, their job very well done, as evidenced by Carrie White (and Britney too) being left absolutely motionless.

Koldblooded Clears the Wintry Air (or at least they try to)

Skarlet and Mileena are standing outside of the Stark Sisters' locker room…and Mileena nudges Skarlet in the arm, encouraging her to do the honors and knock. Seven seconds later, Arya opens the door, and upon seeing the Kombatants of Koldblooded, pauses, motioning for the two of them to wait for one moment. Arya retreats, and Koldblooded stand there and wait, Mileena glad that Arya's willing to hear them out…

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…until Arya comes back to the doorway with her trusty sword Needle in hand, looking at Koldblooded with bad intentions. Skarlet gets into defense mode, while Mileena shouts and beckons Arya to stop and listen, telling her that she and Skarlet were sorry about Pandemonium and their involvement accidentally costing the Starks the Women's Tag Team Titles against the Powerpuff Girls. They were only trying to help, preventing interference…and "as a token of how bad we feel," Mileena says, "we spent all day before tonight preparing a peace offering to you and your sister—something to let you both know how sincerely apologetic we are and how much we want to make it up to you." Mileena then tells Skarlet to go get it…Skarlet nods and opens up a nearby tech crate next to the Stark Sisters' locker room…

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…and Skarlet pulls out a basket full of what appear to be small, yellow-colored flavored dessert treats. Arya narrows her eyes, as Skarlet says, "They're lemon cakes. We heard your sister likes them greatly, so we pulled up a recipe and made a dozen of them just for the two of you." She holds the basket for Arya to take, Mileena telling the youngest Stark to take it…

…and Arya, keeping her eyes narrowed in either annoyance, bemusement, or both…grabs the basket and shouts for Sansa to come to the door as well. Shortly, Sansa does appear…and she sneers at Koldblooded, asking, "What the hell are they doing at our doorstep alive?" Arya motions to the lemon cake basket…and Sansa's eyes light up. "Are those lemon cakes?"

Arya nods. "Apparently, the two interlopers come bearing gifts…"

Sansa looks at her sister, then at the lemon cakes, then at Koldblooded…back to her sister…back to the lemon cakes…back to Koldblooded…back to the lemon cakes…

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…and slowly…she takes one of the cakes…and is about to eat it when Arya snarls loudly, "You must be even more out of your minds than we knew if you HONESTLY believe that after costing us the CCW Women's Tag Team Championship, a chance to wrestle at Pride & Glory, and our FIRST TAG TEAM LOSS in a wrestling ring that this 'peace offering' of simple pastries is going to make it all better and make us suddenly want to 'forgive' you. We didn't like you before Sunday, and we DESPISE you now, and the longer I look at you, the more I want to jam Needle down your throats."

Arya glares at Koldblooded and says, "You should be thanking whatever god you believe in that the two of you are NOT in the same block as us in this Tag Premier League we are now in…and to those same gods you should be PRAYING that you and we DO NOT meet in the playoff rounds, because if THAT happens…Sansa and I are going to leave you in such a condition that it's going to make all of those 'Fatalities' you like to do look TAME. And no dessert in Westeros…OR Outworld…is going to prevent THAT from happening to you."

"If I'm honest…these cakes aren't half-bad…"

Arya turns her head to Sansa…who has already eaten three lemon cakes out of the twelve. The younger Stark's face goes deadpan as Mileena and Skarlet are glad to see the elder Stark Sister enjoying the lemon cakes they worked so hard on. Mileena tells Arya she should take one before Sansa eats them all…to which Arya gives an unmoved glare at the Tarkatan-Edenian hybrid. Mileena then sighs and says, "Okay, you don't look convinced…and that's fine, because we aren't stopping at that. We may be vicious, ruthless warriors and defenders of Outworld and infidels against Earthrealm…but we do have enough class to make an effort to fix things like this. You aren't ready to forgive us…but we're going to MAKE you forgive us, one way or another…maybe next week…maybe in two weeks…or…maybe tonight." With one last declaration for the Starks to enjoy the cakes, Koldblooded take their leave…as Sansa is now on her fourth lemon cake, and Arya is seething, not at all looking forward to what the Kombatants intend to do next.

Arya turns to Sansa and says, "I hope you aren't so easily swayed…because I'M not." She then picks up a lemon cake…and CRUSHES it in her hand, showing exactly how she feels about the entire deal.

Sansa stops eating for a moment…and says to her sister, "…Neither am I."

"The Girl on Fire" Katniss Everdeen vs. Jillian Michaels

Katniss Everdeen was quite an angry Girl on Fire, and while her match with Jillian Michaels was a good outlet for blowing off steam, her focus was on one person first and foremost: the Lady in Red herself, Carmen Sandiego. The Hunger Games protagonist had searched far and wide backstage for her with no luck, and before the match even got started, Katniss took the center of the ring and snarled for the Miss of Misdemeanor to show herself right there…

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…but "Colors" by Crossfade was NOT the tune over the speakers; it was instead "Smoke and Mirrors" by Emphatic as Jillian Michaels (sans Ronda Rousey, who is resting up from her FTW Paycheck appearance and Steel Cage bout) saunters onto the stage with a smirk. Katniss frowns upon her appearance, but Jillian brightens her mood by telling her that she's there to help and that Everdeen should be grateful; after all, on her night not competing in the starting Tag Premier League for the night, the Biggest Loser trainer could have very well spent it doing just about anything else, but she's spending it helping Katniss get into shape and burn some calories so she can be fast and lean enough to actually catch Carmen Sandiego, because her fitness method really works! Katniss proceeds to thank Jillian for her kindness and the gesture…by T-Bone Suplexing her as soon as the bell sounds to begin their match. More gratitude is expressed via a Dropkick to the back and punches in the corner from Katniss to Jillian. Jillian senses Katniss's rage…and upon managing to raise her boots to Katniss's face as she runs into the corner, Jillian climbs to the second rope…jumps over Katniss and forward rolls on the canvas, playing keep-away with her. Jillian rolls, cartwheels, does anything to keep Katniss from getting a hold of her…even going to the outside of the ring and goading Katniss to give chase, running laps around the ring and proclaiming that this was for Everdeen's own good. Katniss, however, was in no mood for games…but she DID catch Jillian—via a Running Somersault Senton Plancha over the top rope to the floor!

After a string of Hammer Throws from barricade to barricade from Katniss to Jillian Michaels, Katniss sends Jillian back inside the ring and ignores her entreaties for a "time-out" by Vertical Suplexing Jillian down for a near-fall. With every blow, every kick to the kidney, every punch to the nose, Katniss only sees Sandiego and makes it very clear with each assault. Katniss goes for a Back Suplex…

…but Jillian flips out of this and stumbles backward into the ropes, either knowingly or unknowingly so. Katniss charges and Jillian pulls the top rope down to cause Katniss to go up and over…landing onto the ring apron. As Katniss attempts to stand up there, Jillian tries a Springboard Knife Edge Chop to her chest…but Katniss ducks this maneuver and instead catches Michaels with a Forearm Shiver to the back of the brain! Katniss attempts an Outside-In Suplex to make matters worse, trying to send Jillian's spine smashing into the arena floor…

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…but Jillian, while held aloft, rakes Katniss in the eyes, temporarily blinding her and opening her up for a Dropkick, knocking Katniss off of the apron…and setting her up for a feigned Baseball Slide Dropkick, into a Head Slam into the ring apron, then a Russian Leg Sweep onto the floor…rolled backward into a SECOND Russian Leg Sweep into the security barricade! As the action returns to the ring, a Diving Knee Drop by Jillian from the top rope only scores a two-count.

Jillian wrenches Katniss's left arm…then her right…then her left…then her right…and so on and so forth, alternating…before grabbing each of Katniss's wrists, standing behind her and jumping up and spreading the arms, essentially making Katniss do jumping jacks. Jillian mocks Katniss and shouts, "FEEL THE BURN, MISS GIRL ON FIRE!" before giving Katniss a Dragon Suplex, posing with her muscles and doing another cartwheel afterwards. Jillian Irish Whips Katniss into a corner…and receives her with a Running Back Elbow to the face. Then she sends Katniss to the opposite corner…and give her a Running Kitchen Sink Knee to the abdomen. Retaining her smirk, Jillian sends Katniss into the opposite corner again…and runs into her with a Jumping Corner Splash! Jillian is enjoying every bit of her advantage…

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…but the advantage doesn't last as Katniss reverses Jillian's next Irish Whip and runs into Jillian with a Corner Clothesline! In the corner, Katniss riddles Jillian's neck with Clothesline after Clothesline after Clothesline after Clothesline, making Jillian cough excessively as a result. Then Katniss gives Jillian a taste of her own assault with Irish Whips into the corners…each compounded by a Corner Clothesline back and forth, delivering not one…not three…not five…but TEN of these in a row! Then Katniss places Jillian onto the top rope in a corner, climbs up with her…

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…and delivers a Super Scoop Powerslam to the canvas! Katniss hooks a leg and pins her down: 1…

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…2.88 Jillian gets her shoulder up!

Katniss later attempts a Running Liger Bomb…

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…but Jillian Sunset Flips out of it, brings Katniss to the canvas…grabs her legs and tries for a Figure-Four Leg Lock…

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…only for Katniss to kick Jillian in the calf and bring her across the knees for the Bow and Arrow! Katniss tries to fully lock it in…

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…but Jillian is able to backward roll out of it and off of Katniss's knees; then Jillian leaps over the downed Katniss and, as the latter is getting up, Jillian runs up a corner…

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…and tries a Moonsault, but Katniss evades, forcing Jillian to land on her feet…

…and quickly adjust by going for the Cool Down…

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…but Katniss HEAVILY elbows Jillian in the side of the skull, sending her away…before picking her back up and drilling her with the District 12 Drop! Katniss turns Jillian over and covers her…

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…but Michaels kicks out in time again!

Katniss tries to end things with the Flaming Bludgeon…

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…sends Jillian hurtling towards the canvas…

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…and DOESN'T connect as Jillian lands on her feet again! Jillian capitalizes on her recovery with a sudden Enzuigiri…

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…followed by a lift into an Alabama Slam! Jillian rolls up Katniss in a Prawn Hold Pin: 1…

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…Katniss kicks out this time to keep the match alive!

In the end, Jillian attempts a Shuffle Side Kick to the jaw of the Girl on Fire…

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…but the fitness guru has her foot snagged in mid-kick before it lands, and Katniss trips up Jillian, steps through…

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…and successfully applies the Mockingjay! Katniss gets the Triangle Choke portion of the hold fully applied, and even adds a flurry of kicks to the lip of Michaels to make her TRULY know how it feels! Every bit of Katniss's fury is put behind this hold…

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…and Jillian Michaels has no choice but to tap out, giving Katniss the victory!

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Or…it SHOULD have given her the victory…

…but for some odd reason, the referee doesn't call for the bell. Katniss lets go of the hold, having forced Jillian to submit…and she wonders why her music isn't playing, why the bell hasn't rung, etc. The referee was right there; Vincent Perry had SEEN the submission go down…but he didn't call it. Katniss confronts Perry and asks what the big idea is…

…and the official just SHRUGS. This confuses and alarms Katniss even FURTHER, the Girl on Fire shouting, "It happened RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU; what do you mean, you don't know?! What do you mean, you didn't see it?! It was RIGHT THERE!"

…

Referee Vincent Perry responds by SHOVING Katniss backward! Katniss raises an eyebrow and starts, "What the HELL is up with—" Before she can get another word, the referee shoves her AGAIN! Katniss clenches her fists and shakes her head, her patience running thin…

…

…and she pushes Vincent Perry this time, causing the referee to fall onto his bottom! Cris Collinsworth is quick to scold Katniss for putting her hands on the official, while everyone else points out that the official did so to her FIRST…

…

…but while Katniss is glaring at the ref, Jillian clocks her from behind with a Poké Ball, the same ball she revealed to have in her possession on XX 20 in her match against Dawn! Down goes Katniss Everdeen…and Jillian, putting the Ball back into her pocket, looks at the referee…

…who simply shrugs again…

…

…and, realizing that Vincent Perry isn't going to disqualify her, Jillian grabs Katniss…

…

…and drops her with the Biggest Loss! Jillian turns Katniss over and covers her…and THIS TIME, the referee Vincent Perry counts…

…

…and Jillian Michaels gets the three-count! It takes a while for the ring announcer Blader DJ and timekeeper Mickey MacElroy to register all of this…but once they do and make it official with a bell-ring and the announcement, "The winner of this match, Jillian Michaels!" the crowd responds to this nefarious turn of events with copious levels of boos! Jillian looks a little bemused as the referee raises her hand…but she sure isn't going to throw away a winner's purse, so she leaves the ring with hand in the air in celebration.

…

And meanwhile, back inside the ring, Vincent Perry holds a microphone…and actually speaks, "Quite a sad pity this is, Katniss Everdeen… Jillian Michaels thinks that the reason why you can't catch Carmen Sandiego is because you're not fast enough…but I would say that the reason why you can't catch Carmen is because you're not SMART enough…because you couldn't even capture Carmen…if she was RIGHT UNDER YOUR NOSE…"

…

Vincent Perry grabs the collar of his referee shirt…

…

…and proceeds to…unzip it? Then he keeps unzipping…down to the pants as well…

…

…and then he…isn't actually "he"; it's SHE…because it's CARMEN SANDIEGO herself in disguise! Jeremy exclaims, "SHADES OF THE LAST CASE IN WHERE IN THE USA IS CARMEN SANDIEGO?!"…explaining that in said last case, she put on an ENTIRE disguise that was absolutely foolproof…and covered her from head to toe so no one from ACME could capture her…or, in this case, so Katniss couldn't even detect her when she was RIGHT THERE in the ring! Carmen, her disguise gone, starts to laugh, saying that she didn't HAVE TO go to this length with Katniss…but taking her hair braid and watching her go absolutely bonkers with Carmen stuck in her head…made this whole entire deal that much more fun to play with.

"And if there's one thing I like as much as committing crimes…it's making my Player slowly go insane. It's far, far too fun to resist…" With another chuckle, Carmen digs into her jacket pocket…and dangles Katniss's hair braid in front of her, saying, "See you next crime, Katniss…" Katniss, starting to come to JUST in time to see Carmen right before her eyes, and her eyes light up with pure rage as she lunges at Carmen, only to get nothing but air as the Lady in Red takes her leave. Carmen heads to the back with a smirk on her face, adjusting her fedora…and Katniss, in the ring kneeling, is nothing short of PISSED…and the longer it sinks in, the more pissed she becomes…as there's less of a FIRE in her eyes…and more so of an INFERNO…

Zoe Payne Speaks Out with The END

When "Christcontrol" by Cancer Killing Gemini played, and Zoe Payne, Lucy van Pelt, and Bella Swan came out, the crowd reaction was a combination of the treatment of conquering heroes and the treatment of callous murderers. In any case, the 2014 Female Wrestler of the Year, the multi-time Toon Women's Champion and the DCA alumna ambled down the ramp, crowd signs coming out reading, "No PAYNE, No Gain"; "Don't Mess with The END"; "Bella Sucks!"; "Lucy's NOT the Boss of Me"; "Screw You, Zoe!"; and "Nothing But a BULLY"—the whole gamete. Regardless of crowd opinion, Zoe Payne came down to the ring with words to say, things to reveal, and items to address…and the whole building was awaiting what was going to come from the leader of the group that all but assassinated Emmy in the Windy City six nights ago. On commentary, there were questions on whether Emmy would even APPEAR at Pride & Glory…to which Cris Collinsworth just said, "I'll be frank – if you bought a ticket to Pride & Glory to see Emmy on Haruhi's talk show…scalp that ticket immediately." On that note, "Christcontrol" fades out…leaving Zoe, Lucy and Bella standing in the ring amidst the loud, vocal crowd of varying emotions…

Zoe Payne raises the microphone to her lips and says with a sincere face, "Lucy, Bella, I understand that you two might have come out here with thoughts of your own to contribute to this forum…but this just became very, very personal for me, so if you don't mind just laying out for a while and letting me handle the bulk of this, it would go a long way. And I'm going to be perfectly frank – I have a feeling that this is going to take some time, so why don't we all make ourselves comfortable? After all, this just in: we ARE standing in the House of Payne."

With those words (and a mixed cheer and boo from the audience…though about 80/20 cheers here), Zoe takes a seat inside the ring, sitting in squaw position in the center, Bella Swan and Lucy van Pelt sitting down on either side of her. The Fussbudget leans over to Zoe and says something indistinct as they are all seated before Payne speaks again…

…and Zoe nods and says, "You're right, Lucy – it'll be hard for me to sit up in comfort with these in my pocket, so I'll go right ahead…" Zoe reaches into her pants pockets from behind…

…

…and pulls out her Submission Wrestler of the Year FWA…

…followed by hers and The END's Female Match of the Year FWA…

…

…and then lastly, her Female of the Year FWA, each of this trophy reveals getting a pop from the audience as Zoe stands each trophy up in front of her on the canvas. Zoe adjusts her sitting position with these out of her pocket as Lucy grins and nods in approval…

…and after some gazing at her awards, Zoe speaks, "…Do you know what the best part about this is? Do you want to take a guess? A few guesses? …For one thing, there's the fact that I have the luxury of sitting up straight and indeed being comfortable and cozy in here…and the six-year-old Make-a-Wish Foundation's charity case DOESN'T have that luxury because she's curled up in a hospital bed, most likely in complete and utter DIScomfort in comparison…and I know how big of a smile that puts on Lucy's face and on Bella's face…and make no mistake, it puts a big fat one on MY face too…but that's not the best part of sitting here."

The cameras pick up on a crowd sign that reads, "We (Still) Want Emmy"…while Zoe shakes her head, licks her lips slightly, and speaks again:

"To bring up something else, there's the fact that on a pay-per-view that was main-evented by the CCW XX Females…the 2014 PPV of the Year…it was MY match, MY challenge, MY brainchild of Demon's Dungeon that was the undisputed Match of the Night and UNDISPUTED Match of the YEAR…Dave Meltzer-certified FIVE STARS along with that—Lucy, that's vindication for you…" Zoe turns to the Peanuts veteran. "What was it, WrestleMania…26? The match with Misty you got shorted on?"

Lucy nods with a reminiscent frown…to which Zoe half-smirks and says, "See, what did I tell you? Oversight and idiocy DO fade over time… And Bella…going from the future DCA Women's Champion that never was…to a 5BW standout and mainstay…to one-third of the team that won a FIVE-STAR Match of the Year… It's vindication for you as well. All of the sophomoric, dry and uninspired Twilight jokes in the world can't rip THAT away."

Bella nods…still retaining a sneer and a scowl, as some fans still chant, "TWILIGHT STILL SUCKS! (clap clap clap-clap-clap) TWILIGHT STILL SUCKS! (clap clap clap-clap-clap)"

"But for me? …STILL not the best part of sitting here," Zoe says…before diverting her eyes back to her FWAs. "It dawned on me on the way to this ring…that one real-time year ago at the 2013 FWAs, Emmy came and left as the winningest girl at the dance with one…two…three trophies…and if you fast-forward to present day, post-Awards 2014, she's got ONE trophy sitting beside her catheter, and I'M the one coming and leaving as the winningest girl at the dance with one…two…three trophies—although ONE of these in particular is a trophy you would…and quite honestly should NEVER see Emmy win…and one that no one from CCW or even the Rookie Revolution BEFORE THAT NIGHT had won…"

Zoe picks up said trophy…and to a gradually loudening crowd response, holds that FWA over her own head with a resolute look.

"…Female Wrestler of the Year."

"WHOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Cris Collinsworth jumps out of his seat and claps with a wide smile on his face, looking forward to every bit of this.

The Palace of Auburn Hills bursts into a raucous exclamation at this, the overall response HEAVILY in favor of Zoe Payne here. Some were fans who loved her; some were diehards who were glad the award went to CCW for the first time; some…had other reasons, but the outcry from them is a chant of, "YOU DESERVE IT! (clap clap clap-clap-clap) YOU DESERVE IT! (clap clap clap-clap-clap) YOU DESERVE IT! (clap clap clap-clap-clap)" Zoe heard these declarations…

…

…and responds right at them with, "Yeah, I don't need a bunch of bozos trying to get on my good side by playing Captain Obvious—I KNOW I freaking deserve it!" Some fans still cheer even now, but a great deal boo either out of respect or from being spurned right there on the spot.

"But even with this and even with all of these having my name engraved on them…even with the poetic justice that this carries…it's NOT the best part either," Zoe says. "And that's because the TRUE best part of this happened minutes ago in the back before we came out here. It happened backstage…when somebody paid me a visit."

Lucy and Bella furrow their eyebrows curiously, looking at Zoe, then looking to each other…as Zoe picks up on these glances.

"And if the looks on their faces don't give it away, Lucy and Bella here don't even know what I'm talking about because they weren't THERE in my locker room when this individual took it upon himself to get up from his computer desk in his little child cave to confront me face-to-face," Zoe says. "He likely didn't want Bella to know; he certainly didn't want Lucy to know; and this same person probably doesn't even want this to go public right now…

"…but after everything that's gone down and the road to getting to that precious moment…NINJA CATO doesn't deserve confidentiality."

That brings about a amalgamated wave of gasps, wails and "Ooooooooohs" from the audience, as everyone in the arena—van Pelt and Swan included—start to slowly get an inclination on where this is going…some of them remembering the last shockwaves that were emitted, some even still feeling the aftershocks.

Cris Collinsworth chuckles in a low, somewhat dark voice…

…while Al Michaels softly and somewhat timidly utters, "Not again…"

Zoe exhales and speaks again, "That name might ring one or two bells because the last time a name like it escaped my lips, it was on XX 10 when I sat in a similar position inside of this ring in Sacramento, California and I exposed that guy for what he was and for what he did, and in the process ripped his big beautiful organization a much-needed new one. Back then, he was known as Cato the Thane of Scrabble…and somewhere in-between that fateful day and now, he changed that name in an attempt to…I don't know, preserve what little integrity and poise he thought he had left? Tch…well, it doesn't really matter because new name or not, I recognized and identified him. And I called him out for brainwashing everyone within the radius of his company into believing that Emmy was CCW's guardian angel while people like me were just 'good hands' and people like Bella Swan were 'developmental starlets' and nothing more past that. This was the guy who entered my space this evening; this was the guy who had something to tell me that he HAD TO say while looking in my eyes. I gave him my audience, because it'd be a boldface lie if I said I wasn't curious…and would you believe it, Ninja Cato extended his hand in my direction and said…'I'm sorry.'"

Everyone who remembers XX 10 and knows what implication lies in that gasps once again, some of them out of shock and disbelief, others out of…a sick form of pleasure? Others, who can't believe Zoe is going here, try their hand at boos. The whole crowd, however, is taking this massive statement in…while Lucy flashes a smirk and Bella tilts her head and perks her ears, very much intrigued by THIS…

"One more time while you muse on that – he said, face-to-face with me, 'I…am SORRY…'…and do you know what I did after that?" Zoe asks. "…After that, I did something I, even nowadays, rarely get the chance…or GIVE myself the chance…to do… I LAUGHED." Zoe cracks a small remembering smirk as she continues. "Yeah, I had myself a good—no, scratch that—a GREAT laugh…and all HE could do was be a silent witness to my amusement, because right where he stood, he knew as well I did that I had my author by the balls. What was he going to do, after all? What could he do to the girl who did in one nomination what his illustrious Females Champion couldn't do in THREE, and wasn't going to do in FOUR had SHE gotten on the ballot?" Zoe holds her hand out and says, in a tangential note, "HERE'S an aside, by the way: Alpha Horse Gwen Tennyson going for the golden carrot hanging by the nose? That's what Cato INTENDED TO PLAY OUT until the very last minute, when a second opinion entered the picture and told him to call a brand-new number. And that leads me to rhetorical question number two: what could he possibly do to the girl who SEIZED the FWA nomination for Female Wrestler of the Year from the girl who 'main-evented' the 2014 PPV of the Year and then BANKED on that right out of the gate? And most importantly, what was he going to do to the girl who took his adorable little Heroine of the Year and put her in an intensive care unit?"

Zoe answers her own question: "…NOTHING. Absolutely NOTHING. And thus the laughter continued. I could never even crack a smile for the rest of my life on this earth, and you know what? That'd be JUST FINE…because THAT TRICE encompasses ALL OF THE MIRTH I could ever ask for."

A large chunk of the crowd starts to chant, "ZOE! ZOE! ZOE! ZOE! ZOE!" endlessly…while Lucy mouths "Sheep…" and Bella nods, looking directly at Zoe as though she empathized with her 100% of the way.

Then Zoe turns to one of the cameras at ringside, stares right at it and says, "Hey Deadpool, how're you doing?" with a nonchalant salute to boot. It is like she knows something she is doing or saying would get him upset.

"Actually, if I'm going to start, why not just go all the way with it? I've got some OTHER people I need to address while I'm at it…" Zoe says with a shrug. "I've got some other people I need to address because after Pandemonium, after Demon's Dungeon, to our actions EVERYONE had a REaction, and the worldwide range of reactions had enough of a variance that, in the interest of not leaving anyone out, I'm going to take the time to hit each emotion one by one, STARTING…with those people who left Pandemonium feeling SAD and DEPRESSED…and had the nerve to GRIEVE over the fall of their so-called Unbreakable One at our feet."

Lucy scoffs, Bella rolls her eyes, and some of Emmy's loud supporters make themselves known, chanting, "EMMY! EMMY! EMMY!"

Zoe meanwhile resumes, "Those people honestly thought that Emmy would find a way…and even when it became patently clear that with her inside of that cage outnumbered three to one she was NOT going to find a way, those people honestly had faith that Annie Frazier and Reggie Rocket could somehow save her." Zoe scowls in disgust…before saying, "Keep in mind that at CCW Nevermore a month prior, when it was JUST me and it was JUST her, I had Emmy dead to rights in our Unsanctioned Match. I left that little girl beaten, battered, bruised and brutalized within not even a MILLIMETER of her silly, stupid life. I stood in her blood, I collected her lost teeth…and yet throughout ALL of that, Super Emmy left one last trick up her sleeve—or more appropriately, in her mouth…and she SURVIVED. BARELY…but she SURVIVED. Fact is, that sneaky scamp cheated a sure demise ONCE… It WAS NEVER going to happen again. And if THAT is what you had faith in, then your line of thinking is just as pathetically naïve as hers!"

"Amen!" Cris applauds.

"…Divisive reaction at best here in Auburn Hills for THAT assertion…" Al states.

"Then there are the people who saw the Demon's Dungeon Match…and were TRAUMATIZED by the nature of what they witnessed and what we subjected that nuisance to," Zoe says. "From the sledgehammers…to the Birchwood Bullhammers…to the tables…" Zoe points to her patella, "to this knee…" Zoe points to her boot, "to THIS FOOT…to the Payne-Killer…even to Bella's own bite to make her fate that much more grisly…simply because we wanted to."

Bella hisses with an expressionless gesture as some fans chant, "Match of the Year! (clap clap clap-clap-clap) Match of the Year! (clap clap clap-clap-clap)" while others, Emmy's supporters, boo.

"Some people were left in TEARS by what we did. Some people were left in utter HYSTERICS, and I know some people who belong in this traumatized category," Zoe says. "One of them is my own close RR mate and FUTURE Champion in Wrestling Next Door, Sonya McCallis. Despite her connection to me…despite her role in the Revolution…I know some of what she saw may have left her in a state of utter shock. It may have given her nightmares some sleep times…" Zoe looks at the canvas a bit concernedly as she says that…before redirecting her focus and continuing, "And another Rookie Revolutionary who was severely conflicted from Pandemonium…is fellow District Leader of the RR in the Xtreme Cartoon Wrestling branch, Arthur Read. It was especially crippling to HIM, I know, because he and Emmy were friends with each other too, and he's a PBS Kid just like her and THAT is a bond even closer than the one I share with the guy. For that, and for the tears that came out of HIS eyes…I have sympathy."

…

"…But I warned him. I WARNED him. Just like I warned Sonya. Just like Lucy warned Peanuts, just like I warned YOU people—hell, just like I warned Reggie, Annie, and the girl they were trying to protect! Emmy brought ALL OF THIS on HERSELF! She wrote her own eulogy—she SEALED HER OWN FATE…and I executed, JUST LIKE I SAID I would. And for THAT REASON…I'm not sorry for a damn bit of it, DESPITE Arthur, DESPITE Sonya, DESPITE anybody else."

Zoe cricks her neck. "Speaking of anybody else, how about those—ohhh, this'll be a fun group—those who were COMPLAINING after Pandemonium? Those who were protesting, whining, griping over it, saying that it was INHUMAN of us? Saying it was TOO FAR? Or, my favorite, when they come to ME—" Zoe pauses…stopping herself… "…Actually, that's a bit of an inaccuracy – they don't 'come to me' at all with this; they say it behind closed doors they think I can't hear them from or with my back turned like the cowardly mice they are…but they talk about how it wasn't just ME…and how I NEEDED Lucy van Pelt and Bella Swan to finally eradicate Emmy and her STENCH from Double X because—let's see if I can get this quote right: I 'wasn't good enough' to do it all by myself?"

Bella raises an eyebrow while Lucy gives a pish-tosh hand wave to that. Meanwhile, some of the crowd cheers this, some of them boo, and one crowd sign reads, "Emmy ENDed?"

"…Now, that begs the question, if I see these people and I hear these people even when they try to stay hidden while they say these things…why do I let them still walk with two unharmed, completely functional legs?" Zoe inquires…before giving her own answer: "Because I COULDN'T CARE LESS about those people. Those people can entertain themselves with their prattle all they like, but at the end of day, it boils down to three things: where are THEY? Where am I? …And where is EMMY? …I did what I had to do; I DID what needed to be done for the sake of LEGITIMACY on this brand…and the job got DONE. So, to review, I'M chilling in this ring with three FWAs and the Wrestler of the Year, YOU'RE WATCHING me from afar with nothing else to do about it, and EMMY'S laid up sipping the vestiges of her hopes and dreams through a straw! WHO REALLY MATTERS HERE?"

75% cheers and 25% boos for THAT from the crowd…but Lucy laughs and Bella gives a small smirk of her own, a sign of emotion from the human turned vampire.

"And then…" Zoe says, "there are the people who left CCW Pandemonium with a feeling of ANGER. Then there are the folks who saw what we did to Emmy inside of that barbwire steel cage and first and foremost wanted to do what they could to AVENGE her callous fall…at the expense of ME, at the expense of US. Those people, as I speak, are sitting on their couches masterminding an entire scheme as to how they're going to fight in her honor—and I don't use that term 'masterminding' to suggest that these people are some of the FWM's greatest minds, because they absolutely are not, which is why my words of advice to those people is put in the simplest form possible… DON'T. Don't bother. Don't take up that sword, don't charge into that battlefield—SAVE YOURSELF THE TIME…because it would be a damn shame if someone who may have a quaint career ahead of them or someone who may have an adequate career BEHIND them and wants to cherish these things THROWS IT ALL AWAY to put her ass on the line for the sake of a worthless little girl, only to come onto our turf and get UNCEREMONIOUSLY PULVERIZED beyond any sort of repair. Fighting a battle like that right now would not only be the stupidest move of your career, but also the stupidest move of your life in addition, and that's as true as it comes because if you drag yourself in my presence and you tell me you're doing this for Emmy…that makes you her proxy, and that gives ME carte blanche to formally TREAT you like Emmy, LOOK AT YOU like Emmy, and subject you to the same treatment I would GIVE to Emmy. And I don't think I need to say anything more about THAT now, do I?"

Lucy shakes her head with closed eyes and a grin, saying off-mic, "Sounds crystal clear to me!" Bella just glares in front of her at the fans, and the crowd breaks into another chant: "Zoe Payne! Zoe Payne!"

"With that out of the way, the $64,000 question becomes…what is next on the agenda for The END after Pandemonium?" Zoe poses the query. "When I brought this group together, it was to put the kibosh on Emmy…but on top of that it was also to harbor CHANGE, and between CCW XX…Pride & Glory…and the next CCW PPV Regal Rumble…we intend to stimulate greater change beyond just Emmy. And I'm not talking change from the bottom up; I'm talking change from the top DOWN…which brings me…to a certain Alpha Bitch…"

That mention draws a GARGANTUAN level of boos…but also some "ohs" of interest.

"Commissioner James Gordon, in making his return to CCW programming, put this Alpha Bitch on notice and made it clear to her that she was a marked girl so long as she had the CCW Females Championship," Zoe says. "He didn't mince anything when he said that he was going to see to the fact that this 'First and Only' thing wasn't going to last much longer. …And then he gave the first crack at the gold in our 'state of emergency'…to Carrie White."

Lucy grimaces and frowns at that fact while Bella licks her lips and chuckles a tad, remembering what she and her friends did to her moments ago. "WHY Carrie White?" Zoe says. "What made HER so special and deserving and suitable? Why? …Because as it turns out, she and Tennyson used to be 'BFFs' or something like that. She had a prior history with the harlot and a grudge to kill, as well as a documented victory over fellow RR mate Sasha Slasher in another developmental league, AIW. That's what prompted our Commissioner to select her for the shot. And he said, again, that there was NOTHING MORE he wanted at this moment and time than Young Gwen Tennyson getting beaten and losing her Females Championship, hence the newfangled stipulation on all of her matches, making ALL of them Title defenses from now on." Zoe moves her head in faux contemplation… "…Funny thing about that though…I have QUITE an extensive history with Gwen Tennyson… Lucy here has a prior history with Gwen Tennyson too–SHE once was a friend of Gwen's herself…"

Lucy nods and narrows her eyes, remembering THAT not quite so fondly.

"And Bella's achieved success in OUR developmental system, being a former 5BW Women's CHAMPION in HER right, which requires more than just ONE match," Zoe says. "So if Commissioner Gordon wanted the job to get done SO BADLY—"

Bella puts a hand on Zoe's shoulder and stops her there…leaning over to her and whispering something in her ear. Zoe's expression changes from mild annoyance…to mild surprise…to ponderousness…to comprehension…

"What's Bella got?" Jeremy questions.

…

When Bella is done whispering, Zoe gives a nod…returns to the microphone and says, "…I don't usually take kindly to interruptions, but that one is actually meaningful because Bella's observation just permitted me to give Gordon the benefit of the doubt. It isn't that Gordon has only been back in his office for two fiction days and is stuck spinning his wheels; no, they're spinning quite fine, because he has to know—and I'm going to CONFIRM this…that with a bigger stage ahead…the big SECOND of the Big Three…there's going to be a CCW Females Championship Match, and whether Gwen Tennyson is the Champion or NOT…that Females Championship Match deserves The END's presence."

"Ooooooh-hoo-hoo…" Cris rubs his hands together.

"Uh-oh," Jonathan murmurs. "Some people, understandably, NOT liking the sound of that…"

"Zoe Payne…making a play here…" Jeremy says with an open mouth.

"Ergo, instead of getting worked up or aggravated…I'm going to call my Commissioner down to this ring to make this official and lock it in, no questions required," Zoe says. "Let's get to it."

The SSX Demon sets down the microphone in front of her for a moment, looking up the ramp and waiting for Commissioner Gordon to show himself, Lucy and Bella waiting for the same thing themselves. Zoe gently raps her fingers against the canvas in waiting…

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[(ULTRAnumb!)

THREE!

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TWO!

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ONE!

You want it all right NOW!]

("ULTRAnumb" by Blue Stahli plays)

"Well, that's not AT ALL the music for Commissioner Gordon!" Jeremy mentions. "That's the music of ANOTHER FWA-winner for XX!"

"The Teenage Robot" Jenny Wakeman walks out onto the stage with her own 2014 Female Shining Star of the Year FWA in her hand and a My Life as a Teenage Robot-styled t-shirt on. The crowd receives her in Auburn Hills with a barrage of "JENNY! JENNY! JENNY!" chants, to which Jenny lets out a small chuckle…but it's clear that she is out there for something serious.

"Now what the heck brings WAKEMAN out here? Zoe didn't summon HER, last I checked!" Cris complains.

"I'm sure Zoe's asking the same question, and we might ALL get an answer because she has a microphone too!" Al points out.

"Auburn Hills giving a warm welcome to the girl whom we all thought was the new Females Champion last Sunday until that damn abomination of a cult showed up!" Jonathan shouts.

Jenny, when her music stops, starts by saying, "I know I'm not the one you expected or wanted to show up here, Zoe, but I'm the one you're getting because what you just brought up concerns ME. You hit the topic of the CCW Females Championship and how after Pandemonium The END merits a shot at it, how YOU merit a shot at it…but all that I'm thinking about the more you mention it is how after Pandemonium I merit a shot at the Females Title EVEN MORE." The crowd cheers for this 90%, the other 10% backing Zoe in contrast. "You mentioned your history with Gwen Tennyson, which include times where you were a HAIR away from becoming the new Champion…but as hard and maddening as those moments had to be, they honestly PALE in comparison to what I had to feel on Sunday. Last Sunday in Chicago, I got to hold the CCW Females Championship IN MY HANDS, CELEBRATE with it as my name was called and I was declared publicly for the entire world to hear, the NEW CCW FEMALES CHAMPION. I was on top of the world, and it was just starting to set in for me—EVERYTHING including that moment…and then it all got wiped away three minutes later. It was ALL incinerated right before my very eyes because of a rogue bell and a CULT…and the physical pain you put Emmy through, bless her…is on par with the EMOTIONAL pain I had to go through watching my moment get taken away from me, having to GIVE BACK the Females Championship I had over my head a moment ago and watch my balloon get POPPED with a Superkick en route to Gwen Tennyson escaping AGAIN."

The crowd boos this as Jenny, visibly upset, reminisces while Zoe Payne in the ring keeps her eyes narrowed at the Teenage Robot.

"…That hurt. Being fooled like that, getting baited and switched—it HURT LIKE HELL…but it also made me hungrier," Jenny says. "It gave me a big taste of that CCW Females Championship in the main event…and right now, right here, I want it more than EVER. I want to win it and I want to KEEP it and I want to do it without ANY diversions, ANY distractions…any chances of tomfoolery. So I had a conversation with Woody Paige even BEFORE Ozone 41 during the week, at the same time I entered my and Sonia's name in the Tag Premier League…and he told me he wholeheartedly agrees with where I'M coming from, so now I want Commissioner Gordon to clear MY request – a CCW Females Championship Match against WHOMEVER the Champion is, one-on-one. Just ME and the Champion in the ring, because I am NOT going to let another phantom bell ring this time and take another celebration away! …Which means I'm not letting YOU take it away either."

"Jenny wants the Females Title too—there's the answer!" Jeremy says. "And she doesn't want any third parties in the mix—Zoe ain't gonna be a fan of that!"

"You got that right; who does Jenny think she is?! I GET that Pandemonium was an unexpected turn of events for her and it sucked in her case, but don't rain on our District Leader's parade!" Cris protests. "And besides, doesn't she have a TPL to be worrying about?"

With Lucy and Bella exchanging words, Zoe is about to exchange a few with Jenny, picking back up her microphone…

…but…

("Save Me" by Burn Halo plays)

"Now THERE'S our Commish's music!" Jeremy says.

"Somebody's got to sort this out here, and it may as well be the Gotham City and Character Championship Wrestling authority figure," Al says.

"Yeah, before this gets too far out of hand…" Jonathan says.

Commissioner James Gordon walks onstage, standing next to Jenny and holding his own mic, adjusting his glasses.

"No rest for the busy, I see…" Gordon faces the Teenage Robot. "Jenny, I am well-aware of your position and I wanted to address it in full in my office, but I suppose doing so right now will suffice all the same. I understand your perspective and how it is that you feel, and I understand the state that CCW Pandemonium had to have left you in emotionally; that WAS very painful, and it was just as difficult to watch as it had to be for you to experience…which is why I am ALL FOR giving you a CCW Females Championship contest at Regal Rumble in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania."

Jenny nods and the crowd cheers this, while Bella Swan clenches both fists, visibly displeased by this statement to start things off. Zoe just stares at the Commissioner…almost in deadly fashion…

…

"But at the same time, that brings me to another important element around this, and that is that…you and Mystique Sonia are wrestling in the Tag Premier League," Gordon brings up. "And should your team, Techno-Tongue, be fortunate enough to make it to the finals of that competition, that final match will be taking place…AT Regal Rumble in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Effectively, this would mean that there is a likelihood, if the stars align in a certain pattern, that YOU, Jenny, could find yourself competing in two matches in the same evening on the same card. As much as I would love to grant you a Singles opportunity at the Title you and EVERYBODY, myself included, thought was yours…this conflict of your interests does concern me because—"

"What conflict? What conflict of interests?" Jenny interrupts. "Commissioner Gordon, contrary to your worries, there IS no conflict. I have my interests very much in order. It's simply this: the Tag Premier League bid is for myself and my friend; Sone and I are participating for not just tag team supremacy but our FRIENDSHIP as well. We are doing that to debunk anything that even SUGGESTS that we are on our last hurrah as a tag team, that we are on the brink of destruction—no, Techno-Tongue is going to PROVE that we are better than we have ever BEEN!" The crowd cheers for this declaration from Wakeman. "…And this? The Females Title? What I'm asking of YOU? …That's something I'm doing for ME."

Jenny's sincerity sinks through to the Commissioner, who scratched his chin in thought as he sighs. The END continues to inspect this intently…

"Okay…here's the thing: it all comes down to the DREADFUL possibility," Gordon says, "that you may find yourself up against the same girl that cajoled you in the first place and caused THIS among myriad OTHER problems. I don't want it to happen; I am doing EVERYTHING in my vested power to make sure that it DOESN'T happen—hell, I don't want it getting past TONIGHT…but…if by the work of the devil…Gwen Tennyson herself goes into Philly STILL as the CCW Females Champion of the World…I need my bases covered. I need my plan in place, and I need that plan to be ABSOLUTELY proofed to the gills. If it comes down to Gwen Tennyson wrestling a depleted one-match-ridden Jenny Wakeman…that's not a plan I'm confident about. And Zoe Payne over there? …She makes some points."

Lucy shouts off-mic, "NO FOOLIN'!" while Zoe merely crosses her arms where she sits.

"So here's how I'm going to rectify this: if the possibility of wrestling two matches on one show doesn't deter your spirit…then tonight, we put that to the test in a BIG way," Gordon says. "Jenny, you already are scheduled to face the 2014 Female Tag Team of the Year the Poké-Coordinators May and Dawn with your partner Mystique Sonia in the Tag Premier League. Later on after that match…you will compete a SECOND time…as it will be Female Shining Star of the Year Jenny Wakeman…

"…versus Female Wrestler or the Year Zoe Payne!"

The crowd UNANIMOUSLY cheers that announcement!

"WHOA! Helvectica and Wingdings, that is a BLOCKBUSTER!" Jeremy exclaims.

"Battle of the FWA-winning gals here TONIGHT on XX?!" Al blinks thrice.

"I'm down!" Jeremy grins.

"Now, Jenny, if you are victorious…if you do indeed defeat Zoe tonight…then my fears will be assuaged and you will get what you asked for: a ONE-ON-ONE CCW Females Championship opportunity against the Titleholder on that night," Gordon declares. "…But if ZOE wins…

"…then I make the Regal Rumble Females Title contest a Triple Threat Match."

"Talk about some stakes!" Jeremy says.

"Zoe Payne says The END deserves to be in the Females Chanpionship contest at Regal Rumble; Zoe's got a chance to punch that ticket tonight!" Al says.

"It looks like JENNY'S got herself the match, but will it be the match she wants? She wants it one-on-one, understandably so, but can she handle it?!" Jonathan asks.

Jenny and Zoe lock eyes from across the area, opponents sizing up each other's opposition from afar as they prepare for their main attraction…

…

…BUT…

("Guerrilla Radio" by Rage Against the Machine plays)

"Hold on a minute—hoooold on just a minute now…" Al's eyes widen.

"Okay, now what business does THIS one have?!" Cris shouts. "Is this some kind of a joke?!"

"What business? Well, considering Pandemonium and who was there…and what HAPPENED, and its consequences, I REALLY don't think THAT'S nearly as question-worthy as Jenny's intentions before…" Jonathan says.

"…and from the look her face, I wouldn't bet on this being any form of a 'joke' either," Jeremy says as a grave-looking Reggie Rocket appears on the stage…which prompts The END to start slowly standing up from their sitting positions and turn to her.

"The Queen of Extreme with a VERY, very big bone to pick…" Al painted. "Her student Emmy is not here; the ones responsible…"

Al's voice trails off as Reggie takes her own microphone and turns to Commissioner Gordon after staring twenty seconds of daggers through Zoe, Lucy and Bella. Jenny appears more so surprised by the intrusion while Gordon asks Reggie what her purpose even is.

"Gord, I get that you are a desperate honcho right now, and you have good reason to be with whom you are dealing with…but you are far too doke for your own good if this is what you really want," Reggie says. "Don't get me wrong; Gwen Tennyson as the CCW Females Championship DESERVES a swift, pasty wipeout hitting every rogue ripple on the way down to hell in the River Styx, and any way you can speed up that process to the end is meaningful…" Reggie points to The END, "but you're going to open the floodgates to THEM to do it? Are you THINKING? That, boss, is my question, because if you think having one of them, ESPECIALLY that marianne Zoe Payne with the Belt is going to be a BETTER DEAL than the bleeding bitch, you are SO very wrong in thinking that, man." That assertion gets a mixed reaction all to its own, some cheers and some boos, about 65/35. "That trio, and the one in the middle getting REWARDED for it all, whether they want to admit it or not, is a menace the likes of Gwen all the same! They push their weight around at others' expense, PUNISH people for the effort they put into this place—see Carrie White not too long ago…and if you let them get their hands on the gold, it won't just be frying pan to a fire; it'll be from a frying pan basted in oil to a fire drizzled in alcohol! You CANNOT ALLOW THIS…not after what they did to HER…not after what they did to EMMY…" Reggie swallows as she looks at Gordon with driven eyes, "…and NOT AT ALL after what I KNOW they're GOING to do."

Lucy, in the ring, is peeved as she swipes the microphone up. "Oh, surprise, surprise, Reggie Rocket comes out with her trademark sour puss to give her unsolicited expected opinion—HOW DARE YOU! How dare you! Since you have such a problem with this then, you neckbeard, what are you gonna actually DO about it, huh?! Are you gonna TRY something? Are you gonna do anything BESIDES beg and plead the Commissioner? And even if you are, what makes you believe for even ONE SECOND—"

"STOP…" Zoe puts a hand out in front of Lucy to signal for her to cease momentarily. The Minnesotan takes a deep breath before indeed quieting down…for the time being.

"Easy… Just hold on, Lucy, hold on for one second…" Zoe walks towards the ropes and chuckles. "…Heh…you know, I was expecting you to come out, Reggie; contrary to my partner's outburst, I was WAITING for it with bated breath inside because…this TRULY is your worst nightmare come to life, isn't it? Everything about this just screams 'Reggie Rocket's worst case scenario'—not just me being this white-hot right now and you standing there watching it all happen…but Emmy being gone as well. And that second part makes it almost unbearable for you, and it's aided and abetted by the fact that in that match, to end the Demon's Dungeon, YOU had to be the one to say 'I surrender'. YOU had to be the one to give up on you OWN STUDENT right in front of her… I wonder how THAT'S playing out in that pretty little eggshell of a head of hers we cracked open."

Reggie snarls on the stage as she hears this…but Zoe has more: "But here's the real kick in the head: not only did you give up on your student, but more importantly than that you also gave up on the one thing that kept your ass relevant in today's day and age. Emmy was the vicarious part of your career that you got to reap the benefits off of, and with her bedridden, now you're just drowning; now you're just gasping for air trying to preserve what's left of your image, your importance…so you come out here on my time. You're like a wailing mother crying to her daughter's murderer…but with one big difference. That mother, nine times out of ten, is crying because her daughter is gone… You're here crying less so because Emmy is gone…and more so for yourself because due to us, with Emmy in the hospital unable to do a thing, you here can't be best known as Emmy's teacher. Now you're right back to being known as Sailor Moon's bitch."

"OHHHHHHHHHHHH!" the crowd is left deafening with that remark on the part of Zoe! Lucy laughs it up, Bella giggles to herself…and Reggie Rocket's entire body temperature goes up 25 degrees on the spot!

"Z. I. N. G," Cris smirks.

"…Unfiltered as always…" Jonathan says.

"And this is the part where things might just start breaking down FAST…" Jeremy speaks.

Reggie's hair shields her eyes as rage consumes her right there beside Jenny and Gordon.

"FIRST OFF…I'M here…" Reggie says. "I'M still doing this while Moon's got her tail tucked behind an announce desk; you wanna reevaluate who the 'bitch' here is again?" That earns its own round of crowd "Ooooooooohs" before Reggie continues, "Actually, matter of fact, I'll TELL you who's gonna be the bitch: your little buddy Sonya McCallis, for starters. You want to talk wailing mothers? The fricking Wild Thornberrys are gonna hear you lamenting after I put that blahmalah of yours through a wood chipper in Steelport!"

Zoe's expression changes to a deep scowl of her own while Reggie says, "I was put in a front row seat…to watch what you did to my grommet…to watch her get carted off…and that moment, more than anything, SEALED that girl's fate, because I had myself a BENCHMARK for the amount of damage I was gonna lay upon HER in not-so-kind. You tell her point-blank—be HONEST and up front and tell her that she won't be able to chew any candy when I'm through with her… Then again…there's a pretty good chance she already knows, doesn't she?"

Zoe, as though she knows EXACTLY what Reggie is talking about, gives her the grandmother of all glowering looks, nothing but malice in her eyes while Reggie is more than happy to return the favor. Then the Rocket Girl motions to Lucy and says, "And as for YOU, swamp hog…you're about to be chewing on your own words…because as far as this Jenny versus Zoe match goes…"

Reggie takes a momentary glance at Gordon and Jenny…

"…you're about to FIND OUT what I'm gonna do about it."

…before dropping the microphone and starting to make a beeline for the ring!

"Ohhhh boy, ish is about to real in a minute!" Jeremy gasps.

"Is it, Ellis? Because by MY count, it's three against one! Reggie's walking blind into a freaking minefield! And I say, be my guest!" Cris shouts.

"I think this is an emotional decision right now, what Reggie's about to do—but something the EMOTIONAL decision isn't the BEST one!" Jonathan says.

"Just ask Emmy!" Cris adds.

Reggie gets onto the apron, and all three members of The END just DARE the ECW alumna to get inside the squared circle…

"Reggie may want to THINK about this—we've seen what these girls can do already, not just with Emmy on Sunday, but with Carrie White and Britney Britney backstage TONIGHT," Al mentions.

…

…and Reggie vaults into the ring—and BLASTS a charging Bella Swan in the gut with a lead pipe!

"Reggie's the epitome of reckless abandon—WHOA, brisket and foreshank, where did that pipe come from?!" Jeremy blinks five times.

"NO! NOOOO! NO FAIR, NO FAIR!" Cris shakes his head.

"Rocket pulled it out of the back pocket!" Jonathan shouts.

"Hey, nice rhyme!" Jeremy high-fives his brother.

"Wasn't intended, but thanks—now Rocket's on the attack! Three-on-one be DAMNED here!" Jonathan calls.

"She came prepared!" Al says.

Reggie ducks a Spinning Back Fist from Zoe and jabs her in the gut with the pipe before jabbing Lucy in the gut as well, going back and forth between the two! Reggie nails Lucy in the back with the pipe to bring her to her knees while drilling Zoe in her left leg with pipe shots of her own! As Bella Swan gets up, Reggie swings the pipe and hits her right across the face! Down goes the Twilight character…

…and Reggie speeds at Zoe with the pipe only to get CLOCKED with a Jumping Knee Strike with the right leg by Payne!

"OH! But maybe not prepared enough!" Jonathan shouts.

"A lead pipe doesn't prepare you for THIS!" Cris sneers.

"Zoe caught Reggie on the way in!" Al calls.

With Reggie dazed, Zoe lifts her up into a Military Press…

…

…and…Reggie escapes from it to her feet and hits Zoe in the side of the head with the pipe!

"But Reggie with a CLANG!" Jonathan exclaims. "LEAD PIPE UPSIDE THE SKULL! TEMPLE SHATTERED!"

"With a shot like that, you'd think she were trying to put Zoe in a coma!" Jeremy hollers.

"DAMN IT! DAMN IT, REGGIE'S ONLY DOING THIS BECAUSE SHE KNOWS ZOE'S 100% CORRECT!" Cris shouts.

Reggie grabs the rocked Zoe…

…

…hooks her up for the Reggie-Tonic…

…

…and…Bella Swan tries to swipe the lead pipe from out of Reggie's hand! Reggie does everything she can to maintain the hold of the weapon…

…

…but as she is battling, Zoe propels Reggie forward off of her body…

…and flying into a Birchwood Bullhammer by Lucy van Pelt!

"The Reggie-Tonic being postponed thanks to the—OHHHHHH!" Jonathan yells.

"Postponed? How about CANCELLED?!" Cris smirks.

"Reggie Rocket could only fight the numbers but for SO LONG…" Al says.

Reggie is writhing on the mat…and Bella Swan now has an unhindered hold of the lead pipe Reggie brought to the ring with her. Zoe turns around and notices this…and Lucy does as well…

…

…and the two END members each grab one of Reggie's arms apiece, rendering her stationary in their clutches.

"Zoe told the world that if you fight FOR Emmy, you get the treatment OF Emmy, and with Reggie Rocket all by her lonesome, we may just see that play out before our very eyes in a graphic fashion!" states Al.

With Lucy and Zoe holding a defiant Regina Rocket…

…

…Bella Swan whacks her RIGHT in the middle of her forehead with the pipe! Reggie drops to her knees from the severity of the blow…and Bella keeps on whacking Reggie right in the head with the pipe, starting to reopen some of the wounds from Pandemonium! Eventually, Reggie is left to crumble to the mat…and Zoe Payne mounts her with her own lethal fists, each one thrown with a sick grin!

"And look at Zoe just REVELING in it! REVELING in it!" Al says.

"Zoe told defenders of Emmy not to bother, but you had to think that there was a SICK side of her that was just WAITING for someone to try!" Cris chuckles.

Zoe opens up Reggie Rocket even further with these punches…

…

…until…

("Let's Light It Up" by Kari Kimmel plays)

"Rocket perhaps, even while armed, should have thought twice—WAIT! WAIT HERE!" Al cuts himself off as the crowd pops for this music playing and whom it represents…

…

…as Annie Frazier darts past a panicking Commissioner Gordon and agape-mouthed Jenny Wakeman to head to the ring!

"THE BACKYARD ENVIRONMENTALIST IS HERE, THE OTHER MEMBER OF EMMY'S TEAM FROM DEMON'S DUNGEON!" Al exclaims.

"Not a moment too soon!" Jeremy adds.

Annie slides into the ring, amid all of Gordon's screams for order, and the Granola Girl anticipates Bella Swan and hits her with a Flying Squirrel Takedown upon entry! Lucy goes after her but Annie Mule Kicks her in the midsection before getting up and throwing punches; Zoe gets off of Reggie to grab Annie from behind with a German Suplex…

…but Annie reverses the Waist Lock, twists Zoe's arms and delivers a Tiger Suplex instead, dropping Zoe onto her head! Annie gets back up in a flash and gives Lucy a Running Monkey Flip!

"Some people called her the MVP of that Demon's Dungeon Match, and here she is lending aid to Rocket against The END!" Al says.

"BS! 'MVP' implies that she was on the WINNING team, which, last I checked, she was NOT!" Cris retorts.

"Well, you can debate all you like, but Frazier's making an impact here and turning tides!" Jonathan says.

Annie checks on Reggie Rocket and tries to help her up, looking concerned as the latter is busted wide open. Annie asks about Reggie's condition while holding her…

…

…and…as Annie is preoccupied with Reggie, Bella Swan runs to the ropes and goes for the Beautiful Nightmare…

…

…but Annie spots her in time and CATCHES her in a Fireman's Carry!

"WATCH OU—OH! OH! NEVER MIND!" Jeremy gasps.

"WHAT A CATCH BY ANNIE!" Al exclaims.

"She always WAS a good wide receiver in Backyard Football 2002!" Jeremy quips.

Reggie grabs Zoe in a Cravate and starts kneeing her repetitively in the face…while Annie gives Bella the Airplane Spin…

…

…but Lucy van Pelt is back up, and she goes for a Birchwood Bullhammer to Annie…

…

…but Annie drops down and dodges the Elbow…while also LIFTING Lucy up onto her already Bella-laden shoulders!

"YOU'RE FREAKING KIDDING ME!" Cris shrieks. "HOW?! WHERE IS THIS COMING FROM?!"

"IT'S LIKE THE POWER OF THE GORILLAS—WHAT STRENGTH!" Jonathan shouts.

"ANNIE'S HOLDING TWO MEMBERS OF THE END FOR THE PRICE OF ONE!" Jeremy exclaims.

The crowd is in complete awe of this feat from Annie as she holds both the vampire and the fussbudget up…

…

…but Zoe, having caught one of Reggie's knees and Snap Regal-Plexed her to break out of the Cravate, rushes over and Big Boots Annie in the back of the head! The boot causes the weight on Annie's shoulders to become top-heavy…

…

…and both Bella and Lucy DROP onto Annie's shoulders!

"But there's THREE members of The END! THREE, and the leader just reminded Frazier of that, and ALL of the mass on Bella Swan and Lucy van Pelt just CRASHED down upon her!" Al says.

Lucy rolls out of harm's way…

…

…while Bella, still on top of Annie's back…wraps her arms up in a Full Nelson, pulls herself and the Backyard Girl up…

"Bella's still working! Bella's still moving!" Cris calls.

"Oh no; Annie gave Bella a Happy Valley Driver off of the ENTIRE CAGE last Sunday, and I don't think Bella's forgotten about how painful that felt—SWAN SONG COMING…!" Jeremy winces.

…

…and Bella Swan indeed gives Annie Frazier the Swan Song!

"BELLA playing Annie out with the Swan Song!" Al says.

"Despite the best efforts of Emmy's Sunday night teammates, The END have this situation seemingly LOCKED DOWN now, as they're up and stirring and Reggie and Annie are DOWN," Jonathan says.

Bella and Lucy, thinking grim and gruesome thoughts together, both stand and drag Annie to a corner, keeping her seated there…while Zoe pulls up her pants leg to reveal her brandished, brutal knee. The SSX Demon cricks her neck while Commissioner James Gordon is shouting for this all to stop immediately…to limited avail…

"Commissioner Gordon appears beside himself with all of this, but these girls are bereft of a care in the world—they just want to do damage, and right now Annie Frazier has ALL of their attention!" Jonathan says.

"ALL ABOOOOOARD!" Cris cries…as Zoe prepares to clock the Granola Girl with a Payne Train Knee Strike.

Zoe measures Annie…Bella and Lucy keeping an arm apiece while standing outside of the ring surrounding the steel ring post on either end…

…

…and Zoe, with one more sneer, hits the ropes…

…

…and…falls through the ropes as Jenny Wakeman is there to pull them down! Zoe goes to the floor, and when she looks up, surprised, she is the recipient of a Springboard Leg Lariat by Jenny from the apron!

"JENNY! JENNY! JENNY GETTING INVOLVED HERE! JENNY EVENING THE SCORE!" Al exclaims.

"ZOE DIDN'T EXPECT HER, AND EVIDENTLY, NEITHER DID LUCY OR BELLA!" Jonathan shouts.

"THAT'S BECAUSE THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH HER, FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!" Cris complains.

"With Jenny wrestling Zoe later tonight, I beg to differ!" Jeremy states.

Bella and Lucy let go of Annie to pursue Jenny…

…

…or, at least LUCY does; Bella, however, gets snatches by the hair as she is trying to walk away…and Annie Frazier, from the inside of the ring out, plants Bella with a Kiss of Death!

"Signs of life in Annie Frazier—AND HERE'S WAKEMAN AGAIN!" Al calls as Jenny drops Lucy with a Spinning Heel Kick on the outside! Jenny then sees Bella dazed near the ring post thanks to Annie's lip lock…

…

…and Jenny runs around the post and hits Bella with a Ring-Post XJ9!

"And look at that! A Modified version of the XJ9 right into Bella!" Al calls.

"Using the RING POST as an apparatus for the Tiger Feint Kick of Jenny!" Jonathan says.

Bella stumbles to the floor at ringside, Lucy van Pelt getting up beside her…

…

…and Reggie Rocket suddenly runs into her with a Suicide Dive into the security wall!

"AND NOW THE ROCKET IS SOOOOOARING…AAAAAAND SCOOOORIIIIIIIING!" Al exclaims.

Reggie picks Bella up and pushes her back inside the ring, where shortly thereafter the mentor of Emmy slides back in…stalks the Twilight star…

"Blood rushing down her face and everything, but Reggie Rocket is still going!" Jeremy states.

…

…and as Bella gets up, she walks right into a Double R Spinebuster!

"Arn Anderson, Robert Roode, and here's Reggie Rocket with HER spine on the pine—Double R Spinebuster, baby!" Jeremy shouts.

Bella rolls back out of the ring from the Spinebuster, and Rocket ROARS to the crowd in Auburn Hills, who are in a frenzy over this fight…

…

…but then Zoe Payne, with lead pipe in hand, slides right back in…

…

…and gets Springboard Dropkicked by Jenny Wakeman to send her right back out of it!

"Reggie's not gonna be standing for much—OH COME ON!" Cris gripes.

"Jenny having her fellow Nickelodeon character's back there, and made sure to let her opponent tonight know what she's going to be in for later in the evening!" Al says.

This time, it's Reggie helping Annie up to her feet…while Jenny Wakeman surveys the ring and sees Lucy van Pelt trying to slide in…

…

…but before she can make it, Bella Swan grabs her by the leg and pulls her back out. Interspersed with the "XJ9! XJ9! XJ9!" chants are a few boos for this tactic, and Lucy appears as unhappy about it as the fans, but Bella nonetheless keeps Lucy from getting in…

…and runs over to Zoe to help her resist the same urge! Bella is the one who brings Lucy and Zoe back together, the three regrouping…and eventually, through some indistinct communications, making their way back up the ramp while Annie is on the middle rope, Jenny is watching Zoe, and Reggie is looking at her own blood on her hand, almost enamored with it there while The END, much to Gordon's relief, withdraw with Bella holding Zoe's three FWAs in her hands, keeping them intact and cozy.

"Zoe and Lucy look like they want to get more licks in, but Bella Swan takes the situation and tells them both to cool down—I think she's realizing that with Jenny Wakeman suddenly inserting herself into this…it's best they take what they've already gotten…" says Jeremy.

"Not to mention, later tonight, Zoe Payne is going to go one-on-one WITH Jenny Wakeman with Regal Rumble ramifications in the balance for The END!" Al says.

"You may as well keep her fresh for THAT, Bella—good idea," Cris nods. "Reggie, you think you're standing tall and holding all of the cards? …ZOE holds all of the cards here, including yours…"

"It will be Female Shining Star of the Year versus Female Wrestler of the Year later tonight; Jenny wins, she gets the Champion one-on-one—Zoe Payne wins, it's a Triple Threat in Philly. With THIS and their motivations fresh on the brain…I have a feeling we're going to be in for a RIDE…" Jonathan says.

"You said it, bro—a roller coaster not of love, but of WAR…" Jeremy comments as "ULTRAnumb" plays, Reggie and Lucy trade verbal barbs from a distance, Bella glares at Annie sitting on the top turnbuckle, and Jenny motions to Zoe that she's getting HER match at Regal Rumble.

The Rocket, the Robot, and the (P)reservationist Talk in the Back

Backstage, Annie Frazier, Reggie Rocket and Jenny Wakeman are collecting themselves, Rocket in particular still bleeding from the head and watching her blood flow…but letting Annie and Jenny know she'll be "kosher…especially after watching Payne get DROPPED tonight." Annie thanks Jenny for doing her part in the fight moments earlier…but in response to Reggie's words, Jenny pipes in and looks at Rocket…

…saying, "I know just how much you would love to get yourself another piece of Zoe and leave her laying like she did to Emmy, but…tonight, I have to prove to Commissioner Gordon that his 'worries' and 'fears' are all minor, unimportant trappings he doesn't need and NO ONE needs because there IS nothing to worry about and there IS nothing to fear. So, as much as you want to take her out and let me win to keep her out of the Regal Rumble Females Championship Match…I need to do it MYSELF. I need to do it myself to PROVE to Gordon that putting me in there one-on-one against Gwen, against WHOEVER…won't change the fact that I KNOW how to pull it all off, FOR REAL this time. Okay?"

Reggie listens…and she nods in understanding, Annie Frazier even adding, "We both know you can do it! After all, you're Shining Star of the Year for a reason, right?" She winks and giggles…

…while Reggie tells Jenny that she'll respect what the Teenage Robot requires…because in a fair fight, she believes Jenny can win…"but if Lucy and Bella decide to show their smug faces at ringside, then it's not gonna be a fair fight anymore. And THEN, for me, for Fraiz…it's open season."

Jenny takes in this serious statement…and Annie says, "Don't worry though! All that means is that in the worst case, WE'RE watching your back!" Annie pats Jenny on the back…and then gives her a tight "good luck" hug. Jenny blinks…and then grins, thanking Reggie and Annie for it all and then heading off to prepare for her match. Reggie keeps looking at her own blood…while Annie iterates that everything turned out okay…well, mostly okay-ish, especially when Jenny is victorious. Reggie slowly…stoically…nodded…

…

And then Annie perks her ears, looking left…looking right…looking up, looking down…and wondering something… Reggie inquires, and Annie says, "I feel like there is somebody near here who REALLY needs a hug…"

…

Annie follows this up by giving HERSELF a hug…then letting go…then looking at Reggie with arms open wide, to which Reggie holds up a hand and says, "I'm good…" Annie continues to suspect something or someone…

…

…until cameras zoom out…to reveal that Mystique Sonia is behind the wall where Annie, Reggie and Jenny were just taking. Sonia has her ears perked and her arms crossed as that entire conversation settles in for her—what was said, what it means…

A Declaration…and Then a Revelation…

James Gordon is in his office with CCW "ace reporter" Maria Menounos, who was summoned into the room to take down a proclamation from the rather-stressed Commissioner. Gordon apologizes for his intrusion on the action of CCW Double X 22 and assures that the next match will go on momentarily…but he needed to make an announcement, something that was supposed to be declared last night on Ozone 41, but a business call—last-minute between himself and Woody Paige—interrupted and prevented the notice from being made in full. Thus, Gordon wants to complete what Paige began:

"In addition to the 30-Man Ozone Regal Rumble Match…there is ALSO going to be a 30-FEMALE XX Regal Rumble Match on the same night in Philadelphia," Gordon declares. "This Rumble will be contested under the same rules as the Ozone one – wrestlers enter the ring at intervals and elimination is via over-the-top-rope ejection until the last five competitors remain, in which eliminations are via pinfall or submission. And whoever is the last lady standing after all twenty-nine others have been eliminated…will advance to the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan for CCW Zenith and a guaranteed opportunity there for the CCW Females Championship of the World."

As Gordon is talking, there appear to be noises from outside of his office door, off in a distance…

"But that is not all, because there's a special feature for this XX Regal Rumble Match…and that special feature is going to involve outside…—"

Gordon stops…as the abovementioned noises start to grow louder and louder, to the point where they become an audible hindrance to the Commissioner's train of thought. Gordon narrows his eyes, asks Maria if she hears the same thing…and once this is confirmed, with a sigh he excuses himself from his desk and leaves the office to walk down the hall to see what the noises are.

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As Gordon makes haste, he happens to walk right past Carmen Sandiego's locker room, where the sound of duct tape ripping away from a man's flesh is heard (so if anyone was wondering where the REAL referee Vincent Perry was all this time and why he coulndn't scream for help…weeeell…)…and as he makes more progress onward, he reaches the girls' bathroom…where the noises are at their LOUDEST…

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…and with a half-second thought, Gordon enters the restroom, asking what the hell is going on…

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…and finding out when he sees four staff workers all in a panic as they look over the fallen, unconscious body of Julie Makimoto in one of the open stalls! Julie is left with her head resting against a toilet, not moving an inch as she is laid out and the staff members are doing what they can to tend to her condition. Gordon sees the state Julie is left in and knows how much of an effect this has on the earlier plan of Julie wrestling Gwen Tennyson for the Females Championship later on…and as he is scowling, he is called over…

…by Skarlet and Mileena of Koldblooded, who notice the situation as well. Mileena asks if they can talk to Commissioner Gordon for a moment, to which Gordon is skeptical of whether this is of any true importance given what he already has to deal with. Skarlet assures him that it is in fact of PARAMOUNT importance…and Gordon, with one more sigh, asks the staff if they can handle helping Julie while he speaks with Koldblooded. Once this blessing is exchanged, Gordon and Koldblooded walk together elsewhere…while the others deal with the still-motionless Makimoto, who didn't seem to have known what even hit her to leave her that way…

Tag Premier League Group C Match – Hana-Gumi (Kanna Bismarck and Marion Phauna (w/ Matilda Matisse) vs. Puffy AmiYumi

Group C matches in the Tag Premier League got underway on this night, and they got underway with the tag team imported from New Japan Pro Wrestling's Japanimation Division, Hana-Gumi, making their CCW debut against Japan natives themselves Puffy AmiYumi. Before the match, there was a lot of talk on what one was going to see from the NJPW veterans who ran roughshod in tag team action in the Orient but never landed in the States until making their first appearance on XX 20, confronting the Powerpuff Girls. Since then, Hana-Gumi had been at the center of some derision on the part of other CCW mainstay teams, some of whom taking to the mic and saying that Hana-Gumi had to prove themselves all over again before being so bold to enter a red-hot XX Tag Team Division. And so tonight, Kanna Bismarck, Marion Phauna and Matilda Matisse—painted as CCW XX's "gaijins" being in unfamiliar territory—made it known that they were going to begin their message on what they were about and why they were meant to reckoned with right out of the gate. On the other side, there was Puffy AmiYumi, the rock stars of Cartoon Network bred IN Japan themselves. The joshi rockers were aware of Hana-Gumi's presence, and took this match to be their OWN opportunity. Before the contest, Yumi Yoshimura mentioned that Aelita Schaeffer got to wrestle on Wrestle Kingdom in Japan…and it's chances like this that could promote AmiYumi to wrestle on a future NJPW show of their own by beating the best from THERE. In addition, they wanted to make their own path to the CCW Women's Tag Team Titles, held by fellow CN characters the Powerpuff Girls. They didn't DISRESPECT Hana-Gumi and what they were capable of…but they weren't going to lay down BECAUSE they KNEW what the Funbari Onsen waitresses were capable of. Matilda had a response: "…I don't think you really do."

The match was on, and Jeremy, with a chuckle, said that with rhyming team names "Hana-Gumi" and "AmiYumi", this was going to be a fun match to call. With Hana-Gumi permitted to compete under the Freebird Rule in the TPL, Kanna and Marion elected to represent Hana-Gumi for this one. Matilda, wanting to get her own hands on the opposition, wasn't happy, but Kanna told her "Next one" to appease her for now. Marion is the one starting out the match, and on the other end it's Ami Onuki. The two engage in a Greco-Roman Knuckle Lock…and Ami goes for the first move with a Judo Monkey Flip, but Marion lands onto her feet, holds onto Ami's arms, and Backslide Drives her into the canvas STIFFLY, followed by an Arm Drag and a Clothesline, not wasting any time with the strong strikes! Ami gets the message herself and goes for a leg kick, but Marion catches it and executes a Standing Single-Leg Takedown into a Stump Puller…into a Wheelbarrow Lift that Ami reverses into an Arm Drag, following it up by a Dropkick…

…that Marion gets up from, Dropkicking Ami down instead even harder! Yumi isn't liking the way things are going, nor is her partner who tags out to the former; Yumi gets in on the action and successfully applies a Cravate, delivering knees into the nose of Marion before Snapmaring her to the mat…holding on, maintaining control and delivering a second Snapmare with more Cravate Knees…then a third one…which Yumi tries to follow up with a Soccer Kick, but Marion catches the foot from behind, stands up and performs a Leg Stunner, followed by a Discus Inverted Chop Block! Marion tags Kanna in, and the two lift Yumi up with a Double Knee Slam, dropping her with both legs…before adding to it with a Double Shin Breaker combined into a Double Saito Suplex! Kanna comes in with offense of her own, placing an indirect focus on the leg with each maneuver: Bridging Cradle Suplex (for a near-fall), Fisherman's Suplex, Bridging Regal-Plex (for another near-fall) to name a few…before tagging back out and hitting a Russian Leg Sweep, allowing Marion next to take the legs and apply a Reverse Figure-Four Leg Lock. Yumi grimaces and yells out in pain…but doesn't give in, which prompts Marion to tag back out and Kanna to drop in with a series of Leg Drops across Yumi's throat. Kanna picks Yumi up, and following a Body Slam then a Slingshot Suplex into a Rope-Aided Leg Breaker, goes for the pin…

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…and gets a near-fall only. Yumi shows a sign of life when she reverses a Pumphandle Lift into an Inverted DDT from behind…rolling it back into a Dragon Clutch submission of her own, but Kanna pushes off of the mat…

…picks Yumi up from off of the mat…

…and Sidewalk Slams her down! Kanna hooks both of Yumi's legs: 1…2…

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…2.789 Yumi kicks out! Hana-Gumi are in firm control…Kanna maintaining with blows—punches to the stomach, punches to the head, a Back Elbow, two side Elbow Smashes…a Spinning Back Kick to the gut…a Scissor Stomp…

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…and…her Discus Elbow Smash to complete the Medieval Strike is blocked! Yumi throws her own strikes, returning fire with Open Palm Slaps to the face, Judo Chops to the chest, two Cross Chops and a jumping Head-Clutch right hook…before running the ropes…

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…and eating a Big Boot from Kanna, which sends her rebounding off of the ropes…

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…and Kanna's Discus Lariat collides while Yumi's Running Lariat connects as well, leaving both women supine on the canvas! The crowd rhythmically claps as it awaits one team making a tag…

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…and…Kanna gets up, sees Yumi crawling to her corner…

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…and…just allows Yumi to keep crawling, as Ami notices midway through! Yumi, unhindered, makes the tag to Ami Onuki, who sees this as a challenge from the smoker and her troupe. Ami, affected, vaults right into the ring and takes it to Kanna with punches and Shoot Kicks to the chest, channeling strong style to its absolute fullest. Kanna reverses the Irish Whip into the ropes…and Ami, avoiding the Back Body Drop, jumps, turns, flips and rolls over Kanna's back…before nailing her with a Spinning Leg Lariat to the stomach, dropping down with a Throat Thrust, and putting Kanna down with a Spinning Leg Sweep. Ami leaps up and scores with a Flipping Senton onto Kanna's chest…

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…cradles her and rolls onto her knees…with Kanna up onto her shoulders! Ami manages to show some untapped strength in picking Kanna up from the canvas…and delivering an Etsuko Mita-esque Death Valley Bomb! Ami Onuki covers Kanna: 1…

2…

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…Kanna kicks out before three! Ami takes this in…and then climbs to the top rope with Kanna standing…

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…but Ami's Diving Cross Body is CAUGHT by Kanna and spun into a Tilt-a-Whirl Backbreaker across her knee! Kanna shortly pulls Ami into a Front Slam position…takes a tag from Marion…

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…and…Kanna drops Ami into a Front Slam Gutbuster…

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…and Marion, coming from the top rope, lands a Diving Head Stomp into the canvas, sending Ami off of Kanna's knee! THAT maneuver gets a gasp from the crowd, not expecting something so effective…

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…and then Kanna and Marion double up for a Crucifix Powerbomb (Kanna) dropped with a Neckbreaker (Marion) on Ami! Marion, now legal, goes into the cover: 1…

2…

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…2.9 Ami SURPRISINGLY kicks out! Marion blinks and glowers…while Matilda, on the outside, actually chuckles a tad, saying, "I kind of like that—doesn't go down easily…means we get to keep on hitting her." Marion picks Ami up…

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…and goes for a Scoop Slam Brainbuster she calls the Crossfire…

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…but Ami spins out of it, trying to turn it into a Tilt-a-Whirl DDT…but Marion bears down to keep Ami above ground…so she can Backdrop Ami in front of a waiting Kanna, who grabs Ami's legs…and prepares a Catapult…

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…but…as she Catapults Ami to Marion, who wants a DDT catch…Yumi grabs Marion from behind unexpectedly and lifts her up there…and Ami adjusts in mid-air for Puffy to land a Danger Zone (Backdrop Driver) aided with a Flying Clothesline! Kanna turns around and sees the damage…

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…and Puffy AmiYumi riddle Kanna with kicks, culminating in a Double Giri (Gamengiri by Ami plus a simultaneous Enzuigiri by Yumi)! With Kanna dazed, Puffy AmiYumi lift her up…

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…and deliver a Double Northern Light Bomb! Then they turn their combined attentions to the legal Marion…

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…and Yumi picks her up…Fisherman-style…while Ami runs to the ropes, steps off of the second rope…

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…and performs a 180 Springboard Blockbuster combining with Yumi's Fisherman's Buster! Ami, with a half-Prawn Hold, pins Marion down: 1…

2…

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…Marion manages to kick out in time! Matilda watches on…and Puffy AmiYumi give her a momentary glance…but retain their focus…

…as Yumi goes to hold off Kanna…and Ami grabs Marion in her own Cravate and spins her out into a Spinning Cravate Sit-Out Facebuster—the Go-Go Blast! While Ami ascends to the top rope again, Yumi picks Kanna up in a Fireman's Carry, thinking Hi Hi Drive, her Fireman's Carry spun into a Side Slam…

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…but as she spins Kanna out, Kanna is able to extends her legs out to Dropkick Yumi in the knee, the same knee she and Marion targeted at the beginning of the match! With Yumi nursing her leg, that allows Kanna to rock her with the full-on Medieval Strike, her take on Kyle O'Reilly's Ax and Smash! With Kanna standing…and Marion standing too, albeit groggily…

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…Ami dives at them both to try a DOUBLE Jane Driller, but Marion and Kanna CATCH her out of the air…and turn it into a Double Turnbuckle Atomic Drop, sending her crashing with the middle buckle between her legs! With Ami stuck here, Marion legally tags out to Kanna…goes back over to Ami…

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…and drills her with a Straitjacket Lungblower from behind out of the corner…

…before FLIPPING Ami off of the knees into Kanna's clutches! Kanna hooks Ami's arms…

…and Marion intercepts a rising Yumi with a Flying Elbow Smash…

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…while Kanna drops Ami with the Ectoplasmic Flowsion, the Butterfly Sit-Out Side Powerslam! Kanna covers Ami Onuki off of this, Matilda Matissa nodding in approval…

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….and Hana-Gumi's debut in CCW is a successful one as the three-count is tolled! Kanna and Marion get their arms raised inside the ring, the former gesturing and mouthing, "One down…"

After the match…Puffy AmiYumi start to get up, Hana-Gumi still in the ring…

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…and the two Cartoon Network classic girls approach their vanquishers…with extended hands, a show of respect, a Code of Honor between Japanese natives and all-stars IN Japan…

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Kanna and Marion stare at the extended hands from Puffy AmiYumi (along with Matilda who has joined her partners inside of the ring)…

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…and…Hana-Gumi walk RIGHT PAST AmiYumi's open hands, leaving the ring to the tune of boos from the crowd that wanted a Code of Honor to close the match out between joshi talents. Ami frowns, and Yumi scowls, shouting as they leave, "これは、あなたが行動するつもりだ方法ですか？" But Hana-Gumi just kept on walking…

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…and just as Hana-Gumi is in the middle of completing their exit, Susan and Mary Test, the Test Twins, run down to the ring and attack Puffy AmiYumi! As they stomp out the rock duo, Susan picks up a microphone and proclaims, "Two weeks ago on XX 20…we assailed you for a single morphology malfeasance…"

Mary takes the microphone and adds, "But TONIGHT…we assail you for the PROTRACTED vitiation of OUR Cartoon Network." The ladies of the Brain Trust continue their assault…

…although Ami and Yumi do attempt to fight back with punches and kicks…

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…only to be snuffed out by a kick to Yumi's knee from Susan and a Mat Slam by Mary. The Test Twins double up on Ami, sending her into the ropes…

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…and delivering a Flapjack / Cutter combination that Cris Collinsworth confirms that they call Dudley's Theorem! The crowd boos this attack from the Brain Trust's gals, who are also in Group C for the Tag Premier League…

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…and Susan and Mary prepare to give Yumi a Double Inverted Brainbuster…

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…but suddenly, the two redheads are caught by surprise by a Springboard Spinning Wheel Kick by Matilda to Susan! Mary turns her attention to the flying Matisse, trading punches with her…but the Test Twin is surprised by Kanna and Marion returning to the ring as well! Mary finds herself throwing punches at all three of them…but Matilda catches a hand, twists the arm…and turns it into a Cutthroat Inverted Scoop Slam Facebreaker! That, along with a Savate Kick to the jaw, backs Mary into an Electric Chair Lift by Kanna…

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…dropped into an Electric Chair Facebuster…combined with a Complete Shot by Marion! Now the crowd starts to cheer a bit for Hana-Gumi's attacking, the three of them taking Susan Test…

…Kanna putting her in a Fireman's Carry…

…Matilda Running Dropkicking Susan in the head…

…Marion Roundhouse Kicking her…

…and Kanna finishing with a Death Valley Driver, completing their Witches' Wrath combination! Hana-Gumi all look to each other…and focus on the other Test Twin, Mary…

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Matilda climbs to the top rope…while Kanna lifts Mary up in an Elevated Prawn…

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…and Marion is waiting for a Lungblower to the descending Mary while Kanna Sit-Out Powerbombs her into the canvas…and Matilda adds to the pain with a Diving Spear, this one completing the Hana-Gumi Blaster! And just like that, down go the Test Twins… Yumi looks up and sees the end result of what just happened…as does Ami as she slowly comes to…

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…and Hana-Gumi give Puffy AmiYumi some…nondescript looks before leaving the ring a second time, this time for the night. Ami and Yumi are left to ponder that expression…respectful? Mocking? Indifferent? …Really, only the Shaman King characters knew. But Puffy AmiYumi also had to ponder what just happened to them…and the Test Twins also…

On This Day, Aelita Sees Clearly (Everything Has Come to Life)

"Lovefurypassionenergy" by Boy Hits Car plays, and if this show were taking place BEFORE the 2014 Fiction Wrestling Awards, there would likely be an adoring reception for the Lyoko Princess…but this was AFTER the event…and Aelita Schaeffer was no longer the lovable angelic female; she was a Horsewoman, and the betrayed faithful were going to let her hear their disdain. They showered her with boos as Aelita came to the ring wearing an extravagant and new natural sable pink fur jacket, showing off her new lifestyle right out of the gate. (Jeremy would comment, "That better be faux fur, otherwise the Backyard Lesbian's gonna be piiiiiiissed…") Everything from her clothes to her walk was different; she had completely transformed, even demanding the ring announcer Blader DJ to hold open the ropes for her to enter the ring, not wanting to strain her royal figure. After all, she had to keep all of the strength possible for what she had to say…

Aelita Schaeffer stands inside the ring amidst loud chants of "YOU SOLD OUT! YOU SOLD OUT! YOU SOLD OUT!"…seeing crowd signs of "Angel No More", "HEELita" and "It Has to Be XANA".

"Ohhhh dearie noooo, Auburn Hills doesn't like me anymore because of what I did and who I hang out with now! Awww, whatever shall I doooo?" Aelita melodramatically whines, which draws even more boos and hisses.

"It's almost like a complete 180…from the Aelita we knew six nights ago," Jeremy says.

"Oh, heheh…please, please do not flatter yourselves with the feeble thought that I'm emotionally attached to any of you guys," Aelita chortles. "After all, you don't see ME chanting that YOU sold out or that YOU suck…because a refined Princess like me need not stoop to the level of giving you that degree of attention. That was my flaw BEFORE Pandemonium, BEFORE the FWAs—I let too many people get attention at MY expense, STARTING with Ishiyama, Stern, Della Robbia, that clone of mine that can't do anything right, ALL THE WAY DOWN to Jennifer Marie Wakeman." Aelita then strokes her chin. "Hmmmm…I feel like there's supposed to be someone else in that grouping…or maybe I'm just imagining…"

Some fans start to chant lightly, "Sonia! Sonia! Sonia!"

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But Aelita just shrugs, not bothering to acknowledge them. "…Yep, I'm going with imagining. I used to do that a lot, see things that weren't really there or interpret things the absolute wrong way before. For example, I would come out here, I would make my entrance, I would rock out to my music…and then I'd climb up that turnbuckle and I'd look around and I'd start pointing out some crowd signs with my face and my name on them. I used to think those were SO touching to the heart—I would get palpitations JUST by looking at them! You loved me! You really, really loved me! …Ooooor you just wanted to find a way to draw attention to yourselves so that I could point and the camera would cut OFF OF ME and onto you in the middle of my match. Yeah, take the camera off of technical wrestling brilliance to get a close-up of a scrub who doesn't even have enough money to buy himself a ride home! THAT makes sense!" Aelita sneers, and the crowd is just growing even MORE livid with her words.

"And I used to be COMPLETELY oblivious. Shame on ME there, and ONLY there. I remember one of those signs that was here EVERY WEEK since I debuted on Double X: it read 'Marry Me Aelita!' Marry Me Aelita—oh, how witty! He's taking the letters from another abbreviation and making them mean something else, and my name is involved! Eeeeeek!" Aelita feigns a flushed squeal of excitement. "…Know this: even if I was DESPERATE, I could do INFINITELY better for marriage than any of you beer-guzzling low-life slobs holding a sign or wearing my t-shirts!"

"Well, isn't she an entitled young thing…" Al murmurs.

"…Sure knows how to play the part," Cris comments.

The "YOU SOLD OUT!" chants continue, growing even louder now…

…and Aelita says, "You know what sold out? Wrestle Kingdom 8 sold out, a show whose presence I GRACED in Japan. You know what else sold out? CCW Pandemonium in Chicago, the 2014 PPV of the Year, which, shocker alert, featured ME in the main event. Kari Kamiya sure couldn't fit in there; neither could inferior rookie #20 Ruki Makino, but I – I fit there like a GLOVE! You saw it! And you all CLAIM to have supported me there, because you fans can DO NO WRONG in your own one-track minds, yet you're the same people who show me a middle finger at the FWAs even BEFORE I made my entry into the Queendom! Technical Wrestler of the Year…Lightning Farron? REALLY? Really now? Ha! Even the beloved Rookie Revolution President couldn't publicly defend THAT one for his ever-undeserving VP, which REALLY tells you something, doesn't it? The guy even QUOTED ME in his State of CCW Address, and if THAT isn't concession, I don't know what is. But it doesn't really matter, does it?"

"…Anything to say to THAT, Cris?" Jonathan curiously asks.

"…Not one word…" Cris shakes his head. "Not one word except that's where she's wrong."

Aelita continues, "I was being 'cheered on' by people with their heads so far up their own asses, one would THINK that giving a crap would come easy! But NOPE! Nope… And then you say I sold out." Aelita does a half-spin around in the ring and gives a scoffing grin, saying, "Well, if THAT'S what you want to call it, then let's just say I made the biggest PROFIT on that sale I could make, because the Lyoko Princess made herself an upgrade to Lyoko QUEEN!"

Aelita's grin grows even wider. "I don't need you! I don't need a SLIVER of you…but some of you won't be able to help yourselves. Some of you, whether you're a fan…or a reader…are going to drool on themselves over me anyway." This draws a…somewhat sultry chuckle from the Lyoko girl. "You'll be like the clingy boyfriend with no self-esteem who can't let go after the hot girl dumps him. Well, YOU may not get over ME…but you'd better BELIEVE I'm over you 100%."

One raucous fan shouts, "YOU WEREN'T THAT HOT TO ME ANYWAY!" while the rest of the fans are emphatic in their disdain.

"Now without THAT nipping at my nose, it's time for this royal specimen to pursue the finer things…the BIGGER things…" Aelita says…

…before her attention gets drawn to the ramp…where there is a butler wearing a suit and bowtie on his way to the ring, holding a bottle of Dom Pérignon champagne as he approaches the ring.

"Ooh, speaking of finer things…" Aelita giggles as the butler walks up the steps and places the champagne bottle next to the steel steps upon Aelita's directive, then heading back to where he came from thereafter as Aelita holds onto the bottle with a lavish smile.

"…Is she even of legal drinking age?" Jeremy asks.

"…FWM…?" Cris shrugs, not really knowing a good answer to that otherwise.

"I don't think she even cares," Al says.

"You're probably right," Jeremy concedes.

"I'll be having myself a glass of this when I get backstage… Now, back to what I was saying about the bigger things—"

Aelita gets cut off by a SHRIIIIIIIIEK over the speakers!

("Stars in the Night" by CFO$ plays)

…And Aelita's face grows contemptuous when she notices a diamond-studded letter Y on the big screen! The crowd knows what THIS means, and they start to stand with intrigue and cheer!

"OOOOH BUDDY…" Jeremy's eyes widen. "WELP, the biz is about to pizzickity up right about now!"

"…Okay, WHAT the f**k?!" Cris's face contorts from hearing Jeremy's quip.

"That's my brother for ya…" Jonathan sweatdrops.

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A serious-faced Yumi Ishiyama walks onto the stage, watching her former friend inside the ring with the champagne bottle, the attitude, the everything…and the Lyoko Joshi heads to the ring with her face not changing one bit en route.

"And THAT'S Aelita's friend for US! …Or, perhaps FORMER friend would be appropriate considering the events in LA…" Al says.

"Yumi Ishiyama, who was the one Aelita wrestled on XX 20 in the match that saw the CCW-debuting and Fiction Wrestling-returning Yumi go down in a losing effort but not without an ASTOUNDING showcase, from her AND from Schaeffer, that was named Female TV Match of the Year," Jonathan says, "and after that match, the two Lyoko girls EMBRACED in the middle of the ring. It was a happy moment! It was a HEARTFELT moment…but it has SUCH a different connotation now two weeks later."

Yumi enters the ring, microphone in her own hand as she has a good, long look at the Fourth Woman…part of her not wanting to believe it's true…as she takes a deep breath and her music stops, Aelita showing an exasperated look on her face.

"Here we go—heeeeere we go; what the hell are you doing here, Yumi?" Aelita bitingly greets. "When I said 'bigger things', that was the FURTHEST thing from a cue for you to come on down."

Yumi…takes another breath, not exactly appreciative of THAT remark…and while her face is serious, her tone appears…thoughtful when she says, "I can't even express how LUCKY you are that I'M the one who came here. You do not even know how many OTHER people in the back could have possibly come out here, without any cue or warning or anything resembling notice, and they would have had ZERO intentions of having a chat and ALL intentions of beating you down. You should be glad I got here FIRST because none of THEM would want to spend their breath talking to you…like I DO."

Aelita rolls her eyes, not amenable to listening…while Yumi gestures to Aelita's posture now with an open hand and says, "Aelita…what the hell? What the HELL is up with you right now? I'm beginning to think XANA's come back and found his way into your mind because that's the ONLY WAY I could understand this! You don't realize how many people you've affected or HOW you've affected them… You're here talking about people CLINGING to you for attention, like selfish individuals? Those people, just to send you back down to EARTH for a moment here, were your FRIENDS. They were your FRIENDS! To some, you were considered their BEST friend…and you throw that all away? For WHAT, Aelita? For WHAT? For WHO? For MOON? For SAILOR MOON?!"

Aelita isn't even gracing Yumi with eye contact…and that doesn't please Yumi, who raises her voice and says, "Look at me! Look at me… I was THERE when you were told that story…when you were filled in on EVERYTHING about what she did to me a decade ago… You had TEARS in your face when you heard it, Aelita. Remember that? You were overcome with SADNESS and GRIEF and a little bit of RESENTMENT over what she did, and then you LISTEN TO HER?! You JOIN HER?!"

Yumi rubs her hair in what can be described best as a loving frustration. "…The Aelita I know would have told Moon to take that deal of hers and stick it where the sun didn't shine, then never let a single thing she tried to communicate to you get inside your mind ever again, because you'd SEE that she was POISON! THAT would be the little sister I never had; THAT would be the Aelita I know…not THIS. Look, those other friends you had—yes, again, FRIENDS? …Most of them, when they saw you turn over to her side and shake her hand, LEFT. They LEFT you, and now you're DEAD to them. Takashi Komuro? DEAD to him. Sakura Haruno? Dead to HER. I'm trying to talk Ulrich into not declaring you dead to HIM as well—ULRICH!" Yumi jabs Aelita in the shoulder, trying to jam in some sense along with it. "You think that the Lyoko Warriors can't live without you? I'll tell it to you honestly; we did quite well for our accounts before the Supercomputer—it was a ton less stressful too! But we don't WANT to live like that. Or at least I DON'T. I'm trying to convince Ulrich to think the same way…but you haven't exactly made that easy. How do you think this is making HIM feel? The girl he didn't even KNOW but risked his life for anyway to give a new life to…up and JOINING the stable concocted and organized by the fiend that nearly ended my career? How do you think he felt when you did that?" Yumi's eyes give away just how much this unnerves her…before she goes a little deeper and says, "…Or, what about somebody ELSE—what about COLE MACGRATH, the guy you had a CRUSH on for the longest time?! How do you think HE felt when you sided with Moon?! You think you made HIM really proud?!"

The crowd "Ooooooohs" at this, some of them not knowing about Aelita's crush until THAT MOMENT (others may have known through dirt sheets or what-have-you)…and Aelita herself continues to avert her eyes from Yumi, especially upon hearing that last remark.

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Now it's Aelita's turn to take a breath of her own…

…and she says, after a pause, "…All of those people you just named, those…people you're trying to guilt-trip me with…guess what? They LEFT because I made the right career decision for MYSELF after watching the CCW Females Championship slip away without even dropping a fall! And if what you're saying is fact, if I'm suddenly 'dead to them'…well, that proves my point right there that they were only in it for the name value THEY get by being around ME. Once I smartened up, they hit the bricks, and that's GOOD because I can't afford the deadweight on my ankles. That shows you how valuable those 'friendships' were, doesn't it?"

Aelita sneers. "I've been listening to the wrong voices, voices that weren't going to get me anywhere, SELF-SERVING voices…like the one I'm listening to right now. But I am DONE entertaining any of them, you included. It's FINISHED, and it feels fantastic because do YOU know how utterly repulsive it was having to listen to Odd and Ulrich after XX 20 when YOU decided to crawl your way back into the Fiction Wrestling world?" Aelita glares at Yumi with a burning fury and frustration of her own. "It's not about how the FIRST-EVER Female Shining Star of the Year in FWA history—yes, THAT WOULD BE ME, not the robot; Jenny Wakeman, as she is wont to do, followed MY lead on that one…"

That gets a round of boos as well, some fans chanting "XJ9! XJ9!" while Aelita waves them off…

"It's not about how the first-ever Female Shining Star of the Year put on a television CLASSIC, the best match in XX history in CRUNCH TIME…and made a lady who hadn't seen relevance in ten years look good in the process…" Aelita says, earning furrowed eyebrows from Yumi. "It's about Yumi Ishiyama this, Yumi Ishiyama that—I can't believe she's back! I can't believe she returned, LIVE on XX 20! I thought her career was over! What a moment! What a moment! Match of the Yeeeear!" Aelita continues to show her fake feeling of amazement. "…But hey, we DID have a Match of the Year; I've got the trophy to prove it…and that's the key – I have the trophy to prove it, ME…not you, because I WON THAT MATCH. I left St. Louis a WINNER, and THAT is what mattered the most to anyone with a brain cell. Your little pomp and circumstance was nice BACKGROUND noise for MY masterpiece, because unlike YOU, I didn't need a match with the only Lyoko girl that matters to resuscitate my corpse of a career."

Yumi's expression sinks further and further with each of these words, the crowd booing and chanting "YUMI! YUMI!" showing whom they are in support of. Aelita notices a crowd sign out of the corner of her eye that reads, "Fallen Angel"…

…and that prompts Aelita to scoff and say, "'Fallen Angel' my ass—that match was about ME and my RISE, and I'm going to KEEP RISING higher than a zeppelin…IN SPITE of 'Team Lyoko'. Matter of fact, it's REALLY starting to open up in my mind right now—'Team Lyoko'?" Aelita raises her eyebrows. "…You and YOUR friends need to figure out a new name for your circle from now on, because you wouldn't BE Team Lyoko if not for GOING to Lyoko, and you would have never GONE to Lyoko had it not been for THE QUEEN!"

Aelita points to herself and shouts off-mic, "It wouldn't exist without me! It wouldn't have succeeded without me! WHO deactivated all of those towers? WHO'S the one XANA always wanted?"

And slowly…Yumi is starting to be able to take less and less of this…as each barb dug another trench, another rift in their friendship, their unofficial sisterhood. Yumi clenches a fist…tightens her hold on the microphone…

…and says, "…Aelita…you're young…you're impressionable… We always KNEW that; that's why we spent time with you to make sure you were in the right frame of mind and you didn't get MANIPULATED…manipulated like you've been already. But the more I listen to this…it begins to sound a whole lot MORE than manipulation…and if THIS is you now, if THIS is the way you're going to act…" Yumi's hand starts to shake… "I'm going to have to go to a place I DO NOT want to go with you…a place that YOU don't want to see me in…a place that might just get another FWA…but for an ENTIRELY DIFFERENT REASON…"

The crowd gets the implication behind this, and they start to cheer for the very prospect; they want to see Yumi batter something into Aelita (or OUT of her, depending on your perspective). Yumi's look at Aelita is less of a look of concern, of love…but a look of necessary roughness…while Aelita takes this gesture in on her own end…and steps up closer to Yumi.

"…Is that a—"

[Sheeeeee looks good to me!

She's got everything I want, everything I need!

Sheeeeee looks good to me! (She looks good to me!)

She's got everything I want, everything I need!]

("She Looks Good (V3)" by Jim Johnston plays)

Aelita gets interrupted again, this time by DIFFERENT music…

"Whoa, hang on!" Jeremy says. "That's the music of…someone ELSE, and this just gets more interesting when you consider THIS…!"

…

…as Elizabeth "Sissi" Delmas walks onto the stage in her pink tee and denim jeans, taking less time to showcase her good looks and more time to watch Aelita and Yumi as she heads towards the ring herself, the crowd in a mix of boos…and some intrigued nondescript exclamations.

"We have Aelita, we have Yumi, and now we have SISSI in the mix? Oh man!" Al says. "The three original Code Lyoko girls (not counting 5BW's Laura Gauthier) in the same spot altogether?"

"And this, I believe, is the first time we've seen YUMI and SISSI in the same space since Yumi's debut on XX 20, and considering the relationship THOSE TWO have…how is THIS going to turn out?" Jonathan asks with intrigue.

"I will say this: Sissi Delmas is UNQUESTIONABLY the sexiest girl out of the three," Cris says, which earns him glances from the other commentators. "…What?"

Sissi's music stops, and she gets inside the ring saying in her own mic, "I've had it! As the principal's daughter, I command that this STOP! This has gotten FAR too absurd!" Sissi shakes her head in disgust.

Yumi, a coldness overcoming her voice, growls, "Sissi, this DOES NOT concern you…"

"Wrong as usual, Yumi—this tête-à-tête has EVERYTHING to do with me," Sissi disagrees, bringing a deeper glare from Yumi.

…

"I mean…you ARE hearing this, aren't you? …Hearing Pinko Shrimp here flapping her gums over how SHE'S the top girl out of Code Lyoko, how she's 'the only one that matters'?" Sissi speaks. "You couldn't have thought I was going to stand back there and let her take all of those liberties, hm?" Sissi turns to look at Aelita now. "Little Einsteiness, you must think you're hot and special because Sailor Moon picked you out of a crowd…but you know what? Knowing that she did that makes me lose a little bit of respect for HER more than you, because if Sailor Moon really wanted the most sassy, skilled and sexy Lyoko girl to round out her enterprise…she would have given ME a call instead of you. I guess she just doesn't have the mind or the eyes for talent that I thought she did. Tsk, tsk…to think that she'd reach out to YOU of all people…"

Yumi blinks and raises an eyebrow, not knowing whether to approve this interaction or not, considering what's coming out of Sissi's mouth…and, to a degree, who it's to.

Aelita says with a chuckle, "That's really cute, Sissi. The only reason you have any TV time tonight is that you decided to infringe upon ME, but it's cute nevertheless."

The crowd half "Ooooohs" and half BOOS this statement from the Horsewoman, Sissi expressing a look of revulsion from that statement. Aelita then disinterestedly says, "ALL of this really is quite endearing with the three of us…but I'm afraid I have SIGNIFICANTLY better things to do with my Saturday night than stay here, like get a word in with Commissioner Gordon for instance, because if the bucket of bolts is getting a Title shot at Regal Rumble, I'M surely getting one too. So you ladies have fun, okay?" Aelita's tone grows patronizing here. "Just not TOO MUCH fun though—after all, you DO know why you're in this ring in the first place, right?"

With a wink and a heel swivel, Aelita starts to proudly walk out her way to the ropes to exit the ring…

…

…but then Sissi grabs her by the hair and YANKS her to the canvas with a Hair-Pull Mat Slam!

"OH! YIPE!" Jeremy exclaims.

"WHOA!" Cris gasps. "How about THAT?!"

"Sissi taking down Aelita!" Jonathan shouts.

"And taking her down pretty HARD too!" Al adds.

Aelita holds the back of her head with a groan while Yumi is surprised as well by Sissi's sudden action…as are the fans, some of whom starting to actually cheer it…

…

…before Sissi crouches down to ground level, looking Aelita right in the eyes as the pink-haired gal is getting to her own knees. Sissi holds up a finger and says, "Let's make one thing perfectly clear: NO ONE has things better to do than Sissi Delmas. And if you want to convince yourself that the reason why I'm in this ring is because of YOU…then I may as well take FULL advantage of it." Sissi juts out a thumb behind her in Yumi's direction. "Geisha Goth over there and I don't find each other on the same page very often…but I think her idea of beating you back into who you were is a pretty damn good one."

"Oh, we're getting BOLD up in here, aren't we?" Jeremy says.

The crowd feels the tension themselves and vocalizes its own desire to see where this goes…while Sissi continues, "My only little tweak to her idea…is that instead of beating you into being my friend…I'm going to beat you back into being the uninteresting, insignificant wet-behind-the-ears Carnation Pink crayon you are and always will be."

"Ohhhhhh, and shots are indeed FIRED, this time by Sissi!" Al says.

"She's still the resident Mean Girl of Kadic, but for right now, these fans are kind of liking it…maybe HATING to like it!" Cris says.

Sissi looks over to Yumi and says, "As for you, you're more than free to watch me do what you couldn't if you like…and I really hope ULRICH'S watching it too…"

Sissi smirks, knowing how deep THAT remark went…

…

…and Yumi smirks herself—before GRABBING Sissi by the collar of her tee and pushing her against a corner!

"UH-OH UH-OH UH-OH!" Jeremy triplicates. "Sissi might want to face Aelita, but antagonizing Yumi might get in the way of such a thing!"

"Yumi wouldn't admit it, but when it comes to Ulrich…let's just say she DOES NOT want SISSI hanging around him…" Jonathan speaks.

Yumi holds Sissi against the turnbuckles, teeth gritted and snarling at the principal's daughter…

…

…before telling her in a low tone, "…Have at it."

With one last nudge into the corner, Yumi leaves the ring to Sissi and Aelita, giving one last look at Aelita as the latter is starting to stand. Yumi sighs as she looks at the daughter of Franz Hopper…

…

…while Aelita picks back up her microphone…looks at Sissi and says, "Oh, you think you're getting a match now? You think you're getting YOUR big moment with me standing here?" Aelita shakes it all off and stands back up. "…I let you talk…I let you stand beside me… Hmph… Why not?" Aelita half-splays her arms. "I WILL let you wrestle me, Elizabeth…but don't even begin to think that I'm going to let you have anything to the degree of what I suffered HER against me—I'm not THAT generous…" Aelita points at Yumi when she makes this point…before pointing at the bottle laying next to the steel steps, "and I've got a bottle of Dom Pérignon that's losing its sparkle the longer it sits there. So this is gonna be the CRASH COURSE at why Plan A is the best damn technician going today."

Aelita puts the microphone down and motions for a referee to get to the ring immediately while she removes her expensive fur jacket, leaving herself conveniently in her wrestling attire, ready to handle Sissi, who stretches by the ropes…while there is indeed a referee on his way to officiate this impromptu match. Leif Heralding slides in and makes sure both competitors are ready for action…

Aelita Schaeffer vs. Sissi Delmas (with Yumi Ishiyama on commentary…sort of)

With the match being set up and referee Leif Heralding inside the ring to preside over the action, Aelita Schaeffer gets herself into wrestling mode, setting down her fur jacket on the ringside floor beside her closest corner, while shouting, "Time to watch the mat mistress at work!" Yumi Ishiyama, who has now taken a seat at ringside next to Jeremy Ellis with a headset on (with the still fresh announce table rubble from Dragon Kids/Forces of Nature underneath her feet), takes a moment to officially greet the other commentators as her eyes are locked onto the ring. The bell sounds with her back still turned to Sissi Delmas…

…

…and Sissi Delmas runs over and quickly rolls Aelita up from behind! The referee counts 1…2…

…Aelita kicks out! Sissi Chops Aelita's chest and throws punches at her, starting the bout off on the immediate offensive from the near-fall…but on one strike, Aelita catches the arm and transitions into a Wrist Lock. Sissi forward rolls and reverses the Wrist Lock in her favor…but on her Arm Wringer attempt, Aelita front flips through it to her feet and reverses the hold into a Hammerlock. Sissi backs into a corner to ram Aelita's spine into it…but Aelita holds onto the Hammerlock all the same. Aelita pushes out of the corner and Leg Sweeps Sissi prone, keeping a grip on the Hammerlock throughout…and even modifying the hold by letting go of the arm by her hands…and using her FEET to maintain the Hammerlock. Aelita stands on Sissi's arm (and her back as well), using her now free hands to paintbrush the back of Delmas's head tauntingly. Aelita even takes a bow while holding onto the Hammerlock…and grabs Sissi in a Chin Lock while standing above her and bowing. Aelita pulls back on Sissi's head, bending her backward…

…

…but Sissi manages to slip her head free, use her legs and free hand to spin around, and uses her upper body wait to tip Aelita onto her own back and Jackknife Pin her! The referee counts 1…2…Aelita kicks out, and as Sissi stands she takes a Reverse Mule Kick to the back of her head from the Lyoko Princess/Queen. Aelita later attempts a Hammerlock Slingshot Back Suplex…

…but Sissi flips through it…and delivers a Hammerlock Russian Leg Sweep, using Aelita's own arm-inspired offense against her. Sissi even sticks out her tongue to emphasize this…all while Yumi watches quietly. When asked about how much she is really pulling for Sissi in this match…Yumi doesn't respond outright, only continuing to watch the match.

Sissi goes for a Scoop Powerslam after an Irish Whip…but Aelita spins through the maneuver and turns it into a Hoverboard Lock Kimura á la Yujiro Kushida! Sissi screams out in visible pain while Cris Collinsworth…actually scoffs in disgust. Jeremy blinks, saying that he expected Cris to completely turn a corner on Aelita and start playing her up endlessly…to which Cris explains, "She badmouthed the VP. I can't, in good conscience, fully lend support to someone who does that. I can say she IS gifted, however. THAT much I will grant her…"

And Yumi…exhales, actually saying her own words: "If she's this good, and I KNOW she's this good, why the hell does she need the Horsewomen? Why? Can any of you explain that to me? Any good reasons?" …Silence…as Sissi does eventually achieve a rope break for the Hoverboard…but Aelita picks Sissi up, kicks away at her arm as it is tied between the ropes…and gives the principal's daughter an Inverted Full Nelson Overhead Release Suplex for a near-fall!

Aelita adds to the onslaught while maintaining a grip on the arm of Sissi with a Hammerlock Brainbuster…transitioned into a Hammerlock Guillotine Choke. Aelita pulls back on both of her individual holds, keeping the pressure up on each of them…before Sissi manages to power up to her feet and ram Aelita into a corner four times to break free. Sissi nurses her neck and her limb…and as she looks up, Aelita is on the middle rope ready to deliver an Aelitacanrana, which she snaps off with ease! Aelita blows a kiss in Yumi's direction and smirks…grabbing Sissi's arm and trying an Axe Kick to the limb itself…

…

…but Sissi moves her arm away and drops Aelita with a Sleeper Slam! This provides an opening for Sissi to pull herself together…and start fighting back…

…

…and fight back is what Sissi does with Clotheslines using her left arm, the good arm at this point. These are followed by a kick to Aelita's gut…then a Kneeling Shoulder Neckbreaker, connected and turned around into a Facecrusher! Sissi picks Aelita up from the canvas from here…and gives her an Over-the-Shoulder Gutbuster…before setting her up in a Fireman's Carry and nailing a Samoan Drop! Aelita rises…

…

…and Sissi uses her good arm to SLAP Aelita silly, the smack ECHOING around the walls of the building! Even Yumi audibly gasps upon seeing this! Aelita's cheek is the color of her hair, as Sissi screams, "I'VE STILL GOT MY OTHER HAND TO SLAP YOU AROUND!"…and Aelita retorts in kind with a hard Spinning Back Kick to the stomach. Aelita hits the ropes…and goes for the Return to the Past…

…

…but Sissi, in mid-move, turns it into a Uranage Backbreaker…followed by a Lariat as Aelita is draped over Delmas's knee! Sissi pins Aelita: 1…

2…

…

…2.8375 Aelita kicks out!

Sissi attempts a Suplex…

…

…but her arm is starting to heavily bother her, causing the Suplex to not be followed through with…and Aelita takes advantage by turning it in her favor with the Eye of XANA! Then Aelita grabs Sissi's right arm…twists it…

…walks over to a corner…climbs up…walks along the top rope…

…

…and performs a Rope-Walk Tornado Armbreaker! The Fourth Woman holds up four fingers as she goes into a cover: 1…

2…

…

…2.875 Sissi kicks out! Aelita stands…looks around, looks at Yumi…

…

…looks back at Sissi, who is on her knees…

…

…and throws a Roundhouse Kick at Delmas, but Sissi DUCKS…

…

…only for Aelita to come back up and…poke Sissi in the eyes rather than follow up with a second Roundhouse Kick attempt! Aelita has herself a laugh…

…

…and then she BICYCLE KICKS Sissi right in the face! That brings a wide smirk on Aelita's face…and a deep frown onto Yumi's, who fully picks up on Aelita snubbing the Laser Arrow of Odd's in favor of a Sailor Moon-esque Senshi Boot. Aelita covers Sissi Delmas…

…

…and Sissi kicks out, almost miraculously so! Aelita looks at tad bit surprised…but she takes it in stride, pulls Sissi back up…

…

…and…goes for the Aelita DDT…

…

…but Sissi prevents it and knocks Aelita down hard with a flash French TKO out of nowhere! Aelita drops, and Yumi gasps again, not expecting that kick and making that clear…

…

…and then, as Aelita slowly stands, Sissi runs up a nearby corner and hits Aelita with the Whisper in the Wind, shades of Ulrich Stern himself! The Lyoko Joshi at the broken announce table…isn't exactly tickled pink by this, but she intently watches Sissi pin Aelita…and referee Leif Heralding counts 1…

2…

…

…Aelita gets her shoulder up before 3! Some of the crowd members actually start a "Sissi! Sissi!" chant…

…as Delmas stands and goes for the Sissi-Fit, putting Aelita in the Standing Headscissors and hooking the arms…

…

…or TRYING to hook the arms…but she has difficulty doing so as her injured right arm is proving a major hindrance! Al Michaels points out that that must have been the strategy all along: weaken the arm so she could remove the Sissi-Fit from her arsenal. Sissi, fighting through, tries to go for it again anyway…

…

…but to no avail as Aelita counters by lifting up Sissi into a Fireman's Carry…

…

…transitioning that into an Electric Chair…and performing a Bridging Electric Chair Drop, pinning Sissi's shoulders down for 1…

2…

…

…not three…as Aelita pulls Sissi up by her legs…keeps a hold of them…

…

…and ties the legs up in the Over-the-Shoulder Cloverleaf instead, latching in the injured right arm of Delmas in her other hand! The FWA-winning Lyoko girl grins, as Jonathan mentions that Aelita adjusted her Lyoko Lock submission such that she is applying the Cloverleaf over her left shoulder rather than her usual right, thus allowing her to grab the ailing right arm of Sissi in her own right arm in the Butterfly portion of the hold. Aelita exclaims, "WHO'S THAT TOP LYOKO GIRL? COME ON; I WANNA HEAR IT…" Sissi yells out through the pain and tries to bear it…

…

…but it's just too much as Sissi Delmas taps out, giving Aelita Schaeffer the victory as "Lovefurypassionenergy" by Boy Hits Car plays and the fans boo vociferously. Plan A makes sure the referee cleans his hands before grabbing her arm to raise it in victory, as is custom. Yumi just watches the victory sequence with an unhappy expression, this all just reminding her how far gone Aelita is starting to become…

One of the cameras is positioned to check on Sissi's condition as she holds her arm in agony with closed eyes…and Aelita notices the cameraman who is recording this…

…and the Lyoko Princess/Queen slides out of the ring and confronts the cameraman with a glare, yelling, "Did SHE win the match? No? So then WHY are you filming her? WHY are you focusing on the LOSER instead of the WINNER? Does that make any sense? What kind of producer ARE you?!" The cameraman pleads his own case between sighs…

…

…until Aelita eventually says, "I'll be reasonable then—I'll give you something to focus your camera on her for…" She slides back into the ring…

…

…grabs Sissi's arm and applies a Fujiwara Armbar! Referee Leif Heralding tries to rip Aelita off of the downed and hollering Sissi, but to no avail as the daughter of Franz Hopper yanks back on the arm of Sissi through gritted teeth amidst an ocean of heavy boos! Al Michaels calls this display "narcissistic and reprehensible beyond the likes of ANYTHING we've seen or heard from this young lady!"

Sissi's screams grow LOUDER and LOUDER and LOUDER…

…

...until Yumi Ishiyama throws down her headset back onto the floor, runs into the ring and tackles Aelita away from Sissi by force! Aelita pushes Yumi back and gets to her knees, staring at Yumi with wide eyes as Ishiyama stands up in front of her, Sissi Delmas getting attended to by the official. Aelita and Yumi's eyes meet, the latter's filled with a mix of disappointment, distaste, dismay, discomfort…and dander and annoyance. Aelita shouts at Yumi over how she's trying to take the moment Aelita made for her once again….to which Yumi's right leg starts to shake…

…

…and Yumi bends backward and SHRIEKS, setting up for a Boma Ye to a wide-eyed Aelita Schaeffer right where she is…

…

…but before she can fire it, Dora Marquez with Boots the Monkey enters the ring and blasts into Yumi with a Big Boot to the chest! Dora proceeds to drop several knees onto the ribcage of the Japanese Lyoko Warrior while Boots chirps in approval, encouraging this attack…while Aelita looks on from aside.

…

Dora punches Yumi in the face while pulling her by the hair…and Yumi tries to fight back with punches to the midsection, then elbow strikes to the face…before hitting the ropes…

…

…and running into a Pop-Up Samoan Drop from Dora! Dora delivers a series of Elbow Drops to the chest, followed by a Falling Headbutt…before picking Yumi up and Sidewalk Slamming her to the canvas! Dora climbs up to the top rope shortly after these moves…

…

…and drops onto Yumi with a Flipping Senton smack-dab onto Yumi's torso! Boots pulls out a banana from Dora's purple backpack…and SNAPS it in two pieces, signaling what must happen next. Dora nods, picking Yumi up…Bell Clapping before snatching her by the neck with both hands…and slamming her to the canvas with a Chokebomb!

Dora and Boots nod at their handiwork, the monkey saying in a serious tone, "YOU DID IT…YAAAAY…" …before chirping giddily with a grin and walking off. Dora mutters under her breath on her exit, "Ahora ella se quedará centrado en mí…"

…

Following this attack, Aelita looks at the downed Yumi…picks up a microphone and says, "I guess your little challenge is going to have to wait even longer, isn't it? It's just as well…considering you have something ELSE to worry about…and so do I." Aelita drops the mic with a chuckle and goes to make her own exit, picking up the bottle of champagne that was given to her earlier…

…

…and Aelita blinks…and slides back into the ring, picking back up the microphone and saying, "Actually, before I go, I want to open this up; it may be a tad on the warm side but all of this has made me parched… Cork popper, anyone? Anyone? …Anyone…?" Aelita looks around the ring and the audience, the announcers…the camera guy…

…

…and then back down to Yumi…

…

…and Aelita puts the champagne bottle down on the mat on its side…

…

…grabs Yumi from off of the mat…

…

…twists her arm…

…

…and DROPS her onto the bottleneck of the champagne bottle with an Aelita DDT, sending her into the neck with enough force to SHATTER the bottleneck and release the cork with it! With the champagne bottle now open (and, well, partially broken), Aelita picks it up, keeping the liquid intact and takes a small sip from the champagne bottle with a grin, carrying it with her on the way out…and leaving a hurt Yumi inside the ring, her former friend AND the face of Nick Jr. responsible for her less-than-great condition… Her hair hides her facial expression, but one could imagine…there isn't a smile on that face…

The Change of Plans…

Gwen Tennyson and Kai Green are sitting next to one another in a candlelit locker room, the former with her CCW Females Championship in her lap as she is watching television, and the latter with her eyes closed, whispering, "My Alpha Bitch Gwen, tthere is a rage in my heart and I cannot root it out. I know that I should calm down and offer the hurt and disappointment to You, but my emotion is running away with me. Help me to overcome this weakness and give me peace of heart as well as mind. Let me learn from this experience and grow into a better human being. Amen—"

Abruptly, Commissioner Gordon, not even giving the courtesy of knocking on the door, breaks his way into Gwen's locker room, offering it more light beyond just the candles and staring right at the CCW Females Champion…who is more than off-put by Gordon's sudden entry, saying with a scornful look, "I only do my Confessions via appointment, James…"

Gordon ignores the little remark from the Alpha Bitch and tells her and Kai that "mysteriously, unexplainably, completely out of the blue, out of nowhere, Julie Makimoto was found attacked and unconscious, and by the looks of things, her status in her match against you for that CCW Females Championship…is questionable."

Kai gasps, saying that this is the first she has heard or seen of Julie being attacked; she had been with her goddess all this time watching outside FWM programming (such as The Joker's Hand, Interviews with Nitz, et cetera). She didn't know Julie was out cold…but it was just as well, "for my goddess did decree to you and to all that the people of this audience were UNDESERVING of a second Championship defense after her remarkable feat of a first one…and thus, with this development, it looks like the Will of Gwen has once again won out."

Gordon starts to chuckle…and Gwen asks him what's so funny…to which Gordon replies that he finds it absolutely jocular that Kai Green actually expects Gordon to believe that she, Gwen and the cult had absolutely NOTHING to do with Julie being attacked in order to protect the Alpha Bitch from her second Title defense of the night after Carrie to start the show. Gwen glares at Gordon and says, "You're walking in here, accusing the accuser of perpetrating something upon that pathetic paynim Julie Emmymoto, and you don't have a LICK of proof to even sustain your claim that Kai or my people did a thing. You, an expert law enforcement official of all people, should know how absurd it is to march into someone's domicile and indict them with no grounds and no warrant whatsoever…even if that person is an evil, malignant, yet insurmountable immortal. Hell, you want to start pointing fingers? Did you ever think that maybe those insidious infidels from The END were responsible for it? After all, they attacked Carrie, did they not? Carrie and Julie, last I remembered, were seen talking to one another right before the attack, which means once they hit one, the other wasn't too far behind. Maybe if you put that detective mind of yours to better use than trying to fight a battle you or anyone couldn't possibly hope to win, you'd get a better approval rating around here. You might just get GM of the Year at the 2015 FWAs if you're lucky! Think about THAT as Kai and I prepare to hold court elsewhere, because I'm LEAVING…and I'm taking my forfeit win over the 'triumphant returnee' with me." Gwen smiles…

…but then Gordon cuts her off before she can even start packing. "ACTUALLY, the Will of Gwen is about to hit another snag, because fortunately for us all, I ran into two other individuals who gave me a SPLENDID idea that I intend to put to use." Gordon tells Gwen that there happen to be girls on this roster who grew up in a world chockfull of monsters like her, and given that experience, he feels like they would know EXACTLY how to deal with her…and just like Jenny Wakeman, at Pandemonium, they found out what it was like to be robbed of Championship gold. So tonight, he was going to rectify that AND rectify this, because now Gwen Tennyson was going to defend the CCW Females Championship…against SANSA STARK.

Kai Green explodes into shouts of discontent and disbelief while Gwen angrily sneers at Gordon, who has found a way to STILL defy her words on there not being another Championship defense. Kai exclaims, "YOU ARE CONTINUALLY PUSHING YOUR LUCK, MORTAL! HOW DARE YOU! HOW DARE THIS! YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW THAT I OR ANY OF HER DISCIPLES WERE IN THAT BATHROOM!"

Gordon nods and says, "True…but then again, if this is the first you heard about the attack, how do you know it took place in a bathroom? I don't believe I mentioned THAT…"

Kai pales…and after a beat, she says, "…Ummm…HELLO?" She points to Gwen. "Goddess? OMNISCIENT one? I knew it was in a bathroom because SHE knew it was in a bathroom, and as her Messenger it is part of my makeup, so OF COURSE I would know such! …Obviously!"

Gordon just continues staring at Kai.

"…Gwen is better than Emmy," Kai says with a blank face.

Gordon smirks, knowing he has Kai beat…and looks right at Gwen. "Keep your wrestling vestments on. We'll be seeing you in that ring again yet. So get comfortable with them…but not with THAT," Gordon points to the Females Title and, with that, Commissioner of CCW leaves…while Gwen is CHAGRINNED…

…and Kai Green screams, "THE WORLD WILL KNOW HOW OUTRAGEOUS THIS IS! I PROMISE YOU! YOU WILL NOT WIN, JAMES GORDON! NO ONE WINS BUT MY GODDESS! GAAAH!" Kai pants…before putting her hands together, closing her eyes tighter and saying faster, "MyAlphaBitchGwen, thereisarageinmyheartandIcannotrootitout…"…all while Gwen looks at her Belt, her dried blood-coated face quivering as she looks at it…and as she hears Kai praying in a panic, the more she hears this recital…the ANGRIER she appears…

…

…and then, Gwen ALPHA BITCH SLAPS Kai in the back of her head, shutting her up dead in her tracks! Kai cries out in pain…and then looks up at her goddess whimpering…

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…and Gwen, in a deathly tone, says, "…If you are going to act unnerved like this…DO NOT do so in my presence…unless you want OTHER things to worry about. Do I make myself clear?"

Kai shivers from this imperative…and nods in a fright, "Y-yes, my goddess… Sorry, my goddess…" Kai looks down abashedly…before saying, "I—…is it okay if I…go to the ring tonight to…air my piques…there?"

Gwen continues to glare with umbrage at her prophet…before nodding slowly, "You may do that."

"…Thank you…" Kai says, rubbing her head…

…

…before the Messenger of Gwen…starts to slap HERSELF in the same spot! She gives herself two rough smacks upside her own skull, saying, "BAD KAI! BAD KAI! BAD! …Sinful…"

Gwen looks away from Kai…and back at her Title with a deep breath…before looking around her locker room with somewhat rapid eyes…and on commentary, judging from the facial expressions, Jonathan suggests that the reason why Gwen wanted Kai to stop panicking…is because she didn't want there to be TWO people making her squirm nervously – Kai…and HERSELF… Cris had his own opinion on the matter that…differed from that outlook, but that was that for now.

Plan A Walks Into Plan Redacted

Aelita Schaeffer is walking about backstage on her way to her locker room with (cracked) champagne bottle in hand…

…

…when she is cut off at the pass by Mystique Sonia, who GLARES darkly at the pinkette with malice. Sonia says that Yumi was right: Aelita WAS lucky it wasn't somebody else who came down there…somebody like HER.

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Aelita then starts nonchalantly walking PAST Sonia and away…but Mystique Sonia, continuing to glare, catches up to her and stands in front yet again. Sonia says that she looked so proud of herself for what she pulled at the FWAs…but if all of the friends she lost didn't matter to her, "pissing ME off SHOULD matter, because given everything I had to deal with, you really think I was the right girl for you to play?!"

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Aelita starts walking away from Sonia AGAIN, not even acting like she is THERE…

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…and Sonia GRABS Aelita by the arm and sweeps her around, eying her with pure wrath in her face, saying, "Listen to me, you jerkass. You want to pitch fits about people leeching off of you, stealing your attention, stealing your moments? Well, I had the Queendom FENDED OFF at the Awards; they were sent out of the ring, each and every one of them. It was MY TIME, MY MOMENT right there…and with a kick and a drop onto my head YOU ruined THAT for me, just to make me look like another laughingstock at your expense—well, you think I'm going to let that go? You think I'm going to just let you walk around these halls and NOT feel any bit of what I felt, not get the same treatment right back in return? You think I'm just going to stand by and be okay with it? Well, get that out of your head now, because I've got you in my sights. I'm coming for you. You took away my moment…so how about I take away something of YOURS? Like, maybe…that undefeated streak of yours? How about I take THAT away? How about I make YOU into a laughingstock? How about I leave YOU in a mess just like I did your new friends?! How does that sound, 'Princess'? How do you like THAT?!"

Sonia grits her teeth at Aelita…whose eyes are closed as she stands in front of the Heroine 108…

…

…and in a few seconds…Aelita opens her eyes and yawns, "WHOO…that was a nice little nap. Time well spent…"

Aelita walks right on by past Sonia now with her champagne bottle, taking another sip right out of it with a grin…while the completely IGNORED Sonia is left LIVID. Sonia is about to run and just bum-rush the Lyoko Princess…

…but she is stopped by Jenny Wakeman, who grabs her by the arm…and understands Sonia's anger and plight, but Techno-Tongue's TPL Match against the Poké-Coordinators is next. Sonia starts to get heated, pointing out that when Jenny had something to do outside of the tournament—getting a Females Championship Match at Regal Rumble—she got to do it…but now Sonia herself was getting denied, even though Techno-Tongue agreed between themselves that they would juggle personal matters with the tag team's common goal. Jenny says she never said Sonia COULDN'T pursue or confront Aelita, but now wasn't the time; now was THEIR time, the time for the TPL and they had a lot of naysayers to debunk by proving that they are STILL a unit and STILL the standard-bearers for the XX Tag Team Division.

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But when Jenny mentions how much she wanted them both to have each others' backs…that prompts Sonia to bring up how Jenny wasn't so trusting of Sonia having her back BEFORE with The END, accepting Annie and Reggie's help instead of telling them Sonia could handle it, which proved what Jenny's motive REALLY was. Jenny denies this, emphasizing that Reggie and Annie had already been in encounters with The END before, and they were just in the same place at the same time so it made sense; it had NOTHING to do with Sonia being incapable. "I KNOW how capable you are, friend… That's why you're my tag team partner… Please…"

Sonia looks at the Teenage Robot…contemplates…exhales with her hands on her hips…

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…and says, "Jen…after Pandemonium…after the FWAs…after THAT…I don't know if you or ANYONE knows how capable I am…but I'd be more than happy to show them all, especially you…friend."

Sonia pats Jenny's shoulder and says, "Come on… Let's go…" with a sudden smile on her face…a smile that one could only imagine felt like had its own implications…implications which unsettled Jenny…before Sonia started to walk in the direction of the Gorilla Position, Jenny shortly in tow for Techno-Tongue's match with the Poké-Coordinators…right after the commercial break.