Chapter 36

"Making her way to the ring, being accompanied by Roderick Strong and Alex Shelley, the current reigning and defending Woman's Champion – Jade Chung."

Jade slowly made her way down to the ring as the crowd booed and jeered her – it was so bad it was almost like she was the female equivalent of Jeff Jarrett. Being taunted like this was not making her feel any better about the up coming match. In fact she hated being hated so much by the crowd; she hadn't even done anything wrong! What was so wrong with supporting HER man and his group? And just what had Roderick done that had been so wrong? All he had done was get rid of some two faced blonde bitch that had been selling them out to the enemy! Yet Madison was seen as the victim and they were being made the enemy. It wasn't fair.

She looked up at the intimidating structure that was in front of her. If she survived this match tonight the first thing she was going to do on Monday morning was book herself back into wrestling school. She looked over at the referee as he opened the cage door for her to enter. She wondered to herself whether it would be worth while to try to use her womanly charms on him to help her get out of this match. That thought was dashed though when Traci's entrance music began to echo around the soundstage.

"Making her way to the ring, from Toronto Canada, Traci Brooks."

As Traci made her way down to the ring she looked nervously at both Roderick and Alex as they stood at ringside. She had really been counting on Matt to be by her side tonight, but he had refused – instead he was suppose to be meeting up with an old friend who had shown up at the show earlier in the night. She calmed herself down by remembering that the match was inside a six foot steel cage – there was no way they could interfere.

She climbed up into the ring and watched as the referee locked the door. She looked around the structure – it brought back memories of the previous year's Lockdown when she was in here fighting Trinity and managing Chris Sabin. She shook her head – now was not the time for a trip down memory lane. She had a belt to win back.

Scott smiled as he walked back into Team Canada's locker room. Everything was going to plan, well almost everything. He still couldn't get in contact with Madison though and it was starting to worry him. He had tried to call her apartment in Tokyo, but Allison hadn't seen or heard from her all day. He'd tried Low Ki, but he hadn't spoken to her since the Zero-One show.

"Hey, the women's match is on" Petey said as he noticed his Coach standing near the door.

"Doesn't interest me" Scott replied as he put his phone back in his bag.

"Well, if your interested Jade is getting her ass completely beaten up" Petey grinned as he watched Traci once again ram Jade's face into the cage walls.

"Well, if your interested I just solved your little knockout problem" Scott mimicked. That caught Petey's attention.

"Really – you found some one desperate enough to go after Bentley?"

"Yep, apparently there are some unresolved feelings between them, so she was more then happy to do the job."

"Who is it?"

"That you will find out at the next Impact tapings. She wants the whole thing to be hush hush until she dots the i's and crosses the t's on her new TNA contract" Scott stated smugly.

"You got her a contract already? How the hell did you pull that off?"

"Dixie was walking past just after I got off the phone with her, so I ran my proposal of increasing our women's division further, and with this little ladies skills it wasn't hard to convince Dixie to snap her up quickly" Scott replied, making it all sound so easy.

Petey grinned as he turned his attention back to the TV. She would soon be his, soon he would have the beautiful Traci in his corner cheering him on, showering him with kisses at every turn. He had longed for that day ever since he laid eyes on her at the first show.

"PETEY"

Petey snapped out of his lustful day dream to see Scott's annoyed face.

"Pay attention! Where are Roode and Young?"

Petey paused for a moment, trying to remember what was going on.

"Oh, they left about fifteen minutes ago to celebrate their victory."

"Typical, they still in the arena or gone completely?"

"Gone completely I think" Petey replied as he turned back to the TV. To his horror he saw Roderick climbing over the cage wall and jumping into the ring.

"What the fuck is going on?" Petey yelled at the TV. Scott made his way over to where he was sitting. He watched in anger and Roderick hit a sick looking backbreaker on Traci while Alex had the referee distracted from the outside of the ring.

Traci withered around on the mat in pain. Her whole back felt like someone was pulling each disk in her spine out one by one. She struggled to get her breath back, to get vital oxygen flowing through her body once again. She looked over at the referee but he was still distracted by Alex. She rolled over onto her stomach only to feel Jade kicked her in the back. She cringed in pain, vowing that the bitch was going to have hell to pay for this. She prayed that Matt would soon be on his way down to help her, but the entrance tunnel remained empty.

She felt Roderick once again pick her up by the hair. She screamed out for the referee to turn around, but his attention remained focused on Alex on the outside. To be honest she couldn't even be sure that any sound was coming out of her mouth – the pain in her back was just unbearable. As she tried to scream she once again felt her body being slammed down into his knee and the horrible sensation shooting through her back. She tried to cry out, but there was just no sound. She tried to crawl to the other side of the ring, she wanted to get as far away from them as she could, but the smallest movement caused more pain to shoot through her. She gave up, waiting for them to attack her again, waiting for it to all be over.

But it wasn't over yet. Once again Roderick picked her up of the ground. She slumped against his shoulder – her own legs refused to hold her weight. He laughed as he passed her over to Jade.

"Aww, what's wrong Traci, can't hack it anymore?" Jade sneered as she held Traci's face up to hers.

"Fuck you" Traci replied as she glared into Jade's ice cold eyes.

"Hmm, I guess you just haven't learnt your lesson yet" Jade declared before ramming Traci's head into the cage wall.

The last thing Traci heard was Jade laughing before everything turned black.