Chapter 54 (Daily)
The day after the episode of Xtrema, Sayuri tapped her pen on her office desk at a rapid pace. She sighed when Ryuji opened her office door letting Charlie Hart in.
"You wanted to see me, Ms. Rogue?" Charlie asked.
"Yes, I did. Have a seat."
Charlie sat in the desk in front of the boss' desk. She noticed the uneasy look in the CEO's eyes.
"Is something the matter?" Charlie asked. "Is it about my match last night? Because I thought I did pretty good."
"You did. It's nothing you did wrong." Sayuri said. "Look, I've got good news and bad news. The good news is, I've chosen you to represent Xtrema in tomorrow night's Rookie All-Star Match."
"Really?" Charlie asked. "That's great. So… what's the bad news?"
Sayuri sighed. "You have a match at Supernova."
"How is that bad news?"
"Because of who your opponent is… and the stakes."
Charlie moved her head back nervously. "What does that mean?"
"Look, kid, I've got this project in progress. I can't give you a lot of the details, but I can tell you that I need the support of many other wrestling organizations… including WWE. Unfortunately, you know how stubborn Vince McMahon can be, so he needed convincing. So… we made a deal."
"Where are you going with this?" Charlie asked fearing she already knew the answer.
"Your match at Supernova will be the visitor's match with our guest from WWE. If you win, McMahon will give us his support. If his wrestler wins, however, then I transfer your contract to him."
Charlie's hands immediately dropped on her chair's arms. "You bet my contract?"
"Technically, I do have the right to since I'm your boss." Sayuri said.
"But I don't even like McMahon!"
"I'm not a fan of his either, but I need his support for this!"
Charlie sighed heavily. "Well, who's my opponent?"
"That's the hardest part." Sayuri answered. "Vince McMahon has chosen to put you against… Natalya Hart."
Charlie dropped her hand again even harder than before. "WHAT?! YOU PUT ME IN A MATCH AGAINST NATALYA?!"
"I didn't have a reason to say no." Sayuri explained. "Look, there's no need to worry. I wouldn't have agreed to it if I didn't have faith in your in-ring skills."
Charlie sighed heavily. "You're really putting me in a spot here, boss!"
"I know, but I have every confidence in your abilities." Sayuri said. "Just get yourself ready for your match."
Charlie sighed again as she left the room.
"Well, she took that better than expected." Ryuji said. "I thought for sure she was going to flip the desk."
"So did I." Sayuri admitted.
Rosita returned to the restaurant where she was before. There, in the same private room, she approached the same woman who she spoke with the last time she was there.
"You set Black Swan up against me?" Rosita asked. "Is this because I said no to your cockamamy scheme?"
"Look, we've been through every other way to promote Mexican wrestling." Mammy said. "Right now, we're desparate."
"Si, that much is obvious! Look, it's too late for your plan anyway. The Rookie All Star Match is already set up. There's no available slot for my match."
"Then we'll have to do this the hard way." Mammy said. "Once again, I give you my offer to come back to Mexico with us and…"
"For the last time, no! You are exhausting to deal with!"
Mammy sighed. "What's it going to take for you to come back to Mexico?"
"What's it going to take for you to leave me alone, a restraining order?" Rosita replied.
Mammy gave a glare from her eyes before using the last trick in her arsenal. "Fine. I suppose there's only one way to settle this. At Supernova, you will have your match against Black Swan, mascara contra mascara. If you win, you can stay. If she wins, you transfer back to Mexico."
"And what does Black Swan get out of this?" Rosita asked.
"Well, I gave her a fantastic offer before your tag match." Mammy said. "You see, she's tired of not having a lot of in-ring time these days, so I promised her that if she won, she would not only take your mask, but she can transfer over to my promotion, and I will guarantee her a mascara contra mascara match at every show. So what do you say?"
Rosita sighed. "Relentless bruha. Fine. I'll accept. But I'm having Maria in my corner."
"Fine by me, as long as I'm at Black Swan's corner."
At the Xtrema gym, many people were doing other things. For example, Poison was talking to Diana Diaz while she was lifting a dumbbell with only one arm.
"I can't believe you accepted a last woman standing match and you bet all the belts." Poison sai6d.
"I like a challenge." Diaz said.
"You realize that I'm not going to be able to join you at ringside for this match."
"Good, because I wasn't going to ask for it. After all, this will give me a chance to defeat Queen Bee in the most hardcore way possible."
Poison sighed. "You may be smarter than Hugo, but you're just as exhausting as him."
In another part of the gym, Kaito was holding Queen Bee's legs down while she was doing sit ups.
"So you were serious?" Kaito asked. "You're actually going to face Diana Diaz to a last woman standing match?"
"I figured it would get her to betting all her belts at once." Queen Bee answered. "If I beat her and she loses all her belts, she'll stop coming after me for her dumb Ultimate Champion goal."
"You really not like that thing? I thought it was pretty cool."
"Please. Having a belt may make you a champion, but owning four different titles doesn't make you an 'Ultimate Champion'. All right. Enough of my workout. Why don't you get on your stomach while I sit on you?"
Kaito jumped up and blushed. "Whoa! This is hardly the time or place!"
"I sit on your back, dummy." Queen Bee chuckled. "I'm gonna be your weight while you do your push-ups."
"Oh." Kaito chuckled while blushing even harder. "My bad."
From the ring, Neko Girl had her mother in an ankle lock, but she didn't hold it as hard as she should for her attention was directed at Kaito.
"Tch. What does that idiot see in her?" she thought to herself. Mewlie got free of that and kicked her daughter in the nose making her yell. "AH! YOU BITCH! YOU NEARLY BROKE MY NOSE!"
"That's what happens when you loosen your hold on a superior catfighter." Mewlie said.
"Wow. Some teamwork."
The Killer Kitties looked out and saw Thunder Mana and Carly X standing ringside.
"What do you two want?" Neko Girl asked. "We already kicked both your asses."
"You didn't beat us both at the same time." Carly said. "Which is why we'll be asking Ms. Rogue for a tag team match against you at Supernova."
"You want to challenge us at Supernova?" Mewlie mocked. "Are you out of your minds? We'll scratch your eyes out."
"We'll see." Thunder Mana said.
At another part of the gym, Eris was using a cylinder platform to practice her stretching. When she was done, she smiled noticing Platinum Mask marching toward her at an alarming speed.
"Oh, what an honor. Do I bow before her grace?" Eris asked feigning a bow.
"How did you know?" Platinum Mask asked while checking to make sure no one could listen.
"I'm the Goddess of Chaos, princess. It's a method of mine to get into the heads of whoever I face. That means I need to learn everything I can about them. And the more I looked into you, the more you reminded me of the princess of a certain nation that's banned from sporting events outside. I must admit, I was rolling on the floor nearly dying of a heart attack."
"Listen to me, purple streak," Platinum Mask growled, "If you breath one word of this, I'll…"
"You'll what?" Eris asked with a confident smile. "If I blab, you'll be ruined. Not only that, but I can't even imagine what'll happen to your kingdom." Princess Elodie stayed quiet while Eris giggled. "I thought so. You'll hear from me soon. This is going to be fun."
There was another gym hidden in the back alley streets. Inside was a dark, windowless area with the most brutal settings in nearly every part of the room. On the wall was a sign that said "Hardkor". Most of the wrestlers there stood at ringside of one of the practice rings. Inside, two wrestlers were wailing on their latest newcomer, Vanessa Slayer, who wore a black leotard with no sleeves and leggings.
One of the women hurting Vanessa was an athletic blonde in a red sports bra, MMA gloves, bottom, and boots with yellow lines. Across her sports bra, there was a blank championship belt with a wolf head on the center plate, and that wolf had red eyes and fangs. The other woman was a large, muscular woman with blonde, spikey hair. She wore a black leotard with red claw marks over a red orb on the front and written in red claw marks on the back was the word "Klaws".
The large woman picked Vanessa up before slamming her down on top of the other wrestler who hit her with a steel chair as she fell. The steel chair was covered with barbed wire. The athletic woman gave a sadistic smile as she got out of the ring and pulled out a car battery from underneath. She connected it to a ringpost and grabbed onto Vanessa's legs from outside. She pulled roughly as Vanessa's crotch was slammed onto the post and she screamed in pain feeling the jolts running through her. That was when a timer echoed through the ring and the athletic woman let go.
Jessica Jaclyn walked out to the ring clapping her hands. "Well done, Fiona and Kassidy. Now, Vanessa, can you get up?"
Vanessa groaned feeling like she was about to die. But she grabbed onto a rope and used it to pick herself up. When she let go, she hobbled for a bit, but she regained her balance and stood tall.
"Excellent!" Jessica cheered. "For the past week, for three hours, you have been hazed in a double-team beatdown with no holds barred. Now that the week is over and you're able to stand on your own two feet, we can officially call you one of us. Welcome to Hardkor, Vanessa Slayer!"
The other wrestlers applauded. Vanessa slowly walked out and sat on the apron while Jessica continued.
"All right, everybody. Listen up. Yami's got an announcement to make, so lend us your ears." She held out her red phone and pressed the Speaker button before presenting it to the women around her. A distorted voice called out from it.
"Greetings, everybody. First of all, I'd like to welcome Ms. Slayer to our society. It's always a pleasure to find someone else who can survive Hell. In other news, our organization is close on becoming an official show. All we need is one good public match to please the crowd to await us."
"Which is why one of you will be competing in the Rookie All-Star Match tomorrow night." Jessica continued.
"And you're including me?" Vanessa asked. "Well, I'll be glad to…"
"Not you, Ms. Slayer." Yami replied. "If we are to make ourselves known, we cannot do so by going all out. We need to build ourselves up to the crowd while indicating how far we're willing to go. Which is why our representative shall be none other than… Penny Twist."
"Wazzat?" asked the short girl with long, blonde pigtails. She had white face paint with red diamond paint around her eyes. She wore a skimpy, bright red two piece and red sneakers with white laces. She wore fingerless gloves, but one was red and the other was right. "You want me to go?"
"As a face in Hardkor, you will not go as far as most of the other girls on the roster." Jessica explained. "But at the same time, your gimmick and colorful personality will excite the crowd."
"Ooh! So you're saying I get to roll around with another girl in public? Penny likey!" the clown-like girl shrieked in excitement. "Who am I going against?"
"From Xtrema, your opponent shall be Charlie Hart, the latest of North America's Hart family." Yami said.
"Hmm. So a Hart against a diamond." Penny said pointing at her eye makeup. "All we need now is a spade and a clover, and we'll have a full deck."
"Lord knows you don't have one." Fiona sighed.
"Aw, don't be like that Fi-Fi." Penny said taking a step closer to Fiona. She raised her hands ready to grope her. "Why don't you be my predator for the ni…"
Fiona shut her up by grabbing one of her hands and rushing behind her to dislocate her shoulder. Penny yelled out for a second before regaining herself. She grabbed her damaged shoulder and painfully lodged it back into place.
"Still playing hard to get, Fi-Fi?" Penny asked with a seductive tone. "Fine by me. That just makes you even hotter. But for now, I'll get my pleasure with the Hart girl tomorrow night."
"Good to know you're excited." Yami said. "We've got a lot of work to do, but when we are done, no one will ever forget the impact of Hardkor."
*Xtrema Shorts*
Chibi Monica Everly appeared on her stage with a Chibi version of Jun Juli beside her.
"Welcome back to Xtrema Shorts!" Chibi Monica called out. "Great to be back! For some reason, it's easier for Epiclot214 to write daily chapters instead of match chapters, but I digress. Today, we'll have our Q&A interview with one of the newest members of the roster, the leggy waitress, Jun Juli! Thanks for being here, Jun."
"Please. I thank the crowd for coming up for questions they want to ask me." Chibi Jun replied. "Lay on the standard questions and the personal ones, Monica."
"Eager, aren't we? Very well. First… How long have you been wrestling?"
"Well, I'm still a rookie, so not very long. Truthfully, Xtrema's my only wrestling experience."
"Do you have any dream opponents?"
"I think I'd like to face Sakura Hagiwara. I did find an online poll of whether or not her legs are better than mine. As someone who's quite proud of her divine legs, I find that offensive."
"How do you feel about your fans?"
"No joke. I love them, especially when they compliment my legs."
"What's the toughest match you've had so far?"
"Well, I guess it'll be my only match yet, Kyoko Natsumi."
"What do you do for fun?"
"Jogging. Squats. Dancing. Anything to work my legs."
"What do you think makes a great wrestler?"
"Anyone with a good attitude and a defining feature no one would forget can be a great wrestler for the fans."
"Do you have any interests besides wrestling?"
"Well, I have been thinking about doing some leg modeling, but that's only if this wrestling business goes south."
"All right. Now, onto the personal questions, all asked by Awesome ax10. What do you think about the comparison between yourself and Chun Li?"
"You mean that cop in the Street Fighter tournament? Honestly, I'm quite flattered. That girl has nice legs, even though I think mine are better. Still, I think that would make us great opponents if the time comes."
"Will you be interested in teaming up with fellow restaurant wrestling workers?"
"Sure. Anyone who's willing to actually fight for a restaurant they're proud to work at is okay in my book. I just hope I don't get a rotten partner."
"What are your personal thoughts on Kaito Marx?"
Chibi Jun giggled. "Well, I won't lie. He's kinda cute. I could gently wrap my legs around his head all day. Maybe if he and Bee break up, I can do just that for him."
"Thank you for this interview, Jun." Chibi Monica said. "In the next chapter, we'll be focusing on the Rookie All Star Match from Wanna Be the Strongest in the World episode 7, mainly Charlie Hart's match against Penny Twist, an OC created by Epiclot214 who's profile they aren't ready to publish yet. Who do you think is going to win, the Hart or the clown?
"Thank you, readers, for supporting this story with your views, follows, and favorites. If you have any questions you'd like to ask our characters, do not hesitate to ask. Any and all comments are welcome."