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Rebellion

[TV-14]

Darkness is all that is shown…along with the sound of heavy breathing. A puddle is then shown as a foot stomped on it, a cloaked female silhouette now exposed running from dogs and military officers chasing after her. From what one can tell, the scene is set in a dark post-apocalyptic timeline with signs displaying to obey the dictator and such.

The silhouette is seen running past a few skeletal corpses that appear to be revolutionists and the dictator's soldiers. She manages to find a place to hide as she turns a corner and camouflages herself in the darkness, fooling the officers that she had still went another way; she smiled under her cloak as she succeeded…

…but suddenly feels a hand covering her mouth, yelping out in surprise with her voice being muffled. She turned around to rebel against the attacker, but was stopped when the person held her wrists back and she stopped struggling as she recognized the, who now appears to be, cloaked man. He cracked a smirk as the cloaked female rolled her eyes…then shared a kiss with him, obviously happy to see her lover.

The two make their getaway at a shortcut, finally reaching their destination…which was a dead end alley…so one would think. The cloaked male allows his companion to proceed and she walks up to the wall to press her finger against it, which causes an eye scanner to appear and scan the woman's eye. When it finished, it greeted her in a female robotic voice:

["Welcome back…Rookie Revolution District Leader of Awesome Championship Wrestling: Daniels, Kendra."]

The woman removes her hood to revealed as truly Kendra Daniels herself with a grin herself and the cloaked man removes his, revealing himself as "The Alpha" Carter Young.

"Good to be back," Kendra smirks as she stepped back when the wall was opened up quickly brick by brick like a tech door and that's when "Uprising" by Muse began playing in the background.

The two enter inside with Kendra leading her romantic companion and the door shuts down, consuming their moonlight with darkness until blue hologram screens appear at their sides in the dark, a few of them showing highlights of The Rookie Revolution's overall accomplishments since their inception. They were walking by them like the screens were their hallways. They end up stopping in the main room with a massive computer screen, meeting up with fellow ACW RR District members, "The Omega" Stan Terra, "The Gore Machine" Jason Krueger, and "The Virus" Red Murdock aka RC Bane. The men greeted their district leader as she went over to check the current status all that has happened in the entire month of July.

[The paranoia is in bloom…

The PR transmissions will resume

They'll try to push drugs that keep us all dumbed down

And hope that we will never see the truth around…]

(Krueger, found sitting in a dark alley, is clinging onto his head as his eyes rapidly look around in utter paranoia and Bane is ensure him while trying to avoid being seen; Alpha & Omega are currently occupying enemy territory; and from a distance, Daniels watches the base of The Four Horsewomen partying through binoculars and a grows a scowl.)

[(So come on!)]

(One snapshot at a time: Krueger hits The Gore through Ichigo Kurosaki and Alpha & Omega take Carnage out with their Discus Big Boot (Young) / Running Legsweep (Terra).)

[Another promise, another seed

Another packaged lie to keep us trapped in greed

With all the green belts wrapped around our minds

And endless red tape to keep the truth confined…]

(Jesse Alvarez is seen onscreen announcing the International Championship tourney; Dante and Vergil stand right next to each other, back to back, as they're leaning against each other's backs, the former with a casual expression and the United States Championship around his waist and Vergil with eyes shut and clutching onto his amulet with an angry frown; James Griffin raises his newly won Intercontinental Championship, then proceeded by Luke Smith also raising his successfully defended Television Championship; PewDiePie stands alone at the center of the ring inside an empty arena with hands on hips and then looking up an "X" shaped shadow over him as the mat he stands on has a YouTube logo to represent the website and below it was "Revolution".)

[(So come on!)]

(Two snapshots at a time: Dante hits Devil May Cry on Vergil as Griffin hits a pop-up Tyrant Shellshock on Mason Stone and Smith drills Nathan Drake with the Blacksmith face-first onto his TV Title as PewDiePie hits the Bro Fist to Adrian Blake.

At the guitar buildup into the second verse, PewDiePie is seeing extending his hand out to the shadowed "X" above him as he clenches it into a fist with a smirk, the "X" overshadowing his knuckles.)

[Interchanging mind control

Come, let the revolution take its toll

If you could, flick the switch and open your third eye

You'd see that we should never be afraid to die]

(Yami Bakura cackles as he has a slowly rotating Earth in his hands and the darkness shuts him out; Takashi Komuro is then seen shouldering a metal baseball bat wrapped in barbwire and with his back turned before looking back with an animalistic look in his eye; Ash Ketchum, dressed in ragged clothing, looks over a rising sun from a cliff with his Pikachu on his shoulder as highlights of his ACW pay-per-view losses from Spring Breakdown to Reign in Blood, then a laughing Seto Kaiba and grits his teeth as he clenches his fists.)

[(So come on!)]

(Two snapshots at a time: The Gods of Darkness send Kohta Hirano through the flaming table with a Powerbomb / Running Neckbreaker combo as Komuro drills Marik Ishtar with an Inverted Death Valley Driver and Kaiba has Pikachu hostage in a small rubber-clad steel cage as Ketchum holds the three Blue-Eyes White Dragon cards up.)

[Rise up and take the power back

It's time the fat cats had a heart attack

You know that their time's coming to an end

We have to unify and watch our flag ascend]

(Beowulf leaps to his feet roaring to the cheering audience…on a TV screen as Kurt Hudson is watching from his luxury room with Alyssa Parker resting on his lap and Hattori Hanzo standing guard, the couple enjoying their rich life as they share a kiss until the scene shatters apart like glass; two hands shake as they belonged to Yugi Mutou and Atem of Altered Egos respectively before seeing an RR flag raising over them, then the screen was consumed by the black and red amorphous extraterrestrial parasites as the roar of Venom and the insane laughter of Carnage are heard.)

[(So come on!)]

(Two snapshots at a time: Beowulf Spears Hanzo as Hudson slams Beowulf with Hudson $treet and Altered Egos prepare their tag team finisher, Forgotten Memories, as The Symbiotes pierce through Yugi with Venomous Carnage.)

[Theeeeeeey…! Will! Not! Foooooorce us!

They! Will! Stop! Degraaaaaading us!

They! Will! Not! Controoooool us!

And we! Will! Be! Victoooooorious!]

(Various highlights show Dante performing the Stylin' Moonsault in slow motion, Kaiba planting Ash with a White Dragon Plunge, Ketchum beating on Kaiba's personal items and then planting the Attitude Adjustment on Saul Linklater, and Ichigo poses with rock horns at the stage as fireworks go off behind him, then fades to show him running out of the corner in slow motion before instantly hitting the Spear to Krueger.

Bakura and Takashi engage in a brutal brawl with security attempting to break them up, The Symbiotes make their Ascension-esque pose in the ring, Altered Egos raise their World Tag Team Championships with Hardy Boyz hand signs, and Jason hoisting his Hardcore Championship, then fades to show him running out of the corner in slow motion before suddenly hitting The Gore to Ichigo through the barricade.

Kurt Hudson attacks Beowulf's left knee with the black pipe, Beowulf stands tall with a bellow despite the injured leg, Alpha & Omega decimate The Symbiotes upon their return, and Kendra slaps Mai across the face before transitioning to the massive brawl between the champions of the Women's Division, Evil Beauty and the Four Horsewomen.

Dante and Vergil exchange words while glaring each other down, James hits Hernan Ortiz with the Chokebomb, Luke stands by with The Wolves as their right arms are raised with their titles, and PewDiePie roars with his fist rising up intensely as he celebrates his victory with Marzia Bisognin.)

As the song builds up to the chorus once again, Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha are seen from a faraway distance with their faces transparently seen in the dark skies as they walk towards each other from their long distance before they suddenly started running with the Rasengan and Chidori out.

[Theeeeeeey…! Will! Not! Foooooooooorce us!]

(Various rapid clips display Sasuke slamming Naruto head-first into a wall, then a monitor ripped from the announce table sent right into his skull; Naruto evading getting his head spiked as he pushed himself off the apron and shoots right fists into the ribs; Sasuke throws the blonde over to the announce table as he crashed into the commentator's chairs, then goes through the table with him via Sharingan Impact and again to Sakura Haruno before he swiftly strikes the Punt Kick to a bleeding Naruto and followed by performing the One-man Con-chair-to; Sasuke clutches onto his head tightly with an intense glare at a motionless and bleeding Naruto.

"ARE YOU HAPPY NOW, SASUKE?! WAS THAT ENOUGH FOR YOU, YOU BASTARD?!" Kenji's voice echoes.)

[They! Will! Stop! Degraaaaaaaaaading us!]

(The Orange Spark and The Lone Uchiha have a long stare-down; The Wolves are mercilessly beating down Naruto before they drive him through the table via Devour of the Wolves, then Sasuke strikes down Naruto with his own Leaf Village headband wrapped around his fist; Naruto returns the favor after distracting the referee via Shadow Clone as he hits the headband-clad fist into his skull, then Spider-Man picks up the win off Uchiha after a Spider Bite and Sasuke is last seen seething at Naruto, who stands at the stage.

"Every second by the day, these two find ways to make it personal…" Ned implies.)

[They! Will! Not! Controoooooooool us!]

(The Undisputed Champion plants Krueger with his Ninja's Way as Sasuke plants Kurosaki with the Sharingan Impact, then the two are seen having a massive brawl again on Ignition IV before being broken up by security and Sasuke would hit Alvarez and Marshall Eriksen with the Jumping Cutter; Naruto and Sasuke, in their sit-down interview with Markiplier, are glowering at each other from their seats, then again from a far distance with Naruto raising his title at the stage and Sasuke high at the arena steps with his arms raised in a Legend Killer pose.

"Three Stages of Hell—if that's what it takes to halt this intense rivalry, then so be it…" Kenji states.)

[And we! Will! Be! Victoooooooooorious!]

("One more shot and it's all said and done. Everything is on the line here," Markiplier comments as a closeup of the Undisputed Championship is shown.)

[(So come on!)]

Naruto and Sasuke are last seen clashing their forms of chakra at the center of the area, causing everything to go out in pure white…

…then static replaces it as it was on a giant hologram screen, which disappeared in front of the ACW RR District.

"…Rebellion…is simply another synonym for 'revolution'… Let's get started on that," Kendra smirks as she turns to her fellow RR members. "You boys have your missions tonight… No matter what happens…make sure the Revolution wins something."

Alpha & Omega, Bane and Krueger nod as they head off to star their missions and Kendra is the only one alone in the main room. She would then notice two silhouettes behind her, turning back to see them as cloaked females, who revealed themselves as Eliza Hart and Allison Wilson. The leader of Evil Beauty greeted her teammates as they look up at one final screen to display their enemy targets: Mai Valentine, Carly Shay, Sam Puckett and Aelita Schaeffer, all four as the stable, The Four Horsewomen. Their current targets for now were Valentine and iGeneration as they were set to face them at the Verizon Center on July 28th.

[Hey!

Hey!]

"I'll be honest with you girls…if all else fails tonight…we'll have to take drastic measures," Kendra warns…then when the screens turned off, Evil Beauty looks ahead of them in the darkness to see another cloaked person walking up to them. "…Perhaps starting with you…very soon."

[Hey!]

The cloaked person removes their hood and only the bottom half of the person's face, which was visibly a woman, with a small sly grin and her ashen-black hair before the screen fades out to black.

[Hey!]

Then bright, nearly glowing amber eyes were seen in the dark for a brief moment before they disappeared as the song ends…


"And now, Awesome Championship Wrestling proudly presents…REBELLION!"

After the intro, blue pyrotechnics are seen shooting at the stage, setting off the red and white fireworks to shoot up like a machine gun from both sides of the stage adjacently; then, the fireworks in red and blue shoot as red goes regular clockwise to the top and blue goes counterclockwise to the bottom on the TitanTron until they stop halfway at the center of the ridges, and a final big pyro sets off, exploding from the sides in red, white and blue respectively! The lights finally turn on to show an excited crowd as "Uprising" by Muse is heard playing over the loudspeakers.

[Theeeeeeey…! Will! Not! Foooooorce us!

They! Will! Stop! Degraaaaaading us!

They! Will! Not! Controoooool us!

And we! Will! Be! Victoooooorious!

(So come on!)]

The entire stage of Rebellion was then revealed to be similarly designed to the WWE Great American Bash stage in 2007: the circular MiniTron stays the same as "Rebellion" replaced it, but the circular TitanTron is replaced with a large rectangular oval-shaped TitanTron to keep up with the HD generation and the ACW logo stands on top of it. The American flags was also present, yet were found to be tattered to represent a fallout of the flag as two giant clenched right fists stand below and in front of it to represent the theme of this whole pay-per-view: rebellion. With the cameras going over the enthusiastic Washington D.C. hometown natives, their signs are shown front and center such as: "Α&Ω Shall Revolutionize the Tag Team Division!"; "All Shall Still Bow to King Beowulf!"; "Ichigo Kurosaki: The NEXT Hardcore Champion"; "The Four Whores-women Can Suck It!"; "Komuro Overcomes His Demons"; "Karma's a Bitch, Kaiba"; "Who Shall Be the Final Champions and the Inaugural International Champion?"; and "Do or Die, Naruto vs. Sasuke…the Final Clash".

"Ladies and gentlemen, we welcome you all to ACW's fourth pay-per-view LIVE with exactly 17,932 people standing on their feet in Washington D.C. at the Verizon Center!" Markiplier shouts happily as the camera turns to the announce table. "HELLO, EVERYBODY! My name is Markiplier and WELCOME to the event with one word that all dictators, parents, teachers, and every snotnose bastard hates to hear when people are sick of the same old ish: REBELLION!"

"With this YouTuber is me, 'The Truthfully and Brutally Honest Man from the Land of the Rising Sun' Kenji Matsuo!" beams Kenji.

"I'm the half-brother of this awesome dude, 'That Guy' Zack F'n Carver, baby!" Zack cracks a toothy grin.

"And last, but never ever the least, your Legen—wait for it…and I hope you're not lactose intolerant, because the second half of the word that rhymes with Lenny's name is—dairy! The Legendary Commentator in FWM History, Barney Stinson!" Barney grins.

"Boys, these people are ECSTATIC for one hell of a f*cking revolution tonight! Thanks to the pre-show, the fans here are just begging for more!" Markiplier implies.

"Off the Internet Championship Match, Mark, who wouldn't be left feeling happy after that amazing contest between Johnny Cage and Kenshin Himura?" Kenji queries.

"Our card is set with multiple titles on the line, three of them put up in one match in a winner-take-all to become an inaugural champion, and a few more just as well to be eager for!" Zack states.

"And, boys, we got a special revelation for the audience that are watching from their television screens, computers, tablets, and so on at home. (smacks hands and points to his right off-screen) Take it away, dudes!" Barney calls as the camera pans towards…the RAMPAGE commentary table with Ned Bigby, Ted Mosby and Logan Reese.

"WHAT UP, PEOPLE!" Logan smirks. "Did you really think we'd be missing this entire event?! Yeah, I don't think so!"

"Evening, everyone! This is 'The Creator of the Guide' Ned Bigby alongside with the self-proclaimed 'Gorgeous' Logan Reese and 'The Architect' Ted Mosby! Great to be here alongside the Ignition commentary table!" Ned greets.

"Now, to clear things on how this will work: the Ignition commentary table will call on the championship matches while RAMPAGE calls on the non-title matches; however, with RAMPAGE calling the pre-show earlier and the lop-sided ratio of title and non-title matches, Ignition is allowed to comment on one non-title match and that would happen to be the Monster's Ball Match. That way, you fans get to hear the even amount of calls throughout the contests!" Ted explains.

"And without further ado, Ted, who I am the one and only best friend to—"

"Marshall's my best friend, too, Barney," Ted corrects to deaf ears.

"—let us all rise up, ascend the flag, and begin our revolution! Rebel up!" Barney calls, the last two words being in a high-pitched voice. "Take it away, Maria, you fine Latina babe!"

The cameras fade to show Maria Lopez at the center of the ring as the bell sounds off three times and she calls the match, "The following opening contest is a Triple Threat Tag Team Elimination Match and it is for the ACW World Tag Team Championships!"

("Rebellion" by CFO$)

Lights flash red and black all over the arena as the camera stares up at the TitanTron and two silhouettes slowly rise up in the darkness and soon, the spotlight shines on the two figures to reveal Venom and Carnage and the fans let out a loud roar of cheers with a dash of boos on the side. With a heavy breath, Venom and Carnage snarl and let out a ferocious loud bellow as they head their way to the ring, passing by a sign that says, "The Symbiote Champions!" Carnage and Venom grin at the sign and separate when they reached ringside as they went around and the Red Symbiote climbs onto the apron, looking throughout the crowd with a sinister grin and slithers backwards into the ring, chuckling menacingly as Venom stomps towards him from behind. Carnage pounds his hands on the mat as Venom huffs and the two Symbiotes let out a screeching roar as their long tongues were sticking out and swinging around with a pose à la The Ascension, Venom raising both fists while Carnage laughs maniacally.

"Introducing the challengers first: from New York City, New York, at a combined weight of 511 pounds, Venom and Carnage…The Symbiotes!" Maria announces.

"Alone, menacing… Together, UNSTOPPABLE!" Zack comments. "These two, since Ignition II, have dominated when they practically murdered the World Tag Team Champions on their debut! It was something that was unseen aside from Beowulf making his impact on Naruto in May!"

"Venom and Carnage have conquered and was dead-set on gaining another tag title for themselves. They are former WWE Toon Tag Team Champions and former three-time UWE Duo Champions—overall, four-time tag team champions throughout the FWM and they want the ACW Tag Titles on their list of accomplishments!" Markiplier states.

"And this match would've gotten The Symbiotes with Altered Egos for the titles alone…"

("Alpha & Omega" by Stratovarius)

"…if it wasn't for these guys," infers Stinson.

[I am the earth and sky!

I am the low and high…!

I am the snowflake in the winter evening…!

I am the birth and death!

I am your final breath…!

I am the one that gave you life and freedom!

Choosing your own waaaaay!]

The crowd then began a loud reaction of boos as a mixture of blue and green lights surrounded the arena and Carter Young and Stan Terra appear at the stage upon the lyrics with them in a Chris Masters-esque pose. They slowly rise to their feet with their heads still lowered, then Alpha & Omega raise their right fists up where the RR armbands exists, setting off blue and green pyro to explode from top of the TitanTron. The lights eventually shine upon them and both tag partners are revealed to be wearing masks; Carter wears a navy colored mask with the Alpha symbol on his face and Stan wears a dark-green colored mask with the Omega symbol displayed. "We are…the beginning and the end! All hail Alpha & Omega!" Young and Terra exclaim in unison before proceeding to walk down the ramps on the way to the ring. As they reached it, Carter stands on the apron and climbs to the turnbuckle as Stan enters the ring with the steel steps; the two bear a resemblance to a position from Ted DiBiase Jr. and Cody Rhodes's team entrance. Carter and Stan remove their masks, then raise their right fists once more as they call out with pride, "All hail…the Revolution…!"

[Everything you've ever known…

Every seed that you have sown…

Came from me, I made you (Made you…)

My creation is supreme

This is all my perfect dream

No mistakes in God's great "perfect" cooooosmic plaaaaay!

I am the Alpha!

I am the Omega!

I am the beginning and the end of time!

I am the Alpha!

I am the Omega!

My whole creation stands before me toniiiiight!]

"Next, their opponents: representing the Rookie Revolution, from Orlando, Florida, at a combined weight of 469 pounds, Carter Young and Stan Terra…Alpha & Omega!" Maria announces.

"Alpha & Omega—Carter Young and Stan Terra, members of the Rookie Revolution and ACW Originals since day one. Zack, we've watched these two and called their matches from their debut. They've been through thick and thin. They've been chasing after the titles since the beginning of June and they believe tonight is their night where they become the second ACW Tag Team Champions of the World," Kenji states.

"And with a word like 'rebellion' being a synonym to 'revolution', no wonder they believe that," Zack adds.

"They believe that because it's TRUE, boys. This is Rebellion, and as they stated before, it is just another word for revolution, which means this night is going to be their night! Not just their night, but Jason and even Kendra! Cage already got one battle over for the RR…Alpha & Omega, Krueger and Daniels just need to do the rest," Barney says.

("Loaded" by Zack Tempest)

The crowd explodes in the arena with loud cheers to Yugi Mutou coming out in dark violet and crimson red lights, lightly nodding his head to the song, hands out as if to go with the flow, and then having his little entrance dance à la Jeff Hardy; then, Atem walks out to stand by his young twin as Yugi continues his entrance dance before kicking the right leg out, banged his head, and starts throwing his arms up and out in a Hardy-like manner and violet and crimson fireworks come shooting from the stage, inciting more cheers from the crowd. Once done, Yugi and Atem walk their way to the ring as the King of Games is bobbing his head to the song and The Pharaoh looks at the crowd with a grin. Altered Egos stop by the ringside to look at each other with a nod and they dash inside the ring with a slide. Both twins run up to adjacent corners and Yugi stands at his left corner with his arms splayed and Hardy Boyz hands symbols while Atem stands the other showing a slight dark grin and splays the same hand signs of his own before they raise up their World Tag Team Championships.

"And finally: from Domino City, Japan, at a combined weight of 384 pounds, they are the current ACW World Tag Team Champions, Yugi Mutou and Atem…Altered Egos!" Maria announces.

"Since the dawn of Awesome Championship Wrestling, Yugi Mutou and Atem arrived here separately in their own bodies as Altered Egos. Kenji, you and Zack called their first match against Alpha & Omega, which the rookie tag team won off the distraction from Gods of Darkness those three months ago," Markiplier notes.

"Yes, and along their journey, they would become the inaugural World Tag Team Champions at Southern Hell and for thirteen weeks, ninety-one days straight, they have held the titles with only two successful defenses," Kenji states. "Tonight marks their third title defense and the first time these titles are defended in a Triple Threat Tag Team Match. Will it be their final one as champions?"

"The answer to that is a definite YES, Kenny. Yeah, these guys held the belts for a good while, but it's time for the vets to drop them and give it to someone who deserves it more," Barney says. "Could be The Symbiotes after who-knows-how-long since they've been tag team champs; could even be Alpha & Omega to realize their dream at Washington D.C.! Whoever takes their titles, I'm a happy Barnabus Stinson!"

"…Your first name is short for 'Barnabus'?" snickers Zack.

"Grow up, you," Barney tells.

All three tag teams stay from one another's distance in their respective corners as referee John Benoit takes the tag team title belts to display them to the competitors before raising the championships high for the entire crowd to see. It was then decided that Carter Young, Yugi Mutou and Venom would start the match off and the official signals the timekeeper to ring the bell.

"And here we go, first match of Rebellion, ACW World Tag Team Championships on the line. Triple Threat Elimination Tag Team rules are set due to the recent change of this match on ACW news: three teams with three people must be in the ring at once like an actual Triple Threat Match. When a wrestler is pinned or has submitted, the entire tag team is eliminated; the last team standing will not only win the match, but will also be the World Tag Team Champions," Markiplier explains. "And let's not forget that in a Triple Threat, there are no disqualifications and no count-outs, so anything goes for these teams."

After the bell rang, Yugi, Carter and Venom walk up to one another at the center of the ring with The Alpha and King of Games having a stare-down…before they suddenly kick Venom in the midsection and start hammering away on him. (Kenji: Yugi and Carter, despite their rivalry, are firing away at the bigger threat that is Venom! They're making sure Venom is out of the way so either one of them can get the advantage for their own teams!) Despite the two-on-one advantage, Venom powers out, shoving both Yugi and Carter away, then nearly decapitates the latter with a Lariat that turned him inside out and takes the former out with a Big Boot to the face. The Sin Eater grabs a handful of Yugi's entire head to lift him and slam him back down on the canvas, then picks him up again to toss him against an empty corner. After that, he grabs Carter just as he was getting up and Hammer Throws him right into Yugi; with them stacked against each other in the corner, Venom backs up to his corner as he tagged out to Carnage and went speeding at the two to hit a Stinger Splash, practically squishing the two into the corner! And if that wasn't bad enough, Carter comes stumbling forward into a sickening Maximum Carnage from Kasady!

"Stinger Splash! Maximum Carnage! The Symbiotes may eliminate Alpha & Omega in mere seconds!" Barney calls.

"He's got the cover! Hook of the leg!" Kenji perceives.

Carnage hooks the leg and Stan Terra flies in with a Diving Leg Drop to the back of his head at a near two-count! The Omega swiftly exits the ring before Venom could grab him and gets knocked out through the ropes with a Front Dropkick by Yugi. The Kings of Games would then turn around to eat a Red Death from the murderous symbiote. Carnage turns his attention back to Carter as he prepares for another Gore, but Stan grabs him to stop him only to get a sharp Throat Thrust and collapse to the ring floor. He returns his focus on Young again and comes charging at him for Maximum Carnage…and Carter counters with a picture-perfect Dropkick! The Alpha grabs the leg for the pin, but got a kick-out at a near two-count. Carter mounts the carnivorous symbiote as he sends down a series of right fists down to his skull before dragging him over to tag in Terra; while he climbs the top rope, Young hoists Kasady on his shoulders in an Electric Chair position and the two plant him with a Doomsday Clothesline! The Omega turns Carnage over to make the pin: 1, 2—kick-out at two. Quite annoyed, Stan and Carter pick him up again for another tag team maneuver—Whisper in the Heart of the Cards by a high-flying Yugi Mutou!

"Yugi Mutou out of nowhere with the Whisper in the Heart of the Cards to both Carter and Stan!" Zack shouts. "Man, that dude can really surprise you."

"His high-risk and high-flying skills are one of the reasons why he's accomplished so much throughout his career," Markiplier agrees.

"And another reason would be the guy standing at his corner like back in EC-Dub, UCA and so on when he had the puzzle," Barney heckles, gesturing to Atem, who Yugi tags in.

Yugi and Atem have Stan resting against a corner and the latter stomps on Stan before getting on all fours next to him as the former ran, stepped on Carter for leverage to step on Atem's back and performs Poetry in Motion on Stan. Yugi exits the ring as does Carter while Stan falls flat face-first and Atem turns him over for the attempted pinfall: 1, 2—Stan kicks out at 2.29. Wrapping his head in a Front Facelock, Atem drags Stan to the center as he would slow the pace down for now. Although, Terra has been resisting to stay in the submission as he rises on his feet and Atem is making sure he stays down with multiple Forearm Clubs. The Pharaoh thinks Suplex, but Stan spins out of it, sends a boot to the gut, and yanks him in for executing Omega Finale, which Atem lands safely on his feet and hits an elbow to the back of his head. Terra nurses his head, then sees he's being lifted up on Atem's shoulders for an Electric Chair and both of them go down when Carnage flew at them with a Crossbody, Atem and Carnage unintentionally hitting a Doomsday Crossbody to Terra!

"You say Yugi flew out of nowhere, Zack? Talk about Cletus Kasady that just appeared with a Crossbody from the skies onto Terra and Atem!" Barney exclaims.

"Atem was going for something big, but neither he nor Stan had any idea Carnage was waiting for them from the top turnbuckle! The surprise Doomsday Device surely caught Terra and Yami off guard!" implies Kenji Matsuo.

Carnage stayed on top of Terra to make the cover: 1, 2—kick-out by The Omega at 2.54! He snarls and strives to pick him up, but Atem kicked his face in and landed a series of punches and kicks, reeling him into Altered Ego's corner, where he tags out to Yugi. Atem strikes a knee to the midsection of Carnage, then flips him over to the center via Snapmare and nails a rigid Shoot Kick to the back, making Carnage screech and lie on his back, proceeded by Altered Egos hitting the Spell Cycle (Simultaneous Fist Drop (Atem) / Standing Somersault Senton (Yugi) combination). Yugi makes the pin, but Carnage pops the shoulder up at two. The current three-time ECW Animation World Champion drags his enemy over to the center of the ring and holds his legs up and open for him to hit a Ragnarok Leg Drop (Extreme Leg Drop). Carnage rolls away to nurse his lower regions, but Yugi stops him with a Double Foot Stomp to the chest before tagging out to Atem. The Pharaoh hops in as Yugi brings Carnage to the ropes and the two Double Irish Whip him towards the ropes; when he came back, the two hit a Double Back Elbow and they simultaneously hit a Somersault Leg Drop (Atem) / Senton (Yugi) combo to the symbiote.

"Great tag team performance by Altered Egos here. You see the two have made the quick tags as they work on decimating Carnage without missing a beat; their teamwork is one of the very reasons they're the inaugural and current Tag Team Champions," Markiplier affirms.

"Yeah, they got the momentum, Mark, but wait 'til you see it all falls apart for Altered Egos and we get to crown new tag champs," Barney proclaims.

As Yugi exits the ring, Atem ascends to the second turnbuckle, seeking a Diving Leg Drop while releasing a Hardy Boyz shout…but Carter runs in to make the interference and referee Benoit catches him in the act. The two get into an argument and that was the perfect time for Atem to—get knocked off the turnbuckle by Venom's Big Boot and come crashing onto the RAMPAGE commentary table! (Barney: Told you! ; Zack: Carter ran in to make the distraction and that gave Venom the right moment to strike, sending Atem flying down from the ring!) Meanwhile, Carnage regains himself to make the tag out to his symbiote father. Venom instantly went to work on decimating the rising Terra into a neutral corner with various Corner Clotheslines, well-nigh squashing him against the turnbuckles with his muscular right arm. He then pulls him into a Standing Headscissors, lifts him on his shoulders and slams him with a Turnbuckle Powerbomb followed by an Overhead Belly-to-Belly Suplex. He notices Carter throwing Atem back into the ring and knocks him off the apron with a Big Boot; he grabs hold of Atem to ready the Venomous Termination…

…lifts him up with the cradle…

…and Atem elevates himself on his shoulders to counter with a Hurricanrana!

"Eddie Brock Jr. strives the Venomous Termination, but Atem shows breath of life as he sends him into the ropes with a Hurricanrana!" Kenji observes.

"Definitely not what Venom had in mind at all!" Barney states.

With Venom draped over the middle rope, Atem makes haste to endeavor a Leaping Body Guillotine, but goes through the ropes as Venom evades it! However, what he didn't know is Atem caught the top rope in time and Carter runs in to attack Venom with a Clothesline as John scolds him to exit the ring. As Yugi manages to reach Atem for the tag, Stan comes back in to make the pin, but Venom kicks out. The Omega and Sin Eater rise to their feet and only Venom gets taken down with a Double Springboard Dropkick by Yugi and Atem! (Zack: High-flying twins soaring and scoring as Kevin Kelly would say, baby! ; Markiplier: The teamwork and momentum of these champions is not slowing down any time soon, ladies and gentlemen! And we're getting another cover from Yugi to Venom!) 1…2…kick-out at 2.48! Yugi brings him up and earns a hard jab to the gut advancing into a sharp elbow to the back of the head, sending Yugi flat on the mat. Atem runs in to help him and Venom catches him with a shattering Spinebuster! Venom then suddenly grabs Terra by the throat as he lifts him up and hits the Chokeslam! His dominance would be a short run as Young kicked him in the gut and hooks his arms for the Alpha Driver—MAXIMUM CARNAGE TO THE ALPHA FROM CLETUS KASADY! The Symbiotes bellow at the top of their lungs as they stand alone in dominance…and Venom drags a groggy Yugi over to the center for he and Carnage to ready their Venomous Carnage.

"The Symbiotes have CLEANED HOUSE here in the ring and look what they got planned next!" Kenji observes.

"Oh, boy, that doesn't look good for Yugi right now. We just may get a repeat of Ignition II right here!" Mark comments.

"And we just may be moments away from seeing the champions get eliminated!" Barney implies.

Yugi gradually ascends to his vertical base as Venom and Carnage charge from their respective corners to hit their Northern Lariat / Gore combination…at least they would've if Atem didn't hit Venom with a Leaping Flying Clothesline and Yugi hadn't leaped over with a Double Foot Stomp straight to the back of Carnage's skull! Altered Egos then threw The Symbiote out of the ring and seeing they're outside gives them the chance to run for the ropes, Yugi hitting it first as Atem follows and the former makes a Suicide Dive to Carnage while Atem makes an Over the top rope Suicide Dive onto Venom! (Kenji: Altered Egos came to Washington D.C. to fly tonight and that's exactly what they just did! ; Barney: But are they expecting company, Louie? Because Alpha & Omega are back in the ring right now!) And Barney was right; Stan and Carter were watching their opponents from the ring, then turn to each other…and shrugs in unison before they hit the ropes and crash into the opposing teams with an Over-the-top-rope Somersault Plancha by Stan and a Suicide Dive by Carter! All the teams were down as fans were blowing the roof with cheers and chanting, "HOLY SH*T! HOLY SH*T!" and "THAT WAS AWESOME! (clap, clap! clap-clap-clap!)"

"You're DAMN RIGHT that was awesome, people, 'cause holy sh*t! Altered Egos performed a Suicide Dive combo, then Alpha & Omega simply followed in suit with their own maneuvers!" Markiplier exclaims.

"Now just who the hell's got the momentum, though?! That's something we are all thinking right now!" Barney claims.

The first to stand and enter the ring was Yugi Mutou along with Venom as the champion dragged him inside. Yugi seeks to eliminate Eddie as he climbed the top rope and hollers at the top of his lungs with a Hardy Boyz shout and hand symbols to proceed with a Duel Dive, the Swanton Bomb…

…which hits nothing but the CANVAS as Venom rolled out of the way! Yugi springs to his feet nursing his back before getting viciously leveled with a Shoulder Block by Venom. The Original Symbiote roars at the top of his lungs before forcing Yugi into his Standing Headscissors for the Venomous Termination…

…but Yugi, just barely, shoves him away and strikes down his temple with the Gamengiri! Yugi raises his head up to find Atem back at their corner reaching for a tag and the two succeed in that. Atem comes into the ring to bring Venom down with a small sequence of Clotheslines, then pushes him to the ropes to proceed an Irish Whip, but is reversed. Venom makes Atem run into the ropes and The Pharaoh rebounds with a Flying Leaping Clothesline, Undertaker-style! Yami Yugi then sends a straight Toe Kick to the stomach and, with all his strength, LIFTS Venom up on his shoulder to drop him face-first into the top turnbuckle with Snake Eyes. After that, he runs to the ropes and bounces off to run into a Knee Lift. Venom grabs him and sets him up for the Venomous Termination once more and plants—Yami drops down and suddenly lifts Venom on his shoulder now! He gets the arms wrapped around the waist of an upside-down Eddie Brock…

…Pharaoh's Tomb (Tombstone Piledriver)! Atem crosses the opponent's arms across their chest for the "Rest in Peace" pin, all including pure white eyes.

"Pharaoh's Tomb—gah, that look, man…!" Zack says, horrified.

"Undertaker style, Atem has Venom pinned here! Can he get it?!" Markiplier queries.

Benoit slides by to count the pinfall: 1…

2…

…CARNAGE SLIDES IN, BUT THE REF COUNTS TO 3!

"He got him! Got him!" Zack calls during the pinfall.

"The Symbiotes have been eliminated! The Symbiotes are the first team taken out of this equation!" Kenji yells. "Now only Altered Egos and Alpha & Omega are left standing to finish their business!"

"Alpha & Omega, you guys better not have a repeat of Reign in Blood! The Revolution are counting on you dudes!" Barney reminds.

Atem stands to a knee, nearly exhausted as of now from the energy spent into this contest. He sees Carter back inside the ring and brings him up to take him out first as he pulls him in for a Pharaoh's Endgame, but that failed when Young pushed him away and that was a big mistake as Yugi tags himself in. He had no awareness of that as he raises Atem on his shoulders…

…and plants him with First Extraction (Over the Shoulder Back-to-Back Running Bulldog)! After that, Yugi finally appears in with a Senton, but gets caught and Carter thrusts him off. Yugi lands on his feet and Duelist's Endgame executed! The King of Games makes it to his feet…and subsequently remembering that Carter wasn't the legal man as he searched around…

…STAN TERRA RUNS IN AND STRIKES YUGI'S FACE IN WITH ONE OF THE WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS!

"Yugi—wait a minute! Terra with the belt! Terra with the count!" Markiplier shouts as Stan tightly hooks Yugi's leg!

1…

"BADA BING!" Barney begins.

2…

"BADA BOOM!"

…3!

"FORGET ABOUT IT! YES! THEY DID IT! ALPHA & OMEGA DID IT! THEY ACTUALLY DID IT!" Barney beams as the bell rings.

"ALPHA & OMEGA…ALPHA & OMEGA ARE THE NEW ACW TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS OF THE WORLD!" Mark cries. "HISTORY HAS BEEN MADE FOR AWESOME CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING!"

("Alpha & Omega" by Stratovarius)

"Here are your winners, and the new ACW World Tag Team Champions: Carter Young and Stan Terra…Alpha & Omega!" Maria declares.

Terra rolled off of Yugi and upon the official statement by Maria, he grew a face of UTTER shock and ABSOLUTE disbelief! He didn't even realize he won until John handed him and Carter the titles…and that's when the two rookies broke in celebration, both of them hugging the titles as close as they can hold them and clash together in a massive hug as half the arena was cheering to their victory. They break their congratulatory hug to stand at opposite corners to show off their recently won tag titles; Carter would exclaim into the camera, "Kendra, baby, you're now dating a World Tag Team Champion! Alpha Young is coming home a champion!" while Stan shouts, "Allison, ready yourself when I get home after your match because we're going to have a WILD TIME tonight! WOO!"

"HO…LY…CRAP! JUST—OH, MY GOD!" Zack says with mouth agape.

"M-My thoughts EXACTLY, Zack! Yugi and Atem were so busy with Carter, *replay* they had no idea Stan was waiting to strike with one of their own titles in his hand!" Markiplier states.

"Ah, but there's no DQs, Mark! You said it yourself and Terra took perfect advantage of that! The kid played the opportunist, he seized and took the opening Alpha & Omega needed; he was at the right place at the right time and BOOM! New World Tag Team Championships for Alpha & Omega, baby!" Barney asserts. "The reign of Altered Egos is OVAH!"

Alpha & Omega exit the ring together to prolong their celebration as Yugi held his head and watched the rookies walk away with the titles they've held for so long with an upset look. Atem, himself, was also upset, but more in a fuming mood than sad like Yugi. Carter and Stan high-five each other with the belts and hands as they hold them up for the entire arena to see and shout with pride, "ALL HAIL…ALPHA & OMEGA! ALL HAIL THE REVOLUTION!"

"Damn right, boys! ALL HAIL ALPHA & OMEGA! ALL HAIL THE NEW ACW WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS!" Barney cries with a wide grin. "What a way to kick off this pay-per-view!"

"I'll admit this here, these two deserved the belts after what they've went through and Altered Egos had a damn good reign going until tonight," Kenji confesses. "One can only wonder what will happen now between them, Altered Egos and The Symbiotes. To me…it surely won't end pretty considering who's involved."

"…Uh, guys…where are Venom and Carnage?" Markiplier notices…which now bring the commentators to worry.

Yugi eventually stands up as "Alpha & Omega" volumes down and turns to Atem outside with an apologetic expression; The Pharaoh only signed and gestured there was nothing to apologize for…but then spots something behind his friend and warns him to watch out. Yugi reacts to turning around—INTO A RED DEATH BY CARNAGE!

"…Found them!" Barney quips.

"Carnage with the Spinning Heel Kick, the Red Death, to the face of Yugi! It is certainly obvious The Symbiotes are NOT happy about this entire result!" Kenji comments.

Atem runs in to help Yugi, but Venom interrupts a Running Lariat, turning him inside out! Then, Venom grabs hold of him and plants him flat on the mat with the Venomous Termination; the Original Symbiote bellows at the top of his lungs with his tongue swinging around as the offspring of Venom was glaring down at Yugi. The Symbiotes knew exactly what to do next as they went at opposite corners and awaited Yugi's ascension. He began to stir, very slowly standing to his vertical base as the fans were begging and praying for him to stay down; he paid no attention to them as his head was ringing and the moment he reached his stance…

HE GETS BRUTALLY DESTROYED FROM THE VENOMOUS CARNAGE!

"OH, JESUS CHRIST! CLETUS KASADY AND EDDIE BROCK WITH THE VENOMOUS CARNAGE ON YUGI MUTOU! SERIOUSLY, THAT FOLDED THE GUY UP LIKE PRETZEL!" Markiplier screams. "THAT WAS WORSE THAN THE FIRST TIME THEY DID IT TO HIM!"

The Symbiotes make their Ascension-esque pose while screeching loudly enough for most of the audience to cover their ears and "Rebellion" by CFO$ hits the loudspeakers to cue their exit. Both hosts of the amorphous extraterrestrial parasites back up to the stage, leaving behind a completely immobile Yugi Mutou and a seething Pharaoh Atem as he checks on his tag partner.

"Like Altered Egos, Venom and Carnage lost this match…but unlike AE, they've shown they are the most dominate tag team throughout the Multiverse and they are certainly NOT through with the recently crowned World Tag Team Champions," Barney clarifies.

"Alpha & Omega better watch their backs…'cause they are the new targets of The Symbiotes and the entire Tag Team Division that seeks gold," Markiplier states.


Cameras fade to the backstage area at an interview zone…where a man that looks exactly like Markiplier stands with a microphone in hand and, well…while he looks exactly like Mark, the difference between him and the YouTuber is he is wearing regular sneakers, khaki trousers with suspenders, a light-yellow collared shirt with the sleeves rolled up to his elbows, a pink bow tie, and his signature pink mustache. He was instantly recognized as Wilford Warfstache.

"Good evening, ladies and gentlemen and all configurations of being—my name is Wilford Warfstache! And tonight, I am here in ACW as a new addition to the interview crew. I like to welcome my first guests at this time, you all know them as the FWM counterparts to the WWE's and UFC's Four Horsewomen, except they're all BITCHY as Sailor Moon herself—Mai Valentine and iGeneration of The Four Horsewomen!" Wilford introduces the three, who do not appear amused, especially Sam Puckett as she glares at the interviewer. "Evening, ladies—

"Let's get something straight, dip sh*t, next time you're gonna talk sh*t like that to US, you're gonna wish you didn't take this job in the first place," Sam warns.

"…Young lady, I remind you here…that Wilford Warfstache don't take NO SH*T from NOBODY. So shut your pie hole and let me do mah job," Warfstache tells, stirring up cheers and making Carly hold Sam back in case. "Now getting to the nitty-gritty, you girls have been inserting yourselves as the next contenders for the titles of the Women's Division, proclaiming 'The Change' and all that shiz-niz, but not without a few obstacles in the way such as Evil Beauty, who you are facing later tonight. iGeneration have already defeated Eliza Hart and Allison Wilson back on Ignition II…but last night, you, Mai, lost to Kendra Daniels on RAMPAGE IV. With this circumstance, does this change your approach to this match and your plans?"

Mai answers, "Not at all because that loss…was nothing but an absolute fluke. Pure luck for Daniels and her little group. She can whine and complain all she wants about her faction being in this company for only a few months…but iGeneration and I have more experience than her, so we deserve all we can get from gold to respect. Little Kendra can think they got one over us all they like, but it isn't going to give them a chance in hell when we win tonight. And from there, we will be doing we were born to do in the first place by knocking Friendship Girl and Hart of Hyuga off the thrones as champions and The Change comes into play. The Women's Division will have a brutal wake-up call with us ruling it with true elegance, greatness…and a little bit of flair, courtesy of The Four Horsewomen."

"And if 'Justice' Aldrin has a problem with that, then she can take her views on us and shove it far up Marshall's ass," Carly smirks. "She believes she can tell us what to do, but like the rest of the division, as Mai said, she's in for a rude awakening when The Four Horsewomen make the competition and her our BITCH. There'll be nothing she can do about it and she knows it. Don't believe us? …Be free to watch us as we expose ourselves with style and grace…and I mean that in wrestling terms, of course."

Carly winks to Wilford as Mai and iGeneration began leaving…but not before Mai looked back at the pink-mustached man…

"…Woo!" she lightly exclaims with a smirk, then officially walks away, leaving behind a blinking Wilford.

"…Oh, my God, I'm so hard right now," Warfstache tremors in pleasure as the audience laughs.


Returning to ringside, the camera has its attention on the RAMPAGE commentary table…who are all extremely confused as Wilford was backstage and Markiplier is right next to them at the Ignition table.

Logan had been turning back and forth from the TitanTron to Mark, trying to figure out how the YouTuber is here with them while his alter ego is backstage at the same time, but immediately gave up. "Never mind…I'm just only going to give myself a headache…"

"Right there with ya, Reese," Ned softly groans.

"…Uh…well, putting that confusion aside, Valentine and Shay have laid down their words against Evil Beauty. Can they prove it by tonight? We'll be finding out soon enough," Ted tells.

"I'm confident enough to know they will, Mosby; but, right now," Logan says as the sound effect of a cash register came aloud, "here comes the true heir for the King of Blood throne!"

[I come from money!

I come from class…

These ladies love me for all my cash!

Won't let nobody spoil my dream…

'Cause I got money

And I can do anything…]

("I Come from Money" by S-Preme)

The crowd goes into a booing reaction as green lighting surrounds the entire arena and Kurt Hudson walks out through the curtain with a shit-eating arrogant grin on his face and Alyssa Parker wrapped around his arm. He stands at the stage to scan the audience in front of him before outstretching his free arm as he starts walking down the ramp with his Billion Dollar Queen. He stops at ringside to spin Alyssa around, then pulls her in to dip her while holding up her leg, exposing some more skin from her dress. The couple share seductive grins to each other and a steamy kiss while the crowd hissed; after a few seconds of the passionate kiss, Hudson raises Alyssa back to her feet and The Billion Dollar Queen wished her luck and her Billion Dollar King winked at her before sliding into the ring and by then, Kurt spreads his arms out wide with an arrogant grin as he proclaims proudly, "I! AM! MONEY!" and the fans that boo lay the absolute hate to him, and he proudly takes it in, not giving a damn about what they have to say.

The bell rings three times as Maria starts the announcements, "The following contest is set for one fall and it is for the King of Blood crowning title! Introducing first: accompanied by Alyssa Parker, from Los Angeles, California, weighing in at 236 pounds, 'The Billion Dollar King' Kurt Hudson!"

"And soon to be the 'Billion Dollar King of Blood'!" praises Logan. "This guy, the former FUSION Tag Team Champion, is on a mission tonight and that's to knock off the old age king known as Beowulf from the throne and become the new King of Blood like he should've back a month ago!"

"Yeah, give the crown to a complete sore loser, that'll certainly make him a king to look up to," Ned retorts sarcastically. "Since Reign in Blood, Hudson has been after Beowulf and his crown. He's done what he can to make sure it comes to him from having his bodyguard do the dirty work to weakening the injured leg."

"Hudson is a man to do whatever it takes to win; he's had the leg all jacked up and he'll be doing all he can to make sure it's broken enough for him to get the easy win. It's that obvious," Ted states.

("Who's Next?" by Jim Johnston)

The crowd turns into cheers as the lights turn gold and after nearly a minute has passed, the yellow pyrotechnic sparks shower from both sides, and Beowulf walks out to the stage with his head lowered, and then golden sparks shower at him from both sides as the crowd roars even louder in cheers. Moments later, the shower stops and Beowulf looks up with great intensity at the ring as he breathes out smoke from the fireworks like a dragon. He never took his eyes off his opponent as he glares at him with fury before walking down the ramps despite his injured left leg with the brace wrapped around it. Arriving at ringside, the King of Blood climbs onto the apron and stares throughout the whole arena before entering the ring and walks to the ropes front and center, where he bellows at the top of his lungs by hanging off the ropes and fans react back with their cheers.

"And his opponent: from the Land of Geats, weighing in at 275 pounds, he is the current King of Blood, 'The Beast of Geats' Beowulf!" Maria announces.

"A force to be reckon with since his debut and upset victory over Naruto Uzumaki! He made the impact on the Undisputed Champion back in May and believed he would not be ready for the title as he wanted to face whoever was brave enough to face him," Ted utters. "And now, just two months later, we find him defending his crown against Kurt Hudson in order to maintain his status as the King of Blood and the next contender for the Undisputed Championship."

"There is no possible way Beowulf is going to make it through this match with a practically broken leg, old man. Beowulf is SCREWED, plain and simple," Logan asserts. "Kurt played the fortune hunter by taking out the leg thanks to his match against Spin, and tonight, he'll proving that Beowulf isn't a ferocious beast like back in May. He'll only make the king of the olden days his BITCH."

Beowulf glares at Hudson as he hands his crown over to the referee for this match, Corey Jackson, who raises it up for the audience to see before giving it to the ringside crew. By the time he finished verifying both competitors were ready to wrestle, he called for the bell to ring, starting the match. Kurt and Beowulf circle around the ring for a while as they take a few steps to the center for a collar-and-elbow lockup, which Hudson summarily transitions it into a Waistlock and performs the takedown, then floats over to grab the braced leg; but Beowulf was quick enough to turn around and shove him away to keep his distance, and the two rise to their vertical base as Kurt grinned and Beowulf glared while shaking the leg a bit.

"That was a little too close for Beowulf. He's gotta be really careful if he wants to make sure Hudson won't do further damage to the leg and keep future title shot for the Undisputed Championship belt," Ned reflects on.

"Gonna be a little easier said than done when Kurt's got history as an amateur wrestler way back in the younger days. So yeah, again, as I said, Beowulf is screwed," Logan chortles.

The Billion Dollar King and King of Blood take their time walking to each other at the center again and the former flies down to grab the leg, but the latter was able to evade it and send an elbow down on the lower back. With this, Beowulf wraps his arms around Hudson's waist for the Waistlock, though he modified his hold as he sits him up, gets the right arm over his head, ties his left arm with his leg, and wraps his arms around Kurt's neck. For a while he wrenched the hold, but Hudson manages to untie his arm and start lifting up the two-hundred seventy-five pounder with all his strength, then brusquely drops him with the Over-the-shoulder Back-to-Belly Piledriver. He would've gone for the cover there, but he didn't; he wanted to make Beowulf suffer in pain and he's going to make sure of that. He stalks Beowulf to his full rise and sends a Chop Block to the bad leg, bringing him down flat on his back. And that was the perfect opening he needed to go to work on attacking the leg as Alyssa cheers on from ringside. Kurt has been sending multiple elbows, kicks, knee shots, fists, and harsh yanks to the injured leg, making Beowulf cry out in utter pain as he is thrashing from the attacks.

"Look at him go! Hudson is not holding back on the leg; he's zeroing in on it damn well!" Logan smirks.

"You can see Beowulf the look on his face—he's in true pain right now. He is powerless to do anything to fight back so long as Kurt is physically dissecting the leg," Ted observes.

After drilling the leg with a Snap DDT, Beowulf rolls away from Kurt to attempt recovery, but the Priceless Monarch wasn't going to let that happen as he repeatedly stomped him against the corner into a seated position. Jackson pulls the Fortune Emperor off to keep his distance from him and disciplines him to get Beowulf out of the corner; as Hudson was about to, he earned a hard right kick to the abdomen, a sign of life from Beowulf starting to show. When he went after him again, Beowulf lands another kick and a hard slug with the large right hand into his temple. Kurt stands up and gets tossed into the corner Beowulf was in, then Beowulf strikes a stiff Backhand Chop to the chest, garnering a howl of "Woos" from the crowd and a reaction of pain from Hudson. The Beast of Geats smacks the chest with another chop, then brings him over to the ropes and Irish Whipped him to the other side. Beowulf bends over as Kurt bounces off and opposes the Back Body Drop with a Swinging Neckbreaker! Hudson strives the first pinfall: 1, 2—2.32 kick-out by Beowulf! Kurt sends a harsh elbow to the nape, then heads over to grab the incapacitated leg and lock in the Single-leg Boston Crab, spraining it as much as he can with Beowulf releasing ephemeral shouts of pain and Alyssa mocking the King of Blood to tap out right now.

"Hudson back to work on the leg and Beowulf is in a bad position, adding insult to injury by Alyssa tapping the apron as she mocks him to surrender the crown," Ned states.

"It's a smart decision to do considering where he's at right now, Bigby. Unless a miracle is somehow performed for Beowulf, the only way he's leaving this arena is on a stretcher," Logan claims.

Beowulf howls in agony as he sinks his nails into the mat, glaring at the mocking Alyssa Parker. He feels his leg being outstretched further by the Half Boston Crab and couldn't help but release a scream of anguish. He eventually began to crawl towards the ropes, eager to break the submission hold so he can build himself back up from this. He is only fingertips away from obtaining a rope break as his hand reaches out as far as it can get…but Hudson drags him away and to make matters worse, he kneels on Beowulf's back to validate he stays there. Hudson is shouting for the King of Blood to tap out if he wants to keep this leg intact, but Beowulf heeds no way to surrender as he shakes his head and growls with his fist pounding the mat. With a sudden bellowing roar, Beowulf is actually overpowering the submission hold by rising on his feet and making Kurt stand up; the Fortune Emperor does his best to keep the leg sealed in the submission, but gets flipped over right on his back and Beowulf has returned to action! Beowulf charges at Hudson with his right arm swinging forward for the Clothesline—Kurt strikes the injured leg with a Low-angel Dropkick, forcing his comeback a false one!

"Beowulf shows resilience! He's not backing down just yet—oh, the Dropkick! Hudson ruins the comeback for the King of Blood!" Theodore observes.

"Ha! One step ahead, Kurt was! He was quick on his feet to make the comeback short-lived by attacking the knee again; that right there shows why he should've won the Playground of Blood instead of Beowulf!" Reese states.

As Alyssa claps in approval for her love's smart tactic, Kurt wags his finger at the downed Beowulf and says off-mic, "Not gonna let you get the momentum back that easily, you son of a bitch…" Beowulf rolls out of the ring trying to nurse his leg as Kurt scans him to a vertical base and heads over with a Baseball Slide…

…but Beowulf dodges it in time and nails a Knife Edge Chop to the chest. Thanks to that and a firm Forearm Smash to the head, Beowulf pulls in Hudson for an Irish Whip spine-first right into the steel steps! Beowulf brings him up to shove him back in the ring. He slides in as Hudson shoots his foot forward to the knee, but missed and Beowulf grabs him for the Full Nelson Slam. The Anglo-Saxon epic hero growls under his breath as he brings him down once again with a Clothesline and drives him right into a corner, landing a series of Shoulder Thrusts to the midsection. Then, after backing away, he runs into a lifted boot and Hudson climbs up to the second turnbuckle. He flies with a Double Axe Handle…

…and Beowulf catches him with a Belly-to-Belly Suplex! With Hudson at a distance…Beowulf stands ready in the corner, lining him up for a Spear.

"Spear time! The end might be near for Kurt Hudson and Beowulf believes to have sense it!" Ned shouts. "But can he hit the Spear after what Hudson has done to it?!"

"C'mon, Kurt, use your senses and move out of the way!" Logan warns.

The Monster Slayer continues anticipating the arising Kurt Hudson and when he reached his feet, Beowulf makes a run for it…and as he did, his damaged leg gave out, collapsing on the mat. Hudson watches Beowulf clenching onto his leg and couldn't help but crack the same shit-eating grin from earlier as he drags him up to a corner to place against. He lifts his head up to look at him straight in the eye and say off-mic, "How the mighty have fallen… Just like when you gave in to your lust over a succubus for a life of gold and a kingdom… How PATHETIC," before slapping him across the face. Kurt takes a few steps away from him to ready an assault as he winks at Alyssa, who blew a kiss at him, and runs over—INTO A SPEAR BY BEOWULF! (Ted: Utter disrespect from the self-proclaimed Billion Dollar—SPEAR! SPEAR OUT OF NOWHERE! Beowulf, somehow, shows another sign of life with that slobber knocking Spear! ; Logan: First of all, you ain't J.R., Mosby. Second of all, GODDAMN IT! This cannot end this way! Hudson had it cinched in, man!) Beowulf glares down at him before smirking, "As they say in this timeline…get your fact straight, Hudson," then hooks the leg: 1…

2…

…ALYSSA PARKER PULLS AT THE REFEREE'S LEG!

"Beowulf retains—NOTHING for now because of Alyssa! What the hell?!" Ted shouts out.

"Oh, thank you, Alyssa! There's still a chance for Kurt to earn his deserved crown!" Logan sighs in relief. "Man, is he lucky to have her?"

"Yeah, sure, lucky him," Ned agrees cynically.

Jackson and Parker start arguing over the involvement as Beowulf takes notice and attempts to deal with it, but then Hattori Hanzo strikes Beowulf from behind with a black steel pipe to the injured leg! (Logan: Well, look who decided to even the odds out for Hudson! ; Ted: Even the odds?! He's out here to screw Beowulf out of his hard-earned crown! This is absolutely unnecessary!) Fans rain down the arena with a loud negative reaction as Hattori brings Beowulf up to his feet and kicks him in the gut to proceed a Soul Harvester. Then, he drags a barely stirring Hudson over on top of the King of Blood and makes his escape, disappearing from the crime scene for now as Alyssa drops down from the apron. Corey sees the pinfall when he turned around and slides over to count it.

"No! NO! The streak and the match can't end this way! Hudson is going to steal this thanks to his girlfriend and Hanzo!" Ned exclaims.

"And this is the part where I say, with Barney's granted permission, of course…" Logan begins with a smirk.

1…

"Bada Bing!"

2…

"Bada Boom!"

…BEOWULF MANAGES TO POP THE SHOULDER UP, SURPRISING KURT, ALYSSA AND THE AUDIENCE!

"Forget About It—W-WHAT THE?! WHAT THE HELL?! YOU CAN'T BE SERIOUS HERE!" Logan yells.

"THE PIPE TO THE LEG AND THE SOUL HARVESTER THEREAFTER, BEOWULF MANAGES TO KICK OUT!" Ted exclaims.

Hudson, now wide awake, stares in total disbelief before hooking the leg: 1…2…Beowulf kicks out once again! The Billion Dollar King shouts in skepticism as he desperately fastens the leg once again: 1…2…Beowulf powers out of the pin, sending Kurt flying off with pure strength! Both men stand up and Beowulf grabs onto the throat of Kurt, holding onto it tightly as Kurt is clutching on the arm that chokes him.

"What…what the in the hell are you, damn it?!" Kurt coughs off-mic, trying to get a breather.

"…You truly want to know who I am, boy? I am ripper…tearer…slasher…gouger! I am the teeth in the darkness, the talons in the night. Mine is strength, and lust, and power! I AM BEOWULF!" Beowulf howls in his face before lifting him up in a Military Press with an uprising roar…

…then pops him up high in the air…

and knocks the hell out of him with a Discus Elbow Smash! (Ted: BEOWULF! DISCUS ELBOW SMASH OFF THE POP-UP MILITARY PRESS BY THE WOUNDED ANIMAL! Good God, that could've actually decapitated his head!) The Beast of Geats stands with an echoing roar to the cheering fans before a dragging a limp Kurt Hudson on his feet and into a Front Facelock. He drapes the arm over his nape, then quickly lifts him up vertically straight…

…and smashes Kurt with the Wulfhammer!

"The Wulfhammer! Delayed Vertical Suplex Powerslam! Leg is hooked by The King of Blood…" Ned begins as Jackson drops down to count it: 1…

2…

…3!

"…who retains his crown! Beowulf wins!" Ned calls.

("Who's Next?" by Jim Johnston)

"Here is your winner, and still the King of Blood: 'The Beast of Geats'…Beowulf!" Maria declares.

Slowly, Beowulf removes himself from being on top of Hudson as he rolls to stand on his good knee and rises up to have his hand raised while Alyssa is moaning about her boyfriend's loss. The Monster Slayer shakes his head at the rich girl and earns his crown back from Jackson, then places it on his head to cheers before exiting the ring, albeit limping. While Alyssa slid in the ring to occupy Kurt, Beowulf stands at the ramps with both arms raised and the fans were chanting "Beo" Goldberg style.

"Hudson's done all he can from attacks to submissions to dirty tactics on Beowulf, but it was never enough to keep the King of Blood from losing his throne," Mosby states.

"Well, it should've, damn it! No man could go through the pain Hudson inflicted on him! He had it cinched in! He had it all planned! This was supposed be Kurt's night as king here! Not some old historical f*ck like Beowulf!" Logan rages before groaning.

"But it isn't, Reese. Tonight is Beowulf's night. He is no ordinary man. He is The Beast of Geats and with GOOD reason. Despite the furthered damaged leg, Beowulf can leave the Verizon Arena knowing his title shot is still with him and knowing his streak continues at 10-0," Ned nods.


Cameras change to a backstage locker room, where ACW Intercontinental Champion James Griffin is seeing tying up his boots and then starting to wrap up his wrists with black wrestling tape as he watches a replay of him planting Hernan Ortiz with a Chokebomb with a chuckle and a grin like the tyrant he is.

"There you see James Griffin, our current and second Intercontinental Champion, getting ready for one of the biggest matches of his career here, the Ultimate X match," says Markiplier. "It is one we've never had before and neither has Griffin until later tonight when he has to defend his title, fight to win new ones and become the inaugural International Champion."

"Which he most certainly will, Mark!" Barney believes. "Ignorant people can say Ultimate X matches are only built for high-flyers and cruiserweights and all that, but that is a load of bull when a certain Samoan Submission Machine can do it all and James will be doing exactly the same by winning it all by the end of this night."


The camera then changes to a match graphic as Ichigo Kurosaki is shown turning around with his signature scowl before cracking a very small smirk on the left side with a "Rated-R" tattered flag waving behind his back while Jason Krueger, clinging onto his Hardcore Championship for dear life with a psychotic look, is on the opposite with a Rookie Revolution flag waving behind him as the words, "KUROSAKI v. KRUEGER II: HARDCORE MATCH – HARDCORE CHAMPIONSHIP" are written with the pattern design of barbwire in-between the two.

"But before we get to it, we are going to be treated with another championship match in hardcore rules," Kenji announces. "We've witnessed these two absolutely do everything they can to destroy each other and make each other suffer back at Reign in Blood. And here tonight at Rebellion, we just may see it all over again."

"Certainly wasn't easy to take in their way of violence… Can only wonder what they'll do this time," Zack says as a video package played on the TitanTron, retelling the entire story between Krueger and Kurosaki from the end of their first Hardcore Match together, the Rated-R Reaper walking away first from Reign in Blood, then wanting another match for the title, Krueger accepting it, and the two getting each other whenever they can to the tune of "Let the Madness Begin" by Fozzy. Once the video package has finished playing, the camera returns to the ring where the bell is heard ringing three times, cuing up Maria Lopez's introductions.

"The following contest is Hardcore Match set for one fall and it is for the ACW Hardcore Championship!" Maria proclaims. "Now in this bout, there are no count-outs, no disqualifications, and falls count anywhere."

[You think you know me…]

The fans instantly explodes into cheers as the strobe lights flash red, white, and black all over the arena on and off as the guitars pick up and over the Titantron, a thick grey fog begins to form on the stage.

[On this day, I see clearly

Everything has come to life

A bitter place and a broken dream

And we'll leave it all behind!

On this day, it's so real to me

Everything has come to life

Another chance to chase a dream

Another chance to feel…

Chance to feel aliiiiiiiiiive!]

("Metalingus" by Alter Bridge)

Once the lyrics were spoken, Ichigo Kurosaki runs out through the fog, running his hands through his hair before shaking them, and is gesturing people to get pumped up on one side of the stage and runs to the other side to do the same. He starts walking down the ramps before stopping himself and takes two steps back with a grin, staying in the middle of the ramps. He lowers his head with a stance before breathing deeply and throws his arms up in rock signs as fireworks shoot like a machine gun from the stage with the colors of red, white and black. Once done, Ichigo looks at the ring and walks his way down the ramp. The Rated-R Reaper then slides into the ring, looking around the crowd in front of him, and walks over to the corner, where he stands on the second rope and has his hands up in rock horns.

"Introducing the challenger first: from Karakura Town, Japan, weighing in at 241 pounds, "The Rated-R Reaper" Ichigo Kurosaki!" Maria announces.

"On Ignition I, Ichigo made an unannounced return to declare his rematch against Krueger, which he accepted and thanks to that, we are going to have a second match-up between the Rated-R Reaper and the Gore Machine," Mark recalls. "The man has done what he can to get into the champion's head like from casually taking the title to mock Jason over him wearing it and so on."

"You know what? If Ichigo wants to get himself brutally beaten to near death by Jase like last month, then that is his own fault. He provoked Jason into having this match and soon enough, he's going to regret spitting out those words of a rematch for the title when Jason repeats history by piercing him through that barricade over there with a Gore!" Barney states.

("Firewater" by Sinister Growley)

The crowd gives a mixed reaction with boos being overheard the most as Jason Krueger walks out moments later to the music in gray lights. He holds the ACW Hardcore Championship belt in one hand as he has a vicious scowl on his face, his maniacal hazel eyes staring at the ring, more specifically Ichigo. He raises his title and a fist into the air, causing fire to burst from both sides of the stage, then places the title on his shoulder as he starts walking down the ramps to the ring in a menacing manner. He stops at ringside to scan the entire Verizon Center, then glares at the Rated-R Reaper and gets on the apron to enter the ring. Once then, Krueger stands at the corner and raises up his Hardcore Championship as he stares at the gold, clinging onto it in his hand like it was his child.

[FIRE!

Burn my lips, take a swig for old time's sake!

FIRE!

Touch my heart, bring me back my smile!

FIRE!

Kill the clock, violence, it's murderous!

FIRE!

Watch my back, as I fade awaaaay…!]

"And his opponent: representing the Rookie Revolution, from Newark, New Jersey, weighing in at 233 pounds, he is the current ACW Hardcore Champion, 'The Gore Machine' Jason Krueger!" Maria announces.

"The Hardcore Champion makes his presence felt in the Verizon Center upon a split crowd. Kenji, Zack, before Barney and I came to the picture, you two were calling this guy's matches since his ACW debut. You were the first to witness his first ACW title victory over Alex Loredo at Southern Hell," Markiplier says.

"Yes, and for three months now, like Altered Egos before their title loss, Jason has held the belt and defended it successfully. This marks his third title defense and against the Rated-R Reaper for the second time," Kenji states as Krueger hands over his title to Michael Verra, the referee for this match, and holds it up for entire stadium to see.

"Krueger has a monkey clinging on his back since June and he's not going to rest until that monkey is beaten down to a bloody pulp," Zack analogizes. "…Aw, poor monkey."

"No, don't pity the monkey, Zachery, because, as I said, he brought himself into this. It's his own fault here! Krueger will make sure of that," Barney proclaims.

Verra gives it to the ringside crew and calls for the match to start after checking both Ichigo and Jason were ready. As the bell sounds, the Rated-R Reaper and the Gore Machine walk to the center of the ring to have a stare down, talking trash to each other while getting into each other's faces. Jason growls as he shoves Ichigo's face away, then Ichigo sends a kick to the midsection and a measured fist to the temple, igniting a massively violet exchange of fists between the two. Krueger takes over the momentum as continues sending down hard punches to the head before Irish Whipping him over to the ropes, then Ichigo bounces off for a Spear, but Jason sidesteps him, and Ichigo goes sliding out of the ring and crashing onto the floor. As he begins standing up and nursing his chest, the former CXWE World Heavyweight Champion eyes him from the ring, then hits the ropes to run across the mat at a fast pace, and flies with a Suicide Dive right on top of the ANNOUNCE TABLE as Ichigo evaded and pushed him over into it!

"Watch out, watch out—oh, sh*t!" Markiplier exclaims as he barely evaded Krueger crashing over the table along with the commentators. "For God's sake, holy…! Everyone all right?!"

"We're fine, but I don't think Jason is right now, Mark! Geez, right out of the gate, one of these guys are already taking huge risks in the early going!" Zack shouts. "Jason really landed badly over our table! And if Ichigo takes notice of that, the Hardcore Title reign could be in really big trouble."

While Jason is tending to himself, Ichigo wastes little time with bringing out the hardware of hardcore from steel chairs to a trashcan full of kendo sticks to tables and so on. He gets through putting all the weapons into the ring and holds a kendo stick ready for when Jason comes crawling out from the announce table, which he is doing right now as the Hardcore Champion is staggering to his feet. With a smirk, the challenger already starts swinging the foreign object, landing multiple shots to the body of Jason Krueger, who is screaming in pain from the piercing kendo stick attacks to him. (Kenji: You can hear it as well as see it, people! Those kendo stick shots being smacked into the skin of Krueger, echoing around the arena as he yells in agony!) Jason rests against the turnbuckle post, which was a really bad idea as Ichigo continues smacking the Singapore cane into his spine until it actually broke in half…then he just goes ahead and starts stabbing the broken end of the weapon into his back! He throws it aside to have Jason rest against the post again and pulls out another chair from under the ring, readying it in his hands. He swings back and smashes the chair into the POST when Jason dodged it, causing the Rated-R Reaper to drop it as the effects went back into his hands!

"Chair shot attempted and failed as Ichigo feels the effects shooting straight into his hands! That's just as bad as getting nailed with that chair," Zack implies.

"At least this gives Krueger enough time for himself to get the upper hand over Strawberry. Only a matter of time before he gets on it," Barney states.

As the Substitute Soul Reaper was shaking the pain off his hands, he sees Jason standing up and heads towards him, but only to be flipped over with a Back Body Drop and lands hard right on the Spanish commentary table! The Gore Machine takes a knee to nurse his back before noticing how Ichigo is staying on his back on the table. Taking advantage of this, he grabs onto some cables and wraps it tightly around the challenger, starting to choke the life out of him as much as he can with him kicking his feet out and struggling to breathe. He finishes the choking with a straight-up hard knee strike to the back of the head, then climbs onto the table as he starts positioning his opponent. He sticks his head between his thighs, wraps the arms around the waist and hoists him up vertically, seeking the Krueger Driver…but Ichigo manages to weigh himself down on his feet and fire back with multiple punches to the kidneys. He reaches his vertical base on his own and lands another measured shot to the temple, then Krueger fires back with his own. The two have an exchanging series of fists to each other's skulls as they try to keep their ground on the table. By then, Ichigo ducks a fist and strikes a straight Toe Kick to the midsection before getting him in a Front Facelock. He lifts him up after draping the arm over…and drives the champion down with a Spike Brainbuster as Jason falls limp off the table that stays on its base!

"Oh, good gravy! Jesus…! Unlike the Spanish announce table, Krueger completely flopped like a rag doll to the floor!" Markiplier winces. "These men are truly willing to risk their lives and put their bodies on the line in perilous environmental matches such as this! If you can't respect them for that, then you don't have a fricking soul!"

"Jase was so close to get the momentum off of Ichigo until that happened! No telling how much is Jason's head ringing after getting his head sickly drilled like that," Barney proclaims.

The Rated-R Reaper sits up moving his arm around to make sure it isn't injured, then rolls off the table to get on top of Jason with the leg hooked, attempting the pinfall for the first time: 1…2…Jason gets the shoulder up at two! Ichigo, a bit disappointed at the call, stands to his feet and drags Krueger inside the ring, where all the weapons he had brought in are still there. The Substitute Shinigami follows as he rolls inside and what he doesn't know was Jason grabbing onto a steel hair and landing a wicked chair shot over his skull, the impact echoing around the arena to a cringing crowd. After taking that shot, Ichigo falls flat on his back like he was knocked out with a now busted forehead as Krueger stands on his knees and bobs his head around arrogantly with a smirk, believing he's got this match in his hands now. The former NCW Tag Team Champion begins setting up a few of the objects inside the ring as he dumped the kendo sticks, lids, cookie sheets, and a street sign out from the trash can, which he sticks it between the top and middle turnbuckle and again to another, but with a steel chair. After he picks up Ichigo, he went ahead to ram him head-first into the steel chair, callously denting it! He yanks him out of the corner to pin him for the cover: 1…2…kick-out by Ichigo at a near three-count!

"Near-fall for Jason, sadly, despite sending The Rated-R Reaper head-first right into the steel chair," Kenji observes.

"Oh, Tobey, just wait until what Jase can do. He'll be making sure Strawberry is down and out for good. We've seen it with our very eyes, after all," Barney claims.

Jason mounts Ichigo with a series of hard right hands sending straight down to the skull before standing up to lean a table against a free corner. He then picks up a kendo stick and starts whipping it viciously into the back of Ichigo, who is now letting out shouts of utter agony, as the champion is showing no mercy. Thanks to the attacks, he leads Ichigo to lie against the table and slams his head into it a few times before backing up to the opposite corner. He crouches for the moment before bursting out of the corner to run at Ichigo with The Gore incoming…and crashes THROUGH the table as Ichigo moves out of the way! While Jason was shaking the cobwebs off—or in this case, the wooden pieces—and stumbling back, Ichigo quickly pulls the trashcan out of the turnbuckles and smashes it onto Jason's head! Before Jason can even go down, Ichigo slips the wastebasket over his head as his entire upper body is stuck inside of it; then, he grabs onto a trashcan lid and a cookie sheet, looking at them both as he ponders which to use first…but then shrugs as he uses both to smash them at both sides! Jason is heard groaning as he collapses back into a seated position in the corner with the trashcan still over him and Ichigo grabs a stop sign as he notices the situation his opponent is in and smirks. Part of the arena that supports Ichigo encourages him to do it and their wish is granted when The Rated-R Reaper dashes at Krueger and drives stop sign straight into him with a Running Dropkick!

"Shades of Rob Van Dam with that Running Dropkick to the stop sign into the Hardcore Champion! Jason's bells definitely have to be ringing from that maneuver!" Zack calls. "Ya know, that stop sign usually tells people to stop, but Ichigo isn't planning to do that until he gets the belt."

"Well, neither will Krueger as he makes sure the fly known as Strawberry suffer for the crap he's pulled off in the last few weeks," Barney states. "Just as soon as the Hardcore Champ comes back into the game."

The Messiah of Neckbreakers thrashes around after feeling the effects of that attack and Ichigo drags him over to make the pin: 1…2…2.52 kick-out by Jason! Knowing he has more work to do, Ichigo grabs another table to push it to the outside and starts setting it from ringside. Meanwhile, Jason has gotten the trashcan off him and can be seen with a slightly open wound at the top of his nose bridge thanks to the trashcan getting dented into his face. (Markiplier: Ooh, there you see Krueger is beginning to bleed now; it has been all Ichigo so far and while Jason got a few good hits in, the challenger has been dominate over the champion.) Ichigo finishes with the table and rolls inside the ring to grab and throw Jason over the top rope as he collapses down to the padded floor. Ichigo follows and lays him on the table before striking his bleeding head to make sure he stays; he climbs up the apron and on the top turnbuckle as he seeks a diving maneuver, but Jason had already rolled off the table. The Rated-R Reaper scoffs and descends from the top to walk over to Jason, who is staggering over to the ramps. The Rated-R Reaper grabs hold of him to perform the Reapercution, but The Gore Machine plants his feet on the floor as he starts fighting back with a succession of right fists and elbow smashes to the midsection and head respectively. After landing a knee strike to the gut, Jason turns Ichigo around with his head in a Standing Headscissors, then lifts him vertically by the waist…and drills him with the Krueger Driver into the steel ramps! (Kenji: Krueger Driver! Spike Piledriver into the ramps! ; Barney: And with that, Jase retains the belt here!) Ichigo holds his head and neck as Jason grabs both legs for the cradle pin: 1…

2…

…Ichigo manages to kick out at 2.85, much to the irritation of one Jason Krueger!

"Nope! Not happening yet, Barney, as Ichigo kicks out with Jason getting the near-fall! And he's showing a bit of frustration, which is not where someone wants to be, especially when in a title match situation like this!" Markiplier states. "Jason better calm down before he does something he'll regret."

As Ichigo is nursing his temple, the Hardcore Champion grabs him by his hair to start hauling him over to the ring apron, where he hikes on top of it with Ichigo in tow. He holds him by his face as he scolds, "You did this to yourself, Kurosaki! You have no one to blame but yourself by the end all this!" Then, Jason puts him in a Standing Headscissors as he seeks a second Krueger Driver, but his eyes set on the table next to them. He lifts him up—Ichigo drops down and hits a cringe-worthy low blow to the champion! Jason collapses down to the padded floor nursing his lower regions as Ichigo walks around to the steel steps next to his opponent. He slowly cracked a sinister grin as he pops open the top step and takes out…a big bag, inciting a roar of anticipation from the crowd, who all know exactly what's in that bag. He rolls inside the ring to start dumping thumbtacks all on the mat, making sure to spread it like a blanket with his foot. He sees Jason slowly entering the ring and grabs onto him, but gets a kick to the gut as Jason starts fighting back again. However, Ichigo ducks a Clotheslines and transitions that into a Half Nelson Bulldog…

…which gets countered with a stiff elbow to the midsection by Jason, who then lifts Ichigo up on one shoulder and lands him with the Running Fall Forward One-shoulder Powerbomb variation of the Awesome Bomb right onto the thumbtacks, inciting shocked screams and chants of "Holy sh*t!" from the audience!

"Oh, not good, not good—oh, my GOD! Good Lord in Heaven, Ichigo sought to repeat history from Reign in Blood to tonight, but Jason saves himself this time and lands Ichigo's back and head on the thumbtacks with the Awesome Bomb! Shades of former two-time ECW World Heavyweight Champion Mike Awesome, God rest his soul!" Markiplier exclaims.

"Sadly for Strawberry, Mark, God is not showing any mercy to Ichigo and the Big Bro in the Sky has the right to after what Ichigo did to him! How does that feel to have your back filled with thumbtacks, you son of a bitch?!" Barney scorns.

"Oh, no, he isn't through JUST YET, dudes…!" Zack observes as Krueger is seething at Ichigo from the corner and once he stood to his feet…GORE! ONTO THE THUMBTACKS! "OH, GORE! GORE! RIGHT BACK ON THE THUMBTACKS AGAIN, ADDING INSULT TO INJURY TO THE CHALLENGER!"

"He's got the leg hooked! This just may possibly do it!" Kenji calls as Verra counts it: 1…

"Bada Bing!" Barney begins.

2…

"Bada Boom!"

2.999 Ichigo gets the shoulder up!

"Forget About—NO! NO! HOW CAN THIS BE?! That wasn't meant to be! That was THREE, ref! You blind, man?!" Barney scowls.

"Stinson, I think you need to get your eyes checked because Ichigo kicked out of a GORE onto THUMBTACKS!" Kenji exclaims.

"Don't tell that to Jason at all, bro, 'cause he's utterly livid right now!" Zack gestures to a very shocked and frustrated Hardcore Champion, who is slamming his hands on the mat, not giving a damn if the thumbtacks are stuck in his palms.

Jason shoots to his feet to grab Michael by his collar and corner him to scold that he got the pinfall, but the official says contrarily. Purely aggravated, Jason looks all over the ring to find what can help him win this match…and he sets his eyes on one wooden table near between at ringside and the ramps. He quickly exits the ring to look under it and takes out a bottle of whiskey, grinning at the sight of it before opening it up to take a swig out of it. (Zack: Uh…when was there a whiskey under the ring? ; Markiplier: Guess ya never know what you'll find under an ACW ring.) The Gore Machine heads over to the table to douse it with almost all of the alcoholic beverage before standing on the apron to drink the last of it, but not swallowing it…

…as he takes out a match from his pocket…

…ignites it with his jaw…

and spits the drink in his mouth to create a huge ball of fire onto the table, inflaming it! (Markiplier: Good golly, Miss Molly! Like a dragon, the Hardcore Champion breathes FIRE onto the table! "Firewater" has come to LIFE in ACW! ; Barney: We know he won the Hardcore Championship this way when he Gored Loredo through the flaming table…he's looking to repeat it, but with Strawberry! Do it, Jase! Send him to HELL!) "I won my title by sending one poor bastard to hell…I'll do it again tonight!" Krueger proclaims as he goes to grab Ichigo and drag him over back where the flaming table is at. He lifts the Substitute Shinigami on his shoulders as he stands on the apron, looking for the Death Valley Driver, his Absolute Destruction…

…but Ichigo wriggles and hits a Hangman to the champion! As Jason hangs onto the ropes for dear life, Ichigo rebounds from the opposite…

AND ICHIGO SPEARS JASON THROUGH THE ROPES AND OFF THE APRON STRAIGHT INTO THE FLAMING TABLE!

"JESUS, MARY AND JOSEPH!" Markiplier shrieks.

"OH, BIG BRO IN THE SKY, WHY?!" Barney screams.

"OH, MY GOOOOOOOOD!" Kenji and Zack exclaims in perfect unison in the manner of Joey Styles that would make him proud.

The flames were quickly put out the second Jason and Ichigo went through the table as "Holy shit!" chants rang through the entire arena and the two were thrashing in pain, mostly Jason as he still felt the effects of the burning fire on himself. The challenger, Ichigo, very slowly crawls over to the champion as his entire body language and facial expression shows he was scared out of his mind and felt like he literally went to Hell. He turns Krueger on his back to get the arm over on top for the pin: 1…

2…

…3!

"He-He did it…! We have a new Hardcore Champion!" Markiplier calls.

("Metalingus" by Alter Bridge)

"Here is your winner, and the new ACW Hardcore Champion: 'The Rated-R Reaper'…Ichigo Kurosaki!" Maria declares.

At the proclamation, Ichigo gradually rolled off Jason to rest against the barricade to have the thousand-yard stare with his hands shaking and the blood almost giving him a crimson mask. Referee Michael Verra comes back to place Ichigo the Hardcore Championship on his lap as he's declared the winner. As soon as he came back to reality, he grabs the belt and struggles to rise to his feet, but manages to and holds up his recently won Hardcore Title with his free hand forming a rock horn sign.

"Ladies and gentlemen…history has been made once again with Ichigo Kurosaki as the second and new ACW Hardcore Champion!" Zack declares. "The very thing that helped Jason win the belt just also helped him LOSE IT to Ichigo! What irony!"

"What BULLSH*T! Jason had it all said and done! That flaming table was ready to give ICHIGO a peek at what Hell is like!" Barney snaps.

"Well, he got what he wanted, I guess…just not the way he wanted to go with him being speared through that table by Ichigo himself. Jason sent Alex Loredo to Hell back at Southern Hell…now three months later, he gets sent to Hell by Ichigo," Markiplier comments.

The newly crowned Hardcore Champion walks up the ramps to stand at the stage and raise his title with a very small victorious smirk on his face before draping it over his shoulder and leaving to the back. Meanwhile, as "Metalingus" starts to volume down, Jason Krueger barely gets to his feet with his orange prison suit being nearly burnt from the back and arms, frantically looking around like a lost child for his title…when he realized he LOST. He began to hyperventilate, slowly clutching onto his head as the fans near him anticipate an EXPLOSION…

…but…he calms down, confusing the audience. He shakes his head, silently muttering…"No…no…it's just what he would want… Exactly what he would want… I'm not giving him the satisfaction…" then starts heading up to the stage with his nearly burnt prison suit turned on the camera.

"…Exactly what he would want? Who the heck is 'he'?" Zack queries.

"Zack, I think…it should be obvious who he is," Kenji implies. "This is just might not end well for anyone that stands in Krueger's way…"


With cameras shifting to a part of Washington D.C., they pan over to the Washington Monument standing tall as "Uprising" by Muse plays in the background and fans are heard cheering loudly at the worldwide known pillar.

"Again, everybody, Rebellion is broadcasting to you live from Washington D.C. at the Verizon Center and you see the tall obelisk known as the Washington Monument, located between the Reflecting Pool next to the Lincoln Memorial and the United States Capitol," Markiplier states.

"Any time you look at that beautiful thing, it makes you proud to be an American; I know I sure as hell am," Barney smirks.

"But aren't you part Canadian, too, Barney?" Ted asks.

"I'm sorry, I don't speak non-logical lies, Ted Evelyn Mosby," Barney retorts. "Your argument is invalid by the Bro Code."

"…Right," Mosby says, rolling his eyes.


Cameras change to a backstage hallway, where ACW United States Champion Dante is seeing shooting lighting fast kicks straight to the air as fans cheer at the sight of the Devil May Cry protagonist.

"Getting ready around backstage as well is Dante of Devil May Cry fame, the inaugural, current and only ACW United States Champion. The Crimson Showstopper may not have been in Ultimate X matches before in his career, surprisingly, but he knows how to adapt and with his body built for matches like this along with his will to steal the show, he may have the advantage to win the finals tonight," Ted states as the camera changes to ringside.


"Fun fact: Dante's name comes from Dante Alighieri, who was a great Florentine poet of the Middle Ages. His central work, Divine Comedy, is often referenced or used thematically—"

Then a fart sound was suddenly made by Ned with his hand over his mouth to create it, interrupting Ted and surprising Logan; he turns to them and replies, "What? Someone had to do it."

"I don't like you much, but I owe ya for that, Bigby!" Barney tells off-screen.

"You're welcome, dude!"

"Okay, can we just move on?" Ted requests, feeling irritated.

"Yes, we shall," Logan says when the camera changes to a match graphic as Evil Beauty are shown in their own respective and signature poses on the left side with an Evil Beauty tattered flag waving behind their backs while Mai Valentine and iGeneration, performing their own respective and signature poses as well, are on the opposite with The Four Horsewoman logo on their own flag behind them as the words, "EVIL BEAUTY v. THE FOUR HORSEWOMEN: SIX-WOMAN TAG TEAM MATCH" are written with the pattern design of the American flag in-between the two, "because we are now finally moving on to the division business that involves the ladies! Seriously, these matches are mostly a sausage fest."

"Don't worry, you'll be able to drool over our Women's Division with your perverted commentary and they'll beat the crap out of you later," Ned snarks, earning a glare from the Zoey 101 character. "To get this right, these two stables are fighting for rights over being the next challengers for the champions of the Women's Division. The Four Horsewomen want to rule the division in their own way…but Evil Beauty, especially Kendra, are not willing to let that happen."

"And to make this interesting, recently employed Lily Aldrin as Co-Head of the Women's Division made a rule that there will be no interference from anyone of Evil Beauty's side, the Queendom's side or anyone else! Lily is a strict woman of justice as she wants this match to go well without chaos happening. Let us see how this will go," Ted recalls as a video package starts playing on the TitanTron, recapping the origin of The Four Horsewomen at the FWAs, Evil Beauty and The Horsewomen declaring war over for the division, the stables and champions all fighting, Aelita's dominance during so and Lily's declaration of the match. Once the video package has finished playing, the camera returns to show the stage, where Evil Beauty's TitanTron video starts playing alongside with "So Beautiful, So Evil" by Digital Summer hitting the loudspeakers.

("So Beautiful, So Evil" by Digital Summer)

[From the moment she laid her eyes on me

I knew how dangerous she could be

Lips like a knife that cut through me

She takes advantage 'cause she knows I'm weak]

The crowd goes to a mixed reaction when Kendra Daniels, Eliza Hart and Allison Wilson walk out to the stage with stern expressions. Kendra raises a fist with the RR armband to display her veneration to the faction before walking down the ramps as Allison simply brushed her hair back and follows along with Eliza. When they made it to the steps, Allison walks up the steps into the ring as Eliza jumps on the apron and slingshots over the ropes, triggering silver pyro to shoot from the stage and posts when she landed on her feet. Allison leans against the ropes, facing the crowd as she and Eliza pose, flaunting themselves with their beauty and pound fists into their palms, saying they may be beautiful, but they'll hit hard while Kendra is between them in a "at ease" stance and scanning the crowd from left to right.

[(Come on…) She says you know you want to…

(Come on, come on…) But then she owns you…

And I hate how somehow I always give in

To those lips that can paralyze…!

Though I know that she is the devil

She's so beautiful, so evil…!]

The bell rings three times, cuing Maria's announcement, "The following Six-Woman Tag Team contest is set for one fall! Introducing first: at a combined weight of 485 pounds, the team of 'The Black Widow' Eliza Hart, 'The Anaconda' Allison Wilson, and Kendra Daniels…Evil Beauty!"

"This three-woman stable originally formed with founding members Kendra Daniels and Allison Wilson when they teamed up to be part of the Tag Team Turmoil against Hart of Hyuga for the Women's Tag Team Championships back in May," Ted recalls. "The fallout show after Spring Breakdown, Eliza Hart debuted as a third member to complete the stable we know today. And now, these women are fighting for their rights to face the champions of the Women's Division."

"I won't lie, the girls did have a nice run of being top heels in the division…but with The Four Horsewomen hitting their stride right now so amazingly, it's time for them to move on. They'll get their spotlights soon enough…just not tonight," Logan shrugs.

("Lo Horsemen" by Smoke DZA feat. Thirstin Howl III, Meyhem Lauren, and NymLo)

[(La musica de Harry Fraud) Yeah…

Thirstin Howl III, polo reeking…

My double L's always been tatted on my heart…

It's evident; I represent…the evolution

So…evolve or dissolve…

It's what it is right now…NymLo!]

As the lights shine golden yellow, the audience begin showering the arena with loud and vicious boos as Mai Valentine walks out first followed by Carly Shay and Sam Puckett along with their iGeneration manager, Freddie Benson. Sam simply scoffs the negative reaction as Carly flaunts herself and raises her hands up in a diva-like manner and Mai flips her hair back in a haughty manner before they proceed to trek down the ramps to the ring, mixture of confidence and conceit oozing from their stride. Upon their arrival at ringside, the three of the Four Horsewomen give glares to Evil Beauty that stand in the squared circle. Mai and Carly step on the apron together just as Freddie holds the middle and bottom rope open for them to enter, then Puckett follows as she helps herself inside and Freddie steps off to head around the ring to grab a microphone as Maria sits down with a scowl; iGeneration stands at their adjacent corners with Sam raising both fists, Carly continues her fake smile and blows many kisses to her "fans" and Mai grabs her jacket and holds it wide open to show herself off once more with the arrogant grin still on her face.

"Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to introduce to you all the future true champions of this Godforsaken division: accompanied by yours truly, Freddie Benson, at the unified weight of 393 pounds, no more, no less, representing The Four Horsewomen…the team of Sam Puckett…Carly Shay…and Mai Valentine!" Freddie announces proudly.

"…Freddie's biased declaration being ignored for the moment, Mai Valentine and iGeneration make their presence truly felt in the Verizon Center. Mai only debuted on the first episode of Ignition, then on RAMPAGE I, iGeneration debuted as well and after winning their matches, they held up four fingers while proclaiming 'The Change' is coming… We've all asked ourselves what it was and we got our answer by the NCW Christmas Party," Ned states.

"Sailor Moon recruited Valentine, Shay and Puckett as part of her special project to create The Four Horsewomen, the female incarnation of The Four Horsemen for the Fiction Wrestling Multiverse. By the time of the 2014 Fiction Wrestling Awards, Aelita Schaeffer betrayed all of her friends and fans as she revealed herself as the Fourth Horsewomen, which showcased one of the biggest heartbreaking moments in wrestling history," Ted implies.

"Geez, you crybabies are never going to get over it, are you? It's been said and done! Aelita made one of the actual best decisions of her entire career! And from there, The Four Horsewomen have shown why don't even want to mess with them and why they're on the top girls of any women's division overall. Just ask Korra, for example, or even one of the biggest hags of all, SAILOR MARS, who was utterly stupid enough to hurt Moon's student," derides Logan.

"I couldn't agree with you more, Logan," approves Freddie Benson, who had just put on headsets of his own as he joins the RAMPAGE commentary table. "Hino made the decision to do such thing as she paid the price horribly at Pride & Glory with a well-deserve consequence," Freddie proclaims.

"Why are you even here at our table, Benson?" Ned asks.

"Because the audience at home needs to hearing an evenly balanced observation from both sides of this black and white world you like to live in, Bigby…and I'm going to give it to them," Freddie smirks.

"…Joy," Ned rolls his eyes.

Both factions stand opposite of each other as they hold a stare down at the center of the ring. The camera quickly switches to a locker room area where Téa Gardner and Hart of Hyuga are seen watching the match on their television screen.

"The current champions of the Women's Division keeping a close eye on this Six-Woman Tag Team Match, no matter who wins, they'll know what they're up against," implies Ned Bigby.

"Keep thinking that, Ned. It is only a matter of time before the inevitable happens," Freddie remarks.

Returning to the ring, the ladies continue their glares as Referee Daniel Parker requests for the bell to ring, which it did…and Puckett fires the first shot, punching Eliza right in the face before she punches back hard and this ignites a brawl between the stables! Eliza fighting Sam! Allison fighting Carly! Kendra fighting Mai! These women weren't holding back their punches on each other one bit! (Ted: Right out of the gate, Sam fires the first shot, inciting a massive fight between the two groups! ; Freddie: Not at all surprised by Puckett being so impatient in waiting for the match to start.) The broil leads Eliza and Sam out of the ring after the latter hit a Cactus Clothesline, then Carly is seen raking Allison's eyes before tossing her over the ropes, and Mai cornering Kendra with a serious of stomps to the midsection. Carly aids her with getting Kendra to the ropes and performing a Double Irish Whip; however, the computer specialist stops herself at the ropes and taunts the two Horsewomen to come after her, which Carly does so and goes flying to the outside from Kendra's Back Body Drop. Mai heads over to grab Kendra, who kicks her in the gut in retaliation and performs a Suplex to toss Mai over the top rope, but she lands her feet on the apron and Eliza Hart runs in with a Chop Block to the legs, causing Valentine to crash down. Evil Beauty controls this momentum so far as Kendra grants the Black Widow permission to do as she pleases to the Flair of the Four Horsewomen. The former three-time Women's Wrestling League Champion grabs onto Mai and pushes her inside the ring, where she then seizes her again and throws her over with a Belly-to-Belly Suplex!

"The ruthless strength of The Black Widow is really scary; she just tossed Mai over like a rag doll—Evil Beauty is in the driver's seat of the match!" Ned states.

"Yeah, but wait until that one mistake happens for Evil Beauty and The Four Horsewomen quickly go to work on that," Logan predicts.

"I await to see this expectation come true, Logan," Freddie nods.

Eliza does not give Mai a chance to rise as she pushes her down flat on her back and lands a big Leg Drop across the neck, then proceeded the pinfall to only get a kick-out at one. After the kick-out, Eliza clutches onto Mai's throat, apparently choking her with no remorse as the blonde kicks her feet and the official is cautioning her to let go. Reaching the count of three, the Black Widow removes her hands from Mai and grabs onto her hair to (roughly) drag her over to her corner, where she tags out to Allison; the two bounce Mai off the ropes and the Yu-Gi-Oh! character returns to get planted with a Double Flapjack. Allison covers, but Parker tells her that she's not legal. By the time she took knowledge of that, she was too late to react when Carly Shay flew in with a Springboard Forearm Smash! The iCarly co-host hops to her feet with her arms splayed out and proclaims with a cocky smirk, "More phenomenal than A.J. Styles right here!" and that earned a cheap heat from the audience. The brunette then grabs Allison to plant her with a Waistlock Takedown, floating around to smack her around and getting her distance from a hotheaded Anaconda, who furiously speeds at Carly and just crashes chest-first into the turnbuckles, and Carly performs the O'Connor Roll for the pin: 1, 2—kick-out at 2.43 by Allison!

"The arrogant Carly Shay is playing the psychology game on Allison, who nearly fell into a pinfall that could've been disaster for her team and—Superkick by Carly! Just as soon as Allison stood on her knees, Shay practically kicks her jaw off!" Ted tells, observing the match as it goes.

"And you see why she's one of the best, Mosby? You see why she's a three-time and the currently longest reigning GAIA Tag Team Champion alongside with Sam? It's because of abilities like what Carly has that have gotten her to where she is today and it will take her farther into greatness!" Freddie praises.

"Preach it proud, brother! Preach it loud and proud!" Logan approves, much to Ned's aggravation.

Carly dragged Allison to her corner and tags in Mai, who then grabs Allison to hit a Pendulum Backbreaker as Carly ascends the second turnbuckle and nails a Diving Knee Drop straight down into Allison's face. Valentine rolls her opponent up with both legs hooked: 1, 2—2.45 kick-out by Wilson. Mai rolls her over to the center of the ring as she stands her up, then twists around to hit a Kneeling Hangman's Neckbreaker. Mai attempts the cover again, but Allison is too stubborn to stay down as she kicks out. As a result, Sam gets the tag and hops in to prevent Allison from getting one and yanks her into a vicious Lariat, nearly decapitating her head! The meat enthusiast hauls and sits Allison against a neutral corner to repeatedly rub the sole of her boot across the face before backing away and returning to hit a Running Low-angle Dropkick. Sadly for The Anaconda, Sam was not through as she pushes her out to the apron and picks her up to her feet while standing on the second turnbuckle; by then, Sam drapes the arm over the back of her neck and grabs the waist for the Deadweight Superplex…which is denied when Allison fired repeated lefts and rights to the midsection and attacks Puckett with a Hangman!

"Nearly falling to fate from the Deadweight Superplex, Allison saves herself as she counters against Sam!" Ned calls.

"Okay, not bad on Allison's part. I'll give her that, but that only may have bought her time to gain the momentum for a short while. Can she keep it up?" Logan queries.

The Anaconda swiftly stands on the apron and hops off with a Springboard Clothesline that connects to Puckett. Both blondes spring to their feet and the meat enthusiast is flattened with another Clothesline by Allison, who then runs to the ropes, bouncing off into Sam's grasp and drills her with a Tilt-a-Whirl DDT. Preceded by a kip-up, Allison roars at the top of her lungs, showing how fired up she is right now before tagging out to Eliza; then, she picks Sam up to smash her head into the foot of Eliza that lays on the top turnbuckle and then trips her up as The Black Widow enters the ring and The Anaconda catapults Puckett into a Big Boot. Hart stomps on Sam's chest before positioning her near the turnbuckles, then backs up to get a good measure before sprinting up and jumping over Sam to perform a Running Corner Slingshot Splash transitioned into an Elbow Drop! Eliza tags in Kendra as she nails a knee to the gut, then bends her over for Kendra to nail a Slingshot Somersault Leg Drop across the back of her head.

"Leg Drop from Kendra off the slingshot. Evil Beauty is now taking control of this match as they're making sure Samantha never reaches for the tag on her side," Ted proclaims.

"It might end up being a failure on their part because Puckett is like a wild boar. Being cornered like that isn't going to do Evil Beauty any good as she's going to find that chance to make everything go straight to hell," Freddie notes.

After the kick-out at 2.52 by Sam, Kendra forces her to her feet by her hair and would yank her down with a vicious Hair-pull Backbreaker. Sam thrashes around in pain holding her head as Kendra sees the amount of hair she pulled out with a smug grin and mockingly dashes it everywhere. Daniels walks over to Sam draped over the second rope where she presses her knee against her back to choke her with the rope. Parker demands for the illegal choke to be stopped before he counted: 1…2…3…4…4.85 Kendra backs away with her arms raised in defense as the official has back turned on Eliza nailing rigid Big Boot to Sam. Kendra goes around the ref and tags out to Eliza, who enters to drag Sam back to the center and talks smack in her face before actually smacking her, flipping off Mai and Carly, then lifts Sam with a Military Press Lift, holding her high up with all her power before abruptly dropping her. Sam pops to her feet nursing her front body before pulled over via Irish Whip to the ropes by Eliza, ducks a Clothesline on the way back and grabs her from behind to toss her over with an Inverted Scoop Powerslam!

"Powerslam! Amazing modified Powerslam from Sam Puckett after catching a break with an encounter like that!" Ted exclaims.

"Completely out of nowhere, that's for sure! But unfortunately, Sam used that energy to execute a big move like that as both she and Hart are down," Freddie comments.

"Even so, they're both seeking that tag out to their teammates. Who's gonna get the better of each other by the time one of them gets the tag, then?" Logan asks.

Sam and Eliza are flat on the canvas as they're crawling to their respective corners with their teammates eager for the tag. Soon, the first one to tag out was Sam as Carly enters and Eliza tags in Allison, who performs a Springboard Clothesline that misses and lands on her feet. Turning around, Allison gets a Spinning Side Kick to the midsection and Carly then grabs her head for the Style & Grace, hitting the Hangman's Neckbreaker twisted into a DDT, which has Allison shoving the brunette away and executing a Step-up Enzuigiri. Fans wince at the clack echoing in the arena from the kick as Allison performs an Irish Whip on Carly, who reverses it and Allison goes flying over the top rope as she lands on the apron, then jumps on the top rope and launches off with a Springboard Forearm Smash. "And that's how you do it like that, baby!" proclaims Allison, who sees Carly at an empty corner and charges with a High Knee, hitting nothing but the turnbuckle. Wilson nurses her knee as Carly grabs her and smashes her head into the turnbuckle at her team's side and tags in Sam. Shay lands a few kicks to the gut before getting Sam to Irish Whip her over to Allison and Monkey Flips her to Puckett, who catches her midair and a Frankensteiner by Allison is ensued, sending Sam crashing into Carly and giving Allison the chance to make the tag to Kendra Daniels!

"The tag is made! Allison was quick to counter at iGeneration and now the RR District Leader of ACW is back in the game!" Ned Bigby calls.

"Sam better get her head together if she wants to make sure the right team takes home the win!" Freddie states.

Sam, after regaining her footing, and Kendra charge at each other as the latter ducks a feign Clothesline and a Jobber Clobber afterwards and then plants the teen blonde with a Hangman's Neckbreaker. Seeing Sam stumbling while holding her neck, Kendra turns her around to nail a Toe Kick and lands a Bridging Belly-to-Belly Suplex, having the shoulders down: 1…2…2.84 Sam pops the shoulder up, holding her right arm out and clinging onto Kendra as the two slowly elevate above the mat and twist around with their arms clinging tight for a Backslide Pin. Sam yanks Kendra over, the latter lands on her feet, the former ducks a Spinning Wheel Kick, and Puckett catches the older brunette with a Half Nelson, lifting her up to drive her back down with an Olympic Slam, bridging the maneuver: 1…2…kick-out at 2.89 by Kendra Daniels! Sam cracks her neck as she picks her adversary up and Irish Whips her to the ropes, then after Kendra hits the ropes, she comes back with a Divet DDT (Wheelbarrow DDT), drilling Sam's head into the mat! Almost slowly, Kendra rises to her vertical base with Sam in tow and grabs her head in a Side Headlock, but Sam manages to twist out of it and hits a Short-arm Clothesline, giving her the chance to tag out to Mai. The Flair of the Horsewomen hops inside and engages in a trade of furious punches with Kendra, who ducks a fist as she hits a knee strike to the gut, then bounces off the ropes into an Elegant Egotist—no, Kendra slips out behind her and hits the RIG Flatline (Headlock Driver)! Kendra immediately hooks the leg: 1…

2…

…3—Carly breaks up the pin! She starts stomping on her as Sam joins in and then both Eliza and Allison runs in to attack them, inciting another massive brawl between both stables!

"Here we go again! A brawl from both factions is transpiring right in the middle of the ring once more! Both sides are unrelenting on each other!" Ted exclaims as the fight prolongs with Allison on Carly and Eliza on Sam as the former two are taken out of the equation when Wilson Cactus Clotheslines Shay out of the ring.

With Hart and Puckett alone in the ring, the latter attempts a Big Boot to The Black Widow, who catches the foot and yanks the teen in for the Widow's Bite. Hart extends her leg out and Sam pushes her off in time to kick her in the abdomen, hook the arms and drive her skull down with Puck It! Sam kicks her away and gets caught in a Rear Naked Choke by Allison, who now calls this submission hold the Anaconda Constrictor! Sam is extending her arms out while also trying to pull The Anaconda off her back as she has her legs wrapped tight around her in a Bodyscissors; Sam surprisingly collapses to her knees, almost unconscious before Allison folds her up and hits the Package Piledriver! Allison releases a triumphing roar before being grabbed and drilled by Carly's 8-C Driver (Kryptonite Krunch)! Carly stands with her arms spread out until they were grasped by Kendra, who ducks and reverses the Clothesline with a twisting arm wrench and pulls her into a Broken Elegance (Inverted Double Stomp Facebreaker)! Look all around, Kendra finds Mai stumbling to her feet and grabs her for the RIG Flatline…but then Mai drops down and has Kendra in a Roll-up with the tights grabbed: 1…

2…

…Kendra barely kicks out at a near three-count! She stands and misses the Spinning Wheel Kick, then Mai kicks her stomach, hooks the arms, turns her once…twice…

…and plants the Harpie's Feather Duster!

"Berkocet! Harpie's Feather Duster by Valentine!" Ted exclaims.

"That's it, man! It's done! Mai's got the cradle!" Logan calls.

1…

"Bada Bing!"

2…

"Bada Boom!"

…3!

"Forget About It!" Logan infers. "We got new challengers for the champions of the Women's Division!"

"And that cues my departure for tonight. Mosby, Bigby, Logan, thank you for your time," Freddie smirks as he removes his headset and leaves the table to make the announcement.

("Lo Horsemen" by Smoke DZA feat. Thirstin Howl III, Meyhem Lauren, and NymLo)

"Ladies and gentlemen, your ultimate winners of this contest and future champions of the division they will rule: Sam Puckett…Carly Shay…and Mai Valentine of The Foooooouuuuuur Horsewomeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen!" Freddie announces proudly, which has Maria Lopez rolling her eyes in the background.

Mai exits the ring with her sitting on the apron and a victorious, yet smug grin exists on her face as iGeneration and Freddie joins her in celebration of their gloating conquest. As they reach the ramps, Freddie raises Carly's hand to signal her as the winner she did the same for Mai who repeats it for Sam. In the ring, Kendra is sitting at the center of the ring while holding her head with scowl on her face while Eliza lies against the barricade with a glare towards the Horsewomen and Allison resting her arms on the apron with the same glare as Hart. Eventually, Aelita Schaeffer walks out from backstage to join her fellow Horsewomen in their celebration as she claps her hands. The Four Horsewomen unite to hold up their four fingers at the camera with smug grin as Mai proclaims, "The Change is coming VERY soon, everybody…hope you're all ready to step into an era full of elegant wrestlers and pure champions. WOO!"

"In this victory, this may be the dawn of the dark days for the ACW Women's Division should they succeed in gaining what they want," Ted proclaims.

"Oh, so you say, Mosby? Dude, it'll be a DREAM for The Queendom to accomplish their goals! Even for people like me as well!" Logan smirks.

"And yet, all of us, especially the women's division, go through the nightmare of these girls taking over…yeah, that'll be a joy," Ned sighs.


The cameras return to the backstage area…

…and shows the reinforced steel door of a closed off room away from all other faculties. The door didn't have any windows or even any bars on it and there wasn't a single shred of light coming from it. The camera then splits apart into two sections and shows another of that same room in a different area location, each one as dark and foreboding as the last. Footsteps are then heard on screen…and that's when two different security teams arrive at one door each as they start to open the door with the crowd popping upon seeing the situation behind the scenes.


"Oh, boy…guess we finally head into the match I doubt most of us are looking forward to," Markiplier gulps. "Nothing more than a sickening stipulation to make two men go on for twenty-four hours without food, water and light and have them enter the ring as animals."

"Well, it is what's happening as soon as these guys get released," Barney says. "This has been the most heated rivalry aside from the main event since it all began before Spring Breakdown."

The camera then changes to a match graphic as Takashi Komuro is shown turning around with his baseball bat on the left side and an "H.O.T.D." tattered flag waving behind his back while Yami Bakura is looking up with a sadistic, dark grin on the opposite and a God of Darkness symbol (a.k.a. The Guy of Disturbed) flag waving behind him as the words, "KOMURO v. BAKURA: MONSTER'S BALL" are written in black with the pattern design of blood in-between the two.

"Indeed, Stinson. Originally, a rivalry clashed between The Gods of Darkness and Highschool of the Dead's Takashi Komuro and Kohta Hirano and ended up being just Komuro and Bakura right now. Bakura and Marik have one over the zombie apocalypse survivors, but will this be the night Komuro even things up with Bakura while avenging his fallen tag team partner? We're gonna find out soon enough," Kenji says as a video package played on the TitanTron, retelling the entire story from Bakura and Marik Ishtar drilling Kohta Hirano twice through a regular table and an enflaming table, Komuro hitting an Inverted Death Valley Driver on Marik, Bakura issuing the Monster's Ball challenge and Takashi accepting it as the two engage in a brawl to the tune of "Sinner" by Drowning Pool, the music growing more intense as the two were exchanging their promos and the end of the song is reached as Takashi and Bakura are staring each other down. Once the video package has finished playing, the camera returns to the ring where the bell is heard ringing three times, cuing up Maria Lopez's introductions.

"The following contest…is a Monster's Ball Match and it is set for one fall to the finish!" Maria announces.

Suddenly, dark disturbing images rapidly flash onscreen with people screaming in blood, slimy worms crawling through skulls, an eclipse blocking the sun, a severed arm being burned, a closeup of a creepy doll, whose head turns to the camera instantly, and a final quick snapshot of a screaming pale man with empty eye sockets with a loud brief scream being heard. And suddenly…darkness and silence is what was left…until a small match was lit and it lights a candle…and Yami Bakura is revealed alone with the candle in hand that illuminates him.

"Washington D.C…" grins Bakura as the crowd lets out a small pop in cheers, "…I'm here." He suddenly blows out the candle…and then…

("Everybody Wants to Rule the World" by Lorde)

[Welcome to your life…

There's no turning back…

Even while we sleep…

We will find you

Acting on your best behavior

Turn your back on Mother Nature

Everybody wants to rule the world…]

The darkness is all anyone sees besides the illuminating dots from the arena seats until Yami Bakura is revealed standing at the stage with a small lantern in his hand, donning his signature G.O.D. mask with The Guy's face along with a few followers of The Shadows in the audience. Bakura creepily tilts his head, staring towards the crowd under his mask as he extends his free arm out and is cackling under his mask. He begins to slowly walk down on the ramps, passing by the audience and soon slithers into the ring to stand on his knees in the middle of it. Bakura lifts his mask up a bit to reveal his left eye and a vile grin himself with a shout of, "FOLLOW…THE SHADOWS!"

"Introducing first: representing The Gods of Darkness, from Domino City, Japan, weighing in at 187 pounds…Yami Bakura!" Maria announces.

"Wait, wait…Bakura…is showing no signs of weakness from being locked away from FOOD, WATER, AND LIGHT for TWENTY-FOUR HOURS…and he's PERFECTLY FINE just like that?! WHAT THE FUDGE?!" Zack exclaims.

"Hey, I ain't questioning it as Bakura said clearly he has the power of darkness on his side and with this being his evidence, Komuro is SCREWED," Barney implies.

"As much as I really hate to agree with you, Takashi is deep trouble with this revelation revealed right in front of us. We can only wonder what his condition is like currently after being released from his sealed room," Kenji says as Bakura chuckles and blows the candle out, followed by the lights turning back on, before sitting in a corner, Raven-style as he waits for his opponent to come out and make him meet his demise.

("Whatever" by Our Lady Peace)

The moment the signature riff hit, the crowd screams with a loud positive reaction for the soon-to-be appearing Takashi Komuro. As the song nearly reaches the lyrics, Takashi, who was wearing his crimson red tank top, black leather fingerless gloves, plain gray jeans, and black sneakers, walks out to the stage…ever slowly as he softly clenches his stomach and blocks the lights with his free arm. Takashi wheezes and licks his lips to try to have some moisture from the starvation and dehydration he suffered as his eyes are being hurt from the illumination of the arena. Eventually, he had to get over it and he did as he lowers his arms, clenches his hands into tight fists and his hair helps shadow his eyes before slowly lifting his head to heavily glare at his grinning opponent in the ring with eyes of a rabid wolverine and sharp teeth revealed. By then, Komuro started walking down the ramps as he heads to the ring.

[There's no holding me back…

I'm not driven by fear, I'm just driven by anger

And you're under attack…

I'm just climbing up slowly, I'm the one and only

The tease, the way you lie…

The stumble in your mind…

The fear, the hope inside…

They hit here…

(They hit here) But whatever you need!

'Ever you got, 'ever you want!

I'll take back again!

Whatever you need!

'Ever you got, 'ever you want!

I'll take back again…

B'OH!]

"And his opponent: representing Highschool of the Dead, from Tokonosu City, Japan, weighing in at 200 pounds…Takashi Komuro!" Maria announces.

"Oh, man…look at what has happened to young Takashi Komuro… Twenty-four hours of starvation, dehydration and darkness…transformed him into an animal," Markiplier shakes his head.

"This is what happens when you let vengeance and anger cloud your mind, Mark. It gets you in the deep real ish you don't realize it's too late; Takashi is suffering through that and that's exactly what he gets," Barney states. "He brought this on himself and he'll be getting what he deserves tonight; this is just the start of it!"

"How sick to even think that…? I don't know if he really deserves to suffer for an entire day just to weaken part of his career and fight a sadistic bastard with a corrupted god complex like Bakura. Does anybody deserve that, Stinson?" Kenji scolds as Bakura stands at the center of the ring to DARE Komuro to come at him and he gladly charged in, sliding inside the ring and tackling Bakura to rain fists on top of him! Shawn Yeager, the referee for this match, orders for the bell to ring as the bout begins!

"Oh, here we go! Takashi wastes little time to charge after Bakura, who ventured his opponent to come at him! THE MONSTER'S BALL IS ON!" Zack exclaims.

Bakura shoves off Takashi, who nails a rigid Clothesline and then trades left and rights with him until gaining the momentum as he hits a vicious right haymaker to knock him down. He grabs his belt to unfasten it and yanks it out to use it by whipping it across his back, provoking Bakura to scream in pain as Takashi prolongs the chastisement. Then, he wraps his entire fist with the belt as he drags Yami on his feet and knocks him down with the belt buckle to the face. With Takashi's sharp teeth still bared, he exits the ring to look behind the apron what weapons exist for him to use; he pulls out and throws inside two steel chairs and a trashcan with a lid inside. Komuro removes and tosses the lid out and then holds up the trashcan to smash it over the head of a rising Bakura. He glares down at him before throwing the foreign object out, then as Bakura was picking himself up to his feet against the ropes, Takashi runs and takes him out of the ring with a Clothesline! Takashi beats his chest with the approval of the Washington D.C. crowd and stalks the stirring Bakura from his spot, then hits the ropes to run across the mat for a Suicide Dive and gets a trashcan lid nailed into his skull!

"Incoming Komuro—oh, goodness! Takashi had the early going in this match for him and it gets taken away as his face personally meets that trashcan lid!" Markiplier screams.

"And this will be the start of his inevitable demise for defying a god of darkness, especially a being like Yami Bakura!" Barney chimes in as Bakura finished catching his breath, then forces the zombie apocalypse survivor to his feet and heaves him into the steel steps. "What did I tell ya?! He's just getting started!"

"You can hear it as well as see it, ladies and gentlemen—Bakura sends Takashi head-first into the steels steps with no remorse. For as long as Bakura can keep this up, Takashi is going to have much trouble to fight back with his condition," Kenji comments.

Komuro is shoved into the ring by Yami Bakura, who adds a few more weapons into the ring such as another trashcan with a lid and a kendo stick inside, a twelve foot ladder and the top half of the steel steps. He slides inside to lift the stairs up and tosses them straight at Komuro, knocking him off his base! After that, he exits to grab the top half of another steel steps to push it inside; then, he enters the ring, lifts the object up once more and holds it over himself to nonchalantly drop it on top of Takashi, who flails in pain as he holds his abdomen. (Zack: Aw, that's just a douche bag move right there, man. ; Barney: Bakura is only reminding him of who he's dealing with and he'll be remaining this kind of pain for a long time.) After laying one of the stairs down, Bakura walks over to trail the ladder near a neighboring corner at a flat diagonal position and drags Takashi over by his fingers in his mouth before stomping his face in just to stop him from struggling. Bakura would then hoist Takashi to a vertical base and set up for the Vertical Suplex, seeking to land it on the ladder, but Takashi hooks his leg around Bakura's to keep him planted to the mat. After many efforts, Takashi is firing multiple punches to the ribs, turns around with Bakura in tow with the arm draped over his nape and pulls off the Snap Suplex successfully to his opponent onto the ladder!

"Human spine meets the metal ladder with authority! Guess who won that exchange?" Kenji questions.

"God, you just can't help but cringe at Bakura's pain right now after having his back land on the ladder. Can only imagine the agony he's going through…" Barney winces, making Kenji roll his eyes.

As Bakura nurses his back, Takashi raises the ladder over his head to simply let it drop on his opponent, giving him payback earlier. "Not so good when it happens to you, huh, ya son of a bitch?!" shouts Komuro, who holds the ladder down on top of Bakura and decides to tribute to RVD by running to the ropes and runs into a flying ladder in his face! The crowd boos as Bakura sneers at Takashi and opens up the ladder, then drapes him over to be in-between it and slams the other rails above on his back, engaging the zombie apocalypse survivor to yell in pain. Adding insult to injury, Bakura steps on the ladder keep shooting the pain straight into Takashi's spine as he is clinging onto his hair with a face that easily tells how much he's suffering right now; Yami Bakura sneers, "I haven't even broken a sweat, Komuro! You see what happens when you're too big for your own britches and believe you can step up to ME?!" He steps off to grab a steel chair and starts smashing it on the ladder constantly, showing no mercy at all to the screaming Takashi. (Markiplier: This is absolutely sick! That's enough, Bakura! You're gonna break this kid in half! There is no reason for any of making him ache worse than he already has, goddamn it! ; Barney: What did you expect, Mark—Bakura shows some remorse to the high school punk? After what the brat has done? Nuh-uh. I don't think so.) Soon, Bakura drops the chair as he forces Takashi out of the ladder and on his feet, setting him up in a Half Nelson. Too weak to even fight back, Komuro finds himself being lifted and his face planted into the steel steps from his own Half Nelson Bulldog by Bakura!

"Oh, cheese and rice! The impact of a human skull being smashed into the steps—both sound and sight of it are equally appalling to hear and see!" Zack cringes as Takashi is thrashing around and Yeager is checking on him…and his eyes widen as he discovers the HotD leader's forehead is bleeding badly. "Oh, good Lord…!"

"First blood is made as Takashi is already bleeding like a stuck pig, already beginning to have a crimson mask… The poor kid…" Kenji groans.

"As much as it is unbearable to witness this, there is no point in giving sympathy for a rebel who thinks he can just do what he pleases and gets away. Not with someone like Bakura on your back," Barney states, his tone being slightly harsh.

Takashi, being nearly blinded by his own blood, is trying to find where he is at as he swings his punches at nothing but air and collapses to his knees, nursing his head. Bakura scorns the young survivor with a mocking smile and shakes his head as one word escapes his mouth off-mic: "Pathetic…" He casually rakes his foot across his face, then pulls back at his arms with one leg standing on his back just to hear his agony, which were music to his ears before head stomping his face into the canvas. The Spirit of Darkness then has his eyes set on the ladder and turns to the nearby ring apron and turnbuckle post as an idea hatches within his disturbed mind. What helped him better was Takashi resting on the edge of the ring and he kicks him out with a rope-aided Dropkick. Bakura exits while he drags the ladder out and leans it against the turnbuckle post, then forces Takashi over for an attempted attack…

…but Takashi powers out with a kick to the gut, grabs the evil spirit of the Millennium Ring by his head into a standing headscissors and hoists him up on his shoulders for a Powerbomb. However, Bakura, at the last second, Hurricanranas the former high school student back-first into the ladder! That reversal did no better for Komuro's hurt back as he writhes around in reaction to the impact. Bakura quickly crawls around the post to look under the ring and brings a steel chain out in the open as he wraps it around his fist; he sees Takashi striving to rise on his feet and nails him with the chained fist into his gut before striking it at the back of his head.

"God, first Takashi's back getting a taste of the ladder once more and now both back of his head and gut have earned a steel chained fist. Is there no limit to how far Bakura will make Takashi endure the experience of agony?!" Markiplier asks.

"This is Yami Bakura we're perceiving here, Mark… Takashi is only dealing with a monster that has done things to get what and where he wants, and I don't just mean that wrestling-wise," Kenji grimaces.

Dropping the chain, the modern dark incarnation of Thief King Bakura clutches onto Takashi's head to bring him over at a vertical base and lifts him up for the Suplex attempt when he drops him on the barricade right on his midsection, then gets his skull kicked in as he lands into the attendance area. Bakura picks the chain up and goes over the barricade to follow a staggering and bleeding Komuro. He swivels him from behind to nail a kick that brings him to his knees and starts a slow series of hammering the chained fist on top of his temple, causing more blood to spill and perhaps even dent his skull in. After three consecutive strikes, Bakura unties the large chain and wraps it around his neck to choke him mercilessly as Takashi is grasping onto it and gasping for dear life; Bakura gets nothing but enjoyment from his helplessness with a sadistic grin. (Zack: No remorse from that insane dude, Bakura, as he's actually choking the life out of him! ; Barney: You may not like it, but this is what happens when one defies the will of a god of darkness!) Eventually, Bakura releases the hold and begins tugging him back over to the barricade by his collar. On the way, he steals a cheeseburger from a fan and rests Komuro against the barricade. He crouches in front of the barely conscious Fujimi Academy high school student, who he "playfully" smacks him around wake him up and dangles the cheeseburger he stole, mocking him of his hunger as he has the mocking smirk, fans judging with a negative reaction and Takashi giving the death glare. Bakura scoffs as he takes a bite out of the burger and spits it right in his face, inciting a cheap heat.

"Disgusting. Disgusting and disrespectful from the arrogant and god-complexed Yami Bakura," Kenji scowls.

"Can this guy be a bigger dick than he already is with the way he's treating Takashi right now?" Markiplier asks, revolted.

"Hey, I think it's the right treatment Bakura is giving this rebellious brat. He's reminding him he chose to go an entire day without anything to eat and drink; this is his unavoidable penalty," Barney comments.

Bakura disdains the teen as he shoves the food in his mouth and stands him up for a Clothesline over the barricade…

…but Komuro springs to life with a Back Body Drop that sends him flying and landing his back hard on the padded floor! He collapses to his knees as he takes this time to catch his breath, removing the shoved sandwich in his mouth (though he has taken a bite from it) and snatches onto Bakura's hair to yank him up, then spit the food in his face. (Barney: Disgusting! That is a waste of a good burger and completely disrespectful doing that to Bakura! ; Zack: Takashi took wind of life, counterattacking Bakura at the right time. You may not like what Takashi did, but retaliation was NEEDED. Especially against that guy.) Takashi looks at the burger in his hands and shrugs as he starts wolfing down on the whole damn thing, giving into his hunger for the moment. "Good burger," Takashi comments to the cameraman with a mouthful as he picks up the chain and goes over the barricade. As Bakura is using the turnbuckle pole to lift his body up…he feels a sudden rigid shot from behind when Takashi started whipping the steel chain across his spine and is screaming in absolute pain. After ten malicious lashes, Takashi slowly wraps the chain around his right hand as he thinks payback…and begins a gradual series of firm fist strikes to the top of his head with the crowd counting.

"No holding back from Komuro! He's unrelenting on those strikes into Bakura's skull!" Kenji states. "And he's blood is now spilling down from his forehead!"

"This is a tragedy going on here! A mere, mortal brat is actually making a divinity bleed! He doesn't deserve this!" Barney cries.

"Eye for an eye, Barney! Bakura has put Takashi in this kind of treatment and he's only giving back the same receiving end he went through!" Zack retorts.

Finishing with six nonstop punches, Takashi lets go of the chain to nurse his head and then grabs Bakura to push him into the ring. He follows and picks up the two chairs from the start of the bout and starts unfolding them to bridge them together. He then clutches onto Yami Bakura by his head and brings him to the opposite side and swivels him by his arms as he seeks the Deadswitch…


…and would've succeeded if Bakura didn't fight back with a sharp elbow to the back…

…and rammed Komuro back first into the bridged chairs with Exiled to Hell! (Markiplier: Deadswitch perhaps on the way—Bakura denies his fate and makes Takashi feel the side of Hell once again, Spinning Headlock Elbow Drop driving him down into those chairs! Good god, I can only imagine the pain this kid is going through… ; Barney: Komuro really did think he had the match finished, but Bakura catches breath and takes the momentum back to his side. One can be sure he'll keep this up again.) Takashi arches his back from the shooting pain within his spine and in the meanwhile, Bakura is regaining himself and then sits up to attempt his vertical base, in which he does. He walks over and stands on the second turnbuckle, proceeding to drag up the ladder he leaned against the apron earlier and as he holds it upside-down vertically…

…he falls back…

…and lands a Suplex to the ladder right on top of Takashi Komuro, who is violently thrashing around and shouting in pain!

"Oh, good lord!" Mark winces.

"Bakura using the ladder as a tag team partner in a way to smash it right on Takashi Komuro! Bones must be shattered to have that object crashing on top of you!" Kenji exclaims.

"Man, am I glad I'm not that kid right now. Oh, Bakura's got the leg hooked! One…two…three—NO, WHAT?! The punk kicked out of THAT?! C'mon!" Barney groans, observing the match.

"I know it really hurt Takashi as much as it is for us and the audience to witness this barbaric bout, but the kid still has the strong will to win and he's not going let his vendetta go to waste," Zack states.

Obviously not pleased with the near-fall, Bakura stands and picks up the ladder to set it on top of the two steel steps, laying it across them like a bridge. The evil spirit of the Millennium Ring then picks Takashi in a standing headscissors and lifts him on his shoulders for a Powerbomb…

…but Takashi won't have his back being shattered once again as he is furiously landing fists to the face, forcing Bakura to fall onto his back! Takashi brings himself as did Bakura, who turns around to be dragged down for an attempted Crippler Crossface! Bakura is struggling to keep his head away from Takashi's grasp as his arm is caught; then, he catches him off guard with a desperate Sidewalk Slam, but Takashi slinked over his shoulder and behind him and catches him with a swift Scoop Slam right onto the ladder! (Kenji: Half the arena are on their feet with Komuro making a comeback already as he bounces Bakura's back off that ladder! ; Barney: Both competitors are battered and bloody right now; just how much more will they go on to destroy each other? ; Markiplier: I think this may not be the end of Bakura's misery.) Bakura's face has been scrunching up as he nurses his back and the crimson masked Takashi Komuro stumbles lightly from the loss of blood, but regains himself. He exits the ring as he seeks for what else is under the ring…and he takes out an interesting object…which was a barbwire ball.

"Ohhh, boy…that does not look like a fun ball to play with at all," Zack implies. "And it certainly won't be fun for Bakura once Takashi starts playing it with him."

"Damn it, Mark! You just had to jinx it for Bakura with your big mouth!" Barney snaps.

"Come on, it's not like he's going to do worse—where the hell did he get those wire cutters?" the YouTuber asks as Takashi is cutting part of the barbwire and enters the ring.

"As you said, Mark, this just may not be the end of Bakura's misery…" says Kenji. "Can only wonder what twisted idea could Takashi have within his mind."

The former high school student returns in the ring and sets the ball down at the center, proceeding to stalk a rising Bakura from behind. By then, Bakura earns a Toe Kick straight to the midsection and Takashi yanks him into a standing headscissors…

…then hoists his body vertically with his head upside-down…

and spikes Bakura's head into the barbwire ball with a Piledriver! (Markiplier: JESUS H. CHRIST! ; Zack: Jerry Lawler won't like that edition of the classic Piledriver, but Terry Funk sure as hell will! Takashi drives the head of Yami Bakura straight into that ball of barbwire! ; Barney: Oh, Big Bro in the Sky, why?! Why must we suffer in witnessing Bakura being massacred like this! ; Kenji: I think that's just you, Stinson.) The dark incarnation of Ryo Bakura writhes with his hands clenching onto his head feeling the spikes of the barbwire…and Takashi was NOT finished as he grabs the ball and spreads it open for him to wrap it all around Bakura's head and tightens it to press it all against the skin, making him scream in complete agony and bleed profusely!

"Goodness gracious! Takashi is still not letting up as he uses that barbwire ball as like a mask to wrap around his entire head, just striving to make him pay for his heinous crimes!" Zack shouts.

"Bakura was showing why no one should step on a divinity's foot! Komuro is the one performing the heinous crimes, damn it!" Barney snarls.

Shawn Yeager, watching the carnage between Takashi and Bakura, nearly made him lose his lunch as he could not stand the sight of the horrors of this bout. Eventually, Takashi releases his grip when Bakura nails a low blow back kick, causing the teenager to fall back and nurse his lower regions. Bakura removes the barbwire from his head, but not without ripping out some pieces of his hair and even his skin off as his face was an absolute, atrocious mess as blood has already spilled down onto his chest. Silently seething, Bakura stalks his stirring opponent from the corner, thinking for the Striking Spear, the Swift Spirits, to pierce through Takashi as his left eye is being blinded by his own blood. Takashi stands and turns around…

…signaling Bakura to speed forward…

…and Takashi counters with a Lou Thesz Press, sending down a sequence of lefts and rights into his face! Bakura pushes him off and then Takashi quickly grabs a nearby steel chair and forays him back down on the canvas with a shot to the temple! With the audience going wild, Takashi slams the folded chair flat on the mat and smashes Bakura's head on top of it. He seizes another chair and folds it up, standing next to Bakura's limp body and the fans have the exact idea of what he will do right now.

"Uh-oh. Takashi is channeling his inner demons that sought vengeance towards Bakura and we all know exactly what he's got in mind next!" Markiplier states.

"Don't you dare, Komuro! Don't you even dare attempt to do that!" Barney warns. "Damn you—whoa, wait a second!"

"What the hell?!" Kenji shouts as the audience are shocked…

when Marik Ishtar arrives behind Takashi to spin him around, kicks him in the gut and flips forward with Takashi in tow to drive his head down with the Psychological Driver!

"Marik Ishtar! What in the world—where the hell did he come from?!" Markiplier exclaims.

"Don't know, don't care because a miracle has occurred! Thank you, Big Bro in the Sky! Almighty Five!" Barney calls, giving a "high-five" to God, which makes him say, "Ow! Worth it!"

"Marik surprising everyone in the arena as he took out Takashi with the Front Flip Piledriver! Komuro never saw him coming! And the referee can't disqualify anybody as there are no DQs!" Kenji shouts. "Marik's dragging Bakura on…oh, come on! Bakura's going to steal the win thanks to Marik!"

Yeager reluctantly drops to count the pinfall as Marik leans back against the corner with a stoic expression, watching Bakura barely hooking the leg: 1…

2…

…2.985 TAKASHI POPS THE SHOULDER UP!

"OH! KICK-OUT! KICK-OUT BY TAKASHI! TAKASHI IS STILL ALIVE IN THIS MATCH!" Zack yells.

"SERIOUSLY, IS THIS KID STUPID ENOUGH TO GET HIS CONDITION WORSE NOW WITH THE GODS OF DARKNESS REUNITED IN THE RING?! YOU DID THIS TO YOURSELF, KOMURO! AND YOU KNOW IT!" Barney barks.

Marik, flabbergasted as was Bakura over the kick-out, walks over to mount Takashi and begins punching his face in. Shawn interferes as he wanted Marik to be ejected from the ring, but gets shoved away and that gives Takashi the opening to fire back at Marik. Now Komuro is the one punching his face in before being pushed away and runs right into a Striking Spear from an awakening Yami Bakura! Boos are filling the arena as Bakura glares down at the hurt Takashi and Marik exits to find one object from under the ring…and he finds a table made out of glass. (Kenji: Oh, good god, we've finally reached that point of these men wanting to send each other to the hospital! ; Barney: Good! Guess now Komuro can quit crying about his fat ass friend and join him at bedside.) Marik takes the glass table inside the ring as Bakura gets the stairs and ladder far from them and the former wielder of the Millennium Rod begins setting it up. Bakura then sets Takashi up in a Back-to-back Double Underhook hold, Marik climbs on the top turnbuckle as the Gods of Darkness seek for the Malevolent Nightmare through the table. (Markiplier: This is not good. The second they drive Takashi's head through that glass, it's over for him. ; Barney: Takashi on his way down to Hell as well-deserved—oh, crap! Look out, guys!) Marik stands high as he attempts the leap…

…BUT GETS NAILED RIGHT ON THE HEAD BY A KENDO STICK FROM KOHTA HIRANO!

"MY GOD! IT'S KOHTA! KOHTA HIRANO IS BACK! THE INSANE DRIVEN OTAKU HAS RETURNED TO SAVE HIS BEST FRIEND FROM DOOM!" Mark screams as Kohta then smacks the kendo stick into Bakura's skull!

"WHAT IS HE DOING HERE, DAMN IT?! HE'S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HERE RIGHT NOW!" Barney shouts.

"I THINK KOHTA DECIDED TO HELL WITH HIS SCHEDULED RETURN! HE'S NOT GOING TO BE LEAVING HIS BEST FRIEND ALL ALONE!" Kenji states.

The audience in the Verizon Center are spilling cheers like crazy as Kohta is likewise with his kendo stick shots to Bakura's body, nailing every blow to make sure Bakura is yelling in pain before smacking it right on top of Marik's head as he collapses! The psychotic Otaku nails his own forehead with the Singapore cane as he lets out a pumped up roar, then gets rotated around to face a crimson masked and heavily panting Takashi, who is as just surprised to see his formerly injured friend in Washington D.C. Both boys stare at each other, then scan their eyes all around the hailing attendance before returning their attention to each other. Takashi calls to Hirano's name as he then gestures to the glass and a downed Marik, "You know the deal, man…" and that cracks a smirk on the face of Kohta, who replies, "OH, TESTIFY," before they high-five and double fist bump each other, making the crowd roar in cheers once more. (Zack: Takashi and Kohta have reunited tonight in Washington D.C. and they are looking put someone through a table tonight! OH, TESTIFY, INDEED! ; Barney: The Dudley Boyz have gotta be feeling SHAME after hearing THAT bull crap! Especially from those punks!) After Kohta finished placing the table at the center of the ring, he and Takashi await for Marik to stand on his feet, encouraging him to turn around with their own wide grins. Marik stumbles around into the grasp of Takashi as he lifts him up with a Flapjack…

…Kohta catches his head with the Cutter…

AND MARIK DROPS DEAD THROUGH THE GLASS TABLE, SHATTERING IT TO PIECES!

"GOOD GOD ALMIGHTY! BACK TO THE HOSPITAL GOES MARIK 'CAUSE HE'S GOT GLASS WITHIN HIS SKIN TO DEAL WITH LATER TONIGHT!" Markiplier screams.

"BARBARIC! UTTERLY BARBARIC FROM THOSE LITTLE BASTARDS!" Barney cries.

As Marik immediately escaped the ring with some small pieces of glass pierced into his skin, "Holy shit!" chants rang through the entire arena and Kohta apparently follows as he holds a pair of handcuffs with an evil grin of his own. The gun-loving otaku cuffs Marik's hands around the turnbuckle post, trapping him and preventing him from interfering as he struggles to escape to no avail. However, Bakura makes a run-in as he nails a kendo stick shot to the gut of Hirano, then another to the back. Takashi tries for a save, but gets the same receiving attack to the top of his temple, cracking the foreign object and bringing Komuro down. Bakura drags the deadweight two-hundred pounder into the ring and enters inside to remove legs of the shattered glass table out of the ring, then picks Takashi up, preparing to hit the Death Penalty (Swinging Reverse STO)…

…but Takashi manages to reverse the attack by elevating himself off the mat and landing on his feet in front of Bakura, who attempts and misses a Clothesline. Takashi strikes a kick to the abdomen, turns him around to get the double wristlock in and swivels with the inverted double underhook…

and drives Bakura face-first into the broken glass with the Deadswitch as he suffers the same fate with glass being stabbed into his back!

"Oh, good lord! God almighty! Bakura nearly smashed Takashi's face into the glass with Death Penalty, but he got countered with a Deadswitch as Takashi's back is pierced with some shards! Glass meets skin! And more blood is pouring out in the most sickening way from both men!" Kenji exclaims.

"Agh, just end it already, you dicks! I'm glad you get to grieve with Bakura with glass onto your body, you little sh*t, but just end it! This has already gone far enough!" Barney shrieks.

Takashi is standing on his knees, but his face lies on the mat as he feels the stinging pain shooting into his back from the glass while Bakura is lightly shaking with eyes shut tight as he can't risk the glass possibly getting into them and some of it already stuck within his literally bloody, pale skin. Then, slowly, oh, so very slowly, Takashi rises on his feet and notices the position Bakura is in…

…then finds a flat ladder lying around the ring…and hatches something within his perhaps demented mind as he picks it up and sets it at a nearby corner. (Barney: W-What…what the hell is that maniac up to now? ; Zack: Whatever it is, it is not going end well for either man! Takashi, you have the match won already! Just pin him! ; Kenji: I don't think he's got any plans for that to happen yet, my half-brother… He has one more trick up his sleeve before putting this match away.) Kohta sees what Takashi is formulating in the ring and his eyes widen the size of saucers in realization as he tries to convince his closest friend to not to do it and the audience are standing from their seats to watch Takashi climbing up the ladder. (Markiplier: Wait a minute… No. No, no. Oh, no. Come on, Takashi. I get it, but come on. Takashi, think about this now…! ; Barney: Yeah, listen to your friend, man! You can't do this! Only Hirano would be stupid and crazy enough to do this!) Takashi paid no heed to the declining cries of Hirano, Marik and some fans that don't want him to do this as he's already standing on the second top rung of the ladder. The crimson masked high school student glares down at the unaware Yami Bakura lying near the scattered small shards of glass…

…taunts him with an intense cutthroat gesture before standing on the very top…

…tips forward as he begins to fall with arms spread out…

and hits the cringe-worthy Diving Headbutt, smashing his skull into the sternum of the black-hearted Bakura as both men are violently thrashing around!

"OH, MY GOOOOOOD!" Zack shrieks that would make Joey Styles proud.

"A DEATH-DEFYING LEAP! OFF THE TWELVE FOOT LADDER BY TAKASHI KOMURO, THE CRAZY SON OF A BITCH! HE RISKED HIS OWN LIFE, PERHAPS HIS OWN CAREER AS WELL, JUST HIT THAT DEATH-DEFYING HEADBUTT FROM THE SKIES!" Markiplier screams. "NEARLY 18,000 PEOPLE ARE STANDING IN THE ARENA AS THEY CAN'T BELIEVE WHAT THEY HAVE JUST WITNESSED IN THE VERIZON CENTER!"

"AAAAAAAAGGGGHHH! WHAT THE HELL WAS THIS KID THINKING?! I GET THAT HE HATES BAKURA, BUT DID HE HAVE TO GO OUT THAT WAY TO JUST TO ADD INSULT TO INJURY TO HIM?! GODDAMN IT!" Barney exclaims.

In the middle of the ring, Bakura is coughing blood from the impact of Diving Headbutt into his chest, Takashi is barely moving now as his face is scrunched up with his nose nearly dented and bleeding badly and tears pouring from his eyes, and the entire arena is ringing chants of "HOLY SHIT!" and "THAT WAS SICK!" Kohta is holding his head in pure shock as Marik was categorically appalled. Eventually, Komuro rises on his knees, eyes glazed over before suddenly bellowing to the ceiling at the top of his lungs…and suddenly collapses on top of Bakura, apparently covering him for the pin.

"PIN! THERE'S A PIN! COVER BY KOMURO! GO, YEAGER! JUST END THIS ALREADY!" Kenji demands as a horrorstruck referee stared to what he had just seen before coming to his senses and dropping down to count the pinfall: 1…

2…

…3!

"HABUSKI! IT'S OVER! THIS PART OF THE NIGHTMARE IS OVER! …Thank God…" Markiplier sighs.

("Whatever" by Our Lady Peace)

"…He…Here is your winner…Takashi Komuro!" declares Maria, whose professional tone felt nearly horrified after what had transpired.

Even after the bell rung and Maria made her announcement, Takashi and Bakura were not moving at all. They were still breathing, thankfully, but them just lying still probably wasn't a good sign. Kohta immediately slid into the ring after the match was over and pulled his friend away to check on him as the EMTs arrived. One of them frees Marik from the handcuffs and he quickly comes to his fellow God of Darkness's side with the rest of the EMTs aiding him and Takashi as the rest of the HotD crew arrived to see Takashi.

"…Blood…vengeance…hatred…carnage…mentality perhaps taken to a whole new dark side…that is what these two wrestlers, these warriors, these gladiators, have gone through into this barbaric contest known as Monster's Ball," Markiplier comments. "As sadistic as they ever could be to each other, you have to respect what they put themselves through to give us a bout. They went all out. Takashi is the winner of this intense and personal rivalry, the victor in this battle…but at what price?"

"Blood was spilled. Bones are possibly broken. Concussions may have occurred here tonight. That is the price both men have paid…Bakura thought he had this match cinched in due to the 'advantage' he believed to have…but nonetheless, Takashi, deprived with hunger, thirst and darkness, succeeds to gain the victory for his side," Kenji states.

"This was truly a hell of a match, very emotional, I will admit. Takashi, as stupid, rebellious and insane as he is tonight…he may have earned my respect. That's all I'm gonna say. He had guts, but that's it. I can only hope the next time they meet, Bakura takes home the 'W'; for now, though, kudos to the kid," Barney confesses.

As Bakura and Marik are in the ring with a few EMTs, Takashi is being assisted out of the ring by Rei Miyamoto and Shizuka Marikawa and halfway to the ramps, Takashi fully comes to consciousness and removes himself from the two to stagger quickly to the stage before collapsing on all fours. His teammates lets him take note it's them that is helping him from the carnage. Knowing what's happening (somewhat), he allows them to help him leave as the EMTs follow and the rest are staying with Bakura and Marik.

"Phew…ya never know what you can expect in ACW, guys. You really don't," Zack states. "This…is something we should've expect, but we didn't think this would be taken so far."

"Right you are, Zack. Right you are…" Kenji agrees.


A cheering ovation releases from the crowd as Jeff Dunham stands in the interview zone with Achmed the Dead Terrorist by his side and a microphone in hand.

"Good evening, ladies and gentlemen; Jeff Dunham here and I am your interviewer for this moment alongside with Achmed the Dead Terrorist," Jeff greets.

"Greetings, infidels…" Achmed addresses the cheering fans in a menacing tone.

"So, Achmed, are you happy to be back here with me in Washington D.C., where you were introduced to the entire globe that watched?" Jeff asks.

"Oh, it is most certainly great to be back within the capital of the United States…I guess," Achmed replies.

"Achmed, this city is where you debuted. And what better way to come back here in the Verizon Center at Rebellion?" says Dunham.

"Well, at least I got to see some nice bloodshed like with Monster's Ball that just happened. Oh, what lovely carnage that has displayed… Too bad the wrong guy won," the dead suicidal bomber says.

"Why support the wrong people?"

"I'm a terrorist, you idiot! What the hell do you think?!"

"But you're a bad one. You even admitted it."

"SILENCE!" Achmed commands, staying silent for a moment as the fans are anticipating his concluded signature catchphrase, "…I KEEL YOU! (crowd cheers)"

"…So, anyways, welcome my guest at this time…he is the current ACW Television Champion, Luke Smith," Jeff introduces the champion to a booing crowd as Smith holds a stoic expression with his Television Title draped over his shoulder. "Evening, Luke. Tonight, you will go out to not only defend your title, but also have a chance to gain three new belts, two of them winning for perhaps the first and final time and cementing yourself as the first-ever International Champion by the end of the Ultimate X Match. What are your thoughts going into this contest? Plenty of people are right behind Felix to win."

The Cunning Wolf, hearing that comment, couldn't help but scoff and shake his head, then responds, "Heh… That right? Plenty of people behind a disgusting excuse of a human being on the Internet as the most subscribed person in YouTube…to become our first-ever International Champion? …Whoever must be really thinking that is nothing more than a sad little casual wrestling fan that doesn't know how the way wrestling is supposed to be. Out of all people like myself, Dante and even Griffin…they would choose PewDiePie… Fine. Let them dream a little bit; I don't mind…because I'll be making sure to crush it into dust just like Felix's dream of becoming the first YouTuber to be champion in this company. When Felix won in RAMPAGE, people have had their focus on Dante, Griffin and Kjellberg…and where was I? Somewhere in the crowd making my departure…and if they ever have that same belief of thinking I am forgotten…it will be their biggest mistake ever made. You want to know my thoughts going into this match, right? Well, here's this: Griffin can forget winning with how his low-level mindset is, Dante is too focused on bringing his dead career back to life and PewDiePie can sure as hell go down to developmental and stay there for an indefinite amount of time for as much as that fat-ass panda was in NXT when they were smart enough not to graduate him, but I guess with the direction WWE is heading with their bookings and such, I guess it's slowly infecting the overly hyped developmental territory."

Luke pauses with a shit-eating grin as the audience is booing loudly before resuming talking, "Justice is at a despair, Jeff… She's crying out for it to be served tonight…and it is my sworn duty to make sure that happens one way…or the other. You've seen how my fellow wolves have dominated since we have rechristened ourselves from carbon copies…to a real pack of predators that people know to respect. And tonight…you'll see proof why fairy tales don't exist for someone like Felix. Vegeta sure as hell proved it on 'formerly' Pessimistic Bitch Charlie Brown…why can't I?"

Adjusting his belt with the same grin on his face to a heated crowd, the Television Champion walks away from the interview set as the scene changes back to ringside with the RAMPAGE commentary team this time around.


"Ooh…plenty of attention-grabbing words in that response by Smith. I couldn't help but smile throughout it all," Logan says, smirking.

"That isn't much of a surprise, Reese. In any case, Smith has his eyes set on the major prize in the finals that is the International Championship belt in which he claims to pull down and become the inaugural champion while at the same time, crushing the dreams of the fans and Felix into dust all in one night," Ted states.

"But that will have to wait for a while because we have another match before that one," Ned says as the camera shows a match graphic with Ash Ketchum shown pulling his glove, his fist clenching and then tipping his hat with a smirk on the left side with a tattered flag featuring a Poké Ball waving behind his back while Seto Kaiba is on the opposite, rubbing his hands together à la Wade Barrett, with a vile smirk and a flag featuring a KaibaCorp logo on it waving behind him as the words, "KETCHUM v. KAIBA" are written with the pattern design of the American flag in-between the two, "and it is anticipated bout between Seto Kaiba and Ash Ketchum. Pokémon vs. Yu-Gi-Oh!, but only with Yugi being replaced with his rival, Kaiba, so that dream match will have to wait for a while."

"Oh, funny, Bigby. Funny. It'll be more hilarious once Kaiba humiliates the Pokémon training choker live in Washington D.C. Ketchum wants to play the anarchist and crybaby by breaking Kaiba's accomplishments and stealing his iconic cards? Gives Kaiba more reasons to just kick the crap out of him," Logan utters.

"Both of these future Hall of Famers are seeking vengeance against each other as of tonight and they are going to spill out all their hatred against each other in what I assume to be as a classic bout, no doubt about it in my mind," Ted tells as the camera transitions back to the arena and "Me Against the World" by Simple Plan hits the speakers, cuing up their massive cheers for the arriving Pokémon anime protagonist.

("Me Against the World" by Simple Plan)

The crowd prolong their cheers as Ash Ketchum finally makes his appearance at the stage with a stern facial expression, decked out in his casual attire minus his vest. He turns his attention to throughout the ecstatic arena, scanning his eyes all over and then forms a small smirk to say off-mic, "Kaiba had me on the ropes…but now I am the one that's making him suffer." Ash looks straight towards what's in front of him, tips his hat and dashes his way down the ramp and slides into the ring. Ketchum then heads up to a corner to stand on the middle turnbuckle, proclaiming along with the lyrics that it is him against the world as he gestures himself and points at the crowd.

[We're not gonna be just a part of their game

We're not gonna be just the victims

They're taking our dreams and they tear them apart

'Til everyone's the same

I've got no place to go; I've got nowhere to run

They love to watch me fall; they think they know it all!

I'm a nightmare, a disaster!

(That's what they always said!)

I'm a lost cause, not a hero

But I'll make it on my own!

I've gotta prove them wrong!

Me against the world!

It's me against the world!]

As the bell rings three times, Maria Lopez confirms the announcement, "The following contest is scheduled for one fall to the finish! Introducing first: from Pallet Town, Kanto Region, weighing in at 140 pounds, 'The Very Best' Ash Ketchum!"

"Since Reign in Blood, Ash has been the victim of Kaiba's torture from his interference that caused his elimination from the tourney to capturing his Pikachu, his best friend, who he had to rescue from Kaiba's own home and retaliated by destroying his prized accomplishments and stealing his three signature Duel Monster cards," Ted recaps.

"In which Kaiba is going to get his inevitable retribution for that guy's crime of breaking the championships he worked damn hard through his whole life to earn," Logan frowns. "And I hope once he steps into the ring, Ash will feel every ounce of regret within his soul for taking away his items of success."

After Ash steps down from the opposite corner he was currently posing at, his smirk quickly disappears and returns to the stern expression he had when he arrived as he begins to pace around in the ring with his attention set straight at the stage, walking back and forth nonstop and waiting for Kaiba to appear. He continued while the crowd was getting a little impatient like him…and then…

("Lights Out" by Breaking Benjamin)

[I am done pretending

You have failed to find what's left; I will suck you dry again…

Some are not worth saving

You are such a pretty mess; I will choke the life within…

Now you want to take me down…as if I even care

I am the monster in your head…

And I thought you'd learn by now

It seems you haven't yet

I am the venom in your skin…

And now your life…is BROKEEEEEEEN!]

The crowd goes into loud boos as the lights changed to a mix of white and blue and Seto Kaiba…is nowhere to be found until the first verse of the lyrics are heard for his arrival. He walks out from the back with a stoic expression, his eyes locked on his opponent in the ring as Ash is heavily scowling in a crouched position with his hands on his knees, then he begins walking the ramps. However, what was different about Kaiba is he wasn't in his proper ring attire, making the audience believe they'll turn this into some kind of "come dressed as you are" street fight…when he stops halfway to the ring and forms a sinister grin on his face.

[After the lights go out on you

After your worthless life is through

I will remember how you scream…!

I can't afford to care, I can't afford to care!]

"And his opponent: from Domino City, Japan, weighing in at 234 pounds…Seto Kaiba!" Maria announces.

"Uh…okay, I'll bite: Kaiba doesn't appear dressed for this match. I don't remember this match being promoted into a Street Fight unless we missed the memo like with the tag title match being a triple threat elimination tag team match," Ned says.

"If we got another change, I'm fine with this being a no DQ match for all I care. Although, Kaiba doesn't look like he's getting into the ring as soon as possible…" Logan notes. "He's got that look on him…and I like it."

"And most of us probably will not…" adds Ted as Kaiba's music volumes down and he raises a microphone up to his lips.

Seto begins speaking, "I know how confused you must be, Satoshi, like the referee, the commentators and everyone else watching with their very own eyes in this building and respectively at their own homes from their television screens as I am not in proper apparel for our match. It is as confusing as you being the main protagonist of your anime series when you've never won a damn Pokémon League in your life; you're the long-lasting jobber within Pokémon Battles and always played the underdog. Just like Cena when it came to being the underdog a lot, but the biggest difference is he wins…a lot, and you…not so much when it comes down to the big leagues." He paused with the smug look on his face as cheap heat was given to him and Ash's glare continues with his teeth slightly bared. "But moving on…I am here right now as I am because I have absolutely no need to waste my time wrestling you tonight, Ketchum."

Disappointments were spread like wildfire from Ash to the crowd as the former narrowed his eyebrows closer and the latter were booing loudly; Ted would then ask, "Hang on, why would he say something like that?"

"If you can shut up, perhaps Kaiba will explain…so shut up," Reese tells to a plain-facing Ted Mosby.

Kaiba continues, "I have a good reason for that…actions have consequences, Ash. I know I have paid for it only two nights ago when you appeared up on the TitanTron, revealing yourself at my home abolishing my trophies and my championship belts I achieved through my career. You think you got me wrapped around your finger because of your attempts at payback, huh? You think you were going to get away with it? …That's where you're wrong. See…part one was the start of your demise…part two had to make sure you were broken over the capture over that rat of yours…and part three…as I said…actions have consequences…and you are going to pay for them severely tonight."

With that, the confusion began to be replaced or perhaps joined with suspense as actual policemen, rounding up around four of them, walk out to the stage and stand by Kaiba's respective sides in a line of two each. Ash's confusion rises while Kaiba's smirk was still on his face.

"What in the world—why does Kaiba have the cops out here? I'm not liking where this is going…" Ned questions

"I'll repeat myself: Kaiba will explain, Bigby…so shut up," Logan says as the antihero of Yu-Gi-Oh! resumes talking.

"These men in blue you see in front of you, Ash…they're here in the Verizon Center to do their jobs by serving justice against you. Why? …It should be obvious enough when you broke into my home, invaded my property, and destroyed my items. Many crimes you've done and will pay right now. Officers, arrest that criminal!" Kaiba commands.

"WHAT?!" Ned shouts.

"Oh, don't be so surprised, Bigby! We all knew this was coming and Ash should've thought his revenge tactics through and through!" Logan retorts.

The officers enter the ring as Ash is in disbelief and with the cooperation of not wanting any trouble with the Metropolitan Police Department, Ash turns around with hands behind his back—Ketchum dashes out of the ring and charges after Kaiba, but halfway towards him, he gets be tackled down by one of the policemen as the rest begin dogpiling onto him and start handcuffing him while he is resisting arrest.

"This is what happens when you believe you can get even with me when it only backlashes at you, Ketchum! Get him out of here, officers!" Kaiba orders as Ash is struggling to break free from the cops' grasp and while they are making sure distance is kept between the two. "Make sure his punishment is a damn good one for vandalizing my home, my awards and stealing my treasured cards! Speaking of which…" he pauses when one of the policemen takes out a clear plastic card container that holds his Blue-Eyes White Dragon and hands it over to him, "I got them back… I'm surprised you kept them in perfect condition; too bad you're going to be in jail as justice is served upon you. I doubt this, but I can only hope Misty survives with the fact her husband will be in jail for his heinous crimes. After all, I'm doing her a big favor…just like how I'm doing your baby girl a favor by making sure she isn't raised by a felonious convict that is her disgusting excuse of a father."

That comment was the last straw that broke the camel's back for Ash, who has heard enough and furiously broke free from the police and shoulder tackles Kaiba as he tries to make him pay, but the men in blue manages to hold him back.

"Kaiba's crossed the line once again! He already made sure Ash suffered over Pikachu's kidnapping and that statement was just one more thing too far for Kaiba to say about his infant child!" Ted exclaims.

"Not like the brat knows what's going on, anyway. Besides, Kaiba is right! He's doing Misty and their kid one hell of a favor by making sure Ash is nowhere near them to influence them with his outlawing, hypocritical ways!" Logan states.

"Oh, will you just shut up that bull crap already, Reese?!" Ned yells, irritated.

Ash Ketchum, seething, still struggles for an escape as he just wants to wreck Kaiba for even mentioning his daughter and Kaiba himself is ordering the officers to keep his distance away from him. The Pokémon anime protagonist barks at the arrogant Seto for mentioning his child and that she has nothing to do with their business.

Kaiba responds, "You know…perhaps you're right about that," then he suddenly kicks him right between the legs at his family jewels! Ash goes down in absolute pain as half the cops hold back Kaiba, who was proclaiming that what he did was self-defense.

"Self-defense—come on, what did Ash even do to deserve that cheap shot?!" Ned complains.

"You blind, Bigby? Ketchum is resisting arrest and tried to assault Kaiba; of course it was self-defense. Seto was just trying to make sure nothing happens to himself," Logan defends.

This situation slowly settles down as the cops still make sure distance is made, but Kaiba crouches near Ash to conclude his statements, "Now furthermore…this is what happens when you don't keep your big mouth shut, Satoshi. This is what happens when you, a worthless waste of skin, try to climb to my level. As I said, I am doing your wife and daughter a favor with this situation, so they are welcome… I'm sure your daughter will grow up just fine without a dad in her life once she realizes the moronic scum you truly are. I mean…after all, you grew up fine without your father around all your life, right?"

Cue the massive heat; the audience let out veracious boos at the former ECW Animation World Champion with chanting, "You suck!" followed by "Asshole!" Kaiba, grinning, stands up and orders the policemen to take Ash away, in which they do as told by picking him up to his feet and brings the arrested Ash to backstage. In the meanwhile, Seto turns around and walks up to the ring, where he enters and stands in the middle of it with the microphone still in hand.

"Now…as Ash was in the ring, I am here right now currently…and it seems he's nowhere to be near it. So I guess unless he makes back here before the count of ten, I automatically win by default. Isn't that right, referee?" Kaiba asks with a smirk to a reluctant Nickolas Alba, who nods. "Then do your job…and start counting."

As Kaiba drops the microphone with heated reception still firing down in the arena and Alba starting to count, Ned calls, "You gotta be kidding me! Kaiba is going to steal this victory because of Ash being detained by the police! This is ridiculous! Does Kaiba's ego have no limit?!"

"Ridiculous, you say, Bigby? I call it genius and so does Kaiba! He had it all figured out, man! Due to Ash's stupidity, Kaiba can walk out of here the winner without even laying a finger on that criminal being sent to jail. Thank goodness for justice existing," Logan smirks.

"Perhaps the wrong side of justice you so love, kid," Ted remarks, Alba already at the count of five. "Nickolas is reluctant in doing his job, but he has no choice. (Ref: 6!) The rules are set as it is and with what we saw, there is absolutely no way Ash can make in time."

"7!

"…

"8!

"…

"9!

"…

"…

"…

"10!" the referee calls for the bell to ring, igniting the flaming jeers to grow louder and Kaiba's smirk gone wider. Nickolas then tells Maria to announce the result of the match.

Maria clears her throat and declares, "Ladies and gentlemen, as a result, Ash Ketchum is unable to compete via count-out, so therefore, the winner of this bout by default…Seto Kaiba!"

Breaking Benjamin's "Lights Out" plays from the loudspeakers, being heard as loud as the negative reaction from the fans that despised Kaiba's actions and the overall result. Nonetheless, Seto got the victory over Ash and felt damn proud of himself as he spreads his out wide, basking himself with the feedback and glory of his victory…as he would like to see it how it is.

"…Well, this could've gone better, but however, Kaiba is the victor in Rebellion…much to most of the audience's displeasure," Ted states.

"Feh. They don't like how the outcome happen, well, too bad. This ain't their moment—this is Kaiba's and that's the reality you people that view the world in black and white should live in," Logan comments.

"If we can move on from this frustrating segment, we take you backstage with an interview by Clarissa Rivera. Take it away, Rivera," Ned says, the cameras changing the scene to backstage.


And there was "Violet" Clarissa Rivera standing in the interview zone with a microphone in hand, adjusting her glasses and forming that lovely smile on her face.

"Thanks, Ned. Evening, everybody! Pleasure to be here tonight, so without further ado, please welcome my guest at this time, he is challenger for tonight's Ultimate X Match, Felix Kjellberg aka PewDiePie," Clarissa introduces as Felix enters with a big grin on his face and the cheers of his "Bro Army" being heard. "Felix, in a few minutes, you will enter what is perhaps one of your biggest matches in your career in ACW. You are the dark horse into this contest. There's a slim chance of you becoming the first YouTuber to win a belt within Awesome Championship Wrestling. What are your thoughts as you head into the finals?"

"It's a little overwhelming, to be honest," Pewds confesses. "Throughout these few weeks that have passed by, it was whether or not I walk out of here as the winner of ACW's first-ever Ultimate X match. I know my Bros that are in their seats right now in this arena and the rest watching at home are backing me up for a victory; I certainly know that some critics and other fans alike are not exactly into the idea of me winning this belt as they say it is too soon…well, I say, I'm still going out there and winning this damn thing. They can say what they like about Pewds, whether they love me or hate me, but I am my own person and I know I'm damn destined to be, simultaneously, the first-ever International Champion and YouTuber to become a champion within ACW. In the wrestling business, the athletic performers go out there in the ring to make history, entertain the fans and perhaps do the unthinkable…I plan to do all of that within just under a month by tonight. Clarissa, my female bro, you and my army will watch me climb the cables, take down the straps and walk out as the final TV, U.S. and Intercontinental Champion. And in five days on Ignition V, you're going to see me come out with an incarnated belt known as the International Championship…standing in the ring with my Bros surrounding me…and say…'Heh-heh, how's it going, Bros? My name…is PEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWDIEPIE! And I'm your motherf*cking, duck-loving International Champion of the World!"

Pewds then requests for a bro fist, which made Clarissa playfully roll her eyes and gives him just that, then the pumped up YouTuber walks away to make his path towards the Gorilla Position, leaving a cheering crowd and a smiling Clarissa, who says, "Good luck, Felix. Okay, since my job's done for the night, back to you guys at ringside with the Ignition table."


"Thank you, Clarissa. Now, first of all, we'd like to thank Ned, Logan and Ted for being with us tonight to call the matches as assigned on. Ignition will now be taking over the last two matches, the first one being…the Ultimate X Match," Markiplier smirks, the camera changing to a match graphic featuring Television Champion Luke Smith, Intercontinental Champion James Griffin, United States Champion Dante and PewDiePie, each giving their own respective poses with an Ultimate X flag waving behind them as the words, "TOURNAMENT FINALS: ULTIMATE X MATCH – INTERNATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP" are written with the pattern design of the American flag. "This Ultimate X bout is going to be the first-ever in ACW history, ladies and gentlemen, as it decides who shall be the final champions of the soon-to-be retired belts and the first-ever International Champion of the World. I know I'm the professional neutral man here, but I'm pulling off for Felix to win."

"At least you'll still be the play-by-play guy for everyone else," Barney comments. "But in any case, this match will definitely be off the hook. Ultimate X is where anything can happen; this is where people always need to keep their eyes open—they gotta expect the unexpected."

"Dante's retained his title twice against his brother, Vergil, to be in this match, James Griffin became the Intercontinental Champion after beating Mason Stone, Luke Smith retained his against Nathan Drake, and PewDiePie, rebelling his job as an interviewer, pushed his way into this match. This is the finals for the International Championship Tourney. Seriously, whoever wins will be making so much history one night!" Zack implies.

"Let us take you back to the first episode of Friday Night Ignition, where Alvarez announced the tournament to become official," Kenji calls as a video package played on the TitanTron, recapping the tournament matches taking place to the championship matches featuring Dante and Luke retaining while James gains a new title as Jesse's announcement is overheard. During so, "Uprising" plays while PewDiePie expresses his displeasure of feeling left behind as his friends succeed, then would go on to win his qualification match, then do the impossible by winning Battle Royal after hitting a Bro Fist to Vergil. The engaging quartette rivalry of all three champions and the challenger against each other were highlighted by Dante scaring Pewds with a feign Superkick, James nailing a Tyrant Shellshock to Dante, Smith attacking Dante and Griffin on RAMPAGE III to make his stand, PewDiePie nailing a PewDieDriver on Smith and so on until ending with a four-split screen to show all three champions holding their belts while Felix is holding out a fist towards the camera. Once the video package has finished playing, the camera returns to the ring where the bell is heard ringing three times, cuing up Maria Lopez's introductions.

"The following contest is an Ultimate X Match…and it is all set for the ACW International Championship! The rules are as established: there are no pinfalls, no submissions, no disqualifications and no count-outs. The only way to win this bout is by climbing the cables and taking down the prize where they are crossed; the first individual to do so shall be crowned not only the final Television, United States, and Intercontinental Champion, but the inaugural and reigning International Champion in the tourney finals!" Maria affirms.

The crowd settles down as they await the first arrival…

…and they hear a familiar chuckle with its pitch being lowered, gaining explosive cheers from the "Bro Army" in attendance and the rest that are casual fans, either for or against this individual.

[My name is PewDiePie (PewDiePie…)

My name is PewDiePie (PewDiePie…)

His name is PewDiePie!

(PewDiePie…)

A You, You, YouTube gamer!

PewDiePie!

(PewDiePie…)

A fearless entertainer!]

("His Name is PewDiePie" by Roomie)

PewDiePie arrives to the stage with arms spread out and a wide grin, stopping at the center with his hands on his hips to look all around the arena in front of him. Looking down on his shirt was a special one to him: the T-shirt he's wearing is all black with the YouTube logo on the front of it with the word, "Revolution!" written below it in white and comic sans font. He turns his head towards the camera and utters, "This fight is promoted to be a historic one, Bros. You're going to watch me make it all happen," then extends his fist out to the camera and runs down to the ring. Felix slides inside and runs up to a nearby corner to stand on the middle ring ropes, posing with a right fist hanging high for the cheering crowd.

[If you're a bro

Well, then you know

About this one-man shoooooow…

He plays a game, then goes insane (Din liten—!)

Now tell me, what's his naaaaaame?

(My name is—)

His name is… (PewDie, hey!)

His name is… (PewDie, hey!)

His name is… (PewDie, hey!)

(My name is—)

His name is… (PewDie, hey!)

His name is… (PewDie, hey!)

His name is…

His name is PewDiePie!]

"Introducing first: residing in Brighton, United Kingdom, weighing at 207 pounds…PewDiePie!" Maria announces.

"PewDiePie is the fourth man of this entire Fatal 4-Way bout. He earned his way into the finals after eliminating Vergil last in that Battle Royale. Tonight, he proclaims to making so much history all in one night!" Kenji states. "He's playing the dark horse—the underdog into this bout! He will stop at nothing to accomplish his goal for not only himself, but for the YouTube Revolution!"

"Only reason he's even here right now is because of his damn whining back on Ignition III! He decided to be picky about his job and wanted to force himself into the tourney that Vergil should've won himself, but nope. Pewds should've stuck with his job and his fans shouldn't have been stupid enough to aid his bitchiness," Barney retorts.

[*a pack of wolves howl*

Whiskey!

Oscar!

Lima!

Victor!

Echo!

Sierra!

WOLVES]

("Special Op" by Adam Massacre)

A polarizing reaction is what the crowd let loose as the lights turn sky-blue and the cameras search all around the arena. Then, one of the cameras locks in on "The Cunning Wolf" Luke Smith, wearing the signature steel mesh half-face skull mask of The Wolves, walking down the arena steps and passing by the fans that are either rooting for or jeering him. On the way down, the Television Champion snatches a cup of soda from an audience member, chugs most of it down and tosses it over. He jumps on the barricade and turns around to face the crowd with his arms splayed and a grin under his mask. He leaps down and then rolls into the ring, stands up to look at the crowd again, raises his fist to utter, "BELIEVE in Justice! FEAR The Wolves!"

"Next: representing The Wolves, from San Antonio, Texas, weighing in at 185 pounds, he is the current ACW Television Champion…Luke Smith!" Maria announces.

"Earlier tonight, Smith said that he'll be crushing the dreams of the Bro Army into dust like he'll do the same to Felix. He said that if Dante, Griffin and PewDiePie ever have the same mindset of forgetting about Smith in the match, it will be the biggest mistake they've ever made," Zack recalls.

"And perhaps it'll be true; hell, Luke could've been foreshadowing his victory for all we know! And what we know is Dante doesn't need this win. Griffin is good enough to win. And PewDiePie, of all things, most certainly doesn't need this victory," Barney notes. "It will be too obvious and too much of satisfying the people that actually support that bearded freak. If not Griffin, Luke is the man to win and make much, much history here at the Verizon Center. All hail to the beauty that is Justice!"

("I Walk Alone" by Saliva)

[…YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!]

Heavy rain of boos shower the Verizon Center as James Griffin walks out to the stage and stops at the middle of the ramps when the song reached thirty seconds in for Griffin to pose with his arms spread wide, eyes closed with a grin and the spotlight shining onto him only. On cue with entering the chorus, James beats his chest as the lights turn violet red and proceeds his way to the squared circle. He steps on the stairs to enter and after sneering at Luke and Pewds, James stands on the middle turnbuckle at a nigh corner and flexes with an intense howl à la Batista.

[(I walk aloooooooooooooone!) YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

I walk for miles inside this pit of danger!

A place where no one follows me

I walk aloooooooooooooone!

HUAH!]

"Thirdly: from Miami, Florida, weighing in at 232 pounds, he is the current ACW Intercontinental Champion…James Griffin!" Maria announces.

"…Dave Batista much?" Zack quips.

"Watch what you say, Carver. It'll come back to hurt you, but to be specific, James will be the one hurting you. Our current reigning Intercontinental Champion has held the stepping stone title of this company for half a month and if I know the kid like I do, he's going to make sure his championship reign with the newly one International Title keeps on rolling," Barney states.

"He won the belt of Mason Stone back in RAMPAGE II, surprising mostly everyone as he earned his way into the finals. His attitude and bully tactics are an eyesore, especially when he screwed Hernan Ortiz out of a chance of being in this match, but there isn't a doubt that he deserved the title win after defeating Ash Ketchum at Spring Breakdown," Markiplier annotates.

("Shout at the Devil" by Mötley Crüe)

The crowd reverse their reception into loud cheers as the lights turn crimson red and Dante walks out the stage with a smirk on his face. Dante walks at the ramps and as the lyrics kick in, Dante points to the right and the fans say, "Shout!" Then at the left and they say, "Shout!" Then both sides, "Shout!" After that, it repeats, "Shout! …Shout! …Shout!" then Dante cups his hands around his mouth and shouts to the crowd in unison with the lyrics, "Shout at the Devil!" before throwing a fist at the camera and—"BOOM!"—fire explodes from the stage! He walks backwards to the camera with his arms splayed as his back is turned. Dante turns back around and struts up to the steps and looks to the crowd before entering the ring. He walks to the turnbuckle at his left in front of him, stands on the second rope, points both hands with finger-guns and "shoots" at the crowd before stepping down.

[He's the wolf screaming lonely in the night

He's the blood stain on the stage

He's the tear in your eye, being tempted by his lies

He's the knife in your back, he's rage

He's the razor to the knife

Oh, lonely is our lives

My head's spinning round and round

But in the seasons of wither, we'll stand and deliver

Be strong and laugh and—

Shout! …Shout! …Shout!

Shout at the devil!

Shout! …Shout! …Shout!]

"And finally: residing in San Diego, California, weighing in at 225 pounds, he is the first and only current ACW United States Champion…'The Crimson Showstopper' Dante!" Maria announces.

"You heard Maria Lopez, ladies and gentlemen," Kenji says. "Since Southern Hell, Dante has reigned as the first and only United States Champion in Awesome Championship Wrestling for ninety-one days! He's had two successful defenses, both against his older twin brother, Vergil, at Reign in Blood and RAMPAGE I respectively. With his athletic build and skill of being the high-flying wrestler that can steal the show, he may have the chance of winning this bout."

"Nonetheless, if there is anything Dante has in common with his opponents, it's that neither of them have ever been in an Ultimate X match before this! None of them have the experience, but that won't stop them from gaining said experience by tonight and committing themselves to take the risks of using the ropes above as aid unless they slip and fall," Markiplier states.

"Those belts are fifteen feet high above the canvas thanks to the thick red cables. Technically above the actual ground would be twenty feet considering our ring is nine-and-half feet tall due to the ring posts. Our metal structure holding those belts are at least twenty-five to thirty feet tall," Zack clarifies.

"Why are you explaining this?" Barney asks.

"How else the people reading from their computer screens are going to identify the match in their thoughts exactly with what the author has written?" Zack questions.

"…Fair point."

All four warriors of professional wrestling stand in their respective corners, sharing looks with each other while also glancing up at the suspended three belts hanging from a large hook from where the cables cross. After referee Andrew Styles finished proving the competitors were ready, he orders the bell to be rung…and immediately afterwards, Dante, Felix, Luke and James start climbing the metal structures from behind and use the cables to move towards the prize!

"Ultimate X is on—the International Championship Tourney finals is underway! These men are already making their way to the titles!" Markiplier observes.

"As the tagline says, 'No Limits and No Ladders'! You gotta commit to climbing if you want to win this bout over your opponents and all of these dudes are in a rush to claim the belts!" Zack shouts.

By the time all the participants were near the titles, the first one to fire was Dante nailing a swift Shoot Kick to the ribs of James. Luke joins with a kick of his own and Felix kicks the Sly Wolf in the gut and that was what ignited the trade of kicks between the four. Ultimately, James is the first to fall after a simultaneous kick by all his opponents and lands flat on his gut. Next was Luke after one kick too many to the sides and lands on his feet, yet staggers back onto his backside. Dante and Pewds were alone hanging by the cables as they still traded kicks until Smith and Griffin individually pulled the two down, making Dante land on his feet and Felix stuck on Griffin's shoulders. The powerhouse tyrant is getting his head punched as he runs to Powerbomb Felix out of the ring, but is reversed by a Hurricanrana, getting sent to the outside as Pewds saved himself! Meanwhile, after being pulled down, Dante attempted a Superkick to Luke, who caught the foot, swung it aside, ducked a Dragon Whip, and then kicks Dante and pulls him in a Front Headlock. He's thinking Wolf's Tooth, but Dante twists out of it, kicks Smith in the midsection and Irish Whip him to the ropes. Smith bounces off, ducks a Clothesline and Felix leapfrogs over for the TV Champ to fly through the ropes and hits a Suicide Dive on James!

"Suicide Dive! Luke Smith, the swift and cunning one, misses both Dante and PewDiePie, but actually manages to hit one opponent and that opponent being the Intercontinental Champion!" Kenji shouts.

"This just hurts the chances of Smith and Griffin putting their differences aside and taking out the competition," Barney groans.

With both TV and Intercontinental Champion eliminated from the equation for the moment, Felix is turning his attention back and forth from Dante to Luke and James outside, trying to decide to attack first. He seems undecided, but then says, "F*ck it," ascends to the top turnbuckle and once the two champs outside are on their feet, Kjellberg lands on them with Bob's Spinning Power of Justice! An applause breaks out from the crowd to that diving attack by Pewds and with him, Luke and James out, Dante takes advantage and climbs the structure, striving for the belts…but he is actually getting some second thoughts as he looks down at his opponents, who are all beginning to rise on their feet. He is already where the cable is at and he decides…"What the hell?" with a shrug. Fans are on their feet, Dante has his back turned on the rising enemies as he adjusts himself on the bar…

and he snaps off a Moonsault on top of Kjellberg, Smith and Griffin from fifteen feet high off the metal structure!

"WHOA! CHEESE AND RICE! …This is appropriate to say, guys, so in the words of a five-time, five-time, five-time, five-time, five-time WCW World Heavyweight Champion—tell me I did NOT just see that!" Zack exclaims.

"You just did, my half-brother and so did the 17,932 standing in the Verizon Center along with the millions watching from their screens!" Kenji shouts as a replay shows what happened. "Suicide Dive by Luke onto James, Spinning Power of Justice by PewDiePie onto the two and this concludes with a high rent district Moonsault by Dante onto the rest!"

"This thing just started a few minutes ago and already, everyone is down! Man, you can hear this audience chanting our company's acronym proud!" Barney states, gesturing to the crowd doing so. "As awesome as that was, I can't stand to see the sight of James and Luke getting caught like that; damn Felix should've taken the whole move."

From the pile of prone bodies, Dante is the first to stand up and enter the ring, now proceeding to come after the titles hanging above the ring. However, another follows him as Luke Smith is stopping him from doing so. Both men are exchanging fists from different heights and it's Dante that gets the better of it as Smith staggers back. The United States Champion hops to cling onto the cable and starts swinging back and forth…then he lets go to land a Shooting Star Press transitioned into a Clothesline! (Kenji: Dante is never a man without style! Once again, not going for the titles just yet as he goes high risk and piles onto Luke with that backflip into the Clothesline! ; Barney: Too much of a showoff for his own good—James Griffin! Shoulder Block! Geez, that sent Dante flying and I like it!) Dante stands against the corner as he suddenly gets squashed with a body avalanche by James, who follows his attack with a Sidewalk Slam. The bully taunts him before climbing the turnbuckles and the structure to grab onto the cables. He tries to hurry to the belts as he has trouble holding the thick red towlines, bringing himself back on the turnbuckle to shake his hands off to dry them. He appears a little irritated by the cables, but sucks it up as he resumes his journey, hallway to the cross and that's when a springboarding Swedish YouTuber comes in to Dropkick him, both men crashing down flat on their stomachs from the height, but James gets the worst of it!

"Oof! James had the ring cleared, but not secure enough for Felix to fly in! It's like James fell from off the top of a building as his whole body eats the damn canvas," Markiplier cringes. "It is like I said, all of these gladiators of this industry have never been in an Ultimate X."

"That is certainly coming to play for these four, but time will tell that one of these guys will overcome the disadvantage and walk out the winner," Barney adds.

Gaining the impressed ovation, PewDiePie raises a fist while holding his abdomen and then walks right into a Clothesline that turns him inside out by Smith. He sneers at the semifinals winner before surprising the crowd with a Springboard Moonsault, planting his own body across Felix's to make sure he stays down. For extra precaution, he picks him up and throws him out of the ring; the TV Champion is free to ascend…for mere seconds since Dante is now trying to prevent him from grabbing the cables above. They are swapping fists repeatedly as they have no idea James is already climbing the steel construction, making his way towards the gold. Dante blocks a fist, nails a Throat Thrust, then pulls Luke onto his shoulders to nail a Rolling Fireman's Carry Slam…and hops to cling onto James's legs, surprising the Intercontinental Champion! The Crimson Showstopper yanks him down from the ropes and has him on his shoulders, seeking another Fireman's Carry attack…but James won't have any of that as he slips out of it and pushes him to the ropes, where Dante bounces off and Griffin catches him with a Spinning Spinebuster!

"Double A Spinebuster! Arn Anderson would definitely be proud of that performed by James!" Barney smirks.

"Dante managed to notice James heading to the titles in the nick of time when he had Luke on his shoulder, nailing that Rolling Fireman's Carry Slam that amazingly transitioned to him pulling Griffin down. However, Griffin manages to counterattack and here we have that Double A Spinebuster striking Dante," Zack recalls.

"And as of now, with everyone else down, this gives James the perfect opportunity to seize the championships…in which he's pretty much doing right now," Markiplier notes.

James, standing on the top turnbuckle, shakes his hands off in case of sweat to make him slip and fall and grabs the cables. He has one of his legs wrapped around the cable to move adjust himself forward a little faster and as he is actually near the titles, PewDiePie hops off the top rope and clutches onto the towline right behind Griffin! (Kenji: Goodness—where in the world did Felix come from?! ; Zack: I'm asking how did he even do that?! Seriously, that was awesome! ; Barney: Awesome for you and the rest that support the disgrace, moron! James doesn't even know said disgrace is behind him!) Kjellberg is kicking the back of the champion before turning around and wrapping an arm around his head…

…inciting most of the arena to stand…

…and both men fall down back-first into the mat below with PewDiePie nailing a highly dangerous Neckbreaker from the cables!

"GAH—JESUS, GOD ALMIGHTY! The height that both men have fallen from! Lord knows how shattered their bodies must be at this point!" Markiplier exclaims.

"Is this guy a MANIAC?! Is he this insane—oh, OF COURSE he is! His 'Bro Army' are as stupid and psychotic as him!" Barney yells.

As James is nursing his back in utter pain and lying on the apron to recover, Felix slowly staggers to his feet to hear the ovation from the audience and cracks a toothy grin since he's dazed from the fall…and the cheers suddenly turn into boos when the Television Titleholder slams him from behind with the Olympic Slam! Luke howls like a wolf should and shouts, "AND JUSTICE…FOR ALL—" Dante plants Luke with the Full Nelson Facebuster! (Kenji: Men attacking each other from behind with their backs turned! This only showed what happens when one doesn't keep their eyes open for anything that'll take them down that quickly.) The United States Titleholder comes after James on the edge of the ring as he grabs him by his head and picks him up, then has his neck snapped down with a Hangman. Griffin, still rubbing his back from the fall, enters back inside the ring with his eyes set on Dante. He kicks him in the abdomen and pushes him into a corner, where he continues his stomping before shoulder thrusting multiple times. He turns around to evade a flying Luke Smith that nails a Stinger Splash onto Dante instead! Luke now earns a Toe Kick from James, who Irish Whips him into the opposite corner, where he crushes him with a body avalanche and repeats the attack onto Dante. Griffin now pulls him towards into Luke, stacking them together and runs into nothing but the turnbuckle chest-first; Luke grabs the stumbling James and drills him with a Lifting Inverted DDT…which Dante follows with a Stylin' Moonsault right onto the supine James!

"Lifting Inverted DDT and BOOM, a Double Jump Moonsault! Did not expect that and James most certainly didn't himself," Zack implies as Smith gets thrown over the top rope by Dante after running at him, then counters with a shoulder thrust to the gut and sticks his head between his thighs for a Back Body Drop that sends out of the ring. "And Dante's out of here, landing onto the padded floor!"

"He's lucky he didn't landed on concrete that's right under the padding; you have Luke to thank, sir!" Barney spouts.

Back into the hunt, Smith is rising on the steel tower and on the way towards the belts via cables with his legs wrapped around it to make the journey easy. However, halfway there, Felix returns with a shot to both sides, making Luke only hang on by his hands. PewDie manages to get him down and position him on his shoulders, seeking the PewDieDriver, but Luke reverses with a forward roll and the two quickly get to their feet as a kick meets Felix's stomach, then Luke hoists him with a cradle and front facelock to drill Wolf's Tooth! Luke stands up and meets face-to-face with a ladder rammed into him! (Zack: Aah, what in the hell in the world?! ; Barney: James Griffin with the ladder in hand, striking into his face!) The ever so seething James Griffin clutches onto the ladder in hand and jams it into a running Dante right in his midsection before dropping it on top of the paranormal mercenary. He picks up the ladder to lay it down near the ropes, then hoists Dante to his feet to put him in a standing headscissors before lifting him on his shoulders and hits Dante with the Tyrant Shellshock onto the ladder!

"GOOD GAWD, MAN! Griffin is relentless on everything with a heartbeat, using that ladder to assist him as an advantage in this non-DQ match!" Markiplier comments as James is beginning to set up the ladder at the center of the ring and climbing it. "WHAT?! Is he serious?! He's going to use that ladder to help him win?! That's unfair!"

"Oh, don't be such a d-bag hypocrite, Mark! You just said it yourself! No disqualifications—the man went through enough to climb those ropes when people get in the way!" Barney defends.

"Just how the hell is that justifying Griffin using a ladder to help him gain the victory with a cheap tactic?!" Kenji exclaims. "How, damn it?!"

Fans are booing heavily at the Intercontinental Champion, who barks, "SCREW THIS STUPID MATCH! I'M WINNING IT MY WAY!" and grabs the hook to release it…

…then the raining boos turn around into cheers when Hernan Ortiz sprung into the match off the top rope and lands on the ladder! (Kenji: HERNAN! The New Enigma is here, wanting revenge for Ignition IV! ; Barney: No, no, that little bastard's only preventing the inevitable! Kick his ass, James!) Both childhood rivals are not letting up in their exchanging of fists until Hernan is getting the better of it and grabs his head to leap off with a Chaos Breaker…

…so he would if he wasn't pushed off the ladder! James seizes to take down the belts—BRO FIST! Out of nowhere! The Swedish Sensation of YouTube knocks James's jaw out with his Springboard Bro Fist!

"Despite the efforts, James might be—SUPERMAN PUNCH! BRO FIST! RIGHT ON THE FUDGING BUTTON!" Zack shouts.

"NOOOOO! C'mon, damn it! Why can't anybody accept reality for once in their lives?!" Barney groans.

James has already gone down with the ladder and out of the ring as Felix is nearly out of it and resting on the foreign object. Tendering his jaw, the tyrant is using the apron to stand on his feet and looks up to see Hernan with the Shooting Star Press, the New Enigma landing it on Andrew Styles! James was quick on his feet to make the official the sacrificial lamb! Then, he picks up Hernan to throw him into the steps. "Care to screw with me, dipsh*t?! I don't think so! This ain't May 31st and you sure as hell aren't going to play the 'hero'!" James growls as he grabs Hernan for the Tyrant Shellshock on the apron…but Hernan is staying alive, sending punches down to the temple and descends to his feet—PewDiePie throws the ladder right on both men! "F*ck yo ladder, bitch!" PewDie swears, flipping off James before eating a Stylin' Chin Music by Dante! (Kenji: Superkick! Stylin' Chin Music by Dante! ; Zack: That's sure to knock some teeth down Felix's throat! ; Barney: And that's a GOOD thing!) After looking all around, Dante confirms the coast his clear and starts his ascension to possible victory, mounting the structure and the cables. No other competitor is up on their feet stop Dante as he grabs onto the hook, trying take them down…but stops when he sees Jester…tap dancing on the top turnbuckle?

"Dante can taste the victory right now—what the? Wh-What is—what the heck is Jester doing here?" Zack asks.

"For all we know, he's preventing an unneeded victory by Dante! And if Arkham is here to distract Dante…" Barney drifts off, leaving the answer for anyone else to guess.

Annoyed and obviously not wanting any more distractions, Dante drops down to his feet as he goes after the demonic clown, who jumps and hits a Double Foot Stomp, rolling to his feet with a perfect stance. "Ta-da!" Jester grins…then goes, "Uh-oh," when Dante charged after him again, but he moved out of the way for the half-demon to crash into the turnbuckle. The young son of Sparda, vexed, turns around to run into a bible smashed in his face by Arkham this time around! The demonic priest glares down at Dante with a sneer, then raises his bible up at the booing crowd…

…and they get turned into cheers when Dante performs a no-handed kip-up. Dante turns Arkham around and lifts him on his shoulders, smirking the audience as he twists the opposite way and quickly throws the legs out backwards to hit a Fireman's Carry Cutter—The Rebellion! Dante glares at the priest before looking up at the prize above and getting turned around by Vergil with a jumping cutter variation of Yamato! (Mark: Oh, sh—VERGIL! Where the hell did he come from?! ; Barney: Ha! HA! I knew it! I knew it! I knew he'd be around somewhere! If Vergil can't be winning, then neither will his damn twin brother!) The Dark Slayer heavily glares at his twin as he backs up and leaves the ring à la Kane with Arkham, who is holding his head and clinging onto his bible. Dante is down, James is down, Luke is nowhere to be found…and a groggy PewDiePie is already climbing the steel structure with a rowdy crowd.

"Everybody is down and Felix is seizing the opportunity of this huge opening!" Zack shouts.

"This is it! Do it, Felix! Go for it—climb the ropes, man! Do what you promised! Win the title! Become International Champion!" Markiplier screams, channeling his inner Jim Ross.

"You're supposed to be the sane one, Mark! Somebody REASONABLE and SENSIBLE to win this match like James or Luke get up and stop that freak! For the love of all that is RATIONAL!" Barney screeches, getting his wish when James smashes a chair over Felix's back! "Oh, yes! Thank you, good lord!"

"A vile shot to the spine by the Intercontinental Champion! PewDie wasn't even close to touching the cables and James is relentless to unleash his fury on the challenger!" Kenji states.

Another chair shot to the back of Felix nailed by James, who lays the chair on the ringside floor and grabs onto the YouTuber to bring him down. He manages to have him in his shoulders for the Tyrant Shellshock, but PewDiePie is furiously firing a rain of fists into James' skull, making him lose his grip a bit for the YouTuber to grab the chair and nails a shot to the skull! Felix is dropped and stands groggy, but is able to use the chair to continue his unrelenting chair shots to James. He goes for one more, but is knocked down with a Big Boot to the chair right in his face. Griffin sees the opening, goes for the Clothesline, but misses and turns around to get his jaw jacked with a Bro Fist! And that has James turn around to eat a Chaos Breaker by Hernan Ortiz! (Mark: Bro Fist! Chaos Breaker! Pewds is already ascending to the skies! He's a few feet away from laying a foot on the stepping stone championship of this industry! Climb the ropes, Felix! Keep going! Make yourself famous, dude! Make history—give YouTube Revolution the victory we deserve! ; Barney: Shut up, Mark, you're not helping, goddamn it! Get up, James! Somebody stop him, for God's sake!) Grabbing the ropes, Felix is moving himself towards the cross where the belts are hung as the audience (more specifically, the Bro Army) are going crazy, encouraging the YouTube celebrity to win. He reaches the center, eyes are widen as he rapidly looks around for anyone that might stop him…

…but there is none, so he grabs the hook and is striving to release it…

"HE'S TOUCHING THE GOLD! HE'S ABOUT TO MAKE HISTORY! JUST INCHES AWAY!" Zack screams.

"HAS EVERYONE GONE MAD AND DECIDED LET THIS FREAK WIN?! SOMEBODY! ANYBODY! JAMES! DANTE! LUKE! STOP HIIIIIIIM!" Barney shrieks at the top of his lungs.

…PEWDIEPIE FALLS DOWN WITH THE TITLES IN HAND! THE VERIZON CENTER IS GOING INSANE!

"OH, OH…OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! PEWDIEPIE HAS DONE IT! FELIX KJELLBERG IS OUR INAUGURAL INTERNATIONAL CHAMPION OF THE WORLD! THE YOUTUBE REVOLUTION FINALLY HAS A GODDAMN F*CKING TITLE!" Markiplier marks out like an excited child.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Barney cries. "THIS IS ANARCHY! THIS IS A TRAGEDY! THE BLACKEST NIGHT HAS ACTUALLY HAPPENED IN THIS COMPANY! WHY, BIG BRO IN THE SKY?! WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN MY PRAYERS AND THOSE WHO WANTED ANYBODY BUT FELIX TO WIN?!"

Felix is BAWLING his eyes out as he clings onto the titles like he has reunited with his long lost child and the audience is stunned and polarized by this result!

However…Felix begins to realize that the announcement isn't made yet when he sees the referee is still knocked out. Hernan is already trying to wake him up by shaking him and Felix joins verbally, telling the referee he won—LOW BLOW BY LUKE SMITH!

"WHAT THE HELL?! WHERE IN GOD'S NAME DID LUKE COME FROM?!" Kenji exclaims.

"OH! OH! C-COULD IT BE…?" Barney hopes.

Pewds drops the belts in utter pain that his lower regions were shot brutally before Smith grabs him and hits the Russian Legsweep followed by ramming his face into the titles with the Forward Russian Legsweep, Blacksmith executed! With him out of it…Luke snatches the belts, which he suddenly smashes them into the temple of a running Hernan Ortiz! Smith shouts for Andrew to stand up in which he does…

and grogginess be damned, he sees Luke holding the titles and calls for the bell, giving the Sly Wolf his victory!

"What?! NO! COME ON, LUKE SMITH LITERALLY STOLE THE VICTORY FROM FELIX! SON OF A BITCH!" Markiplier curses.

"OH, HALLELUJAH! A MIRACLE HAS BEEN PERFORMED BY THE ONE ABOVE ALL! LUKE, YOU SNEAKY WOLF! JUSTICE HAS BEEN SERVED!" Barney applauds.

("Special Op" by Adam Massacre)

"Here is your winner, still the Television Champion…the NEW United States and Intercontinental Champion…and the first-ever ACW International Champion…LUKE SMITH!" Maria declares to heavy boos.

Luke is smiling from ear to ear with all three titles in one hand and a tight fist on the other with a groggy Styles holding the fist up to signal him as the victory. He runs up to a corner and is howling in celebration, scolding every single supporting member of PewDiePie that justice has been served. And for everyone else as he is celebrating? Dante is holding his head and resting against the apron, still feeling the effects of the surprise Yamato by Vergil as he watches on in disappointment; James is utterly furious with his face nearly red, standing against the barricade and giving a death glare that one can feel the anger steaming from the now former Intercontinental Champion; and as for Pewds…he is knocked out—he has NO idea what had just hit him while Luke makes his departure from the ring and up to the ramps, where he reunites with The Wolves, all three of them celebrating their fellow wolf's big time conquest. Damian Reigns hoists Smith up on his shoulders and the newly crowned tournament winner has his titles up as The Wolves proclaim, "BELIEVE IN JUSTICE! FEAR…THE WOLVES!" and then they all howl together.

"This was one hell of a match! One hell of a match! Everyone gave everything they had! Nonetheless, I can't get over what had just happened to Felix in the end!" Markiplier comments. "He had the victory with the titles in hand, but it got taken away by that damn Cunning Wolf!"

"You can hate it all you want, but you have to admit, it was damn good timing for Smith's part! He had to make sure the coast was clear enough for him to crush the goals of that waste of skin knocked out in the ring! Celebrate your win, Luke! Celebrate it well with your brothers in arms, dude! You truly deserved it!" Barney says.

"I can't ever appreciate the dishonor and I hate to agree with you on that one, Stinson, but I gotta give credit where credit is due," Kenji admits.

"PewDiePie was the initial man to pull down the titles, but Luke attacks him from behind to take the belts away. It was all the while the official was knocked out and he had no idea what had actually transpired. Therefore, none of it matters…Luke Smith is the final TV, U.S., and IC Champion while the inaugural International Champ," Zack states.

The Wolves have already left the stage, James walked off to take his anger out on what or whoever is in his way, Hernan has disappeared, and Dante shakes his head as he leaves to the stage with hands on his hips. As "Special Op" dies, the only man left in the ring was Felix Kjellberg, who had awaken while Dante was leaving. He searched all around the ring to look for the belts he original yanked down, but is confirmed by Styles that Luke won the match. He tried to explain the situation that he took the titles down first, but Andrew had responded he already made it official. It was too late. After the ref left, Felix feels many emotions running through his body: confusion, anger, disappointment, sadness and the like. He just wanted to EXPLODE with his hands running through his hair…but he knew this wouldn't change things and began to leave. On the way, the fans, either pro Felix or against, were slowly exposing their respect to the YouTuber, who continued to walk away in silence.

"Yeah, walk away! Go back to be the pathetic human being you are with your fan base full of swearing brats!" Barney scolds. "I don't get why these idiots in the capital of our awesome country are clapping for this loser!"

"All right, that's ENOUGH, Barney. Felix is not a loser; he lost this match and that's it…and what the fans are giving is respect, something you lack for most people," Mark points out.

"I can only imagine the state of mind Felix in right now… Poor guy. He was so close, but so far," Zack sighs.


Somewhere backstage, The Wolves are seen again walking their path and still on the emotion of conquest. They were then stopped when Mike "The Mic" Martin enters the scene with a microphone in hand.

"Luke, you have just won the U.S. and Intercontinental Championship and retained your title; you are now crowned the first-ever ACW International Champion. Can you give us any thoughts to your winnings and for what transpired?" queries Mike.

The International Champion, albeit panting softly, answers the interviewer, "Martin…you don't have any idea how elated I am as my brothers are. Justice is crying tears of joy after I succeed my mission of having it served well. People can say what I did to Felix was cheap. They can say it was uncalled for. They can say I stole the chance of him being champion…when that is nothing more than a joke. What I did…was simply called 'seizing the opportunity'. I'm an opportunist like every other wrestler in this business, whether they know it or not. All that matters is I have accomplished my task and I have made much history all in one night. I have done what James, Dante and that fluke, Felix, FAILED to do and that's carry these belts off to victory as I am crowned the International Champion…which such a name lacks personally to me. The title of this strap is fine in anywhere…but here? I don't think so… With how my opponents and I performed out there, I prefer something…a name that is amazing…extraordinary…astonishing…prodigious…phenomenal… Ah, yes…I have it now. I prefer it to be…

"…

"…

"…

"…a Phenomenal Championship."

Patting his titles with a smirk and his fellow wolves approving the name change with nods, the dominate four-man faction take their leave.


Now someplace else backstage…Felix Kjellberg is found walking through the hallway with Marzia Bisognin by his side as she tries to comfort him over his loss.

"Felix… Felix, look at me," Marzia tells as the two stop at their steps. "…You did all you could…and I'm proud of you. I know everyone else from the YouTube Revolution to your fans are proud of you as well for your best efforts. This is only the beginning."

"…Marzia…I appreciate it, but…come on…this was another title opportunity gone from me. Seriously, those belts…all three of them…were in my f*cking hands…and then they were taken from me just like that. In a flash, the titles have f*cking disappeared… I got screwed…and I don't think I'll be getting an opportunity like this ever again, at least not in this company…" Pewds sighs as he runs a hand through his hair and starts walking…

…but immediately stops at his tracks when he meets Jesse Alvarez and Joshua Garza.

Marzia pouts at them, "I hope you two are proud of yourselves, especially you, Jesse… You didn't want to give Felix a chance and now here he is, dejected because he had his deserved victory taken away like that."

"Marzia, don't…" Felix gestures.

"It's okay, you two. We don't want any trouble," Josh adds. "Jesse…if you will."

"Right… Felix…I saw what happened…and while I can understand it was unfair," Jesse pauses to hold up a contract, "…a deal's a deal. You know what would happen if you lost in this Ultimate X."

"…Well…gotta be better than working as an interviewer… Err, no offense to you, Marzia, or the rest of the interview crew," PewDie holds his hands up in defense.

"None taken," Marzia cutely responds, kissing his cheek.

The Swedish Sensation of YouTube takes the contract and a pen offered by Josh and signs his name on the dotted line. Once finished, he hands both items back to his bosses.

"Thank you, Felix…welcome to the main roster of Awesome Championship Wrestling," Jesse smirks as he holds up an ACW contract to the shock of both YouTubers and the audience.

"WHOA, WHOA, WHOA…WHAT?! B-But the deal was…!" Felix barely utters.

"Yeah…I lied," the Latino Kid shrugs. "I feel like some people deserve a second chance…so I felt generous. Don't take it for granted…"

"…Bro…you GOT IT," Pewds grins widely.

Marzia smiles at her boyfriend and hugs him, reminding him she told him that this is only the beginning. He waves her off jokingly before the couple walk away while the co-owners of ACW watch on.

"…You better hope I've made the right decision, Josh," Jesse folds his arms, raising an eyebrow at his best friend.

"Jess…have I ever steered you wrong?" Josh asks with a smirk, resting an elbow on the shoulder of Alvarez, who grew a sudden deadpan expression. "…Okay, so I have here and there prior to this company's birth, but I got a good feeling about this. Trust me. I know."

Jesse sighs, "If you say so."


The screen then goes split-screen, two cameras recording from separate locker rooms with one side featuring Sasuke Uchiha stretching his muscles out and the other showing Naruto Uzumaki finishing up tying his boots before proceeding to wrap his wrists with black wrestling tape.

"Finally…we've arrived to the main event of this entire pay-per-view. The ACW Undisputed Championship match, but it isn't a normal one. This is a Do or Die Three Stages of Hell match that will be contested in just a few minutes," Markiplier explains. "The first man to score two falls is declared the winner; we have three falls going into this bout: first fall is a Street Fight, second fall is a Steel Cage match, and the third and final fall is a Ladder match. In this contest, the stipulation is if Sasuke loses tonight, he will never challenge Naruto for a world title match for as long he's champion."

The TitanTron focuses on Sasuke as Barney speaks, "The challenger is on a hunt, Mark. He's on the hunt to become the next Undisputed Champion of the World and end his nightmare here in Washington D.C. by defeating the sole reason for who he is today."

"There is no excuse for Sasuke's actions to get where he is at. He's done so much despicable actions all to fight Naruto and defeat him; he's a desperate man and so is Naruto as he wants to end this rivalry. Lord knows how long this rivalry will go on before it ends on an emotional note," Kenji states.

"Both of these guys are on a must-win situation from their sides," Zack implies as the screen changes to Naruto, who is now looking down at his title. "Sasuke wants to end his nightmares and live the dream while Naruto wants to end what has been ten years in the making. Naruto is on the verge of closing the book while Sasuke is wanting a new chapter."

The camera switches to a match graphic featuring Naruto Uzumaki holding the belt by his shoulder and giving the two-finger salute with a smile with a tattered waving flag showing Leaf Village and Uzumaki Clan symbol behind him while Sasuke Uchiha is on the opposite side, turning around to give a death glare towards the camera with a flag of his own showing the Uchiha Clan symbol and Sharingan behind him as the words, "NARUTO v. SASUKE: DO OR DIE THREE STAGES OF HELL MATCH – UNDISPUTED CHAMPIONSHIP" are written with the pattern design of the American flag in-between the two.

"Naruto wins, he ends his deal with Sasuke in ACW for the moment. They got WWE to still settle the score, but in this company, they'll end it. In Sasuke's case of winning the match and title, which I hope happens for our sake, it may actually have this story getting a new chapter. All we can do is call the match, make assumptions and see what will truly emerge in the end," Barney utters.

"This is ten years in the making; these two ninjas have grown together as a team since their arrival in the wrestling business, their friendship souring into the personal feud that continues on and it may be the end tonight in ACW," Mark says as a video package played on the TitanTron, recapping the finish from the Triple Threat main event match to the end of Ignition I with Sasuke brutally assaulting Naruto before planting Sakura with the Sharingan Impact, realizing what he had done and punished Naruto once more with a Punt Kick and a One-man Con-chair-to. "Overcome" by Creed plays to tell the story as the match between Naruto and Sasuke would be announced by Jesse as highlights show their respective bouts from Naruto being Triple Powerbombed by The Wolves, then nailed in the head with his own headband by Sasuke, who would lose to Spider-Man due to Naruto's shenanigans. The chorus hits for their brawl from past encounters to today, highlighting every single signature and finisher performed by both rivals to each other all while parts of their voices from their sit-down interview with Mark is overheard. By the end, Naruto proclaims that his ultimate rival will get the very best of the champion as Sasuke will do anything he can to win this match and become the next ACW Undisputed Champion…do or die. Once the video package has finished playing, the camera returns to the arena with a now excited crowd after watching the promo as they await who shall appear…

("Misery Loves My Company" by Three Days Grace)

Lights slowly went dim and dark as fans shower the arena with vicious boos towards Sasuke Uchiha, who suddenly appears under a bright spotlight upon the song's downbeat. The Lone Uchiha stares at the audience until the lyrics arrive for him to cue his walk down the ramps with the lights turning dark blue.

[I am in control, I haven't lost my mind

I'm picking up the pieces of the past you left behind

I don't need your condescending

Words about me looking lonely

I don't need your arms to hold me

'Cause misery is waiting on me!

I am not alone—not beaten down just yet!

I am not afraid of the voices in my head!

Down the darkest road, something follows me!

I am not alone…

'Cause misery loves my company!

(Misery loves my company!)]

Sasuke reaches near ringside and stops at his tracks for his eyes to look all over the arena in front of him before turning to his left to walk up on the steel steps. He enters the ring through the ropes, walks up to the corner right in front of him, stands on top of the middle turnbuckle, stares at the booing crowd once more and by the end of the first titular lyric, he raises and spreads his arms out à la Legend Killer.

"The venomous predator is on the hunt. His hunt lists an Undisputed Championship and ending the nightmare, so he proclaims, by destroying and defeating Naruto Uzumaki once and for all as the latter goal is deemed most important," Kenji states. "Should he win, he'll be 'set free'."

"For weeks and weeks, this rivalry has been rebuilt since the inception of ACW. They've went on to fight for the title in a Non-sanctioned match at Spring Breakdown and again in a Triple Threat match involving Rogen Townsend at Reign in Blood. This is promoted to be the third and final battle of one of the greatest feuds in fictional wrestling history…at least in ACW," Barney notes. "Never have I ever been witnessing anything this personal in my life. For our sake, Sasuke better win."

"He is an overall five-time world champion, consisting his accomplishments of being a two-time CWA Champion, a two-time XCF Ultimate Champion and a former WWE Toon Champion. Winning the Undisputed Title would bring him to be a six-time world champion. To Sasuke, winning the belt would only be a simple bonus to his victory over Naruto," Mark implies.

"Sasuke said he will do anything, and I mean, anything he can to end it all. He will do whatever it takes to garner at least one solid victory over the very person who was originally in his position…only less crazy and psychotic," Zack articulates.

Sasuke steps down from the turnbuckles and starts his slow back and forth pacing, staring at the stage for the arrival of his longtime rival as "Misery Loves My Company" volumes down and the lights return to normal for the moment.

("I Will Not Bow" by Breaking Benjamin)

[FALL!]

Yellow pyrotechnics explode from the stage and Naruto Uzumaki walks out to a cheering crowd, who he encourages them to turn the volume up with their support. He looks all around the arena as he drapes his Undisputed Championship belt over his shoulder and gives the fans his signature two-finger salute before running to the ring and sliding inside.

[Now the dark begins to rise

Save your breath, it's far from over

Leave the lost and dead behind

Now's your chance to run for cover

I don't want to change the world

I just wanna leave it colder

Light the fuse and burn it up

Take the path that leads to nowhere

All is lost again…

But I'm not giving in…!

I will not bow! I will not break!

I will shut the world away…

I will not fall! I will not fade!

I will take your breath away!

FALL!]

After entering the ring with a slide, he stands up to lose his smirk and give a heavy glare at Sasuke for a good while, then raises his belt high with both hands above his head, earning louder cheers from the crowd.

"Like Altered Egos and Dante earlier tonight, Naruto is going on with his reign at ninety-one days since Southern Hell. However, they've also lost their titles as of recent. Every championship match we've had on the main card have had titles changed sans the TV Title being retained by Luke Smith in our previous bout," Markiplier annotates. "The multiple-time world champion could be the final man to either lose his title or retain it by the end of this event."

"As this night marks Naruto's third title defense, especially against someone he's fought with for a long time known as the rogue ninja of Konoha," Kenji says.

"It is over ten years in the making, bro. They've been rivals since their days as young kids in the Ninja Academy in their home village; they've been paired together as a team on their graduation ceremony," Zack comments. "As time passed, no matter how much they butted heads, they've always respected each other."

"They've trained together, eaten together, had missions together, fought side by side or against each other, the latter or being whether they were friends or rivals… They're going in tonight as adversaries, dude," Barney utters. "We're not just talking their experiences from their anime series; from how they've progressed in the wrestling business, it's all spiraled down to where are today. Now, without further ado, let us shut up and have our lovely ring announcer, Maria Lopez, speak."

The Orange Spark lowers his belt as he backs into a corner opposite of The Lone Uchiha, then "I Will Not Bow" volumes down and the bell rings three times, cuing Maria to call the revelations.

"The following main event of the evening, live from the Verizon Center in Washington D.C., is a Do or Die Three Stages of Hell match…and it is for the ACW Undisputed Championship of the World! Introducing the challenger first: formerly residing from the Village Hidden in the Leaves, weighing in at 225 pounds, he is…Sasuke Uchiha!"

The fans boo loudly as Sasuke gracefully raises his arms up once again in a "Releasing the Doves" pose à la Randy Orton, his glowering eyes locked onto his adversary.

"And his opponent: from the Village Hidden in the Leaves, weighing in at 228 pounds, he is the current, reigning and defending ACW Undisputed Champion…'The Orange Spark' Naruto Uzumaki!"

Naruto inhales through his nose and eyes shut as he raises his title up high above him with both hands, the atmosphere changing to a positive reception by the crowd. By then, Maria leaves the ring and Naruto hands his belt over to the man refereeing this match, Marshall Eriksen, who stands at the center to signal the two to join him and then explains what will go down in this match as he'll be calling it down the middle and would like no trouble at all. Naruto and Sasuke continue to glare at each other before slowly backing away; Marshall raises up the Undisputed Championship for every side of the crowded seats to see, then hands over the golden world title to one of the ringside crew members and once through with checking both ninjas, he orders for the bell to ring and the main event now begins. (Markiplier: And here we GO. Undisputed Championship match is underway with the first fall of Three Stages of Hell that is a Street Fight. Time for the chaos to ensue…) As Marshall backs up, Naruto and Sasuke circle the ring a bit before engaging in the classic collar-and-elbow lockup, trying to outdo each other aggressively. The champion snares him into a Side Headlock, but then Sasuke lifts him off his feet and Naruto lands back on them before shoving his adversary to the ropes. The Lone Uchiha bounces off and knocks the air out of Naruto with a Shoulder Block, taunts him, then hits the ropes again to bounce off, leap over Naruto flipping himself on his stomach, and finds himself running into being carried on Naruto's shoulders for the Ninja's Way! No, Sasuke slips off and catches Naruto with a Sharingan—also countered! Sasuke rebounds from the ropes and runs into a Headlock Takedown, cursing this situation he made himself get caught in with an arm smacking the mat. Naruto has the headlock sealed well, but Sasuke still has the strength to bring himself up at a vertical base with the multiple-time world champion of the Multiverse. He manages to push him away and Naruto this time brings Sasuke down with a Shoulder Block of his own; then he hits the ropes, hops over Sasuke tossing himself over on his stomach, bounces off again, ducks under a leapfrogging Sasuke and turns around to have his face SLAPPED across the face! "Come on, you son of a bitch!" Sasuke shouts as fans boo and Naruto tackles him to the mat, sending down a fury of fists to Sasuke, who is retaliating with his own.

"Naruto, infuriated by the slap, takes down Sasuke and these two are unrelenting with fists going wild!" Kenji calls out. "These guys seriously aren't letting up with their grounding and pounding!"

"Naruto and Sasuke were being basic in the early going until the latter showed he had enough by slapping the taste out of the former's mouth and wanted a FIGHT!" Zack says.

The two rise with Naruto sending knees to the temple, then Irish Whips him over to the ropes and Sasuke counters his Back Body Drop attempt with a Double Foot Stomp right to his back, driving Naruto into the canvas. Proximately afterwards, Sasuke leaves the ring to begin searches for any kind of weapon to help him. First item he pulls out is a 2x4 wrapped in barbwire; already, the levels of a hardcore bout would be taken up high as Sasuke rolls in the ring and swings the foreign object at Naruto's head. Naruto ducks it, however, and nails a Spinning Side Kick to the gut, then proceeds a Release Fisherman Suplex. Naruto brings him up and pulls him over with an Irish Whip to the corner, where he charges and finds himself Stinger Splashing the turnbuckles instead of Sasuke, who evaded. Sasuke takes quick advantage as he brings the weapon over, lays it down, flips Naruto on the ropes to hang him from there as he holds upside-down by his legs in a back-to-back position and flips him forward onto the 2x4 with an Inverted Alabama Slam!

"Sasuke gets to use the barb-wired 2x4, after all, with that inverted move of the Alabama Slam, sending Naruto possibly face-first into the weapon! I wouldn't be surprised if he's bleeding right now," says Barney.

As Naruto holds his chest, Sasuke exits the ring once more to throw in the following objects from under the ring: two trashcans filled with lids and kendo sticks, a few steel chairs, a table and even a ladder. He slides inside and picks up the barb-wired 2x4 to swing right into the gut of Naruto, making the champion collapse to his knees and then strikes his weapon to the spine. After that, Sasuke forces the Hero of Konoha to a vertical base so he can smash the barbwire wrapped wood right over his temple. Naruto's forehead is slowly pouring out drips of crimson liquid as he stands against the ropes and Sasuke knocks him out of the ring with another shot to the head, having Naruto stumble and land himself onto the Ignition announce table. Sasuke pursuits him to slam his skull into the table before throwing him off and proceeding to tear it apart, engaging the commentators to simply move the hell away. (Markiplier: Oh, God, not this again. *gathered his items and starts moving away* ; Zack: At least it's not the Spanish commentary suffering first.) Once the table was empty of the covers and monitors, Sasuke drags and lays his enemy on the table, then punches him at the bleeding wound furiously to make sure he stays down. He then steps onto the apron to prepare himself, hops on the second rope and executes a Springboard Crossbody onto nothing but the announce table! Naruto rolled off the table in the nick of time as Sasuke crashes and burns on the table that didn't give way with him bouncing off it!

"For the love of—Sasuke went for an outside springboard maneuver, but he crashes down hard, bouncing right off our announce table! I don't know whether Naruto was playing possum or it was just instinct, knowing Sasuke had something planned with him on the table!" Kenji shouts.

"Considering the FWM's tagline says, 'F*ck Logic', I'm going to say screw that tagline and believe Naruto had instinct since there is no freaking way he'd be playing possum with how he's being beaten so early in the match," Barney states.

Naruto capitalizes this moment of free time regain himself, but was too impatient to wait as he grabs Sasuke and Hammer Throws him over to the barricade he is rammed against with authority. Marshall checks on the challenger, but quickly backs away as the champion kneels next to the latter and is hammering his fists away into his skull. (Zack: Look at Naruto go here; he's showing one heck of a mean streak so far. ; Markiplier: In this bout of Three Stages of Hell, these wrestling combatants are willing to do any-damn-thing they can to get a victory over one another and Naruto knows how much this means to retain his title and be done with his adversary for Lord knows how long.) Before long, Naruto lifts Sasuke off his feet and lands his lower regions right onto the top of the barricade, garnering every cringed reaction by the male audience that find sympathy for that! Then, The Uchiha Predator would be sent into the crowd's space with a Dropkick by Naruto, who starts climbing the barricade for a diving attack. The moment Sasuke eventually stood up and turned around, he instantly leg sweeps at Naruto's feet to have him fall gut-first onto the barricade and proceeds to cave his skull in with a solidifying Enzuigiri. The titular protagonist goes limp as Sasuke begins to push him back out, but stops as he notices the particular position they're in right now and he slowly forms a vile snake-esque grin across his face. He simply drags the wilting body to hang him on the barricade by his feet with his arm wrapped around his head, slowly circling his head around and inhaling through his nose before snapping off the Curse of Hatred, driving Naruto's skull down!

"Good God, the Elevated DDT—Curse of Hatred drilling Naruto head-first into the concrete floor, possibly cracking it open for all we know! What kind of sick and twisted bastard would do this to another human being?! Seriously!" Kenji yells.

"Hate me if you want, but Sasuke is vindicated to do this to the cause of his nightmares! He is dead-on to make sure his goals will overcome all against him!" Barney utters.

"And this could be the start of it as Sasuke's got the leg hooked and Marshall's joining them to count the first pin of the match!" Zack observes as Marshall begins the count: 1…

2…

…2.864 Naruto kicks out! "Naruto barely gets the shoulder up! He nearly lost this first fall to Sasuke, who is not content to hear and witness this!"

"As he should be! Come on, Marshall, throw a bone for Sasuke here, man!" Barney complains.

The statement by Carver is correct as Sasuke is immensely glaring and shouting at Marshall, who is verbally defending himself that Naruto had the kick-out at a near-fall. Ending the argument and stare-down, Sasuke goes back to work on his now bleeding opponent with pounding his punches into the open wound of Naruto's skull before forcing him on his feet and throwing him over the barricade. As Naruto crawls to slowly stand up, Sasuke takes out one of the chairs brought in from the ring and swings it right into Naruto's back, compelling his screams of agony. Naruto turns around as Sasuke reels back for another chair shot to his head this time and actually misses it, nailing the folding chair at the turnbuckle post! He drops it as the effects vibrate back into his arms and Naruto bashes him with a Clothesline, then throws him back inside the ring. (Kenji: Naruto, busted wide open with a crimson mask and battered up, is able to regain his strength to fight back! ; Barney: Yeah, wait until it crashes down yet again for him, then Sasuke will gladly take his time to punish him in his own pace.) Sasuke rises for charging at Naruto, who ducks and then catches him with a planted Blue Thunder Bomb onto the trashcan filled with kendo sticks and its lid! While the challenger is dealing with his back, Naruto stands against the corner with blood still pouring from his face and Marshall checks on him to see if he is able to go on. Konoha's Number One Hyperactive Knucklehead Ninja's answer is made by striving to ascend to the top turnbuckle as his eyes are targeted on the leisurely rising Uchiha.

"Marshall checks if Naruto is willing to continue and the champion responds by going high risk from the turnbuckles. He is battered, he is bloodied, and yet, he continues to fight after what his callous challenger has put him through," Markiplier comments.

"I know what you're thinking, Mark, 'that's what one would call a fighting champion', right? Well, for an overrated character like him to represent our company as champion, guess we might as well look up to the very reason of a certain Uchiha's downward spiral in his wrestling career," Barney retorts with a scoff.

Naruto reaches his destination and his next one seeks for a Konoha Bulldog from above as he feels his head kicked in with another Enzuigiri from a pouncing Sasuke. He is quite out of it as he now sits on the turnbuckle and Sasuke is stepping up on the ropes, prolonging his attacks to the head that bleeds with fast fists. The titular character's rival wraps his arms around his head and neck, unhinged expression telling the whole story as he readies his Sharingan Impact from the top rope. Sasuke jumps…

…and Naruto has shoved him off, sending him down to the canvas on his back! Naruto regains himself and quickly drops off with a Konoha Bulldog, landing the leg right across the back of Sasuke's neck! Full steam ahead, Naruto is now clobbering at Sasuke with multiple right hands, then Irish Whips him to take him down with a Clothesline followed by another, evades one counter from him with a knee to the abdomen, and then grounds him with a Gutwrench Suplex. Naruto eyes the dented trashcan as he dumps out the either broken or non-broken kendo sticks to use as a smashing entity over Sasuke's body repeatedly. He nails it over his head before throwing it aside, then picks up a useful kendo stick for harsh and punishing strikes to his screaming adversary before pressing it against his neck to choke him. He prolongs the stranglehold until the weapon broke in half and with Sasuke out of it for now, he'd be going for the cover if he didn't have his focus on the resting table, which he commences to set up in the ring. Once finished, he sizes the Lone Uchiha up on his feet and eventually picks him up on his shoulders, aiming the Ninja's Way he executes that Sasuke reverses with the Sharingan Impact through the table!

"Sharingan Impact! Sasuke counters the Ninja's Way into the Sharingan Impact through the table!" cries Kenji.

"Beautiful! BEAUTIFUL reversal, I could just cry in tears of joy right now! Now he's got the pin!" Barney says as Sasuke turned Naruto over to hook his leg and Marshall drops for the pinfall count: 1…

2…

…3!

"Sasuke wins the first fall! Sasuke earns a victory over this Street Fight!" Zack calls.

"And with that out of the way," Mark halts his sentence as the lights dim a tad for the steel cage above to gradually lower to the ring, "we are about spectate two combatants becoming animals inside the cage that lowers right before us. Know that the only way to win this fall is by pinning your opponent, making them submit, or escaping the cage by climbing it to the outside or going through the door. Those are the stipulations to win here; let's see if either of these men are able to succeed with either of those four."

As the cage is taking its time to surround the ring, Sasuke uses remaining of it to throw the broken table out of and gather more weapons to use in the match for further destruction of his nemesis from adding four more steel chairs, two tables, a sledgehammer and another ladder. He slides back in at the last second with the chain-link fencing crate now connected to the ring. All four corners of the squared circle have been covered with the two ladders leaning against them opposite of each other the same is said for the chairs wedged between the top and middle turnbuckle, the construction set up by Sasuke himself. Following so, he picks up the same barb-wired thick board that bladed Naruto at the early going; when Naruto rose to his knees, Sasuke begins pressing the barbwire against the bleeding temple to hear his cries of agony and watch more of his own blood flow. After a minute of torture, he ends it by scraping the weapon across his forehead, compelling the champion to thrash around and hold his head suffering from the effects of that rough graze. The self-inserted number one contender grabs his face to insult his misery, then brings him to his feet for an Irish Whip that sends him head-first into the wedged-in steel chair and his body goes lifeless again like a rag doll upon contact!

"OH! Oh, my GOD!" Kenji cringes.

"Jesus, the way Naruto's legs nearly went forward with his back arching as his head got drilled through the chair…that was just sick to see and hear," Zack winces.

"With this much abuse, Sasuke could on his way to become the new Undisputed Champion right now! He should be capitalizing right now with the leverage he currently has when he's just being absolutely cruel to Naruto. Why not pin the titleholder this instant?" Markiplier comments.

"Sasuke is playing smart here, Mark; he's also playing his part as the predator. He wants to make sure his prey suffers looooong enough for him to get the delicious victory he craves. He's taking his time here on purpose because that's the way he likes it," Barney retorts. "He likes to slow down the pace so this entire play will be worth it by the end of it all when he walks out of here with the gold and a deserved achievement over this bleeding knucklehead."

Adding insult to injury, Sasuke poses with his arms raised Legend Killer style and a smirk forming on his face as the crowd repeatedly chants, "Asshole!" He watches Naruto very sluggishly rise up, enjoying the sight of his crimson masked archenemy using the ring ropes to reach up to his feet. The Lone Uchiha shouts to the booing audience, "You call this dying cadaver a champion?! He can barely stand up! It's pathetic! You're PATHETIC, Naruto!" then walks over into a kick to the gut by the rebellious Uzumaki, who proceeds with a right fist to the temple. (Kenji: Oh, hang on; look at Naruto! A spark of life has ignited from inside! He's fighting back with everything he's got—oh, low blow! Underhanded low blow kick right to Naruto as a cheap shortcut by Sasuke! ; Barney: Ha! You were saying, Benny? That spark Naruto tried to make has gone out, much like his reign any time Sasuke decides to finally end his misery.) Sasuke drags his foot across Naruto's face to add further insult before pulling his entire body up to smash him face-first once again, but into the chain-link fencing this time around as he starts grind his entire face against the cage, engaging cries of agony from Naruto and urges of hearing his grief from Sasuke.

"Bloodlust is quenching for the challenger, Sasuke, as it is for his big brother, Itachi, who's definitely watching this at his home with Moon to enjoy Naruto's suffering as I am right now," Barney smirks sinisterly.

"Why would you condone to this?! How can any human being condone to this sickening castigation towards Naruto?! I mean, how the hell he is still lasting this match! For the love of all that is good, Sasuke, end the f*cking match, damn it!" Markiplier urges. "We've seen enough and you've sure as hell done enough as well!"

Sasuke, repetitively nailing Naruto's head into the chains over and over, suddenly yanks him back as the Orange Spark rolls to his feet and swings his fist at the air, just stumbling as his vision begins to blur from the blood that coated every square inch of his face and most if it already covering up his body from chest to abdomen. It was truly painful to see as Sasuke shakes his head with a sneer, telling Naruto how disappointed he is when he expected so much retaliation from him. Mocking him further, Sasuke leans a bit close to allow a "free shot" right at him, pointing at his chin with the smirk stuck on his face at the glowering Naruto. He predictably attempts the punch and easily misses, falling down forward and Sasuke arrogantly chuckles before swiftly striking a vicious soccer kick in the kidneys. The Undisputed Champion rolls on his back holding his sides in pain as Sasuke plants a foot on his chest for the pin and a disgusted Marshall counts: 1, 2—2.874 Naruto barely shoots his shoulder up! Surprisingly, yet not so surprisingly, Sasuke didn't seemed bothered by this kick-out as he was happy enough to continue making Naruto grieve more.

"This second fall has been all Sasuke so far. He's not even surprised Naruto made the kick-out because it's exactly what he wants to prolong this personal hell for the champion," Kenji notes.

"Nice to hear you're understanding Sasuke real well, Jerry. It'll be all the more better when we hear the bell ring and all we see is Sasuke raising his eventually soon-to-be Undisputed Championship and a beltless corpse lying in his own pool of blood," Barney sneers.

"…You're a sick man, Barney," Zack scolds.

Right now, Sasuke doesn't waste any energy picking up Naruto as the blonde is currently dragging himself to his vertical base by using his challenger as aid. All Sasuke does is watch and do nothing to antagonize or help him as he just glares down into his blue eyes with his own cold onyx eyes. Eventually, he uses his hand to gesture that he'd stand up right now and Naruto manages…but he collapses to a knee, the blood loss being too much for him as Marshall inspects him to see if he wants to go on. Despite feeling woozy, Naruto responds that he's still good to go…when he, Eriksen and the fans know he's not even close. The senior official backs away as Sasuke decides to just be done with it out of "boredom and disappointment", setting up Naruto for one singular Piledriver that connects in a small running variation onto the steel chair! (Zack: God…! Picture-perfect, yet sickening Piledriver by Sasuke—that's enough for Naruto's scrambled brains to be just juiced right now. ; Barney: Yeah, problem with that, Zack, is those "scrambled brains" were nonexistent to Naruto since he never had any to begin with. Welp, Sasuke wins! He's champ! Show's over, good night everybody! Pin away, bro!) Sasuke cracks his neck after hitting the dangerous maneuver as he has Naruto on his back and hooks his leg: 1…

2…

…KICK-OUT AT A NEAR THREE-COUNT! Sasuke is sitting up in actual surprise as is Marshall with the insanely cheering fans!

"NARUTO'S ALIVE! NARUTO—Naruto is still alive and so is his championship reign! Not even Sasuke can truly believe it!" Markiplier exclaims.

"What?! Marshall, were you counting too slowly again?! Damn it, dude, do your job right! Call it down the fricking middle!" Barney rants.

"After all the actions Naruto has taken from Sasuke, I can't blame him for reacting like this!" Zack shouts.

"Naruto is a damn bloody mess and he isn't going down just yet! Not without a fair fight!" Kenji states.

Thereafter, Sasuke pins Naruto again with the legs hooked and for a second time, the champion powers out. He shoots to his feet to have an argument with Eriksen over him counting "too slow" when the senior official has been doing his job right. They shared a stare-down before Sasuke returns his full attention on the slowly rising Naruto that stands on all four. The challenger quickly stands at the opposite corner from his rival's location as he readies his revving right foot for the Punt Kick. Snarling with a scorn, Sasuke shouts, "I hope you're ready to join your parents straight to HELL, Naruto!" then dashes out like a demon as he draws closer…

…swings the leg forward…

…and Naruto springs to life with a Back Body Drop to Sasuke, sending him head over heels onto the ladder! (Markiplier: Naruto, all of a sudden, is back in the driver's seat! He pawns the venomous Punt Kick with a Back Body Drop that lands Sasuke's spinal column onto the steel ladder! ; Barney: Blasphemy! He's going off-script, man! Naruto's gone rebel on us—he's going Super Naruto! That is not what we want right now, damn it!) The moment Sasuke rises to his feet, a raging Naruto blows him down with a brutal Lariat and gives him no chance to stand on his own as he drags him up to his feet and whips him head-first right into the cage! He doesn't stop there as he hammer throws him to the opposite side, propelling Sasuke's whole body into the chains once again and then finds himself get the wind knocked out of his lungs with a Running Back Elbow from the champion! Naruto roars and pounds his chest as his eyes are revealed to be pure red with slit pupils and bared sharp teeth, then goes three-point stance to charge and nail a Shining Wizard to a cornered Sasuke followed by the rebound off the ropes into a Running One-handed Bulldog to the stumbling Sasuke, who played possum by shoving Naruto away and the jinchūriki runs into a Snap Scoop Powerslam. Sasuke lifts Naruto up for an Irish Whip, but he gets reversed as his head is drilled into the wedged-in chair! The Undisputed Champion yanks Sasuke by his tights out of the corner as he sizes him up for one Ninja's Way to end this bout for his victory; he turns the upright Sasuke around to hoist him on his shoulders, but then Sasuke slips off and pushes him away right into Marshall, both men crashing against the cage! Naruto then stumbles into a Sharingan Impact and Sasuke hooks the leg! …But realizes that no one was counting as he sees Marshall is knocked out.

"There's a pinfall by Sasuke, but he made a big mistake pushing Naruto into the official as he's unconscious!" Kenji states.

"Damn it, Marshall, you should've moved out of the way! Agh, I can already tell how Lily's freaking out right now and I can't blame her!" Barney groans.

"Good luck facing her wrath, dude," Zack wishes, earning a small glare from the lady killer.

Sasuke tugs at the senior referee to wake him up to no avail and all he can do was curse at him for "being stupid" before walking into a Ninja's Way from Naruto, landing right on top of the prone ladder! The number one contender squirms in reaction from the sheer pain shooting into his back and would get his head driven down into the barbwire 2x4 by Naruto's Throwback. Sasuke focuses on favoring his face that has begun bleeding from the forehead as Naruto still holds the demon fox's eyes with bared teeth and opens up the ladder lying on the mat, then drags Sasuke over to drape him between the ladder and yanks the legs from above down onto his spine like a guillotine! Quickly afterwards, Naruto grabs the sledgehammer and the leg of the challenger to put him in a Will of Fire with the ladder putting more pressure into his back and the handle against his throat as he is roaring with intensity and Sasuke can barely cry in pain while tapping out as fast as he can to get out of this painful submission! (Kenji: The champion holds his challenger in an agonizing STF with the ladder as aid and Sasuke is tapping out rapidly, wanting to get out of this hold right now! ; Barney: But Marshall is out cold, so this doesn't mean anything! He's just putting Sasuke through pain, the bastard! ; Markiplier: That's just it, Barney—he wants this! He wants Sasuke to suffer as much as he did before and he's showing us that he can be as bad as any son of a f*ckin' bitch around! Naruto is one hell of a mean streak so far!) Sasuke nearly passes out within minutes until Naruto removes himself and Sasuke from the ladder, bringing him to a wobbly stance as he picks up the sharp 2x4 to slam it into Sasuke's gut, then his back and finishes the job with one cringe-worthy shot to the skull that actually broke the 2x4 in half. He throws the weapon aside as he then picks up the ladder, shoulders it, glares down at Sasuke…

…and brings the ladder right on top of Sasuke with the Ninja's Way!

"Oh, look at that! Naruto hits the Ninja's Way right onto Sasuke! I mean, my God, that was a damn sure physically intense maneuver by the champion!" Zack exclaims.

"Naruto's expression so far tells the whole story: he wants to end this whole feud by ACW's way and he'll do any-damn-thing he can to get what he wants! It is that obvious!" Mark comments. "And right now, he's on the way to win this bout by climbing the cage and have his feet touch the ground!"

Already three-fourths to the top of the cage, Naruto is battered and bloody, but he is managing to muster up any strength he has left to climb and go over to the other side. By the time he reached the top and began to climb down, Sasuke is barely to his feet with the ropes as his partner to lift himself up, struggling to stop Naruto from escaping the cage…but with all the damaged he's received, he couldn't keep up as Naruto drops down from the chains to collapse on the floor and Marshall witnesses this to give him that win!

"Too little, too late for Sasuke, who snatches defeat from the jaws of victory with Naruto taking this second fall!" Kenji states.

"And with Naruto and Sasuke going one-to-one, we now go to the third and final fall: the Ladder match!" Zack calls. "It is now time to decide who will leave with the golden strap after taking it down from a hanging distance!"

"Now this is where the side of disadvantage comes in for good ol' Naruto Uzumaki because he rarely has any Ladder matches and the last time he was in one, he choked in the Money in the Bank match at Final Clash! This is the perfect match for Sasuke to succeed in becoming an overall six-time world champion!" Barney implies.

The cage elevates back to where it was and Marshall, albeit hurt, takes the belt from the ringside crew to have it fastened from a circled hook, which then begins to ascend at twenty feet high above the ring canvas. During then, Naruto and Sasuke were escalating themselves to their somewhat weary feet. Nevertheless, they still had to keep fighting until one of them leaves the Verizon Center as Undisputed Champion; Naruto attempted to enter the ring, but Sasuke was quick enough to keep him at a far distance with the Baseball Slide. Congregating whatever strength he can find, he grabs the prone ladder and begins to set it up at the center, then proceeds to climb. He's fingertips away from pulling the belt down, but Naruto arrives in time to Dropkick the ladder, making it tilt…

…and Sasuke lands right on the ropes crotch-first, garnering every sympathizing groan from the audience (mostly male)! (Barney: AH! Little Sasuke! Why must this happen to our incoming world champion?! ; Markiplier: Lord, that is NOT how you want to land in your life EVER…) The Lone Uchiha goes down to the outside as Naruto sets the ladder back up and takes a step, but stops to see his longtime rival getting up very sluggishly. He decides to focus his time on making sure Sasuke stays down long enough for him to get title down as he exits the ring and sizes him up.

"Oh, I think Naruto might regret his decision for not going after the title when Sasuke can barely stand now after how he landed," Barney implies.

"We'll be awaiting that result, Stinson, but right now Naruto's got the challenger up on his shoulders. He's thinking Ninja's Way—perhaps through our announce table!" Kenji observes as he moves away with his colleagues.

"Incoming—no, it was an F5! Out of his NCW playbook, but Sasuke just played possum and slipped out of his hands! Now the Lone Uchiha just—ooh—smashed Naruto face-first onto our table!" Zack calls the action currently happening.

"Naruto back on our table in a supine position and Sasuke begins ascending the apron…uh-oh. There's more to it. He's actually going to try what he failed to do earlier in the Street Fight bout!" Markiplier states as Sasuke springs off the ropes with a Moonsault, connecting it right onto Naruto and through the table! "Good Lord! Springboard Moonsault, an outside variation no less, by Sasuke to his opponent, crashing through our table!"

"That wasn't just any Springboard Moonsault, Mark! That was the Lion's Barrage, taking a page from his Full Throttle Wrestling book! He really is doing anything he can to finally get one over Naruto and I applaud that!" Barney admits. "Now, go Sasuke! Go get your belt! This is your chance!"

By then, Sasuke has already brought himself rolling back in the ring and proceeds to set the ladder back up where it originally was standing. He takes a step and starts moving uphill at a marginally slow pace considering what his body had gone through. The challenger reaches up with fingertips touching the gold when he feels his foot grabbed and looks back to see a bloody and battered Naruto clinging onto the foot, trying to stop Sasuke from taking his belt down. Both men struggle as Sasuke is still stretching his hand out before getting his foot free and kicking Naruto's face in. Taking a chance, he the dives off with a Crossbody and Naruto catches him with ease! Naruto mounts him on his shoulders for a Ninja's Way, but Sasuke is squirming enough to grab onto the ladder and ascend over halfway to the top. However, Naruto goes between his legs and pulls him away as he holds Sasuke on his shoulders and then throws him into a corner with a Turnbuckle Bomb followed by Superkick! While Sasuke sits in the corner stunned, Naruto grabs a nearby wooden table from earlier to lean it against another neighboring corner, then after moving the ladder away from the center, he drags Sasuke over to the table and drives his head into it multiple times before resting him against it. He steps back into the opposite corner, then charges off the three-point stance to make the tackle, but Sasuke sidesteps the champion in time. Naruto barely stops himself and turns around to eat a hellacious Superkick from Sasuke! Naruto still stands and stumbles on his feet despite so, yet that doesn't stop Sasuke from distancing himself to charge back at the titleholder with a Chidori (The Gore) through the table!

"GORE! THE GORE CONNECTS FROM THE CHALLENGER, PIERCING NARUTO RIGHT THROUGH THE TABLE!" Kenji exclaims.

"Oh, I aim to correct you on that, Billy, because that was actually, in his X-Treme Crossover Federation book, a CHIDORI! CHIDORI! CHIDORIIIII!" Barney shrieks.

"With what it did, it did the job in keeping Naruto down for the count! This certainly buys Sasuke some time to climb the ladder and pull down the Undisputed Title should he decide to chase after it right now, which would be a smart thing to do!" Zack recalls.

A wild chant of "Gore! Gore! Gore!" boomed throughout the arena while Sasuke pulls himself up to his aligned stance, dusting off any splinters or sawdust on his shoulders. He searches all around and grabs the ladder Naruto pushed aside, folds it up and then bridges on the bottom rope against the sitting Orange Spark; then he recedes to the same spot of his measured space and sprints forward to hit a Low-angle Dropkick to the ladder, roughly ramming it right into the gut of the champion, who flails around holding his body and kicking his legs in agonizing pain! Wasting little time, Sasuke picks up the table (the one he brought in earlier as the cage was lowering) and primed it up near the ropes, then heads back to pull Naruto out of the corner and brings him lying on the table. Two punches to the head later, he leaves the ring and comes back in with a fresh table from under the ring to have it stacked on top of the table and his opponent. Another three punches to the head later, Sasuke ascends to the top turnbuckle, seeking for one extreme dive to put Naruto down for good…

…and that plan unfortunately is put to a sudden halt when Naruto comes to life and carries Sasuke back down to the mat with a huge Overhead Belly-to-Belly Suplex!

"Look out, look out—oh, good gravy! Belly-to-Belly! Belly-to-Belly Superplex off the top rope! Both men down on their backbones!" Markiplier cries out. "Naruto saved his own life, this match and his title reign from what could've been a risky landing by Sasuke!"

"Nah, he didn't save the match nor his title reign, Mark; he just bought them more time! And eventually, that time will run out and Sasuke can gain what's rightfully his! Just you wait and see!" Barney remarks.

Sasuke rolled out of the ring to get some air and recover, and in the meanwhile, Naruto is takes a different direction and drags out a much taller ladder that stands at more or less than fifteen feet to push it inside the ring. Noticing the other ladder still lying on the bottom ropes and Sasuke on the floor, he hatched an idea to truly put him away. He starts it off by going around the ring and tugging a rising Sasuke via Irish Whip chest-first into the ladder top! Given that Sasuke was thrashing while holding his chest and coughing violently, there's no doubt he was in pain. Naruto didn't give a damn as he drags Sasuke over while taking a chair out of the ring on the way to the area full of announce tables, where he starts ripping parts of the RAMPAGE table. (Zack: Guess we won't be the only ones without a table tonight as Ted, Ned and Logan might be joining us tonight. Better move out of the way, dudes! ; Barney: You better not harm my protégé, Logan, like you're doing to Sasuke, Naruto, you dick!) He rests Sasuke on top of it and two chair shots later, Naruto takes the ladder leaning against the turnbuckles from the steel cage bout out of the ring and sets it up near Sasuke before climbing it.

"What could Naruto be thinking to right now as he ascends the ladder?" Kenji asks.

"It should be obvious enough to you, Jerry! Naruto's clearly going to do something that will risk his own life and limb to put away Sasuke, in which I hope he fails MISERABLY!" Barney scolds.

"I hope these dudes don't end up hurting themselves further after what they've put themselves through, nearly sacrificing their bodies for one title," Zack wishes.

Naruto stands high on the ladder steps as he prepares for the leap of his life…

…but one venomous snake known as Sasuke Uchiha lunges like one and speeds up to the ladder at the same height as Naruto with Sharingan eyes displayed. (Mark: Ohhh, good Lordy loo, Sasuke is back in the equation with a special set of eyes of his own! Kyuubi versus Sharingan! Orange Spark versus Venomous Uchiha, decking each other out on the top of the ladder!) The two battle it out with stiff fists exchanging up until Naruto gets the upper hand as he forearm smashes the sole survivor of the Uchiha Clan Massacre not once, not twice, but thrice. He wraps a left arm around his head, drapes Sasuke's over his neck, and hooks the leg as he makes attempt for a high rent district Fisherman Suplex…

"Oh, don't even think about it, Naruto, you crazy bastard! Don't you DARE!" Barney warns.

"Sasuke is in deep, deep trouble unless he can counteract as he may have a one way trip to the hospital if Naruto actually hits this!" Zack exclaims.

…when Sasuke elbows the back of his head repeatedly, then he wraps his arms around his neck…

…the fans are on their feet as SASUKE LEAPS…

…WITH NARUTO IN TOW, DRIVING HIMSELF AND HIS RIVAL DOWN THROUGH THE ANNOUNCE TABLE WITH THE JUMPING CUTTER!

"JESUS, MARY AND JOSEPH! HIGH RENT SHARINGAN DISTRICT! FROM THIRTEEN FEET! OFF THE LADDER! BY THE ONE ABOVE ALL AS MY WITNESS, BOTH OF THESE MEN HAVE TO BE BROKEN IN HALF!" Mark screams.

"I WOULDN'T BE SURPRISED IF THEY ACTUALLY ARE! GOD, I MEAN…HOW CAN THEY GO ON WITH THEIR LIVES WITHOUT THIS KIND OF PAIN KILLING THEM?! ESPECIALLY SASUKE?! JUST TELL ME! HOW THE HELL CAN HE DO THIS TO HIMSELF?!" Barney cries.

"HE'S A DESPERATE MAN, STINSON! A DESPERATE MAN WHO WANTS NOTHING MORE THAN TO BE ON TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, DESTROY THE 'SOLE REASON' OF HIS SPIRAL TOWARDS DARKNESS!" Kenji retorts.

The Verizon Center is ringing with massive "HOLY SHIT!" chants as both competitors are lying as battered and bloody bodies on the wrecked announce table, heavily breathing with their chests slowly moving up and down. Ultimately, one of them starts stirring and crawling towards the ring…

…as Sasuke, with any remaining strength he can gather in his muscles, is clinging onto the ring apron to use for helping him up to his feet. He sluggishly slides in the ring filled with only two stacked stables and the very tall ladder still lying on the canvas. As he's in the ring, Sasuke growls to force any hidden strength he has to lift the ladder up and set it at the center of the ring. He begins to move up as fast as he can with the sluggishness bringing that speed down; despite that, the challenger nears the championship belt, the goal to end his nightmare once and for all with his hand reaching up the strap…

"Sasuke Uchiha, almost to the gold! He's inches away from making history tonight! Just a step or two away f-from reaching immortality!" Zack bellows.

"YES! Go for it, Sasuke! Go for it! It's time to put this chapter to a close and give birth to a new one known as your Undisputed Championship title reign, baby!" Barney praises.

…but that might come to a halt because NARUTO, hastening as much as he can, claws into the ring and starts ascending the ladder!

"Naruto! Naruto, bloodstained and maltreated, is SOMEHOW back in the bray here, guys! Back in the equation! The Undisputed Champion will NOT surrender his title and will not fail his mission on ending this longtime story!" Markiplier yells.

"GAH, he's like a fricking cockamouse! He just won't DIE!" Barney growls in rage. "Cut Sasuke some slack already, you ASS! Let him have his moment! Let him have his glory, you spotlight-hogging bastard!"

Sasuke seethes as Naruto climbs and is sending down fists into his bleeding temple to make him fall, but he is too stubborn to give in like that. The challenger grabs his head and shouts in his face, "YOU JUST COULDN'T LEAVE WELL ENOUGH ALONE, COULD YOU, NARUTO?! IT'S ALWAYS ABOUT YOU! YOU ARE ALWAYS ON THE TOP WHILE I TRY MY DAMN BEST TO KEEP UP WITH YOU! NO MORE, DAMN IT! THIS IS MY TIME TO SHINE WHILE YOU CAN JUST FALL AND BURN, NARUTO! BURN WITH YOUR SUCCESS! BURN WITH YOUR LEGACY! BURN WITH YOUR HINATA! BURN WITH YOUR CORRUPTED VILLAGE! FALL TO YOUR DEATH AS I RISE LIKE A PHOENIX! JUST DIE, YOU BASTARD!" and strikes down Naruto—who blocks a fist to use as aid to bring himself up at Sasuke's stature and actually punches his face in! With blood pouring down from the corner of his mouth, Sasuke returns the favor and both men are retaliating with closed fists back and forth! Naruto and Sasuke continue trading fists until Naruto blocks one and smashes Sasuke's face on the top rung. He grabs the belt at the same time Sasuke did all of a sudden despite the shot, then Naruto grabs him for a headbutt that connects…

and begins lifting Sasuke up on his shoulders in a Fireman's Carry

"Both men fighting for the title on the ladder! Who's got the—oh, no. Oh, God. Oh, my God! Naruto, don't do this PLEASE!" Markiplier begs.

"Yes, PLEASE don't do it, dude! That's your friend, for the love of God!" Barney beseeches.

NARUTO TOSSES SASUKE OVER WITH A NINJA'S WAY OFF THE LADDER THAT SENDS HIM CRASHING THROUGH THE STACKED TABLES!

"OHHH, JESUS—GOD ALMIGHTY! JUST…WHAT DID WE JUST SEE HERE?! …SASUKE UCHIHA HAS BEEN PUT THROUGH NOT ONE, BUT TWO F*CKING TABLES FROM A FIFTEEN FOOT LADDER!" Markiplier exclaims.

"HE WAS SO CLOSE TO TAKING DOWN THE GOLD! SO CLOSE, DAMN IT, UNTIL THAT INSANE BASTARD—THAT SON OF A BITCH PLUNGED HIM TO HIS DOWNFALL!" Barney rages.

Naruto, now all alone, on the top of the ladder is panting heavily, blood still flowing down on his face and glaring down his fallen rival under the pile of broken wooden tables, then looks up to catch the swinging title…

…and detaches his belt from the hook to earn his two-to-one victory over Sasuke to explosive cheers!

"He did it! He did it! NARUTO RETAINS HIS TITLE!" Zack shrieks.

"THE STORY OF THIS FEUD HAS NOW FINALLY CLOSED! GOOD KAMI, WHAT A MATCH!" Kenji announces.

[I will not bow! I will not break!

I will shut the world away…

I will not fall! I will not fade!

I will take your breath away…!]

"Here is your winner…and STILL the ACW Undisputed Champion…NARUTOOOOOOOO UZUMAKIIIIIIIIIII!" Maria declares.

With an ecstatic crowd (while in some small areas of smark fans boo heavily) booming in the Verizon Center, Naruto rests himself on the ladder before erecting his body with a face of pure exhaustion, eyes returning to cerulean blue and the Undisputed Championship in his hand. He looks down at the knocked out Sasuke under the pile of tables as two more officials check on him and just stares at him with the crimson mask before slowly climbing down the ladder, laying his feet on the canvas to have his arm up by Marshall Eriksen, who signals him as the definite winner. Naruto stands with slowly drying blood on his face and chest and his ACW Undisputed Championship held high and the only emotion he feels is RELIEF as he can go on without having to deal with Sasuke…at least for the time being in ACW for as long as he's champion, but it's better than losing overall.

"I'll tell you what, ladies and gentlemen…Naruto damn sure earned this victory after what he and Sasuke put themselves through. Whether you love him or hate him, you have to at least respect him for risking life and limb to retain his title!" Markiplier states.

"Yeah, yeah, maybe I can give credit where credit is due, but GODDAMN IT, this night should be SASUKE'S! That should be SASUKE getting his hand raised with the title in hand! That should be SASUKE getting the glory of finally reaching the top of the mountain!" Barney contrasts.

"Sasuke did the most despicable to get this shot, but I will be honorable enough to say that he fought with everything he had to win; nonetheless, the result is Naruto Uzumaki retaining his Undisputed Title," Kenji notes.

Marshall suggested a white towel to wipe the blood off, but Naruto respectfully declines; despite so, Marshall did the job for him and Naruto just allowed it since there's no point in stopping him. Blood still exists on him a bit due to it being dry, though Naruto is let go as he steps down from the ring with his eyes set on the front row and gives the fans a two-finger salute (more specifically towards two people, one a man, who returned the salute, with spiky, blond hair, jaw-length bangs framing either side of his face and bright, blue eyes and the other a woman with a round face, violet eyes and red hair with should-length strands that framed both sides of her face and a black clip that parts her hair to the left) with a smile before proceeding to walk towards the stage.

"Uh…is it me or did I just see two familiar people in the audience?" Zack blinks.

"I'm sure that's just your stupid brain talking, Zackery…if you even have one," Barney mocks, still upset.

"Well, whoever they were, they have the right to be proud of Naruto as the rest of the audience that back up the champion," Kenji implies. "Naruto and Sasuke went to WAR in the Verizon Center and the former gets to walk away with the belt with a ban on Sasuke to prevent him from challenging him ever again for the time being."

As Naruto is walking up the ramps to the stage with his title draped over his shoulder for the camera to see it in view, he passes by the audience that were rooting for him while some pro-Sasuke or smark fans were booing and flipping him off and even spraying their drinks at him. Once reaching the stage, he stops at his steps to turn and face the entire arena, holding his belt down before raising it up high to earn a roar of cheers with a small amount of boos.

"There stands the man, folks—the top dog that holds the ultimate gold of this rising company: the Undisputed Heavyweight Championship of the World!" Markiplier states. "He did what he had to do to leave Rebellion as the Undisputed Champion. The Champ is HERE at the Verizon Center…and his name is Naruto Uzumaki."

"Man, all this destruction these guys put on each other just to win two out of three… From beating the hell out of one another in the Street Fight to Sasuke tormenting and mocking Naruto who would get his retaliation in the Steel Cage match to the former challenger driving himself and the champion through the announce table to…to Naruto tossing Sasuke down through TWO tables," Zack recaps. "What a NIGHT. I'm ready to go home and rest my poor vocals…"

"Agreed, my half-brother… To the millions watching at home, we, at Awesome Championship Wrestling, thank you all so much for watching this successful pay-per-view and we also to thank the fans in attendance for being here to witness it all in person. I'm 'The Truthfully and Brutally Honest Man from the Land of Japan' Kenji Matsuo!" the Japanese commentator smirks.

"I'm the half-bro of that man from the land of Japan, 'That Guy' Zack Carver!" the goofball commentator continues.

"You know me as 'The Legen—wait for it—dary Commentator of ACW' Barney Stinson," the lady killer states, maintaining his composure.

"And Mark 'Markiplier' Fischbach over here saying farewell to you all! Thank you, everybody, for watching Rebellion and we will see YOU…in the fifth episode of Friday Night Ignition! BUH-BYYYYE!" Markiplier waves, inferring the outros.

The night of Rebellion concludes with Naruto draping the ACW Undisputed Championship over his shoulder and giving one final two-finger salute to the ring, where Sasuke is still getting checked on by the referees, before turning his heel and walking away towards the Gorilla Position as the cameras fade out to black…


Rebellion Results:

Mixed Tag Team Match: Jimmy Carmichael and Trish Warrington def. Jeremy Ellis and Rei Miyamoto via pinfall {PRE-SHOW}

Internet Championship, Interpromotional Open Challenge Match: Johnny Cage [c] def. Kenshin Himura via pinfall to retain the Internet Championship {PRE-SHOW}

ACW World Tag Team Championship, Triple Threat Tag Team Match: Alpha & Omega (Carter Young and Stan Terra) def. Altered Egos (Yugi Mutou and Atem) [c] and The Symbiotes (Venom and Carnage) to become the new ACW World Tag Team Champions

Singles Match: Beowulf def. Kurt Hudson (w/Alyssa Parker) via pinfall to retain his King of Blood title

ACW Hardcore Championship, Hardcore Match: Ichigo Kurosaki def. Jason Krueger [c] via pinfall to become the new ACW Hardcore Champion

Six-Woman Tag Team Match: Mai Valentine & iGeneration (Carly Shay and Sam Puckett) def. Evil Beauty (Kendra Daniels, Eliza Hart, and Allison Wilson) via pinfall

Monster's Ball Match: Takashi Komuro def. Yami Bakura via pinfall

Singles Match: Seto Kaiba def. Ash Ketchum by default via count-out

ACW International Championship Tourney Finals, Fatal 4-Way Ultimate X Match: Luke Smith [c] def. Dante [c], James Griffin [c], and PewDiePie to retain the Television Championship, become the new and final United States and Intercontinental Champion and to become the inaugural ACW Phenomenal Champion

ACW Undisputed Championship, Do or Die Three Stages of Hell Match: Naruto Uzumaki [c] def. Sasuke Uchiha to retain the ACW Undisputed Championship via two out of three falls {Should Sasuke lose, he will never challenge Naruto into a world title match again as long as he's champion}


BADA-BING! BADA-BOOM! FORGET ABOUT IT! XO That's all, folks! My fourth pay-per-view event has finally been updated as you can plainly see. :P History has definitely been made for the most part of this eventful PPV. XD This…really took me longer to write than it should've considering how many distractions I've gotten myself in. T-T Even so, I overcame the odds and got this baby uploaded after over three months since late January. X) I'm very proud of the work I've put into this story and with three years of writing into ACW, they've been worth it so far as I'm now a month away (in-universe) from ACW's own biggest party (or in this case, warfare) of the summer: Summer Wars. :) No, don't be confusing that with the anime movie, thank you. :P

For now, thank you so much for reading this chapter and I hope you all truly enjoyed it. :) Seriously, I would not be here today if it weren't for you guys that support this story. I mean, from the first two months of this story (again, in-universe), it certainly wasn't making much of a good impression, but it is thanks to you guys that support me and Awesome Championship Wrestling all the way through I still stuck through the tough times to improve it today. :) You all make me happy and it is to this day that I'm proud to be a fictional wrestling author until the day comes when I retire…which might be very, very later in the future. XD But who knows? :P Never know when life can take someone.

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Until then, my awesome friends…LATER! :D