Post by dsb on Jun 14, 2019 0:48:14 GMT
Notes once again tucked away inside his jacket, the Announcer noted, “Ladies and gentlemen, the following contest is a Tag Team Match scheduled for one fall with a twenty minute time limit. Introducing first, hailing from the Red Hook Section of Brooklyn New York, she weighs one hundred and twenty five pounds and stands at five feet five inches tall. She is the Queen of the Facebusters Tribe, the Happy Anarchist, the Glad Bomber and the Smiling Knight, she is MADDY CRANE!”
MADDY CRANE:
The capacity crowd met this announcement with an enthusiastic roar and leapt to their feet when Shinedown’s ‘Cut The Cord’ rang out in the dark. Maddy appeared with her music and raised a fist to her supporters. For tonight’s bout she wore a simple black sports bra top and matching bikini bottoms crisscrossed with thin white belts worn bandolier style while her boots and pads were done in a matching matte black. Flashing her usual snarky smile, Mads whipped around and pointed to the message on the seat of her trunks:
‘Your Face Here! Ask Me How!’
The lights went out as Shinedown began to fade.
“And her Tag Team partner, hailing from Tokyo Japan, she stands at one point seven meters tall and weighs in at fifty-nine point eight kilograms. She is the Gaijin Extraordinaire, the Dragon of Tokyo, THIS IS… AUTUMN SAMMAIN!”
AUTUMN SAMMAIN:
Her name served as a harbinger for ‘Clap for the Killers’ which in turn brought Autumn through the curtain immediately thereafter. Pausing atop the ramp beside Maddy, the Joshi Kicking Machine nodded to the redhead before tearing into a lightning-fast array of punches, chops, elbows, knee strikes and finally kicks, all of which made dangerous little ’whicking’ sounds as they cut the air. Settling back to a zen-like stillness when the kata was finished, Sammain raised her left thumb to her throat and drew it across in a slow slash. With that the lights came up and she extended a fist to Crane, who bumped her knuckles promptly.
“Ready to put some witches in their place, Autumn?”
“If that means kicking their heads around backward then yes, yes I am.”
“That’s EXACTLY what it means.”
Suspicions confirmed, Autumn started down the ramp with Maddy trailing a step or so behind.
Though this was the first time they’d tagged outside of the House Show circuit, Autumn made sure she and Crane looked like an established team by choosing a black sports bra and matching bottoms which were all but obscured by the Joshi style ‘skirt’ that ended mid-thigh. This garment was also dead black, save for several bright red slashes running from north to south. The rest of her outfit consisted of black kneepads, matching boots and fingerless red gloves that reached to just below her elbows.
Walking side by side by the time they were halfway down the aisle, Maddy and Autumn broke into a nimble sprint that took them under the bottom rope and into the middle of squared circle. Autumn rose up to her full height and immediately went through another high speed kicking demonstration before sinking to one knee. Behind her, Maddy went up on one leg and raised her arms in a ‘V’, the redhead’s hands hanging down to complete the ‘Crane’ position.
Sammain came up a moment later to offer her knees and elbows to referee Craig Long. “They still have the numbers advantage, Maddy.” the brunette said. “Don’t forget about Daphne, otherwise we’re in for a long night.”
“Trust me, I’m not going to forget about that bytch.” Crane promised once her own inspection was finished. “Not after what she did to me last time. She sticks her nose in this ring and I’ll kick it through the back of her head.”
Quite satisfied with that response, Sammain followed Crane to the far corner where they settled in to talk last minute strategy and to keep an eye on the stage.
“And introducing their opponents--”
The Announcer went quiet as the speakers came up and the lights came down, the former promptly offering a soft rasp that gave way to the staccato opening of Panic at the Disco’s ‘Say Amen’ (Saturday Night)
SAY AMEN (SATURDAY NIGHT):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI8tFthAZ5M
Been traveling in packs that I can't carry anymore
Been waiting for somebody else to carry me
There's nothing else there for me at my door
All the people I know aren't who they used to be
And if I try to change my life one more day
There would be nobody else to save
And I can't change into a person I don't wanna be, so
Oh, it's Saturday night!
DAPHNE DUFRESNE:
LUCY HARKER:
MINA MURRAY:
The lights returned with the chorus, a frantic bluish-white strobe that made it difficult to focus on the three figures that now stood atop the stage. With interruptions (hopefully) out of the way, the Announcer resumed his duties. “And introducing their opponents, being accompanied to the ring by Daphne Dufresne, weighing in at a combined two hundred and seventy one pounds. This is Lucy Harker and Mina Murray! Individually they’re so much better than you, together they are WICKED!”
The strobes pointed at the stage lessened enough to reveal Lucy and Mina with Daphne between them, all three ladies holding their hands high in the ‘W’ sigil that‘d been terrorizing FAWN for the last year or so. For tonight’s excursion against a pair of previously kicked asses, the Scandalous duo wore heartstoppin’ fightin’ one-pieces adorned with high cut hips, a plunging neckline and a light dusting of silver glitter -- Lucy’s was a deep threatening blue with matching white pads and boots while Mina’s was gleaming white, her boots and pads coordinated to match Harker’s togs. As for Daphne, she wore skin tight jeans and the gray variant of their newest ‘No Rest For the Wicked’ tank-top.
“Look at those two idiots.” Daphne said of Sammain and Crane. “What do those mouth-breathers even talk about?”
“Quickest way to bring down swelling after an ass kicking, I’m sure.” Lucy opined.
“How to eliminate the special shine of ass-sweat from your face for those oh so important post-match interviews.” Mina tittered.
“I’d believe both. Wanna go kick their asses?” Daphne asked.
“Yes please.” Lucy and Mina replied as one.
Plans set, the Wicked trio started down the ramp Daphne in the lead and Scandalous a little behind in their usual hip swinging lock-step. Accosting each and every one of their haters with that devious ‘W’ and a several choice curse words, the ladies abruptly dismissed the sheepish detractors and raced for the ring with Lucy just far enough in front to hop onto the apron. Feet planted firm, Harker leaned back against the ropes as first Mina and then Daphne shot underneath to enter the squared circle. Once they were in place she hooked her arms over the top rope and dipped her hips to roll into the ring herself. She landed just in front of Mina and Daphne and the crowd, long-time Scandalous haters that they were couldn’t help but cheer as it looked like they’d finally get-- the hateful threesome spun away from each other and raised the W’s high, denying the Sheeple yet again.
Quick to set herself between Scandalous and the pair of mismatched losers, Daphne favored the opposition with a cheerfully evil smile. “It’s always nice to see different people brought together in the wake of a tragedy. You bytches should start a support group for losers, you’ve certainly got the experience.” Autumn and Maddy stepped forward, Dufresne stepped back and Scandalous closed ranks, Lucy and Mina bookending the other brunette. Not one member of that vile quintet wanted to step down, so it fell to Craig to step between them, the brave (foolish?) official urging Sammain and Crane to settle in their corner, while Daphne vacated the ring and Lucy and Mina strutted to the far corner to await final inspection.
CLANG!
“What an unlikely pair of losers you make!” Mina snickered as she strolled toward the redhead. “Tell me, how is it that the class clown and the sad girl who wears sweaters in July came to find one anot--”
Murray piped down and drew back sharply when Maddy rose up on one foot and flicked a Crane Kick less than three inches from the tip of her nose. “Oh, did you think this was all about you?” Mads chided as Mina settled for a markedly more cautious (if not exactly respectful) approach. “Sorry babe. Autumn and me initially bonded over our mutual love of K-Pop and our mutual disgust for Jenny Jacobs. It wasn’t until you and the other Plastics jumped us that we realized we both really, REALLY wanted to kick your pert little asses.”
The Scandalous blonde allowed herself a small smile as she adopted a time-tested martial arts stance. “You’re more than welcome to try, geek.”
Crane settled into a grappler’s crouch straight from the Sydney Deschain Guide to Stretching Some Poor Sap. “No try here, Murray. Just a whole lotta--”
She would’ve said ‘do’ if Mina hadn’t lashed out with a Roundhouse aimed at the side of her skull. Mads ducked with half a heartbeat to spare, almost straightened up before she noted the force of Murray’s strike carried her all the way ‘round. Thus she only feigned a return to her full height and was able to avoid the Enzugiri Mina wanted to tack to her left ear.
Landing on one knee with her back to the redhead, Murray popped up and shot both hands over her right shoulder to catch Crane in a Three Quarters Facelock as she closed in. Fingers laced tight, Mina dropped low and slung Maddy onto her tu-NO! The Sultana of Slapstick transformed the Snapmare into an elegant little front flip to land on her fee--“NNNNGGGGGHH!”
Murray rushed in and belted her opponent across the back of the head with Forearm Smash that sent Crane stumbling chest-first into the ropes! Quick to press in snug against the other wrestler’s back, Mina stuffed Maddy’s torso through the gap between middle and top rope, then straightened her up and hooked both arms over the rubber-coated steel. From there she swung to the redhead’s left, measured her angles and thwhack-thwhack-THWHACKED a trio of kicks across Crane’s defenseless lower back! Mads curled her upper lip but otherwise kept the yell behind clenched teeth, which wasn’t nearly good enough for Mina Murray. To that end the blonde snatched a double handful of hair, jammed her right heel into the hollow of Crane’s back and puuuuuuuuuuuuulled until Maddy, Autumn and the rest of the FAWNatics were howling for very different reasons!
ROPE TRAPPED HAIR-PULL & FOOT PRESS:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uKlAl9wFU0
Offering a warning strictly for form’s sake, Craig Long barked, “Off her hair, Mina! ONE! TWO! THREE! FOUR!”
Murray let loose and stalked after the zebra, forcing him to backpedal across the squared circle. “What the hell was that count, Long? These losers pool their allowance so you would rig the match in their favor?”
“Watch your tone, Mina!” Craig replied once he’d gathered himself. “You know damned well you were out of line!” Murray protested she knew nothing of the sort and that she was perfectly within her rights to test the strength of her hand sanitizer against the layers of filth and grime residing in her adversary’s hair. Just as important, it kept Long thoroughly distracted while Lucy Harker hurried over to Maddy’s patch of apron.
Identifying the encroachment at once, Autumn Sammain growled, “I don’t f*cking think--”
Hands grabbed her ankles and tugged hard, dropping the willowy brunette to the floor in a landing that wouldn’t have amounted to anything if she hadn’t THUNKED her chin against the edge of the apron! Sammain cursed, saw stars and grabbed hold of the ring-post to keep her balance. She was trying to clear her head when Daphne purred, “Let’s let them settle this on their own, shall we?”
Autumn wheeled at once, meaning to put a fist in the Gatecrasher’s mouth, but Dufresne had already retreated out of range and even if she hadn’t the Dragon’s attention was arrested by Harker, who’d apparently been kicking the tar outta Maddy’s chest for the last few seconds. “EYES ON THE RING, CRAIG!” Sammain barked as she scrambled onto the apron.
ROPE TRAPPED CHEST KICKS:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFDJ1BbCcG0
Sensing her foe’s tattletale tendencies before Autumn managed a single word, Harker cut her last flurry short and managed to be within arm’s length of the tag rope before the referee extricated himself from Mina’s clutches. Noting the jeers of the crowd in conjunction with Autumn’s demand and the flicker of movement in his peripheral vision, Craig realized he’d been played for a sucker, but he couldn’t call what he couldn’t see, so he settled for pointing a stern finger at the Scandalous brunette. “One hand on the tag rope at all times, Lucy.”
“What, this tag rope right here?” Harker gave it a saucy little twirl to make sure he knew that she knew the law was on her side.
As for the legal half of her team, Mina helped herself to a handful of Maddy’s hair to help expedite her removal from the ropes, though she made an obnoxiously obvious point of switching to a Wristlock before the official could snipe about the illegal grip. Leading Crane to the middle of the squared circle, Murray took a step back and dropped a shoulder apparently meaning to Whip Mads toward Autumn’s side of the ring. Of course this was revealed as a filthy lie when the blonde flipped Sammain the bird and pivoted around to hurl Crane that much deeper into Scandalous territory. She didn’t go alone at least, Mina followed along barely two steps behind. But that also meant there was nowhere for Maddy to go once she threw her back into the strands and Murray was already airborne, the tag specialist leading with a HIGH left Kneelift she THWUMPED against Maddy’s sternum.
Crane’s knees sagged noticeably, her butt touching the middle rope for an instant before Double M palmed the nape of her neck and sent her tumbling through a drunken somersault. Racing past the New Yorker as Maddy settled in a slumped seat, Mina bounced off the opposite set of strands and came back to deliver a thunderous, eeerrrr, lightly insolent slap? Maddy hit the deck, though it was almost certainly due to punishment accumulated during her time in the strands and not the blonde’s insolent swat. Even so, it didn’t stop Murray from settling into a gaudy Crossbody wherein she didn’t bother to hook the leg so she could run a hand through her hair while the crowd counted…
RUNNING HIGH KNEE & TROLL SLAP:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vCZR1etvO0
ONE…
TWO…
Maddy got a hand under Mina’s chin and pushed like she wanted to bloody the blonde’s lips. It didn’t work, but it was obviously received in the spirit intended because Murray’s smirk was nowhere to be seen when she mounted the redhead’s waist and went to work on her hairline with a veritable fusillade of punches.
“Open those hands, Mina!” Craig ordered after perhaps three seconds. Mina did no such thing, so the ref began to count. “ONE! TWO! THREE! FOUR!”
Murray raised her hands high overhead, then flicked Long the bird and hunched back over her prey so she could grrrrrrrrrrrriiiind her right forearm into Crane’s mouth and nose. The second count was faster than the first and Mina must’ve realized she was pushing her luck because she rose offa Maddy simultaneous with ‘THREE!
“You should’ve stayed out of our way.” Mina’s eyes were trained on Autumn in the midst of scraping Maddy off the deck. “Now you’re going to find out what happens to bytches who have our undivided attention.”
Sammain beckoned her closer, but Murray didn’t take the bait. Instead she laid claim to the redhead’s left wrist and sent her racing into the corner presided over by one Lucy Harker. No distractions, misdirection or other bits of legerdemain now, Mina simply raced a few steps down her prey’s back-trail before peeling off a series of no less than four flawless handsprings, the last of which ended with the point of her right elbow driving into Maddy’s chest.
HANDSPRING BACK ELBOW:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDPB-R6D7U
Crane let out an ‘oooffffh’ all but lost in the thump of her tush hitting the deck. This in turn was swallowed by a round of jeers from the FAWNatics when Mina welcomed Lucy to the fray with a prissy high five. Harker hit the ring at once, the Scandalous brunette ignoring nearer prey in favor for a beeline at Sammain. The Joshi Phenom didn’t flinch and Lucy *did* stop short though she was generous enough to invite Autumn to join the fun. “C’mon sheep, I know you’re itching to redeem yourself after that last ass kicking.”
Sammain’s features could’ve been carved in stone. “Eyes on the ACTION, Long.” she growled when the referee closed in. “Murray’s had her boot to Crane’s throat since the goddamned tag.”
Craig whipped around and once and sure enough, Mina had BOTH feet on Maddy’s neck, the cagey blonde tag specialist gripping the top rope to better maintain her illegal choke.
“Such a party pooper.” Harker sounded genuinely disappointed, though her eyes still sparkled. “Buck up, Autumn. You’ll be having fun before you know--” Autumn leaned over the strands and would’ve slapped the nose off Lucy’s face if she hadn’t pulled back at the last second. Gifting the Dragon with a mad cackle to mark her departure, Lucy sprinted across the canvas to reach the Scandalous corner mere heartbeats after Mina finally slipped through the ropes. Gulping in breaths now that her throat was clear, Maddy didn’t note Harker’s approach until the brunette grabbed the top rope in both hands and vaulted into a perfect Headstand. Crane instinctually raised her head to follow the movement, thus ensuring she took every bit of Lucy’s hundred and thirty plus pounds when the Cruel Californian THWHUMPED ass-first into her chest. Still gripping the ropes after initial impact, Harker bounced up ‘n down, up ‘n down, just mashing her crotch into Maddy’s protesting mug until the referee hit ‘FOUR!’ on yet another count.
HANDSTAND BRONCO BUSTER:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3Vb7e2tPP8
“Oh, you were SO close, Craig!” Lucy chided as even as she filled a hand with Crane’s hair. “One of these days you’ll finally reach five!”
The zebra offered no rebuttal, so Harker hauled Mads to boot-leather and dragged her out of the corner just secure a Standing Headscissors near center ring. With Crane’s bum pointed toward Sammain, Lucy collected her foe’s wrists and folded both arms up between her shoulders in a dual Hammerlock. “I’d hate to encroach on the territory of a genuine madwoman, but I just can’t help putting the spank on a no class loser like you!”
And that’s just what she did, Harker slap-slap-slap-SLAPPING her opponent’s glutes in a Scandalous Symphony.
Maddy didn’t sit still for this galling treatment, she wriggled and squirmed from the outset and even managed to free her wrists from Lucy’s grip before the brunette abandoned the slaps to re-secure the Hammerlo--“WHOOOANNNNGGGHH!” The Princess of the Punchline straightened up fast to send Harker up, over and DOWN to the deck with an improvised Back Drop!
The Mayhem crowd cheered uproariously despite the fact that Crane had collapsed to one knee and Lucy was now directly between her and Gaijin Extraordinaire. On her feet ahead of the redhead despite the rough landing, Lucy crooked her hands into claws and raaaaaaaaaaked Maddy from the shoulders on down, prompting a loud wail from the New Yorker.
“That’s right, bytch!” Harker sneered as she snatched a handful of hair. “That’s exactly what you get for NNNNGGGGGHH!” Crane pumped an elbow into the brunette’s chin, then twisted free of her grip at low cost of a few hairs. No time for theatrics now, the Queen of the Facebusters Tribe just leapt off her back (left foot) and THWHACKED a snappy Bicycle Kick across the side of her attacker’s face!
BICYCLE KICK:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLdDocjZXiw
Harker’s head snapped to the side and the rest of her soon followed, the Scandalous lass stumbling in several fencepost holes before she crumpled to her knees within a hand’s breadth of a corner that was most definitely not her own. Careful to keep one hand around the tag rope and the other raised to shoulder level, Autumn Sammain didn’t bother to keep the smile off her face when she said, “Save the prayers for Miranda and her ilk. It won’t do any good with me.”
Lucy bounced up like the mat was electrified, all of her attention locked on the willowy brunette. Understandable as it was, the reaction meant she lost track of Maddy Crane until the resurgent redhead PWAAAKED pair of heels against the nape of her neck! Harker was knocked sprawling, her forehead BWUUUNGING against the top buckle hard enough to drop her to her knees. Already loud, those assembled got that much louder when Maddy stood up and clapped Autumn into the match for the first time.
Sammain made to go over the ropes, but stopped when Mads raised a hand. “Stay there for just a sec, would you? Actually four of them.” she inclined her head toward Lucy’s wrists. “Hold onto those while you’re at it.”
Autumn didn’t get the chance to answer before Crane whipped around and charged to the other side of the ring just to blast Mina Murray upside the head with a resounding Bytch Slap! Sammain enjoyed the sound so much she decided not to give the Motor-Mouth any hassle for making her wait on the outside a little while longer. Instead she maneuvered herself to the far side of the ring post, seized Harker’s wrists in both hands and leaaaaaaaaaned back so that there was no way for the penitent grappler to rise, let alone pull her face away from the middle buckle before Maddy roared in and THWHAMMED both knees into Harker’s exposed shoulders! The jolt sent a shudder through Lucy’s sturdy frame, those usually dangerous arms hanging limp and helpless over the rubber-coated steel.
DOUBLE KNEES TO TURNBUCKLE FACING FOE:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZzpv9_1C_M
“Can I get in the ring, now?” Autumn asked dryly.
“Of course!” Maddy replied. “Here, I’ll help her up for ya.”
Sammain looked for Craig Long, certain the ref was on his way with a count at the ready. But damned if Maddy hadn’t given the Scandalous pair a taste of their own medicine, as the combined fury of Mina and Daphne effectively dominated the ref’s attention. Hopping into the squared circle as Maddy hauled Lucy to verticality, the Joshi Phenom positioned herself in the center to give Crane all the room she needed. Turned out it wasn’t much, as the Sultana of Slapstick quickly hopped into a seat on the top buckle with both hands still deep in the brunette’s hair. From there she sprang out and dropped to her knees to THWONK Harker’s forehead into the mat with a brutally simple Facebuster!
FALLING FACEBUSTER:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=krIlCvOaghY
The impact bounced Lucy all the way to one knee, a quirk of fate Autumn found most fortuitous. Closing on the stunned brunette in a flat out sprint, Sammain jumped, landed with her left foot on Harker’s posted thigh and DRILLED a Shining Wizard into the side of her skull!
SHINING WIZARD:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB3_TVk0uAE
Lucy toppled to the deck with Autumn landing beside her, but the Dragon of Tokyo didn’t go for a cover despite the extremely vocal suggestions of the capacity crowd. Instead she cupped Lucy’s ears and peeled her off the mat in full view of the other Wicked witches. Catching Mina’s eye as Craig finally drew clear of their tongue lashing, Sammain caught her brunette in a Front Facelock, then said, “Wanna take her spot, Mina? Make a move. I’m begging you.”
Murray almost did, but Daphne restrained her with a strong grip around one ankle. Visibly disappointed, Autumn slipped her free hand through Harker’s legs so she could cup some Scandalous buttocks. Then she scooped her straight up and down and sat out full force to THAWHUNK the back of Lucy’s head and shoulders into the mat courtesy a perfect Michinoku Driver Two. Sliding into a seat atop Harker’s chest instant they returned to terra firma, Autumn hooked the other brunette behind the left knee and pulled her leg back in a Half Matchbook good for…
MICHINOKU DRIVER II:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB3_TVk0uAE
ONE…
TWO…
THRNOOOO!
Lucy pushed her off with half a second to spare, thus negating Mina’s quiet trip through the ropes. “Keep yer nasty ass outta there!” Mads barked from her side of the ring. “Less’n you wanna get it kicked up between yer shoulders!” Murray flipped her off and Crane returned the gesture in kind, neither blonde nor redhead willing to show their opposition the slightest bit of respect.
But their posturing didn’t concern Autumn in the slightest, she was far too invested in peeling the Scandalous battler off the canvas with a decidedly enthusiastic handful of hair. Craig noted the infraction so Sammain released at once, not that this meant a bettering of Harker’s situation, far from it in fact. Hands free to do whatever they liked, the Joshi Phenom flattened them into paddles and unleashed a veritable torrent of short, sharp Palm Thrusts upon Lucy’s chest! Taken individually they were little more than an annoyance, however Autumn delivered almost a dozen in half as many seconds and their accumulated effects soon backed the stunned Californian into a neutral corner.
PALM THRUST FLURRY:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i5BqErBnMk
Sammain welcomed Lucy to her destination with a single CRAAACKING Knife-Edge Chop, then showed her to her accommodations by slipping an arm through the brunette’s gams and scooping her onto one shoulder. The FAWNatics cheered in hopes that Harker would soon be tied to the Tree of Woe, instead Sammain laid her out facedown across the top ropes so that her midsection was hanging exposed above the canvas.
“Don’t even think about it, Sammain!” Daphne threatened as the Dragon of Tokyo backpedaled into the middle of the squared.
“Too late for that, you sneaking bytch.” Autumn spat. “Why don’t you try to stop me?”
Dufresne looked like she might do just that, unfortunately for the Gatecrasher Craig Long had an eye on everyone, meaning she could only fume when Sammain raced back the way she’d came to THWHUMP a Kneelift into Lucy’s defenseless tummy!
RUNNING KNEELIFT TO GUT:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD2P3aASly4
Harker popped up on impact, for a moment it looked like she might tumble all the way to the floor, but the cagey brunette caught the top rope in a death grip and managed an awkward landing on the apron. Still on the inside, Autumn reached through the ropes to grab hold of Lucy’s hair, presumably to reel her in. So those gathered for Mayhem were more than a little surprised when she slipped through the ropes and secured Harker in a Front Facelock.
Count Maddy Crane among the confused. She didn’t much like this arrangement, even though Autumn and the Scandalous dork were on her side of the ring. “Ummmmhhh, Autumn.” she called. “You’re not going to do that thing I told you not to do, are you?”
The Gaijin Extraordinaire slung Lucy’s near arm across her shoulders and grabbed a handful of waistband. “Be more specific, Crane. Seems like you’re always telling me not to do something.”
“Well in this case it’d be OOOHHH FRAK!”
Uninterested in waiting for her partner’s response, Autumn hoisted Lucy all the way to high noon only to twist her around so that the other woman’s back was pointed in the opposite direction. In the same breath she stepped off the apron, kicked her legs up and shoved Lucy down into a hellacious freefall of a Falcon Arrow that THAWHUMPED the full length of her prey’s spine into the barely-padded floor!
FALCON ARROW FROM APRON:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCTX5HUCJOI
Lucy sat bolt upright only to twist over onto her belly with one hand pressed to the small of her suddenly traumatized spine. As for Autumn, she’d made it to one knee, though the pained grimace on her face said the landing had taken a toll on her as well.
It was to this scene of all brunette carnage that Daphne Dufresne inserted herself moments later. “What the hell do you think you’re doing you crazy bytch?” she barked at Sammain. “You could’ve broken her back!”
Maddy saw the encroachment but instead of backing up her partner she turned her attention to the other side of ring and damned if there wasn’t Mina Murray making a beeline down the narrow aisle. Mina realized she was caught, skidded to a halt and raised both hands to chest-level. “It’s not what you think, Crane. I just wanted to check on LucNNNGGGGGHH!”
Mads came at her feet-first, the redhead’s heels THWHACKING into Murray’s thighs just above the knee. Mina somersaulted onto her tush, pulled her knees close to her chest and glared fiery death at the Queen of the Facebusters. “You’re dead, bytch. I’ll give up my claim on Sammain’s narrow ass to torture you in--”
“You two back to your corners, now!” Craig had noticed the other skirmish and gave it enough attention to bark that order, though he didn’t quite dare take his eyes off Autumn and Daphne, who’d gone nose to nose above the writhing form of Lucy Harker.
“Go on then, little miss badass.” Autumn said in a sibilant hiss. “Take the first shot. I’ll gladly accept the DQ and give you a few nights in the infirmary in exchange.”
Dufresne stepped forward, forcing the Dragon to cede a step before she pushed right back. “I’ve got nothing left to prove to you, bytch. But I’m sure you and I will have some more fun once Lucy and Mina--”
“Swear to God, Daph, you don’t get back to your side of the ring and I’ll throw this whole thing out right now!” Craig shouted from roughly a million miles away.
Dufresne didn’t so much as twitch and the frustrated official actually began to turn toward the Timekeeper. That’s when D² raised her hands and retreated toward the Scandalous side of town. Relieved to see the situation defused (filling out the paperwork following a DQ was an absolute bear) Craig looked around and allowed himself to relax the tiniest bit once confirming that Crane and Murray were waiting in their respective corners. “Let’s get it back in the ring, ok Autumn?”
“Sure. I can get her there even faster if I pull her hair.”
The ref sighed, moved back a few paces so the way would be clear for their return. Fingers twitching at the prospect of Harker’s hair, Sammain bent down, helped herself to a handful and-- Lucy caught hold of the other brunette’s waistband and pulled down as hard as she could! Caught off balance, Autumn stumbled forward and earned a sympathetic groan from the audience when her chin THWHUNKED against the edge of the apron!
An ugly collision to be sure, one that rocked Sammain back on her heels. But she was close to her own partner and might’ve made it to safety if not for Harker’s tenacious grip on her togs. A single tug kept her in Lucy’s power, it also slung the reeling bendyback into an awkward, head-on collision with the ring-post! Autumn’s knees shivered violently, though a death-grip on the middle rope allowed her to maintain verticality long enough for her legs to steady.
Unfortunately this durability only made it easier for Lucy to snatch the reeling Joshi in an aggressive Side Headlock. Trapping Sammain between herself and the apron, Harker rounded the post, forced the brunette’s face against the edge and sloooooooooooowly walked her down the length of the ring toward the Scandalous corner. Craig and Maddy protested this quite loudly, Autumn protested louder still, but Lucy paid it no mind, she was too busy spewing trash in the other brunette’s ear.
“Not so tuff now, are ya? Huh, are ya feelin’ tuff, Ninjette?” She reared up on tiptoe just to BWONK Sammain’s forehead into the edge of the apron.
Autumn only groaned, but Craig, who’d slowed his count as it crept toward fifteen, called, “C’mon Lucy, get it back in the ri--”
“I’ll do it when I damned well please!” Harker snapped.
Thankfully ‘when I damned well please’ arrived immediately thereafter, because the Scandalous brunette pulled her burden away from the apron and-- Harker transitioned to a Waistlock, put herself between Sammain and the ring and popped her hips to sling the Dragon up ‘n over, Autumn’s shoulders and upper back just THWHUNKING against that unforgiving edge.
APRON GERMAN SUPLEX:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJeSipJ8G7I
Daphne and Mina cheered this carnage with unabashed delight, their eyes bright and sparkling as Lucy scraped up the shuddering battler and finally stuffed her under the bottom rope. Harker followed immediately thereafter, the fuming brunette helping herself to a handful of hair she used to haul her prey to all fours.
Almost close enough to make a tag, Mina stepped on the bottom rope and leeeeeeeeeeaned toward Lucy, but her partner waved her off. “Not just yet, Meens. This trash needs a bit of arranging.”
Hand still plunged deep in Sammain’s hair, Harker led the other brunette around so she was quite close to the Scandalous corner, but not facing it. Positioning herself between Autumn and the rest of the ring, Lucy looked like she was setting for a Standing Headscissors only to lean over the penitent Dragon so she could claim her ankles in both hands. Worried murmurs from the crowd jockeyed with spirited cursing from Maddy as Harker slowly but surely lifted Autumn into an involuntary handstand.
Murray understood the plan by now, so she didn’t bother to extend a hand again until Lucy had one arm cinched around their opponent’s lower legs. “I’ve always admired your time management skills.” the blonde said as slipped through the ropes following a perfectly legal tag.
“And I’ve always admired your pinpoint accuracy.”
Taking hold of Sammain’s ankles in either hand, Lucy stretched those vulnerable stems into a ‘V’, thus ensuring Autumn was defenseless when Mina whipped her right leg up and brought it down twice as hard, the ball of her heel THUMPING against the Joshi Phenom’s crotch! Sammain sobbed and collapsed in a heap just to curl up in a tight ball around her throbbing center.
This pitiable sight earned no sympathy from Mina, indeed she was showing a Cheshire Cat grin as she scraped Autumn off the canvas and forced her into the Scandalous corner. “There’s just something about your face…” Murray slapped her hard, turning Sammain’s head to one side. “Yes, that’s EERRGGHHH!”
Autumn caught her on the chin with a straight right hand and surged out of the buckles ready to do some serious-- Lucy caught her by the hair and yanked hard, Sammain’s back BWUUUNGING against the thinly-sheathed buckles.
“Dammit Craig, they can’t do that!” Maddy roared her indignation even as Mina went to work on Autumn’s midsection with a flurry of punches and knees.
“Looks like they’re doing it just fine, bytch.” Daphne taunted. “Oh, you might want to look away for what comes next.”
Over on the bad side of town, Murray had stopped throwing punches in favor of bracing her right foot against the underside of Autumn’s jaw. In the same motion she grabbed the bottom and middle strands and stretched out in a nearly vertical split that forced Sammain’s head back at an awkward angle and made breathing rather difficult.
SCANDALOUS FOOT CHOKE:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1d-AJoiEFU
“Get her out of the corner, Mina!” Craig demanded at once. “You know you can’t just choke her!”
“I can’t? Can I do this?”
The vicious blonde let go of the bottom rope and affixed that hand to the center of Autumn’s green trunks, Murray just squeezing and gnashing on the Crotch Claw.
The Gaijin Extraordinaire wailed to the rafters so Long shouted his count to make sure there was no misunderstanding in case of a disqualifica--
Mina released at ‘FOUR!’ grabbed a handful of dark hair and tugged Sammain out of corner. Like Lucy before her, she forced Autumn to hands and knees only this time she faced the other half of Scandalous. Planting a leg on either side of the brunette’s back, Mina bent down, took hold of Sammain’s biceps and dropped into a squat so she could drape them over her thighs. It wasn’t quite a Camel Clutch yet, but that changed once Murray reached out and tagged Lucy back into action.
All smiles now that she’d had some time to catch her breath (and listen to Autumn suffer) Harker sashayed through the ropes, then spun around on her heel. “You’re always so dour. So joyless.” Lucy hooked her index fingers into the leg holes of her briefs and ‘snapped’ them up by a good couple inches. “Maybe you should take some time to stop and smell the roses… or a suitable alternative.”
Barely able to move her head thanks to Mina’s strong grip, Autumn growled, “You disgusting bytch. I’ll make you MMMMMMMRRRRRRRPPPHHHHHH!”
Lucy dropped it down low and thrust her hips back, stuffing the Dragon’s snoot full of Scandalous ass. Craig’s count ensured Sammain’s stay was relatively short, but her frantic squirming and squealing, not to mention the expression of glassy-eyed nausea on her face in the aftermath suggested it had felt quite a bit longer. With Autumn stretched out on one side scrubbing at her desecrated features, Lucy flicked her togs into place and made a quick tag to Mina.
“Little dragon thinks she’s so tough.” the brunette sneered once she’d pulled Sammain to boot-leather and caught one arm in a Half Nelson.
“It’s time she realized what tough really looks like.” Mina added.
Trapping Autumn’s other wing in a Half Nelson of her own, Murray turned with her partner so Maddy could get a better look at the destruction. “Posture all you want, geek.” Murray chided as Crane mounted the bottom rope. “You’re not getting anywhere near this.” Mads offered some choice verbs that suggested otherwise, but Scandalous paid no heed. Instead they hooked their free arms around Sammain’s tummy in a sort of tandem Waistlock, then dipped their knees and peeled off a stereo bridge that THWHAMMED Autumn down on the back of her head and shoulders. Turned inside out by the MorningsideWinder, Sammain only groaned softly when Murray shoveled her onto her back and slithered across her chest for the…
MORNINGSIDEWINDER:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dux6YbpMjkw
ONE…
TWO…
THRE--
“NNNNGGGGGHHHH!”
The Princess of the Punchline came in clutch, driving a Double Axehandle between Mina’s shoulders with less than half a second to spare! Lucy and Daphne were livid over the interference, Mina on the other hand looked cool, calm and collected as she filled her hands with Sammain’s hair and tugged her up alongside. “This is on you, smartass.” Murray needled the redhead. “This is ALL on you.” She hopped, braced her left foot against the brunette’s midsection and flicked out her right leg to THWHACK a perfect Enzugiri against the side of Sammain’s skull.
STEP-UP ENZUGIRI:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnRL8mMlaw4
Autumn spun in a drunken half circle, dropped to her knees and stayed there until Mina strolled over and swept her into a Standing Headscissors. Happy to turn Autumn’s tush toward the opposing corner, Murray treated the Dragon to a savage wedgie without taking her eyes off Maddy, the Scandalous blonde just daring her opponent to interfere a second time. Crane grit her teeth but otherwise did nothing that’d further hinder her partner. Smirking as treated Autumn’s partially bared buns to a single dismissive swat, Mina snaked her arms around the brunette’s waist and muscled her onto her shoulders into the stall position for a Powerbomb. From there she started to turn, Murray twisting through one, two, three fo--
Autumn snatched a double handful of hair, wrenched her attacker’s head backward and ‘PPFWHOOOOSH’ed a cloud of Green Mist into Mina’s eyes!
Offense forgotten as her world disappeared in a sickly emerald cloud, Murray abandoned the Powerbomb, though she wasn’t so incapacitated that she didn’t hear the hateful Dragon land directly in front of her. Shoving Sammain away without even thinking about it, the blinded blonde planted on her back foot and lashed out with a Super Kick that THWHACKED offa Autumn’s chin, if the groans from the audience were any indicator.
Alas it was not the Joshi Phenom that’d suffered the blonde’s blind retaliation, but rather Craig Long, who’d had the misfortune to be standing directly behind Autumn when she dodged out of the way.
Cringing as the ref hit the deck, Maddy slipped through the-- Daphne snatched hold of her left ankle and pullNO! The Sultana of Slapstick wrenched free of the meddler’s grip and fired back with a short kick that struck D² square in the chest. Dufresne staggered but didn’t go down, at least not until Crane leapt off the apron and knocked her to the floor with an enthusiastic Thesz Press!
“Ol Twinkle Toes just kicked poor Craig into next week!” Mads cackled while burying one hand in Daphne’s hair. “Means he’s not around to tell me to open this hand!” And indeed Crane did chose to lead with her knuckles, the galvanized New Yorker just banging away on the Dufresne’s forehead!
Over on the other side of the ring, Lucy Harker hopped over the ropes right about the time Maddy divebombed onto Daphne. Honed in on Autumn, (who was herself teeing off on Mina with a series of heavy kicks) the Scandalous brunette raced at Sammain and would’ve taken her head off with a Clothesline if the sneaky bytch hadn’t cartwheeled out of the way. Continuing on to the ropes, Harker whipped around and came back for a second pass at the evasive bendy-ba--
Someone rushed straight at Lucy, someone who hooked an arm over the brunette’s chest and launched the both of ‘em through a gorgeous Standing Moonsault that THAWHAMMED Harker down flat against the thinly-sheathed plywood!
OUTTA NOWHERE!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9NtUUxaamY
JENNY JACOBS:
Rocked back on her haunches by the blink and you’ll miss it Jenny-Cide, Jenny Jacobs held the Double J’s half an inch from Lucy’s nose and snarled, “Still haven’t changed my mind, bytch!” As startled by Jacobs’ appearance as the rest of the crowd, Autumn kept both hands in Mina’s hair and both eyes on the Innovator as Jenny bulldozed Lucy under the bottom rope with a series of rough shoves. Glancing over her shoulder once Harker hit the floor, Jacobs muttered, “What the hell are you waiting for? Put her away!”
The Dragon didn’t need to be told twice, she hauled Murray to verticality, spun around behind and slipped her right arm between the blonde’s thighs. After that she dipped her head under Mina’s right arm and muscled her into the air, not for a Backdrop Suplex, but a clever little twist-around that saw Murray trapped tummy-to-tummy in a north-south arrangement with the Gaijin Extraordinaire. Not that Sammain kept her there long, in fact the brunette immediately dropped to her knees to THWONK the crown of Mina’s skull against the mat courtesy of a Tombstone-style Autumn Rain!
TOMBSTONE STYLE AUTUMN RAIN:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=An_OF6bArZ8
Sliding into a seat on the blonde’s chest without checking to see if the zebra was moving again, the Dragon of Tokyo hooked her rival behind both knees and yanked her legs back in a Reverse Matchbook good for the….
Dragging himself along on all fours, Craig Long collapsed beside the cover and counted off…
ONE…
TWO…
THREE!
On the outside Maddy Crane scrambled out of the mount and bustled under the bottom rope so she could stand beside her partner when the Announcer called, “Ladies and gentlemen, your winners via pin-fall… MADDY CRANE AND AUTUMN SAMMAIN!”
“Goddamn Autumn, you took out both of them by yourself?” Mads said after Craig raised their hands. “Remind me never to piss you off!”
“I only got Mina. Lucy was…” she turned to the far side of the ring, found what she was looking for and nodded. “Her.”
Maddy bristled beside Autumn, the brunette could almost feel the anger radiating off the Queen of the Facebusters. “What the hell are you doing here, Jenny?” Crane growled.
“Reminding those three assholes that I’m not for sale.” Jacobs replied. “Don’t worry, Maddy. I didn’t do this for you.”
“F*ck on outta here then.”
“Wouldn’t kill you to say thank you, motor-mouth.”
Maddy would’ve gone for the NorCal Sensation then and there if Autumn hadn’t laid a strong hand on her shoulder. “Wouldn’t kill you to apologize, Jacobs… or maybe it would. Either way, we don’t give a shyt. You heard Mads. F*ck on outta here.”
Jenny frowned, almost said something, then turned around and hopped over the guardrail to disappear into the FAWNatics.
“What the hell was that about?” Maddy asked once the blonde was gone.
“Not sure I know. Pretty sure I don’t care. We’ve got bigger problems as it is.”
Crane spun toward the entrance ramp and somehow wasn’t surprised to see Wicked retreating up the ramp, Mina hanging almost limp between Daphne and Lucy.
“Hope you sheeple sleep real good tonight.” Dufresne snarled. “It’ll be the last rest you know for a very long time.”
Autumn and Maddy raised one hand each, beckoning the brunettes to bring the fight then and there. But Dufresne and Harker didn’t take the bait. Instead they flipped the winners a pair of birds, then wheeled around and continued their way up the ramp.
“YALL COME BACK NOW, YA HEAR?” Maddy shouted after them.
“You know they will. No need to antagonize them.” Sammain said quietly.
“I’ll do a lot more than antagonize ‘em the first time I get a chance, Sammy. It’s gonna take a helluva lot more than a single win to clear my slate with those chicks.”
“Same. Good work tonight, Maddy.”
“Thanks. You too.”
“Just one thing though.”
“What up?”
“NEVER call me Sammy.”
“Sure thing Ninja Dragon Goddess.”
“…Sammy will be fine.”
MADDY CRANE:
The capacity crowd met this announcement with an enthusiastic roar and leapt to their feet when Shinedown’s ‘Cut The Cord’ rang out in the dark. Maddy appeared with her music and raised a fist to her supporters. For tonight’s bout she wore a simple black sports bra top and matching bikini bottoms crisscrossed with thin white belts worn bandolier style while her boots and pads were done in a matching matte black. Flashing her usual snarky smile, Mads whipped around and pointed to the message on the seat of her trunks:
‘Your Face Here! Ask Me How!’
The lights went out as Shinedown began to fade.
“And her Tag Team partner, hailing from Tokyo Japan, she stands at one point seven meters tall and weighs in at fifty-nine point eight kilograms. She is the Gaijin Extraordinaire, the Dragon of Tokyo, THIS IS… AUTUMN SAMMAIN!”
AUTUMN SAMMAIN:
Her name served as a harbinger for ‘Clap for the Killers’ which in turn brought Autumn through the curtain immediately thereafter. Pausing atop the ramp beside Maddy, the Joshi Kicking Machine nodded to the redhead before tearing into a lightning-fast array of punches, chops, elbows, knee strikes and finally kicks, all of which made dangerous little ’whicking’ sounds as they cut the air. Settling back to a zen-like stillness when the kata was finished, Sammain raised her left thumb to her throat and drew it across in a slow slash. With that the lights came up and she extended a fist to Crane, who bumped her knuckles promptly.
“Ready to put some witches in their place, Autumn?”
“If that means kicking their heads around backward then yes, yes I am.”
“That’s EXACTLY what it means.”
Suspicions confirmed, Autumn started down the ramp with Maddy trailing a step or so behind.
Though this was the first time they’d tagged outside of the House Show circuit, Autumn made sure she and Crane looked like an established team by choosing a black sports bra and matching bottoms which were all but obscured by the Joshi style ‘skirt’ that ended mid-thigh. This garment was also dead black, save for several bright red slashes running from north to south. The rest of her outfit consisted of black kneepads, matching boots and fingerless red gloves that reached to just below her elbows.
Walking side by side by the time they were halfway down the aisle, Maddy and Autumn broke into a nimble sprint that took them under the bottom rope and into the middle of squared circle. Autumn rose up to her full height and immediately went through another high speed kicking demonstration before sinking to one knee. Behind her, Maddy went up on one leg and raised her arms in a ‘V’, the redhead’s hands hanging down to complete the ‘Crane’ position.
Sammain came up a moment later to offer her knees and elbows to referee Craig Long. “They still have the numbers advantage, Maddy.” the brunette said. “Don’t forget about Daphne, otherwise we’re in for a long night.”
“Trust me, I’m not going to forget about that bytch.” Crane promised once her own inspection was finished. “Not after what she did to me last time. She sticks her nose in this ring and I’ll kick it through the back of her head.”
Quite satisfied with that response, Sammain followed Crane to the far corner where they settled in to talk last minute strategy and to keep an eye on the stage.
“And introducing their opponents--”
The Announcer went quiet as the speakers came up and the lights came down, the former promptly offering a soft rasp that gave way to the staccato opening of Panic at the Disco’s ‘Say Amen’ (Saturday Night)
SAY AMEN (SATURDAY NIGHT):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI8tFthAZ5M
Been traveling in packs that I can't carry anymore
Been waiting for somebody else to carry me
There's nothing else there for me at my door
All the people I know aren't who they used to be
And if I try to change my life one more day
There would be nobody else to save
And I can't change into a person I don't wanna be, so
Oh, it's Saturday night!
DAPHNE DUFRESNE:
LUCY HARKER:
MINA MURRAY:
The lights returned with the chorus, a frantic bluish-white strobe that made it difficult to focus on the three figures that now stood atop the stage. With interruptions (hopefully) out of the way, the Announcer resumed his duties. “And introducing their opponents, being accompanied to the ring by Daphne Dufresne, weighing in at a combined two hundred and seventy one pounds. This is Lucy Harker and Mina Murray! Individually they’re so much better than you, together they are WICKED!”
The strobes pointed at the stage lessened enough to reveal Lucy and Mina with Daphne between them, all three ladies holding their hands high in the ‘W’ sigil that‘d been terrorizing FAWN for the last year or so. For tonight’s excursion against a pair of previously kicked asses, the Scandalous duo wore heartstoppin’ fightin’ one-pieces adorned with high cut hips, a plunging neckline and a light dusting of silver glitter -- Lucy’s was a deep threatening blue with matching white pads and boots while Mina’s was gleaming white, her boots and pads coordinated to match Harker’s togs. As for Daphne, she wore skin tight jeans and the gray variant of their newest ‘No Rest For the Wicked’ tank-top.
“Look at those two idiots.” Daphne said of Sammain and Crane. “What do those mouth-breathers even talk about?”
“Quickest way to bring down swelling after an ass kicking, I’m sure.” Lucy opined.
“How to eliminate the special shine of ass-sweat from your face for those oh so important post-match interviews.” Mina tittered.
“I’d believe both. Wanna go kick their asses?” Daphne asked.
“Yes please.” Lucy and Mina replied as one.
Plans set, the Wicked trio started down the ramp Daphne in the lead and Scandalous a little behind in their usual hip swinging lock-step. Accosting each and every one of their haters with that devious ‘W’ and a several choice curse words, the ladies abruptly dismissed the sheepish detractors and raced for the ring with Lucy just far enough in front to hop onto the apron. Feet planted firm, Harker leaned back against the ropes as first Mina and then Daphne shot underneath to enter the squared circle. Once they were in place she hooked her arms over the top rope and dipped her hips to roll into the ring herself. She landed just in front of Mina and Daphne and the crowd, long-time Scandalous haters that they were couldn’t help but cheer as it looked like they’d finally get-- the hateful threesome spun away from each other and raised the W’s high, denying the Sheeple yet again.
Quick to set herself between Scandalous and the pair of mismatched losers, Daphne favored the opposition with a cheerfully evil smile. “It’s always nice to see different people brought together in the wake of a tragedy. You bytches should start a support group for losers, you’ve certainly got the experience.” Autumn and Maddy stepped forward, Dufresne stepped back and Scandalous closed ranks, Lucy and Mina bookending the other brunette. Not one member of that vile quintet wanted to step down, so it fell to Craig to step between them, the brave (foolish?) official urging Sammain and Crane to settle in their corner, while Daphne vacated the ring and Lucy and Mina strutted to the far corner to await final inspection.
CLANG!
“What an unlikely pair of losers you make!” Mina snickered as she strolled toward the redhead. “Tell me, how is it that the class clown and the sad girl who wears sweaters in July came to find one anot--”
Murray piped down and drew back sharply when Maddy rose up on one foot and flicked a Crane Kick less than three inches from the tip of her nose. “Oh, did you think this was all about you?” Mads chided as Mina settled for a markedly more cautious (if not exactly respectful) approach. “Sorry babe. Autumn and me initially bonded over our mutual love of K-Pop and our mutual disgust for Jenny Jacobs. It wasn’t until you and the other Plastics jumped us that we realized we both really, REALLY wanted to kick your pert little asses.”
The Scandalous blonde allowed herself a small smile as she adopted a time-tested martial arts stance. “You’re more than welcome to try, geek.”
Crane settled into a grappler’s crouch straight from the Sydney Deschain Guide to Stretching Some Poor Sap. “No try here, Murray. Just a whole lotta--”
She would’ve said ‘do’ if Mina hadn’t lashed out with a Roundhouse aimed at the side of her skull. Mads ducked with half a heartbeat to spare, almost straightened up before she noted the force of Murray’s strike carried her all the way ‘round. Thus she only feigned a return to her full height and was able to avoid the Enzugiri Mina wanted to tack to her left ear.
Landing on one knee with her back to the redhead, Murray popped up and shot both hands over her right shoulder to catch Crane in a Three Quarters Facelock as she closed in. Fingers laced tight, Mina dropped low and slung Maddy onto her tu-NO! The Sultana of Slapstick transformed the Snapmare into an elegant little front flip to land on her fee--“NNNNGGGGGHH!”
Murray rushed in and belted her opponent across the back of the head with Forearm Smash that sent Crane stumbling chest-first into the ropes! Quick to press in snug against the other wrestler’s back, Mina stuffed Maddy’s torso through the gap between middle and top rope, then straightened her up and hooked both arms over the rubber-coated steel. From there she swung to the redhead’s left, measured her angles and thwhack-thwhack-THWHACKED a trio of kicks across Crane’s defenseless lower back! Mads curled her upper lip but otherwise kept the yell behind clenched teeth, which wasn’t nearly good enough for Mina Murray. To that end the blonde snatched a double handful of hair, jammed her right heel into the hollow of Crane’s back and puuuuuuuuuuuuulled until Maddy, Autumn and the rest of the FAWNatics were howling for very different reasons!
ROPE TRAPPED HAIR-PULL & FOOT PRESS:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uKlAl9wFU0
Offering a warning strictly for form’s sake, Craig Long barked, “Off her hair, Mina! ONE! TWO! THREE! FOUR!”
Murray let loose and stalked after the zebra, forcing him to backpedal across the squared circle. “What the hell was that count, Long? These losers pool their allowance so you would rig the match in their favor?”
“Watch your tone, Mina!” Craig replied once he’d gathered himself. “You know damned well you were out of line!” Murray protested she knew nothing of the sort and that she was perfectly within her rights to test the strength of her hand sanitizer against the layers of filth and grime residing in her adversary’s hair. Just as important, it kept Long thoroughly distracted while Lucy Harker hurried over to Maddy’s patch of apron.
Identifying the encroachment at once, Autumn Sammain growled, “I don’t f*cking think--”
Hands grabbed her ankles and tugged hard, dropping the willowy brunette to the floor in a landing that wouldn’t have amounted to anything if she hadn’t THUNKED her chin against the edge of the apron! Sammain cursed, saw stars and grabbed hold of the ring-post to keep her balance. She was trying to clear her head when Daphne purred, “Let’s let them settle this on their own, shall we?”
Autumn wheeled at once, meaning to put a fist in the Gatecrasher’s mouth, but Dufresne had already retreated out of range and even if she hadn’t the Dragon’s attention was arrested by Harker, who’d apparently been kicking the tar outta Maddy’s chest for the last few seconds. “EYES ON THE RING, CRAIG!” Sammain barked as she scrambled onto the apron.
ROPE TRAPPED CHEST KICKS:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFDJ1BbCcG0
Sensing her foe’s tattletale tendencies before Autumn managed a single word, Harker cut her last flurry short and managed to be within arm’s length of the tag rope before the referee extricated himself from Mina’s clutches. Noting the jeers of the crowd in conjunction with Autumn’s demand and the flicker of movement in his peripheral vision, Craig realized he’d been played for a sucker, but he couldn’t call what he couldn’t see, so he settled for pointing a stern finger at the Scandalous brunette. “One hand on the tag rope at all times, Lucy.”
“What, this tag rope right here?” Harker gave it a saucy little twirl to make sure he knew that she knew the law was on her side.
As for the legal half of her team, Mina helped herself to a handful of Maddy’s hair to help expedite her removal from the ropes, though she made an obnoxiously obvious point of switching to a Wristlock before the official could snipe about the illegal grip. Leading Crane to the middle of the squared circle, Murray took a step back and dropped a shoulder apparently meaning to Whip Mads toward Autumn’s side of the ring. Of course this was revealed as a filthy lie when the blonde flipped Sammain the bird and pivoted around to hurl Crane that much deeper into Scandalous territory. She didn’t go alone at least, Mina followed along barely two steps behind. But that also meant there was nowhere for Maddy to go once she threw her back into the strands and Murray was already airborne, the tag specialist leading with a HIGH left Kneelift she THWUMPED against Maddy’s sternum.
Crane’s knees sagged noticeably, her butt touching the middle rope for an instant before Double M palmed the nape of her neck and sent her tumbling through a drunken somersault. Racing past the New Yorker as Maddy settled in a slumped seat, Mina bounced off the opposite set of strands and came back to deliver a thunderous, eeerrrr, lightly insolent slap? Maddy hit the deck, though it was almost certainly due to punishment accumulated during her time in the strands and not the blonde’s insolent swat. Even so, it didn’t stop Murray from settling into a gaudy Crossbody wherein she didn’t bother to hook the leg so she could run a hand through her hair while the crowd counted…
RUNNING HIGH KNEE & TROLL SLAP:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vCZR1etvO0
ONE…
TWO…
Maddy got a hand under Mina’s chin and pushed like she wanted to bloody the blonde’s lips. It didn’t work, but it was obviously received in the spirit intended because Murray’s smirk was nowhere to be seen when she mounted the redhead’s waist and went to work on her hairline with a veritable fusillade of punches.
“Open those hands, Mina!” Craig ordered after perhaps three seconds. Mina did no such thing, so the ref began to count. “ONE! TWO! THREE! FOUR!”
Murray raised her hands high overhead, then flicked Long the bird and hunched back over her prey so she could grrrrrrrrrrrriiiind her right forearm into Crane’s mouth and nose. The second count was faster than the first and Mina must’ve realized she was pushing her luck because she rose offa Maddy simultaneous with ‘THREE!
“You should’ve stayed out of our way.” Mina’s eyes were trained on Autumn in the midst of scraping Maddy off the deck. “Now you’re going to find out what happens to bytches who have our undivided attention.”
Sammain beckoned her closer, but Murray didn’t take the bait. Instead she laid claim to the redhead’s left wrist and sent her racing into the corner presided over by one Lucy Harker. No distractions, misdirection or other bits of legerdemain now, Mina simply raced a few steps down her prey’s back-trail before peeling off a series of no less than four flawless handsprings, the last of which ended with the point of her right elbow driving into Maddy’s chest.
HANDSPRING BACK ELBOW:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDPB-R6D7U
Crane let out an ‘oooffffh’ all but lost in the thump of her tush hitting the deck. This in turn was swallowed by a round of jeers from the FAWNatics when Mina welcomed Lucy to the fray with a prissy high five. Harker hit the ring at once, the Scandalous brunette ignoring nearer prey in favor for a beeline at Sammain. The Joshi Phenom didn’t flinch and Lucy *did* stop short though she was generous enough to invite Autumn to join the fun. “C’mon sheep, I know you’re itching to redeem yourself after that last ass kicking.”
Sammain’s features could’ve been carved in stone. “Eyes on the ACTION, Long.” she growled when the referee closed in. “Murray’s had her boot to Crane’s throat since the goddamned tag.”
Craig whipped around and once and sure enough, Mina had BOTH feet on Maddy’s neck, the cagey blonde tag specialist gripping the top rope to better maintain her illegal choke.
“Such a party pooper.” Harker sounded genuinely disappointed, though her eyes still sparkled. “Buck up, Autumn. You’ll be having fun before you know--” Autumn leaned over the strands and would’ve slapped the nose off Lucy’s face if she hadn’t pulled back at the last second. Gifting the Dragon with a mad cackle to mark her departure, Lucy sprinted across the canvas to reach the Scandalous corner mere heartbeats after Mina finally slipped through the ropes. Gulping in breaths now that her throat was clear, Maddy didn’t note Harker’s approach until the brunette grabbed the top rope in both hands and vaulted into a perfect Headstand. Crane instinctually raised her head to follow the movement, thus ensuring she took every bit of Lucy’s hundred and thirty plus pounds when the Cruel Californian THWHUMPED ass-first into her chest. Still gripping the ropes after initial impact, Harker bounced up ‘n down, up ‘n down, just mashing her crotch into Maddy’s protesting mug until the referee hit ‘FOUR!’ on yet another count.
HANDSTAND BRONCO BUSTER:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3Vb7e2tPP8
“Oh, you were SO close, Craig!” Lucy chided as even as she filled a hand with Crane’s hair. “One of these days you’ll finally reach five!”
The zebra offered no rebuttal, so Harker hauled Mads to boot-leather and dragged her out of the corner just secure a Standing Headscissors near center ring. With Crane’s bum pointed toward Sammain, Lucy collected her foe’s wrists and folded both arms up between her shoulders in a dual Hammerlock. “I’d hate to encroach on the territory of a genuine madwoman, but I just can’t help putting the spank on a no class loser like you!”
And that’s just what she did, Harker slap-slap-slap-SLAPPING her opponent’s glutes in a Scandalous Symphony.
Maddy didn’t sit still for this galling treatment, she wriggled and squirmed from the outset and even managed to free her wrists from Lucy’s grip before the brunette abandoned the slaps to re-secure the Hammerlo--“WHOOOANNNNGGGHH!” The Princess of the Punchline straightened up fast to send Harker up, over and DOWN to the deck with an improvised Back Drop!
The Mayhem crowd cheered uproariously despite the fact that Crane had collapsed to one knee and Lucy was now directly between her and Gaijin Extraordinaire. On her feet ahead of the redhead despite the rough landing, Lucy crooked her hands into claws and raaaaaaaaaaked Maddy from the shoulders on down, prompting a loud wail from the New Yorker.
“That’s right, bytch!” Harker sneered as she snatched a handful of hair. “That’s exactly what you get for NNNNGGGGGHH!” Crane pumped an elbow into the brunette’s chin, then twisted free of her grip at low cost of a few hairs. No time for theatrics now, the Queen of the Facebusters Tribe just leapt off her back (left foot) and THWHACKED a snappy Bicycle Kick across the side of her attacker’s face!
BICYCLE KICK:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLdDocjZXiw
Harker’s head snapped to the side and the rest of her soon followed, the Scandalous lass stumbling in several fencepost holes before she crumpled to her knees within a hand’s breadth of a corner that was most definitely not her own. Careful to keep one hand around the tag rope and the other raised to shoulder level, Autumn Sammain didn’t bother to keep the smile off her face when she said, “Save the prayers for Miranda and her ilk. It won’t do any good with me.”
Lucy bounced up like the mat was electrified, all of her attention locked on the willowy brunette. Understandable as it was, the reaction meant she lost track of Maddy Crane until the resurgent redhead PWAAAKED pair of heels against the nape of her neck! Harker was knocked sprawling, her forehead BWUUUNGING against the top buckle hard enough to drop her to her knees. Already loud, those assembled got that much louder when Maddy stood up and clapped Autumn into the match for the first time.
Sammain made to go over the ropes, but stopped when Mads raised a hand. “Stay there for just a sec, would you? Actually four of them.” she inclined her head toward Lucy’s wrists. “Hold onto those while you’re at it.”
Autumn didn’t get the chance to answer before Crane whipped around and charged to the other side of the ring just to blast Mina Murray upside the head with a resounding Bytch Slap! Sammain enjoyed the sound so much she decided not to give the Motor-Mouth any hassle for making her wait on the outside a little while longer. Instead she maneuvered herself to the far side of the ring post, seized Harker’s wrists in both hands and leaaaaaaaaaned back so that there was no way for the penitent grappler to rise, let alone pull her face away from the middle buckle before Maddy roared in and THWHAMMED both knees into Harker’s exposed shoulders! The jolt sent a shudder through Lucy’s sturdy frame, those usually dangerous arms hanging limp and helpless over the rubber-coated steel.
DOUBLE KNEES TO TURNBUCKLE FACING FOE:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZzpv9_1C_M
“Can I get in the ring, now?” Autumn asked dryly.
“Of course!” Maddy replied. “Here, I’ll help her up for ya.”
Sammain looked for Craig Long, certain the ref was on his way with a count at the ready. But damned if Maddy hadn’t given the Scandalous pair a taste of their own medicine, as the combined fury of Mina and Daphne effectively dominated the ref’s attention. Hopping into the squared circle as Maddy hauled Lucy to verticality, the Joshi Phenom positioned herself in the center to give Crane all the room she needed. Turned out it wasn’t much, as the Sultana of Slapstick quickly hopped into a seat on the top buckle with both hands still deep in the brunette’s hair. From there she sprang out and dropped to her knees to THWONK Harker’s forehead into the mat with a brutally simple Facebuster!
FALLING FACEBUSTER:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=krIlCvOaghY
The impact bounced Lucy all the way to one knee, a quirk of fate Autumn found most fortuitous. Closing on the stunned brunette in a flat out sprint, Sammain jumped, landed with her left foot on Harker’s posted thigh and DRILLED a Shining Wizard into the side of her skull!
SHINING WIZARD:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB3_TVk0uAE
Lucy toppled to the deck with Autumn landing beside her, but the Dragon of Tokyo didn’t go for a cover despite the extremely vocal suggestions of the capacity crowd. Instead she cupped Lucy’s ears and peeled her off the mat in full view of the other Wicked witches. Catching Mina’s eye as Craig finally drew clear of their tongue lashing, Sammain caught her brunette in a Front Facelock, then said, “Wanna take her spot, Mina? Make a move. I’m begging you.”
Murray almost did, but Daphne restrained her with a strong grip around one ankle. Visibly disappointed, Autumn slipped her free hand through Harker’s legs so she could cup some Scandalous buttocks. Then she scooped her straight up and down and sat out full force to THAWHUNK the back of Lucy’s head and shoulders into the mat courtesy a perfect Michinoku Driver Two. Sliding into a seat atop Harker’s chest instant they returned to terra firma, Autumn hooked the other brunette behind the left knee and pulled her leg back in a Half Matchbook good for…
MICHINOKU DRIVER II:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB3_TVk0uAE
ONE…
TWO…
THRNOOOO!
Lucy pushed her off with half a second to spare, thus negating Mina’s quiet trip through the ropes. “Keep yer nasty ass outta there!” Mads barked from her side of the ring. “Less’n you wanna get it kicked up between yer shoulders!” Murray flipped her off and Crane returned the gesture in kind, neither blonde nor redhead willing to show their opposition the slightest bit of respect.
But their posturing didn’t concern Autumn in the slightest, she was far too invested in peeling the Scandalous battler off the canvas with a decidedly enthusiastic handful of hair. Craig noted the infraction so Sammain released at once, not that this meant a bettering of Harker’s situation, far from it in fact. Hands free to do whatever they liked, the Joshi Phenom flattened them into paddles and unleashed a veritable torrent of short, sharp Palm Thrusts upon Lucy’s chest! Taken individually they were little more than an annoyance, however Autumn delivered almost a dozen in half as many seconds and their accumulated effects soon backed the stunned Californian into a neutral corner.
PALM THRUST FLURRY:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i5BqErBnMk
Sammain welcomed Lucy to her destination with a single CRAAACKING Knife-Edge Chop, then showed her to her accommodations by slipping an arm through the brunette’s gams and scooping her onto one shoulder. The FAWNatics cheered in hopes that Harker would soon be tied to the Tree of Woe, instead Sammain laid her out facedown across the top ropes so that her midsection was hanging exposed above the canvas.
“Don’t even think about it, Sammain!” Daphne threatened as the Dragon of Tokyo backpedaled into the middle of the squared.
“Too late for that, you sneaking bytch.” Autumn spat. “Why don’t you try to stop me?”
Dufresne looked like she might do just that, unfortunately for the Gatecrasher Craig Long had an eye on everyone, meaning she could only fume when Sammain raced back the way she’d came to THWHUMP a Kneelift into Lucy’s defenseless tummy!
RUNNING KNEELIFT TO GUT:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD2P3aASly4
Harker popped up on impact, for a moment it looked like she might tumble all the way to the floor, but the cagey brunette caught the top rope in a death grip and managed an awkward landing on the apron. Still on the inside, Autumn reached through the ropes to grab hold of Lucy’s hair, presumably to reel her in. So those gathered for Mayhem were more than a little surprised when she slipped through the ropes and secured Harker in a Front Facelock.
Count Maddy Crane among the confused. She didn’t much like this arrangement, even though Autumn and the Scandalous dork were on her side of the ring. “Ummmmhhh, Autumn.” she called. “You’re not going to do that thing I told you not to do, are you?”
The Gaijin Extraordinaire slung Lucy’s near arm across her shoulders and grabbed a handful of waistband. “Be more specific, Crane. Seems like you’re always telling me not to do something.”
“Well in this case it’d be OOOHHH FRAK!”
Uninterested in waiting for her partner’s response, Autumn hoisted Lucy all the way to high noon only to twist her around so that the other woman’s back was pointed in the opposite direction. In the same breath she stepped off the apron, kicked her legs up and shoved Lucy down into a hellacious freefall of a Falcon Arrow that THAWHUMPED the full length of her prey’s spine into the barely-padded floor!
FALCON ARROW FROM APRON:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCTX5HUCJOI
Lucy sat bolt upright only to twist over onto her belly with one hand pressed to the small of her suddenly traumatized spine. As for Autumn, she’d made it to one knee, though the pained grimace on her face said the landing had taken a toll on her as well.
It was to this scene of all brunette carnage that Daphne Dufresne inserted herself moments later. “What the hell do you think you’re doing you crazy bytch?” she barked at Sammain. “You could’ve broken her back!”
Maddy saw the encroachment but instead of backing up her partner she turned her attention to the other side of ring and damned if there wasn’t Mina Murray making a beeline down the narrow aisle. Mina realized she was caught, skidded to a halt and raised both hands to chest-level. “It’s not what you think, Crane. I just wanted to check on LucNNNGGGGGHH!”
Mads came at her feet-first, the redhead’s heels THWHACKING into Murray’s thighs just above the knee. Mina somersaulted onto her tush, pulled her knees close to her chest and glared fiery death at the Queen of the Facebusters. “You’re dead, bytch. I’ll give up my claim on Sammain’s narrow ass to torture you in--”
“You two back to your corners, now!” Craig had noticed the other skirmish and gave it enough attention to bark that order, though he didn’t quite dare take his eyes off Autumn and Daphne, who’d gone nose to nose above the writhing form of Lucy Harker.
“Go on then, little miss badass.” Autumn said in a sibilant hiss. “Take the first shot. I’ll gladly accept the DQ and give you a few nights in the infirmary in exchange.”
Dufresne stepped forward, forcing the Dragon to cede a step before she pushed right back. “I’ve got nothing left to prove to you, bytch. But I’m sure you and I will have some more fun once Lucy and Mina--”
“Swear to God, Daph, you don’t get back to your side of the ring and I’ll throw this whole thing out right now!” Craig shouted from roughly a million miles away.
Dufresne didn’t so much as twitch and the frustrated official actually began to turn toward the Timekeeper. That’s when D² raised her hands and retreated toward the Scandalous side of town. Relieved to see the situation defused (filling out the paperwork following a DQ was an absolute bear) Craig looked around and allowed himself to relax the tiniest bit once confirming that Crane and Murray were waiting in their respective corners. “Let’s get it back in the ring, ok Autumn?”
“Sure. I can get her there even faster if I pull her hair.”
The ref sighed, moved back a few paces so the way would be clear for their return. Fingers twitching at the prospect of Harker’s hair, Sammain bent down, helped herself to a handful and-- Lucy caught hold of the other brunette’s waistband and pulled down as hard as she could! Caught off balance, Autumn stumbled forward and earned a sympathetic groan from the audience when her chin THWHUNKED against the edge of the apron!
An ugly collision to be sure, one that rocked Sammain back on her heels. But she was close to her own partner and might’ve made it to safety if not for Harker’s tenacious grip on her togs. A single tug kept her in Lucy’s power, it also slung the reeling bendyback into an awkward, head-on collision with the ring-post! Autumn’s knees shivered violently, though a death-grip on the middle rope allowed her to maintain verticality long enough for her legs to steady.
Unfortunately this durability only made it easier for Lucy to snatch the reeling Joshi in an aggressive Side Headlock. Trapping Sammain between herself and the apron, Harker rounded the post, forced the brunette’s face against the edge and sloooooooooooowly walked her down the length of the ring toward the Scandalous corner. Craig and Maddy protested this quite loudly, Autumn protested louder still, but Lucy paid it no mind, she was too busy spewing trash in the other brunette’s ear.
“Not so tuff now, are ya? Huh, are ya feelin’ tuff, Ninjette?” She reared up on tiptoe just to BWONK Sammain’s forehead into the edge of the apron.
Autumn only groaned, but Craig, who’d slowed his count as it crept toward fifteen, called, “C’mon Lucy, get it back in the ri--”
“I’ll do it when I damned well please!” Harker snapped.
Thankfully ‘when I damned well please’ arrived immediately thereafter, because the Scandalous brunette pulled her burden away from the apron and-- Harker transitioned to a Waistlock, put herself between Sammain and the ring and popped her hips to sling the Dragon up ‘n over, Autumn’s shoulders and upper back just THWHUNKING against that unforgiving edge.
APRON GERMAN SUPLEX:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJeSipJ8G7I
Daphne and Mina cheered this carnage with unabashed delight, their eyes bright and sparkling as Lucy scraped up the shuddering battler and finally stuffed her under the bottom rope. Harker followed immediately thereafter, the fuming brunette helping herself to a handful of hair she used to haul her prey to all fours.
Almost close enough to make a tag, Mina stepped on the bottom rope and leeeeeeeeeeaned toward Lucy, but her partner waved her off. “Not just yet, Meens. This trash needs a bit of arranging.”
Hand still plunged deep in Sammain’s hair, Harker led the other brunette around so she was quite close to the Scandalous corner, but not facing it. Positioning herself between Autumn and the rest of the ring, Lucy looked like she was setting for a Standing Headscissors only to lean over the penitent Dragon so she could claim her ankles in both hands. Worried murmurs from the crowd jockeyed with spirited cursing from Maddy as Harker slowly but surely lifted Autumn into an involuntary handstand.
Murray understood the plan by now, so she didn’t bother to extend a hand again until Lucy had one arm cinched around their opponent’s lower legs. “I’ve always admired your time management skills.” the blonde said as slipped through the ropes following a perfectly legal tag.
“And I’ve always admired your pinpoint accuracy.”
Taking hold of Sammain’s ankles in either hand, Lucy stretched those vulnerable stems into a ‘V’, thus ensuring Autumn was defenseless when Mina whipped her right leg up and brought it down twice as hard, the ball of her heel THUMPING against the Joshi Phenom’s crotch! Sammain sobbed and collapsed in a heap just to curl up in a tight ball around her throbbing center.
This pitiable sight earned no sympathy from Mina, indeed she was showing a Cheshire Cat grin as she scraped Autumn off the canvas and forced her into the Scandalous corner. “There’s just something about your face…” Murray slapped her hard, turning Sammain’s head to one side. “Yes, that’s EERRGGHHH!”
Autumn caught her on the chin with a straight right hand and surged out of the buckles ready to do some serious-- Lucy caught her by the hair and yanked hard, Sammain’s back BWUUUNGING against the thinly-sheathed buckles.
“Dammit Craig, they can’t do that!” Maddy roared her indignation even as Mina went to work on Autumn’s midsection with a flurry of punches and knees.
“Looks like they’re doing it just fine, bytch.” Daphne taunted. “Oh, you might want to look away for what comes next.”
Over on the bad side of town, Murray had stopped throwing punches in favor of bracing her right foot against the underside of Autumn’s jaw. In the same motion she grabbed the bottom and middle strands and stretched out in a nearly vertical split that forced Sammain’s head back at an awkward angle and made breathing rather difficult.
SCANDALOUS FOOT CHOKE:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1d-AJoiEFU
“Get her out of the corner, Mina!” Craig demanded at once. “You know you can’t just choke her!”
“I can’t? Can I do this?”
The vicious blonde let go of the bottom rope and affixed that hand to the center of Autumn’s green trunks, Murray just squeezing and gnashing on the Crotch Claw.
The Gaijin Extraordinaire wailed to the rafters so Long shouted his count to make sure there was no misunderstanding in case of a disqualifica--
Mina released at ‘FOUR!’ grabbed a handful of dark hair and tugged Sammain out of corner. Like Lucy before her, she forced Autumn to hands and knees only this time she faced the other half of Scandalous. Planting a leg on either side of the brunette’s back, Mina bent down, took hold of Sammain’s biceps and dropped into a squat so she could drape them over her thighs. It wasn’t quite a Camel Clutch yet, but that changed once Murray reached out and tagged Lucy back into action.
All smiles now that she’d had some time to catch her breath (and listen to Autumn suffer) Harker sashayed through the ropes, then spun around on her heel. “You’re always so dour. So joyless.” Lucy hooked her index fingers into the leg holes of her briefs and ‘snapped’ them up by a good couple inches. “Maybe you should take some time to stop and smell the roses… or a suitable alternative.”
Barely able to move her head thanks to Mina’s strong grip, Autumn growled, “You disgusting bytch. I’ll make you MMMMMMMRRRRRRRPPPHHHHHH!”
Lucy dropped it down low and thrust her hips back, stuffing the Dragon’s snoot full of Scandalous ass. Craig’s count ensured Sammain’s stay was relatively short, but her frantic squirming and squealing, not to mention the expression of glassy-eyed nausea on her face in the aftermath suggested it had felt quite a bit longer. With Autumn stretched out on one side scrubbing at her desecrated features, Lucy flicked her togs into place and made a quick tag to Mina.
“Little dragon thinks she’s so tough.” the brunette sneered once she’d pulled Sammain to boot-leather and caught one arm in a Half Nelson.
“It’s time she realized what tough really looks like.” Mina added.
Trapping Autumn’s other wing in a Half Nelson of her own, Murray turned with her partner so Maddy could get a better look at the destruction. “Posture all you want, geek.” Murray chided as Crane mounted the bottom rope. “You’re not getting anywhere near this.” Mads offered some choice verbs that suggested otherwise, but Scandalous paid no heed. Instead they hooked their free arms around Sammain’s tummy in a sort of tandem Waistlock, then dipped their knees and peeled off a stereo bridge that THWHAMMED Autumn down on the back of her head and shoulders. Turned inside out by the MorningsideWinder, Sammain only groaned softly when Murray shoveled her onto her back and slithered across her chest for the…
MORNINGSIDEWINDER:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dux6YbpMjkw
ONE…
TWO…
THRE--
“NNNNGGGGGHHHH!”
The Princess of the Punchline came in clutch, driving a Double Axehandle between Mina’s shoulders with less than half a second to spare! Lucy and Daphne were livid over the interference, Mina on the other hand looked cool, calm and collected as she filled her hands with Sammain’s hair and tugged her up alongside. “This is on you, smartass.” Murray needled the redhead. “This is ALL on you.” She hopped, braced her left foot against the brunette’s midsection and flicked out her right leg to THWHACK a perfect Enzugiri against the side of Sammain’s skull.
STEP-UP ENZUGIRI:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnRL8mMlaw4
Autumn spun in a drunken half circle, dropped to her knees and stayed there until Mina strolled over and swept her into a Standing Headscissors. Happy to turn Autumn’s tush toward the opposing corner, Murray treated the Dragon to a savage wedgie without taking her eyes off Maddy, the Scandalous blonde just daring her opponent to interfere a second time. Crane grit her teeth but otherwise did nothing that’d further hinder her partner. Smirking as treated Autumn’s partially bared buns to a single dismissive swat, Mina snaked her arms around the brunette’s waist and muscled her onto her shoulders into the stall position for a Powerbomb. From there she started to turn, Murray twisting through one, two, three fo--
Autumn snatched a double handful of hair, wrenched her attacker’s head backward and ‘PPFWHOOOOSH’ed a cloud of Green Mist into Mina’s eyes!
Offense forgotten as her world disappeared in a sickly emerald cloud, Murray abandoned the Powerbomb, though she wasn’t so incapacitated that she didn’t hear the hateful Dragon land directly in front of her. Shoving Sammain away without even thinking about it, the blinded blonde planted on her back foot and lashed out with a Super Kick that THWHACKED offa Autumn’s chin, if the groans from the audience were any indicator.
Alas it was not the Joshi Phenom that’d suffered the blonde’s blind retaliation, but rather Craig Long, who’d had the misfortune to be standing directly behind Autumn when she dodged out of the way.
Cringing as the ref hit the deck, Maddy slipped through the-- Daphne snatched hold of her left ankle and pullNO! The Sultana of Slapstick wrenched free of the meddler’s grip and fired back with a short kick that struck D² square in the chest. Dufresne staggered but didn’t go down, at least not until Crane leapt off the apron and knocked her to the floor with an enthusiastic Thesz Press!
“Ol Twinkle Toes just kicked poor Craig into next week!” Mads cackled while burying one hand in Daphne’s hair. “Means he’s not around to tell me to open this hand!” And indeed Crane did chose to lead with her knuckles, the galvanized New Yorker just banging away on the Dufresne’s forehead!
Over on the other side of the ring, Lucy Harker hopped over the ropes right about the time Maddy divebombed onto Daphne. Honed in on Autumn, (who was herself teeing off on Mina with a series of heavy kicks) the Scandalous brunette raced at Sammain and would’ve taken her head off with a Clothesline if the sneaky bytch hadn’t cartwheeled out of the way. Continuing on to the ropes, Harker whipped around and came back for a second pass at the evasive bendy-ba--
Someone rushed straight at Lucy, someone who hooked an arm over the brunette’s chest and launched the both of ‘em through a gorgeous Standing Moonsault that THAWHAMMED Harker down flat against the thinly-sheathed plywood!
OUTTA NOWHERE!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9NtUUxaamY
JENNY JACOBS:
Rocked back on her haunches by the blink and you’ll miss it Jenny-Cide, Jenny Jacobs held the Double J’s half an inch from Lucy’s nose and snarled, “Still haven’t changed my mind, bytch!” As startled by Jacobs’ appearance as the rest of the crowd, Autumn kept both hands in Mina’s hair and both eyes on the Innovator as Jenny bulldozed Lucy under the bottom rope with a series of rough shoves. Glancing over her shoulder once Harker hit the floor, Jacobs muttered, “What the hell are you waiting for? Put her away!”
The Dragon didn’t need to be told twice, she hauled Murray to verticality, spun around behind and slipped her right arm between the blonde’s thighs. After that she dipped her head under Mina’s right arm and muscled her into the air, not for a Backdrop Suplex, but a clever little twist-around that saw Murray trapped tummy-to-tummy in a north-south arrangement with the Gaijin Extraordinaire. Not that Sammain kept her there long, in fact the brunette immediately dropped to her knees to THWONK the crown of Mina’s skull against the mat courtesy of a Tombstone-style Autumn Rain!
TOMBSTONE STYLE AUTUMN RAIN:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=An_OF6bArZ8
Sliding into a seat on the blonde’s chest without checking to see if the zebra was moving again, the Dragon of Tokyo hooked her rival behind both knees and yanked her legs back in a Reverse Matchbook good for the….
Dragging himself along on all fours, Craig Long collapsed beside the cover and counted off…
ONE…
TWO…
THREE!
On the outside Maddy Crane scrambled out of the mount and bustled under the bottom rope so she could stand beside her partner when the Announcer called, “Ladies and gentlemen, your winners via pin-fall… MADDY CRANE AND AUTUMN SAMMAIN!”
“Goddamn Autumn, you took out both of them by yourself?” Mads said after Craig raised their hands. “Remind me never to piss you off!”
“I only got Mina. Lucy was…” she turned to the far side of the ring, found what she was looking for and nodded. “Her.”
Maddy bristled beside Autumn, the brunette could almost feel the anger radiating off the Queen of the Facebusters. “What the hell are you doing here, Jenny?” Crane growled.
“Reminding those three assholes that I’m not for sale.” Jacobs replied. “Don’t worry, Maddy. I didn’t do this for you.”
“F*ck on outta here then.”
“Wouldn’t kill you to say thank you, motor-mouth.”
Maddy would’ve gone for the NorCal Sensation then and there if Autumn hadn’t laid a strong hand on her shoulder. “Wouldn’t kill you to apologize, Jacobs… or maybe it would. Either way, we don’t give a shyt. You heard Mads. F*ck on outta here.”
Jenny frowned, almost said something, then turned around and hopped over the guardrail to disappear into the FAWNatics.
“What the hell was that about?” Maddy asked once the blonde was gone.
“Not sure I know. Pretty sure I don’t care. We’ve got bigger problems as it is.”
Crane spun toward the entrance ramp and somehow wasn’t surprised to see Wicked retreating up the ramp, Mina hanging almost limp between Daphne and Lucy.
“Hope you sheeple sleep real good tonight.” Dufresne snarled. “It’ll be the last rest you know for a very long time.”
Autumn and Maddy raised one hand each, beckoning the brunettes to bring the fight then and there. But Dufresne and Harker didn’t take the bait. Instead they flipped the winners a pair of birds, then wheeled around and continued their way up the ramp.
“YALL COME BACK NOW, YA HEAR?” Maddy shouted after them.
“You know they will. No need to antagonize them.” Sammain said quietly.
“I’ll do a lot more than antagonize ‘em the first time I get a chance, Sammy. It’s gonna take a helluva lot more than a single win to clear my slate with those chicks.”
“Same. Good work tonight, Maddy.”
“Thanks. You too.”
“Just one thing though.”
“What up?”
“NEVER call me Sammy.”
“Sure thing Ninja Dragon Goddess.”
“…Sammy will be fine.”