Post by bigfan on Feb 5, 2018 22:11:20 GMT
“The following contest,” the ring announcer informs a crowd already stoked to a near-frenzy by this evening’s earlier action, “is scheduled for one fall, with a twenty minute time limit… and is for the FAWN TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP!!!”
And yet, with gold on the line, somehow the audience manages to turn the knob up just a little more.
“Introducing first, at a total combined weight of two-hundred and twenty-six pounds ... Ladies and gentlemen, would you please give a warm Orlando welcome to... Charlotte Dawson... Skylar Mitchell, otherwise known as... AMMMEEERRRIIICCCAAA’S SWWWEEEETTTHHHEEEAAARRRTTTSSS!”
Charlie Dawson:
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Skye Mitchell:
The FAWNatics do just that, turning things up beyond eleven and all the way to thirteen as Taylor Swift’s ‘Style’ begins to play over the sound system. Even before graduating to main roster status, Charlie and Skye had put in a number of appearances in Orlando, winning plenty of hearts right off the bat, if not nearly as many matches. But that had been changing in recent weeks, the spunky young duo having earned themselves a spot in the semi-finals of the Queens of the Ring tournament. Indeed, their shot at gold tonight might not be happening if not for what could only be described as an upset victory over Hot & Bothered.
And now, tonight, they have a chance to go into those semi-finals as the reigning FAWN Tag Team champions. Certainly, both Bangor and Albuquerque were no longer in their future…
Just a couple of moments later, a stunning, bedimpled young blonde bursts through the curtains. Once the beaming Dawson arrives, however, the crowd remarkably manages to raise the decibel meter further still! And yet... despite the FAWN Arena’s capacity dwarfing the Left Turn (the “arena” in which she had broken into the business) by a factor of HUNDREDS to one, somehow their roar didn’t feel QUITE as loud to Dawson. But that doesn’t stop the youngster from bringing her hands up to her ears, covering them as if the roar might be painful--but the smile that remained planted on Charlie’s lips illustrated just how much she’s enjoying the moment. Blushing, the blonde motioned downward with her hands...
But even in Orlando, the capacity crowd would have none of it--especially not with her partner standing behind her, waving her hands UPWARD frantically, beckoning the FAWNatics to keep the love coming. As frenetic as Skylar’s arms are moving, perhaps Charlie spots a bit of a blur out of the corner of her eye, prompting her to spin around...
The kid might be quick, but not quick enough. By the time she’s facing Skye, her fellow youngster’s hands are clasped behind her back, and she looks up toward the lights, whistling in pure innocence.
Charlie shakes her head at her partner before turning and taking off toward the ring. Skylar followed suit almost immediately. The Sweethearts make it a point to slap EVERY single hand offered her way--and ESPECIALLY the younger ones.
Finally, the Darling of the Desert and the Lil’est Mitchell slide under the bottom rope, springing to their feet. The duo unzip their hot pink hoodies, Charlie slipping off hers to reveal a light blue fightin’ two piece that, in spite of its somewhat modest and innocent cut still managed to raise the blood pressure of quite a few spectators. For her part, Skye sports a royal purple lycra bikini top and short shorts, with white pads and boots.
(Old school FAWN fans might note the distinct similarity in Skylar’s togs, and the gear worn by her older sister Cynthia at the beginning of her career...)
Charlotte and Skye each move to their corner, taking a moment to adjust their pads before stretching, preparing to for the opportunity to set the tag division on its ear… and to bring those tag belts back home to the USA.
With the two gaijin waiting for the start of a dream the champs would make a nightmare, the Rising Sun flag supplants the FAWN logo on the FAWNtron, red sunbeams flowing out of a red disc. The crowd explodes with a shower of boos, the sound increasing when familiar oriental music signals the Invasion is about to land.
The arena speakers herald the second gen of Invading titleholders, when Euphoria’s Valentine Jealousy courses through the sound system. ( www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVzfpD-xyqY )
Two shadowy figures in sweeping red satin robes appear, followed closely behind by the Invasion’s ever-present general/mogul Miss Yuko Ogura.
Reiko Ohno:
Seah Sin:
Yuko Ogura:
Japanese cuneiform emerges from the red disc on the tron, the symbols turning to English in an Asian script spelling out "Asian Invasion'.
Simultaneously, the dishonorable duo sweep off their coverings, tossing them aside. The natives of Far East are in matching blood red bikinis, accessorized with red boots and pads, Seah Sin and Reiko Ohno showing a unified front with their attire. Most important of all are their complementary gaudy gold belts, signifying their champion status. Each is laid over a shoulder of the women who had beaten the Kanes, The Three, the Hellions, FAWN legends or legends-to-be one and all. Tonight they would be facing two lambs of the sacrificial kind who’d stumbled into a couple nice wins.
Next to the partners, their tiny terror of a manger wears her eye-catching ensemble. Above Yuko has a top of white satin in front, black-n-white stripes from side to back. Below is the familiar gun metal gray with pinstripes but only in very daring proportions, the tiny ring of cloth held in place with a pair of jaunty suspenders. On her abbreviated but delectable stems are whalenet stockings leading to black business pumps and atop her long chestnut-colored locks is a black fedora.
The women share a bow toward each other then move down the ramp, as the PA blares to life.
“And their opponents, accompanied by their manager Yuko Ogura…”
The crowd tests their lungs as they erupt in a torrent of jeers for the hated businesswoman.
“… from Yokohama, Japan and Kyongju, South Korea…Reiko Ohno and Seah Sin…THE ASIAN INVASION.”
The evil executive leads her forces, avoiding contact with the forest of waving hands on either side, Seah and Reiko careful to flank Yuko so no one can get close to their glorious leader.
Reaching the ring, Yuko sends the increasingly important yet still junior members of her Invasion around the squared circle in opposite directions, while she ascends the steps and enters with a shiteating grin firmly in place.
With America’s Losers settled in their corner, looking reticent, Ohno and Sin hop to the canvas in unison, waiting outside, the attention on Yuko, FAWN’s Napoleon holding court with a microphone in her hand.
She raises the stick to her lips only to be buried under a cascade of boos. Ogura smirks and waits for the noise to subside. It is VERY slow to do so.
“They are running out of opponents. You see?”
Orlando’s great unwashed jeer Ogura with every bit of their lung power.
Yuko signals for her Invaders to enter. Reiko and Seah bend their way through the ropes and move to their general, the Japanese crew congregating in the middle of the ring, staring menacingly at the Sweethearts.
“My Samurai and my Little Dragon destroy the best this place can offer and now you send us this. My Invasion is going to make a statement like no one has ever seen.”
Ogura drops the microphone with a loud ‘THUD’ and the trio walk to their corner, the enraged crowd furious and more than willing to show it. As the catcalls flood the ring, Ohno and Sin hand over their gold and the three Invaders huddle, occasionally turning an eye toward Skylar and Charlie.
Matching speed for speed, Yuko directs her Little Dragon Seah to remain, Sin ready to start the match for the title holders, Reiko and Ogura taking their place on the sidelines.
On the other side of the ring, after a brief period of negotiation, Charlie Dawson elects to start things off for the challengers. A grinning Skye nods her consent—and the youngster’s grin grows just a bit wider when she gives her partner’s rump a supportive pat as the blonde steps away from her corner…
As the bell sounds, Dawson raises her hands and starts a slow, rhythmic clap as she begins to circle. The FAWNatics, never being ones to miss a cue, take up the cause and clap along. And, given the circumstances of the match, perhaps it is only inevitable that SOMEONE in the crowd attempts to start a chant of, “U-S-A! U-S-A!” Even less surprisingly, the chant catches on, especially when Skylar turns away from the ring and waves a hand upward, urging the crowd along…
… no, perhaps the only surprising development is when Seah joins in, clapping and chanting with everyone else, though with a decidedly mocking tone to her voice and a sneer on her lips. Out on the floor, little Yuko gives an almost imperceptible nod of her head as her Little Dragon’s actions have the desired effect: not shutting the crowd up—on the contrary, the masses manage to get even louder—but their jingoistic babbling is transformed into a cascade of jeers and catcalls, directed at Sin and Ohno.
Finally reaching each other at mid-ring, blonde and brunette surge into a tie-up, jockeying for control, until the Darling of the Desert Southwest slips around behind her foe, with Seah’s left arm in her possession, which she wrenches up behind the Little Dragon’s back in a hammerlock. The Asian beauty lets out an anguished groan as one particular jostle of her arm lifts Sin up onto her tiptoes—and Dawson cannot help but relish this rare moment of being the bigger girl in the ring.
“What do you say, Seah?” the referee asks. “You wanna…?”
The response comes NOT from the grimacing woman within the ropes, but from the infuriated woman on the outside. “YOU SHUT MOUTH!!!” Yuko Ogura demands. “My Dragon LAUGHS at this pathetic hold!”
Charlie cocks an eyebrow as she looks toward FAWN’s resident Napoleon, and gives Seah’s trapped wing another upward crank. When Sin has to choke back a yelp, the grinning blonde remarks, “That’s the funniest sounding laugh I’ve ever heeEEEAAAAAAGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!”
Dawson yells in pain as the brunette reaches her one free hand over her shoulder, latches onto a handful of the Sweetheart’s long, blonde tresses, and pulls down with as much might as her leverage will allow. From the floor, the General of the Asian Invasion applauds her Dragon’s ingenuity, even as it draws Seah a tongue lashing from the official. He begins to count, with Sin quite ludicrously pretending not to understand English all the way to the count of four. When she lets go, it’s only natural that Charlotte’s body momentarily relaxes in relief…
t, however—and to Yuko Ogura’s supreme annoyance—the brunette only manages to keep the hold applied for a few seconds before Charlie works HER way out the back…
… and then slaps on a tight side headlock.
“CHOKE!” shouts Yuko, earning a roll of the eyes from the Darling of the Desert Southwest. Gradually, though, Seah manages to force her foe back toward the ropes, even as Dawson keeps the headlock cinched in. And when the blonde’s back begins to press into the taut steel cables, Sin plants a hand against the small of Charlie’s back and gives a strong shove, the tension of the cables providing a boost to send the challenger sprinting toward the far ropes. The Little Dragon takes a couple of steps back toward the center of the ring as Dawson hits the strands, ducking down for a backdrop as Charlotte rushes back toward her…
… only for Charlie to plant her hands (both of them) against Seah’s back, leapfrogging the champion and continuing on her merry way to the other side. The Asian lovely doesn’t bother fully straightening up, instead pivoting and dropping to the canvas, forcing Dawson to once again jump over her as she makes a second trip toward the far ropes. Nearing the cables, Charlie catches sight of Skylar inching down the apron, tag rope in her left hand, and as she turns her back to the rubber coated steel, Dawson also braces for the slap she expects to feel between her shoulderblades.
The ref signals acknowledgment of the tag with his hands as the Little Dragon scrambles to her feet. Only this time, as the diminutive blonde approaches, Charlie lowers her shoulder. Demonstrating that the challenger isn’t the only person in this match who can fly, Seah leaps into the air, extending her legs to either side to allow Dawson clearance underneath her. And after gracefully touching down, the brunette whips around…
… to find a beaming Charlie looking back at her, arms hooked around the top rope. Raising her right hand, the Darling of the Desert Southwest gives Sin her most charming, welcoming wave, Sin blinking in confusion…
… until a pair of boots SLAM into her back, Skye Mitchell connecting with a blindside dropkick! While the blow definitely catches the tag champ by surprise, it actually fails to knock Sin off her feet, instead sending the brunette staggering toward Charlie. But that almost seems to be EXACTLY as America’s Sweethearts had intended. Dawson pushes off the ropes, charging toward the off-balance Seah and leaping toward her. Wrapping an arm around her opponent’s neck, Charlotte kicks her feet high and drops to her back, DRIVING the crown of Sin’s skull into the canvas with a beautiful running tornado DDT.
RUNNING TORNADO DDT:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lat__jA0_LM
Dawson climbs to her feet off the right flank of the splattered Seah, her partner approaching the downed tag champ from the left. Mitchell raises a hand high—well, as high as you can when you’re five foot one and your partner is only an inch taller. Charlie meets that raised palm with a high five, the sound of the slapping hands still echoing in the arena as she and Skylar lace their fingers together and drop a pair of elbows to the chest of the Little Dragon, one impacting with each breast.
“C’mon, Charlie,” the ref chides her. “Tag was made, you…”
“It’s okay,” the blonde replies with a sigh, raising her hands in innocence as she starts to make her exit. “I’m going.”
Meanwhile, Mitchell pulls a mewling Seah up to her feet. Claiming a wrist, the Li’lest Mitchell whips her foe the short distance to the nearest neutral corner with a disproportionate amount of force for such a brief journey. And while Sin does manage to turn into the collision, the impact of her back with the buckles sends the Asian beauty staggering out of the corner on wobbly legs. Skye then quickly sprints toward the ropes to Sin’s right, rebounding off the strands and racing toward her. Catching the back of the Little Dragon’s head with one hand, Mitchell leaps and SLAMS her opponent’s mug into the mat with an emphatic bulldog. Rolling the shellshocked Invader to her back, Skylar covers, hooking a leg and scoring the…
ONE…
TWO…
“KICK OUT!!!!!!” Ogura orders, slamming both hands against the apron.
THRNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ever the good soldier, Sin obeys her General’s orders.
The Korean, having shoved a shoulder up, rolls to her side next to the Lil’est Mitchell, the brunette pushed to all fours by Sin’s effort but not flustered in the least. Skye offers a wink to Yuko, which sets the tiny businesswoman off. Ogura slaps the canvas, sputtering, as she tries to come up with words to explain Mitchell standing above a reeling Seah.
Cynthia’s baby sis doesn’t have time to waste and, after a few more seconds of Ogura’s hemming and hawing, she grabs a wrist and shoulder and tugs the Invader to her feet. Bullying Seah to a neutral set of buckles, Skye flings Sin toward the opposite corner. Or that was the plan. But Seah manages to reverse the Emerald Isle heave and it’s the Carolina Cutie who scurries across the canvas, apparently heading in chest first.
The Little Dragon takes flight, racing to catch Skylar’s tail. But when Mitchell reaches the far corner, she hops to the bottom ropes, grabbing the top, and springboards; throwing her legs out behind her. The Invader falls into the trap, Skye’s lower limbs clamp shut around either side of the Korean’s braincase.
As Sin tries to pry her way free, Skye folds her legs, thrusting her knees forward and forcing Seah’s flawless features to SLAM into the middle buckle, the crowd groaning in momentary sympathy from the Tar Heel Smash then cheering loudly.
Tar Heel Smash (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7rd74zCr1M )
Looking completely confident, and with the roll the Sweethearts are on why wouldn’t she, Skylar leans back and keeps Seah’s face mushed into the thin padding while she shouts joyfully, head overturned.
The official finally gets Mitchell’s attention at ‘THREE’ in his count and the adorable brunette dismounts. She turns to the FAWNatics, raising both arms with little’ ‘V’s formed by index and middle fingers.
A frustrated Ogura screams at the kneeling Seah, the Little Dragon’s wings clipped as she leans heavily into the corner, recovering senses and breath. The high-pitched shouts prompt more action from America’s Team than the Korean as Skylar sprints to her corner and tags the waiting Charlotte.
Not waiting for her replacement, Mitchell turns and races toward a rising and turning Sin. In a split-second reaction to Skylar speeding in from her side, Seah dips and heaves the diminutive brunette over her left shoulder. The rattled and reeling Seah doesn’t have quite enough ‘oomph’ in her throw to send Skylar all the way over the ropes and this proves a blessing in disguise as Mitchell instead lands with one leg ON EITHER SIDE.
Skylar’s baby blues bulge as she rides the rubber-coated steel of the top cable. But Sin has no time to enjoy the anguished look on the Sweetheart’s face. Instead, Charlie is barreling down on Seah and the Korean pivots in the opposite direction, this time taking Dawson off her right shoulder, tossing the blonde grappler up and HALFWAY OVER!
Charlie ends in a straddle atop the uppermost strand, hands pressing against the rope to remove it from her undercarriage but unsuccessfully. The Sweethearts, pointed toward each other and close enough to grab hold of the other, steady themselves, but gain little else as the cable digs into their privates in stereo.
A shrieking Yuko gives Seah the perfect ‘Invading’ instruction and a snarling Seah snatches the top rope with both hands, RIPPING it up and down, giving both Sweethearts a very unhappy ride. Hugging and howling, America’s Team is blasted up the middle in unison by the heartless Sin, the Invader ignoring the ref’s calls for her to let the challengers off the wild ride.
At ‘FOUR’, Seah relents, but she leaves blonde and brunette mounted while she strides to the Invasion corner. Slapping hands with Reiko, Sin sends Yuko’s Ninja into the squared circle for the first time and Reiko flies across the canvas like a Zero fighter plane, taking off as she closes in with the still wobbling and mewling partners. Nailing each with half of her dropkick, Ohno gets two gaijin for the price of one, sending both Sweethearts tumbling over, the challengers thumping against the apron before settling on the floor in matching endearing piles, Skye’s and Charlie’s hands buried between their legs after the game-changing journey.
Inside the ring’s confines, Reiko kips to her feet, grabs the top rope, and gazes down on the recovering wholesome twosome. The devious Invader leans back and slingshots herself over the top, CRASHING down across both youngsters as they achingly push toward vertical, flattening Mitchell and Dawson.
The veteran needs no direction from her infamous manager to keep the tsunami rolling. Ohno snatches the legal Charlie from the jumble of Sweethearts and stuffs her back in the ring, following quickly behind. Reiko tugs Dawson up as she rises and sends her foe shooting into the opposite set of ropes from which they’d rolled under.
There’s a definite hitch in the blonde’s giddy-up but she beats her boots to the ropes and rebounds toward the stationed Ninja. The champ guesses correctly Dawson is launching for an aerial attack and she steps to Charlie to close the gap befoe she can get airborne, the Japanese grappler drawing the pint-sized Sweetheart into her arms, lifting and flipping Dawson through a tilt-a-whirl that ends with Charlotte’s spine CRASHING down across bended knee, Reiko trying to crack the challenger in two with her backbreaker.
Tilt-a-whirl backbreaker (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fshq_oSLAsI )
Ohno roughly shoves the arched and agonized blonde off the plank of her thigh and flattens her opponent to the deck in a groaning spreadeagle then climbs aboard in a lateral press for the…
ONE…
TWO…
The feisty Charlie kicks free of the pinning predicament, leaving Yuko complaining bitterly on the sidelines about a slow count. The manager takes her case to the apron, berating the official from closer range. The man scolds Ogura, demanding she return to the floor, but little Yuko holds her ground and gives as good as she gets.
Reiko, hands full of Charlie’s flaxen locks, tugs Dawson on hands and knees to the ropes farthest from the debate. She forces the Sweetheart’s throat across the middle rope and presses her knee into the back of Dawson’s neck, trying to choke the fight out of Charlie while the Invasion’s general keeps the match arbiter distracted.
Charlie’s eyes snap wide open as her windpipe is compressed by the taut, rubber coated steel, Reiko’s one hundred and twenty-five pounds forcing her down harder and harder by the second. Between that middle rope and the Japanese woman’s knee, the normally bubbly blonde’s attempts at a verbal protest are rendered little more than quiet, raspy gurgles, volume denied by her lack of oxygen and coherency prevented by the crushing vice her neck currently resides in. Arms thrashing in front of her, Dawson’s boots pound at the mat, but the shrill demands of Yuko Ogura and the well-meaning roar of the FAWNatics drown out that patter as well.
“HEY, REF!” Skylar Mitchell shouts from the Sweethearts’ corner, pointing toward Reiko insistently. “DO SOMETHING ABOUT WHAT’S IMPORTANT, WILL YA???”
Alas, Yuko will not allow the official’s attention to be diverted from her. Realizing that her partner’s freedom would depend on her, the Li’lest Mitchell slips through the ropes. But even as she threads one gam through the cables, Ogura points out Skye’s intrusion, and the official intercepts her less than two strides away from her corner. Satisfied, but not nearly contented, Yuko jumps down from the apron and leisurely makes her way around the ring, to where her Ninja is throttling the challenger. General and soldier make momentary eye contact, and Ohno nods, rising off the wheezing Dawson to approach Mitchell and the official. From behind his back, Reiko sends a few verbal taunts Skye’s way, undoing whatever progress the ref had managed to make in defusing the situation and motivating Mitchell to struggle that much harder to force her way past him.
Meanwhile, little Yuko reaches up with both hands, filling them with Charlie’s locks before abruptly dropping to one knee. From her place on the floor, Ogura’s lack of height becomes a considerable advantage, increasing her leverage as she attempts to choke out Dawson with even more force and vigor than Reiko had been able to bring into play. The gagging blonde’s arms wave helplessly, her feet kicking even harder, but there is little she can do to end her plight—and the only people who would be in a position to help her and to be inclined to do so were currently preoccupied with one another.
Only once Yuko spots Charlie’s eyelids beginning to flutter does she release the blonde’s locks. Dawson’s belly slumps toward the bottom rope, though the middle cable resting underneath her arms keeps the young Sweetheart from collapsing much further, her head bowed toward the floor. The Darling of the Desert Southwest is only dislodged from her resting place against the ropes when Ogura draws back her right hand and BLASTS Charlie’s cheek with as powerful a bytch slap as her five foot frame can manage. A mewling Dawson is sent tumbling to the mat, and she meekly rolls out to the apron, chest heaving as she attempts to regroup.
With Skylar finally put back in her corner, the official turns to see Ohno sauntering toward her partner, where she slaps Seah’s offered hand for a tag. Only then, she makes a turn, away from the Invasion corner and toward where Charlie rests on the apron. The Little Dragon, meanwhile, starts scaling the ropes, making her way toward the top turnbuckle. Reaching through the ropes, Yuko’s Ninja grabs a handful of Charlie’s tresses, and pulls the reeling youngster up to her feet on the outside of the ring. Slipping an arm around Dawson’s neck, Ohno reaches her other hand down to the blonde’s hip, latching on to a handful of waistband before popping her hips and muscling the Darling of the Desert Southwest vertical for a suplex…
… and then, taking advantage of the challenger’s lack of size, Reiko demonstrates some uncharacteristic power, holding her captive aloft in the stall position as she shuffles her feet backwards. Once she has created enough space between herself and the ropes, Ohno sends the challenger plummeting forward, Charlie’s descent brought to an abrupt end when her stomach SLAMS down across the top rope. With a breathless Dawson left hung up across the cable, Reiko steps back, providing clearance for her partner to take flight from the top turnbuckle, Seah connecting with a knee drop to back of the blonde’s noggin.
ROPE HUNG DIVING KNEE DROP:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0mmlHQV0oE&t=0s
Sin pops back to her feet, seemingly enjoying the torrent of jeers as she sashays her way back to the splattered challenger. Hairhauling Dawson to her feet, the Korean beauty whips the blonde into the Invasion’s corner, Yuko Ogura earning a heaping of scorn from the FAWNatics when she offers a mocking wince upon Dawson’s impact with the buckles. Charlie’s arms flop over the top rope, holding her at least semi aloft as she begins to sag into the corner. And then Seah charges from center ring, leaping into the air, causing Reiko Ohno to swing around the ringpost as Sin catches the top rope in front of the spot the Ninja had just vacated. Using the cable for balance, the Little Dragon swings her right leg toward her foe, catching the young blonde across the sternum with her thigh.
CORNER LEG LARIAT:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_CbT9bfOkE&t=0s
Again with the aid of the top rope, Seah’s boots touch down, clearing a path for Charlie to stagger away from the buckles. The blonde’s legs tremble with each step, but her balance doesn’t fail her, even when Sin slides up alongside. Grabbing Dawson’s left wrist, the brunette pulls Charlie’s arm up and out to her side, Seah holding the trapped limb across her chest as she places her right arm around the challenger’s neck. The Little Dragon then kicks her leg back, cutting Charlie’s left stem out from under her as both women plummet forward, the reverse Russian leg sweep SLAMMING the blonde down, face and chest first.
REVERSE RUSSIAN LEG SWEEP:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9xJHZJyPIQ
Rolling the near senseless Darling of the Desert Southwest over to her back, Seah hooks the far leg as she applies the cover, scoring the…
ONE…
TWO…
THRNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Charlie gets a shoulder up.
Shaking her head with a bemused smirk, Seah snatches a handful of hair and tugs the blonde up onto rubbery legs. Dragging the challenger into the Invasion corner, the Korean beauty tags out to Reiko, then lifts Charlie’s right arm away from her body, leaving her chest open to receive a swift kick from the arriving Ninja. Dawson spins away from the impact, dropping first to her knees before pitching forward to land on all fours. As Seah slips out of the ring, Ohno drops Charlie the rest of the way to the canvas with a stomp to the back.
Circling to the blonde’s boots, Reiko forces Charlie’s left ankle down against the pit of her right knee, then pushes up on the challenger’s right boot to lock the foot into place. Turning her back to her opponent, the back of the Japanese brunette’s calf keeping Dawson’s boots trapped. The Ninja then bridges back, until the crown of her skull rests over Charlie’s right shoulder, the tag champ slipping her hands under Charlie’s chin as she cinches in the Muta lock.
MUTA LOCK:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXrMM7GH2kY
“How about it, Charlie?” the referee asks. “I’ll ring the bell. Just say the word…”
It’s hard to say ANYTHING, with Reiko’s hands cranking upward on her jaw. And similarly, it’s difficult for the agonized blonde to shake her head in defiance. But she does manage to rasp out a determined groan which sounds to the official’s ear enough like a “No!” that he lets the match continue. However, with the ropes some ways away from the Darling of the Desert Southwest, it’s anyone’s guess how long it might take for Ohno’s hold to transform that negative into a positive…
… which is a state of affairs apparently not lost on the Li’lest Mitchell. With the ref’s focus firmly on Charlie and on any sign of submission offered by the youngster, he fails to notice Skye slip into the ring—that is, until Mitchell delivers a boot to Ohno’s flexed abs, both breaking the Ninja’s bridge and forcing her to release the hold. “HEY!” the zebra chides her, pointing the brunette back toward her corner as he pushes up from his knees. However, Skylar doesn’t need an escort for her departure this time, and she turns and retreats.
Ohno, meanwhile, shakes off the effects of Skye’s boot as she peels Charlie off the deck. Launching the challenger toward the ropes, Reiko’s posture settles into a slight crouch as Dawson hurtles back toward her, but whatever the Ninja intended to do would forever remain a mystery when the young blonde unexpectedly launches into a dive toward Ohno. As Charlie’s hands find her foe’s knees, she kicks her legs upward, the small of her back coming to a momentary rest against the champion’s right shoulder. Pushing off from Ohno’s knees, the Darling of the Desert Southwest sweeps her upper body into the air, her legs slipping around Reiko’s back. And from there, gravity assists the challenger as she captures the Ninja’s arms, taking Ohno down and putting the champion’s shoulder flat against the mat with a Manami Roll!
MANAMI ROLL @9:19:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEmZIbDzFOg
ONE…
TWO…
THRENOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Seah Sin makes the save, delivering a swift kick to the base of Charlie’s spine.
“OUT, SEAH!” the ref orders, taking the Little Dragon by the arm and guiding Sin to her corner. Charlie, meanwhile, manages to push the pain from the Korean’s kick out of her mind enough to get to her knees and scamper toward her corner. The cheer of the FAWNatics grows louder and louder with each step Dawson makes, Skylar climbing onto the bottom rope and leaning over the top to reach her hand in as far as she can…
… and when their palms touch, the crowd ERUPTS!
The Li’lest Mitchell demonstrates some impressive hops, vaulting over the top rope before delivering a swift pair of boots to Reiko’s chest. But as she reaches down to pull the Ninja up, a hand settles firmly on her shoulder.
The referee’s hand.
Apparently, the one person in the building who HAD to see the tag made in order for it to count, had FAILED to do so while he was getting Seah Sin out of the ring. Skye’s normally large, round eyes seem to double in size as she passionately pleads her case, the FAWNatics offering a vociferous backing to her claims.
But he is unmoved.
Elsewhere in the ring, with the official’s back turned, Seah Sin slips through the ropes for a second time in the previous minute, moving to assist her fellow tag champion up to her feet. Together, they march over to Charlie, who had lacked the strength to roll under the bottom rope after making the tag. Hairhauling the blonde to verticality while the Li’lest Mitchell continues to implore the referee to let her stay in the ring, the Invasion deliver a pair of boots to the pit of Charlie’s stomach, doubling the fading blonde in half. Reiko then shuffles to the side, pivoting to launch another kick, her sole CRAAAACK!ing off Dawson’s temple and straightening the Darling of the Desert Southwest up, leaving her rocking back on her heels. Sin then jumps up, dropping into a single handed handstand as she delivers her own kick, the Korean’s boot catching the back of Dawson’s skull. Finally, a dropkick from the Ninja takes Charlie off her feet, the youthful blonde left starfished and blinking up at the lights.
KICK COMBINATION:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v9Bbe55AMM
Sin makes her exit, just in time for the official to turn around and see Reiko Ohno yanking the challenger up by a handful of hair. With Charlie still stooped, the Japanese beauty gathers up and underhooks Dawson’s arms. Reiko muscles her opponent into the air, but only for a short trip, as she then takes a knee, SLAMMING Charlie’s spine down across the posted joint with an impressive backbreaker.
DOUBLE UNDERHOOK BACKBREAKER:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvtZRAkV2U0
A moaning Charlie rolls to her lift hip, grimacing and arching her abused spine, her boots kicking enough to spin her in a feeble half circle as Ohno heads to her corner and tags Seah. Trading places with the Ninja, the Little Dragon saunters up to Dawson, claiming a helping of hair and pulling the Darling of the Desert Southwest up to her hands and knees. She leads Charlie on a crawl to the center of the ring before tugging her up the rest of the way, lining the challenger up with a neutral corner and sending her in with a whip. As the blonde slumps against the buckles, Seah addresses the FAWNatics in a language that they are sure to understand, patting the cheeks of her backside with both hands before sprinting toward her opponent. Jumping into the air, Sin swivels her hips, BLASTING her ass into Dawson’s tummy with a breathtaking hip attack.
HIP ATTACK:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fxSipIgNDk&t=0s
From her position on the floor, Yuko Ogura applauds her Dragon’s efforts, then turns toward the crowd. Raising a finger into the air, she taunts the ugly Americans at ringside by asking, “ONE MORE???”
While there’s definitely a smattering of agreement with FAWN’s resident Napoleon, most of the FAWNatics respond negatively. But that doesn’t stop Seah from charging a second time, leaping and turning…
… and COMING UP EMPTY, as Charlie dives to the side, collapsing to the mat on her stomach. Denied the crashpad of Charlotte Dawson, Sin’s back takes the brunt of the impact, the top turnbuckle smashing between the Little Dragon’s shoulderblades, her rump slipping up onto the middle buckle. And there she remains, feet raised off the mat, her hands clutching the top rope to keep her from falling and eating a faceful of canvas. At last, with the referee’s attention not distracted, the blonde has a chance to drag herself toward the tag that she desperately needs…
… but Charlie doesn’t move. And, more distressing for those close enough to see, the blonde’s eyes appear to be closed. In the Sweetheart’s corner, Skylar gives the top turnbuckle a trio of forceful swats, the sound of her palm striking leather echoing through the FAWN Arena. She then steps up onto the bottom rope, leaning into the ring over the top as far as she can. “C’MON, CHARLIE!!!!” she shouts to her partner, beckoning the blonde forward with a wave of her outstretched hand…
The urging from her teammate seems to provide a boost of energy for the worn Dawson. She crawls halfway across the ring before pushing to her feet. All the while, Seah gets an earful from her manager. And where Charlie responds to encouragement, Sin responds to the anger of the tiny businesswoman.
Pushing away from the buckles behind her, the Korean staggers after the blonde, but a dive from Dawson to the fingertips of the second-generation superstar puts the brakes on the suddenly hesitant Invader. She turns back toward her corner and gets an earful from the high-pitched squeal of the Invasion’s general. Seah turns back to the Sweethearts. Skylar is already in and charging.
Sin takes a dropkick in the mush that decks her, but to her credit, while Skye scrambles to her feet, Seah does likewise. The alabaster-skinned youngster beats her foe to vertical and knocks her flat with another dropkick, Seah’s boots only under her for an instant before Sin is sent crashing to the deck with another double-barreled set of boots, this set to her chest.
As Yuko screams at her Little Dragon to get her ass up and burn the Carolina Cutie, Skye kips to vertical and ‘helps’ the Invader find her feet. With a tight grasp on a wrist and shoulder of the Asian grappler, Cynthia’s sibling heaves Sin to the ropes with an Irish Whip. Seah rebounds and has her head nearly taken off by a spinning wheel kick that hits her flush in the face. Seah’s golden-brown legs fly out in front of her as the back of her head and shoulders THUMP into the canvas.
Spinning Wheel Kick (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnbPVKM6x5M )
The dazed Korean bounces up to a seated position, her face blank, arms hanging loosely by her side. Mitchell drop next to her foe. Skye shoves Seah to her back and covers tightly in a lateral press, hooking the Invader’s far leg for the…
ONE…
TWO…
Sin shoves a shoulder up, rolls to her chest and pushes to hands and knees. Realizing she’s pointed toward the Sweethearts’ corner, Seah’s head drops, but only for a moment. Mitchell collects the noggin within her encompassing arms and tugs the faltering Korean up as she rises. With the Invader up but on rubbery legs, the Lil’est Mitchell pushes her advantage, dipping and sending an arm through the coppery stems of her foe.
Showing her strength, at least with a woman her own size, Skye scoops the Invader up and over and onto her right shoulder. She takes a couple skipping steps toward her fellow Sweetheart and body SLAMS Seah into the thinly-sheathed plywood, Sin’s body arching in pain from the spine-bruising impact.
As the Little Dragon settles to her back, wincing as she stares into the arena lights above, Mitchell scurries to home base and rises up the buckles. Reaching the top, she turns and faces her target while Charlie gives her a soft slap on the bum on the way up.
The official confirms the tag but the perky and pesky brunette is uon top for a reason. She launches from her penthouse to the loud, whining complaint of Miss Ogura from across the way. The Lil’est Mitchell zooms up and out from the corner, collapsing into a tight tuck at the top of her leap before exploding outward, her arms and legs spreading as she plummets into a CRASHING collision with the downed Invader.
Seah is gutted by the splendid frogsplash, Sin’s body jackknifing around the ivory-skinned Carolina Cutie. Skye scrambles off the groaning Korean. She knows what’s coming and BARELY clears off Sin before Charlotte follows suit, getting froggie to SPLASH all over the already breathless Invader. The double blast leaves Seah a gasping shell of a champion and Charlie rolls her foe into a tight cradle, ass to rafters for the…
ONE…
TWO…
THRNOO!
At the direction of her general, Reiko enters the ring and drives a boot into the flaxen-haired fighter, likely preventing what would have been unthinkable months ago, but continues to enter further into the realm of possibility with each passing moment; America’s Sweethearts as tag team champions.
As the ref herds Ohno back to a suspiciously empty Invasion corner, Dawson plucks the increasingly flaccid Seah off the canvas and sets her center stage. Turning, Charlie races to the ropes and is set to rebound toward the wobbling target. But as she’s about to finish her u-turn, Yuko snatches at the blonde’s ankle. As interference goes, it’s not Ogura’s best effort, lightly tripping Dawson enough to halt her attack. But the Sweetheart remains vertical and turns to offer her pouty-lipped ire at FAWN’s most devious executive.
Sensing an opening from behind, Sin charges the distracted blonde. A shout from Skye, the growing experience of dealing with Yuko, and a not fully recovered Invader combine to give Dawson the time to pivot away from Sin’s charge and heave her foe up and over the top rope, a wide-eyed Little Dragon sent airborne and landing ON TOP OF HER MANAGER.
The Invaders crash to the thinly padded cement in a jumble of torsos and limbs to the utter delight of the FAWNatics. A flustered Reiko drops to the floor to check on and unpile her cohorts. While the Ninja makes her assist, Charlie takes off in a sprint to the opposite cables and rebounds at full speed.
Showing the growth and gumption that turned the Sweethearts from fodder to contenders, Charlie closes in on the ropes above the Invasion and LAUNCHES over in a Suicide Dive that takes out all three Asians like a set of bowling pins.
As each of her foes is laid out on the floor, Dawson even manages to end the dive on her feet, buried in a bevy of chants from every corner of the arena.
“HOLE-EEE-SHYT… HOLE-EEE-SHYT… HOLE-EEE-SHYT”
Showing even more awareness, Charlotte only celebrates long enough for one fist pump before dragging Seah out of the Asian cluster and throwing her back into the ring. She takes a moment for a guilty pleasure, delivering a stomp to the chest of a rising Yuko that sends the diminutive manager crashing back to the floor in a grimacing heap.
Not wanting to face the fury of an angry, recovering Ninja, Dawson scurries to the apron and slides in after the rising, stumbling Seah.
Not that Ohno and Ogura have much of an opportunity to relax, for it seems that one Sweetheart has the other’s back, and is perhaps reading her mind just a little. While Charlie dives under the bottom rope, Skye Mitchell launches a dive of her own, taking to the skies and flying over the top rope, taking Reiko and Yuko down to the floor again with her own Suicide Dive! Meanwhile, the Darling of the Desert Southwest races toward the slightly stooped Sin, catching the Korean brunette around the neck. Jumping into the air, Charlotte twists her body to face down toward the canvas—and the result, as gravity pulls Dawson down to earth, is that Seah’s neck gets subjected to a nasty (though some MIGHT call it sweet) twisting neckbreaker.
TWISTING NECKBREAKER:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbAF-gzgIBY
Springing back to bootleather, the blonde ingenue notices that Skylar has made it back to the Sweethearts’ corner, and she doesn’t miss a beat, skipping over and slapping the Li’lest Mitchell’s outstretched hand, Skye’s other set of fingers coiled around the top rope. As soon as the tag is made, however, the brunette’s hand then joins its colleague as she rocks back, propelling herself to a perch atop the rubber coated steel strand. The cable then launches Skylar ever more heavenward, the challenger causing more than a few jaws to drop with the amount of sky she reaches. Of course, what goes up must come down, and when Skylar comes down, she SMASHES an elbow down atop Seah’s bosom.
SPRINGBOARD ELBOW DROP:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOOqGePyftE
Keeping the pressure on, Skylar scrambles to her feet and pulls the champ up for the ride as well, spinning Seah to face away from her. Wrapping her arms around the brunette’s midsection, the Li’lest Mitchell rushes forward, driving Sin toward the near ropes. When the Korean’s belly and chest meet the cables, Skye falls backward, pulling Seah down with her and rolling the Little Dragon up until her shoulders are flat against the mat, Mitchell sitting atop her thighs for a moment before bridging back for added leverage…
ROLLING BACK BRIDGE:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBupR4xkNbA
ONE…
TWO…
THRNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
Sin bucks free.
Climbing to her feet, Skye keeps Seah pacified with a quick boot to the temple, then pivots and tags in the Darling of the Desert Southwest. Charlie is back in the ring with a shot, skipping over the Invader’s torso while her partner remains on the other side of Sin’s noggin. Then, in near perfect unison, the Sweethearts take flight, Dawson launching a standing moonsault and Mitchell dropping a leg, the duo landing with equal precision across the Little Dragon’s belly and throat, respectively.
STANDING MOONSAULT/LEG DROP COMBO:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb2d-g1TqN0&t=0s
As Skye heads to her corner, a cover MUST have been tempting for the blonde, but she doesn’t go for it. Instead, she kips up, dropping into a bit of a crouch as she waits for the Little Dragon to push herself up as well. And as Sin starts to work her way toward rubbery legs, Charlie turns and sprints into the near ropes. Rebounding off the strands, Dawson makes a beeline toward the woozy champion, once again going airborne—and again, twisting her body to face the canvas as her legs snake around Sin’s waist. Charlie’s hands slap against the canvas, the blonde sending her upper body rocketing up toward Seah’s with a shove. Reaching back, she claims the back of the Korean’s head with one hand before kicking her legs out in front of her. Finally, the Darling of the Desert Southwest drops to her tush, welcoming the tag champ to the Land of Enchantment by DRIVING Seah’s jaw down against Charlie’s shoulder.
LAND OF ENCHANTMENT:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WedGKdYh_Q
With glory within the grasp, Dawson practically FLOATS back to her corner before tagging out to her partner. Skye slips back between the ropes, but she doesn’t head directly toward the mewling brunette. Instead, she gives Sin a wide berth to begin pulling herself up, Mitchell maneuvering along the ropes into she finds the right spot…
… and then begins to stomp her boot.
As the Li’lest Mitchell loads up, the FAWNatics who had dared this long to believe jump to their feet in anticipation. So engrossed in the moment as Skylar readies herself, only a handful of fans notice that Charlie Dawson begins climbing her way toward the top turnbuckle, rather than staying in her corner. Finally, the Little Dragon wills herself to an upright, albeit swaying, position, awkwardly spinning to find her opponent…
… and turning directly into a WICKED collision of her jaw with Skylar’s sole, the Tar Heel connecting with her Greetings from Charlotte!
GREETINGS FROM CHARLOTTE:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9ezBrPN1w0
Sin’s head snaps backward, the suddenly cross-eyed Korean beauty forced to pivot on her heels and stagger away from the impact, toward the Sweethearts’ corner. And yet, her stubborn legs refuse to let her fall. However, it quickly becomes apparent that her valiant efforts to cling to the championship might be more a curse than a blessing as Charlie Dawson comes off the top rope, catching the kick-drunk Little Dragon around the head with both hands. The youthful blonde lands on her ass, and Seah Sin’s jaw suffers one final traumatic impact, this time with the challenger’s shoulder, thanks to her Charlie Cutter.
CHARLIE CUTTER:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzQLusG_T8Y
And suddenly, a jubilant FAWN Arena is sent into pure euphoria! What had begun tonight as a hopeful story had now been made a near certainty, the roar of the FAWNatics DEAFENING as Skylar DIVES across Seah’s chest, gathering and hooking BOTH of the Korean’s legs tight.
ONE…
Back on her feet, Charlie slumps against the near ropes, arms laced over the top strand. Skye’s eyelids are sealed shut, as she pours every ounce of her strength into keeping the Little Dragon’s gams in her possession.
TWO…
Do you believe in miracles???
THREEAREYOUFRIKKINKIDDINGMEEEEEE?
The referee’s hand had made about three-quarters of its final descent, and Seah Sin hadn’t so much as twitched. But another Invader HAD been stirring, and Reiko Ohno snatches both of the official’s ankles, bringing him from inside the ring out to the floor with a mighty, desperate heave.
Having felt neither the third slap of the official’s hand or any semblance of a spasm from the (still?) tag team champion, nor having heard the toll of the bell, Skye’s eyes blink open in confusion, the brunette looking up to her partner for some sort of answer. For her part, Charlie pushes away from the ropes with a scream of pure frustration. Setting course toward the ropes opposite Reiko Ohno, the Ninja’s back to her as she and the ref share a heated exchange, Dawson rebounds off the cables and races across the ring, launching herself through the ropes with one more Suicide Dive, one born of pure vengeance…
From one knee along the security barrier, Yuko Ogura shouts, “REIKO-SAN!”
Whether the Ninja had been baiting her young foe or just made a lucky guess would prove messageboard fodder for some time to come, but whatever the case, Ohno chooses wisely, diving to the side and out of Dawson’s path. The referee is much less fortunately, as the American blonde’s lithe frame SLAMS into him, one hundred and twelve pounds still proving enough to drive him to the floor, the back of his head bouncing off the unforgiving surface.
Aghast at what she’s done, a distraught Dawson cradles the head of the official, burying him in sorrowful ‘sorrys’. She taps lightly on the cheek of the semiconscious referee. Others are less gentle than the Sweetheart.
Grasping Charlie around the noggin, Reiko hauls the blonde to her feet, turning the bent challenger into a clubbing blow to Charlotte’s spine. Her foe’s column tenderized, Reiko turns her back on Dawson’s lowered head and reaches behind to collect both of the blonde’s arms, locking elbows with Charlie. Instantly, Ohno spins so she’s back to back, but with the blonde now above her.
Her foe situated precisely, Reiko bruises her tailbone, dropping to a seat on the thinly-padded cement, but more so she ravages the vertebrae of Charlie with her Ninja Backbreaker.
Ninja Backbreaker (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCvI2p5dHr8 )
The diminutive grappler bounces off the champ like she’s been electrified, ending splayed and shuddering next to the wincing Ohno, who pushes to her feet gingerly, the aching tailbone worth it.
Mitchell instantly calculates lying atop the demolished Seah won’t be a productive use of her time for the foreseeable future. She crawls off the unconscious Korean and hoofs it to the ropes on all fours. The brunette rolls under the bottom cable and lands her boots on the floor, confronting a rising Reiko with a right hand at the ready.
As Skye pivots to deliver a forearm shiver, a genuflecting Yuko throws one of her own from behind, parting Skylar’s short, ivory stems with an uppercut thrust into the second-generation star’s privates. Skylar’s face twists in agony, her eyes rolling from the expert ‘invasion’ by the general. Mitchell’s knees knock together and she melts to her haunches, hands buried in her crotch, eyes welling, jaw dropping.
Ogura knee-walks to directly behind the gaijin challenger and whispers in an ear.
“You’re not half of your sister, which means you’re not a quarter of me or My Invasion.”
Ogura swings her left arm in front of Mitchell’s throat in a backhanded swipe that quickly draws the Carolina Cutie’s head back in a dragon sleeper, Mitchell’s depleted condition courtesy Yuko’s low blow putting her at supreme disadvantage in finding an escape.
Meanwhile Reiko has a softly squirming Charlie up in a fireman’s carry. Baby blues wide with anxiety, Dawson drives some weak elbows into Ohno’s temple the Invader does her best to ignore. The blows start to accumulate so the Japanese grappler heaves and spins the Sweetheart above her, pancaking her into the floor with her Yokohama Mama sidewalk slam.
Yokohama Mama (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daAqkUVl6Io )
The crowd falls deathly silent, such is the impact of the blonde. The Invader seems unconcerned. She scrapes what’s left of Charlie off the floor, carries Dawson like a babe in her arms, and rolls her under the ropes. The challenger bumps shoulders with Sin who’s stirred out of her double-finisher sleep.
While it’s all the Little Dragon can do to slop a limp arm over the spread-eagled Charlotte, Reiko assists her second person into the ring, namely the awakening zebra. Shoulder to shoulder, Ohno helps the schnook to the apron where he crawls into the ring at the speed of pouring molasses.
Still on the floor, Yuko’s pulled the gassed and gasping Skye into a body scissor/rear naked choke combo. Both women are on their back, Skylar atop FAWN’s most successful manager. While above, the location is hardly an advantage, as Yuko’s abbreviated golden legs surround Mitchell’s waist and her arms continue to suck the consciousness out of the legal Sweetheart.
Rear Naked Choke (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhWe7-RVVEk )
With Ogura and Mitchell out of sight and out of mind of the dazed arbiter and Reiko shouting in the man’s ear about Sin’s pin in front of his glazed eyes, the official slowly, laboriously, slaps the canvas for the…
ONE…
TWO…
THREE!!!!
The FAWNatics erupt in a shower of jeers as the ref calls for the bell then collapses and weakly rolls out of the ring. Inside, Reiko peels the semiconscious Seah off her fully comatose counterpart. Ohno nearly carries her partner to a corner and leans Sin into the buckles so she can recover in peace.
Reiko disregards the ring announcer making the verdict official as she moves to the spent Dawson.
“Your winners…and STILL FAWN TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS…Reiko Ohno and Seah Sin…the ASIAN INVASION.”
Immediately, Reiko scoops Charlie’s legs off the canvas, crosses them in a figure four and starts to twist the blonde to her chest. With Dawson’s lower limbs trapped and pressed against her chest, Ohno uses her free arms to lock her elbows with Dawson’s and lift her foe off the deck into a mid-air, back-breaking Clutch, the Ninja called Ohno Not That.
Ohno Not That (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH-huuE941E )
Brought back to life from the pain, Charlie howls in agony, her head shaking from side to side. She squeals out “ I GIVE” a half-dozen times, pleading for Reiko to release but the Invader refuses.
On the outside, Yuko, yes, Yuko f’n Ogura has extinguished Skye’s senses, the businesswoman continuing to keep her hold in place as Skye’s lids flutter over eyes turned white, the Lil’est Mitchell foaming at the mouth as the Invasion’s general seems intent on sending Skylar to the emergency room.
AC/DC’s “Hell’s Bells” blasts through the stadium’s speakers and a pair of Hellions race toward the ring like they’ve escaped Hades itself and are bent on claiming souls.
Skylar’s big and, in this case, very bad sis and her confederate in crime, Ivy Armstrong, sprint to the squared circle with fire in their eyes. While the Bama Slamma slides into the ring at nearly full speed, Cynthia circles around it, racing to free her sibling.
Seah makes an ill-advised attempt to stop the charging redhead and has her noggin nearly removed by a vicious leg lariat that knocks her back to senseless.
In the meantime, Reiko’s dropped her blonde bundle and ejected from the confines. She heads clockwise to head off a countering Cynthia and save her leader. Seeing the concern in the approaching Ohno’s eyes, Yuko releases Skye and scrambles from under the insensate Carolina Cutie.
Reiko barely has time to leap over her manager when she’s nearly CUT IN HALF by a spear from the raging Cynful One. Reiko’s left a splayed mess under the hyperventilating Mitchell who, on all fours, looks up at a fearful Ogura.
Mitchell’s face seemingly convincing Yuko she’s made a terrible mistake, the businesswoman kicks off her pumps and decides to cut and run, leaving her decimated troops at the hands of some very pissed Hellions.
But Cynthia isn’t interested in making the grunts pay for the leader’s handiwork. Cynthia pushes to her feet and is on little Yuko’s trail all the way up the aisle, ramp and through the curtain only a couple arms’ length from Ogura as they disappear behind the curtains.
In the ring, Ivy has a microphone and stands in a straddle over the demolished Seah.
“Y’all don’t know what ya unleashed here tonight,” she shouts, between labored breaths. “Y’all didn’t let loose a team determined to destroy ya. We’re a damn crimson tide of vengeance and your so-called Invasion is gonna be swept away by a bloody wave of red.”
Armstrong spikes the mike, ‘thunking’ it into Sin’s golden-brown tummy, Seah grunting and jackknifing slightly from the impact. Ivy raises her arms high and wide to the adoration of the crowd then heads for the exit to see if she’ll need to bail her partner out of the Orlando City Jail.
And yet, with gold on the line, somehow the audience manages to turn the knob up just a little more.
“Introducing first, at a total combined weight of two-hundred and twenty-six pounds ... Ladies and gentlemen, would you please give a warm Orlando welcome to... Charlotte Dawson... Skylar Mitchell, otherwise known as... AMMMEEERRRIIICCCAAA’S SWWWEEEETTTHHHEEEAAARRRTTTSSS!”
Charlie Dawson:
Skye Mitchell:
The FAWNatics do just that, turning things up beyond eleven and all the way to thirteen as Taylor Swift’s ‘Style’ begins to play over the sound system. Even before graduating to main roster status, Charlie and Skye had put in a number of appearances in Orlando, winning plenty of hearts right off the bat, if not nearly as many matches. But that had been changing in recent weeks, the spunky young duo having earned themselves a spot in the semi-finals of the Queens of the Ring tournament. Indeed, their shot at gold tonight might not be happening if not for what could only be described as an upset victory over Hot & Bothered.
And now, tonight, they have a chance to go into those semi-finals as the reigning FAWN Tag Team champions. Certainly, both Bangor and Albuquerque were no longer in their future…
Just a couple of moments later, a stunning, bedimpled young blonde bursts through the curtains. Once the beaming Dawson arrives, however, the crowd remarkably manages to raise the decibel meter further still! And yet... despite the FAWN Arena’s capacity dwarfing the Left Turn (the “arena” in which she had broken into the business) by a factor of HUNDREDS to one, somehow their roar didn’t feel QUITE as loud to Dawson. But that doesn’t stop the youngster from bringing her hands up to her ears, covering them as if the roar might be painful--but the smile that remained planted on Charlie’s lips illustrated just how much she’s enjoying the moment. Blushing, the blonde motioned downward with her hands...
But even in Orlando, the capacity crowd would have none of it--especially not with her partner standing behind her, waving her hands UPWARD frantically, beckoning the FAWNatics to keep the love coming. As frenetic as Skylar’s arms are moving, perhaps Charlie spots a bit of a blur out of the corner of her eye, prompting her to spin around...
The kid might be quick, but not quick enough. By the time she’s facing Skye, her fellow youngster’s hands are clasped behind her back, and she looks up toward the lights, whistling in pure innocence.
Charlie shakes her head at her partner before turning and taking off toward the ring. Skylar followed suit almost immediately. The Sweethearts make it a point to slap EVERY single hand offered her way--and ESPECIALLY the younger ones.
Finally, the Darling of the Desert and the Lil’est Mitchell slide under the bottom rope, springing to their feet. The duo unzip their hot pink hoodies, Charlie slipping off hers to reveal a light blue fightin’ two piece that, in spite of its somewhat modest and innocent cut still managed to raise the blood pressure of quite a few spectators. For her part, Skye sports a royal purple lycra bikini top and short shorts, with white pads and boots.
(Old school FAWN fans might note the distinct similarity in Skylar’s togs, and the gear worn by her older sister Cynthia at the beginning of her career...)
Charlotte and Skye each move to their corner, taking a moment to adjust their pads before stretching, preparing to for the opportunity to set the tag division on its ear… and to bring those tag belts back home to the USA.
With the two gaijin waiting for the start of a dream the champs would make a nightmare, the Rising Sun flag supplants the FAWN logo on the FAWNtron, red sunbeams flowing out of a red disc. The crowd explodes with a shower of boos, the sound increasing when familiar oriental music signals the Invasion is about to land.
The arena speakers herald the second gen of Invading titleholders, when Euphoria’s Valentine Jealousy courses through the sound system. ( www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVzfpD-xyqY )
Two shadowy figures in sweeping red satin robes appear, followed closely behind by the Invasion’s ever-present general/mogul Miss Yuko Ogura.
Reiko Ohno:
Seah Sin:
Yuko Ogura:
Japanese cuneiform emerges from the red disc on the tron, the symbols turning to English in an Asian script spelling out "Asian Invasion'.
Simultaneously, the dishonorable duo sweep off their coverings, tossing them aside. The natives of Far East are in matching blood red bikinis, accessorized with red boots and pads, Seah Sin and Reiko Ohno showing a unified front with their attire. Most important of all are their complementary gaudy gold belts, signifying their champion status. Each is laid over a shoulder of the women who had beaten the Kanes, The Three, the Hellions, FAWN legends or legends-to-be one and all. Tonight they would be facing two lambs of the sacrificial kind who’d stumbled into a couple nice wins.
Next to the partners, their tiny terror of a manger wears her eye-catching ensemble. Above Yuko has a top of white satin in front, black-n-white stripes from side to back. Below is the familiar gun metal gray with pinstripes but only in very daring proportions, the tiny ring of cloth held in place with a pair of jaunty suspenders. On her abbreviated but delectable stems are whalenet stockings leading to black business pumps and atop her long chestnut-colored locks is a black fedora.
The women share a bow toward each other then move down the ramp, as the PA blares to life.
“And their opponents, accompanied by their manager Yuko Ogura…”
The crowd tests their lungs as they erupt in a torrent of jeers for the hated businesswoman.
“… from Yokohama, Japan and Kyongju, South Korea…Reiko Ohno and Seah Sin…THE ASIAN INVASION.”
The evil executive leads her forces, avoiding contact with the forest of waving hands on either side, Seah and Reiko careful to flank Yuko so no one can get close to their glorious leader.
Reaching the ring, Yuko sends the increasingly important yet still junior members of her Invasion around the squared circle in opposite directions, while she ascends the steps and enters with a shiteating grin firmly in place.
With America’s Losers settled in their corner, looking reticent, Ohno and Sin hop to the canvas in unison, waiting outside, the attention on Yuko, FAWN’s Napoleon holding court with a microphone in her hand.
She raises the stick to her lips only to be buried under a cascade of boos. Ogura smirks and waits for the noise to subside. It is VERY slow to do so.
“They are running out of opponents. You see?”
Orlando’s great unwashed jeer Ogura with every bit of their lung power.
Yuko signals for her Invaders to enter. Reiko and Seah bend their way through the ropes and move to their general, the Japanese crew congregating in the middle of the ring, staring menacingly at the Sweethearts.
“My Samurai and my Little Dragon destroy the best this place can offer and now you send us this. My Invasion is going to make a statement like no one has ever seen.”
Ogura drops the microphone with a loud ‘THUD’ and the trio walk to their corner, the enraged crowd furious and more than willing to show it. As the catcalls flood the ring, Ohno and Sin hand over their gold and the three Invaders huddle, occasionally turning an eye toward Skylar and Charlie.
Matching speed for speed, Yuko directs her Little Dragon Seah to remain, Sin ready to start the match for the title holders, Reiko and Ogura taking their place on the sidelines.
On the other side of the ring, after a brief period of negotiation, Charlie Dawson elects to start things off for the challengers. A grinning Skye nods her consent—and the youngster’s grin grows just a bit wider when she gives her partner’s rump a supportive pat as the blonde steps away from her corner…
As the bell sounds, Dawson raises her hands and starts a slow, rhythmic clap as she begins to circle. The FAWNatics, never being ones to miss a cue, take up the cause and clap along. And, given the circumstances of the match, perhaps it is only inevitable that SOMEONE in the crowd attempts to start a chant of, “U-S-A! U-S-A!” Even less surprisingly, the chant catches on, especially when Skylar turns away from the ring and waves a hand upward, urging the crowd along…
… no, perhaps the only surprising development is when Seah joins in, clapping and chanting with everyone else, though with a decidedly mocking tone to her voice and a sneer on her lips. Out on the floor, little Yuko gives an almost imperceptible nod of her head as her Little Dragon’s actions have the desired effect: not shutting the crowd up—on the contrary, the masses manage to get even louder—but their jingoistic babbling is transformed into a cascade of jeers and catcalls, directed at Sin and Ohno.
Finally reaching each other at mid-ring, blonde and brunette surge into a tie-up, jockeying for control, until the Darling of the Desert Southwest slips around behind her foe, with Seah’s left arm in her possession, which she wrenches up behind the Little Dragon’s back in a hammerlock. The Asian beauty lets out an anguished groan as one particular jostle of her arm lifts Sin up onto her tiptoes—and Dawson cannot help but relish this rare moment of being the bigger girl in the ring.
“What do you say, Seah?” the referee asks. “You wanna…?”
The response comes NOT from the grimacing woman within the ropes, but from the infuriated woman on the outside. “YOU SHUT MOUTH!!!” Yuko Ogura demands. “My Dragon LAUGHS at this pathetic hold!”
Charlie cocks an eyebrow as she looks toward FAWN’s resident Napoleon, and gives Seah’s trapped wing another upward crank. When Sin has to choke back a yelp, the grinning blonde remarks, “That’s the funniest sounding laugh I’ve ever heeEEEAAAAAAGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!”
Dawson yells in pain as the brunette reaches her one free hand over her shoulder, latches onto a handful of the Sweetheart’s long, blonde tresses, and pulls down with as much might as her leverage will allow. From the floor, the General of the Asian Invasion applauds her Dragon’s ingenuity, even as it draws Seah a tongue lashing from the official. He begins to count, with Sin quite ludicrously pretending not to understand English all the way to the count of four. When she lets go, it’s only natural that Charlotte’s body momentarily relaxes in relief…
t, however—and to Yuko Ogura’s supreme annoyance—the brunette only manages to keep the hold applied for a few seconds before Charlie works HER way out the back…
… and then slaps on a tight side headlock.
“CHOKE!” shouts Yuko, earning a roll of the eyes from the Darling of the Desert Southwest. Gradually, though, Seah manages to force her foe back toward the ropes, even as Dawson keeps the headlock cinched in. And when the blonde’s back begins to press into the taut steel cables, Sin plants a hand against the small of Charlie’s back and gives a strong shove, the tension of the cables providing a boost to send the challenger sprinting toward the far ropes. The Little Dragon takes a couple of steps back toward the center of the ring as Dawson hits the strands, ducking down for a backdrop as Charlotte rushes back toward her…
… only for Charlie to plant her hands (both of them) against Seah’s back, leapfrogging the champion and continuing on her merry way to the other side. The Asian lovely doesn’t bother fully straightening up, instead pivoting and dropping to the canvas, forcing Dawson to once again jump over her as she makes a second trip toward the far ropes. Nearing the cables, Charlie catches sight of Skylar inching down the apron, tag rope in her left hand, and as she turns her back to the rubber coated steel, Dawson also braces for the slap she expects to feel between her shoulderblades.
The ref signals acknowledgment of the tag with his hands as the Little Dragon scrambles to her feet. Only this time, as the diminutive blonde approaches, Charlie lowers her shoulder. Demonstrating that the challenger isn’t the only person in this match who can fly, Seah leaps into the air, extending her legs to either side to allow Dawson clearance underneath her. And after gracefully touching down, the brunette whips around…
… to find a beaming Charlie looking back at her, arms hooked around the top rope. Raising her right hand, the Darling of the Desert Southwest gives Sin her most charming, welcoming wave, Sin blinking in confusion…
… until a pair of boots SLAM into her back, Skye Mitchell connecting with a blindside dropkick! While the blow definitely catches the tag champ by surprise, it actually fails to knock Sin off her feet, instead sending the brunette staggering toward Charlie. But that almost seems to be EXACTLY as America’s Sweethearts had intended. Dawson pushes off the ropes, charging toward the off-balance Seah and leaping toward her. Wrapping an arm around her opponent’s neck, Charlotte kicks her feet high and drops to her back, DRIVING the crown of Sin’s skull into the canvas with a beautiful running tornado DDT.
RUNNING TORNADO DDT:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lat__jA0_LM
Dawson climbs to her feet off the right flank of the splattered Seah, her partner approaching the downed tag champ from the left. Mitchell raises a hand high—well, as high as you can when you’re five foot one and your partner is only an inch taller. Charlie meets that raised palm with a high five, the sound of the slapping hands still echoing in the arena as she and Skylar lace their fingers together and drop a pair of elbows to the chest of the Little Dragon, one impacting with each breast.
“C’mon, Charlie,” the ref chides her. “Tag was made, you…”
“It’s okay,” the blonde replies with a sigh, raising her hands in innocence as she starts to make her exit. “I’m going.”
Meanwhile, Mitchell pulls a mewling Seah up to her feet. Claiming a wrist, the Li’lest Mitchell whips her foe the short distance to the nearest neutral corner with a disproportionate amount of force for such a brief journey. And while Sin does manage to turn into the collision, the impact of her back with the buckles sends the Asian beauty staggering out of the corner on wobbly legs. Skye then quickly sprints toward the ropes to Sin’s right, rebounding off the strands and racing toward her. Catching the back of the Little Dragon’s head with one hand, Mitchell leaps and SLAMS her opponent’s mug into the mat with an emphatic bulldog. Rolling the shellshocked Invader to her back, Skylar covers, hooking a leg and scoring the…
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TWO…
“KICK OUT!!!!!!” Ogura orders, slamming both hands against the apron.
THRNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ever the good soldier, Sin obeys her General’s orders.
The Korean, having shoved a shoulder up, rolls to her side next to the Lil’est Mitchell, the brunette pushed to all fours by Sin’s effort but not flustered in the least. Skye offers a wink to Yuko, which sets the tiny businesswoman off. Ogura slaps the canvas, sputtering, as she tries to come up with words to explain Mitchell standing above a reeling Seah.
Cynthia’s baby sis doesn’t have time to waste and, after a few more seconds of Ogura’s hemming and hawing, she grabs a wrist and shoulder and tugs the Invader to her feet. Bullying Seah to a neutral set of buckles, Skye flings Sin toward the opposite corner. Or that was the plan. But Seah manages to reverse the Emerald Isle heave and it’s the Carolina Cutie who scurries across the canvas, apparently heading in chest first.
The Little Dragon takes flight, racing to catch Skylar’s tail. But when Mitchell reaches the far corner, she hops to the bottom ropes, grabbing the top, and springboards; throwing her legs out behind her. The Invader falls into the trap, Skye’s lower limbs clamp shut around either side of the Korean’s braincase.
As Sin tries to pry her way free, Skye folds her legs, thrusting her knees forward and forcing Seah’s flawless features to SLAM into the middle buckle, the crowd groaning in momentary sympathy from the Tar Heel Smash then cheering loudly.
Tar Heel Smash (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7rd74zCr1M )
Looking completely confident, and with the roll the Sweethearts are on why wouldn’t she, Skylar leans back and keeps Seah’s face mushed into the thin padding while she shouts joyfully, head overturned.
The official finally gets Mitchell’s attention at ‘THREE’ in his count and the adorable brunette dismounts. She turns to the FAWNatics, raising both arms with little’ ‘V’s formed by index and middle fingers.
A frustrated Ogura screams at the kneeling Seah, the Little Dragon’s wings clipped as she leans heavily into the corner, recovering senses and breath. The high-pitched shouts prompt more action from America’s Team than the Korean as Skylar sprints to her corner and tags the waiting Charlotte.
Not waiting for her replacement, Mitchell turns and races toward a rising and turning Sin. In a split-second reaction to Skylar speeding in from her side, Seah dips and heaves the diminutive brunette over her left shoulder. The rattled and reeling Seah doesn’t have quite enough ‘oomph’ in her throw to send Skylar all the way over the ropes and this proves a blessing in disguise as Mitchell instead lands with one leg ON EITHER SIDE.
Skylar’s baby blues bulge as she rides the rubber-coated steel of the top cable. But Sin has no time to enjoy the anguished look on the Sweetheart’s face. Instead, Charlie is barreling down on Seah and the Korean pivots in the opposite direction, this time taking Dawson off her right shoulder, tossing the blonde grappler up and HALFWAY OVER!
Charlie ends in a straddle atop the uppermost strand, hands pressing against the rope to remove it from her undercarriage but unsuccessfully. The Sweethearts, pointed toward each other and close enough to grab hold of the other, steady themselves, but gain little else as the cable digs into their privates in stereo.
A shrieking Yuko gives Seah the perfect ‘Invading’ instruction and a snarling Seah snatches the top rope with both hands, RIPPING it up and down, giving both Sweethearts a very unhappy ride. Hugging and howling, America’s Team is blasted up the middle in unison by the heartless Sin, the Invader ignoring the ref’s calls for her to let the challengers off the wild ride.
At ‘FOUR’, Seah relents, but she leaves blonde and brunette mounted while she strides to the Invasion corner. Slapping hands with Reiko, Sin sends Yuko’s Ninja into the squared circle for the first time and Reiko flies across the canvas like a Zero fighter plane, taking off as she closes in with the still wobbling and mewling partners. Nailing each with half of her dropkick, Ohno gets two gaijin for the price of one, sending both Sweethearts tumbling over, the challengers thumping against the apron before settling on the floor in matching endearing piles, Skye’s and Charlie’s hands buried between their legs after the game-changing journey.
Inside the ring’s confines, Reiko kips to her feet, grabs the top rope, and gazes down on the recovering wholesome twosome. The devious Invader leans back and slingshots herself over the top, CRASHING down across both youngsters as they achingly push toward vertical, flattening Mitchell and Dawson.
The veteran needs no direction from her infamous manager to keep the tsunami rolling. Ohno snatches the legal Charlie from the jumble of Sweethearts and stuffs her back in the ring, following quickly behind. Reiko tugs Dawson up as she rises and sends her foe shooting into the opposite set of ropes from which they’d rolled under.
There’s a definite hitch in the blonde’s giddy-up but she beats her boots to the ropes and rebounds toward the stationed Ninja. The champ guesses correctly Dawson is launching for an aerial attack and she steps to Charlie to close the gap befoe she can get airborne, the Japanese grappler drawing the pint-sized Sweetheart into her arms, lifting and flipping Dawson through a tilt-a-whirl that ends with Charlotte’s spine CRASHING down across bended knee, Reiko trying to crack the challenger in two with her backbreaker.
Tilt-a-whirl backbreaker (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fshq_oSLAsI )
Ohno roughly shoves the arched and agonized blonde off the plank of her thigh and flattens her opponent to the deck in a groaning spreadeagle then climbs aboard in a lateral press for the…
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TWO…
The feisty Charlie kicks free of the pinning predicament, leaving Yuko complaining bitterly on the sidelines about a slow count. The manager takes her case to the apron, berating the official from closer range. The man scolds Ogura, demanding she return to the floor, but little Yuko holds her ground and gives as good as she gets.
Reiko, hands full of Charlie’s flaxen locks, tugs Dawson on hands and knees to the ropes farthest from the debate. She forces the Sweetheart’s throat across the middle rope and presses her knee into the back of Dawson’s neck, trying to choke the fight out of Charlie while the Invasion’s general keeps the match arbiter distracted.
Charlie’s eyes snap wide open as her windpipe is compressed by the taut, rubber coated steel, Reiko’s one hundred and twenty-five pounds forcing her down harder and harder by the second. Between that middle rope and the Japanese woman’s knee, the normally bubbly blonde’s attempts at a verbal protest are rendered little more than quiet, raspy gurgles, volume denied by her lack of oxygen and coherency prevented by the crushing vice her neck currently resides in. Arms thrashing in front of her, Dawson’s boots pound at the mat, but the shrill demands of Yuko Ogura and the well-meaning roar of the FAWNatics drown out that patter as well.
“HEY, REF!” Skylar Mitchell shouts from the Sweethearts’ corner, pointing toward Reiko insistently. “DO SOMETHING ABOUT WHAT’S IMPORTANT, WILL YA???”
Alas, Yuko will not allow the official’s attention to be diverted from her. Realizing that her partner’s freedom would depend on her, the Li’lest Mitchell slips through the ropes. But even as she threads one gam through the cables, Ogura points out Skye’s intrusion, and the official intercepts her less than two strides away from her corner. Satisfied, but not nearly contented, Yuko jumps down from the apron and leisurely makes her way around the ring, to where her Ninja is throttling the challenger. General and soldier make momentary eye contact, and Ohno nods, rising off the wheezing Dawson to approach Mitchell and the official. From behind his back, Reiko sends a few verbal taunts Skye’s way, undoing whatever progress the ref had managed to make in defusing the situation and motivating Mitchell to struggle that much harder to force her way past him.
Meanwhile, little Yuko reaches up with both hands, filling them with Charlie’s locks before abruptly dropping to one knee. From her place on the floor, Ogura’s lack of height becomes a considerable advantage, increasing her leverage as she attempts to choke out Dawson with even more force and vigor than Reiko had been able to bring into play. The gagging blonde’s arms wave helplessly, her feet kicking even harder, but there is little she can do to end her plight—and the only people who would be in a position to help her and to be inclined to do so were currently preoccupied with one another.
Only once Yuko spots Charlie’s eyelids beginning to flutter does she release the blonde’s locks. Dawson’s belly slumps toward the bottom rope, though the middle cable resting underneath her arms keeps the young Sweetheart from collapsing much further, her head bowed toward the floor. The Darling of the Desert Southwest is only dislodged from her resting place against the ropes when Ogura draws back her right hand and BLASTS Charlie’s cheek with as powerful a bytch slap as her five foot frame can manage. A mewling Dawson is sent tumbling to the mat, and she meekly rolls out to the apron, chest heaving as she attempts to regroup.
With Skylar finally put back in her corner, the official turns to see Ohno sauntering toward her partner, where she slaps Seah’s offered hand for a tag. Only then, she makes a turn, away from the Invasion corner and toward where Charlie rests on the apron. The Little Dragon, meanwhile, starts scaling the ropes, making her way toward the top turnbuckle. Reaching through the ropes, Yuko’s Ninja grabs a handful of Charlie’s tresses, and pulls the reeling youngster up to her feet on the outside of the ring. Slipping an arm around Dawson’s neck, Ohno reaches her other hand down to the blonde’s hip, latching on to a handful of waistband before popping her hips and muscling the Darling of the Desert Southwest vertical for a suplex…
… and then, taking advantage of the challenger’s lack of size, Reiko demonstrates some uncharacteristic power, holding her captive aloft in the stall position as she shuffles her feet backwards. Once she has created enough space between herself and the ropes, Ohno sends the challenger plummeting forward, Charlie’s descent brought to an abrupt end when her stomach SLAMS down across the top rope. With a breathless Dawson left hung up across the cable, Reiko steps back, providing clearance for her partner to take flight from the top turnbuckle, Seah connecting with a knee drop to back of the blonde’s noggin.
ROPE HUNG DIVING KNEE DROP:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0mmlHQV0oE&t=0s
Sin pops back to her feet, seemingly enjoying the torrent of jeers as she sashays her way back to the splattered challenger. Hairhauling Dawson to her feet, the Korean beauty whips the blonde into the Invasion’s corner, Yuko Ogura earning a heaping of scorn from the FAWNatics when she offers a mocking wince upon Dawson’s impact with the buckles. Charlie’s arms flop over the top rope, holding her at least semi aloft as she begins to sag into the corner. And then Seah charges from center ring, leaping into the air, causing Reiko Ohno to swing around the ringpost as Sin catches the top rope in front of the spot the Ninja had just vacated. Using the cable for balance, the Little Dragon swings her right leg toward her foe, catching the young blonde across the sternum with her thigh.
CORNER LEG LARIAT:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_CbT9bfOkE&t=0s
Again with the aid of the top rope, Seah’s boots touch down, clearing a path for Charlie to stagger away from the buckles. The blonde’s legs tremble with each step, but her balance doesn’t fail her, even when Sin slides up alongside. Grabbing Dawson’s left wrist, the brunette pulls Charlie’s arm up and out to her side, Seah holding the trapped limb across her chest as she places her right arm around the challenger’s neck. The Little Dragon then kicks her leg back, cutting Charlie’s left stem out from under her as both women plummet forward, the reverse Russian leg sweep SLAMMING the blonde down, face and chest first.
REVERSE RUSSIAN LEG SWEEP:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9xJHZJyPIQ
Rolling the near senseless Darling of the Desert Southwest over to her back, Seah hooks the far leg as she applies the cover, scoring the…
ONE…
TWO…
THRNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Charlie gets a shoulder up.
Shaking her head with a bemused smirk, Seah snatches a handful of hair and tugs the blonde up onto rubbery legs. Dragging the challenger into the Invasion corner, the Korean beauty tags out to Reiko, then lifts Charlie’s right arm away from her body, leaving her chest open to receive a swift kick from the arriving Ninja. Dawson spins away from the impact, dropping first to her knees before pitching forward to land on all fours. As Seah slips out of the ring, Ohno drops Charlie the rest of the way to the canvas with a stomp to the back.
Circling to the blonde’s boots, Reiko forces Charlie’s left ankle down against the pit of her right knee, then pushes up on the challenger’s right boot to lock the foot into place. Turning her back to her opponent, the back of the Japanese brunette’s calf keeping Dawson’s boots trapped. The Ninja then bridges back, until the crown of her skull rests over Charlie’s right shoulder, the tag champ slipping her hands under Charlie’s chin as she cinches in the Muta lock.
MUTA LOCK:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXrMM7GH2kY
“How about it, Charlie?” the referee asks. “I’ll ring the bell. Just say the word…”
It’s hard to say ANYTHING, with Reiko’s hands cranking upward on her jaw. And similarly, it’s difficult for the agonized blonde to shake her head in defiance. But she does manage to rasp out a determined groan which sounds to the official’s ear enough like a “No!” that he lets the match continue. However, with the ropes some ways away from the Darling of the Desert Southwest, it’s anyone’s guess how long it might take for Ohno’s hold to transform that negative into a positive…
… which is a state of affairs apparently not lost on the Li’lest Mitchell. With the ref’s focus firmly on Charlie and on any sign of submission offered by the youngster, he fails to notice Skye slip into the ring—that is, until Mitchell delivers a boot to Ohno’s flexed abs, both breaking the Ninja’s bridge and forcing her to release the hold. “HEY!” the zebra chides her, pointing the brunette back toward her corner as he pushes up from his knees. However, Skylar doesn’t need an escort for her departure this time, and she turns and retreats.
Ohno, meanwhile, shakes off the effects of Skye’s boot as she peels Charlie off the deck. Launching the challenger toward the ropes, Reiko’s posture settles into a slight crouch as Dawson hurtles back toward her, but whatever the Ninja intended to do would forever remain a mystery when the young blonde unexpectedly launches into a dive toward Ohno. As Charlie’s hands find her foe’s knees, she kicks her legs upward, the small of her back coming to a momentary rest against the champion’s right shoulder. Pushing off from Ohno’s knees, the Darling of the Desert Southwest sweeps her upper body into the air, her legs slipping around Reiko’s back. And from there, gravity assists the challenger as she captures the Ninja’s arms, taking Ohno down and putting the champion’s shoulder flat against the mat with a Manami Roll!
MANAMI ROLL @9:19:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEmZIbDzFOg
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TWO…
THRENOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Seah Sin makes the save, delivering a swift kick to the base of Charlie’s spine.
“OUT, SEAH!” the ref orders, taking the Little Dragon by the arm and guiding Sin to her corner. Charlie, meanwhile, manages to push the pain from the Korean’s kick out of her mind enough to get to her knees and scamper toward her corner. The cheer of the FAWNatics grows louder and louder with each step Dawson makes, Skylar climbing onto the bottom rope and leaning over the top to reach her hand in as far as she can…
… and when their palms touch, the crowd ERUPTS!
The Li’lest Mitchell demonstrates some impressive hops, vaulting over the top rope before delivering a swift pair of boots to Reiko’s chest. But as she reaches down to pull the Ninja up, a hand settles firmly on her shoulder.
The referee’s hand.
Apparently, the one person in the building who HAD to see the tag made in order for it to count, had FAILED to do so while he was getting Seah Sin out of the ring. Skye’s normally large, round eyes seem to double in size as she passionately pleads her case, the FAWNatics offering a vociferous backing to her claims.
But he is unmoved.
Elsewhere in the ring, with the official’s back turned, Seah Sin slips through the ropes for a second time in the previous minute, moving to assist her fellow tag champion up to her feet. Together, they march over to Charlie, who had lacked the strength to roll under the bottom rope after making the tag. Hairhauling the blonde to verticality while the Li’lest Mitchell continues to implore the referee to let her stay in the ring, the Invasion deliver a pair of boots to the pit of Charlie’s stomach, doubling the fading blonde in half. Reiko then shuffles to the side, pivoting to launch another kick, her sole CRAAAACK!ing off Dawson’s temple and straightening the Darling of the Desert Southwest up, leaving her rocking back on her heels. Sin then jumps up, dropping into a single handed handstand as she delivers her own kick, the Korean’s boot catching the back of Dawson’s skull. Finally, a dropkick from the Ninja takes Charlie off her feet, the youthful blonde left starfished and blinking up at the lights.
KICK COMBINATION:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v9Bbe55AMM
Sin makes her exit, just in time for the official to turn around and see Reiko Ohno yanking the challenger up by a handful of hair. With Charlie still stooped, the Japanese beauty gathers up and underhooks Dawson’s arms. Reiko muscles her opponent into the air, but only for a short trip, as she then takes a knee, SLAMMING Charlie’s spine down across the posted joint with an impressive backbreaker.
DOUBLE UNDERHOOK BACKBREAKER:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvtZRAkV2U0
A moaning Charlie rolls to her lift hip, grimacing and arching her abused spine, her boots kicking enough to spin her in a feeble half circle as Ohno heads to her corner and tags Seah. Trading places with the Ninja, the Little Dragon saunters up to Dawson, claiming a helping of hair and pulling the Darling of the Desert Southwest up to her hands and knees. She leads Charlie on a crawl to the center of the ring before tugging her up the rest of the way, lining the challenger up with a neutral corner and sending her in with a whip. As the blonde slumps against the buckles, Seah addresses the FAWNatics in a language that they are sure to understand, patting the cheeks of her backside with both hands before sprinting toward her opponent. Jumping into the air, Sin swivels her hips, BLASTING her ass into Dawson’s tummy with a breathtaking hip attack.
HIP ATTACK:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fxSipIgNDk&t=0s
From her position on the floor, Yuko Ogura applauds her Dragon’s efforts, then turns toward the crowd. Raising a finger into the air, she taunts the ugly Americans at ringside by asking, “ONE MORE???”
While there’s definitely a smattering of agreement with FAWN’s resident Napoleon, most of the FAWNatics respond negatively. But that doesn’t stop Seah from charging a second time, leaping and turning…
… and COMING UP EMPTY, as Charlie dives to the side, collapsing to the mat on her stomach. Denied the crashpad of Charlotte Dawson, Sin’s back takes the brunt of the impact, the top turnbuckle smashing between the Little Dragon’s shoulderblades, her rump slipping up onto the middle buckle. And there she remains, feet raised off the mat, her hands clutching the top rope to keep her from falling and eating a faceful of canvas. At last, with the referee’s attention not distracted, the blonde has a chance to drag herself toward the tag that she desperately needs…
… but Charlie doesn’t move. And, more distressing for those close enough to see, the blonde’s eyes appear to be closed. In the Sweetheart’s corner, Skylar gives the top turnbuckle a trio of forceful swats, the sound of her palm striking leather echoing through the FAWN Arena. She then steps up onto the bottom rope, leaning into the ring over the top as far as she can. “C’MON, CHARLIE!!!!” she shouts to her partner, beckoning the blonde forward with a wave of her outstretched hand…
The urging from her teammate seems to provide a boost of energy for the worn Dawson. She crawls halfway across the ring before pushing to her feet. All the while, Seah gets an earful from her manager. And where Charlie responds to encouragement, Sin responds to the anger of the tiny businesswoman.
Pushing away from the buckles behind her, the Korean staggers after the blonde, but a dive from Dawson to the fingertips of the second-generation superstar puts the brakes on the suddenly hesitant Invader. She turns back toward her corner and gets an earful from the high-pitched squeal of the Invasion’s general. Seah turns back to the Sweethearts. Skylar is already in and charging.
Sin takes a dropkick in the mush that decks her, but to her credit, while Skye scrambles to her feet, Seah does likewise. The alabaster-skinned youngster beats her foe to vertical and knocks her flat with another dropkick, Seah’s boots only under her for an instant before Sin is sent crashing to the deck with another double-barreled set of boots, this set to her chest.
As Yuko screams at her Little Dragon to get her ass up and burn the Carolina Cutie, Skye kips to vertical and ‘helps’ the Invader find her feet. With a tight grasp on a wrist and shoulder of the Asian grappler, Cynthia’s sibling heaves Sin to the ropes with an Irish Whip. Seah rebounds and has her head nearly taken off by a spinning wheel kick that hits her flush in the face. Seah’s golden-brown legs fly out in front of her as the back of her head and shoulders THUMP into the canvas.
Spinning Wheel Kick (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnbPVKM6x5M )
The dazed Korean bounces up to a seated position, her face blank, arms hanging loosely by her side. Mitchell drop next to her foe. Skye shoves Seah to her back and covers tightly in a lateral press, hooking the Invader’s far leg for the…
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TWO…
Sin shoves a shoulder up, rolls to her chest and pushes to hands and knees. Realizing she’s pointed toward the Sweethearts’ corner, Seah’s head drops, but only for a moment. Mitchell collects the noggin within her encompassing arms and tugs the faltering Korean up as she rises. With the Invader up but on rubbery legs, the Lil’est Mitchell pushes her advantage, dipping and sending an arm through the coppery stems of her foe.
Showing her strength, at least with a woman her own size, Skye scoops the Invader up and over and onto her right shoulder. She takes a couple skipping steps toward her fellow Sweetheart and body SLAMS Seah into the thinly-sheathed plywood, Sin’s body arching in pain from the spine-bruising impact.
As the Little Dragon settles to her back, wincing as she stares into the arena lights above, Mitchell scurries to home base and rises up the buckles. Reaching the top, she turns and faces her target while Charlie gives her a soft slap on the bum on the way up.
The official confirms the tag but the perky and pesky brunette is uon top for a reason. She launches from her penthouse to the loud, whining complaint of Miss Ogura from across the way. The Lil’est Mitchell zooms up and out from the corner, collapsing into a tight tuck at the top of her leap before exploding outward, her arms and legs spreading as she plummets into a CRASHING collision with the downed Invader.
Seah is gutted by the splendid frogsplash, Sin’s body jackknifing around the ivory-skinned Carolina Cutie. Skye scrambles off the groaning Korean. She knows what’s coming and BARELY clears off Sin before Charlotte follows suit, getting froggie to SPLASH all over the already breathless Invader. The double blast leaves Seah a gasping shell of a champion and Charlie rolls her foe into a tight cradle, ass to rafters for the…
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TWO…
THRNOO!
At the direction of her general, Reiko enters the ring and drives a boot into the flaxen-haired fighter, likely preventing what would have been unthinkable months ago, but continues to enter further into the realm of possibility with each passing moment; America’s Sweethearts as tag team champions.
As the ref herds Ohno back to a suspiciously empty Invasion corner, Dawson plucks the increasingly flaccid Seah off the canvas and sets her center stage. Turning, Charlie races to the ropes and is set to rebound toward the wobbling target. But as she’s about to finish her u-turn, Yuko snatches at the blonde’s ankle. As interference goes, it’s not Ogura’s best effort, lightly tripping Dawson enough to halt her attack. But the Sweetheart remains vertical and turns to offer her pouty-lipped ire at FAWN’s most devious executive.
Sensing an opening from behind, Sin charges the distracted blonde. A shout from Skye, the growing experience of dealing with Yuko, and a not fully recovered Invader combine to give Dawson the time to pivot away from Sin’s charge and heave her foe up and over the top rope, a wide-eyed Little Dragon sent airborne and landing ON TOP OF HER MANAGER.
The Invaders crash to the thinly padded cement in a jumble of torsos and limbs to the utter delight of the FAWNatics. A flustered Reiko drops to the floor to check on and unpile her cohorts. While the Ninja makes her assist, Charlie takes off in a sprint to the opposite cables and rebounds at full speed.
Showing the growth and gumption that turned the Sweethearts from fodder to contenders, Charlie closes in on the ropes above the Invasion and LAUNCHES over in a Suicide Dive that takes out all three Asians like a set of bowling pins.
As each of her foes is laid out on the floor, Dawson even manages to end the dive on her feet, buried in a bevy of chants from every corner of the arena.
“HOLE-EEE-SHYT… HOLE-EEE-SHYT… HOLE-EEE-SHYT”
Showing even more awareness, Charlotte only celebrates long enough for one fist pump before dragging Seah out of the Asian cluster and throwing her back into the ring. She takes a moment for a guilty pleasure, delivering a stomp to the chest of a rising Yuko that sends the diminutive manager crashing back to the floor in a grimacing heap.
Not wanting to face the fury of an angry, recovering Ninja, Dawson scurries to the apron and slides in after the rising, stumbling Seah.
Not that Ohno and Ogura have much of an opportunity to relax, for it seems that one Sweetheart has the other’s back, and is perhaps reading her mind just a little. While Charlie dives under the bottom rope, Skye Mitchell launches a dive of her own, taking to the skies and flying over the top rope, taking Reiko and Yuko down to the floor again with her own Suicide Dive! Meanwhile, the Darling of the Desert Southwest races toward the slightly stooped Sin, catching the Korean brunette around the neck. Jumping into the air, Charlotte twists her body to face down toward the canvas—and the result, as gravity pulls Dawson down to earth, is that Seah’s neck gets subjected to a nasty (though some MIGHT call it sweet) twisting neckbreaker.
TWISTING NECKBREAKER:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbAF-gzgIBY
Springing back to bootleather, the blonde ingenue notices that Skylar has made it back to the Sweethearts’ corner, and she doesn’t miss a beat, skipping over and slapping the Li’lest Mitchell’s outstretched hand, Skye’s other set of fingers coiled around the top rope. As soon as the tag is made, however, the brunette’s hand then joins its colleague as she rocks back, propelling herself to a perch atop the rubber coated steel strand. The cable then launches Skylar ever more heavenward, the challenger causing more than a few jaws to drop with the amount of sky she reaches. Of course, what goes up must come down, and when Skylar comes down, she SMASHES an elbow down atop Seah’s bosom.
SPRINGBOARD ELBOW DROP:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOOqGePyftE
Keeping the pressure on, Skylar scrambles to her feet and pulls the champ up for the ride as well, spinning Seah to face away from her. Wrapping her arms around the brunette’s midsection, the Li’lest Mitchell rushes forward, driving Sin toward the near ropes. When the Korean’s belly and chest meet the cables, Skye falls backward, pulling Seah down with her and rolling the Little Dragon up until her shoulders are flat against the mat, Mitchell sitting atop her thighs for a moment before bridging back for added leverage…
ROLLING BACK BRIDGE:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBupR4xkNbA
ONE…
TWO…
THRNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
Sin bucks free.
Climbing to her feet, Skye keeps Seah pacified with a quick boot to the temple, then pivots and tags in the Darling of the Desert Southwest. Charlie is back in the ring with a shot, skipping over the Invader’s torso while her partner remains on the other side of Sin’s noggin. Then, in near perfect unison, the Sweethearts take flight, Dawson launching a standing moonsault and Mitchell dropping a leg, the duo landing with equal precision across the Little Dragon’s belly and throat, respectively.
STANDING MOONSAULT/LEG DROP COMBO:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb2d-g1TqN0&t=0s
As Skye heads to her corner, a cover MUST have been tempting for the blonde, but she doesn’t go for it. Instead, she kips up, dropping into a bit of a crouch as she waits for the Little Dragon to push herself up as well. And as Sin starts to work her way toward rubbery legs, Charlie turns and sprints into the near ropes. Rebounding off the strands, Dawson makes a beeline toward the woozy champion, once again going airborne—and again, twisting her body to face the canvas as her legs snake around Sin’s waist. Charlie’s hands slap against the canvas, the blonde sending her upper body rocketing up toward Seah’s with a shove. Reaching back, she claims the back of the Korean’s head with one hand before kicking her legs out in front of her. Finally, the Darling of the Desert Southwest drops to her tush, welcoming the tag champ to the Land of Enchantment by DRIVING Seah’s jaw down against Charlie’s shoulder.
LAND OF ENCHANTMENT:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WedGKdYh_Q
With glory within the grasp, Dawson practically FLOATS back to her corner before tagging out to her partner. Skye slips back between the ropes, but she doesn’t head directly toward the mewling brunette. Instead, she gives Sin a wide berth to begin pulling herself up, Mitchell maneuvering along the ropes into she finds the right spot…
… and then begins to stomp her boot.
As the Li’lest Mitchell loads up, the FAWNatics who had dared this long to believe jump to their feet in anticipation. So engrossed in the moment as Skylar readies herself, only a handful of fans notice that Charlie Dawson begins climbing her way toward the top turnbuckle, rather than staying in her corner. Finally, the Little Dragon wills herself to an upright, albeit swaying, position, awkwardly spinning to find her opponent…
… and turning directly into a WICKED collision of her jaw with Skylar’s sole, the Tar Heel connecting with her Greetings from Charlotte!
GREETINGS FROM CHARLOTTE:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9ezBrPN1w0
Sin’s head snaps backward, the suddenly cross-eyed Korean beauty forced to pivot on her heels and stagger away from the impact, toward the Sweethearts’ corner. And yet, her stubborn legs refuse to let her fall. However, it quickly becomes apparent that her valiant efforts to cling to the championship might be more a curse than a blessing as Charlie Dawson comes off the top rope, catching the kick-drunk Little Dragon around the head with both hands. The youthful blonde lands on her ass, and Seah Sin’s jaw suffers one final traumatic impact, this time with the challenger’s shoulder, thanks to her Charlie Cutter.
CHARLIE CUTTER:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzQLusG_T8Y
And suddenly, a jubilant FAWN Arena is sent into pure euphoria! What had begun tonight as a hopeful story had now been made a near certainty, the roar of the FAWNatics DEAFENING as Skylar DIVES across Seah’s chest, gathering and hooking BOTH of the Korean’s legs tight.
ONE…
Back on her feet, Charlie slumps against the near ropes, arms laced over the top strand. Skye’s eyelids are sealed shut, as she pours every ounce of her strength into keeping the Little Dragon’s gams in her possession.
TWO…
Do you believe in miracles???
THREEAREYOUFRIKKINKIDDINGMEEEEEE?
The referee’s hand had made about three-quarters of its final descent, and Seah Sin hadn’t so much as twitched. But another Invader HAD been stirring, and Reiko Ohno snatches both of the official’s ankles, bringing him from inside the ring out to the floor with a mighty, desperate heave.
Having felt neither the third slap of the official’s hand or any semblance of a spasm from the (still?) tag team champion, nor having heard the toll of the bell, Skye’s eyes blink open in confusion, the brunette looking up to her partner for some sort of answer. For her part, Charlie pushes away from the ropes with a scream of pure frustration. Setting course toward the ropes opposite Reiko Ohno, the Ninja’s back to her as she and the ref share a heated exchange, Dawson rebounds off the cables and races across the ring, launching herself through the ropes with one more Suicide Dive, one born of pure vengeance…
From one knee along the security barrier, Yuko Ogura shouts, “REIKO-SAN!”
Whether the Ninja had been baiting her young foe or just made a lucky guess would prove messageboard fodder for some time to come, but whatever the case, Ohno chooses wisely, diving to the side and out of Dawson’s path. The referee is much less fortunately, as the American blonde’s lithe frame SLAMS into him, one hundred and twelve pounds still proving enough to drive him to the floor, the back of his head bouncing off the unforgiving surface.
Aghast at what she’s done, a distraught Dawson cradles the head of the official, burying him in sorrowful ‘sorrys’. She taps lightly on the cheek of the semiconscious referee. Others are less gentle than the Sweetheart.
Grasping Charlie around the noggin, Reiko hauls the blonde to her feet, turning the bent challenger into a clubbing blow to Charlotte’s spine. Her foe’s column tenderized, Reiko turns her back on Dawson’s lowered head and reaches behind to collect both of the blonde’s arms, locking elbows with Charlie. Instantly, Ohno spins so she’s back to back, but with the blonde now above her.
Her foe situated precisely, Reiko bruises her tailbone, dropping to a seat on the thinly-padded cement, but more so she ravages the vertebrae of Charlie with her Ninja Backbreaker.
Ninja Backbreaker (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCvI2p5dHr8 )
The diminutive grappler bounces off the champ like she’s been electrified, ending splayed and shuddering next to the wincing Ohno, who pushes to her feet gingerly, the aching tailbone worth it.
Mitchell instantly calculates lying atop the demolished Seah won’t be a productive use of her time for the foreseeable future. She crawls off the unconscious Korean and hoofs it to the ropes on all fours. The brunette rolls under the bottom cable and lands her boots on the floor, confronting a rising Reiko with a right hand at the ready.
As Skye pivots to deliver a forearm shiver, a genuflecting Yuko throws one of her own from behind, parting Skylar’s short, ivory stems with an uppercut thrust into the second-generation star’s privates. Skylar’s face twists in agony, her eyes rolling from the expert ‘invasion’ by the general. Mitchell’s knees knock together and she melts to her haunches, hands buried in her crotch, eyes welling, jaw dropping.
Ogura knee-walks to directly behind the gaijin challenger and whispers in an ear.
“You’re not half of your sister, which means you’re not a quarter of me or My Invasion.”
Ogura swings her left arm in front of Mitchell’s throat in a backhanded swipe that quickly draws the Carolina Cutie’s head back in a dragon sleeper, Mitchell’s depleted condition courtesy Yuko’s low blow putting her at supreme disadvantage in finding an escape.
Meanwhile Reiko has a softly squirming Charlie up in a fireman’s carry. Baby blues wide with anxiety, Dawson drives some weak elbows into Ohno’s temple the Invader does her best to ignore. The blows start to accumulate so the Japanese grappler heaves and spins the Sweetheart above her, pancaking her into the floor with her Yokohama Mama sidewalk slam.
Yokohama Mama (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daAqkUVl6Io )
The crowd falls deathly silent, such is the impact of the blonde. The Invader seems unconcerned. She scrapes what’s left of Charlie off the floor, carries Dawson like a babe in her arms, and rolls her under the ropes. The challenger bumps shoulders with Sin who’s stirred out of her double-finisher sleep.
While it’s all the Little Dragon can do to slop a limp arm over the spread-eagled Charlotte, Reiko assists her second person into the ring, namely the awakening zebra. Shoulder to shoulder, Ohno helps the schnook to the apron where he crawls into the ring at the speed of pouring molasses.
Still on the floor, Yuko’s pulled the gassed and gasping Skye into a body scissor/rear naked choke combo. Both women are on their back, Skylar atop FAWN’s most successful manager. While above, the location is hardly an advantage, as Yuko’s abbreviated golden legs surround Mitchell’s waist and her arms continue to suck the consciousness out of the legal Sweetheart.
Rear Naked Choke (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhWe7-RVVEk )
With Ogura and Mitchell out of sight and out of mind of the dazed arbiter and Reiko shouting in the man’s ear about Sin’s pin in front of his glazed eyes, the official slowly, laboriously, slaps the canvas for the…
ONE…
TWO…
THREE!!!!
The FAWNatics erupt in a shower of jeers as the ref calls for the bell then collapses and weakly rolls out of the ring. Inside, Reiko peels the semiconscious Seah off her fully comatose counterpart. Ohno nearly carries her partner to a corner and leans Sin into the buckles so she can recover in peace.
Reiko disregards the ring announcer making the verdict official as she moves to the spent Dawson.
“Your winners…and STILL FAWN TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS…Reiko Ohno and Seah Sin…the ASIAN INVASION.”
Immediately, Reiko scoops Charlie’s legs off the canvas, crosses them in a figure four and starts to twist the blonde to her chest. With Dawson’s lower limbs trapped and pressed against her chest, Ohno uses her free arms to lock her elbows with Dawson’s and lift her foe off the deck into a mid-air, back-breaking Clutch, the Ninja called Ohno Not That.
Ohno Not That (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH-huuE941E )
Brought back to life from the pain, Charlie howls in agony, her head shaking from side to side. She squeals out “ I GIVE” a half-dozen times, pleading for Reiko to release but the Invader refuses.
On the outside, Yuko, yes, Yuko f’n Ogura has extinguished Skye’s senses, the businesswoman continuing to keep her hold in place as Skye’s lids flutter over eyes turned white, the Lil’est Mitchell foaming at the mouth as the Invasion’s general seems intent on sending Skylar to the emergency room.
AC/DC’s “Hell’s Bells” blasts through the stadium’s speakers and a pair of Hellions race toward the ring like they’ve escaped Hades itself and are bent on claiming souls.
Skylar’s big and, in this case, very bad sis and her confederate in crime, Ivy Armstrong, sprint to the squared circle with fire in their eyes. While the Bama Slamma slides into the ring at nearly full speed, Cynthia circles around it, racing to free her sibling.
Seah makes an ill-advised attempt to stop the charging redhead and has her noggin nearly removed by a vicious leg lariat that knocks her back to senseless.
In the meantime, Reiko’s dropped her blonde bundle and ejected from the confines. She heads clockwise to head off a countering Cynthia and save her leader. Seeing the concern in the approaching Ohno’s eyes, Yuko releases Skye and scrambles from under the insensate Carolina Cutie.
Reiko barely has time to leap over her manager when she’s nearly CUT IN HALF by a spear from the raging Cynful One. Reiko’s left a splayed mess under the hyperventilating Mitchell who, on all fours, looks up at a fearful Ogura.
Mitchell’s face seemingly convincing Yuko she’s made a terrible mistake, the businesswoman kicks off her pumps and decides to cut and run, leaving her decimated troops at the hands of some very pissed Hellions.
But Cynthia isn’t interested in making the grunts pay for the leader’s handiwork. Cynthia pushes to her feet and is on little Yuko’s trail all the way up the aisle, ramp and through the curtain only a couple arms’ length from Ogura as they disappear behind the curtains.
In the ring, Ivy has a microphone and stands in a straddle over the demolished Seah.
“Y’all don’t know what ya unleashed here tonight,” she shouts, between labored breaths. “Y’all didn’t let loose a team determined to destroy ya. We’re a damn crimson tide of vengeance and your so-called Invasion is gonna be swept away by a bloody wave of red.”
Armstrong spikes the mike, ‘thunking’ it into Sin’s golden-brown tummy, Seah grunting and jackknifing slightly from the impact. Ivy raises her arms high and wide to the adoration of the crowd then heads for the exit to see if she’ll need to bail her partner out of the Orlando City Jail.