Post by Craig on Jul 31, 2021 17:35:43 GMT -6
Mark: Nearly the entire division is in this match tonight Freya. One among these young competitors will be without dispute the very top of the Pride division.
Freya: And once they’re all out of the hospital I’m sure whoever it is will celebrate dude. This is going to get ugly. No. fugly. Nope, worse. Fuggo.
John Youle is standing in the ring with the SVW Pride Championship hanging over his head. The announcer is right smack dab in the center of the large, metallic Ultimate X structure. The DC crowd begins a bubbling murmur.
John: The following match is the ULTIMATE X match for... The Sex & Violence Wrestling PRIDE CHAMPIONSHIP!
The flute introduction of "Animal" plays through the sound system, as Leona comes out. She looks over the cheering crowd, pointing at two random spots into the audience before letting out a loud roar, which is followed by a lion's roar echoing through the sound system.
John: Introducing first, from Monterrey, Mexico... LEONA VEGA!
She then sprints and hops onto the ring apron, and in the same impact, she hops over the top rope, landing in a three-point stance inside the ring. soaking in the crowd's cheers, she gets up and climbs the nearest turnbuckle to taunt the crowd, roaring at them, pumping her arm and acknowledging them, before jumping back down and facing the ring.
Freya: Leona has become her own woman and honestly if she’s wins tonight I think it’ll prove what I think I knew for a while now. The Lioness NEVER needed The Red Star.
The heavy crunching riffs of “I Love Playing With Fire” by Joan Jett & The Blackhearts hit the PA. As the vocals kick in, Ignis walks out of the entranceway, her arm shooting up as flames blast out from the stage, Andy Marx following behind her. She twirls around him, giving him a kiss. Ignis walks down the ramp before hopping onto the apron and flipping over the top rope. She points to the far turnbuckle, and a flame shoots out of it, before doing the same at each of the four turnbuckles, almost as though she is conducting a symphony of flame, as Andy walks down to ringside..
John: From Llanfair PG, Wales, and accompanied by Andy Marx... This is THE FIREBIRD... IGNIS!
Mark: Ignis misses that Pride Championship around her waist and if I was a betting man I’d just guess she’s willing to send every single one of her opponents to ICU tonight to get what she wants.
The music starts, as the crowd quiets. A spotlight appears at the top of the ramp…but after a few moments nobody shows. The spotlight starts combing the arena, followed by another spotlight, and a third as the song starts.
Paranoia is in bloom,
The PR, transmissions will resume
They'll try to, push drugs that keep us all dumbed down
And hope that, we will never see the truth around
(So come on!)
The spotlights race around for a moment until one finally stops in the middle of the crowd, revealing Misty standing amongst the fans. She raises her fist with a cry and a grin as the fans nearby cheer and do the same.
John: Hailing from Toronto, Ontario Canada. The Voice of the People....MISTY WHITMORE!!!
Freya: Misty and Ignis have had their share of issues and I can just bet Misty would like nothing more than to walk out Pride Champion. You know what they say about the best revenge is living good right!
Mark: You mean “Living well is the best revenge”...
The young wrestler then makes a B-line for the ring, slapping hands of fans before hopping the barricade. Misty climbs onto the ring apron and looks out at the crowd, holding a hand over her brow with a grin. Leaping over the top rope Misty runs to the opposite corner, climbing up the corner and singing out the chorus with the fans, raising her fist with every phrase.
They will not force us! They will stop degrading us! They will not control us! We will be victorious! So come on!
The arena falls dark as the opening of “Blonde, Bad and Beautiful” by Airbourne plays, Kelly explodes upward out of the middle of the stage as though shot out of a cannon, landing a perfect front somersault in a shower of blue sparks. She stays on her feet for a mere moment before leaping into a back somersault as Christian Kincaid walks out to join her, a broad smile on his face. She turns to face him, giving him a big hug as she plants a kiss to his lips. As the music starts to pick up pace once more she starts to run toward the ring, diving into a cartwheel and using the momentum to transition into a handspring backflip, landing on her feet near the ring she leaps once flipping backward onto the apron. Smirking as she stands on the apron, she turns to face into the ring, both hands on the top rope she vaults over it with a standing leap into a mid air split. Once again making a perfect landing she instantly sprints toward the furthest away corner, not breaking stride she runs straight up the pads. Stopping on the top turnbuckle she blows a kiss to the fans and corkscrew flips back to the mat, facing the middle of the ring as she lands.
John: From Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York, and accompanied to the ring by Christian Kincaid. Please welcome...KELLY MCGUFFIN!!!
Mark: If ever there was a rivalry in the skies like Kelly McGuffin and Christopher B. Kane...
Freya: It’s because she wants his body. She totally told me one time.
Mark: ....Uh-huh.
The lights fade to a pale pink, and the screen comes to life with heavy static, showing a silhouette of a woman moving slowly towards the foreground. Mocking feminine laughter erupts over the speakers, bleeding into the driving guitars of Jet's "She's a Genius". The images on the screen shift, melting away as though doused in acid. Images flash, showing a petite blonde woman dominating both men and women in the wrestling ring. Some of these scenes are very blurry and it's hard to tell if the woman is even Nessa or someone who just vaguely resembles her.
My girl is ready to take control
She just blows my mind
She only listens to the radio to see who's alive
Yeah!
John: Making her way to the ring now, hailing from Toronto, Ontario, Canada and accompanied by her manager and love of her life, Alex Houser... she is the woman you LOVE to hate... CANADIAN BITCHSAUCE... NESSA WALL!
Nessa Wall steps out at the top of the ramp and stands there for a moment, staring straight ahead at the ring while a series of pink and purple pyros explode along the ramp. She then spins and is caught in the strong arms of Alex Houser as she fakes a swoon, seemingly at her own awesomeness.
She wakes up scared of getting old
She don't feel no shame
She knows so many pretty boys
but they are all the same
Freya: I hate her... I hate her so... So very much. So so so so so so so so so so soso so so so so very much.
Mark: Because she and Mika are as thick as thieves?
Freya: SO VERY MUCH!
Tossing her hair over her shoulder, she seems completely oblivious to the attention of the few supporters she does have in the crowd. She knows every eye is on her, and she loves every minute of it. The rain of pyros follow the pair down to the ring as Nessa plants a very lewd kiss on Houser's lips before letting him escort her the rest of the way to the ring, pausing to talk trash to fans along the way.
They said "Oh, hey there girl, tell me what do you do"
She says "um, nothing but I'm damn sure it's more than you"
That girl is a genius
Who o o o o ohw
I think she's serious
Who o o o o ohw
As the driving rock beat of Jet continues to rape every ear drum in attendance, Nessa climbs into the ring and immediately comes to life, sprinting across and jumping up on the turnbuckles in the corner. Thrusting her fist in the air with one hand, she presses her palm to her lips and blows a kiss to her devoted manager with the other before hopping down as her music fades out.
The house opening of “Fifth Kind” by The Browning begins to fill the arena. Everyone stands up to their feet as the drums and guitar are introduced. All of it builds to the screaming words as pyro reigns down from the sky. Christopher Kane steps out from the back with a hoodie on, hood up as he smirks. The teenager throws his arms out before beginning his walk to the ring.
John: Coming to us from The Open Roads, he is your REIGNING AND DEFENDING SVW PRIDE CHAMPION… Christopher Kane!!!
Mark: I don’t know how Christopher’s chances will hold tonight but I certainly believe he’s going to do everything in his power to retain tonight.
Freya: He’s a Kane dude! He’ll pull it through!
Hands are slapped onto his way to the ring as Christopher continues his walk to the ring. He takes a trip around ringside, but stops halfway to run and leaps up onto the apron. Christopher runs to the closest turnbuckle and jumps to the top. Chris pulls the hood down before jumping into the ring. From there he stands against the turnbuckle taking off his hoodie to a large pop from the teenage girls in the crowd before tossing it to ringside. The music fades off as he waits.
...
All six competitors look up at the Pride Championship that continues to hang gingerly by a chain at the bottom of the cross-shaped structure.
DING! DING! DING!
The DC crowd begins to rumble as the moment the bell rings, all six competitors attacking anything that moves right from the gate. Ignis and Leona are trading blows nearby and Leona attempts to tag Ignis with a jumping justice fist that the Firebird immediately ducks and catches Leona with a front dropkick in the back of the head before she irish-whips her into a corner and hits her with a running arm shiver to the gut before she puts in the Latina’s hair and gets ready to run her out of the corner and mat first but Vega’s hands grip the ropes and she stops Ignis from dragging her out! The Lioness grabs the wrists of The Firebird, springboards off the nearby rope to hit her with a hurricanrana right out of the ring!
Mark: Leona with a counter attack on Ignis and both women are out of the ring with Vega now peppering Ignis with rights and lefts!
Freya: She better watch out! I see Andy all lurkin’ and bein’ suspicious and junk! Looks like Kelly and Nessa are making friends while Chris and Misty set anything like that aside!
Inside of the ring still Kelly irish-whips Nessa but the Snarktopus counters with an irish-whip of her own which she uses to pull McGuffin right back into a jumping heel kick that causes the former acrobat to lean up against the ropes! Nessa drives a stiff rolling elbow to the head of McGuffin before she grabs her by the wrist and irish-whips her again but this time Kelly does a front flip towards the ropes, bouncing back and hand springing to try and catch Nessa in a reverse DDT but Wall knows what’s coming for her and clenches Kelly’s wrist before twisting it around and catching McGuffin off-guard with a headbutt to the chest before she shivers her with another elbow!
The DC crowd grows a little tense on the action at the other side of the ring as Kane and Whitmore play cautious with each other. The Voice of the People raises her leg as if she’s going for a kick and Christopher holds his arm up reflexively before he runs forward to try and hit her with a running elbow shiver! He hits Misty right across the nose but Whitmore keeps standing even when she catches a second elbow. On the attempt of the third however Whitmore ducks it and cracks Kane in the head with a pele kick that leans him up against the turnbuckle! She looks behind her and sees that Nessa’s got Kelly leaned up on the opposite side! With two glances at each other!
Freya: I sense Canadians afoot Mark! Looks like a short-lived alliance in the making!
Mark: I’m not a fan as you’d imagine but here it is!
Nessa and Misty both attempt to irish-whip Christopher and Kelly at each other but as the two go running at each other, Kelly leapfrogs over Kane and leaps right at Misty to hit her with a vicious jawbuster in the corner, bouncing the Voice of the People’s head back into the turnbuckle! At the exact same time Christopher comes at Nessa and when she attempts to hit him with a European elbow, he ducks it and lands a springboard enzuigiri to her head! With their opponents laid out the two begin to scale the structure while Leona and Ignis are still in each other’s faces on the outside, as Ignis attempts to hit Leona with a Tornado DDT on the outside but Leona wraps her arms around Ignis’s waist and runs her into the ringside!
By now both Chris and Kelly are using their arms to climb towards the Pride Championship as the crowd with the other in their sights. Suddenly Kelly flashes a wide smirk and pulls herself up, standing right on top of the structure! This of course causes a collective echo of gasps in the Verizon Center as McGuffin surveys everything from the very top before she begins running along the edge!
Mark: KELLY MCGUFFIN IS PLAYING RUSSIAN ROULETTE WITH HER CAREER FROM THAT HEIGHT! WHAT IS THAT GIRL PLAYING AT!?
Freya: She knew when she signed up Mark! MY QUESTION IS WHY IS CHRIS DOING NOT THE SAME!
Of course Christopher uses his arms below to keep shuffling along as Kelly gets right at the apex of the X and reaches down to grab the championship but she can’t as Kane shoots a leg up to kick her hand away! He does it time and time again before McGuffin grows frustrated and slips through the structure, now hanging on her arms as she kicks Christopher twice to drop him down! Christopher however lands on his feet and Kane pulls at McGuffin’s legs to get her off the structure, causing her to lose grip of one hand... With narrowed eyes, Kelly lets go and wraps her legs around Kane’s neck to give him the mother of all hurricanranas! He goes sailing just as Leona kicks Ignis in the stomach and hops up on the apron only for her and Christopher to have a meeting of the minds! Both Leona and Kane are down outside of the ring, Leona gripping her forehead in pain and Christopher laid out from the landing!
Crowd: OOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
Mark: Kelly just turned Chris into a lawn dart and Leona had to be the one to suffer it!
Freya: OH WHAT THE HELL KELLY!? WHAT THE HONEST TO GOD HELL!? YOU’RE JUST MAD THAT CHRIS IS A BETTER HIGH FLYER THAN YOU ARE! HEY MISTY’S GOING FOR IT! WAIT! NO SHE’S NOT!
Ignis rolls into the ring now that Leona has been dealt with and immediately spies Misty Whitmore swinging to the Pride Championship like the Ultimate X structure is her own personal jungle gym! She gets within an arm’s reach before Ignis jerks her right down, having none of that! Kelly was about to go for it herself but had been at this point going back and forth with Nessa who got up.. Its the four women in the middle of the Verizon Center! Misty and Ignis finally turn on each other with a straight up slugfest. Nothing fancy, no chops or dropkicks or uppercuts of the European variety. Just left and right hands back and forth while Kelly gets worked over by Nessa who sends her head first into the second turnbuckle with a drop toe hold! As Kelly lays face first against the turnbuckle and slowly pulling herself upward, Wall doesn’t let her breathe and springboards into a dropkick just as Kelly pulls herself up, driving her headfirst into the top turnbuckle this time and finally laying her out!
Nessa looks at Ignis and Misty who are going back and forth before Nessa joins in the fray it becomes a one-on-one-on-one fight! Nessa quickly tags both The Firebird and the Voice of the People with a pair of elbows before she bounces off the ropes and hits Misty with a running headbutt before she grabs the back of Ignis’s head and goes running to hit her with a bulldog! Ignis however shoves Nessa into the turnbuckle and goes back to Whitmore to wrap her arms around her waist and hit her with a regular atomic drop! Misty however flips over Ignis as she gets lifted upward and hits her with a lungblower for good measure as Ignis rolls around on the mat. Whitmore goes to lift her upward, ducking her head and making herself a prime target for Nessa who bounces off the ropes and hits a flying bulldog on Misty just as her head pops up again and Ignis rolls out of the way, knowing what was about to happen if she had laid where Misty had landed a moment longer!
Mark: Ignis is showing a very tactical nature so far, knowing when and where to hang and take a breather.
Freya: She’s arguably the most technically sensible in this match Mark, so she’s gotta pick her moments to strike but Nessa’s dragging Misty to the corner!
The camera points to Alex Houser with a smirk on his face as Wall takes Misty to task against the turnbuckle, pumping a few hard kicks into her ribs before she forces her up to the top turnbuckle with Misty sitting atop it. Nessa climbs to the second and hits the Voice of the People with a vicious european uppercut before she attempts to set Misty up for a sunset flip! The DC crowd’s sounds of shock and fear are wonderment if Whitmore may be able to wrestle after being sunset flipped into the jagged metal stairs outside but Nessa never gets to complete the move as Ignis drives an arm into her back! Now its Nessa Wall seated beside Misty and Ignis working them both over with double front facelocks as The Firebird looks to honestly execute a double superplex on both women! Wall and Whitmore however aren’t budging by any means and both women began to pound away at Ignis’s abdomen to get her off them, even though the youngest of the Leavenworth family holds on for dear life! At this point Leona rolls into the ring and slides her head between Ignis’s legs and hooks her arms around the Firebird’s legs! Leona forces Ignis backward as she has Misty and Nessa in tow and together they all fall in a mass of human flesh with Leona being the first to stand tall!
Crowd: HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT!
Mark: Leona Vega just MOST OF HER COMPETITION! She hit an Electric Chair Drop on Ignis just as the Firebird was trying to find the leverage to hit a double superplex on Misty and Nessa... Though the way Ignis is laying in agony...
Freya: You don’t think she’ll be thanking Leona for the assist either?
It doesn’t seem to matter to Vega as she looks up at the Pride Championship and gets atop the metal structure before she begins to climb upward. At this time, Kelly and Christopher are both up and they spot the Latina making her way upward and then getting her hands on the metal structure before she begins to shimmy towards the Pride Championship with her hands, legs dangling toward the ground. Both Kane and McGuffin get the same idea and grab either one of Vega’s legs before she can actually touch the championship and pull her down so she lands on her back. Kelly and Chris look at each other, almost as if this team-up that’s about to happen shouldn’t before Kelly and Christopher lift Leona up and get ready to hit her with a double brainbuster...
Before Ignis interrupts everything by sneaking herself back up to climb the metal structure once more to get that precious Pride Championship! McGuffin leaves Leona to Kane as he hits her with a snap suplex and Kelly hops over the ropes to the apron and climbs up to hammer Ignis with a few shots to the back. The Firebird doesn’t take kindly to it and back-kicks McGuffin in the mouth! The former acrobat however wraps a hand around Ignis’s boot and pulls her back down to the apron where the two have at each other, teetering to fall off! At this point Misty Whitmore has gotten herself back in the game and sees both Kelly and Ignis battling back and forth on the apron side facing the entrance ramp to the ring. Whitmore looks to the ropes and then runs atop it before she leaps and hits both women in the head with a double flying knee strike that sends them flying off the apron and onto the cold metal of the entrance ramp!
Crowd: S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB!
Freya: Two PEOPLE’S DECREES for the price of one!? I think so Mark!
Mark: Both Ignis and Kelly are going to have the world’s biggest headaches by the time they can pull themselves off the ground but wait--!
As Misty admires her handiwork and the cheers of the Verizon Center, she turns around to a vicious enzuigiri compliments of Nessa Wall! Misty teeters on her feet before her eyes roll in the back of her head and she drops like a sack of potatoes. Nessa turns her attention on Leona and Christopher as the two continue to battle back and forth. Vega irish-whips Kane to the ropes but he leaps over them onto the apron with his hand still clutching her wrist before he springboards and sends her over him with an arm drag onto her back. The Lioness clutches her shoulder as the reigning Pride Champion comes running at her and he goes for his signature Tornado Kick but Leona bends over backwards to dodge it before she catches him flush in the face with a jumping justice fist for good measure! Kane looks stunned as Leona pulls him on her shoulders, teasing for the El Pilote!
The DC crowd roars as Vega tries to hold on tight to Kane but he continues to struggle, not at all looking to be a victim of Vega’s fireman’s carry gutbuster. He continues to struggle and hits her with an elbow to the head before his weight gets a bit much for her and Kane drops behind her before kicking her in the back of the leg, setting her up for an Inverted DDT... As Nessa runs to the ropes in front Chris and Vega, jumps on the second and bounces backward with her arm around Christopher’s neck as she hits HIM with an Inverted DDT as he hits it on Leona! Both Vega and Kane go down as the crowd lets their cries be heard!
Crowd: OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Freya: Nessa just ninja’d into a double knockout! Chris was about to put an exclamation point on Leona and here with an Inverted DDT and she just bounces in like she owns the place and now there’s a clear path between Nessa and the Pride Championship!
Mark: Don’t remind me Freya... I can see Alex Houser’s face from here and he’s... Yeck. Smiling. Did you know that every time Alex Houser smiles, a classroom full of children cry?
The camera points to the grinning Houser as he applauds the love of his life as she begins climbing the structure with her eyes on the prize. Wall continues her climb all the way to the top of the structure. She hangs by her arms and slowly makes her way to the Pride Championship, staring right at it. Wall reaches with one hand but realizes her grip won’t allow her to hang this way for long so she turns one eighty while hanging to face the route she just climbed before Nessa begins to kick her legs up to try and hang upside down! She gets interrupted this time by Ignis who jerks her down into a suped up version of an atomic drop! Nessa drops to her knees with her hands on her pelvic bone as Leavenworth grabs her by the hair and hits her with a facebuster!
Ignis hops up on a turnbuckle in a nearby corner and she starts going up to scale before she’s stopped by Misty who starts peppering the back of the Firebird with a few sharp blows on the second rope of the corner. Ignis shot a elbow to knock Misty off her but the Voice of the People continues to hit her until The Firebird has all she can stand and catches the wrist of Whitmore, leaping from her perch and hitting a nasty arm drag on Misty! She doesn’t stop from there as she forces Whitmore up before swinging her weight over and hooking in that dreaded cross armbreaker! Misty grips at the mat and scratches at it, trying to get herself free of The Firebird who does not let it go for all she’s worth.
Mark: There’s no point in making Misty tap out but Ignis doesn’t seem to care a lick!
Freya: It sucks to watch but its sound strategy! Misty won’t be climbing as quickly as she could if her arm is torn up!
Ignis continues to apply the hold but suddenly Leona Vega flies in from nowhere and drops on top of Ignis with a top rope senton while Kelly McGuffin comes down on Misty from the other side with a top rope corkscrew moonsault! Ignis lets go of the hold as Misty holds her left arm in pain. Leona forces Ignis up and lights her chest up with one hard roundhouse kick but after a third, The Firebird refuses to go down and instead grabs Vega’s wrist and catches her in a hammerlock. Meanwhile Nessa is back up and she and Kelly are going to town on Whitmore, Kelly hitting her with a European uppercut, making her stumble into a headbutt to the chest... Misty answers both women back with one straight kick to the face, but neither go down and suddenly Misty freezes in place with eyes wide! Whitmore yells that they need to scramble, but she gets an elbow to her face for her trouble from Wall...
...The camera pans up and sees Christopher Kane hanging by his arms at the top of the structure with all five of his opponents quite a few feet from underneath him. With a manic grin, the Pride Champion begins to swing with his legs, back and forth, back and forth while they’re in the middle of the action and finally he lets go! Kane executes a perfect triple rotation moonsault with all the lights from the cameras in the Verizon Center going off as he lands on them all and takes every single participant of the Ultimate X match out!
Crowd: HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT!
Mark: All of them... Every single one of them are down! Freya, no one is moving! A TRIPLE ROTATION MOONSAULT and the Pride Champion just destroyed all his competition and TOOK himself out for good measure!
Freya: YEAH DUDE I-- WAIT! ...Someone’s moving!
The camera closes up as... Ignis gets up to her feet, rubbing the back of her neck gingerly before she looks around at the writhing bodies of her competitors and breaks out into a grin of glee!
Freya: HOW DID IGNIS POSSIBLY SURVIVE THAT!?
Mark: ...I think I know how Freya, lets look back on the replay...
The video wall back in the Verizon Center and the televisions for all the SVW fans at home show Ignis’s positioning when Kane was in mid-flight. She still had Leona in a hammerlock and used Vega to take the brunt of Kane’s impact as they both fell backward. When we cut back to the ring, Ignis’s grin across her lips is rictus as she points at the Pride Championship and begins to climb the structure, the crowd booing the entire way she climbs! Ignis sees the championship hanging and she begins to shimmy her way to it with her arms until The Firebird comes within an arm’s reach of the Midas Touch and stretches her hand out!
She clenches the strap and...
And...!
Gets pulled down by Misty and Nessa who barely stood up on their legs!
Ignis looks like everything she has ever hoped and dreamed for has been ruined for ever before she glances between Wall and Whitmore before she drives a back elbow into the face of Nessa while she kicks Misty in the stomach and then goes back to that arm with a modified cross arm breaker, her legs coiled around Whitmore’s leg as she sat on it with apocalyptic flames in her eyes. Ignis made mockingly obsequious face as she looked down at the writhing Voice of the People from her seated position. The Firebird has the maneuver on tight but she suddenly ducks her head when Nessa comes in looking for her shining wizard! When Nessa lands Ignis wraps her hands around the leg Wall used to kick her head in and forces her to the mat, twisting it in an ankle lock as she continues to twist Misty’s arm with her legs! Both the Voice of the People and the Snarktopus are grunting in agony but Ignis just will not let go!
Mark: Ignis has the Misty in a modified BURNING EMBERS using just her legs while she’s twisting Nessa’s leg off with a modified ankle lock! She was inches away from being Pride Champion and now she’s just trying to tear Nessa and Misty up!
Freya: Ignis just won’t let go! There’s no one tapping out tonight burning-mythical-bird-woman! You can stop your SHIT now!
Yet The Firebird doesn’t let go anytime soon until she twists her body in two different directions! She twists her hands around Wall’s leg and twists her hips to jerk her legs around Misty’s arm, making sure she’s done her damage! Finally Ignis lets go, standing up to survey her damage with pride as as Misty continues to cradle her arm and Nessa leans up against the ropes, hugging her leg as she glares daggers into the back of the Firebird! Ignis however looks to give absolutely no fucks as she looks up at the championship and begins to make her way to a turnbuckle, looking to stop her but this time around its Christopher Kane who stops her from getting back to the Pride Championship.
Ignis looks back at Kane just as he springboards off of the ropes into a corner dropkick in the back of her head! Ignis’s eyes roll back before she drops from the top rope! Christopher gets ready to launch himself but Kelly suddenly comes in and run! She leaps over Ignis’s body, runs up the turnbuckle and executes a flip before tucking in and backflipping right on top of the Firebird’s body for good measure. With a smirk she stands up and poses in front of Kane before pinching his cheek and then suddenly trying to hit him with a jawbreaker for good measure! Kane however stops it from going down and pulls her back up before he kicks her in the stomach and hooks her up for a snap suplex but as he lifts Kelly drops behind him and irish-whips him to the ropes! She dropkicks him in the face with a dropsault, the “sault” part landing on The Firebird to keep her down! As Christopher grips his nose he doesn’t see Leona coming waiting for him in the corner! Kelly however does and immediately takes a step back... Kane’s brow raises and he looks behind him...
...Likely the last thing he’d want to do as Vega RUNS out of the corner and spears him to high hell! The crowd implodes on itself as the Pride Champion nearly has his waist torn in half by the Lioness’s running spear!
Freya: NNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOO!!!! CCCCHHHHHRRRIIISSSSS!
Leona Vega looks down at Kane as he’s folded up before Kelly points upward and Leona’s brows raise. As both women look up they see that Nessa Wall has once again made her way up the structure and even with a hurt ankle Canadian Bitchsauce is pulling her way up the structure but after seeing so many people get pulled down by their legs, Nessa Well hangs by her hands and legs, even the one hurting her so she’s out of reach to be pulled down! The DC crowd boos thoroughly as Nessa begins climbing upside down to her prize with a deviant grin on her face. The Snarktopus now hangs by her legs as she tries to unhinge the SVW Pride Championship from upside down. Alex Houser could NOT look more excited with his eyes wide and the widest grin on his face while Andy Marx pulls a face as though he’s pretty sure Houser is close to orgasm! The DC crowd just continues to boo harder but Leona Vega takes matters into her own hands as she goes running to the nearby ropes and leaps over them onto the apron before she jumps on top of the ropes and bounces on them once... Twice... Before she leaps as high as she can...
AND BUTTERFLY KICKS NESSA’S HEAD WHILE SHE HANGS UPSIDE DOWN!
Crowd: OOOOOOHHHHHHHHHH! S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB!
Nessa looks like she’s barely able to hold onto consciousness after Leona drops on her back and her grip with her legs loosens before she falls down from the structure so high and drops almost lifelessly on the mat. The camera cuts back to Alex Houser whose face turned from joy to fury in less than two seconds. He begins raging out while Andy Marx watches with a smile, looking as though he almost wish he had Milk Duds. Leona points down at Nessa and runs her thumb across her throat.
Mark: Nessa Wall just nearly got decapitated at the hands--err, the legs of the Lioness, Leona Vega! Alex Houser looks like he could kill everything around him and Andy Marx... Andy Marx looks as if he’s wondering if he could sneak to catering.
Freya: Leona just took out Nessa but it looks like she’s gotta worry about Misty and Chris who just got back up and Kelly who’s a few reaches of the arm away from being The Pride Champion!
Christopher shakes the cobwebs out of his head as Misty looks like she (and her arm have seen better days) but the two of them grab Leona’s arms and irish-whip her towards the ropes. When she comes back at them its a running hurricanrana by Chris that drops Leona onto her back with a flipping senton to finish the job by Misty! Meanwhile Kelly’s so close to the Championship she can taste it and immediately tries to swing her legs up so she can get to the top of the Ultimate X structure and grab the championship from there! That’s not to be though as Christopher yanks her down and catches her in his arms! Kelly immediately leaps off of him and begins to light him up with kicks, one sharp kick to the back of the legs and he falls to his knees! Kelly’s about to finish the job when Misty comes up from behind and hits her with a Lungblower for good measure!
Misty leaps at Kane and hits him with a dropsault as she lands right on top of Kelly for added damage! Kane drops to his knees as he clutches his chest but when Misty goes to follow up he pops up and catches her with a surprise elbow to the head! She stumbles back and he goes running after her but Whitmore ducks and pops up as Christopher goes up and lands on the apron. He shoots a knee in Misty’s bad arm and hooks his arm around her, hefting her up for a snap suplex on the outside! he almost gets her but Misty jerks away and tries to hit him with a high kick! Chris stops it and clutches her leg through the ropes! She attempts for a wheel kick but Kane beats her to the punch as he lets her leg go, shoving it through the ropes and grabbing her by the head, jerking her throat against the ropes and sending her backward to the mat!
Mark: Kelly was about one second away from kicking Kane’s head off when Misty decided she wanted to get herself some!
Freya: WELL SHE GOT SOME! YOU CAN DO IT CHRIS!
Christopher spies Ignis getting to her feet and rubs his arm she had damaged so long ago gingerly before he suddenly goes running towards her! As the Firebird realizes he’s coming she ducks her head and he leapfrogs right over her! Her eyebrow arches and she follows the instinct of turning around, not realizing that’s exactly what Kane wants as she turns around right into an Ace Crusher as the DC crowd explodes! The Firebird grips the back of her neck as the Pride Champion looks around for a next target, picking apart his opponents one by one! Unfortunately for him, McGuffin is back up on her feet and the second she spots Chris with her back turned to him she hops up on the ropes and goes running on them! From behind McGuffin leaps onto Kane’s shoulders as he tries to get her off, but McGuffin isn’t having it and leaps off, turning one hundred and eighty degrees and turning it into a flawlessly executed spinning neckbreaker that drops Kane! As Christopher lays dazed on the mat Kelly looks upward and rubs her hands together. She goes to start climbing up on the turnbuckle... As Leona begins to stalk her from behind...
Mark: Leona Vega is looking to lay Kelly out and go climbing for that championship!
Freya: McGuffin has no idea of what may be coming for her but-WAIT VEGA! BEHIND YOU!
Of course the camera pans behind Vega to show that Nessa Wall is stalking her and wraps her arms around Leona’s waist, pulling her forward to shove Kelly out of the ring to take a tumble! Nessa immediately shoves Leona off of her and the second the Lioness turns around she gets a vicious spinning heel kick to the temple! Wall stares at Leona’s body... And then she stares at the top turnbuckle. The Verizon Center crowd begins to rumble as Nessa grips the hair of Leona and drags her up the top turnbuckle where Kelly was before she pulls Vega up on her shoulder. The flash photography begins to off as Canadian Bitchsauce does the unthinkable and shaves off a few years from Leona’s career as she hits a LEONA VEGA WITH A EMERALD FUSION ON THE EDGE OF THE APRON OUTSIDE!
Crowd: HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT!
Mark: (Shocked) V-V-VIXEN DRIVER! She’s... She’s dead. Leona Vega isn’t moving but has a thousand yard in the eyes under that mask.
Freya: NESSA YOU BISH! Nessa Wall has just slain a Lioness and I KNOW SOMEWHERE MIKA DEMIDOV IS JUST LAUGHING LIKE THE BISH SHE IS!
Nessa looks down at the fallen body of Vega and blows a kiss at the wrestler at her feet, leading the DC crowd to only boo her so much harder. She kicks Leona once in the side for good measure(causing Vega to writhe slightly). With that Wall looks back at the ring where Kelly and Christopher are back up and having a kicking contest with each other as Ignis and Misty trade hands! Nessa smirks slowly and dips behind a structural pillar before she begins to make her climb...
...Halfway through she climbs to the left but its obvious that the damage Ignis did to her ankle earlier and the landing she made with Leona in toe. The other four competitors finally spot her trying to make her way to the championship! Misty and Kelly immediately move forward to stop her but before Kane can get a chance to go to follow after The Firebird immediately grabs his arm and twists it into a wrist lock followed by an armbreaker! Kane yells out in pain as Ignis suddenly pulls him into the ropes and executes a rope hanging cross armbreaker! She twists her body through the ropes and then hangs upside down, using all her weight, the ropes and the hold proper to not only massively damage Christopher’s arm but begin to dislocate his shoulder! Kane’s screams are of agony as Misty, Kelly and Nessa all look down and his yells even wake up Leona!
Freya: ...I can’t... This is inhuman! What is with Ignis’s fixation with trying to put people on the shelf!? Misty hasn’t been able to make use of her arm and Nessa can barely walk since Ignis got her hands on them!
Mark: I don’t know Freya but in a few more minutes I think Chris may have to write his farewell speech to wrestling...
Freya: ............No.... Please no....
Wall and McGuffin look at each other and then back before Wall continues to climb for the Pride Championship and Kelly is in hot pursuit of her. Misty however has climbed sideways and begins to climb up another one of the corner structures! It looks like the Voice of the People is a bit finicky, looking back between the Pride Championship she could fight off Nessa and Kelly for and Christopher about to have his career ended at the hands of the youngest Leavenworth! With a deep breath Misty vaults herself off of the structure...! Ignis realizes what’s about to happen just a second too late as she lets go of Chris’s arm but Misty shoots through the air...
AND COMES CRASHING DOWN ON IGNIS’S CHEST WITH A DOUBLE FOOT STOMP AS SHE HANGS ON THE ROPES!
Crowd: OOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
Ignis is rolling on the ground, eyes wide and pupils so small as she violently coughs up blood and writhes as though she’s in the middle of the seizure! Misty isn’t much better, landing on her arm on the apron as she came down on the Firebird but the Voice of the People has a look on her face as she cradles her beaten arm against her chest with a look of ferocity on her face!
Mark: Misty Whitmore just stopped Ignis from quite frankly ending Christopher Kane’s career for good! His arm doesn’t look in good shape but its better than planning his retirement speech Freya! He looks to be in so much pain right now though!
Freya: This is just horrible Mark! Leona’s barely moving, Ignis is done, Christopher is down on the mat, staring at the pretty lights, I don’t think Misty is up to climbing... They want that Pride Championship so bad but it looks like right now Kelly and Nessa are closest to it!
Indeed they are but Nessa is much closer to the Pride Championship hanging above the ring, trying to reach it two times but Kelly kicks her in the hip, hanging by her arms right behind her! Nessa Wall turns around and glares at McGuffin before the two women begin to have a leg fight, kicking each other at the sides and even raising their legs to kick the other’s arms out and force a fall!
Kelly has to climb backward slightly to dodge one of Nessa’s high reaching legs kicking her shoulder and Nessa Wall does the same as both women look down when they both nearly lose their grip. Nessa begins to mouth to Kelly that she is going to have that Pride Championship and there’s nothing that Kelly can do about it before kicking her in the hip again! McGuffin flinches and then kicks her right back! Ever so often it seems like one of the two women will fall, the crowd gasps wildly!
Nessa finally kicks one of Kelly’s arms out and the crowd lets out a loud gasp, a woman even screams in the Verizon Center as Canadian Bitchsauce smirks and shoots a leg up to kick Kelly’s other arm out to send her plummeting to the mat... But Kelly has none of it as she uses her free arm to swing at Nessa while backflipping! Nessa’s eyes go wide as Kelly McGuffin uses her entire body weight to pull Nessa down and together the two women go plummeting downward as McGuffin uses the momentum to force Nessa into a moonsault slam with her!
It’s a perfect landing for Kelly at least as she lays on top of an unconscious Nessa Wall who cushioned her fall and stands shakily to her feet!
Crowd: S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB!
Freya: These fans chant anymore and they’re gonna be hoarse by the time The Midas Touch comes around!
Mark: Kelly calls that the CRASH AND BURN and I couldn’t think of a better name! She’s got a free pass to the--
Mark never gets to finish that sentence as Kelly McGuffin takes two steps into Christopher Kane kipping up in front of her and hitting the acrobat with a kip-up Ace Crusher for her trouble! The crowd is in shock as Kelly gets laid out as well and Christopher begins to limply drag his own carcass towards a turnbuckle and up the Ultimate X structure...!
By now Leona has rolled herself back in the ring woozily, as has Misty and Ignis! Each of the three women are trying their best to get to the other corners, Leona finding trouble thanks to pain obviously shooting up her neck, Misty’s arm killing her and Ignis’s chest likely feeling like its on fire. Each of the three competitors try as they might but Kane has a head start all the way until he gets to the top of the structure. He begins to crawl atop it, using just his legs and one good arm to drag himself across the top of the ‘X’ letting out pained groans with each pull. Ignis moves a bit faster than Vega and Whitmore but only because it’s her abdomen killing her and not an arm or her neck but all three women see it becomes completely moot..
...
When Christopher Kane removes the Pride Championship belt from the center of the X before throwing it over the top next to him and laying on the apex of the structure.
DING DING DING!
Mark: He... He did it. Ladies and gentlemen he.. He did it.
Freya: I’m so proud of him! I just couldn’t be happier right now Mark!
John: The winner of Ultimate X... AND STILL SVW PRIDE CHAMPION... CCCCHHHRRRIISSSTTOOOPPHHHEEERRR KKKKAAAANNNNEEEE!
As “Fifth Kind” fills the Verizon Center, the Lioness lets out a sigh of frustration and begins to climb down gingerly. The Voice of the People uses her legs to fall backward before she lands on her rear and lays against the ropes. The Firebird’s face is a look of absolute contempt as Andy Marx rolls into the ring to catch her as she drops! Christian Kincaid is checking on his aerialist protege and lover while Houser tries to rouse the Snarktopus back up. As nearly the entire medical team comes out to check on all of the competitors, the camera points up at the champion still laying on top of Ultimate X.
With his good arm he raises the championship and so many lights of flash photography go off around him, making the Verizon Center look like a burst of stars.
Freya: And once they’re all out of the hospital I’m sure whoever it is will celebrate dude. This is going to get ugly. No. fugly. Nope, worse. Fuggo.
John Youle is standing in the ring with the SVW Pride Championship hanging over his head. The announcer is right smack dab in the center of the large, metallic Ultimate X structure. The DC crowd begins a bubbling murmur.
John: The following match is the ULTIMATE X match for... The Sex & Violence Wrestling PRIDE CHAMPIONSHIP!
The flute introduction of "Animal" plays through the sound system, as Leona comes out. She looks over the cheering crowd, pointing at two random spots into the audience before letting out a loud roar, which is followed by a lion's roar echoing through the sound system.
John: Introducing first, from Monterrey, Mexico... LEONA VEGA!
She then sprints and hops onto the ring apron, and in the same impact, she hops over the top rope, landing in a three-point stance inside the ring. soaking in the crowd's cheers, she gets up and climbs the nearest turnbuckle to taunt the crowd, roaring at them, pumping her arm and acknowledging them, before jumping back down and facing the ring.
Freya: Leona has become her own woman and honestly if she’s wins tonight I think it’ll prove what I think I knew for a while now. The Lioness NEVER needed The Red Star.
The heavy crunching riffs of “I Love Playing With Fire” by Joan Jett & The Blackhearts hit the PA. As the vocals kick in, Ignis walks out of the entranceway, her arm shooting up as flames blast out from the stage, Andy Marx following behind her. She twirls around him, giving him a kiss. Ignis walks down the ramp before hopping onto the apron and flipping over the top rope. She points to the far turnbuckle, and a flame shoots out of it, before doing the same at each of the four turnbuckles, almost as though she is conducting a symphony of flame, as Andy walks down to ringside..
John: From Llanfair PG, Wales, and accompanied by Andy Marx... This is THE FIREBIRD... IGNIS!
Mark: Ignis misses that Pride Championship around her waist and if I was a betting man I’d just guess she’s willing to send every single one of her opponents to ICU tonight to get what she wants.
The music starts, as the crowd quiets. A spotlight appears at the top of the ramp…but after a few moments nobody shows. The spotlight starts combing the arena, followed by another spotlight, and a third as the song starts.
Paranoia is in bloom,
The PR, transmissions will resume
They'll try to, push drugs that keep us all dumbed down
And hope that, we will never see the truth around
(So come on!)
The spotlights race around for a moment until one finally stops in the middle of the crowd, revealing Misty standing amongst the fans. She raises her fist with a cry and a grin as the fans nearby cheer and do the same.
John: Hailing from Toronto, Ontario Canada. The Voice of the People....MISTY WHITMORE!!!
Freya: Misty and Ignis have had their share of issues and I can just bet Misty would like nothing more than to walk out Pride Champion. You know what they say about the best revenge is living good right!
Mark: You mean “Living well is the best revenge”...
The young wrestler then makes a B-line for the ring, slapping hands of fans before hopping the barricade. Misty climbs onto the ring apron and looks out at the crowd, holding a hand over her brow with a grin. Leaping over the top rope Misty runs to the opposite corner, climbing up the corner and singing out the chorus with the fans, raising her fist with every phrase.
They will not force us! They will stop degrading us! They will not control us! We will be victorious! So come on!
The arena falls dark as the opening of “Blonde, Bad and Beautiful” by Airbourne plays, Kelly explodes upward out of the middle of the stage as though shot out of a cannon, landing a perfect front somersault in a shower of blue sparks. She stays on her feet for a mere moment before leaping into a back somersault as Christian Kincaid walks out to join her, a broad smile on his face. She turns to face him, giving him a big hug as she plants a kiss to his lips. As the music starts to pick up pace once more she starts to run toward the ring, diving into a cartwheel and using the momentum to transition into a handspring backflip, landing on her feet near the ring she leaps once flipping backward onto the apron. Smirking as she stands on the apron, she turns to face into the ring, both hands on the top rope she vaults over it with a standing leap into a mid air split. Once again making a perfect landing she instantly sprints toward the furthest away corner, not breaking stride she runs straight up the pads. Stopping on the top turnbuckle she blows a kiss to the fans and corkscrew flips back to the mat, facing the middle of the ring as she lands.
John: From Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York, and accompanied to the ring by Christian Kincaid. Please welcome...KELLY MCGUFFIN!!!
Mark: If ever there was a rivalry in the skies like Kelly McGuffin and Christopher B. Kane...
Freya: It’s because she wants his body. She totally told me one time.
Mark: ....Uh-huh.
The lights fade to a pale pink, and the screen comes to life with heavy static, showing a silhouette of a woman moving slowly towards the foreground. Mocking feminine laughter erupts over the speakers, bleeding into the driving guitars of Jet's "She's a Genius". The images on the screen shift, melting away as though doused in acid. Images flash, showing a petite blonde woman dominating both men and women in the wrestling ring. Some of these scenes are very blurry and it's hard to tell if the woman is even Nessa or someone who just vaguely resembles her.
My girl is ready to take control
She just blows my mind
She only listens to the radio to see who's alive
Yeah!
John: Making her way to the ring now, hailing from Toronto, Ontario, Canada and accompanied by her manager and love of her life, Alex Houser... she is the woman you LOVE to hate... CANADIAN BITCHSAUCE... NESSA WALL!
Nessa Wall steps out at the top of the ramp and stands there for a moment, staring straight ahead at the ring while a series of pink and purple pyros explode along the ramp. She then spins and is caught in the strong arms of Alex Houser as she fakes a swoon, seemingly at her own awesomeness.
She wakes up scared of getting old
She don't feel no shame
She knows so many pretty boys
but they are all the same
Freya: I hate her... I hate her so... So very much. So so so so so so so so so so soso so so so so very much.
Mark: Because she and Mika are as thick as thieves?
Freya: SO VERY MUCH!
Tossing her hair over her shoulder, she seems completely oblivious to the attention of the few supporters she does have in the crowd. She knows every eye is on her, and she loves every minute of it. The rain of pyros follow the pair down to the ring as Nessa plants a very lewd kiss on Houser's lips before letting him escort her the rest of the way to the ring, pausing to talk trash to fans along the way.
They said "Oh, hey there girl, tell me what do you do"
She says "um, nothing but I'm damn sure it's more than you"
That girl is a genius
Who o o o o ohw
I think she's serious
Who o o o o ohw
As the driving rock beat of Jet continues to rape every ear drum in attendance, Nessa climbs into the ring and immediately comes to life, sprinting across and jumping up on the turnbuckles in the corner. Thrusting her fist in the air with one hand, she presses her palm to her lips and blows a kiss to her devoted manager with the other before hopping down as her music fades out.
The house opening of “Fifth Kind” by The Browning begins to fill the arena. Everyone stands up to their feet as the drums and guitar are introduced. All of it builds to the screaming words as pyro reigns down from the sky. Christopher Kane steps out from the back with a hoodie on, hood up as he smirks. The teenager throws his arms out before beginning his walk to the ring.
John: Coming to us from The Open Roads, he is your REIGNING AND DEFENDING SVW PRIDE CHAMPION… Christopher Kane!!!
Mark: I don’t know how Christopher’s chances will hold tonight but I certainly believe he’s going to do everything in his power to retain tonight.
Freya: He’s a Kane dude! He’ll pull it through!
Hands are slapped onto his way to the ring as Christopher continues his walk to the ring. He takes a trip around ringside, but stops halfway to run and leaps up onto the apron. Christopher runs to the closest turnbuckle and jumps to the top. Chris pulls the hood down before jumping into the ring. From there he stands against the turnbuckle taking off his hoodie to a large pop from the teenage girls in the crowd before tossing it to ringside. The music fades off as he waits.
...
All six competitors look up at the Pride Championship that continues to hang gingerly by a chain at the bottom of the cross-shaped structure.
DING! DING! DING!
The DC crowd begins to rumble as the moment the bell rings, all six competitors attacking anything that moves right from the gate. Ignis and Leona are trading blows nearby and Leona attempts to tag Ignis with a jumping justice fist that the Firebird immediately ducks and catches Leona with a front dropkick in the back of the head before she irish-whips her into a corner and hits her with a running arm shiver to the gut before she puts in the Latina’s hair and gets ready to run her out of the corner and mat first but Vega’s hands grip the ropes and she stops Ignis from dragging her out! The Lioness grabs the wrists of The Firebird, springboards off the nearby rope to hit her with a hurricanrana right out of the ring!
Mark: Leona with a counter attack on Ignis and both women are out of the ring with Vega now peppering Ignis with rights and lefts!
Freya: She better watch out! I see Andy all lurkin’ and bein’ suspicious and junk! Looks like Kelly and Nessa are making friends while Chris and Misty set anything like that aside!
Inside of the ring still Kelly irish-whips Nessa but the Snarktopus counters with an irish-whip of her own which she uses to pull McGuffin right back into a jumping heel kick that causes the former acrobat to lean up against the ropes! Nessa drives a stiff rolling elbow to the head of McGuffin before she grabs her by the wrist and irish-whips her again but this time Kelly does a front flip towards the ropes, bouncing back and hand springing to try and catch Nessa in a reverse DDT but Wall knows what’s coming for her and clenches Kelly’s wrist before twisting it around and catching McGuffin off-guard with a headbutt to the chest before she shivers her with another elbow!
The DC crowd grows a little tense on the action at the other side of the ring as Kane and Whitmore play cautious with each other. The Voice of the People raises her leg as if she’s going for a kick and Christopher holds his arm up reflexively before he runs forward to try and hit her with a running elbow shiver! He hits Misty right across the nose but Whitmore keeps standing even when she catches a second elbow. On the attempt of the third however Whitmore ducks it and cracks Kane in the head with a pele kick that leans him up against the turnbuckle! She looks behind her and sees that Nessa’s got Kelly leaned up on the opposite side! With two glances at each other!
Freya: I sense Canadians afoot Mark! Looks like a short-lived alliance in the making!
Mark: I’m not a fan as you’d imagine but here it is!
Nessa and Misty both attempt to irish-whip Christopher and Kelly at each other but as the two go running at each other, Kelly leapfrogs over Kane and leaps right at Misty to hit her with a vicious jawbuster in the corner, bouncing the Voice of the People’s head back into the turnbuckle! At the exact same time Christopher comes at Nessa and when she attempts to hit him with a European elbow, he ducks it and lands a springboard enzuigiri to her head! With their opponents laid out the two begin to scale the structure while Leona and Ignis are still in each other’s faces on the outside, as Ignis attempts to hit Leona with a Tornado DDT on the outside but Leona wraps her arms around Ignis’s waist and runs her into the ringside!
By now both Chris and Kelly are using their arms to climb towards the Pride Championship as the crowd with the other in their sights. Suddenly Kelly flashes a wide smirk and pulls herself up, standing right on top of the structure! This of course causes a collective echo of gasps in the Verizon Center as McGuffin surveys everything from the very top before she begins running along the edge!
Mark: KELLY MCGUFFIN IS PLAYING RUSSIAN ROULETTE WITH HER CAREER FROM THAT HEIGHT! WHAT IS THAT GIRL PLAYING AT!?
Freya: She knew when she signed up Mark! MY QUESTION IS WHY IS CHRIS DOING NOT THE SAME!
Of course Christopher uses his arms below to keep shuffling along as Kelly gets right at the apex of the X and reaches down to grab the championship but she can’t as Kane shoots a leg up to kick her hand away! He does it time and time again before McGuffin grows frustrated and slips through the structure, now hanging on her arms as she kicks Christopher twice to drop him down! Christopher however lands on his feet and Kane pulls at McGuffin’s legs to get her off the structure, causing her to lose grip of one hand... With narrowed eyes, Kelly lets go and wraps her legs around Kane’s neck to give him the mother of all hurricanranas! He goes sailing just as Leona kicks Ignis in the stomach and hops up on the apron only for her and Christopher to have a meeting of the minds! Both Leona and Kane are down outside of the ring, Leona gripping her forehead in pain and Christopher laid out from the landing!
Crowd: OOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
Mark: Kelly just turned Chris into a lawn dart and Leona had to be the one to suffer it!
Freya: OH WHAT THE HELL KELLY!? WHAT THE HONEST TO GOD HELL!? YOU’RE JUST MAD THAT CHRIS IS A BETTER HIGH FLYER THAN YOU ARE! HEY MISTY’S GOING FOR IT! WAIT! NO SHE’S NOT!
Ignis rolls into the ring now that Leona has been dealt with and immediately spies Misty Whitmore swinging to the Pride Championship like the Ultimate X structure is her own personal jungle gym! She gets within an arm’s reach before Ignis jerks her right down, having none of that! Kelly was about to go for it herself but had been at this point going back and forth with Nessa who got up.. Its the four women in the middle of the Verizon Center! Misty and Ignis finally turn on each other with a straight up slugfest. Nothing fancy, no chops or dropkicks or uppercuts of the European variety. Just left and right hands back and forth while Kelly gets worked over by Nessa who sends her head first into the second turnbuckle with a drop toe hold! As Kelly lays face first against the turnbuckle and slowly pulling herself upward, Wall doesn’t let her breathe and springboards into a dropkick just as Kelly pulls herself up, driving her headfirst into the top turnbuckle this time and finally laying her out!
Nessa looks at Ignis and Misty who are going back and forth before Nessa joins in the fray it becomes a one-on-one-on-one fight! Nessa quickly tags both The Firebird and the Voice of the People with a pair of elbows before she bounces off the ropes and hits Misty with a running headbutt before she grabs the back of Ignis’s head and goes running to hit her with a bulldog! Ignis however shoves Nessa into the turnbuckle and goes back to Whitmore to wrap her arms around her waist and hit her with a regular atomic drop! Misty however flips over Ignis as she gets lifted upward and hits her with a lungblower for good measure as Ignis rolls around on the mat. Whitmore goes to lift her upward, ducking her head and making herself a prime target for Nessa who bounces off the ropes and hits a flying bulldog on Misty just as her head pops up again and Ignis rolls out of the way, knowing what was about to happen if she had laid where Misty had landed a moment longer!
Mark: Ignis is showing a very tactical nature so far, knowing when and where to hang and take a breather.
Freya: She’s arguably the most technically sensible in this match Mark, so she’s gotta pick her moments to strike but Nessa’s dragging Misty to the corner!
The camera points to Alex Houser with a smirk on his face as Wall takes Misty to task against the turnbuckle, pumping a few hard kicks into her ribs before she forces her up to the top turnbuckle with Misty sitting atop it. Nessa climbs to the second and hits the Voice of the People with a vicious european uppercut before she attempts to set Misty up for a sunset flip! The DC crowd’s sounds of shock and fear are wonderment if Whitmore may be able to wrestle after being sunset flipped into the jagged metal stairs outside but Nessa never gets to complete the move as Ignis drives an arm into her back! Now its Nessa Wall seated beside Misty and Ignis working them both over with double front facelocks as The Firebird looks to honestly execute a double superplex on both women! Wall and Whitmore however aren’t budging by any means and both women began to pound away at Ignis’s abdomen to get her off them, even though the youngest of the Leavenworth family holds on for dear life! At this point Leona rolls into the ring and slides her head between Ignis’s legs and hooks her arms around the Firebird’s legs! Leona forces Ignis backward as she has Misty and Nessa in tow and together they all fall in a mass of human flesh with Leona being the first to stand tall!
Crowd: HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT!
Mark: Leona Vega just MOST OF HER COMPETITION! She hit an Electric Chair Drop on Ignis just as the Firebird was trying to find the leverage to hit a double superplex on Misty and Nessa... Though the way Ignis is laying in agony...
Freya: You don’t think she’ll be thanking Leona for the assist either?
It doesn’t seem to matter to Vega as she looks up at the Pride Championship and gets atop the metal structure before she begins to climb upward. At this time, Kelly and Christopher are both up and they spot the Latina making her way upward and then getting her hands on the metal structure before she begins to shimmy towards the Pride Championship with her hands, legs dangling toward the ground. Both Kane and McGuffin get the same idea and grab either one of Vega’s legs before she can actually touch the championship and pull her down so she lands on her back. Kelly and Chris look at each other, almost as if this team-up that’s about to happen shouldn’t before Kelly and Christopher lift Leona up and get ready to hit her with a double brainbuster...
Before Ignis interrupts everything by sneaking herself back up to climb the metal structure once more to get that precious Pride Championship! McGuffin leaves Leona to Kane as he hits her with a snap suplex and Kelly hops over the ropes to the apron and climbs up to hammer Ignis with a few shots to the back. The Firebird doesn’t take kindly to it and back-kicks McGuffin in the mouth! The former acrobat however wraps a hand around Ignis’s boot and pulls her back down to the apron where the two have at each other, teetering to fall off! At this point Misty Whitmore has gotten herself back in the game and sees both Kelly and Ignis battling back and forth on the apron side facing the entrance ramp to the ring. Whitmore looks to the ropes and then runs atop it before she leaps and hits both women in the head with a double flying knee strike that sends them flying off the apron and onto the cold metal of the entrance ramp!
Crowd: S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB!
Freya: Two PEOPLE’S DECREES for the price of one!? I think so Mark!
Mark: Both Ignis and Kelly are going to have the world’s biggest headaches by the time they can pull themselves off the ground but wait--!
As Misty admires her handiwork and the cheers of the Verizon Center, she turns around to a vicious enzuigiri compliments of Nessa Wall! Misty teeters on her feet before her eyes roll in the back of her head and she drops like a sack of potatoes. Nessa turns her attention on Leona and Christopher as the two continue to battle back and forth. Vega irish-whips Kane to the ropes but he leaps over them onto the apron with his hand still clutching her wrist before he springboards and sends her over him with an arm drag onto her back. The Lioness clutches her shoulder as the reigning Pride Champion comes running at her and he goes for his signature Tornado Kick but Leona bends over backwards to dodge it before she catches him flush in the face with a jumping justice fist for good measure! Kane looks stunned as Leona pulls him on her shoulders, teasing for the El Pilote!
The DC crowd roars as Vega tries to hold on tight to Kane but he continues to struggle, not at all looking to be a victim of Vega’s fireman’s carry gutbuster. He continues to struggle and hits her with an elbow to the head before his weight gets a bit much for her and Kane drops behind her before kicking her in the back of the leg, setting her up for an Inverted DDT... As Nessa runs to the ropes in front Chris and Vega, jumps on the second and bounces backward with her arm around Christopher’s neck as she hits HIM with an Inverted DDT as he hits it on Leona! Both Vega and Kane go down as the crowd lets their cries be heard!
Crowd: OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Freya: Nessa just ninja’d into a double knockout! Chris was about to put an exclamation point on Leona and here with an Inverted DDT and she just bounces in like she owns the place and now there’s a clear path between Nessa and the Pride Championship!
Mark: Don’t remind me Freya... I can see Alex Houser’s face from here and he’s... Yeck. Smiling. Did you know that every time Alex Houser smiles, a classroom full of children cry?
The camera points to the grinning Houser as he applauds the love of his life as she begins climbing the structure with her eyes on the prize. Wall continues her climb all the way to the top of the structure. She hangs by her arms and slowly makes her way to the Pride Championship, staring right at it. Wall reaches with one hand but realizes her grip won’t allow her to hang this way for long so she turns one eighty while hanging to face the route she just climbed before Nessa begins to kick her legs up to try and hang upside down! She gets interrupted this time by Ignis who jerks her down into a suped up version of an atomic drop! Nessa drops to her knees with her hands on her pelvic bone as Leavenworth grabs her by the hair and hits her with a facebuster!
Ignis hops up on a turnbuckle in a nearby corner and she starts going up to scale before she’s stopped by Misty who starts peppering the back of the Firebird with a few sharp blows on the second rope of the corner. Ignis shot a elbow to knock Misty off her but the Voice of the People continues to hit her until The Firebird has all she can stand and catches the wrist of Whitmore, leaping from her perch and hitting a nasty arm drag on Misty! She doesn’t stop from there as she forces Whitmore up before swinging her weight over and hooking in that dreaded cross armbreaker! Misty grips at the mat and scratches at it, trying to get herself free of The Firebird who does not let it go for all she’s worth.
Mark: There’s no point in making Misty tap out but Ignis doesn’t seem to care a lick!
Freya: It sucks to watch but its sound strategy! Misty won’t be climbing as quickly as she could if her arm is torn up!
Ignis continues to apply the hold but suddenly Leona Vega flies in from nowhere and drops on top of Ignis with a top rope senton while Kelly McGuffin comes down on Misty from the other side with a top rope corkscrew moonsault! Ignis lets go of the hold as Misty holds her left arm in pain. Leona forces Ignis up and lights her chest up with one hard roundhouse kick but after a third, The Firebird refuses to go down and instead grabs Vega’s wrist and catches her in a hammerlock. Meanwhile Nessa is back up and she and Kelly are going to town on Whitmore, Kelly hitting her with a European uppercut, making her stumble into a headbutt to the chest... Misty answers both women back with one straight kick to the face, but neither go down and suddenly Misty freezes in place with eyes wide! Whitmore yells that they need to scramble, but she gets an elbow to her face for her trouble from Wall...
...The camera pans up and sees Christopher Kane hanging by his arms at the top of the structure with all five of his opponents quite a few feet from underneath him. With a manic grin, the Pride Champion begins to swing with his legs, back and forth, back and forth while they’re in the middle of the action and finally he lets go! Kane executes a perfect triple rotation moonsault with all the lights from the cameras in the Verizon Center going off as he lands on them all and takes every single participant of the Ultimate X match out!
Crowd: HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT!
Mark: All of them... Every single one of them are down! Freya, no one is moving! A TRIPLE ROTATION MOONSAULT and the Pride Champion just destroyed all his competition and TOOK himself out for good measure!
Freya: YEAH DUDE I-- WAIT! ...Someone’s moving!
The camera closes up as... Ignis gets up to her feet, rubbing the back of her neck gingerly before she looks around at the writhing bodies of her competitors and breaks out into a grin of glee!
Freya: HOW DID IGNIS POSSIBLY SURVIVE THAT!?
Mark: ...I think I know how Freya, lets look back on the replay...
The video wall back in the Verizon Center and the televisions for all the SVW fans at home show Ignis’s positioning when Kane was in mid-flight. She still had Leona in a hammerlock and used Vega to take the brunt of Kane’s impact as they both fell backward. When we cut back to the ring, Ignis’s grin across her lips is rictus as she points at the Pride Championship and begins to climb the structure, the crowd booing the entire way she climbs! Ignis sees the championship hanging and she begins to shimmy her way to it with her arms until The Firebird comes within an arm’s reach of the Midas Touch and stretches her hand out!
She clenches the strap and...
And...!
Gets pulled down by Misty and Nessa who barely stood up on their legs!
Ignis looks like everything she has ever hoped and dreamed for has been ruined for ever before she glances between Wall and Whitmore before she drives a back elbow into the face of Nessa while she kicks Misty in the stomach and then goes back to that arm with a modified cross arm breaker, her legs coiled around Whitmore’s leg as she sat on it with apocalyptic flames in her eyes. Ignis made mockingly obsequious face as she looked down at the writhing Voice of the People from her seated position. The Firebird has the maneuver on tight but she suddenly ducks her head when Nessa comes in looking for her shining wizard! When Nessa lands Ignis wraps her hands around the leg Wall used to kick her head in and forces her to the mat, twisting it in an ankle lock as she continues to twist Misty’s arm with her legs! Both the Voice of the People and the Snarktopus are grunting in agony but Ignis just will not let go!
Mark: Ignis has the Misty in a modified BURNING EMBERS using just her legs while she’s twisting Nessa’s leg off with a modified ankle lock! She was inches away from being Pride Champion and now she’s just trying to tear Nessa and Misty up!
Freya: Ignis just won’t let go! There’s no one tapping out tonight burning-mythical-bird-woman! You can stop your SHIT now!
Yet The Firebird doesn’t let go anytime soon until she twists her body in two different directions! She twists her hands around Wall’s leg and twists her hips to jerk her legs around Misty’s arm, making sure she’s done her damage! Finally Ignis lets go, standing up to survey her damage with pride as as Misty continues to cradle her arm and Nessa leans up against the ropes, hugging her leg as she glares daggers into the back of the Firebird! Ignis however looks to give absolutely no fucks as she looks up at the championship and begins to make her way to a turnbuckle, looking to stop her but this time around its Christopher Kane who stops her from getting back to the Pride Championship.
Ignis looks back at Kane just as he springboards off of the ropes into a corner dropkick in the back of her head! Ignis’s eyes roll back before she drops from the top rope! Christopher gets ready to launch himself but Kelly suddenly comes in and run! She leaps over Ignis’s body, runs up the turnbuckle and executes a flip before tucking in and backflipping right on top of the Firebird’s body for good measure. With a smirk she stands up and poses in front of Kane before pinching his cheek and then suddenly trying to hit him with a jawbreaker for good measure! Kane however stops it from going down and pulls her back up before he kicks her in the stomach and hooks her up for a snap suplex but as he lifts Kelly drops behind him and irish-whips him to the ropes! She dropkicks him in the face with a dropsault, the “sault” part landing on The Firebird to keep her down! As Christopher grips his nose he doesn’t see Leona coming waiting for him in the corner! Kelly however does and immediately takes a step back... Kane’s brow raises and he looks behind him...
...Likely the last thing he’d want to do as Vega RUNS out of the corner and spears him to high hell! The crowd implodes on itself as the Pride Champion nearly has his waist torn in half by the Lioness’s running spear!
Freya: NNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOO!!!! CCCCHHHHHRRRIIISSSSS!
Leona Vega looks down at Kane as he’s folded up before Kelly points upward and Leona’s brows raise. As both women look up they see that Nessa Wall has once again made her way up the structure and even with a hurt ankle Canadian Bitchsauce is pulling her way up the structure but after seeing so many people get pulled down by their legs, Nessa Well hangs by her hands and legs, even the one hurting her so she’s out of reach to be pulled down! The DC crowd boos thoroughly as Nessa begins climbing upside down to her prize with a deviant grin on her face. The Snarktopus now hangs by her legs as she tries to unhinge the SVW Pride Championship from upside down. Alex Houser could NOT look more excited with his eyes wide and the widest grin on his face while Andy Marx pulls a face as though he’s pretty sure Houser is close to orgasm! The DC crowd just continues to boo harder but Leona Vega takes matters into her own hands as she goes running to the nearby ropes and leaps over them onto the apron before she jumps on top of the ropes and bounces on them once... Twice... Before she leaps as high as she can...
AND BUTTERFLY KICKS NESSA’S HEAD WHILE SHE HANGS UPSIDE DOWN!
Crowd: OOOOOOHHHHHHHHHH! S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB!
Nessa looks like she’s barely able to hold onto consciousness after Leona drops on her back and her grip with her legs loosens before she falls down from the structure so high and drops almost lifelessly on the mat. The camera cuts back to Alex Houser whose face turned from joy to fury in less than two seconds. He begins raging out while Andy Marx watches with a smile, looking as though he almost wish he had Milk Duds. Leona points down at Nessa and runs her thumb across her throat.
Mark: Nessa Wall just nearly got decapitated at the hands--err, the legs of the Lioness, Leona Vega! Alex Houser looks like he could kill everything around him and Andy Marx... Andy Marx looks as if he’s wondering if he could sneak to catering.
Freya: Leona just took out Nessa but it looks like she’s gotta worry about Misty and Chris who just got back up and Kelly who’s a few reaches of the arm away from being The Pride Champion!
Christopher shakes the cobwebs out of his head as Misty looks like she (and her arm have seen better days) but the two of them grab Leona’s arms and irish-whip her towards the ropes. When she comes back at them its a running hurricanrana by Chris that drops Leona onto her back with a flipping senton to finish the job by Misty! Meanwhile Kelly’s so close to the Championship she can taste it and immediately tries to swing her legs up so she can get to the top of the Ultimate X structure and grab the championship from there! That’s not to be though as Christopher yanks her down and catches her in his arms! Kelly immediately leaps off of him and begins to light him up with kicks, one sharp kick to the back of the legs and he falls to his knees! Kelly’s about to finish the job when Misty comes up from behind and hits her with a Lungblower for good measure!
Misty leaps at Kane and hits him with a dropsault as she lands right on top of Kelly for added damage! Kane drops to his knees as he clutches his chest but when Misty goes to follow up he pops up and catches her with a surprise elbow to the head! She stumbles back and he goes running after her but Whitmore ducks and pops up as Christopher goes up and lands on the apron. He shoots a knee in Misty’s bad arm and hooks his arm around her, hefting her up for a snap suplex on the outside! he almost gets her but Misty jerks away and tries to hit him with a high kick! Chris stops it and clutches her leg through the ropes! She attempts for a wheel kick but Kane beats her to the punch as he lets her leg go, shoving it through the ropes and grabbing her by the head, jerking her throat against the ropes and sending her backward to the mat!
Mark: Kelly was about one second away from kicking Kane’s head off when Misty decided she wanted to get herself some!
Freya: WELL SHE GOT SOME! YOU CAN DO IT CHRIS!
Christopher spies Ignis getting to her feet and rubs his arm she had damaged so long ago gingerly before he suddenly goes running towards her! As the Firebird realizes he’s coming she ducks her head and he leapfrogs right over her! Her eyebrow arches and she follows the instinct of turning around, not realizing that’s exactly what Kane wants as she turns around right into an Ace Crusher as the DC crowd explodes! The Firebird grips the back of her neck as the Pride Champion looks around for a next target, picking apart his opponents one by one! Unfortunately for him, McGuffin is back up on her feet and the second she spots Chris with her back turned to him she hops up on the ropes and goes running on them! From behind McGuffin leaps onto Kane’s shoulders as he tries to get her off, but McGuffin isn’t having it and leaps off, turning one hundred and eighty degrees and turning it into a flawlessly executed spinning neckbreaker that drops Kane! As Christopher lays dazed on the mat Kelly looks upward and rubs her hands together. She goes to start climbing up on the turnbuckle... As Leona begins to stalk her from behind...
Mark: Leona Vega is looking to lay Kelly out and go climbing for that championship!
Freya: McGuffin has no idea of what may be coming for her but-WAIT VEGA! BEHIND YOU!
Of course the camera pans behind Vega to show that Nessa Wall is stalking her and wraps her arms around Leona’s waist, pulling her forward to shove Kelly out of the ring to take a tumble! Nessa immediately shoves Leona off of her and the second the Lioness turns around she gets a vicious spinning heel kick to the temple! Wall stares at Leona’s body... And then she stares at the top turnbuckle. The Verizon Center crowd begins to rumble as Nessa grips the hair of Leona and drags her up the top turnbuckle where Kelly was before she pulls Vega up on her shoulder. The flash photography begins to off as Canadian Bitchsauce does the unthinkable and shaves off a few years from Leona’s career as she hits a LEONA VEGA WITH A EMERALD FUSION ON THE EDGE OF THE APRON OUTSIDE!
Crowd: HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT!
Mark: (Shocked) V-V-VIXEN DRIVER! She’s... She’s dead. Leona Vega isn’t moving but has a thousand yard in the eyes under that mask.
Freya: NESSA YOU BISH! Nessa Wall has just slain a Lioness and I KNOW SOMEWHERE MIKA DEMIDOV IS JUST LAUGHING LIKE THE BISH SHE IS!
Nessa looks down at the fallen body of Vega and blows a kiss at the wrestler at her feet, leading the DC crowd to only boo her so much harder. She kicks Leona once in the side for good measure(causing Vega to writhe slightly). With that Wall looks back at the ring where Kelly and Christopher are back up and having a kicking contest with each other as Ignis and Misty trade hands! Nessa smirks slowly and dips behind a structural pillar before she begins to make her climb...
...Halfway through she climbs to the left but its obvious that the damage Ignis did to her ankle earlier and the landing she made with Leona in toe. The other four competitors finally spot her trying to make her way to the championship! Misty and Kelly immediately move forward to stop her but before Kane can get a chance to go to follow after The Firebird immediately grabs his arm and twists it into a wrist lock followed by an armbreaker! Kane yells out in pain as Ignis suddenly pulls him into the ropes and executes a rope hanging cross armbreaker! She twists her body through the ropes and then hangs upside down, using all her weight, the ropes and the hold proper to not only massively damage Christopher’s arm but begin to dislocate his shoulder! Kane’s screams are of agony as Misty, Kelly and Nessa all look down and his yells even wake up Leona!
Freya: ...I can’t... This is inhuman! What is with Ignis’s fixation with trying to put people on the shelf!? Misty hasn’t been able to make use of her arm and Nessa can barely walk since Ignis got her hands on them!
Mark: I don’t know Freya but in a few more minutes I think Chris may have to write his farewell speech to wrestling...
Freya: ............No.... Please no....
Wall and McGuffin look at each other and then back before Wall continues to climb for the Pride Championship and Kelly is in hot pursuit of her. Misty however has climbed sideways and begins to climb up another one of the corner structures! It looks like the Voice of the People is a bit finicky, looking back between the Pride Championship she could fight off Nessa and Kelly for and Christopher about to have his career ended at the hands of the youngest Leavenworth! With a deep breath Misty vaults herself off of the structure...! Ignis realizes what’s about to happen just a second too late as she lets go of Chris’s arm but Misty shoots through the air...
AND COMES CRASHING DOWN ON IGNIS’S CHEST WITH A DOUBLE FOOT STOMP AS SHE HANGS ON THE ROPES!
Crowd: OOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
Ignis is rolling on the ground, eyes wide and pupils so small as she violently coughs up blood and writhes as though she’s in the middle of the seizure! Misty isn’t much better, landing on her arm on the apron as she came down on the Firebird but the Voice of the People has a look on her face as she cradles her beaten arm against her chest with a look of ferocity on her face!
Mark: Misty Whitmore just stopped Ignis from quite frankly ending Christopher Kane’s career for good! His arm doesn’t look in good shape but its better than planning his retirement speech Freya! He looks to be in so much pain right now though!
Freya: This is just horrible Mark! Leona’s barely moving, Ignis is done, Christopher is down on the mat, staring at the pretty lights, I don’t think Misty is up to climbing... They want that Pride Championship so bad but it looks like right now Kelly and Nessa are closest to it!
Indeed they are but Nessa is much closer to the Pride Championship hanging above the ring, trying to reach it two times but Kelly kicks her in the hip, hanging by her arms right behind her! Nessa Wall turns around and glares at McGuffin before the two women begin to have a leg fight, kicking each other at the sides and even raising their legs to kick the other’s arms out and force a fall!
Kelly has to climb backward slightly to dodge one of Nessa’s high reaching legs kicking her shoulder and Nessa Wall does the same as both women look down when they both nearly lose their grip. Nessa begins to mouth to Kelly that she is going to have that Pride Championship and there’s nothing that Kelly can do about it before kicking her in the hip again! McGuffin flinches and then kicks her right back! Ever so often it seems like one of the two women will fall, the crowd gasps wildly!
Nessa finally kicks one of Kelly’s arms out and the crowd lets out a loud gasp, a woman even screams in the Verizon Center as Canadian Bitchsauce smirks and shoots a leg up to kick Kelly’s other arm out to send her plummeting to the mat... But Kelly has none of it as she uses her free arm to swing at Nessa while backflipping! Nessa’s eyes go wide as Kelly McGuffin uses her entire body weight to pull Nessa down and together the two women go plummeting downward as McGuffin uses the momentum to force Nessa into a moonsault slam with her!
It’s a perfect landing for Kelly at least as she lays on top of an unconscious Nessa Wall who cushioned her fall and stands shakily to her feet!
Crowd: S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB! S-V-DUB!
Freya: These fans chant anymore and they’re gonna be hoarse by the time The Midas Touch comes around!
Mark: Kelly calls that the CRASH AND BURN and I couldn’t think of a better name! She’s got a free pass to the--
Mark never gets to finish that sentence as Kelly McGuffin takes two steps into Christopher Kane kipping up in front of her and hitting the acrobat with a kip-up Ace Crusher for her trouble! The crowd is in shock as Kelly gets laid out as well and Christopher begins to limply drag his own carcass towards a turnbuckle and up the Ultimate X structure...!
By now Leona has rolled herself back in the ring woozily, as has Misty and Ignis! Each of the three women are trying their best to get to the other corners, Leona finding trouble thanks to pain obviously shooting up her neck, Misty’s arm killing her and Ignis’s chest likely feeling like its on fire. Each of the three competitors try as they might but Kane has a head start all the way until he gets to the top of the structure. He begins to crawl atop it, using just his legs and one good arm to drag himself across the top of the ‘X’ letting out pained groans with each pull. Ignis moves a bit faster than Vega and Whitmore but only because it’s her abdomen killing her and not an arm or her neck but all three women see it becomes completely moot..
...
When Christopher Kane removes the Pride Championship belt from the center of the X before throwing it over the top next to him and laying on the apex of the structure.
DING DING DING!
Mark: He... He did it. Ladies and gentlemen he.. He did it.
Freya: I’m so proud of him! I just couldn’t be happier right now Mark!
John: The winner of Ultimate X... AND STILL SVW PRIDE CHAMPION... CCCCHHHRRRIISSSTTOOOPPHHHEEERRR KKKKAAAANNNNEEEE!
As “Fifth Kind” fills the Verizon Center, the Lioness lets out a sigh of frustration and begins to climb down gingerly. The Voice of the People uses her legs to fall backward before she lands on her rear and lays against the ropes. The Firebird’s face is a look of absolute contempt as Andy Marx rolls into the ring to catch her as she drops! Christian Kincaid is checking on his aerialist protege and lover while Houser tries to rouse the Snarktopus back up. As nearly the entire medical team comes out to check on all of the competitors, the camera points up at the champion still laying on top of Ultimate X.
With his good arm he raises the championship and so many lights of flash photography go off around him, making the Verizon Center look like a burst of stars.