Post by Craig on Jul 31, 2021 17:53:11 GMT -6
At this time, the murderous structure of the Ultimate X has been set up completely in the Quicken Loans Arena. This year’s structure has been lowered slightly, and is complete scaffolding. No X-formed ropes. The Cleveland crowd is left with bated breath as John Youle stands in the center of the ring...
The camera cuts momentarily to the Adrenaline championship hanging loftily before John holds the microphone to his lips.
John: The following match... IS THE ULTIMATE X FOR THE SEX & VIOLENCE WRESTLING ADRENALINE CHAMPIONSHIP!!
Short cheer that slowly grows louder and louder over time..
Mel: Ladies and gentlemen, don’t adjust your sets! It is time for that once a year human car crash slash highlight reel known as Ultimate X.
Dante: You are about to see four of the Adrenaline division’s best fight over that title and joining us on commentary, the Adrenaline division standout herself... The Regal Luchadora, Amelia Realm.
Amelia: Órale pana! I couldn’t be more hyped for this match if you paid me! It makes me sad not to be part of Ultimate X this year but thank you guys for letting me call it with you!
“The moral of the story is: I chose a half measure, when I should have gone all the way. I’ll never make that mistake again. No more half measures.”
The opening to “Clickety Clack” by Sage Francis begins to play through the arena. The lights dim down as the vocals kick in. Stepping out from the back is Christopher Kane with his head down, hoodie on, hood up with Avery standing behind him. The crowd cheers the second generation wrestler. Some time passes by as he just stands there. He finally begins to move throwing his hood back looking out into the arena full of people. No emotion on his face as he begins to walk to the ring with Avery in tow. Some fans have their hands sticking over the barricade looking for a high five as they get one.
John: And coming from Tampa, Florida accompanied by Avery Kane… weighing in at 184 lbs… Christopher Kane!!!
Christopher gets to the ring, just standing there staring at it before looking at the crowd again. He jumps up to the ring apron bobbing his head to the music before leaping into the ring. Christopher unzips his hoodie going to the closest top turnbuckle going to the top to look at the crowd. He jumps down and backs into the corner taking his hoodie off handing it to Avery while the lights come back to normal and song finishes.
Amelia: If there is anyone who knows what’s been like to fight in this division time and time again so badly wanting the Adrenaline championship... It is him.
Dante: Kane has proven to be the biggest pain in the champion’s side and tonight he may finally put the exclamation point on her.
The lights shut off almost entirely aside from a single spotlight at the entrance way. Qilin, the goth lolita, walks out with a mask in her hands. Qilin looks and giggles, kissing the forehead of the mask before raising it above her head and tossing it to the ground. As soon as it hits the ground the entire ramp is filled with fog and the arena goes quiet for a moment, Qilin completely obscured.
“Oh my god
Please help me, knee deep in the river tryin' to get clean
He says wash your hands, get out the stains
But you best believe, boy, there's hell to pay
Yeah you best believe, boy, there's hell to pay, sayin'
Come on!”
The roar with boos as the fog clears and standing next to Qilin is a masked woman, clad in gold, black and red, those crimson lips curl and she points at the ring. Making their way down QIlin hands pamphlets to anyone who would take one.
John: Hailing from, Yeongdeungpo District, South Korea this is the Game Changer....Sunny Kyoun!
“I rambled with the worst of them
Fell in love with a harlequin
Saw the darkest hearts of men
And I saw myself starin' back again
And I saw myself starin' back again”
Slowly she, alongside Qilin, slowly make it to the ring as smoke billows down the walkway to the ring. Qilin climbs up onto the apron and holds the ropes for her masked leader. Sunny quickly slips through the ropes and glares around as smoke surrounds the ring. Qilin helps Sunny remove the entrance attire before slipping out of ring. Sunny stares off, waiting, plotting.
Mel: She’s been called Giocare... The Game Changer... And most terrifying, she could be called Adrenaline champ tonight. I don’t know about you guys but the possibility of the Worthy holding a death grip on the Adrenaline title is... Terrifying.
Dante: For now it seems that there aren’t any Worthy to worry about Mel... Just Sunny and Qilin although I think that’s plenty.
The thumping war drums and the mysterious flute of "Aztec Temple" hit the sound system. The crowd comes alive as the Aztec Warrior Leona Vega comes through the main gate, looking over the cheering crowd, soaking it in for a bit. She points 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. She then slowly makes her way down the entrance ramp, sharing a high-five with the fans in attendance with their arms out for her.
John: And their opponent, from Monterrey, Mexico... LEONA VEGA!
She then stops a couple of steps before the ring, backtracking a little bit and then sprinting towards it, hopping onto the ring apron, and then immediately vaulting 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, staring into the crowd with a big smile, raising her arms, with her fists closed, saying a quick prayer to herself before slapping the top turnbuckle and jumping back down into the ring, cracking her joints in the sequence.
Amelia: MMMMUUUUUCCCCHHHHHHHAAAAAA!!! MUCHA LUCHA!!
Dante: ...If that loud call didn’t tip you off folks, Miss Vega may be a favorite to win this one overall and one could argue that her time is here and now just like the others... Of course that leaves... The champion.
The crowd gets plunged into darkness. The silence gets broken by John Youle as he starts to make the introduction.
John: Hailing from Sherbrooke in the province of Quebec, Canada. She weighs in at 142lbs and stands 5’8” tall. Accompanied to the ring by Kyle Kilmeade, this is the current and reigning SEX AND VIOLENCE WRESTLING ADRENALINE CHAMPION… “ONE WOMAN SHOW” SHAUGHNESSY O’NEILL!!!
Alice Cooper’s Poison begins to play as the video wall shows close ups of different parts of Shaw’s face before finally cutting to a live feed of the young woman as the spotlight hits her in the middle of the stage where she is joined by Kyle. Starting to nod her head along to the beat of the music with the championship belt sat on her shoulder, the young woman heads down to the ring, the spotlight following her all the way to the ring as Kyle tries to rally the crowd behind her. Rolling under the bottom rope Shaw kips up to her feet and stands in a corner, checking everything about her ring gear is in position and getting last minute advice from Kyle before he makes his way back up the ramp as she stands there with arms crossed, looking up at her title.
Dante: It looks as though Kyle is leaving this one to Shaw tonight. I’d bet that he understands that if he decides to make any sly moves in this match, Leona or Christopher will not hesitate to put him down. Shame, I would have paid to see that.
Mel: You and about one sold out arena in Cleveland, Dante!
DING! DING! DING!
All four wrestlers look up at the championship before looking around at each other in the sold out crowd. There’s a quick pick of familiar foes, or most recently familiar as Sunny squares up against Christopher while Vega and O’Neill get up in each other’s faces. Kane grabs Sunny by the wrist and forces her into a cravate headlock, using her own arm for half of the cravate before he begins to savagely pepper her head with elbow shots to the mouth before he irish-whips her towards the ropes. Christopher goes for another elbow but Sunny ducks under it and springs off the ropes before launching herself towards him with a springboard into a neckbreaker! He sidesteps and she’s forced to do a tumble back to landing on her feet, only for Kane to catch her with a running dropkick that sends her stumbling into the corner. He grabs her by the wrist and goes to irish-whip her into the other corner but halfway through she does a cartwheel, landing on her feet with a dime stop before catching him in the jaw with a spinning wheel kick! Christopher rolls out of the ring to recover as Sunny sails over the ropes after, going for a dive but being caught in a body slam!
Amelia: Sunny with an attempted suicide dive but ay basura Kane using his size in this match to catch her and power her into the ground nearby!
Dante: As to be expected! Of our four competitors, Christopher has the biggest size and strength advantage and he can impose his will however he feels like! Meanwhile we have action still going on in the ring!
Back inside of the ring, Shaw leapfrogs over Leona Vega to grab onto the metal tower over one of the ring posts. The reigning Adrenaline champion sees her championship, sees Christopher still focused on Sunny and seems to decide that she can end this as quickly as possible, to say the least. She quickly scales after the leapfrog but the Aztec Warrior grabs her by one leg. Shaw looks down at her, sneering as though she’s ruining everything before Shaw begins to catch her with a foot to the mouth... A second one... A third one... A fourth one that finally sees her stumbling back before Shaw begins to climb higher. She gets about half-way up the scaffolding but this time Leona Vega runs up after her and begins laying short kicks into the back of Shaw. She gets in a few before Shaughnessy begins to slide back down into the ring! She has a hand on her back and turns around into Leona leaping from the scaffolding into a crossbody as she crashes on top of Shaw! Leona quickly gets herself right back up before forcing Shaw to her feet and sending her to the corner... Just in time for Christopher to slide in and drop on all fours after Shaw lands in! Leona sees what Kane is doing and a quick alliance forms as Leona runs deft, jumping off Kane’s back to hit a flipping senton on the champion in the corner!
Dante: Excellent teamwork there by Vega and Kane and it looks as though both the One Woman Show and the leader of the Worthy are both down...
Mel: Which means that Christopher and Leona are going to have had to come to this sooner or later!
The two fan favorites eye each other up as Shaw is leaned up in the corner and Qilin is checking on Sunny outside. The crowd is all for a battle between Leona and Kane and they continue watching each other before they shake each other’s hands... They square off, ready to throw hands. Christopher swings at Leona as she runs towards the ring ropes. She kicks off, leaping into the air and looking for a springboard roundhouse... Only for Sunny to KICK SUPER HER OUT THE AIR!!
Crowd: OOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
Dante: KICK SUPER! Leona is OUT here and Kane looks like he wasn’t even expecting that one!
Leona’s hair whips behind her as she lays there in the corner, Kane looking back to see Sunny. With one hand behind her back, the other motions Christopher, daring him to make a misstep against her. He sneers and runs towards her, only for Shaw to decide to cut in on this as she leaps onto Kane with a Lou Thesz press! She begins to pepper his head with nasty shots to the forehead, grabbing his neck and pounding away with a revolted look on his face. She looks at Sunny and asks if she’s going to help or not, to which the Giocare notes that if Shaw really insists. Kyoun grabs Kane’s legs and holds them under her so he can’t properly go anywhere as Shaw continues to beat his head in with her fists. After she seems satisfied enough, the Adrenaline champion rolls off to let Sunny catapult him into the corner turnbuckle, seeing his head smack in as he too lays there. With Leona only now getting to and Kane down, its only now that Sunny and Shaw finally turn their attention to each other.
Amelia: The alliances come and go panas... Here today. Gone tomorrow and Shaw and Sunny look to have on issue at all in at each other!
As Leona can be seen pulling herself up and rubbing her jaw, Sunny and Shaw look to be more focused on each other. Champion and challenger immediately lock up in on each other, trying to push the other back before Shaw slips behind Sunny and wraps her legs around her waist. Kyoun begins to struggle, not seemingly interested in going for a suplex sort of ride, to which Shaw pulls her up on her shoulders in a Fireman’s Carry. Sunny begins to struggle, reaching her arms out and trying to kick her legs but Shaw flings her forward and drops her on a knee for a single leg backbreaker as Sunny begins to roll away in pain. The Adrenaline champion sees Leona back up and takes off running towards her, dropkicking her in the mouth and sending her through the ropes before she turns her attention back on Giocare! Qilin attempts to yell to rouse Sunny back up but Shaw will have none of it, hopping onto the second rope before dropping a double axehandle into the back of Kyoun and sending her on her knees. Shaw licks her chops and forces Sunny back up before lifting her upward in a vertical suplex... For a moment it looks as though she’s holding her up with a stall, before she fakes Sunny out, letting her fall backward on her feet before turning the move into a swinging neckbreaker!
Dante: Vertical suplex into a swinging neckbreaker! For a moment it looked as though Shaw was even stalling it out...
Mel: Now the champion has nothing between her and regaining the Adrenaline championship! We may never hear the end of this!
Shaw looks up at the championship and smirks wide as she begins to scale up the scaffolding to her Adrenaline championship. Left foot. Right foot. Left foot. Right foot. The Quicken Loans Arena is quick to boo her with every step and inch she overtakes, climbing up higher and higher until she has to begin figuring out how exactly she’s going to maneuver herself towards the title. She seems to decide between climbing on top of the scaffolding or hanging upside down... And the champion chooses hanging. She begins to climb towards it, stopping just in front of it... Before she hears the crowd cheering as she nears her title! The champion’s brow furrows, realizing that something is happening before she’s clamped into a Dragon Sleeper! Her legs are still keeping her on the scaffolding but her arms begin swinging as Christopher Kane squeezes the hold. He whispers something in Shaw’s ear. The mics on the scaffolding pick up.
Kane: She'll look up and say save me and I'll whisper no.
Kane looses his legs hanging upside down in the scaffolding and pulls Shaughnessy down with him into an UPSIDE DOWN DRAGON SLEEPER INTO A CUTTER!! Their bodies fall to the ground from so high up and Shaw’s upper half bounces before she flops forward motionless! Christopher holds his back but there’s a satisfied grin on his face!
Amelia: ...OH MY GOD HE KILLED SHAWNNY! YOU BASTARD!
Mel: UNTITLED FINALE BETA AND THE CHAMPION IS NOT MOVING!
Crowd: HOLY SHIT! THANK YOU KANE! HOLY SHIT! THANK YOU KANE! HOLY SHIT! THANK YOU KANE!
Kane gets to rise up on his feet, looking up at the scaffolding and contemplating on climbing when Sunny comes out of nowhere and catches him with a hurricanrana into a turnbuckle! Kane’s head snaps back and he lays in pain as Giocare looks down at him and shakes her head. She quickly zeroes in on him and drags his body towards the ropes before hanging his upper half over it. She pulls the second rope down and captures Kane’s upper half between the now twisted ropes! Avery runs to try and save her husband but Qilin gets in her way and begins reading her pamphlets as Christopher tries to free himself. Sunny, staring at him as though he were an experiment or a project asks him what where is all his anger now, frowning... Before she sizes him up and catches him with a high kick across the side of the head. Then another... Then another. Sunny begins to preach to the crowd, telling them that this is the hero they seem to like so much. This is the man they seem to think is so talented and so excellent and so quick to forgive... Before she kicks him across the side of the other temple. His struggles to get away from the prison of the ropes slowing with the head kicks. The Game Changer rolls back into the ring and physically frees Kane before grabbing him by the ankles back to the center of the ring. She grabs him by the neck and gets him back up...
But kicking into second gear, Christopher begins to start catching her with those elbows! He starts peppering Giocare before grabbing her by the wrist and irish-whipping her! She bounces back but on the rebound catches him with an uppercutting palm strike! His head snaps upward and Sunny immediately combos it into a Reverse DDT, spiking his head into the mat!
Dante: Sunny is taking her sweet time... Knowing or seeming to know full well that she can take her time on Christopher... Shaw’s still down but... Wait...
Amelia: AH-HAH! We might be missing one but Sunny doesn’t seem to notice.
Indeed Leona is up and the Aztec Warrior’s eyes are peeled, watching Sunny and stalking her... Trying to keep out Qilin’s line of sight as well. Giocare doesn’t seem to notice much, focused more on harming Christopher as she reaches down and forces him back up once more... And then spinning around with a stiff kick to the jaw, followed by a leg sweep! With Kane down, Sunny begins to scale the scaffolding, seeming to believe she has no more opposition to stop her... She climbs onto the turnbuckle before looking back to Christopher. Seeming to think she should finish the job, Sunny leaps backward... Going for a diving moonsault... But NO! She doesn’t land onto Christopher but RIGHT on Leona’s shoulders who doesn’t even hesitate, DROPPING Sunny with a vicious Fireman’s Carry Gutbuster!
Mel: EL PILOTE! SUNNY DROPPED HERSELF RIGHT INTO IT!
Crowd: HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT!!
Leona looks up to the Adrenaline championship and sees it hanging downward, before looking at the crowd who gives her a warm reaction and tells her to go get the title hanging up in the air and waiting for her! The Aztec Warrior nods furiously before she hops onto the top turnbuckle and begins to climb the scaffolding, working her way up... All the way up! The Adrenaline champion however sees her doing this and watches Vega as she grabs the scaffolding and instead of hanging upside down, treats it like monkey bars. One hand in front of the other, slowly moving towards it until something catches her leg. Vega looks down to see O’Neill pulling at her leg... Pulling at her until Leona finally comes down, landing on her feet! The two women get nose to nose, faces sneering before Shaw shoves Leona into the ropes and catches her on her shoulders for a samoan drop! Before Leona can get back up, as she rolls Shaw grabs her ankle for an ankle lock!
Dante: Shaughnessy attempting to put a stop to Leona Vega’s mobility which is SO important in a match like Ultimate X. Vega has to find a way to escape this quickly before any lasting damage is done!
Amelia: It looks like she may have already! She’s crawling on her hands!
Leona kicks off the mat with her foot still free and walks two steps forward with her palms before she does a push-up, pushing herself off the mat before rolling through and bringing Shaughnessy with her, sending her running forward into the corner with her back against the turnbuckle. Vega runs towards Shaw and gives her a monkey flip out of the corner, sending her landing on her back! Leona runs to the side, springboarding on the second rope and looking for a hurricanrana, landing expertly on Shaw’s shoulders! When Vega hangs down however, Shaw hooks her arms around her waist, refusing to let the Aztec Warrior hit her with completion of the move! As Leona hangs upside down, reaching for the ropes, reaching and trying to grab but she simply cannot. She’s mouth breaks into a poisonous, sickeningly sweet smile before she falls backward and vaults Leona forward to the ropes, seeming to hope for a stun gun. Leona however puts her hands to her sides for a split second to overshoot it slightly, with her feet together. Her boots hook on the rope and she bungees herself BACK into the ring before spinning around and roundhouse kicking Shaw in the mouth...
Or she would, if not for Shaw catching her ankle again!
Mel: Amelia, it looked for a bit like Leona had almost escaped but the Adrenaline champion got her RIGHT back into the ankle lock!
Dante: I’m not sure how she can escape either aside from finding a hard counter! Wait... It looks like Christopher is about to lend Leona an assist!
Christopher suddenly is up and runs towards the ropes, past Shaw and hopping over Leona to rebound into the ropes, coming back into an Ace Crusher! Shaw however sees it coming and is NOT about to be hit by another monstrous cutter compliments of Kane. She ducks his hands, and does a goddamn backflip into what can best be described as a Pele Knee Strike, blasting Kane straight in the mush and causing him to slowly tilt backwards... Before dropping to the mat! He lays there, staring up at the lights with that knockout shot as Shaw grins wide before giving him a salute before looking back up at the Adrenaline title!
Crowd: FUCK YOU SHAW! / THAT WAS AWESOME! / FUCK YOU SHAW! / THAT WAS AWESOME!
Dante: Funny... The crowd can’t decide if they want to applaud Shaw for pulling off something innovative, or giving her a big fat F just because she’s her.
Amelia: Shaw turned her usual KNEE TO THE HEAD into... Well I don’t even know what to call that pana. Pele Knee? Kneele?
With Christopher down, all three of the women in this match look at each other. All three of them begin scaling the scaffolding now, climbing upward though Leona’s leg seems to be bothering her slightly and she’s doing as best as she can to walk it off. Each one of them has taken a part of Ultimate X structure but as they all get to the top and all look as though they’re not sure how they’re going to do this, Sunny climbs herself to stand ON the structure... In the “End your career” district of the ring. Giocare waves her hands slightly, to keep balance before looking down at the bottom of the ring. She seems to be of the mind that this will not do and slides through the metalwork to hang by her arms towards the title. She begins to scale towards it and comes within an arm’s reach. Leona and Shaw both see this and O’Neill moves slightly faster, climbing and positioning herself behind Sunny before she raises her legs up and hooks them around Sunny’s throat TIGHTLY! Kyoun’s eyes widen and she lets her free arm snap back to hit Shaw in the jaw, but O’Neill will not let go for anything as she continues to choke Sunny out with her legs!
Dante: Sunny was extremely close there and Shaw wasn’t about to let it happen, now applying a hangman’s sleeper there... How long is she going to keep this held on!?
Mel: I don’t know but it looks as though Leona is waiting and watching now, climbing back down to pick her mark. She might be expecting that she second one goes down, she’ll have to stop the other. That’s smart.
Indeed Sunny’s face first turns red and then a slight purpling color as he grip on the bars of the Ultimate X scaffolding begins to slip. She seems to be earnestly struggling with it, before she’s only hanging in the air thanks to the grip Shaw has with her legs around her throat. Shaw finally lets go and Sunny falls lifelessly to the mat, coughing in a fit as she tries to take in breath! Shaw grins and reaches out for her title, only for Vega to pull her BACK down to earth. The two from this begin to brawl back and forth, all manner and craft of the Adrenaline division forgotten as for every stiff forearm Leona gives The One Woman Show, Shaw answers the Aztec Warrior back with a straight haymaker! Back and forth the two women go, before Shaw attempts to irish-whip Leona only for her to reverse it and attempt to irish-whip her back... Only for Leona to stop it...
The two women stalemate in an attempt to send each other off...
And go back to the brawl, before grabbing each other by the neck and peppering each other with strikes, no amount of blocking or effort for defensive tactics to be found! They keep hammering each other as neither seems to have noticed that Christopher isn’t laying on the mat anymore. Instead he has began his slow ascent towards the Adrenaline championship, climbing as the two continue to throw hands at each other. Kane gets about within an arm’s reach of the title before both Leona and Shaw seem to notice. Vega and Shaw grab him by the ankles and begin to pull, as he struggles to get them off. They cause the young Kane to pinwheel but he gets them off for a second, kicking them both away! As soon as they recover and go to get him, Christopher uses his arm-strength to fling himself forward and execute TWO rotations into a pair of diving knees for both Leona and Shaw!
Crowd: OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
Amelia: DOUBLE ROTATION NEW YORK RAIN... Does... Does Kane intend to WALK at age forty? Does anyone know!? Anyone!?
Dante: I don’t know but all four competitors are not moving. Between what just happened with those three and Sunny is still in the corner, drawing her breath she... Wait. She’s giving orders to Qilin. NO!
Indeed Qilin is getting some sort of marching orders, as Sunny told her in plain terms to GET the Adrenaline title for her.
The herald of Giocare nods slowly before she looks up at the Adrenaline championship. She begins to walk towards the nearest turnbuckle, stepping over the bodies of Leona, Shaw, and Christopher on her way before she begins to climb up. She grabs the scaffolding and very gingerly inches along like a little caterpillar, a little higher and little higher still. She makes very slow progress upward before stopping just short of the horizontal scaffolding to the championship. With a deep breath she holds on tight before Qilin begins to inch her way along towards the Adrenaline title. She continues moving at the slowest pace possible and its just now that all of the other competitors are trying to stand themselves up to stop her...
Until a shoe goes flying and scores a direct hit in Qilin’s face! She lets go of the bars and drops down, holding a bloody mouth in shock as the camera pans over to Avery with one foot bare!
Amelia: Hehe you see that panas? It looks as though the Worthy’s plans were...
Mel: De-feeted? Hahahaha!
Amelia: Bwahahahahahahaha!
Dante: I’m laughing on the inside, I assure you. Qilin’s intent to get the Adrenaline title for her master is cut short by Avery and this match doesn’t look to be over by a long shot!
As the commentators continue to make puns of recent events, Christopher grabs his wife’s shoe and gently flings it back towards her so she can slip it on, with a thankful smile. He pushes himself on his knees and Leona immediately comes at him with a hurricanrana, hooking her legs around his neck and sending him up and over the ropes... He does a bit of a tumble on the apron before landing on the ground below, a hand on his jaw. Leona tries to go from that to a running kick but he isn’t having any of it, grabbing her by the ankle and giving it a jerk, making her land head and spine first on the apron before he reaches and pulls her up and off of it, irish-whipping her into the scaffolding that she latches onto! Leona looks to be making the climb right back up. Christopher however grabs her by the waist and looks as though he’s about to suplex her off of it before he turns a 180 and suplexes her ON the standing scaffold! Leona lays there in pain and as Kane is about to get back in the ring and back to business he gets a double dropkick back off the apron compliments of both Sunny and Shaw!
The two women watch him with equal disdain before they turn right on each other and begin laying in. Sunny goes for a series of stiff side kicks that Shaw blocks for the most part, taking every other one to the chest but she finally low dropkicks Sunny to the knee, getting her down to one. She hooks her arms, looking for a Double Arm DDT but the leader of the Worthy powers Shaw up and over her shoulders, getting her own arms free and landing on the apron just in time to watch as Leona takes off at a running start on Kane and spears him into the scaffolding! He slumps down in pain as Leona takes off at Sunny... Kyoun holds her hands up to block but the Aztec Warrior slides through her legs into the ring and the waiting arms of Shaughnessy O’Neill! The Adrenaline Champion’s smirk is poisonous as she lifts Leona up for what looks like a Stun Gun on the ropes...
But Leona counters it into spinning... Spinning... More spinning... More spinning... More spinning around Shaw... More spinning... More spinning... At this point a chant breaks out as Sunny watches curiously...
Crowd: GO VEGA GO VEGA GO VEGA GO VEGA GO VEGA GO VEGA!
And the Adrenaline champion gets planted with the DDT!
Dante: You wanna call that one an ORBIT DDT or an INFINITE ORBIT DDT? The champ can’t possibly know where she is right now and now we’re down to just Sunny and Leona!
The two mainstays of the Adrenaline division begin tagging each other back and forth with stiff kicks, each kick Leona gives, Sunny answers back in spades! The crowd gives the usual ‘YAY!’ when Leona makes a strike and ‘BOO!’ when Sunny answers it back. The two women keep on tagging each other before Sunny rakes Leona across the eyes and then sweeps her arm around Sunny’s neck before powering her up and over with a Northern Lights Suplex. Sunny runs towards the ropes and springboards up, bouncing on the back of her legs into a corkscrew senton on Leona, causing Vega to roll and hug her ribs. When Sunny attempts a wheel kick however, Leona catches her in her arms and flings her over her shoulder, running towards the ropes and rebounding back with a jumping superman punch, putting Sunny flat across her back! Vega looks up and sees Shaw beginning to drag herself towards the scaffolding before Leona begins to make her way up the opposite one!
Dante: Sunny’s down but now Shaw is getting back up and Kane’s back up to his feet as Leona and O’Neill make the climb up that scaffolding!
Mel: Something tells me there’s going to be more than just climbing the title...
Melissa calls it correctly as Shaw and Leona overshoot climbing the scaffolding to which they’re both standing on top of the structure. Shaughnessy’s eyes narrow as she looks back at Leona who stares at her... The two women carefully move towards each other and begin peppering each other with blows before Shaw gets the better of the exchange with a nasty liver blow! Vega looks stunned for a moment before she bends over in agony as Shaw shoves her head between her legs! The crowd gasps, thinking that Shaw can’t be seriously intending for a flip piledriver from that high up, especially with one misstep... But SHE DOES IT ANYWAY!!
Crowd: OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
Amelia: O’NEILL’S OBLIVION ON THE SCAFFOLDING! WHY SHAW!? WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT!? PUTA MALVADA POR QUE HARIAS ESTO A MI AMIGA!?
The crowd can be heard gasping, expecting Shaw to flip piledrive Leona OFF the scaffolding, seriously carving years off of both of their careers but somehow Shaw hits the driver ON the scaffolding, spiking Leona’s head on the metal, making the entire Ultimate X structure shake slightly and the belt itself wiggle! Leona slumps forward, laying motionless on the scaffolding before gravity takes her the rest of the way as she lands to the mat down below! Shaw now grabs the scaffolding and has to hang off the bottom to reach the title but no sooner does she do that does Sunny leap up to grab her by the ankles and jerk her off! Before Shaw can offer a response, she gets a dropkick to the chest that sends the back of her head smacking against a turnbuckle! Giocare smiles wide and looks up to the title, only to be turned around by Kane! He swings at her with a spinning heel kick but she turns him around and pops him head first into the mat with a headlock driver, stopping him from stopping her. She stands back up, staring at the Adrenaline title...
...
As Christopher Kane pops right back up, forehead bleeding and looking woozy and yet... Looking to be running on pure adrenaline.
Dante: Sunny stopping Shaw from climbing back up with a shotgun dropkick and then hitting Kane with Kelly Kincaid’s CLIPPED WINGS.... Yet he just... Got back up. How? Well, got back up might not be the choice of words. He looks as though he can barely stand.
Mel: He’s staring a hole through Sunny... She better not turn around.
He doesn’t give Sunny the chance as Kane wraps his wrists around her neck in a cravate before pulling her head down to a vicious knee to head... Followed by another knee to the head... And another... And another... And another... And another... And another.. .And another... And another... He blasts Kyoun across the head with ten stiff knee shots to the head, followed by one more for good measure before he lets her drop to the mat with Giocare’s brain rattling in her skull. With a huff, Kane looks up and begins to scale the scaffolding, with every single one of the other competitors down for the count. He begins to scale higher, and higher with the crowd chanting him on, before he begins the the slow climb across towards the Adrenaline title...
Amelia: ...He’s going to do it... Christopher Kane is about to realize his long journey as the Adrenaline champion!
Christopher reaches for the title, just within arm’s reach as the crowd gasps...
...
...
Before Kane gets dropped with a running sitdown powerbomb compliments of Gouken! The crowd immediately begins booing as the ENTIRE Worthy empties out through the curtain! Chick Aura and Phobos, following Blood & Flames with both members of the Unrepentant already in the ring! The whole lot of them begin laying waste to the other three competitors with Sunny barely seeing straight after all those knees to the head.
Dante: Ladies and gentlemen... The... The entire Worthy has descended on the ring and has turned the Ultimate X into a farce!
Mel: Wait... Wait... I see Defy coming through the crowd!
As Defy leaps over the barricade, the sound of Amelia’s headset clatters as she gets up from the commentary booth and goes in with the other luchador to try and break odds. Unfortunately it isn’t to be with all the numbers bearing down... Defy tries to lock horns with with Gouken but Kanna comes at him, swinging a barbed wire wrapped chair across his back before Gouken sends him high in the air for a ride into a chokeslam! Amelia doesn’t have much better luck as Kanna flings the chair for her to catch it, only to eat a chair assisted Buzzsaw Kick that puts her down as the Unrepentant physically stamp out Mucha Lucha.
Chaos is happening every which way as both members of Blood & Flames are stomping out Shaw, Phobos drives Leona shoulder first into a nearby turnbuckle pole and Chick Aura forces Kane up for a wicked brainbuster into the mat! As Sunny struggles to get to her feet, Kanna helps her stand before the Worthy seem to get an idea as they begin rolling the other bodies out of the ring.
Kanna climbs up on Gouken’s shoulders before he passes up the leader of the Worthy to Kanna who holds her in a waistlock as Sunny reaches up...
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....
....
And plucks the SVW Adrenaline Championship from the rung in the middle of the Ultimate X scaffolding.
DING! DING! DING!
John: Here... Here.... HERE IS YOUR WINNER...
Dante: You’ve gotta announce it John. I’m sorry.
John: HERE IS YOUR WINNER... AND NEW SVW ADRENALINE CHAMPION... SUNNY KYOUN!!
Mel: Disgusting. This... This is an absolute travesty. He had it Dante. He was so close... Christopher Kane was robbed and ... And...
Dante: And the Adrenaline division has now fallen into the Worthy’s clutches. Sunny is now Adrenaline champion and how... How can anyone stop that? She barely knows where she is!
Mel: Yet we probably won’t hear the end of this... How it was putting the division through adversity... Well there’s a whole lot of adversity in the way of the division now.
The entire Worthy surrounds Sunny, vigilantly watching the match’s competitors and those who attempted to stop the Worthy from outside the ring as the Game Changer seems to only now realize what has taken place. As “Bartholomew” begins playing and the Quicken Loans crowd boos hatefully... Sunny’s face breaks into a smile and she holds the title high overhead.
The camera cuts momentarily to the Adrenaline championship hanging loftily before John holds the microphone to his lips.
John: The following match... IS THE ULTIMATE X FOR THE SEX & VIOLENCE WRESTLING ADRENALINE CHAMPIONSHIP!!
Short cheer that slowly grows louder and louder over time..
Mel: Ladies and gentlemen, don’t adjust your sets! It is time for that once a year human car crash slash highlight reel known as Ultimate X.
Dante: You are about to see four of the Adrenaline division’s best fight over that title and joining us on commentary, the Adrenaline division standout herself... The Regal Luchadora, Amelia Realm.
Amelia: Órale pana! I couldn’t be more hyped for this match if you paid me! It makes me sad not to be part of Ultimate X this year but thank you guys for letting me call it with you!
“The moral of the story is: I chose a half measure, when I should have gone all the way. I’ll never make that mistake again. No more half measures.”
The opening to “Clickety Clack” by Sage Francis begins to play through the arena. The lights dim down as the vocals kick in. Stepping out from the back is Christopher Kane with his head down, hoodie on, hood up with Avery standing behind him. The crowd cheers the second generation wrestler. Some time passes by as he just stands there. He finally begins to move throwing his hood back looking out into the arena full of people. No emotion on his face as he begins to walk to the ring with Avery in tow. Some fans have their hands sticking over the barricade looking for a high five as they get one.
John: And coming from Tampa, Florida accompanied by Avery Kane… weighing in at 184 lbs… Christopher Kane!!!
Christopher gets to the ring, just standing there staring at it before looking at the crowd again. He jumps up to the ring apron bobbing his head to the music before leaping into the ring. Christopher unzips his hoodie going to the closest top turnbuckle going to the top to look at the crowd. He jumps down and backs into the corner taking his hoodie off handing it to Avery while the lights come back to normal and song finishes.
Amelia: If there is anyone who knows what’s been like to fight in this division time and time again so badly wanting the Adrenaline championship... It is him.
Dante: Kane has proven to be the biggest pain in the champion’s side and tonight he may finally put the exclamation point on her.
The lights shut off almost entirely aside from a single spotlight at the entrance way. Qilin, the goth lolita, walks out with a mask in her hands. Qilin looks and giggles, kissing the forehead of the mask before raising it above her head and tossing it to the ground. As soon as it hits the ground the entire ramp is filled with fog and the arena goes quiet for a moment, Qilin completely obscured.
“Oh my god
Please help me, knee deep in the river tryin' to get clean
He says wash your hands, get out the stains
But you best believe, boy, there's hell to pay
Yeah you best believe, boy, there's hell to pay, sayin'
Come on!”
The roar with boos as the fog clears and standing next to Qilin is a masked woman, clad in gold, black and red, those crimson lips curl and she points at the ring. Making their way down QIlin hands pamphlets to anyone who would take one.
John: Hailing from, Yeongdeungpo District, South Korea this is the Game Changer....Sunny Kyoun!
“I rambled with the worst of them
Fell in love with a harlequin
Saw the darkest hearts of men
And I saw myself starin' back again
And I saw myself starin' back again”
Slowly she, alongside Qilin, slowly make it to the ring as smoke billows down the walkway to the ring. Qilin climbs up onto the apron and holds the ropes for her masked leader. Sunny quickly slips through the ropes and glares around as smoke surrounds the ring. Qilin helps Sunny remove the entrance attire before slipping out of ring. Sunny stares off, waiting, plotting.
Mel: She’s been called Giocare... The Game Changer... And most terrifying, she could be called Adrenaline champ tonight. I don’t know about you guys but the possibility of the Worthy holding a death grip on the Adrenaline title is... Terrifying.
Dante: For now it seems that there aren’t any Worthy to worry about Mel... Just Sunny and Qilin although I think that’s plenty.
The thumping war drums and the mysterious flute of "Aztec Temple" hit the sound system. The crowd comes alive as the Aztec Warrior Leona Vega comes through the main gate, looking over the cheering crowd, soaking it in for a bit. She points 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. She then slowly makes her way down the entrance ramp, sharing a high-five with the fans in attendance with their arms out for her.
John: And their opponent, from Monterrey, Mexico... LEONA VEGA!
She then stops a couple of steps before the ring, backtracking a little bit and then sprinting towards it, hopping onto the ring apron, and then immediately vaulting 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, staring into the crowd with a big smile, raising her arms, with her fists closed, saying a quick prayer to herself before slapping the top turnbuckle and jumping back down into the ring, cracking her joints in the sequence.
Amelia: MMMMUUUUUCCCCHHHHHHHAAAAAA!!! MUCHA LUCHA!!
Dante: ...If that loud call didn’t tip you off folks, Miss Vega may be a favorite to win this one overall and one could argue that her time is here and now just like the others... Of course that leaves... The champion.
The crowd gets plunged into darkness. The silence gets broken by John Youle as he starts to make the introduction.
John: Hailing from Sherbrooke in the province of Quebec, Canada. She weighs in at 142lbs and stands 5’8” tall. Accompanied to the ring by Kyle Kilmeade, this is the current and reigning SEX AND VIOLENCE WRESTLING ADRENALINE CHAMPION… “ONE WOMAN SHOW” SHAUGHNESSY O’NEILL!!!
Alice Cooper’s Poison begins to play as the video wall shows close ups of different parts of Shaw’s face before finally cutting to a live feed of the young woman as the spotlight hits her in the middle of the stage where she is joined by Kyle. Starting to nod her head along to the beat of the music with the championship belt sat on her shoulder, the young woman heads down to the ring, the spotlight following her all the way to the ring as Kyle tries to rally the crowd behind her. Rolling under the bottom rope Shaw kips up to her feet and stands in a corner, checking everything about her ring gear is in position and getting last minute advice from Kyle before he makes his way back up the ramp as she stands there with arms crossed, looking up at her title.
Dante: It looks as though Kyle is leaving this one to Shaw tonight. I’d bet that he understands that if he decides to make any sly moves in this match, Leona or Christopher will not hesitate to put him down. Shame, I would have paid to see that.
Mel: You and about one sold out arena in Cleveland, Dante!
DING! DING! DING!
All four wrestlers look up at the championship before looking around at each other in the sold out crowd. There’s a quick pick of familiar foes, or most recently familiar as Sunny squares up against Christopher while Vega and O’Neill get up in each other’s faces. Kane grabs Sunny by the wrist and forces her into a cravate headlock, using her own arm for half of the cravate before he begins to savagely pepper her head with elbow shots to the mouth before he irish-whips her towards the ropes. Christopher goes for another elbow but Sunny ducks under it and springs off the ropes before launching herself towards him with a springboard into a neckbreaker! He sidesteps and she’s forced to do a tumble back to landing on her feet, only for Kane to catch her with a running dropkick that sends her stumbling into the corner. He grabs her by the wrist and goes to irish-whip her into the other corner but halfway through she does a cartwheel, landing on her feet with a dime stop before catching him in the jaw with a spinning wheel kick! Christopher rolls out of the ring to recover as Sunny sails over the ropes after, going for a dive but being caught in a body slam!
Amelia: Sunny with an attempted suicide dive but ay basura Kane using his size in this match to catch her and power her into the ground nearby!
Dante: As to be expected! Of our four competitors, Christopher has the biggest size and strength advantage and he can impose his will however he feels like! Meanwhile we have action still going on in the ring!
Back inside of the ring, Shaw leapfrogs over Leona Vega to grab onto the metal tower over one of the ring posts. The reigning Adrenaline champion sees her championship, sees Christopher still focused on Sunny and seems to decide that she can end this as quickly as possible, to say the least. She quickly scales after the leapfrog but the Aztec Warrior grabs her by one leg. Shaw looks down at her, sneering as though she’s ruining everything before Shaw begins to catch her with a foot to the mouth... A second one... A third one... A fourth one that finally sees her stumbling back before Shaw begins to climb higher. She gets about half-way up the scaffolding but this time Leona Vega runs up after her and begins laying short kicks into the back of Shaw. She gets in a few before Shaughnessy begins to slide back down into the ring! She has a hand on her back and turns around into Leona leaping from the scaffolding into a crossbody as she crashes on top of Shaw! Leona quickly gets herself right back up before forcing Shaw to her feet and sending her to the corner... Just in time for Christopher to slide in and drop on all fours after Shaw lands in! Leona sees what Kane is doing and a quick alliance forms as Leona runs deft, jumping off Kane’s back to hit a flipping senton on the champion in the corner!
Dante: Excellent teamwork there by Vega and Kane and it looks as though both the One Woman Show and the leader of the Worthy are both down...
Mel: Which means that Christopher and Leona are going to have had to come to this sooner or later!
The two fan favorites eye each other up as Shaw is leaned up in the corner and Qilin is checking on Sunny outside. The crowd is all for a battle between Leona and Kane and they continue watching each other before they shake each other’s hands... They square off, ready to throw hands. Christopher swings at Leona as she runs towards the ring ropes. She kicks off, leaping into the air and looking for a springboard roundhouse... Only for Sunny to KICK SUPER HER OUT THE AIR!!
Crowd: OOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
Dante: KICK SUPER! Leona is OUT here and Kane looks like he wasn’t even expecting that one!
Leona’s hair whips behind her as she lays there in the corner, Kane looking back to see Sunny. With one hand behind her back, the other motions Christopher, daring him to make a misstep against her. He sneers and runs towards her, only for Shaw to decide to cut in on this as she leaps onto Kane with a Lou Thesz press! She begins to pepper his head with nasty shots to the forehead, grabbing his neck and pounding away with a revolted look on his face. She looks at Sunny and asks if she’s going to help or not, to which the Giocare notes that if Shaw really insists. Kyoun grabs Kane’s legs and holds them under her so he can’t properly go anywhere as Shaw continues to beat his head in with her fists. After she seems satisfied enough, the Adrenaline champion rolls off to let Sunny catapult him into the corner turnbuckle, seeing his head smack in as he too lays there. With Leona only now getting to and Kane down, its only now that Sunny and Shaw finally turn their attention to each other.
Amelia: The alliances come and go panas... Here today. Gone tomorrow and Shaw and Sunny look to have on issue at all in at each other!
As Leona can be seen pulling herself up and rubbing her jaw, Sunny and Shaw look to be more focused on each other. Champion and challenger immediately lock up in on each other, trying to push the other back before Shaw slips behind Sunny and wraps her legs around her waist. Kyoun begins to struggle, not seemingly interested in going for a suplex sort of ride, to which Shaw pulls her up on her shoulders in a Fireman’s Carry. Sunny begins to struggle, reaching her arms out and trying to kick her legs but Shaw flings her forward and drops her on a knee for a single leg backbreaker as Sunny begins to roll away in pain. The Adrenaline champion sees Leona back up and takes off running towards her, dropkicking her in the mouth and sending her through the ropes before she turns her attention back on Giocare! Qilin attempts to yell to rouse Sunny back up but Shaw will have none of it, hopping onto the second rope before dropping a double axehandle into the back of Kyoun and sending her on her knees. Shaw licks her chops and forces Sunny back up before lifting her upward in a vertical suplex... For a moment it looks as though she’s holding her up with a stall, before she fakes Sunny out, letting her fall backward on her feet before turning the move into a swinging neckbreaker!
Dante: Vertical suplex into a swinging neckbreaker! For a moment it looked as though Shaw was even stalling it out...
Mel: Now the champion has nothing between her and regaining the Adrenaline championship! We may never hear the end of this!
Shaw looks up at the championship and smirks wide as she begins to scale up the scaffolding to her Adrenaline championship. Left foot. Right foot. Left foot. Right foot. The Quicken Loans Arena is quick to boo her with every step and inch she overtakes, climbing up higher and higher until she has to begin figuring out how exactly she’s going to maneuver herself towards the title. She seems to decide between climbing on top of the scaffolding or hanging upside down... And the champion chooses hanging. She begins to climb towards it, stopping just in front of it... Before she hears the crowd cheering as she nears her title! The champion’s brow furrows, realizing that something is happening before she’s clamped into a Dragon Sleeper! Her legs are still keeping her on the scaffolding but her arms begin swinging as Christopher Kane squeezes the hold. He whispers something in Shaw’s ear. The mics on the scaffolding pick up.
Kane: She'll look up and say save me and I'll whisper no.
Kane looses his legs hanging upside down in the scaffolding and pulls Shaughnessy down with him into an UPSIDE DOWN DRAGON SLEEPER INTO A CUTTER!! Their bodies fall to the ground from so high up and Shaw’s upper half bounces before she flops forward motionless! Christopher holds his back but there’s a satisfied grin on his face!
Amelia: ...OH MY GOD HE KILLED SHAWNNY! YOU BASTARD!
Mel: UNTITLED FINALE BETA AND THE CHAMPION IS NOT MOVING!
Crowd: HOLY SHIT! THANK YOU KANE! HOLY SHIT! THANK YOU KANE! HOLY SHIT! THANK YOU KANE!
Kane gets to rise up on his feet, looking up at the scaffolding and contemplating on climbing when Sunny comes out of nowhere and catches him with a hurricanrana into a turnbuckle! Kane’s head snaps back and he lays in pain as Giocare looks down at him and shakes her head. She quickly zeroes in on him and drags his body towards the ropes before hanging his upper half over it. She pulls the second rope down and captures Kane’s upper half between the now twisted ropes! Avery runs to try and save her husband but Qilin gets in her way and begins reading her pamphlets as Christopher tries to free himself. Sunny, staring at him as though he were an experiment or a project asks him what where is all his anger now, frowning... Before she sizes him up and catches him with a high kick across the side of the head. Then another... Then another. Sunny begins to preach to the crowd, telling them that this is the hero they seem to like so much. This is the man they seem to think is so talented and so excellent and so quick to forgive... Before she kicks him across the side of the other temple. His struggles to get away from the prison of the ropes slowing with the head kicks. The Game Changer rolls back into the ring and physically frees Kane before grabbing him by the ankles back to the center of the ring. She grabs him by the neck and gets him back up...
But kicking into second gear, Christopher begins to start catching her with those elbows! He starts peppering Giocare before grabbing her by the wrist and irish-whipping her! She bounces back but on the rebound catches him with an uppercutting palm strike! His head snaps upward and Sunny immediately combos it into a Reverse DDT, spiking his head into the mat!
Dante: Sunny is taking her sweet time... Knowing or seeming to know full well that she can take her time on Christopher... Shaw’s still down but... Wait...
Amelia: AH-HAH! We might be missing one but Sunny doesn’t seem to notice.
Indeed Leona is up and the Aztec Warrior’s eyes are peeled, watching Sunny and stalking her... Trying to keep out Qilin’s line of sight as well. Giocare doesn’t seem to notice much, focused more on harming Christopher as she reaches down and forces him back up once more... And then spinning around with a stiff kick to the jaw, followed by a leg sweep! With Kane down, Sunny begins to scale the scaffolding, seeming to believe she has no more opposition to stop her... She climbs onto the turnbuckle before looking back to Christopher. Seeming to think she should finish the job, Sunny leaps backward... Going for a diving moonsault... But NO! She doesn’t land onto Christopher but RIGHT on Leona’s shoulders who doesn’t even hesitate, DROPPING Sunny with a vicious Fireman’s Carry Gutbuster!
Mel: EL PILOTE! SUNNY DROPPED HERSELF RIGHT INTO IT!
Crowd: HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT!!
Leona looks up to the Adrenaline championship and sees it hanging downward, before looking at the crowd who gives her a warm reaction and tells her to go get the title hanging up in the air and waiting for her! The Aztec Warrior nods furiously before she hops onto the top turnbuckle and begins to climb the scaffolding, working her way up... All the way up! The Adrenaline champion however sees her doing this and watches Vega as she grabs the scaffolding and instead of hanging upside down, treats it like monkey bars. One hand in front of the other, slowly moving towards it until something catches her leg. Vega looks down to see O’Neill pulling at her leg... Pulling at her until Leona finally comes down, landing on her feet! The two women get nose to nose, faces sneering before Shaw shoves Leona into the ropes and catches her on her shoulders for a samoan drop! Before Leona can get back up, as she rolls Shaw grabs her ankle for an ankle lock!
Dante: Shaughnessy attempting to put a stop to Leona Vega’s mobility which is SO important in a match like Ultimate X. Vega has to find a way to escape this quickly before any lasting damage is done!
Amelia: It looks like she may have already! She’s crawling on her hands!
Leona kicks off the mat with her foot still free and walks two steps forward with her palms before she does a push-up, pushing herself off the mat before rolling through and bringing Shaughnessy with her, sending her running forward into the corner with her back against the turnbuckle. Vega runs towards Shaw and gives her a monkey flip out of the corner, sending her landing on her back! Leona runs to the side, springboarding on the second rope and looking for a hurricanrana, landing expertly on Shaw’s shoulders! When Vega hangs down however, Shaw hooks her arms around her waist, refusing to let the Aztec Warrior hit her with completion of the move! As Leona hangs upside down, reaching for the ropes, reaching and trying to grab but she simply cannot. She’s mouth breaks into a poisonous, sickeningly sweet smile before she falls backward and vaults Leona forward to the ropes, seeming to hope for a stun gun. Leona however puts her hands to her sides for a split second to overshoot it slightly, with her feet together. Her boots hook on the rope and she bungees herself BACK into the ring before spinning around and roundhouse kicking Shaw in the mouth...
Or she would, if not for Shaw catching her ankle again!
Mel: Amelia, it looked for a bit like Leona had almost escaped but the Adrenaline champion got her RIGHT back into the ankle lock!
Dante: I’m not sure how she can escape either aside from finding a hard counter! Wait... It looks like Christopher is about to lend Leona an assist!
Christopher suddenly is up and runs towards the ropes, past Shaw and hopping over Leona to rebound into the ropes, coming back into an Ace Crusher! Shaw however sees it coming and is NOT about to be hit by another monstrous cutter compliments of Kane. She ducks his hands, and does a goddamn backflip into what can best be described as a Pele Knee Strike, blasting Kane straight in the mush and causing him to slowly tilt backwards... Before dropping to the mat! He lays there, staring up at the lights with that knockout shot as Shaw grins wide before giving him a salute before looking back up at the Adrenaline title!
Crowd: FUCK YOU SHAW! / THAT WAS AWESOME! / FUCK YOU SHAW! / THAT WAS AWESOME!
Dante: Funny... The crowd can’t decide if they want to applaud Shaw for pulling off something innovative, or giving her a big fat F just because she’s her.
Amelia: Shaw turned her usual KNEE TO THE HEAD into... Well I don’t even know what to call that pana. Pele Knee? Kneele?
With Christopher down, all three of the women in this match look at each other. All three of them begin scaling the scaffolding now, climbing upward though Leona’s leg seems to be bothering her slightly and she’s doing as best as she can to walk it off. Each one of them has taken a part of Ultimate X structure but as they all get to the top and all look as though they’re not sure how they’re going to do this, Sunny climbs herself to stand ON the structure... In the “End your career” district of the ring. Giocare waves her hands slightly, to keep balance before looking down at the bottom of the ring. She seems to be of the mind that this will not do and slides through the metalwork to hang by her arms towards the title. She begins to scale towards it and comes within an arm’s reach. Leona and Shaw both see this and O’Neill moves slightly faster, climbing and positioning herself behind Sunny before she raises her legs up and hooks them around Sunny’s throat TIGHTLY! Kyoun’s eyes widen and she lets her free arm snap back to hit Shaw in the jaw, but O’Neill will not let go for anything as she continues to choke Sunny out with her legs!
Dante: Sunny was extremely close there and Shaw wasn’t about to let it happen, now applying a hangman’s sleeper there... How long is she going to keep this held on!?
Mel: I don’t know but it looks as though Leona is waiting and watching now, climbing back down to pick her mark. She might be expecting that she second one goes down, she’ll have to stop the other. That’s smart.
Indeed Sunny’s face first turns red and then a slight purpling color as he grip on the bars of the Ultimate X scaffolding begins to slip. She seems to be earnestly struggling with it, before she’s only hanging in the air thanks to the grip Shaw has with her legs around her throat. Shaw finally lets go and Sunny falls lifelessly to the mat, coughing in a fit as she tries to take in breath! Shaw grins and reaches out for her title, only for Vega to pull her BACK down to earth. The two from this begin to brawl back and forth, all manner and craft of the Adrenaline division forgotten as for every stiff forearm Leona gives The One Woman Show, Shaw answers the Aztec Warrior back with a straight haymaker! Back and forth the two women go, before Shaw attempts to irish-whip Leona only for her to reverse it and attempt to irish-whip her back... Only for Leona to stop it...
The two women stalemate in an attempt to send each other off...
And go back to the brawl, before grabbing each other by the neck and peppering each other with strikes, no amount of blocking or effort for defensive tactics to be found! They keep hammering each other as neither seems to have noticed that Christopher isn’t laying on the mat anymore. Instead he has began his slow ascent towards the Adrenaline championship, climbing as the two continue to throw hands at each other. Kane gets about within an arm’s reach of the title before both Leona and Shaw seem to notice. Vega and Shaw grab him by the ankles and begin to pull, as he struggles to get them off. They cause the young Kane to pinwheel but he gets them off for a second, kicking them both away! As soon as they recover and go to get him, Christopher uses his arm-strength to fling himself forward and execute TWO rotations into a pair of diving knees for both Leona and Shaw!
Crowd: OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
Amelia: DOUBLE ROTATION NEW YORK RAIN... Does... Does Kane intend to WALK at age forty? Does anyone know!? Anyone!?
Dante: I don’t know but all four competitors are not moving. Between what just happened with those three and Sunny is still in the corner, drawing her breath she... Wait. She’s giving orders to Qilin. NO!
Indeed Qilin is getting some sort of marching orders, as Sunny told her in plain terms to GET the Adrenaline title for her.
The herald of Giocare nods slowly before she looks up at the Adrenaline championship. She begins to walk towards the nearest turnbuckle, stepping over the bodies of Leona, Shaw, and Christopher on her way before she begins to climb up. She grabs the scaffolding and very gingerly inches along like a little caterpillar, a little higher and little higher still. She makes very slow progress upward before stopping just short of the horizontal scaffolding to the championship. With a deep breath she holds on tight before Qilin begins to inch her way along towards the Adrenaline title. She continues moving at the slowest pace possible and its just now that all of the other competitors are trying to stand themselves up to stop her...
Until a shoe goes flying and scores a direct hit in Qilin’s face! She lets go of the bars and drops down, holding a bloody mouth in shock as the camera pans over to Avery with one foot bare!
Amelia: Hehe you see that panas? It looks as though the Worthy’s plans were...
Mel: De-feeted? Hahahaha!
Amelia: Bwahahahahahahaha!
Dante: I’m laughing on the inside, I assure you. Qilin’s intent to get the Adrenaline title for her master is cut short by Avery and this match doesn’t look to be over by a long shot!
As the commentators continue to make puns of recent events, Christopher grabs his wife’s shoe and gently flings it back towards her so she can slip it on, with a thankful smile. He pushes himself on his knees and Leona immediately comes at him with a hurricanrana, hooking her legs around his neck and sending him up and over the ropes... He does a bit of a tumble on the apron before landing on the ground below, a hand on his jaw. Leona tries to go from that to a running kick but he isn’t having any of it, grabbing her by the ankle and giving it a jerk, making her land head and spine first on the apron before he reaches and pulls her up and off of it, irish-whipping her into the scaffolding that she latches onto! Leona looks to be making the climb right back up. Christopher however grabs her by the waist and looks as though he’s about to suplex her off of it before he turns a 180 and suplexes her ON the standing scaffold! Leona lays there in pain and as Kane is about to get back in the ring and back to business he gets a double dropkick back off the apron compliments of both Sunny and Shaw!
The two women watch him with equal disdain before they turn right on each other and begin laying in. Sunny goes for a series of stiff side kicks that Shaw blocks for the most part, taking every other one to the chest but she finally low dropkicks Sunny to the knee, getting her down to one. She hooks her arms, looking for a Double Arm DDT but the leader of the Worthy powers Shaw up and over her shoulders, getting her own arms free and landing on the apron just in time to watch as Leona takes off at a running start on Kane and spears him into the scaffolding! He slumps down in pain as Leona takes off at Sunny... Kyoun holds her hands up to block but the Aztec Warrior slides through her legs into the ring and the waiting arms of Shaughnessy O’Neill! The Adrenaline Champion’s smirk is poisonous as she lifts Leona up for what looks like a Stun Gun on the ropes...
But Leona counters it into spinning... Spinning... More spinning... More spinning... More spinning around Shaw... More spinning... More spinning... At this point a chant breaks out as Sunny watches curiously...
Crowd: GO VEGA GO VEGA GO VEGA GO VEGA GO VEGA GO VEGA!
And the Adrenaline champion gets planted with the DDT!
Dante: You wanna call that one an ORBIT DDT or an INFINITE ORBIT DDT? The champ can’t possibly know where she is right now and now we’re down to just Sunny and Leona!
The two mainstays of the Adrenaline division begin tagging each other back and forth with stiff kicks, each kick Leona gives, Sunny answers back in spades! The crowd gives the usual ‘YAY!’ when Leona makes a strike and ‘BOO!’ when Sunny answers it back. The two women keep on tagging each other before Sunny rakes Leona across the eyes and then sweeps her arm around Sunny’s neck before powering her up and over with a Northern Lights Suplex. Sunny runs towards the ropes and springboards up, bouncing on the back of her legs into a corkscrew senton on Leona, causing Vega to roll and hug her ribs. When Sunny attempts a wheel kick however, Leona catches her in her arms and flings her over her shoulder, running towards the ropes and rebounding back with a jumping superman punch, putting Sunny flat across her back! Vega looks up and sees Shaw beginning to drag herself towards the scaffolding before Leona begins to make her way up the opposite one!
Dante: Sunny’s down but now Shaw is getting back up and Kane’s back up to his feet as Leona and O’Neill make the climb up that scaffolding!
Mel: Something tells me there’s going to be more than just climbing the title...
Melissa calls it correctly as Shaw and Leona overshoot climbing the scaffolding to which they’re both standing on top of the structure. Shaughnessy’s eyes narrow as she looks back at Leona who stares at her... The two women carefully move towards each other and begin peppering each other with blows before Shaw gets the better of the exchange with a nasty liver blow! Vega looks stunned for a moment before she bends over in agony as Shaw shoves her head between her legs! The crowd gasps, thinking that Shaw can’t be seriously intending for a flip piledriver from that high up, especially with one misstep... But SHE DOES IT ANYWAY!!
Crowd: OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
Amelia: O’NEILL’S OBLIVION ON THE SCAFFOLDING! WHY SHAW!? WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT!? PUTA MALVADA POR QUE HARIAS ESTO A MI AMIGA!?
The crowd can be heard gasping, expecting Shaw to flip piledrive Leona OFF the scaffolding, seriously carving years off of both of their careers but somehow Shaw hits the driver ON the scaffolding, spiking Leona’s head on the metal, making the entire Ultimate X structure shake slightly and the belt itself wiggle! Leona slumps forward, laying motionless on the scaffolding before gravity takes her the rest of the way as she lands to the mat down below! Shaw now grabs the scaffolding and has to hang off the bottom to reach the title but no sooner does she do that does Sunny leap up to grab her by the ankles and jerk her off! Before Shaw can offer a response, she gets a dropkick to the chest that sends the back of her head smacking against a turnbuckle! Giocare smiles wide and looks up to the title, only to be turned around by Kane! He swings at her with a spinning heel kick but she turns him around and pops him head first into the mat with a headlock driver, stopping him from stopping her. She stands back up, staring at the Adrenaline title...
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As Christopher Kane pops right back up, forehead bleeding and looking woozy and yet... Looking to be running on pure adrenaline.
Dante: Sunny stopping Shaw from climbing back up with a shotgun dropkick and then hitting Kane with Kelly Kincaid’s CLIPPED WINGS.... Yet he just... Got back up. How? Well, got back up might not be the choice of words. He looks as though he can barely stand.
Mel: He’s staring a hole through Sunny... She better not turn around.
He doesn’t give Sunny the chance as Kane wraps his wrists around her neck in a cravate before pulling her head down to a vicious knee to head... Followed by another knee to the head... And another... And another... And another... And another... And another.. .And another... And another... He blasts Kyoun across the head with ten stiff knee shots to the head, followed by one more for good measure before he lets her drop to the mat with Giocare’s brain rattling in her skull. With a huff, Kane looks up and begins to scale the scaffolding, with every single one of the other competitors down for the count. He begins to scale higher, and higher with the crowd chanting him on, before he begins the the slow climb across towards the Adrenaline title...
Amelia: ...He’s going to do it... Christopher Kane is about to realize his long journey as the Adrenaline champion!
Christopher reaches for the title, just within arm’s reach as the crowd gasps...
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Before Kane gets dropped with a running sitdown powerbomb compliments of Gouken! The crowd immediately begins booing as the ENTIRE Worthy empties out through the curtain! Chick Aura and Phobos, following Blood & Flames with both members of the Unrepentant already in the ring! The whole lot of them begin laying waste to the other three competitors with Sunny barely seeing straight after all those knees to the head.
Dante: Ladies and gentlemen... The... The entire Worthy has descended on the ring and has turned the Ultimate X into a farce!
Mel: Wait... Wait... I see Defy coming through the crowd!
As Defy leaps over the barricade, the sound of Amelia’s headset clatters as she gets up from the commentary booth and goes in with the other luchador to try and break odds. Unfortunately it isn’t to be with all the numbers bearing down... Defy tries to lock horns with with Gouken but Kanna comes at him, swinging a barbed wire wrapped chair across his back before Gouken sends him high in the air for a ride into a chokeslam! Amelia doesn’t have much better luck as Kanna flings the chair for her to catch it, only to eat a chair assisted Buzzsaw Kick that puts her down as the Unrepentant physically stamp out Mucha Lucha.
Chaos is happening every which way as both members of Blood & Flames are stomping out Shaw, Phobos drives Leona shoulder first into a nearby turnbuckle pole and Chick Aura forces Kane up for a wicked brainbuster into the mat! As Sunny struggles to get to her feet, Kanna helps her stand before the Worthy seem to get an idea as they begin rolling the other bodies out of the ring.
Kanna climbs up on Gouken’s shoulders before he passes up the leader of the Worthy to Kanna who holds her in a waistlock as Sunny reaches up...
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And plucks the SVW Adrenaline Championship from the rung in the middle of the Ultimate X scaffolding.
DING! DING! DING!
John: Here... Here.... HERE IS YOUR WINNER...
Dante: You’ve gotta announce it John. I’m sorry.
John: HERE IS YOUR WINNER... AND NEW SVW ADRENALINE CHAMPION... SUNNY KYOUN!!
Mel: Disgusting. This... This is an absolute travesty. He had it Dante. He was so close... Christopher Kane was robbed and ... And...
Dante: And the Adrenaline division has now fallen into the Worthy’s clutches. Sunny is now Adrenaline champion and how... How can anyone stop that? She barely knows where she is!
Mel: Yet we probably won’t hear the end of this... How it was putting the division through adversity... Well there’s a whole lot of adversity in the way of the division now.
The entire Worthy surrounds Sunny, vigilantly watching the match’s competitors and those who attempted to stop the Worthy from outside the ring as the Game Changer seems to only now realize what has taken place. As “Bartholomew” begins playing and the Quicken Loans crowd boos hatefully... Sunny’s face breaks into a smile and she holds the title high overhead.