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Roddy nodded from his seat behind the desk, in the big chair. Big chair for the true king of AWE, the lord of the house that he built. Sure, there were writers, but they still had to get their ideas and plans approved by him; he just happened to trust them. “Of course, Gethin. I’m happy to talk to everyone, as long as we have time. Shut the door if you don’t mind. What do you want to talk about?” Roddy asked the Welshman.

Gethin had of course had previous conversations with Roddy, the one they had when he first signed with AWE being one that was pretty prominent in his mind. Still this one seemed slightly different, he wasn’t exactly sure how to approach it. In that case the only way he could approach it was head on, just like he did with all of his matches. "Well sir, I just wanted to talk about the tournament. The brackets in particular. I wanted to know...well why exactly you have me winning the title?" The Welsh Dragon took a seat opposite the boss man and interlocked his fingers upon his lap. "And please don’t misunderstand, I am very proud that you’d think of me and I’m more than willing to carry it, I was just curious as to the method behind it really."

“Well, the truth is I really just kind of think you’re a badass. We were going to put the strap on you sooner or later, probably off of Drayden himself, but this is just as well. I won’t take all the credit, this isn’t all my planning, it’s mostly the writing team, good bunch of people those are. Anyway, the plan is to give you a nice run with the title — ‘bout three, or four months. You’re gonna brutalize everything. And during this time, simultaneously, Caiden Winters — that boy everyone seems to like — is gonna be on a run with Intercontinental title, Savaka hasn’t had the best run, but I felt he deserved it after years of dedication. Caiden though, he’s gonna make that belt look like the fuckin’ Holy Grail. And then, once the stars have aligned and everything’s alright, he’s gonna willingly give up the belt, which he’s threatening to leave the company with, in return for a championship match with you. Which, I’ll agree to, since you’re a killer and I know you’ll do nothing other than put your hands on the number one contender and brutalize him, victimize him, and get him out of my hair. But Caiden’s going over. Trust me, it all spins together into a big story. It’s crazy how they do that, I never thought of that myself. Making everything connect and flow decently, it’s different than how I did it back in my day, but times are changin’ I guess. Anyway, point is, you’re gonna help make Caiden Winters’s the biggest fuckin’ star in this business. By fighting him. We have a plan for that match, it’s coming together slowly, but we’ll wait till we get closer to let you know all the nitty gritty details. Any questions?”

The Brutal Artist sat intently listening to Roddy as he laid out the plan for what was going to happen. At least he knew that he wasn’t going to be a paper champion and that he would get to keep his heat. Gethin had been building a solid level since his debut and now he would get to see it flourish. Losing to Caiden and putting him over was no big issue for the best damn striker in the game today, in fact he was all for it. Gethin had watched AWE whilst he was in Japan and believed that Caiden did deserve a title run, he had worked hard and it was owed to him after all that dedication. He had to hide his smile from the boss as to not let on a feeling of giddiness that building inside. Not only was Roddy singing his praise but Gethin was going to get to work with some of the best in the business and this was what he was in it for; the competition. "You can trust me, sir. Thank you for giving me this opportunity. I know I haven’t always been an AWE guy but I promise, I’m a company man. I’ll do whatever you ask."

“After the feud, we’ll all be better off, trust me. You’ll both look like shining stars, and once you see what I’ve got brewing for you… you might just cry from happiness.” Yes, Roderick was having ‘ideas’ again. That’s what happens when rich people are allowed to frankly do whatever they want and broadcast it on live television. “If all goes well, you won’t ever need to hold a belt again to seem like a big deal. Also, the upcoming tour, after you win the title. We’re going through the UK and parts of Europe. So that ought to be fun for you, yeah?” The old man grinned at the young star in the room with him, knowing full well that Gethin would get cheered no matter where they went in that part of the world. But, it was all part of the plan.

"It would definitely nice to go home again. I haven’t been back in nearly a year. Not since a brief stop over to get my visa to come work for you." It would absolutely be great to go home again and enjoy the adulation of his countrymen and women. AWE would finally have a decent European presence and that was something to be proud of. He smiled and bowed his head slightly towards Roddy. "I can’t wait to see what you’ve all cooked up for me, I’ll do my best to make you proud sir." Gethin was relieved to have heard how Roddy thought of him. He was worried when he first signed with the company whether or not they would know what to do with him. In Japan he was a big deal, maybe the biggest gaijin of the modern era. Coming to AWE, he was worried they might destroy the character he had built but no, they let him keep it which was amazing. He was worried that his sexuality would be a big deal, it wasn’t. AWE was a big risk and it was finally paying off.

“All I ask is that when the time comes, you and Winters go out there, beat the living shit out of each other, come back here, get your checks, cash ‘em, and buy each other a beer. This place fuckin’ sucked when everyone hated each other backstage and on it.” Roddy, as the founder of the company, had never fully understood why people backstage got in such heated fights and arguments and why there was so much… hatred. Nowadays, this new, younger generation… they were different. Louder than what he was used to, and they did some weird shit, but… they all seemed to be friends, and as a result, less people got hurt. It was nice, took a lot of weight off of him

"I’ll buy him more than one sir but that’s it. Can’t break character." He let out a light chuckle. "Thank you for taking the time to talk to me, Mr Quinn. I suppose I better get a move on, we have another town to get to." Getting to his feet, Gethin offered his hand to shake with the king of wrestling. "See you at the next shot, sir." With that, the Brutal Artist turned and headed out of the office and back towards the locker room to grab his gear. The house show circuit awaits! By the time he had gotten all of his gear, the show had all but ended and crew were starting to pack up. He made his way to the car park to find the rent-a-car he had booked for the evening. He often travelled alone, somewhat by choice to protect his character but even still. it did get lonely sometimes.
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Diana left Kevin’s office with a massive smile across her face. She was finally getting a chance at TV. Fair enough it wasn’t for a couple of weeks but still, it was finally happening; now all she had to do was capitalise on the opportunity. She turned her head back to look at the mountain of a man that was now following her. Dylan seemed like a sweet enough kid, big, burly but loveable, like a German Shepherd. It was her job now to turn him into a beast, a monster that was going to run through the AWE roster like a hot knife through butter. It would be a hard task but she was the one for the job, she had no doubt about that. She walked through backstage, flanked by the giant workhorse and gaining shocked stares from the backstage crew. It was doubtful any of them had seen someone that big, lord knows Diana hadn’t. Arriving outside the women’s locker room, she turned to Dylan, brushing a strand of loose hair from her face.

”Dylan, sweetheart I’m quickly going to run in and grab my things. Why don’t you go meet some of the guys, I won’t be long”

The gorgeous redhead offered her new charge a slight grin before entering the locker room. She made her way to her gear back and began to pack up her stuff. There was an age old adage in the wrestling business that permeated across all facets of the industry from wrestlers to managers to announcers to the crew; never leave anywhere without your gear.

The women’s locker room wasn’t empty at this point in time, however. Dawn Webster, better known to the AWE as Sydney Ellis, was standing in front of the mirror, applying makeup with one hand whilst the other was massaging a bruise in the side of her body; the result of Rosado’s stiff kicks. Still, Dawn was happy to shift more towards this style. She knew how to block, and how to take a real defensive MMA stance. The act of selling offense without bumping otherwise, she’d always found awkward. Pretending to be hurt when you’re not getting hurt. Dawn would rather actually get hurt and remove the need for acting. She was not a very good actor.

She turned round when she saw another woman enter the room, though it wasn’t anybody she recognised. “Oh, hi!” she blurted out, surprised.
“Didn’t know there was anybody left here! Don’t mind me. I’m almost finished.”


She was still in her ring gear when she said that.

In all fairness, Diana hadn’t noticed anyone in the room when she entered and was somewhat startled by Dawn alerting her to her presence. Spinning on her heel, orange hair spinning wildly, she raised her hand in an awkward wave. ”Hi there! Sorry, I was in a meeting. I don’t think we’ve been formally introduced yet. I’m Suzy but I guess you should probably know me by my other name; Diana. And you are the badass the fans know as Sydney Ellis. It’s nice to meet you” In spite of her confidence in front of a crowd, Diana was still very much a women easily flustered by unexpected situations. It was something she needed to work on. ”I saw your match tonight. You’re amazing out there!” She was rambling. ”I’d be surprised if there isn’t a title run in your future. You are legit”

Diana of course knew who Sydney was; if for nothing else she was a fan of the product first and foremost. Diana had loved this business since she was five years old watching it with her big brother at their father’s house. She watched it religiously, she was obsessed. Even now that she was working in AWE her obsession only got worse. She knew everything about every wrestler (though she would never broadcast her fangirling) and using the same locker room as some of her favourites was a bit of a trip.

Dawn chuckled. Now she understood why she hadn’t recognized Suzy. She was that new manager she’d heard about. Dawn had heard good things about her track record and her ability to give promos. She thought back to Barbie’s promo earlier in the night. A lot of the other women wrestlers would bitch and moan about how Barbie is not a particularly skilled wrestler in the ring and only has the top spot because of her boyfriend. Dawn fundamentally disagreed. Barbie’s promo skills were the envy of Dawn. There was simply more to being a star than the ability to wrestle well.

“You’re flattering me. That wasn’t too long a match, though it was very stiff. You oughtta see what I do on pay-per-views. I don’t see myself becoming champion, though. Champions need to talk, and I’m no talker.” She shrugged, before suddenly having an idea. “You’re a manager, right? Or you were trying to become one. I bet you can cut a good promo. Can you give me some tips?” she asked sincerely.

Diana was somewhat taken back by Dawn’s request. Was there something in the water here in Chicago? She was getting opportunities tonight left right and center. ”Sure, of course I’d like to help out! Kevin literally just put me with a new guy as his heater, we’re debuting in a few weeks. I’ll be working with him a lot so if you’re so inclined you can come and chill with us when you can and we’ll try and hash out a few basic promo skills. Get you on your feet” Working with someone like Dawn would be perfect for Diana. If she couldn’t help the military badass with a few helpful pointers then surely she would be able to convince creative to allow her to manage her? Diana silently felt like she was one step closer to her dream faction.

”Actually, I’m off to go meet Dylan now. Why don’t you get changed and come with?”

“Sure, that sounds like fun!” Dawn replied, before grabbing some sweatpants and a grey jacket from her locker, and putting them on over her ring gear in a non-rushed manner suggesting she did this all the time and in fact came to the arena with her ring gear under her clothes in the first place. She stuffed everything else (towel, boots, army cap) into her bag and flung it over her shoulder. The way it moved, there was definitely something heavy in it. Did she bring weights?

Diana opened the door to the hallway and grabbed her bag before stepping out with Dawn now in tow. ”Shouldn’t be hard to find Dylan. He’s legit as big as the bus” She headed towards the gorilla position, hoping to find her new client standing watching the matches.

Dylan was, indeed, as big as the bus. The large man could be found not at the gorilla position — he had watched much of the show and had only left at the tail end of the main event, because… he was hungry. He was big, big dude. Big dudes take a lot of fuel. What’s fuel? Food is fuel. So he was eating. It was close enough to the gorilla position, and he could see a monitor nearby. Plus, he was huge! Diana wouldn’t ever have any trouble finding him, he was easy to find.

So, there he was, standing near the catering table, and stuffing food into his mouth (at this moment, a large piece of pie). When he saw Diana, who was really the only person he knew very well around these parts, he waved a massive hand. “Hey, Diana. Look what I found. They just give you all this food to eat.” He said, gesturing happily at the catering table. Yeah… the main roster was different than developmental, to say the least.

Dawn had a bit of a shock when she saw Dylan. Diana was not kidding when she said he was as big as the bus. She’d been working in this company for three years now, surrounded by wrestlers, and still thought this guy was a huge, muscle-bound beast! It didn’t help that Dawn herself wasn’t that tall. In fact, standing side-by-side with Diana, it was clear that she was the slightly shorter of the two women.

”Dawn this is Dylan, Dylan this Dawn. She’s going to be working with us on her promo’s” Diana watched the large man eat his extremely big piece of pie and was somewhat taken aback by the simple naivety that he seemed to have. He was like a newborn puppy, brought into a world he did not fully understand; in this case it was the world of pro wrestling and the AWE. ”Glad you’re keeping that strength up, you’ll need it once we debut you” Taking a seat opposite her charge, Diana motioned for Dawn to join them. ”So, where do you want to start?”

Dawn sat down, and leaned back into the chair. “Well,” she started, deep in thought. “I can do intimidating growling and shouting quite well. I just take myself back to my Army days for that. But it always feels really try-hard. It’s the subtle, audience-aggravating kind of stuff I can’t do well. And I was thinking...the Requiem Pay-Per-View is in October, and I’m not sure if I have a match then or not, but I was thinking about giving a promo there, either before my match, or to open the show if I don’t have one. It’d just be nice to actually have some mic presence in my country. I’d probably get a hero’s welcome if I went out there so why not use that?”

”Well…” Before Diana began, she reached her hand into her bag and pulled out her notebook and began to flick through it as quickly as she could. It was filled with ideas on literally everything wrestling related. Her finger stopped on one of the middle pages and she laid it out in front of her on the catering table. ”Being a hometown girl will only work in your favour. You’re gonna get a good reaction either way but from what I know, if you want to truly sell yourself, you big up your prior army experience. Most of our fans at this point are marks and they know everything about us. Uneducated fans will assume your military thing is a gimmick. You shove it down their throats that it’s legit, that you’ve seen combat and for the lack of a better term; it fucked you up so bad you’re now only loyal to the war”

Turning her attention to Dylan, Diana leaned forward and smiled. ”As for you big hoss, we need to start actually trying to find a gimmick for you. I know you wrestle good, Kevin doesn’t lie but being a good wrestler doesn’t make a lick of difference for someone like you. How we sell you is what gets you over...what’s your heritage, Dylan. Where do your family come from?”

Dylan stared at the woman that had asked him the question, as if he didn’t fully understand it. “Well, Texas. The Dallas area, specifically. So, uh, not very interesting. It just so happens that my mama fed me right and my dad made me work on the farm a lot so I got… well, y’know. Big. Real big. I’ve never really thought about my gimmick, people always say that it should just be yourself turned up to 11, right? Well, that sucks. Cuz I’m kind of boring.” Dylan said as he munched on more chipps, frowning a bit. “So we’ll have to come up with something different and unique, I guess.”

Dawn took Diana’s words to heart. She was right. Anybody who didn’t know she was a real soldier needed to be told. She’d have to run this through Roddy, though she could do that at the next show. She then turned her attention to Dylan. His lack of a gimmick was something to think about. When Dawn first started, her gimmick was just that she was strong and won all the time. It was only over time and through her own input that she gradually added military and punk elements and the ‘This is War’ catchphrase, which she was proud of to this day.

“Well,” she started saying to Dylan, “What are your hobbies? Do you have any inspirations? Anything we can draw from? What would your ideal wrestling gimmick be?”

”We’ve got time, big country. We’ll think of something” A small smile crossed her ruby red lips at a little joke she made in her head. ”My family a norse somewhere don’t the line, we could call you the Berserker. Hashtag Viking Strong. Especially if you let the beard grow” Even though it was joke, Diana still drew her pen from behind her ear and wrote it in her notebook, every little helped after all. ”Foreign heel has been done to death and I don’t really envision you has one of those dark, supernaturals Roddy loves so much...the corn-fed meathead shtick would last all of one week, if that. Might need to see you work first, get a feel based on your moveset”

Glancing at her fitbit, Diana noticed the time and grabbed her bag quite roughly. ”We should get going. Got to get to the next town and make some memories” She smiled at the two of them before leading her new motley crew to the parking lot. She waved to Gethin who was getting in his own rent-a-car before making her way to the bus. ”Alrighty big man, let’s see if we can get you in here”
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Chris Dent




The arena was silent for a few long moments. Nobody knew what was going to happen next. There was no activity. Nobody knew what to expect. Then something strange happened; The AWE main theme played and the titantron showed the text in black and white 'Local talent;
Chris Dent' which got a few cheers from the local indie fans who knew the wrestler from his work in the local indie scene. He was known for being a really good wrestler and having no other gimmick to speak of, and his treatment by the AWE reflected this. His presentation was so plain and generic, it was refreshingly different. To the main theme being his entrance music, but the very basic titantron, to the plain black ring gear, boots armpads and trunks. He wasn't a vanilla midget but his build was average for a wrestler, his hair was long and he had a goatee. If one wrestler could embody the word 'wrestler', it was this guy; Chris Dent. His utter forgetfulness made him memorable.

He walked straight to the ring and climbed the steps to climb through the ropes in a truly unremarkable fashion, after which he calmly paced, waiting for his opponent.

Then the telltale rising pitch of a better-known wrestler started, and the lights turned purple. The crown immediately started cheering and booing in equal succession, but there was no doubt about it. The crowd was ignited! The reason why would become clear as the rising pitched sound reached it's end and a sea of purple fireworks showered the stage as both the song and the titantron mirrored each other in presenting the words "I AM THE ONE AND ONLY!" and standing in the glow of the fireworks, with his fist raised, and wearing silver trunks and knee-high purple boots and gloves, was Oscar O'Sullivan.

And it was true. As he made his way to the ring, preening and posing for the booing fans up the ramp, and offering hands to children only to rip them away to the child's anguish, he really was the one and only. Face or heel, Oscar was a through-and-through superstar. He was the exact opposite of Chris Dent in every way. For eleven years, Oscar had been a joy to watch. From his midcard feuds with wrestlers long since retired, to his World Title win, to his feud with Drayden which will forever go down in the annals of AWE history. He'd spend a lit of time recently in the lower midcard, with a brief push straight after his injury, but his skill at not just wrestling, but character work was a double edged sword. He was a useful tool to elevate other stars. He could make anyone feel important, and thus that's what his task had become. But no matter what position on the card he was in, the crowd loved him.

When Oscar reached the ring, and he and Chris faced off; the two most different styles of character one could hope to see in the same ring,
the bell wrong, and they immediately started to grapple, and to the surprise and shock of the audience, Chris pushed Oscar to the floor.
It was at that moment that Chris suddenly started getting cheered properly for the first time in the night. They grappled again, and this time circled each other, but the moment Chris shielded Oscar from the ref's line of sight, Oscar delivered a swift knee below the belt and then caught Chris in a headlock, which was held for long enough, Oscar gauged, for the loud boos Oscar was getting for such a despicable act to die down. Oscar then called "Now" to Chris, too quiet and subtle for the cameras to pick up, and Chris slipped out of the headlock and twisted Oscar's arm painfully around, which, once the cheers had started to die down, was reversed into Oscar's own armlock, and then Oscar kicked the man's legs from under him and started to choke him before the ref pulled him away. The crowd were being taken on a rollercoaster, but Oscar didn't want to wear them out, just keep them hot for the rest of the night, and he eased off and started to pace Chris like a hungry lion while the younger indie guy recovered. Oscar then ran at Chris, but he leapfrogged over the heel and started to turn round, but was caught by a Pele kick to the face, followed by a Second Rope Moonsault, but Oscar didn't cover. Instead he gestured to Chris' prone body as if you say 'Do you guys believe I'm fighting this pathetic nobody'.

While Chris was still writhing, Oscar climbed to the top rope, and raised his fist, which used to be a sign that he was about to his the Six-Axis, a fan favourite move, but fans knew better. Heel Oscar would gesture for the move and hit a knee drop instead, and fans knew not to get their hopes up anymore. Sure enough, he leapt knee first, but Chris put his own knees up and Oscar landed painfully onto them.
As Chris stood up, now Oscar was writhing. This time, Chris went to the top rope and delivered a Swanton Bomb to Oscar. The crowd roared excitement, and the commentary team lost their shit screaming assorted phrases like 'No! No!' and 'It's gonna happen!' and 'What an upset! If Oscar is beaten in round one by local talent!'

Chris made the cover. 1....2...kick out. Oscar kicked out incredibly close. The crowd went wild. This was amazing T.V.! Oscar and Chris both slowly got to their feet and stared at each other, and as they did Oscar realised that it was time to wrap up this quick match lest the audience get burned out, and Gethin's match was next. Oscar wanted them hot for that one! He charged Chris who made a move to grab Oscar but he dropped to his knees and slid under Chris' reach, getting back to his feet without breaking stride, rebounding off the ropes and delivering a flying knee to Chris' face, flooring the local talent. He then dragged the younger wrestler up painfully by his hair,
Chris' cries being picked up loud and clear by the mics so that they didn't get drowned out by the cascade of boos. He then set Chris up for a Crucifix Cutter, hit the move, made the cover, 1, 2, 3. Oscar had beaten the local talent and moved on to round 2 of the tournament. The smarks were cheering as hard as they could, and the casual or local fans were booing. The crowd hadn't had a second of silence throughout the short match. As Oscar made his way to the back, followed shortly after by Chris, that was when the crowd finally started to die down. Oscar had made Chris look good, which in turn made Oscar look good as he'd just beaten a good wrestler as opposed to just some jobber. Chris' career will also get better after this. Literally nobody lost. Oscar O'Sullivan really was the One and Only.
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JP CARLING





JP had been on the go since maybe…4am? Though this wasn’t unusual for the latest addition to the booking team. In the short three months, he had been with the AWE, John Paul had already earned a bit of a reputation amongst his peers. Considered as the mad scientist of the booking lads (as they are collectively known), JP has become known for constantly scribbling down ideas for angles and characters on anything he can get his hands on, a napkin, a towel…the walls of certain venues…it didn’t really matter. If JP could write on it, he would write on it. Getting to the arena early was no new thing for the young writer; he barely slept as it was so running around throughout the day to make sure the show would work was no surprise. He did have a habit of changing things on the fly which irked some but was thought refreshing by others.

John Paul had never been to the Staples Centre before, it was pretty sweet if he said so himself. The previous night, himself, Kevin and Gary had locked themselves in a hotel room with pizza, caffeine and booze and tried throw ideas at the wall for the next few upcoming shows and storylines. Drayden’s injury and subsequent absence had caused a fair but of change to their plans but this was no long term issue. The lads were fresh eyes on an old product, each young, hungry and talented. They hoped that their passion and enthusiasm would breathe new life into the AWE product. It had to, their jobs depended on it.

Arriving in the locker gorilla position, to no ones surprise JP was in his own world. He had his head phones on and he was grooving along to his own personal soundtrack. Today it was Nirvana, tomorrow who knows? He didn’t plan that far ahead. ”What’s up everyone? Here is the match card for tonight. Read it, memorize it, love it. Any questions we’ll be around as always. Let’s burn this place down”

Match 1: Tourney Match – Owen Sparks (W) vs Kidd Neon
Segment 1: Morgana Promo (Sydney Staredown)
Match 2: Tourney Match - Oscar O’Sullivan (W) vs Local Competitor
Segment 2: Joy Ryder interview with Gethin Rhys
Match 3: Tourney Match - The Creation (W) vs Local Competitor
Match 4: Tourney Match - Gethin Rhys (W) vs Local Competitor
Segment 3: Hype Package for the Re-Debut of Hector
Main Event: Tourney Match - Sexton PS Love vs Thunderbird (W)


To some it was surprise when JP first arrived that he was a writer and not a wrestler. The kid was tall, in great shape, handsome. Roddy could probably do some good things with him. Unfortunately his medical issues prevented him from ever stepping in the ring, though that never really deterred the young man. He was a fan first and foremost and getting the chance to write for some of the best characters on TV was a dream come true. Especially Morgana, she was a dream…he would marry her one day. With the card pinned up on the wall, JP headed off to go create more madness for AWE.

”Welcome to the world of Gods and Monsters”
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Oscar, fresh from his match, gave Chris Dent a parting handshake. The young talent was leaving straight after the match to get some sleep, because there was an indie show tomorrow and he wanted to be well-rested. That, thought Oscar, was the hard-working and dedicated attitude that will see him go far in this industry. Oscar wouldn't be surprised if he got signed to AWE in a few years.

After getting changed in an empty changing room as nobody was on for a while and Gethin was currently being interviewed, Oscar left the locker room and started making his way through the corridors, like a sheriff patrolling his town. And it was true. With Will on the shelf, he was the de-facto leader of the locker room.

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Gary Palmer was sitting in a makeshift office with the door open, and his head in his hands, the caffeine buzz wearing off. If anybody wanted to chat, or talk booking, or writing, he was free. Right now, he was doing his head in trying to write a Thunderbird promo flexible enough to stand up to Sexton's tendency to go off the script. If Thunderbird had Sexton's talent for improvisation, the writing lads could leave them too it, but that wasn't an option. Trying to get Sexton to agree to perform a scripted promo wasn't an option either.

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Andrew Gosforth, the large, friendly Scot, was in the building for the first time in months. He'd spent the last fortnight training, and then he'd been on the road a day or two shooting with a crew of AWE personnel, which was currently being edited into a segment, which would be shown later tonight. He high-fived and hugged a few staff as he entered the building, but hadn't yet seen any of the actual performers. Still, it was good to be back in the machine.
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GETHIN RHYS VS CHAD 2 BADD





The Staples Centre descended into darkness as the lights went black. This could be a prelude to the entrance of many of the AWE’s finest in ring performers. Yet when the unmistakable retro synth beat began to bleed into the arena through the speakers, it meant only one thing; Gethin Rhys was coming. Purple flames began to rise across the titantron before the Welsh Dragon’s name appeared in cursive. The dull blue spotlight effortlessly blended with the 80’s neon to reveal the chiselled human torture device standing atop the stage. There was no flash Rhys; his ring gear was simple enough; black trunks, kickpads, boots and gumshield. The only design being the Welsh flag on the front of his trunks. As the tempo increased, the pinks turned into blood reds and the lingering cheers transformed into a thundering storm of boos and jeers. None of this would matter as Gethin began his deliberately slow and sinister walk to the thing he called home; the squared circle. His eyes were filled with pain and their gaze had not left the cowering young man who stood in the far corner of the ring.

Gethin Rhys was the most dangerous man in AWE; everyone knew it. Other wrestlers were more technically sound true; others were more charismatic but none could turn up the intensity like Gethin, none could make you more scared for a performer than him. He was often named the most violent wrestler on the planet and for good reason. He had been seduced by the glow of violence from an early age. It had enthralled him, it had warped him into what he was today. Some called him a monster. Gethin Rhys was not a monster, he was an artist; a brutal artist and the ring was his canvass. Tonight would be the start of his masterpiece.

He entered the ring as the lights came back up to normal; his eyes had not once left his opponent. Chad 2 Badd was his name or something like that. It didn’t really matter because Gethin was going to eat him alive. As usual, the ref had already placed his hands on Gethin’s chest to stop him from tearing the poor little sods heart out before the bell even rung. A sick smile crossed the Welshman’s face as the referee called for the bell to start the contest.

Chad of course went for the collar and elbow tie up. That wasn’t going to work for the man from Cardiff. In an instant, Gethin had already planted Mr 2 Badd into the ground with an arched yakuza kick straight from the corner to the young lads face. Within a millisecond, he was on top of his opponent, raining down hard open handed strikes to his head and neck. Of course not a single one of these actually connected, Gethin was a professional after all and protecting your partner was part of the craft. He threw a final strike before whispering into Chad’s ear ”Corner spot” Getting to his feet, Gethin shoved his fingers into Chad’s open mouth and grabbed his upper jaw, with a hard yank he began to drag the terrified youngster to the corner before pulling him to his feet. Pulling his hand free, the brutal artist slapped Chad 2 Badd again before leaping and driving a stiff knee into his opponents chin.

“YOU SICK FUCK! YOU SICK FUCK! YOU SICK FUCK!”

The crowds disdain was like ecstasy for Gethin as a wry smile crept upon his lips. As he approached Chad again, the plucky youngster pressed both his hands forward into Gethin’s gut with a double palm strike. Seeing an opportunity, Chad went after his winded foe with a few more hard strikes. The Welsh Dragon burst into a fit of laughter as he motioned for Chad to continue hitting him. With every blow, Rhys began to laugh more and more before finally he switched gears. One, two slap to the face, right leg kick and a spinning left heel kick to the gut and Chad was hunched over. Gethin hooked the legs from beneath his opponent, sending him to a seated position and setting him up for vintage Rhys. The Dragon ran the ropes and sure enough he struck with a devastatingly stiff penalty kick to the chest of 2 Badd. Gethin’s strikes were best in the game, no one could deny that fact. The crowds massive cheers with every successful strike was testament to the fact.

Raising a single finger to his lips, Gethin began to shush the crowd and they did what they were told. They knew what was coming. Grabbing Chad 2 Badd’s left hand, the ruthless ring general pulled him to his feet before tearing the fingers apart with his signature finger snap move. The crack of the bone echoed throughout the arena followed by sudden thump of foreheads as Gethin cracked Chad with a headbutt.

YOU SICK FUCK! YOU SICK FUCK! YOU SICK FUCK!

The crowd began again and they were right. All of this was just overkill. Gethin could have finished this with one move but that’s not how the surgeon of this theatre operated. Blood began to seep lightly from beneath Rhys hairline and he grinned again. Chad 2 Badd was out but it wasn’t over. There was one last thing to do. As the blood trickled down his head, Gethin closed let out a sigh of release. He took a knee and wrapped his arm around his opponents neck in a dragon sleeper before modifying it by interlocking his far hand behind his back with the other. This version of the dragon sleeper was known as the Owari Death Clutch and Gethin had said he was going to bring it to the AWE. Chad 2 Badd did not even tap out from the End Waltz, his body was limp and as the bell rang Gethin took a second before releasing him.

”Thanks brother” Gethin whispered before getting to his feet and listening to the announcers confirm his advancement in the AWE tournament and the crowd jeer him with a small patter embracing his brutality.

”PRO VIOLENCE! PRO VIOLENCE! PRO VIOLENCE!”

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The world of Gods and Monsters. Yes. That was the world she thrived in. The world where she aimed to make two men pleased, proud, and persuaded. A God and a Monster. Having lost her stage fright awhile ago, Mileena ran her black painted claws through her pink river of hair, fanning them over her shoulders. Her tresses always out in display for the audience to gawk at. Smooth, rich, and gorgeous. Those were only a few words that would describe the dignity her hair added to her bearing. Standing tall backstage, waiting for her cue, she looked at the make up artist in contemplative silence as he gave his final check and gently glided a deep red rose-colored cream lipstick on her ample lips. One of her personal favorites: Dolce & Gabbana “Devil”.

If there was anyone who deserved the title it was her. Morgana worked her ass off to be where she was today. There were no accidents. She put blood, sweat, tears, perseverance, constant practicing and sacrificing, for this. For her passion. She loved wrestling. It was her life. More so than any of these other bitches who were little girls that wanted to play dress up and put a crown on, but were completely hot air. Barbie. People would argue that Morgana has lost her magic touch and seems to be too focused on her hatred on the reigning queen (all for a good story) but no one can forget how hard she’s worked at her craft and her impressive run before the superficial Plastic came into the picture.

And, sweeties, she’s still an active competitor. Just because she lost the title doesn’t mean they've lost her. They still haven’t seen the last of her. That’s for sure.

Her attention was brought to one of the few ladies of the AWE that she considered worth her time, being more selective with the individuals she chose to associate herself with outside of business. Trinity Ryder. One of the daughters of her father’s best friend’s. Mileena would say she was closer to the youngest Ryder than the rest, even if there was a gap in their ages. Perhaps it was due to their chemistry or perhaps it was because she saw herself in the aspiring underdog. Who knows? The sweetheart that was Trinity was hard to look away from and the enchantress was captivated by the radiating light that emitted from her friend. “Good luck out there, Mils! Break a leg, or well… you know. Don’t actually break a leg, unless it’s someone else’s... I guess. Make the crowd go: Man, this star is the bee’s knees. WOW them. There. I fixed it. Idioms are weird.”

“Cute as ever.” Mileena playfully rolled her eyes, while darting her gaze at the make up artist that pulled away from her and gave her a simple nod that notified her he was done. He tried his best to cover the bruises that Sydney rewarded her face from the last match.

Finally.

“Thank you, cutie. I look forward to the day I see you on the big screen with the mic. Until then, watch and learn.” She stood up from her seat and started walking to her next destination, the ring. Stopping in her tracks, she looked back at the hopeful and bubbly talent, “Oh and don't hesitate to tell me what I could do better in. I'm always up for a good critique." After blowing a kiss at the girl she considered a sister, who in return caught it adorably, Morgana disappeared from the backstage.

The crowd was absolutely livid, lively, and loud. Why? Because her theme song started off with her father’s intro with the steady heartbeat before the screech of her theme song came into play, causing the audience to have a near heart attack for a second, believing The Faceless was making an appearance. She did, however, wore his mask and everything that was planned had intention. She wanted them to remember. The AWE’s history is what brings them back to their seats, here at the STAPLES Center, and any stadium for that matter. Part of the AWE’s history was the beast that was her father. When Morgana was at the center of the ring, she let the crowd’s rage fill her with vigor as she stood there still, crossed arms, like her dad would do. When she was ready, and only when she was ready, she took the mask off slowly, gradually, with care, revealing her pale face. She looked down at it in total silence, listening to the crowd settling down, waiting for her to talk.

It was her time to shine.

Grabbing the mic away from the referee, Morgana brought it close to her lips and maliciously snickered, “Fooled ya.” And strutted around the platform, her ravishing hips moving with every prominent step she took. Her amorous face was what they’ve all been waiting for and so she would let them take her in.

Eat it up, babies.

As she seductively serenaded the masses with her nectar sweet words, she kept a tight grip on her father’s mask, “How many of you paid attention to our last show? If I remember correctly, I was told by a special someone, I don’t think I need to drop names for you all to know who, that I will never be anything but a mere shadow of my father. ‘What’s it like, little goth’, having to constantly live in the shadows of people that are sooooooo muchhhh better than you?’” There was undeniable mockery in Morgana’s tone when she quoted Barbie, emphasizing the valley girl that made her cringe on the inside and out.

Completely amused, her smile gleaming brightly, she widely grinned, “Give respect where respect is due. I am here, thanks to my father. If it weren’t for him, how would I have known that I am a true serpent in the still waters of the AWE? I am the fear in their souls. I am hell on Earth. The desire in me is far greater than any ‘doll’ that thinks they’re worthy for more than just a hand clap.” She softly patted her mic hand with her father’s mask to display her giving a slow and steady clap to the other divas. “I’m hungry. I want to throw anyone who gets in my way to the hounds. How would I have known how starving I was until I was fed? My fathers gave me a foundation. And I built my own legacy from it. Oh yes! I say fathers.” She paused and waved the mask in front of her face, with conviction and utmost seriousness with the words that flowed out her lush lips, that felt like venom coursing through their veins.

“Wouldn’t you say Roddy Quinn is daddy too? Not just for me, but for my father, and every star he gives the benefit of the doubt. Every star he FEEDS so that they can get a hunger that is hard to satisfy. That desire that can only be given after you take the bite of the apple from his garden of Eden. Oh!” Morgana dramatically gasped in surprise, her eyes widening, “Wait…”

Pause.

“When you think of Barbie what’s the first thing you think of? That she’s pretty in pink? Or that she too is what she calls a shadow of other people. Mm, especially the shadow of her Dray-dee-poo.”

By now the enchantress was by the rope, leaning on it and scanning the audience with her crystal blue eyes, “If she were alone, would she have built the kingdom that she wanted? Happily ever afters don’t last forever, especially to those that don’t respect the ones that help her lift her heavy crown. I don’t see a warrior. I don’t see a soul shining with royalty. I don’t see the hunger in her eyes. I see nothing.”

Morgana would be interrupted by another voice suddenly being heard in the arena, and it simply said, “You want to talk about people being nothing?” The crowd was left confused but the voice. It was not one they recognised immediately, but that was because it was not one used to talking. After a few seconds pause, it added the word; “Partner?” Now people were starting to catch on. At that moment, Sydney, in baggy green cargo pants, a black zip-up hoodie and her military camo cap with mic in hand, started to make her way down the ramp, met with a loud but mixed reaction. She was cheered for interrupting Morgana, but booed because the crowd remembered her treatment of Tsunami and Rosado last week. She brought the mic back to her face when she was halfway down the ramp.

“Last week, I lost a two-on-one handicap match. You might remember it. You were there, watching, posing and running your mouth while REAL wrestlers actually stayed at the ring, and wrestled. Oh no, wait. It was a tag match! And you were my partner! I remember now!"

By this time, she’d got to the ring, and slid under the ropes, getting to her feet. Now they were sharing the ring. "There are more women in this division than Barbie. I don’t care that you were the Champion a hundred days ago. I care that last week, you were supposed to have my back, and you didn’t, and I’m not the kind of woman you want to do that to. I might take it personally.”

There was always someone who wanted to take her limelight. Yawning widely, Morgana turned her body to face Sydney, who finally was using her voice for once. Wasn’t that absolutely delightful? “Then take it personally. At least then you’d be someone worth remembering.” Her lip pulled up in that wicked, devilish smirk she was known for.

Sydney lowered the mic, and started to walk slowly and purposefully towards Morgana, the expression on her face making it look like she was actually trying to kill her. ‘Stick to your strengths’, Dawn had been told earlier. She wasn’t the best promo-giver in the world, but being a soldier gave you a few skills when it came to being intimidating. After a few very tense seconds, Sydney smiled, though it was not a happy smile. She brought the mic back up to her face, and merely replied with "Oh yeah, speaking of remembering, that reminds me. How’s your face?” The ‘Oooooh!’ s started from the crowd. Even with Sydney’s dominant streak, it had been a good guideline for the women’s division to not piss Morgana off.

Morgana, or Mileena internally, gave Sydney a glint of respect from that comment, though externally, she glared at the wrestler that was testing her patience. “It’s seen better days. Actually, I was kind of disappointed. You could’ve done so much better.” Not only a sadist, but also a masochist. “It amazes me that you believed we could ever be partners. You want to be on my level?” With apathy, Morgana closed the space in between them. They were scarily close to one another. Chests only centimeters apart. “Climb, soldier.”

Those words took Dawn back to her own training. She tried to picture the Drill Sergeant in her head. Their mannerisms, their face, their venom. She’d need as much as she could get to make this like work.

With the deadliest and most venomous of stares Sydney had ever given, she sneered and then spoke, in a low, quiet, chilling voice; "Are you challenging me, Morgana? Because if you want a match, I’d be very happy to oblige you.” They stared at each other with hate for a little while longer, before Sydney dropped the bombshell.

"You’re not scary, Morgana. I know you get told that a lot, but people still tell you because you haven’t done anything about it. You’re just a pale ghost of your daddy. Would you like me to teach you what fear really is?”

Again with the ‘daddy’ comments. How unoriginal. Obviously, Sydney doesn’t stay tuned to phenomenal promos. That’s right, because she interrupted it. Rude. “Bite. Me.” Morgana hissed. To answer her question. Yes. This was not a challenge, it was an invitation.

Sydney got closer, and tensed her arms. It looked like she was about to hit Morgana, but before anybody could get too excited, she dropped the mic, and left the ring, making her way powerfully up the ramp, not looking back, and the boos started to rain in for her.

The crowd wanted blood.

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A slightly nervous Ian, now ready to go as Owen Sparks, stood behind the curtain. He gave his arms one final stretch before the shredding of the electric guitar in his theme song began. After Sexton’s insightful words from the week prior, Owen stepped out from behind the curtain, microphone in hand, and began to walk down the ramp of Shock ‘n’ Awe.
“Los Angeles, how’s it going?!” The crowd gave cheers here and there, though none were as big as a proper, well-known wrestler like Caiden or Drayden. Listening to Sexton’s advice, Owen continued.
“You know, I’ve always loved this place. California seems like the place to be, and I’m going to prove that I deserve to be here.” Owen walked up the steel stairs beside the ring and onto the apron. “Tonight, I face Kidd Neon.” He then went in between the middle and top ropes, and stepped into the center of the ring. “And Kidd Neon doesn’t deserve to be here. I am here to show you that I deserve to be in this championship tournament. I am going to prove-”

“And it looks like Kidd Neon doesn’t want to hear any of what Owen has to say. And, really, who can blame him? Two young upstarts are getting a chance to showcase their abilities here.”

The auto-tuned voice of Kidd Neon’s theme song played over the arena’s loud speakers, interrupting Owen. Kidd Neon stepped out onto the ramp, throwing his hands up in the air as he looked out at the crowd. He made his way to the ring, looking like a psychedelic mess with his glowsticks and reflective strips on his pants, and also hiding the fact that he hated his theme music. Owen turned to face his opponent, shielding his eyes from the bright lights the boy produced.

At the ring Kidd Neon approached Owen with a look of contempt on his face, and started speaking into the microphone. Owen held it out for Neon to speak, all the while wearing a nonplussed expression. “I don’t belong here? I’ve traveled into higher states of consciousness and communed with the rave spirit that infuses our lifecore, yet you arrive on the scene and will take my place? You’re just like someone starting a rock band in 2017, an upstart with a stupid dream and no future.” Some boos came out after he took a cheap dig at the crowd’s musical tastes.

“Questionable music tastes aside, it’s time for Neon to prove his point. Does he belong here? The AWE fans don’t think so, and he’s only got this one shot to prove them wrong. Not even the passionate fans of our company from around the world could question if he belongs here if he won the AWE World Championship.”

“Dude, who cares about all that! What is he even ON? The rave spirit? Lifecore? As long as I don’t hear that bass drop again, we’re good.”

Owen couldn’t help but laugh at the verbal attack. “I’m sorry, I should rephrase that; you don’t belong anywhere near a wrestling ring, Neon. Your flashing lights give me migraines and your taste in music isn’t any better.” The crowd politely cheered at Owen’s insults, yet he wasn’t done. “And you think I’ve got a stupid dream, and that I’m going nowhere? Think again. I’m going places, places much higher than you ever have or will.” And with that, Owen dropped his mic, then battered Kidd Neon with a quick forearm. The crowd lit up at the sight of this, and cheers came from all over. Owen beckoned the referee into the ring, who rid the ring of the microphone, and rang the bell.

“And just like that, this match is underway! Let’s see what these two have for us tonight!”

“Y’know, if Kidd actually drops Owen like he drops the bass, I might expect more from him. Better bring the fire.”

Owen wasted no time following up the strike with a rather fake looking right hand, then pressed Neon against the ropes and jerked Neon’s arm towards him, irish whipping Neon to the ropes on the other side of the ring. Without slowing down, Owen ran after Neon, and as Neon turned to bounce off of the ropes, Owen’s right elbow had a rough collision with Neon’s jaw. Owen spun anti-clockwise out of the strike, then backed up to the ropes behind him, where he once more began running, using the ropes to propel himself at a right angle towards Kidd Neon.

As Owen ran, Kidd Neon wrapped his arm around his upper torso and bent his knees, but then paused for a moment, realising the two had screwed up the timing, before pushing him back to the ropes and sending him bouncing off again.

“Look at the defense mindset of Kidd Neon, shoving Sparks away just in time. It doesn’t get better than this.”

On the second approach, Neon got his arm in position and this time jumped into the air, taking Owen by his side with him as he completed the moonsault. Both wrestlers flew into the air and landed on the mat with a crash. Neon got up to his feet right after landing, and started mocking Owen as he laid on the mat, getting into his face and shouting at him.

“Hell to the yeah, ladies and gents. That’s why that mindset pays off. An effortless Energy Flash from the Kidd.”

Without missing a beat, Owen coiled up his legs and as Neon approached he stuck them out, kicking Neon in the stomach. The strike was admittedly a bit stiff, but as they had done many times before, both got into position for their next spot. Kidd Neon backed up into a corner, and Owen ran from the centre of the ring towards him. As Owen got close, he jumped, feet landing on Neon’s waist, and hands clutched his neck. Owen leant back, and as he dropped to the ground and Neon was above him, he kicked his feet up, attempting to monkey flip his opponent. The crowd got riled up for the potential for Owen to gain a quick victory, but those cheers were quickly silenced as Neon, easily flipped out of the hold and to his feet.

Kidd Neon dropped down and rolled out of the ring, then standing and turning to the Los Angeles crowd, full of fans from his hometown and held his arms wide open, expecting to hear cheers from seeing one of their own in the big leagues. And the crowd did cheer, but not for the reason the boy expected. Owen, still inside the ring, bounced off of the ropes opposite to Neon and sprinted towards him. Owen dived in between the middle and bottom ropes, launching himself at Neon. The two both fell to the ground, but Owen quickly stood up to the cheers of many. He stuck a finger up in the air and spun it around, indicating “one more time”.

“Look at the dive from Owen! Crazy athleticism from such a young talent. These two are both kids we’re sure to see around for a long time to come.”

“AWE will make them great. Are we staring at our next champion? WE’LL SEE. They got a lot of competition out there, but at least they got spunk. I’ll give them that.”

Owen climbed back into the ring and jumped up to the turnbuckle closest to Neon. He positioned his feet in a way that would allow him to get a nice jump, but almost slipped doing so, having to bend down and hold onto the corner to stay in his precarious position. Neon slowly stood up and turned to face Owen, acting slightly dazed. As soon as he did, Owen leaped off of the turnbuckle, reaching a tremendous height before crashing down with a flying cross body.

“The height! The young lions are putting it all on the line for the entertainment of this crowd, and it’s awesome. We just might be looking at the next champion, don’t you think?”

“They ain’t got manes yet. I’ll wait and see what else they have in store for us.”

The landing was rough, and both wrestlers were definitely going to be bruised for the next week. As the two laid doing in a heap, Owen whispered to Kidd Neon. “Let’s go into the kicks next. Make sure to sell the dives, though.” Neither of the competitors were amazing at selling, but they were both smart enough to know that no-selling big outside dives like that was plain stupid.

Owen picked his opponent up, and rolled him into the ring, going for a quick cover. The referee got down and began counting. One, two, and a quick shoulder up. As Owen was standing up, Neon rolled forward and threw out his legs, connecting against Owen’s head with the sole of his foot. Owen retaliated with a roundhouse kick, which Neon ducked under, but followed up with another kick with his other foot, all in one fluid motion. Neon shook his head and put one hand on his jaw after that impact, then frowned and ducked low for a sweeping kick that fell short, but he kept moving. Now he bounced up off the mat and turned onto his side, standing on one hand and hammering Owen straight in the temple with the tip of his foot. Owen tumbled to the side, but bounced off of the ropes behind him and jumped up, nailing Neon in the chin with a simple dropkick. As Neon was still reeling from the kick, Owen placed his hands beside his head and kicked up from his back, flipping onto his feet, then quickly placed one foot on Neon’s hip, and swung the other towards Neon on the other side of his body, connecting with a solid enziguri.

“Kick after kick after kick. I didn’t even know there were so many different ways to kick… learn something new every damn day.”

“Like a BRUCE LEE MOVIE, WADE! Shi---”

“Chill man, chill.”

Kidd Neon tumbled down landing flat on his side, shaking and writhing to sell the impact as he laid on the ground next to the turnbuckle. Owen saw an opportunity and started to pick up speed, holding his arm out like he was ready for an elbow drop. Neon jumped to his feet before Owen reached him, then lept onto the second rope and flung himself into the air. He dove over the head of Owen Sparks and wrapped one arm around his neck, then in one swinging motion brought him down to mat headfirst.

After a quick taunt consisting of doing the famous Melbourne Shuffle beside Owen as he lay collapsed on the ground, Kidd Neon helped him up only to send him into the ropes with an irish whip. Neon started running the ropes himself, sliding under Owen’s legs as the first passed each other, then leaping into the air and wrapping his legs around his head as the crossed paths again on the return trip. Both wrestlers spun around as the grip of Neon’s legs held tight around Owen’s neck, then Neon reached his arms over and wrapped up one Owen’s arms as he released his main grip. Again Owen’s face smacked the canvas as they hit the ground, and Kidd Neon wrenched the arm back as he returned to his feet.

Still gripping the arm, Neon stepped over it with one leg and wrapped it around the other leg as he spun around. He dived over Owen, grabbed hold of his shoulder in the middle of the roll, before landing and pinning him to the mat. With a leg entangling one of Owen’s arms and his arms cradling the other side, Neon had solid leverage for the pinfall. The referee knelt down to count the pin, shouting one, two then a sloppy kick out from Owen. The referee had to pull his arm away at the last minute as he almost counted the three.

Both wrestlers backed away to opposite corners, taking a moment to rest, prepare for the finish to the match, and allow the crowd to start up a chant.

“Look at that offense, just unbelievable the way he can maneuver like that. So impressive, are these young wrestlers, full of heart and energy and ready to prove to the world that they’re the best around.”


“Let’s go Owen!
Owen sucks!

Let’s go Owen!
Owen sucks!”


“Let’s go Owen…. Owen sucks.”

Owen smiled at the sound of the chants, and laughed when Neon acted offended.
“Wait, he probably is offended. Oops.” Owen then gave a tiny, inconspicuous nod to Neon, and Neon nodded back, signifying the two were both ready. With that, Owen ran towards Neon, jumping and attempting to clothesline him into the corner. However, Neon ducked and rolled out of the way, making Owen faceplant into the top turnbuckle. Owen turned around so he was facing away from the corner, and Neon repeated Owen’s action, landing with the clothesline. Neon then grabbed Owen by the shoulders, who lifted a knee into Neon’s stomach. Owen then grabbed Neon and spun him around so he was in the corner. Next, he aided Neon in climbing up so he was sitting on the top turnbuckle. Owen took a few steps back before charging forward and stepping up with his left foot on the middle turnbuckle, then jumping up and kicking Neon in the temple with one more enziguri. Owen landed flat on his back but quickly stood back up, catching Neon sideways as he wobbled around and fell of the turnbuckle.

From this, Owen walked to the centre of the ring, directly facing the hard camera. Some of the members of the crowd stood up and cheered, knowing this was the beginning of the end. Owen spun Kidd Neon clockwise, letting go of him with his left hand and dropping to one knee, allowing Neon’s back to fall onto that knee for a picture perfect Swinging Backbreaker. If there was one thing these two were good at, it was selling each other’s finishers. As Neon writhed in pain on the mat, Owen stood in front of and looking away from him, then quickly jumped backwards into a Standing Corkscrew Moonsault, then remained on top of Neon to the referee’s count of three.

“Sparks got HOPS!”

Right as the referee slapped the mat for the last part of the count, Neon burst up with one shoulder, just too late to avoid losing. He didn’t clear it with Owen first, but the result was the same, Owen had won.

“And just like that, Owen has advanced in the tournament! Can he make it all the way? Stay tuned to find out.”

Owen slowly rose up to his feet, then allowed the referee to raise his factor at the victor. Before his theme started up once more, Owen grabbed a microphone from one of the guys standing on the outside of the ring. “And that, ladies and gentlemen, is proof. I don’t care who’s next, because I am on my way to the top!” Neon made a show of making an angry face and staring down Owen, but ultimately said nothing before walking off.



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Following the brutal Gethin squash, the crowd were clamoring for another match; for more violence, but suddenly the lights went out, as did the titantron. The entire arena was in complete, sudden, unexplained darkness. As far as the crown knew, it could be a powercut. After a few very tense seconds, the titantron showed a flickering lightbulb, followed by a longer spell of silence and darkness, but now the crowd were reassured that this was deliberate.

Then, the familiar music of a music box started playing, and suddenly the whole arena started to cheer. They knew what this meant. They knew what was back. Another image started to show on the titantron, and they quickly quietened down and started to pay attention.

The video on screen was CCTV footage of a bandaged man in a hospital. It cut away to a shaky cam showing the 'Burns Ward' sign. It went dark again, but still, the unsettling music played. The titantron flared back to life, this time showing still pictures of nurses unravelling the man's bandages. In each of the pictures, the nurses faces were harshly scored out with a pencil. The last picture passes by very quickly but still slow enough to everyone to have registered it. It was the bandaged man grabbing a nurse's throat. In this one her face hadn't been scored out, and was a contorted, sickening scream of shock and pain.

The series of pictures then moved onto another CCTV video. This time it was a fisheye camera recording a padded cell. A figure in a straightjacket was sitting down, facing away from the camera. This footage must have played with no changed for a solid thirty seconds, before a roll of static went down the screen, and suddenly the figure was right in front of the camera, staring up at it. Many of the audience jumped. There were a few more cheers now, as the face that could now be seen was definitely Hector. The cheers were definitely lost in the overpowering silence of the majority of the crowd.

Suddenly, a grainy, black and white cartoon started to play. It was just cutesy 1930's style animals walking around a village and talking, but with the music, and in context of what they saw before, it was really creepy. Slowly, it would dawn on the crowd that the buildings in the background were melting. Then the sun and clouds started melting. Then, as the characters themselves started to melt, still with smiles on their faces, the music started playing backwards.

The cartoon burned away in a fire, the vivid color and realism of the flames bringing the crowd back from the cartoon. Now, on the Titantron, in his old gear and mask, was Hector, though his green and white ring gear was charred as if burned, and his mask, before a creepy, blank smiling mascot head, was now slightly melted into something even creepier than before. He appeared to be standing besides a chain-link fence, and it was night-time. He leaned into the camera, and spoke, in a menacingly jovial tone; "I can't wait to play more games with you all!"

The Titantron went off. The lights came back on, and there were some cheers of excitement, but it wasn't deafening. Many of the crowd was still shocked to silence. Everybody, however, was of the same opinion; What they had just watched was amazing.
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After the tantalizing interview of Gethin Rhys by Joy Ryder, the crowd was ready for some action involving "The Welsh Dragon" but before that match was to happen the eerie music of The Creation started playing through the arena. The crowd booed because they wanted to see one of the best heels in the business, but instead they'd have to see another big guy squash some local competitor. As the big guy was making his usual approach, someone with an unmistakable mask on his face trotted out behind the beast making similar motions with the major difference of the masked man carrying a bat. As the crowd started cheering Initiate lightly tapped the creation on the shoulder. Once the broodish man turned around Mathys raised the bat and 'swung' right at the mans head sending him to the floor. Under the mask Mathys was smiling nearly as big as his mask was. He pretended to inspect the guy as if making sure he was out when in reality he was just making sure he didn't hit him to hard. Once satisfied with the crowds reaction, Mathys lifted Creations arm and placed the bat under there and patted the man on the head. He stood up and instantly looked towards the ring where the LC was and cocked his head as if confused. The crowd started chanting

"LET'S GET WEIRD! LET'S GET WEIRD!"


At the end of the second 'weird' Mathys bolted towards the ring and slide right in. He hopped to his feet then pointed from the ref, to Magic Hawkins, to himself, then finally to the timekeepers area. He did this two more times until someone came to the ring and must have told the ref that this was know the match. While the ref spoke to the message man and the timekeeper Initiate waltzed over to Magic and stood in front of the man before starting to poke the man on the chest. Magic quickly smacked Initiate's hands away and Mathys stayed frozen until he heard the ref telling the two to get in their corners. Mathys slowly went to his position but as soon as the bell rang he rushed right at Magic and delivered running dropkick. Mathys quickly did a kip-up from his position and noticed Creation being helped to taken out back. Initiate walked to the ropes and hopped on the bottom one staring at his victim while bouncing up and down on the rope.

Magic took this moment to run up and flip Initiate over the ropes causing him to land on the outside of the ring. Magic then set up in a way he could run towards the opposite ropes for a boost to do a suicide dive. Initiate slowly got up looking around wildly as if confused on how he ended up outside the ring. He stood up and began turning towards the ring just as Magic was about to launch through the ropes. Quickly Initiate leaned to the side of Magic's aim grabbing Magics shoulder and body swiftly spinning to smash him down in a Snap Scoop Powerslam. Most of the crowd exploded at the unexpected move. Initiate lifted up his opponent and rolled him into the ring. He slid in right after him and picked magic up setting him up for a Final Cut. Magic shoved Initiate off hitting him with a quick elbow and then bounced off the ropes running towards Initiate. Initiate quickly lifted Magic high in the air stumbling backwards then dropping him on to the ropes in a Stun Gun. Initiate rolled on top of his downed opponent for the one, two, three.

Initiate stood up and rapidly clapped. He walked towards the ref and gave him a massive bear hug. He then proceeded to lift Magic and pushed him out the ring. He followed him out and then helped him up the ramp when before leaving he quickly gave him a noogie. He then dropped the man right there and left as if nothing even happened. From there he made his way to the wherever he could find food and a TV. Mathys really wanted to watch Gethin's match.
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Dawn approached the door to Roddy’s office, but hesitated. The last time she tried to suggest her own ideas to management was a long time ago, and it took months to clear the backstage heat. Dawn was well-meaning, but when she thought she had a good idea, she became very stubborn. To this day, she believed that her being in a Royal Rumble would be a great idea. But this meeting wasn’t going to be about that. She knocked on the door.

The door wasn’t held closed for very long, Roderick never had much of an issue letting people into his office. In fact, he respected people who had the testicular fortitude to come and talk to him whenever they had a problem with the way things were going. Nowadays, most everything went through Kevin and his writing team, but Roddy still carried a lot of weight.

The door swung open and there he stood, smiling at Dawn. “Yes? Come in.” He said, moving out of the way and gesturing for her to walk into the office. “What’s on your mind?”

Dawn entered Roddy’s office a little sheepishly. It was telling of the true magnitude of Roddy’s aura of power that a woman who’s more muscular than not just most men, but a good deal of male indie wrestlers, served time in the army, and had taken a life, was still nervous in his presence. “Hello, Roddy. I just had an idea I wanted to run by you. If there are no matches planned for me at Requiem, in Wembley, I’d like to open the show. I wouldn’t mind if it was off-camera. Just...being in such a venue, in my home country...it’s important to me.”

The boss had to think a moment, drawing on his memory of whatever writers had planned — it was weird to him that they planned that far ahead. Crazy, even. When Roddy had been in charge of the writing team and creative direction, they just planned the big shows about a month in advance — maybe. “I don’t think we have anything planned for you… that’d be fine.” Roderick shrugged his shoulders. He didn’t personally see anything wrong with giving her some time on camera to talk up her home crowd. “We can give you ten minutes at the start of the show.” An eternity, in wrestling time.

Dawn’s head was spinning. Not only was that easier than she thought, but ten whole minutes! She really had to get her promo game a lot better by then! She’d have a chance to practice what she’d learned so far interfering in Morgana’s promo later. This was the first feud where she’d really been given a story besides ‘Sydney is strong. Opponent outsmarts or outwrestles her. Sydney probably wins anyway’ and she wasn’t going to let this opportunity to show that she could be a major player in the women’s division go to waste.

“Thank you, Roddy!” she replied, trying to hide her excitement and joy and stay professional.

The excitement may have been short lived, as Kevin Harrison, lead writer for AWE and really second only to Roddy himself in creative control, burst onto the scene. He paused for a moment when he saw Dawn standing there, letting out a breath. “Hey, Dawn, what’s up? Uh, boss man, you seen Caiden around anywhere? The one time we’re looking for him, he just disappears…” Kevin looked hopefully over at Roddy, but Roddy ignored the question and instead spoke thusly:

“In October, at Requiem, we’re giving Sydney here ten minutes to open the show —”

With balls of steel the writer cut Roderick off. “Now, whoa whoa whoa. That’s fine and all, but hey. What are you gonna do with ten minutes?” He asked, and his voice was undeniably demanding. Hey, they were messing with his baby, and he had to be sure that everything planned fit in.

Dawn rubbed the back of her head and turned to Kevin. She unconsciously made this gensure because she was nervous and feeling a little apologetic, but in her tank top, her flexing muscles were very visible. She look far more intimidating than she felt, which may have been a factor in people agreeing with her.

“Sorry, Kevin. We could sit down and come up with ideas of how to fill ten minutes. I’m new to long promos, so I’ll probably need your help. And...if it interferes with your timeslots, we could just put it before the actual show. Maybe keep it off the Pay-Per-View and release it online or something. I don’t know much about these things.”

“Alright, well… we’ll come up with something. It’s not a big deal. I just don’t like being blindsided like that…” Kevin ran a hand through his hair and shook his head, before smiling warmly at Dawn. “It’s all good, we’ll work something out, alright? I’ll try to fit you in a match on the card too, gotta have the hometown heroes there.”

”We’ve got a month and a half to sort everything out between everyone. Anyway, I have a confrontational segment to get ready for, and then Aftershock, and I need to go and take care of the butterflies in my stomach. Thank you both for this! I will pay you back tenfold!” And with that, she left the office.

On her way to the the dressing room to be made up, or rather made down, she passed a mirror, which she stopped at, and stared at menacingly. She could stare well, She’d had plenty of practice, as most of her ‘promo work’ in the company thus far had been staring. She cleared her throat, looking nervous again for a few seconds, before resuming her tough exterior, and thinking back to boot camp.

”What’s your name, soldier? Dawn Webster, huh? You don’t look very young. How old are you? Sixteen? So, you’re a dropout? Didn’t think you had a future without the army? Do you think you have a future in the army? Because you have to work for that! Can you work, Dawn? Because from what you’ve told me so far, I don’t think you can! How fit are you? Do you run? Cycle? Swim? No? Did you think this was going to be a walk in the park? DID YOU THINK THIS WAS GOING TO BE SUMMER CAMP? Get down give me twenty!”

She stopped, and shivered at the memories. She’d given herself goosebumps. Until she found her own voice and style, and developed her own skills, she should just channel her drill sergeant. That was actually a powerful speech worthy of a Women’s Champion. Pity it wasn’t about wrestling.

Dawn, face red from exertion, looked around. Several of the staff here staring at her. She blushed and quickly walked past them. ”Just...getting into the zone…” she muttered sheepishly.
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Oscar O’Sullivan’s match had come to a close. It was short but the audience let their inner animals come out, having gone completely wild from the hype, consumed by the pure elation, ecstasy, and entertainment that is the AWE. Joy Ryder stood beside one of the more… vicious animals in the building. Not necessarily a monster because there was strategy and tactics behind the brutality. A monster got lost in their blood rage and most, if not all, didn’t understand what they were doing that made others shake and quake with the very sight of them. There was purpose in this wrestler, always purpose, which honestly made this man far more intimidating than his colleagues because he knew what he was doing. From the root of his impulses to the expressions on his face, he knew what he was doing.

Gethin Rhys.

Although he was beyond charming, with a smile that could make anyone that was sexually attracted to him swoon, she knew better. Joy knew what he was capable of doing and how merciless he could and would be out on the ring. Some say a brutal artist, which he preferred, she related him more to a compulsive predator, constantly calculating his next move, while keeping that blinding smile on. “Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome my guest at this time.” Pausing for a brief moment, she gazed up at the handsome man with her cute dimpled smile, but there was a slight edge in her expression, as if she were personally uncomfortable because she, along with the audience, feared this man. Was it fear, though? Or did she simply not trust the heel that stood before her? “Gethin Rhys!”

And with his introduction done, she could get straight into the promo. “Gethin, so what are your thoughts with how the AWE World title tournament came to be?" She paused for a second and then added, “With Drayden’s injury and all.”

Gethin looked down at the small yet striking young woman and consciously decided to only lower his charming grin slightly instead of getting rid of it completely. “First, allow me to congratulate you Miss Ryder, you are looking as beautiful as always.” The human torture device brushed a gentle finger across Joy’s marble skin before speaking again. He had not asked her permission to do that but he knew Joy or at least he hoped he did. She loved getting lost in the moment and making his character seem even more horrible was something she would jump at the chance to exploit. For his benefit, of course. As a result, Joy visibly cringed but kept the act up. He touched her. Gritting her teeth behind her closed smile, she nodded to him as her ‘thank you’, but knew he had more to say.

“Secondly, well, I consider Drayden’s injury to be very unfortunate, I mean, after all I wanted to be the one to take him out myself. Not to worry though, when he comes back… I hope he enjoys the adulation from the sycophants, virgins and morons we call our fans. It won’t last. You see, Drayden will get his rematch for the championship and sadly for him, it’ll be against me. And when his blood has dyed that grey canvas red and the little kids tears in the crowd have stained the arena floor… that will be my masterpiece. That’ll be the end for him. This tournament doesn’t mean a thing. I debuted in a tourney remember? The Wally Norton Battle Classic. I won that, no problem. This thing will be the same. Bet on it.”

The handsome Welshman took the glasses from his face and placed them somewhere off camera. “Next question, darling.” Gethin cracked his famous fists and knuckles, his hands worn from the hard hitting style that had become his signature over his ten years pro. For a moment his mind wandered to his days as a young lion in Japan before the icy gaze of one Joy Ryder brought him back to the present.

Aha, darling. “As justified as your confidence is, be careful... Icarus too was confidant, until he flew too close to the sun. You don’t think there’s other competition out there for you? I’m sure Drayden may very well get his rematch, but who’s to say it’ll be against you? Well, besides you.” Joy felt like she was treading dangerous waters, showing her lack of faith in Gethin Rhys, doubting his abilities to take the title home. Biting her bottom lip, she brought the mic to his mouth and waited for his response.

Gethin’s eyes furrowed slightly. How dare she say something like that. He clenched his teeth and inhaled deeply, cracking his neck slowly and loudly for the microphone to pick it up clearly. He was holding back, that itch, that fever that tore apart his soul. The Edward Hyde inside his Henry Jekyll was clawing to the surface, clambering for air in the abyss. Gethin raised his left hand, the striker placed it softly on its side onto Joy’s shoulder, “You feel that? That’s control. Don’t dare speak out of turn again.”

Removing his hand and dropping it back into his other waiting palm, he continued on, “I never said there wasn’t any competition, my dear. Competition is what keeps me going. It’s what makes me, me. That said, there may be competition but none can beat me. Bring me Owen Sparks. Bring me Savaka. Thunderbird. Hell, bring me your brother in Japan. It doesn’t matter who I fight, they’ll lose and I’ll tell you why. I have the one thing every wrestler fears; the ultimate hold. My Owari Death Clutch cannot be broke, that is a fact Joy and I dare anybody to come and try. Test me and you will fail boys, you will fail.”

Maybe her brother will come at some point! Joy didn’t know. He didn’t keep her in the loop with his wrestling career. All she knew was what she found on the internet or the occasional skype calls of him talking about everything BUT wrestling, like the newest ramen flavor he tried, having a snapchat series called: Ramen Review. Blake Ryder was a man who liked to surprise, especially when it came to him coming home.

Gethin Rhys’ ego was bigger than his head and she prayed to god one day her brother would make this sick fighter kiss the very ring he considered his life. His home. Internally, Joy’s stomach curled with how Gethin thought he was warranted to continuously touch her, as if she was a mere object to make him look good. She knew this was all acting, but still, she was a woman who thrived off of the moments and by hell, this moment was irritating the shit out of her. “I think they’ve heard enough.” Joy’s stare turned cold, deciding Gethin didn’t need to say anymore. It was her job to help him, but overstep your boundaries and she’ll fucking walk away. Beatrice can bitch at her later. “We’ll see what you have in store for us! Oh, and--” Before exiting the frame, she glanced back at him and grimaced, “Don’t tell me what to do.”

The interviewer was the first to leave and Chance Ryder, the videographer, kept the camera on Gethin Rhys for a little bit longer, after making sure the sound guy aimed the boom to the wrestler, to pick up any last words.

Turning to face the camera directly, a sick grin crossed the strong style killers face and a dirty, sadistic chuckle cleared his throat. “A word of warning; gentlemen of AWE, I am the most dangerous professional wrestler on the planet. This we all know. Professional violence is what I do for a living. Step into the ring with me and you have two choices. Knock out or I choke you out. Whatever your preference. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go kill some idiot and then I’m going to go find myself a nice girl...or boy you know me, I’m not prejudiced. Good day.” Gethin reached down and pulled his gumshield into frame and placed it into his still grinning mouth before walking out of shot.

As soon as the camera stopped rolling, he quickly yanked the protector from his face and hurried to catch up to Joy. He was supposed to go to the Gorilla Position to get ready for his match but he couldn’t leave just yet. “Joy, are you ok? I’m sorry if I crossed any lines. I got a bit into it.” Gethin had spent years developing his character and got really into it at the best of times, especially when he knew he could get away with pushing the boundaries like he did in Japan. Here in the AWE things were a little different and he sometimes forgot that.

Turning on her heel to face her recent interviewee, Joy brought down her professional face, her expression was a lot more natural and not with a constant smile plastered on it. She chuckled, “It’s fine! I expect these things to happen on screen. And I’m sure the audience ate it up. I do need some time to cool down, but I’m not taking it personal. I guess I can be kinda vibrant with my emotions, huh?” She stuck her tongue out teasingly, to show that she was fine and a big girl. Being part of the AWE all her life, she knew exactly what could happen and took note of all the spontaneous moments, that at times could be questionable or controversial, to better herself as an on-air personality. However, she loved it. She loved this job and everything that came with it. The moments are what made the AWE great. She wouldn’t be a professional if she took it personally, would she?

“Thank god, that’s a weight off my shoulders. Right darling, I better head off. Hope you enjoy the rest of the show and aren’t too put off by my spots tonight. I’m going try out the mouth drag for the first time since back in Japan!” Placing his gumshield back into his mouth, Gethin offered the stunning interviewer a dopey smile before rushing off to go get ready for his match.

“Good luck!” were Joy’s final words and then her attention was brought to the producer walking out of her office. Oh, maybe she should talk to her to make sure that she too didn’t step out of line. Honestly, Joy knew she was fine. Both Beatrice and Wade had plenty of faith in her to help wrestlers make good promos, even if it meant Joy got an emotional rise… hey! Because of that, she’s given the writers’ inspiration for potential story arcs. Nodding to herself, she scurried to talk to her boss.

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Having arrived in the hotel room just over an hour ago, Caiden had showered and dressed down already. There’d been a live show earlier that evening, but that was over now. A string of live shows had landed them in LA for the next Shock N AWE, taking place at the Staples Center. Caiden had been working with Zachary Wake during this circuit, and he was enjoying it, but he didn’t really have any idea where he was going next — didn’t know if he even had a match booked at the upcoming big show.

His entire tenure year had felt pretty damn directionless, and he as a person was sick of it. He’d even gone so far as to once go on a tirade about how the AWE were wasting his talent on Twitter, gotten bitched at over it, and decided to never Tweet again, and he hadn’t opened the stupid social site in almost five months now. At Judgment Day, when they’d wanted him to lose to Drayden — the injured Drayden who everyone in the company knew was injured and out, Caiden had been furious. He’d screamed at Roddy, he’d screamed at all the writers, but he’d ultimately been professional and gone out and done the job. Now that he’d been fed to Drayden, he was just like every other chump out there.

So, he would probably stay directionless for the next eight months that remained on his contract, and then he’d be gone. He didn’t really much care for this company, and if they wanted to offer him another contract, he was adamant that he would not sign. No way, he’d be way better off elsewhere, where he could actually be the superstar he knew he could be, even if that meant making a bit less money. He’d take the pay cut if that’s what it needed.

The man sat down cross legged in the center of his bed, with a container of ramen he’d ordered, and adjusted his tablet so he could watch some YouTube videos before bed. Ramen was good, that was the main thing he’d learned during his tenure in Japan. That and sushi wasn’t so bad, but he was a ramen guy first and foremost. Having spent a good portion of his life in Japan, Caiden had preferences, and one of them was definitely Japanese food. That and peace and quiet, which is why he tended to ride alone and rarely roomed with anyone. He hit play on his YouTube video, and took the first bite. It’d been a long day, now to get some rest…

Unfortunately for the exhausted wrestler, there was a light knock on his door. Knock, knock. It was gentle and sounded like only two knuckles were hitting the surface (the middle finger and the pointer finger). Most likely a woman was waiting on the other side. There was a brief moment of silence, as if the person on the other side was contemplating if she should announce her presence before he opened the door (or not). Was he even going to open the door?

Yes, he was going to open the door.

It wasn’t Caiden’s style to just ignore the door, if someone was knocking they probably wanted something important. Generally speaking, plus who would even know where his room was? Sliding his legs off of the bed, Caiden closed the gap between himself and the door, before reaching out and opening it wide. When he saw who was standing on the other side, Caiden almost audibly groaned.

“What do you want, Joy?”

With her hair in a messy bun and her body adorned with a white tank, black sweats, and fuzzy blue socks, Joy stared at the man with pure exhaustion in her eyes, like she had just come from fucking war. This wasn’t her first option, to disturb her favorite wrestler because she was pathetically weak, but the people she would have gone to, LITERALLY ALL OF THEM, were MIA. If she wasn’t restless, she wouldn’t need to bake at this hour. And yet, she could not sleep for the life of her, so she was GOING to bake like her mama would do with her. A remedy for her mind and also something that would result in a delicious reward. “Hi. I’m sorry for disturbing you…”

Caiden let out a huge breath when the girl responsible for breaking his pleasant night spoke to him. Yeah, she’d better be sorry for disturbing him… this was the only alone time he really got, and if he wanted to spend it eating ramen and watching YouTube. She’d better have a good reason.

Her voice trailed off when she noticed what he was wearing (white t-shirt and boxers). Her cheeks turned a faint pink, as she immediately brought her eyes back to his face. “Usually… Wade helps me with this, but I think he went galavanting with my sister. Somewhere. Or they’re ‘busy’ and didn’t want to answer their door… eh-hem. Anyways.”

“Gross.”

She lifted up her hands, one was holding a can of pineapples and the other one was holding a can opener. “This is one battle I can never win.”

Oh, COME ON. That wasn’t a real reason to bother someone! Buy an electric can opener, dammit. He reached his hand out and snatched the pineapple can out of her hands, and the can opener. “Are you kidding me? You want me to open this?” He positioned the can opener on the can, and then with a single, effortless twist, the lid popped open, and he handed it over to Joy. “Anything else, my queen?” If words could bite, Joy would be feeling the numbing teeth of sarcasm sinking into her arm.

Joy felt small, smaller than her sister and that was small! She had more cans that needed to be opened, since she wanted to make enough for her, the people she cared about (Trinity, for one, had a huge appetite), and some of the other wrestlers (any extra would be brought to the match tomorrow), but maybe she could save baking for later and pull an all nighter. It wouldn’t be the first time she did that. Looking downward at her socks apologetically, she decided to lie through her teeth, “Yes… I mean, no. No, I’m good.” She looked up with a sad expression on and apologized again, “I’m really sorry.” Reaching to grab the can and the can opener away from him, she was getting ready to dismiss herself to be alone in her room. Maybe she’ll look to see if any of her brother’s matches in Japan have been posted online.

My god, she was like a broken puppy. Geezus, he was bad with women or something; man, Blake would throw a fit if he just let his baby sister walk off like that. Caiden just couldn’t catch a break, could he? He’d never be able to eat ramen and watch YouTube in peace, because everyone was always wanting him to do stuff… With a defeated tone, Caiden asked: “Are you sure you don’t have more cans to open?” He asked, looking down at the smol girl in front of him.

If there was one thing a Ryder child had in common, it was being puppy-dog like. Joy more so than the rest of her siblings because of her empathy. If she wasn’t already down, her mood would have taken a 180 and she would’ve responded completely enthusiastic to his question, but now she knew she was bothering him and now that she put actual thought in her impulses, she realized this situation was rather… silly. Her disturbing a man late at night just so he can open cans of pineapple for her. Silly. Pulling the items away from him, she shook her head, “It’s really okay! You can get back to your--” Pausing for a second, she glanced behind him to observe his bed situation and caught sight of his food, “Ramen. I’ll just do something else. Thanks again!” Eheh.

Caiden’s eyes narrowed. Now she didn’t want his help?! What if he’d been asleep, then she would have been RUDE. He folded his arms over his chest, which may have looked intimidating, but was really kind of silly — after all he was just in his loose fitting t-shirt, an old, almost retro piece of AWE merch, from a small PPV many years ago that Caiden had attended, and boxers. “No way, dude. You’re not seriously gonna bother someone in the dead of the night so they can open a single can of pineapples, are you? What if I was asleep? You either have underlying motives — that is to say you just want to see me, or you need more cans open. So which one is it?” Women, honestly.

This response caused Joy’s cheeks to flare up. She darted her blue eyes at him and got defensive, “I don’t have ulterior motives!” Grumpily pouting, she lifted the can and can opener up, “It’s not my fault these things are stupid. All I wanted to do was make my mom’s famous carrot cake, enough to feed an army, because it helps me sleep. But nooooooo, I spent almost forty minutes trying to open this can because it’s hard. And yes, yes I do have more cans but you’re already upset! So, I won’t bake.” Joy didn’t realize how silly this situation was and how it continued to be… silly. She just wanted carrot cake.

“...pineapples… in carrot cake? That sounds wrong and awful. You should make mandarin orange cake, with vanilla pudding frosting. That’s my favorite. My grandma used to make it, but she never gave the recipe to anyone before she died… so I haven’t had it in almost ten years now… If you don’t want to bake, you can hang out with me for a bit, I’m just eating dinner and watching YouTube.” Caiden said, shrugging his shoulders. He felt bad now, and he didn’t really like that feeling… So, he was going to his best to be nice to her and make her happy. “If you want, I don’t care.”

He was letting her in? To bake or spend time in Caiden Winter’s room. To bake or spend time in Caiden Winter’s room.... to bake or-- “...what are you watching on YouTube?” She tiptoed closer to him, having decided baking could wait and when she did get around to baking, it wouldn’t be carrot cake. “If you don’t mind me coming in, I’d love to. It beats watching YouTube alone in my room!” She wanted to comment on his grandma’s mandarin orange cake but it didn’t seem appropriate.

“Uh, just some video game stuff. I like to stay in the know, in case anything worth playing is coming out. Nothing is, so I’ll probably just watch Netflix in a few minutes.” Caiden steeled his mind, preparing to spend the night with the most talkative of the Ryders, and shut the door behind the girl once she’d stepped in.
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Blood. Sweat. Tears.


That is what everyone says that it takes to make it in this industry. Cliché as it is, you hear it all the time in AWE, both backstage, and on it. Many of the top tier wrestlers proved the phrase true, Barbie Summers among them. In fact, Barbara Somerville could currently check the first two off of the list today without even batting a false eyelash.

The blood was represented in the brutal abdominal cramps that she was suffering from. Periods were sometimes less mild and frequent for athletes, but this was not the case for the Doll of the American wrestling world. Drayden was gone, she didn’t have any screen time this week, and her insides were betraying her, all at once. The only thing that she wanted to do was eat chocolate cake, an entire chocolate cake. We are talking about a cake the size of the one Bruce was forced to eat in the movie Matilda. Barbara would eat it without a single complaint made, or breath taken.

This brings us to the next factor in the formula: sweat. Instead of indulging her sweet tooth and facing the consequences that came with it, Barbara was working out. Hard. A figure such as hers didn’t come easily. Her body was a well-oiled machine, and it had been for about a dozen years. Before wrestling, she was an skilled gymnast, like many other female wrestlers before her.

Nowadays, Barbara exercises for at least one hour every day. Cardio, core, strength training - she splits up her days pretty evenly, making sure that no part of her body gets out of proportion, except for her glutes. Barbara - and Barbie - takes great pride in having a far above average ass, as does William, and she plans to keep it that way. Thinking of her Billy made her frown, and she channeled that emotion into getting a few more reps of free weights in.

Wiping the moisture from her brow with her forearm, Barbara paused her routine to get a drink of water from her Camelbak bottle. Sucking down the refreshing liquid, she glanced up at the television, which was screening the happenings of the ring, in real time. A flash of cotton candy pink hair caught her eye, and Barbara paused the audiobook that she was listening to through her headphones, in order to focus on the screen. Oh, this was bound to be good.

Morgana was staged as Barbie’s biggest rival, and rightly so, as she was the previous holder of the AWE Women’s Championship Title. The Sorceress was a cutthroat character, and her hatred for the Plastic Queen was so palpable that you could practically reach into the TV screen and hold it in your hands. Honestly, it was so real that Barbara had trouble separating the character from the woman herself - it didn’t help that Mileena never talked to her backstage. She sometimes wondered if the dark beauty truly did despise her, as she appeared to on the big screen, for all the world to see.

Barbara watched with mild interest as Morgana entered the ring with the music and costume themes made famous by her wrestling legend of a father. That was to be expected, using his infamy to build up her own story. It likely wasn’t even Morgana’s idea, it was probably the writers, so Barbara didn’t judge her for it. When the witchy woman began her monologue, however, Barbara’s interest went from mild, to full attention.

Morg didn’t even waste a second before going in on Barbie. She didn’t mention her by name, but it was clear to any and all who were watching. Her words were as vicious as a viper’s venom, and she even mocked the fake accent that Barbara put on for Barbie’s character. The backwoods Louisiana lass was the furthest thing from a Valley girl in real life, but that was of no matter.

“The desire in me is far greater than any ‘doll’ that thinks they’re worthy for more than just a hand clap.”


Barbara’s lip twitched at the dig. Surely, that was just Mileena being in-character. Surely, no one in AWE was jaded enough to think that Barbie didn’t desire this. She worked her ass off for the title - blood, sweat, all of that cliché shit . A lifetime of being a fan, years of training, and the seizing of a few key opportunities. Barbara was peeved, but she continued to watch the promo in eerie silence.

“When you think of Barbie, what’s the first thing you think of? That she’s pretty in pink? Or that she too is what she calls a shadow of other people. Mm, especially the shadow of her Dray-dee-poo.”


Oh, she did not just go there. Bringing William into this, given his current injured state? That was a low blow. AND, while Drayden was, in fact, the greatest thing to happen to AWE… Barbie Summers stood in nobody’s shadow. She would never claim to be better than Dray - nor even equal to him, it was apples and oranges, really - but they were both rulers, in their own rights. Separate, unequal, and also unrivaled. Barbara kept her eyes on the screen, her vision tinted rage red.

“If she were alone, would she have built the kingdom that she wanted? Happily ever afters don’t last forever, especially to those that don’t respect the ones that help her lift her heavy crown. I don’t see a warrior. I don’t see a soul shining with royalty. I don’t see the hunger in her eyes. I see nothing.”


The spark met powder, and Barbara ignited in the gym. Short fuse? No, no fuse. There wasn’t a fuse in sight - just flames. Fire everywhere. “That BITCH!” she hissed, turning away from the TV before she could see Sydney step on screen and challenge Morgana. Blinded by her volatile emotional state, Barbie spun on her heel and took it out on the nearest punching bag.

The blonde punched and kicked, throwing her whole body into the assault against the weighted canvas sack. Barbie went at it until she was short of breath, and her unprotected knuckles felt bruised and swollen. Billy wasn’t here, he was hurting all by himself, and she couldn’t fix it. Now she was without her lover, completely alone, didn’t have any cake, and everyone hated her.

Without William there to reassure her, Barbara caved to her insecurities. All of the talk about how she didn’t deserve this, that she slept her way to the top, the talentless whore label that Barbie was written to wear so proudly. All of the heat was too much without love present to balance it out. Pressing her forehead against the canvas bag, Barbara practically hugged it, as salty streams trailed down her cheeks.

Tears: The final piece of the stupid. fucking. triad. Barbara sniffled. This was dumb, she was being dumb, crying like this. Big girls don’t cry, and actresses keep on smiling when the scene calls for it. This crown that she wore was something that she had wanted since childhood, something that she told her older brothers that she would have someday, and now she did have it, so she would wear it with poise and pride, no matter how heavy it sat atop her head.

There was only one person that could cheer her up. Only one gorgeous, chiseled face, with soulful eyes that shined for her and her alone. Barbara wiped away her tears and checked out her appearance in mirror - which was essentially the wall, as plates of mirror wrapped around the entire perimeter of the fitness center. No sign of her meltdown was evident on her face, she simply looked like she had just completed a heavy workout and, to an athlete like William, that was a sexy look. Pleased enough with her reflection, she tapped his contact to call him via FaceTime, right there in the gym, sitting on the weight bench in her sports bra and leggings.

For all intents and purposes, Drayden might as well have been dead in the water. Knee surgery as severe as his, apparently put you out of commission for longer than anticipated, and according to the medical staff, it’d be almost a month before he could even start physical therapy. Past that, eight months before he could return, and they’d said they weren’t sure he’d ever be in peak physical form again.

The doctors weren’t sure, but William Shepherd sure as fuck was. If he didn’t get back to how he was before, then he might as well end his life. So, he’d train as hard as needed for as long as possible to get back to the way he wanted to be… for now, though? Once Will answered the FaceTime call, Barbie would see her king curled up on a couch that she’d picked out for their Florida home, with a discarded Playstation 4 controller on his chest.

“Hey, babe. You look grumpy and sweaty. What’s wrong?”

“Hiii Billy, baby!” Barbara greeted him, her lips turning up at the corners. “Just… at the gym.” she said and panned the phone camera away from her, around the room, and then back to her again. “See.”

The man on the other end couldn’t help but smile when she panned the camera around the room, but he nodded when it went back to her. “Yes, I see that. I’m just on the couch. Since I can’t walk without crutches. For a month. I should probably be in the bed, but I wanted to play video games and eat food. So…” He turned the camera around to show the coffee table, which had a half eaten piece of cake, a two litre bottle of vanilla Coke, and some pizza. “Here I am.” And back to him.

Her eyes went wide at the sight of his sinful buffet. You have cake… she whispered and bit her lip. “You should be in bed, have someone set the video games up in the bedroom. You aren’t going to get better quickly if you break the rules.” Barbara broke out of her lustful trance long enough to give him a motherly scolding. Without anyone there keeping an eye on him, namely herself, he was probably doing a whole lot more that he shouldn’t be.

“Well, of course I have cake. I wanted cake, so I bought one. It’s really good, I was surprised.” He didn’t have much of a sweet tooth, so cake was rare for him, and usually it was of the ice cream variety. William usually preferred salty things to the sweet ones. “And I don’t like asking for help, it’s dumb enough that I have to have someone here to make me food if I don’t order it, this kind of stuff is infuriating, it kills my independence as a man.” Now, he wore the grumpy face as he squinted into the camera.

“Plus, I gotta watch Shock N AWE every week, I don’t wanna miss anything important.”

Barbie shook her head at him and rolled her eyes with a small smile. “That person is paid handsomely to do whatever the fuck you ask him to do. Moving a television and gamestation is nothing. As for your independence as a man…” She snuggled her knees up to her chest and held her face in her hand, biting her lip again. “The only way you’ll get all that back is if you follow the doctor's orders. Don’t you want get your strength back, so you can show me what a man you can be?” Barbara pouted and gave the camera her best pair of sultry eyes.

Suddenly, a well-known, delicate, silver-bell sounding voice resounded in the gym. There wasn’t even the sound of the entrance door opening because this woman in particular was light on her feet and could sneak up on anyone if she truly wanted to. By first glance, one would assume the figure that was making her way to her friend was related to the wrestler by blood. The essence of summer emitted from her, with her golden hair draping down her shoulders, curling at the ends, and a smile never fading.

Claire Gilmore.

The fiancee of Kevin Harrison, since May this year, going five years strong. They became official when she was twenty one, anniversary December 21, 2012. She was recently promoted to the head makeup artist position of the AWE Glam Squad (subscribe to their instagram channel: aweglamsquad and twitter account: @AWEGlamSquad), but also assists in the costume department, having excellent sewing skills and both a degree in Costume Design and a licensure in cosmetology, having taken an extensive program in all things makeup. It also helps that she has a strong background in theatre, being raised as the next ‘Shirley Temple’ of her hometown. Of course, her heart chose a different path. She didn’t want to be a star, she wanted to help make stars and, in time, she found an in at the AWE.

If there was one thing she deliberately goes out of her way for, it’s checking up on the wrestlers, especially the divas. Being the main hairdresser and makeup artist for the bigger names like Barbie Summers and Morgana, she tries her best to make sure their personal lives don’t mix with their careers. As a wrestler, it isn’t always easy to separate the act from the person, because at the AWE, you’re nearly always at work, and a camera could be just around the corner to catch you at your worst.

There are also the cases where some of the wrestlers aren’t the most sociable and, if she could, she would be the friend that they needed. The friend that would help them reach the height of their stardom or, at least, keep them sane. Wrestling wasn’t an easy business, and everyone needed a friend. Those that worked at the AWE were family, regardless if anyone realized that or not. You spent most of your life with these people, and it was up to you to take proactive steps to cross that line between acquaintances and friends. Claire was still working on Mileena, or well, Morgana... that girl was a toughy. Far more guarded and shy than people realized. Just because she was a good actress and knew how to be a bitch, didn’t mean she knew how to handle people well.

But, she wasn’t here for Morgana. She was here for Barbara Somerville. The current Queen of the Women’s Division. An absolute sweetheart, who dreamed big, and wanted to continuously aim high. A girl who had a lot more in common with her on stage rival than they both realized. “How’s my Barbie girl? In her Barbie world? Is life fantastic? Your ass is definitely not made out of plastic.” Claire was too focused on her silly introduction to realize she was interrupting something. The darling artist was hardly dressed appropriately for the gym.

Barbara jumped at the sudden additional voice in the room. Her eyes bugged wide at the phone camera, obviously guilty at being caught in the act of dirty talking with her man. Barbie tapped the screen and hung up on William, without any warning, and set the phone down on the bench. “Oh! Hi! Just… arm day.”

The blonde wrestler flexed her toned bicep and gave a convincing smile. “As for how I’m doing… crampy, lonely, and hungry. Not necessarily in that order. You?”

“Phenomanal!” Claire enthusiastically responded, but then shook her head in evident lover neediness. “Actually, no, tonight will be another lonely night for me at the hotel. Kevin and his boys will be too busy doing what they do best, making the AWE great and all.” She strided closer to examine Barbara’s biceps, “Tip-top shape, as always!” Pausing for a second, she glanced at the phone resting on the bench and curiously inquired, “Was that William? How’s he doing? It’s weird not seeing him around.”

A pair of dazzling blue eyes flicked down to the phone. Barbie nodded. “Yeah, that was my Billy. I needed to see his face.” Her lips puckered in a pout, comfortable enough in the presence of her good friend Claire to show her true emotions. “He’s misbehaving, but in good spirits.”

The artist watched the wrestler carefully and gave her an empathetic look, as if she understood what her friend was going through, which honestly, she did. In her own way. Kevin was married to his job first and foremost, so not seeing him as much as she would like to was something she’s dealt with ever since he was promoted to chief of the creative division. They knew each other before they were big at this company, and she cherished everything they had, but it does get lonely from time to time.

Claire trusted him with every fiber of her being, and she wouldn’t change their lives together for the world. Call her clique or whatever, but he was her prince, for better or for worse, even if they didn’t spend every waking hour together. “I wish my Sailor misbehaved! Give me a surprise spankin’ while I’m prancing down the halls.” She jokingly giggled and Barbie joined in on the girlish laughter.

“But in all seriousness, we should hang. We haven’t done that since…” Mentally counting in her head, Claire took a gander of the last time they had true girl time, “Almost two months, I think.” Bringing herself down so that she was head level with her friend, the beauty continued to sell her proposition for a slumber party, “I can get us some cake, we can watch some flicks. It would be great. Maybe even buy some fried chicken. God, I love chicken.”

“Oooo~” Barbara’s eyes shined at the mention of indulging in some delicious calories. If William could eat pizza and cake, she could let herself cheat with some fried chicken. And cake! “That sounds lovely. I’ll just have to shower and get dressed proper. You free tonight? You said it was going to be a lonely one...”

“Free as ever! Oh, I’m so happy! I’ll text you the deets and if I need anything… like alcohol.”

“Fantastic, I hope you like a good rosé.”

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Main Event: Sexton P.S. Love vs. Thunderbird



Sexton Love had shown up for this week's TV in considerably better shape than the week prior. In truth it was pretty much impossible for him to have looked any worse, so maybe it wasn't that impressive an achievement. A few days ago, he got the call from a member of the "booking committee" (or "creative team" or whatever the hell they were calling themselves these days), letting him know that he would be working the main event against Thunderbird. As far as opponents go, it was a decent choice. The Bird was a fiery babyface, with a good amount of experience working in Japan as well as in the United States. Sexton had been asked to put Thunderbird over, which of course was not a problem, and the front office knew that he had the ability to make any babyface, whether they were wearing a headdress or not, look like a million bucks. Sexton was a lot of things, but a mark wasn't one of them.

Sexton stood waiting in the gorilla position. He'd been ask to go about 15 minutes, which was perfect. Just before exiting the locker room he had popped four somas (or was it five?), and knew they would take about that long to kick in. When the pills started to kick, that was his go-home signal. He probably could've just listened to time cues from the ref, but fuck that guy.

Sexton's music hit and he stepped through the curtain to a mixed reaction. This week's show was in Los Angeles, and Sexton himself was a California native. He had anticipated a bit of a hometown pop, and so he had come prepared to deal with it.

"The following contest is a first round match-up in the AWE World Title tournament! Introducing first, from Venice Beach, Cal--"

"Gimme the fuckin' mic!"

As he ripped the microphone from the ring announcer's hands, Sexton hoped that his F-bomb didn't come through on television. He suspected that it did. Oh well. At least it was after 10 PM.

"Listen here daddeh, because I got a little somethin' for ya. This is truly a new era for American Wrestling Entertainment. A new era, with a new champion. And you know Sexton P.S. Love wants a piece of that action darlin'. This company needs me as the World's Heavyweight Champion, and you know I need that belt just as bad. Sexton Love's got to have that world's title belt daddeh. He's got to have it. It's got gold on it. It's got platinum on it. It's got lead, iron, copper, and zinc! It's got uranium, and TITANIUM. It's got cobalt, asphalt, your fault, my fault, SAN ANDREAS FAULT! You heard that right daddeh."

Sexton lowered the mic for a moment, allowing the crowd to cheer. The line really made no sense, but it was all about delivery, just ask Superstar Billy Graham. After allowing the crowd to amp themselves up, Sexton began to speak again. It was time to bring them crashing down.

“Sexton Love is being oddly… polite here tonight, you don’t hear that very often from him.”

"I've been all around the world, and I've been a champion everywhere I went. I was a heavyweight champion in Canada, Japan, Iran, and Pakistan, a champion all over the world daddeh. But you know that I was born and raised in southern California."

Another huge pop.

"And I have never, ever, learned more about what it meant to be champion than last week in CHICAGO, ILLINOIS!"

And there it was.

“Nevermind.”

“Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.”

The crowd turned on a dime, relentlessly booing the brash and arrogant villain. Was it cheap heat? Yes. But he was just getting started. Sexton tore off his t-shirt to reveal a Chicago Cubs jersey underneath, the team that beat the L.A. Dodgers in last year's National League Championship Series. Heat didn't come much cheaper than that.

"I'm DOWN for the Chi-Town darlin', because Sexton Love is a champion, and Chicago is the city of champions! Just ask the Los Angeles Dodgers! L.A. is a city of losers, and daddeh that just doesn't work for me..."

Sexton continued ranting, but his voice was being drowned out by boos. Suddenly, the sounds of A Tribe Called Red blasted through the arena as the crowd exploded. Thunderbird rushed down to the ring, instantly bringing the fight to Sexton and sending the fans into a frenzy. The proverbial shit was on.

Thunderbird took him from pillar to post, whipping Sexton across the ring and relentlessly beating him down in the corner with a flurry of punches. The Bird grabbed Sexton's jersey and pulled it off his back, holding it up high for the entire arena to see. He tore the jersey in half and threw it down as the crowd cheered.

“Thunderbird is doing what’s right and the fans are definitely in favor of it. Who can blame them? Sexton Love may as well have betrayed his hometown territory and committed high treason.”

Thunderbird turned around and was instantly met with a clothesline as Sexton exploded out of the corner. The cheers turned quickly to boos as the Lovely One began mouthing off to the fans. Looking for some payback, Sexton grabbed the Native American headdress that Thunderbird wore to the ring as part of his entrance and tore it up. He threw the shredded mess of feathers onto his opponent as he put to the boots to him, drawing even more heat.

“Yeah, and look what he got for it? Paid back in the fullest by Sexton Love, you never take your eyes off of a wiley opponent like the Sexecellence of Sexecution.”

Enraged at Sexton's display of disrespect, Thunderbird began to fire up, mounting a comeback with a series of shots to the midsection. With Sexton reeling, Thunderbird came off the ropes with a full head of steam but was cut off with a boot to the face. Sexton pointed to his brain as if to say he was "outsmarting" his opponent. Classic heel move. Sexton went for a cover, but Thunderbird kicked out at two. As soon as Thunderbird lifted a shoulder off the mat, Sexton transitioned from a pinning position to a reverse headlock, wearing his opponent down.

“And now he just keeps the pedal to the metal and closes this one out. Another feather in the cap, so to speak.”

“Is that a reference to the headdress being torn up?”

“...Maybe.”

Sexton tightened his grip, looking around at some of the fans in the front row. A younger fan was wearing a Thunderbird t-shirt and a Dodgers cap. Target acquired.

"Clayton Kershaw sucks!" screamed Sexton, trying to get a rise out of the fan.

"Let's go Thunderbird! Get him!"

"Shut up, kid! I'll be your new stepdaddeh!"

The kid's mother was sitting right next to him.

"What the hell did you just say?!? Kick his ass Thunderbird!" yelled the rather large woman.

"Fat broads need Love too!"

This was the best part of the job.

“Now that’s just plain uncalled for. These fans came here to see a show, not get picked on by the wrestlers!”

The crowd began to clap, willing Thunderbird to break the hold. The Bird reached out with one of his arms, as if drawing on the energy of the 15 000 plus in attendance. He slowly rose to his feet, but Sexton refused to relinquish the hold. Thunderbird hit a few elbow shots to the midsection, losing his grip, and then powered him up with a back suplex! This time it was Thunderbird with the nearfall.

“Look at Thunderbird feeding off of the energy of the crowd! It’s beautiful.”

“I still don’t think he has it in him.”

Both men slowly got up, with Thunderbird having a slight advantage. He hit Sexton with a kick and set him up for a double underhook powerbomb. BAM! Sexton was slammed down in the middle of the ring. The Warpath River Plunge. One of Thunderbird's favorite moves. 1...2...Sexton barely kicked out.

“You were saying?”

“Two count isn’t a victory, Wade!”

Still in control Thunderbird grabbed Sexton with a front facelock, lifting him into a suplex position. He held Sexton up in a stalling vertical suplex, a pretty impressive feat of strength, and prepared to flip him forward into a uranage slam. He called it the Totem Pole Suplex. At the last second, Sexton countered, hooking Thunderbird with a DDT and planting him down on his head!

The Impale-Her DDT! Thunderbird was rocked by the signature move, clutching his neck in pain. But the exhausted and battered Sexton was unable to capitalize right away. Finally, he crawled onto the cover. 1...2..Thunderbird kicked out! Frustrated, Sexton got up to his feet. He slapped Thunderbird across the head, yelling at him to stay down.

"You see this? This is the real Thunderbird, right here!" Sexton pointed down at his crotch, then slapped his opponent again.

“Sexton nearly had him there! And look at him taking the time with his opponent, taunting him.”

“Need I remind you that a two count isn’t a victory, Kane?”

Hooking Thunderbird's legs, Sexton bridged backwards into the Love Lock, essentially his own version of the legendary Muta Lock. He wrenched back on Thunderbird's injured head and neck, thrusting his bridging pelvis upwards repeatedly. Still feeling the effects of the DDT and earlier headlock, Thunderbird desperately crawled for the ropes to break the devastating hold. By now the crowd was fully in The Bird's corner, cheering him on to keep fighting. Thunderbird outstretched his hand, looking like he may tap out, but managed to pull himself just a little further and grab the bottom rope. The referee ordered Sexton to break the hold, but Sexton kept it applied for a few extra seconds. More heat.

Looking to finish things off, Sexton lifting up Thunderbird by his injured neck, and called for the piledriver. As he set his opponent up, Sexton's gaze found the same enthusiastic young fan in the front row.

"I'm gonna break his damn neck!"

“Here comes the end, see ya Thunderbird. Come back Wednesday, maybe you can open the show.”

The hesitation cost him, as Thunderbird exploded with a back body drop, countering the piledriver! 15 000 strong collectively lost their shit as the babyface fired up for his comeback. Thunderbird began a Tatanka-like war dance, strutting around the ring and ramping up the crowd.

“You never take your eyes off of your opponent, that was a rookie move from Sexton, taunting the crowd like that.”

Sexton fed in for a series of knockdowns and bodyslams as the Native American warrior built momentum. Sexton fell down to his knees, begging and pleading for mercy. The babyface balled up his hand into a fist but Sexton grabbed the ref by his shirt and pulled him in between them like a human shield. Thunderbird shoved the ref aside and grabbed Sexton, but Sexton quickly hit him with a lowblow! Having been thrown out of the way by Thunderbird himself, the ref wasn't in a position to see it.

“Not again! We just saw a tourney match end like that last week!”

“Shut up, Wade! You do what you need to do to win the damn tournament and take the AWE World Title home! Where I come from, cheater is just a fancy word for winner.”

“Remind me to never go where you’re from.”

“We don’t want you anyway.”

Boos began raining down, as the crowd sensed where the match was headed. With a smirk on his face, Sexton lifted Thunderbird up for his finishing move, the Sexecutor. He elevated Thunderbird into a torture rack position, relishing the moment. One last time, he looked at the fan at ringside.

"It's all over daddeh!"

Suddenly, Thunderbird trapped both of Sexton's arms form the torture rack position and rolled backwards! He countered the Sexecutor into a crucifix pin! Caught in the rollup, Sexton kicked his legs in panic, trying to break free of the pinning predicament! 1...2...3! Thunderbird had won the match!

“Again looking away from the business at hand! Too caught up in making sure the fans know he hates them, Sexton Love just got eliminated the AWE World Title tournament!”

“Even I have to hand it to Thunderbird, he took his shots when he could, and now he moves forward.”

Thunderbird rolled out, leaving an utterly shocked and stunned Sexton Love in the ring. The triumphant babyface walked up the ramp, his arm raised in victory as the announcer confirmed the result.

"Ladies and gentlemen your winner, THUUUUUUUUNDERBIRD!"

And not a moment too soon, as Sexton's somas began to kick.
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Amanda blessed the AWE Bookers for not getting her a match this week. She had been dealing with a shoulder injury since her bout with Sydney Ellis. It was probably that discus clothesline that did her right shoulder in and hurt it. Her physical therapist had told her to put some ice on it and not to use it too much over the next few days. That was hard to do considering her workout routine, which consisted of a lot of flexibility, cardiovascular, and strength training. But she figured her right arm could miss a workout session or two as she settled down and enjoyed her recovery time. Amanda didn't even realize it until the trip back home, where her shoulder was hurting like a bitch all of a sudden. That prompted a trip to her physical therapist and here she was, sitting on her couch in her home, watching AWE's latest card.

One segment that particularly peaked her interest was the first one, where it was Morgana vs Sydney Ellis. She was sinking slowly into her couch, watching Morgana work her magic on the microphone. Before Morgana got to the shit that stung, her beloved Pitbull, Bailey, had hopped up on the couch beside her and presumably watched along. The reference to the doll during Morgana's tirade had immediately clued off anyone who had a brain as to who she was talking about. Amanda leaned forward and watched carefully. "This is gonna be good..."

The segment was very, very interesting to say the very least. All those licks on Barbie definitely didn't make her happy at all. Once it was said and done, Amanda dived over to the table next to her couch and took her phone, a black iPhone 7. She opened up the Twitter, after locating the iconic bird with "99+" in the upper right corner. Those were probably all the mentions she had accumulated over the past few weeks. She hadn't bothered to check them just yet. Opening it up, she immediately went to composing a tweet. "That segment though... 👀" She then submitted it, before looking over to her dog who was looking like she wanted a walk. "Alright Bailey, let's go for a walk."
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Another day, another show. Sometimes the grind got to him, but generally speaking… Wade Palmer loved his job. Every second of it, from beginning to end of each day was an adventure, and that he truly enjoyed. Aftershock was a personal baby of his, a pet project that he’d suggested to Roddy a few years back. Now it had a huge following, and he and Joy Ryder ran it together… and it was fun.

At its core, that’s what wrestling was supposed to be: fun. A lot of people took it too seriously, a lot of fans made it out to be something that it’s not and would attack wrestlers for even the slightest fault in the ring, on the microphone… Wade Palmer felt bad for Owen Sparks and Kidd Neon. When he checked the internet tomorrow, he was certain the internet wrestling community (the IWC, or as Roddy called them, ‘the dirty internet smarks’) would be calling for the public beheading of the two young’uns.

Wade sat down behind the desk of the Aftershock set and smiled at Joy, who was already waiting for him. Wade tossed a large bag of gummi worms onto the desk and chewed on one as the camera started rolling. Hurriedly swallowing it, Wade spoke to the camera. “Welcome to AWE Aftershock, where we talk about the show that just transpired, and bring a guest or two to come on screen and chat with us. Tonight… we nearly had a show end the same way last week’s did, in a questionable way, but. Everything went just fine as far as I can tell. We’ll address the question being asked by all the fans out there, trending #1 on Twitter all night… Where’s Caiden?”

One hand was rested on her notepad, the other hand was rolling her pen on the glass surface. Back and forth. Back and forth. When she found her opening to add to Wade’s dialogue, she stopped what she was doing and gave him her genuinely sweet smile, with just the right amount of her natural personality and just the right amount of her professional front, “Isn’t it obvious, Wade?” Joy raised her eyebrow, her expression displaying the fact that she couldn’t even fathom the possibility of this NOT being true. “He has bad blood with Roddy Quinn, so of course he’s going to use times like these, where he doesn’t even get a match on tonight’s show, to keep to his word and: Quote. Take this show over. One step at a time. Unquote.’” She brought her attention to the camera and confidently added, “And we all know he keeps to his word.”

“It might not be that obvious. Maybe, and I’m just spitballing here… but maybe he wasn’t here this week because he didn’t want to show his face after his despicable actions last week. OR, and I might be wrong here because it probably would have been announced… maybe he got suspended for being an asshole, Joy.” Wade accented his statement by viciously tearing a piece of his gummi worm off. “You don’t just attack referees and go on like nothing happened.”

Oh this shit again. Joy gritted her teeth in annoyance. “We both know, Mr. Palmer.” Her words were enunciated and her blue eyes glinted with serious passion, “Caiden Winters isn’t a coward. If he were, he wouldn’t have ‘attacked’ the referee after he DID warn him. The ref made a bad call. And you don’t cross, Caiden." Internally, Joy was getting hella’ grumpy, but she had to keep this professional. Straightening her body, she put her pleasant smile back on, while her eyes locked with the camera lens, “Did you hear that folks? Caiden might have been suspended. Do you believe it? Because I don’t. That would be another bad call, don’t you think? Why don’t you tell us what you think happened to Caiden Winters on Twitter and remember to @AWE and put the hashtag AWEAftershock.”

“I think Caiden Winters is plotting and deciding how he’s going to take out his rage on Roddy Quinn. But that’s not all I think; you want to know what I think? I’ll tell you. I think it’s a mistake. I think Caiden Winters needs to keep his head down after that little bout of rage, and wait until Roddy calls him and then he should ask for another chance, or he’s going to be screwed for the rest of his tenure here.” Did Wade the person believe this? Of course not, but he knew what to say to get Joy going, and he wanted this show to be hers more than his.

“What wrestler who kept his or her head down ever became a star? A LEGEND? None. Caiden Winters is a force to be reckoned with. He never stops doing his best just because his boss doesn’t give him credit. You know who does see his potential? The fans. And without our fans, where would we be? Caiden Winters deserves to be on the AWE and to get the respect he deserves, he has to make bold moves.”

“I guess we’ll just see how it goes, huh? Anyway, let’s move on.” Wade glanced down at his notes briefly, reading over them. “Did you catch what the Initiate did today? He just… took another man’s place in the tournament. I guess that’s the kind of thing he tries to push, huh? Well, Joy we’re one step closer to what you seem to want: total anarchy. Or maybe you’re less okay with people breaking the rules when you don’t have a crush on them.” Another gummi worm.

Did he? He did, didn’t he? She did NOT have a crush on Caiden. Without batting an eye or even blushing, Joy twirled her pen in her hand and smirked at Wade, “Let’s not go there.” As much as she wanted to make a low blow and use his relationship with her sister against him, she decided to keep things on track. Joy Ryder was a professional. “Like I said. To get noticed, sometimes you have to make bold moves. If they were so against the ‘total anarchy’ they would have nipped this match in the bud. Did they? No. Why? Because the fans liked what they saw. Who has more control now?” The company, the wrestlers, or the fans. If Joy gave into her emotions, she would have darted her pen at Wade’s face and stole his gummy worms… but, the show must go on. All personal feelings aside.

“It’s the fans. It’s always the fans who have the control. Maybe what you’re saying has some merit, maybe getting noticed IS that important, but I cannot and I will not sit by and watch as the wrestlers who are paid to fucking—” Wade was getting a little impassioned himself. Dude was a mark, hated heels. “—wrestle the other wrestlers attack referees, blindside their peers before they can start their match… even the low blows I saw tonight and last week… that kind of stuff would have legends in this business who worked until their bodies gave out and they couldn’t crawl to that ring to put on a show for these fans… the way some of the AWE roster acts would have those legends rolling in their damn graves. Did you see the despicable way that Sexton Love acted tonight? It’s disrespectful, and it’s damn near disgusting.” Keep things rolling, Joy.

“Oh you mean the low blow that cost Caiden his match? If I’m not mistaken, Caiden Winters fought right. It was after the fact that he decided to show us how he really feels.” Okay, she needed to keep this rolling, but she was still riled up from the heavy, negative focus on her favorite wrestler. For a second, she gave her peer dull eyes, before tapping her pen on her notepad and continuing, “And yes, I saw. And our fans reacted accordingly. You may be right with how there should be a limit to the way our wrestlers act, but I will stand by my opinion that there are exceptions. And the people who help make our grey lines more clear are tuning in tonight.”

“I agree with you. I don’t think the fans show up to get tormented like that, but what do I know… But you know what really spoke to the fans tonight? None other than Morgana — and if you talk to Kane later, despite what he may say… he was marking out and totally thought it was her father. Of course, all good things must come to an end, and she was interrupted.”

Joy’s expression brightened. She too had marked out, thinking her uncle figure was going to make an appearance. Her dad’s best friend showing up out of the blue? Insane. At last, it was all a ruse. A good one at that! On top of the excitement she had because of that, she also simply liked the Women’s Division and the drama that surrounded it. It was like some Real Housewives pettiness and she LOVED it. “Interrupted by someone we have never gotten many opportunities to hear as much as the other Divas before. And the thing that got me was, I could feel the tension... and I wasn’t even physically on the ring.”

“Luckily for us, and the fans, we’re going to get to hear some more from her tonight — without further adieu, please welcome our guest for the evening: Sydney Ellis.” Truth be told, Wade didn’t pay enough attention backstage to know for sure if all the drama was real or fake, but he did his best to keep Trinity mostly out of it… Not much longer, though.

Sydney Ellis marched into the shot and took her seat. She was wearing the same ensemble she has worn when she interrupted Morgana. She gave a curt nod to them both. "Joy. Wade,” she hammered, not looking in a great mood, but at least not openly hostile. "Yeah, I tend to let my actions speak for me, but tonight, I couldn’t let it go. There were things that needed to be said. And after all that, Morgana still has the gall to look down on me.”

“Morgana tends to look down on… well, everyone. It’s the way she’s always been, and I doubt a few strong words are going to change that. You’ll have to do more than that.” Wade explained, leaning forward as he chomped on another gummi worm. “I’d argue that the only way you’re going to get her to look at you any differently, is to beat her ass in the ring.”

"There are no excuses,” Sydney retorted icily. "There are no reasons why I would let anybody look down on me. I haven’t lost a singles match in thirteen months now. Beating asses in the ring is my first language. Maybe the message to Morgana simply didn’t get through to her in English.. Or maybe I’ll start every sentence with ‘Barbie’. That would get her attention. All Morgana cares about is the title she lost to a plastic doll that can’t fight. And she looks down on me?! It’s almost impressive how she managed such a pathetic feat!”

“There’s a lot of fire in you, and I’m sure I’m not the only one who really likes this side.” Joy complimented the wrestler, who sat on the other side of Wade. Tilting her head in curiousity, she took in the other woman’s words carefully and then inquisitively inquired, “Wouldn’t you care, though? If you lost the title from anyone really? You spend day and night, rain or shine, for this one thing and then finally. You have it and then someone comes around and takes it all away in a blink of an eye.” After taking a pause for a moment so her question could resonate with the audience and after she snapped her free hand's fingers when she said the word 'blink' to emphasize her point, Joy added, “I don’t know if it’s just me, but I feel like something would be wrong if any winner didn’t react to a certain extent.”

Sydney leaned back and smiled with an air of superiority that was sure to infuriate any of the women’s locker room that were watching. Regardless of how much they liked Dawn, Sydney was a nasty piece of work. "Honestly, if there’s a single woman back there that I couldn’t destroy in a fair fight, they’d have earned it. I wouldn’t hold my breath, though. If I became champion, that belt wouldn’t go anywhere anytime soon after.”

Raising an eyebrow in intrigue, her lips curving into a smirk, Joy chuckled, “So will you? Become champion, I mean. Because what you’re saying is, you’re fully confident you can take down all your competitors, including Barbie Summers. That’s a lot of competition.”

"You’re implying that Barbie would ever agree to fight me. She won’t. She’s a coward. One day she’ll be usurped by a woman who doesn’t disgrace that belt just by holding it, and they might accept a challenge of mine. But Barbie?” Sydney shook her head. "She did not get to where she is today by fighting. She won’t fight me. She’s not a fighter. She might spout several pages of the Mean Girls script at me, or pull some strings with her husband, or use every dirty trick in the book to claim to have beaten me without fighting me.” Sydney then looked straight down the hard cam. "Barbie Summers can not and will not fight me.” she challenged.

“Those are some fightin’ words!” This was why Joy loved the Women’s Division. The amount of drama that arises from a wrestler simply calling a bitch out. It was delicious! She couldn’t wait for more. “We’ll have to wait and see if Barbie tuned in and how she’ll react. Is she really the coward Sydney Ellis says she is? Or is she simply waiting for the perfect moment to assert her authority and show us who wears the crown?”

Pause for dramatic effect.

“Unfortunately, we’re out of time.” Joy pouted at the camera, wishing she could talk all night about the AWE, and then glanced over at Sydney, “Thanks so much for coming on today. I’m sure from here on out, we’ll hear more from you, yeah?

"That entirely depends on whether or not anything needs to be said in the future.” Sydney replied curtly.

“And with that being said, we bid you farewell for tonight, AWE fans. If you’re in the area, make sure to show up at the Golden 1 Center next Wednesday for Shock N AWE, and a trail of shows leading us there. Don’t forget to follow the AWE and all your favorite superstars on Twitter! Even if you can’t be in the arena, tune in next week. It’s the only way to find out who’s going to be the next champion.”

“Bye, guys! Oh, and don’t forget to keep tabs on the #1 trending question on the AWE’s twitter account. Where’s Caiden? Until next time on Aftershock.” With her beaming smile, Joy waved at the camera. The moment her twin brother said ‘and cut’, she slouched down in her chair. Thoroughly exhausted from numerous things, like her curiosity of where Caiden actually went tonight since he was nowhere to be found backstage, Joy sighed, “Great job everyone! I need… wine.” She was ready to go to the hotel and call it a night.

“He’s at the JW Marriott, Room 204A. Have fun.” WIth that, Wade Palmer and his bag of gummi bears walked off to fetch his girlfriend and eat donuts or do whatever it was she was doing. Probably, he mused, donuts.

Joy gave Wade a side glare as he walked off and then her attention, with her big, puppy dog eyes, was brought to her brother, who narrowed his eyes, “... you can take my car.” Grumbling to himself, he dug into his pant’s pocket, took out his keys, and tossed it at her, which fortunately, she caught with both hands (even if it almost hit her face). Looks like Chance Ryder was either carpooling with dad or taking the party bus...

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Zachary arrived at the Staples Center as early as he did any other arena, then immediately went to work approaching the writer’s office to find Kevin, the head of creative. There were a couple of ideas floating around in his mind that he wanted to bring up.

Zack was always a fan of the Staples Center. Any time he had a big match, it was here. And the last time he was in the arena was in his AWE championship match against Drayden a few months back. It was an insane brawl, where both men really showed their strengths and covered up each other’s weaknesses, and really got the crowd involved. There was back and forth, cheating and consequences for that rule breaking, and an incredible finish. It had it all.

Unfortunately, Zachary wasn’t on the card tonight, but he knew the crowd would enjoy the main event. Sexton Love, as silly a gimmick as it was, worked perfectly for a heel, and Thunderbird was an unbreakable face. Zack walked past the locker rooms where those two were undoubtedly preparing for their match, and into the more office-y area of the building. A knock on the door to Kevin’s office snapped him out of his creative daydreaming, and Wake entered the room.“Kevin, my man. How’s it going?”

Kevin had indeed been working on storylines and daydreaming. It was his favorite time of the day, sans for the few hours a night he spent with his fiancée; they were both busy people, so it was hard to get more than that little amount of time together a day. Whenever there was a knock on the door from talent though, Kevin snapped back to reality — they were always allowed to talk to him. He liked to think they truly appreciated it, as it hadn’t always been that way.

Before he became the head of creative, it had been hard for the wrestlers to get a word in edgewise with what they were doing. If you weren’t at the top of the card, you may as well have not existed. With Kevin and his team at the helm though, things had changed. People had a way to get their opinion in and to use their own ideas, which made them happier. Sure, sometimes the ideas… kinda sucked, and they needed some fine tuning, but happy people worked way better.

When he saw Zachary Wake standing there, Kevin brightened up — Wake owned, and was one of the top heels of the company; with the help of the booking lads, as Kevin’s group liked to call themselves, and Kevin loved to talk to him. “Hey, Zachary. What’s up, dude?”

“Well, I was just thinking about some bits and pieces, and wanted to know your thoughts on them.” Wake walked over to the desk, and took a seat so he was sitting across from Kevin. “I know you’re doing big things with Caiden, especially after our match last week, but I was thinking. Next week, you should let me open the show. I’m the one who took out the crowd’s fan favourite in the first round. It would be a great way to get some proper heat on me and to progress Caiden’s story.” Zack had matches with Caiden every now and then, but last week’s was the first where there were big consequences afterwards. They were usually just to progress other rivalries going on or the two were participants in a multi-man match. Zack wanted to know where the story between the two were going.

“Uh, well let’s see… Next show was mostly of Gary’s design, we like to pass the torch back and forth on a week-to-week. If I remember correctly, we have you penciled in middle of the show up against Thunderbird. We gotta keep that tournament rolling. Honestly? The tournament is just us making the best of a bad situation — it really threw everything out of alignment for the next… well, year almost. But hey, we’re professionals, so we’re working with what we got, y’know? I know what you’re gonna ask: when do I get to work with Caiden more? The answer is gonna disappoint you, sorry to say. Not for a while, as it stands. I want to keep you guys away from each other until the time is right and the light can shine on that feud, like it deserves. That being said, at the next PPV, you’re in a tag match.” Kevin was a fast talker, and spat all that out in about seven seconds. Just in case, he added at the end. “Does that make sense?”

“Uh… Most of it, yeah. I guess it would make sense to cut my promo before or after my match with Thunderbird then. If you’re alright with it, of course. Anyway, Winters. Our rivalry is gonna be held off for a bit. Hey, if it means a more meaningful storyline, I’m all for it.” In all honesty, Wake really enjoyed working with Winters. The two had a special kind of synergy most guys didn’t. Neither carries the entire match on their shoulders, they both shared the load, and they complimented each other’s styles incredibly well. “But, a tag match at the next show? Who’s the other participants?” Having a tag team match at the PPV meant he was most likely putting someone over. Not that it was a problem, but it seemed a bit sporadic. At least Zack was good at working a tag match. After all, he was tag champ WAY back in the day.

“It’s gonna be you and Kidd Neon against Razorblade and Owen Sparks. We’re really wanting to rebuild the tag division. The titles have been retired for too long, frankly. So, I figured you’d be happy to help, since you’re a solid tag wrestler. As for the promo, by the way, you can cut it as you come down to the ring, if you’d like.” Kevin paused for a moment, thinking to himself. “Owen and Razorblade going over, but you get to beat the shit out of Neon after the match. I know that’s gotta be a bit of a bonus, yeah?”

Zachary chuckled at the idea. It had been too long since he had the ability to do that, and he was happy to be able to do it again. It was how the team of him and Senji Veryhurt came to an end, after all. “Oh it’s a bonus, alright. Zack then regained composure, turning his large grin back into a regular smile. “Hey, I’m happy with that. I can definitely see those two going places. As much as I like the kid, Owen doesn’t really have what it takes to carry a singles championship. Not until he gains a few kilos, anyway.” And there was also Razorblade. Zachary didn’t really know much about him, but judging from his match with Clayton the week prior, he assumed he was almost identical in style. “They sound like a good team though. Should allow the two to really make an impact.”

“I sure fucking hope so. The plan is to let them carry the division until we can sign some big heavy hitting tag teams from other companies to help us build the division — homegrown talent is great, but when you’re getting a whole division rolling, with a roster of people who are all established singles wrestlers… it’s a pain in the ass. We’re throwing together two lower card wrestlers and hoping they can make magic happen…” Kevin shook his head. They were crazy, weren’t they? “If they can, we’re gonna follow through with it and get this tag division rolling. Did you have anything else you’d like to talk about?”

Zack was happy to hear his student was going to succeed. He’d been training the kid for a little while now, and it was starting to become more evident in Owen’s more recent matches. “I don’t think so. Thanks for the time, Kevin. I’m looking forward to whatever you come up with next.” Wake stood up out of his chair, and held his hand out for a handshake.

Kevin was happy to accept the handshake, giving Zack a nod. “Hey, anytime man. Can you do me a favor? Next week, if you can catch Owen and Razorblade, maybe run them through some basics of tag team wrestling? You’re pretty damn good at it, so it might help them.”

“Yeah, sure. I’ve got a training session with Owen later on this week, so maybe I can see if Razorblade’s available and run the two through the basics. Alright, catch you later man.” And with that, Wake exited the room, happy with his new plans for the future.
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