Message #22915

[Adam Grant]

Future Shock returns from the commercial break, and heads to the ring one last time for tonight. The “Wildcat” begins as soon as the bell sounds a couple times.

Gaby: The following contest is your main event of the evening, and it’s scheduled for one fall to a finish.

Zack: Steph, it’s been a long time since we’ve seen a healthy Vivi Robichaud at 100%. But she’s been all cleared by the medical staff, and that knee is fully healed. And she’ll need all that tonight.

Steph: It isn’t her leg I’m worried about tonight, Zack. When it comes to Elizabeth Lannister I’m more worried for anyone’s arm.

I'm not the one who's so far away when I feel the snake bite enter my veins
Never did I want to be here again and I don't remember why I came…

The lights in the arena dim and smoke fills the entrance as the first lines of Godsmack's "Voodoo" begin playing. Vivi tosses the curtain aside and stands with her arms outstretched and a smile on her face. She carries a walking stick, topped with a skull carved from ivory, in one hand and waves to the crowd with the other, bemused by their positive reaction to her. Pausing for a moment, Vivi waits for the next verse of the song to begin before she starts making her way to the ring.

Candles raise my desire why I'm so far away, no more meaning to my life, no more reason to stay...
Freezing feeling, breathe in, breathe in...
I'm coming back again…

As she reaches the ring, Vivi climbs up the stairs and tips her top hat to the crowd before taking it and her jacket off, laying them on the side of the ring along with her walking stick. Only then does she step in over the middle rope, standing in the center of the ring with her hands on her hips, waiting.

Gaby: Ladies and gentlemen, now making her way to the ring, she is the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans, the High Priestess of Baron Samedi, the Monster of the French Quarter... the one and only… VIVI ROBICHAUD!

Zack: The last time we saw Vivi in the ring, she passed out due to the toll taken on her body over weeks and weeks that came to a head against Tara Cortez. But the priestess is back to 100%, and says she has some unfinished business with the “Lioness” tonight.

Steph: The Aspire champion will probably relish being Vivi’s dreamkiller tonight... If she can.

As the fans sit in their seats in anticipation of what is to come, they are greeted by the somewhat subtle opening riff of ‘Massive Addictive’ by Amaranthe. A few seconds pass before the song kicks into full gear, causing the curtains to rustle a bit before the dapper figure of one Kyle Kilmeade emerges from the back. He steps out onto the stage and glances at either side of the stage at the crowd before stepping to the side, holding out his hand to the curtain. Out from the back emerges the beautiful Elizabeth Lannister. Stepping out onto the stage, she takes Kyle’s outstretched hand and promptly twirls around slowly, showing off the intricate work on her robe. Dropping his hand, Elizabeth nods and starts to walk down the aisle, Kyle walking in stride next to her.

Gaby: Ladies and gentlemen, making her way to the ring, being accompanied by her manager Kyle Kilmeade…..from Scottsdale, Arizona…she is the reigning Future Shock Aspire Champion…..’THE LIONESS’ ELIZABETH LANNISTER!!

Once she reaches the ring she begins to climb the steel steps, with Kyle hopping up onto the apron and holding the ropes open for her. She carefully climbs through the opened ropes and steps into the middle of the ring, flipping her hair over her shoulders and sticking her arms out to the sides, her head tilted back, a confident smirk etched on her angelic features. She then returns her head to it’s normal position and unclasps her robe, shrugging it off as Kyle reaches forward to carefully hand it to a nearby stagehand. She then moves her arms back and forth to loosen up as the music begins to fade out.

Zack: At Wipeout, the “Lioness” meets Mara Werth for that title Gaby just mentioned. I don’t think Vivi is going to be any kind of prep for Mara. That said, I also don’t think Elizabeth would care if Vivi’s knee were still hurt. She likes to collect arms, Steph, and looks to give Vivi a whole new kind of injury tonight.

Steph: For Elizabeth it will be all about the arm and although that won’t cut off Vivi’s speed, we might see that infamous swinging DDT hampered dramatically.

Referee Ashley Pruitt checks both women, and Kyle takes the Aspire Championship to keep with him. The bell sounds, and Vivi cracks her knuckles and even does a few jumping jacks to let Elizabeth know she’s all better. The champion doesn’t seem to care though, and Vivi launches towards her in a blur. Lannister steps to the side as Vivi stops herself before hitting the corner, smiles, and lays in back elbows to the side of her head repeatedly. She spins into her with a discus punch before pasting her with an European uppercut. The blonde rocks backwards before Vivi connects with a back leg roundhouse to drop her to her knees. The priestess takes off for the far side, and comes back with a knee trembler to her jaw. The grin returns to her face as she listens to the response, and looks down to Elizabeth again..along with a couple more jumping jacks.

Steph: Vivi’s just wanting to remind Elizabeth and everyone tonight that she’s feeling froggy. Lions don’t eat frogs right, Zack?

Zack: I doubt they would be too filling, so I’ll go with you on this one. I think part of this is that Vivi’s just enjoying not being hurt in the ring for the first time in a while.

She doesn’t wait long before she pulls the Aspire Champion back to her feet, and starts walloping her with forearms to the head. Elizabeth is sent across for the ride, and scooped up on the rebound before Vivi launches her with a fallaway slam that sends her rolling into the ropes. The fans for the priestess get louder as Elizabeth pulls herself to her feet on the apron, only to get a running dropkick to her chest that sends her down to the floor. Kyle leaves the title in the corner, and immediately goes to tend to his client. Meanwhile, Vivi does a couple more jumping jacks with a grin still etched on her face.

Zack: If there was any lingering doubt that Vivi’s knee wasn’t totally healed, I think we can put that to rest now, Steph. Not only is it healed, but she’s absolutely wrecking Elizabeth.

Steph: Kyle might be wanting to give Elizabeth a little counseling on strat—LOOK OUT BELOW!

Kyle helped the blonde to her feet before Vivi took off towards them, sailing over the top rope with a suicide dive that wiped them both out to a pop from the crowd. Robichaud pulled Elizabeth up by the hair, and tossed her back into the ring. She glanced over to Kyle with amusement, and climbed back up onto the apron. As she stepped back through the ropes though, Elizabeth kicked the middle rope between her legs. It stopped her in her tracks before the Aspire Champion shoved her back through to the apron, and then dragged her by the head over the middle to deliver a suspended DDT.

Zack: While she may not have preferred what lead up to it, Elizabeth has turned the tide here and used the environment to her advantage. She’s trying to get her wits together now though.

Steph: Has there ever been a move that could so easily turn an entire match around like a DDT?

When Vivi started to rise, Elizabeth executed a diving knee drop bulldog to put her back down. With the priestess on the canvas, she followed up with a Garvin stomp on each part of her body and finally to her face. Lannister planted a foot in Vivi’s lower back, and pulled up on her arms for a standing surfboard submission. Pruitt immediately moved into position to check for a submission from Vivi, but got no such answer. Kyle was back to his feet on the floor, looking irritated as he snatched up the Aspire Championship from the corner.

Zack: Now we’re getting into Elizabeth’s comfort zone. She’s not into all that flying around aerial based offense, this is what she likes: slow and methodical. How do you get out of something like this surfboard, Steph?

Steph: Honestly? Nine times out of ten you wait until your opponent gets bored and it looks like it’s gonna be a while for Elizabeth to stop relishing hurting the Voodoo Priestess.

Pruitt checked again, still getting a firm no from Vivi as Elizabeth pulled back on her arms. The “Lioness” showed disdain for her opponent as she lifted her foot to stomp into her back one more time. The priestess’ face grimaced on impact, causing the referee to check again. Vivi made it clear she wasn’t going to give up, and that was when Elizabeth crossed her arms into a X behind her as she tried to dig her foot in deeper at the same time.

Steph: A straightjacket surfboard... Now if that isn’t innovative... I know many are loathe to hear it but Elizabeth knows how to work the mat better than most in FFW. Not just Future Shock.

Zack: No one can honestly deny the skills possessed by the Lioness, not without lying to themselves. You don’t get to be Future Shock Aspire Champion otherwise.

The crowd started trying to rally Vivi, but it wasn’t having much success in her position. Elizabeth finally let go by stomping her face into the mat. She stood over Vivi with a confident expression before pulling her up by the waist and into a kneeling ganso bomb! Lannister scooped the legs to stack her into a pin as the referee dropped to count.

Steph: Good God, a Ganso! Get your grievances going!

ONE!!!

TWOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Robichaud’s shoulder popped up off the mat, and Elizabeth pummeled her with forearms to the head. She dragged her back to her feet, delivering a German suplex into a belly to back wheelbarrow facebuster.

Zack: Elizabeth Lannister has added some devastating new offensive moves to her arsenal, and Vivi is getting to know all of them firsthand tonight in Boston!

Elizabeth took a moment to enjoy the crowd’s clear dislike of her as Vivi was struggling to get to her feet. The “Lioness” shoved her head away as if she were toying with her before the priestess surprised her by scooping her onto her shoulders and dropping her with a Death Valley driver. The crowd started making noise all over again for Vivi as she sat up on her knees, clearly favoring her back when she got up again. She rained forearms to the back of Lannister’s head, and then scooped her up for a double underhook piledriver followed by a cover with a hook of the leg.

Steph: Speaking off new wrinkles in the offense, I think Elizabeth’s head is going to be ringing for the next few days! Pin!

ONE!!!

TWOOOOOO!!

TH-NOPE!!!

The “Lioness” got her shoulder up in time, and Vivi made it back to her feet. The brunette dragged her up with her, and whipped her across to the far corner. As soon as she landed back first, Vivi followed her in with a shotgun dropkick.

Zack: Vivi’s starting to come back! The tide has ebbed and flowed since the bell rang, but the priestess is cooking now!

She sat Elizabeth on the top rope, and climbed up with her. A series of forearms to the back of her head landed before Vivi left her feet, and snapped off a hurricanrana off the top! The crowd came to its feet as Vivi did the same, and doubled back for the same corner. She headed up to the top rope, and came off with a double foot stomp to Elizabeth’s body before diving for the cover.

Zack: That’ll be all right there! Vivi just stomped Elizabeth’s internal organs flat, and the “Lioness” is three seconds from a loss!!

ONE!!!

TWOOOOOOOOOO!!!

THREEEEE-WHOOOAAAAA!!

The three count never landed when Kyle jerked the referee out of the ring. Pruitt got in his face, and started yelling at him. Vivi glanced around, realizing what had happened as she got up too. An angry look on her face formed before she ducked between the ropes, and grabbed Kilmeade by his hair.

Steph: Kyle and Vivi will never be a love story. At least not one that doesn’t end in a horror movie.

As that was going on, Elizabeth began looking around and started crawling towards her Aspire Championship in the corner. The referee was trying to get Vivi to let go, and the “Lioness” scooped up her title. She moved around behind Vivi, calling her to turn around as the crowd was deafening in trying to warn her. Vivi finally let go, and turned just as Elizabeth went to nail her with it. But the priestess ducked underneath it behind her into a neckbreaker! Both Elizabeth and the title hit the mat, and Vivi glanced over to it. She scooped it up as the referee came back into the ring to see her with it.

Zack: Great ring awareness by Vivi, otherwise she was about to get clobbered with the Aspire Championship! Now the referee’s spotted it, Steph!

Steph: Vivi considered it for a moment but she is going to take the high road. I admire the competitor she has become.

Pruitt told her to hand over the title, and Vivi did just that. The referee went back to hand it to the timekeeper until Kyle snatched it away. When Vivi turned back to the ring, Elizabeth delivered a low blow between her legs behind the referee’s back The priestess crumpled to her knees, and the “Lioness” started to rise again as the referee turned back to the match. She shoved Vivi away to bump into the referee, knocking Pruitt down. Lannister dragged Vivi towards the ropes, and hooked her head.

Zack: I have a feeling we’re about to see a whole lot of RAIN here in a matter of seconds! I don’t know why she shoved Vivi into the official though.

Steph: There’s gotta be a good rea—

Elizabeth left her feet for her jumping swinging DDT...while Kyle slid the title under her to drive Vivi’s head into it. He quickly pulled it away as the referee moved into position to count the fall after Elizabeth made the cover.

Zack: That’s the RAINS OF CASTAMERE...on the damn title too!!

The bell sounded immediately as Kyle hopped up onto the apron. Elizabeth got up too as he raised her hand….only for the referee to pull her hand down.

Steph: Pruitt seems like she’s had a change of heart.

Pruitt told him she saw the title being used, and then made it official by telling Gaby. Neither Kyle nor she were happy at all.

Zack: Oh wait….Pruitt saw the title too! That’s why there wasn’t a count!

Gaby: The referee has disqualified Elizabeth Lannister, therefore your winner….VIVI ROBICHAUD!!

Vivi sat up on her knees in obvious pain, but there was some amusement on her face as she looked over to her opponent and Kyle. When she made it to her feet, the referee raised her hand. She promptly rolled out of the ring when the pair started towards her.

Zack: Vivi’s picked up the win, thanks to a very observant referee! I don’t think anything was settled with Elizabeth, but she’s got her win and one step closer to earning another shot at the Future Shock Championship.

Steph: Not the way she would have wanted it but sometimes taking the high road pays off...  Or you know, letting your opponent take the low. Tomato, to-mato!

Vivi held the back of her head as she backed up the ramp, listening to the crowd support she was getting as Future Shock faded off the air.