ARENA
There's no music, just the bellow of a whisky-charred, chain-smoking voice from behind the curtain:
"OGGY OGGY OGGY!"
A multitude of beer-bellied football hooligans bellow back:
"OI OI OI!"
And out bursts Sybil "Super Sket" Smythe, painfully aware that this is her country and her crowd, scandalously clad in a skimpy 'Catholic school girl' costume with her tits popping most of the way out and a long, carelessly-draped necktie bouncing to and fro off the exuberant sashay of her hips. If an entire body could grin, it's Sybil's, and lasciviously at that. She knows what you're thinking...
And she bloody loves it. "OGGY!" She bellows again, and the crowd oblige with the requisite, "OI!" This goes on for a bit too long, before with a final, "OI OI OIIIIIII!" She calms herself down, flips her hair and gestures for a microphone, tapping it to generate a squeal of feedback before she sway-struts toward the ring, tipping winks at the men who reach out to her and spitting at the ones who don't. The microphone picks up all of the phlegmy noises it can from her poor, stricken throat, and she knows this, too.
SUPER SKET: 'Ello, you bloody beautiful bastards. Did you miss me?
The crowd knows what she wants, and most of them scream, "FUCK NO!!" Louder than the simps can do the exact thing Sybil's not really trying to achieve, here. She grins all the wider, and picks something out of her teeth, flicking it into the front row.
SUPER SKET: Thought so, you dirty fuckers. So alright, ya wankers, we're out 'ere to discuss 'ow this, ravishing, 'ome-wrecking, scintillatin' behemoth of a brazen bombshell--
The response is mixed cheers and boos... and a rain of trash that she dances through the middle of, hips a-writhing.
SUPER SKET: --
ain't your main event, cuz that skeezy fuck-faced so-called 'champion' and that other, skeezy, fuck-faced, so-called 'champion' with a bloody dead badger glued to 'is ugly mug... they're yer main event, yeah? The fuck is that about?
"WE JUST WORK HERE!"
clap-clap-clapclapclap "WE JUST WORK HERE!"
SUPER SKET: YOU AIN'T WORKED A DAY IN YER MISERABLE LIVES! AhaHahahaHAHAhurrrrr!
Her laugh is horrible. It's really bad. It ends with like, a camel inhaling a Camel? And choking on it? Someone shut her up.
SUPER SKET: Nah really though, shut it, I wanna see who the fuck is this fuckin'
low-rent skank who reckons she deserves not only to 'ave a match with me, your rightful challenger to the only belt that bloody matters, but also reckons she deserves to come out after me? And 'ave music? Uhhh, management, 'ello? I ain't 'ad music ever!? The only music these luvverly arseholes get to 'ear is my beautiful lips smacking and remindin' 'em of their muvvers!
Boo! Boo this woman! She mentioned your
mums!
SUPER SKET: Yeah, yeah, shut up and play 'er stupid ethnic music or whatever.
BIG MOUTH MINDY: The following contest--
SUPER SKET: OGGY OGGY OGGY!
Sybil cuts off the woman, the myth, the legend, and the crowd try to do their bit back but Mindy ain't having none of that fuckery.
BIG MOUTH MINDY: IS FOR ONE FALL! PLEASE WELCOME, FROM ANYWHERE BUT THIS MISERABLE, DAMP ISLAND... ARAÑA! OSCURAAAAAA!
SINGLES MATCH
SUPER SKET vs. ARAÑA OSCURA
The former Destructora, and recently-anointed
Super Destructora on a two-match winning streak stumbles out under the bright lights, catching her breath as she pauses to look back and realizes - she's alone, for the first time ever. There's no parade of rough, tough Mexican sisters to back her up - and no Peregrina Loca to tell her it'll be okay. Sisterless, motherless, she stands alone.
Momentarily, she toys with a braid of her hair, and then slowly smiles, her confidence growing as the beat picks up and many of the crowd rally behind the clear babyface. It may be an unruly crowd full of oiks, but they love pro wrestling - and nothing says pro wrestling like the perpetual underdog finding her feet. Like the bad girl who finds her way, and comes good.
Oscura breaks into a dash, Smythe already backing across the ring, begging off the Mexican girl as she slides under the bottom rope, leaps up with a grin of her own and dives at the other woman with an explosive dropsault! She springs up from all fours, spins and catches her opponent careening off the ropes with a quickly-improvised rolling wheel kick. Super Sket smashes the mat with her hands, frantically scampering away as she over-sells the move with a look of utter shock and horror on her face.
"FUCKIN' NAH!" She screams, trying to ward off the re-encroaching Araña with an outstretched hand, then socking her in the groin with a fierce straight punch. It's the Brit's turn to pounce to her feet, laughing maniacally as she does a little scuttle-step and then whips out a solid karate side kick, driving the speedster back into the middle of the ring. "WA-TAAA~!" Shrieks the hellish schoolgirl, pulling herself into a crane stance before skipping forward and kicking Oscura in the shins until she falls over. She grabs a handful of hair, holds up the adhesive hot pink nails on her left hand like five deadly razors, and employs them like claws, to the rookie's favorite face!
DICK DELAURIER: It was looking good for Pera's protégé, but they know how to build wicked brawlers in the United Kingdom. Sybil Smythe may be a nasty, rancid kind of woman, but she's also a wily veteran who knows how to get ahead.
FIONA METZ: Please. I bet she doesn't even know how to
give head.
DICK DELAURIER: I'm not one to judge a book by its cover, but--
FIONA METZ: But she looks like a horrid slut? Dick, how could you.
DICK DELAURIER: I DIDN'T SAY THAT! Anyway, I thought you'd like her. Isn't she your type?
FIONA METZ: Sure, I guess she's a bit like PJ Lemon. If she was
shit and had bad breath.
Araña is taking a battering, but she manages to wriggle herself into position to hit a smart, Pera-esque scissor-leg on her tormentor, plunging her face-first to the canvas, then leaping over to seize a headlock - not her forte, and she's struggling to keep it locked in, as Sybil (demonstrating immaculate core strength for such a sloppy bitch) manages to seize a counter-grip and surge with slow, ponderous power to her feet, breaking off the comeback with a big, messy back body drop that sets the ring to shuddering!
Oscura is winded, and tries to scramble, only to have her legs entwined, pulled into a sharp Indian deathlock, which is turned over into a Muta lock to a bit of a ripple through the crowd. Smythe has chops to back up her karate kicks, and Oscura is in trouble!
The official asks for the submission, and the plucky rookie shakes her head no, letting out a whimper as she surges for the bottom rope, missing it by an inch before she strives again - getting a finger so, so close... until Smythe spots her lingering hand. "I bloody SAID," she barks, twisting out of the hold momentarily to drag Araña back into the middle of the ring, "NO-- WHAT?!" Her authoritative tone turns to alarm, as Oscura uses the pressure shift to twist around, getting her hands flat to the canvas and erupting into an acrobatic up-kick that rebounds her into a flop, landing beside the ropes and pulling herself to her feet, breathing hard.
Sybil scrambles upright too, looking incensed, and charges in for a flurry of chops, but eats a twisting front kick to the midsection, teeped backwards with a snarl. She feints lunging in, and Oscura feints too - faking a second teep, only to bounce off the ropes into a beautiful spin, wiping the sneer off the brash Brit's lips with a SMASHING discus back elbow!
FIONA METZ: Say what you want about Araña Oscura, and I do, but she can take a licking.
DICK DELAURIER: I am not taking that bait.
FIONA METZ: Oh, please, I'm not always thinking about
that.
DICK DELAURIER: Yes you are.
FIONA METZ: I really am.
Oscura looks to the crowd, who cheer her on, as she heads to the top rope, drawing in a slow breath and posing up there for a moment before shooting for a 450. Round and around she goes, to a pretty solid pop, and then a mighty groan from the same, disappointed lips as Super Sket rolls clean out of the way, giving another Camel-choking-camel laugh as she wriggles upright and bounces her hips from side-to-side, dancing like some kind of syphilitic Spice Girl for a bit as she watches Araña recover from her self-inflicted pain.
But only for a bit, because a moment later she's soccer kicking her right in the face, to another bellow of, "OGGY!"
"OIIIIIII!" Respond the crowd, just because it's fun to do, and Araña Oscura just looks
betrayed as she's mounted by Smythe, who wastes little time in hammering her with clubbing blows, before spinning out into an armbar - with a twist, because sometime during the fracas she's wriggled a foot free from its boot, and rather than keep Oscura down with both legs, she jams the toes of one foot into her
goddamn mouth. Betrayed was bad enough, but now the poor greenhorn looks like she's going to be sick...
FIONA METZ: Alright, that's kinda hot.
DICK DELAURIER: It very much is not.
There's a lot of sympathy going around, as everybody seems to forget that Araña Oscura, for all her trying to be good and just, was trained by a real
bitch. She finally gets the pragmatic surge of inspiration to BITE DOWN, and Super Sket screams in-- well, it starts as pain, and then she's moaning and thrashing on the floor as Araña rips at her filthy foot like a rabid dog, wrenching it out of her mouth by force and then scrambling away as Super Sket lies there fanning herself. Oscura blanches, and asks for a water bottle from ringside. Kenny scrambles to provide, and she washes out her mouth, getting distracted by the process and almost not seeing that Smythe is up and slinking in behind her, juking this way and that, hands outstretched like talons.
The crowd cry out like it's a freaking pantomime, and Araña turns just in time to dodge a rake at her eyes, ducking under a second, then eating a knee to the jaw that almost crumples her. She stumbles, but turns it into a wild lurch beneath the psycho schoolgirl, coming up on the other side of the ring with her vision swimming and body struggling to remain conscious from the stiff-ass blow.
Sybil knows what she did, and she turns, licking her lips, holding up her hands to frame Oscura like a picture as she stumbles left and right, ready for a final, knockout blow. Smythe steps in, throws a jab, feints a left hook, then SPINS--
--into a searing knockout tornado kick that's probably won half a dozen karate championships. The crowd gasp! Araña drops under it by a whisker, tumbles, catches a leg on the rebounds and kicks into a somersault that brings her back to her feet behind Smythe. She's not looking at her opponent, as she straightens up, but at a colorful little bracelet on her wrist...
It seems like a distraction, but Araña Oscura is SMILING. She... she's got this?
Everybody is holding their breath, but a moment later, Oscura has spun her web - she seizes an arm, bends Sybil Smythe over in one of the very few ways she probably doesn't
love, and sinks in - for the first time ever in RAZOR Wrestling - her finisher. Oscura's Web! The Octopus Hold is in deep-- but they're close to the ropes... Smythe can almost reach them, bending her least-trapped arm excruciatingly, the angle almost impossible. Almost...
WHAM! Oscura falls backwards, taking her opponent to the floor, still locked in the hold! Sybil Smythe IS FORCED TO TAP!
BIG MOUTH MINDY: Here is your winner, ARAÑA OSCURA!?
FIONA METZ: Yeah, Mindy, I'm as surprised as you are.
DICK DELAURIER: I can't say that I am. The former Destructora has been improving by leaps and bounds, in just a few short weeks we've started to believe - and so has she! Even without Peregrina Loca at her side, but keeping her in her heart, and remembering her lessons, Araña Oscura claims her first singles win and her first win in a row. This could be the start of something special.
FIONA METZ: It won't be.
DICK DELAURIER: You have not a single ounce of love in your heart.
FIONA METZ: Let me be proud of
something, fuck.