||Season 4 Finale|| Tribal Warfare|| Chicago, Illinois ||

• Blaise McClancy
• April 1, 2026
• Events, Super Shows
• season 4, tribal warfare, Warzone
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Segment – Things Start Interesting

The show opens with the camera in the back. Valora Salinas, one of the co-owners, and Chief Production Officer is standing there. She’s facing a group of people, all with striped shirts: the CWF referees. Scott Jones, the senior referee, seems to be speaking for the group. 

Scott Jones – I’m sorry, Ms. Salinas. But we’re all in agreement. The stakes are too high, none of us will do it. It doesn’t matter what you offer. 

Valora pinches the bridge of her nose. 

Valora Salinas – Come on, there is only so much time left before the show, let alone that match. I need a referee. We need a referee. 

The refs all start to speak at the same time, which becomes just a bunch of noise and murmuring. 

The door suddenly opens and in walks Armand Von Krauss. 

Armand Von Krauss – Alright, Ms. Salinas. They said you wanted to talk to me?

Valora turns her body to address Von Krauss. 

Valora Salinas – Well seems we have a problem. No one wants to referee your match tonight. Seems someone has put in their head that if they did and they did anything against you, they’d end up like Clyde Baxter. 

Armand Von Krauss – What gave them that idea?

Scott Jones speaks up. 

Scott Jones – You have, Sir. As such, we are refusing to referee this match up. The stakes are too high. And we’re afraid for our lives if we did any call against you or your team, the nKo. 

Armand glares at the man. 

Armand Von Krauss – Well, one of you has to referee this match. I am still co-owner of the CWF, and will be after the match. Have you offered them a bonus to work the match?

Valora Salinas – Yes. A significant one. 

Armand walks up, passing Jones, and getting closer to Leroy Wallace. 

Armand Von Krauss – What about you, Mr. Wallace?

Armand reaches into his jacket and pulls out a clipped bit of what is unmistakably US Dollars, of a high denomination. 

Armand Von Krauss – You are known to be willing to get some extra pay. 

Leroy doesn’t even put his hand out to take it. 

Leroy Wallace – With all due respect, Mr. Von Krauss. But other than you being in this match, there is also Greg Salazar. This is a hardcore rules match. If he gets wind that I’ve accepted a bribe from you or your team, you know what he’ll do. He’s told you all before, that he’ll pay whatever fines you put against him… So between you and him, I want nothing to do with this match. You couldn’t pay me enough to put myself into that type of danger. 

Armand’s lips turn into a scowl, and he turns to then address Valora. 

Armand Von Krauss – Well then, what do we do?

At that very moment, Valora’s phone dings with an incoming message. 

Valora pulls her phone out and checks the message. 

Valora Salinas – Well, seems someone was watching. I have a volunteer to referee your match.

Armand Von Krauss – Who?

Valora Salinas – I’m not at liberty to say. But as the Chief Production Officer, I need to go deal with the appropriate paperwork. This is, as Leroy pointed out, a hardcore match. Liabilities and insurance and all that. And we’re at show time, so I don’t think we have much of a choice.

Armand Von Krauss – This better not be a setup. 

Valora Salinas – I assure you, he will very likely be the most down the middle referee we could get on short notice. 

Armand Von Krauss – I guess it will have to do. 

And at that the camera cuts to the opening of the show… 

Show Open

The CWF Patented Drone Fly By starts up flying around the crowd as the show starts up. 

The graphic shows on the screen that 21,438 fans have joined the CWF live in the United Center in Chicago, Illinois. The Drones do a couple of passes around the crowd as the voice over from the announcers starts up. 

One thing they make sure to pick up is the Insurgency Cage that is already setup around the ring. 

Ben Price – Good evening and welcome to the end of Season 4 for the Conquest Wrestling Federation. We’re here in Chi-town at the United Center to bring you Tribal Warfare and while we ONLY have 3 matches for you tonight, we do have three bangers. But it all started in the Vanguard Pre-show: Wardrums… Where Akame McClancy won the Valor Championship from Mozzy Rella. But that’ll all continue tonight with three matches of huge importance to the CWF.

Eddie Vega – And it’s all going to start in a little bit with that monstrosity that you see around our main primary ring right now. And that is the Insurgency Cage, of which Eoin O’Rourke and Steve Murdock will be bringing a war to each other!

Ben Price – We’ll get to a recap bit on that match for you shortly. But after that will be maybe the most important match of the Season. Tribal Warfare. Two teams, two rings, one cage around them. One team fighting for and with Armand Von Krauss to keep his part of the CWF, and maybe win part of another company. The other team, Bad Company joining with Jeremiah Vastrix. Winner takes all… partial ownership of the CWF and that other company not affiliated with Wrestling.

Eddie Vega – Huge changes could be in store for the CWF. If Bad Company wins… new ownership. If the nKo win, you know Armand Von Krauss will just turn into a dictator, and will be able to remake the CWF in his image, fully. 

Ben Price – You mean like he tried to do in Season 2? 

Eddie Vega – Yes. 

Ben Price – And our main event tonight. The match we have all been waiting for since teh Lunar Warfare Rumble. Samael Drago gets his shot at the CWF Conquest Championship currently held in a record breaking run by Abigail Dresden. 

Eddie Vega – Could have a new owner tonight, and a new Conquest Champion. No time like the present, right? Let’s get to it. Tribal Warfare.

Ben Price – Well before we get started here, let’s go to a recap package on the feud between Steve Murdock and Eoin O’Rourke that is leading to the insurgency Steel Cage Match between these two tonight. 

Segment – Murdock/O’Rourke Feud Recap

Imperfect Eternity take their places on the stage behind their respective instruments, as lead singer Katherine McDaniels steps up to the microphone, smiling and waving to the crowd of cheering CWF fans. The ConquestTron cuts on, with somber music playing in the background. Eoin O’Rourke’s face begins to appear slowly, followed by Steve Murdock’s on the opposite side. Alex Nelson’s face begins to fade in, directly between the two. Three steel cages cover each of their faces, before suddenly tearing apart. After a brief moment of darkness, footage from War Zone Season 4 Episode 6, with the date of October 16th, 2025 flashing across the screen – the day Steve Murdock met his son for the first time.

Alex Nelson – “Steve? Steve Murdock?”

Alex Nelson is shown embracing Steve Murdock, taking him by surprise.

Alex Nelson – “I’m sorry. My name is Alex. Alex Nelson. I’m your son!”

Steve is shown sitting down as Alex puts his hand on his shoulder in comfort. The two are seen continuing to talk.

Steve Murdock – “You’re going to watch from backstage as I take Eoin apart. I don’t want to risk you getting hurt.”

Steve stands up, ruffling his fingers through Alex’s hair in a fatherly gesture.

Steve Murdock – “I’ll see you after the match, boy.”

Steve is shown leaving the locker room, as the video fades out. The cameras cut back to the stage, where Imperfect Eternity fire up their instruments, with the opening riff of their exclusive song – “Insurgency Steel Cage”.

The ConquestTron lights back up, as highlights are shown of Eoin and Steve’s ferocious battle in a Hardcore match later that night. The two are seen trading blows with a chair and a kendo stick, the crowd roaring with a mixed reaction. Murdock is shown hurling a trash can at O’Rourke, with the image of a sick smile coming across his bloody face. Murdock is then shown stuffing the trash can over Murdock’s upper body, repeatedly striking it with a barbed wired kendo stick, before delivering a match ending Death Valley Drive to the outside through a table – Eoin’s body still trapped inside. Both men are shown struggling to answer the referee’s ten count in their own ways, with Murdock failing to pull himself up, and O’Rourke barely managing to remove the trash can. CWF ring announcer Eric Wilson’s declaration of the match being declared a draw is heard echoing, with a shot of both men laying on the outside in the ruins of their vicious battle.

On the stage, as the music kicks into full gear, Katherine McDaniels begins to belt out the words.

Metal screams in the air so cold!

Chains rattle like tales untold

Eoin and Steve in the cage of doom!

One will rise the other’s tomb

Various shots of different points during Steve Murdock and Eoin O’Rourke’s feud are shown – ranging from O’Rourke attacking Murdock with a steel chair after his victory against Andrew Nero on War Zone Season 4 Episode 7: Milwaukee Mayhem, Pt. 2, to Murdock returning the favor on Vanguard Season 4 Episode 8 – with the mysterious lowering of the enormous structure of the Insurgency Steel Cage down to the ring during Eoin’s match against Miguel Lanza, with Murdock appearing after the cage landed on the floor, attacking O’Rourke after the win. The two are seen fighting in the cage, both giving each other a taste of their own medicine with strikes from a kendo stick.

The chorus begins to build up, as Katherine begins to dance in sync to the band’s rhythm.

Who will fall?

Who will fly?

In the chaos reaching the sky!

Thrown from the top of the steel divide

Only the strong survive!

The ConquestTron continues to play the video, now showing footage from Warzone Season 4 Episode 8: Tribes Form. Steve Murdock is seen defeating “Zolothach” Tabitha Osborne in a Black Friday Brawl, paying the price of war as both were stretchered out by EMT’s. Eoin O’Rourke is shown walking out of the entrance way, kicking Murdock’s stretcher off the ramp, attacking the EMT’s attempting to come to the aid of the fallen Hardcore Icon.

As the chorus wraps up, Katherine and Imperfect Eternity continue to vibe to the tunes. Katherine suddenly comes in with the next verse.

Three tiers where legends dare!

The crowd chants, loud fire in the glare!

Every punch, every slam, echoes deep

The fall’s a promise no one can keep!

The kidnapping of Alex Nelson by Eoin O’Rourke is seen from Vanguard Season 4 Episode 9, as Eoin attackedAlex after his victory over Mysterion, busting him open with a steel chair. O’Rourke is shown placing the bleeding Alex in the corner of the ring, wrapping him in lights and forcing him to watch as Eoin defeated Abel in a Hardcore match, taunting Alex as he delivered the beating to his opponent. Footage from Vanguard Season 4 Episode 10 is then shown, with Steve Murdock returning to action as both he and Eoin competed in the Scramble match for the CWF Valor Championship. Murdock is seen immediately attacking Eoin as the match began, and also pinning O’Rourke during the affair, scoring more falls than his rival. The two are shown costing each other pinfalls at various times, as well as them both crashing into Akame McClancy to break up a pinfall, so enraged in their war that they both lost sight of what was ultimately at stake.

The second verse comes roaring to an end, with Katherine immediately going back into the chorus.

Who will fall?

Who will fly?

In the chaos reaching the sky!

Thrown from the top of the steel divide

Only the strong survive!

The video goes back to War Zone Season 4 Episode 7, as the music slows down. The footage shows Eoin O’Rourke making the challenge for the match, his haunting words playing over the lowered music.

Eoin O’Rourke – “I think it’s about time I put an end to your game Murdock. At Tribal Warfare, I challenge you to a match you’ve never had! A match you’ve never heard of! A match that only ends with someone taking out the trash! I challenge you! To the Insurgency Steel Cage match!”

A wide shot shows various angles of the unforeseen structure, as CWF commentators Ben Price and Eddie Vega heard wondering what the match will entail. The music begins to pick back up, as Katherine goes into the bridge.

Glory waits at the mountain’s peak!

The screams of war, the victory’s streak

But the edge is sharp, the plunge is near!
The steel decides who lives in fear

The footage shifts to Warzone Season 4 Episode 10, showing Eoin O’Rourke in a hotel room with Alex Nelson tied up in a chair, taunting his rival’s son and challenging his nemesis to come find them. Steve Murdock is then seen watching the scene from the very same hotel, busting in rooms in search of his kidnapped son. Murdock is shown finally entering the room where his son is being held captive, advancing towards them with a kendo stick when a cattle prod floors him. Elizabeth Devereaux-O’Rourke is seen emerging from the bathroom, standing over the fallen Murdock with her husband, who subsequently contacted the police in order to have his foe put in jail.

As the bridge winds down, Katherine picks her voice up one final time.

Who will fall?

Who will fly?

In the chaos reaching the sky!

Thrown from the top of the steel divide

Only the strong survive!

The video closes with various shots of the attacks during the months-long battle. As the song winds down, Katherine’s last notes hang in the air as the final shot is shown – the shattered image of the faces of Eoin O’Rourke, Steve Murdock, and Alex Nelson behind the three cages suddenly coming back together in repairment.

As the music came to a halt, a round of thunderous applause from the CWF faithful rang out through the United Center. Katherine McDaniels bowed and blew kisses to the crowd, mouthing the words ‘thank you’.

Singles Match – Insurgency Steel Cage – “The Hardcore Icon” Steve Murdock -vs- “The Irish Assassin” Eoin O’rourke

The house lights dim, and spotlights form on the ring as the Insurgency Steel Cage is lowered to the floor, surrounding both wrestling rings that have been set up for the night. The crowd cheers the dark, glistening metal of the cage until they see that it has a passenger in the top cage that is locked in with a padlock.

Alex Nelson. 

Ben Price – This is it. The Insurgency Steel Cage. Steve and Eoin will climb to the top of the cage, and one of them will be thrown off the cage in order to win the match. 

Eddie Vega – I can’t believe that there is such a match. It’s beyond belief.

Ben Price – I wouldn’t mind finding the person who created this match and kick him in the teeth. 

Eddie Vega – I have to agree with you. Being inside the steel cage would be bad enough, but to have to throw them from the cage top? That’s pure insanity.

Eric Wilson – The following contest is the Insurgency Steel Cage! The winner of the match is the one who throws the other from the top of the steel cage! Introducing first the challenger, weighing in at 220 pounds…he is Steve Murdock!

“Walk” by Pantera begins playing as Steve Murdock walks out from the back to stand at the entrance stage with his barbed wire wrapped kendo stick in hand. The crowd cheers him on as he looks to the top cage of the Insurgency Steel Cage to see his son. He sets his face in a look of determination and practically marches to the ring. Officials let him in through the door to one of the rings, and he climbs to the top rope, raising his kendo stick in the air to get more cheering from the crowd. He looks less at the crowd and more at his son, two cages above him. 

Ben Price – Steve is going to be focused on getting his son back. How can he focus on winning the match?

Eddie Vega – He better focus on winning the match or else learn how to fly real quick.

Eric Wilson – And his opponent, weighing in at 245 pounds…he is Eoin O’Rourke! 

Lights dim in the arena as guitar rifts in the arena. Then, as “Fear The Irish Light” by Battlescars reaches a high point

“WOAHHHHHHHH!

WOAH OH OH OH!

WOAHHHHHHHH!

GO!!”

A sole light shines on the stage, with Eoin O’Rourke kneeling on the stage with his eyes closed, with one hand over his knee

“Ancient echoes through the breeze,

Power flowing through my veins.”

Eoin rises to his feet, standing, and roars out to the crowd

“I rise up now upon my knees

I am one with all of thee.”

Eoin pounds his chest and begins marching down the ramp

“The Irish Hitman, that’s my call

To those who fight me, you will fall

I will not ever fail

I will be the one standing tall.”

Eoin makes it to ringside, and he stands in front of the caged double ring. He stretches his arms, fists clenched, and makes his way through the cage door and up the ringsteps.  

“You who I face, prepare yourself

For I am coming to treat myself

Through my ever-growing power

The Celtic Gods will devour!”

Eoin then climbs the turnbuckle and looks around him, roaring in a shout to the crowd

“Fear the Irish Light So Bold 

Tales of Legends never told 

Through my power I unfold

Tales of legends never old”

Eoin jumps off the turnbuckles into the ring and stomps around the ring, snarling towards the crowd with his one eye, gleaming towards them

“With the power of the gods

They will even all odds 

So rise up now and stand

Through your voices we will win!!”

Eoin practically tears his jacket off and flexes his arms to prepare for the match.

Ben Price – Eoin has the advantage here since he has Alex locked away.

Eddie Vega – I think that is the point. Eoin wants the advantage in this match since it is so dangerous. 

As the bell sounds to start the match, Steve and Eoin meet in the center of the left ring. 

Steve Murdock – My son has nothing to do with this! Let him go, and we can battle it out!

Eoin O’Rourke – Alex has everything to do with this! His future, yours, mine…all intertwined today.

Steve slams Eoin in the side of the head with a hard right hand, knocking him back a step. Eoin fires off with one of his own, and the brawl is on. They go back and forth, striking each other with their fists and blocking shots as best as they can. Steve gains the advantage and whips Eoin toward the ropes between the rings. On the rebound, Steve takes him down with a mighty clothesline that nearly sends Eoin for a flip. Steve gets in a few kicks before he heads to the wall of the cage. He looks up to see the trap door to the outside of the second level and begins to climb. 

Ben Price – Steve already heading for his objective. 

Eddie Vega – It might cost him. 

Eoin gets up quickly and runs to the cage wall, starting to climb it as well. He grabs Steve by the back of the head and slams his face into the cage wall before releasing him and letting him fall to the ring apron. Eoin drops down, curb stomping Steve’s face into the ring apron in a move that draws blood as Steve’s nose nearly flattens to his skull from the impact! Eoin pulls Steve up and slams the back of his head into the steel cage! He then steps through the ropes to the inside of the ring, reaching back to grab Steve by the head and drop his throat across the top rope! Steve bounces back into the steel cage and drops to the ring apron. 

Eoin O’Rourke – Steve, you’re soft. It’s time your son sees that. 

Steve Murdock – Fuck…you!

Steve gets back to his feet and begins climbing the cage.

Eoin O’Rourke – Going up already? Fine. Have it your way. 

Eoin starts climbing up the side of the cage as well, but Steve kicks him in the face to knock him back down to the ring apron. Steve gets up to the trap door and opens it up while Eoin gets back onto the wall, a gash on the side of his face where Steve stomped on his face. Steve ignores the trap door instead of closing it, focusing instead on the middle cage that he begins to climb the outside of.

Ben Price – Steve is ignoring the fight and going to save his son!

Eddie Vega – I don’t know if that’s the best idea in the world. 

Eoin O’Rourke gets to the trap door and onto the top of the first cage. He shuts the trap door loudly, causing Steve to glance down before redoubling his efforts to get to the top of the middle cage. 

Eoin starts climbing the middle cage as Steve gets to the top of the middle cage. Steve ignores Eoin and walks over to the padlocked door that keeps him from his son. Alex goes to the door. 

Alex Nelson – Dad! 

Steve Murdock – Stay back, Alex! 

Alex steps back from the door as Steve starts kicking it to break the padlock. He kicks the door several times before Alex points behind him. 

Alex Nelson – Dad! Look out! 

Steve turns around to get speared into the door by Eoin O’Rourke! 

Ben Price – Now they are nearly to the top of the cage. Does victory count from being tossed off from here?

Eddie Vega – I think it counts from anywhere on top of the cage. 

Eoin grabs the door for leverage as he gets up and kicks Steve in the ribcage a few times before Steve hits a low blow and shoves Eoin off of the side of the steel cage to the lower level with a crash. 

Ben Price – Did Steve just win the match?

Eddie Vega – I think he has to go all the way to the floor where stacks of tables have been set up around the cage. 

Ben Price – Damn, ok. 

Eddie Vega – If Steve wants to win the match, he’s going to have to go down there and get Eoin. 

Steve gets back to his feet and begins to kick the door some more, but Alex yells at him. 

Alex Nelson – Dad! Beat Eoin first! 

Steve kicks the door one more time before he stops and presses his forehead to the door as Alex mirrors the motion. 

Steve Murdock – I’ll be right back. 

Steve watches Eoin slowly gets up and leaps from the second cage to tackle him to the cage roof, nearly taking them both off of the cage itself. 

Ben Price – Geeze, this match nearly ended in a draw right there.

Eddie Vega – I’m sure they would have watched the replay to see which one landed first. 

Steve Murdock gets up first and slams Eoin in the side of the face a few times with a hard right hand, knocking him back into a lying position each time Eoin tries to get up. Blood drips down to the ring below from the gash on the side of Eoin’s face that Steve reopens with his punches. 

Eoin gets a leg up between him and shoves Steve back against the middle cage wall. Eoin gets up, sliding his hand into a pair of brass knuckles. Steve comes at him for an attack, but Eoin blasts him in the side of the face with the brass knuckles, sending him back against the middle cage wall. 

Eoin O’Rourke – Pathetic. You thought you could just come in here and free your son? Not do what yo need to do? What kind of father are you?

Eoin goes to punch Steve again, but the brass kuckled fist is caught by Steve, who grits his teeth against the pain of the impact. Steve pulls Eoin into a headbutt that staggers the Irishman backward a few steps, but Steve doesn’t let go of the brass knuckled fist and inflicts another short-arm headbutt! He grabs Eoin by the back of the head and turns with him to slam him face first into the steel cage wall! 

Steve Murdock – I’m doing the best that I can! 

Ben Price – That was some impact!

Eddie Vega – I’d be surprised if either of these two warriors come out from this match with all their teeth!

The brass knuckles slip off of Eoin’s hand and fall through the cage roof to the ring below. Steve hits a German suplex, nearly tossing Eoin from the top of the cage! Eoin slips off of the cage, grabbing the cage roof with one hand. As he hangs there, Steve walks over and slowly steps on Eoin’s hand. 

Eoin reaches up with his other hand and grabs Steve by the ankle and pulls him down so that Steve is hanging by a single arm. Eoin climbs up to the cage roof and looks down. 

Eoin O’Rourke – Now, where were we?

Steve gets his other hand onto the steel cage roof and starts pulling himself up, but Eoin kicks him in the face. 

Eoin O’Rourke – I (kick) have had (kick) enough (kick) of you (kick!)

The last kick sends Steve Murdock from the side of the steel cage through a stack of tables.

Eric Wilson – Winner of the match…Eoin O’Rourke! 

Eoin looks down at the fallen Steve for a time before he climbs to the top of the middle cage and opens the door to the top cage with a key to the padlock. 

Eoin O’Rourke – Now, you can go down there and join your father…or you can join me and the Dynast Era. 

Alex responds by punching Eoin in the gut and spinning him around to hit a Full Nelson Driver onto the cage roof in a move he calls the Full Alex! Once Eoin is out cold, Alex begin climbing down the side of the steel cage to the floor to check on his father. 

Ben Price – Steve didn’t win, but he didn’t lose his son.

Eddie Vega – That match was something else! 

Ben Price – We are going to take a break and go back to Katherine McDaniels and the Imperfect Eternity while the War Games match is being set up. 

Eddie Vega – It’s going to be some match. Who will win?

The camera cuts to the Insurgency Steel Cage being lifted up out of the way and then moved to a secure area where there are no seats for the fans next to the stage. From the other side of the stage a person opens up that storage area and someone gets into a large golf cart like vehicle hooked up to the ring to start moving it into place. 

Segment – Pre-Wargames Performance

Ben Price – Okay, ladies and gentlemen. We’re going to have Katherine McDaniels perform for you on the main stage while we have our team quickly get things set up for the Tribal Warfare Match up! 

Eric Wilson – And presenting our live entertainment for the evening on the second stage…Katherine McDaniels and the Imperfect Eternity! 

We go over to the entrance stage where a second stage has been set up to accommodate the band. Katherine McDaniels waves to the crowd, who cheer her on. 

Ben Price – Some mild work needs to be done to get the ring ready for the War Games match.

Eddie Vega – Anything to get Katherine McDaniels back out! 

Tribal Warfare Match & Elite Championship – New Kharnival Order w/ Armand Von Krauss -vs- Bad Company w/ Jeremiah Vastrix

Ben Price – And the extra ring has been brought into place, and the second cage structure of the night is being moved into place. We’re about to decide the future of the CWF. 

Eddie Vega – While there are others involved, the most simple part of this match: Armand Von Krauss’ shares of the CWF are on the line, versus Jerimiah Vastrix’s shares of the Warhammer Corporation. And its winner takes all.

Ben Price – And the teams? Well, Armand Von Krauss has the nKo with Madd Morales, Gabriel Tuck, and Trelisa Perrault. All of his cronies, with him being the owner and sponsor of the New Kharnival Order. 

Eddie Vega – And on the other side, three people who started in defiance of Von Krauss, who long ago swore to try to get rid of him. That being Bad Company, the Reinhardts, and Greg Salazar. Who, I don’t even get fully why they’re doing this. But, they’re the ones that Vastrix was able to get. Very mercenary of them. 

Ben Price – Hey, that may be. But it might have been two things: be in a historic match for the CWF and have a chance to get rid of Armand Von Krauss in the CWF.  That might be enough. We don’t know fully. 

Eddie Vega – What we do know is that this is two rings, and a cage around both of them. There is a metal frame that goes down between the rings, and around the ring aprons… no path to the floor. There is a door on each side to come in and out of when you enter and after you’re eliminated. We have stitch standing by for anyone who is injured. Because, this is also for Greg Salazar’s Elite championship. So this is a hardcore rules match. Weapons are in the ring, and you can bring things in with you. 

Ben Price – And that’s one thing there, we have been told that the Elite Championship is on the line. If Greg Salazar is pinned or forced to submit, then that person becomes the champion… fully… but we have been told that the title is on the line the entire match. So say Madd Morales wins the title quickly in the match, if he gets pinned, he will lose the title, and that person is now the champion. So the final person in the match tonight, who wins it for their team will also be the Elite Champion. 

Eddie Vega – Well, that’s as much as we can explain… but looks like Eric Wilson is ready to get this match started. 

The camera now goes to one of the rings. There are now two rings side by side, and the metal frame around them that connects to a huge covered cage going around them. 

Eric Wilson – Ladies and gentleman, the following match up is a first in CWF History. This is a WARGAMES match, hereby titled as the key TRIBAL WARFARE match in the CWF. This will have two teams of 4 people in a hardcore elimination match inside this cage. The captain of each team has put up something in a winner takes all situation. 

On one hand, Armand Von Krauss has put up his shares of ownership of the CWF. Against that is Jeremiah Vastrix’s shares and board seat with the Warhammer Corporation. 

Ben Price – Really looking forward to this getting started. 

Eddie Vega – Me too, but still one more question: Who is the referee?

Ben Price – Oh, that’s right!

Eric Wilson – Coming out first. The team captained by Jeremiah Vastrix. His team is composed of the stable known as Bad Company: Kronin Reinhardt, Kara Reinhardt, and the CWF Elite Champion, “The Paragon” Gregory Salazar!

Five Finger Death Punch’s version of “Bad Company” starts to play through the arena. Out walk all three members of Bad Company. First Kronin, then Kara and then Greg Salazar with the Elite Title over his shoulder. 

All three are wearing their combat BDU style pants, matching ballistics vests, and combat boots. 

They stand there for a moment as the crowd gives them a cheer. 

Ben Price – All three in Bad Company coming out in unison. 

Eddie Vega – Well we know this is a lie. Kara Reinhardt really wants that Elite Title back. She’s going to go all cut throat on them, and let Salazar get pinned, and then take the title back for herself. 

Ben Price – You don’t know that.

Eddie Vega – No, but it’s what I would do. 

A moment later, Kronin motions for someone else to join them on stage, and out walks Jeremiah Vastrix. He’s wearing matching gear. He takes Kronin’s hand on that side, and they all raise their hands in the air… well Kronin is limited by Vastrix’s height. 

Fireworks go off behind them, and then they all start to walk down to the ring. 

Ben Price – This is the team that has a chance to get rid of Armand Von Krauss. 

Eddie Vega – And I assure you, Jeremiah Vastrix will not be much better. 

The quartet walks around the dual, cage covered rings, and then enters the cage through their door on the opposite side. They quickly start to move around the ring, and play up a bit to the crowd in different areas, while also checking the cage’s integrity.

Eric Wilson – And introducing next, the team captained by Armand Von Krauss. They are all from the New Kharnival Order: Gabriel Tuck, Trelissa Perrault and “The Airdevil” Madd Morales!

”Circus Apocalypse” by Vermillion Lies starts to play over the PA system in the arena. First onto the stage through the tunnel is Gabriel Tuck, followed by Trelisa Perrault and then Madd Morales. They also stand there for a moment, to the boos of the crowd. 

But the boos at the start are nothing compared for the moment that Armand Von Krauss walked out, in the rare wrestling gear. This quartet then heads down to the ring. Their entrance is right in front of the rampway, and they climb right in. 

Bad Company seems to go to their side, and ‘circle the wagons’ around Jeremiah Vastrix, while the nKo do their checks on the cage. 

A few moments later, some ring attendants come out from the side of the ramp, pulling a large wagon loaded up with trashcans filled with various weapons and implements to use as weapons.

Ben Price – Well that’s everyone for this match except for one question still unanswered.

Eddie Vega – Yeah, who the hell can referee this match? 

Suddenly, Valora Salinas comes out onto the stage. 

Valora Salinas – Hey, hey. Armand. Before you get onto the microphone and start to demand things or anything like that. I’ve come out to make sure this is taken care of. 

She stops,  looks around at the crowd and grins. 

The crowd starts to murmur, some cheering with anticipation of her maybe refereeing the match. 

Ben Price – Is she going to be the referee?

Eddie Vega – Look, we know she was also part of the anti-Von Krauss crusade with Rob Riot. But not even she would try to put that one over here. She threatened to join their team if they needed it. But I doubt she’d try to referee. 

Valora Salinas – No, no. As much as I’d like to take part in this. If I did, then Von Krauss would tie this up in the courts for years claiming we conspired against him. No, I’ve had a volunteer to referee this match and someone that even Armand knows that when he says he’ll be impartial and ref this match down the middle, he will. I guess lets get to this. Eric, the handler is giving you a notecard now. 

A ring attendant hands Eric Wilson a notecard through the cage. Eric then takes his position again to start announcing. 

Valora Salinas – It’s only fitting that he be here for this. Eric, all yours. And,  you can play his music now…

Eric Wilson – And now, introducing the special guest referee for this match-up… 

“Save Yourself” by Stabbing Westward starts to play. 

Eddie Vega – Wait, that’s the OTHER owner’s music.

Eric Wilson – He hails from Alamagordo, New Mexico. And he is one of the owners of the CWF. 

G. Ian Childress steps out onto the stage, high-fiving Valora Salinas as she’s leaving through the tunnel. He’s wearing one bit of his old wrestling gear, black hakama-style pants. The type used in martial arts competitions for judo and aikido. But he’s also wearing a CWF referee’s shirt that has had the sleeves cut off. 

The crowd cheers, not having heard this song in a long time. One of the ring attendants opens the cage, and Mr. Childress slips into the cage. Eric Wilson hands him the microphone and the third owner of the federation addresses everyone, but looking towards Armand. The camera flashes to Armand who does not look to be happy at this outcome. 

G. Ian Childress – I know, I know, Armand. But I can ease your worries. I know you’d complain that I helped train one of the combatants on the other side of the ring from you. BUT… you also know that I cannot break a vow if I make it. So you, Armand, and everyone else in this contest: You all have my word that I will not show any favoritism while this match is going on. I will call it down the middle in accordance with the agreed upon rules. Of which there are very few. May the best team, and by virtue of that, the best team captain… Win. 

Ben Price – I’m not sure what that all was about, but Armand Von Krauss is actually smiling at that now. 

Eddie Vega – Apparently, it was a good choice then. 

Childress looks between both teams.

G. Ian Childress – But I am also an owner. And while Bad Company has the Advantage of numbers. I’m going to make an executive decision here… an alteration on this match-up. While it’ll start 1 on 1, and then someone enters from alternating teams, every 3 minutes, starting with Bad Company. BUT… the change. I will count no pinfalls until every person from every team is in the ring. If the match is too much for you, then I’ll have no problems letting you tap out or give up to get out of the match. But that’s the easy way out. 

Eddie Vega – Wait? No pinfalls until every man and woman is in this match-up? That takes one tool out from Bad Company. They can’t double-team someone at the start and pin them early to eliminate them early. 

Ben Price – Well, they can still convince them to give up and get out of the match. Mostly because our insurance probably wouldn’t like it if someone was begging to get out of the match and you forced them to stay in it. 

Eddie Vega – Corporate overlords outside our company telling us what to do. But I guess this couldn’t be for all the marbles if it was an unsanctioned match up.

Ben Price – Very true.

G. Ian Childress – Alright… let’s do this! May the best team win! Please choose your first entrants and the rest go to their respective outside staging area.

Both teams exit through their respective cage door. And the screen shows a split screen. 

Armand points to Gabriel Tuck and then to the ring. Gabriel nods and heads into the ring. The rest of the nKo then slip into the staging area, also a smaller cage and the door is shut by an attendant. 

Ben Price – Armand just choosing Gabriel Tuck to take the first entry. Which means he’s the one who will be against two members of Bad Company eventually. 

Eddie Vega – He is the one who could take that beating for a little bit. 

The other side shows Bad Company and Vastrix form up a huddle. They seem to talk for a moment, and then Vastrix turns to go to the ring. But Kara Reinhardt reaches out and grabs his shoulder. She then moves past him, heading up to the ring to be the first entrant. 

Ben Price – And Bad Company looks to have had a volunteer or two. But one of them is making sure she starts this off. Kara Reinhardt is getting things started. 

Eddie Vega – I kinda feel sorry for Tuck here. He’s gotta deal with the one that some call dommy mommy of the CWF for 3 minutes, then someone like her twin brother could come in and just make it so much worse for him. 

Ben Price – But he can’t be pinned until the rest of his team is in there. 

As soon as both Tuck and Kara Reinhardt are in the ring, Ian calls them to the middle of the ring on Bad Company’s side. He does the proper breakdown of the rules, and then signals for the bell. And immediately signals for the 3-minute timer to start. 

A timer flashes up onto the large screen over the stage, as well as a smaller timer, in synch, over Bad Company’s staging cage. 

DING! DING!

Gabriel Tuck and Kara Reinhardt get to the center of the ring and stare each other down. Gabriel just smirks.

Gabriel Tuck – The best first out the gate, eh?

Kara Reinhardt – If the best came out first, why are you here?

Gabriel Tuck – Oh, you bitch! 

Gabriel takes a swing at Kara, who blocks it with one hand and hits a backfist with the other. She holds onto the fist and hits several punches before pulling Gabriel into a short-armed clothesline!

Ben Price – Gabriel leading off with his mouth. Big shock there. 

Eddie Vega – And he’s paying for it like normal. 

Kara goes to stomp Gabriel in the chest when he catches her by the foot and kicks her other shin to take her down to her knees. He gets up and grabs her for a front face lock while she’s on her knees, but she pulls his legs out from under him and brings down a knife-edge chop to his sack! 

Kara Reinhardt stands up while watching Gabriel roll on the mat in pain, curling up into a ball. Kara kicks him in the lower back! Gabriel rolls away from Kara and back to his feet, where she grabs him and whips him toward the corner and follows. Gabriel grabs the top rope and pulls himself up, and leaps backward over Kara’s head so that she slams chest-first into the corner while Gabriel lands behind her. He grabs her by the back of the head and slams her face into the top turnbuckle a few times before performing a picture-perfect Russian Legsweep to get her down to the mat. 

Gabriel jumps to the top rope as Kara is getting back up. He does a quick backflip over her head to land behind her, where he throws her with a German release suplex! 

Gabriel walks over to the downed Kara is and kicks her in the face! Blood and spittle go spraying across the mat. 

Gabriel Tuck – You think you’re so much better than everyone! You’re not! 

Gabriel shifts and stomps on the downed Kara, keeping her on the mat. 

Gabriel Tuck – I can’t say enough how much I dislike you for your elitist attitude. 

Kara rolls under the ropes and away from Gabriel so that she can get up. Gabriel steps to the ropes and takes a wild swing at Kara in an attempt to strike her, but she easily deflects the blow and grabs Gabriel under the arms so that she can lift him up and throw him face-first into the cage wall! Gabriel hits hard enough to get busted open and is thrown back into the ring. Kara steps into the ring. She stands and looks at him as if thinking about his words and then shrugs them off, picking him up into a suplex position in the air and then dropping back to send him back down to the mat. 

Ben Price – I wonder if Gabriel’s words had an effect?

Eddie Vega – Doubt it. Kara has her head up her own ass too much for that. 

Kara pulls Gabriel up to a standing position and goes to lift him up as if to do the Dresden Driver when Gabriel knees her in the midsection and drops her in a DDT! Gabriel gets right back to his feet and rakes his heel across Kara’s face! 

Gabriel pulls Kara up and whips her into the ropes. On the rebound, he goes for a forward flip into a huricanrana, but Kara grabs him by the legs and holds onto him instead, sending him for a short flight across the ring, over the middle ropes, and into the other ring! 

Ben Price – Holy smokes! Did you see that strength?

Eddie Vega – Juicing! You better believe it!

Kara steps through the middle ropes and the next set of ropes to get to Gabriel as he slowly stands up. She stands in front of him and goes for a superkick, but Gabriel steps back and grabs the ankle so that he can pull her into a low kick to the shin of the leg she was standing on to sweep the leg out from under her to send her to the mat. He holds onto the leg and does a spinning toe hold to weaken the knee a bit. This, before he hits a standing moonsault that lands Gabriel into a sitting position on Kara’s midsection, so he can begin to lay into Kara with lefts and rights. 

Gabriel Tuck stands up and kicks Kara in the ribcage.

Gabriel Tuck – What’s it going to take to get some respect from you? 

He kicks her in the ribcage again. 

Gabriel Tuck – You think I’m pathetic, but I’m not. I’m not! 

He kicks her again.

Ben Price – Well, Gabriel Tuck is managing to hold his own here. But that’s about to change!

Eddie Vega – And the first interval comes up. Who are Bad Company going to put in now?

The screens show 10 seconds left on the clock.  The crowd counts down with the display.

The Crowd – 10… 9…. 8…. 7….6…5….4… 3….2….1…

The timer goes off on both the huge Conquest-Tron and the top of the staging area for Bad Company. The ring attendant opens the smaller cage and out steps Kronin Reinhardt. He moves quickly for a man his size to the door on his side of the double cage. It’s opened, and he slips in between the top and second rope, and heads right for where his sister and Gabriel Tuck are fighting. 

A new timer starts on the big screen, and now over the staging cage for the nKo.

Kronin gets into the other ring where Gabriel and Kara are and begins a charge. Gabriel stops kicking Kara and turns around. You can see him accept his fate as Kronin hits a shoulder charge into him and levels him with authority! 

Kronin lends a hand to his sister, helping her to her feet. They both turn to look at Gabriel as he gets up. He looks at Kronin and Kara, who are both ready and willing to take him apart. He swallows hard and sets himself into a fighting stance. 

Gabriel Tuck – Right. Let’s do this shit. 

Ben Price – Gabriel is outnumbered, but isn’t shying away from the fight. 

Eddie Vega – If it’s either face the Reinhardt twins or Armand’s wrath…I would take the twins any day. 

Gabriel takes a swing at Kara, but she captures his arm and yanks Gabriel in so that Kronin can clothesline him to the mat. Both of them take turns kicking and stomping Gabriel until he can roll away under the ropes and into the other ring. 

Kronin and Kara step through the ropes to the middle section as Gabriel gets up. As they get close, Gabriel ducks and uses the middle rope as leverage to slam a shoulder into Kronin’s gut. He then switches gears to use the top rope to try to slingshot himself into a massive headbutt on Kara, but she reacts quicker and belts him in the mouth, using his own momentum against him. He falls backward and clutches at his mouth while lying on the mat.

Ben Price – Home run!

Eddie Vega – Gabriel will be lucky to have teeth after that blow!

Kronin and Kara watch as Gabriel slowly stands up and spits blood onto the mat. He grins and takes a swing at Kara, who easily blocks it and strikes back with a fist of her own. Kronin then also strikes Gabriel in the midsection and lifts him up as to bodyslam him down! 

Ben Price – Gabriel doesn’t stand a chance here.

Eddie Vega – Yeah, that was the idea when Bad Company won the advantage. 

Gabriel gets right back up, but is shoved by Kara into Kronin, who shoves him back to Kara. They bounce him like a pinball a few times before Kara takes a swing at Gabriel, who ducks and delivers the stiffest charley horse ever with a punch to the thigh. Gabriel grabs Kara for a belly-to-belly suplex, but Kroin connects with a double axe handle to Gabriel’s back to get him to release her. Gabriel spins around and is grabbed up into a suplex position high overhead. He throws him chest-first down toward the mat with Kara there, ready with a knee to the midsection! 

Ben Price – They are taking Gabriel apart here. 

Eddie Vega – That is the general idea here. Take apart the other team. 

Kronin and Kara watch as Gabriel writhes on the mat, doubled over. Kara grabs him by the back of the head and lifts his head up so she can look at him. 

Kara Reinhardt – You could always just quit. Show the world how spineless you really are. 

Gabriel doesn’t respond, gritting his teeth from the pain he’s in. 

Kara Reinhardt – Come on, you failed little mercenary. Give up…

Gabriel Tuck – I need to see this through! 

Gabriel elbows Kara in the gut, breaking free from her grasp. He gets up to his feet and kicks her in the gut and grabs her in a front face lock. He releases the hold quickly when Kronin attacks him from behind and spins him around. He takes Gabriel down with the Beautiful Disaster (Black Hole Slam)!

Ben Price – I don’t know what Gabriel needs to see through, but he won’t be seeing anything through at this rate.

Eddie Vega – He just doesn’t want to upset daddy. 

Kara pulls Gabriel up and whips him into the corner. She follows with a leaping avalanche, but Gabriel manages to get his foot up to catch her in the midsection! He grabs her as she staggers backward and hot shots her on the ropes. He climbs to the top rope, but is seized by Kronin in a press slam position and hurled toward the center of the ring! Gabriel flips through the air, landing on his feet and moving quickly, he catches Kronin in the midsection with a spear, sending him into the corner! Gabriel grabs the middle rope and does a couple of shoulder rams before placing Kronin into a seated position on the top rope and following. He doesn’t get far before Kara grabs him from behind and slams him to the mat with a German release suplex! 

Ben Price – Gabriel is lucky that the countdown is almost up, or he won’t have any fight left in him.

Eddie Vega – He’s young. He’ll bounce back. 

Gabriel gets up and is grabbed by each arm so the Reinhardts can send him chest-first into the corner. Gabriel grabs the top rope and intends to use his momentum to kick back at each of them, but they catch his ankles and pull while Gabriel desperately tries to hold onto the ropes. 

The Crowd counts down again, loudly as the timer goes down from 10. 

The Crowd – 10… 9… 8… 7… 6… 5… 4… 3… 2… 1…

The timer goes off again, and when the nKo’s cage is opened, Trelisa Perrault quickly runs out and heads for her team’s entrance for the big cage. It’s opened up, and she steps in, running for the two attacking Gabriel. She kicks Kronin in the back of the left knee, causing him to release Gabriel’s leg and spin around. She grabs him and hits a lungblower, sending him to the mat! She gets right back up, but is grabbed by Kara and dropped in a bodyslam! Gabriel grabs Kara from behind with a sleeper hold! Kronin starts to get up, but is grabbed from behind by Trelisa, who hits a Tiger Suplex! 

Trelisa checks on Gabriel and sees that he has Kara in a sleeper hold, and walks over to kick Kronin while he’s down. Gabriel shakes Kara side to side while holding onto the sleeper hold, trying to get her down. She elbows him in the midsection and flips him over her shoulder before launching herself at Trelisa and taking her down with a clothesline!

Kara helps her brother up and walks over to the slowly rising Gabriel, kicking him in the face hard enough to send blood and spittle spraying across the mat! She just smirks down at the fallen Tuck, but then turns to see Trelisa running from across the ring. 

Trelisa Perrault – Not my man, you bitch! 

A running knee strike, that Trelisa calls the Curtain Call, catches Kara in the midsection and sends her to the mat! She then quickly runs to the corner and up it as she grabs Kronin and hits a tornado ddt! 

Ben Price – I guess that Trelisa is what they would call “territorial”. 

Eddie Vega – One jealous bitch is what I would call her. 

Trelisa starts to pull Kara to her feet but Kara cuts her off with a punch to the gut and deadlifts her, putting her into a Vertical suplex situation but instead of finishing the vertical suplex, she instead plants Trelisa with a brainbuster.

In another ring, Gabriel and Kronin are trading punches.  Gabriel Tuck goes low with a knee to the gut and tries for a DDT, but Kronin counters with a Northern Lights suplex

Ben Price – Well, at the moment, we seem to have the two women and two men squared off with each other, but we’re about to get another entrant into the match.

Eddie Vega – Betcha that coward Vastrix sends in Greg Salazar next.

Ben Price – I mean, keeping the team captain for last might be a good plan?

Eddie Vega – Yeah, I’m sticking with cowardice. 

Kara begins to pull Trelisa up, but gets yanked down into a jawbreaker! Kronin watches as Gabriel starts to get up and boots him in the head, knocking him back down to the mat! 

Trelisa gets up and walks across the ring from Kara, she looks like she might want to go help Gabriel, but then turns her attention toward Kara, who is starting to get up. 

Trelisa Perrault – This will keep you down! 

She blows a kiss to Kara and dashes at her, intending to hit another Curtain Call, but Kara lunges up at the last moment and catches Trelisa in a powerslam! 

Gabriel gets up and watches as Trelisa is slammed to the mat. He moves to help, but is taken down with a clothesline from Kronin. He puts a boot to Gabriel’s chest.

Kronin Reinhardt – Focus on your own health, Gabriel. 

Gabriel Tuck – Maybe you should focus on your sister’s health! 

Kronin Reinhardt – What?

Kronin looks over to where Kara is pulling Trelisa up and sends her back down to the mat with a Reich Breaker (Rock Bottom). He chuckles and starts to turn back to Gabriel, when his left knee is kicked in the back, sending him crashing to the mat like a great tree. Gabriel jumps up and kicks him in the ribcage before running full speed toward the other ring. Kara frowns and turns around to see Gabriel dive through both sets of ropes to take her down with a spear! 

Ben Price – That…was some impressive air time. 

Eddie Vega – How the heck did he do that?

Ben Price – I guess love finds a way?

Eddie Vega – Gross, but okay. 

Gabriel perches on Kara’s midsection and pounds her with hard rights while Trelisa and Kronin slowly get back to their feet. Kronin comes back to the same ring as everyone else, intent on helping Kara, but a drop toe hold from Trelisa takes him down. She grabs him by the ankle, inflicting a spinning toe hold on him. 

Again, the crowd counts down as the next entrant gets ready to come in. 

The Crowd – 10… 9… 8… 7… 6… 5… 4… 3… 2… 1…

The timer goes off again, and when the Bad Company’s staging cage door opens, Greg Salazar goes to step out, but then stops. Jeremiah Vastrix then goes past him, and breaks into a sprint to head to their entrance. 

Ben Price – And Greg Salazar, the Elite Champion, was saved by Bad Company to be the final entrant. Good strategy there. 

Eddie Vega – Some might call it cowardice, but putting the man whose title is on the line at the last entrant means he’ll be the freshest person in the match for them.

Jeremiah Vastrix hits the ring and dropkicks Gabriel Tuck full in the face! He then bounces back up so that he can grab Trelisa and pull her away from Kronin and whip her toward the ropes, hitting a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker on the rebound! 

Ben Price – Jeremiah cleaning house!

Eddie Vega – He is the fresh man, so it kind of makes sense. 

Kronin and Kara get up from the mat. Kara grabs the rising Trelisa and plants her onto the mat again with a gutwrench suplex! Kronin and Jeremiah hit Gabriel with a double clothesline!

Ben Price – And now the nKo are at a disadvantage again.

Eddie Vega – Good thing you know your numbers. You’ll only have to count to four today.

Kara watches as Trelisa gets back up and goes for a tornado kick, but Trelisa sidesteps the attack and follows with a roundhouse kick of her own, nailing Kara in the chest and sending her staggering back a few steps. Kronin hits Gabriel with an ax kick and sends him back to the mat. Jeremiah grabs Gabriel by the ankles and holds his legs in the air, looking to the crowd for approval before dropping an elbow right where it hurts! 

Trelisa slips behind Kara and kicks her in the back of the knees to get her down so that she can apply a rear-naked choke. Kronin sees that Jeremiah applies a figure four leglock and walks over to palm Trelisa’s face to get her to break the choke hold. He lifts her up to a standing position and then up into a press slam position. He walks over to the ropes, and Trelisa drops to her feet behind him. He turns around, but is dropkicked over the ropes. Trelisa slips between the ropes and grabs Kronin by the back of the head so that she can slam his face into the cage wall! 

Trelisa Perralt – You see? I can do hardcore, no?

Kara Reinhardt – Hey! 

Trelisa turns around, only to catch a superkick that sends her spiraling around and her own face mashed into the cage. Kronin lifts Trelisa up as if to do a bodyslam and tosses her over the ropes to Kara, who throws her backward over her shoulders with ease. 

Ben Price – Such strength from the twins.

Eddie Vega – Juicing, I tell ya. 

Ben Price – What juice do you think gives such strength? Orange juice?

Eddie Vega – Oh gawd, Ben. I mean steroids?

Jeremiah breaks the hold on Gabriel and stands up. He stomps the knee of Gabriel a few times before starting to pull Gabriel up, but he strikes Jeremiah with a hard right hand to the nuts and gets Vastrix to drop to his knees and fall to his side. Gabriel gets up and drops a knee to the side of Jeremiah’s head! 

Trelisa slowly gets back up to her feet and watches as both Kara and Kronin begin stalking toward her. She wipes at her forehead, thinking she was sweating, but her hand comes away bloody from the impact against the cage wall. She notes that Kronin is also bleeding. She sighs as she sees Gabriel dealing with Jeremiah. 

Trelisa Perrault – Have it your way. 

She knife-edge chops Kara and Kronin both across the chest, but then is double whipped into the ropes and comes back to a double clothesline that sends her to the mat! 

Ben Price – Almost time for the next member of the nKo to come in!

Eddie Vega – Who will it be? Madd Morales or the boss man, himself: Armand Von Krauss.

Again the timer hits 10. 

The Crowd – 10… 9… 8… 7… 6… 5… 4… 3… 2… 1…

The timer goes off again, and when the nKo’s staging cage is opened…. And Armand Von Krauss exits the cage. He points his finger at Morales and then to the other side. Armand then starts to walk slowly to the cage door. 

Ben Price – And Armand Von Krauss is the next entrant. 

Eddie Vega – Leaving Madd Morales fresh so he can try to secure the Elite title from Greg Salazar.

Von Krauss enters the ring through the nKo’s door into the double cage, and then immediately rushes over, grabs Jeremiah Vastrix, and turns him around. Vastrix pulls back and boots Armand in th groin, bringing him to a knee as Armand grits his teeth and Jeremiah tries for a DDT but Armand blocks and tries to hit a belly to belly suplex but Jeremiah blocks that as the two men vie for an advantage.

Kronin, meanwhile, moves to help Jeremiah but Gabriel gets in the way and tries to grab him and moves into a German suplex, only to get hit with an elbow smash.  Kronin then turns and grabs Gabriel and hits a release overhead suplex.  

Kara and Trelisa exchange wrestling holds as they also vie to get an edge over each other.

Ben Price – Armand and Jeremiah are matching each other move for move at the moment.

Eddie Vega – Same with Kara and Trelisa.  Germany v. France.  Another edge to this match.  I throw that out because Kara’s brother is insufferable with history.

Finally, Trelisa makes a mistake and tries for a roundhouse kick but Kara catches it, drives an elbow into Trelisa’s knee before pulling her into a punch to her solar plexus and a spinning backfist that sends Trelisa to the mat.  Kara nods and slides out of the ring and reaches under the mat, pulling out and setting aside a table, grabbing a trash can and lid from under the ring and throwing it into one of the rings.  She then reaches under the ring once more and comes out with a baseball bat and smirks, looking it over as she climbs back into the ring.

Ben Price – Kara is getting hardcore here!!  Greg Salazar did mention she had found a love for it during her reign as Elite champ.  Maybe he was on to something.

Eddie Vega – Maybe she’s just a psychopath.

Ben Price – About half of our roster likely qualifies as psychopaths.

Eddie Vega – Well.. you’re not wrong there.

Kara enters the ring and cleans house, cracking Armand right in the spine with a swing before moving over and hitting Gabriel Tuck in back of the knee with another swing.  She moves over and takes a swing at Trelisa but Trelisa dodges the first swing and the second swing before Kara hits her in the gut, using the head of the bat, doubling Trelisa over and then swings bringing the bat down on Trelisa’s back, bringing her to the mat in a heap.

Ben Price – Kara cleaning house with that bat!

Eddie Vega – She hit two out of three of them from behind.  She’s afraid to fight then face to face!

Kronin pulls Gabriel to his feet and is cut off with a jawbreaker and then plants Kronin with a DDT, stumbling over to the corner as he tries to get a break and regroup. Kronin gets up and follows Gabriel over to the corner.  Gabriel climbs the turnbuckle and turns around, trying for an aerial attack only to be surprised as Kronin is there and grabs him, looking around before seeing something and Kronin then lifts Gabriel up and plants him onto the trash can with an improvised version of his beautiful disaster.  Gabriel cries out in pain and writhes on the mat.  Kronin stays down too, worn out from the fight and trying to get a second wind.

The Crowd – Holy shit!

Ben Price – Holy Shit is right and Tuck will be feeling that for a while!!  

Eddie Vega – Right on that trash can

The timer on the big screen hits 10 seconds left, and again, the crowd counts it down.But this time they know who is next to go in.

The Crowd – 10… 9… 8… 7… 6… 5… 4… 3… 2… 1…

The timer goes off again, and Greg Salazar is let out of the staging area cage. He strolls to the ring, and enters through that door. 

Ben Price – And being the last guy in for his team, Salazar doesn’t run. 

Salazar slips between the ropes and heads right for… Von Krauss. He catches Von Krauss’ arm as he has Jeremiah Vastrix in the corner. 

Eddie Vega – He had said in his promo before this match up that his main target was Von Krauss. Once again, things are at the advantage in numbers with Bad Company. Can he capitalize? 

Salazar turns Armand around. Before Armand can react, Vastrix grabs Armand with a full nelson and manages to hold him with the surprise. Salazar takes a step back, lines up and then spins with his “Mic Drop” spinning hook kick that catches Von Krauss right on the chin. 

Salazar signals to Vastrix, who comes out of the corner with a bulldog, keeping the full nelson locked in. Salazar spikes that move by adding in a reverse STO in combination. 

Ben Price – And capitalize they do. 

Vastrix moves to roll Von Krauss over, as if he was going for a pin. But Salazar looks to remind him that they still need one more person in the match before they can do that. Vastrix nods at him, and then both pull Von Krauss back up to his feet.  Vastrix pulls back to start to deliver some punches, when Armand reaches out and rakes Vastrix’s good eye. 

Eddie Vega – Come on, Armand… you gotta get out of that corner. 

Von Krauss pushes Vastrix and then shoulders his way past Salazar. He rushes to one of the trashcans was with various implements in it. He dumps it out, and grabs the trash can itself. He turns and then sprints to catch Vastrix in the face with the trashcan. 

But… he’s intercepted by Salazar hopping to the second rope and coming off with a Kabar kick to the trashcan. Armand tosses the trashcan aside, and then goes after Salazar. Both men end up grabbing each other’s, and start into a test of strength. 

Ben Price – I’m not sure why this is happening. Greg Salazar is strong, but he’s not Kronin Reinhardt, or even Kara. 

Eddie Vega – Well Armand is about the same height, but has a few pounds on Greg Salazar. But Salazar is a former US Marine Recon. And Armand supposedly was some sort of General or war hero, if you believe the rumors about him being thousands of years old. 

Both men end up chest to chest, arms stretched out as they try to get the upper hand. Eventually Armand starts to get the upperhand, and Salazar starts to drop to one knee.

Eddie Vega – Well, Von Krauss getting the upper hand on this one. 

Salazar suddenly headbutts Von Krauss, and then twists his wrists and pulls as he comes back up, pulling Von Krauss’ face into a snapping knee lift. Von Krauss drops to one knee after the impact. 

Ben Price – And that looked painful. 

Vastrix calls out, and Salazar moves, as he actually comes off the second rope with the now dented up trashcan, dropping down onto Armand’s head with it. Vastrix then holds the trash can in front of Armand’s face, while Salazar drops down for a mule kick that drives the can into Armand’s face again. 

Armand Von Krauss drops down to the mat, a split in his forehead starting to bleed. 

Eddie Vega – Oh, they’ll both have to pay for that. 

Ben Price – Pay they might, but Armand Von Krauss just got busted open. That is blood trickling from Armand’s forehead right? It’s almost black.

Eddie Vega – That is strange. 

Ben Price – Well maybe he is some ghoulish demon from another realm?

Eddie Vega – Don’t be ridiculous. 

The camera switches to Kara Reinhardt as she’s now fighting with Trelisa Perrault. Gabriel Tuck is fighting with Kronin Reinhardt. 

Kara Reinhardt whips Perrault to the ropes in one ring. Kara then rushes over and nails Gabriel with a huge running European Uppercut from the side. Kronin moves and intercepts Perrault as she comes off the ropes with a huge flapjack. 

Kara sidesteps and then catches Perrault as she comes down with a cutter that drops her down to the mat. 

Ben Price – And more Reinhardt double team moves locking down Trelisa Perrault and Gabriel Tuck for a bit. 

Kronin walks over and picks up a trash can, emptying another of more weapons to leave them laying there in the ring. Gabriel Tuck dives down and drives a double axe handle to Kara’s midsection. 

Eddie Vega – Not the best place to be Gabriel!

As Tuck gets back to his feet, Kara Reinhardt grabs one of his feet. Kronin comes in and hits Tuck in the face with the trashcan. He pulls up, and hits him two more times, leaving Gabriel staggered. Kronin then tosses the trashcan down. 

Kara grabs it and hits Perrault in the back of the head with it as she’s starting to get up. She then holds it on the back of Trelisa’s shoulders and head. Kronin steps in and hooks Tuck’s arm over his neck, lifts and drops into an Olympic slam… dropping him right on tope of Trelisa and the trashcan. 

Ben Price – OOOOH! You know they both felt that one. 

Eddie Vega – Well, their advantage is about to be undone as it’s time for Madd Morales to get involved now! Go get that Elite Title!

The final timer goes off, and Madd Morales is let out of his staging area. 

Ben Price – This is it, the final person. Now we can start with pinfalls and start the eliminations. 

Morales goes to get into the ring and immediately runs for Greg Salazar, drilling him with a drop kick! The move doesn’t drop Greg, only staggers him back a few steps. Morales follows this up with a bicycle knee strike that takes the Elite champion down!

Armand grits his teeth as he grabs Jeremiah by the throat and simply deadlifts him into the air. 

Kronin Reinhardt grabs Gabriel Tuck and hefts him up in an attempt to hit the Metal Meltdown, but Gabriel manages a few punches and brings the larger man down with a huricanrana. 

Trelisa dodges another swing from the baseball bat in Kara’s hands before attempting to strike Kara in the ribcage to get her to release the bat. Kara sidesteps the blow and cracks Trelisa in the shoulder with the bat!

Ben Price – Sheer chaos in the ring now! 

Eddie Vega – Yeah, who’s winning?

Ben Price – I can’t really tell. 

Eddie Vega – I would say…Armand. 

Armand tosses Jeremiah face-first into the cage wall like one might toss a dart. 

Madd Morales goes for his version of a belly to back GTS, which he calls the  Red Rum-Z360on Greg Salazar, but Greg hits a back elbow and a Mic Drop to send Madd to the mat! 

Trelisa starts to get up, but another swing of the bat from Kara keeps her on the mat! 

Kronin pulls Gabriel into a front face lock, grinding on the pressure. 

Ben Price – With the exception of Vastrix, it looks like Bad Company is taking the lead here. 

Eddie Vega – You would think that, but things could change at any moment. See? Gabriel is digging into a pocket!

Ben Price – I hardly think that pocket pull at a time like this could be considered a comeback.

Eddie Vega – Pocket pull? No, he has something! Look! 

Gabriel Tuck pulls out a dark grey pair of knuckles and puts them on his hand before he punches Kronin in the leg with them! This causes Kronin to break the hold so that Gabriel can blast him in the jaw with the not-brass knuckles. 

Ben Price – Those look like iron knuckles instead of brass! 

Eddie Vega – Whatever, they did a number on Kronin! 

Kara notices her brother on the mat and comes at Gabriel with the bat, but the nKo thug catches the bat with one hand while gritting his teeth from the impact and blasts her in the side of the face with the iron knuckles to send her falling to the mat! He’s left holding the bat that he tosses to the side. 

Greg is pulling Madd to his feet when Gabriel catches him in the temple with the iron knuckles! 

From the platform outside of the ring ropes, Jeremiah slides in a ladder and comes between the bottom and second rope, into the ring. Gabriel is there as he stands up with a punch to the gut and then to the side of the face using the iron knuckles! 

Madd Morales grabs the ladder and sets it up in the middle area between the rings, which is more like a metal platform. 

Armand holds Salazar’s hair, and signals for Morales to go up the ladder. He then pulls Salazar 

Morales climbs up the ladder that he’d set up on the metal platform between the ring and the cage. Von Krauss scoops Salazar up into a Press over his head, and then drops him, flipping him back first, onto a table. The table collapses with the impact.  

Morales then comes off the top of the ladder with a corkscrew moonsault, that he calls his 8th Deadly Sin. 

Ben Price – A bit of tag team action by Madd Morales and Armand Von Krauss here. 

Eddie Vega – And we’re about to have the first elimination, and it’s going to win Madd Morales the Elite Championship!

The camera goes picture-in-picture as Kara Reinhardt and Trelisa Perrault appear to be trading words in the ring. Perrault punches Kara in the face, and then points to where Morales is about to pin Salazar. 

Childress slips down and starts to count.

… One

Armand moves on where Gabriel Tuck is fighting off both Kronin Reinhardt and Jeremiah Vastrix. He grabs Vastrix and delivers a huge punch to the side of his face. 

…… Two

Kara Reinhardt picks Trelisa Perrault up and hoists her over, causing her to land on top of Madd Morales, and break the pin!

Ben Price – And Kara Reinhardt breaks up the pin, saving the Elite Title for a little bit longer.

Morales gets up quickly and tries to look around for who broke the pin up.  He doesn’t see Armand still there, and no members of Bad Company. Then he sees Trelisa Perrault as she’s getting up. He gets in her face. 

Ben Price – Madd Morales is not happy that Trelisa got used as a missile to stop his pin on Greg Salazar.

Eddie Vega – That’s for sure. I mean, it’s not her fault…I think. 

Madd Morales shoves Trelisa Perrault back a couple of steps. She looks ready to fight back when she steps back with a smirk. Madd frowns, but then Kara Reinhardt is in his face and grabbing him up and slamming him down in the Dresden Driver. She pulls Madd up so that Kronin Reinhardt can lift him up and hit the Metal Meltdown to Kara’s waiting knee! Kara goes for the pinfall while Kronin stands guard. Ian gets into position to make the count!

….one

……two

……..three! 

Eric Wilson – Madd Morales has been eliminated!

Ben Price – Madd Morales out of the match! There goes the whole nKo battle plan.

Ian Childress helps Morales gets up and then signals for him to exit the cage. Morales tries to argue for a moment, but Ian seems to remind him that he is still one of the co-owners. Morales then is seen heading for the nKo exit. 

Eddie Vega – Yeah, now the way is open for someone else to take the title.

Trelisa walks over to the downed Greg Salazar, looking like she might want to go for the pinfall. But Kara grabs her from behind as if to do a German suplex. Greg Salazar gets up to his feet and leaps into the air as Kara does the motion for the German suplex to basically to an inverted bulldog to the back of Trelisa’s head! Kara goes for the pinfall! 

….one

……two

……..three! 

Eric Wilson – Trelisa Perrault has been eliminated! 

Ben Price – And now the nKo has been cut in half! It doesn’t look good for the nKo now! 

Eddie Vega – That just means that Armand is going to have to save the day. 

Ben Price – But can he?

Eddie Vega – I’m thinking yes. 

Gabriel watches Trelisa being eliminated and curses. He begins to make a move to take revenge, but Kronin steps in his way. Gabriel blasts him with the iron knuckles in a hard-hitting move that does not drop the bigger man. Gabriel then goes to the ropes and comes back with a superman punch that does level Kronin. Armand catches the falling Kronin and gets him up into the air upside down and simply drops him for the Drilltip finisher! He goes for the pinfall while Gabriel goes on the attack against Kara and Greg. 

….one

……two

……..three! 

Eric Wilson – Kronin Reinhardt has been eliminated! 

Ben Price – And the nKo has struck back, though if you ask me, that was Gabriel’s elimination.

Eddie Vega – Eh, it’s a team effort. 

Gabriel keeps Kara and Greg at bay with the iron knuckles while Armand begins to stalk Jeremiah. 

Jeremiah goes for a punch, but Armand catches the fist with a smile and begins to squeeze the hand. Jeremiah’s mouth begins to hang open in pain.

The camera picks up as Gabriel dives at Kara Reinhardt, and Greg Salazar moves in on him but they eventually move out of frame as Armand continues his assault on Vastrix.

Armand Von Krauss – You know what this means to me? What victory means to me? Your Warhammer Corporation causes the death of thousands per day. An entire nation’s worth of population across the world vanishes overnight thanks to Warhammer. If I were in charge…the Khurse of the Kharnival would count those deaths and claim those souls. I…we…could trap so much more evil in the world…I would gain so much power. Ascension, Vastrix. I would be a God! 

Jeremiah Vastrix – NEVER! 

Jeremiah struggles to escape, but Armand ripcords him into a headbutt that knocks Jeremiah to the mat! Armand pulls Jeremiah back to his feet and places a hand on either side of Jeremiah’s head and lifts him into the air while squeezing Jeremiah’s head! 

Ben Price – Oh, man! Armand has displayed slasher-level strength before. This could kill Jeremiah! 

Eddie Vega – Jeremiah knows how to get out of it then.

Ian checks with Jeremiah, who signals that he is going to give up. 

Eric Wilson – Jeremiah Vastrix has been eliminated! 

Ben Price – Now the odds are even once again! 

Eddie Vega – Things are looking up for the nKo once again! Told ya! 

The camera cuts quickly back to the others.

Gabriel Tuck, who had been keeping Kara and Greg at bay, decks Greg with the iron knuckles to send him to the mat. He tries to spin and strike Kara, but she grabs him and lifts him up into the air before slamming him down to the mat with the Dresden Driver! Salazar scrambles to his feet and gets into a guard position as Kara goes for the pinfall!

….one

……two

……..three! 

Eric Wilson – Gabriel Tuck has been eliminated! 

Ben Price – Now, Armand stands alone against Kara Reinhardt and Greg Salazar. Things might be lost. 

Eddie Vega – I wouldn’t put it past Armand to take home the win all by himself if he had to. 

Armand von Krass stands before Kara Reinhardt and Greg Salazar. He smiles as they get ito fighting stances and reaches into his waistband. 

Ben Price – Does Armand have a weapon to bring to bear?

Eddie Vega – Maybe? I’m sure it’ll be something to turn the tide against Bad Company. 

Armand draws out his golden cigarette case and lighter. He lights an imported Egyptian cigarette, takes a long drag, and blows the smoke into the air before tossing the case and the lighter toward the cage wall. 

Armand Von Krauss – Now it is just you two and me. Give up while you still can. 

Kara Reinhardt – Ha! You should listen to your own advice. 

Greg Salazar – You’re done here, Armand. 

Armand Von Krauss – I will ascend today, Gregory. Nothing will stop me. Not even the two of you…

Armand flicks ashes to the mat and places the cigarette back between his lips where it hangs as Kara and Greg begin advancing upon him. They each work on punching Armand, but he deflects or blocks every punch. Eventually, Kara lands a punch to the mouth, sending the cigarette sailing from his mouth where it lands on the mat and begins to smoulder. The landed punch gives them just a moment to grab Armand by the arms. 

Ben Price – Armand’s arrogance will be his downfall.

Eddie Vega – Or it could be his ascension? To the Elite championship?

Ben Price – No, Armand has said on record that if he wins the title that he’s going to vacate and put it up for grabs. 

Eddie Vega – Then, I’m confused as to what he’s talking about. 

Both Kara and Salazar whip Armand to the ropes. Von Krauss hops to the second rope and comes off with a flying punch that catches Kara Reinhardt in the chest, right over her heart. She drops down holding her chest. 

Ben Price – Crushing Blow from Armand Von Krauss. I’m not sure that’ll be enough to put Kara Reinhardt down for too long, though. 

Eddie Vega – A flying heartpunch. If Father Nathan could learn that, he’d be doing more than breaking a rib here and there. 

Salazar comes up behind Von Krauss, and catches him across the back with a shinai he’d picked up from one of the piles of weapons, which breaks with the impact. Armand arches his back, actually feeling that strike. 

Ben Price – He just broke that Kendo Stick on Armand’s back!

Salazar spins the handle around and uses it for a punching strike right to the kidney area on Armand. Armand spins around with a fist that catches Salazar right in the side of the head, followed by another, then another, then another. He pushes Salazar back, a few feet, and kicks him to the midsection. 

Eddie Vega – Come on Armand. Vastrix is already out of this. You just need to finish off these two to keep your company and become the Elite Champion!

Ben Price – You on the side of Von Krauss now?

Eddie Vega – Writing is on the wall, man. Von Krauss is going to keep the company, and you’d better just get in line with him now before he fires everyone and redoes everything for Season 5.

Armand pulls Salazar in, head between thighs, and then lifts him up for a powerbomb. 

Eddie Vega – Drilltip incoming!

And he takes a few steps forward, and drops Salazar down, finishing the ganzo bomb move, landing it on top of a partially dented trashcan.. He then moves to cover Greg Salazar for a pin. 

Childress comes in and checks the shoulders but signals that one shoulder is not down due to the trash can. 

Kara Reinhardt is slowly getting to her hands and knees. She looks over and sees the pin almost happening. 

Ben Price – Not a legal pin. The trash can might have added to it, but Greg Salazar is not shoulders down. 

Armand gets up and pulls Salazar off the trashcan. And goes for a pin again. 

Ben Price – Kara Reinhardt is taking a bit to recover from that Superman style heart punch. 

Eddie Vega – Hey, if she lets Von Krauss pin Salazar, she can try to win the title back off of him. 

Childress checks Salazar’s shoulders. They’re down. And he starts to count. Kara continues to watch. 

… One

The split screen shows Kara shaking her head. 

…… Two

Suddenly, she lunges back to her feet and runs towards them. 

……… Thre…. Kara Reinhardt breaks up the pin with a punt kick to Von Krauss’ head that knocks him off the top of Greg Salazar!

Ben Price – She saved it! She prevented Greg Salazar from losing the Elite Championship.

Eddie Vega – For now!

Kara picks Armand up and then lifts him into a military press. She turns her head and runs towards the nearest cage wall and launches him into the cage wall. Armand bounces off and actually falls back into the ring, on the working side of the ropes. 

Ben Price – Kara Reinhardt just launched Armand like a rocket!

Eddie Vega – Okay, I didn’t think she could be more scary than she was already, but she just crossed that line. 

Armand starts to get to his feet, as Kara turns around and offers a hand to Greg Salazar to help him back up to his feet. Salazar comes up and then points to Armand, and Kara nods. They both back up and then Kara takes Salazar’s arm, and whips him towards Armand as he’s getting himself up from the mat. 

Ben Price – This is where Armand Von Krauss is going to have trouble. In recent history, these two are the last two Elite Champions, and both are by far quite possibly the toughest in the federation. 

Armand comes up and catches Salazar as he’s coming in, with an Exploder suplex that tosses him over the ropes and into the cage wall. Salazar lands down on the metal plates around the ring with a thud. 

Kara Reinhardt comes running in, catching Armand with a superkick that sends him back into one of the ring corners. She kicks some things laying in the ring into a spot right in front of Von Krauss, going in slow. She tries to pull Von Krauss out of the corner and into a rear waist lock. She lifts up, going for a German Suplex, but Von Krauss manages to grab the ropes and power out of the hold. 

Eddie Vega – Greg blocked by Armand Von Krauss there. Told you, these two just won’t be able to do this. He’s superior in every way. I mean he’s Germ..

Ben Price – Kara Reinhardt is German as well. 

Eddie Vega – But is she that type of German?

Ben Price – We’re not going there. But Dresden, where she and her brother are from is in the area formerly known as East Germany. 

Eddie Vega – Oh… 

Kara moves to try to grab ahold of Armand again, but he ducks down and grabs her into a very low front waist lock, then stands and dumps her from that ring, and into the ladder that is still standing there. When she hits, the ladder is pushed hard with the impact. It closes up, and then falls down right on top of where Kara landed. 

Ben Price – Oh, Fu… I mean, that looks like that was painful. Not only was she thrown with a force, well like she and her brother could throw people. But the ladder just closed up and fell onto her flat. 

Eddie Vega – Okay, well Armand is now more scary than her.  Okay, time to take her out Bossman!

Armand Von Krauss doesn’t go after Kara, at least not yet. As Greg Salazar comes back up to his feet, Armand pulls him back, arching him over the top rope and then delivered a couple of clubbing blows to his chest with his forearm. 

Ben Price – Kara Reinhardt might be compromised now. But he still has to think about which is the better way to go. He can’t fight both at once. 

Armand pushes Greg Salazar back into the cage wall. When Salazar bounces off, Von Krauss hooks an arm around his chest, and pushes down where he comes across the ropes, and then pulls the second rope up, locking Salazar’s arms into the ropes and tying him into place. 

Eddie Vega – What’s he… oh shit, now that is a strategy!

Ben Price – Can’t deny that. Looks like he’s going to save Greg Salazar for last here. 

Salazar looks a bit dazed, as he slumps into the ropes, his arms outstretched. Armand Von Krauss then goes to the central area, climbs through the ropes, and kicks the ladder off the top of Kara Reinhardt. 

Armand grabs Kara’s hair and shoulder as he pulls her up to her feet. He then grabs both sides of her head, each hand in a claw, and he starts to squeeze. Kara grabs his hands and tries to lessen the hold. 

Ben Price – And the Brain Crush!

Armand managed to lift Kara up off the metal deck between the rings with the head crushing move. Kara’s feet dangle and start to kick. Armand continues to hold her up. Ian Childress slips in and starts to ask Kara if she wants to give up. 

Kara Reinhardt yells out so loud they can hear her in some of the cheap seats. 

Kara Reinhardt – NEIN!

She starts to kick at Armand Von Krauss, hitting his ribs at first. The third kick makes Armand falter a bit, and instead he then tosses her down, delivering her back first across the ladder between the rings.  HE then comes in and goes to stomp on her midsection, but Kara catches his foot. 

Ben Price – Kara Reinhardt refusing to give up and still in this fight. 

Armand can’t seem to get his foot away from her, so he jumps up, as if he’s trying to deliver a leg drop with his other leg, but Kara lets go and pushes off, letting him land with his legs across the ladder, and not her. 

She rolls into the other ring away from where Salazar is still tied up in the ropes. 

Eddie Vega – Kara Reinhardt trying to get away from Armand, but she’s still technically alone here. 

The camera quickly cuts to Salazar who seems to be coming to his senses more, and realizes where he’s stuck. He starts to try to work his way out of the ropes, but so far they’re not letting him go. 

Ben Price – Greg Salazar now coming too a bit more. 

Von Krauss slips under the ropes, and catches a stomp from a combat boot to the chest as he comes through. Kara takes a step back and then brings down a shinai kendo stick, hitting Armand in the ribs. Then again, and again and again. 

Ben Price – And Kara Reinhardt slipping back into Hardcore matches very easily, just a half season from when she lost the Elite title. 

She keeps hitting him, again and again. On the tenth strike, the shinai finally cracks. She tosses it aside, and then walks over and pulls a table taht was leaning against the cage wall, into the ring. She doesn’t put the legs out, and leaves it flat in the ring. 

Eddie Vega – What’s she doing?

Kara then walks over and grabs Armand’s hair. She purposely messes it up before she kicks him in the midsection. She hooks him for a vertical suplex and picks him up straight. She holds it for a few moments, and then walks over to where the table was laying on the ground. 

Ben Price – I think I know what this is. 

Kara steps up onto the table, still holding Armand Von Krauss in the suplex position. She stands in the middle of it. She then jumps up and drops him down into a piledriver from the suplex right on top of the table. 

Ben Price – And a Dresden Screwdriver I guess? I know she’s been teasing using a screwdriver suplex piledriver as a finisher here and there. But that one was brutal. She might have it here. 

Von Krauss popped up with the landing and fallen to the side, still partially on the table. Kara pushes him off, and then covers him for a pinfall. 

Childress comes in, checks Armand’s shoulders… and then counts the pin. 

… One

…… Two

… Thr … Armand Von Krauss kicks out!

Eddie Vega – That was close! 

Kara shows some frustration as she slaps the mat to argue with Childress about… maybe his counting speed. Childress does a simulated count, one each second between his hands. 

Childress – Remember I teach this stuff to others. 

Kara Reinhardt – Es ist mir egal.

A picture in picture shows Salazar getting free of the ropes, and then looking around for where Kara and Armand are at. He calls out to Kara who signals back to him as she’s starting to pull Armand back up to his feet again. She hits him with a straight elbow strike to his busted open forehead. 

She sees the black liquid on her elbow after, and goes to wipe it off onto his back. Armand suddenly comes up with a huge video game style uppercut that catches her on the chin. He then pulls her into a very tight small package!

Ben Price – Small Package!

Eddie Vega – Salazar is trying to get to them. 

Childress verifies and then starts to count. 

… One

Salazar slips between the ropes into that ring. 

… …. Two

Kara starts to wiggle and tries to kick her feet free. 

………. Three! 

Salazar drops down and hits Armand’s back with a knee thrust

Childress gets up and signals the pin was good, then points to the Bad Company side to signal which side it was against. 

Eric Wilson – Kara Reinhardt has been eliminated!

Armand is brought to his feet by Greg Salazar.

Kara Reinhardt starts to walk towards their door, but then she turns to Ian Childress. 

Kara Reinhardt – Technically this is an anything goes match, right?

Childress nods. 

Kara Reinhardt then turns around and spins Armand around. He ducks down and lives him in a front waistlock up. Salazar breaks into a run to the ropes and comes off. As Kara turns to face Armand to him, she starts to drop. Salazar grabs Armand and adds a Sniper Shot II lungbuster to the move. 

Eddie Vega – Hey! Get her out of the ring. That’s cheating!

Outside, Madd Morales looks to be trying to head for the door to the cage, but Kronin Reinhardt slips over, followed not far behind by Jeremiah Vastrix. Gabriel Tuck is passing back and forth but appears to not be looking to get back into the cage with Morales. 

Ben Price – Well it is a hardcore match. But yes, a very rare, as in never happened before bit of… well an attack by someone not in the match anymore. 

Eddie Vega – Disqualify them all now. Just give it to Armand Von Krauss. 

Ben Price – Not how it works, sorry. 

Kara gets up and brushes her hands off before giving Salazar a high five before she leaves the ring through the nKo’s entrance door. She immediately is joined by her brother and Vastrix in case things break down outside. 

Ben Price – Things could fall apart any moment outside right now. 

In the ring, Greg Salazar pulls Armand up, but only to a seated position. He then tries to work his way into a Gun Metal Lock, but Armand manages to hook Salazar’s arm and roll him into an attempt to maybe a pin to the side. 

But Salazar pops out of the possible pin right away. 

Eddie Vega – It’s down to two people. And Armand Von Krauss can not only keep his shares, gain the Warhammer shares, but become our Elite champion. Even if he immediately vacates it, he’ll still have had it for a bit of time. 

Ben Price – That is an option here. But the other, Greg Salazar wins and Jeremiah Vastrix, even if he’s out of this match now… becomes the new partial owner of the CWF. 

Eddie Vega – And one other partial owner needs to do the count. 

Greg Salazar scrambles to get to his feet, but Armand manages to get there as well. Salazar grabs Armand’s arm, and then puts his foot up under his chin… and falls back! Armand bounces with the impact, and falls to the mat. 

Ben Price – Eat Defeat! A call out to the man he’s actually doing this to finish the mission for, Rob Riot!

Eddie Vega – Riot isn’t here. And it doesn’t matter. 

Salazar gets to his feet and then goes to where the table is on the ground. He picks it up and then tosses it to lean it into the corner. Armand manages to come to his feet. Salazar moves for him and they lock up. 

Salazar gets the upperhand, and twists Armand around… into a half nelson!

Ben Price – We know what this is!

Eddie Vega – Sadly, yes. 

Salazar snaps it back, executing his half nelson suplex, the Oni Plex, sending Von Krauss up and over and into the leaning table. The table collapses with the impact. 

Ben Price – Right into that table!

 Salazar rolls on the landing, and comes up to one of the piles of weapons. He picks up a trashcan lid in his left hand and one of the baseball bats in his right. He then gets into a 

stretched kneel, waiting for 

Armand starts to come up to his feet, and Salazar runs in, using the trashcan lid like a shield, and swings the baseball bat into Armand’s ribs. He swings it back, and tries to use it like a martial arts baton. 

But his follow up swing, Armand catches it under his arm, and then goes to punch Salazar in the face, but it’s blocked by the trans can lid shield. 

Ben Price – Now using makeshift weapons like he was a medieval knight, but Von Krauss knows that type of fighting. 

Von Krauss twists, and secures the baseball bat from Salazar. He grabs it and spins, catching the trashcan lid, and knocking that out of Salazar’s hand. He then brings the baseball bat up over his head and drops it down, but Salazar catches it. The two then start into a form of a test of strength, fighting over the baseball bat. 

Eddie Vega – Come on Armand. Just kick him in the nuts and get it over with. He’s got two kids, one of them on the way. He doesn’t need to use it anymore. 

Armand lets go of the bat, but only so he could get the upper hand, letting go of the test of strength and grabbing Salazar to pull him into a gutwrench powerbomb. But then he drops him down for another Driltip ganzo bomb. 

Armand goes for the pin, hooking a leg. 

Eddie Vega – Here it goes. It’s down to just Armand and Greg Salazar now. He pins Salazar, he’s still co-owner, and also Elite Champion!

Childress slips down to count the pin. 

… One

…… Two

……… Thrrrrrr…. No, Salazar shifts, getting his shoulder up. He maneuvers his hooked leg to try to lock a MMA style submission around Armand’s head and neck. Armand scrambles to try to get free. 

Ben Price – That’s a nasty looking submission there. 

Eddie Vega – Salazar is saved for now, but he’s up against a superior fighter here. 

Armand continues to try to get free, but Salazar keeps trying to keep the hold cinched in. Childress starts to ask Armand if he gives up. 

Armand Von Krauss – NO!

Armand suddenly surges and manages to get into a partial handstand and get his head out of the hold. As he then drops he brings a knee down hard to Salazar’s midsection. He then moves and pulls Salazar up. He grabs his hair, and runs hard towards the side of the cage and launches the man who is only 10 lbs lighter, hard into the side of the cage. 

Ben Price – Holy shit… Armand just chucked him like he weighed half as much as he does. 

Salazar lands on the metal around the ring… hard. But starts to get back up. 

Eddie Vega – Just stay down, Greg. You don’t want more of what’s coming! 

Von Krauss shakes his head. He looks between Ian Childress and Greg Salazar and then spits out. 

Armand Von Krauss – Damned Paragons. Always in the way of history.

Ben Price –  I have no idea what that was about.

Childress just shrugs at that. Armand waves him off and then goes to one of the corners. He climbs up to the second rope, and leans to the cage and starts to call out to Gabriel Tuck. 

Armand Von Krauss – Gabriel! Gabriel! Bring me your iron knuckles!

Tuck walks over to the side of the ring, and looks up. 

Armand Von Krauss – Hand me your weapon, Gabriel. I wish to use it to soften this paragon up a bit more before I put him away. 

Gabriel smiles, and then starts to climb the cage. 

Salazar also comes to his feet and slips back into between the ropes. Childress checks on him quickly. Even with a crimson mask of blood, he nods his head, indicating he’s okay. Then he seems to be waiting for something. 

Ben Price – Armand Von Krauss calling for Gabriel Tuck, his adopted son to hand him those steel knuckles to use in the match!

Eddie Vega – Well so far I’ve seen a lot of aluminum in this match. Those steel knucks earlier were making a difference. 

Tuck climbs up and gets near where Armand is. He then tries to position so he can hold onto the cage, and take the weapon off of his punching hand.

Salazar suddenly comes up behind Von Krauss and steps up onto the ropes behind him. One foot on the bottom, other on the top rope as he tries to lock him into an inverted fireman’s carry but Armand grabs the cage and holds on. 

Ben Price – Greg Salazar trying for that Oni driver!

Eddie Vega – In front of the man who taught him how to do the move as well. But Armand has grabbed the cage, he’s not going to hit it.

Tuck suddenly stops trying to get the iron knuckles off of his hand. The camera catches him as his face shifts, seeing Armand maybe in trouble. 

Armand Von Krauss – Now, Gabriel, give me the weapon!

Armand’s grip with one hand slips off the cage, while Greg Salazar fights to try to get him off of it and hit the move. 

Gabriel Tuck shakes his head, and suddenly pulls back and launches his first right between the bars on the cage, striking Armand in the face with the iron knuckles!

Eddie Vega – Gabriel! What did you do!

Ben Price – He just punched Armand Von Krauss in the face with those brass… Iron Knuckles!

Armand falls back some, releasing the cage, allowing Salazar to pick him up and push off the ropes. He turns in mid air, and lands, flipping Von Krauss up and over, and dropping him to the mat with a sloppy, but still very effective version of a psychodriver. 

Eddie Vega – I can’t believe it. Gabriel Tuck just… punched Armand Von Krauss in the face with those iron knuckles!

Both men are laying in the ring. Salazar, who didn’t fall on his head, starts to stir first. Childress moves to check on both of them. 

Gabriel Tuck hops down off the cage, and Madd Morales grabs him, spins him around and gets in his face. Tuck pushes him back. Morales pushes him in return. 

Ben Price – And now Gabriel Tuck and Madd Morales are arguing!

Ian Childress starts to count both men down in the ring as neither is starting to get up yet. 

10… 

Trelisa Perrault takes a step towards Tuck and Morales, but stops. 

9… 

Moraless pushes Tuck again. Tuck pushes him back. Both really start to argue, their words not picked up by any microphone but starting to really look heated.

8…. 

Greg Salazar starts to stir. 

Ben Price – The nKo is falling apart here!

Eddie Vega – Come on, guys. Keep it together. Armand is so close to winning here. 

Ben Price – What happens if this is a  no contest?

Eddie Vega – Well nothing. And I think the crowd here would revolt before our main event!

7… 

Madd Morales slaps Tuck across the face. Instantly Gabriel Tuck punches him in the face with the Iron Knuckles. 

Eddie Vega – Gabriel! What are you doing? 

Ben Price – Would you want to be slapped like that?

6… 

Greg Salazar starts to get to his hands and knees. 

5… 

Gabriel Tuck turns to Trelisa and says something, again no good pickup by a microphone. She scrambles up the side of the cage, getting about half way up. 

Ben Price – What is she doing? 

4… 

Salazar grabs the ropes and starts to pull himself up. Gabriel Tuck takes the Iron Knuckles off of his hands and then hands them… through the cage to Greg Salazar.

Eddie Vega – Gabriel? Why?

Ben Price – Was Salazar right? Did Gabriel Tuck just go back to Armand to help plot his downfall?

3… 

Salazar gets to his feet, and slips the Iron Knuckles onto his right hand.  Armand Von Krauss starts to stir. 

2… 

Trelissa Perrault comes off the cage… and spikes down onto Madd Morales with a double foot stomp!

Armand rolls to his hands and knees, and actually grabs at his neck.

Ben Price – Heartbreaker! Trelissa Perrault just hit a Heartbreaker on Madd Moraeless!

Eddie Vega – Why? Why Trelissa?

Salazar gets back to Armand, and pulls him the rest of the way up. Armand lashes out right away, but he gets blocked, and then ripcorded into an IRON FIST!

With the iron knuckles.

Ben Price – Iron Fist! Iron Fist!

As Armand crumples back to the mat, Greg Salazar rushes for the ropes, and then comes off and leaps to bring the iron knuckles down into Armand’s face. He then pulls back and starts to punch him… repeatedly about the head and shoulders. Armand manages to get his hands up to guard his face. 

Eddie Vega – And a ground and pound from Greg Salazar. Come on Armand

Childress gets down and checks Von Krauss. As soon as the shoulders are down, he starts to count. 

… One

…… Two

……… Thre… Armand twists, and pushes, sending Salazar off of him and stopping the count. 

Ben Price – Almost had a new owner!

Eddie Vega – What is Gabriel Tuck doing?

Gabriel Tuck walks over and extends his hand to Jeremiah Vastrix and they both shake hands, and then hug each other. 

Eddie Vega – The little turn coat!

Ben Price – Well that’s what happens when you have people who actually treat you like a person. 

In the ring, both men, now showing a bit of slow down due to how bad this match has been for them, get to their feet. Salazar goes to grab Armand, but he whips him towards the ropes at the middle of the ring. 

Salazar grabs the ropes, to stop from heading back at Armand. 

Ben Price – And the Elite Champion puts the breaks on. 

Armand reaches down where he’s standing in the ring, and grabs one of the smaller ladders.  He picks it up, holding it like a battering ram,  and runs at Salazar with it. Salazar drops down, pulling down the top rope right at the last second. Armand hits the ropes hard, and the weight of him and the ladder takes him over and onto the metal plate between the two rings. 

Eddie Vega – Come on, come on. Armand, get this over with. I for one welcome our already existing overlord. 

Salazar slips under the bottom rope and then…. In a rare occurrence, kips up to his feet.  But he’s met by Von Krauss who kicks him in the midsection. Armand then pulls him in and lifts him up using a gutwrench. He pulls Salazar up and goes to setup for a Drilltip on the ladder, but instead, he gets a punch to the face with the Iron Knuckles.  Salazar drops down, as he’s released and grabs the ropes to ensure he lands on his feet.

Ben Price – A block on the Drilltip from Greg Salazar and a new cut has been opened on Armand’s forehead!

Armand recovers from being staggered and goes to grab Salazar to attack, but Salazar hits him with another Iron Fist, with some added Iron. Armand turns around with the hit, and Salazar is right there to lock him into a full nelson. Von Krauss tries to get out of it, and pulls them both towards the corner of two rings. 

Eddie Vega – Fight it. Fight it. Come on, new Elite Champion, Armand Von Krauss. And new board member I guess of Warhammer!

When Armand kicks off the ring post, Salazar manages to twist it, and slams his head down onto the ladder in what becomes an elevated form of his Memento Mori finisher. The hit has a loud enough ‘clang’ to it from impacting the ladder, that the crowd reacts to it. 

Crowd – HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT!

Ben Price – Salazar pulled off a reversal on the reversal!

Salazar rolls Armand off the ladder and hooks his leg. Childress is right there. He checks the shoulders are down and then starts to count the pin. 

… One

Crowd – ONE!

…… Two

Crowd – TWO!

……… Three!

Crowd – THREE!!

Von Krauss kicks out, but just a second too late!

Ben Price – Wait… did he kick out or not?

Ian Childress gets to his feet and calls for the  bell!

DING! DING! DING!

Eddie Vega – He kicked out! Armand Von Krauss kicked out!

Salazar gets up, and then moves to a corner where he slumps down. 

Von Krauss starts to work his way up to his feet.  He calls Childress over and they start to talk.

Ben Price – What’s going on?

Childress puts a finger up and walks over to the edge, and calls over one of the ringside attendants wearing a headset. He hands the headset through the cage and Childress puts it on and starts to talk. 

Ben Price – Okay, this is weird. 

Eddie Vega – I’m not sure what is going on here. 

Suddenly up on the large screen, a replay comes up of the pinning situation. It clearly shows that Armand Von Krauss kicked out one second too late. 

Armand shakes his head, and starts to head for the exit of the ring. The door for Bad Company opens up and the Reinhardts head in to check on Greg Salazar. 

Ben Price – Well there is an instant replay in Wrestling tonight, ladies and gentlemen. And Armand Von Krauss honors the stipulation for now. 

Eddie Vega – What the… this is so wrong. 

Ben Price – Well, as of right now we are now no longer beholden to Armand and Esmeralda Von Krauss. The nKo has collapsed. And Jeremiah Vastrix is now one of our Bosses. 

Eddie Vega – I just lost so much money on this match, you realize that, right? I had better make it up in the next match or I’m going to need a favor. 

Ben Price – What’s that?

Eddie Vega – To sleep on your couch… 

Ben Price – Well we’re going to once again go to our entertainer of the evening, while we get this cage raised back up, and get that second ring out of the way. When we come back… the Conquest Championship is on the line!

Segment – Post-Match Performance

Eric Wilson – And once again…Katherine McDaniels and the Imperfect Eternity!

We go back to the second stage where the spotlights shine on the band. 

Katherine McDaniels – Chicago, are you ready for the main event? 

The crowd is deafening as they begin to cheer. Once they die down…

Katherine McDaniels – We should be ready to go, right after this song! 

Segment – The Champion Speaks

We start off in Abigail’s locker room. Dresden and Valora Salinas are both standing there. ‘Gimme that Boom’ by Skindred is playing in the background and Abby looks over at Valora.  

Abigail Dresden – So, where’s this championship influence?  I told you what I wanted and it doesn’t seem to have been implemented.

Valora shrugs. 

Valora Salinas – I know.  I never mentioned it to the others or Blaise.  You don’t need a ban, a DQ lets you keep the belt.. If he’s dumb enough to have his lackeys interfere, he helps you out.

Abigail sighs.  

Abigail Dresden – I want a clean, clear winner.

Valora rolls her eyes.  

Valora Salinas – Listen up, hija.  Ends justifies the means.  If he’s dumb enough to interfere or cheat then it’s on him you get out with the belt on.

Abby sighs.  

Abigail Dresden – It almost sounds like you don’t think I can beat him.

Valora mutters in Spanish. 

Valora Salinas – I’m saying you don’t need to beat him.  He needs to beat you.  Of course you can and likely will beat him, but you don’t have to!

Abigail nods.  

Abigail Dresden – I’ll see what he does.  Did you get my other request set up?

Valora nods.  

Valora Salinas – Special theme and the requested clothes.  Check.

Abigail is about to respond when a knock at the door signals a guest.. In this case, Alyssa Luuchi and a cameraman.

The camera comes on to show Alyssa standing next to Abigail.  Abby has the Conquest title slung over her shoulder.

Alyssa Lucchi – Alyssa Lucchi backstage with the Conquest Champion, Abigail Dresden.  Abby, we are mere moments away from the match that everyone has been waiting for since Lunar Warfare.  Samael Drago taking you on for the Conquest title.  Are you intimidated by the prospect of challenging a man who made it through and won the rumble from the number 1 entry position?

Abigail gives a confident smirk and shakes her head.  

Abigail Dresden – As I’ve said before.  He didn’t beat all the competitors by himself.  He had help.  That’s him in a nutshell, he needs help to win,  By himself, he’s just a man.  He fought Kronin one on one in a series of three matches and lost.  Assuming he can summon up the testicular fortitude to fight me one on one, he’ll fail yet again.  Let’s not forget that at War Drums, Fiona already scored a win against Vespertine, so Upstarts are 1-0 up on the Eternal Grove.

Abigail looks straight at the camera.

Abigail Dresden – You’ve run out of time, you cheap hack.  You’re out of your league and I’m not going to just beat you.  I’m going to bury you and make sure no one in CWF ever feels intimidated by you again.

Abigail leaves the scene as she begins to make her way to the pre-match area to await her intro

Ben Price – And that’s our next match up now… our main event. Abigail Dresden defending the Conquest Championship on her 417th day… a record no matter the outcome already in the books.

Eddie Vega – The previous record on that was Kara Reinhardt with the Elite Championship, at 404 days. Now I’m kinda wanting to see these two actually fight in a one on one match.

Ben Price – Well without further ado, the final match of Season 4… the Conquest Championship is on the line! Take it away Eric!

Singles Match – CWF Conquest Championship – “The Moonchild” Samael Drago -vs- Abigail Dresden (C)

Eric Wilson – Ladies and Gentlemen, the following match is one of the main events of the evening and it is for the CWF Conquest Championship!!  Introducing first, the challenger.  He hails from the Academy of Plato himself.  Standing 5 feet, 10 inches tall and weighing in at 218lbs,  He is a member of the Eternal Grove, Samael Drago!!!

When the first notes of “Moonchild” by Fields of the Nephilim hit, snow begins to fall on the ramp. Drago is slowly lifted up from under the ramp. The spotlight follows him throughout, as he stands there quietly. Lights go out everywhere except for on Drago. Then as the verse begins, the pyros go off, as Drago makes his way to the ring, dressed in his iconic Dragon-scales jacket. As he makes his way to the ring, he scans the ringside to see the audience, pathetic as usual.

As the chorus hits- “Moonchild, lower me down, lower me down”, Drago gets into the ring slowly, taking a second to process the reaction of the crowd. He stops in the middle, unfazed by anything. He slowly takes off his jacket. Ready for war.

Ben Price – Well, there has been a lot of buildup to this match, and it is pretty clear these two do not like each other. This is one of two matches that will go a long way to determining what CWF looks like as we begin season 5.

Eddie Vega – I feel it in the air, Abby had a good run, but Samael is unstoppable.  You also forgot to mention our special guest commentator, one-third of the Ownership, and Abigail’s mother, Valora Salinas.

Valora Salinas – Hola.

Ben Price – Umm yes.  The lead pipe?

Valora Salinas – I’m also serving as special guest enforcer.. Anyone interferes with this match well, me and my lil’ baby here are gonna have some words with them.

Eric Wilson – And introducing her opponent.  She hails from Swansea, Wales.  Standing 5 feet, 9 inches tall and weighing in at 175lbs.  She is a member of the Upstarts and is the reigning and defending CWF Conquest Champion.  Abigail Dresden!!

The arena darkens and a mist begins to form around the entrance but instead of her normal entrance theme, ‘You Got This’ by Skindred plays over the PA and Abigail seems to emerge from the mist itself as she slowly walks forward, wearing a Chicago Stars jersey, the Conquest title draped over her shoulder as the crowd comes to their feet and cheers loudly.

Abigail paces back and forth before slowly moving towards the ring, almost as if she’s stalking Drago.  She pauses a few times to shake hands with fans and even takes a few selfies with them before she finally makes her way to the ring, walking around the entire ring as her and Drago stare at each other, their eyes constantly on their opponent before Abby makes her way into the ring and hands the belt to Ashley Beaton who then holds the belt up.  The ringside mics pick up Abigail as she leans in.

Abigail Dresden – Take a good look.  Close as you’ll ever get to it.

Drago, scoffs and cracks his knuckles.

Ben Price – Fans, we told you these two didn’t like each other and you saw it right there.

Eddie Vega – She is just like her mother, demanding others respect her but offering no respect to others!

Valora Salinas – Respect is earned pendejo.  Besides, there are people I respect.  And I’ve been telling Abby for a while now she needs to stop acting like she’s on fuckin’ Seasame street or some shit and take off the damn gloves.

Ben Price – You’re saying Drago isn’t worthy of respect?

Valora Salinas – Abigail is the Conquest Champ, she was only the second person to successfully defend the Valor title 5 times.  She is the 4 Winds U.K. champ.  She and her teammates were the first ever trio to win the title we came up with.  I believe her and Akame are still 4 winds tag champs.  My girl has more gold than the fuckin’ gold coast and has done so at an age when my broke ass was still living in the fuckin’ barrios eatin’ ramen.  By contrast, Samael Drago has fought Kronin thrice and lost to him twice.  He has won the rumble from the number 1 entrance slot.  Impressive, but for him to believe he is even on the same level as my girl let alone superior to her is fuckin’ delusional.

Eddie Vega – Well that hubris could lead to her downfall here.  With all due respect to you, Ms. Salinas.

In the ring, Ashley Beaton nods and Eric Wilson takes the Conquest title and leaves the ring.  She then goes over her instructions with both fighters and calls for the bell.

DING!!  DING!!

Abigail wastes no time, darting in and bringing Drago to the mat with a fast chain of armdrags, bringing Drago to the mat as soon as he gets back to his feet finally, she ends the chain by backing up a bit and bringing Drago to the mat with a headscissors takedown that force Drago to roll out of the ring, looking first to Abigail in shock then to Valora at the commentary stand and shakes his head as he tries to regroup.  Meanwhile, Abigail stands in the center of the ring and plays to the crowd, who comes to their feet cheering for her.

Ben Price – Whoa!  We do not often see that from Abigail!  That was a page right out of Valora’s playbook!!

Valora Salinas – Estas mi hija.

Eddie Vega – Smart move by Drago though to get out of the ring and regroup.  He has to make some adjustments.

Drago looks back at Abigail in the ring and clearly takes Abigail standing in the center of the ring, playing to the crowd as a taunt and a challenge and he reaches under the ring and pulls out a ladder.  He sets it up outside the ring and begins to climb as Abigail stops playing to the crowd and watches him as he climbs, trying to figure out what he plans

Ben Price – What the hell is he planning?  Folks, Drago has set up a ladder and climbed it. This match is not anything going nor is it a ladder match so…

Valora Salinas – I got an idea of what he’s thinkin’

Eddie Vega – He has a plan, I’m sure.

Drago leaps from the top of the ladder, over the ropes and tries for a crossbody, but Abby makes a bullfighting gesture and dodges, while Drago hits the mat hard and faceplants rolling around on the mat trying to recover from the miss as the ringside mics pick up Abigail

Abigail Dresden – Ole!

Ben Price – Well, that is why they call it high risk, folks.  Drago tried for a home run swing to get back into the match but he struck out.

Valora Salinas – Someone is excited about baseball season.

Eddie Vega – yeah.. Damn nerd.

The crowd cheers wildly at both the miss and the flair shown by Abigail as she once more plays to the crowd.  Abigail, seeing Drago down on the mat, tries for a springboard moonsault, and it does connect, but Drago rolls through the impact and locks in a triangle choke, Abigail trying to escape but Drago locks the hold in as Ashley Beaton moves to check for a submission.

Ben Price – Drago has been reeling but he managed to roll with the moonsault and lock in a submission hold.

Valora Salinas – Triangle choke.  Come on, hija, you can fight out of this.

Eddie Vega – I would like to remind you Drago outweighs your daughter by almost 50lbs.

Valora Salinas – I would like to remind you she beat Kronin, who is about 100lbs heavier than her.  Twice.

Abigail tries to move towards the ropes but Samael Drago manages to hold her fast, yelling at the ref to check on her.

Samael Drago – Check her!  Check on her!!

Ashley Beaton looks in and Abigail shakes her head no.  Ashley Beaton relays the refusal to Drago who shakes his head.

Ben Price – Drago still has that hold on her, Abigail needs to find a way out of that hold.

Valora Salinas – She’s not an idiot, she knows.

Eddie Vega – Well, knowing what she needs to do and being able to do it are two different things.

Finally, Abby shifts tactics and grabs Drago.  Roaring out, she lifts Drago up and powerbombs him on the mat, but Drago maintains the hold.  Abby lifts him again and hits a second powerbomb.  Drago again maintains the hold.  Abby picks him up a third time and drops him into a sit-out powerbomb which finally breaks the triangle choke as both Abby and Drago lay on the mat trying to catch their breath.

Ben Price – My God!  What a display of power from the champ there!!

Eddie Vega – Test her for PEDs now!!

Valora Salinas – Fuck off, Eddie.  Chica ain’t on anything, she spends her time in the fuckin’ gym.

In the ring, both fighters slowly get to their feet. Drago takes a swing at Abby who ducks under the blow and circles around behind Drago and tries to bring Drago to the mat with a German suplex but Drago jumps into it, landing on his feet behind Abby and powers her up and onto his shoulders, before transitioning her to almost a backpack like position and drops her into a stunner like move.

Ben Price – Eternal Fall!  Abigail tried for a German suplex but Samael Drago hit her with the Eternal Fall!

Valora Salinas – hijo de puta got lucky there.

Eddie Vega – Luck?  That looked like he had her scouted and countered her!

Drago slides into a cover, but Abigail kicks out before Ashley Beaton gets into position to count.  Drago gives the ref a sideways glance as lifts Abigail’s right leg and slams it knee first into the mat before locking in a single leg Boston crab.  Abigail manages to grab the ropes but Drago keeps the hold on until a 4 count before breaking the hold, giving Abby one more parting shot of slamming her right knee into the mat.

Ben Price – Well Abigail manages to kick out of the pinfall there but Drago focused in on the right leg of the champ a bit there.

Valora Salinas – Probably hoping to slow her down.

Eddie Vega – Another good plan.  Mark my words, we’ll have a new champ tonight!!

Drago pulls Abby to her feet but Abby counters with a knee to the groin.  Drago doubles over and Ashley Beaton comes in.

Ashley Beaton – Dresden!  That a low blow?!

Abigail Dresden – Nope.  Gut.  

Ben Price – To be fair, Drago is reacting like it was a low blow, but it was kinda hard to tell..

Valora Salinas – It’s only illegal if the ref sees it.

Eddie Vega – That’s a mentality I can get behind.

Ashley gives Abigail a long look but steps back as Drago stands back up straight just in time to get nailed by a superkick from Abigail, stunning Drago and giving the champ time to grab him and bring him to the mat with a swinging neckbreaker.  She immediately goes into a cover, hooking the leg, the crowd counting along with Ashley Beaton..

…One!

……Two!

………Thr-NO!!

Ben Price – At the last split second, Drago kicks out!  This match is not over folks!!

Valora Salinas – God damn it!  Mother fuckin’ hijo de puta

Eddie Vega – Whew!  I was close to being wrong with my prediction!!

Abigail gets to her feet and rebounds off the ropes and charges towards Drago as he gets to his feet but at the last second, Drago hits a pankration style heel kick that literally folds Abigail in half and brings her to the mat.

Ben Price – My God!  Drago hits a move he calls the gastrizein and that heel kick was well planted as it nearly broke Abigail in half.  Drago does have a unique combat style.

Valora Salinas – It’s Greek.  Pankration.  I used to run with someone who was an expert in the style herself.  This is why Drago needs to be taken seriously, someone who knows pankration can literally take a person apart piece by piece.

Eddie Vega – Are you complementing Samael Drago?

Valora Salinas – I’m stating a fact. 

In the ring, Drago circles around the prone body of Abigail Dresden, debating his next move.  He pulls Abigail to her feet only to bring her to the mat with a belly to belly suplex.  He pulls Abigail to her feet once more.  Abigail tries to counter with a punch to the gut and then a jawbreaker but Drago counters with a headbutt and then sends Abigail into the corner with an irish whip, charging in after her as he hits her with a shoulder charge into her midsection, hitting her three more times with repeated shoulder charges before Abigail escapes by hopping up to the top of the turnbuckle and jumps over Drago, hitting him with a standing side kick to the gut, followed by another and then a shining wizard style kick that knocks Drago back into the corner.

Ben Price – And once more we see one of the big advantages with teams in general, but the Upstarts specifically, as Abigail shows she is still clearly working with Akame McClancy and was able to catch Drago there.

Valora Salinas – That was the big lesson I taught her, don’t become a one trick pony.  Gotta be able to adapt and improvise when needed.

Eddie Vega – Yeah, but can she follow it up?

Abigail lifts Drago up onto the top turnbuckle and climbs up, trying for a superplex, but Drago connects with a punch to Abigail’s body, then another, then a headbutt, shoving her off to the mat below.  Wasting no time, Drago stands up and hits his variation of the phoenix splash

Ben Price – The Dragon Bite!!  Samael Drago hit that move flush!  Could we see a new champion?!

Valora Salinas – Considering I taught her that move, she better not fuckin’ lose to it..

Samael Drago goes right into the pin and Ashley Beaton slides in and begins counting.

…One!

……Two!

………ThrNO!!!

Eddie Vega – Abby got a foot on the ropes!  

Ben Price – That would be the downside to fighting in the corner, your opponent has easier escape opportunities.

Valora Salinas – Ring presence, kids.  Can’t understate how important it is to know where you are in the ring at all times.

Drago pounds the mat in frustration.  He stands up and makes his way over to the ropes and climbs through them, standing and waiting for Abigail to stand up.  As she does so, he springboards off the ropes and tries for a springboard knee strike, but Abby dodges at the last second and jumps into the air, hitting Drago with her variation of the pele kick which results in Drago crashing hard into the mat, bringing the crowd to their feet as they cheer.

Ben Price – These two are definitely putting on a match for the ages here!  Now, Valora.  I notice your daughter does the pele kick slightly different than you do.  Any insights into why?

Valora Salinas – Yeah, she and Akame believe she generates more power in her kick.  Given her soccer background, it’s possible?

Eddie Vega – Well it sure dropped Drago for the moment.

Abigail dives over to make a cover and Ashley Beaton dives down and begins counting..

…One!

……Two!

Ben Price – Samael Drago kicks out!

Valora Salinas – Damn.  Thought she had him there.

Eddie Vega – Well this match is going to continue and I still have a chance for my bet to pay off!

Both fighters get to their feet until Drago darts in and brings Abigail to the mat with a double leg takedown.  He immediately tries to transition to an achilles leg lock but Abigail kicks him in the face twice and breaks the hold up and scrambles to her feet.

Ben Price – Samael Drago continues that focus on the legs.  Gotta say it does seem smart to try and set the stage for later.

Valora Salinas  – It’s only a good plan if he lasts long enough for it to come to fruition.  If Abby beats him before he can set up whatever he has planned..

Eddie Vega – I’m sure he accounted for that in his plans.  So sure, I bet $500 that we see a new champion tonight.

In the ring, both fighters get to their feet.  Abigail runs back and rebounds off the ropes, jumping over Drago as he telegraphs a back body drop.  Abigail rebounds off the ropes on the other side and comes at Drago, trying to hit a hurrancanrana but Drago counters with a powerbomb which plants Abby on the mat.  Wasting no time, Drago locks in a sharpshooter.  Ashley  Beaton drops down and checks for a submission.

Ben Price – Sharpshooter!!!  Drago has it locked in and Abigail could be in a bad way here!

Valora Salinas – It ain’t over until she taps and just like me, she’s never tapped out.

Eddie Vega – First time for everything.

In the ring, Abigail has made a little headway crawling towards the ropes, Drago allowing her to expend the energy to move almost within reach of the ropes only to drag her back towards the center of the ring and really cinches in the hold seemingly almost bending her back in half.  Abigail cries out in pain, biting her fist as Ashley checks with her.

Ashley Beaton – You give up, Dresden?!

Abigail Dresden  – Na Byth!!

Ben Price – What the hell was that?  

Valora Salinas – Welsh.  I’ve spent enough time there. Don’t ask me what the hell she said though.  But if I had to guess it’s some variant of ‘no.’

Eddie Vega – It did sorta have a defiant tone to it, that’s for sure.. But Val.. if she doesn’t tap, she could get injured badly!

Valora Salinas – Thanks, Eddie.  I know that.  But I can’t exactly do anything about it either.

Ashley Beaton – English, Dresden!  Do you give up?!

Abigail Dresden – NO!

Drago sighs in frustration and shakes his head, keeping the hold on.  Abigail starts slowly crawling for the ropes with the crowd cheering and urging her on.

Ben Price – Abigail is still fighting.  Once more I have to say these two are showcasing how important the Conquest title is and are putting on a hell of a match.. Both of them are going to spend a large portion of the off-season recovering from this match.

Valora Salinas – You can say that again, Benny boy.

Eddie Vega – HA!  She said it!  That made my freakin’ night right there!

Both fighters slowly get up to their feet.  Drago tries for an irish whip but Abigail counters and sends Drago into the ropes, roaring out as she lifts Drago up and plants him on the mat with  a spinebuster.  

Ben Price – Spinebuster!  Another impressive display of power from the champ here.

Valora Salinas – Not exactly my style, but my hija makes it work.

Eddie Vega – I do have to admit, Abigail is scarily well rounded.

Abigail doesn’t go for the pin but charges and springboards off the ropes, executing a beautiful springboard moonsault but hitting nothing but mat as Drago rolls out of the way at the last second, the crowd groaning as they empathize with the pain of the missed move.

Ben Price – Beautiful moonsault but it hits nothing but mat as Drago avoids it.

Valora Salinas – Well shit.. That is why it’s called high risk moves..

Eddie Vega – But again, it seems Samael Drago had the move scouted and avoided it.

Drago darts in and once more tries to lock in his achilles heel lock, but Abigail manages to scramble to the ropes and grab them to escape the hold.  Abigail rolls out of the ring to regroup and think about her next move.  Drago runs and leaps off the ropes, as he launches into a suicide reverse crossbody but Abigail dives out of the way and Drago crashes and burns on the outside.

Ben Price – Australian Blues!  Drago tried his own high risk move and it did not work out for him.

Valora Salinas – That was fun to watch

Eddie Vega – Wait.. why the hell is Abigail helping Drago back in the ring?

Valora Salinas – Ugh.. her and her fuckin’ honor.. 

Abigail has pulled Drago to his feet and rolled him into the ring.  She then hops up to the apron, jumps over the ropes and runs to the other side of the ring and rebounds off the ropes, charging to Drago who kips up and kicks Abby in the gut, cutting off her momentum before he deadlifts her up and hits a powerbomb, not releasing it and lifting her up again and hitting a second powerbomb.  He lifts her up a third time, roaring out with the effort and plants her with a third powerbomb, taking a step back and falling flat on his back from exhaustion.

Ben Price – You can see the toll this match has taken on both fighters, fans.  Drago hits an impressive series of three powerbombs from a deadlift and

Valora Salinas – He ain’t able to take advantage of it because the pendejo ran outta gas.  I’ve been there.  Say what you want about these two, but they are showing how much the Conquest title means, both showing they are willing to sacrifice everything for the belt.

Eddie Vega – So, how do you keep going in a situation like this, Val?

Valora Salinas – Abby and Drago have to dig deep.  Find that special something in them that urges them to get up and keep fighting.

Seeing both fighters down, Ashley Beaton shrugs and begins the 10 count.

…1!

…2!

Both fighters writhe on the mat trying to recover

…3!

…4!

Abigail rolls over onto her stomach, pushing herself up onto her hands and knees while Drago continues to use the 10 count to recover and get another wind.

…5!

…6!

Abigail pushes herself up to a knee and Ashley stops the count as she gets to her feet.  Drago sitting up and getting to his feet as well.  Abby shakes her head, trying to clear the cobwebs and Drago charges and tries for a clothesline.  Abigail sees it coming and at the last second dodges with the matrix style leaning back move.  Abby then tries for another pele kick but Drago bats the move aside, pulling Abby up to her feet and sending her into the corner with an irish whip.

Ben Price – It’s clear both these fighters did their homework for this match.  We’ve seen not only a hard fought match, but a chess match of sorts played out between these two

Valora Salinas – Never was a big fan of chess.  Too pretentious.  Psychological warfare works better.

Eddie Vega – The bigger point here is once more, Samael Drago is in charge of the match!

Drago walks over to the corner and drives a knee into her midsection a few times and then plants her with a belly to belly suplex Drago then climbs to the top turnbuckle but loses his footing and takes a few seconds to recover.  Abigail kips up and jumps up to the middle turnbuckle, cutting Drago off with a punch to the midsection.  She then hops up to the top turnbuckle and jumps, bringing Drago to the mat hard with a hurricanrana from the top turnbuckle

Ben Price – Hurancanrana from the top turnbuckle!!  This match just continues to produce highlight moments!!

Valora Salinas – A good move, let’s see what she does to follow up.

Eddie Vega – No!  Damn it!  I can’t lose this bet!!

Abby gets up and makes her way over to Drago and turns to the crowd, signaling it’s time to end things.

Abigail Dresden – That’s it!

She pulls Drago to his feet and sets him up for the Swansong.  The crowd explodes into cheers anticipating the finisher and the end of the match.  

Ben Price – It looks like the Champ is setting up her challenger for his swansong!

Valora Salinas – She should just hit the fuckin’ thing.  She’s showboating too much.. Fuck me, never thought I’d say that.

Eddie Vega – I was about to say..

Right as Abby jumps into her move, Drago traps her leg.  The crowd comes to life, not in cheers but in alarm as Drago lifts Abby into the cradle and…

Ben Price – ODE of the UNHOLY!!!  Drago hit one of his finishers before Abby could hit hers!

Valora Salinas – Fuck!

Eddie Vega – YES!  I’m cashing in big tonight!!

In the ring, Drago hits the move, stands for a second looking down at Abby and falls face first onto the mat, landing on her in a sort of pin.  Ashley Beaton drops down and counts.

…One!

……Two!

………Three!

DING!! DING!!

Eric Wilson – Ladies and Gentlemen, the winner by pinfall and the NEW CWF Conquest Champion, SAMAEL DRAGO!!!

Ben Price – Well a big win for the Eternal Grove as they claim the most prized title in our federation.  A hard fought battle but Drago had just enough to come out on top.

Valora Salinas – What the fuck is that freak doing?

Eddie Vega – Got me..

Drago pulls himself up to a sitting position and looks down at the prone  body of Abigail who has not moved an inch since being hit with Drago’s finisher.  He does not gloat, does not attack.  Just.. sits there, looking down at her looking on in contemplation.

Suddenly, ‘Michelle Carter’ by SKYND plays over the PA and Apathy walks out, looking at the situation in the ring.

Ben Price – Apathy!!  What’s she doing out here?

Valora Salinas – Mi hermana is gonna cash in, I think.

Eddie Vega – Probably.

Apathy – Well, I suppose it’s a good thing I don’t have to injure Valora Jr. down there but I’m owed a title shot of my choosing and Val  I see you down there.. You’re an owner.  I want Drago!  I want a shot at the Conquest title!

Valora stands up and makes her way over to Eric Wilson and asks for his mic.  After he hands it to her, she turns to Apathy and nods.

Valora Salinas – Ballsy as ever Hermana.  Good to see you back to yourself.  You got your title shot, but you’ll have to wait til the mid-season pay per view in season 5.  Drago had to wait for his shot tonight, you get to wait now.

Ben Price – Wow!  We have our first match booked for the season 5 mid season pay per view!  Apathy v. Drago for the Conquest title!

Before Eddie can reply ‘Ich tu dir weh’ by Rammstein plays over the PA and Kara Reinhardt comes out from the back

Kara Reinhardt – Since people are making demands, what about me?  I’ve earned a shot due to my reign as Elite champion and my performances since losing the belt

Valora Salinas – Apathy gets to call her shot because she defended the Valor title 5 times.  You?  You got more to do, chica.  We’re going to have a tournament in Season 5.  You just volunteered.  Win or do well enough and we’ll talk about you and title shots.  Fumble in the big game and you get nothing.

Kara Reinhardt – Fine.  I got no problem tearing through a few more challenges..

Ben Price – Season 5 is shaping up to be must-see TV already!!!

Eddie Vega – I can’t wait!

Ben Price – That’s it for tonight, ladies and gentlemen. And that’s it for Season 4!

Eddie Vega – Season 5 starts next show… be on the look out. The landscape of the CWF has changed so much tonight. A new owner, a new Conquest Champion. Things are changing everywhere!

Ben Price – And to find out more… remember. 

Both – #jointheconquest!