"That will be that then. Be here on Friday at 3 in the afternoon. We will have attire for you. Do make sure you are ready."
And with that, I left the room.
I spent the next few days asking myself how much I wanted to get into the WWE. The answer I wound up with was an emphatic yes. Wrestling was my love, my passion, and WWE was the biggest stage of all. Beth was strong, sure, but I was young and full of energy. I was sure I could take her. I had to be, if I wanted to impress all the WWE people.
The day finally came, and I entered the WWE building. Victoria had helpfully given me instructions as to what I should be doing, and I followed them dutifully. The locker room, if it could even be called that, was a small closet that had a green singlet and a pair of boots. It was nice, and fit very snugly on me. I thought that the tight fit must have been the idea. Somehow, they guessed my foot size correctly, and altogether the get up looked quite appealing on me.
I emerged from the cramped room and walked down the hall. Nervousness came over me. On the other side of the door was either a big break, or back to the indies, but first Beth would have her way with me. A lump formed in my throat as I opened the door. A new world was revealed to me- the ring in the center dominated the small-ish room, and Beth dominated the ring in turn. A row of official looking people had ring side seats, and Victoria was there too. She gave me a wave, beckoning me in.
"So, Taeler. This will be a standard match. Do you best, and put on a show." Victoria instructed.
"I will do my best," I said as I neared the ring. A ref slid under the bottom rope on the far side, and I ducked between the middle rope on my side. Beth was still standing there, arms crossed. "Hi," I said with an awkward smile and a more awkward wave. She nodded, that was it. Blonde hair fell slightly below her shoulders, and the woman clearly lifted quite a lot of weights. Her legs were rock solid and a pair of white pants clung to them very tightly. A black sports bra held back her voluminous chest, but nothing could hold back that strong jaw of hers. Her eyes were small, but leery.
"Miss Hendrix, are you ready?" The ref called my attention to him, and I nodded.
A bell went off and Beth was upon me before I could even think. She seized me by my arms but I had finally found my ring feet and pushed her off. The blonde tried to grab me once more, but I headbutted her quickly. While she was reeling, I advanced upon her and speared her to the ground. My early success went straight to my head, and I jumped on the downed titaness.
But she was ready. She wrapped her arms around me and rolled me over, so that I was on the bottom. From her dominant position, she grabbed the sides of my head and slammed my head against the ground a few times. That made me groan and hold my head in pain. Beth was quick to capitalize on her assault, as she seized my red hair and pulled me up to my feet. I was sent bounding to the ropes with an Irish Whip, and when I came back around the blonde clotheslined me to the ground powerfully.
She went for the pin right then and there. Of all the insults I had taken in my career, that was one of the worst. Only a few moves, and this veteran thought I was done. Burning with rage, I kicked out slightly after the count of one. We both stood up and reset. I immediately moved forward, and sent a front kick into her stomach. She was too slow to react, which meant that I could pull off a quick bulldog with impunity. I got up immediately, but time had slowed poor Beth, not that I was going to show any mercy on her. Her legs found their way into my arms, and I pulled her into a double legged Boston Crab. I was pulling as hard as I possibly could, and all my effort earned me a few grunts of pain from her. A smile spread across my face. This was wrestling, this was real. Before, I was so unsure if I could make it. But now I was giving it to the former champ.
Then the world shifted. I felt a strong force pulling me back. Beth was trying to claw her way to the ropes for a rope break, and I was going to do everything in my power to stop it. The only problem was that she was far stronger than me, and slowly but surely found her way to a rope break. I sighed as I let go of her legs at the behest of the referee.
The second she stood up, I was upon her again, this time grabbing her neck and monkey flipping her over me. The blonde titaness moaned as she lay on the mat, and I thought I had enough time to do something low. After all, Victoria did tell me to put on a show. I grabbed the waist of her pants and pulled, yanking her bottoms off in one go. The former champ howled and tried to cover herself, but I was not going to lay back and allow it. I stomped her a few times to soften her up, before I pulled her to her feet and tucked her head between my legs. It took me a concerted effort, but I pulled her body perpendicular to the ground, with her head facing downwards. I gave the lookers on a saucy wink before I tombstone piledrove her straight into the mat.
Her limbs flopped to the ground, and I grabbed at her sports bra and pulled. My opponent was completely naked as I rolled her over so her back was to the mat. I hooked her leg for the pin, and the ref slapped his hand against the mat twice. Beth kicked out the millisecond before his hand hit the mat for a third time, and I stood up and cursed him with every foul word I knew. My red hair flew around as I screamed and yelled and hollered at him, but he remained totally insouciant to my plight.
While I was yelling, Beth was recovering, and I felt the culmination of that when her strong arms wrapped around my midsection. She lifted me up and over, and I slammed into the mat shoulders first in a mighty German suplex. My grunts of pain were not enough for her. She did not even let go as she maneuvered around, picking me up and hitting me with yet another of the brutal and impressive moves. I was left with no recourse but to clutch at the mat and moan.
The risen phoenix was not happy just to stop there though. She grabbed my legs and quickly twisted me into a figure four leg lock. I gritted my teeth and tried to stave off the pain, but it was no use. She could strangle a yak with those legs, and I felt like nothing against her. Just as I was getting ready to tap, she released me. I was happy to get a break from the unbearable pain, but Beth was nowhere near close to stopping. Her naked form loomed above me, and she hauled my up by my red hair.
Her strong hand bowed my head, and she used all her strength to lift me up into the air. By the time I realized what was about to happen, it was too late. I was high in the air for a vertical suplex, and when Beth came down, she came down hard. Throughout my time in the indies, I had never felt pain such as the kind which was coursing through my body. I sat up and quickly lay back down. My mouth was agape, and my eyes were closed shut.
But that was only the start of my problems. Beth yanked my singlet off in one fell swoop, and soon the only thing that I was wearing was my boots. I tried to cover myself. The only thing stopping me was Beth, the blonde titaness of destruction. She pulled me up to my feet and tucked my head between her legs. Then she folded my body up, just as I had done to her, and hit me with my own move, the tombstone piledriver. Lights flashed in front of my eyes the second after I hit the mat, and my body was totally useless.
I was face down and breathing hard. Beth, on the other hand, was working. She stood with her feet on the back of my knees, and folded my calves over her toes. The blonde then grabbed my arms and fell backwards. The move was called a Romero Special, and it was terribly painful and humiliating. She spread her legs a little, which made me spread my legs a lot, exposing my naked sex to the referee and the judges. My back exploded with pain, and I shook my head and yelped furiously. She had me right where she wanted me. To add insult to injury, I could not even tap- she had my hands wrapped up in her arms. She stretched me and stretched, to my shame and suffering, and sweat dripped off of my naked body. Next to her, I was totally powerless.