Thanks to Lit reader Nus for suggesting the following story line.
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How did she end up in this mess, Trish Saturn wondered. It wasn't that long ago when she'd been out promoting her fitness videos and doing personal training at a gym near her home. That route had been going nowhere, regardless of how hard she tried to make it work. Her boyfriend at the time said, hey Trish, you're in great shape and Empire Wrestling is having tryouts for the women's division. Maybe you should go out there and give it a shot, he said.
Trish had gone ahead and done it, because what did she have to lose? Sure, she was only five-four and a lot shorter than most of the other girls who showed up. However, she had quite a few advantages over the competition. Trish had packed on the muscle thanks to having gone to the gym so much, she was more flexible than most people because she practiced yoga, and she could throw bigger chicks around thanks to her judo. Not only did she impress the trainers at the tryouts, but she was their number one pick.
People say that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Even now when she was in the thick of it, she still didn't know whether it was a good idea or not to have signed the contract with Empire Wrestling. Oh sure, she had the fame and the money. People who wouldn't look at her twice before would literally bend over backwards for her now. But she was getting ahead of herself, wasn't she? It hadn't been that easy!
It all started with her transformation. Gone was her black hair, replaced by a showier bright blonde dye. She took the supplements the trainers pushed on her, and gained so much muscle that her figure was bordering on the masculine side. Even her jaw looked strong and manly, instead of soft and feminine like before. Not only that, but she was told that her boobs were too small. To complete the picture that Empire Wrestling wanted from Trish, her tits were augmented into full balloon D cups. They had to do it, they said, otherwise she would be too short and there would be nothing there to hold the crowd's attention. Oh, those giant fake tits got her noticed all right!
She wrestled a couple of times against other newbies like her. The higher-ups were trying to see if she could hack it in the big leagues, and how the audience would react to her. Thanks to how athletic she was, Trish learned the moves faster than the other girls. Not only that, but she was much more acrobatic. Because of her fitness videos she already knew how to pose. People liked her smile, the promoters noticed. The crowd liked her. The crowd would pay money to see her wrestle.
In those early fights, she went by the nickname Saturn Girl. She dressed the part too, climbing into the ring while wearing a white blouse with an image of the planet on it, and pants colored in gold that glittered in the lights. When the crowd started cheering for her, the Girl part was dropped and she became simply Saturn. Trish didn't like being called Saturn. She made it a big point to keep at least a part of her first name intact. Trish Saturn was okay with her. Of course, the promoters didn't like it because they wanted to control everything about her image. They would have made her stick with only Saturn, except the events they rigged up caused things to quickly spiral out of their control.
Trish won her first four fights. That's when the higher-ups thought up one of their grand moneymaking schemes. Why not have Trish Saturn sit in while the announcers were doing their commentary, so the TV audience would get a good look at her? She was a brand now, so all she really had to do was give a few comments, smile a lot and show off her brand new boobies.
There were two things Trish wasn't told before she went out there. Number one, the bad boy of Empire Wrestling was named The Slammer. Between fights, he was supposed to go over to the announcers' table and show off his heavyweight title. Trish wasn't told he'd be coming ahead of time. Number two, the queen bitch of the women's division, Lisa Baron, was coming out with him. Nobody liked Lisa Baron because she played the part of the bad girl times ten. In the moment, pretty Trish Saturn didn't realize how the Empire higher-ups had framed her. After that night, Trish started paying very close attention to where the guys with the cameras were, because they were always in on the scheme when she wasn't.
Lisa Baron wasn't in on it either. Somebody told her, hey Lisa, The Slammer is going out there to schmooze with the announcers, so why don't you go out with him and growl at the camera a little? The Slammer and Lisa were supposed to be a 'thing' for the TV crowd, but that wasn't true. In real life, Lisa was married to a rich guy who owned a restaurant. Maybe she was messing around with The Slammer or maybe not. Trish didn't care because it was none of her business.
Apparently, the only person who knew what was about to go down was The Slammer. He came out with Lisa Baron like he was supposed to. Then he squeezed his way past the announcers to get to Trish. Unexpectedly, she got pulled up for a photo op with him and his heavyweight belt. The camera guys were in the perfect position to catch how The Slammer turned his back on 'his girl,' and how the bad boy was showing his winning smile and straight staring at Trish's tits. The camera guys also got a perfect shot of Lisa Baron's reaction as her supposed boyfriend turned his back on her.
Up until that moment, all Trish really knew about Lisa Baron was what she'd seen on TV, and a few things the other wrestlers had told her in passing. The consensus was that Lisa was one mean bitch who sometimes 'didn't stick to the program.' In a very big way, Trish was about to find out what that meant.
Lisa Baron went ape-shit for the cameras. She threw an announcer over the guardrail and into the crowd. She knocked over the table with all the broadcast equipment on it. She kicked the second announcer in the nuts and tried to beat The Slammer with his own championship belt, until the guy freaked and bolted away from her. Then, Lisa went after Trish Saturn, who was still sitting there trying to figure who flipped the crazy switch on that monster.
Luckily, a team of referees came running out from backstage and got in between the two women. This didn't stop Lisa from taking a couple of vicious swipes at Trish, but it did give Trish a moment to back away before she really got hurt. She hardly noticed it at the time, but damned near the entire audience was standing and rooting for Trish to kick Lisa Baron's ass.
Later, when it was all over, a couple of trainers came by to talk to her. We need you to do a few things differently from now on, they said. Every time you land a punch on somebody, you're going to stomp your foot on the mat to make the punch sound louder. When you slap somebody on the chest, you're going to use the broad side of your palm, also to make it sound louder. When somebody kicks you in the side, you're going to crawl around in the ring as if you're having a heart attack before you get back up. What the hell, Trish thought, I'm not going to cheat at wrestling!
You're going to be on TV from now on, one trainer said, and this is the way we do things on TV. The second trainer wrote a number on a piece of paper and showed it to her. This is how much we're going to pay you per fight, they said, if you play the game the way we want you to. We'll pay you even more than this if you headline an event, or if you make it onto Pay Per View. Trish looked at the number; it was enough for her to pay off her boobs after just one fight.