Tag Team Turmoil Match

[Team Desire]

Katie Steward | Team Desire | "Her Activism"

Hollywood, California at a television studio backlot. The place is pretty empty which is unusual midday, but with the ongoing writer strike it’s expected. Katie Steward steps out of a building. She juggles around some tapes in her hands. She had finished up some editing she was doing for her documentary and taking the work home with her. Katie walks across the studio putting the tapes into her bag. She’s still pretty far from her car when she hears some commotion happening. Katie looks up and around trying to figure out where it’s coming from. That’s when she sees it. A few people dressed in black and wearing character masks. Katie recognizes the masks as Comedy and Drama masks. Katie remembers them from her acting classes from school.

Katie tries to find a place to hide, but it might be a bit difficult being out in the open as she is. She sprints to some bushes nearby to hide behind. She could then follow the obstructed view to the parking lot and make it to her car.
She however doesn’t get too far in the plan being immediately grabbed while she was standing in the open. They are bigger than Katie. They’re arms wrapped around her. Squeezing her tight. Katie doesn’t panic. Being a wrestler in SCW seems second nature to her. She counters the hold by slipping out of it. Katie rolls behind them and sweeps the leg knocking them down. Katie stands back to her feet and notices she’s now got the unwanted attention of the group. She slowly backtracks keeping distance between them. She really doesn’t want to have to try and run a gaunltlet. Why would this be a thing?

“Katie?” A voice is heard in the back of the ground. Katie scans the crowd trying to find the person who called her name. Then she sees someone make her way through and lift the drama mask from her face.
“Brooke?” Katie recognizes her. She’s Weasel’s sister. She was usually the one to speak up against social issues and lead a charge against corporations. So seeing her around isn’t such a shock. Hanging with a shady group of misfits on the other hand was alarming though.

“So, are you working here?” Brooke asks a question to see what Katie’s answer is. Wondering if maybe Katie is a scab. Someone who would cross the picket line of striking workers. Katie doesn’t seem to pick up on Brooke’s accusation.
“I was just doing some editing for my documentary. Borrowing their equipment. I have keys.” Katie tells her. Katie mentioning she having keys triggers some of the people to get an idea.

“She has keys. We can grab them off her.”

Katie hears their intentions and nods her head. “Yeah, yeah you can try. You can also end up like your friend here.” The person Katie had dropped earlier sits up in front of her and Katie lifts her knee hitting them in the face making go back to sleep and to send a message to the group. The crowd doesn’t like it and they grow unruly and begin to move toward her.

“Hold on.” Brooke raises her arms holding the crowd back. “Just take it easy. Let me talk to her. Everyone just chill and pick him up and get him out of here.”

A couple of guys step out from the group and help the person that Katie put to sleep up and take them away. Brooke walks over to talk to Katie. She gets close to her when a party crasher shows up. Studio Security. They call out to the people gathered around and blow on a whistle. The crowd disperse and runs in all directions. Katie and Brooke exchange glances. Katie grabs Brooke’s hand as she tries to run away. She holds onto it for a few seconds and then lets go and Brooke disappears into the lot. Security runs over to check to make sure Katie is alright.

“Are you ok, Ms. Steward?”

“Yes. I’m fine. I took care of myself.” Katie grabs her back. She leaves the security to look around the area for anyone who shouldn’t be there. Katie makes it to her car and leaves the studio.

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At Steward’s Place, TJ’s restaurant that he had opened for Katie. Katie sits in a booth looking like she is waiting on someone. Her eyes continue to glance by the door at anyone who enters.
Brooke walks into the restaurant and finds Katie watching her. She walks over to the booth. Holding up her hand which has a matchbook with the restaurant on it. “I got your subtle message you slipped into my hand. Not a bad slide of the hand.”

Katie smiles. “I had a lot of fun with that magic kit when I was nine. I do take it naturally to be a show woman.”
Brooke nods along and she sits down in the booth with Katie. The two sit there in silence for a couple of minutes. Neither really knows what to say.

“I hadn’t expected to run into you today.” Katie tells Brooke.

“I had the exact same thought. Being an actress was thinking you’d be on their side and wouldn’t cross.”Brooke accuses Katie.

“Hey, I’m on the side of the writers. In fact, TJ and I have been helping a lot of them and their family out with the use of the restaurant and getting food to them. Besides, my documentary is a personal project for SCW.” Katie explains how things are and Brooke sits there and looks sorry for accusing her of such an awful thing.

“Oh. I’m sorry. I didn’t know.”

“It’s ok. We weren’t really broadcasting it to everyone. We’re just lucky the wrestling world has different rules to Hollywood.” Katie continued on with her explanation.

“Yeah, that's what makes it so frustrating. The different rules. The studio execs are making millions while the writers and everyone are getting screwed. All because streaming has different rules and junk. That's why we need to send a message because they're not listening. That's what we were doing before you interrupted us." Brooke tells Katie her group's strategy. Katie followed it by nodding at her. She understands what she is saying, but Katie wouldn't agree with it.

"It's very good to have a passion like that, but it looked a lot more like vandalism than activism, Brooke." Katie shakes her head in disappointment.

"Yeah, well sometimes it's needed. Like that Studio. He makes a good $300 Million a year. They just put on some major shows too. So he's getting a lot of bonus." Brooke vents out her frustrations in hoping Katie understands.

"That was Rise to Greatness. They are reporting it broke records all over the world in viewership." Katie smirks. "Safe to say, why?"

"Well if you see him tell him you're welcome." Brooke replies.

"Wait. They're making money off me." Katie's mind starts the process, connecting the dots that Brooke is pinning together on the board.

"We need to send a message so they get it. Waiting around for them to come to the table only hurts the people we're fighting for. I hope you understand." Brooke reaches out her hand and holds onto Katie. Hoping that maybe she got through to her or at least enough so that she won't turn her in.

“Yes. I think I do understand. You’re right. We do need to protest and help in our own way.” Katie looks at Brooke with an understanding. It brings a smile to Brooke’s face. “Just vandalism is a step too far.”

“Of course. We wouldn’t do that.” Brooke shakes her head. “However, a harmless prank wouldn’t be crossing any lines.”

“Well only if it’s a harmless one.”

The two women sit at the table and smile at the other. Both casuals taking back and forth in what feels like coded messages. They end in a shared laugh.

“Thanks for the talk, Katie.” Brooke excuses herself and leaves.

Katie is still sitting in the booth by herself. She looks around and thinks about what Brooke had told her. Her eyes glance down beside where her bag sits. Her documentary rests at the top of it. Katie breathes heavier, getting upset all of a sudden and just says “Bastards.”


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A few hours pass by and the restaurant is closed. Katie is still sitting in the booth and TJ shows up and joins her.

“TJ, you wanna know something? I think they’re taking advantage of me.” Katie looks at him with a serious expression.

TJ freezes up for a second and wonders what he’s stepped into. “Is this what you and that girl were talking about? Oh yeah, I saw you.” TJ sits back in the booth and looks at Katie.

“Brooke is a sweet girl that is very passionate about social issues.” Katie told him. “And I think she has a point. Like my documentary. One of the most inspiring stories ever. I was just going to give it away. Do you have any idea how much more bonuses they would get?” TJ sits there looking at Katie. Not sure how to answer her. “All of it!”
“So you’re not going to release it?” TJ questions her.

“I couldn’t do that.The story is too important. Too powerful to be hoarded to myself. What I need to do is launch my own protest. In solidarity with the writer’s guild and everyone else that’s joined in.” Katie sits up straight in the booth. Her chest sticking out and feeling strong and powerful as she says her next line. “They’re not going to get Katie Steward.”

“So you’re on strike then?” TJ asks.

“No. You’re not listening to me, TJ. I said they’re not getting Katie Steward.” TJ just stares blankly at her. “Oh my Goddess, how are you not getting this? You are ruining my brilliance. They are not getting Katie Steward. My star power. The name, the lights, the glamor. All gone.”

“And you think this is a good idea?” TJ is still questioning Katie’s decision. He knows her well enough that he can’t see her taking this so well the longer it goes on for.

“Trust me, TJ. They’ll see results in less than a month. That’s how much they need to have my name in the lights.”

Katie smiles as she knows she’s about to get everything she wants in her ingenious plan. She gets out of the booth and heads home leaving TJ to still be pondering over this latest idea.


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“Tag Team Turmoil.” Katie laughs. “SCW in their continued journey to throw everything at me in my quest to become something that no other person has done. They just love coming up with new ways of making me work. Which is all fair and dandy. It just makes my story all that more fascinating. Unlike everyone else SCW has come through their door. There isn’t a single person that can say they’re better than me. Just look at this turmoil. Twisted and Sadistic may have been lucky one night.” Katie pauses. “A very big and important night for SCW, but that is beside the point. Brittany and Glory are good, but there is no Katie. So while they had a good night at Rise to Greatness. I will make sure they don’t have a nice one on Breakdown.”

“It’s just Twisted and Sadistic, though. The Tag Team competition decided to spice things up. Chance and Kalsai are back along with the rowdy soccer hooligans of Europe. When we run this gauntlet we will again fend them off. It’s not just them. Happy Friends, Holly Adams Association, Playgirls, Amy and Simon, Alloccos, Light in the Darkness and Statera. There is an army of resistance standing in my way of becoming Supreme Champion. Just imagine that. Out of all the Supreme Champions that SCW has seen. Can anyone honestly say they’re better than me? Has any of them walked through a battlefield of bodies to make it to the other side. I don’t think so. That is why  Tag Turmoil. I already know everyone will be out to get me. It’s just their nature. Like a second skin to try and screw me over. It’s why they’re going to fail. It’s just going to feed their Goddess and she will grow hungry and the hungrier that she gets. She’s going to consume entire planets to feed herself.” Katie freezes up and grabs her head. Rubbing her temple like she has a headache. “Damn it, TJ. No more comic talk.”

“Anyways, SCW is just continuing to create the greatest story ever. My documentary will be life changing for anyone who views it. When it finally comes out. When I change the world for the better. It’s truly going to be something special.” Katie smirks. “So it’s safe to say that Gigi and I will be very confident come Breakdown this week. No matter who SCW decides to throw at us. I dare them to have us draw the first entry into this turmoil. Because unlike every other team. We will prove ourselves and end the Breakdown with a Hollywood ending.”