Adams vs. Britt Lohan vs. Kandis vs. Autumn Valentine vs. Williams vs. Selena Frost

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The Royal Letter

The scene opens to the interior of the “Believe It!” limo-bus. The blinds are closed and the interior lights are on, allowing more than adequate illumination to see the dark blue walls, the black blinds and the woman sitting on the white couch. Beside her sits the SCW World Champion, resting upright and shining a little. She wears black jeans, a maroon t-shirt and her leather jacket as she sits against the couch.

This upcoming weekend… will be one of the hardest, most intense battles of my career. she takes a deep breath, letting those awfully true words sink in. Reaching, the Snow Queen and World Champion, Selena Frost, nervously scratches the back of her neck.

And when you’re someone that’s fought the likes of Xander Valentine in a ‘Last Person Standing’ and an ‘Unsanctioned Empty Arena’ matches, when you’ve not only survived, but won, countless chamber matches, tournaments, Street Fights, when your list of opponents include such names of violent people like Rachel Foxx, Rachael Tatum Lee, Red Rayne, some of the most dominant and terrifying people in SCW history - that statement means a lot, I think.

She gives a shrug of her shoulders. But how else can I look at it. It’s a ring filled with number one contenders and the World Champion. It’s a type of match that I have never been part of and a match that is, truly, two matches in one. A match where, right off the bat, I am at a disadvantage. I could lose the world title without needing to be pinned or made to submit, and the last time that happened, I almost did lose the title…

Taking a slow inhale and exhale, Selena sighs before returning her gaze to the camera as she sits back onto the couch. With all of that in mind, when the chance to ‘pick my poison’ was given to me by Shaun Cruze, some people believed that I would make a decision based on strategy. That maybe I’d pick the ‘less successful’ wrestlers out of the other five and give myself the best chance to remain the world champion. I mean, let’s face it, that’s what we’d expect from Autumn Valentine, with Lexy Chapel calling the shots behind her. That’s what we’d expect from Kandis and Holly Adams. And, if we were to take what Kim Williams said at ‘face-value’, then there are certainly ‘less successful’ people in this match.

Shaking her head, the platinum-blonde gives a dry chuckle. But I dread to think of a day where ‘believing what Kim Williams says’ is the norm…

But as for my choice, I did take a lot of time to think about it. And, in the end, it was very similar to when I was asked by Cian O’Dwyer to be the guest referee for the World Championship Triple Threat match last year at Under Attack. Cian did so to ‘hold me to the mark’. To see if I would hold myself accountable to my beliefs of the ‘integrity’ of the World Championship. And I did. Deanna and I worked together to do it…

Biting her lower lip, Selena turns her head back to her audience. I knew that, given a position of power like this – like I was back then – that I had to, again, hold my myself to that same mark, which means being honest with myself and to my heart as well as asking myself what combination of challengers against me would serve to better the ‘integrity’ of the world championship.

For a moment, the world champion is silent, looking off camera as if to collect her thoughts before giving a slight shake of her head. But let’s face it, there is no combination I could give that would not have detractors. Whoever I picked, some would be grateful and some would whine and see it that I ‘saw them as weak’ or that that I had picked them as part of the aforementioned ‘strategy’. And for those I didn’t pick, well, look at Holly. Seconds after my choice, she’s trying to grab the microphone and declare that I’m ‘afraid of her’ – the only thing missing was her ‘clucking’ at me like a chicken while flapping her arms.

Not very original, but what do you expect from someone that has Giovanni Aries as her ‘advisor’. Check his Twitter for the past month, he’s been doing the same thing towards me because he got put in his place and not given a title shot by Shaun Cruze. Another dry laugh escapes her.

But the reality is that this whole thing has become so much more than professional. So much more than simply a world championship match and every single person in this match knows that. There are rivalries in here that have gone right into ‘personal’ territory here, and I’m just as much as a part of that as the others. I’m not Kim Williams, guys. I’m not going to bury my head in a Dalek for most of my career and hear and see only what I want to. And I’m not Autumn Valentine. I’m not going to start listening to Lexy’s crackpot ‘conspiracy’ theories just because things don’t go my way. I’m going to be honest with myself and all of you. Has this match become more than professional? Yes. Has it become personal? In several ways, yes. Does the World title still hold significance here? You better believe it does! her energy spikes at that last statement.

But my choices for Double Jeopardy, since this match is both professional and personal, had to be based on professional and personal. What was best for the integrity of the World title and what was best for my own heart…

Rolling her shoulders back, Selena’s tone becomes cold as she glares into the camera lens, to the woman she knows is watching. Which is why it wasn’t hard to pick you first, Kim. Because professionally, Kim? You started this whole thing, didn’t you? It was you that was unhappy with the way things were. You had beaten Syren, Jordan, and Konrad but you weren’t being handed title opportunities. You felt overlooked and ignored, so you lashed out.

And it’s funny you spoke about how most of my defences of the world title and my quest for ‘integrity’ of that championship had ended in controversy – like it was a strike against me - when you and your sister, Marie, were responsible for half of said controversy. Body, Heart and Soul, you strolled in and attacked Holly in an attempt to get me disqualified so the world title would be taken off me. Remember? there’s an edge to her voice.

And since that moment, Kim, you’ve done nothing but talk about what you are ‘owed’. What you ‘deserve’. It even started a whole forum of noise on Twitter – that’s how we got so many contenders in the first place. People hearing you make claims and then chiming in. “I beat! Well, I beat! Well, I beat!” over and over again, each one trying to top the other.

Reaching over, Selena takes the world title into her hands, gazing down at it. And professionally? I could understand that. As someone that’s had to fight and claw their way to hold this world championship, I know exactly what that’s like. You want to complain about being overlooked Kim after you beat three people? Guess what? I won two tournaments back-to-back, beat Kennedy Street, Kelcey Wallace, AND Ravyn Taylor all in 2016 and that still wasn’t enough to be considered for the world championship by management. In the four years that I was out of the world title picture, I defeated names like Xander Valentine, Giovanni Aries, Vixen Cain, Autumn Valentine and Syren, just to name a few. I had to wait years for any title rematches like the United States Championship.

But unlike you, Kim, I didn’t sit on Twitter posting gifs and whining every other day. I didn’t complain and try and screw over other people of their opportunities in a temper tantrum. I didn’t hide behind ambushes or empty threats. What I did was I kept fighting. I kept going. I kept using every match that I was in as a way to keep pushing my desire to become a champion. To be considered for opportunities. To move up the line until, finally, SCW couldn’t think of anyone but me. I stood in the ring while Mr. D. named me the number one contender for the SCW world title after four years of beating the best that SCW could throw at me!

The Snow Queen tilts her head a little. But you? After so many months of running around backstage, making jokes about Lizard Kingdoms and Lizard Championships, you’ve been hot for, what? A couple of months? You then hit a snag in that road and you think you’re owed something? You think you’re owed everything?

She scoffs a little. Even more amazing is that you think you’re being ‘original’. You think you’re being ‘creative’. That you’re sending ‘a message’ unlike any that’s ever been before.

Kim… the reason why so many people were able to jump on the wagon and put you in your place on Twitter on ‘who’s owed what’? Is because you’re not original. Maybe when you were running around backstage acting ‘psychotic’, maybe you were a little. But, let’s face it, Kim, you’re not ‘one of a kind’. The martyrdom, victim-act you’ve been pulling of being held back? Hell, Autumn Valentine’s got Lexy owning that with her conspiracy theories. “Gimme Gimme – I’m being held back!” was basically a theme with the likes of Syren, Bree Lancaster, Sienna Swann, Christy Matthews – it’s one of the oldest and most delusional statements in SCW history! The Brand, Infamous, Pinnacle, countless stables formed with THAT as their ‘reason’ or ‘motivation’…

Holding her free hand out towards the camera, Selena eyes the lens, seeing the face of her target. On a professional level, Kim. I think you’ve proven how good you are in this ring. That’s why you’re here. That’s why you were chosen to be in this match. I think you are, in terms of talent, at the level of any of the women in this match that could take the world championship. I think that, after years of playing games and not taking anything seriously, you’ve got what it takes to be the world champion.

Closing her eyes for a second, Selena takes a deep breath before opening them. On a personal level? I think you’re an ungrateful bitch that doesn’t deserve this opportunity. She clenches her jaw.

On a personal level, I think you’ve become nothing more than an unoriginal crybaby that doesn’t appreciate the chance she’s been given. Because what? You think you can spit in the face of this company and do whatever you want? You think you can promise to desecrate titles and no one will stop you? You think you deserve ‘specific’ opportunities when you’re shitting on the ones that you’ve been given?

TV title shot? You want to set it on fire and piss on it.
World title shot. You want to sell your spot or boycott the pay-per-view.

And why? Because like some spoiled little brat on Christmas, “It’s not the one I want!” she mimics the voice of high-pitched, whining child, before glaring back at the camera, her own, accented voice coming in strong.

Grow up, Kim! Grow the hell up! This opportunity for the World title? It’s the greatest opportunity anyone in SCW could ask for! For the greatest title in the world! It’s what so many of us dream about! It’s something that doesn’t come along very often. You know it and I know it. It’s something that some of us spend years trying to get! Ask Kandis. Ask Autumn. Hell, I just told you my story! People have sold their moralities for it, broken their bodies for it, sacrificed all they have just for a chance at it!

But you want to spit in the face of all that? You want to spit in their face? In MY face? Because the world title isn’t ‘good enough’ for you? You wanna throw these tantrums because the world title isn’t good enough for you? Mock all the current SCW champions and then say you’ve got ‘nothing to prove’ because the world title isn’t ‘good enough’ for you? You want to kidnap my wife because the world title isn’t ‘good enough’ for you?!

Her anger clearly rising, Selena glares into the camera, her breathing heavy and quite audible. Screw you, Kimberly! her voice actually echoes a little in the bus.

There is almost next to nothing ‘professional’ about why I chose you. I chose you because not only do I want to personally kick your ass to the curb and eliminate you from this world title match and the world title picture, I just want to beat the hell out of you for what you did to Deanna.

You say you’ve got nothing to prove, Kimberly, heading into Retribution, because you’re that confident. That may be true, but you know what? I’ve got something to prove. I’m going to prove to you that there are consequences for when you mess with my wife, with my matches, and with my standard of the world title. So, I don’t care if you ‘don’t want to be part of this match’ or whatever. You want to try and run away like you did last Breakdown? I’m going to go after you again, grab you by the hair and drag your ass back into the ring. You want to try and pull that ‘sister-act’ switch? I’ll go under the ring and drag your ass back into the ring. You want to try and not show up to Retribution out of some ‘message’ or ‘boycotting’? she smirks and shakes her head. And I will go up and down the damn arena till I find you and I will beat you to a pulp so that you can never pull of that twin-magic trick again… and then I will drag your ass back into the ring.

Because that is the only thing you truly ‘deserve’, Kimberly. And I know that Autumn Valentine will agree with me because of how you treated the title she defended longer than anyone else in its history…

Stopping herself for a moment, Selena takes a few breaths to calm herself. Yes, I’m switching gears here, Autumn. And before Lexy opens her mouth, no, this isn’t some olive branch to ‘team up’ with you and work on Kimberly. This isn’t me strategizing with you. But neither am I trying to disrespect you by mentioning you second. See, as easy as it was to pick Kim for this heat for the personal reasons, you were just as easy for me to pick for the ‘professional’ ones. her shoulders give another shrug.

Now, Kimberly mentioned your losing streak of, what? Two matches? She may think that erases the near eight-month reign you had as Television Champion, but I don’t. See, I see someone that beat people like Josh Hudson, Shilo Valiant, CHBK, hell, Kimberly brags that she beat you for the title recently, but who did you beat in your first title defence of that reign back in July? Yeah, funny how that’s not mentioned in Kim’s Twitter tangents, right?

A sad smile breaks across her features as her hand taps her knee. But you get the gist, Autumn. And you and me, Autumn? We’ve never liked each other. We’re never going to like each other. You know it. I know it. Anyone that’s not spent the last few years with their head rammed up the exhaust pipe of a Dalek knows it. And trust me, dear, I’m going to get to that in a second. But I wanted to make it adamantly clear how strong the professional reasons are for why I chose you.

It’s taken you awhile to get here, Autumn, but your stock has never been higher. You’re the wildcard, the dark horse of this match, moreso than Kandis or Brittany Lohan. Because you’ve put in the months of victories just like I have time and time again. You’ve turned back the calibre of legends over and over. You’ve held multiple titles at the same time while doing it. This… you against me for the world title… was never a matter of ‘if’ in my mind, but a matter of ‘when’. So, when I had the chance to make it happen, you better believe that I took it.

For as long as I’ve known you, you have complained that I don’t respect you. Well, you can’t say that now, can you? The biggest reason you are here is that I respect what you’ve done in this ring and because I believe, as much as I believe Kim deserves an ass beating the likes of which she has never experienced before, I believe just as much that you belong in this heat against me – that you deserve the first crack at the world championship at Retribution.

Lifting her head with an inhale, Selena lowers it with the exhale. But… you and I both know that there will always be that personal level of things between us. And I could let you talk about it or, if you wanted to be like Ace Marshall back in July, have Lexy do all the talking for you… were it not for your promo on your last match – where you lost to Holly Adams.

It was a promo where you and Lexy talked about hope. Being the ‘hope’ in SCW. Being the ‘beacon of light in SCW’. ‘Believing in yourself’ and having others ‘believe’ as well.

Saying those words, Selena smiles amusingly. Strange enough, I was moved by it, Autumn. I thought it was quite the powerful message… but a little too familiar, don’t you think?

Hope?
Believe?
Restoring SCW? a little laugh escapes her, the inference beyond clear.

No, really, Autumn, in truth, I took it as a compliment. I mean if the great Autumn Valentine, the Star of Tomorrow, and Lexy Chapel, the Manager of the Year, are trying in earnest to copy my promos then maybe I’m doing something right here. Maybe I’m on the right track in restoring integrity to SCW and to the World title…

But it’s even more amazing for me because it’s you, Autumn. Because you’ve never been shy about speaking your mind with me. I mean, let’s go back, shall we? 2014. There I was, this fresh face in SCW, trying to make my way through it, winning titles, working my way up and I happened to get in the way of the Women’s Champion, that being you. What was set up was a non-title champion vs champion match. The Adrenaline Champion vs the Women’s Champion. Now, let me remind you, this was a title that I had worked for months to acquire. I beat the then champion, Thomas Watson, three times over before I got my shot against him and I won the title. No tricks, nobody running in to save me, nobody holding my hand, I fought and clawed my way to become the Adrenaline champion and earned it.

In the buildup to our match, you, who hadn’t said more than two words to me since I got to SCW, got in front of a camera and preceded to tell the world that I was this no-talent ripoff that was going to get destroyed, showing that the Women’s division was greater than the Adrenaline division. It didn’t matter that I tried to show you respect, it didn’t matter that I had earned my way to facing someone of your calibre. All that mattered to you, Autumn, was that I get buried and the Adrenaline title got buried for your own ego.

Selena is silent for a moment, clearly bothered by such memories. And every time we met up after that, that message never changed for you.  I mean, we want to talk about where the whole “Selena is a fraud” line came from? Look no further right, Autumn? Because it was you, doing all you could to drag my name through the mud. Accusing me of things I didn’t do, taking advantage of my inexperience, all so that you could look ‘just a little better’ in the eyes of the SCW Universe. Because it was easier to try and bring me down than it was to try and build yourself up, wasn’t it?

Shaking her head, the Face of SCW gives a shrug. Now, the ironic thing is that, much like the Women’s division fading away while the Adrenaline division is still going strong, you have come and gone out of SCW over and over again while I have stayed through the good times and the bad, remaining loyal to SCW and standing by the same beliefs that I held back then. In fact, those beliefs are so strong, so powerful, so effective – changing the world in the eyes of the SCW Universe, that the first, and perhaps, biggest critic has now started using them herself…

Lowering her hand back to her side, Selena, again, shakes her head. But I can’t take pride in that where you are concerned, Autumn. I can’t just showboat how, in the years since then, I have accomplished far more than you and, dare I say, surpassed the limitations you tried to bury me under.

Because, much as, I am sure, you see the same person you saw me as all those years ago, I hold grudges. Ever since then, I’ve had a sour taste in my mouth whenever I looked at you or heard your name, Autumn. And every time you and I have stepped into the ring, all I’ve wanted to do is keep proving just how wrong you were back then and how wrong you continue to be about me.

Because you think that by simply saying those words of mine, you can do what I do? That by simply ‘pretending’ to be Selena Frost or ‘Selena Frost-like’, the SCW Universe will cheer your name and believe in you like they have in me?

Autumn… she sighs knowingly. You’ve been on fire for nearly eight months… not eight years.

While my sister, Regan, and I reinvented the tag-team division, ushering in the first ever Tag-League Tournament, you spent your time in that division playing ‘hot potato’ with the tag-titles with Ravyn and Christy Matthews across house shows just to pad your accolades. Yet, we’re supposed to believe you care about the integrity of titles?

While I was trying to raise the standard in SCW, you were faking an ‘accidental sex show’ on a live stream with a man you were never interested in, if your relationship with Lexy is to be believed. Yet, you pledge ‘honesty’ and ‘hope’ to the SCW Universe?

While I was fighting impossible odds and ambushes and stables attacking me en masse, you were taking part in a fake wedding with a wig-wearing Ace Marshall and a ‘suddenly bi’ Lexy Chapel. Yet, you want us to believe you are genuine?

Biting her lower lip, Selena shakes her head. You want to know why you don’t have the believers that you think you do, Autumn? Why you got beat by Holly Adams, of all people, for the End of the Year title shot vote? It’s because, for all the talent that I’ve mentioned – the ability that I desperately want to go up against again – you have done nothing but lie to these people again and again, selling them sham after sham just to try and keep relevant. So, when you say those words – they don’t believe you mean them. They don’t believe you.

Licking her lips a little, the young woman smirks a little in contemplation. And that bad taste in my mouth, that hypocrisy of yours – the woman that looked down on me for so long, that I know will look down on me as soon as she gets in front of a camera – who will use those same tired lines from eight years ago, but then thinks that ‘copying the words of Selena Frost’ is enough to win a match and become World Champion – that is what will always make our battles personal for me, Autumn. What will always be fuel to my fire, pushing me further and further when I’m in the ring with you. To show the difference between simply saying those words and meaning them. The difference between saying ‘you believe’ and fighting for what you believe in with everything you have, good and bad, up or down, loved or hated.

And whether I go through you and show you that difference, Autumn, or I go through Kimberly at the end of her long ass-kicking, I am going to prove myself to you, to Kimberly, and to the other three women in this match. I am going to prove that I have come too far and fought for too long to lose this championship to an ungrateful brat or an insincere copycat, talented as you both are. I have come too far trying to bring integrity to this belt to see it handed off to someone that will desecrate it or someone that will just use it for her and Lexy’s own ego.

Leaning forward onto her knees, Selena’s sapphire eyes narrow a little. You may think you’re going to make me regret choosing you two to face at Retribution, but come the end of the first heat, it will be you two regretting that I did…

Believe it!

The camera slowly fades on the stern face of the world champion before fading to black.