::The cameras return to ringside and to Heather Lee.  The wide angle shows a roof-less steel cage hovering twenty-plus feet over her head.::

 

HL: “Ladies and gentlemen, our next contest is a steel cage match and it is for the ACW Women’s Championship!  The only ways to win this match are pinfall, submission or by climbing out of the cage and having both feet touch the floor!”

 

::The lights dim and pyrotechnic explosions burst, sending the crowd into a frenzy as the classic Judas Priest song “You’ve Got Another Thing Coming” begins to play over the arena’s PA System.  Kelsia Vector comes walking from behind the curtain and the fans begin to boo immediately, though not quite all of them.  More than a few cheers were in the mix as the black-and-white clad woman comes to stand in the middle of the stage for a moment before making her way down the ramp.:: 

“One life I'm gonna live it up
I'm takin' flight I said I'll never get enough
Stand tall I'm young and kinda proud
I'm on top as long as the music's loud

If you think I'll sit around as the world goes by
You're thinkin' like a fool cause it's a case of do or die
Out there is a fortune waitin' to be had
You think I'll let it go you're mad
You've got another thing comin'!”

::Kelsia casts her eyes from side to side, offering smirking expressions to her detractors an incline of the head towards the few that sung her praises, pausing half-way to the ring to soak in more of the reactions.::

 

RJ: “She certainly looks ready, but looks can be deceiving.  When it comes to her and Alexa, you never know which way it’s going to go.”

MS: “Maybe as far as you’re concerned, but when it comes to big-match situations, Kelsia has it all over the Women’s Champion.  And with the title on the line in a cage, my vote’s for this woman right here getting the win.”

“That's right here's where the talkin' ends
Well listen this night there'll be some action spent
Drive hard I'm callin' all the shots
I got an ace card comin' down on the rocks!”

::Kelsia walks to the apron and pulls herself up onto it via the middle rope.  Posing briefly just to get a rise out of the crowd, she hooks her arms around the top rope and flips gracefully back into the ring, taking a moment to toss her head back, clearing her hair out of the way.  Stepping towards the corner and turnbuckles, she climbs up onto the middle rope and takes one last look at the audience.::

 

HL: “Now entering the ring from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she stands 5’6” and weighs in at 130 pounds.  She is the number-one contender to the ACW Women’s Championship…Kelsia Vector!”

“Oh so hot no time to take a rest yeah
Act tough ain't room for second best
Real strong got me some security
Hey I'm a big smash I'm goin' for infinity yeah"

::Jumping down she stood there waiting for the match to get underway.  Meanwhile, after a moment to allow the song to fade, Heather prepares to announce the champion.::

HL: “And her opponent…”

 

::The arena blackens to the first guitar rifts of “Brackish” by Kittie. The strobes light the arena with each passing incline of notes in the rifts and clangs of the symbols. Images of the female wrestler played along the tron of her various matches. The last being her win over Aurora for the title. Her name flashed. A growl from the lead singer begins the quick tempo song and was the signal for the pyrotechnics to blast illuminating Alexa as her arms raised up to the ceiling. She wore black tuxedo style vest that pressed hard to her form, looping around her neck. The material of her top stopped right under her bosom to accentuate the lines of her abdomen. Her black flair pants covered black boots. Between the black materials laid the ACW Women's Championship Belt, hooked around her waist. Golden brown strands held back in a French braid. She learned to keep it back.::

“She is not scared to die…
The best things in life drive her to cry.
Crucify then learn!”

 

RJ: “Alexa’s been vocal lately about proving that she’s a worthy holder of that title, Mitchell, and winning this match would go a long way towards proving her point.”

MS: “IF she can get past Kelsia, Robbie.  Hot Chocolate is motivated, no doubt about it.  But there’s no denying Alexa’s credentials, either.”

::Alexa took a moment to motion for everyone to rock out with her. She made her way down the ramp with a smile. Interacting with the fans all the way down as they were on their feet in appreciation. She offered high fives and an occasional hug to a child fan. About half way down the ramp she took off to the ring. Sliding in under the bottom rope she was to her knees.::

“Sit and watch me burn..
I’ll take you down, and show you deep inside,
my life, my inner workin’…”

 

HL: “Now entering the ring and hailing from Danbury, Connecticut, she stands 5’8” and weighs in at 160 pounds.  She is the reigning and defending ACW Women’s Champion…Alexa Rose!”

::Now up to her feet she made her way to each turnbuckle, unclasping the belt securing it to her shoulder. Raising her hands and motioning to the crowd. Clapping her hands for them on each ring post. Hoping out of her last corner she smiled, she raised the belt to the crowd before securing it with the official. The smile fading slightly as she waited for the bell to signal her start.  Before the match can, however, ‘Envy’ by Nicki Minaj begins to play…the long-unseen Xena Katya Stratus’s theme.::

RJ: “What’s this…?  Is the former champion going to make an appearance?!”

MS: “It doesn’t look that way…but she is sending a message!”

::On the ACW-Tron, a message appears briefly…sparkling pink lettering in a looping script against a black velvet background.::

 

“The Queen of Queens will return to retake her crown…
You’ve all been warned…nothing will keep her from her throne again!”

 

::With that, the message and the them fades…leaving fans as well as the announcers and the in-ring competitors wondering…::

RJ: “Guess she’s content to leave a message for now…but she’d better not think her return to the top will be easy.”

MS: “It’s always easy with a body like hers!”

RJ: “You’re not talking about titles, are you?”

 

MS: “What do YOU think?”

::The referee signals for the bell and the two competitors begin circling each other cautiously. Alexa moves in looking for a tie up and Kelsia meets her head on, pushing back against the larger woman with all her strength. After a few seconds, though, Alexa's size and power advantage shows as she forces Kelsia backwards towards the edge of the ring. After a few forced steps backwards Kelsia suddenly reverses her direction and uses her opponent's power against her as she backs up quickly and turns, throwing Alexa back first into the wall of the steel cage. Taking advantage of having her opponent off balance, Kelsia throws a series of forearms causing the chain link of the cage to rattle with each impact.::

MS: Kelsia wasting no time using the cage to her advantage in this match!

RJ: An aggressive start by the challenger but Alexa is not the kind of woman who's easy to keep against the wall, figuratively or literally.

::Alexa gets her hands up to block the assault and shoves Kelsia back with a hard shove before immediately pushing off of the cage and lunging forward with a lariat attempt, but Kelsia ducks under the attack and grabs Alexa by the arm and applies a hammerlock. Before she can really apply much pressure to the hold, however, Alexa leans back into her and drives her back into the ropes and the steel just behind it. The sudden impact breaks Kelsia's grip and the champion spins around to deliver a hard backhand chop, then another, then a third before stepping in closer to rock Kelsia with a European uppercut and follows it up with a bulldog takedown into the center of the ring.::

RJ: “That is exactly what I'm talking about, Mitch!”

MS: “I wouldn't count out either of these ladies out just yet!”

::Alexa mounts Kelsia and delivers a series of hard punches before lifting her back up and driving her right back down with a scoop slam, then drags her back to her feet and repeats the slam. After the second slam, Alexa stands up and comes down with a standing elbow drop only to hit bare mat as Kelsia rolls out of the way at the last minute and springs to her feet. Alexa is quick to recover and is back up on her own feet just in time to catch a standing dropkick from Kelsia square in the chest. The impact staggers the champion backwards without knocking her off her feet and Kelsia is quick to press in with a series of quick forearms to the head before whipping Alexa into a corner. Kelsia rushes in only to have Alexa slip out of the way and barely catches herself before running into the ring post, allowing Alexa to step around behind her and nail a belly to back suplex, dropping the challenger hard onto the mat. Both women are slow to get up, but Alexa comes up first and grips Kelsia as she's rising to deliver a DDT.::

RJ: “An impressive display of power by the Champion as she goes for the pin!”

MS: “No! Kelsia kicks out after a short two count! Hot Chocolate is still in this!”

::Kelsia shoves away from Alexa as the champion tries to pull her up again and hits with a quick kick to the stomach to double her over before grabbing her head and twisting around as they straighten and hitting a solid neckbreaker onto the champion. Kelsia eschews a cover attempt in favor of a body scissors and inverted facelock combination. Alexa shouts in pain as Kelsia squeezes down with her legs and arches back to apply pressure to her neck with the other hold.::

MS: “Oh man, I love it when the ladies get physical like this! Listen to Alexa scream!”

RJ: “Does all of your commentary originate from your pants?”

MS: “Only when the ladies are in the ring!”

::After maintaining the hold for a few more seconds, Kelsia releases it and draws her opponent up and scoops her into a body slam. Dropping back down onto her opponent she goes for a camel clutch but Alexa twists out and rolls away and staggers to her feet, leaning back against the ropes. Kelsia doesn't let her catch her breath before whipping her back in the other direction only to have Alexa reverse the whip. Kelsia rebounds off of the far wall of the cage with a resounding clash of metal and stumbles forward into a back body drop from the champion. Kelsia is quick to get back up and comes rushing in only to be caught with an inverted atomic drop. Before Kelsia can recover from the impact Alexa lifts her up and drives her down hard with a gorilla press slam.::

RJ: “Did you see that impact! The Women's Champion isn't cutting the challenger any slack here! And now she's going for another cover!”

One, two-

MS: “Kelsia kicks out again! It'll take more than that to keep her down!”

::Kelsia is slow to get up as Alexa steps back and watches her from a half crouch. As Kelsia stands up and turns around the champion comes rushing in with a spear attempt but the challenger dives out of the way at the last second. Alexa only half catches herself before going through the ropes and into the wall of the steel cage and is just extricating herself as Kelsia charges in from behind and shoves her face first into the steel. Alexa staggers back only to have Kelsia grab her by the hair on the back of her head and drive her face back into the wall. Still grinding Alexa's face into the chain link, Kelsia adds a series of knees to the small of the back to her assault before pulling her opponent back by her hair and slamming her backwards down onto the mat. Kelsia yells something down at the grounded Alexa that the camera can't quite make out and jumps up to come down with a leg drop across the abdomen. Picking herself back up, Kelsia drops a second leg onto the writhing Alexa, then a third. Coming up again, she arcs her back to stretch out for a second before going over to the corner and climbing the post.::

MS: “Is Kelsia going up to take to the air?”

RJ: “No! She's climbing up and trying to escape the cage! And Alexa's still not on her feet!”

MS: “Kelsia could win it right here! We may have a new Women's Champion!”

::Alexa rolls to her knees and, after briefly rubbing her face, which is now showing signs of bruising from it's rough encounter with the wall of the cage, looks around to see her opponent reaching to pull herself up to the top of the cage. A burst of adrenaline drives the champion up to her feet and across the ring where she steps up onto the second turnbuckle and jumps up to grab Kelsia's dangling ankle before falling away backwards. Kelsia is yanked down but not all the way as she clings to the top of the cage with one hand. Alexa stands back up and steps over towards Kelsia to pull her the rest of the way down and then her eyes go wide for an instant as Kelsia lifts one leg to push off of the cage and launches herself down at her opponent. The ring shakes as she lands on top of Alexa and both women go down and cheers erupt from the crowd.::

RJ: “Holy crap! Kelsia Vector just gave up on her attempts to escape the cage and instead threw herself down at Alexa Rose!”

MS: “If you can't win one way, Robbie, there are plenty of others to try!”

RJ: “Both women are still down! The referee is beginning a count!”

One...Two...Three...

::Kelsia rolls over to the ropes and starts to pull herself up as Alexa pulls her knees underneath her, shaking her head to clear the cobwebs from the latest impact.::

Four...

MS: “Kelsia's back up!”

RJ: “And so is Alexa, but she's facing away from Kelsia and I don't think she sees- Oh! What a counter to the spear attempt by Alexa Rose!”

::Kelsia had just charged across the ring with her shoulder lowered to spear Alexa just as she turned around but the champion ducked low and lifted the charging Kelsia into a back body drop against the wall of the cage. The crowd emits a loud Ooh! In sympathy to Kelsia as she falls down in between the steel barrier and the ring ropes. Alexa still looks a little unsteady on her feet but clearly doesn't want to give her opponent time to recover as she reaches down to pull Kelsia up between the top two ropes. Pushing Kelsia's head back over the top rope while her legs are still behind the first two, Alexa delivers a hard backhand chop to Kelsia's chest, then another, then steps up beside her opponent, wraps an arm around the back of her head, and yanks her forcefully forward causing Kelsia's legs to snap up over the second rope as she drives her face down into the mat.::

RJ: “Alexa Rose just almost turned Kelsia Vector inside out with that bulldog through the ropes!”

MS: “Quick! Call the EMTs! She might be really hurt!”

RJ: “Nobody's going to get here before the champion goes for the cover!”

One, two, thr-

MS: “She kicked out! Hot Chocolate kicked out! This match isn't over yet!”

RJ: “Kelsia Vector sure is resilient, but I'm not sure how much more of this she can take. Our Women's Champion is showing us just why she is the champion!”

MS: “She might not be the champion for long, Robbie, look at that!”

::Alexa was just dragging Kelsia back up to her feet as the challenger kicked one foot out from under the champion and reached up with a hand to grab the back of her neck and drive her down throat first onto the bottom rope. Kelsia staggers up to her feet and immediately takes advantage by driving a quick pair of boots down in between Alexa's shoulder blades, forcing her throat down harder onto the bottom rope. Not done yet, she places a knee at the base of Alexa's neck and reaches down with both hands to pull the rope up, choking the champion. The referee tries to wave her off but can't really accomplish anything because of the lack of disqualifications in a steel cage match.::

RJ: “Dirty tactics by Kelsia Vector, using the ropes to choke the champion Alexa Rose!”

MS: “Ah get over it, Robbie! These kinds of matches are supposed to get rough! That's why it's a steel cage and not an inflatable trampoline room!”

::After applying the leveraged choke hold for a few more seconds, Kelsia releases it and steps back to stomp between Alexa's shoulders a few more times before leaning down to yell something in Alexa's face. Her words can't be made out over the roaring crowd, some cheering for Kelsia but more chanting for Alexa to get back up, but the expression on her face is enough to get the general message. The challenger stands up and yanks the champion up by her hair and applies a front facelock but before she can do anything more Alexa, shouting with effort, pushes her back, rushing all the way across the ring and driving Kelsia backwards into the far wall of the cage. The impact breaks the grip, but before Alexa can capitalize Kelsia steps around behind her and hooks her arms up under the champion's shoulders into a full nelson and, with an angry wordless cry of her own, lifts her up and slams her down onto the mat.::

MS: “KV Bomb! It's over! We're going to have a new Women's Champion right here!”

RJ: “For once, Mitch, you just might be right! Alexa's second wind just got knocked right out of her!”

::Kelsia rolls on top of Alexa and hooks a leg for the pin and the referee drops down to make the count.::

One, Two, Thre-

RJ: “She kicked out! Alexa Rose kicked out!”

MS: “How can anyone kick out of that! It's not fair, dammit, Hot Chocolate had this match won! That was a slow count!”

RJ: “It looked just fine to me, Mitch! This match is not over yet!”

::Kelsia sits up and turns to the referee, pointing to Alexa and slapping her hands together three times as she chews out the official, clearly unhappy with the count. The referee shakes his head and waves his arms before holding up two fingers in front of her indicating that it was not a three count. Kelsia screams in rage as she stands up and delivers a series of boots to the downed champion before picking her up and whipping her into a corner. Alexa still looks dazed as Kelsia comes running in but manages to slide out of the way just in time to avoid the boot aimed at her face. Kelsia howls again, this time in pain as her leg slips past the turnbuckles and into the steel support beam at the corner of the cage as she rebounds back, hopping on one leg. Alexa pulls herself up with the ropes and turns to see her opponent's plight. A grim parts on the champion's lips as she lunges forward across the few feet between the two competitors and drives Kelsia to the mat with a hard shoulder to the abdomen.::

RJ: “Spear! She missed with it earlier in the match but not this time! “

MS: “Lucky shot! There's no way she can keep Kelsia down for a pin right now!”

RJ: “It doesn't look like she's trying to, Mitch! “

::Robbie's right as, instead of going for a pin, Alexa rolls Kelsia over and applies a bridging reverse chinlock, arching her body to apply pressure. This time it is Kelsia's turn to shout in pain as she frantically waves her arms around, scrambling for anything to get leverage to break out of the hold but finding nothing in the middle of the ring. Kelsia screams again as Alexa continues to apply pressure before releasing and climbing to her feet, drawing Kelsia up to twist her around and wrap an arm around her throat and drive her back down to the mat with an inverted DDT. This time Alexa does go for the cover.::

One, tw-

MS: “Ha! I told you she isn't going to be keeping Kelsia down that easy!”

RJ: “And I told you this match isn't over yet! Alexa's bring Kelsia up into an Irish whip-“

MS: “And Kelsia reversed it! There goes the champion into the corner! Hard!”

::Mitchell is correct as Kelsia successfully reverses the whip to send her opponent into the corner and, just as she did moments earlier, charges after her. This time she slows as she gets there and somewhat more carefully than previously applies her boot to Alexa's face, clearly intent on smearing the champion's head into the ring post. After a few seconds of this she lifts Alexa upright and arches her back over the top turnbuckle with a pair of backhand chops of her own before climbing up onto the second rope to straddle her opponent and rain down a series of hard punches. The assault is interrupted as Alexa, gripping the top ropes with both arms for leverage, surges forward with a hard headbutt to Kelsia's midsection. Kelsia doubles over above her opponent, who drives another headbutt into her abdomen. Alexa reaches up to curl an arm around Kelsia's head and pull her down as she crouches to wrap her other arm around her opponent's legs and lift her body up onto her shoulder as she straightens. A surge of sheers and shouts erupt from the crowd as Alexa steps out into the center of the ring with an inverted Kelsia Vector screaming in protest and beating on the champion's back with the one arm that can reach from her current position, on her shoulder.::

MS: “Uh oh! This could be trouble!”

RJ: “Alexinator! This could be it!”

::The crowd erupts even louder as Alexa falls backward, driving Kelsia's neck and shoulders down onto the mat with enough force to rattle the cage surrounding the ring. Alexa sits up and shakes her head to clear it out after the impact, then rolls over to hook the leg as the referee drops to make the count.::

One, Two, Three!

::The referee waves for the bell as Heather Lee makes the announcement.::

HL: “Ladies and gentlemen, your winner by pinfall and STILL the ACW Women's Champion, ALEXA ROSE!”

MS: “But she damn well had to earn that win!  Not since their street fight a while back have I seen these two so vicious!”

RJ: “It was about more than just keeping the title to Alexa…it was about proving that she deserved to have it in the first place.  But no one should think that Kelsia didn’t give her all…or that this will be the end of her attempts at the gold.”

MS: “It better not be!  All this proved was that she’s capable of taking it…and soon!”

 

::As Alexa exits the cage, holding the title up high as the fans shower their adulation upon her.