Ruination 26

As the bell rings, it is clear the fight isn’t done between the Family and the DeMitris, who have somehow managed to convince Rooster to join them as an ally in tonight’s battle.

Patience and Decius, despite being bruised and battered, stand in the center of the ring shouting obscenities and challenges at Rooster.

Hearing enough, Timothy Roy steps forward and following closely behind him is NEMESIS, herself.

Dutch Harris: What in the world are the Twins doing, Scott? Tonight was a heck of a showing for The Family, but why not just let sleeping dogs lie?

Scott Kumura: As the bard Ron White once said… you can’t fix stupid.

Almost as soon as the Twins and Tim/Judy-E meet in the center of the ring, punches get thrown with both sides leveling haymakers at the other.

Dutch Harris: Here we go! The night’s not over yet.

Tim and Judy-E push the Twins to the corner but the crafty Family members slide under the bottom rope and begin to taunt two of the most intimidating forces in SHOOT Project today. The crowd erupts as Rooster and NEMESIS follow the Twins to the outside and begin to chase them around the rung..

Scott Kumura: It’s like a game of tag and I don’t think anyone wants to be it, right now, Dutch.

Dutch Harris: Well, Scott, I know another person who is certainly not feeling ‘IT’ right now and that’s Azraith DeMitri.

The blue-haired warrior is still collecting himself from the match as he looks up, breathing heavily, only to see Jacob Mephisto standing across from him, holding his chest and with a wicked look in his eye. 

Azraith lets a smile cross his lips before standing up and moving towards Mephisto who holds the ropes to regain balance and then wiping blood from his mouth and LAUNCHING forward.

Dutch Harris: Holy shit!

The Hall of Famer ducks a first swing by Mephisto but misses the second, which connects with the area between his jaw and his neck. Az stumbles back and Mephisto uses the momentum to push his opponent to the ground. Azraith doesn’t stay stationary for long as he looks to reverse and put Mephisto in a leg lock. Meanwhile, a couple referees and other backstage security begin making their way down to the ring.

Scott Kumura: The bad blood and animosity between these two is fierce! I’m not sure anyone can pull them apart.

Dutch Harris: Don’t speak so soon, Scott. Is that… is that KHARRION!?

A determined Johan Dietrich and KC Rockafeller jump the barricades from the stands and quickly enter the ring, pulling Azraith off Mephisto and cornering the blue-haired warrior. NEMESIS and Rooster see this, but they are locked in a fight halfway up the ramp with the Twins, which the referees and security are now trying to break up.

Azraith flashes a cocky smile ready to go for KC Rockefeller but as he throws a punch he gets SLAMMED from behind by Mephisto who has pulled out a pair of brass knuckles. Az drops to one knee, instinctively reaching for his head, which provides an opening for Dietrich to wrap something around Azraith’s neck.

Scott Kumura: Is that a… damned dog collar?

As Azraith starts to gather his senses, he’s quickly yanked to his feet by an unseen (to him) force.  With an uncanny expertise, Dietrich throws the chain of the dog collar around the nearest turnbuckle ropes and YANKS violently, sending Azaith tumbling and trapped into the corner.  With another vicious pull, Az’s head gets pinned against the top turnbuckle with his head tilted right towards the ramp, watching as The Family is fighting NEMESIS and Rooster.  With a nod of his head, Dietrich hands the chain of the dog collar to Mephisto, who with his free hand wipes a bit of blood from his growing grin.

Meanwhile, more people – supporters of the Family – have started hopping the ringside barrier, barreling through security and swarming The Rooster.

Dutch Harris: This is turning into an uncontrollable situation, someone needs to do something FAST. Mephisto’s followers are here! The Coyotes are swarming Timothy Roy.

The Twins have started to overwhelm NEMESIS, forcing her to dodge and avoid increasingly volatile punches and kicks, while Rooster is absorbing punishment from the Coyotes, seemingly undeterred but still stuck in their grasps.  Back in the ring, Jacob is slowly wrapping the chain around his arm as he closes the distance on Azraith, keeping the chain taut and the Hall of Famer trapped where he is.  When he’s within arm’s length, Jacob stops, laughing as he leans in slightly to Azaith, wordlessly daring him.

Azraith: I’m gonna fucking tear you apart you – 

Mid sentence Az lashes out, trying to swipe at Jacob with a feral left.  Jacob doesn’t even have to move, the claw-like hand of Azraith missing his nose by centimeters.  Mephisto, despite the exhaustion of the match, looks downright jubilant as he gives just a little yank on the chain, causing Azraith to sputter and choke back into the corner.

Mephisto: I really don’t think you’re in any position to threaten, Azraith.  I like this look on you.  Pained.  Choking.  Submissive.  Maybe this is what you’ve needed this entire time…yes…yes I do think we’ve found our conclusion, don’t you?

In one quick motion Jacob SLAMS a chain-wrapped elbow into Az’s temple, causing him to slump down, only to get yanked back up by the tension of the chain and the rough leather strap around his neck, causing him to cough and sputter once again.

Scott Kumura:  I don’t think I’ve EVER seen Azraith in this vulnerable of a state before…

Outside of the ring, Rooster can see what’s happening to Azraith and is now a man possessed. Despite having what has to be five or six people on him, Rooster finally throws one off- then another. He viciously knocks a third to the ground before clotheslining a fourth as he runs forward to the ring.

Dutch Harris: A truly unbelievable sight we’re seeing, Scott.

As Rooster finally seems to break free of the Coyotes, running towards the ring, a stray hand rips Rooster’s mask off before he’s able to slide under the bottom rope and PLOW into KHARRION with a huge double clothesline!  

The pair goes down as Rooster starts to methodically stomp at their knees and ankles in an attempt to keep them off their feet!  Mephisto gives one more glance at Azraith with visible annoyance before turning his attention to Rooster, letting the tension of the chain go slack and slide down from his arm.  The sudden loud metallic clank causes Rooster to turn around…

…RIGHT INTO A FACEFUL OF BLACK MIST!  Rooster yells out in surprise and pain, staggering backwards, to a knee.  Mephisto wipes the ichor off his lower chin, looking at it in his hand a moment before smearing it across his chest, motioning for the now standing KHARRION to bring Tim back to the center of the ring.  KHARRION moves behind Rooster and wraps their arms around Rooster’s, pulling them backwards and yanking him almost off his feet, dragging him to the center of the ring as he still struggles and tries to thrash his head back and forth to get the poison out of his eyes.  Jacob still has a length of chain wrapped around his fist, and with an almost casual brutality, starts to swing on a completely defenseless Rooster.  Chain wrapped in one hand, brass knuckles in the other!

Dutch Harris: He’s out here working Rooster like a heavy bag, Jesus Christ someone needs to stop this massacre!

Several cuts have opened up on Tim’s face, mixing a vibrant red in with the sickly black as Mephsito continues to maul him.  For his part, Tim seems to just slowly move his head back to look at Jacob, taking the beating with a cold callousness, not giving Mephisto the satisfaction to see him in pain.  All this does, however, is drive Jacob further, his amusement turning to frustration as he starts pummeling his ribs and midsection, finally causing Rooster to cringe, and clench his jaw.  Azraith, still incapacitated, is screaming weakly at Jacob to stop…to face him instead.  However, Mephisto is now singularly focused on Rooster, yelling at him.

Mephisto: You made your choice, Tim.  You abandoned your family!  You turned your back on Maverick…for what?  For HIS approval?!  Who the FUCK is Azraith DeMitri?!  Are you stupid?  BLIND?!  Or are you just as goddamn braindead as your IDIOT UNCLE?!

At that…even the crowd hushes somewhat.  Tim, who had been simply being held up at that point by KHARRION, finds his footing and slowly, horrifyingly…stands tall.  Still being held by KHARRION, he glares at Jacob with an intensity not seen in the young man before spitting a massive gout of blood right into his face!  For the first time since emerging once again in SHOOT Project, Tim flashes a sick smile to the shocked Jacob before YANKING his arms free and TACKLING KHARRION to the ground!  The crowd goes nuts…but then starts screaming when they see what was happening behind them!

NEMESIS has dealt with the Twins…and while Jacob was yelling at Rooster, she was carefully making her way to the apron, watching intently.  As soon as Rooster got the upper-hand, like an absolute psychopath she hops directly up to the top rope of a far corner, so that the SECOND Rooster tackles KHARRION to the ground, she springboards herself off of it, using every bit of force that velocity and her body can muster to send an absolutely once-in-a-lifetime SHOTGUN DROPKICK right into Jacob Mephisto’s chest!

CRACK!!!

The impact lands with enough force to damn near sound like NEMESIS shot Jacob herself!  The velocity of the hit alone sends Jacob off his feet and clean over the top rope, landing with a sickening thud outside of the ring!  

The crowd is going insane as NEMESIS pushes herself to her feet uneasily, glaring down at Mephisto while Rooster uses the last bit of his energy to lift and drop both members of KHARRION over the opposite rope as well, sending them tumbling to the floor while Rooster staggers back into the ring. 

NEMESIS makes the motion to start running towards the ropes to lunge over them and follow-up with a springboard to the outside…but stops as her hands reach the rope and she sees the chain on the ground. She glares back up at Mephisto for another moment before grabbing the chain and starting to untangle it from the corner and turnbuckle, freeing the tension on Az’s throat and finally letting the big man comfortably breath and drop to a proper knee.  The crowd cheers wildly as the daughter disentangles the father, helping him to his feet.  A bloody Azraith and Rooster flank a vengeful NEMESIS in the middle of the ring, while Jacob is pulled to his feet by his Family, as finally an army of refs and security officials fill the space between the two sides to make sure no more incursions occur.  

Scott Kumura:  They might be standing tall right now…but those three in the ring right now were literally a second away from god-knows-what if NEMESIS hadn’t intervened at the last possible moment.

Dutch Harris: You’re absolutely right.  They might still be in the ring, but look at the bloodied, beaten state of both Azraith and Rooster…they got through this by the skin of their teeth tonight, meanwhile Mephisto and his Family have all regrouped outside, and other than that absolutely highlight reel worthy dropkick, Jacob’s already on his feet.  I don’t know how many more of these attacks the DeMitri clan can fend off.

Mephisto stands in the center of his Family, The Twins, KHARRION, and a little less than a dozen Coyotes all forming a shield around him. Through it all, Mephisto’s hatred burns in the direction of The DeMitris and Timothy Roy.