Post by Alex "Bullet" Carbajal on May 2, 2019 15:48:29 GMT -7
Off-Camera
Wednesday, May 1, 2019
Shieldmaidens Clubhouse
New Orleans, Louisiana
8:15 AM CDT
Early morning church meetings, even if only between two or three members, was both unusual and tended to be a cause for alarm amongst other club members who were aware such a meeting was taking place. Most of the time, especially on a week like this one where the members of the Shieldmaidens that wrestled were getting ready to travel to their bookings, reasons would be found that such a meeting could be put off until Sunday, after everything else at hand could be taken care of.
Most of the time, at this hour, Shieldmaidens Vice President Alex “Bullet” Carbajal would not be sitting here in the church room of the clubhouse, she would be downstairs at the Twisted Steel garage in her coveralls and up to her elbows in grease already as she worked at her dayjob repairing and restoring classic vehicles.
Instead, this particular morning, she found herself sitting at the long table with her Club President and fellow wrestler Robi Jean “RJ” Mitchell, neither dressed for that kind of business day. Like Bullet, RJ also had a dayjob downstairs. She owned and operated the Venom Ink tattoo and piercing parlor that was attached to the clubhouse and sat literally right next door to Twisted Steel. Both women sit at the table, black jeans, black boots, black t-shirts and their Shieldmaiden kuttes replacing their usual work attires.
Robi Jean "RJ" Mitchell: So, what couldn’t wait?
Bullet exhales forcefully. This was already going to sound a little crazy without adding hyperbole to the mix for it.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: We are going to need to be on our toes this match.
RJ nods tentatively. This couldn’t be the whole reason they were sitting here instead of earning downstairs, could it? There was no way Bullet, of all people, was really that worried about a random triple threat tag team match, could there?
Robi Jean "RJ" Mitchell: Yeah, triple threat matches are a tricky thing. You’re definitely gonna need to be on your guard with two other teams out there to fight you.
Bullet shakes her head slightly, barely appearing to move at all
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: It’s not just that.
This was more like it. RJ suppresses an urge to smile knowing whatever her VP was about to tell her, it probably wasn’t going to be good and she would need to be on her guard about it.
Robi Jean "RJ" Mitchell: Oh?
Bullet nods slowly, folding her hands in front of her on the table to keep from fidgeting too much. This was possibly bigger than all of them and she did not want to overstate the situation by speaking wildly with her hands, especially when it was only the two of them in the room.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: Marchand has been almost, what is the word for it….?
She trails off, searching her brain for the proper phrase. Finally, after a few seconds, she cocks her head interrogatively.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: Hyperactive?
RJ nods in agreement. That was definitely the way to describe what Detective Marchand had been doing lately.
Robi Jean "RJ" Mitchell: Yeah…
Bullet nods slightly again.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: Given what Hope Diamond was saying not long ago about conspiracies and an inside man…
RJ’s eyes narrow. She was not used to hearing her Vice President buy into things like this. Indeed, Bullet was usually the one talking sense about conspiracy theories and pointing out facts and truths that dispelled them.
Robi Jean "RJ" Mitchell: I thought you didn’t buy into that?
Bullet shrugs. She knew how this was going to sound especially coming from her.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: It is possible that Hope is crazy, this is true. It is also possible that she is not but is also a separate thing from Marchand but given that they seem to coincide right when some mystery people are also interfering in the Now or Never Superstars’ matches?
RJ’s entire countenance takes on a new level of concern.
Robi Jean "RJ" Mitchell: You know how I feel about “coincidences.”
Bullet nods her agreement again. “Coincidence” was usually a dirty word to RJ and tended to be an excuse being made by someone trying to blow a smoke screen covering up some underhand dealing they were about to need their vaunted Club Sergeant-At-Arms, Ophelia “Widow” Blaque, to look into and use her expertise for a permanent solution to the problem. That was not something to be done lightly and both Bullet and RJ knew it.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: Marchand has been moving much more often after our families. It would be just like him to make one this week when Psycho and Bruiser are getting married on Saturday, especially given that Zombie will be coming into town for it for the first time since she had to step away. At in Hope Diamond’s words and the fact that lately, we are almost guaranteed to have interference in that match both because the Samsons work alone about as often as we do and because Owensby and Annie seem to have found themselves secret admirers of sorts…
RJ nods pointedly as realization starts to kick in.
Robi Jean "RJ" Mitchell: And suddenly, Hope’s rantings and ravings don’t sound so fucking crazy after all.
Bullet nods just as knowingly.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: Sometimes I wonder if Marchand had a hand in Zombie not being able to move down here. If maybe, just maybe, he’s more connected than we ever dreamed and he actually got her job to make sure she could no longer function as a member and destroyed her entire plan. It was no small thing to ask her to not move down here and work more or less out of the Dallas Office especially given how moving here would have helped Lexa professionally too by moving her closer to her bandmates in Memphis.
RJ nods slowly, thoughtfully.
Robi Jean "RJ" Mitchell: You think he’s connected to whomever Hope was talking about?
Bullet ponders this question for a second and then shrugs slightly.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: I think we have to consider if he’s connected to all of it and then ask ourselves which is worse? If this is just a series of unrelated incidents that constitute bad luck…?
RJ nods slowly.
Robi Jean "RJ" Mitchell: Or f this is all one big overarcing plan…?
Bullet nods pointedly.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: We still know about as much about Marchand’s motivations after the better part of two years as we do about the people attacking Owensby and fucking off his matches. If those two things are related…
RJ shakes her head in stunned recognition.
Robi Jean "RJ" Mitchell: That’s a lot of collateral damage…
Bullet nods slightly, darkly.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: Yes, but if he’s willing to threaten deportation to me, probation violation to Corrie, to come after Sam, to look into Psycho and Bruiser’s child’s status, to make a move on Widow’s ner…
She trails off, looking puzzled for a second.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: What would you call, CJ right now?
RJ shrugs.
Robi Jean "RJ" Mitchell: I don’t know but I get it. If he’s willing to come at us on every other level, why not professionally in EWC too?
Bullet nods in agreement.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: Especially after everything that happened in MHW, in GWW, in…
RJ nods, raising a hand to stop her VP from completing the list.
Robi Jean "RJ" Mitchell: And half of that was just based on rumors and innuendo!
Bullet nods and both women go silent in contemplation for a minute.
Robi Jean "RJ" Mitchell: Be vigilant, Alex, but don’t go crazy with it just in case. If these things are all related…
Bullet nods her agreement.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: No des papaya…
RJ nods heavily.
Robi Jean "RJ" Mitchell: Makes you wonder…
The two women look into each other’s eyes and then nod simultaneously.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: What excuse have we already given?
On-Camera
Wednesday, May 1, 2019
Warehouse Gym
Shieldmaidens Clubhouse
New Orleans, Louisiana
12:47 PM CDT
The camera opens upon Alex “Bullet” Carbajal standing against the wall near the front door of the warehouse gym underneath a big black banner with the white Shieldmaidens logo lettering. Wearing black jeans, black boots, a black Shieldmaidens t-shirt and her Shieldmaidens’ kutte. Her long black hair is pulled back in a ponytail and she nods, to the camera, rubbing her taped hands together.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: A triple threat match with Nina and Carrie Samson, Owensby Smith and Annie Cliffhanger and Jack and me…
Continuing to nod slightly, Bullet taps her right hand with her left, her right hand balling into a fist.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: The Shieldmaidens versus the Samson Angels versus the Now Or Never Superstars.
She shrugs, her hands spreading wide.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: On paper…
A smile crosses her face.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: ¡Qué chimba! ¡Berraquísimo!
She nods emphatically.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: This is the coolest idea on paper! Jack, Owensby, Annie and Carrie Samson who will all play a game of “Can You Top This?” with their high flying and then there’s Nina Samson and me to give added aspects with our more MMA styles?
She shrugs.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: You would think this match should be the kind of chaos fans love given that the adrenaline junkies in the match and that two of the three teams have back-up just waiting to run down to engage in that chaos as well. The Samsons have their father and their third sister and Jack and have our sister Maidens, RJ, Widow, Titaness, Banshee and we know Zombie would come if we needed her as well.
Pausing, she nods to the camera.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: I’m sure with the kind of people that the Now or Never Superstars are, they have friends they could call on to help in that kind of situation as well, especially given how much we seem to have angered others here. Scorpio seems to enjoy such things when it comes to us and that would mean ReBelle and just like that…
She snaps her fingers violently.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: All categories of chaos!
The smile slowly starts to fade off her face.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: But what I can tell you all is the one thing no one wants to see is whoever these people are that interrupt Owensby’s matches…
She points accusingly into the camera.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: No one wants to see you do that this time. No one wants to see you be that kind of pelota and fuck with this match.
She nods slowly, forcefully.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: ¡Ábrase!
She points even harder into the camera.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: You leave us alone so that we can show the world what we can do! You leave us all alone and you leave us all show our wares for the assembled masses and prove that we are the best this company and this sport have to offer!
The anger in her eyes ratchets up in intensity.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: You stay away so that the Samson Angels, the Now or Never Superstars and the Shieldmaidens team of Bandit and Bullet can walk the aisle in Raleigh, North Carolina and put on the show that gets everyone talking!
Wagging her finger, Bullet almost starts shaking with outrage.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: You stay away so we can prove there was a reason we were signed to EWC and Friday Night Rampage. You stay away so we can show there was a reason that Jack and I made our debut for this company at Stranglemania! You stay away so you give us no excuse…
Her finger stabs ther air again, pointing accusatorily into the camera’s lens.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: ¡No Des Papaya!
She raises her hand up so the finger goes from pointing into the camera to pointing to the sky as if Alex is trying to say something is, “number one.”
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: And that goes for everyone else who might think about getting in our way! ¡No Des Papaya! Give us no excuse to do something you will regret!
She nods, crossing her arms in front of her chest.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: We will show the world that the Shieldmaidens are not here just to test everyone else, we are here to prove we have what it takes to be the best! ¡No Des Papaya!
She waves her finger at the camera again.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: Give us no excuse to show you…
She moves her hand down and points it at the camera in the shape of a gun.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: Hell is empty and the Maidens are here!
Wednesday, May 1, 2019
Shieldmaidens Clubhouse
New Orleans, Louisiana
8:15 AM CDT
Early morning church meetings, even if only between two or three members, was both unusual and tended to be a cause for alarm amongst other club members who were aware such a meeting was taking place. Most of the time, especially on a week like this one where the members of the Shieldmaidens that wrestled were getting ready to travel to their bookings, reasons would be found that such a meeting could be put off until Sunday, after everything else at hand could be taken care of.
Most of the time, at this hour, Shieldmaidens Vice President Alex “Bullet” Carbajal would not be sitting here in the church room of the clubhouse, she would be downstairs at the Twisted Steel garage in her coveralls and up to her elbows in grease already as she worked at her dayjob repairing and restoring classic vehicles.
Instead, this particular morning, she found herself sitting at the long table with her Club President and fellow wrestler Robi Jean “RJ” Mitchell, neither dressed for that kind of business day. Like Bullet, RJ also had a dayjob downstairs. She owned and operated the Venom Ink tattoo and piercing parlor that was attached to the clubhouse and sat literally right next door to Twisted Steel. Both women sit at the table, black jeans, black boots, black t-shirts and their Shieldmaiden kuttes replacing their usual work attires.
Robi Jean "RJ" Mitchell: So, what couldn’t wait?
Bullet exhales forcefully. This was already going to sound a little crazy without adding hyperbole to the mix for it.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: We are going to need to be on our toes this match.
RJ nods tentatively. This couldn’t be the whole reason they were sitting here instead of earning downstairs, could it? There was no way Bullet, of all people, was really that worried about a random triple threat tag team match, could there?
Robi Jean "RJ" Mitchell: Yeah, triple threat matches are a tricky thing. You’re definitely gonna need to be on your guard with two other teams out there to fight you.
Bullet shakes her head slightly, barely appearing to move at all
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: It’s not just that.
This was more like it. RJ suppresses an urge to smile knowing whatever her VP was about to tell her, it probably wasn’t going to be good and she would need to be on her guard about it.
Robi Jean "RJ" Mitchell: Oh?
Bullet nods slowly, folding her hands in front of her on the table to keep from fidgeting too much. This was possibly bigger than all of them and she did not want to overstate the situation by speaking wildly with her hands, especially when it was only the two of them in the room.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: Marchand has been almost, what is the word for it….?
She trails off, searching her brain for the proper phrase. Finally, after a few seconds, she cocks her head interrogatively.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: Hyperactive?
RJ nods in agreement. That was definitely the way to describe what Detective Marchand had been doing lately.
Robi Jean "RJ" Mitchell: Yeah…
Bullet nods slightly again.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: Given what Hope Diamond was saying not long ago about conspiracies and an inside man…
RJ’s eyes narrow. She was not used to hearing her Vice President buy into things like this. Indeed, Bullet was usually the one talking sense about conspiracy theories and pointing out facts and truths that dispelled them.
Robi Jean "RJ" Mitchell: I thought you didn’t buy into that?
Bullet shrugs. She knew how this was going to sound especially coming from her.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: It is possible that Hope is crazy, this is true. It is also possible that she is not but is also a separate thing from Marchand but given that they seem to coincide right when some mystery people are also interfering in the Now or Never Superstars’ matches?
RJ’s entire countenance takes on a new level of concern.
Robi Jean "RJ" Mitchell: You know how I feel about “coincidences.”
Bullet nods her agreement again. “Coincidence” was usually a dirty word to RJ and tended to be an excuse being made by someone trying to blow a smoke screen covering up some underhand dealing they were about to need their vaunted Club Sergeant-At-Arms, Ophelia “Widow” Blaque, to look into and use her expertise for a permanent solution to the problem. That was not something to be done lightly and both Bullet and RJ knew it.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: Marchand has been moving much more often after our families. It would be just like him to make one this week when Psycho and Bruiser are getting married on Saturday, especially given that Zombie will be coming into town for it for the first time since she had to step away. At in Hope Diamond’s words and the fact that lately, we are almost guaranteed to have interference in that match both because the Samsons work alone about as often as we do and because Owensby and Annie seem to have found themselves secret admirers of sorts…
RJ nods pointedly as realization starts to kick in.
Robi Jean "RJ" Mitchell: And suddenly, Hope’s rantings and ravings don’t sound so fucking crazy after all.
Bullet nods just as knowingly.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: Sometimes I wonder if Marchand had a hand in Zombie not being able to move down here. If maybe, just maybe, he’s more connected than we ever dreamed and he actually got her job to make sure she could no longer function as a member and destroyed her entire plan. It was no small thing to ask her to not move down here and work more or less out of the Dallas Office especially given how moving here would have helped Lexa professionally too by moving her closer to her bandmates in Memphis.
RJ nods slowly, thoughtfully.
Robi Jean "RJ" Mitchell: You think he’s connected to whomever Hope was talking about?
Bullet ponders this question for a second and then shrugs slightly.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: I think we have to consider if he’s connected to all of it and then ask ourselves which is worse? If this is just a series of unrelated incidents that constitute bad luck…?
RJ nods slowly.
Robi Jean "RJ" Mitchell: Or f this is all one big overarcing plan…?
Bullet nods pointedly.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: We still know about as much about Marchand’s motivations after the better part of two years as we do about the people attacking Owensby and fucking off his matches. If those two things are related…
RJ shakes her head in stunned recognition.
Robi Jean "RJ" Mitchell: That’s a lot of collateral damage…
Bullet nods slightly, darkly.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: Yes, but if he’s willing to threaten deportation to me, probation violation to Corrie, to come after Sam, to look into Psycho and Bruiser’s child’s status, to make a move on Widow’s ner…
She trails off, looking puzzled for a second.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: What would you call, CJ right now?
RJ shrugs.
Robi Jean "RJ" Mitchell: I don’t know but I get it. If he’s willing to come at us on every other level, why not professionally in EWC too?
Bullet nods in agreement.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: Especially after everything that happened in MHW, in GWW, in…
RJ nods, raising a hand to stop her VP from completing the list.
Robi Jean "RJ" Mitchell: And half of that was just based on rumors and innuendo!
Bullet nods and both women go silent in contemplation for a minute.
Robi Jean "RJ" Mitchell: Be vigilant, Alex, but don’t go crazy with it just in case. If these things are all related…
Bullet nods her agreement.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: No des papaya…
RJ nods heavily.
Robi Jean "RJ" Mitchell: Makes you wonder…
The two women look into each other’s eyes and then nod simultaneously.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: What excuse have we already given?
On-Camera
Wednesday, May 1, 2019
Warehouse Gym
Shieldmaidens Clubhouse
New Orleans, Louisiana
12:47 PM CDT
The camera opens upon Alex “Bullet” Carbajal standing against the wall near the front door of the warehouse gym underneath a big black banner with the white Shieldmaidens logo lettering. Wearing black jeans, black boots, a black Shieldmaidens t-shirt and her Shieldmaidens’ kutte. Her long black hair is pulled back in a ponytail and she nods, to the camera, rubbing her taped hands together.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: A triple threat match with Nina and Carrie Samson, Owensby Smith and Annie Cliffhanger and Jack and me…
Continuing to nod slightly, Bullet taps her right hand with her left, her right hand balling into a fist.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: The Shieldmaidens versus the Samson Angels versus the Now Or Never Superstars.
She shrugs, her hands spreading wide.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: On paper…
A smile crosses her face.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: ¡Qué chimba! ¡Berraquísimo!
She nods emphatically.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: This is the coolest idea on paper! Jack, Owensby, Annie and Carrie Samson who will all play a game of “Can You Top This?” with their high flying and then there’s Nina Samson and me to give added aspects with our more MMA styles?
She shrugs.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: You would think this match should be the kind of chaos fans love given that the adrenaline junkies in the match and that two of the three teams have back-up just waiting to run down to engage in that chaos as well. The Samsons have their father and their third sister and Jack and have our sister Maidens, RJ, Widow, Titaness, Banshee and we know Zombie would come if we needed her as well.
Pausing, she nods to the camera.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: I’m sure with the kind of people that the Now or Never Superstars are, they have friends they could call on to help in that kind of situation as well, especially given how much we seem to have angered others here. Scorpio seems to enjoy such things when it comes to us and that would mean ReBelle and just like that…
She snaps her fingers violently.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: All categories of chaos!
The smile slowly starts to fade off her face.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: But what I can tell you all is the one thing no one wants to see is whoever these people are that interrupt Owensby’s matches…
She points accusingly into the camera.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: No one wants to see you do that this time. No one wants to see you be that kind of pelota and fuck with this match.
She nods slowly, forcefully.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: ¡Ábrase!
She points even harder into the camera.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: You leave us alone so that we can show the world what we can do! You leave us all alone and you leave us all show our wares for the assembled masses and prove that we are the best this company and this sport have to offer!
The anger in her eyes ratchets up in intensity.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: You stay away so that the Samson Angels, the Now or Never Superstars and the Shieldmaidens team of Bandit and Bullet can walk the aisle in Raleigh, North Carolina and put on the show that gets everyone talking!
Wagging her finger, Bullet almost starts shaking with outrage.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: You stay away so we can prove there was a reason we were signed to EWC and Friday Night Rampage. You stay away so we can show there was a reason that Jack and I made our debut for this company at Stranglemania! You stay away so you give us no excuse…
Her finger stabs ther air again, pointing accusatorily into the camera’s lens.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: ¡No Des Papaya!
She raises her hand up so the finger goes from pointing into the camera to pointing to the sky as if Alex is trying to say something is, “number one.”
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: And that goes for everyone else who might think about getting in our way! ¡No Des Papaya! Give us no excuse to do something you will regret!
She nods, crossing her arms in front of her chest.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: We will show the world that the Shieldmaidens are not here just to test everyone else, we are here to prove we have what it takes to be the best! ¡No Des Papaya!
She waves her finger at the camera again.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: Give us no excuse to show you…
She moves her hand down and points it at the camera in the shape of a gun.
Alex "Bullet" Carbajal: Hell is empty and the Maidens are here!
