Alice Gaster vs Gai Tendo - Pale Rider vs Buriki-One King

Match Type: Hardcore
Stipulations: Weapons like tables, chairs, ladders, kendo sticks, baseball bats and trash cans will be put around the ringside
Winning Conditions: Pinfall, Submission or KO


Alice had been in Japan for a couple of days now, awaiting her debut on AFW Television while wrestling on a few house shows in the meantime...

Until, finally, after about a week removed from her moving in to the Land of the Rising Sun, the girl had received an email that her TV debut for Tension was due tomorrow in a hardcore match against Gai Tendo

Doing a bit of research on her opponent, she discovered he hadn't wrestled for the company for a little bit. Not that the Brit would cut him any slack for that. Especially since their match was scheduled to be a hardcore one!

Digging about Gai a bit more revealed that he was quite a fighter outside of wrestling, fighting in Buriki-One Fighting League before joining Tension...meaning Alice was in for quite a fight with the man who would either look to make her tap out...or knock her daylights out of her.

She arrived right on time for the live Tension episode, and headed straight for the arena's locker room to get dressed for her match.

Once there, she changed into her grey T-shirt with her sister's smiley face symbol on it, as well as grey tights, boots and kneepads, while she waited to be called for her match. A short while after that, during an intermission for an ad, a crewmember entered women's locker room in the arena to let the Brit know she was due in 5 minutes.

She took a calm, deep breath to steel her nerves for debuting on Tension's big stage, quietly told to herself: "Let's blow the roof off of this arena!, before heading back for the gorilla position with her trusty Kendo Stick in her hand.

And right as the intermission would finish, Painless by Fozzy would begin playing, with the Pale Rider Alice Gaster entering right as the song's vocals hit. She eyed the fairly large audience of tonight's show as she made her way down the ramp, pointing her weapon of choice at the people in the crowd, appearing quite tough despite being shorter than most girls in AFW...and closer in height to the Kawaii's of the Friction brand.

Nodding at the weapons spread around the ringside, Alice would roll into the ring and lift her weapon high into the air as the song's chorus hit, before the song quietly faded away, while Alice herself would leave her stick under the ropes near her corner at the behest of the referee, before sitting down at her respective corner as she waited for her opponent to come out.

*Knock Knock*

"Um, Mr. Gai? You're up sir."

In his locker room, former Buriki-One Fighting League Champion Gai Tendo was putting on his gloves, making sure they had a nice and tight fit, and putting on his ankle wraps. The former underground fighter turned pro wrestler nodded back at the stage hand that informed him it was time to head to the ring, smirking as the door closed.

It was about goddamn time.

It had been over nearly two years since his last match in AFW. He tried to become 24/7 champion, and ended up in a draw when the champ and he were separated by a train of all things, and his last appearance had him scoring a win against some masked loser.

Since then...nothing. AFW never called him, never booked him. No house shows, no personal appearances, no promos...nothing. It was freaking ridiculous. He was in his goddamn prime, and they didn't want to deal with him? He had gone back to the underground fighting leagues, smacking around lesser men and women, until AFW finally deemed to remember his damn number.

So now, here he was, his music playing over the PA system, heading onto the entrance ramp, finally scheduled for a match. Even better, it was a hardcore match as well! A perfect way to show off just how badass and violent he could get, while having an easy...was this his opponent?

Across the ring from him was...a small girl. A full foot shorter than him, and several pounds lighter than him from the looks of it, wearing all grey and having some stupid face on her shirt.

"...You're fucking kidding me right?"

He growled, looking at the ref girl. "You fuckers wait two years to finally give me another match, and you put me up against some colorblind little girl!? I have half a mind to fucking leave right now!"

Indeed, this was an outrage, what the hell could some little girl think she could possibly do against him!?

Wow...

Needless to say, her first impression of her opponent was not a good one.

Growling as she clentched her fists tightly, she shot an angry scowl at Gai:

"Hey! Asshole! I am standing right here! Either you get your disrespectful arrogant ego out of this ring and fight me like a man, or this "colourblind little girl" will make you see just the first colour of the rainbow!", she would scream at her foe, as she stood into a stance, awaiting a possible comeback from Gai...and the bell to signal the start of the match...

As if Gai wasn't annoyed enough, now the child was speaking words! To him! As if she had the right, how damn dare she!

He glared back at the smaller fighter, backing into her corner and crossing his arms. "Just the first huh? So AFW has brought me a child so young and dumb that she hasn't learned all the colors of the rainbow yet? Fine! If AFW wants me to beat some young fan into oblivion, so be it!"

With that, the bell finally rang, and Gai, ignoring his Buraki-One training, or just deciding she wasn't worth it and wanting to end her quickly, charged in, full steam ahead, at the smaller Alice, fully intending on tackling her to the mat and pummeling her unconscious!

More than angry, Alice couldn't wait to beat the hell out of her foe. She had heard more than a few insults in her life time (comes with the territory), but outright treating her like she was still a child? That was one of the best ways to set her off.

Still, despite her anger at Gai, she didn't lose her head. And the moment the bell rang, she saw Gai taking for her like a freight train. Even if he was calling her a child, it seemed the Buraki-One King was not intending to treat her as such. And she saw full danger of a much bigger dude heading for her to beat her to a bloody pulp.

With that, the Pale Rider, quickly took her leave outside of the ring. Would she appear as a bit cowardly? Sure. But better be a coward for 5 seconds and live than die a painful death in the same time frame...

Some would say the Pale Rider was cowardly for ditching the ring. Others would say she was smart for not letting a guy with a foot and several pounds on her crash into her. Still others would say Gai was stupid for charging in like a pissed off rhino.

Gai would tell those people to piss off.

But then again, Gai was the one charging full steam ahead to take down this...turnbuckle!? Indeed, his opponent had ducked right out of the ring, which was good for her...but that meant Gai was running into nothing...and sadly, if Gai was a car, he never actually learned how to use the brakes.

"FUuuuuck!"

Luckily, he managed to curb his momentum enough and grab the ropes to stop himself from hitting the turnbuckle, taking a moment and letting out a sigh of relief as he avoided smacking into it.

"Whew...", Alice sighed, as she managed to escape right before Gai collided with her, avoiding being tackled and beaten to a pulp by him.

But, the moment she came back, Gai would definitely attempt something similar. She couldn't run away from his tackles for the entire match, she needed a way to fight back against the Buriki-One King.

Plus, there was the fact that the angry fighter would chase her to the outside. So, she needed to be quick.

Within a millisecond, she scanned the closest weapon near her - an unfolded steel chair. Quickly taking it and folding it, the Pale Rider was now more than confident that she could take her foe down with the weapon...

As Gai recovered from his earlier rush, Alice quickly slipped back inside the ring:

"Hey, asshole!"

In case the insult did it's trick, Alice would attempt to swing her weapon in a wide arc, attempting to nail her opponent into the side of his head!

Having just avoided smashing his own chest into the turnbuckle, Gai backed away slowly, letting out a slow breath. His temper had a very nasty way of getting a hold of him, and he would be better served not freaking out like that. He just had to be careful, not let this runt press his buttons and...did she just call him an asshole?

Gai turned...and let out a gasping cry as a metal chair smacked into the side of his face, sending him staggering off sideways, having to grab and lean against the ropes to avoid falling over. "AGH! FUCK! STUPID...FUCKING...CHILD!" he yelled, completely forgetting his previous decision to control his temper!

"Stupid child that's beating the FUCK out of you!", she would reply with a smile on her face, managing to start the match well as she already had her opponent on the ropes!

To discourage the Buraki-One King from pulling himself up, she would land another solid shot to his back, before tossing the chair to the outside...she knew she would be seeing it later.

For now, she had to get Gai into the storm of things, and get him onto the battlefield that was the ringside.

And the only way a small girl like her could do it is with a little bit of momentum.

With that, the Pale Rider would quickly take for the ropes opposite to where Gai and her stood, aiming to use the ropes for a bit of momentum, and take off for Gai like a freight train, looking to nail the fighter into his body with a dropkick to try to get him out of the ring!

*SMACK*

"GAH!" Gai exclaimed again, this time feeling steel against his bare back, causing him to drop onto one knee. He was made of tough stuff, and there was only so much power and strength a girl that small could put into her weapon attacks, but goddamnit they still hurt!

Then came another impact, a small body bashing right into his side, hitting hard enough that it knocked him through the middle and top rope, sending him crashing onto the floor below, near the announce tables.

He wasn't down for long, scurrying back up to his feet, face going red with rage, as he started pounding his fists down on the announce table. "Fuck. FUCK! FUUUUCK!" He screamed out, finally grabbing the end of the table and, with a heave of effort, flipping it back, the announcers scrambling to run out of his path!