Showdown '19: White Gale (C) vs Akamatsu Siblings: Tension Tag Team Title Match

Even with the change of who the legal member of the team was, Lina had a look of approval on her face when she saw and heard Makie land following the belly to belly suplex. They were on the right track, she felt it, both Sion and Daisuke felt it, as did the fans, though the opposition's wasn't liking it, for obvious reasoning. Daisuke lifted up Makie and put her in a headlock as she headed towards her team's corner and send Makie into it, not with a whip, but more like a quick turn and release when they were a foot or two away.

Daisuke already thought of where she wanted to go from here, but first wanted to wear Makie down a little bit up front. She would bring her palm back before snapping it forward and across Makie's chest, not once, but twice.

"Uuughhh..." Makie groaned as she was pulled up again, one eye screwed shut as she tried to fight off the pain, her body wobbling from the punishment she was taking. It didnt end there: injured as she was, she was unable to stop Daisuke from unceremoniously shoving Makie into the corner post. A second later, the blonde Canadian hit her with a hard chop against her chest, causing her to scream in pain and roll to the side, clutching her large bosom.

In the midst of all of this, however, she still managed to glance at Kyo across the ring and give him a weak wink. She was on the ropes right now...literally...but she was also biding her time, waiting for the right moment to turn this around. "That...all you got?" she hissed through clenched teeth.

Upon hearing what Makie had to say about getting Dai's hand across the upper chest, Daisuke did have more than that and put Makie back in to position before nailing her across the face with three quick forearms, letting them do the talking. Following the last strike she would grab hold of Makie and pull her away from the corner before flinging her towards one of the neutral corners, not wanting to send Makie directly across to her partner, that wouldn't be smart.

If Makie took the corner, Daisuke would take a run at Makie and leave her feet to execute a running dropkick.

Makie quickly found herself regretting her earlier cockiness, as Daisuke responded by way of three quick forearms across her face. Each blow rocked Makie's head to the left or right, and she cried out with the impact as she sagged back into the corner post. Finally, just as the ref's countdown was reaching its conclusion, Makie was grabbed by the arm: dizzily, she was hauled to her feet, and whipped unceremoniously across the ring to another corner, the impact causing her to cry out loudly as she arched off of it.

Hissing through gritted teeth, Makie opened one eye and saw Daisuke charging at her. Knowing that it was now or never, Makie gingerly grabbed the top ropes and flipped her legs up, trying to ensnare Daisuke's head, before spinning around and trying to ram her head once, twice, three times into the turnbuckle with her legs! After releasing Daisuke, she would clamber onto the corner post and spring off of it, and whether Daisuke was still standing or grounded, she hoped to nail her with a flying moonsault!

Daisuke's aim was good, but the impact of Makie making contact with the corner didn't do as much as Daisuke had hoped it would have and Makie managed to use the upper rope to pull herself out of harms way, causing Daisuke to instead dropkick the middle turnbuckle pad, and boy was the vibration her feet felt on par with the rest of her felt when it hit the canvas.

Lina's facial appearance changed from feeling pretty good about things to being concerned. Not only from Makie's avoidance and Daisuke's landing after, but how Daisuke was trying to one knee crawl out of the corner as she favoured her ankle. To her it looked like Daisuke was not only not feeling good about what just happened, but trying to avoid a leg crap as she pressed down on her ankle as it slid across the canvas a foot or two before Daisuke fell face down. Lina held on to the bottom rope as she took a closer look, but before she could say or think of anything else Makie came off the top rope, landing a nicely executed moonsault. If the above didn't happen and something else caused Daisuke to be grounded, Lina would have actually rated that move's execution and landing well. However as she was looking low, all she could see was Makie landing on top of Daisuke back and the impact causing everything of the blond's to smush against the canvas. That caused Lina to jump back and cover her mouth in surprise, while Daisuke let out an oof-like sound and a quiet groan a few seconds later, which Lina would have heard if she was still down low and closer, but odds are Makie would have.

Makie's planned counter attack worked...partially. While she had originally intended to use her legs to drive Daisuke's head into the turnbuckle, Dai's low drop kick kind of made that impossible. Still, Daisuke's drop kick had not only missed, but the impact of her leg on the turnbuckle had apparently hurt, and badly. After being left sprawled on her front, Daisuke was an easy target for Makie's moonsault-- a high flying attack that left Daisuke flattened and moaning in pain on the mat.

Wearily, Makie stumbled up to her feet, still weary from the way Daisuke and Sion had been clobbering her earlier. She was hurting, but still standing, and she wearilyraised an arm and yet out a loud "YEAAAHH!" to the crowd, which got her fans rowdy and shouting the same back at her. Slowly, she then turned back to Daisuke. "My turn," she growled.

Grabbing the blonde by the arm, she yanked Daisuke to her feet and whipped her across the ring. The moment Daisue bounced off the ropes, Makie would go running to meet her, aiming to leap forwards, latch her legs around her foe's blonde head, and arch back, flipping her head over heels in a hurricanrana!

Not a word came from Sion's mouth during what lead to and followed the missed corner dropkick, though that didn't mean he wasn't paying attention.  If for some reason anyone wasn't, they'd be alerted by Makie's verbal expression when she picked herself up after her landing on Daisuke's back.  'Just hold on, Dai' was all Sion could say to himself when he heard Makie say it was her turn to do things now.

Daisuke managed to go off the ropes without flailing but what mental energy was put into that and not letting what put her in that position control most of her thinking left her unprepared for Makie, and when she realized what was happening it was too late to do anything about as Makie was already halfway through the process of executing a hurricanrana.

"Crap." Lina let out in a somewhat quiet tone while putting one hand behind her head and the other on her hip.

There was a tremendous crash as Daisuke slammed back-first into the mat, the impact hard enough to send Makie rolling off of her now prone opponent. Rolling back up to her knees, Makie was quick to move to cover Daisuke for a pinfall. After taking quite of a bit of pain in this match, Makie was now ready to dish that pain back, to show WhiteGale that she wasn't some pushover who could be tossed around the ring.

As she hooked one of Dai's legs, the ref instantly started the countdown. "ONE..."

It also didn't help matters that Lina saw Makie, not long after taking Daisuke over, go for a cover in attempt to end it. Lina kept quiet as the referee started and during the count. When ref's hand connected with the canvas for a count of two, Daisuke had the sense to shove Makie off of her to stop that count. Lina still didn't look thrilled that her team was in the current spot they're in, but for a brief moment she looked less displeased as Daisuke showed she's still in it.

Just as the count was reaching two, Makie felt Daisuke suddenly push up underneath her, shoving her off. Annoyed by the other girl's tenacity (and admittedly also kind of admiring it, not that she would ever admit to such a thing), Makie rolled back to her feet. Determined to keep Daisuke on the defensive, Makie stomped down hard on Daisuke's gut, aiming to knock the air out of her and keep her stunned.

If she managed that without a hitch, then she would push Dai over onto her front and grab at her booted leg. Dropping down to a seated position, she would wrap her own legs around Dai's leg and lean back, trapping and stretching it in her own trademark legbar submission, the Giant Killer! Her aim wasn't to make Dai tap at this time (though that would have been nice): the aim was to weaken Dai further and further, and limit her mobility, before Makie tagged in Kyo. In the meantime, of course, she was going to enjoy this little bit of payback...