SS21 Tag championship - Bullet Club (c) vs Heavenly White Army

You'd think a tag-team who were practically fixated on the subject earlier would have appreciated having their backsides complimented upon? They were the ones who started all of this in the first place, kinda. But Mackenzie didn't mind changing the topic of their conversations anyway since if it continued any further, they'd probably start comparing whose caboose was better. And aside from the uncomfortable awkwardness of comparing backsides with her sister, Mackenzie would also rather avoid having to embarrass all these other ladies once they inevitably learn that hers is obviously the finest of them all. In any case, Mackenzie continued expertly cinching in her submission until the angel reached the ropes and was granted her well-earned freedom by the rule-abiding Bullet Sister. Oh shoot, but there was something in her eye...

"Damn, somethin got in my eye!! Think you can get me a bottle of water?" Distracting the referee was the name of the game as Mack diverted the official's attention away from Asuka and the impending moonsault illegally perpetrated upon the flattened HWA by the high-flying little sister who'd thought she'd gotten away scott free. Nikita standing upright with a smug smile and was about to stealthily return back to her corner before being slammed down by the hot-tempered Shuri who'd begin to wail down on Nikita who'd scarcely manage to put up a defensive guard with her arms. Mackenzie not taking lightly to her partner getting ambushed either, prompting the older sister to abruptly abandon her facade and attempt to clean Shuri's proverbial clock with dashing knee strike aimed right for the side of her head.

Asuka was laid out by the illegal moonsault. After being flattened by the other woman's landing, the lioness had the wind knocked out of her. Only able to cough and gasp for air as she rolled over on her belly and kicked her boots on the canvas. Luckily for her, she had a partner who would never let someone get away with those sort of cheap tactics. Shuri had sprinted into the ring, went right past the ref, and was now beating the crap out of Nikita. This gave Asuka some much needed time to recover while the the woman who flattened her got a face beating.

Mackenzie wasn't going to let this sort of thing go either, though. The two were sisters after all. Regardless of the motives, family always had each others backs. So it was no surprise when she came charging at Shuri and smacked her knee into the fiery woman's head. A loud 'clonking' sound seemingly rang out as the blow connected. Sending Shuri tumbling right off of Nikita with enough momentum to roll her out of the ring. There was no doubt that her teammate was going to be out of it for the time being. Luckily, she'd given Asuka all the time she needed. With Shuri now gone, the ref was all too aware of who else was not supposed to be in the ring. With her attention now of Nikita, this was Asuka's chance to get back at the other (legal) sister. Pulling herself up behind the woman, Asuka would pounce onto her opponent's back in an attempt to put her in a choke hold. She was still somewhat groggy from the moonsault she'd been hit by. But she had enough strength to lock the woman in a hold like this. If successful Asuka would make herself into dead weight in hopes of dragging her down to the canvas. Plus, with the ref now focused on Nikita, the duo would find it much more difficult to cheat for the time being.

"Better get moving, Mack...unless you wanna spend the rest of the match getting choked out by my bicep!" Asuka warned, her trash talk improving as she turned the tables on her opponent.

A simultaneous benefit and drawback towards being a sisterly tag-team is that witnessing your sibling in turmoil becomes that much more difficult to abide by and allow to transpire without fulfilling the instinctual compulsion to knock the daylights out of whoever is the perpetrator. Even a seasoned tag-team like the Bullet Sisters still find themselves fighting that urge when it may be in their strategic best interests to remain where they are and allow the scene to unfold. Mackenzie in particular gets well and truly triggered considering she is the eldest sister and safeguarding Nikita has been her life sworn duty since day one, a fact that Shuri was most definitely aware of after getting booted off of Nikki and out of the ring entirely. Mack backpedaling towards the middle of the ring with a smarmy grin and unexpectedly into the waiting clutches of the forgotten teammate, immediately hacking out a chortled breath and spastically whirling her arms around from the massive sweaty backpack unbalancing her. She teetered backward before ultimately flopping onto Asuka's back with an extended jolt of her legs.

"HurGh...Sh-Shaddup...Don't need your freakin advice..." Mack uttered in between wheezing breaths, both hands assigned to patting and tugging at the angel's flexed biceps to find whatever relief she could. Her tasseled boots scrapped against the canvas as she squirmed and writhed about with face blushed in fatigue from the angel's snugly screwed in sleeper. That is until she snarled and begrudgingly rolled herself over with a concerted army crawl being attempted towards the ropes, not aided by the marshmallow mass of chubby muscle hefted atop her like a literal beast of burden. Nikita meanwhile had taken it upon herself to shimmy underneath the bottom rope and onto the ring apron in the midst of all this action, rattled from the blindsiding assault but noticing Shuri splayed out with birds chirping around her head. She brandished a spiteful grimace and used it as ample motivation to climb back up to her feet with a tugged assistance from the nearby ropes. A few dashed steps and one bounding leap into the air later, Shuri would have her midsection splashed down upon by Nikita's in an attempted Frog Splash.

Asuka grinned as she kept the pressure on her big mouthed opponent. Despite all the trash the champions had been talking thus far, it all seemed pointless now that the lioness had Mackenzie trapped in a rear naked choke hold. Even though Asuka considered herself a good person overall, she definitely enjoyed hearing her opponent struggle to speak. She even chuckled in the woman's ear as she was told to shut up. Finding it funny that the champ was trying to sound tough by rejecting her 'advice'.

"Oh? Is that so? Well then...I'll just have to teach you the hard way, huh?~" Asuka replied, quite eager to teach the woman a lesson as she tightened the grip of her bicep. Mack was giving it her all to try and escape, though. She was fighting like a wild dog as she flailed about, slowly inching closer to the ropes. While Asuka would have preferred to make the woman either tap, or just knock her dumb ass out, she was more than willing to drain her opponent's energy this way. It would take a lot out of Mackenzie to drag them both all the way to the ropes. Energy she would've needed to fight off Asuka if she managed to get a rope break. However...there was one thing that the lioness had not see coming...

"GAAAAH!!!"

Asuka could easily make out the sound of her partner's wail easily. Not because she was used to it. No Asuka rarely ever heard Shuri cry out like that. It was because the woman had cried out so loud. Shuri had still been out of it since getting her bell rung by Nikita's knee strike. It had sent her rolling right out of the ring and left her in a pretty bad state. Nikki wasn't done yet, though. With Shuri laying flat on her back outside the ring, the champ would suddenly launch herself off the ropes and preform a frog splash down on top of Asuka's defenseless partner.

Despite the fact that these two had been on and off bad terms most of their lives, Asuka was immediately worried about Shuri's well being. So, when she suddenly released the hold on Mack, it was a shock to not only the crowd, but to Asuka herself. Shoving her opponent aside, the lioness would make her way over to the side of the ring to check on her partner. Cursing herself all the while, knowing she had screwed up by releasing Mack on her own. Still, Asuka couldn't help but worry about her teammate, especially when she had just been saved not too long ago.

Willfully acknowledging whenever an adversary provided sound advice was typically considered a sign of enlightened maturity and level-headed responsibility brought about when becoming a rational adult. Characteristics that were in no way attributed to the Bullet Sisters, however. Mackenzie struggled in vain to escape Asuka's sleeperhold snare trap with spiteful words that really only succeeded in exacerbating the problem as Asuka simultaneously flexed her bicep and her control over the elder sister. Sugary sweet giggles snickered into her ear contrasted the muscled torque from the angel currently mounted atop her. Well, Mack was freaking thrilled to know her plight was such a hysterical source of amusement. The raw warmth and subtle friction that came from Asuka being quite so firmly attached had Mack rasping through rose colored cheeks before reluctantly admitting the angel had the right idea by bitterly slogging towards the ropes. Desperation being a keen motivator as she soldiered onward with panting breaths to obtain a freedom...she'd randomly be granted when still a few feet before even grasping one roped tether.

"Guhhah..." Mack blurted out with a deep inhalation from being abruptly unlatched upon and summarily discarded to the side with a few disheveled rolls as if she were yesterday's trash. A tad disrespectful, but she for damn sure wasn't about to be complaining anytime soon as she remained splayed out on her back with a heaved uptick to her breasts from each appreciated breath. "Heh...Big sis' gettin her butt saved by her shrimpy sibling. You better believe I'm never gonna let you live this one down~..." Nikita cockily boasted with a sneer as she stood tall over her elder sister before aiding her beleaguered sibling back up to her feet, slinging one of Mack's arms over her shoulder until she straightened her wobbled balance. The pint-sized rebel having stealthily entered the ring from another side as Asuka tended to her battered partner. "Tch. Technically I saved you first, you know..." Mack countered with an irritated glare, but ultimately both sisters would divert their attention to the angelic duo outside the ring. Simultaneously taking off in a sprint to bounce off the adjacent ropes for added velocity in an attempted pair of suicide dives to bowl them over.