Taylor vs Kytes 2 "The revengening"

It had taken a week of preparation, the recruitment of new "allies". the collection of materials and a crowbar but everything was finally ready for operation "screw you, your big mouth and your stupid face."

Everyone had gotten into position, the duct tape and miniature vibrators were on standby, the locker had been dislodged from it's original position to one in a random hallway so that Adrian Kytes, super evil genius (tm), didn't have to trek all the way back the locker room with her victim for her ultimate revenge to be truely complete.

Taylor was about to find out what happens when you make fun of the Occasionally Hardcore Anime when she hadn't done anything to you. "Black cat, are you in position?" she asked over her phone. It was better for her to get Natalia involved in this revenge plan than involve Rebecca, she needed some space from the amazon and so far it had... kind of sort of worked? She had a new half-friend half acquaintance in Cecilia Northman, had an okay-ish time with Natalia where they came up with this plan, the only thing that had gone badly and wholly wrong with Adrian's life at the moment was meeting Taylor.

Who was about to get owned.

Badly.

"Black cat, do you read me?" She asked, a maniacal grin spreading across her face "Target acquired." she said with a smirk, spotting the tell tale signs of blue hair and general air of jerk-ness that the cosplayer associated with Taylor. Dressed in actual wrestling gear for once, taking a blue top with matching pleather pants and blue boots. "Hey!" She said in a friendly tone, all she had to do was get Taylor walking with her, being nice could work for a while, she'd endure all of Taylor's snide remarks with the safe knowledge that she'd end up gagged and tickled in a locker for at least enough time for it to count as revenge.

"Black cat here..." answered Natalia who was having a real hard time talking over her phone, remaining hidden, looking incospicuous and laughing.
"I read you, shiny pikachu. I'm in position and the cost is clear. You have green light to engage the target. I repeat...green light...engage..." Natalia had her back pressed against the wall, her body shivering with laughter and nerves. She knew they were going to get in trouble...but that had never stopped her before.

Just like she reported, there was no one around the place.

Taylor was feeling down again. She'd always had very volatile moods, and they were usually more down than up. There was a lot to worry about and a lot to keep up with as a full time Friction wrestler... Sometimes she wondered if being partnered with Akashi wasn't worth the pressure, but she always reminded herself that it was the best thing she had going. She'd worked hard to get to where she was. She just had to put her head down and keep working.

She'd got through her afternoon workout, but just barely. The energy just wasn't there today. She knew why, too. Well, there were lots of reasons... but the self doubt that her run-in with the chick with the gameboy glued to her hand had stirred up wasn't gong away quickly.

She'd spent most of her life from her teenaged years on having to deal with people who wanted to put her down and beat her up and treat her badly just for their own enjoyment. She knew what the whole thing had done to her, at least she had a pretty good idea, and more and more since meeting Akashi she was realizing how uncool it was to treat people like that. She didn't ever want to be like those people that would gang up on her at school... one holding her arms and one taking free shots at her, or a bigger group encircling her while they took turns pushing her around and knocking her down, pulling her hair, kicking her. It made her sick thinking about it, it always did. One reason why she trained so hard is so she could find those types of people in Friction and beat the hell out of them. Maybe teach them a lesson.

But then there was that day in the gym. She was sure she was just trying to start a conversation or something... She wasn't real good at that sort of thing. But that girl, that infuriating, stupid girl... Adrian was her name, she just messed everything up. Even worse, she seemed to be able to let it go even when Taylor couldn't. Was everyone in the world a better person than Taylor? Was Taylor actually turning into someone that she'd hated so deeply for so long?

She needed to find Akashi. Akashi would know what to say, and she never said anything to hurt Taylor, even when she was calling her out on something she was doing wrong. She just needed to talk to Akashi and everything would be okay. Maybe they'd hang out a little, too. All this training, even when you're surrounded on all sides by swarms of girls, it was so very lonely. The other girls just made her uneasy. She checked, but she must've left her phone at home, so she'd have to wait to call Akashi.

Carrying her gym bag in one hand, dressed in her red Converse, jeans, and zippered hoodie, she set off down the halls separating the gym from the side exit that faced the direction of her apartment. Most everyone had already gone. It didn't seem that late.

"Hey!"

Taylor's ears pricked up, and she got a sinking feeling in her gut. She knew that voice. She'd been walking with her head down, not really paying attention to where she was going, and she might've been able to avoided running into this girl if she was more careful. Immediately she was on edge, but she tried not to show it.

"Hey." She said back to Adrian. "How's it... What're you..." She started a couple times, and crinkled her brow at Adrian. There was no way she'd be this friendly and actually talk to Taylor if there wasn't something else going on. Of course, Taylor always thought like that. Maybe... maybe she just wanted to talk. "Hey." She said again, without realizing she was repeating herself.

this is it. Adrian thought to herself as Taylor seemed to be stumbling over what to say. did she already suspect her? Was she waiting for the champion to come bounding down the corridor and squash both the cosplayer and the wrestler hiding in the shadows at a moments notice? Will my mouth please work? she mentally screamed as she tried to find words, she wished she hadn't skipped this part in planning.

"...yeah... hey." She said again, reaching back to scratch her own head at the awkwardness of it all "so..." she said desperate for a topic to start "...how've you... you know... since the... incident? The fall hurt you too much?"

Taylor gave Adrian a very suspicious look. Her breathing sped up a little and she got a little bit of the feeling in her stomach that she got when she knew she'd have to fight. But she didn't think Adrian was someone that she'd have to worry about. If she were inclined to go after Taylor she probably would've done it already. Maybe she could just relax a little.

"Nah." She said, and struggled to find something else to say. Sure, there were things she could say, maybe even wanted to, but... not now. "I'm good. I..." She stalled and shook her head.

"Look, what do you want? I think we can both find better people to chat with if that's all you're going for. Or maybe you're trying to talk some trash and get under my skin to get back at me and you're just really bad at it. It's okay, I'll help. You can start with a really annoying nickname... people usually go for Blueberry, but that's nothing. Dunno, whatcha got?" Taylor was only half paying attention to what she was saying. She was already looking for the exit, wanting to get out of there and home as quickly as possible.

Natalia meanwhile was hiding behind a corner waiting for Adrian to bring the prey. She tapped her fingers on the wall nerviously as she looked around wanting to make sure nobody was seeing her. She knew that if someone came in while operation 'screw you, your mouth and your ugly face' was happening, there was going to be trouble.

Even if everything went as planned, something Natalia doubted, there was going to be trouble afterward. The Dream couldn't help but wonder why she was setting up this ambush considering how awfully bad the last one went. Then again she couldn't refuse helping her friend. She knew very well the importance of vengeance and Taylor had been a bitch with Adrian, so this was fully justified. Natalia wasn't sure why Akashi will hang out with a bully like Taylor... but if what she have heard was true, Akashi considered Sarah Gatt her friend, so apparently the champ had a soft spot for brutal bullies. Go figure...

The blue-eyed beauty took a deep breath and prepared. She could hear Adrian's voice on the distance, but she couldn't make out what she was saying. Surely she had engaged the targed and would now proceed to lure it to the trap. Natalia hadn't yet decided how she was going to spring the trap. She had to knock out Taylor as quickly as possible but still, she didn't wanted to like... Hurt her permanently...much. Maybe a spear against the wall... Maybe a Russian legsweep... Natalia twisted her mouth sunk in deep though as she tried to decide how she was going to attack.

Adrian flinched slightly under Taylor's glare, trying not to breath a sigh of relief when she broke eye contact. The cosplayer was already feeling nervous but hopefully that wouldn't translate to "I'm trying to set you up nervous."

"Look..." she said, thankful that Taylor had managed to get a small rant out so she had things to react to. "I'm not here for 'just a chat' because I can think of... 4 people I'd much rather be with right now, and that's only because I haven't been here long enough to really set up friend networks." She said, trying not to be too dismissive "and I really suck at coming up with insulting names off the fly like that, I mean you've probably heard Blueberry about a million times so if I start calling you that, it doesn't mean as much. I came here because..." she sighed, this lie was going to be a pretty big one and the plan pretty much hinged on it working.

"I know this is going to sound weird coming from me and you were the one who started it but I took it too far and I shouldn't have sprayed green mist in your face, at least not without rubbing it in so you could sucker punch me back or something. So what I'm trying to get around to saying was..." she winced, this was going to sound bad even if it was a legitimate apology "sorry?"

Taylor started silently at Adrian while a scowl spread across her face. This girl was apologizing to her? She had the nerve to... and she so did not mean it. She could hear it in her voice. What was going on? Maybe she really was such a princess that she couldn't get over having done some little stupid thing to Taylor without talking it out.

No, that wasn't it. Maybe she was still mad and just too much of a pussy to actually try to get Taylor back or yell at her or fight her or anything else that normal people did. This was her way of trying to choke Taylor with guilt. It was too much. She just couldn't take it.

"Alright." She growled. She was angry, and trying to hold it back, but she felt a lot of other things too that she couldn't really sort through at that moment. "Look. Adrian. You cannot apologize to me. You didn't do anything wrong. You are totally in violation of the apology code here. You're trying to apologize for not being enough of a jerk so that I ended up feeling back? Fuuck!

"What is wrong with you? Well I won't make you keep fishing around for it like a friggin retard. Here we go, ready? I'M SORRY. Okay? I'm really really sorry and I was wrong and you're a better human being than me anyway. GAWD."

Her voice had risen to the point that it had started breaking. To drive the point home, once and for all, she dropped down to her knees in front of Adrian and clasped her hands together. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry! Okay? I'm not like that. I'm... a lot of other things but I'm not like that, so maybe you can just accept that and stop torturing me and leave me alone. Okay? Now fuck off!"

Whew. She almost didn't realize when she flew off the handle until after she'd already done it. She sort of lost it there. Her hands were quivering and her face was red. She hurriedly got to her feet and set off down the hallway in front of Adrian, hoping to spare herself further self-inflicted humiliation and just get out of there before anything else terrible happened. She passed the corner Natalia was hiding behind, totally oblivious of the team effort.

Adrian's eyes blinked in amazement, she had expected a sort of awkward admitance of wrong doing, then they could talk about people they hated a lot more than each other, like Victoria Baynes, the Maid trio, maybe Nha & Sha but what she got was...

"What the fuck?" She said to herself as Taylor walked away, having watched the whole display: the flipping out, the forced apology, getting down on her knees to prove a point and then topping it all off with the last curse? What the hell was the blue haired girl thinking?

As Adrian tried to digest it all, thinking about every little bit of what she said: she was trying to guilt her into an apology by apologizing for the small thing she did first, making her big thing of taking the piss out of the cosplayer and hammering the up button on her own treadmill. It kind of made sense... in a way, but dammit that wasn't the point of it at all. The point was for her to pull "Blueberry" in a certain direction to get her tackled, gagged and thrown into a locker. Now I'm the asshole here, great. Adrian thought, thinking about what set her off last time as Taylor walked past Natalia's hiding spot.


FUCK! She screamed in her head as she dashed over to Taylor, hoping to intervene before black cat struck with precision. Even if it hadn't gone exactly as planned, Natalia was in prime position while Adrian was having second thoughts.

Natalia raised an eyebrow as she heard Adrian and Taylor discuss. Now she knew why they hated each other. They were so alike. Both ridiculous and kind of cute... And both talked way faster than they though. She giggled at the though but then she heard steps coming close and her body tensed just like that of a feline on the prowl. She saw a blue haired girl pass in front of her and she guessed that had to be Taylor.

Hidding Tigress Pounce!, Natalia though as she jumped on Taylor from behind, swift and silent like an owl in flight. The Dream slid her right arm around Taylor's neck from the left side as if she was trying to trap the blue haired girl's throat in a sort of Dragon Sleeper, to then lean her body back and bring her right leg up, kicking at Taylor's left leg trying to sweep it so they will fall down and the back of Taylor's head would hit the hard floor, nailed with a brutal reverse DDT.