Entropy Title Match Triple Threat! Taylor vs. Adrian vs. Lia

The boot to the chest sent Lia back to the mat. "Oof" The slam forced a grunt from Lia. Okay, this was going terribly. "Heh... It's like you said. I don't... know anything about this fighting thing. What... was that move you just did called? It was pretty cool." Lia took the opening Taylor gave her... and what a shame it was to be reduced to that... to try to rise back to her feet. The sarcastic remarks helped her let off steam. She needed to stay cool. Taylor's trash talk was nonstop. Lia knew better than to let that get to her, but sometimes knowing better was not quite enough. More sarcasm was called for, "At least you picked the safe title defense, champ. Prolly saw what happened when your partner punched above her weight." Okay, that was a little cold and not related to the task at hand, but Lia needed to burn off the annoyance.

Lia did not scan for Adrian. She was, perhaps wrongly, more worried about Taylor at the moment... though Lia did take a few cautious steps away from the ropes, hopefully out of arm's reach of Adrian.

If Taylor had not interrupted Lia, Lia would size up her options and once again decide to press the attack. If she was not quick enough to take the fight to Taylor, she would NEVER be quick enough to take the fight from Taylor, especially now with her every step and every breath giving Lia a constant reminder of the power in Taylor's legs.

She could not use the ropes, those were Adrian's domain... but...

Lia would try to step in quickly, aiming to shove Taylor back toward the ropes. With any luck, Adrian would be there and ready to make a move. If not, maybe Taylor would bounce back and receive the clothesline Lia had chambered.

Taylor's face tightened irritably. "You keep saying that like you're trying to hustle me or something, but it actually looks like you actually don't know what you're doing."

Then, as was inevitable, Lia went there. Taylor knew she couldn't let that get to her. Everyone would always try to use her friendship with Akashi against her. Everyone did it. Her fists clenched and she narrowed her eyes and pulled her shoulders back while she glared hatefully at Lia.

"You cold, grim, motherfucker." She snarled. "You silly, stupid bitch. I'm gonna make you apologize for that without any of your front teeth."

Lia moved in. Taylor leapt up to counter and threw a flying knee aimed at Lia's chest, but, distracted by her rage, she timed it wrong. Her knee came too early, and Lia's shove sent her sprawling to the mat under the bottom rope. She couldn't pop back up to her feet as easily from her position under the ropes, and she tried to push herself up and out from under them so she could resume beating the shit out of Lia's stupid face.

Something went right for once. It felt dirty, but seeing Taylor seethe was gruesomely satisfying. Then, something else went right. Lia almost flinched as Taylor's knee was mere inches from putting Lia back on the mat and into a world of hurt. Fortunately, with Taylor off her feet, Lia was able to knock her to the mat and under the ropes. With any luck, Adrian's badass assassin costume was not just for show. Maybe she would pop out and slit Taylor's throat... Would that be a DQ?

Still, Lia was not content to wait for Adrian. She stepped forward and, rearing back, aimed a stomp right into Taylor's midriff, angled to try to drive her under the ropes and outside the ring.

Lia was probably betting too hard on Adrian. That plan was just as likely to backfire as it was to strike home but Lia saw a game-changer and went for it. If anything, keeping Taylor down and against the ropes or outside the ring would give Lia a beat ahead on the momentum.

Adrian had been stalking the two from the outside since beginning, making mental notes of every little detail. Taylor seemed to be a lot stronger than in their last match, or at least her muscle definition was a lot more noticeable with her outfit. Lia... well... it was only the opening moments and Taylor was so fast that it was difficult to stop her in the early goings, you needed an opening with her and fortunately after taking a few nasty blows, the bunny girl had got one.

Taylor got shoved under the bottom rope, the ex-secret agent trying to keep her pinned to the very edge of the ring. In other words trying to keep the punkish champion in Adrian's attack range. Time to make my own opening. she thought to herself, still remaining uncharacteristically silent to the point of not even opening her mouth at all. As Taylor hung under the rope, she grabbed one of her legs, lifted it up and slammed it back down with the aim to smash Taylor's knee on the very edge of the ring before backing off, letting Lia pick up the pieces and keeping herself out of harms way.

Taylor took the kick to her stomach like a champ. She barely made a sound, but it did delay her efforts for getting up. She'd only been down for a couple seconds, but she had to get out of there before Adrian came along with one of her signature freaking cheap shots.

The Adrian grabbed Taylor's leg and slammed it over the edge of the ring apron, straining her knee. "Aaha!" She screamed, and rolled the rest of the way out of the ring onto the floor. It'd be better to deal with only one of them instead of both, and Adrian was no more a threat than Lia, especially if she took away her opportunities to be cheap.

She rolled backward over her shoulder and got to a crouch, watching Adrian run away some more. "Wow, such an amazing fighter." Taylor yelled after her, dripping with sarcasm. She turned to Lia up in the ring. "Careful, don't go after her too much or else her giant bodyguard will come after us. Ya know, like at Avalanche."

Adrian scowled as Taylor rolled out to the outside with her instead of Lia getting a chance to work the leg for her. Thought you were supposed to be super-awesome head of security and stuff... where's the CQC? she mentally growled at the bunny girl before turning her glare back to Taylor.

She tried to keep herself calm as Taylor volleyed her set of insults. Considering how she just flipped at the mere mention of Akashi, getting the cosplayer's friends involved was a low move but still... she turned to face Lia to keep up the trash talking match and she wasn't too far away.

Speeding in towards the Entropy champ she looked away for the brief moment, she turned her whole body into trying to hit Taylor with a running European uppercut. It'd hurt her hit or miss but it'd hurt her worse You're not the only one who's been training hard!

Lia had enough practice not to look at the person who was about to blindside someone. She called out to Taylor, "Well, that's why you have the sumo on speed dial, isn't it? You might have to trade up now, though." She did not know if Adrian would clear the distance between them before Taylor saw her, but she wanted to keep Taylor distracted.

Lia thought briefly about jumping down there, but decided against it. She rubbed her sore leg and took a moment to catch her breath. For now, she was content to let Adrian and Taylor take a swing or two at each other. Lia knew she would have to fight Adrian at some point, but taking such a beating from Taylor was enough to keep Lia cautious.

It seemed like the only thing Lia could do well was talk shit. Whatever. That'd only make beating her face in that much more satisfying.

Taylor's momentary distraction afforded Adrian a head start in closing the distance between them, but she saw her coming out of the corner of her eye. She saw her loading up with her hand. From Taylor's crouched position, she wouldn't have to move much to keep away from Adrian's fists, but she still wanted to avoid getting tangled up with her if she could. She threw herself to the side in a neat roll, letting Adrian's momentum take her where it wanted.

Taylor put one hand down but stayed crouched. Her eyes flicked back and forth between Lia and Adrian. "Man, if you want a turn, get in the freaking ring. You fight like a bitch. Grow a pair and take it inside."

Adrian's attempt to land a sneak attack missed wildy, sending the cosplayer spinning around with her own momentum, managing to stop and face Taylor before crashing into the guard rail. It seems that they weren't going to be able to get a surprise attack on Taylor today, she seemed to be top of her game, but maybe a little memory, get in on the trash talk for once. She seemed to fly off the handle before when she got called out on stuff, maybe doing the same would give the cosplayer a decent shot at her. She just hoped that it didn't backfire and she flew off the handle herself.

"Didn't seem to stop you last time." She said, opening her mouth for the first time "You know, where you tried to cheap shot me and punch my face in... which lead to me kicking your ass. What's the matter? It all flooding back how we got in this match?"

"The only thing I remember from that match is watching you gasp for air." Taylor hopped back to her feet and quickly backpedaled away from Adrian and around the ring to a point far enough away from Lia that she could slide back in. She kept her eyes on Lia, but did her best to keep track of Adrian.

"So if you guys really just want a piece of me, you could just start tagging or something. Sorry your partner's such a pussy, Lia." She moved off toward the middle of the ring, away from the ropes, and began to lightly bounce and skip around Lia.