Of Angels and Amazons

Emily was breathing hard now as she lay on the mat, still reeling from Peggy's devastating combo. The crowd was going wild at this point: the Noble Fighter was down, and Peggy looked like she was about to finally get even with the tall Scotswoman. For a minute, it looked like Peggy was going to continue her assault on her prone opponent...until, to everyone's surprise, she veered course and ran to the corner, right at Risako!

"What--" was all that Risako could say before Peggy's arm collided with her face, knocking her from the corner and sending her crumpling to the ringside floor, dazed. The referee immediately got into Peggy's face for this antic...and while she was doing so, Emily, had rolled up to her hands and knees. She saw how Peggy had just attacked her teammate, and, hurting as she was, her eyes narrowed. Springing forwards, Emily tried to charge at Peggy, aiming to slam her against the corner post with a shoulder tackle!

Peggy took Risako out of the equation so she could climb the rope and do some more high flying offense to Emily. Unfortunately for Peggy her opponent didn't want to stay down and as she faced the turnbuckle to climb it she was absolutely flattened into the corner by Emily crushing her into it!

"OOMPH!" Peggy moaned as she crumpled to the floor in a heap at the feet of the vengeful Emily. Peggys momentum came to a grinding halt and as far as she knew neither her or Emily could tag anyone in!

Emily was mostly out of gas by the time she flung herself at Peggy. As such, after she collided with the other girl, she found herself leaning against her in the corner, almost face to face with her, breathing hard after that brutal collision (after the match, no doubt, some less than scrupulous fans would make plenty of fanart of this suggestive scene, not that either woman cared at that moment).

Gritting her teeth, Emily broke the deadlock by wrapping her arms around Peggy's waist, trying to lift her up from the corner, turn and break into a run, hoping to run forward and slam her down back-first into the mat in a deadlift suplex, before trying to cover her for the pin!

Peggy was losing it fast as Emily was keeping up on hammering her! Peggy was like dead weight in Emily's hands and when she went up for the suplex she crashed down hard to the mat! Peggy moaned in pain, motionless like dead weight as she was held down to the mat by her opponent!

"ONE!"

"TWO!"

"THR..."

Peggy howled as she suddenly sprang to life thrusting a shoulder over to break the pin at 2.9 nearly losing the match but just barely summoning the energy to kick out keeping the match going!

After nailing Peggy with that deadlift suplex, Emily more or less just lay down against her opponent at that point, too battered to really go for an elaborate wrap-up pin attempt. Her head lay against Peggy's shoulder as she caught her breath, and for a moment, she thought she was going to pull this one off. Then Peggy twisted, getting a shoulder up just before the count could reach 3, forcing Emily to roll off of her.

For a few seconds, Emily lay on her back, catching her breath, and the audience stomped and clamped as they tried to rouse the two beauties to their feet. Slowly and painfully, though, Emily began to roll to her hands and knees. "Ye're...bloody...stubborn...you know that?" she managed to say.

"Yep. So are you but it ain't gonna stop me from winning this time...." Peggy weakly wheezed out. She was trying to stagger her way to her feet swaying as she began to stand. She was hurting and in awful shape at the moment. She heard Alaina stirring and saw a hand up on the apron knowing that the amazon was attempting to begin pulling herself back up but it would take time.

Peggy tried to zero in on Emily waiting for her to get close enough before trying to snap back into the match by sending a super kick aimed right at the jaw of the taller woman! It was a desperate attempt to hammer Emily with a headshot but right now it was the best Peggy could do.

Emily managed to finally get to her feet at the same time as Peggy...just as Peggy suddenly lashed out with a sudden snap kick. The blow exploded against her jaw, causing her head to snap to her side and for her to drop down to one knee. The Wrestle Angels veteran was nothing if not hard headed, however, and she quickly righted herself. With a wordless yell, she lunged forward, aiming to take Peggy down with a brutal and sudden clothesline!

It was plain to see, though, that both ladies were on fumes at this point. One or both of them had to make in a tag, and soon...

Peggy connected with the strike and knew she had an opportunity! She moved towards Emily only to her the woman rush at her with explosive speed and power! "UUUGGGGHHHH!" Peggy groaned as she was leveled by the clothesline hitting the mat in a heap! Her shot to the head didn't have the desired effect on Emily, but the clothesline absolutely left Peggy flattened and lifeless against the mat.

Alaina was still hurting and struggling to climb up onto the apron, clinging to the ropes as she struggled to keep herself steady. Looking back into the ring she was disheartened to see Peggy laid out as the last time Alaina knew Peggy had been the one in control.

Emily sank to her knees after landing with that clothesline. She needed time to recover, she knew, time to get her bearings straight after that fierce attack Peggy had launched on her. Standing back up again, Emily wearily grabbed onto Peggy's arm to pull her to her feet, before pulling her over to her team's corner, reaching in a hand to tag in Risako.

The moment Emily made the tag, she would wrap her arms around Peggy's waist, lifting her up off her feet. Risako would immediately jump to the corner post, take a deep breath, and launch herself off of it in a backflip, hoping to slam into Peggy with a springboard moonsault and bring her down to the mat! Either way, the moment she released Peggy, Emily would move to slide under the ropes to let Risako take over...

Peggy was out of it as she was lift up and instead of isolating Emily it was now Peggy who was being isolated! She was lift up and absolutely crushed by Risako as the moonsault hit home sending Peggy crashing flat to the mat! She let out a low, weak moan as she kicked the mat in pain. Her arms cradled her abdomen and Peggy was running on fumes now, desperate for a tag as Risako had come in with a head of steam!