A So-Cal Workout

"...Shit. I was dumb enough to ask the question so I'll live with the consequences. What do you need me to do?" Alaina asked. She knew this would suck but there wasn't going to be any sort of follow-up hold or anything like that as far as she knew.

Alaina took a deep breath as she awaited the instructions.

Valley couldn't suppress a little giggle at Alaina's curse. She was too cute for it, too sweet, and she made the word sound adorable somehow.

She stepped back to the ropes and leaned against them, idly bouncing back and forth."If you're sure. Just bend over, it works best after a good kick in the stomach."

"Hah.. ok. A lot of terrible things have started with those words." Alaina said as she feigned a strong kick to the stomach and bent over. At least it would be over with quickly.

"All righty... here we go!"

That one earned a full laugh. "You have a dirtier mind than I thought. Watch it, you'll mess up my good-girl image of you." She stood off the ropes and started tapping her feet, pumping herself up. "Okay, let's rock. Ready or not..."

She ran towards Alaina and leaped in the air at the right moment, doing a cartwheel and passing behind her. As she flew and their bodies were parallel with her hand legs in the air, she grabbed Alaina's waist with both arms and used the momentum from the carthwheel to bring her along for the ride, whipping her off her feet. The moved ended with Valley completing the cartwheel on her rear, while slamming Alaina on her back - complex, lightning-fast, hard to set up and execute, but worth it.

Spoiler:

Alaina was happy that she could help, unfortunately this new move proved to be highly effective!

"Ughh! Yeah... if you get an opening to use that it'll leave a mark..." Alaina said as she laid on the mat and grabbed at her back trying to rub it.

It was a pain in the ass to learn, but Valley rather liked the move - it suited her style as a former cheerleader, would probably take her opponents by surprise, went straight to a pinfall and was the closest thing she could do to a real powermove. It was effective, as Alaina could certainly attest.

"You took it like a champ." She extended her hand to help Alaina up. "What about you? Didn't see your finisher before, want to try it out on me? Get even?"

Alaina happily accepted the hand up and got to her feet. "Its really nothing that special. Its just a jack knife powerbomb where I lift up higher as you sit up on my shoulders so the impact is just a little bit bigger." Alaina said as she told Valley about the Ama-bomb. Looking back it was a pretty dumb name for it.... but at the time she performed her finisher for the first time it was all that came to her mind.

"I mean... if you really want to then sure but I won't force you to get stuck with it."

Valley gave her a little pat on the shoulder as she rose up, straightening out her hair. "Fair is fair. I do you, you can do me."

Though Valley found herself wishing she had asked Alaina what her finishing move was before making that suggestion. Powerbombs in general were nasty, but the jackknife ranked right at the top. The last time she had it done on her, her back ached for a week straight.

But she couldn't back down, now, especially not in the gym with their fellow wrestlers around. She'd be fine, and Alaina probably wouldn't even go to hard. The girl had a trusting atmosphere about her, nice and safe.

Valley stepped, getting ready. "Shall I assume the position?"

Alaina shook her head and chuckled. "Even more famous last words... but yeah."

Alaina walked up to Valley and put her head between her legs and lift her up. As she lift Valley up and onto her shoulders she used her arms to lift her straight up. Alaina normally proceeded to slam her opponenet down as hard as she could, but in this case she used a lot less power so it was closer to a drop down. After all, going out of her way to injure someone in a spar right before a match would be a total bitch move. That just wasn't Alaina's style.

"You are really going to have to tell me where you're hearing this stuff from, I'm legitimately curious now."

It was a wild ride, clearly, but nowhere near as wild as it really could have been, since Alaina was clearly holding back. That she could exert that much control over it was an impressive feat just by itself, but not surprising for Alaina's talent and determination. The impact knocked the wind out of her, but she was pretty much all right. Probably could have kicked out after a two-count.

"Phew!" She whistled, sitting up after a moment. "You always been that strong?"